大学英语综合教程course2-unit7.doc

大学英语综合 全新版 大学英语综合 全新版 BOOK 2 Unit 7 Pre reading Task Text A Language Sene Enhancement Language Focus Text B Comprehensive Language Practice Listening Practice Video Clip Text New Words Comprehension Language Sene Enhancement Vocabulary Synonyms in Context Collocation Comprehensive Exercises Text New Words Comprehension Check Translation Language Practice Summary of Text B Dictation Speaking Practice Group Discussion Practical Writing Glossary You have studied English for many years Yet have you ever noticed there are lots of funny things about English words themselves The short talk you re going to listen to is all about it After listening complete the following statements according to what you have heard The following words in the recording may be new to you eggplant n 茄子 pineapple n 菠萝 hamburger n 汉堡牛肉饼 汉堡包 1 Of all languages English has the largest vocabulary perhaps as many as and one of the noblest bodies of literature 2 English muffins weren t or French fries in 3 In English overlook and oversee are while quite a lot and quite a few are in meaning 4 English was invented by people not computers and it which of course isn t a race at all hello test KeysKeys 1 one million words 2 invented in England France 3 opposites similar alike 4 reflects the creativity of the human race ScriptScript English is the most widely used language in the history of our planet One in every seven human beings can speak it More than half of the world s books and three quarters of international mail are in English Of all languages English has the largest vocabulary perhaps as many as one million words and one of the noblest bodies of literature Nonetheless let s face it English is a crazy language There is no egg in eggplant neither pine or apple in pineapple and no ham in a hamburger English muffins weren t invented in England or French fries in France Sweetmeats are candy while sweetbreads which aren t sweet are meat Sometimes I wonder if all English speakers should be sent to a madhouse In what other language do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway Ship by truck and send cargo by ship Have noses that run and feet that smell How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same while a wise guy and a wise man are opposites How can overlook and oversee are opposites while quite a lot and quite a few are alike How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next You have to marvel at the glorious messiness of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which your alarm clock goes off by going on English was invented by people not computers and it reflects the creativity of the human race which of course isn t a race at all That is why when stars are out they a revisible but when the lights are out they are invisible And why when I wind up my watch I start it but when I wind up this speech I end it R T Some languages resist the introduction of new words Others like English seem to welcome them Robert MacNeil looks at the history of English and comes to the conclusion that its tolerance for change represents deeply rooted ideas of freedom 有些语言拒绝引入新词 另一些语言 如英语 则似乎欢迎新词的引入 罗伯特 麦克尼尔 回顾英语的历史 得出结论说 英语对变化的包容性体现了根深蒂固的自由思想 The Glorious Messiness of English Robert MacNeil R T 1 The story of our English language is typically one of massive stealing from other languages That is why English today has an estimated vocabulary of over one million words while other major languages have far fewer 英语中绚丽多彩的杂乱无章现象 罗伯特 麦克尼尔 我们的英语的历史是典型的大量窃取其他语言的历史 正因为如此 今日英语的词汇量据 估计超过一百万 而其他主要语言的词汇量都要小得多 T 2 French for example has only about 75 000 words and that includes English expressions like snack bar and hit parade The French however do not like borrowing foreign words because they think it corrupts their language The government tries to ban words from English and declares that Walkman is not desirable so they invent a word balladeur which French kids are supposed to say instead but they don t 例如 法语只有约 75 000 个单词 其中还包括像 snack bar 快餐店 和 hit parade 流行唱片目录 这样的英语词汇 但法国人不喜欢借用外来词 因为他们认为这样会损害 法语的纯洁性 法国政府试图逐出英语词汇 宣称 Walkman 随身听 一词有伤大雅 因 此他们造了个新词 balladeur 让法国儿童用 可他们就是不用 R T 3 Walkman is fascinating because it isn t even English Strictly speaking it was invented