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Russell Baker,Unit 8 In My Day,Warming-up,What is the meaning of the title? Who tend to use the expression very often? Why do they often say this? Never trust anyone over thirty!,Oral topic,What is the most memorable thing you did with your family? What are the similarities between yourself & your parents? What about the differences?,mothers problems,unable to understand his mother,unable to understand his own children,generation gap; causes and solutions,disconnection between parents & children,family bond,generation gap,aging problem,Becoming old,Can you use some adjectives to describe the young and the old? What are the advantages and disadvantages to be young and to be old? Are you afraid of being old?,Generation Gap,A generation gap describes a vast difference in cultural norms between a younger generation and their elders. According to the dictionary definition by free search, the generation gap occurs when older and younger people do not understand each other because of their different experiences, habits, opinions and behavior.,Every generation has its own youth culture, which contributes to the generation gap. Match the following items.,the 50s,Rock and roll, Beatniks,the 60s,Counterculture,the 70s & 80s,the 90s,It is the responsibility of both parents and children to bridge the generation gap. On the one hand, young people should have more interest and respect of what their parents stand for. On the other hand, old people should show understanding to young peoples great interest in the future. The old should not start lecturing the young always with the expression “in my day”.,About author,Russell Baker,A columnist for The New York Times, where he applies his unique brand of humor to social commentary. The present text is taken from Russell Bakers autobiography, Growing Up, which won him the second Pulitzer Prize in 1983. With a moving mix of humor and sadness, Baker insightfully recounts the struggles the family endured in depression-era after his father passed away (when Baker was only 5).,The books greatest achievement is Bakers portrayal of his mother, a driven woman haunted by poverty and dreams of her sons success. “I would make something of myself,” he wrote, “and if I lacked the grit to do it, well then she would make me make something of myself.” The Los Angeles Times Book Review called Growing Up, “a wondrous book, funny, sad, and strong.as funny and touching as Mark Twains.”,Structure,New words,Read new words Affluent circumstance/family/country/neighborhood/imagination/fortune Amount: Her answer amounted to a complete refusal. Artery/vein Axe: set the axe to/give sb. the axe,Caution: cautionary( mark,sign,light) :road up/work area caution money Caution against Ceremonial procession/speech/dress/ushrette Customary/occasional Customary practice/packing/procedure Eternal( rest/sleep/ flame/life/glory/wound/frost/eternal and unchanging truth Exemplary (role,student,service),Fantastic(scheme/fanshion/drama/idea) Fatigue,sleep off ones fatigue; exhaustion Fierce ( competition/debate/battle/tiger/dog) Brutal/ruthless/inhuman Flagging (strength,interest,enthusiasm) Formidable(task,project,challenge,opponent,natural condition) Hazy: beams/picture/image Be hazy about/eye-sight Interrogate: the defendant,Macaroni Mend: least said, soonest mended. Its never too late to mend./mend or end Palm: palmist/palmistry Radiant: energy/smile Resignation: resign from office ,post/resign to Senility( syndrome) senile change/plaque老人/cataract白内障 Stun,astound,petrify:stonelike stunt Trip over P186,The big screen shows live data of gross merchandise volume of the 2015 Tmall Global Shopping Festival on Nov 11, 2015.,The company saw its gross merchandise volume reach 10 billion yuan ($1.57 billion) within 12minutes and 28 seconds after the festival started on Nov 11. Last year, it took 38 minutes and 28 seconds to reach that mark. Although it is the seventh year for Alibaba to throw such big online sales event, some of the earlystatistics suggested that consumers are getting increasingly crazy about it, rather than being tiredof the eye-catching discounts and coupons.,The retail giants unaudited figures showed that it generated 30 billion yuan in gross merchandizevolume within 1 hour and 14 minutes this year, compared to nearly 11 hours in 2014. Zhang Jianfeng, who is in charge of Alibabas retail business unit, said the sales of this year is beyond expectation. “Some of the brands have sold more than 60 percent of their stockings andsome have already sold out,“ he said in the early morning on Wednesday.,review,这正如所认为的那样是一件值得高度称赞和仿效的事情。 