Lesson 31 A lovable eccentric可爱的怪人

【New words and expressions】生词和短语

●lovable  

adj.可爱的

●eccentric

n.（行为）古怪的人

●disregard

v.不顾，漠视

●convention 

n.习俗，风俗

●conscious   

adj.感觉到的，意识到的

●invariably   

adv.总是，经常地

●routine  

n.常规；惯例

●shrewd  

adj.精明的

●eccentricity

  n. 怪僻

●legendary   

adj.传奇般的

●snob 

n.诌上欺下的人

●intensely

adv.强烈地

●bedraggled 

adj拖泥带水的

●dump

v.把……砰的一声抛下

●apologetic  

adj.道歉的

●reprimand   

v.训斥

●stage

v.暗中策划

●elaborate

adj.精心构思的

■lovable

adj. 可爱的

lovable== worthyof love

lovely

= beautiful可爱的

lovable   惹人爱

Eg:What he doesis lovable.

I like the lovely boy/girl.

Alarge number of

eccentrics

are lovable. 许多怪人惹人喜爱。

■eccentric

n. （行为）古怪的人

eccentric:aperson whose behaviou is peculiar, unusual, rather strange.

eccentric:adj.peculiar, unusual; strange

strange因为陌生而奇怪

Eg.:The modernbuilding looks strange to the villages.

eccentric行为举止古怪

Eg.:I can’t geton well with him, because he is eccentric.

odd 强调因为少见而多怪

Eg.:Look, he iswearing an odd hat.

peculiar奇异的，不同寻常的

Thehouse ispeculiar.

Ifeel peculiar today.==I feel uncomfortable / ill. == I’m not myself today.

eccentricity

n. 怪癖

■disregard

v. 不顾，漠视

disregard:ignore;pay no attention to

Disregardnoiseand keep working

disregardn.

havedisregard of/ for

Hehas completedisregard of / for my feelings.

indisregard of

Hedid the work indisregard of my instructions.

treatsb. with

disregard怠慢某人

Anyway,don’ttreat your friends with disregard.

■convention

n. 习俗，风俗

convention:generallyaccepted practice.

Shakinghands whenmeeting people is normal convention in China.

custom历史悠久的社会习俗

It’sa custom ofgiving presents at Christmas.

Healways doesexactly what he wants and does not care about convention.

practice某团体的传统做法或令他人无法接受的习俗

Eg.:The normal practicein the company is to send bill as soon as the job is done.

Yourstomach would

turnat the idea of frying potatoes in animal fat--the normally accepted practice

in

many northern countries.(三册L23)

tradition 传统

SpendingChristmasDay is a tradition for western people.

habit个人习惯

Ihave a habit ofreading English aloud in the morning.

■conscious

adj. 感觉到的，意识到的

conscious==aware

beconscious of /that

beaware of / that

Heis quiteunaware of the danger.

Heis notconscious of the danger.

class

conscious 有阶级意识的

family

conscious 有家庭观念的

clothes

conscious 注重衣着的

stairsconscious 注重地位的

aware,

conscious的反义词直接加un-

unaware,unconscious

subconscious下意识的

consciousnessn.

■invariably

adv. 总是，经常地

■routine

n. 常规；惯例

routine:theregular fixed way of sth. / doing things

follow

the routine墨守常规

break

the routine 打破常规

startthe daily

routine开始每天的日常生活

■shrewd

adj. 精明的

shrewed:showing

good

practical judgement 精明的，狡滑的，敏锐的，机灵的

Heis a shrewedobserver.

Wehave gotshrewed common sense.

Sb.is shrewed. ==He has good judgement.

shrewedbrained

shrewed

headed  头脑机灵的

shrewed

looking 看起来机灵的

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cunning:clever at

deceiving善于歉骗的

sly 用更隐秘的办法来达到目的

asly old fox

■eccentricity

n. 怪僻

■legendary

adj. 传奇般的

■snob

n. 诌上欺下的人

■intensely

adv. 强烈地

intenseadj. verystrong ; violent; extreme; sharp; etc.

intense

cold 严寒

intense

heat 酷暑

intense

discussion激烈的讨论

intensify

vt. 使增强

Youmust intensify

your

sense of responsibility.你必须加强责任感。

intensityn.

Losingjobs aregrowing in intensity.

sthare growing in

intensity

……（某种程度）在加强

Eg:Losing jobsare growing in intensity.

