Module 6 The Tang PoemsSection 2 The Analysis of the Difficult SentencesTrade with foreign countries created a tolerant and cosmopolitan culture. 与外国人之间的贸易促成了宽容和包罗万象的文化。cosmopolitan 该词用作形容词时意为：containing or having experience of people and things from many different parts of the world: 例如：a cosmopolitan crowd at a meeting of United Stated Nations representatives 联合国代表大会上一群来自世界各国的代表 New York is a highly cosmopolitan city.纽约是个高度世界性的国家。 该词用做名词时，意思是“见闻广博、游历四方的人。”Lisa is a real cosmopolitan (= she has experience of many different parts of the world).再如：The global capitalist class is a cosmopolitan corporation and WTO is nothing but their open meeting to figure ways to maintain high profits and minimize (将...减到最少) the mutually destructive (破坏的) side of capitalist competition. 2. Soon Japan and Korea were organized on the Tang model, while Chinese influence extended throughout Southeast Asia. 不久，日本和朝鲜参照了唐朝的统治形式，唐朝的影响传遍了东南亚。介词短语 on the model of；on the…model 意思是“参照……的模式。动词短语的意思是“模仿，以…… 为范本。”Some groups want to set up an Islamic state on the Iranian model.building a new system of democracy on the American model按照美国模式建立一个新的民主制度The railway system was modeled on the successful plan used in other countries.这铁路系统是参照其他国家的成功计划建立起来的。A globally driven self-organized critical model of earthquakes with conservative dynamics has been studied with open but moving boundary condition.He made a working model of a steam engine out of old bits of metal.3. But during his lifetime he never became famous; in fact, he thought of himself as a failure. 但在有生之年他一直没有成名...
