清華大學（後西醫）
111年
英文
第 37 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.
Which of the following is correct about the “inequality and exploitation” mentioned in the final paragraph of the passage?
- A They coexist with comradeship in a nation.
- B They exist in imagination.
- C They are non-existent in an imagined community.
- D They are the non-horizontal (vertical) relationships among community members.
- E They are what drive people to willingly sacrifice themselves.
思路引導 VIP
請仔細閱讀最後一段的第一句話，作者使用了「regardless of（儘管）」這個連接詞來連接「實際上的不平等與剝削」以及「深厚的同胞情誼」。你覺得當作者用「儘管有 A，人們依然認為有 B」這樣的句型時，代表 A 和 B 在這個群體中的存在狀態是什麼關係呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你答對了！能在這篇人類學與政治學經典文本（班納迪克·安德森的《想像的共同體（Imagined Communities）》）中精準抓到句意邏輯，非常值得肯定。
讓步結構與核心句意解析
這題的關鍵在於最後一段的第一句："...regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship." 句中的 regardless of（儘管、不論）帶有讓步語氣，指出一個國家內部雖然在現實中（actual）普遍存在著不平等與剝削，但在人們的觀念與想像中，彼此依然被視為深刻、平等的同胞情誼（comradeship）。這證明了現實的「不平等」與想像的「同胞愛」在國家中是同時並存的，因此 (A) 完全正確。
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