■bedraggled

adj 拖泥带水的

■dump

v. 把……砰的一声抛下

■reprimand

v. 训斥

reprimand:scoldofficially and severely

blame    责备(语气程度很弱)

Eg.:The teacherblamed him for his coming late.

scold      斥责(语气稍重一点)

Don’tscold me fora trifle.

reproach 斥责 (语气最严重)

Heoftenreproached his children.

reprimand:scoldofficially and severely

Thebossreprimanded his employees severely.

■apologetic

adj. 道歉的

apologizev.

Heapologized tohis boss.

Thebossapologized to his employees.

He

was apologetic.他致以歉意

apology

n. 歉意

makeapology tosb. for sth.

■stage

v. 暗中策划

Hestage a joke.

■elaborate

adj. 精心构思的

elaborate== carefullyworked out

anelaborate

design精心的设计

elaboratevt.

Heelaborated asystem of computer.

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Lesson

31   A lovable eccentric可爱的怪人

Listento the tape then answer the questionbelow.

Whydid the shopassistant refuse to serve Dickie?

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[endif]Trueeccentrics neverdeliberately set out to draw attention to themselves. Theydisregard socialconventions without being conscious that they are doinganything extraordinary.This invariably wins them the love and respect ofothers, for they add colourto the dull routine of everyday life.

Upto the time ofhis death, Richard Colson was one of the most notable figures inour town. Hewas a shrewd and wealthy businessman, but most people in the townhardly knewanything about this side of his life. He was known to us all asDickie and hiseccentricity had become legendary long before he died.

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[endif]Dickiedisliked snobs

intensely.Though he owned a large car, he hardly ever used it, preferring

alwaysto go on foot. Even when it was raining heavily, he refused to carry an

umbrella.One day, he walked into an expensive shop after having been caught in

a

particularly heavy shower. He wanted to buy a ￡300 watchforhis wife, but he was in such a bedraggled condition that an assistantrefused toserve him. Dickie left the shop without a word and returned carryinga largecloth bag. As it was extremely heavy, he dumped it on the counter. Theassistantasked him to leave, but Dickie paid no attention to him and requestedto see themanager. Recognizing who the customer was, the manager was mostapologetic and'reprimanded the assis-

tantseverely. When Dickie was given the watch, he presented the assistant withthecloth bag. It contained

￡300 in pennies. Heinsisted on theassistant's counting the money before he left---- 30,000 penniesin all! Onanother occasion, he invited a number of important critics to see hisprivatecollection of modern paintings. This exhibition received a great dealofattention in the press, for though the pictures were supposed to be the workoffamous artists, they had in fact been painted by Dickie. It took him fouryearsto stage this elaborate joke simply to prove that critics do not alwaysknowwhat they are talking about.

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参考译文

真正古怪的人从不有意引人注意。他们不顾社会习俗，意识不到自己所作所为有什么特殊之处。他们总能赢得别人的喜爱与尊敬，因为他们给平淡单一的日常生活增添了色彩。

理查德.科尔森生前是我们镇上最有名望的人之一。他是个精明能干、有钱的商人，但镇上大部分人对他生活中的这一个方面几乎一无所知。大家都管他叫迪基。早在他去世前很久，他的古怪行为就成了传奇故事了。

迪基痛恨势利小人。尽管他有一辆豪华小轿车，但却很少使用，常常喜欢以步代车。即使大雨倾盆，他也总是拒绝带伞。一天，他遇上一场瓢泼大雨，淋得透湿。他走进一家高级商店，要为妻子买一块价值300英镑的手表。但店员见他浑身泥水的样子，竟不肯接待他。迪基二话没说就走了。一会儿，他带着一个大布口袋回到店里。布袋很沉，他重重地把布袋扔在柜台上。店员让迪基走开，他置之不理，并要求见经理。经理认出了这位顾客，表示了深深的歉意，还严厉地训斥了店员。店员为迪基拿出了那块手表，迪基把布口袋递给他，口袋里面装着300镑的便士。他坚持要店员点清那些硬币后他才离去。这些硬币加在一起共有30,000枚！ 还有一次，他邀请一些著名评论家来参观他私人收藏的现代画。这次展览引起报界广泛注意，因为这些画名义上是名家的作品，事实上是迪基自己画的。他花了4年时间策划这出精心设计的闹剧，只是想证明评论家们有时并不解他们所谈论的事情。

【课文讲解】

deliberately:onpurpose

setout to do =set about doing = start doing / to do sth.

draw

attention to 吸引对......的注意

capture/attract/hold/catch/arrest/receive/drawattention

to  吸引对……的注意力

Hemade a mistakewithout being conscious of the fact

invariably=always

Herfine characterquickly won her the friendship of her colleagues

win

sb sth 为某人赢得……

add

colour to 增添色彩

Eccentricsaddcolour to our dull life.

背诵第一自然段。

upto the time of his

death:

before he died. 完成时

notable:famous

thisside of his

life生活的这一面

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Dickiedislikedsnobs intensely / violently

preferring现在分词做伴随状况状语

be

caught in aheavy shower   遇到瓢泼大雨

be

caught in aheavy snow      遇到大雪

be

caught in aheavy storm   遇到风暴

payno attention

to

sb = ignore sb = take no notice of sb = turn a deaf ear to sb对……不予理睬

Dickietook nonotice of him

dickieturned adeaf ear to him.

refuseto listento

request求见（非常正式而有礼貌的用词，语气相当强烈，假如你request某件东西的话，通常你有权利得到你想要的。）

Irequested theheadmaster.

Everystudent canrequest assistance of their teachers.’

demand在语气上还要强烈，假如你demand某件东西的话，你坚决认为你有权利得到你想要的，且不愿意接受否定的回答。

Idemand my

rights.我要求我的权力。

ask 口头或写信介到某物

Iasked to get thebook.

heasked me forhelp.

realizingor

recognizing在这里现在分词做原因状语

most= very much

presentsb. with

sth.

or present sth. to sb. 把......交给

insiston doing /insist that

Heinsisted thatthe shop assistant should count the money before he left.

背诵：receive a great deal ofattention in the

press引起了报界广泛注意

simplyto prove =only to prove

talk

nonsense  胡说八道

talk

sense        说正经话

背诵第三段及关键句型

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【Multiple choice questions】P148

Comprehension

1 Most people in the town would have regardedDickie’s behaviour as eccentric onthe day he visited the shop because _____ .

a.when he set outinto the rain he did not take an umbrella

b.he went to suchlengths to show his dislike of snobbery

c.he spent somuch money on a watch

d.he had notcounted the pennies before giving them to the assistant

go

to lengths  竭尽全力

2 When Dickie went into an expensive shop _____.

a.he wanted toshelter from the rain

b.he did not looklike a man who could afford a watch

c.he hadforgotten to bring his cloth bag with him

d.he had beensent by his wife to buy a watch

3 The press paid a great deal of attention toDickie’s exhibition because _____ .

a.it had takenhim so long to prepare the paintings

b.the criticsadmired Dickie’s ability to copy the work of famous artists

c.no one hadknown that Dickie was a painter

d.it became knownthat Dickie had succeeded in deceiving the critics

Structure

4 They disregard social conentions and requite unaware_____ they are doing anythingextraordinary. (ll.2-3)

a.that what    b. of the fact that    c.if   d. when

(of

the fact可省略)

5 As it _____ , he dumped it on the counter.(ll.14-15)

a.wasweighing    b. weighed a lot    c. weighedmuch   d. had weighed much

much多用于疑问句或否定句中，而肯定句中多用a lot; a great deal

Eg.:He knows alot about it.

Hedoesn’t knowmuch about it.

Doeshe know muchabout it?

6 

_____￡300 worthof pennies in thebag. (ll.17-18)

a.There were    b. It was   c. Theywere    d. It had

7 He insisted _____ the money before heleft.(l.18)

a.that theassistant should count    b. theassistant to count

c.tocount                          d. to be counted

8 He asked a number of important critics tocome _____ his private… (ll.19-20)

a.and see    b. seeing   c. see   d. so they  saw

Vocabulary

9----and returnedcarrying a large _____ . (l.14)

a.cloth case    b.clothes-basket    c. sackofclothing    d. bag made of cloth

10 But dickie paid no attention to his _____… (l.15)

a.question    b. inquiry    c.query   d. demand

11 The pictures were supposed to have been _____by famous artists.(ll.20-21)

a.worked    b. made   c. done    d.designed

12 Critics do not always _____ . (ll.22)

a.mean well    b. speak with understanding    c.tell the truth    d. takl sense

talk

nonsence 胡说

【Key to Multiple choice

questions】

1.B   2. B  3. D   4. B  5. B  6. A  7. A   8. A   9. D  10.D   11. C   12. D

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L31-05_32-01 5’43”     [ Lesson 32  36:52 ]

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Lesson 32 A lost ship 一艘沉船

【New words and expressions】生词和短语

●salvage  

v.救助，营救；打捞

●Barents  

n.巴伦支（海）

●sunken  

adj.沉没的

●cargo

n.货物

●bullion  

n.金条；银条

●scour

v.彻底搜索

●chest

n.大箱子

●contents 

n.（复数）所装的东西

●belongings  

n.（复数）所有物

●item  

n.物件

●cruiser   

n.巡洋舰

●find  

n.找到的物品

●log

book 航海日志

●piece

v.拼成整体

●convoy  

n.护航

●torpedo  

v.用鱼雷攻击

●submarine  

n.潜水艇

●naval

adj.海军的

●ministry 

n.（政府的）部

■salvage

v. 救助，营救；打捞

salvagegoods fromthe fire

salvagethepatient

salvage

your time 节省时间

salvage

archaelogy抢救性考古

salvage

boat 救助船

salvage

money 救助费，打捞费

■Barents

n. 巴伦支（海）

■sunken

adj. 沉没的

■cargo

n. 货物

cargo:the goodscarried by ship; plane or vehicle

Eg.: The ship has a cargo of 1,000 tons

cargovessel

goods:the goods

carried

by plane or train 也可以做形容词，只能表示铁路运输，常指商店里的的商品。

Eg.:Trains areused to carry goods and passengers.

Agoods train

■bullion

n. 金条；银条

■scour

v. 彻底搜索

gothrough

Thehouse has beensearched / scoured for the hidden bullion.

scour

/ search /hunt  (都可与for 搭配,表示目的)

search 指寻找丢失的东西或被认为是存在的东西，比look for更正式

hunt   指漫无边际的寻找急需要的东西

scour  表示彻底地搜查一个特定范围并暗示花费更大的力气

Eg.:I have beensearching everywhere, but I can’t find the key.

Wespent a weekhunting for the puma.

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Theyscoured thewoods for the child.

scour

/ search /hunt  (都可与for 搭配,表示目的)

■chest

n. 大箱子

chest:a largestrong box in which valuable objects are kept

case衣箱（总称）

suitcase手提箱

safe保险箱

trunk汽车尾箱

dustbin垃圾箱

■contents

n.（复数）所装的东西

■belongings

n. （复数）所有物

■item

n. 物件

■cruiser

n. 巡洋舰

■find

n. 找到的物品

find:Somethinggood or valuable

Eg.:the littlerestaurant is quite a find.

Thegarden is agood find.

■log

book 航海日志

■piece

v. 拼成整体

part/ a piece ofcake / a piece of news

piece:put partstogether to form a whole

piece

together 拼揍

Eg.:They piecethe log book together.

piece

up 修补，拼合

Pleasepiece upthe dress.

piecea quilt

■convoy

n. 护航

in

convoy 护航

under

convoy: 被护航

■torpedo

v. 用鱼雷攻击

■submarine

n. 潜水艇

前缀sub-

1. 下

subway地铁

substructure下层建筑

subsoil下层土

subnormal低于正常的

2．次；准；亚

subtripics

subcollege

subcontinent

3. 副；分支；下级；下属

subeditor副编辑

subagent副代理人

subhead副标题

suboffice分办事处

4．接近的

subadult接近成人的

subteen将近十三岁的

subequal接近相等的

5．再

subdived再分

sublet转租

subculture再培养

■naval

adj. 海军的

navy海军

naval

port 军港

naval

power 制海权

voyage海上航行

navigation航海术

navigate

v. 航海，航行

■ministry

n.（政府的）部

【Text】

Lesson

32   A lost ship一艘沉船

Listento the tapethen answer the question below.

Didthe crew of the Elkor find what they werelooking for? Why?

Thesalvage

operationhad been a complete failure. The small ship, Elkor, which had been

searchingthe Barents Sea for weeks, was on its way home. A radio message from

themainland had been received by the ship's captain instructing him to give up

thesearch.

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[endif]Thecaptain knew thatanother attempt would be made later, for the sunken ship hewas trying to findhad been carrying a precious cargo of gold bullion.

Despitethemessage, the captain of the Elkor decided to try once more. The sea bedwasscoured with powerful nets and there was tremendous excitement on board whenachest was raised from the bottom. Though the crew were at first undertheimpression that the lost ship had been found, the contents of the chestprovedthem wrong. What they had in fact found was a ship which had been sunkmanyyears before.

Thechestcontained the personal belongings of a seaman, Alan Fielding. There werebooks,clothing and photographs,together with letters which the seaman hadoncereceived from his wife. The captain of the Elkor ordered his men to salvageasmuch as possible from the wreck. Nothing of value was found, but thenumerousitems which were brought to the surface proved to be of great interest.From aheavy gun that was raised, the captain realized that the ship must havebeen acruiser. In another chest, which contained the belongings of a ship'sofficer,there was an unfinished letter which had been written on March 14th,1943. Thecaptain learnt from the letter that the name of the lost ship was theKaren.The most valuable find of all was the ship's log book, parts of which itwasstill possible to read. From this the captain was able to piece togetherallthe information that had come to light. The Karen had been sailing in aconvoyto Russia when she was torpedoed by an enemy submarine. This waslaterconfirmed by a naval official at the Ministry of Defence after the Elkorhadreturned home. All the items that were found were sent to the War Museum.

