综合教程 4unit 6

1、Unit Six Attitudes to Life Lead-in 1 New Words Study 2 Text Study 3 Consolidation we win, or we perish! 请重新铺设已经请重新铺设已经老化老化的电线。的电线。 Please rewire the electronic lines which have been perished. adj. perishable perished perishing New Words Study redeem vt. Jesus Chris redeemed man from sin. Linda are t

2、rying to redeem her early poor performance. to redeem a loan The voucher can be redeemed for a buffet lunch. to redeem a promise He redeemed his watch from the pawnshop. Two Truths to Live ByTwo Truths to Live By PartParas Main Ideas I1-8 II9-11 III12-16 Life has two opposite poles: one is to hold f

3、ast to life and the other is to let go of it. The author draws on his personal experience and tells us that the gifts of life are precious, but most of us fail to hold fast to life and appreciate its beauty. To accept our losses and learn when to let go is the other side of life. Life will go on no

4、matter what happens. We must look at it from a wider perspectives and learn to apply the two paradoxical truths to our everyday life. Text Study: Para.1 The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. An ancient man said long ago: “A man comes to this world with his fist clenched,

5、 but when he dies, his hand is open.” Language Points 1. The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. 坚持、信守（思想、原则等）坚持、信守（思想、原则等） 放弃、摒弃放弃、摒弃 e.g Let go what is wrong and hold fast to what is right. . 错的要错的要摒弃摒弃，对的要，对的要坚持坚持！ Text Study: Para.2 Surely we ought to hold fast to life

6、, for it is wonderful, and full of a beauty. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more. very Text Study: Para.3 We remember a beauty that faded, a love that withered. But we

7、 remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered. Language Points 2. we failed to respond with love when it was tendered. 提供、提出提供、提出 e.g. Jessie has tendered the application to the company. 2) 投标投标 e.g. The com

8、pany successful tendered for the project. Language Points * What I need now is a tender hug. The meat is extremely tender. My leg is still tender when I walk. 1.The tender boy needs more care. Text Study: Para.4 A recent experience re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart

9、 attack and had been in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place. Text Study: Para.5 One morning, I had to have some additional tests. The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard in a chair. As

10、we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. Thats all there was to my experience. Just the light of the sun. And yet how beautiful it was how warming; how sparkling; how brilliant! Thats so ordinary, and nothing special to me. Language Points 3. As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. 当

11、我从病房出来，阳光正照在我的身上。当我从病房出来，阳光正照在我的身上。 * hit The tornado hit thousands of families. We hit the enemy when they least expected it. I will hit the city tomorrow. We seem to hit a problem. 1)A solution suddenly hit me. （风暴、疾病等）袭击（风暴、疾病等）袭击 击中，命中击中，命中 （演出等）成功、（演出等）成功、 轰动轰动 （偶然）碰上（偶然）碰上 （突然）想到（突然）想到 Text St

12、udy: Para.6 I looked to see whether anyone else relished the suns golden glow, but everyone was hurrying to and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground. Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns t

13、o respond to the great beauty of it all. Language Points 4. I looked to see whether anyone else relished the suns golden glow, but everyone was hurrying to and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground. look to sb to do sth look to sb for sth look to sth 期待、指望、依靠期待、指望、依靠 注意、考虑注意、考虑 T 我想看看周围是否有人也沉醉在这金色

14、的阳光中，我想看看周围是否有人也沉醉在这金色的阳光中， 然而，人人都来去匆匆，大都双眼只盯着地面。然而，人人都来去匆匆，大都双眼只盯着地面。 Language Points 2) 来回地来回地 Although her husbands name did not appeare on the list of people who got/were killed in the traffic accident, she kept walking to and fro, anxious to see him back home sooner. expecting him back home soo

15、ner Language Points 3) with eyes fixed on the ground I really have to fix my mind on the book. The exam is coming. They have fixed on Paris for their honeymoon. * 集中集中于于 选定、决定选定、决定 eyes were fixed on the ground Language Points 5. Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grande

16、ur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the great beauty of it all. * 全神贯注全神贯注 这时我又想到了我平时何尝不是往往对身边的美这时我又想到了我平时何尝不是往往对身边的美 景视而不见而沉湎于日常细小的、有时甚至是低景视而不见而沉湎于日常细小的、有时甚至是低 俗的事情之中的！俗的事情之中的！ T Language Points All the way on the train I had been preoccupied wi