Its highly laudable and exemplary a thing as it is held to be. 他的热情丝毫未减。 His enthusiasm was in no way flagging. 我摸不清你的用意何在。 I am rather hazy as to what your purpose.,他因听到这突然的消息而目瞪口呆。 He was stunned by the sudden news. 她母亲不赞成她穿透明的内衣。 Her mother disapproves of her wearing transparent underwear. 他生在富裕人家。 He was born at an affluent family.,Detailed Analysis part one (P1-9) key word: last fall,In paragraph one, whats mothers disease? What was his mothers state of mind after her last bad fall? senile dementia 老年痴呆症 He was probably senile. I did what he wanted. 他的年龄可能有些大，所以我听从了他的要求。 And I cant believe you told me that she was senile! 让我难以置信的是你说她痴呆！,On others she presided over family dinners cooked on Sunday afternoons for children who were now gray with age. (para. 1) preside over/at: be the chairman (at); sit at the head of the table (at a formal dinner) with: because of His face was blue with angry. She was beaming with excitement. Her fingers were numb with cold.,Through all this she lay in bed but moved across time, traveling among the dead decades with a speed and ease beyond the gift of physical science. the present participle phrase as adverbial of attending circumstances, traveling among the past decades so quickly and easily that no physical science would be able to manage to do it,她飞快、自如地在已逝去的岁月里穿越，这些依靠自然科学可做不到。,Beyond 超过，无法 Its beyond me. Beyond oneself. Beyond expression/endurance/thought/comparison/word/belief/discussion无讨论余地 /control/question/praise夸不胜夸 /example空前的 Nursing home nursing home n.（名词） A private establishment that provides living quarters and care for the elderly or the chronically ill. 私人疗养院：为老人或慢性病患者提供住处和护理的私人机构 care home 比较少用，可以翻译成护理院。,Oral practice,Will you send your parents to the nursing home when they become senile? Will you choose to live in the nursing home when you become senile?,She gazed at this improbably overgrown figure out of an inconceivable future and promptly dismissed it. (4),to refuse to accept that something might be true,impossible to comprehend or grasp fully,to grow beyond normal size,She looked steadily at me and could not recognize me because I was much too big for the son in her mind. She simply could not imagine the distant future when her little Russell would be that tall and big. Therefore, she immediately put that thought out of her mind.,Are you coming to my funeral today? Im being buried today. What are you talking about, for Gods sake? sake: for any sake, 无论如何for old sakes sake, 看着老交情的份上 without sake 无缘无故,Detailed Analysis P（10-15） key word: personality,straight- forward,strong-willed,energetic,never defeated by life,I tell people exactly whats on my mind, ,She was a formidable woman, determined to speak her mind, determined to have her way, ,She had hurled herself at life with an energy that made her seem always on the run.,life was combat, and victory was not to the lazy, the timed, the drugstore cowboy, ,It showed in that angry challenging thrust of the chin when she issued an opinion, and a great one she had always been for issuing opinions. (p.10) This character trait of hers was shown when she expressed an opinion. She would stick out her chin angrily and defiantly. Whenever she had something to say, she would say it, never afraid of speaking her mind. 她发表观点时，总是气鼓鼓地、挑战性地抬起下巴。这表情充分显现出这种性格。她一贯勇于发表自己的看法。,on the run (p.14) a. while you are busy or hurrying b. trying to hide or escape from sb.,especially the police c. in a weak position in an argument or competition Examples: I had to eat lunch on the run today. A dangerous criminal is on the run in the bay area of the city. Labor has the Conservatives on the run.,run a run of good/bad luck a run on sth. break into a run give sb. a good run for their money have a (good) run for your money in the long/short run,一连串的好运/倒霉事 抢购 开始跑 让对手竭尽全力才获胜 充分得到的应得的报偿 从长远/短期来看,on ones mind (p.15) to keep thinking about and worrying about sth. Examples: You seem quiet today. Do you have anything on your mind? Work is very much on her mind at the moment.,be in (of) two minds about sth. bear in mind get sth./sb. out of ones mind have sth./sb. in mind keep your mind on out of sight, out of mind speak your mind Great minds think alike.,拿不定主意 记住 把某事/某人置于脑后 心中考虑到某事/某人 专心于 眼不见，心不烦 直言不讳 英雄所见略同,Oral practice,Did you ever lose your temper to your father or mother? whats the ideal relation between children and their parents? parents & children, friends & friends, tutors & pupils, supervisors & ones being supervised, superiors & subordinate, guides & tourists,review,请帮我算一下我的所得税。 