参考译文

打捞工作彻底失败了。小船“埃尔科”号在巴伦支海搜寻了几个星期之后，正在返航途中。返航前，该船船长收到了大陆发来的电报，指示他们放弃这次搜寻。船长知道日后还会再作尝试，因为他试图寻找的沉船上载有一批珍贵的金条。

尽管船长接了电报，他还是决定再试一试。他们用结实的网把海床搜索了一遍。当一只箱子从海底被打捞上来时，甲板上人们激动不已。船员们开始认为沉船找着了，但海底沉箱内的物品证明他们弄错了。事实上，他们发现的是另一艘沉没多年的船。

木箱内装有水手艾伦.菲尔丁的私人财物，其中有书箱、衣服、照片以及水手收到的妻子的来信。“埃尔科”号船长命令船员们尽量从沉船中打捞物品，但没发现什么值钱的东西，不过打捞出来的众多的物品还是引起了大家极大的兴趣。从捞起的一门大炮来看，船长认为那艘船一定是艘巡洋舰。另一只海底沉箱中装的是船上一位军官的财物，其中有一封写于1943年3月14日的信，但没有写完。从这封信中船长了解到沉船船名是“卡伦”号。打捞到的东西中最有价值的是船上的航海日志，其中有一部分仍然清晰可读。据此，船长可以将所有的那些已经搞清的材料拼凑起来。“卡伦”号当年在为其他船只护航驶往俄国的途中突然遭到敌方潜水艇鱼雷的袭击。这一说法在“埃尔科”号返航后得到的国防部一位海军官员的证实。那次打捞到的所有物品均被送往军事博物馆。

【课文讲解】

背熟：The salvage operation hadbeen a completefailure.

Myexamination is

a

complete failure. 这次考试完全失败了。

Theirexperimenthad been a complete failure.

背熟：A radio message from themainland had beenreceived by the ship's captain instructing him to give up thesearch.

Theshop’s captainreceived a radio message from the mainland instructing him togive up thesearch.

instructsb. to do

sth.命令某人做某事

Theeditor sent afax to the journalist instructing him to get statistics.

makeanotherattempt

L32-02 end 10’13”

L32-03 begin 9’56”

despite==in spiteof

try

once more代替了make another attempt

Thereis

tremendous

excitement 书面语

Peopleon board

felt

excited. (口语)

Therewastremendous excitement before the game.

undertheimpression that == thinking that

I amunder theimpression that he is the manager of the store.

Heis under theimpression that you’ll help him.

sunken/ sunk

需定语时用sunken

Theship had sunk

asunken ship

personal

belongings个人所属物品

together

with 还有

salvageas much aspossible / salvage as much as they could

ofvalue==valuable

verymuchinteresting == of great interest

ofgreatimportance / of great significance / of no consequence / of no importance/ ofno interest

numerous==countless

Therewere the belongingsof ship officer in the chest.

learn

from 从......得知

L32-03 end 9’56”

L32-04 begin

partsof the logbook it was still possible to read.

Itwas stillpossible to read parts of the log book.

cometo light =

become

known = emerge 被公开，被发现（不及物动词短语，要用主动语态）

Eg: The secret came to light after his death.

bringsth to

light/

review 把……公布于众

Eg:The twobrothers reviewed/ brought the secret to light

in a

convoy 护航

under

a convoy 被护航

confirmed== madesure

背熟第一自然段，牢记并熟练运用第二、三自然段的重点结构。

【Multiple choice questions】

Comprehension

1 Why had the salvage operation been a completefailure?

a.They had failedto locate the ship they had been sent to look for.

b.They had notsucceeded in finding the Barents Sea.

c.They hadfoundthe wrong ship.

d.The captain hadnot understood his instructions.

