自考高级英语上册Lesson 2

Speak for sb. / sth
• To express the feelings, thoughts, or beliefs of a person or group of people
– Dan, speaking for the students, started the meeting.
…who were just as nervous about the grown-up world
• … were anxious and worried about the American society run by adult people
do without (something) v.
• … compared with other strategies, the fourth strategy is more likely to stop some of violence and cruelties in the world.
…another one looms just ahead
Others acted out their disaffection in passive ways, such as taking drugs, living a parasitic life without taking any responsibility, or fleeing to an uncultivated countryside to lead a primitive commune life.
appeal v.
• if someone or something appeals to you, they seem attractive and interesting • to make a serious public request for help, money, information etc
• … another big problem appears threateningly in front of us
Lesson Two
Four Choices for Young People
American youth of 1960s was a generation of rebellion. When they found their country – an affluent society full of poverty, injustice and hypocrisy, they no longer believed in the adult world that doesn’t belong to them.
So they rejected its beliefs and values. A lot of youngsters were involved actively in the struggle against poverty, against racial discrimination and against Vietnamese War. Some of them even attempted to overthrown the society with armed revolution.
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…they are not parasites
• … they are not the persons who are supported by society and offer nothing in return
…with all its ugliness and tension
• … with all its kinds of crimes and corruptions, noises and nervousness
She glared at me as I got up to leave.
• stare to look at someone or something for a long time without moving your eyes:
It’s rude to stare.
• gaze to look at someone or something for a long time, often without realizing that you are doing it:
• glance to look at someone or something for a short time and then look quickly away:
Damien glanced nervously at his watch.
• peek/peep (also take a peek/peep) to look quickly at something. Used especially when you are not supposed to look, or when you are looking through a small gap:
• to live or do something without a particular thing
– I don’t have any sugar so you’ll have to do without.
• go without (something) NOT HAVE: to not have something that you usually have
She gazed out of the window.
…this course is far from inviting
• … this course is not attractive at all
…it offers a better chance for remedying … than any other available strategy
…their victory never dawns on the shining new world…
• … their victory doesn’t bring about a better and cleaner world…
dawn on somebody
• if a fact dawns on you, you realize it for the first time
– It struck me as odd that the man didn’t introduce himself before he spoke.
…also has ancient antecedents
• … also had been practiced by some people in ancient times who fled to a remote
– appeal to sb. for sth / to do sth
Come off
• if something that has been planned comes off, it happens In the end the trip never came off.
• to be successful The performance on the first night came off pretty well.
strike somebody as (being) sth
• to seem to have a particular quality or feature
– His jokes didn’t strike Jack as being very funny.
• it strikes somebody as strange/odd etc that
The door was open so he peeked inside.
• peer to look very carefully, especially because you cannot see well:
Kenji was peering at the screen.
• glare to look at someone in an angry way: