现代大学生英语 词汇 two kinds
(完整版)twokinds译文
Two Kinds 译文妈相信，在美国，任何梦想都能成为事实。
你可以做一切你想做的：开家餐馆，或者在政府部门工作，以期得到很高的退休待遇。
你可以不用付一个子儿的现金，就可以买到一幢房子。
你有可能发财，也有可能出人头地，反正，到处是机会。
在我九岁时，妈就对我说：“你也能成为天才。
你会样样事都应付得很出色的。
琳达姨算什么？她那女儿，只不过心眼多一点而已。
”妈将一切未遂的心愿、希望，都寄托在美国这片土地上。
她是在1949年来到美国的。
在中国，她丧失了一切：双亲，家园，她的前夫和一对孪生女儿。
但她对过去的一切，从不用悲恸的目光去回顾，眼前，她有太多的打算，以便将生活安排得更好。
至于我将成为哪方面的天才，妈并不急于立时拍板定案。
起初，她认为我完全可以成为个中国的秀兰·邓波儿。
我们不放过电视里的秀兰·邓波儿的旧片子，每每这时，妈便会抬起我的手臂往屏幕频频挥动：“你——看，”这用的是汉语。
而我，也确实看见秀兰摆出轻盈的舞姿，或演唱一支水手歌，有时，则将嘴唇撅成个圆圆的“0”字，说一声“哦，我的上帝”。
当屏幕上的秀兰双目满噙着晶莹的泪珠时，妈又说了：“你看，你早就会哭了。
哭不需要什么天才！”立时，妈有了培养目标了。
她把我带去我们附近一家美容培训班开办的理发店，把我交到一个学员手里。
这个学生，甚至连剪刀都拿不像，经她一番折腾，我的头发，成了一堆稀浓不均的鬈曲的乱草堆。
妈伤心地说：“你看着，像个中国黑人了。
”美容培训班的指导老师不得不亲自出马，再操起剪刀来修理我头上那湿漉漉的一团。
“彼得·潘的式样，近日是非常时行的。
”那位指导老师向妈吹嘘着。
我的头发，已剪成个男孩子样，前面留着浓密的、直至眉毛的刘海。
我挺喜欢这次理发，它令我确信，我将前途无量。
确实刚开始，我跟妈一样兴奋，或许要更兴奋。
我憧憬着自己种种各不相同的天才形象，犹如一位已在天幕侧摆好优美姿势的芭蕾舞演员，只等着音乐的腾起，即踮起足尖翩然起舞。
现代大学英语精读paraphrase和translation
Lesson Two: Two KindsParaphrase1.I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me thebest.2.I had new thoughts, willful thou ghts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts.I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion.3.The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.The girl was Shirley Temple—like, slightly rude but in an amusing way.4.It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, asif this awful side of me had surfaced, at last.When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so T felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last.5.And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill over.I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her self—control would collapse, andI wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself.6.The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery. Phrases1.With almost no money down 几乎用不着交首付，几乎可以全部用贷款来买房2.The raised hopes and failed expectations 那些过高的希望和达不到的期盼3.Shorting out 短路4.The showpiece of our living room 我们起居室里的一件摆设5.Stiff-lipped smile 尴尬不自然的笑容6.Frighteningly strong 惊人地强大7.Follow their own mind 我行我素Sentence1.Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz.我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花，而是给我弄成一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。
现代大学英语2two kinds
Academic Challenge
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Write a guide for parents, titled: “How to be a good parent” or “How to form good relationships with your kids.” Have at least 15 points on your guide. Explain the significance of the two pieces: “Pleading Child” and “Perfectly Contented”.
Pre-reading Questions
What’s the meaning of the title “Two Kinds”? How is the story arranged? How many characters are there in the story?
Reading Strategy
IV. Organization of the Text
Part I. Beginning (Paras. 1-3): tells about the mother and her hopes for her daughter Part II. Development (P4-76): Subsection 1 (Paras. 4 – 11) the mother’s unsuccessful attempt to change her daughter into a Chinese Shirley Temple. Subsection 2 (Paras. 12 – 20) the mother was trying very hard to train her daughterto be genius.
经典：unit-2-Two-kinds
two types of conflict
1) External - A struggle with a force outside one's self. 2) Internal - A struggle within one's self; a person must
make some decision, overcome pain, quiet their temper, resist an urge, etc.
Two Kinds
Amy Tan
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About the author
Amy Tan ( 谭 恩 美 )
Her parents were Chinese immigrants.
Born in Oakland, California, in 1952
Master’s degree in linguistics
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D Theme
The theme of a story is different from the plot. While the plot tells what happens in the story, the theme shows what the story is about. The theme of a story is the general meaning, the central and dominating idea that unifies and controls the total work. Usually it is easier to summarize the events than to state the theme in ones own word.
大学英语第二册单词
英] [waiz][美] [waɪz]adj.聪明的，有智慧的；博学的，博识的；明白的；像智者的vt.使知道，使懂得；教导；指点vi.了解，知道比较级：wiser最高级：wisesthow-to英] [ˈhauˈtu:][美] [ˈhaʊˈtu]adj.解释作法的，指引的Solve[英] [sɔlv][美] [sɑlv, sɔlv]vt.解决；解答；解释；清偿（债务）Stupid英] [ˈstju:pid][美] [ˈstupɪd, ˈstju-]adj.愚蠢的；迟钝的；乏味的；晕眩的，昏迷不醒的n.<口>傻子，笨蛋比较级：stupider最高级：stupidestYouth[英] [ju:θ][美] [juθ]n.年轻；青年，小伙子；初期，少年（青年）时期；〈集合词〉青少年们复数：youthsInside[英] [inˈsaid][美] [ɪnˈsaɪd, ˈɪnˈsaɪd]adj.里面的，内部的；内幕的；内侧的n.里面，内侧；内脏；内容，内幕；（道路或跑道拐弯处的）内侧adv.在内地，在内部地；在内侧地；在监狱里prep.在…以内；在内侧或内部；进入里面复数：insidesUpon[英] [əˈpɔn, əpən][美] [əˈpɑn, əˈpɔn]prep.在…上面；当…时候Interfere[英] [ˈɪntəˈfiə][美] [ˈɪntɚˈfɪr]vi.干预，干涉；调停，排解；妨碍，打扰Suggestion[英] [səˈdʒestʃən][美] [səɡˈdʒɛstʃən, səˈdʒɛs-]n.建议，意见，暗示；联想，启发；微量复数：suggestions[英] [ˈefət][美] [ˈɛfət]n.努力，尝试；工作；成就；杰作复数：effortsScientist[英] [ˈsaiəntist][美] [ˈsaɪəntɪst]n.科学家；科学工作者复数：scientistsLegislator[英] [ˈledʒɪˈsleɪtə][美] [ˈlɛdʒɪˈsletɚ]n.立法委员；立法者复数：legislatorsIndividual[英] [ˈɪndiˈvidjuəl][美] [ˈɪndəˈvɪdʒuəl]adj.个人的；独特的；个别的n.个人；个体复数：individualsReduce[英] [riˈdju:s][美] [rɪˈdus, -ˈdjus]vt.换算；约束；使变为；使变弱vi.减少；减轻体重；[生物学]（细胞）减数分裂；（液体）浓缩变稠Amount[英] [əˈmaunt][美] [əˈmaʊnt]n.量，数量；总额；本利之和；全部效果，全部含义vi.（在意义、价值、效果、程度等方面）等于；等同，接近；合计，总共；发展成为Planet[英] [ˈplænit][美] [ˈplænɪt]n.[天]行星；[占星]（左右人命运的）星相复数：planetsData[英] [ˈdeitə][美] [ˈdetə, ˈdætə, ˈdɑtə]n.资料，材料；datum的复数；[计算机]数据，资料；从科学实验中提取的价值It’s for sb.和It’s of sb.1）for sb. 常用于表示事物的特征特点，表示客观形式的形容词，如easy, hard, difficult,interesting, impossible等：It’s very hard for him to study two langu ages. 对他来说学两门外语是很难的。
英语二学位TwoKinds练习题
第二课第二课Part ⅠV ocabularyDirections: Complete the following sentences with the best words given in the brackets.1. You could buy a house with almost no money _____.A. downB. offC. upD. of2. The instructor of the beauty training school had to lop ____ these soggy clumps to make my hair evenagain.A. downB. ofC. offD. / 3. I was ______ stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air.A. PandoraB. CinderellaC. AthenaD. Cleopatra4. She seemed _______ by the music, a little frenzied piano piece.A. entrancedB. to entranceC. enteredD. enter5. It fell about her, rippling and shining like a cascade of brown water.A. waterB. fallC. cascadeD. stream6. she can't boil potatoes, _______ cook a mealA. let go ofB. let aloneC. let offD. let D. let’’s say7. You are a very nice, but an_______ boy.A. gratefulB. ungratefulC. happyD. unhappy8. My parents invited all the couples from the Joy Luck Club to _____ my debut.A. lookB. seeC. witnessD. watch9. The horses________ in the circus ring.A. prancedB. jumpedC. leapedD. hopped10. A chill started at the top of my head and began to _____ down.A. trickleB. dropC. dripD. flow 11. Pride and some strange sense of honor must have ____ my parents to their chairs.A. anchoredB. seatedC. stoppedD. fastened12. I _____ myself more tightly in front of the TV 12. I _____ myself more tightly in front of the TV. .A. wedgedB. narrowedC. movedD. spoke13. Her arms went ____, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless.A. looseB. softC. strongD. slack14. My mother can 14. My mother can’’t get ____ because she has rheumatism(风湿病)。
两大类场景词汇
两大类场景：1. campus life(校园生活)（1）上课、选课、听讲座、听报告（2）作业（3）考试（4）图书馆2. daily life(日常生活)（1）旅游（2）打工（3）餐馆（4）医院（5）银行（6）邮局（7）宾馆（8）机场、车站（9）电话（10）购物1. 学校场景的背景基本知识学生场景freshman 大一学生sophomore 大学二年级生, 有二年经验的junior student 大三学生senior student 大四学生，高年级学生undergraduate student 本科生graduate student / postgraduate student 研究生master's degree 硕士学位bachelor's degree 学士学位doctor student / doctor candidate 博士研究生post doctor student 博士后alumni / alumnus 校友老师场景professor 教授teaching fellow 讲师tutor / mentor / director / super visor 导师dean 系主任department 系president 校长staff 全体员工(商店、企业)faculty 全体教职员工2. 上课、选课、听讲座、听报告场景take the course 选课drop the course 退课register 注册sign up for the course 选课Pick up = learncancel 取消full 报满selective course / elective course / optional course 选修课requirement / required course / compulsory 必修课lecture 讲座seminar 讨论班credit 学分introductory course 初级课程advanced course 高级课程math 数学computer course 计算机psychology course 心理学physics 物理学economics 经济学computer science 计算机科学sociology 社会学geology 地质学chemistry 化学biology 生物学biochemistry 生物化学science 理科art 文科场景专题(1) 两大类场景：1. campus life(校园生活)（1）上课、选课、听讲座、听报告（2）作业（3）考试（4）图书馆2. daily life(日常生活)（1）旅游（2）打工（3）餐馆（4）医院（5）银行（6）邮局（7）宾馆（8）机场、车站（9）电话（10）购物1. 学校场景的背景基本知识学生场景freshman 大一学生sophomore 大学二年级生, 有二年经验的junior student 大三学生senior student 大四学生，高年级学生undergraduate student 本科生graduate student / postgraduate student 研究生master's degree 硕士学位bachelor's degree 学士学位doctor student / doctor candidate 博士研究生post doctor student 博士后alumni / alumnus 校友老师场景professor 教授teaching fellow 讲师tutor / mentor / director / super visor 导师dean 系主任department 系president 校长staff 全体员工(商店、企业)faculty 全体教职员工2. 上课、选课、听讲座、听报告场景take the course 选课drop the course 退课register 注册sign up for the course 选课Pick up = learncancel 取消full 报满selective course / elective course / optional course 选修课requirement / required course / compulsory 必修课lecture 讲座seminar 讨论班credit 学分introductory course 初级课程advanced course 高级课程math 数学computer course 计算机psychology course 心理学physics 物理学economics 经济学computer science 计算机科学sociology 社会学geology 地质学chemistry 化学biology 生物学biochemistry 生物化学science 理科art 文科2000年1月Section A7. M: The visiting economist is speaking tonight, but Dr. Johnson doesn't seem to think much of him.W: That's because Dr. Johnson comes from an entirely different school of thought.Q: What do we learn from the woman's remark?A. The visiting economist has given several lectures.B. The guest lecturer's opinion is different from Dr. Johnson's.C. Dr. Johnson and the guest speaker were schoolmates.D. Dr. Johnson invited the economist to visit their college.[答案：B]2002年6月Section A1. W: The deadline for the sociology and computer courses is the day after tomorrow.M: But I haven't decided which courses to take yet.Q: What are the man and woman talking about？A. Registering for course.B. Getting directions.C. Buying a new computer.D. Studying sociology.[答案：A]2003年1月Section A9. W: I don't imagine you have any interest in attending that lecture on drawing, do you?M: Oh, yes, I do, now that you remind me of it.Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?A. He'll give a lecture on drawing.B. He's going to attend the lecture.C. He'd rather not go to the lecture.D. He doesn't mind if the woman goes to the lecture.[答案：B]2003年6月Section A8. M: Mr. Smith, our history professor, announced we would be doing two papers and three exams this semester. I wonder how I'm going to pull through when two other courses have similar requirements.W: Well, can't you drop one course and pick it up next semester?Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?A. Do the assignments towards the end of the semester.B. Quit the history course and choose another one instead.C. Drop one course and do it next semester.D. Take courses with a lighter workload.[答案：C]3. 作业场景homework / assignment / projectbook report 读书报告presentation 课堂发言reading list 书单turn in / hand in hand 上交deadline 最后期限due 到期extension 延期paper 论文 / essay 小论文term paper 学期报告thesis 毕业论文proposal 开题报告2000年1月Section A5. M: My chemistry project is in trouble. My partner and I have totally different ideas about how to proceed.W: You should try to meet each other halfway.Q: What does the woman suggest?A. The man should work with somebody else.B. The man should meet his partner's needs.C. They should come to a compromise.D. They should find a better lab for the project.[答案：C]2001年1月Section A9. W: Sorry I did not come yesterday, because I had a temperature. Could you tell me the requirement for my term paper?M: The theme of your paper can be about business management or touring resources in China, and the length of the paper should be no less than fifteen pages.Q: What is the most probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Manager and employee.B. Salesman and customer.C. Guide and tourist.D. Professor and student.[答案：D]2002年1月Section A7. M: When are we supposed to submit our project proposals, Jane?W: They are due by the end of the week. We've only two days left. We'll just have to hurry.Q: What does the woman mean?A. The deadline is drawing near.B. She can't meet the deadline.C. She turned in the proposals today.D. They are two days ahead of time.[答案：A]4. 考试场景Exammid-term exam 期中考试final exam 期末考试quiz 测验pop quiz 不提前通知的考试grade / score 分数pass 及格passing grade 及格分failing grade 失败GPA 平均学分积make up exam 补考cheat 作弊1999年6月Section A4. W: I thought Tom said he got A's in all his tests.M: Mary, you should know better than to take Tom's words too seriously. Q: What does the man imply?A. Tom is very responsible.B. Tom's words aren't reliable.C. What Tom said is true.D. Tom is not humorous at all.[答案：B]2002年1月Section A2. M: How many students passed the final physics exam in your class?W: Forty, but still as many as 20 percent of the class failed, quite disappointing, isn't it?Q: What does the woman think of the exam?A. They have different opinions as to what to do next.B. They have to pay for the house by installments.C. They will fix a telephone in the bathroom.D. The man's attitude is more sensible than the woman's.