2 In ordering as much as possible to besalvaged from the wreck, the captain _____.

a.expected tofind some of the gold bullion

b.hoped, amongother things, to establish the identity of the ship

c.thought hewould find out that the ship had been a cruiser

d.was looking formore information concerning the dead seaman

3 The log book was the most important findbecause it _____ .

a.helped toexplain how the warship had come to be sunk in the Barents Sea

b.contained awritten account of how the Karen had been torpedoed

c.provided vitalinformation as to the ship’s whereablaots

d.gave theMinistry of Defence information it had known nothing about

Structure

4 The captain knew that _____ the onlyattempt.(l.5)

a.it was not    b. his had not been    c. his wouldnot be    d. it had not been

5 It was a ship which had been sunk many yearsbefore _____ in fact found. (l.11)

a.what theyhad    b. that they had    c. hadbeen    d. which was

6 Theydid not find _____ . (l.14)

a.nothing ofvalue    b. a valuable thing    c. anyvalue    d. anything valuable

7 ---- parts of which _____ . (l.19)

a.it could stillbe read    b. it could stillread    c. could still be read    d. could stillread

8 After the Elkor had returned home, a navalofficial _____ . (ll.21-22)

a.had this laterconfirmed at the Ministry of Defence

b.confirmed thisat the Ministry of Defence

c.at the Ministryof Defence confirmed this

d.later at theMinistry of Defence confirmed this

Vocabulary

9 The ship’s captain had received instructionsto give up the search _____ a radiomessage from the mainland. (ll.3-4)

a.on    b. by   c. with    d. in

inthe letter / inthe radio message / in the fax

10 There were books, clothing and photographs,_____ letters … (ll.12-13)

a.including    b. along with    c. addedto    d. beside

11----anunfinished letter which was _____ March 14th, 1943. (l.17)

a.inscribed    b. marked   c.dated    d. posted on

inscribe刻画

mark做标记

12 ---- all the information that had _____ .(l.20)

a.emerged    b. alighted    c.arisen   d. surfaced

arisen

(原形是arise ) 出现

surface露出水面

alight

on 偶然发现

Myeyes alightedon the book.

【Key to Multiple choice

questions】

1.A   2. B  3. A   4. C   5.B  6. D   7. C   8. C  9. D  10. B   11. C  12. A

L32-04 end 11’01”  [ Lesson 32  36:52 ]

L33-01 begin 10’19”    [ Lesson 32  49:04 ]

§Lesson

33 A day to remember难忘的一天

【New words and expressions】生词和短语

●prelude  

n.序幕，前奏

●unforeseen  

adj.意料之外的

●series

n.系列

●catastrophe

  n. 大祸，灾难

●crockery

n.陶器，瓦器

●suburb   

n.郊区

●collide   

v.猛撞

●learner   

n.初学者

●panic

n.惊慌，恐慌

●windscreen 

n.（汽车的）挡风玻璃

●alongside    

prep.在……的旁边，与……并排

●slide 

v.滑

●stray 

adj.离群的

●confusion   

n.混乱

●greedily 

adv.贪婪地

●devour   

v.狼吞虎咽地吃

■prelude

n. 序幕，前奏

a

prelude to sth ……的前奏

Eg:

a prelude toserious trouble  麻烦的前奏

introduction导言，绪论

introductiontothe book

preface序，前言

foreword序

■unforeseen

adj. 意料之外的

foresee== seebefore hand

Iforesee a brightfuture for you.

foreseeable可预见的

foreseeing预料之中的

unforeseeing意料之外的

foretell预言，主语可以是人或物

predict预言，预示（语气较强），主语必须是人

Eg:He predictedthat it would happen in ten years.

forecast

: 预测，预报（主要指天气的预报）

Eg:Timely snow

foretells

a bumper harvest. 瑞雪照丰年

■series

n. 系列

series单复数形式同形

aseries of

We’vegot a seriesof good harvest.

chain连串，连锁

a

chain of 一系列

aseries of

reaction一系列反应

achain of

reaction一系列反应

chain

store 连锁店，

chain

reaction 连锁反应

chain

smoker 吸烟很严重的人

succession侧重时间上的连续

asuucession of

failures一系列的失败

Eg.:We’ve got asuccession of successes.

string连续不断相似的事件

Eg.:a string of

cars一连串的汽车

train  一个接一个发生的事

atrain of

thoughts/

ideas 一个个的想法

■catastrophe

n. 大祸，灾难

worldwide

catastrophe世界范围的灾难

national

catastrophe波及全国的灾难

disaster灾难，不幸（语气较弱）

calamity灾害，不幸事件

nature

calamity 自然灾害

■crockery

n. 陶器，瓦器

■suburb

n. 郊区

■collide

v. 猛撞

■learner

n. 初学者

■panic

n. 惊慌，恐慌

panic:uncontrollable quickly spreading fear or terror

get

into a panic 陷入惊慌之中

Hesuddenly gotinto a panic and stop his car.

bestruck with

panic==

be seized with panic 惊慌失措

Hewas seized withpanic.

terror惊骇

horror恐惧

fright害怕

alarm惊恐

■windscreen

n. （汽车的）挡风玻璃

■alongside

prep. 在……的旁边，与……并排

■slide

v. 滑

■stray

adj. 迷失的，离群的

Thedog strayedfrom home.