Please help me to figure out my income tax. 你所做的已经超出了你的能力。 What you want to do is beyond your ability. 绝不要为金钱而做坏事。 Never do wrong for the sake of money. 他长著一对招风耳. His ears stick out.,新版人民币昨天开始发行。 The new version of RMB has begun to issue yesterday. 万一你的护照找不到的话，他们会给你补发新护照的。 They can issue you a new passport in case it doesnt show up. 小偷已在逃一个月了。 The robbers have been on the run for a month. 母亲为准备汤姆的婚礼已经马不停蹄忙了整整一星期。 Mom has been on the run all week preparing for Toms wedding.,Part three p16-38 key word: diagnosis understanding,Question:How did the author react to his mothers senility from a sons point of view? Scan the text and list out the related information.,at the beginning,later,I could not accept the inevitable. My impulse was to argue her back to reality.,I soon stopped trying to argue her back to what I considered the real world. (I)tried to travel along with her on those fantastic journeys into the past.,Question: What made the author change his reaction to his mothers senility?,At the beginning, he tried to argue his mother back to reality from his point of view because he believed that his mother being a normal person would be better for her and her family. But later when he began to look at it from his mothers point of view, he understood his mother was much happier when she could travel back to her childhood when she was loved and needed. So he would like to travel along with her into her past and understood his mother more.,But now the running was over. (p14),whats meaning of the sentence? Whats over? Whats inevitable? Death is inevitable. 死是不可避免的。 He greeted us with his inevitable smile. 他照例笑着招呼我们。 inevitable adj. inescapable doomed fated unavoidable certain,argue her back to reality,What does the author want to do? They tried to argue him into joining them. 他们试图说服他参加。 We argued her out of going on such a dangerous journey. 我们说服她不要去作这样危险的旅行。 Im not going to argue with you tonight. 我今晚不想与你争辩。 We argued the matter over for hours. 我们为这事辩论了几小时。,doctor came by (p24),why dont you come by your office tomorrow to sign the lease?你为何不明天顺道来你的办公室签下合约？ A good friend is hard to come by . 一个好的朋友是很难得到的。,P(24-30) Whats the additional meaning about that mother failed completely in oral quizzes and that mother memorized the past correctly? doctors diagnosis: hopeless senility, hardening of arteries My diagnosis: ferocity fighting against life, turning to rage against the weakness, boredom, and the absence of love what about the psychology of the elderly?,P33 sons understanding,silver lining a hopeful or comforting prospect in the midst of difficulty Examples: Every cloud has a silver lining. Three years earlier I had and had written her with some banal advice to look for the silver lining (33),count ones blessing, amount to, burden sb with sth, be capable of be grateful for the good things in her life The doctors diagnosis amounted to a death sentence. sons are capable of such letters. Childish, childlike age and wear, pep talk recharge ones spirit,P34 & 35 what about your feeling when you read it?,In a vein, mend ones way, refer to, at times seventy-eight, just go to sleep and forget it. manage to do sth., succeed in doing 老吾老，以及人之老；幼吾幼，以及人之幼。 expand the respect of the aged in ones family to that of other family, expand the love of the young ones in one;s family to that of other families.,P38 sons change,whats sons change about mother? from perspective as s son, argue back to the reality, travel along if I had been able to step into my mothers time machine,Oral practice,Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. -Ruth E. Renkel,review,这种援助其实是经济侵略. Such aids amount to economic aggression. 他们打算向那3位医生索要损害赔偿。 They intend to claim for damages against the three doctors. 此项化验可用于诊断多种疾病。 The test is used to diagnose a variety of diseases. 他的坏习惯之一就是喜欢说些陈词滥调。 Making banal remarks was one of his bad habits.,凯茜对着女儿容光焕发的面孔微笑着。 Kathy smiled at her daughters radiant face. 战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。 The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy. 我觉得那样做也许可以让他们冰释前嫌。 I felt that might well mend the rift between them. 我意识到他可能要杀人,所以就毫不犹豫地报了警。 