P4
1. expedient: practical aid, help, advantage, benefit, profitable practice
2. hallucinogen: drugs causing imagination; things that bring up imagination. Practical help for the time being.
3. brutal: cruel, savage, barbaric, ruthless, / human, gentle, kind.
4. parasitic: of a parasite, dependent.
5. distasteful: disagreeable, disgusting, displeasing, unpleasant / delightful
6. undignified: improper, tasteless, degrading, shameful, beneath one’s dignity.
7. But for the poor in …available.: for those weak-minded young people who have neither drive nor self-respect in life, to take a dropping out attitude and live a life like a parasite is a likely way of life (for them) to choose.
8. batten on: live well by using others for one’s own purpose.
P5
1. antecedent: predecessor, precursor, forerunner, ancestor, pioneer, / successor, sequel, consequence result aftermath.
2. pastoral: idyllic, portraying country life, bucolic, rustic, rural /worldly, sophisticated, cosmopolitan, urban, metropolitan
3. its ugliness and tension: referring to the violence and crimes, the stresses, pressures and exertions of city life
P6
1. run out of : to have no further supply of
2. run out: to be no longer in supply.
3. unsullied: clean, unspoiled, spotless, unblemished, uncorrupted, uninjured,
uncontaminated, unpolluted, undefiled/
4. bucolic: (lit.) having to do with the countryside and countryman
5. noble savages: first used by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French philosopher 1712-1778). One of the essential ideas for Romanticism in literature. It refers to humans who still lived with primitive modes of life in little explored hinterland areas, and were thus able to keep away from the vice and evils of the civilized world and remain innocent and noble.