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Unit Three Text A The Three New Yorks Warming - up lWhere are you from? If you come from other places, whats your opinion on the city of Nanjing? Whats your opinion on the local residents and migrants in this city? lDescribe the city that impresses you the most. Describe the local residents and migrants in that city. About the author lElwyn Brooks “E. B.“ White (July 11, 1899 - October 1, 1985)1 was an American writer, best known as the author of childrens books Charlottes Web. True or False Questions lAccording to the writer, commuters are the greatest New Yorks. lCommuters are too busy to enjoy the city of New York. lWhen the train is buried in the mud at the bottom of the East River, commuters would become quite anxious. lCommuters have to work as hard as local residents to climb the career ladder. lEven people who have no real independence of spirit can find in New York a protection. About the title lWhat does New York in the title mean? Does it refer to the city or people living in this city? Why? Paragraph 1-2: three kinds of New Yorks lThere is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. (natives) lParaphrase: The first New York of the man or woman was the local residents, who was born and brought up here, and naturally accepts New York as a large and chaotic metropolis as it is. lSecond, there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. (commuters) lDiscussion: Why did the writer compare this New York as locusts? Why did they come New York ? lMetaphor lThird, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. (settlers) lIn your opinion, what did they search for in this city? Of the three New Yorks, which one is the greatest? Why? lThe third accounts for the citys high-strung disposition poetical deportment dedication to the arts Incomparable achievements Commuters, tidal restlessness. Natives, solidity and continuity. Settlers, passion. lThe second paragraph gives some examples of the commuters. Can you summarize this paragraph in one sentence? lIt is not the background but the commuters love, adventuring spirit, dreams and contributions that make the city of New York different. lWhether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference; la young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors lSay by way of comment l评论； l一位为了逃避被邻居指指点点的屈辱从密西西 比州的一个小镇远道而来的少女 la boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart lSee Note 3 Corn Belt Paragraph 3-4: The life of commuters in New York lTopic sentence: The commuter is the queerest bird of all. The suburb he inhabitates The city of New York Further elaboration: Para 4 lThe commuter is the queerest bird of all. lMetaphor lThe commuter is the most unusual person of all. l The suburb he inhabits has no essential vitality of its own and is a mere roost where he comes at days end to go to sleep. lBranch, pole, etc. where a bird or a hen rests on l栖身之处 lExcept in rare cases, the man who lives in Mamaroneck or little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses, and the path to a quick lunch. ldiscovers about the city only lHe is deck-bound, and has never, idly roaming in the gloaming, stumbled suddenly on Belvedere Tower in the park, seen the ramparts rise sheer from the water of the pond and the boys along the shore fishing for minnows, girls stretched out negligently on the shelves of the rocks; lHe is always taking bus or ship, or train lStumble on = find unexpectedly or by chance Belvedere Tower in Central Park lHe has never come suddenly on anything at all in New York as a loiterer, because he had no time between trains. lMeet or see by chance lHe has fished in Manhattans wallet and dug out coins, but has never listened to Manhattans breathing, never awakened to its morning, never dropped off to sleep in its night. lSee note 6; lDrop off to sleep = fall asleep Paragraph 4: analyzing sentences lAbout 400,000 men and women come charging onto the Island each weekday morning, out of the mouths tubes and tunnels. lMetaphor lin the great rustling oaken silence of the reading room of the Public Library, l在公众图书馆静得只能听到橡树叶的沙沙声的 阅览室中 lPublic Library lThey tend their furnaces in Westchester and in Jersey, but have never seen the furnaces of the Bowery, the fires that burn in oil drums on zero winter nights. lTake care of lThey may work in the financial district downtown and never see the extravagant plantings of Rockefeller Center the daffodils and grape hyacinths and birches of the flags trimmed to the wind on a fine morning in spring. lRockefeller Center lThe commuter dies with tremendous mileage to his credit, but he is no rover. His entrances and exits are more devious than those in a prairie-dog village; lTo his honor lwinding l通勤者死时值得骄傲的是巨大的汽车里程数，但他不 是一位漫游者。他上下班路上的入口和出口比场拔鼠 的聚居地的出入口还要迂回曲折。 Paragraph 5 lTopic sentence: lThe terrain of New York is such that a resident sometimes travels farther, in the end, than a commuter. lDiscussion: What does this mean? Do they just travel in terms of distance? How does the writer further elaborate this point? lLuo Jiahui: The cottage where his grandfather live as a servant was only yards away from the Governors official mansion of Washington State, but his family took a century to complete the trip. lLuo Jiahui, ex-governor of Washing State, ambassador of USA to China lIrving Berlin (May 11, 1888 September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest American songwriters in history. lHe was born in Russia, and settled down in New York later. Paragraph 6 lWhat gift does the City of New York give to commuters? Whats the significance of this gift? lNew York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy on any person who desires such queer prizes. Paraphrase lIt is this largeness that accounts for the presence within the citys walls of a considerable section of the population; for the residents of Manhattan are to a large extent strangers who have pulled up stakes somewhere and come to town, seeking sanctuary or fulfillment or some greater or