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英语视听学习材料Boston Legal Lead-inStudents are having a tough time studying in order to get into a better university which probably will lead to a better-off future. Suppose: If a student studied so hard that he or she run into a car accident because of lack of proper sleep. Who do you think is to be blamed for this situation? What measure should be taken to stop this from happening again? Video clip from Boston Legal Season 4 Episode 14 (25:5529:00)Which side do you take? Who do you think is more convincing? If you were the judge, who would you favor? Words and expressions: Moan n. 呻吟；vi发出呻吟-抱怨Motivated adj. 有动机，有理由，有。推动的，motive n. 动机-motivate v. 有动机激发的-motivated 没有动力的Epidemic n. 流行病Middle-class, upper-class and affluent schools: 中产阶级，上流阶级和富人区的学校Teenage depression 青少年抑郁症The third leading cause: 第三大原因 -第一大原因：The number 1 leading cause of Drowsy driving (疲劳驾驶)-drunk driving （醉酒驾驶）Sleep deprived: 睡眠不足 deprive sb. of sth. 剥夺某人。学生们被作业压得喘不过气来，失去了童年的快乐。The heavy load of homework has deprived the students of their happy childhood. 统计表明80%以上的农民工都有健康问题。Statistic shows that more than 80% of the farmer workers are health deprived. A multitude of medical issues: 各种健康问题 医生警告说长期处于过度疲劳状态会引发各种健康问题。 Doctors warn that chronic fatigue will lead to multitude of medical issues. Twice likely to do . 。的可能性比。高出一倍What the hells going on? 这到底是怎么了？（用于表示强烈的情绪）Grade: 分数； score 分数Fried adj. 油炸的 French fry 薯条- get fried 被榨干了，搞砸了 Hows the exam? -Im fried. Burn out: 烧尽了-【引】累坏了In no condition to do sth. 不适合。 考虑到身体状况，他不适合从事这项工作。 Considering his physical health, he is in no condition for this job/ to do the job. Take a toll： 。需要付出（生命，金钱，时间）的代价醉驾会导致人们付出生命的代价。 Drunk driving takes a toll of human life.All these stuffs our kids are doing to get them ahead are setting them back.我们的孩子所作的一切努力不仅没有让他们进步，却让他们退步。This is a much bigger picture than high school. 这是大环境而不仅仅是高中。Do whatever it takes to get ahead. 为了成功不惜一切代价。Script: Woman: Weve all heard the moan of the modern day high school teachers. My kids aint motivated. They dont want to learn. And, and thats real, but we got another epidemic especially in the middle-class, upper-class and affluent schools. Its called teenage depression. A resent study at the Center for Disease Control found that 17% of kids in Grade 9 to 12 have seriously considered suicide. What?! 17%! It is now the third leading cause of death for teenagers. Some experts say that drowsy driving is as deadly as drunk driving. 80% of teenagers today are sleep deprived. This now that weve learn losing sleep will cause a multitude of medical issues, not just depression but anxiety, weakening of the immune system, ADHD. High stress teens are twice likely to smoke, drink, use drugs. What the hells going on? Our kids are over-stressed, over-scheduled because its all about getting the grade, getting into a good college. Oh, they were arriving at college, by the way, fried. Princeton is now considering of recommending a gap year between high school and college, because freshmen are showing up burned out, in no condition to learn. Why, in Gods name, do we have to teach AP courses in high school? These are college courses! Whatever happens should be waiting for college. And the answer can be we have to offer them because other schools are. Is all the work those stressed-out kids are doing in correlation between happiness, success and getting into the right school? None. Meanwhile, the kids are missing all those fun. They are teenagers. Its taking a physical and emotional toll. The neuroscience