The cultivation of the emotion of natsulcashii, interpretable as "pleasant sorrow" , brings Japanese to Kyoto in the spring, not to --------- the cherry blossoms in full bloom but to --------- the fading, falling flowers.
(A) mourn ... exclaim
(B) honor ... protect
(C) describe ... rejoice over
(D) arrange ... preserve
(E) savor ... grieve over
〖解答〗
本题两处空格均为动词,从"not to...but to..."可判定应是反义词关系,且可以从"pleasant sorrow"中得到补足。将pleasant和sorrow 作词性的转换(均变成动词),分别代入空格Ⅰ和Ⅱ,求得(E)为正确答案。
〖中译〗
Natsulcashii这一情愫——可将其理解为“令人愉悦的悲伤”——的培养,在春天的季节将日本人引至京都,并非为了欣赏盛开的樱花,而是要对凋零的落英黯然神伤。