[答案：D]2003年1月Section A5、W: Oh, dear. I'm afraid I fail again in the national test. It's the third time I took it.M: Don't be too upset. I have the same fate. Let's try the fourth time.Q: What does the man mean?A. He is sure they will succeed in the next test.B. He did no better than the woman in the test.C. He believes she will pass the test this time.D. He felt upset because of her failure.[答案：B]5. 图书馆场景shelf 书架stack 书库reading room 阅览室reference room 参考书阅览室periodical room 期刊阅览室copier 复印机study lounge 自习室librarian 图书馆长, 图书管理员catalogue 书目index 索引volume 卷，宗library card 借书卡writing permission 书面许可book reservation 借书check out 外借over due 超期renew 续借fine 罚款return 还书put on reserve 被限制在馆内阅读magazine 杂志journal 期刊periodical 期刊quarterly 季刊current issue 现刊back issue 过刊latest number 最新一期author 作者subject 题目title 名字key words 关键字2003年6月Section A3. M: Hey, where did you find the journal? I need it, too.W: Right here on the shelf. Don't worry, John. I'll take it out on my card for both of us.Q: What does the woman mean?A. John can share the magazine with her.B. She wants to borrow John's card.C. She'll let John use the journal first.D. John should find another copy for himself. [答案：A]两大类场景：1. campus life（校园生活）（1）上课、选课、听讲座、听报告（2）作业（3）考试（4）图书馆2. daily life（日常生活）0（1）旅游（2）打工（3）餐馆（4）医院（5）银行（6）邮局（7）宾馆（8）机场、车站（9）电话（10）购物1. 餐馆场景餐馆restaurant 餐馆dining hall 食堂cafeteria 自助餐厅bar 酒吧（美国）inn 小旅馆，小客栈motel 汽车旅馆fast food 快餐店snack food 小吃（snack表快速的吞食）snack bar 快餐店subway 赛百味sandwich 三明治bread talks 面包新语pizza hut 必胜客hamburger 汉堡burger king 汉堡王pub 酒吧（英国）French restaurant 法式餐厅（很正式）Italian restaurant 意式餐厅place 餐馆食品：buffet 自助餐salad 沙拉soup 汤eat soup 喝汤soup spoon 汤匙table manners 饭桌礼仪sauce 汁，酱dessert 甜点（发音第二重音）main dish 主菜pudding 布丁dressing 调味汁doughnut 面包圈French bread 法式面包a loaf 一条面包jam 果酱apple pie 苹果酱sandwich 三明治toast 土司pizza、披萨hamburger 汉堡potato chips 土豆片French fries 炸薯条yoghourt 酸奶steak 牛排soft drink 软饮料soda water 苏打水Orange Juice 橘汁mineral water 矿泉水lemon juice 柠檬汁wine 酒liquor 烈酒beer 啤酒a cup of beer 一杯啤酒动作：menu 菜单order dishes 点菜bring me the menu 看菜单recommendation 推荐，招牌菜付账：pick up the bill 买单I will pick up the table.Let me treat you.Let me foot the bill.It's on me.I will buy the bill.AA制Let's go Dutch. 各人付自己的帐原来英国人称何兰人的蔑称叫dutch,说sb is in dutch 就是有难的意思the Dutch done he killed himself,Let's go fifty-fifty.Take French leave 不辞而别separate checkssplit the billtip 小费（tips 时尚杂志上表advice ）7月31号美国万盛节美国小孩就会打扮成很可怕的样子到街上说treat or track (拿糖还是被作弄)但在911之后很多大人不要小孩去街上了遇到阿富汗人怎么办了哈，treat 没有，炸弹倒有一颗Background:book reserve 预定I am sorry all the tables have been booked out.Are you ready to order, sir?See the menuWhat is the specialty of the house?I will be back with your order in a minute.Short-handedI will take care of it right now.You're meal will be free.1996年1月6. W: Do you know Jane works as a dish-washer at restaurant around the corner?M: It isn't a bad job to start with. I wouldn't mind that job for the summer if no others are available. Q: What does the man mean? （D）A. He likes the job of a dish-washer because it pays well.B. He thinks it’s important to have a good job from the beginning.C. He hates to be a dish-washer because it’s boring.D. He would work as a dish-washer in summer if he has to.1997年1月9. M: This is ridiculous! I've been waiting for my meal for more than half an hour.W: I know. But you see, the restaurant is full and we are short-handed today.Q: How does the man feel? （B）A. He is curious.B. He is impatient.C. He is exhausted.D. He is satisfied.1998年1月3. W: I'm out of coins for the slot machine. Do you have any?M: I don't have any either. But I'll get some from the cafe.Q: What does the man offer to do? （A）A. Get some coins at the cafe.B. Buy her a cup of coffee at the cafe.C. Get some coffee from the machine.D. Try to fix the machine.2001年1月。
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3 Elements from Novel can be read of a novel, it Although “Two Kinds” is taken Kinds”
as a complete short story. Being a story, it must have 3 elements of its own. The 3 elements mean characters, plots and environments. Characters can be divided into major ones and miner ones. A major character can be called either as a hero or a heroine. The hero means a major male character , and the heroine refers to a major female one in a story. There are two heroines in the story Two Kinds: the daughter and the mother. The daughter serves as the narrator for the first person in the story. The plot of the traditional short story contains three parts: beginning, middle and end. It often moves through five stages exposition(铺垫),rising action(开端,上升情节 ), crisis exposition(铺垫),rising action(开端, or climax( 高潮), falling action(高潮之后的部分 ), 高潮), action(高潮之后的部分 resolution( 结局). In Two Kinds, Paras. 1-3 can be 结局). 1regarded as the beginning, Part One; Paras. 4-76 can be 4taken as the middle, Part Two; Paras.77-93 can referred to Paras.77as the end, Part Three. Environment means either natural one or social one.
新视界大学英语综合教程4
新视界大学英语综合教程4Two kinds of judgement1. There are two different ways people judge you. Sometimes judging you correctly is the end goal. But there’s a second much more common type of judgment where it isn’t. We tend to regard all judgments of us as the first type. We’d probably be happier if we realized which are and which aren’t.译文：判断一个人有两种不同的方式，有时判断的最终目的是正确地判断一个人，不过另外一种则不是如此，并且这种判断要常见得多。
我们往往认为所有的判断都属于第一种。
如果能意识到哪些是第一种而哪些不是的话，我们也许会更幸福。
1重点词汇：Judgment：n. [C, U] an opinion that you have after thinking carefully about something 判断；看法；评价例句：It is still too soon to form a judgment about this. 现在对此作出判断仍为时过早。
例句：I respect his judgment and I’ll follow any advice he gives me.我尊重他的判断能力，会接受他提出的任何建议。
句子分析：1. Sometimes judging you correctly is the end goal. (Line 2, Para 1)This sentence means the purpose of the exercise is to judge your ability at a skill, or your guilt or innocence; the focus is on you.end goal: final purpose2.The first type of judgment, the type where judging you is the end goal, includes court cases, grades in classes, and most competitions. Such judgments can of course be mistaken, but because the goal is to judge you correctly, there’s usually some kind of appeals process. If you feel you’ve been misjudged, you can protest that you’ve been treated unfairly.译文：第一种判断，即把正确地判断一个人作为最终目的的判断，包括法院判决、考试成绩及大部分比赛。
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n.汗水 towel n. 毛巾,手巾 pole-vault vi., n. 撑杆跳高 vault n. 撑杆跳高 ; 撑物跳跃 grace n. 优美 , 优雅 ; 雅致 gymnast n. 体操家,体操运动员 body builder n. 健美运动员 mere a. 仅仅,只不过 fantasy n. 幻想 numerous a. 许多的 , 无数的 passion n. 热情 recur vi. 再来 ; 再发生 outrun vt. 跑的比…快 / 好 ; 超过 eagle n. 鹰 coincide vi. 同时发生 ; 一致 coincide with 与…同时发生 hard-core a. 顽固不化的 core n. 核心 realist n. 现实主义者 motto n. 格言 , 座右铭 work out 体育锻炼, 训练 weightlifting n. 举重 alternate a. 交替的 , 轮流的 coach n. 体育运动的教练 dedication n. 奉献 , 献身 dedicate vt. 献身于 , 致力于 chore n. 家庭杂务 relax vt. 放松 , 松弛 on one/two/several occasions 有一两,几次 vain a. 虚荣的 , 自负的 bar n. 横竿 , 条块 inflate n. 使充气 , 使膨胀 mat n. 垫子 , 席子 competitor n. 竞争者 , 对手 emotion n. 情感 , 感情 preparation n. 准备 be ashamed of n. 因…感到难为情 finger-tipped a. 用手的 push-up n. 俯卧撑 runway n. 跑道 startle vt. 使大吃一惊 bale n. 一大包,一大捆 hay n.干草 intensity n. 强烈,剧烈,紧张 anxiety n. 忧虑,担心 tension n. 紧张,不安 tense a. 通情达理的,理智的 along with 连同 stretch out 伸展 breeze n. 微风,清风 deafen vt.使聋 deaf a. 耳聋的 sprint vi. 疾跑take-off n. 起跳；起飞 effortless a. 容易的,不费力的 erruption n. 爆发 errupt vi. 爆发 thump n. 重击声 bring sb back to earth 使回到现实中 in one's mind's eye 在想象中 congratulate vt. 祝贺 mdia n. 大众传播媒体 sponsorship n. 资助全新版大学英语第二册单词第六单元alumnus n.男校友 bulletin n.简报,通讯；会刊；公告 item n.一则消息;一条,一项,一件 doctoral a.博士的 dissertation n.博士学位论文,专题论文 draft n.草稿undo vt.使烦恼,使不安；松开,解开 hit/strike home 言语等击中要害 idiot n.colloq a fool incredible a.难以置信的 skeptical a.持怀疑态度的,怀疑的 dieter n.节食者；忌食某些事物的人 devour vt.狼吞虎咽的人 cookie n.饼干 occasionally adv.偶尔地,间或 occasional a.偶尔的,间或 consume 吃；喝；耗尽；消费 superwoman n.具有非凡才能的女性,女强人 politician n.政治家 care for 照料 pediatrician n.儿科医生anchorwoman n.广播、电视节目的女主持人 anchor n. corporation n.公司 spotless a.十分清洁的 Swiss a.,n.瑞士的,瑞士人的 rarely ad.很少,难得 guilt n.内疚；有罪guilty n.内疚的,感到惭愧的；有罪的 strawberry n.草莓 gaily a.鲜艳的；快乐的red-checked a.有红格子图案的 ribbon n.丝带,缎带,装饰带 decorate vt.装饰 client n.顾客,客户 lap n.人坐着时大腿的上方,膝上；旅程的一段 reproach vt.责备movers and shakers 有权势的人们 theory n.理论 tonal a.音调的,圣调的harmony n.和谐；协调；一致 baseball n.棒球 by nature 生性get one's act together 将自己的各事安排得有条不紊 military a.军事的,军队的 novel n.小说put pencil/pen to paper 开始动笔写 remainder 剩下的时间人或物 at intervals 每隔...时间或距离;不时 aside ad.在一边;向一边 set aside 留出 supermarket n.超市Martian a.,n.火星的;假想的火星的 race the clock 争分夺秒地工作 possess vt.拥有organizational a.有关组织方面的 fairy n.神话故事 bide vt.等待prince n.王子;亲王 charm v.吸引;迷人 take in 欺骗despite prep.尽管;不顾 positively ad.极其,非常 positive a.确信的;有益的,建设性的have sth./little/much to do with 与...有关几乎无关,很有关系 achieve/have one's hearts desire 得到心中渴望的东西 a piece of cake 不费吹灰之力的事情 heroine n.女英雄 sophisticated a.世故的；老练的；复杂的；尖端的 falter vi.变弱；犹豫move on to 更换工作,话题等 investment n.投资全新版大学英语第二册单词第七单元messiness n. 杂乱状况 massive a. 大量的,大规模的 vocabulary n. 词汇量 snack n. 快餐,点心 parade n. 游行；阅兵队列 corrupt vt. 讹用,使语言变得不标准；腐蚀,贿赂 ban vt. 禁止,取缔 walkman n. 随身听 invent vt. 发明 fascinating a. 迷人的,有极大吸引力的 manufacturer n. 制造商 product n. 产品 tolerance n. 容忍,宽容；忍耐to a very real, certain, etc. extent 在极大,某种程度上 necessity n. 必需品；必要性 Anglo-Saxon n. 盎格鲁—萨克逊人 arouse vt. 唤起,激起 channel n. 海峡；渠道；频道 surrender v. give in 投降 virtually ad. 差不多,几乎 invade vt. 侵入,侵略 inhabit vt. 居住于 Welsh a., n. 威尔士语的,威尔士人的 mystery n. 神秘的事物 Sanskrit n. 梵语resemble vt. 与…相似 Greek n. 希腊语 systematic a. 有系统的 descend vi. 起源于；下来 linguist n. 语言学家 Indo-European a. 印欧语系的 scholar n. 学者 establish vt. 建立,确立 drift vi. 漂泊 climate n. 气候区 Germanic a. 日耳曼人的,日耳曼语的,德国人的 tribe n. 部落 pass sth. on to sb. 将…传给… influence n. 影响Christianity n. 基督教 Christian a. 基督教的 disciple n. 信徒,门徒 martyr n. 殉难者,烈士addition n. 增加的人或物 Norman n., a. 诺曼人的,诺曼语的,诺曼文化的 conquer v. 征服 kingly a. 国王般的 royal a. 国王或女王的；皇家的 sovereign a. 拥有最高统治权的,至高无上的；拥有主权的 alternative n. 供选择的东西 modify vt. 修改,更改 enrich vt. 使富裕,使丰富 Renaissance n. 欧洲14-16世纪的文艺复兴 classic n. 经典作品 capsule n. 密封小容器；胶囊；航天舱 habitual a. 惯常的 catastrophe n. 大灾难 thermometer n. 温度计 video n., a. 录像的 cyberspace n. 网络空间,虚拟空间 independent a. 独立的,自主的 out of control 失去控制,不受约束 academy n. 学会,学院,研究院 fortunately ad. 幸运地,幸亏 put into practice 将…付诸实施 Danish a. 丹麦人的,丹麦语的 liberty n. 自由 strike out 创造,开创 cultural a. 文化的 nourish vt. 滋养,培育 preserve n. 独占的地区或范围；禁猎地 vt. 保护,保存 grammarian n. 语法学家intellectual n., a. 知识分子的 elite n. 总称出类拔萃的人,精英。
大学英语2综合教程课文词汇大全
大学英语2综合教程课文词汇大全词汇：【1】被系在…上be attached to探索行为exploratory behavior偶尔on occasion父母的责任parental duties揭示，阐明throw light on最终目的ultimate purpose要做的动作desired action所希望的结果desirable outcome关键critical point育儿观value of child rearing弥补某种错误行为making up for a misdeed 回想起来in retrospect善意的well-intentioned前来帮助某人come to sb.'s rescue极其熟练、温和地with extreme facility and gentleness 适用于apply to发展到evolve to发展创造力promote creativity值得追求的目标worthwhile goals【2】1．面临，遭遇be confronted with2．仰头向上看look up at3．填写fill out4．属于fall into5．仅仅，不多于，不强于nothing more than6．转瞬即逝的念头 a passing whim7．磨损，损耗wear and tear8．虽然，尽管in spite of9．期望，盼望look forward to10．富裕的，有钱的well off11．不自在，格格不入out of place12．陈旧的家具dated furniture13．…之后不久shortly after14．走下坡路，失败go south15．转折点 a turning point16．与…形成对比in contrast to17．对…予以注意，致力于focus on18．归属感 a sense of belonging19．遭遇困难go through a rough time 20．久不消逝的微笑 a lingering smile 21．为…感恩be thankful for22．收入最低的档次the lowest income bracket 23．创作才能the gift of creativity 24．对物质财富的追求the pursuit of possessions 【4】1．一周中的最好时光highlight of the week 2．投稿submit articles3．有时at times 4．对...感到厌恶feel an aversion to 5．社交方式forms of socializing 6．缺乏自律 a lack of discipline 7．网络交际cyber-interaction8．面对be confronted with 9．穿着得体be dressed appropriately 10．广告令...心烦be jarred by the commercials 11．工作成了次要的work moves into the background12．坏脾气be bad-tempered 13．在此状态下in this state14．日常事务daily routine15．依赖rely on16．长期失业long-term unemployment 17．吸毒drug abuse 18．恢复平衡restore balance 19．将...与...区分开setapart...from... 20．面对面face to face21．找借口make an excuse【5】1.田径比赛: track and field competition 2．俯瞰： a bird's eye view 3．深呼吸take a deep breath 4．像雄鹰一样翱翔soar like an eagle 5．如出一辙；不谋而合：coincide with 6．每隔一天：every other day; on alternate days7．农场杂活：farm chores8．有一次on one occasion 9．站着：on one's feet 10．没有意识到unaware of11．仰面躺着lie on one's back 12．对...惭愧be ashamed of 13．感到：fill one's mind with...14．摆脱紧张情绪：shake the tension15．在内心的最深处：from the deepest depths of one's soul 16．在这种时候：at a time like this 17．舒展；伸展：stretch out18．缓缓移动：in slow motion 19．使...回到现实中:bring sb. back to earth 20．想象：see in one's mind's eye 【6】1.把...改成convert ... into... 2．对...一无所知don't know the first thing about...3．把...区分开来distinguish ... from...4．渴望独立be craving independence5．不禁不寒而栗can't help shuddering6．处于劣势at a disadvantage7．在...方面when it comes to ...8．偶然闯进stumble into 9．轻而易举地把它学好it comes easily to somebody10．咬紧牙学好它grit your teeth to get good at it 11．极有可能there's a strong chance that12．把成绩提高到A pull the grade up to an A13．恐惧的时候moments of panic14．基于be based on15．文化熏陶cultural cues16．人不是孤岛No man is an island17．毫无疑问，不可否认There's no denying that ... 18．与...相关联be relevant to19．不容改变的结论hard and fast conclusions20．生来就懂be born knowing21．有敢冒风险而为的精神take a leap of faith 22．有所选择地听别人的话have a selective hearing。
大学英语二基础词汇