by the Japanese manufacturers who put two simple English words together to name their product That doesn t bother us but it does bother the French Such is the glorious messiness of English That happy tolerance that willingness to accept words from anywhere explains the richness of English and why it has become to a very real extent the first truly global language Walkman 一词非常耐人寻味 因为这个词连英语也不是 严格地说 该词是由日本制造 商发明的 他们把两个简单的英语单词拼在一起来命名他们的产品 这事儿我们不介意 法国人却耿耿于怀 由此可见英语中绚丽多彩的杂乱无章现象 这种乐意包容的精神 这 种不管源自何方都来者不拒的精神 恰好解释了英语为什么会这么丰富 解释了英语缘何 在很大程度上成了第一种真正的国际语言 R T 4 How did the language of a small island off the coast of Europe become the language of the planet more widely spoken and written than any other has ever been The history of English is present in the first words a child learns about identity I me you possession mine yours the body eye nose mouth size tall short and necessities food water These words all come from Old English or Anglo Saxon English the core of our language Usually short and direct these are words we still use today for the things that really matter to us 欧洲沿海一个弹丸小岛的语言何以会成为地球上的通用语言 比历史上任何一种其他语言 都更为广泛地被口头和书面使用 英语的历史体现在孩子最先学会用来表示身份 I me you 所属关系 mine yours 身体部位 eye nose mouth 尺寸量度 tall short 以及生活必需品 food water 的词汇当中 这些词都来自英语的核心部分 古英语或盎格鲁 撒克逊英语 这些词通常简短明了 我们今天仍然用这些词来表示对我 们真正至关重要的事物 5 Great speakers often use Old English to arouse our emotions For example during World War II Winston Churchill made this speech stirring the courage of his people against Hitler s armies positioned to cross the English Channel We shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills We shall never surrender 伟大的演说家常常用古英语来激发我们的情感 例如 在二战期间 温斯顿 丘吉尔作了如 下的演讲来激励国民的勇气以抵抗对岸准备渡英吉利海峡来袭的希特勒的军队 我们要战 斗在海滩上 我们要战斗在着陆场上 我们要战斗在田野和街巷 我们要战斗在群山中 我们决不投降 6 Virtually every one of those words came from Old English except the last surrender which came from Norman French Churchill could have said We shall never give in but it is one of the lovely and powerful opportunities of English that a writer can mix for effect different words from different backgrounds Yet there is something direct to the heart that speaks to us from the earliest words in our language 这段文字中几乎每个词都来自古英语 只有最后一个词 surrender 是个例外 来自诺 曼法语 丘吉尔原本可以说 We shall never give in 但这正是英语迷人之处和活力所 在 作家为了加强效果可以糅合来自不同背景的不同词汇 而演说中使用古英语词汇具有 直接拨动心弦的效果 R T 7 When Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 55 B C English did not exist The Celts who inhabited the land spoke languages that survive today mainly as Welsh Where those languages came from is still a mystery but there is a theory 尤利乌斯 凯撒在公元前 55 年入侵不列颠时 英语尚不存在 当时不列颠的居民凯尔特人 使用的那些语言流传下来主要成了威尔士语 这些语言的起源至今仍是个不解之谜 但有 一种理论试图解开这个谜 R T 8 Two centuries ago an English judge in India noticed that several words in Sanskrit closely resembled some words in Greek and Latin A systematic study revealed that many modern languages descended from a common parent language lost to us because nothing was written down 两个世纪前 在印度当法官的一位英国人注意到 梵文中有一些词与希腊语 拉丁语中的 一些词极为相似 系统的研究显示 许多现代语言起源于一个共同的母语 但由于没有文 字记载 该母语已经失传 R T 9 Identifying similar words linguists have come up with what they call an Indo European parent language spoken until 3500 to 2000 B C These people had common words for snow bee and wolf but no word for sea So some scholars assume they lived somewhere in north central Europe where it was cold Traveling east some established the languages of India and Pakistan and others drifted west toward the gentler climates of Europe Some who made the earliest move westward became known as the Celts whom Caesar s armies found in Britain 语言学家找出了相似的词 提出这些语言的源头是他们称之为印欧母语的语言 这种语言 使用于公元前 3500 年至公元前 2000 年 这些人使用同样的词表达 雪 蜜蜂 和 狼 但没有表示 海 的词 因此有些学者认为 他们生活在寒冷的中北欧某个地区 一些人向 东迁徙形成了印度和巴基斯坦的各种语言 有些人则向西漂泊 来到欧洲气候较为温暖的 地区 最早西移的一些人后来被称作凯尔特人 亦即凯撒的军队在不列颠发现的民族 R T 10 New words came with the Germanic tribes the Angles the Saxons etc that slipped across the North Sea to settle in Britain in the 5th century Together they formed what we call Anglo Saxon society 新的词汇随日尔曼部落 盎格鲁 撒克逊等部落 而来 他们在 5 世纪的时候越过北 海定居在不列颠 他们共同形成了我们称之为盎格鲁 撒克逊的社会 R T 11 The Anglo Saxons passed on to us their farming vocabulary including sheep ox earth wood field and work They must have also enjoyed themselves because they gave us the word laughter 盎格鲁 撒克逊人将他们的农耕词汇留传给我们 包括 sheep ox