■confusion

n. 混乱

conditionout oforder

in

order 秩序井然

out

of order 混乱

L33-01 end 10’19”

L33-02 begin 10’10”

in

confusion 乱七八糟

becovered with

confusion局促不安

throwsb into

confusion使某人惊慌失措

■greedily

adv. 贪婪地

■devour

v. 狼吞虎咽地吃

devour:

1.eat like ananimal

Thedog devoured thecake

2.

destroy 吞灭，席卷

Theflamesdevoured the whole building

3.take in eagerly

with

eyes, ears, or mind 贪婪地看

Hiseyes devoured

the

scene. 他两眼贪婪地看着。

【Text】整篇背诵

§Lesson 33 A day to remember难忘的一天

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[endif] Listen to thetape then answer the question below.

 What incident began the series of trafficaccidents?

[if !vml][endif]We have all experienced days wheneverything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everythingseems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number ofthings choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a singleunimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you arepreparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephonerings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. Whileyou are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table smashing halfyour best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedlyand attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if thiswere not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedlybringing three guests to dinner.

Things can gowrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, asuburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and bothdrivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened tobe a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made thedriver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding alarge cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through thewindscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorrydriver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. Thelorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the backof the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument.Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour toget the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had tosweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from allthis confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It wasjust one of those days!

参考译文

我们大家都有过事事不顺心的日子。一天开始时，可能还不错，但突然间似乎一切都失去了控制。情况经常是这样的，许许多多的事情都偏偏赶在同一时刻出问题，好像是一件无关紧要的小事引起了一连串的连锁反应。假设你在做饭，同时又在照看孩子。这时电话铃响了。它预示着一连串意想不到的灾难的来临。就在你接电话时，孩子把桌布从桌子上扯下来，将家中最好的陶瓷餐具半数摔碎，同时也弄伤了他自己。你急急忙忙挂上电话，赶去照看孩子和餐具。这时，饭又烧糊了。好像这一切还不足以使你急得掉泪，你的丈夫接着回来了，事先没打招呼就带来3个客人吃饭。

就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔发现的那样，有时乱子会闹得很大。一天傍晚交通最拥挤时，一辆汽车撞上前面一辆汽车，两个司机争吵起来。紧跟其后的一辆车上的司机碰巧是个初学者，她一惊之下突然把车停了下来。她这一停使得跟在后头的司机也来个急刹车。司机妻子正坐在他身边，手里托着块大蛋糕。她往前一冲，蛋糕从挡风玻璃飞了出去掉到马路上。此时，一辆卡车正好从后边开到那辆汽车边上，司机看见一块蛋糕从天而降，紧急刹车。卡车上装着空啤酒瓶。成百只瓶子顺势从卡车后面滑出车外落在马路上。这又引起一场唇枪舌剑的争吵。与此同时，后面的车辆排成了长龙，警察花了将近一个小时才使车辆又开起来。在这段时间里，卡车司机不得不清扫那几百只破瓶子。只有两只野狗从这一片混乱中得到好处，它们贪婪地吃掉了剩下的蛋糕。这就是事事不顺心的那么一天！

【课文讲解】

Every dog has its

day 每个人都会有飞黄腾达的日子

get out of control失控

uncontrollable,beyond control

invariably: always

What happenedyesterday was that he couldn’t deal with the hot potato.

precisely: exactly

It is as if           

It seems as if

It looks as if

似乎好象看起来

set up = cause 引起，导致，造成

What set up theaccident?

set up a world

record 创世界纪录

set up = creat 创立，建立

The unimportant

event is the prelude to trouble. 不重要的事情是麻烦事的前奏。

keep an eye on tha

baby 照料孩子

keep an eye on =look after = take care of

Please keep an eyeon my bouse while I am out.

keep one’s eyes

open 睁大眼睛

When I am out, pleasekeep your eyes open.

have an eye to

eye for eye  以牙还牙

have eyes only for只要，只爱

Eg: I have eyesonly for you.

look sb in the

eyes 两眼直视某人

eye to eye withsb  与某人看法完全一样

Eg: I invariablysee eye to eye with my sister.

turn a blind eyeto sth.  对……视而不见

Eg: He even turnedblind eye to me.

make eyes at sb 含情报脉脉地看着某人

Eg: The boy ismaking eyes at his girlfriend.

L33-02  end 10’10”

L33-03  begin 10’05”

on teh phone =answer the phone

pull off 拉下来

pick off 取下来

knock off 碰落下来

smash half 摔成两半

in the process 在这个过程中

hang up == put onthe receiver

attend to == lookafter == deal with

Please attend tomy baby.