英语二基础词汇（每天背20个单词）第1天1.the [ðə] art. 这；那2.and [ənd] conj. 和，与；就；而且；但是；然后3.you [juː] pron. 你；你们4.that [ðæt] pron. 那；那个 conj. 因为；以至于 adj. 那；那个5.for [fɔː] prep. 为了；因为 conj. 因为6.not [nɒt] n. 非7.are [ɑː]v. 是（be 的第二人称单复数现在式）8.have [hæv]vt. 有aux. 已经过去式 had9.with [wɪð] prep. 用；随着；和…在一起10.they [ðeɪ] pron. 他们；它们；她们11. can [kæn] aux. 能；能够；可以；可能12.was [wɒz] be 的第一和第三人称单数过去式13.people ['piːp(ə)l] n. 人；人类14.his [hɪz] pron. 他的15.from [frɒm] prep. 来自，从16.our [aʊə] pron. 我们的17.their [ðeə] pron. 他们的，她们的；它们的18.when [wen]conj. 当…时19.but[bʌt] conj. 但是；而是；然而20.more [mɔː] adv. 更多；此外；更大程度地adj. 更多的；附加的pron. 更多的数量 n. 更多第2天21.will [wɪl] vi. 愿意；下决心 aux. 将；愿意；必须22.your[jɔː] pron. 你的，你们的23.about [ə'baʊt]prep. 关于；大约adj. 在附近的；四处走动的；在起作用的adv. 大约；周围；到处24.one [wʌn] pron. 一个人；任何人 adj. 一的；唯一的n. 一 num. 一；一个25.true [truː] adj. 真实的；正确的 n. 真实；准确26.time [taɪm]n. 时间；次数27.false[fɔːls] adj. 错误的28.this [ðɪs]pron. 这；这个；这里 adj. 这；这个；今29.out[aʊt] adv. 出现；在外 adj. 外面的；出局的turn out 结果是30.some [sʌm] adj. 一些；某个；大约pron. 一些；若干；其中的一部分；（数量不确切时用）有些人31.than[ðæn] conj. 比（用于形容词、副词的比较级之后）prep. 比；超过no sooner ... than 一…就 rather than 与其32.what[wɒt] pron. 什么；多么；多少33.make [meɪk] vt. 使得过去式 made [meɪd]34.she [ʃiː] pron. 她（主格）35.who [huː] pron. 谁；什么人36.all [ɔːl] adj. 全部的 adv. 全然地 n. 全部 pron. 全部37.get[get] vt. 使得；获得；受到；变成vi. 成为；变得；到达过去式 got38.her [hɜː]pron. 她（she 的宾格）；她的（she 的所有格）39.paragraph ['pærəgrɑːf]n. 段落；40.many ['menɪ] pron. 许多；许多人 adj. 许多的第3天41.may [meɪ] aux. 可以，能够；可能 May（首字母大写）指 5 月42.very ['verɪ] adj. 非常 adv. 非常，很；完全43.could[ kʊd] aux. 能够 v. 能（can 的过去式）44.them[ðem] pron. 他们；它们；她们45.there[ðeə] adv. 在那里；在那边 n. 那个地方46.also['ɔːlsəʊ] adv. 也；而且；同样 conj. 并且；另外47.each [iːtʃ] adj. 每；各自的 adv. 每个；各自 pron. 每个；各自48.into ['ɪntʊ]prep. 到…里；深入…之中；成为…状况；进入到…之内49.work [wɜːk] n. 工作；vt. 使工作 vi. 工作50.how [haʊ] conj. 如何e [juːz] n. 使用 vt. 利用；耗费 vi. 使用，运用52.because [bɪ'kɒz] conj. 因为53.good [gʊd] adj. 好的 adv. 好54.just [dʒʌst] adv. 仅仅；刚刚；正好adj. 恰当的；应得的55.these [ðiːz] pron. 这些adj. 这些的56.world [wɜːld] n. 世界57.help [help] vt. 帮助 n. 帮助 vi. 帮助58.life [laɪf] n. 生活，生存59.other ['ʌðə]adj. 其他的，另外的 pron. 另外一个60.like [laɪk] vt. 喜欢；想；愿意vi. 喜欢；希望 prep. 像；如同 conj. 好像第4天61.parent ['peər(ə)nt] n. 父亲（或母亲）；父母亲62.phone [fəʊn] n. 电话 vt. 打电话63.were [wə(r)] v. 是，在（are 的过去式）64.would [wʊd] aux. 将，将要；愿意 v.will 的过去式65.first [fɜːst]adv. 第一adj. 第一的；基本的；最早的num. 第一66.problem ['prɒbləm]n. 难题67.two [tuː]n. 两个 adj. 两个的 num. 二68.most [məʊst]adv. 最；非常adj. 大部分的，多数的；最多的n. 大部分，大多数69.music ['mjuːzɪk] n. 音乐，乐曲70.new [njuː]adj. 新的，新鲜的；更新的；初见的 New York 纽约71.said [sed]adj. 上述的，该v. 说（say 的过去式和过去分词）72.find [faɪnd]vt. 发现；认为；感到；获得n. 发现过去式 found73.much [mʌtʃ] adv. 非常，很 adj. 大量的n. 许多，大量pron. 许多，大量74.passage ['pæsɪdʒ]n. 一段（文章）；75.school [skuːl]n. 学校76.should [ʃʊd]aux. 应该；就；可能；将要77.then [ðen]adv. 然后；那么n. 那时conj. 然后78.well [wel]adv. 很好地；充分地；满意地；适当地79.job [dʒɒb]n. 工作；职业80.money ['mʌnɪ]n. 钱第5天81.point [pɒɪnt]n. 要点；得分82.something ['sʌmθɪŋ]pron. 某事；某物n. 重要的人；值得重视的事adv. 非常；有点；大约adj. 大约83.student ['stjuːd(ə)nt]n. 学生84.thing [θɪŋ]n. 事情；东西；事物85.where [weə]conj. 在…的地方86.after ['ɑːftə] adv. 后来，以后 prep. 在……之后conj. 在……之后 adj. 以后的87.been [biːn]v. 是，有（be 的过去分词）88.fruit [fruːt]n. 水果89.way [weɪ]n. 方法；方向；习惯90.word [wɜːd]n. 单词91.better ['betə]adv. 更好的adj. 较好的92.him [hɪm]pron. 他（宾格）93.sleep [sliːp]vi.睡，睡觉n. 睡眠94.feel [fiːl]vt. 感觉；认为95.hour ['aʊə]n. 小时96.long [lɒŋ]adj. 长的；长时间的adv. 长期地97.never ['nevə]adv. 从未；决不98.only ['əʊnlɪ]adv. 只，仅仅；不料adj. 唯一的，仅有的；最合适的99.take [teɪk]vt. 拿，取；采取；耗费（时间等）vi. 拿；获得过去式 took [tʊk]100.different ['dɪf(ə)r(ə)nt]adj. 不同的；个别的，与众不同的第6天101.difficult ['dɪfɪk(ə)lt]adj. 困难的102.easy ['iːzɪ]adj. 容易的；舒适的103.eating ['iːtɪŋ]n. 吃；食物v.吃（eat 的 ing 形式）104.going ['gəʊɪŋ]adj. 进行中的v. 前进；出发；运转（go 的 ing 形式）105.keep [kiːp]vt. 保持vi.保持106.kid [kɪd]n. 小孩107.know [nəʊ]vt. 知道；认识；懂得vi. 了解；熟悉；确信108.live [lɪv]vt. 经历；度过vi. 活；居住；生存109.too [tuː]adv. 太；也；很；还；非常110.American [əˈmerɪkən]n. 美国人adj. 美国的111.boy [bɒɪ]n. 男孩；男人112.bridge [brɪdʒ]n. 桥113.day [deɪ]n. 一天；时期；白昼114.every ['evrɪ]adj. 每一的，每个的；每隔…的115.few [fjuː]adj. 很少的；几乎没有的116.someone ['sʌmwʌn]pron. 有人，某人117.study ['stʌdɪ]n. 学习，研究；课题vt. 学习；考虑；攻读；细察118.went [went]v. 去，过去（go 的过去式）119.which [wɪtʃ]pron. 哪/那一个；哪/那一些120.year [jɪə]n. 年；年纪第7天121.young [jʌŋ]adj. 年轻的122.according [ə'kɔːdɪŋ]adv. 依照；根据；按照123.again [ə'gen]adv. 又，此外；再一次124.ask [ɑːsk]vt. 问，询问；要求vi. 问，询问；要求125.based [beɪst]v. 立基于，以…为基础（base 的过去式和过去分词）126.before [bɪ'fɔː] prep. 在…之前，先于 adv. 以前；在前conj. 在…以前；在…之前127.great [greɪt]adj. 伟大的，重大的；极好的，好的128.hard [hɑːd] adj. 努力的；困难的 adv. 努力地；困难地129.important [ɪm'pɔːt(ə)nt]adj. 重要的，重大的130.learn [lɜːn]vt. 学习；得知；认识到vi. 学习；获悉131.need [niːd]n. 需要vt. 需要vi. 需要132.now [naʊ]adv. 现在；如今；立刻adj. 现在的n. 现在；目前133.own [əʊn]adj. 自己的；特有的134.person ['pɜːs(ə)n]n. 人135.think [θɪŋk]vt. 想；认为vi. 想；认为136.those [ðəʊz]adj. 那些的pron. 那些（that 的复数）137.thought [θɔːt]n. 思考；想法v. 想，思考；认为（think 的过去式和过去分词）138.three [θriː]n. 三，三个 num. 三 adj. 三的，三个的ed [juːzd] adj. 习惯的v. 用；习惯（use 的过去式）140.want [wɒnt]vt. 需要；希望vi. 需要第8天141.another [ə'nʌðə] adj. 又一，另一；另外的；不同的pron. 另一个；又一个142.back [bæk]adv. 以前；向后地143.English ['ɪŋɡlɪʃ]n. 英语144.family ['fæmɪlɪ]n. 家庭145.finally ['faɪnəlɪ]adv. 最后；终于146.food [fuːd]n. 食物；养料147.friend [frend]n. 朋友148.give [gɪv]vt. 给vi. 给予give up 放弃过去式 gave [ɡeɪv] 过去分词 given ['gɪv(ə)n] 149.over ['əʊvə]adv. 结束；越过；从头到尾prep. 越过；在…之上；遍于…之上adj. 结束的150.really ['rɪəlɪ]adv. 实际上；真151.say [seɪ]vt. 讲vi. 讲；表示152.second ['sek(ə)nd]n. 秒；第二名 adj. 第二的 num. 第二153.such [sʌtʃ]adj. 这样的，如此的er ['juːzə]n. 用户，使用者155.without [wɪð'aʊt]prep. 没有；超过；在…外面156.animal ['ænɪm(ə)l]n. 动物157.any ['enɪ]adj. 任何的adv. 稍微；少许158.best [best] adj. 最好的 adv. 最好地159.body ['bɒdɪ]n. 身体160.Chinese [,tʃai'ni:z]n. 中文；中国人第9天161.downadv. 向下，下去162.during ['djʊərɪŋ]prep. 在…的时候，在…的期间cation [edjʊ'keɪʃ(ə)n]n. 教育164.example [ɪg'zɑːmp(ə)l]n. 例子；榜样165.following ['fɒləʊɪŋ] adj. 下面的；接着的 n. 下列事物v.跟随；沿行（follow 的 ing 形式）166.four [fɔː] num. 四；四个 adj. 四的；四个的nguage ['læŋgwɪdʒ]n. 语言；语言文字168.less [les]adv. 较少地；较小地；更小地adj. 较少的；较小的169.listen ['lɪs(ə)n]vi.听，倾听170.love [lʌv]n. 爱情；所爱之物；疼爱v. 爱171.often ['ɒf(tə)n]adv. 常常，时常172.once [wʌns] adv. 一次；曾经 conj. 一旦n. 一次，一回173.part [pɑːt]n. 部分 adv. 部分地 adj. 部分的174.son [sʌn]n. 儿子175.song [sɒŋ]n. 歌曲176.sport [spɔːt]n. 运动177.taxi ['tæksɪ]n. 出租汽车178.whether ['weðə] conj. 是否；不论 pron. 两个中的哪一个179.always ['ɔːlweɪz]adv. 永远，一直；总是；常常180.become [bɪ'kʌm] vt. 变成；变得过去式 became第10天181.being ['biːɪŋ]n. 存在；本质v.be 的 ing 形式182.change [tʃeɪn(d)ʒ]vt. 改变n. 变化vi.改变e [kʌm]vi. 来；开始；出现；发生；变成；到达vt. 做184.game [geɪm]n. 游戏；比赛185.Japanese [ˌdʒæpə'ni:z]adj. 日本（人）的n. 日本人186.joke [dʒəʊk]n. 玩笑vi. 开玩笑187.learning ['lɜːnɪŋ]n. 学习；学问v. 学习（learn 的现在分词）188.longer ['lɒŋɡə]adj. 长的adv. 长的long 的比较级189.put [pʊt]vt. 放；安置vi. 将…送往，使与…连接190.reading ['riːdɪŋ]n. 阅读v.阅读（read 的 ing 形式）191.same [seɪm]adj. 相同的；同一的192.six [sɪks] num. 六，六个 n. 六，六个193.start [stɑːt]vt. 开始；启动vi.出发n. 开始；起点194.talk [tɔːk]vi. 谈话195.today [tə'deɪ] adv. 今天；现今 n. 今天；现今196.working ['wɜːkɪŋ]n. 工作v.工作（work 的 ing 形式）197.age [eɪdʒ]n. 年龄198.both [bəʊθ]adj. 两个的；两者的 adv. 并；又；两者皆pron. 双方都；两者都 conj. 既…且…199.day [deɪ]n. 一天200.eat [iːt]vt. 吃vi.进食第11天201.end [end]n. 结束；末端vi. 结束，终止；终结202.grandpa ['græn(d)pɑː]n. 爷爷；外公203.hospital ['hɒspɪt(ə)l]n. 医院204.husband ['hʌzbənd]n. 丈夫205.meet [miːt]vt. 遇见vi. 相遇；接触206.might [maɪt]v. 可以；或许（may 的过去式）；应该aux. 可能；也许207.off [ɒf]adv. 切断；走开adj. 空闲的208.play [pleɪ]vt. 游戏；扮演；演奏vi. 演奏209.sometimes ['sʌmtaɪmz]adv. 有时，间或210.task [tɑːsk]n. 工作，作业；任务211.television ['telɪvɪʒ(ə)n]n. 电视，电视机；电视业212.tell [tel]vt. 告诉，说vi. 讲述过去式 told [təʊld]213.translation [træns'leɪʃ(ə)n]n. 翻译214.turn [tɜːn]vt. 转动vi. 转向；转变；转动215.worker ['wɜːkə]n. 工人；劳动者216.actually ['æktjʊəlɪ]adv. 实际上；事实上217.anything ['enɪθɪŋ]pron. 任何事218.bad [bæd]adj. 坏的；严重的219.between [bɪ'twiːn]prep. 在…之间adv. 在中间220.bring [brɪŋ]vt. 带来；促使；引起；第12天221.call [kɔːl]vi. 呼叫vt. 呼叫；称呼n. 电话；呼叫222.decide [dɪ'saɪd]vt. 决定vi. 决定，下决心223.doctor ['dɒktə]n. 医生；博士224.doing ['duːɪŋ]v. 做；干（do 的 ing 形式）225.home [həʊm]n. 家，家乡226.meeting ['miːtɪŋ]n. 会议v.会面（meet 的 ing 形式）227.must [mʌst]aux. 必须，一定；可以，应当；很可能228.next [nekst]adj. 下一个的；其次的；贴近的229.older ['əʊldə]adj. 年长的；较旧的230.simple ['sɪmp(ə)l]adj. 简单的；单纯的；天真的231.sleepless ['sliːplɪs]adj. 失眠的；不休息的232.summer ['sʌmə]n. 夏季233.team [tiːm]n. 队；组234.thing [θɪŋ]n. 事情；东西；事物；情况235.third [θɜːd]num. 第三；三分之一adj. 第三的；三分之一的236.times [taɪmz]n. 时代（time 的复数）；次数237.university [juːnɪ'vɜːsɪtɪ]n. 大学；综合性大学；大学校舍238.big [bɪg]adj. 大的239.book [bʊk]n. 书籍240.busy ['bɪzɪ]adj. 忙碌的；热闹的；正被占用的第13天241.clock [klɒk]n. 时钟242.do [duː]v. 做；干；进行；完成aux. 助动词（构成疑问句和否定句）过去式 did[dɪd] 过去分词 done [dʌn] 243.dream [driːm]vi. 做梦，梦见n. 梦244.driver ['draɪvə]n. 驾驶员245.else [els]adv. 其他；否则；另外adj. 别的；其他的246.face [feɪs]n. 脸vt. 面对247.five [faɪv] n. 五，五个 num. 五，五个adj. 五的；五个的248.girl [gɜːl]n. 女孩；姑娘；女职员249.group [gruːp]n. 组；团体250.happen ['hæp(ə)n]vi. 发生；碰巧；偶然遇到251.heart [hɑːt]n. 心脏；感情252.helpful ['helpfʊl]adj. 有帮助的；有益的253.idea [aɪ'dɪə]n. 想法；主意；概念254.internet ['ɪntənet]n. 因特网ter ['leɪtə]adv. 后来；稍后；随后adj. 更迟的；更后的256.look [lʊk]vi. 看；看起来；注意；面向257.lot [lɒt]n. 许多adv. 很，非常258.man [mæn]n. 人；男人；人类259.market ['mɑːkɪt]n. 市场260.message ['mesɪdʒ]n. 消息第14天261.month [mʌnθ]n. 月，一个月的时间262.mother ['mʌðə]n. 母亲263.need [niːd]n. 需要，要求；缺乏；必要之物vt. 需要vi.需要264.number ['nʌmbə]n. 数265.online [ɒn'laɪn] adj. 联机的；在线的 adv. 在线地266.place [pleɪs] n. 地方；住所 vt. 放置267.question ['kwestʃ(ə)n]n. 问题，疑问vt. 询问；怀疑268.remember [rɪ'membə]vt. 记得269.run [rʌn]vi. 经营；奔跑；运转 vt. 管理，经营；运行过去式 ran 270.set [set]vt. 放置，安置; 使处于某种状况; 设置vi. 出发 set up 建立；装配271.several [ˈsevrəl] adj. 几个的；各自的 pron. 几个；数个272.short [ʃɔːt]adj. 短的；矮的273.study ['stʌdɪ] n. 学习，研究 vt. 学习；攻读274.tall [tɔːl]adj. 高的275.though [ðəʊ]adv. 可是，虽然；不过；然而conj. 虽然；尽管prep. 但ually ['juʒuəli]adv. 通常，经常277.website ['wɛbsaɪt]n. 网站278.write [raɪt]vt. 写，书写；写信给；著述过去分词 written279.writer ['raɪtə]n. 作家；作者280.yourself [jɔː'self]pron. 你自己第15天281.arrive [ə'raɪv]vi. 到达282.bag [bæg]n. 袋283.bed [bed]n. 床284.believe [bɪ'liːv]vi. 信任；料想vt. 相信；认为；信任285.business [ˈbɪznəs]n. 商业；[贸易] 生意；[贸易] 交易；事情286.called [kɔ:ld]adj. 叫做；称作v. 叫( call 的过去式和过去分词 ); 呼叫287.chance [tʃɑːns]n. 机会288.child [tʃaɪld]n. 儿童，小孩，孩子复数 children289.classmate ['klɑːsmeɪt]n. 同班同学prehension [kɒmprɪ'henʃ(ə)n]n. 理解；包含puter [kəm'pjuːtə]n. 计算机；电脑；电子计算机292.easily ['iːzɪlɪ]adv. 容易地；无疑地293.enjoy [ɪn'dʒɒɪ]vt. 欣赏，享受；喜爱294.everyone ['evrɪwʌn]pron. 每个人；人人n. 每个人295.expensive [ɪk'spensɪv]adj. 昂贵的；花钱的296.future ['fjuːtʃə]n. 未来adj. 将来的，未来的297.guest [gest]n. 客人，宾客；顾客298.hand [hænd]n. 手vt. 传递299.high [haɪ]adj. 高的adv. 高300.house [haʊs]n. 住宅vi. 住第16天rmation [ɪnfə'meɪʃ(ə)n]n. 信息，资料302.interesting ['ɪnt(ə)rɪstɪŋ]adj. 有趣的；引起兴趣的，令人关注的303.kind [kaɪnd]n. 种类；性质adj. 和蔼的；宽容的；令人感激的nd [lænd]n. 地面；国家rge [lɑːdʒ]adj. 大的；多数的306.little ['lɪt(ə)l] adj. 小的；很少的 n. 少许；没有多少307.married ['mærɪd]adj. 已婚的v. 结婚，与…结婚（marry 的过去式）308.night [naɪt]n. 夜晚，晚上adj. 夜晚的，夜间的309.open ['əʊp(ə)n]vi. 开始；展现vt. 公开；打开310.plane [pleɪn]n. 飞机311.read [riːd]vt. 阅读vi. 读312.restaurant [ˈrestrɒnt]n. 餐馆；[经] 饭店313.runner ['rʌnə]n. 跑步者314.school [skuːl]n. 学校315.see [siː] vt. 看见过去式 saw316.shop [ʃɒp]n. 商店；店铺317.small [smɔːl]adj. 少的，小的318.smile [smaɪl]vi. 微笑n. 微笑319.soon [suːn]adv. 快；不久，一会儿；立刻；宁愿比较级 sooner 320.spell [spel]vt. 拼，拼写第17天321.structure ['strʌktʃə]n. 结构；构造322.successful [sək'sesfʊl]adj. 成功的；一帆风顺的323.tear [tɪə]n. 眼泪324.test [test]n. 试验；检验325.text [tekst]n. 文本326.themselves [ð(ə)m'selvz]pron. 他们自己；他们亲自327.thinking[θɪŋkɪŋ]n. 思考；思想；想法；意见；见解v. 思考（think 的现在分词）328.try [traɪ]vt. 试图vi. 尝试329.vegetable ['vedʒtəb(ə)l]n. 蔬菜330.Washington ['wɒʃɪŋtən]n. 华盛顿（美国州名，美国城市名，美国第一任总统，姓氏）331.water ['wɔːtə]n. 水332.weather ['weðə]n. 天气；气象；气候333.whole [həʊl]adj. 完整的334.whose [huːz]pron. 谁的（疑问代词）335.why [waɪ]adv. 为什么336.wise [waɪz]adj. 明智的；聪明的337.women ['wɪmɪn]n. 女人（woman 的复数）338.worry ['wʌrɪ]vi. 担心；烦恼339.able ['eɪb(ə)l]adj. 能340.ago [ə'gəʊ]adv. 以前，以往adj. 以前的；过去的第18天341.already [ɔːl'redɪ]adv. 已经，早已；先前342.America [ə'merɪkə]n. 美洲（包括北美和南美洲）；美国343.beautiful ['bjuːtɪfʊl]adj. 美丽的；出色地；迷人的344.beginning [bɪ'gɪnɪŋ]n. 开始；起点v.开始；创建（begin 的 ing 形式）345.bottle ['bɒt(ə)l]n. 瓶子346.brother ['brʌðə]n. 兄弟347.careful ['keəfʊl]adj. 仔细的，小心的348.catch [kætʃ]vt. 赶上；抓住vi. 赶上；抓住349.center ['sentə]n. 中心350.choice [tʃɒɪs]n. 选择351.choose [tʃuːz]vt. 选择，决定vi. 选择，挑选352.city ['sɪtɪ]n. 城市，都市plex ['kɒmpleks]adj. 复杂的n. 综合设施354.country ['kʌntrɪ]n. 国家；乡村355.create [kriː'eɪt]vt. 创造，创作；造成356.cut [kʌt]vt. 切割；缩短vi. 切割；剪切357.deep [diːp]adj. 深的358.deeply ['diːplɪ]adv. 深刻地359.die [daɪ]vi.死亡vt. 死，死于…360.discuss [dɪ'skʌs]vt. 讨论；论述第19天361.driving ['draɪvɪŋ]v.驾驶（drive 的 ing 形式）362.dry [draɪ]adj. 干的363.early ['ɜːlɪ]adj. 早期的；早熟的adv. 提早；在初期364.email ['iːmeɪl]n. 电子信函365.employee [emplɒɪ'iː]n. 雇员；从业员工366.fail [feɪl]vi.失败vt. 使失望367.faster [fɑ:stə(r)]adj. 更快的 adv. 更快地 fast 的比较级368.father ['fɑːðə]n. 父亲，爸爸369.feeling ['fiːlɪŋ]n. 感觉v. 感觉；认为（feel 的现在分词）370.fewer ['fjuːə]adj. 较少的few 的比较级371.fish [fɪʃ]n. 鱼，鱼类372.flower ['flaʊə]n. 花；开花植物vt. 使开花373.full [fʊl]adj. 完全的；充满的374.fun [fʌn]n. 乐趣adj. 供娱乐用的375.greatly ['greɪtlɪ]adv. 很，大大地；非常376.herself [hɜː'self]pron. 她自己（she 的反身代词）；她亲自377.himself [hɪm'self]pron. 他自己；他亲自，他本人378.human ['hjuːmən]n. 人；人类379.item ['aɪtəm]n. 条款，项目380.its [ɪts]pron. 它的第20天st [lɑːst]adj. 最后的；最近的382.leave [liːv] vt. 离开；留下过去式 left383.letter ['letə]n. 信384.light [laɪt]n. 光385.line [laɪn]n. 排；行列386.lost [lɒst]v.遗失lose 的过去分词387.low [ləʊ]adj. 低的388.mainly ['meɪnlɪ]adv. 主要地，大体上389.maybe ['meɪbiː]adv. 也许；可能；大概n. 可能性；不确定性390.member ['membə]n. 成员391.morning ['mɔːnɪŋ]n. 早晨392.movie ['muːvɪ]n. 电影 [neɪm]n. 名称，名字394.nature ['neɪtʃə]n. 自然；本性395.nothing ['nʌθɪŋ]n. 无396.old [əʊld]adj. 陈旧的，古老的；年老的397.ourselves [aʊə'selvz]pron. 我们自己；我们亲自398.page [peɪdʒ]n. 页399.paper ['peɪpə]n. 纸；论文400.pay [peɪ]vi.付款第21天401.pick [pɪk]vi. 挑选pick up 捡起; 接载402.plan [plæn]n. 计划vt. 计划；设计；打算vi. 计划；打算403.player ['pleɪə]n. 运动员404.police [pə'liːs]n. 警察，警方405.price [praɪs]n. 价格406.print [prɪnt]vi. 印刷407.reason ['riːz(ə)n]n. 理由408.recent ['riːs(ə)nt]adj. 最近的；近代的409.repair [rɪ'peə]vi. 修理；修复vt. 修理410.result [rɪ'zʌlt]n. 结果vi. 结果；导致411.return [rɪ'tɜːn]vt. 返回n. 返回；归还in return 反过来412.rich [rɪtʃ]adj. 富有的413.room [ruːm]n. 房间；空间414.seem [siːm]vi. 似乎；像是415.send [send]vt. 发送，寄vi. 派人；寄信过去式 sent 416.serious ['sɪərɪəs]adj. 严肃的，严重的；认真的417.skill [skɪl]n. 技能418.sold [səʊld]v. 卖，销售sell 的过去式和过去分词419.solution [sə'luːʃ(ə)n]n. 解决方案；解答420.source [sɔːs]n. 来源；原始资料第22天421.south [saʊθ]adv. 在南方，向南方adj. 南的，南方的422.station ['steɪʃ(ə)n]n. 车站423.stay [steɪ]vt. 坚持；停留424.story ['stɔːrɪ]n. 故事425.succeed [sək'siːd]vi. 成功426.suggest [sə'dʒest]vt. 提议，建议；暗示427.sunny ['sʌnɪ]adj. 阳光充足的，和煦的428.trouble ['trʌb(ə)l]n. 麻烦；烦恼429.under ['ʌndə]prep. 低于，少于；在...之下430.unless [ʌn'les] conj. 除非，如果不 prep. 除…之外e [juːz]vt. 利用；耗费vi. 使用，运用432.vocabulary [və(ʊ)'kæbjʊlərɪ]n. 词汇433.wait [weɪt]vt. 等候vi. 等待434.walk [wɔːk]vi. 走，步行435.war [wɔː]n. 战争436.warm [wɔːm]adj. 温暖的437.web [web]n. 网页438.welcome ['welkəm]vt. 欢迎439.wrong [rɒŋ]adj. 错误的adv. 错误地440.something ['sʌmθɪŋ]pron. 某事；某物n. 重要的人；值得重视的事adv. 非常；有点；大约adj. 大约。
现代大学英语(精读)5 教案 笔记 课后习题详解 答案解析
英语专业精读授课教案（第五册）Lesson One Where Do W e Go from HereT eaching aims: 1. fully understand the article2. grasp the rhetorical device in the textT eaching difficulties: how to identify the rhetorical device in the sentence and understand theimplication for some sentencesTime distribution: eight periodsT eaching method: students-centeredT eaching procedures:I. Background information:The 1960s w ere turbulent times for the United States. The anti-war movement, the Civil Right movement, the counter-culture movement, the f eminist movement w ere all unfolding in this period of time. The civil Rights movement was a major movement which began with the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954 and the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. Martin Luther King jr. (1929-1968), as a key leader of the movement, played a significant and irreplaceable role. His name is associated with the march on W ashington in 1963 and his famous speech ― I have a dream‖, delivered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. He was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. this speech, delivered in 1967, in more on the side of reasoning and persuasion and less on emotional appeal. Thus his analysis of riots and revolution in the united states in his speech is sound and convincing. On the night of April4. 1968, King was shot dead, as he stood o the balcony of his hotel in Memphis, T ennessee.Part II. Details studies of the textPart III. Structure of the text:Part i. Para. 1—2 Martin Luther King link the theme of the speech with the question of "Where w e are now". That is, in order to know where w e go from here w e must first recognize where we are now. Without knowing our present situation, how can w e design a policy for the future?Part ii Para. 3--5 This is a transitional paragraph to call for all the African-American must ―rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood‖.Part iii (Para. 6--9) In this part the author puts forward the second task: how to organize the strength of the Negro in terms of economic and political pow er. Then the author goes on to define pow er andPart iv (Paras.10--15) This part deals with economic security for the Negro Americans. The speaker advocates guaranteed annual income which he thinks is possible and achievable. He also deals on the advantages of this security.Part v (paras. 16—20) In this part, Martin reaffirms his commitment to nonviolence. He explains why he thinks violence is no solution to racial discrimination. He refutes the idea of Black revolution.Part vi (para 21—25) In this part, Dr. King raises a fundamental question—the restructuring of the whole of American society. He points out that the problem of racism. The problem of economic exploitation and the problem of war are tied together. They are the triple evils of the society.Part vii. (para 26—28) This part serves as the concluding remark for the speech: w e shall overcome.Lesson Two Two KindsT eaching aims: 1. fully understand the article2. present their viewpoint on generation gapT eaching difficulties: how to identify the development of a storyTime distribution: eight periodsT eaching method: students-centeredT eaching procedures:Part I. Background information:The Joy Luck Club, from which ―Two Kinds‖ is taken, explores conflicts betw een two generations and two different cultures. Set in China and in the United States, the novel is woven by stories of four Chinese mothers and their four daughters. Four Chinese women, who have just arrived in the United States and who are drawn together by the shadow of their past—meet in San Francisco to play mah-jongg, eat dim sum and tell stories. They call their gatherings the Joy Luck Club. While they place high hopes on their daughters, the youger generation think of themselves as Americans and resist their mothers’ attempts to change them into obedient Chinese daughters. Only after they have grown up and become more mature do they realize that the legacy left by their mothers is an important part of their lives, too. The noivel stayed on the best-selling book list of The New Y ork Times for 9 months.A finalist for the national Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, it has been translated into about 20 languages and made into a Hollywood movie.Part II. Detailed Study of the T extPart III. The Structure of the text:Part i (paras.1—3) the beginning part of the story provides the reader with some background information. It tells about the mother and her hopes for her daughter. This paves the way ofr the development of the conflict betw een the daughter and the mother.Part ii(paras.4—11)this part is about the mother’s unsuccessful attempt to change her daughter into a Chinese Shirley T emple. In the beginning the child was as excited as the mother about becoming a prodigy. At this point, the conflict betw een mother and daughter was not visible.Part iii(paras12—20) in this part we learn that the mother was trying very hard to train her daughter to be a genius. As the tests got more and more difficult, the daughter lost heart. She decided that she would not let her mother change her. This change of attitudes would lead to the gradual development of the conflict.Part iv (paras 21—28) while watching a Chinese girl playing the piano on an Ed Sullivan Show, a new idea flashed into the mother’s head. With the new plan introduced, the ocnflict would develop further.Part v (paras 29—46) it tells about how the girl was made to learn the piano under the instructions of Old Chong. The relationship betw een mother and daughter was getting more and more tense.Part vi (para.47—60) Jing-mei was to perform in a talent show held in the church. Jing-mei started all right and soon made a mess of her performance. Undoubte dly this was a heavy blow to her mother. The crisis of the story is about to come.Part vii (para 61—76) the girl assumed that her failure at the show meant she would never have to play the paino. Y et two days later her mother urged her to practice as usual. She refused and the mother insisted. They had the most fierce quarrel they had ever had. This is the crisis or climax of the story.Part viii( 77—93) this concluding part is narrated from a different point of view. Now the daughter had grown up form a little girl to a mature woman.Part IV. Discussion about generation gap.Part V. Complete the exercises of the text.A report about generation gapLesson ThreeGoods Move. People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change.T eaching aims: 1. fully understand the article2. How to develop an argumentT eaching difficulties: how to develop an argumentTime distribution: eight periodsT eaching method: students-centeredT eaching procedures:Part I. Lead-in : Globalization has become one of those w ords with the highest frequency of appearance but at the same time it is also a most controversial issue in terms of content, implication and consequence. Since the early 1990s, globalization has developed rapidly and brought great changes to the world. How ever, groups of people for various reasons oppose globalization and point to the negative effects of globalization. So when w e face an article of such an important and sensitive issue, w e are apt to ask:What is the author’s attitude towards globalization? What makes her adopt such an attitude? How does she present her argument?Part II. Detailed study of the textPart III. Structure of the textPart i (para 1—3) Globalization is a reality but it is not something complietly new. What is new is the speed and scope of changes.Part ii (para 4—6) this part deals with different view s on globalization.Part iii (para 7—9) three points are made in this part:a. W esternization is not a straight road to hell, or to paradise either.b. Cultures are as resourceful, resilient, and unpredictable as the people who compose them.c. T eenagers are one of the pow erful engines of merging global cultures.Part iv (para 10—13) this part tells of the author’s experience with Amanda Freeman.Part v (para 14—19) in order to prove fusion is the trend, the author used Tom Soper and mah-jongg as an example.Part vi(para 20—24) this part describes the cultural trends in Shanghai.Part viii( para25—28) the author used the experience at Shanghai Theatre Academy to illustrate thePart ix (para 29—34)the author in this part introduced T offler’s view on conflict, change and world order.Part x (para35—36)the main idea is there will not be a uniform world culture in the future; the cultures will coexist and transform each other.Part xii(37—39) the author again used an example in Shanghai to illustrate the transformation of culture.Part IV. Complete the exercises in the textbookPart V. collect their viewpoints about attitude towards globalizaion.Lesson FourProfessions for W omenT eaching aims: 1. fully understand the article2. grasp the rhetorical device in the textT eaching difficulties: how to understand the poetic and symbolic sentences in the articleTime distribution: eight periodsT eaching method: students-centeredT eaching procedures:Part I. Background information:V irginia W oolf is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of modernism as w ell as one of the pioneers of women’s liberat ion from patriarchy. She is known for her experimentation and innovation in novel writing. In her novel, emphasis is on the psychological realm of her characters and the moment-by-moment experience of living, which are depicted by the techniques of interior monologue and stream of consciousness. In this essay, V irginia W oolf gives a clear and convincing presentation of the obstacles facing prof essional women.Part II. Detailed study of the textPart III. General analysis of the textPara 1: In the profession of literature, the author finds that there are f ew er experiences peculiar to women than in other profession because many women writers bef ore her have made the road smooth.Para 2: the author responds to the host’s suggestion that she should tell th e audience something about her own professional experiences. So she now tells her own story –how she became a book review er when she was a girl.Para 3.the speaker focuses on the first obstacle to becoming a prof essional women writer. She uses a figure of speech ―killing the Angel in the House‖ in describing her determination to get rid of the conventional role of women in her writing.Para 4. after the Angel was dead, the question which remains to be answ ered is ―what is a woman?