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.