17、th the result of the term exam until the conductor reminded me of the arrival of my destination. the final exam reminded me that I had arrived. Text Study: Para.7&8 The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: lifes gifts are precious but we are too

18、 careless of them. Here then is the first pole of lifes paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be respectful before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute. Text Study: Para.9 Hold fast to life, but not so fast that you cannot let go. This

19、 is the second side of lifes coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go. Text Study: Para. 10 This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of

20、our passion can, and will be ours. But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us. confront sb with sth sb be confronted with sth sb be faced with sth sb face sth Language Points 6. and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us

21、* 使开始明白，使渐渐领悟使开始明白，使渐渐领悟 I was setting out to translate the contract into English when it dawned upon me that both parties involved were Chinese companies. Text Study: Para.11(a) At every stage of life we sustain losses and grow in the process. We begin our independent lives only when we come to thi

22、s world. We enter schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let them go. Text Study: Para.11(b) We confront the death of our parents and our spouses. We face the gradual or not so gradual weakening of our own strength. A

23、nd ultimately, we must confront the inevitability of our own death, losing ourselves, as it were, all that we were or dreamed to be. 可以说可以说 Text Study: Para.12 But why should we be reconciled to lifes contradictory demands? Why fashion things of beauty when beauty is short-lived? Why give our heart

24、in love when those we love will ultimately be torn from our grasp? be reconciled to sth vs. be reconciled with sb Text Study: Para.13 In order to resolve this paradox, we must seek a wider perspective, viewing our lives as through windows that open on eternity. Once we do that, we realize that thoug

25、h our lives are finite, our deeds on earth weave a timeless pattern. Text Study: Para.14 Life is never just being. It is a becoming, a relentless flowing on. Our parents live on through us, and we will live on through our children. The institutions we build endure, and we will endure through them. T

26、he beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death. Our flesh may perish, our hands will wither, but the beauty and goodness and truth they create live on for all time to come. come into being bring into being Text Study: Para.15 Dont spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn t

27、o dust and ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth. Language Points 7. for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth * e.g. The new position invested her with a good deal of responsibility The amba

28、ssador to the U.N. was invested with full authority to deal with all the foreign affairs concerning his country on behalf of his government. Text Study: Para.16 Add love to a house and you have a home. Add righteousness to a city and you have a community. Add truth to a pile of red brick and you hav

29、e a school. Add justice to the far-flung round of human endeavor and you have civilization. Put them all together, elevate them above their present imperfections, add to them the vision of humankind redeemed, forever free of need and conflict and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of

30、hope. T 把这一切都聚集起来，加以提升，使之超越现存把这一切都聚集起来，加以提升，使之超越现存 的缺陷，再加上人类对得到拯救的憧憬，永远无的缺陷，再加上人类对得到拯救的憧憬，永远无 求无争，那么你将会有一个闪耀着希望绚烂光彩求无争，那么你将会有一个闪耀着希望绚烂光彩 的未来。的未来。 Key to Exercises Exercise I on Page 178 (1) commonplace (2) enduring (3) dim (4) command (5) imperfection (6) intensive (7) abandon (8) finite (9) mean (1

31、0) weaving Exercise I on Page 187 (11) additional (12) aspirations (13) gratitude (14) endless (15) faithful 16) committed Exercise II on Page 179 1) live on 2) dawned upon 3) live by 4) is invested with 5) hold fast to Exercise II on Page 179 6) All too 7) step aside 8) set out 9) to and fro 10) wo

32、rk at their teeth into Exercise: Cloze on Page 184 1) wither 2) sense 3) faithful 4) commit 5) aspirations 6) gratitude 7) dawns 8) accumulated 9) nourishment 10) preoccupied 11) flowers 12) tendered 13) weave 14) elevate Exercise: Translation p184 1) The ambassador to the U.N. was invested with ful

33、l authority to deal with all the foreign affairs concerning his country on behalf of his government. Exercise: Translation p184 2) All the way on the train I had been preoccupied with the result of the term examination until the conductor reminded me of the arrival of my destination. Exercise: Translation p184 3) Although her husbands name did not appear on the list of the people who got killed in the traffic accident , she kept walking to