inextricably, counter-currents, American Babylon

'American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile'

By RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS
Reviewed by CHARLES R. MORRIS

The late conservative religious thinker insists that politics and morals are inextricably linked.

Summing up her view of the historical process, she wrote in 1981, in the preface to ''Practicing History,'' a selection of her short writings, that she had arrived at ''a sense of history as accidental and perhaps cyclical, of human conduct as a steady stream running through endless fields of changing circumstances, of good and bad always coexisting and inextricably mixed in periods as in people, of cross-currents and counter-currents usually present to contradict too-easy generalizations.''

她在1981年''實踐的歷史 ''【她的短著作選集】序文中，總結她對歷史進程的看法，寫道：「一種歷史感：它為偶然的，也許週期性的；人的作為如一條穩定溪流，通過無盡頭的、周遭情況不斷變化的原野；在各時期和人們中，好的和壞的總是並存而不可分割地混合；通常有橫斷流與逆流，與匆匆作出的一概而論相矛盾。」''

Babylon

n.

1. A city or place of great luxury, sensuality, and often vice and corruption.
2. A place of captivity or exile.

counter-currents

横断流; 相反する意見.

INEXTRICABLE
(ĭn-ĕk'strĭ-kə-bəl, ĭn'ĭk-strĭk'ə-bəl)
adj.

1. 1. So intricate or entangled as to make escape impossible: an inextricable maze; an inextricable web of deceit.
   2. Difficult or impossible to disentangle or untie: an inextricable tangle of threads.
   3. Too involved or complicated to solve: an inextricable problem.
2. Unavoidable; inescapable: bound together by an inextricable fate.

inextricability in·ex'tri·ca·bil'i·ty or in·ex'tri·ca·ble·ness n.
inextricably in·ex'tri·ca·bly adv.

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cross (GO ACROSS) Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to go across from one side of something to the other:
It's not a good place to cross the road.
Look both ways before you cross over (= cross the road).
Cross the bridge and turn right at the first set of traffic lights.
They crossed from Albania into Greece.

cross- Show phonetics
prefix
going across a particular thing:
a cross-Channel ferry (= one that sails from Britain to France, Belgium or Holland)

crossing Show phonetics
noun [C]
1 a place where something such as a road can be crossed safely, or a place where a road and a railway meet and cross each other:
a border/river crossing

2 a journey across something such as a sea, from one side to the other:
We had a really rough crossing - I was sick three times.