第三版大学英语第3册教案

She broke (爆发) then: At that time she could no longer control her emotions 她再也控制不住(她的情感)了

sob (vi.): cry or weep in very low sound 抽泣

…feeling Mother’s back racked (shake violently) with emotion 感到母亲的背在颤抖rack one’s brains绞尽脑汁

vulnerability (U): being liable to be damaged or hurt 益受伤害的;脆弱的

be vulnerable to (sth.): His viewpoint is vulnerable to criticism.

Note: venerable 德高望重的

…but she was something more: a person like me (同位语), capable of fear and hurt and failure (定语)

Patterns:

be capable of sth. /doing sth. 具有做某事的能力

be able to do sth. 有能力做某事

on a thousand occasions = on many, many cases

seek (sought) comfort 寻找安慰

Paragraphs (21 –24)

…took (=got) a job selling dry goods (定语)

dry goods ( AmE): textile fabric products (美语)纺织纤维品

Note: goods, commodity (C), merchandise, product (C)

at half the salary the radio station had offered (定语)

the evening practice sessions on the old green typewriter (定语)

session: a meeting / a period of time devoted to a specific activity

…the evening practice sessions: the evening hours for practice

Note: typewriter (打字机) typewrite (打字) typist (打字员)

tapping away: tapping on without stopping

Note: The adverb “away” here means “without stopping” or “continuously”

1. The soldiers fired away until they had no ammunition (弹药) left.

2. Though he is very rich now, he still works away in his office as if he were a clerk.

…there was something more going on (=happening / taking place) in there (=sewing room) than a woman learning to type: besides learning to type, Mother was also showing her determination to overcome whatever difficulties she might meet with, her strong will not to accept defeat easily and her courage to go ahead

leave for = leave … for…; leave for college = go to college

newspaper reporter: correspondent; journalist 记者

in some strange way: 以某种不可思议的方式

hometown paper 家乡的报纸/报社

The old green typewriter sits (=stays; is put) in my office, unrepaired (=without having been repaired).

memento: sth, which reminds one of a holiday, a friend, etc.; souvenir (纪念品)

1. These post cards are mementos of their trip to Italy.

2. This gold pen is a memento of his grandfather.

recall (vt.) 回忆; 回想

Pattern: recall doing sth (Right); recall to do sth (Wrong)

e.g.: I recall meeting him somewhere.

…but what it (=the typewriter) recalls for me is not quite (=not so much as) what it recalls for Mother. 但它所勾起的我的回忆与妈妈的不尽相同

…I am having trouble (=difficulty) with a story (=a newspaper article) and think about giving up (=abandon 放弃;打退堂鼓)

e.g,: What are those main stories (新闻) in today’s newspaper?

cranky (adj.): (of a machine) shaky; out of order; malfunctioning

…I roll a piece of paper into that cranky old machine 我把一张纸卷进那台破旧的打字机里word by word 一个自一个字地

e.g.: Translate the sentence word by word. 逐字地翻译那个句子.

…type, word by painful word…: and type painfully, word by word, …

…just the way (by which) Mother did (=typed)

go ahead 向前，继续向前，用于go ahead with sth.

e.g.: At present our government is trying hard to go ahead with the measures on the control of price of real estate.

Note: remember to do sth. 记得要去做某事

remember doing or having done sth. 记得曾经做过某事

1. Remember to attend the meeting at 2 p.m. tomorrow.

2. I remember sending / having sent an E-mail to him last week.

It is the best memento (that) anyone ever gave me.

V Structure

----It was not (or won’t be) long before…

Model: It wasn’t long before mother had a full enrollment and a waiting list.

It won’t be long before mother has a full enrollment and a waiting list.

----Just that… : it is just that …

Here “ that- clause” is used to express a reason o r cause,

e.g.—It is rather she was very busy then, not that she didn’t like it.

VI Summarizing as the following:

It is hard for parents and children to really understand one another. And there does exist a generation gap. But I think it is even harder for children to understand their parents. Parents see their children grow up; they see them laugh when they are happy and cry when they are sad or hurt; they know what their children like and what they don’t like. As a rule, children know very little about their parents when they were children; and parents usually try to conceal their true feeling and emotions from their children. That’s why the 16-year-old boy in our story was very much shocked one day when he saw his mother crying for the first time.