美国大学颜色-菜根谭读后感
Unit
9
Task
1
【答案】
1) the campus hero; the
women
’
s track coach
2)
the class started before I got here
3)
will develop
4) cloudy; the glass is a
little dirty
5) a symbol of happiness;
wear black
【原文】
1)
Man: I had the girls running in circles when I was
in college.
Woman: I never knew you
were the campus hero.
Man: I wasn't. I was the women's track coach.
2) Instructor: Mr. Jenkins, why
are you late?
Student: I guess because the class started before I got here.
3) Woman: Doctor,
you have to come immediately--my baby swallowed
some camera film!
Doctor: Just calm yourself, nothing will develop.
4) Customer: Waiter, this
water is cloudy.
Waiter: The water's okay, madam. It's just that the glass is a little dirty.
5) Woman: The bride wears white on her
wedding day as a symbol of happiness, for this is
the
most joyous day in her entire life.
Man: Why does the groom wear black?
Task
2
【答案】
Speakers
lst speaker
Preferences
French
Reasons
Melodic;
easy
on
the
ear;
poetic;
a
rhythm
to
the
language; rounded; no sharp, jagged
edges; pleasing
2nd speaker
Dane speaking English
Beautiful, low, sensitive, very soft quality
3rd speaker
French speaking English
Nice pronunciation
of
and
very
nice,
steady
rhythms; gentle; lyrical
4th
speaker
Mediterranean accents
Mediterranean
culture;
gives
English
life;
beautiful
mixture
of
the
serious
Northern
European
and
the
Southern European
Makes
her
smile;
sing-songy;
makes
her
want
to
imitate
5th speaker
Swedish accent
【原文】
Catherine: I think firstly I find the
French language, very melodic to listen to. It's
very easy on the
ear,
and
it
almost
sounds
poetic.
No
matter
what
kind
of
mood
the
individual
is
in,
who's talking, or what they're talking
about, there seems to be a rhythm to the language.
And it's rounded; there are no sharp,
jagged edges to the language, so it's very
pleasing
to the ear.
Chris: I think the accent I really like is the Dane speaking English. They sound awful when
they speak Danish, but when
they speak English there's a beautiful, low,
sensitive, very
soft quality about it.
Donald: I like the way they bring their
French pronunciation into English. They can't
pronounce
Also
I
like
the
rhythm:
they
bring
French
rhythms
into
English--nice,
steady
rhythms
and I like that too.
It's just it, it... whenever I hear a French
person speaking English it
sounds more
gentle and more lyrical.
Lesley: I
think the most attractive foreign accents for me
are Mediterranean accents because they,
if you like, import their own culture
into the English accent and give it a lot of life
that
sometimes, that kind of--the
gestures and everything that the English people
don't have,
so
you
get
a
beautiful
mixture
of
the
serious
Northern
European
and
the
Southern
European together.
Susan:
I
like
the
Swedish
accent
because
it,
it
makes
me
smile
and
the
way
it's
spoken
is
so
sing-songy that you can't help but
smile when other people actually speak it. And it
always
makes you want to try and put
the accent on yourself.
Task
3
【答案】
spelling;
meaning; history; a slab of ham; a lump of bread;
hunk of something to eat; a strong man;
a
book
of
maps;
the
top
bone
of
the
neck;
Olympians;
holding
the
sky
on
his
head
and
hands;
Sixteenth; on the cover of a book of
maps; blessing; I hope you will have a good night;
day
’
s eye
;
it has a little golden eye, like a tiny
sun; the English daisy closes at night; the
English loved their
daisies.
【原文】
The
spelling and meaning of words are very
interesting. But what's more interesting is the
history
of a word, or where it came
from. Let's examine some of the words and see how
they got into our
language.
LUNCH Lunch perhaps comes from an old Spanish word lonje, a slab of ham. We may also
get our word
from a form of lump, maybe a lump of bread, but
whether lunch comes from ham or
bread,
it meant a hunk of something to eat.
ATLAS An atlas is a strong man, and also a book of maps. The story of this word begins a
long
time
ago
in
Greece.
The
ancient
Greeks
believed
that
their
gods
had
once
been
a
race
of
giants
called
Titans.
