| 词条 | Unit 2:writing 8 |
| 释义 | Writing8 In paragraph 10 and 11, the author talks about narcissistic showoffs. Narcissistic showoffs are willing to be anything and to stay the center of attention. What is the difference between competitive showoffs and narcissistic showoffs? In my opinion, competitive showoffs want to outshine others, so they compete with others to show that they are the best. Narcissistic showoffs simply think that they have outshone others, so they don’t need to compete with others. I’d like to mention two sentences in paragraph 10. One is ‘they’ll even go stand on their head if attention should flag.’ ‘Stand on one’s head’ means ‘make people upend’. ‘Flag’ , here is a verb, it means ‘decline in energy, activity, interest, etc.’ I think the sentence can describe the narcissistic showoffs clearly. They will do anything that can help them to attract people’s attention. The other sentence is ‘they are often adorable and charming and amusing—but only until around the age of six’. It means if a child who is no more than six years old, we can say he or she is adorable ,charmable and amusiable, but if an adult does the same thing as a child, we may say he is stupid, too ingenuous. I think when the author writes the sentence, he is critical. In paragraph 11, the author sets an example. When the narcissistic showoff finds people’s attention shifts from his accomplishments to another topic, he is unhappy, in the author’s words ‘brood darkly’. ‘Brood’ means ‘to think for a long time about things that make you sad, worried or angry’, ‘darkly’ means ‘low in spirit’. He says all of a sudden the talk started getting so superficial. Here ‘all of a sudden’ is a phrase, which means ‘suddenly’; ‘superficial’ means ‘(of a person) never thinking about things that are serious or important’. He is still showing off. He feels when people who talk about his accomplishment, they are profound. But if they not, they are superficial. |
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