and multi-tests show it hurts the brain. It dumps us down. All these stuffs our kids are doing to get them ahead are setting them back. Samantha Joseph ended up dead. Man: This is a much bigger picture than high school. Its our nations power culture did that. Do whatever it takes to get ahead. The athletes take steroid, the students pop (一种使人兴奋的药物). Selected politicians engaged in dirty politics. Its all about winning. And parents? They want their children to win. And maybe theres no correlation between success and Harvard, but they want their kids to go to Harvard just the same. They look at their friends kids and their neighbors kids and they want their own kids to be better then, because we are a nation of winners. Samantha Joseph perhaps died in part because she was doing too much to succeed in a competitive world. Yet, ask any parents what they want most. Its prepare my teen to succeed in a competitive worldWatch it again!How is it achieved? WOMAN：Moaning of high school teachers - Teenage depression -Why? Quotation: CDC statistics on teenage suicide rate Cause and effect: lack of sleep and the serious consequence of it To get a better grade and enter a better university -happiness and success Quotation： Princeton University indicates no connection here Quotation from authorities: neurological studyMAN: To enlarge the target -take partial blame to show sincerityNot only high school but the whole society to blameThe country is a country of winners - Asking for the common sense Skills used to make the argument more convincing: Quotation Cause and effect Watch it again and try to capture the pronunciation and intonation of the speakers. Pay attention to the stresses and pauses. Words and expressions from Season 4 Episode 3:teenage pregnancy 青少年怀孕There is no evidence that 没有证据表明没有足够的证据表明他是错的There is no enough evidence to prove him wrong. Incline to do sth. 倾向于去做。Antibiotics n. 抗生素 anti- 反。，对抗。；-bio- 生物的Fatal adj. 知名的Vaccine n. 疫苗Treatment n. 治疗方案，药物，治疗Sb. have （no） stomach for sth. (不)想做。【指对。（没）有某种野心】我可不想当总统。I have no stomach for presidency. Profound adj. 深切的 profound sorrow 深切的歉意 【正式，书面表达法】Corrupt adj. 贪污腐败的。Corruption n. Alter v. 改变= change 【正式表达法】； 【引申】alternative n. 二选一中的一个选择，可供选择的办法In the face of that, all I can only think of is 面对这种种，我唯一能想到的就是。Boston Legal S4第3集Alan Shore为因受禁欲教育而未使用避孕套性交最终感染HIV病毒的十五岁女孩辩护的精彩结案陈词：This case isnt about teenage pregnancy. She didnt get pregnant. She got H. I. V. I can see why youd want to make it about teenage pregnancy since? Well, actually, I cant.这个案子跟青少年怀孕无关。她没有怀孕，而是染了艾滋病毒。我能理解你为何就青少年怀孕的问题大做文章，因为.实际上，我却不能！The United States has the worst teen pregnancy rate of any industrialized nation. And contrary to what Mr. Jovanka would like us to believe. There is no evidence whatsoever that suggests using condoms or teaching students about condoms makes them any more inclined to have sex. None.美国的青少年怀孕比率，比任何工业化国家都要高，而Jovanka先生想让我们相信的，却恰恰相反。根本没有证据表明，提倡避孕套的使用或是教育学生们避孕套的知识，会让他们有发生性行为的倾向，完全没有！Theyre already inclined to have sex and have been since early puberty. Theyre simply going to do it. We all do it. Birds do it. Bees do it. Educated fleas do it. One day, your honor, even you- -yes, the fact is this case has nothing to do with the efficacy of abstinence only programs【只教学生禁欲理论】. This case is about religion, politics and federal funding. Our present administration, in blind service to the religious right, has transcended the separation of church and state and consistently implemented a faith - based political and moral mandate. And now that same policy has been passed on to our educational system. If schools teach abstinence only, they get federal funding. If they teach any other type of sex education, they don t. And as a result, the students in these abstinence only programs arent being taught the truth about that magnificent technological marvel -the condom.