新概念英语四册课堂笔记 Lesson40:Themes and Variations

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  新概念一直被视为英语学习的经典教材,新概念英语第四册课文对原有教学法进行调整,更利于学生加强交际能力。每课书相对独立,利于同学们自学。为了让同学们能够更加全面完善的学习新概念英语,新东方在线英语组老师将帮助同学们一起总结知识点~

  New words and expressions 生词短语

  precarious a. 不稳定的perilous 山势险恶的,危险的

  poverty n.贫困

  I live in poverty. / I’m poverty-stricken. / My family is poverty-stricken.

  constitute vt. 构成 constitute a menace 构成威胁

  compatible with 和……处的来

  incompatible

  The meal is tolerable. 这饭还说的过去。

  The meal is intolerable 这饭真差。

  virgin work 处女作 virgin soil 处女地 virgin voyage 处女航 Virgin Mary 圣母玛利亚

  apt a.易于 apt to / be apt to theme song 主题歌

  Notes on the text 课文注释

  populations 表示各地的人口

  to one another 相互之间有关系

  to natural resources 和自然资源也有关系

  the growing poverty in the midst of growingpoverty=people become poorer and poorer

  e.g. The growing prosperity in the midst of growingprosperity enables men to travel worldwide.

  permanent=long time, enduring 长期的,永久的(lasting)

  permanent love 永久的爱 / permanent friendship 持久的友谊 / permanent member 永久会员

  And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty. (无谓句)

  liberty 自由度,个人自由

  I love my sister, my brother…also my grandmother. (强调 grandmother)强调句

  …, constitutes a permanent menace to peace, also to democratic institutions and personal

  liberty.(语气较弱)

  freedom 用途很广 I enjoy freedom. 今天我休息。

  liberty 政治上的自由 Statue of Liberty 自由女神像

  numbers=population

  dog-eat-dog 人吃人

  lucrative job 肥缺 / cut figure out 崭露头角

  tend 强调无意识的 e.g. He tends to rise early. 他习惯于早起。

  intend 强调有意识的 e.g. He intends to rise early. 他爱早起。

  labour force 劳动力

  surplus 剩余 surplus value 剩余价值 labour surplus 剩余劳动力

  purchasing power 购买力

  accumulated 堆积的,蓄积的(open-handed)

  tyranny n. 残暴

  political and economic power=countries

  wielders 统治者

  此句话的意思可表示为:It is impossible for him/for individual to get anything under the ruthless

  nature and the merciless government.

  power: America is a superpower. 美国是超级大国。

  above all 首要 = among other things 表示强调说法democracy:

  to build a government of the people, by the people and for the people. (Lincoln)

  (民有、民治、民享)

  unless=if…not

  favour: 恩惠 in the boss’s favour. 这是老板的大红人 He is the boss’s favourite. (很吃香)

  He is a diplomat. 他左右逢源,很会来事。

  withdraw: 取走

  and: 句式连接

  My mother is a doctor, and my father is a driver.

  My mother is a doctor. And my father is a driver.

  be certain=be sure of

  means 手段,方法 by means of 通过……手段

  live on: 依靠……而生活 I live on rice/noodle.

  live by one’s hands 靠劳动 live by the mountains 靠山吃山,靠水吃水

  feed on

  out of 从……出来 out of reason / He did out of impulse. 他出于冲动。

  virgin territories 新的国度

  make a fresh start 重新开始

  financially independent 经济独立 = economically independent

  financially dependent on my parents 需要父母给钱

  Mentally I would rather you stay. 打心眼里我是真舍不得你走。

  be in a position to=be able to

  这位教授有资格能对这个事件发表看法。

  The professor is in a position to air on this topic.

  press upon=press on 施加压力给……

  be apt to=tend to

  government control 政府控制

  capital 资本

  it is no accident 决不是偶然

  centralized : (I want to build a cradle for security. (Stalin))

  Aldous Huxley (奥尔德斯?赫胥黎) (1894-1963 英国作家,他最著名作品 Brave New World (美

  丽新世界)描绘了以科学方式组织的理想社会的恐怖情景)

  Aldous Huxley is No. 1 humorist in Britain. (林语堂)

  Arnold 阿诺德:英国著名作家(Aldous Huxley’s uncle)

  Tomas Huxley (严复《天演论》,Aldous Huxley’s grandfather)

  The Statue of Liberty: 碑铭(1886 年,法国送给美国)

  “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched

  refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the Homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp

  beside the golden door!”

  “给我你那劳累,贫穷,蜷曲渴望呼吸自由的身躯,可怜被遗弃在你们海岸的人群们,交给

  我吧,那些无家可归的、颠簸流离的人们,我在金色之门高举明灯迎接他们”

  祝各位同学考试顺利,取得好成绩。还在等什么,快来新东方在线学习吧~


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