5 2019华西考博阅读第一篇

Each month, students from around Los Angeles attend an editorial meeting for the citywide teen paper, L.A. Youth.

The paper probes sensitive and controversial subjects, as well as ordinary topics, such as movies and music, that could be found in any high school paper.

Sixteen-year-old Daniel Marx is writing his first story. He says, "The article is about peer pressure with drinking.  And the whole process is, we write a draft and we send it to one of the editors."

Co-editor Mike Fricano says the paper started nearly 20 years ago after the U.S. courts granted broad discretion to school administrators in censoring student newspapers. He says this one is independent. "We do not rely on government funding because we do not want to feel under that authority, or that school principals or school administrators or anyone who might find what we're doing is controversial, that they can censor us and tell us that we can't do that."

题目:Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word ''discretion'' in the 4th paragraph?

A. Freedom of action or judgment.  B. Right of interfering.  C. Caution and control. 

D. Range of care and concern.

答案是B吗?

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discretion 的原义是 good judgmment, 但是在下文 in censoring student newspapers 中,discretion 的含义已经引申成为了 censoring, 而 censor 的原义是 remove 去除或删除,换而言之 censoring 就是对上文中 discretion 的解释和说明,而答案中的 B 选项 Right of interfering 是4个选项中力度最强和最合适的一个, interfere 的原义是 intervene 干涉,所以我认为 B 选项是正确的。A 选项是个圈套 C D 两个选项含义的力度没有 censor 强。discretion----censoring----interfering 一环扣一环。

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在柯林斯字典里discretion作为不可数名词的第二个意思为:

If someone in a position of authority uses their discretion or has the discretion to do something in a particular situation, they have the freedom and authority to decide what to do. 酌情决定权 [正式]


选项A Freedom of action or judgment,直译为:行动和判断的自由。和字典里的解释“有决定做什么的自由和权利”相对应。所以应为正确答案。


选项B Right of interfering,直译为:干预的权利。但是看看interfere这个词英文的解释:

1,V-I If you say that someone interferes in a situation, you mean they get involved in it although it does not concern them and their involvement is not wanted. 干涉 [表不满]

2,V-I Something that interferes with a situation, activity, or process has a damaging effect on it. 妨碍

理解下来我认为这个词更偏向负面涵义,我在欧陆字典里看到这样一句解释:interfere“侧重指无权或未获允许而妨碍、阻扰、干涉他人之事。”

综上,我认为不应该选B


选项C Caution and control 直译为:警告和控制 

选项D Range of care and concern 直译为:忧虑和关心的范围

CD两个选项放在一起说,是因为它们加在一起更接近完整的discretion,故而两个选项都不选。


综上所述,我认为A选项恰恰是最合适的选项。


带着答案想问题可能会影响对题目的判断,所以一个不成熟的小建议是,希望网友下次不要先公布答案。


PS:由于和另一位老师的回答意见相左,我怕是我写错答案误导你,还需要你对照参考答案自行判断,希望这些资料对你有启发。






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