高级英语第二册1-4,6,10课(张汉熙主编)课后paraph(8)

6….our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.

Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.

7. …they‖wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up‖

The young people wanted to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the whole war ended.

8. …they had outgrown towns and families….

These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.

9. …the returning veteran also had to face…the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition,…

The returning veteran also had to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people.

10. Something in the tension-ridden youth of America had to “give”…

(Under all this force and pressure) something in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down.

11….it was only natural that hopeful young writers,their minds and pens inflamed against war,Babbittry,and ―Puritanical‖gentility,should flock to the traditional artistic center…

It was only natural that hopeful young Writers whose minds and writings extremely opposed war, Babbittry and "Puritanical" gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic center.

12.Each town had its ―fast‖set which prided itself on its unconventionality,…

Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives.