练习材料:Lesson 46-3 Hobbies业余爱好
原文
It is no use offering the manual laborer, tired out with a hard week's sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.
As for the unfortunate people who can command everything they want, who can gratify every caprice and lay their hands on almost every object of desire for them a new pleasure, a new excitement is only an additional satiation. In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion. For them discipline in one form or another is the most hopeful path.
It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes:
音标
ɪt ɪz nəʊ juːz ˈɒfərɪŋ ðə ˈmænjʊəl ˈleɪbərə, ˈtaɪəd aʊt wɪð ə hɑːd wiːks swɛt ænd ˈɛfət, ðə ʧɑːns ɒv ˈpleɪɪŋ ə geɪm ɒv ˈfʊtbɔːl ɔː ˈbeɪsbɔːl ɒn ˈsætədeɪ ˈɑːftəˈnuːn. ɪt ɪz nəʊ juːz ɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ ðə ˌpɒlɪˈtɪʃən ɔː ðə prəˈfɛʃənl ɔː ˈbɪznɪs mæn, huː hæz biːn ˈwɜːkɪŋ ɔː ˈwʌriɪŋ əˈbaʊt ˈsɪərɪəs θɪŋz fɔː sɪks deɪz, tuː wɜːk ɔː ˈwʌri əˈbaʊt ˈtraɪflɪŋ θɪŋz æt ðə ˈwiːkˈɛnd.
æz fɔː ði ʌnˈfɔːʧnɪt ˈpiːpl huː kæn kəˈmɑːnd ˈɛvrɪθɪŋ ðeɪ wɒnt, huː kæn ˈgrætɪfaɪ ˈɛvri kəˈpriːs ænd leɪ ðeə hændz ɒn ˈɔːlməʊst ˈɛvri ˈɒbʤɪkt ɒv dɪˈzaɪə fɔː ðɛm ə njuː ˈplɛʒə, ə njuː ɪkˈsaɪtmənt ɪz ˈəʊnli ən əˈdɪʃənl ˌseɪʃɪˈeɪʃən. ɪn veɪn ðeɪ rʌʃ ˈfræntɪk(ə)li raʊnd frɒm pleɪs tuː pleɪs, ˈtraɪɪŋ tuː ɪsˈkeɪp frɒm əˈvɛnʤɪŋ ˈbɔːdəm baɪ mɪə ˈklætər ænd ˈməʊʃən. fɔː ðɛm ˈdɪsɪplɪn ɪn wʌn fɔːm ɔːr əˈnʌðər ɪz ðə məʊst ˈhəʊpfʊl pɑːθ.
ɪt meɪ ˈɔːlsəʊ biː sɛd ðæt ˈræʃənl, ɪnˈdʌstrɪəs, ˈjuːsfʊl ˈhjuːmən ˈbiːɪŋz ɑː dɪˈvaɪdɪd ˈɪntuː tuː ˈklɑːsɪz:
生词
laborer ˈleɪbərə
a person doing unskilled manual work for wages
trifling t ˈtraɪflɪŋ
A trifling matter is small and unimportant.
gratify ˈgrætɪfaɪ
If you are gratified by something, it gives you pleasure or satisfaction
caprice kəˈpriːs
A caprice is an unexpected action or decision which has no strong reason or purpose.
frantically ˈfræntɪk(ə)li
in an uncontrolled manner
clatter ˈklætər
If you say that people or things clatter somewhere, you mean that they move there noisily.
rational ˈræʃənl
Rational decisions and thoughts are based on reason rather than on emotion.
industrious ɪnˈdʌstrɪəs
If you describe someone as industrious, you mean they work very hard
satiation seɪʃɪˈeɪʃən
the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
the act of achieving full gratification
任务配置:L0+L4
练习感悟:完善了生词。朗读的语速过快。听完后再读不如一边听一边读。