Love is a Fallacy 高级英语 教案

Trauma:A painful emotional experience, wound or shock that creates substantial, lasting damage to the psychological development of a person, often leading to neurosis.
To be swept up: be carried away
失去自制力
Acme:summit, the highest point, as of perfection. 最高点，顶点
Cf acne*
•Appendicitis:
inflammation of the vermiform appendix
Dynamo: generator
Scale:standard in measurement
Impressionable:
Readily or easily influenced; suggestible
Faddist:a person who always follows fashion with craze
His writing often focused on young people, particularly in a collegiate setting.
Enterprising: energetic, initiative
In a month of Sundays: in a long time
Shed: To lose a natural growth or covering by natural process. fall off, or drop out
All the leaves of my trees will shed in
winter.
I want to purchase the carpet that does
Unit 5
Love is a Fallacy
Fallacy: a false or mistaken idea
It is a fallacy to suppose that riches always bring happiness.
Love is a fallacy:
1. There is a deceptive or delusive quality about love. 2. Love is an error, a deception that does not fellow the principle of love
About the Author:
Max Shulman
one of America’s best-known humorists
Lots of his novels were adapted to the screen.
Best remembered for creating the
popular character Dobie Gillis, a
spongy: soft and porous *
Pedantic:
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules 迂腐的， 乏味
a pedantic attention to details. 学究式地注意细枝末节
Unfetter: free from fetter, to set free or keep free from restrictions or bonds.
Limp: drooping, having lost stiffness, rigidity
Flaccid:Lacking firmness and resilience, flabby
Perspicacious:acutely perspective, having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted
Acute and astute:Having or showing shrewdness and discernment, especially with respect to one's own concerns. *
thickly: indistinctly articulated ; the thick speech of a drunkard. the thick tongues of the barbarians.
Charleston:A fast ballroom dance in 4/4 time, popular during the 1920's.
typical American teen who frequently suffered from romantic angst.
The character appeared on a popular television sitcom during the '50s and
was in a feature film in 1953.
-itis: a suffix referring to some disease involving
inflammation
meningitis
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gastritis
bronchitis hepatitis
rhinitis enteritis
appendicitis carditis
tonsillitis (osteoporosis)
a pedantic style of writing; 学究式的写作风格；
an academic insistence on precision; 一种学院式的苛求精神；
donnish refinement of speech; 学究式的雅语；
scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning. 学究式且过于机巧的推理 *
not shed.