现代大学英语第二册lesson9

1、Quick Fix Society,Lesson 9,Introduction to the Text,Structure: Introduction:Para1-3 compare her ride on fast road to west Virginia and her return trip of a different route. Body : para 4-6 lists three ways Americans seek a qucik fix. Conclusion: para7-8 lets slow down and enjoy what nature offers us

2、 and what mankind has left us and rediscover life.,Writing Skills,Comparison and Contrast: Para 1 and 2 Rhetorical question: Para 3,Detailed Discussion of Text A,Of course,we couldnt wait to get there,so we took the Pennsylvania Turnpike and a coulpe of interstates.(para.1) Question：why did the writ

3、er and her husband take the pennsylvania Turnpike and interstate?,Cant wait/can hardly wait to do sth,The students cant wait for the summer vocation. My son can hardly wait to go the zoo.,Detailed Discussion of Text A,Cant wait/can hardly wait to do sth:等不及做某事。如： The students cant wait for the summe

4、r vocation. My son can hardly wait to go the zoo.,So ,when it was time to return to our home outside of philadelphia,I insisted that we take a different route.(Para.2) To insist:这里指的是“坚决要求”。,For example,I didnt like the idea,but she insisted on it. If you insisted on going tomorrow,its alright with

5、me. :She insisted that they should not give up.,Conclusion,注意： to insist on sth. I didnt like the idea,but she insisted on it. :to insist on doing sth. If you insisted on going tomorrow,its alright with me. :to insist that one (should) do sth. She insisted that they should not give up.,The two days

6、it took us to make the return trip were filled with new experiences.(para.2),The two days it took us to make the return trip were filled with new experiences.(para.2) It took us two days to make the return trip. The two days were filled with new experience.,Take 和Spend,汉语中都可翻译成“花了.时间”，但用法不同。 He spen

7、t almost 20 years on this book. It took him almost 20 years to finish this book.,表示“组成”的动词 Comprise：即可以表示“整体包括部分”，也可以表示“部分构成整体”， be comprised of 表示“整体由构成“。 Consist：主语通常为一个整体，of后接构成整体的部分，Constitute:表示“部分构成整体“，用于主动结构，,What do you think about the quick fix society ? It s good or bad To face the quick f

8、ix society ,how do you keep the balance?,Para4.,1.We put a little of each payment away “for a rainy day”. For a rainy day : 以备不时之需 To put away : 存钱 2.If we wanted a new sofa or a week at a lakeside cabin, we saved up for it, and the bank helped us out by providing special Christmas Club and Vacation

9、 Club accounts. To save up for : 为买东西而攒钱 To help sb. out : 帮助某人摆脱困难,1.We buy our food, like our clothing, ready-made and off the rack. ready-made: 现成的（方便，速冻食品）,Para 5,ATM自动出纳机（Automatic Teller Machine）,Then we take our fast money to a fast convenience store (why wait in line at the supermarket ?),wh

10、ere we buy a frozen dinner all wrapped up and ready to be put into the microwave unless we dont care to wait even that long and pick up some fast food instead.,这句话中多次出现fast一词，通过重复强调了各种普遍的追求速效的生活方式。,And if our fast meal doesnt agree with us,Not agree with sb(of food): to make you feel ill/ sick.和某人的肠

11、胃不和 Eg: I love seafood, but it doesnt agree with me.,Agree with sbv. If something agree with you,it doesnt make you feel ill.,Examples: Stop taking the medicine if it doesnt agree with you. I find that country life really agrees with me.,You Guessed It,You Guessed It： 你猜对 You Have Guessed It： 您猜对 Yo

12、u Probably Guessed It： 你也可能猜到,We like our information fast,too:messages flashed on a computer screen,documents faxed from your telephone to mine,current events in 90-second bursts on eyewitness news ,history reduced to “bicentenial minutes”.,For information,we no longer read newspapers ,magazines,bo

13、oks,etc.Because it takes too much time .we rely on what comes from the website on a computer screen ,or documents faxed through the telephone ,or brief news on TV.,Bicentenial minutes美国两百年大事记,该书是由美国乔治华盛顿大学哥伦比亚文理学院院长加尔文D林顿主编。这是一本美国历史的工具书。全书内容自1776年1月起,至1975年3月,美国建国二百周年纪念活动正式开始时止，前后跨二百年。本书是大事记体裁，收进了许多

14、为一般美国历史著述所未收入的材料。书中以大量资料记录了美国二百年来政治、经济、军事、文化、科学、社会等各个领域的大事，其内容广及政治变迁、国会立法、机构改革、对外关系、党派斗争、竞选角逐、领土扩张、大小战争、国家预算、经济危机、人口调查、司法判例、民权斗争、劳工和妇女运动以及科学技术、文艺体育、发明创造、考察探险、自然灾害、环境保护、社会犯罪、政治丑闻等各个方面，资料丰富翔实，实际上可以说是一本美国历史词典。本书另一个特点是，在每年大事记的条目前都有一篇关于该年主要大事的提纲挈领式的概述。本书译者还从美国现代史杂志的“世界各国大事记”中选译了美国1975-1981年大事记部分内容作为附录。,S

15、ymbolically,the American eagle now files for express mail.,express mail :美国联邦快递公司，该公司的标记也是美国国家标记秃头鹰。作者说，这里有点象征意义，说明整个国家都要追求快速。 Question：what does the american eagle normally symbolize? The American eagle is normally regarded as the symbol of the u.s .,How dare anyone keep America waiting longer than

16、 overnight?,The slightest delay would make americans extremely angry .No Americans can put up with any delay. 这是一个修饰性问句，语气较陈述句更为强烈，更加形象地表现了美国人毫无耐性的生活态度。,Words and Phrases,Bicentennial cabinet Convenience Infect Microwave symbolically,As many Wrap up Stand /wait in line Not agree with sb You Guessed

17、It,Bicentennial ,baisentenjl n. 二百周年纪念 adj. 二百周年的 cabinet kbinit n. 内阁；橱柜；展览艺术品的小陈列室 adj. 内阁的；私下的，秘密的,convenience knvi:njns n. 便利；厕所；便利的事物 infect infekt vt. 感染，传染 microwave maikruweiv n. 微波 symbolically simblikli adv. 象征性地；象征意义地,As many :the same number as another particular number. Examples: Those

18、coolies were great .I could eat as many again. Stand /wait in line 排队等候,Wrap up,包起来，裹起来 Examples： Lets wrap up the discussion. 让我们结束这次讨论吧。 Wrap up. Last day of class. 整理。课程的最后一天。 Would you please wrap up the sweater for me? 请你把毛衣给我包一下好吗？,Para 6,Whats more, we dont even want all of it. Question: What

19、s the Chinese meaning of this sentence. whats more: in addition; more importantly 2. Once, we lingered over every word of a classic novel or the latest best seller. In the past we read a book either a class novel or the latest best seller very carefully.(指以前我们看书时每个词都要细细琢磨体会，而现在我们的快节奏社会就是随便看一下书本的开头和结

20、尾，根本还没领悟到其中的意思） to linger (over/on) : to stay on, unwilling to leave e.g. The pain lingered on.,3.Or we buy the Cliffs Notes, especially if we are students, so we dont have to deal with the book at all. Cliffs Notes 是一批参考书的书名，用于帮助学生理解和欣赏重要的文学作品。书中有各种经典著作的详细介绍和评论，以及思考题和答案。不少学生因此就用它们应付考试而不看原书。 4. Afte

21、r all , why waste 45 minutes listening to the whole thing when someone else has saved us the trouble of picking out the best parts? after all: 毕竟，归根到底 why waste: “why should we waste”的省略 when: 考虑到 to save sb. the trouble of doing sth. : 省了某人做某事的麻烦。 e.g. I like fast-food because they save me the trou

22、ble of cooking for myself. to pick out sb./sth.: to choose carefully 仔细挑选 e.g. He picked out the three strongest men to do the job.,5. Our magazine articles come to us per-digested in Readers Digest. (We read magazine articles only from Readers Digest where all the articles are condensed（压缩）by edito

23、r.) pre-digest: 被预先消化过了 Readers Digest: 读者文摘（美国通俗刊物，所等文章都经过大幅压缩，仅仅只是原文的摘要。） 读者文摘（Readers Digest），美国杂志，在全球多个国家和地区都有发行。1922年创刊，现每月发行。这是一本能引起大众广泛兴趣的内容丰富的家庭杂志。它所涉及的故事文章涵盖了健康、生态、政府、国际事务、体育、旅游、科学、商业、教育以及幽默笑话等多个领域。,6. Our news briefings, thanks to USA Today, are more brief than ever. news briefings: 新闻发布 t