‖ it is a transitional li nk between the quthor’s first and second experience.Paragraph 5. In this paragraph the author talks about her second experience in her prof ession of literature. As a novelist, she wished to remain "as unconscious as possible" so that nothing might disturb or disquiet the imagination. But she was faced with the conflict betw een her own approach to art and the conventional approach expected of her by male critics. She believed that sex-consciousness was a great hindrance to women's writing. To illustrate this point, she employs a second figure of speech, "the image of a fisherman lying sunk in dreams on the verge of a deep lake."Para 6. This paragraph sums up the author's tw o experiences, pointing out that the second obstacle is more difficult to overcome than the first. W omen have many prejudices to overcome in the profession of literature and especially in new prof essions that women are entering.Para.7. In this last paragraph W oolf concludes her speech by raising some important questions concerning the new role of women and the new relationship betw een men and women.Part IV. Complete the exercise of the textPart V. a report on the prof essional women in ChinaLesson FiveLove Is a FallacyT eaching aims: 1. fully understand the article2. grasp the rhetorical device in the textT eaching difficulties: how to identify the rhetorical device in the sentence and understand theimplication for some sentencesTime distribution: eight periodsT eaching method: students-centeredPart I. Lead-in:This is a humorous essay in which the narrator tells his failure to win the heart of a young woman with the force of logic, which therefore proves to him that "love is a fallacy"--"it is inconsistent with logic."Part II. Detailed study of the textPart III. Question on Appreciation:1.How did the narrator describe himself? What does it show? How does the author bring out the pomposity of the narrator? What makes the satire humorous?2.why was the narrator interested in Polly Espy? What kind of girl was she.3. How did the narrator's first date with Polly Espy go?4. How does the language used by Polly strike you? Find some examples from the text and explain what effect her language creates.5. Why did the narrator teach Polly Espy logic? Did he succeed?6. Did the narrator love Polly Espy? How did he try to "acquaint her with his f eeling"?7. How did Polly respond to the narrator's arguments for going steady with her? Why did she rej ect him? What does it show? As the story progresses, Polly turned out to be smarter than the narrator had previously thought. How does this contrast contribute to the humor of the piece?Part IV complete the exercise in the textLesson SixLife Beyond EarthT eaching aims: 1. fully understand the article2. learn to analyze the textT eaching difficulties: how to learn to analyze the text and understand the implication for some sentencesTime distribution: eight periodsT eaching method: students-centeredPart I. General introduction:The author deals with recent developments in the search for alien organisms. He discusses various arguments about alien civilization. He does not think that such belief and search is irrational or even crazy. He writes that most people with such belief ―operate from the same instinct, which is to know the truth about the universe‖. At the same time he maintains a scientific attitude, pointing out that although there are many persuasive arguments, there is still no hard evidence to prove the existe nce of alien life. Y et he does not stop there. He further points out that since the world we live in—the only inhabitable world in the universe so far—is still far from perfect, people in the world need to direct more energy to making it better. Lif e on Earth is his greater concern.Part II. Detailed study of the text:Part III. Organization of the piece:1. Analysis of the text:(1) Paras. 1--2 the emergence of life(2) Para. 3 (transition) What else is alive out(3) Paras. 4--10 search for lif e(4) Paras. 11--23 search for intelligence(5) Paras. 24--42 Mars.(6) Paras. 43--45 Dyson's argument(7) Paras. 46--52 conclusion2. Questions to discuss:1) What do you think of the opening paragraph? Does the author begin the article in a forceful way?2)What role does this paragraph play? What is meant by "the enveloping nebula of uncertainties"? What is the contrast involved as imroduced by "despite"?3) What new idea is introduced in Paras. 17--19?4) Comment on the first sentence in Paragraph 21.5) Comment on the role of Paragraph 35.extraterrestrial life?Lesson SevenInvisible ManT eaching aims: 1. fully understand the article2. grasp the implied meaning of some sentencesT eaching difficulties: how to identify the implied meaning in the sentenceTime distribution: eight periodsT eaching method: students-centeredT eaching procedures:Part I. Background Information:1. about the author2. about the articlePart II. Detailed study of the textPart III. Analysis of the text:Para 1. From this opening paragraph we readers can learn a number of important things:(l) By saying "It goes a long way back, some twenty years," the author tells us that the story took place in the past.(2) The "I' here is the narrator, not the author, of the story, and the author is using the first-person narration in telling the story. As w e read On, w e will find this narrator is also the main character, the protagonist, of the story.(3) W ords like "I was looking for myself" and "I am nobody but myself" point out the central theme of the novel--searching for self-identity.Para. 2 This paragraph tells us a bit about the historical background against place. It also introduces a new character--the narrator's grandfather. On his deathbed, he said something that alarmed and puzzled the whole family.Para 3 This paragraph is about the tremendous effect of the grandfather's words upon the narrator, Those words became a constant puzzle for him. As the old man said these w ords ironically, the boy couldn't understand him. Although the grandfather did not appear in the battle royal scene or anylife.Para 4 It tells us about the setting of the battle royal. The narrator was to give his speech at a smoker in a leading hotel in the town. The time is round 1950, the place is a hotel in a Southern town, and the occasion is a gathering of the leading white men of the town. Bearing these in mind will help us readers understand why things happened that way and what was the meaning of all this.Para. 5 Besides giving more details about the place, this paragraph introduces the people involved in the incident the town's big shots, who w ere "wolfing down the buffet food, drinking beer and whisky and smoking black cigars," and the other black boys who w ere to take part, who w ere "tough guys".Para 6 to 9 The main body of the battle royal incident is from Paragraph 4 to paragraph 9. It can be further divided into 4 subsections: the naked white girl's dance; the fight itself; the grabbing for the prize money; the narrator's speech. Paragraphs 6 to 9 form the first subsection in which the author describes the white girl's dance.Paras. 10--28 They form the second subsection of the battle royal incident violent and brutal fight itself. Pay attention to the use of specific words narration realistic and vivid.Paras. 29--46 They describe how the white men further humiliated the black boys even after the battle royal was over. Instead of giving the money the boys w ere supposed to get for their performance, the white men made fun of them by making them scramble for the money on an electrified rug. This part adds to the general chaos of the whole scene.Para 47--90 They form the last subsection of the whole battle royal incident. In this part the narrator finally got his chance to deliver his w ell-prepared speech. How ever, in the middle of his speech, he made a mistake, but everything w ent w ell in the end and he was given an award--a scholarship for college.Para. 91—94 They bring the story to a final end. The narrator was overjoyed with his triumph, and that night he dreamed of his grandfather and awoke with the old man’s laughter rining in his ears.Part IV. Complete the exercise in the textPart V. Do some translation work.Lesson EightThe Merely V ery GoodT eaching aims: 1. fully understand the article2. grasp the development of the textT eaching difficulties: how to analyze the development of the article and the implied meaning for someTime distribution: eight periodsT eaching method: students-centeredT eaching procedures:Part I. Information on the author:Jeremy Bernstein(1929- ): prof essor of physics and writer. After getting his Ph. D. in physics at Harvard, he spent time at the institute for advanced study in Princeton and at the National Science Foundation. He taught physics for 5years at New Y ork University and then at Stevens Institute of T echnology, Hoboken, New Jersey.But Jeremy Bernstein has also spent more than 30 years on the staff of The New Y orker magazine, writing mostly about physics, computers, and other topics in physical science. He moves as comfortably among sentences and paragraphs as among equations.Part II. Detailed study of the text:Part III. Questions about the article1. Oppenteimer is called ― Father of the Atomic Bomb‖ and had been in charge of the Los Alamas nuclear laboratory for many years. Y et the author considers him as merely very good. Do you think the author is right and fair in relegating Oppenheimer to the merely very good?2. Do you think it is right to say to be highly focused or not is the cause separating the great ones from the merely very good? What is your view?3. How does the author manage to bring the people he wants to compare into the article?O ppenheimer’s anecdote: Oppenheimer and dirac meetingGottingen, talking about poetry and physicsHis decision to go to the conferenceSpender’s being at the conf erence—Spende r’s obsession with Auden—great versus merely very good.4.How does the author develop the article?He uses the 1981 conference as the benchmark and goes back to earlier times and in the last two paragraphs returns the scene to the time of writing. This technique of montage is used largely in cinema.For example:The 1981 conference and the author’s indecision—(flashback to 1925—1927) earlier life of Oppenheimer and his relations with Dirac—(back to 1981) the author’s decision: Spender and Auden—(flashback)Spender and Oppenheimer(1956)—(1958)Oppenheimer, Dirac and the author—(back to 1981) meeting with Spender—(bringing the scene to 1996) concluding remarks.Lesson NineThe W ay to Rainy MountainT eaching aims: 1. fully understand the article2. grasp the rhetorical device in the textT eaching difficulties: how to identify the rhetorical device in the sentence and understand theimplication for some sentencesTime distribution: eight periodsT eaching method: students-centeredT eaching procedures:Part I. About the AuthorN. Scott Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1934. Momaday belongs to a generation of American Indians born when most tribal communities had long ceased to exist as vital social organizations. His Kiowa ancestors shared with other Plains Indians the horrors of disease, military def eat, and cultural and religious deprivation in the 19th century. Their only chance of survival was to adapt themselves to new circumstances. Momaday’s grandfather, for example, adjusted to changing conditions by taking up farming, a decision pressed upon him by the General Allotment Act of 1887.Part II. Detailed study of the textPart III. The analysis of the textPara 1. the opening paragraph of the essay is a lyrical description of the author’s ancestral land, which plays a key role in his exploration of his Kiowa identity.Para 2. the author explains his purpose of his visit to Rainy Mountain: to be at his grandmother’s grave.Para 3. it sums up the history of the Kiowas as a Plains Native culture—the golden time and thedecline in their history.Para 4. it is about how the Kiowas migrated from w estern Montana and how the migration transformed the Kiowas.Para 5. the author returns to his grandmother again. Since she is the immediate reason for him to come to Rainy Mountain, she is the link betw een the author and his ancestors.Para 6. The Kiowas felt a sense of confinement in Y ellow stone, Montana.Para 7. this paragraph is a depiction of the landscape which they came upon when they got out of the highlands in Montana.Para 8. in this para the author describes Devil’s T ow er and tells the Kiowas’s legend about it.Para 9. the author tells about the last days of the Sun Dance culture by using his grandmother as a witness.Para 10. for the first time, the author concentrates only on his grandmother’s story rather than mixing it with the history of the whole Kiowa tribe. Also for the first time, the author shifts the focus of depicting the lanscape to describing a person—his grandmother Aho as an old woman.Para 11—12 paragraph 11 is about the old houses at Rainy Mountain, which the author’s grandmother and other Kiowas used to live in, but which are now empty. This paragraph serves as a transition betw een the depiction of Grandma Aho and the reunion at her house.Para 11 and 12 describe the reunions that were once held at the grandmother’s house when the author was a child. W e can see the author accepts change and loss as facts of life. He neither denies nor defies them. Imagination helps him strike a balance betw een them. So, after depicting his dead grandmother’s old house, he brings to lif e the joy and activity that once filled it. As a child Momaday took part in those events. By re-creating those scenes, he reminds himself of who he is.Part IV. Complete the exercise of the text。
大学英语2单词表
