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  1. erode
    remove soil or rock
    He had a reason, though, for choosing high and low: The original question asked by the series was whether Britain's class system was eroding.
  2. cliche
    a trite or obvious remark
    You can sense fundamental differences in their personalities, and see that the most overworked cliches may indeed be valid--that it helps to look on the sunny side.
  3. inevitability
    the quality of being unavoidable
    Some lives seem to proceed with a certain inevitability.
  4. truism
    an obvious statement of fact
    One ponders the inarticulate murkiness, self-help cliches, sports metaphors and management truisms that clutter American speech.=
  5. depose
    force to leave an office
    He survived, and at 35 was living in poverty on the rough Shetland Islands, where he had just been deposed as the (unpaid) director of the village pageant; he felt the pageant would be going better if he were still in charge.
  6. boarding school
    a private school where students are lodged and fed
    But the latest chapter in Neil's story is the most encouraging of all the episodes in "42 Up," and part of the change is because of his fellow film subject Bruce, who was a boarding school boy, studied math at Oxford, and then gave up a career in the insurance industry to become a teacher in London inner city schools.
  7. come of age
    reach a certain age that marks a transition to maturity
    Although modern feminism came of age during the making of the series, the men in these couples essentially define the conditions under which a couple lives, and the women still essentially raise the children.
  8. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
    Sometimes there are surprises; a girl who is uptight and morose at 21, vowing never to marry, blossoms in the later films into a cheerful wife and mother.
  9. inarticulate
    without or deprived of the use of speech or words
    One ponders the inarticulate murkiness, self-help cliches, sports metaphors and management truisms that clutter American speech.=
  10. notoriety
    the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality
    The series plays on British television, so their notoriety is renewed on a regular basis; it doesn't help to grow gray, because the cameras keep up with them.
  11. speculate
    reflect deeply on a subject
    Speculating that he might not be able to make a career as a jockey, he talks about taxi driving, and at 28 he is content as a London cabby, happy with a wife and two children, talking about his annual holidays in Spain, thinking about opening a pub.
  12. pensive
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
    He was a brilliant but pensive boy, who at 7 said he wanted to be a bus driver, so he could tell the passengers what to look for out the windows; he saw himself in the driver's seat, a tour guide for the lives of others.
  13. graduate
    receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
    One subject, an Oxford graduate, took a job at the University of Wisconsin, to pursue his research on fusion.
  14. articulate
    express or state clearly
    One is how articulate the subjects are; from the three working-class girls in a pub to the well-born graduate of the best schools, from the taxi driver to the Cockney who moved with his wife to Australia, they're all good at self-expression.
  15. adultery
    extramarital sexual relations
    I feel as if I know these subjects, and indeed I do know them better than many of the people I work with every day, because I know what they dreamed of at 7, their hopes at 14, the problems they faced in their early 20s, and their marriages, their jobs, their children, even their adulteries.
  16. confident
    having or marked by assurance
    The working classes seem sure of themselves, confident in their idiom, realistic and humorous.
  17. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
    Still, we see subjects dubious about children at 21 but treasuring them in later years.
  18. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
    One ponders the inarticulate murkiness, self-help cliches, sports metaphors and management truisms that clutter American speech.=
  19. capture
    seize as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
    No other art form can capture so well the look in an eye, the feeling in an expression, the thoughts that go unspoken between the words.
  20. spontaneous
    said or done without having been planned in advance
    Sarris, writing in the New York Observer, delivers this verdict: "At one point, I noted that the upper-class kids, who sounded like twits at 7 compared to the more spontaneous and more lovable lower-class kids, became more interesting and self-confident as they raced past their social inferiors.
  21. compelling
    capable of arousing and holding the attention
    And consider Neil, who for most followers of the series has emerged as the most compelling character.
  22. precision
    the quality of being exact
    They speak with precision, and often with grace and humor.
  23. emerge
    come out into view, as from concealment
    And consider Neil, who for most followers of the series has emerged as the most compelling character.
  24. penetrate
    pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
    As he chats with them about how things are going, his films penetrate to the central mystery of life, asking the same questions that Wim Wenders poses in "Wings of Desire:" Why am I me and why not you?
