李观仪《新编英语教程》第5册 UNIT6

Shakespeare English playwright and poet whose body of works is considered the greatest in English literature. His plays, many of which were performed at the Globe Theatre in London, include historical works, such as Richard II, comedies, including Much Ado about Nothing and As You Like It, and tragedies, such as Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. He also composed 154 sonnets. The earliest collected edition of his plays, the First Folio, contained 36 plays and was published posthumously (1623).
Old Testament 圣经旧约 The first of the two main divisions of the Christian Bible, corresponding to the Hebrew Scriptures. 圣经两大主要部分的第一部分，对等于希伯来圣经 The covenant of God with Israel as distinguished in Christianity from the dispensation of Jesus constituting the New Testament. 上帝与以色列人的约定，在基督教中区别于新约中耶稣所创 的教规 New Testament 圣经新约 The Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and the Book of Revelation, together viewed by Christians as forming the record of the new dispensation belonging to the Church. 福音书、法案、使徒书和启示录等被基督徒视作形成教堂新 道义的记录

Catholic Of or involving the Roman Catholic Church. 罗马天主教教堂的或涉及罗马天主教教堂的 A member of a Catholic church, especially a Roman Catholic. 教徒教会的成员，尤指罗马天主教会 Is he a Catholic or a Protestant? 他是天主教徒还是基督教 徒？ catholic adj. [C-]天主教的 宽容的; 大量的 一般的; 普遍的 a catholic taste for literature 对文学的广泛兴趣 be catholic in one's sympathies 极富同情心 Holy C-Church 圣公会 Middle English catholic [universally accepted] 中古英语 catholik [普遍接受的]
Tory A member of a British political party, founded in 1689, that was the opposition pΒιβλιοθήκη Baidurty to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832. 托利党党员创建于1689年，作为辉格党对立党而存在的英国 政党党员，1832年以后托利党名为保守党 A member of a Conservative Party, as in Canada. 保守党党员加拿大等国保守党的党员 Often tory 常作tory A supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of democratization or reform; a political conservative. 保守主义者；顽固派留恋过去的政治和社会体制，反对民主 或改革力量的人；政治上的保守主义者 Tory n. 保守党党员, 保皇党人 adj.保守分子的 Toryism n. 保王主义[行为]; [常t-]保守主义[行为]
Whig A member of an 18th- and 19th-century British political party that was opposed to the Tories. 辉格党党员18及19世纪英国的政党成员，该政党与托利党相 对立 Probably short for Whiggamore, a member of a body of 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian rebels 可能源自 Whiggamore的缩写，17世纪苏格兰一团体的成员 Whig n. [英](自由党前身的)辉格党党员；[美](共和党前身的) 自由党党员；辉格党[自由党]的支持者 Labour Party n （英国）工党 Robert Owen 欧文，罗伯特1771-1858威尔士裔的英国制造商和社会改革 家，他试图在印第安那的新哈莫尼建立一协会
Caesar Roman general, statesman, and historian who invaded Britain (55), crushed the army of his political enemy Pompey (48), pursued other enemies to Egypt, where he installed Cleopatra as queen (47), returned to Rome, and was given a mandate by the people to rule as dictator for life (45). On March 15 of the following year he was murdered by a group of republicans led by Cassius and Brutus, who feared he intended to establish a monarchy ruled by himself. 凯撒，尤利乌斯100-44 罗马将军、政治家、历史学家，他 入侵了大不列颠王国（55年）并征服了他的政敌庞培的军队 （48年），又追击其它敌人至埃及，他在此立克娄巴特拉为 女王（47年），返回罗马后，被罗马人民授予终身一人统治 的权力（45年）。次年3月15日，他被卡西乌和布鲁图斯领 导的一群共和主义者谋杀身亡，这些人担心他图谋建立由他 个人统治的君主制政权 caesarean n.剖腹产术的
Answer the following questions
1. From Steffens’s description of “the elect” in para.2, what has been revealed about himself? He must be very different from those boys. To him study did not mean performing all the tasks assigned by the teacher without thinking and reasoning. He must be unhappy to be told to memorize what he was supposed to learn without a thorough understanding. He was motivated by a strong quest for knowledge, not by the desire to distinguish himself in terms of marks.
2. Where can you find Steffens’s critical comments on the school education he received? Was it at least in part responsible for his failure to get into university? Mainly in paras. 3 & 4. He was not interested in those subjects which seemed to him irrelevant to his life, and the teachers failed to interest him in those subjects. As a result, he did not do well in them. This partly accounted for his failure.
Protestant A member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Protestant Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers. 新教徒西方基督教会的一个成员，其信仰和实践建立在新教 改革运动中提出的原则之上，并把圣经作为上帝启示的唯一 来源，只承认因信称义，并认为所有的信徒都有作教士的资 格 A member of a Western Christian church adhering to the theologies of Luther, Calvin, or Zwingli. 支持路德，加尔文或茨温利神学的西方基督教教会的成员 One who supported the protestation presented by the German Lutheran states against the revocation of the decree of the Diet of Speyer (1529). 抗议者支持德国路德教诸候国对恢复天主教特权的法案提出 的抗议的人
Unit 6
Preparing for College
Lincoln Steffens

Cultural Background Writing Skill Text Analysis Questions on the Text Language Point Exercises
Homer Greek epic poet. Two of the greatest works in Western literature, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are attributed to him. 荷马 希腊史诗作者 创作了西方文学最伟大的 两部作品《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》 Homer sometimes nods. [谚]智者千虑, 必有一失。 Dante 但丁(Alighieri, 1265-1321, 意大利诗人, 《神 曲》 (Divine Comedy)作者)