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大学思辨英语精读备课Unit 1

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Unit 1 Trust and Character



Text A Do You Like It Here?


(The story was published in 1939)



Words and phrases expected of students to understand


phooey: int. (informal): used to express disgust or contempt


eyeshade: a visor worn on heard for protection against glare


en suite: adj. adv. in or as a part of a set


make rounds of: to go from place to place (for inspection)


bawl out (at sb)


swing around: turn around (as if on a hinge or pivot)


torture tactics:



proceed: go on


halt: stop or pause


throw in: to insert or introduce into the course of something


gratuitously



free of charge; (unnecessarily, without apparent reason)


certified public accountant (CPA)


peripatetic: walking or travelling about


on account of: because of, for the sake of


imposing: very impressive


in some small measure


abiding: lasting for a long time, enduring


institute (a search)


(turn)yellow: (slang) cowardly


givesb one’s word of honor


: solemn promise, a


verbal commitment


agreeing to


do or not to do sth. in the future



Preparatory Work


1.



John O’Hara (1905


-1970),


a keen observer of social status and class differences,


and wrote frequently about the socially ambitious. His father died at that time,


leaving him unable to afford Yale, the college of his choice. By all accounts, this


disappointment affected O'Hara deeply for the rest of his life and served to hone


the keen sense of social awareness that characterizes his work. He worked as a


reporter for various newspapers. He garnered much critical acclaim for his short


stories, more than 200 of which, beginning in 1928, appeared in


The New Yorker


.


In 1934, O'Hara published his first novel,


Appointment in Samarra


, which was


acclaimed on publication. This is the O'Hara novel that is most consistently


praised by critics. Ernest Hemingway wrote:


who knows exactly what he is writing about and has written it marvelously well,


read


Appointment in Samarra.



the other hand, writing in the


Atlantic Monthly


of March 2000, critic Benjamin


Schwarz and writer Christina Schwarz claimed:


world's scorn for John O'Hara that the inclusion ... of


Appointment in Samarra


on


the Modern Library's list of the 100 best [English-language] novels of the


twentieth century was used to ridicule the entire project.


The epitaph on his tombstone, which he wrote himself, reads:


else, he told the truth about his time. He was a professional. He wrote honestly


and well.


self-defensive and overbearing. Better than anyone else? Not merely better than


any other writer of fiction but better than any dramatist, any poet, any biographer,


any historian? It is an astonishing claim.


John O'Hara




2.


A conversational style and dispassionate voice.




3.


Psychological bullying is often difficult to ignore. Bullies torment their victims in


many ways. Tormenting them is not enough, they have to humiliate them and ridicule


their victims as well. Bullies use words to destroy their victims, and these words can


hurt worse than a physical blow. People often say, “Sticks and stones may hurt my


bones, but words will never hurt”. In today’s society,


this phrase is simply not true.


Words


do


hurt,


and


they


do


destroy


lives.


Psychological


bullying


destroys


the


character of their victim. The bully makes the victim the center of his abuse. In other


words, the bully takes his or her anger and frustration out on the victim.




4.


The Phi Beta Kappa key


is one of this nation's most distinctive symbols and, in fact,


traces its origins to the era of the American Revolution. Conceived in 1776 by a group


of talented undergraduates at the College of William and Mary as an emblem of their


secret


conviction that


created encompassed more of the nation's finest colleges and universities, its key


became a universally recognized mark of academic achievement in the liberal arts and


sciences.


KEYS




the third degree


:


a situation in which someone tries to find out information by asking


you a lot of questions



eg. If I'm even half an hour late she gives me the third degree.


I got the third degree from my dad when I got in last night.



give(someone) the lowdown on (something)


:


To provide someone with specific or


comprehensive details about someone, something, or some situation.



eg.


Give


me


the


lowdown


on


what


the


boss


is


planning


to


do


about


the


company's


falling profits.



I'm waiting for my brother to give me the lowdown on Geoffrey before I go on a


date with him.



There's been a shakeup in the company's upper management, but we won't know


how we're affected until the boss gives us the lowdown.




West Point


:


A US military installation in southeast New York on the western bank of


the Hudson River north of New York City. It has been a military post since 1778 and


the seat of the US Military Academy since 1802.




Second


Form


:


an


English


term


for


an


equivalent


of


the


7


th



or


8


th



grade


in


American schools. (also see sixth form: the term refers to the final two years of


secondary


education


in


the


education


system


of


England


and


other


commonwealth countries)



day


school


:


as


opposed


to


a


boarding


school,


it


is


an


institution


where


children


(or


high-school


age


adolescents)


are


given


educational


instruction


during


the


day,


after


which children return to their homes.



boarding school


:


a school where some or all people study and live during the school


year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word


'boarding'


is


used


in


the


sense


of



and


board,


i.e.,


lodging


and


meals.


Many


independent (private) schools in the Commonwealth of Nations are boarding schools.


Boarding


school


pupils


(a.k.a.



normally


return


home


during


the


school


holidays and, often, weekends, but in some cultures may spend the majority of their


childhood and adolescent life away from their families. In the United States, boarding

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