24、hanks to ：由于；（为此）我们要感谢.（注意讽刺的口气） more brief: 这里“brief ”是形容词，意为“简短的”。上面的“briefing” 是动名词，其动词“to brief”的意思是“事先做详细介绍、布置或指示”。作者在这里故意利用这个词的两种不同意思，已达到幽默的效果。 7. Even our personal relationship have become compressed. Instead of devoting large parts of our days to our loved ones, we replace them with somethin

25、g called “quality time”, which, more often than not, is no time at all. personal relationship: 人际关系 to devote sth. to sb./sth.: (把时间、注意力等）先给某人，如：He decided to devote more time to his family. loved ones: 所爱的人 to replace sth. with sth.: 以.代替某事物,e.g. They want to replace their old car with a new one. q

26、uality time: 和孩子在一起的重要时刻 more often than not: 通常是 8. As we rush from book to music to news item to relationship, we do not realize that we are living our lives by the iceberg principle-paying attention only to the top and ignoring the 8/9 that lies just below the surface. to live by the iceberg prin

27、ciple: to pay attention only to the surface of life 作者在这里把生活比作冰山，真正重要的东西都在水下，看不见。可惜人们在生活中只看表面，不愿意关注生活中深层次的东西。,Words and Phrases,1.briefing n. 简报 press v. 压缩/紧 3.condense v. 压缩，摘要 4.digest n. 文摘 5.iceberg n. 冰山 6.ignore v. 忽视 7.linger v. 逗留，拖延，徘徊 8.pre-digest : to make a look or article shorter and s

28、imple for easy use,1.whats more 而且，更重要的是 2.to linger over the words 细细琢磨词语 3.to save sb. the trouble 省去某人的麻烦 4.to pick out sth. 仔细挑选出某物 5.to devote time to sb. 把时间花在某人上 6. more often than not 往往，多半,*Practice using the rules of word formation 1.Examine how the words “pre-digest” are formed. 提示： 前缀“pr

29、e-”表示“在前”、“先于”，e.g. preview, pre-war 2.Please give more examples like these. 3.Please do the practices on page238,Para 7,Conclusion para,单词 words,Urge 英音：:d美音：d 及物动词 vt. 1. 催促;力劝;激励;怂恿O2They urged us to go at once. 他们催促我们马上去。 2. 极力主张;强烈要求(+on)+thatMy friends urged that I (should) apply for the job.

30、朋友们力劝我申请那份工作。 3. 推进;驱策O,不及物动词 vi. 1. 极力主张;强烈要求The citizens urged for the construction of a new hospital. 市民们强烈要求建造一个新医院,短语,Get it over with ：做完就算，算是了结一件事 Let get it over with. 让我们来结束这一切吧 Come on, let s get it over with . 来吧，让我们赶快把事情做完算了。,to skim the surface:浮光跃影，走马观花,However sound the arguments may

31、be, they only skim the surface the problem . 无论这个论证多么严密，它只是触及到问题的表面。,Rhetorical question 修词性问句,修辞性问句，又叫反诘句（相当于反问句） 类似于疑问句，但作用上与被强调的陈述句一样，说者不期望听着回答。修辞性问句最多是用疑问句甚多。,Who does not know this ? 表面是说，谁不知道这点 言下之意是：Everybody know this,请在3,4,5,7 段中找出修辞性问句的列子 Please find some example which use Rhetorical quest

32、ion,为什么作者要使用修辞性问句，用它有什么作用？ 用它使得读者在朗读过程中感受到一种越来越快的速度，再一次暗示了“快节奏”的主题。,p8,Dont get me wrong. Im not saying we should go back to growing our own vegetables or making our own clothes. Im not even advocating a mass movement to cut all our credit cards into little pieces.,别误会我的意思。我并不是说我们应该返回到自耕自织的时代去。我甚至也不

33、想提倡一场撕毁信用卡的群众运动。,But I am saying that all of us need to think more seriously about putting the brakes on our “we-want-it-all-and-we-want-it-now” lifestyle before we speed completely out of control.,我想说的是，我们所有人都需要更严肃地思考一下，是否应该在我们生活车轮的速度完全失控以前，对这种“我一切都要，现在就要”的生活方式刹一刹车。,Lets take the time to read every word of that story, hear every note of that music, and enjoy every subtle change of that countryside. Lets rediscover life in the slow lane.,让我们不慌不忙地去阅读故事中的每一个字，去聆听音乐中的每一个音符，去享受乡间景色