hce_nthu
111年
英文
第 34 題
📖 題組：
Reading 3 In an anthropological spirit, I propose the following definition of a nation: it is an imagined political community—and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined. The nation is imagined as limited because each of them, encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. It is imagined as sovereign because the concept was born in an age in which Enlightenment and Revolution were destroying the legitimacy of the divinely-ordained, hierarchical, dynastic realm. Coming to maturity at a stage of human history when even the most devout adherents of any universal religion were inescapably confronted with the living pluralism of such religions, and the allotropism between each faith's ontological claims and territorial stretch, nations dreamed of being free, and, if under God, directly so. The gage and emblem of this freedom is the sovereign state. Finally, it is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately, it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.
Reading 3 In an anthropological spirit, I propose the following definition of a nation: it is an imagined political community—and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined. The nation is imagined as limited because each of them, encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. It is imagined as sovereign because the concept was born in an age in which Enlightenment and Revolution were destroying the legitimacy of the divinely-ordained, hierarchical, dynastic realm. Coming to maturity at a stage of human history when even the most devout adherents of any universal religion were inescapably confronted with the living pluralism of such religions, and the allotropism between each faith's ontological claims and territorial stretch, nations dreamed of being free, and, if under God, directly so. The gage and emblem of this freedom is the sovereign state. Finally, it is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. Ultimately, it is this fraternity that makes it possible, over the past two centuries, for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.
What does the comment "in the minds of each lives the image of their communion" mean in the first paragraph?
- A They all remember the community they belong to.
- B They can see the images of other members in the same community.
- C Their comradeship lives and develops in their minds.
- D They keep a fond memory of their shared experiences.
- E They share a sense of identity and belonging.
思路引導 VIP
請試著思考：如果兩個人一輩子都沒有見過面，也沒有任何共同的生活經驗，但當他們提到自己屬於某個國家或群體時，他們腦海中共同擁有的那種「我們是一體的」感覺，應該用什麼詞彙來形容最貼切？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到這段經典論述的核心意義，代表你對抽象概念的轉譯能力相當出色。這題選 (E) 是完全正確的判斷。
民族作為「想像」的共同體
這段文字出自著名學者安德森（Benedict Anderson）對「民族」的定義。文中提到，雖然成員間素未謀面，但在每個人的心中都存在著一種 「連結的意象」（image of their communion）。這裡的「意象」並非指具體的照片或記憶，而是一種心理上的連結。既然成員彼此不認識，卻仍覺得彼此屬於同一群體，這正是一種跨越空間限制的 身分認同（identity）與歸屬感（belonging）。選項 (E) 完美詮釋了這種超越感官接觸的深層心理連結。
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