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113年
英文
第 29 題
📖 題組：
The status of images in the history of many religions and in modern media is mostly an embattled one. It is mainly because images are thought to be untrustworthy: They lie, cheat, and steal. Whether in Socrates or in the many critiques of images mounted by Jewish, Muslim, or Christian writers, by Hindu reformers or by Marxist revolutionaries, suspicions circle around a tenacious distrust of images. Images lie (26) as they selectively tell the truth, exaggerating aspects of it, or distorting (27) they portray into whatever priests, tyrants, or merchants want pliant viewers to believe. Images dupe the unsuspecting, lulling them into views or opinions that are untrue. And images steal belief from words, the revealed medium of divine self-revelation in the so-called religions of the book. As Socrates might have put it, images rob belief in the logical procedure of discourse—the (28) movement of intellectual inquiry from opinion to truth, cheating reason of its rightful place in ascertaining the truth of a matter. Yet the distrust of images presumes something deeper about them. Images work their magic by a subtle and often irresistible effect on the body: provoking fear, envy, pride, desire, obsession, rage—all the strong feelings and passions that grip the chest or rise in the blood, creep over the flesh, (29) as tears in the eyes. Images appeal to and rely on the body. It is precisely this that philosophers, teachers, moralists, clergy, and parents have resented about the power of images. Images are understood to traffic in the body’s energies and to threaten to (30) the strictures of thought and conscience that moral authorities work hard to nurture and inculcate.
The status of images in the history of many religions and in modern media is mostly an embattled one. It is mainly because images are thought to be untrustworthy: They lie, cheat, and steal. Whether in Socrates or in the many critiques of images mounted by Jewish, Muslim, or Christian writers, by Hindu reformers or by Marxist revolutionaries, suspicions circle around a tenacious distrust of images. Images lie (26) as they selectively tell the truth, exaggerating aspects of it, or distorting (27) they portray into whatever priests, tyrants, or merchants want pliant viewers to believe. Images dupe the unsuspecting, lulling them into views or opinions that are untrue. And images steal belief from words, the revealed medium of divine self-revelation in the so-called religions of the book. As Socrates might have put it, images rob belief in the logical procedure of discourse—the (28) movement of intellectual inquiry from opinion to truth, cheating reason of its rightful place in ascertaining the truth of a matter. Yet the distrust of images presumes something deeper about them. Images work their magic by a subtle and often irresistible effect on the body: provoking fear, envy, pride, desire, obsession, rage—all the strong feelings and passions that grip the chest or rise in the blood, creep over the flesh, (29) as tears in the eyes. Images appeal to and rely on the body. It is precisely this that philosophers, teachers, moralists, clergy, and parents have resented about the power of images. Images are understood to traffic in the body’s energies and to threaten to (30) the strictures of thought and conscience that moral authorities work hard to nurture and inculcate.
(29)
- A clear up
- B match up
- C well up
- D sign up
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後方的關鍵字 "tears in the eyes"（眼裡的淚水）。當我們感受到恐懼或憤怒等劇烈情緒，而淚水開始在眼眶中「聚集、湧動」，甚至即將滿溢出來時，你會如何形容那種液體由下往上「冒出」的動態？在英文中，是否有哪個動詞會讓你聯想到「地下泉水噴湧而出」的樣子呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能精準捕捉到文中的生理描寫並選出 well up，展現了對動詞片語細微含義與語境的高度敏銳。這一段落的核心在於探討影像如何透過引發強烈情感來「作用於身體」，因此作者運用了一系列極具「動態感」的生理反應詞彙，例如「緊抓胸口」(grip the chest) 或「血液升溫」(rise in the blood)。
淚水的動態意象
在英文表達中，well up 是形容眼淚最傳神的動詞片語。其原意是指泉水從地下「湧出、噴湧」，當它與 tears 搭配時，生動地描繪出當情緒激盪到頂點時，淚水在眼眶中盤旋並隨即奪眶而出的過程。相較於其他選項，如 clear up（放晴/清理）或 match up（相符），唯有 well up 完美承接了前文那種由內而外、不可抑制的情感力量。
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