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六级干货》》 作文 |阅读 |翻译 |听力
Buddhism
Buddhism is the only important foreign religiousinfluence that has become
part and parcel2 ofChinese life. The influence is so deep that we nowspeak of
children’s dolls, and sometimes the childrenthemselves, as“ little Buddha ”, and
the EmpressDowager3 herself was addressed as“Old Buddha”.The Goddess of Mercy
and the laughing Buddha 4have become Chinese household words. Buddhism has
affected our language , our food, ourarts, our sculpture and directly inspired
the characteristic pagoda5 . It has stimulated ourliterature and our whole world
of imagination. The little monkish figure, with his bald head andhis gray robes,
forms an intimate part of any panorama of society, and Buddhist temples,rather
than those of Confucius, are the center of the town and village life, where the
eldersgather to decide on6 village matters and annual celebrations. Its monks
and nuns penetratethe privacies of Chinese households, on all occasions of
births, deaths and weddings, as noother persons are allowed to do, and hardly a
widow or virgin can be seduced , according to theChinese novels, without the
help of these religious figures.
Buddhism has conquered China as a philosophy and as a religion, as a
philosophy for thescholars and as a religion for the common people. Whereas
Confucianism has only a philosophyof moral conduct, Buddhism possesses a logical
method, a metaphysics7 , and a theory ofknowledge . Besides, it is fortunate in
having a high tradition of scholarship in the translationsof Buddhist classics,
and the language of these translations, so succinct and often sodistinguished by
a beautiful lucidity of language and reasoning, cannot but attract scholarswith
a philosophical bias. Hence Buddhism has always enjoyed a prestige among the
Chinesescholars, which so far Christianity has failed to achieve.
阅读自测
Ⅰ. Fill in each blank with the proper form of the words given in the
brackets :
1. The injury to their key player could be a________ ( decide ) factor in
the basketball game .
2. The president is paying a ________ ( privacy) visit to Europe.
3. She had the good ________ ( fortunate) to be free from the disease.
4. Some ________ ( influence) politicians change the world chaotic
situation.
5. The offer of a high salary and a free house is very________ ( seduce) .
6. He is a truly________ ( religion ) man who goes to church every day.
Ⅱ. Answer the following question in your own words :
Why can Buddhism win the favor of Chinese scholars?
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发表于 2018-12-8 10:20:01