The
Titans
fought
with
another
group
of
gods
called
Olympians,
and
the
Olympians won. Atlas was a
Titan. He was punished for fighting by having to
stand at the western
edge of the world,
holding the sky on his head and hands, so that it
would not fall on the world
and smash
anything.
After the ancient Greek religion died out, the idea of Atlas changed. From holding up the
sky
with
his
head
and
hands,
he
came
to
be
thought
of
as
holding
the
world
on
his
shoulders.
Mercator, a mapmaker
of the sixteenth century, used a picture of Atlas
on the cover of a book of
maps, so a
book of maps came to be called an atlas.
The
word
has
still
another
meaning.
The
top
bone
of
the
neck
is
called
atlas
because
it
supports the
head.
GOOD-BYE Good-bye is a blessing; originally it was God be with ye, and in the course of
time it became one word. Many of our
greetings are good wishes, but we say them with so
little
thought
that
we
forget
this. When
we
say
good
morning,
good evening,
good
night,
and
so
on,
what we are really
saying is,
DAISY
The
daisy
has
a
little
golden
eye,
like
a
tiny
sun.
Perhaps
this
is
the
reason
the
English
people
named
it
day's
eye,
or
perhaps
they
chose
the
name
because
the
English
daisy
closes at
night. The English loved their daisies, which were
pink and red, as well as white. Six
hundred years or so ago, the English
poet Chaucer said:
The daisy, or else the eye of the day,
The queen, and prettiest flower of all.
Task
4
【答案】
A.
1)
T
2) T
3) F
4) T
5) F
B.
1)
b
2) c
3) a
4) c
5) c
6) b
【原文】
MATTHEW:
Chris,
why
is
it
that
there
are
so
many
different
languages
,
and that
in
Europe
certainly
if
you
travel
more
than
a
hundred
miles
, you're
likely
to
find
people
speaking a completely different
language
to your own?
CHRIS:
Well, it's true to say that there are er ... hundreds and hundreds of different languages.
It's perhaps um . . . however , more
interesting and more informative to say that there
are
several
different
groups
of
languages
er . ..
Most
European
languages,with
the
exception of I think Finnish and er ..
. Basque and . . . Hungarian I believe,belong to
the Indo-European group of languages,
I'm not very sure myself of the . . . the actual
details of the history of these
languages, but you can be very sure that er ...
most of
these languages , say Latin and
Greek nd our own language a and er . . . German
and
er ... French and ... all the
others, are connected. The reason why you can
travel from
one Willage to another in
Switzerland and er . . . from one area to another
in England
and
find
different
dialects,
if
not
different
languages
spoken,
is
that
um ...
several
hundred years ago
communication was by word of mouth. Word of mouth
meant that
people had to move if
people were to move
they needed roads and there were no
roads.
MATTHEW:
Do you see any chance for a universal language like Esperanto?
CHRIS:
Not for an artificial er ... language, no ... I suppose
the Roman Catholic Church used
Latin. but Latin
had a ... a particular religious basis and this is
probably why it was
therefore chosen. I
don't see very much chance for Esperanto; I think
it's an awfully
good
idea
but
I
don't
believe
that
language
works
like
that.I
think
people
will
probably er
.. . work towards the most convenient language to
will not set
out
to
learn
a
new
language.
It
seems
to
me
that
er ...
either
English,.
Russian
or
Chinese,
perhaps
Japanese,
will
be
the
language
of
the
future
er . . .
My
bet's
on
English.
MATTHEW: Maggie, why do you think it is
that so few English people speak a second
language?
MAGGIE:
I think when you learn a language at school ...it tends to be
rather a dead occupation,
and
it's very difficult to stimulate any interest
among school children. But when you
actually go to the country and spend
say a month in . . . in an exchange visit when
you're a schoolgirl, or a schoolboy um
... then you suddenly become more interested
because you ... you want to communicate
with poeple when you're actually abroad,
and it's not safe to rely on the fact
that most people speak English when um . . . in
foreign countries.
Mm . . . I think English people traditionally thought that . . . that
foreigners always spoke
English, and a lot of foreigners do, but there are
people that
you meet in the street or
you want to take a bus somewhere,
then you find that you
need to speak the
language and'it's very unnerving to be in a
situation where you can't
communicate
with people when you do want to travel around.
MATTHEW:
Have you ever been abroad and learnt er ... a language in the country?
