Fish

Para 7 haunt Vt
1) To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form




of a ghost or other supernatural being. 以鬼魂形式出现：以鬼魂或其它超自然物体 的形式居住、拜访或出现 2) To visit often; frequent: 经常拜访；常去： haunted the movie theaters.

注册孩子们入幼儿园；作会议记录
2) v.intr.（不及物动词）
To place one's name on a roll or register;
sign up: 注册登记：注册、记录某人名字在花名册上； 登记： We enrolled in the army.

我们登记入伍了
经常去电影院
3) To come to mind continually; obsess:
时常萦绕心头；使困窘：
a riddle that haunted me all morning.

一个困扰我整个上午的谜语
4) To be continually present in; pervade: 时常出现在；弥漫： the melancholy that haunts the composer's

把防晒膏涂抹在我脸 上和臂上
3) To stain by or as
4) To stain or
if by spreading or attempt to destroy daubing with a the reputation of; sticky, greasy, or vilify: dirty substance. 污蔑，诋毁：玷污或 弄脏：用或似乎用扩 企图毁掉某人的名誉； 诽谤： 散或涂抹的方法用粘 着、油滑或肮脏的物 political enemies 质弄污

Para 7 smear
1) To spread or
2) To apply by
spreading or daubing: daub with a sticky, 敷，涂：用扩散或涂 greasy, or dirty 抹的方法使用某物： substance. 涂沫：把一种粘着、 smeared suntan lotion on my face 光滑或肮脏的物质散 and arms. 布开或涂在某物之上
I have an aversion to
getting up early.
Big dogs are an
aversion of little girls.
讨厌, 不爱, 不喜欢
Para 7 For gazing at a fish did not commend
itself to an ardent entomologist. For gazing an passionate entomologist.
Those were not the days of ground-glass stoppers and elegantly shaped exhibition jars; all the old students will recall the huge neckless glass bottles with their leaky, wax-besmeared corks, half eaten by insects, and begrimed with cellar dust. At that time ,there were not ground-glass stoppers and fine shaped exhibition jars; all the old students can recall the large neckless glass bottles with their leaky corks which were applied with wax, half eaten by insects and made dirty with cellar dust.

照顾、保护或运行： “He still has the aura of the priest to whom you would entrust your darkest secrets. “他身上仍散发牧师的气
他把这项任务委托给 了他的助手们
味，使你愿将自己内心最 深处的秘密交付与他”
Paragraph 7.
the text is divided into five sections.
parts
One
paras
1-8
Main Ideas
Scudder’s first morning in the laboratory was characterized by boredom and despair. By drawing the fish in the afternoon, Scudder discovered new features in the fish but failed to notice its most conspicuous characteristic. Scudder discovered one new feature after another when he began to work in earnest and saw how just the Proffer’s criticism had been.
Para 5. entrust
1) To give over sth to
2) To give as a trust
another for care, protection, or performance:
委托：把某物交与他人以
to (someone): 委托（某人）管理： entrusted his aides with the task.
TAKE THIS FISH AND LOOK AT IT
Samuel Scudder
About the author
a. Samuel Hubbard
Scudder was an American entomologist (昆虫学家） and palaeontologist （古生 物学家）. He was born 13 April 1837 in Boston, Massachusetts and died in the same city 17 May 1911. He had very weird sideburns.
who smeared his name.
Para 7 besmear:
涂搽[抹, 满](with) 抹脏, 玷污; 中伤 His face was besmeared with blood.
他的脸沾满了血。 那一事件玷污了她的名誉。
The incident besmeared her reputation.
Two
9-13
Three
14-18
Part Four
Paras
Main idea
Five
19-24 By the end of the third day, Scudder had learned the best entomological lessons in his life, one that was to guide his subsequent study and research. 25-28 The eight months Scudder spent studying haemulons was of greater value to him than years of later in investigation into insects.

commend
1)推荐 2) 称赞， 表扬， 嘉奖
3) 把...付托给
4) 吸引； 引起兴趣 We should commend good people and good
deeds.

我们应当表扬好人好事。 她把孩子托付给姑母照管。 我对这本书没有兴趣。
She commended the child to her aunt's care. This book doesn't commend itself to me.
Text Analysis
1. Group One: Scan
the beginning sentence of each paragraphs ( sometimes ending sentence) to find out how many times slots there are in the text. (make a list of all the time words and phrases.)
music.

经常出现在那位作曲家音乐中的忧郁
Para 8. resuscitate vt.
使复苏; 使复活; 使恢复精力
resuscitate a person who has been nearly
drowned 使已将近淹死的人复生 The doctor resuscitated the man who was overcome by gas. 医生救活了那个煤气中毒的人。
2. Group Two:
Scan the text to make out all the conversations that took place between professor Agassiz and Scudder.