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1、第1页/共27页第一页，共28页。8.Detaild Analysis (P1) The Virtues of Growing Older Carol Siskin Our society worships youth. Advertisements convince us to buy Grecian Formula and Oil of Olay so we can hide the gray in our hair. Middle-aged folks work out in gyms and jog down the street, trying to delay the effect

2、s of aging. 第2页/共27页第二页，共28页。Grecian Formula: a popular mens hair coloring product in the United States, first introduced in 1961 and is still made. 第3页/共27页第三页，共28页。 Oil of OlayOil of Olay: Olay originated in South Africa as Oil of Olay. It is a brand based around facial moisturizer and skin care p

3、roducts. It claims to have the effect of helping people to stay looking young.第4页/共27页第四页，共28页。 Wouldnt any person over thirty gladly sign with the devil just to be young again? Isnt aging an experience to be dreaded? Perhaps it is un-American to say so, but I believe the answer is “No.” Being young

4、 is often pleasant, but being older has distinct advantages. 第5页/共27页第五页，共28页。Gladly sign with the devil just to be young againLiterally, sign a contract with the devil, so that the devil would help you become young again, just like Goethes Faust. Metaphorically, be willing to do anything (even sth.

5、 bad) to become young again.第6页/共27页第六页，共28页。Part I (Paras.1-2): AnalysisWhat does the writer mean by saying “it is un-American to say so”?Does the writer deny the virtues of being young?第7页/共27页第七页，共28页。 When young, you are apt to be obsessed with your appearance. When my brother Dave and I were te

6、ens, we worked feverishly to perfect the bodies we had. Dave lifted weights, took megadoses of vitamins, and drank a half-dozen milk shakes a day in order to turn his wiry adolescent frame into some muscular ideal. And as a teenager, I dieted constantly. No matter what I weighed, though, I was never

7、 satisfied with the way I looked. My legs were too heavy, my shoulders too broad, my waist too big. 第8页/共27页第八页，共28页。 When Dave and I were young, we begged and pleaded for the “right” clothes. If our parents didnt get them for us, we felt our world would fall apart. How could we go to school wearing

8、 loose-fitting blazers when everyone else would be wearing smartly tailored leather jackets? We would be considered freaks. I often wonder how my parents, and parents in general, manage to tolerate their children during the adolescent years. Now, however, Dave and I are beyond such adolescent agonie

9、s. My rounded figure seems fine, and I dont deny myself a slice of pecan pie if I feel in the mood. 第9页/共27页第九页，共28页。 If our parents didnt get them for us, we felt our world would fall apart.Translation:如果父母如果父母(fm)(fm)不给我们买我们想要的衣服，我们就不给我们买我们想要的衣服，我们就觉得世界末日到了。觉得世界末日到了。 Explanation:If our parents den

10、y us such requests /didnt grant us such requests, we felt our world would break up/ collapse.第10页/共27页第十页，共28页。 Dave still works out, but he has actually become fond of his tall, lanky frame. The two of us enjoy wearing fashionable clothes, but we are no longer slaves to style. And women, Im embarra

11、ssed to admit, even more than men, have always seemed to be at the mercy of fashion. Now my clothes are attractive yet easy to wear. We no longer feel anxious about what others will think. As long as we feel good about how we look, we are happy.第11页/共27页第十一页，共28页。 we are no longer slaves to style Ex

12、planation: we no longer follow the fashion blindlyat the mercy of fashionExplanation: completely controlled by fashion第12页/共27页第十二页，共28页。 And women, Im embarrassed to admit, even more than men, have always seemed to be at the mercy of fashion. Explanation: And as a member of women, Im embarrassed to

13、 admit that women are less capable than men of resisting the temptation of fashion.第13页/共27页第十三页，共28页。 Being older is preferable to being younger in another way. Obviously, I still have important choices to make about my life, but I have already made many of the critical decisions that confront thos