Excuse me, I havesomething urgent to attend to.

reduce you totears.

reduce sb to + 名词： 迫使某人处于……状态

Eg: You almostreduce me to tears.

His comfortingwords almost reduced his wife to tears.

His answer reducedme to silence.

The bomb reducedthe city to ruins.

we can draw aconclusion.

Everything seemsto get out of control suddenly and a great number of things choose to go wrongat precisely the same moment.

on a big scale ==to a great degree == to great extent

as 引导非限制性定语从句（二册已详细说过）

Troubles never

come single 祸不单行

as we know 众所周知

As we know, theearth is round.

As brane pointedout, giving up smoking is the easiest thing to do in the world.

As the headmastermentioned, one is never too old to learn.

as重点突出整个句子的含义，而which有可能指代主句当中的某个词汇，也有可能指代整个句子的含义。

As we expected,John was admitted to the university.

She married him,which was unexpected.

She married him as(was ) unexpected.

L33-03  end 10’05”

L33-04  begin 10’32”

The material iselastic as shown in the figure.

The material iselactic which is shown in the figure.

during the rush

hour 上下班高峰期

It happened thatthe woman behind the two cars was a learner.

happen to do  恰巧

I happened to hearthe news.

It happened that Iheard about it the day before yesterday.

following 现在分词做定语

right ==straight

draw up ==pull up 停车

all of sudden==suddenly

was loaned with ==was filled with

lead to == cause

meanwhile == at

the same time 与此同时

get the traffic on

the move 使得车辆开动起来

on the move ==move from place to place

on the rise  正在上升

on the boil 正在沸腾

on the go 正在忙碌中

on the watch 正在监视

on the turn 正在转变中

on thw run 正在逃跑中

on thw fly 正在飞行中

on the decrease 正在减少

benefit from 从......得益

You benefit a lotfrom your reading.

L33-04  end 10’32”

L33-05  begin 14’08”

【Multiple choice questions】

Comprehension

1  What would have most upset the woman the dayeverything went wrong for her?

a. She had notexpected her husband to arrive so early.

b. The meal shehad cooked for the three guests had got burnt.

c. Her husband hadnot told her he was bringing anyone to dinner.

d. She had not gotenough crockery left to serve the meal with.

2  What might have prevented a chain reactionfollowing the initial collision?

a. If the twodrivers who had collided had not begun to argue.

b. Had there beena more experienced driver behind the two cars.

c. If, instead ofpanicking, the woman had made no attempt to stop.

d. Had the wife ofthe man who braked not thrown a cake through the window.

3  There was a second angry argument because_____ .

a. the lorry driverblamed the owner of the cake for his accident

b. the traffic wasextremely slow to get on the move again

c. the lorrydriver did not think he shouldbe made to sweep up the glass

d. two dogs haddevoured what was left of the cake

Structure

4  It is as if a single event that is _____ achain of reactions. (ll.4-5)

a. no importanceset up         b. of no imortance set up

c. not anyimportant sets up    d. not anyimportance sets up

that is ...是定语从句修饰event

a singleunimportant event

5  ---- you are preparing a meal _____ keepingan eye on the baby. (ll.6-7)

a. at the sametime    b. as you are    c. as well    d. while

6  As if this _____ you to tears …(l.10)

a. has not alreadyreduced    b. were not already reducing

c. did not alreadyreduce      d. would not already reduce

7  Immediately behind the two cars _____happened to be a learner. (ll.13-14)

a. was a womanwho    b. a woman    c. the woman    d. there was the woman who

8  The police spent nearly an hour _____ thetraffic on the move again. (ll.19-20)

a. to get    b. until getting    c. getting    d. having got

spend ( time )doing sth.

vocabulary

9  You are preparing a meal and _____ the babyat the same time. (ll.6-7)

a. looking at    b. seeing   c. watching    d. seeing to

10  She stopped her car _____ a sudden panic.(l.14)

a. into    b. in   c. from    d. with

in panic / interror / in fear / in horror

11  Hundreds of them _____ the back of thevehicle … (ll.18-19)

a. slippedoff    b. slid down    c. slid over    d. slipped under

slid over 躲过

He slid over thequestion without answering it.

12  They greedily devoured the _____ of the cake.(ll.21-22)

a. left    b. leave   c. leftover    d. remains

leftovers 吃剩的东西（常用复数形式）

The leftovers ofthe meal were fed to the dog.

【Key to Multiple choice questions】

1. C   2. B  3. A   4. B   5. D  6. A   7. A   8. C  9. C   10. B   11. A  12. D