Unit1accompl ish vt.完成(某事)accompl ishmen t n.本领,技艺;完成,成就achieve ment n.成就;成绩actionn.动作;行为activit y n.活动,行为anecdot e n.趣闻,轶事apply vi.适用;申请artisti c a.艺术的assistv.帮助attachvt.系,贴,连接attenda nt n.服务员;侍者,随从await vt..等待,等候bang v.猛敲,猛击bold a.勇敢的,无畏的breakth roughn.突破bustlin g a.繁忙的,熙攘的calligrapher n.书法家clumsil y ad.笨拙地colleag ue n.同事compara ble a.比得上的;可比的continu al a.不断的,一再重复的contras t n.对比craft n.手艺;工艺creativ e a.独创的creativ i ty n.创造力critical a.至关重要的;危急的culture n.文化departu re n.背离；出发,离开desirab le a.值得向往的;称心的effecti vely ad.有效地elementary a.基本的,初级的,基础的emergevi.出现enormou s a.巨大的;极大的evolvev.使逐步发展exaggerate v.夸大,夸张excepti on n.例外expecta ntly ad.期待地explora tory a.探索的extreme a.极度的,极端的n.极端, 过分facilit y n.熟练,灵巧;设备,设施fearful a.害怕的,担心的find one's way 到达;进入,流入foster vt.培养frown v.,n.皱眉harborvt.怀有in due course在适当时机in retrosp ect 回顾indepen dencen.独立,自主initial a.开始的,最初的innovati on n.革新;新事物inseparable a.不可分离的insert vt.插入,嵌入intenti on n.意图investi gate v.调查;探究kinderg artenn.幼儿园lobby n.大堂,大厅make up for 补偿,弥补misdeed n.不端行为mold vt.塑造neglect vt.忽视not in the least 一点也不observe r n.观察者,观察员occasio n n.时刻,场合on occasio n有时,间或on one's own 独立地;独自地on the one hand..., on the other hand 一方面...,另一方面...originality n.新颖;独创性oversta te vt.把...讲得过分，夸大parenta l a.父的,母的,父母的perform ance n.表现,行为;演出, 表演phenome non n.现象pick up 获得;学会princip al a.首要的,主要的priorit y n.优先考虑的事;重点promote vt.促进,推进rear v.养育,抚养relevan t a.有关的,切题的reliance n.依靠,依赖repositi on vt.改变...的位置reversa l n.颠倒self-reliance n.依靠自己,自力更生slight a.轻微地slot n.狭缝,狭槽solutio n n.解决(问题的办法);解答somewha t ad.稍微,有点staff n.全体职工,全体雇员style n.行为方式,风格summari ze vt.总结,概述superio r a.优良的;叫好的sympath eti cal ly ad.同情地technol ogical a.技术的,工艺的telling a.难忘的;有力的tender a.年幼的;温柔的traditi on n.传统valid a.有根据的view vt.看待,考虑vigorou sly ad.用力的;精力充沛地well-intenti oned a.好意的work on/at 从事worthwhile a.值得的Unit2aboardprep.在（船、车、飞机等上barbern.理发师billion n.（美、法）十亿；（德、英）万亿billion ai re n.亿万富翁；大富翁blend in 融洽，十分协调blend v.（将...）混合by/from all account s 人人都说carry on 举止随便；进行；继续做cheerfu l a.愉快的；令人愉快的come aboard入伙，加盟corpora te n.公司的court n.球场cultiva te vt.培养，陶冶deserve vt.应受，值得dime n.（美国、加拿大的）10 分硬币discoun t n.折扣employee n.雇员，受雇者employe r n.雇佣者，顾主excutiv e a.,n. 经营管理方面的（人员）；行政方面的（人员）folk n.人们，人民folksy a.友好的，坦率的generosi ty n.慷慨大方get away with 做（某事）而未被发现或未受惩罚handout n.印刷品，宣传品headlin e n.（报纸上的）标题hold to 遵守，不改变lay down v.制定；设立liable a.有可能做的local n.地方的，当地的loyalty n.忠诚make up 构成，组成mansion n.（豪华的）宅邸，大厦mayor n.市长memo n.备忘录muddy a.沾满泥的；泥泞的on the run 奔跑，逃避；忙个不停open up 开门；打开opening n.（正式的）开张，开幕optionn.期权，购买（或出售）权；选择自由pickupn.小卡车，轻型货车qualify v.（使）具有资格rally v.,n.集会rank v.（将...)列为（某等级）remote a. 遥远的reserve vt.将...留作专用；预定retirev.使退休rewardv.奖赏schemen.阴谋；计划scholarship n.奖学金shell n.猎枪弹；炮弹；壳sigh vi.叹气，叹息steer clear of 避开，避免steer v.驾驶stingy a.吝啬的stock n.资本；股票，证券stun vt.使惊吓throw one's weight around盛气凌人tornado n.龙卷风treatme nt n.对待，待遇angel n. 天使at any rate 无论如何，不管怎样awhilead. 片刻bet vt. 敢说；确信clenchvt. 咬紧，握紧come over （指某种感觉）刺激或影响communi ty n. 社区；社会consist of 由...组成consist vi. 组成，构成constan t a. 持续的，不变的darling n. （用作称呼）亲爱的；心爱的人dessert n.（餐后）甜点心dine vi. 进餐diningroom 餐厅distract vt. 转移（注意力）使分；心dread n. 畏惧；恐慌dumb a. 愚蠢的；哑的embarra ss vt. 使窘迫；使不好意思er int.（用于表示迟疑、沉吟）哦，厄excepti onal a. 杰出的，特别的exhaust vt. 使筋疲力尽；用完，耗尽fade vi. 褪色；变暗淡；消失fastfoo d a. 供应快餐的fill out 填写frank a. 坦白的，直率的gloriou s a. 极好的；辉煌的；光荣的guitarn. 吉他hand down 把...传下去humilia te vt. 羞辱；使丢脸hysteri c al a. 歇斯底里的in charge (of) 主管，负责in unisonvi. 一致地；一起interfe rencen. 干涉；干扰interru pt vt. 打断...的讲话；中断...的行动jerk vt. 猛地一扭（或一拉等）juniora. 较年幼的，地位较低的jut out （使）突出，伸出jut v.（使）突出，伸出keep (somebod y) in suspense 使产生悬念，故意迟迟不告诉know betterthan (that/to do somethi ng) 明事理而不至于（做某事）locatio n n. 位置monoton e n.（语调、色彩等的）单调mumblev. 咕哝；含糊地说narrowdown 减少，缩小oops int. 哎约overall ad. 大体上；palm n. 手掌patience n. 耐心，忍耐prom n.（高中或大学等的）班级舞会proof n. 证据，证明recipen. 烹饪法；秘诀repeate dly ad. 反复地simulta neous a. 同时的simulta neousl y ad. 同时地squat vi. 蹲suspense n. 悬念swallow v. 吞，咽talentn. 才能；天才talente d a. 有才能的；天才的trade (somethi ng) for (somethi ng else) 用一物交换另一物uh int. 嗯，唔unisonn. 一致；齐唱；齐奏vaccina tion n. 疫苗接种welfare n. 福利；幸福yeah ad. （口语）是abuse n.滥用;虐待accent n.口音angle n.角度,立场annoy vt.使恼怒,使烦恼annoyin g a.讨厌的,恼人的apartme nt n.公寓appoint ment n.约会appropri ate a.适当的,得体的appropri ately ad.适当地,得体地arrange vt.安排at times 有时aversio n n.厌恶,反感bad-tempere d a.脾气坏的;易怒的but then 但另一方面,然而jar v.使感到不快,刺激(神经等)click v.用鼠标点击n.咔哒声clipped a.发音快而清脆的commerci al n.商业广告;a.商业的communi c ate vi.通信,交往connect ion n.连接conversely ad.相反地crawl vi.爬行crime n.(犯)罪criticn.评论家;对......持批评态度的人cue n.提示,暗示cyber-interaction n. 通过网络交往data n.(datum 的复数形式)数据, 资料doggedl y ad.顽强地,坚持不懈地edit vt.编辑email n.电子邮件vt.发电子邮件emotion al a.感情上的,动感情的endless a.无休止的external a.外面的,外部的externally ad.从外面,在外部flee v.逃走;逃离fluid a.不稳定的,可变的;n.液体gym n.体育馆,健身房in sight 可看到的;临近insensi tive a.感觉迟钝的,麻木不仁的interaction n.交往,相互作用Interne t n.互联网interpret v.理解,解释;(做)口译intervi ew vt.n.接见,面试intolerable a.无法容忍的;不能容忍的keep up with 及时了解或跟上laughte r n.笑声misinte rpret vt.错误地理解;错误地解释modem n.调制解调器nightma re n.噩梦on line 在线opera n.歌剧(艺术)password n.口令,密码project v.以为别人也有(与自己同样的情绪)relatio n shipn.关系rely vi.依靠;依赖remarkn.言辞,话语v.说,评说restore vt.恢复routine n.例行事务,日常工作,惯例sensiti ve a.敏感的set apart 使分离,使分开soap opera 肥皂剧(以家庭问题为题材的广播或电视剧)sociali ze vi.社交,交际spit vt.吐出stretch v.拉长,伸展submit vt.提交,呈递suck in 吸引,使卷入;吸收suck v.吸,吮suicide n.自杀symptom n.征兆;症状take in 收进,吸收telecom muter vi.远程工作者tone n.语气,口气,腔调T-shirt n.T 恤衫tune n.曲子,曲调underwe ar n.内衣unemplo yment n.失业virtual a.虚拟的;实质上的along with 连同alterna te a. 交替的, 轮流的be ashamed of n. 因…感到难为情breezen. 微风，清风bring (sb) back to earth 使回到现实中coach n. 体育运动的教练coincid e vi. 同时发生; 一致coincid e with 与…同时发生competi tor n. 竞争者, 对手congrat ulatevt. 祝贺deafenvt.使聋dedicate vt. 献身于, 致力于dedicati on n. 奉献, 献身eagle n. 鹰effortl ess a. 容易的，不费力的emotion n. 情感, 感情errupt vi. 爆发errupti on n. 爆发fantasy n. 幻想hay n.干草intensi ty n. 强烈，剧烈，紧张mat n. 垫子, 席子mdia n. 大众传播媒体motto n. 格言, 座右铭numerou s a. 许多的, 无数的on one/two/several occasio n(s) 有一( 两，几) 次passion n. 热情pole-vault vi., n. 撑杆跳高prepara tion n. 准备relax vt. 放松, 松弛runwayn. 跑道sponsorship n. 资助sprint vi. 疾跑startle vt. 使大吃一惊stretch out 伸展take-off n. 起跳；起飞tension n. 紧张，不安thump n. 重击声anxiety n. 忧虑，担心bale n. (一）大包，（一）大捆bar n. 横竿, 条块bear out 证实body builder n. 健美运动员chore n. 家庭杂务core n. 核心deaf a. 耳聋的finger-tipped a. 用手的grace n. 优美, 优雅; 雅致gymnast n. 体操家，体操运动员hard-core a. 顽固不化的in one's mind's eye 在想象中inflate n. ( 使) 充气,( 使) 膨胀mere a. 仅仅，只不过outrunvt. 跑的比…快/ 好; 超过push-up n. 俯卧撑realist n. 现实主义者recur vi. 再来; 再发生sweat vi. 出汗; n.汗水tense a. 通情达理的,理智的towel n. 毛巾，手巾vain a. 虚荣的, 自负的vault n. 撑杆跳高; 撑物跳跃weightl ifting n. 举重work out 体育锻炼，训练a piece of cake 不费吹灰之力的事情achieve/have one's heartsdesire得到心中渴望的东西alumnus n.（男）校友anchor n. corpora tion n.公司anchorw oman n.（广播、电视节目的）女主持人aside ad.在一边;向一边at interval s 每隔... 时间(或距离);不时basebal l n.棒球bide vt.等待bulleti n n.简报，通讯；会刊；公告by nature生性care for 照料charm v.吸引;迷人clientn.顾客，客户consume吃；喝；耗尽；消费cookien.饼干decorat e vt.装饰despite prep.尽管;不顾devourvt.狼吞虎咽的人dietern.节食者；忌食某些事物的人dissert ationn.(博士）学位论文，专题论文doctora l a.博士的draft n.草稿fairy n.神话故事faltervi.变弱；犹豫gaily a.鲜艳的；快乐的get one's act togethe r 将自己的各事安排得有条不紊guilt n.内疚；有罪guiltyn.内疚的，感到惭愧的；有罪的harmony n.和谐；协调；一致have sth./little/much to do with 与...有关(几乎无关,很有关系)heroine n.女英雄hit/strikehome （言语等）击中要害idiot n.(colloq) a fool incredi ble a.难以置信的investm ent n.投资item n.一则（消息);一条，一项，一件lap n.（人坐着时）大腿的上方，膝上；（旅程的）一段Martian a.,n.火星的;(假想的)火星的military a.军事的，军队的move on to 更换（工作，话题等）moversand shakers有权势的人们novel n.小说occasio nal a.偶尔的，间或occasio nallyadv.偶尔地，间或organiz ational a.有关组织方面的pediatri ciann.儿科医生politici an n.政治家positiv e a.确信的;有益的,建设性的positiv ely ad.极其,非常possess vt.拥有princen.王子;亲王put pencil/pen to paper 开始动笔写race the clock 争分夺秒地工作rarelyad.很少，难得red-checked a.有红格子图案的remaind er 剩下的时间（人或物）reproach vt.责备ribbonn.丝带，缎带，装饰带set aside 留出skeptic al a.持怀疑态度的，怀疑的sophisti cated a. 世故的；老练的；复杂的；尖端的spotless a.十分清洁的strawbe rry n.草莓superma rket n.超市superwo man n.具有非凡才能的女性，女强人Swiss a.,n.瑞士的，瑞士人的take in 欺骗theoryn.理论tonal a.音调的，圣调的undo vt.使烦恼，使不安；松开，解开academy n. 学会，学院，研究院additio n n. 增加的人（或物）alterna tive n. 供选择的东西Anglo-Saxon n. 盎格鲁—萨克逊人arousevt. 唤起，激起ban vt. 禁止，取缔Britain英国capsule n. 密封小容器；胶囊；航天舱catastrophe n. 大灾难channel n. 海峡；渠道；频道Christi an a. 基督教的Christi anityn. 基督教classic n. 经典作品climate n. 气候（区）conquer v. 征服corrupt vt. 讹用，使（语言）变得不标准；腐蚀，贿赂cultura l a. 文化的cybersp a ce n. 网络空间，虚拟空间Danish a. 丹麦（人）的，丹麦语的descend vi. 起源于；下来discipl e n. 信徒，门徒drift vi. 漂泊elite n. （总称）出类拔萃的人，精英enrichvt. 使富裕，使丰富establi s h vt. 建立，确立fascina ting a. 迷人的，有极大吸引力的fortuna tely ad. 幸运地，幸亏Germani c a. 日耳曼（人）的，日耳曼语的，德国（人）的grammari an n. 语法学家Greek n. 希腊语habitual a. 惯常的indepen dent a. 独立的，自主的India 印度Indo-Europea n a. 印欧语系的influen ce n. 影响inhabit vt. 居住于intelle ctual n., a. 知识分子（的）invadevt. 侵入，侵略inventvt. 发明kingly a. 国王（般）的liberty n. 自由linguis t n. 语言学家manufacturer n. 制造商martyr n. 殉难者，烈士massive a. 大量的，大规模的messine ss n. 杂乱状况modifyvt. 修改，更改mystery n. 神秘的事物necessi t y n. 必需品；必要（性）Normann., a. 诺曼人（的），诺曼语（的），诺曼文化的nourish vt. 滋养，培育out of control失去控制，不受约束Pakista n巴基斯坦paraden. 游行；阅兵队列pass (sth.) on to (sb.) 将…传给…preserv e n. 独占的地区或范围；禁猎地vt. 保护，保存product n. 产品put into practic e将…付诸实施Renaissance n.文艺复兴resembl e vt. 与…相似royal a. 国王或女王的；皇家的Sanskri t n. 梵语scholar n. 学者snack n. 快餐，点心soverei gn a. 拥有最高统治权的，至高无上的；拥有主权的strikeout 创造，开创surrend er v. give in 投降systema ti c a. 有系统的thermom eter n. 温度计to a (very real, certain, etc.) extent在（极大，某种）程度上toleran ce n. 容忍，宽容；忍耐tribe n. 部落video n., a. 录像（的）virtual ly ad. 差不多，几乎vocabul ary n. 词汇（量）walkman n. 随身听Welsh a., n. 威尔士语（的），威尔士人的accommo date vi. 适应新的情况；迁就vt. 容纳，向…提供住处；协调aestheti c a. 美学的；美感的；美的Arctic a., n. 北级（的），北极圈（的）atmosph ere n. 大气；气氛atmosph eric a. 大气的attainvt. 达到；取得attaina ble a. 可达到的；可得到beliefn. 信念，信仰；相信Bengali n., a. 孟加拉人（的）；孟加拉语（的）；孟加拉的bind (bound) vt. 捆，绑；将…绑在一起breed (bred) v. （使）繁殖；产（后代）breedin g ground动物繁殖的地方call for 要求cancer n. 癌，恶性肿瘤cataract n. 白内障chargen. 被照管的人（或事物）combat v. （与…）斗争，战斗come through经历；从（…中）活下来（或挺过来）concern n. 有利害关系的事，关心的事，担扰conflic ting a. 不一致的，冲突的，矛盾的congres s n. 国会；立法机关；代表大会consequ ence n. 后果，结果conserv e vt. 保护；保存consump tion n. 消费（量）creature n. 生物（尤指动物）current a. 当前的，现在的deadly a. 致命的，毁灭性的debaten. 辩论；争论democra cy n. 民主（制度）deny vt. 不给；不准depende nce n. 依靠，依赖disrupt vt. 使陷于混乱；干扰distinction n. 区别，差别disting uish v. 区别，辨别ecologi c al a. 生态的；生态学的ecosystem n. 生态系统either/or a. 只能两者择其一的environ mental a. （自然）环境的environ mental i sm n. 环境保护论；环境论excessn. 过节，无节制explora tion n. 勘查，探测；探索fatal a. 致命的；毁灭性的fate n. 命运，结局frame n. 状态；框架，构架frame of mind 心绪；心境fundame ntal a. 基本的，根本的generat or n. 发电机humanis tic a. 人本主义的，人文主义的in part 在某种程度上；部分地in the name of 以…为由，以…为借口，以…的名义junglen. 杂乱无章的事物；热（带）丛林layer n. 层lesser a. 较小的，更少的，次要livelih ood n. 生计log v. 砍伐；伐（木）logging n. 伐木业man-centere d a. 以人为中心的，只考虑人类的利益的mate v. （使）交配melt v. （使）融化，（使）熔化moderat e a. 适中的；适度的nothing more than 无异于；只不过，仅仅on the grounds of/on …grounds 因为；以…为理由organis m n. 生物体，有机体owl n. 猫头鹰ozone n. 臭氧plankto n n. 浮游生物polluta nt n. 污染物proposa l n. 提议，建议proposi tion n. 提议；命题rage vi. 激烈地进行reality n. 现实；真实reducti on n. 减少refugen. 庇护所；避难处regardl ess ad. 不顾一切地；无论如何regulati on n. 规章；规定reindee r n. （单复同）驯鹿resista n ce n. 反对，反抗restric tion n. 限制；限制性规定ridicul ous a. 可笑的，荒谬的run/go against the grain (of sth. or to do sth.) 与（…）格格不入；违反意愿（做某事）contem p o rarya. 当代的，现代的selecti ve a. 选择的；有选择性的self-preserv ationn. 自我保护sensiti vity n. 敏感（性）sentimental a. 感情用事的；多愁善感的sentimentalis m n. 感情用事；多愁善感，感伤主义sentimentaliz e vt. 感情用事地对待（或看待）similarl y ad. 同样地，相同地snail dartern. 蜗牛鱼（一种濒临绝种的很小的淡水鱼）specula tive a. 猜测性的，推测的spiritu al a. 精神的；非物质的threat n.废墟；灰，灰烬to the point of 达到…的程度unasham edly ad. 坦然地，满不在乎地universal a. 全世界的；普遍的，全体的urgent a. 紧急的；急迫的vote v. 投票选举voter n. 投票者，选举人well-being n. 幸福；福祉wildlife n. （总称）野生动物（尤指野生动物）work one's way 设法抵达（或获得通过）；努力达到目标worship n., vt. 崇拜；崇敬。
现代大学英语精读5lesson2课文Two_Kinds
Two KindsAmy TanMy mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous.“Of course, you can be a prodigy1, too,” my mother told me when I was nine. “You can be best anything. What does Auntie Lindo know? Her daughter, she is only best tricky.”America was where all my m other’s hopes lay. She had come to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls. But she never looked back with regret. Things could get better in so many ways.We didn’t immediately pick the right kind of prodigy. At first my mother thought I could be a Chinese Shirley Temple2. We’d watch Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were training films. My mother would poke my arm and say, “Ni kan.You watch.” And I would see Shirley tapping her feet, or singing a sailor song, or pursing her lips into a very round O while saying “Oh, my goodness.”“Ni kan,” my mother said, as Shirley’s eyes flooded with tears. “You already know how. Don’t need talent for crying!”Soon after my mother got this idea about Shirley Temple, she took me to the beauty training school in the Mission District and put me in the hands of a student who could barely hold the scissors without shaking. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz3. My mother dragged me off to the bathroom and tried to wet down my hair.