14、e just starting out. I chose the man I wanted to marry. I decided to have children. I elected to return to college to complete my education. 第14页/共27页第十四页，共28页。 but I have already made many of the critical decisions that confront those just starting out. Translation:但是当刚刚踏入社会的年轻人在为生活中的每个但是当刚刚踏入社会的年轻

15、人在为生活中的每个重要重要(zhngyo)(zhngyo)决策感到焦头烂额之时，我已经做决策感到焦头烂额之时，我已经做过很多重要过很多重要(zhngyo)(zhngyo)的决断。的决断。第15页/共27页第十五页，共28页。 But when you are young, major decisions await you at every turn. “What college should I attend? What career should I pursue? Should I have children?” These are just a few of the issues fa

16、cing young people. Its no wonder that, despite their carefree faade, they are often confused, uncertain, and troubled by all the unknowns in their future.第16页/共27页第十六页，共28页。 But the greatest benefit of being forty is knowing who I am. The most unsettling aspect of youth is the uncertainty you feel a

17、bout your values, goals, and dreams. Being young means wondering what is worth working for. Being young means feeling happy with yourself one day and wishing you were never born the next. It means trying on new selves by taking up with different crowds. It means resenting your parents and their way

18、of life one minute and then feeling you will never be as good or as accomplished as they are.第17页/共27页第十七页，共28页。 It means trying on new selves by taking up with different crowds.Explanation: It means trying behaving differently from their usual selves by associating with different groups of people./

19、 It means that they make friends with different people in order to find new/real identities for themselves.第18页/共27页第十八页，共28页。 By way of contrast, forty is sanity. I have a surer self-identity now. I dont laugh at jokes I dont think funny. I can make a speech in front of a town meeting or complain i

20、n a store because I am no longer terrified that people will laugh at me; I am no longer anxious that everyone must like me. I no longer blame my parents for my every personality quirk or keep a running score of everything they did wrong raising me. Life has taught me that I, not they, am responsible

21、 for who I am. We are all human beings neither saints nor devils.第19页/共27页第十九页，共28页。 I no longer blame my parents for my every personality quirk or keep a running score of everything.Translation:我不再因为我不再因为(yn wi)(yn wi)我性格中的怪癖责怪我父母，也不再一直我性格中的怪癖责怪我父母，也不再一直记恨他们在抚养我长大过程中犯下的过错。记恨他们在抚养我长大过程中犯下的过错。 Explan

22、ation:I no longer blame my parents for the strangeness/ the strange features of my personality or keep counting/ reminding myself the mistakes they have made in the process of raising me.第20页/共27页第二十页，共28页。Part II (Paras.3-5): AnalysisIs it accurate to say that older people are free from uncertainty

23、 (Para. 4)?What is the hidden meaning of the last sentence of Para. 5?第21页/共27页第二十一页，共28页。 Most Americans blindly accept the idea that newer is automatically better. But a human life contradicts this premise. There is a great deal of happiness to be found as we grow older. My own parents, now in the

24、ir sixties, recently told me that they are happier now than they have ever been. They would not want to be my age. Did this surprise me? At first, yes. Then it gladdened me. Their contentment holds out great promise for me as I move into the next perhaps even better phase of my life.第22页/共27页第二十二页，共

25、28页。 Their contentment holds out great promise for me as I move into the next perhaps even better phase of my life.Explanation: When I enter the next, perhaps even better, stage of my life, their contentment promises me / makes me believe that Ill be as happy as they are when I am their age.Translat

26、ion: 在我迈向生命的下一个在我迈向生命的下一个(y )(y )阶段，或许是更好的一阶段，或许是更好的一个个(y )(y )时期时，我父母的幸福感向我提供了这样一时期时，我父母的幸福感向我提供了这样一个个(y )(y )保证：我也将会是幸福的。保证：我也将会是幸福的。第23页/共27页第二十三页，共28页。Part III (Para.6): AnalysisHow to understand the last paragraph?第24页/共27页第二十四页，共28页。 1. Many vain young people are obsessed with fancy cars despite the fact that they are not yet rich enough to afford them. 2. Their marriage finally fell apart when his (extramarital) affair with another woman was found o