和我一起攻克新概念四(6)

和我一起攻克新概念四(6) 

 来源：环球雅思网 www.ielts.com.cn 2005-9-5

    People are always talking about' the problem of youth '. If there is one--whichI take leave to doubt--then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after allhuman beings--people just like their elders. There is only one difference be-tween an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future beforehim and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is wherethe rub is.When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just youngand uncertain--that I wasa new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regardedas something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem givesyou a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engagedin seeking.I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not adreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxioussocial climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems tome to link them with life, and the origins of things. It's as if they were in somesense cosmic beings in violent an lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous of fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to drearycliches about respect for elders--as if mere age were a reason for respect. Iaccept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as anequal, if I think heis wrong.

    一、重点单词

    1、sb. take leave to do sth. 冒昧地
    I take leave to say.我冒昧地说
    I take leave to be frank.恕我直言

    相似词：take one's leave = take leave
    离开的正式用法，take my leave

    2、get down to sth.着手
    I get down to my studies.
    I get down to learning my book.
    上面两句都翻译为：我开始学习了。
    注意搭配。
    同义词：be engaged in

    3、glorious：adj光辉灿烂的，glory：n光荣
    同义词：rosy,shining,brilliant,magnificent,gorgeous
    在某人的鼎盛时期：
    in one's glory,
    in one's day,
    in one's golden days,
    in one's prime day,
    in the pride of one's life.

    4、ambition：可褒可贬，雄心勃勃，野心勃勃
    I have ambition to go abroad.
    I have ambition for going abroad.
    注意搭配用法。

    5、suburban：郊区的；目光短浅的
    short-sighted;
    marrow-minded; small-minded;
    insular：绝缘，目光短浅的；岛的
    provincial：省的；光短浅的

    6、presumptuous：自以为是；放肆
    over-confident：过度自信；自高自大
    self-confident：自信

    二、课文解析

    7、I would have been very pleased to be regarded
    as something so interesting as a problem.

    something＝somebody：重要人物
    so interesting as a problem：
    so...as...句型，做something定语

    这句话的意思说：年轻人总想独树一帜
    stand out：鹤立鸡群，站出来
    cut figure：展露头角

    8、For one thing, being a problem gives
    you a certain identity.

    give sb. a identity：给...身份，使...出名

    9、I do not turn for protection to dreary
    cliches about respect for elders.

    我不会为了寻求保护而转向求助那些
    对老年人表示敬重的陈词滥调
    turn to：求助
    for protection：目的，放在turn to中间表示强调


    新概念第四册第6课－精彩句型及作文练习
    以下是本课的精彩句型及作文练习指南：

    这篇文章主要讨论年轻人和老年人的问题，大家可以学到很多关于
    “对比”的精彩句子：

    1、the young man has a glorious future before
    him and the old one has a splendid future behind him。
    年轻人拥有灿烂的未来，老年人拥有辉煌的过去。

    2、It's as if they were in some sense cosmic beings 
    in violent an lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.
    他们（年轻人）就好像是外星人，我们（老年人）就是
    凡夫俗子（直译就是郊区的野兽，哈哈），他们与我们
    形成强烈对比。

    另外大家还可以学到一些关于人的“品质”的词汇和短语：

    3、They are not anxious social climbers, and they have 
    no devotion to material things
    他们不热衷向上爬，也不追求物质享受。

    4、He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous of fatuous
    他们也许狂妄自负、举止无理、傲慢放松、愚昧无知。


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    Youth
    Samuel Erman
    Youth is not a time of life , it is a state of mind, it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep spring of life.

    Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20.Nobody grows merely by a number of years, we grow old by deserting our ideas.

    Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkle the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

    Weather 60 or 16, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.

    When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20,but as long as your aerials are up to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.
这篇Samuel Erman写的不足500字的短文，半个世纪来一直产生轰动效应：美国麦克阿瑟将军生前将其视为座右铭，日本许多名流也将其放在随身的钱夹里……