darling是什么意思大学英语综合教程4课文summary

2021年1月20日发(作者：马马虎虎)
U1 AR2
This
is
an
informal
and
personalized
account
of
an
economic
graduate
who
gets
a
job
in
a
pub
for
a
year
and
then
has
an
opportunity
to
be
successful (a lucky break). Since her family can
’
t support her to further
study, she has to work. She has financial problems and feels lonely. She
tells
her
troubles
to
Tony,
a
regular
customer
of
the
pub,
who
talks
to
some friends and gets her a loan to set up a business. With this help she
has her master
’
s degree and her own company. The situation, however,

is reversed: Tony is disabled after an accident and needs the repayment
of the loan to adapt his house for his disability.


U2 AR1
Reading
is
a
life- changing
activity.
It
helps
us
enter
a
new
world
and
liberate us from the real world we come from; it stimulates our emotions
and allows us enjoy and celebrate the variety and difference from books;
it aids us to get out of confusion in a material world and to discover the
real meaning of the life. Simply put, books are supremely influential in
the way we live.

Homerun book might be the answer for the book that everyone should
read. It describes the first reading experience that induces such pleasure
and satisfaction that you cannot put it down and it may range from the
classics to the most recent. Everyone is looking for their own homerun
books. And what is yours?


U2 AR2
Henry
Miller
depicts
the
struggle
waged to
obtain
books
when
he
was
young, and then introduces the reason that makes a book live
—
that is,
the
passionate
recommendation
of
one
reader
to
another.
In
his
eyes,
books are one of the few possessions men cherished deeply, but if you
lend it to others, it makes friends for you. He continues to suggest that
the vast majority of books overlap what others say, so read as little as
possible.
He
then
advises
such
a
way
to
test
his
suggestion
—
that
is,
leave a book alone, but think as intensely as possible and if you decide to
read, observe with what extraordinary acumen you tackle it and realize
that very little of the books is really new to you.

U3 AR1
No
history
of
fashion
in
the
years
1960
to
2010
can
overlook
or
underestimate two constant factors: jeans and hemlines.
Jeans evolved from the work clothes in the Californian gold rush in the
mid-19th
century
to
a
symbol
of
youth,
new
ideas,
rebellion
and
individuality with its expansion to Europe and Asia in late 1950s.

Then
the
hippie
movement
of
the
mid-1960s
and
early
1970s
and
the
punk period had impact on the design of jeans.

In the mid-1980s, denim remained popular with the young. But the late
1980s
saw
jeans
not
at
all
what
Levi
Strauss
originally
intended
while
from 2000, designer jeans gained huge popularity.

While jeans came to be popular on the worldwide scale, hemlines have a
more peculiar significance (with only a few indicator) as an exceptions of
economy, i.e., as the stock market rises, so do hemlines, and when it falls,
so do they.
The
1960s
witnessed
the
miniskirt
by
Mary
Quant
whereas
the
mid-1980s saw knee-length skirts
–

the economy was unstable.
Gradually
hemlines
started
to
rise
again...until
the
world
stock
market
crash
in
1987.

Then
in
January
2000
the
New
York
technology
stock
market collapsed. As usual, so did hemlines. But merely one year later,
the
stock
market
began
to
recover,
and
the
micro
miniskirt
returned.
Hemlines were higher than they had been for many years.
But from 2007, hemlines were no longer following the stock market.
In conclusion, the constant factors over 1960s and 2010 are denim and
hemlines
and
the
greatest
influences
have
been
a
19th-century
Californian clothes manufacturer and a
young designer in the swinging

London of the 1960s.

U4 AR1