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[外語群英語類] 專業科目(2)
第 22 題
📖 題組：
To patients, the source of hope is the doctor itself and the resources held by the doctor. Therefore, only the doctor has the power to give hope, suppress hope, and even destroy hope. This statement is not entirely wrong, but it is not entirely correct, either. In addition to medical achievements and the capabilities of doctors, the patient himself/herself is stronger with the power of the ones who love him/her. Hope is an abstract word. In fact, it is not just a word; it is a complex concept that is given different meanings during different times and circumstances of our lives. Even politicians know how to use it to manipulate the human mind and the will of voters. Webster’s Unabridged gives five different interpretations of the meaning of hope, and that does not include the synonyms. The meanings range from “the highest level of well-founded expectation” to expectation that is “at least slight.” In one of the definitions, we see examples of using hope as an intransitive verb, and this is the key to the problem of many end-stage cancer patients: “to hope against hope,” which the lexicographers describe as “having hope though it seems to be baseless.” The greatest responsibility of a doctor is to give his/her patients reasons to believe that hope exists. The Oxford English Dictionary has more than sixty examples illustrating the different usages of the term. Indeed, hope brings eternity. Even if it is not necessarily intentional, at least there is a tendency to make a word with the meaning “just what I choose it to mean— neither more nor less” as Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty contemptuously announced to Alice. Samuel Johnson best explained the meaning of hope. The England’s greatest authority on words defined hope as “the chief happiness which this world affords.” What do all of the definitions of hope have in common? They all involve some kind of expectations, a feeling of something good will happen. In The Nature of Suffering, the medical humanist Eric Cassell discussed the meaning of hope in times of serious illness with great compassion: “Intense unhappiness results from a loss of that future—the future of the individual person, of children, and of other loved ones. It is in this dimension of this existence that hope dwells. Hope is one of the necessary traits of a successful life.”
To patients, the source of hope is the doctor itself and the resources held by the doctor. Therefore, only the doctor has the power to give hope, suppress hope, and even destroy hope. This statement is not entirely wrong, but it is not entirely correct, either. In addition to medical achievements and the capabilities of doctors, the patient himself/herself is stronger with the power of the ones who love him/her. Hope is an abstract word. In fact, it is not just a word; it is a complex concept that is given different meanings during different times and circumstances of our lives. Even politicians know how to use it to manipulate the human mind and the will of voters. Webster’s Unabridged gives five different interpretations of the meaning of hope, and that does not include the synonyms. The meanings range from “the highest level of well-founded expectation” to expectation that is “at least slight.” In one of the definitions, we see examples of using hope as an intransitive verb, and this is the key to the problem of many end-stage cancer patients: “to hope against hope,” which the lexicographers describe as “having hope though it seems to be baseless.” The greatest responsibility of a doctor is to give his/her patients reasons to believe that hope exists. The Oxford English Dictionary has more than sixty examples illustrating the different usages of the term. Indeed, hope brings eternity. Even if it is not necessarily intentional, at least there is a tendency to make a word with the meaning “just what I choose it to mean— neither more nor less” as Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty contemptuously announced to Alice. Samuel Johnson best explained the meaning of hope. The England’s greatest authority on words defined hope as “the chief happiness which this world affords.” What do all of the definitions of hope have in common? They all involve some kind of expectations, a feeling of something good will happen. In The Nature of Suffering, the medical humanist Eric Cassell discussed the meaning of hope in times of serious illness with great compassion: “Intense unhappiness results from a loss of that future—the future of the individual person, of children, and of other loved ones. It is in this dimension of this existence that hope dwells. Hope is one of the necessary traits of a successful life.”
22. According to the passage, who best interprets the meaning of hope?
- A Humpty Dumpty
- B Samuel Johnson
- C Lewis Carroll
- D Eric Cassell
思路引導 VIP
當文章中出現多位專家對同一個概念進行定義時，如果你想找出作者認為『解釋得最好』的那一位，你會在這些專家名字的前後，尋找哪些具備『比較級』或『最高級』意涵的關鍵動詞或形容詞呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
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