When some nineteenthcentury New Yorkers said “Harlem”,
they meant almost all of Manhattan above Eighty-sixth Street.
Toward the end of the century, however, a group
of citizens in upper Manhattan-want perhaps, to shape a closer 1._________
and more precise sense of community—designated a section that
they wished to have known as Harlem. The chosen area was the
Harlem which Blacks were moving in the first decades of the 2.________
new century as they left their old settlements on the middle and
lower blocks of the West Side.
As the community became predominantly Black, the very
word“Harlem” seemed to lose its old meaning. At time it was 3.________
easy to forget that “Harlem”was originally the Dutch name
“Harlem”; the community it described had been founded by 4.________
people from Holland;and that for most of its three centuries—it
was first settled in the sixteen hundreds—it had been preoccupied 5.________
by White New Yorkers. “Harlem”became synonymous to 6.________
Black life and Black style in Manhattan. Blacks living there
used the word as though they had coined it on themselves—not 7.________
only to designate their area of residence but to express their
sense of the various qualities of its life and atmosphere. As the
years passed, “Harlem”asserted an even larger meaning. In 8.________
the words of Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., the pastor of the
Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem “became the symbol of liberty
and the Promised Land to Negroes everywhere”.
By 1919 Harlem"s population had grown by several thousand.
It had received its share of wartime migration from the South,
the Caribbean, and parts of colonial Africa. Some of the
new arrivals merely lived for Harlem; it was New York they had 9.________
come to, looking for jobs and for all the other legendary opportunities
of life in the city. To others who migrated to Harlem, New
York was merely the city in which they found themselves:
Harlem was exactly what they wished to be. 10.________
答案
1. want→ wanting
該句的謂語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞在破折號(hào)之后,即“designate”,因此有必要將前一動(dòng)詞變成分詞形式。
2. Harlem ∧ which → to
黑人們搬進(jìn)了Harlem,因此這里Harlem是先行詞,關(guān)系代詞應(yīng)當(dāng)表示地點(diǎn),即可以是where,也可以是“介詞+which”的形式。
3. time → times
“at a time”是“一次”的意思,而“at times”是“時(shí)而,偶爾”的意思。
4.Harlem; ∧ the community → that
“forget”后面引導(dǎo)的是三個(gè)賓語(yǔ)從句,在這種情況下,“that”通常不能省略。
5.preoccupied → occupied
“be preoccupied with sth.”指“忙于某事”!皁ccupy”是“占領(lǐng)”之意。
6.to → with
“by synonymous with”是“與……等同”“與……意義相同”的意思,與synonymous搭配的是介詞with。
7.on → /
“by themselves”或“on their own”都表示“他們自己”的意思,“coin”是“創(chuàng)造”之意。
8.asserted → assumed “assert”是“肯定,斷定”,“assume”指開始具有某種(品質(zhì)或形象等),強(qiáng)調(diào)的是一個(gè)從無(wú)到有的發(fā)展過(guò)程。
9.for → in
由下文“it was New York they had come to”可知這些人并非是為Harlem而活著,因?yàn)樗麄兊哪繕?biāo)是整個(gè)紐約城,他們只是居住在Harlem罷了。
10.what → where