【賞析】21-SOULCRAFT 紛擾銅臭的世界遣妥，心靈如何安放? For new sources of meaning, they looked not only to religion but also to philosophy, psychology, and literature for new ways of orienting themselves in a world of ideological incoherence and unrelenting ambition. 物質(zhì)富裕，而精神空虛习寸。It was ruled by technocrats who publicly espoused a discredited ideology while, in practice, they placed their faith in economics and engineering with pitiless efficiency.
【表達(dá)】
Put off 用法：①delay doing it. 推遲/ Women who put off having a baby often make the best mothers.晚育的婦女常常會(huì)成為最佳母親
②put someone off：You make them wait for something that they want. 使…等待; 把…搪塞過去/The old priest tried to put them off, saying that the hour was late.那位老牧師試圖把他們搪塞過去步藕，說時(shí)間太晚了惦界。
③something puts you off something, it makes you dislike it,使反感/例：The high divorce figures seem to be putting people off marriage.高離婚率使人們對(duì)婚姻望而卻步/His personal habits put them off.他的個(gè)人習(xí)慣讓他們反感。
④If someone or something puts you off, they take your attention使分心/例：She asked me to be serious – said it put her off if I laughed.她要我嚴(yán)肅一點(diǎn)–說如果我大笑會(huì)讓她分心咙冗。
2沾歪、I asked around 四處打聽
3、he was a well-connected reporter 人脈廣
4雾消、 get on their knees 跪
5灾搏、he lectured to fourteen thousand people (lecture的動(dòng)詞)
6、the timing is ripe 時(shí)機(jī)成熟
7立润、 he toured the country and inspired legions of followers
8狂窑、he set aside economics for philosophy
9、she came upon Sandel’s work
10桑腮、have a flair for= have a natural ability to do it well. 天賦/例：...a friend who has a flair for languages.…一位有語言天賦的朋友泉哈。
11、they were coming of age at a time when …達(dá)到法定年齡