  25. option
    one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
    The fortunate also seem to have found interesting options (an upper class twit at 21 refused to be interviewed at 28--but by 35, amazingly, had flowered into a worker for a relief project in Eastern Europe).
  26. deceive
    cause someone to believe an untruth
    One woman says she believed when she was younger that there were "opportunities," but now sees that she was deceived.
  27. verdict
    findings of a jury on issues submitted to it for decision
    Sarris, writing in the New York Observer, delivers this verdict: "At one point, I noted that the upper-class kids, who sounded like twits at 7 compared to the more spontaneous and more lovable lower-class kids, became more interesting and self-confident as they raced past their social inferiors.
  28. chronicle
    a record or narrative description of past events
    Every seven years, the British director Michael Apted revisits a group of people whose lives he __________________ (chronicle) since they ______________ (be) children.
  29. ponder
    reflect deeply on a subject
    One ponders the inarticulate murkiness, self-help cliches, sports metaphors and management truisms that clutter American speech.=
  30. raise
    move upwards
    Although modern feminism came of age during the making of the series, the men in these couples essentially define the conditions under which a couple lives, and the women still essentially raise the children.
  31. pose
    assume a bearing as for artistic purposes
    As he chats with them about how things are going, his films penetrate to the central mystery of life, asking the same questions that Wim Wenders poses in "Wings of Desire:" Why am I me and why not you?
  32. exploit
    use or manipulate to one's advantage
    They accept that they're part of an enterprise larger than themselves: Their films exploit, more fully than any others, the use of cinema as a time machine.
  33. fundamental
    serving as an essential component
    You can sense fundamental differences in their personalities, and see that the most overworked cliches may indeed be valid--that it helps to look on the sunny side.
  34. pursue
    follow in an effort to capture
    One subject, an Oxford graduate, took a job at the University of Wisconsin, to pursue his research on fusion.
  35. blossom
    a flower or cluster of flowers on a plant
    Sometimes there are surprises; a girl who is uptight and morose at 21, vowing never to marry, blossoms in the later films into a cheerful wife and mother.
  36. vow
    a solemn pledge to do something
    Sometimes there are surprises; a girl who is uptight and morose at 21, vowing never to marry, blossoms in the later films into a cheerful wife and mother.
  37. poverty
    the state of having little or no money and possessions
    He survived, and at 35 was living in poverty on the rough Shetland Islands, where he had just been deposed as the (unpaid) director of the village pageant; he felt the pageant would be going better if he were still in charge.
  38. drift
    be in motion due to some air or water current
    In later films he seemed to drift, unhappy and without direction.
  39. annual
    occurring every year
    Speculating that he might not be able to make a career as a jockey, he talks about taxi driving, and at 28 he is content as a London cabby, happy with a wife and two children, talking about his annual holidays in Spain, thinking about opening a pub.
  40. astonish
    affect with wonder
    To look at these films, as I have every seven years, is to meditate on the astonishing fact that man is the only animal that knows it lives in time.
  41. evident
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
    It is also evident that class counts for more in Britain than in America.
  42. brilliant
    full of light; shining intensely
    He was a brilliant but pensive boy, who at 7 said he wanted to be a bus driver, so he could tell the passengers what to look for out the windows; he saw himself in the driver's seat, a tour guide for the lives of others.
  43. leap
    move forward by bounds
    Because all of the subjects are British, there are qualities that leap out for an American viewer.
  44. aware
    having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization
    Watching the films again, I became more aware of the role the countryside plays in British lives.
  45. compel
    force somebody to do something
    And consider Neil, who for most followers of the series has emerged as the most compelling character.
  46. reveal
    make visible
    The 7-year-olds already reveal most of the elements, good and bad, that flower in later life.
  47. task
    any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
    There is much talk about task-sharing, but in the smiles and shrugs of the women, and their glances into the distance, we read the rest of the message.
  48. limit
    as far as something can go
    Another wife, the mate of the unhappy teacher, doesn't want children because they will limit her choices; on the basis of the lives of the others in the film, she's right.
  49. consider
    think about carefully; weigh
    And consider Neil, who for most followers of the series has emerged as the most compelling character.
  50. proceed
    move ahead; travel onward in time or space
    Some lives seem to proceed with a certain inevitability.
Created on 九月 28, 2010

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