I had no hesitation in calling the police because I realised he was capable of murder.,Detailed Analysis (Para. 39-45) confession or guilty,A world had lived and died, and though it was part of my blood and bone I knew little more about it than I knew of the world of the pharaohs. (39) Though I was related to them, I knew very little about them. They lived in a world that was past and gone. They were as remote to me as the ancient Egyptian kings.,blood and bone (p.39),your own flesh and blood Examples: I couldnt see my blood and bone (flesh and blood) insulted in this way.,bad blood be after sb.s blood Blood is thicker than water. have sbs blood on your hands make your blood boil make your blood run cold blood,怨恨 恨透了某人 血浓于水 导致某人死亡 怒火中烧 令人毛骨悚然,bone a bag of bones chilled/frozen to the bone close to the bone feel/know sth. in your bones have a bone to pick with sb.,骨瘦如柴的人 寒冷刺骨 不得体的 极为确信某事 对某人生气，抱怨,The orbits of her mind rarely touched present interrogators for more than a moment. (p.39) She could hardly respond relevantly to questions put to her at present because her mind was constantly wandering to certain past phases of her life.,P40 own children， children in general,Residents in general are poor and undereducated, and live in sub-standard housing.,when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no parent left to tell them. (p. 40) when they become old and want to learn about their parents past, both their parents are gone.,If a parent does lift the curtain a bit, it is often only to stun the young with some exemplary tale of how much harder life was in the old days. (p.40) If a parent tells the children something about his or her past, it often turns out to be a moral lesson about how hard life was for him or her, which does not make sense to the children.,P41,。Living the affluent life。 lecture( on, for) Chuck would lecture me, telling me to get a haircut. Within this lecture I cannot pretend to deal adequately with dreams. Our captain gave us a stern lecture on safety My father gave me a lecture for smoking,Rebellion feeling,What do you think of rebellion feeling? How to deal with childrens rebellion feeling? Advantage & disadvantage Authority, dignity, guidance, tutoring self-conscious, aggressive, brave, seek difference, creative,Detailed Analysis Para. 46-49 key word: consideration,a son had offended me with an inadequate report card, offend: violate/do wrong./cause sb. feel bad offend sb. Unintentionally Offend against the law/ violate the law I try to offend the least amount of people possible. Television censors are cutting out scenes which they claim may offend,P46 whats the relation ?,an expression of unutterable resingation and said,“Tell me how it was in your day,Dad.”,I was angry with him for that, but angrier with myself for having become one of those ancient bores whose highly selective memories of the past become transparently dishonest even to small children. (47),Ancient bores: old people who bore the young by endlessly teaching them moral lessons,Selective memories: Old people must have made mistakes in their time. But in order to set a good example for their children, they have to select what they consider would be suitable from their memories.,Question: What does the author mean by “a dispute about time”? (47),It is one of the reasons why there is generation gap between parents and children. The parents always like to talk about their past to the children because that was once their “future” they dreamed of and struggled for. But for the children, they are indifferent to the parents “future” because it is past for them. They are now dreaming for their future. This is the dispute of time.,P48,Instinctively, I wanted to break free, and cease being a creature defined by her time. (p.48) When my mother was young, I was her future. But I didnt like it. I wanted to be free and independent. I wanted to live my own life and did not want to live my life by my mothers standards.,These hopeless end-of-theline visits with my mother made me wish I had not thrown off my own past so carelessly. (49),visits paid to someone during the last stage of their life,subjunctive mood,Those last visits made me wish I had valued my past more, and had paid more attention to the world she represented.,We all come from the past, and children ought to know what it was that went into their making, to know that life is a braided cord of humanity stretching up from time long gone, and that it cannot be defined by the span of a single journey from diaper to shroud. (p. 49) We all come from the past, and children ought to know what made