和我一起攻克新概念四(5)

和我一起攻克新概念四(5) 

来源:环球雅思网 www.ielts.com.cn 2005-4-26

   The gorilla is something of a paradox in the African scene. One thinks one
knows him very well. For a hundred years or more he has been killed, captured,
and imprisoned, in zoos. His bones have been mounted in natural history
   museums everywhere, and he has always exerted a strong fascination upon scien-
   tists and romantics alike. He is the stereotyped monster of the horror films and
   the adventure books, and an obvious (though not perhaps strictly scientific) link
   with our ancestral past.
   Yet the fact is we know very little about gorillas. No really satisfactory 
    photograph has ever been taken of one in a wild state, no zoologist, however 
    intrepid,has been able to keep the animal under close and constant observation in 
    the dark jungles in which he lives. Carl Akeley, the American naturalist, led two
    expeditions in the nineteen-twenties, and now lies buried among the animals he
    loved so well. But even he was unable to discover how long the gorilla lives, or how or why it dies, nor was he able to define the exact social pattern of the family groups, or indicate the final extent of their intelligence. All this and many other things remain almost as much a mystery as they were when the French explorer Du Chaillu first described the animal to the civilized world a century ago. The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in the Himalayas is hardly more elusive.
   一、重点单词解释
   1.gorilla: He is gorilla. 他很丑。
   2、paradox：seemingly 表面上的矛盾；欲速则不达
      contradiction：absolute 绝对的矛盾
      paradoxical：adj 
   3.mount：v 爬山 I mount；
      mount=display

   4、romantic：dreaming；visionary梦想的 adj
romance n

   5.stereotyped:铅版印刷-老一套的
     the stereotyped monster 经典模式

   6、intrepid：正式用语
      brave，valiant，gallant，dauntless 
      口语词：gutsy

    7.dark jungles 不透光的密林
      jungle law: The survival of the fittest 适者生存

    8．Naturalist 博物学家
       answer the call of nature (go to WC 委婉语)
       pay the debt of nature （死亡委婉语）

    9．Abominable 讨厌的
       Himalayas 喜马拉雅山
       Yeti-yet I 

    10、haunt：vt 萦绕
        Haunted 闹鬼的
        The old memories still haunt me=ring in my ear。
        I often haunt the bar。我经常光临这家酒吧

    11.elusive：adj
       elude：v躲，
       elude tax 
       The problem eludes me使我头疼的问题

    二、课文重点难点分析

       The gorilla is something of a paradox in the African scene.

       1、in the African scene:Africa as the background
          is something of a paradox:：be...of...句型

       2、For a hundred years or more he has been killed, captured,
          and imprisoned, in zoos. 

       注意 a hundred years or more 与 for more than one hundred years区别

       3、he has always exerted a strong fascination upon scien-
          tists and romantics alike。

         本文最重点句型：注意介词搭配
         exerted a strong fascination upon(on)施加给人强大的魅力
         exert...on.(upon)..
         相似用法：impose influence / pressure on
         第一种变形：have a strong fascination + for
         He has always has a strong fascination for scientists...
        第二种变形：
        The gorilla is always fascinating to scientists...

        alike:相似，形容词只能做表语
        They are alike。 （形容词以a开头，都做表语）
        awake，asleep，afloat

      4、though从句的主语如果和主句的主语一直，
      则从句的主语和谓语可以省略
      I arrived the meeting, though(I am) late.

     5、No really satisfactory photograph has ever 
        been taken of one in a wild state

       of one：做photograph 定语
      正常语序：
      No really satisfactory photograph of one in a wild state
      has ever been taken 

     6、no zoologist, however intrepid, has been able to keep 
      the animal under close and constant observation in the
      dark jungles in which he lives.

      句型： keep...under observation把…置于观察之下
      I have to keep the baby under close control.

      however intrepid：no matter how intrepid
      No man ,however intelligence,is perfect.
      No place,however peaceful and tranquil, is a paradise.

      7.social pattern: group/individual living
        Intelligence -IQ
       CIA-the Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S
       CID-Criminal Investiigation Division

      8、All this and many other things remain almost as much 
a mystery as they were when the French explorer Du Chaillu 
first described the animal to the civilized world a century
ago. 

       对比句型：as much...as....一样
       he is as much a musician as a writer.
       he is both a musician and a writer.
       civilzed world文明世界
       savaged world 野生世界
       model/pace setting unit 文明单位