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e.g.
The roads are slippery after the rain. 雨后道路很滑。 e.g. Once you've given in to temptation for the first time you‘re on the slippery slope. 一旦你经不住第一次诱惑,以后就无法抵制得住。
The reading passage focuses on a social phenomenon — choosing to be alone on purpose. The passage mainly tells us: what living alone is, what people think of living alone, who prefer living alone, the author’s comments on living alone and what he advises for living in solitude.
stretch out
lengthen sth. by pulling; cause to reach forward, as with the hands 拉长,伸长,伸出
e.g. He stretched out on the grass. 他手脚伸开着躺在草地上。
扩展
e.g. She doesn’t have all the qualifications but I think we should stretch a point in her favour. 她并非全部合格,但我认为我们可以为她 放开一些限制。
stretch one’s legs 去散步
8. … people we can call to say we lost our job or fell on a slippery floor and broke our arm.(Para12) slippery
a. 1) difficult to hold or to stand on, drive on, etc. 滑的
e.g. She spent the morning dictating letters to her secretary.
她花了一上午向她的秘书口述信件。
5. The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. (Para. 10) ego
Part I (para. 1) Part II (para. 2)
Part Ⅲ (paras. 3-10)
Part Ⅳ (paras. 11-16)
Living alone – a common social phenomenon.
What do people think of living alone? The author mentions 3 famous literary giants who choose to be alone and tells us what message we can draw from the people who choose to be alone.
choke v. 1)become or make sb. Become unable to speak
Henry David Thoreau
(1817—1862) U.S. thinker, essayist, and naturalist. Born in Concord, Mass, he graduated from Harvard University and taught school for several years before deciding to become a poet of nature. In the years 1845—1847, to demonstrate how satisfying a simple life could be, he lived in a hut beside Concord's Walden Pond; essays recording his daily life were assembled for his masterwork, Walden (1854).
3. “How graceful, hoe benign, is solitude,” he wrote. (Para. 4) benign
a. kind and gentle 善良的,慈祥的
e.g.
She is beautiful and benign and the embodiment of all the finest qualities of a loyal and loving wife.
6. The more modest and humble we feel, the more we suffer from solitude. (Para. 10) humble
adj. having a low opinion of oneself 谦逊的,谦虚的
e.g.
I’m your humble
Book 4 Unit 5
Choose to Be Alone on Purpose
Choose to Be Alone on Purpose
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He strikes me as a very humble person. servant.
他的谦虚给我留下了深刻的印象。
e.g.
I do quite a humble job at the hospital. 我在医院从事很普通的工作。
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7. …you can stretch out your soul… (Para. 11)
2. They all speak highly of themselves for seeking it out, …(Para. 3)
seek out find sth. or sb. by looking hard 找出,搜寻出
e.g. He managed to seek out his friend in the crowd. 他设法在人群中找出了自己的朋友。
a. 2) not to be trusted, shifty圆滑
e.g.
He's as slippery as an eel — you can never get a straight answer out of him. 他像鳝鱼般难以捉摸——你永远不可能从他口里得 到直接的回答。
9. …and observations and opinions that backs up and chokes us. (Para. 12)
她非常漂亮温柔,体现了一位忠贞可 爱的妻子的全部美德。
4. …he calls the girls to come back and write it down while he dictates. (Para. 6) dictate
v. speak sth. aloud for another person or for a machine to record the words said 听写,口授
e.g.
I'm glad she got the job — she needed something to boost her ego. 我很高兴她得到了那份工作——她需要那份工作来 增强她的自尊心。
扩展
egoism: n.自我主义;自私;利己 egoist: n.自私自利者;自我中心者 egoistic(al): a.自私自利的;利己主义的 ego-trip: n.(俚)以自我为中心的活动 e.g. Her life is just one big ego-trip. 她的一生都是以自我为中心的。
Women in US living alone
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1. Why are there more and more American women choosing to be alone?
2. How to explain this phenomenon?
Main idea of the text ?
n. one’s idea or opinion of oneself, or a great feeling of one’s own importance and ability 自我,自尊心
e.g. That man has got such an enormous ego — I've never known anyone so full of themselves. 那个人非常自负,我从来没有见过 那么以自我为中心的人。
扩展
e.g. It’s evident that she spoke to the purpose at the meeting. 她在会上的发言很中肯,这是很明显的。 e.g. We have found a meeting–place that will serve our purpose. 我们找到了一个很合适的会址。
The author makes his comments on living alone.
1. … to be alone on purpose, … (Para. 2) on purpose
purposely 故意的
e.g. She did it on purpose, of course. 她当然是故意那样做的。
John Milton
English poet (1608—1674). Milton attended Cambridge University (1625—1632), where he wrote poems in Latin, Italian, and English. His epic masterpieces include Paradise Lost (1667) , Paradise Regained (1671), an epic in which Christ overcomes Satan the tempter, and Samson Agonistes (1671) considered second only to W. Shakespeare in the history of English-language poetry, Milton had an
immense influence on later literature.
William Wordsworth
English poet (1770—1850). Orphaned at 13, Wordsworth attended Cambridge Univ., but remained rootless and virtually penniless until 1795, when a legacy made possible a reunion with his sister D. Wordsworth. He became friends with S. T. Coleridge, with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads (1798), the collection often considered to have launched the English Romantic Movement. In 1843 he became England's poet laureate. He is regarded as the central figure in the initiation of English Romanticism.