Directions:Put the following
paragraph into Chinese. It was not the originality of the
idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the
satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read
because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are
morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing
because with common sense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand
opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives,
scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition and speaks in a
personal idiom instead of abstract platitude. Satire exists
because there is need for it. It has lived because readers appreciate a
refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of
platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy.