Part 6(Para 14) Conclusion
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Please distinguish:
1. Chorological account 2. flashback
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Language points:
Part 1
1. stroke: 1) a sudden occurrence or result
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②Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. 时光像箭一样飞逝，水果像香蕉一样 飞逝 ?
③A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tyred.
下面再列出三个pun，但不告诉您意 思，请您自己琢磨一下。
4. survive: to not die in an accident or war or from an illness survive shth. survivor n. 11
➢ There are concerns that the refugees cannot survive the winter.
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2. give sb. a ride: give a free journey to sb.
3. collide: to hit each other accidentally
➢ Two supertankers collided in the rough seas. collision n. head-on collision
tube in your brain suddenly bursts or is blocked 中风
have / suffer a stroke
2. Pun : a figure of speech; a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
Part 3(Para 5-7) Romance and marriage
Part 4(Para 8) Back to his recovery from the crash.
Part 5( Para 9-13) How his wife handled her crisis and helped rebuild his confidence.
①She wore a new hairpiece every
day and was considered a big wig.
②Old math teachers never die, they
just become irrational.
③When a clock is hungry it goes
➢ ---How are you?
---Oh, surviving.
5. insist: to say or do sth. Firmly insist + on insist that + (should) v. if you insist (infm)
双关一种文字游戏，有时利用同
一个词的不同意思,而有时利用不
同词的相近意思或发音
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Pun
1. We must all hang together or we shall all hang separately. (意义双关)
2. Seven days without water make one weak.(谐音双关)
众所周知，林肯既是美国很伟大的总统，又 是一种最高级的名牌小汽车；福特则是当时 普通、廉价而大众化的汽车。福特说这句话， 一是表示谦虚，一是为了标榜自己是大众喜 欢的总统。
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英语中有趣的双关语
①He is not a grave man until he is a grave man.
他不是一个严肃的人,除非他躺到坟墓里才能严 肃起来。
a stroke of luck / fortune一桩意外的幸 事/运气
a stroke of misfortune a stroke of lightening 闪击 a stroke of genius / inspiration 聪明之
举/绝妙的主意
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2) an occasion when a blood
Can you predict what will
happen in the story?
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Structural analysis:
Part 1( Para 1-2) Introduction
Part 2 (Para 3-4) His wife’s intuition and good judgments
My Stroke of Luck
Kirk Douglas
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Pre-reading questions:
1. Do you believe in luck? Why or why not? Any personal experiences?
Can you give us some phrases including “luck”?
punny adj. 一语双关的; 带双关谐语的
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More examples of pun:
杨柳青青江水平，闻郎江上唱歌声。东边日 出西边雨，道是无晴却有晴。
空对着，山中高士晶莹雪；终不忘，世外仙 姝寂寞林。
杰拉尔德·R·福特（1913年出生）是美国第 38任总统，他说话喜欢用双关语。
有一次，他回答记者提问时说：“我是一辆 福待，不是林肯。
②They pray for you today and prey on you tomorrow.
他们今天为你祈祷，明天就会加害于你。
国外一个网站评选的2003年十大pun，下面 是其中的三个例子，如果您能看懂, 肯定会 觉得pun有意思。 ①He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.