“You look like a Negro Chinese,” she lamented, as if I had done this on purpose.The instructor of the beauty training school had to lop off4 these soggy clumps to make my hair even again. “Peter Pan5is very popular these days” the instructor assured my mother. I now had bad hair the length of a boy’s, with curly bangs that hung at a slant two inches above my eyebrows. I liked the haircut, and it made meactually look forward to my future fame.In fact, in the beginning I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so.I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, and I tried each one on for size. I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtain, waiting to hear the music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with holy indignity. I was Cinderella6stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air.In all of my imaginings I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect: My mother and father would adore me. I would be beyond reproach. I would never feel the need to sulk, or to clamor for anything. But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. “If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m disappearing for good,” it warned. “And then you’ll always be nothing.”Every night after dinner my mother and I would sit at the Formica7topped kitchen table. She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children that she read in Ripley’s Believe It or Not or Good Housekeeping, Reader’s digest, or any of a dozen other magazines she kept in a pile in our bathroom. My mother got these magazines from people whose houses she cleaned. And since she cleaned many houses each week, we had a great assortment. She would look through them all, searching for stories about remarkable children.The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even the most of the European countries. A teacher was quoted as saying that the little boy could also pronounce the names of the foreign cities correctly. “What’s the capital of Finland?” my mother aske d me, looking at the story.All I knew was the capital of California, because Sacramento8 was the name of the street we lived on in Chinatown9. “Nairobi10!” I quessed, saying the most foreign word I could think of. She checked to see if that might be one way to pronounce “Helsinki11” before showing me the answer.The tests got harder - multiplying numbers in my head, finding the queen of hearts in a deck of cards, trying to stand on my head without using my hands, predicting the daily temperatures in Los angeles, New York, and London.One night I had to look at a page from the Bible for three minutes and then report everything I could remember. “Now Jehoshaphat had riches12 and honor in abundance and that’s all I remember, Ma,” I said.And after seeing, onc e again, my mother’s disappointed face, something inside me began to die. I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations. Before going to bed that night I looked in the mirror above the bathroom sink, and I saw only my face staring back---and understood that it would always be this ordinary face ---I began to cry. Such a sad, ugly girl! I made high-pitched noises like a crazed animal, trying to scratch out the face in the mirror.And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me---a face I had never seen before. I looked at my reflection, blinking so that I could see more clearly. The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful. She and I were the same. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts or rather, thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I won’t let her change me, I promised myself. I won’t be what I’m not.So now when my mother presented her tests, I performed listlessly, my head propped on one arm. I pretended to be bored. And I was. I got so bored that I started counting the bellows of the foghorns out on the bay while my mother drilled me in other areas. The sound was comforting and reminded me of the cow jumping over the moon. And the next day I played a game with myself, seeing if my mother would give up on me before eight bellows. After a while I usually counted ony one bellow, maybe two at most. At last she was beginning to give up hope.Two or three months went by without any mention of my being a prodigy. And then one day my mother was watching the Ed Sullivan Show13 on TV. The TV was old and the sound kept shorting out. Every time my mother got halfway up from the sofa to adjust the set, the sound would come back on and Sullivan would be talking. As soon as she sat down, Sullivan would go silent again. She got up, the TV broke into loud piano music. She sat down, silence. Up and down, back and forth, quiet and loud. It was like a stiff, embraceless dance between her and the TV set. Finally, she stood by the set with her hand on the sound dial.She seemed entranced by the music, a frenzied little piano piece with a mesmerizing quality, which alternated between quick, playful passages and teasing,lilting ones.“Ni kan,” my mother said, calling me over with hurried hand gestures. “Look here.”I could see why my mother was fascinated by the music. It was being pounded out by a little Chinese girl, about nine years old, with a Peter Pan haircut. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple. She was proudly modest, like a proper Chinese Child. And she also did a fancy sweep of a curtsy, so that the fluffy skirt of her white dress cascaded to the floor like petals of a large carnation.In spite of these warning signs, I wasn’t worried. Our family had no piano and we couldn’t afford to buy one, let alone reams of sheet music and piano less ons. So I could be generous in my comments when my mother badmouthed14 the little girl on TV.“Play note right, but doesn’t sound good!” my mother complained “No singing sound.”“What are you picking on her for?” I said carelessly. “She’s pretty good. Mayb e she’s not the best, but she’s trying hard.” I knew almost immediately that I would be sorry I had said that.“Just like you,” she said. “Not the best. Because you not trying.” She gave a little huff as she let go of the sound dial and sat down on the sofa.The little Chinese girl sat down also, to play an encore of “Anitra’s Tanz,” by Grieg15. I remember the song, because later on I had to learn how to play it.Three days after watching the Ed Sullivan Show my mother told me what my schedule would be for piano lessons and piano practice. She had talked to Mr. Chong, who lived on the first floor of our apartment building. Mr.Chong was a retired piano teacher, and my mother had traded housecleaning services for weekly lessons and a piano for me to practice on every day, two hours a day, from four until six.When my mother told me this, I felt as though I had been sent to hell. I wished and then kicked my foot a little when I couldn”t stand it anymore.“Why don’t you like me the way I am? I’m not a genius! I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn’t go on TV if you paid me a million dollars!” I cried.My mother slapped me. “Who ask you be genius.”she shouted. “Only ask you beyour best. For you sake. You think I want you be genius? Hnnh! What for! Who ask you!”“So ungrateful,”I heard her mutter in chinese. “If she had as much talent as she had temper, she would be famous now.”Mr. Chong, whom I secretly nicknamed Old Chong, was very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of an invisible orchestra. He looked ancient in my eyes. He had lost most of the hair on top of his head and he wore thick glasses and had eyes that always thought, since he lived with his mother and was not yet married.I met Old Lady Chong once, and that was enough. She had a peculiar smell, likea baby that had done something in its pants, and her fingers felt like a dead person’s, like an old peach I once found in the back of the refrigerator: its skin just slid off the flesh when I picked it up.I soon found out why Old Chong had retired from teaching piano. He was deaf. “Like Beethoven!” he shouted to me “We’re both listening only in our head!” And he would start to conduct his frantic silent sonatas16.Our lessons went like this. He would open the book and point to different things, explaining, their purpose: “Key! Treble! Bass! No sharps or flats! So this is C major! Listen now and play after me!”And then he would play the C scale a few times, a simple cord, and then, as if inspired by an old unreachable itch, he would gradually add more notes and running trills and a pounding bass until the music was really something quite grand.I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord, and then just play some nonsense that sounded like a cat running up and down on top of garbage cans. Old Chong would smile and applaud and say “Very good! Bt now ou must learn to keep time!”So that’s how I discovered that Old Chong’s eyes were too slow to keep up with the wrong notes I was playing. He went through the motions in half time. To help me keep rhythm, he stood behind me and pushed down on my right shoulder for every beat. He balanced pennies on top of my wrists so that I would keep them still as I slowly played scales and arpeggios17. He had me curve my hand around an apple and keep that shame when playing chords. He marched stiffly to show me how to makeeach finger dance up and down, staccato18 like an obedient little soldier.He taught me all these things, and that was how I also learned I could be lazy and get away with mistakes, lots of mistakes. If I hit the wrong notes because I hadn’t practiced enough, I never corrected myself, I just kept playing in rhythm. And Old Chong kept conducting his own private reverie.19So maybe I never really gave myself a fair chance. I did pick up the basics pretty quickly, and I might have become a good pianist at the young age. But I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different, and I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.Over the next year I practiced like this, dutifully in my own way. And then one day I heard my mother and her friend Lindo Jong both after church, and I was leaning against a brick wall, wearing a dress with stiff white petticoats. Auntie Linds daughter, Waverly, who was my age, was standing farther down the wall, about five feet away. We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters, squabbling over crayons and dolls. In other words, for the most part, we hated each other. I thought she was snotty. Waverly Jong had gained a certain amount of fame as “Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Chess Champion.”“She bring home too many trophy.” Auntie Lindo lamented that Sunday. “All day she play chess. All day I h ave no time do nothing but dust off her winnings.” She threw a scolding look at Waverly, who pretended not to see her.“You lucky you don’t have this problem,” Auntie Lindo said with a sigh to my mother.And my mother squared her shoulders and bragge d “our problem worser than yours. If we ask Jing-mei wash dish, she hear nothing but music. It’s like you can’t stop this natural talent.”And right then I was determined to put a stop to her foolish pride.A few weeks later Old Chong and my mother conspired to have me play in a talent show that was to be held in the church hall. But then my parents had saved up enough to buy me a secondhand piano, a black Wurlitzer spinet with a scarred bench. It was the showpiece of our living room.For the talent show I was to play a piece called “Pleading Child” fromSchumann’s Scenes From Childhood. It was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was. I was supposed to memorize the whole thing. But I dawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed. I never really listed to what I was playing. I daydreamed about being somewhere else, about being someone else.The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch the rose on the carpet with a pointed foot, sweep to the side, bend left leg, look up, and smile.My parents invited all the couples from their social club to witness my debut. Auntie Lindo and Uncle Tin were there. Waverly and her two older brothers had also come. The first two rows were filled with children either younger or older than I was. The littlest ones got to go first. They recited simple nursery rhymes, squawked out tunes on miniature violins, and twirled hula hoops20 in pink ballet tutus21, and when they bowe d or curtsied, the audience would sigh in unison, “Awww,” and then clap enthusiastically.When my turn came, I was very confident. I remember my childish excitement. It was as if I knew, without a doubt, that the prodigy side of me really did exist. I had no fear whatsoever, no nervousness. I remember thinking, This is it! This is it! I looked out over the audience, at my mother’s blank face, my father’s yawn, Auntie Lindo’s stiff-lipped smile, Waverly’s sulky expression. I had on a white dress, layere d with sheets of lace, and a pink bow in my Peter Pan haircut. As I sat down, I envisioned people jumping to their feet and Ed Sullivan rushing up to introduce me to everyone on TV.And I started to play. Everything was so beautiful. I was so caught up in how lovely I looked that I wasn’t worried about how I would sound. So I was surprised when I hit the first wrong note. And then I hit another and another. A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldn’t stop playing, as though my hands were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track. I played this strange jumble through to the end, the sour notes staying with me all the way.When I stood up, I discovered my legs were shaking. Maybe I had just beennervous, and the audience, like Old Chong had seen me go through the right motions and had not heard anything wrong at all. I swept my right foot out, went down on my knee, looked up, and smiled. The room was quiet, except fot Old Chong, who was beaming and shouting “Bravo! Bravo! Well done!” By then I saw my mother’s face, her stricken face. The audience clapped weakly, and I walked back to my chair, with my whole face quivering as I tried not to cry, I heard a little boy whisper loudly to his mother. “That was awful,” and mother whispered “Well, she certainly tried.”And now I realized how many people were in the audience, the whole world, it seemed. I was aware of eyes burning into my back. I felt the shame of my mother and father as they sat stiffly through the rest of the show.We could have escaped during intermission. Pride and some strange sense of honor must have anchored my parents to their chairs. And so we watched it all. The eighteen-year-old boy with a fake moustache who did a magic show and juggled flaming hoops while riding a unicycle. The breasted girl with white make up who sang an aria from Madame Butterfly22and got an honorable mention. And the eleven-year-old boy who was first prize playing a tricky violin song that sounded like a busy bee.After the show the Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs, from the Joy Luck Club, came up to my mother and father.