全新版大学英语第五册Unit4-TEXT A

enroll: v.登记；使加入 登记； 登记
put onto the official list; (cause to) enter or join (followed by in/on) He is enrolled as a part-time student. In Chicago only a third of local students who aspire to college enroll in ones that match their skills. 在芝加哥， 在芝加哥，只有三分之一的当地学生能够被与其能力相当 的大学录取。 的大学录取。
7. I was to keep the fish before me in a tin tray, and occasionally moisten the surface with alcohol from the jar, always taking care to replace the stopper tightly. 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. Entomology was a cleaner science than ichthyology, but the example of the Professor, who had unhesitatingly plunged to the bottom of the jar to produce the fish, was infectious; and though this alcohol had a "very ancient and fishlike smell," I really dared not show any aversion within these sacred precincts, and treated the alcohol as though it were pure water. Still I was conscious of a passing feeling of disappointment, for gazing at a fish did not commend itself to an ardent entomologist. My friends at home, too, were annoyed when they discovered that no amount of eau-de-Cologne would drown the perfume which haunted me like a shadow.
He asked me a few questions about my object in coming, my antecedents generally, the mode in which I afterwards proposed to use the knowledge I might acquire, and, finally, whether I wished to study any special branch. 1. Analyze the structure of the sentence. This is a long sentence. The main verb in the sentence is followed by four objects: 1) a few questions; 2) my antecedents; 3) the mode and 4) whether-clause. 2. Translate the sentence into Chinese. 他略略询问了我来此的目的、我大致的经历、 他略略询问了我来此的目的、我大致的经历、以后准备如何 运用所学知识，最后问我是否希望修习某一特别学科。 运用所学知识，最后问我是否希望修习某一特别学科。
entrust: vt. entrust sth./sb. to sb. make someone responsible for doing something important, or for taking care of someone委托，信托 委托， 委托
He didn't look like the sort of man ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้ou should entrust your luggage to. She entrusted her son's education to a private tutor. be entrusted with sth./sb. She was entrusted with the task of collecting all the data concerning the project. 我们受委托保管公益金。 我们受委托保管公益金。 We are entrusted with public welfare funds.
energetic: adj. full of energy; very active Eventually the bulge of energetic, working-age people becomes a bulge of dependent, elderly ones. Your energetic nature and ability to initiate projects will add to your popularity. Energetic particles from the sun are captured by the Earth's magnetic field and spiral downward toward the poles. 如今这群年富力强的适龄劳动力转眼就会变成依赖社会的老人。 如今这群年富力强的适龄劳动力转眼就会变成依赖社会的老人。 你那充沛的精力和发起项目的积极性会为你的人气加分。 你那充沛的精力和发起项目的积极性会为你的人气加分。 来自太阳的高能粒子被地球的磁场吸引过来并且螺旋向下冲着极 点。
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Comprehension reading
1. Scan the text and try to divide the text into 5 parts. And summarize the main idea of each part. 2. Scan the text and find out the sentences showing the professor left the author and returned the first day. 3. Scan the text and find the words, phrases or sentences in the text showing the author’s different feelings (eager, happy, disappointed, etc.) the first day.
她决定上当地夜校的计算机班。 她决定上当地夜校的计算机班。 She decided to enroll in the computer course at the local evening school.
ground sb. in sth:使某人在某方面受到基础训练；通晓 某学科 使某人在某方面受到基础训练； 某学科) 使某人在某方面受到基础训练 通晓(某学科 teach sb. the main points or rules (of a subject) as a base for further study (usually passive) Most seven-year-olds are grounded in the basics of reading and writing. The volunteers have been grounded in the prevention of the disease.
specimen: n. a single typical thing or example Astronauts brought back specimens of moon rock. 宇航员带回一些月球岩石的样本。 宇航员带回一些月球岩石的样本。 Phrases: specimen signature[金融 签字式样 金融] 金融 Specimen Collection标本收藏；标本采集 标本收藏； 标本收藏 specimen holder试样架；标本夹 试样架； 试样架 living specimen活标本 活标本 check specimen检验用样件 检验用样件 permanent specimen永久标本；持久标本 永久标本； 永久标本
Today educators stress critical thinking, which begins with close observation. Yet, the technique is not new, as we can see from this famous essay by Samuel Scudder, in which he recalls his education at Harvard in the 1850s. In the essay, Scudder relates the lesson in observation he learned under Professor Agassiz. The professor's teaching method was simple. Instead of lecturing, he directed his young student to "look again, look again."
2."When do you wish to begin?" he asked. 3."Now," I replied. 4.This seemed to please him, and with an energetic "Very well!" he reached from a shelf a huge jar of specimens in yellow alcohol. "Take this fish," he said, "and look at it; we call it a haemulon; by and by I will ask what you have seen." 5.With that he left me, but in a moment returned with explicit instructions as to the care of the object entrusted to me. 6. "No man is fit to be a naturalist," said he, "who does not know how to take care of specimens." If a man knows nothing about how to look after specimens, he is not suitable to be a naturalist.
PART 1 para.1-8 The author's first morning in the laboratory was characterized by boredom and despair.
Take This Fish and Look at It Samuel Scudder 1. It was more than fifteen years ago that I entered the laboratory of Professor Agassiz, and told him I had enrolled my name in the Scientific School as a student of natural history. He asked me a few questions about my object in coming, my antecedents generally, the mode in which I afterwards proposed to use the knowledge I might acquire, and, finally, whether I wished to study any special branch. To the latter I replied that while I wished to be well grounded in all departments of zoology, I purposed to devote myself especially to insects.