西南石油大学 新标准大学英语unit1-book3

刚刚过去的夏季学期的轻松氛围、即兴球赛、查尔斯河上 的泛舟以及深夜晚会都不见了踪影
Translation
2. …and we all started to get our heads down, studying late, and attendance at classes rose steeply again. get our heads down?
2. …and we all started to get our heads down, studying late, and attendance at classes rose steeply again.
我们开始埋头学习，苦读到深夜，课堂出勤率再 次急剧上升。
Translation
Text
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在某人的心里
心怀抱负、成绩拔尖的高材 生
5. 6. 7.
the high flyers with the top grades
have the next stages of one’s life mapped out
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为自己下几个阶段的人生做 好了规划
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Useful expressions
5. …and guys wore the bags under their eyes and their pale, sleepy faces with pride, like medals proving their diligence.
wear the bags under one’s eyes:长眼袋
(sth) happens before, or (sb) goes in front of others 在…之前发生或出现，先于； 在…之上，优于
proceed; concede; recede; precedent; unprecedented
Go over the article in the preceding unit.
Main Tasks
lead-in activities Discourse Analysis Comprehension & Language Focus practice & exercises
Main Task 2
Discourse Analysis
situation
We were in our final year and had to plan for our future.
Scanning
Read P1-18 and find out the author’s answers to the questions.
1. How was the last year at college be different from earlier years?
Students become more serious. They started to focus on study. 2. What did students think more about, their exams or their future? Their future. 3. Which students had already planned their future? The quieter ones who didn’t have the best grades. 4. What did the writer want to do? Yes. He wanted to travel and be a writer.
5. Who was also concerned about his future? His family members. 6. Who did he turn to for advice? His father. 7. What did he think they would say? He thought they would criticize him, because his father wanted him to be a lawyer. 8. What’s the moral significance of the crab story?
have/wear dark rings around one’s eyes
have/wear dark rings under one’s eyes
眼圈儿黑了
5. …and guys wore the bags under their eyes and their pale, sleepy faces with pride, like medals proving their diligence.
Text
4.Libraries which were once empty after five o’clock in the afternoon were standing room only until the early hours of the morning…
standing room is space in a room or bus, where people can stand when all the seats have been occupied. 以前每天下午五点以后，图书馆就空无一人了， 现在却要等到天快亮时才可落脚（意为：才会有 空座）…
This is a typical emphatic sentence Have sth mapped out:
map out something that you are intending to do, you work out in detail how you will do it设计,计划,规划,安排 整个方案的规划极为精细。 This whole project has been most carefully mapped out. Let's map out our vocation to Beijing. He knows how to map out his time.
problem
I didn’t want to follow my father’s path to become a lawyer.
solution
My father took me out to catch crabs.
பைடு நூலகம்
Main Task 3
Comprehension & Language Focus
Text
It wasn’t always the high flyers with the top grades who knew what they were going to do. Quite often it was the quieter, less impressive students who had the next stages of their life mapped out.
并不总是那些成绩拔尖志向远大的高材生才清楚自己将来要做什么常常是那些平日里默默无闻表现平平的同学早已为自己下几个阶段的人生做好了规划
Unit 1
Discovering Yourself
Active Reading (1):
Catching Crabs
Useful expressions
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
埋头苦读 bend one’s head over books sb be buried in the books
rise steeply: steep: adj.陡峭的，险峻的； 急剧(升降)的, 大幅度的
Unemployment is rising steeply. synonyms: dramatically, drastically, by a large margin
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追随· · · 的人生足迹
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做好了遭到反对的心理准
备 加入一个暂时报酬高的行
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业
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沿海水域没什么风浪 挤满了 被· · · 拽下来 放弃了漫长的逃亡之战
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follow sb’s path through life brace oneself for some resistance to go into a career which pays well just at the moment no surf on the coastal waters brim with be pulled back give up one’s lengthy struggle to escape
课堂出勤率 同学们之间的竞争压力 谁都不想太丢人 熬夜熬出了眼袋 脸色苍白，睡眼惺忪
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attendance at classes peer group pressure No one wanted the humiliation of wear the bags under one’s eyes pale, sleepy faces at the back of one’s mind
The crab story tells the son that he needs to know better about himself and shouldn’t be pulled back by others.
1.The relaxed atmosphere of the preceding summer semester, the impromptu ball games, the boating on the Charles River, the late-night parties had disappeared… precede: vt.& vi.
3.No one wanted the humiliation of finishing last in class, so the peer group pressure to work hard was strong.
我们谁都不想考全班倒数第一，那太丢人了，因此 同学间的竞争压力特别大。
Translation
并不总是那些成绩拔尖、志向远大的高材生才清楚自己将 来要做什么，常常是那些平日里默默无闻、表现平平的同 学早已为自己下几个阶段的人生做好了规划。
Translation
2. One had landed a job in his brother’s
advertising firm in Madison Avenue, another had got a script under provisional acceptance in Hollywood. land something: get something successfully that is difficult to get and that many people want 搞到,弄到,捞到 script: n. 剧本，手稿 provisional: adj.临时的,暂时性的,暂定的 As you have never held a driving licence before, you should apply for a provisional licence.
Agricultural development simply must precede economic development.
1.The relaxed atmosphere of the preceding summer semester, the impromptu ball games, the boating on the Charles River, the late-night parties had disappeared…
同学们都熬夜熬出了眼袋，他们脸色苍白，睡眼惺忪，却 很自豪，好像这些都是表彰他们勤奋好学的奖章。（意 为：小伙子们挂着眼袋，带着苍白的倦容，就好像挂了 一枚显示他们勤奋好学的奖章，很是自豪。）
Translation
6. It wasn’t always the high flyers with the top
grades who knew what they were going to do.
high flyers?
students who are most ambitious, or who think big
志向远大的人，有远大抱负的人，有野心的人
2. Quite often it was the quieter, less impressive students who had the next stages of their life mapped out.