Page 13. Exercise 7
• After a very careful check-up, the scientist was told that he had got a fatal disease. • Although he knew his life was ticking away, instead of complaining about the fate, the scientist decided to make the best of the remaining days, and speed up the research project he and his colleagues initiated, and have a shot at completing it ahead of time.
• 可能的话，你不妨听听巴赫的《平均律钢琴曲集》 中的48 个副歌主题。依次地，一个个地听听其中 的每一个主题， 你很快就好意识到每个主题都反 应了一个不同的情感世界。你很快也会意识到你 越觉得某个主题美妙， 就越难找到令你完全满意 的字眼来描述它。是的， 你当然知道那个主题是 欢快的还是悲伤的。换句话说，你能够在脑海中 勾勒出那个主题的情感框架，那么就更仔细地听 一下这个悲伤的主题吧。 要明确悲伤的性质，是 悲观厌世的悲伤，还是无可奈何的悲伤？是时运 不济的悲伤，还是强颜欢笑的悲伤？
5. at the back of one’s mind 6. the high flyers with the top grades 7. have … mapped out 8. settle down
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Useful expressions
9. 追随· · · 的足迹
9. follow sb’s path 10. set off 10.出发 11. brim with 11.挤满了 12. be pulled back 12.被· · · 拽下来 13. brace oneself for some 13.做好了遭到反对的 resistance to 心理准备
Page 13. Exercise 7
• Students differ about whether they should have their future mapped out when they are still at university. • Some think they should have a definite goal and detailed plan, so as to brace themselves for any challenges, whereas others think they don’t have to think much about the future, because future is full of uncertainties.
Ex. 6
• 我们对《戴珍珠耳环的少女》的了解比对维梅尔 的其他作品都少。实际上，这种无法解释的背景 缺失甚至会使得该画更受欢迎。正因为有如此多 的未解之谜，这幅画先是被写成一部小说，而后 又被拍成一部电影。它们都试图揭开有关这幅画 的一些答案，其中一个是：女孩那双睁得大大的 眼睛，以及那一丝神秘的微笑，到底是天真还是 诱惑？像小说或电影这类媒介更适合对这样的问 题作出回答。
Ex. 7
• As the wedding ceremony was approaching, Susan had become quite anxious. She could not pin down what exactly was troubling her. After a long talk with her close friend Kate, she realized that, although she was 28 years old, she was not emotionally mature enough to be ready for marriage and hw was not sure whether the marriage would guarantee her a happy family life.
• She knew that Chinese students had a way of shying away from revealing their feelings or opinions, due not merely to their lack of confidence in spoken English, but to their belief in the virtue of modesty. So she specially conceived a couple of simple topics and encouraged them in the discussion, in order that they might become more confident and closer with each other.
Useful expressions
• • • • • • • • • • 由于 有一个很好的例子 在某种程度上 极其，非常 有意义 吹嘘 尽管 消除了距离 紧紧跟随 我不知道听过· · · · · · 多 少遍 • • • • • • • • • • thanks to There is a good case … to some extent be nothing if not make sense boast of For all + n. phrase abolish distance in one’s wake I don’t know how often I have met with the statements that
5.占据过多的空间 5. usurp a disproportionate share 6. tread on controversial ground 6.进入到颇具争议的 7. shy away from 领域
7.回避
9. lead one to the other 9. 让某人走到另一个极 extreme 端
10.确切地理解
11.无法保证· ·
10.pin down
11. There is no guarantee that…
12.跟上· · · 的思路
力
12. follow the line of sb's 13.并不需要付出多少脑 thought 14.源自 15.除了
13.take no mental efforts
10.在眼前回放
11.最终将成为 12.叫得上名字
13.核实
3Useful expressions
1.为了便于
1. for the sake of
3. in a sense 4. bathe in
2. break/split sth. up into 2.把…分成几个部分
3.在某种意义上 4.沉浸在· · · 中
Page 13, Ex. 6
1. 我们都觉得在校时间不多了，以后再也不会有这 样的学校机会了，所有都下定决心不再虚度光阴。 当然，下一年四五月份的期末考试最为重要。我 们谁都不想考全班倒数第一，那也太丢人了，因 此同学们之间的竞争压力特别大。以前每天下午 五点以后，图书馆就空无一人了，现在却要等到 天快亮时才会有空座，小伙子们熬夜熬出了眼袋， 他们脸色苍白，睡眼惺忪，却很自豪，好像这些 都是表彰他骂你勤奋好学的奖章。
14.derive from
15.aside from
Useful expressions
侧身回眸 吸引目光
焦点
提出问题 改信天主教
应该
在传统意义上 歪曲事实 尝试 履行自己的职责
• • • • • • • • • •
peer over one’s shoulder at draw one’s eys to focal point pose/provoke a question convert to Catholicism be meant to in a conventional sense distort the truth attempt to go about one’s duties
• 谨小慎微 • 为· · · 而感到高兴 • 矜持庄重 • 不乐意做 • 气冲冲地去 • • 指责 • 偿还债务 • 猜测 使…生动有趣
be wary of revel in strict modesty be reluctant to do storm into accuse sb of settle the debt speculate on something bring something to life
2. 明天行吗？明天只是个谎言，根本就没有明天，只 有一张我们无法兑现的期票。明天甚至压根儿就不 存在。你早上醒来时又是另一个今天了，同样的规 则又可以全部套用。明天只是现在的另一种说法， 是一块空地，除非我们开始在那里播种，否则它永 远都是空地。你的时间会流逝（时间就在我们说话 的当下滴滴答答地走着，每分钟顺时针走 60秒，如 果你不能很好地利用它，它会走得更快写些），而 你没有取得任何成就来证明它的存在，唯独留下遗 憾，留下一面后视镜，上面写满了“本可以做”， “本应该做”，“本来会做”的事情。
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Useful expressions
1. peer group pressure 2. Get one’s head down 3. No one wanted the humiliation of 4. wear the bags under one’s eyes
1. 同学们之间的竞争压力 2. 专心致志于 3. 谁都不想· · · 那也太丢人了 4. 熬出了眼袋 5. 在内心深处 6. 心怀抱负、成绩拔尖的 高材生 7. 为…做好了规划 8. 安定下来