他们打从青春期初期，就开始对性憧憬，他们早晚都要有性行为，我们都是！鸟也这样，蜜蜂也这样，有点常识的跳蚤都会这么做。终有一天，即使，您.（指的是尚是处男的法官）问题是，这个案子与禁欲教育的功效毫无关系，而重点在于宗教、政治和联邦基金。我们当前的执政管理无视信仰的权益，逾越了政教分离这一政策，还一味的执行一套自行推崇的政治及道德准则。而现在，同样的准则已经被执行到教育系统里，如果学校强执禁欲校规，就可以得到联邦基金的资助，如果他们进行其他的性教育，他们就一毛钱拿不到。所造成的结果就是：接受禁欲教育的学生却没有被告知，崇高、有效、又为人惊叹的避孕套的用途。Thats not a dirty word, your honor. Condoms. They first came on the scene some 3,000 years ago in Egypt. For centuries they went merrily along in modified forms, warding off syphilis【医，梅毒】, gonorrhea,【医，淋病】 preventing unplanned pregnancies, until science and medicine eventually caught up and the pill became a much more effective, less intrusive contraceptive【避孕用具】. Penicillin【青霉素】 and other antibiotics were miracle cures for gonorrhea and syphilis. The poor, humble condom languished【文学，衰退】.这又不是啥脏字儿，法官大人，避孕套。它们最早 出现在三千年前的埃及。它们以被改良后的形状为人们造福了几个世纪，让人们免于梅毒、淋病以及意外怀孕的困扰，直到后来医药科学迎头赶上，避孕药成为了更有功效并减少侵扰性的避孕措施。而盘尼西林及其他抗生素可以神奇的扼杀梅毒和淋病的病毒，可怜又卑微的避孕套被冷落了。And then came A. I. D. S? This? Terrifying new disease that panicked the world. For many years, it has been fatal, gruesomely so in every case. There was no vaccine, no cure, no treatment. But there were condoms, and they worked and they protected both partners. The condom is arguably the single most important invention of the past 2,000 years. In fact, it has been said without exaggeration that the health of the world depends on them.然后却杀出了个艾滋病这一让世界惊颤的新生疾病.曾经在多年期间，此病的每个病例都是致命的、可怖的，没有疫苗、没有治愈方法、没有疗法，但是有避孕套在啊，它们有效。它们使用起来安全，经过时间的考验，用法简易，能保护使用双方。避孕套正是过去两千年间唯一一个毋庸置疑的最重要的发明，实际上有一种未加夸张的说法世界的健康都靠它们！Now one would think that the obvious choice would be for schools to tell their students as much. But Abbys school- - indeed, all schools that teach abstinence only- - have chosen to lie. They teach that condoms are ineffective at preventing pregnancies, which is a lie. They teach that condoms are ineffective at preventing diseases, which is a lie. Some of the literature actually compares using a condom to playing Russian roulette, which is a frightening, despicable, unforgivable lie.说到这儿，有人会想，显而易见的方法就是让学校来教育学生这些，但是Abby的学校，及其他进行禁欲教育 的学校却选择了说谎。他们误导学生说避孕套不能避免怀孕，这就是个谎言。他们还说避孕套不能防预疾病，这还是个谎言。还有些读物将使用避孕套比作是玩俄罗斯轮盘赌，这更是一个令人发指、卑鄙并不能让人原谅的谎言!Abby Holt has H.I.V., Which in all likelihood will develop into A.I.D.S. Weve sort of forgotten about A.I.D.S. in this country. Treatments have improved dramatically. Drugs are keeping people alive for many years after they become infected. But the grim butchers bill for this pandemic still keeps growing and growing. 65 million people worldwide have become infected. Onetime unprotected sex can kill you. A condom can save you. It is inconceivable that every child in the world werent taught that. We should be in criminal court 【法律，刑事法庭】 this very moment, trying this obscenely duplicitous school for conspiracy to commit murder.Abby Holt感染了艾滋病毒，并将进一步发展为艾滋病。我们对艾滋病似乎有些遗忘了，针对这一疾病的疗法有了极大的进步，人们一旦染病，靠药物的维持可以生存很多年。但因这一全球流行的疾病而丧命的人数依旧在不停的上涨，全世界有六千五百万人染有此病。仅一次没有保护措施的性行为就可以让你丧命，但一个避孕套可以让你逃过一劫。不将这一点教育给全世界的每一个孩子的后果是不可想象的。我们现在应该身处刑事法庭，起诉这间猥亵、奸诈的学校，蓄谋谋杀！But frankly, I have no stomach for that. I think of the horror that has been inflicted on this 15- year-old girl, and Im just so profoundly sad. I can point out the evils of this corrupt system. I can tell you how effective condoms are, the lives they save on and on and