MAGGIE:
Yes , well when I was a secretary I er... went and lived in Geneva for two years, and
I learnt
French at school but I . . . I really didn't speak
it at all. I knew it theoretically
but
I wasn't able to communicate with people. But I
was in a situation where if I didn't
speak
French
,
then
I
would
not
have
been
able
to
do
my
shopping
and
buy
food ,and so I picked the language up
and I made friends with French people ... Swiss
French people, and I found that if I
wanted to communicate with all . . . all the
people
that
I
met
,
then
I
had
to
learn
French,
and
I
think
it's
the
best
method
of
learning
because you're in the situation. It's
very hard at times
—
you can sit through dinner
parties and not
understand what ... what's going on and you think
everybody thinks
you're stupid because
you can't communicate with them, but it's ... it's
the hard way
but I think it's the best
way to learn.
MATTHEW:
Elfriede, you come from Austria and yet you've been living in England now for the
last
three
years.
Has
having
to
learn
and
speak
another
language
created
great
problems?
ELFRIEDE:
Um ... At the beginning, yes, it was rather difficult for me to get the right job . . .
um. after you've lived here for one or
two years you get to know the system and then
that's quite good. You know how to use
libraries and oh .. . you get to know where to
um...
call
in
emergencies;
um ...
you
get
to
know ...
er ...trying
to
get
a
radio
and
understand the
radio and all the . . . programmes they have . . .
um and when they're
on and the little
stories.
MATTHEW:
What about English humour on the radio?
ELFRIEDE:
Um . . . I think that takes a very very long time to understand and I'm sorry to say
that
I
haven't
managed
yet
to
understand
it
completely,
but
er...
I
find
it
very
interesting
to
speak
other
languages
um ...
because
English
people
have
different
er ...have
a
different
mentality,
and
have
a
very
different
character
and
a
different
temperament and it is
fascinating for me to talk to them um... and also
for myself to
be able to express myself
in a different language and to communicate with
them.
Task
5
【答案】
1) A mother is
leaving instructions with her babysitter before
going out.
2) Wake up; give her the
dummy; give her a cuddle; sing to her; read her a
story; go back to sleep.
3) Two friends
are taking about their holiday together.
4) It reminds.., of... holiday; city;
wine; good food; tower; view; walking along the
river; paintings;
I love...; I like...;
I remember...
5) Two women are meeting
at a doctor
’
s waiting room.
6) It's diagnosed; have another look;
do something about...; go away; give.., for...;
it's your turn.
【原文】
Number 1
Fiona: Okay, Deek,
I'm off now. [Okay.] Everything's okay, is it?
Deek: Yes, I think so. The only thing
is... is she likely to wake up?
Fiona:
No, I don't think so. She doesn't usually, but...
Deek: What if she does?
Fiona: Well, yes. Don't. worry about
it. Her dummy's by the bed, so if you just pick
her up, give
her the dummy, give her a
little bit of a cuddle; [Yes.] sing to her if you
like.
Deek: Shall I read her a story or
something?
Fiona: Yes, anything like
that. [Yes.] Then she should just go back to sleep
again quite happily.
Deek: Okay.
Fiona: Oh! And I've left stuff for you
in the fridge. There's some salad and cold chicken
and some
beer as well. Okay then?
Deek: Right then. Bye.
Fiona: Bye-bye.
Number 2
Lesley: Ah ... it's such a lovely day.
It reminds me of last week, doesn't it you?
Fiona: Oh don't! I mean that
was just so fantastic, that holiday!
Lesley: I love that city, you know.
Fiona: I do too. Really, it's
got something about it, a certain sort of charm
...
Lesley: Mm, and all that
wine and good food ...
Fiona:
And so cheap. Right, I mean, compared to here ...
Lesley: Yes, although the shops
are expensive.
Fiona: Mm, yes.
Lesley: I mean, really I bought
nothing at all. I just ate and ate and drank and
drank.
Fiona: I know. Wasn't
that lovely?
Lesley: Yes, and
I, I go there. I like listening to the people
talking, sitting outside drinking wine.
Fiona: Yes. Could
you understand what they were saying? When they were speaking quickly,
I
mean.
Lesley: Well, it is difficult, of
course. And then I liked that tower, too.
Fiona: You liked that tower? I'm not
sure about it, really. (No) It's very unusual,
right in the centre
of the city.