新视域英语时文阅读Unit 4 Society of Humanity

Warming-up Questions
1. It is said humanity is the quality of being kind, thoughtful, and sympathetic towards others. Do you agree? What‟s your opinion?
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Are you feeling depressed on Monday? You are really happy today when you get rid of yesterday‟s depression! But perhaps it is the most depressing day for you to face up tomorrow. Monday is not as hard to spend as expected in our mind. In fact, depression is always full of our daily life. For most people Monday means again stepping into a familiar depressing situation with great pressure and a lot of things to do in their work.
不要终日陷在阴郁的思绪中。
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3. formulate / 'fɔ:mjuleit / v. invent and prepare (a plan, suggestion, etc.); express in an exact way 规划；确切地阐述 Little by little, he formulated his plan for escape. 他一点一点地设计构思出了逃跑的方案。
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Section A Does “Blue Monday” Really Exist?
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Happy time is always short and fleeting. After the relaxing weekends, Monday is often regarded as a blue day by office workers among whom there are a bit of strange depressing bitterness in their mind. Nowadays, Monday seems the hardest time for people to spend during a week, which is vividly described by net friends as: “Monday again, in such situation, the feeling to go to work with burden in heart is just like going to visit a grave to honor the memory of the dead.”
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wretched
dismal
formulate
elapse
deleterious
all-too-often
ascertain
trying
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1. wreቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱched / 'retʃid / adj. very unhappy;
in a very low spirits
Unit 4
Society of Humanity
Unit 4 Society of Humanity
Warming-up Questions
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I was impressed by the way he could formulate his ideas. 他陈述观点的方式让我印象深刻。
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2. Nowadays Monday seems the hardest time for people to spend during a week. Are you feeling depressed on Monday? Does “Blue Monday” really exist?
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Why are you often feeling much more depressed and nervous on Monday? What should we do to make Monday a pleasant day to enjoy? The answer is never to give up to it. There is nothing except our courage to hold a piece of clean, enjoyable sky with a lot of pleasure.
2. dismal / 'dizməl / adj. lacking hope or happiness；
gloomy 凄凉的；忧郁的
e.g. It was a dismal failure. 这是个让人沮丧的失败。
You can't occupy yourself with dismal thoughts all the time.
不幸的；沮丧的
I feel really confused and wretched.
我觉得十分迷惘，难过极了。
The wretched look on the little girl's face made him sorry. 小女孩脸上痛苦的表情让他很难受。
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