52.There exists no suitable analogy.box cutters. analogy:similarity between partial rese ii. a number of hijackers,who were ready to kill themselves,hijacked passenge planes with box cutters.struck World Trade Towers and killed thousands of innocent people.Such terrorist acts have no precedents.You cannot find anything 53.Sep.11 isnot like anything but itsef Sept.11 is unique.There has never been anything resembling it Para.21 54.flashpoint:the point at which anger,indignation,etc.becomes uncontrollable. 55.This is far from the first time This assassination of the evo on ne was the flashpoint of orld ar 1.The war d to the death soldiers with another 20 million wounded.The surprise attack on Pearl harbor by the Japanese was the flashpoint,bringing the U.S.into WWII.The attack resulted in4,500 American soldiers killed or wounded.The loss of lives in WWll went up to over 90 million.The axis powers swere called evil.There are many more incidents of massive killing.In 1982 Is 5hof Sept.,1982.Tow days later,massacre took place in tow Palestinian refugee camps.Between 200 and 800 Palestinian men,women,children were slaughtered. General Sharon,the then Israeli defence minister was responsible for the massacre. Para.22 56.history is a gallery of uns eakable crime unspeakable:so bad,evil,etc.as to defy description History records many crimes committed by human beings which are so horrible that they defy description 57.A mushroom cloud.skeletal corpse i this isa description of the scene after the explosion of the atomic bombon Hiroshim ii, Mushroom:要菇云 ili. 黄菇云在一座海港城市上空展开，一个活人的皮肤被烧掉。一骨架子抱着 个小孩大小的骨架子。 58.We tend.nightmare garden. i. inwhich the compared nightmare garden. ii. Why are the images compared to poisonous flowers in a nightmare garden?The atomic bomb produces poisonous fallout.Carbon monoxide in Pompeii was also poisonous.The final scene in Hiroshima or in Pompeii was a nightmare.Hence the In spite of the fact that these images are horrible images,images of large-scale atrocity,we still take care to keep alive these images. Para.23 52. There exists no suitable analogy.box cutters. i. analogy: similarity in some respects between things otherwise unlike; partial resemblance ii. a number of hijackers, who were ready to kill themselves, hijacked passenger planes with box cutters, struck World Trade Towers and killed thousands of innocent people. Such terrorist acts have no precedents. You cannot find anything even partially resembling such terrorist acts. 53. Sep. 11 is not like anything but itself. Sept. 11 is unique. There has never been anything resembling it. Para. 21 54. flashpoint: the point at which anger, indignation, etc. becomes uncontrollable. 55. This is far from the first time. This assassination of the Austrian heir-apparent and his wife in Sarajevo on June28,1994 was the flashpoint of world war I. The war led to the death of 10 million soldiers with another 20 million wounded. The surprise attack on Pearl harbor by the Japanese was the flashpoint, bringing the U.S. into WWII. The attack resulted in 4,500 American soldiers killed or wounded. The loss of lives in WWII went up to over 90 million. The axis powers were called evil. There are many more incidents of massive killing. In 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon and the Israeli army entered West Beirut on the 5 th of Sept., 1982. Tow days later, massacre took place in tow Palestinian refugee camps. Between 200 and 800 Palestinian men, women, children were slaughtered. General Sharon, the then Israeli defence minister was responsible for the massacre. Para. 22 56. .history is a gallery of unspeakable crimes. i. unspeakable: so bad, evil, etc. as to defy description ii. History records many crimes committed by human beings which are so horrible that they defy description. 57. A mushroom cloud. skeletal corpse. i. this is a description of the tragic scene after the explosion of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. ii. Mushroom:蘑菇云 iii. 蘑菇云在一座海港城市上空展开，一个活人的皮肤被烧掉，一副骨架子抱着一 个小孩大小的骨架子。 58. We tend .nightmare garden. i. This is a simile in which the image are compared to poisonous flowers in a nightmare garden. ii. Why are the images compared to poisonous flowers in a nightmare garden? The atomic bomb produces poisonous fallout. Carbon monoxide in Pompeii was also poisonous. The final scene in Hiroshima or in Pompeii was a nightmare. Hence the comparison. iii. In spite of the fact that these images are horrible images, images of large-scale atrocity, we still take care to keep alive these images. Para. 23