“Lots of talented kids,” Auntie Lindo said vaguely, smiling broadly. “That was something else,” my father said, and I wondered if he was referring to me in a humorous way, or whether he even remembered what I had done.Waverly looked at me and shrugged her shoulders. “You aren’t a genius like me,” she said matter-of-factly. And if I hadn’t felt so bad, I would have pulled her braids and punched her stomach.But my mother’s expression was what devastated me: a quiet, blank look that said she had lost everything. I felt the same way, and everybody seemed now to be coming up, like gawkers at the scene of an accident to see what parts were actually missing. When we got on the bus to go home, my father was humming the busy-bee tune and my mother kept silent. I kept thinking she wanted to wait until we got homebefore shouting at me. But when my father unlocked the door to our apartment, my mother walked in and went straight to the back, into the bedroom. No accusations, No blame. And in a way, I felt disappointed. I had been waiting for her to start shouting, so that I could shout back and cry and blame her for all my misery.I had assumed that my talent-show fiasco meant that I would never have to play the piano again. But two days later, after school, my mother came out of the kitchen and saw me watching TV.“Four clock,” s he reminded me, as if it were any other day. I was stunned, as though she were asking me to go through the talent-show torture again. I planted myself more squarely in front of the TV.“Turn off TV,” she called from the kitchen five minutes later. I didn’t budge. And then I decided, I didn’t have to do what mother said anymore. I wasn’t her slave. This wasn’t China. I had listened to her before, and look what happened she was the stupid one.She came out of the kitchen and stood in the arched entryway of the living room. “Four clock,” she said once again, louder.“I’m not going to play anymore,” I said nonchalantly23. “Why should I? I’m not a genius.”She stood in front of the TV. I saw that her chest was heaving up and down in an angry way.“No!” I said, and I now felt stronger, as if my true self had finally emerged. So this was what had been inside me all along.“No! I won’t!” I screamed. She snapped off the TV, yanked me by the arm and pulled me off the floor. She was frighteningly strong, half pulling, half carrying me towards the piano as I kicked the throw rugs under my feet. She lifted me up onto the hard bench. I was sobbing by now, looking at her bitterly. Her chest was heaving even more and her mouth was open, smiling crazily as if she were pleased that I was crying.“You want me to be something that I’m not!” I sobbed. “I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!”“Only two kinds of daughters,” she shouted in Chinese. “Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in thishouse. Obedient daughter!”“Then I wish I weren’t your daughter, I wish you weren’t my mother,” I shouted. As I said these things I got scared. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, that this awful side of me had surfaced, at last.“Too late to change this,” my mother said shrilly.And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted see it spill over. And that’s when I remembered the babies she had lost in China, the ones we never talked about. “Then I wish I’d never been born!” I shouted. “I wish I were dead! Like them.”It was as if I had said magic words. Alakazam!-her face went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless.It was not the only disappointment my mother felt in me. In the years that followed, I failed her many times, each time asserting my will, my right to fall short of expectations. I didn’t get straight As24. I didn’t become class president. I didn’t get into Stanford. I dropped out of college.Unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be, I could only be me.And for all those years we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible delarations afterward at the piano bench. Neither of us talked about it again, as if it were a betrayal that was now unspeakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that failure was inevitable.And even worse, I never asked her about what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope? For after our struggle at the piano, she never mentioned my playing again. The lessons stopped The lid to the piano was closed shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.So she surprised me. A few years ago she offered to give me the piano, for my thirtieth birthday. I had not played in all those years. I saw the offer as a sign of forgiveness, a tremendous burden removed. “Are you sure?” I asked shyly. “I mean, won’t you and Dad miss it?” “No, this your piano,” she said firmly. “Always your如有帮助欢迎下载支持piano. You only one can play.”“Well, I probably can’t play anymore,” I said. “It’s been years.” “You pick up fast,” my mother said, as if she knew this was certain. “You have natural talent. You could be a genius if you want to.”“No, I couldn’t.”“You just not trying,” my mother said. And she was neither angry nor sa d. She said it as if announcing a fact that could never be disproved. “Take it,” she said.But I didn’t at first. It was enough that she had offered it to me. And after that, everytime I saw it in my parents’living room, standing in front of the bay wi ndow, it made me feel proud, as if it were a shiny trophy that I had won back.Last week I sent a tuner over to my parent’s apartment and had the piano reconditioned, for purely sentimental reasons. My mother had died a few months before and I had been bgetting things in order for my father a little bit at a time. I put the jewelry in special silk pouches. The sweaters I put in mothproof boxes. I found some old chinese silk dresses, the kind with little slits up the sides. I rubbed the old silk against my skin, and then wrapped them in tissue and decided to take them hoe with me.After I had the piano tuned, I opened the lid and touched the keys. It sounded even richer that I remembered. Really, it was a very good piano. Inside the bench were the same exercise notes with handwritten scales, the same sedcondhand music books with their covers held together with yellow tape.I opened up the Schumann book to the dark little piecce I had played at the recital. It was on the left-hand page, “Pleading Child” It l ooked more difficult than Iremembered. I played a few bars, surprised at how easily the notes came back to me. And for the first time, or so it seemed, I noticed the piece on the right-hand side, It was called “Perfectly Contented” I tried to play this on e as well. It had a lighter melody but with the same flowing rhythm and turned out to be quite easy. “Pleading Child” was shorter but slower; “Perfectly Contented” was longer but faster. And afterI had played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.11。
现代大学英语2two-kindsppt课件
Analyzing Characters’ Motivations
1. Why do you think the mother wants her daughter to be a prodigy? If you had a daughter, would you want her to be a prodigy? (Consider what the mother has gone through.) Why or why not?
❖ Plot: the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc., which is the deliberately arranged sequence of interrelated events that constitute the basic narrative structure of a novel or short story
2. What happens when kids don’t live up to their parents’ expectations?
3. What can parents and children do to have a good relationship?
4. Do parents ever make their children do things so that they look good?
5. Why do you think the daughter refuses to continue her piano lessons? Would you do the same? Why or why not?
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• obedient /əu‘bi：dɪənt/
CET6 TEM4
• 1. ADJ A person or an animal who is obedient does what they are told to do • 顺从的; 服从的;惟命是从的 • Be obedient to sb/sth • 例：他在家里很尊重人而且顺从父母。 • He was very respectful at home and obedient to his parents. • 一个听话的孩子 • An obedient child
( line5 para9 ) • indignity /ɪnˈdɪɡnɪtɪ/
TEM4 ( indignities )
• N-VAR If you talk about the indignity of doing something, you mean that it makes you feel embarrassed or unimportant. • 侮辱 [正式] • 例：他蒙受了被捕之辱。 • He suffered the indignity of being arrested. • the final/ ultimate/ crowning indignity • 极度侮辱
• 2. V-T/V-I If you weave your way somewhere, you move between and around things as you go there • 迂回行进 • 例：汽车在车流中高速穿梭前进。 • The cars weaved in and out of traffic at top speed.
• eg: 为了拯救这棵树，工人们看下了更多的树枝。 • Workmen have lopped off more branches in an effort to save the tree.
• 2.PHRASAL VERB to reduce an amount, especially of money, by a particular amount • (从价钱中)削减 • eg： • They lopped 16 dollars off the price. • 他们削价16美元。
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vocabularies B组
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CET4 TEM4 ( weaving, wove, woven, weaves ) 1. V-T/V-I If you weave cloth or a carpet, you make it by crossing threads(线；纤维) over and under each other using a frame or machine called a loom （纺织机） 织 例：She sat at her loom and continued to weave. 她坐在织布机前，继续织布。
词语辨析 • gift VS genius VS talent
• 这些词都有天才之意。
• gift 天赋，比“天才”的意义要弱一点，可用复数。
• 如：He is a man of many gifts.(他多才多艺。)
• genius 天才，是这三词中程度最高的词。
• 如：Shakespeare was a man of great genius.
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• prodigy /ˈprɒdɪdʒɪ/
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CET6+ TEM8 ( prodigies ) N-COUNT A prodigy is someone young who has a great natural ability for something such as music, mathematics, or sports. (有极大的音乐、数学、运动等天赋的) 年轻的奇才；神童 例： Child/ infant prodigy 神童 musical prodigy 音乐神童
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• Dim sum • n. traditional Chinese cuisine; a variety of foods (including several kinds of steamed or fried dumplings) are served successively in small portions • (汉 点心)
• 2. （of people）clever but likely to deceive you • =crafty • 狡猾的；诡计多端的；会耍花招的
同根词
• trick n.骗局；花招；玩笑 • v.欺骗；诱骗；哄骗 • 1) trick sb into doing sth • eg：他声称他是被人诱骗才携带毒品的 • He claimed that he was tricked into carrying drugs. • 2) trick sb out of sth • eg:这家公司被骗走两千万美元。 • The corporation was tricked out of ＄20 dollars. • trickily adv.狡猾地；欺诈地；用奸计 • trickster n.骗子
• para 6 • Instead of getting big fat curls, i emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. • 蓬松的大卷发没做成，却弄成满头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛儿 。
• 2. N-PLURAL The fuzz are the police. 警察 [非正式，老 式，侮辱式用语] [usu 'the' N] • 3. N a blur 模糊之物 • 4. V to make or become indistinct; blur 使...变模糊
同根词
• • • • • adj. fuzzy 模糊的；失真的；有绒毛的 =blurred n. fuzziness 绒毛的特性；模糊不清
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• 1. PHRASAL VERB lop off to cut something, especially branches from a tree, usually with a quick, strong movement. • (一般指猛地一下) 砍掉（尤指树枝） • =chop/ chop off
• adj. • prodigious 惊人的，异常的，奇妙的；巨大的 • VS
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• genius /ˈdʒiːnɪəs/
• • • • • • • • • CET4 TEM4 ( geniuses ) 1. N-UNCOUNT a very high level of intelligence, mental skill, or acility , which only a few people have 天才；天赋 例： 1）writer/ man of genius 天才作家/ 天才 2）a stroke of genius (=a very clever idea) 聪明的想法；神来一笔；天才之举 3）a work of pure genius 天才之作
• 2.N-COUNT A genius is a highly talented, creative, or intelligent person. 天才 • 例： • 1）音乐/ 喜剧/ 数学... 天才 • musical/ comic/ mathematical etc. genius • 2）a genius for (doing) sth (做)某事的天才 • eg：那个女人天生有组织能力。 • That woman has a genius for organization.
• 3. OPP disobedient
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• legacy /’lɛɡəsi/
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CET6+ TEM4 ( legacies ) 1. N-COUNT A legacy is money or property which someone leaves to you when they die 遗产 例：你留给某人一大笔遗产就可以真正改变他的 生活。 (make a difference to…) You could make a real difference to someone's life by leaving them a generous legacy.
• talent 才能，一般不用复数，指通过学习和勤奋掌握的本领、技术和
其他的活动能力。 • 如：As a novelist, he shows great talent in characterization.(作为小 说家，他在描写人物方面显出很大的才能。)
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• fuzz /fʌz/ TEM8
• 1. N-UNCOUNT Fuzz is a mass of short, curly hairs. • (大量)卷曲的短发 [also 'a' N] 《柯林斯》 • N-UNCOUNT thin soft hair or a subtance like hair that covers something • (覆盖在某物上的)茸毛、细毛 《朗文》