earth wood field 和 work 等 他们的日子一定过得很开心 因为他们留传给我们 laughter 一词 12 The next big influence on English was Christianity It enriched the Anglo Saxon vocabulary with some 400 to 500 words from Greek and Latin including angel disciple and martyr 下一个对英语产生重大影响的是基督教 基督教以 400 至 500 个希腊语 拉丁语词汇丰 富了盎格鲁 撒克逊词汇 如 angel 天使 disciple 门徒 和 martyr 殉难者 等 13 Then into this relatively peaceful land came the Vikings from Scandinavia They also brought to English many words that begin with sk like sky and skirt But Old Norse and English both survived and so you can rear a child English or raise a child Norse Other such pairs survive wish and want craft and skill hide and skin Each such addition gave English more richness more variety 接着北欧海盗从斯堪的纳维亚来到了这块相对和平的土地 他们也给英语带来了许多以 sk 开头的词汇 如 sky 和 skirt 但古斯堪的纳维亚语和英语同时留传下来 因此你可以说 rear a child 英语 也可以说 raise a child 斯堪的纳维亚语 其他留传下来的这类同 义词组有 wish 和 want craft 和 skill hide 和 skin 每一个类似的词的增添都使 英语更加丰富 更加多样化 14 Another flood of new vocabulary occurred in 1066 when the Normans conquered England The country now had three languages French for the nobles Latin for the churches and English for the common people With three languages competing there were sometimes different terms for the same thing For example Anglo Saxons had the word kingly but after the Normans royal and sovereign entered the language as alternatives The extraordinary thing was that French did not replace English Over three centuries English gradually swallowed French and by the end of the 15th century what had developed was a modified greatly enriched language Middle English with about 10 000 borrowed French words 另一次新词的大量涌入发生在 1066 年 诺曼人征服英国的时候 这时英国三种语言并用 贵族使用法语 教会使用拉丁语 平民使用英语 由于三种语言相互竞争 有时同一事物 就出现了不同的名称 例如 盎格鲁 撒克逊语有 kingly 一词 但诺曼人入侵后 royal 和 sovereign 作为替代词进入了英语 不同寻常的是 法语没有取代英语 三个多世纪 后 英语逐渐吞并了法语 到 15 世纪末 发展成为一种经过改进的大大丰富了的拥有一 万多个 借来 的法语词汇的语言 中古英语 15 Around 1476 William Caxton set up a printing press in England and started a communications revolution Printing brought into English the wealth of new thinking that sprang from the European Renaissance Translations of Greek and Roman classics were poured onto the printed page and with them thousands of Latin words like capsule and habitual and Greek words like catastrophe and thermometer Today we still borrow from Latin and Greek to name new inventions like video television and cyberspace 大约在 1476 年 威廉 卡克斯顿在英国制造了一台印刷机 由此掀起了一场信息传播技术 的革命 印刷术把欧洲文艺复兴运动中涌现的大量新思想传入英国 希腊罗马经典著作的 译文纷纷印成书册 成千上万的拉丁词 如 capsule 密封小容器 和 habitual 惯常的 希腊词 如 catastrophe 大灾难 和 thermometer 温度计 等也随之涌入 今天我们 仍借用拉丁 希腊语命名新的发明创造 如 video television 和 cyberspace 虚拟空 间 等 16 As settlers landed in North America and established the United States English found itself with two sources American and British Scholars in Britain worried that the language was out of control and some wanted to set up an academy to decide which words were proper and which were not Fortunately their idea has never been put into practice 随着移民在北美登陆并建立美国 英语出现了两个源头 美式英语和英式英语 英国的 学者担心英语会失控 有人想成立一个有权威的学会 决定哪些词汇合适 哪些词汇不合 适 幸运的是 他们的设想从未付诸实施 17 That tolerance for change also represents deeply rooted ideas of freedom Danish scholar Otto Jespersen 1860 1943 wrote in 1905 The English language would not have been what it is if the English had not been for centuries great respecters of the liberties of each individual and if everybody had not been free to strike out new paths for himself 这种对变化的包容态度也体现了根深蒂固的自由精神 丹麦学者奥托 叶斯柏森在 1905 年 写道 如果不是多少世纪以来英国人一向崇尚个人自由 如果不是人人都能自由地为自己 开拓新的道路 英语就不会成为今天的英语 18 I like that idea Consider that the same cultural soil producing the English language also nourished the great principles of freedom and rights of man in the modern world The first shoots sprang up in England and they grew stronger in America The English speaking peoples have defeated all efforts to build fences around their language 我喜欢这一观点 想想吧 孕育英语的文化土壤也同样为现今的世界培育了伟大的自由精 神及人权准则 最初的根芽在英国萌发 接着在美国生长壮大 英语国家的人民挫败了种 种意欲建立樊篱保护语言的企图 R T 19 Indeed the English language is not the special preserve of grammarians language police teachers writers or the intellectual elite English is and always has been the tongue of the common man 事实上 英语不是语法学家 语言卫道士 教师 作家或知识精英的特殊领地 英语是 而且一向是 人民大众的语言 Study the new words and expressions of Text again 黑正体表示 一般要求 四级 的词汇 黑正体后加 表示 较高要求 六级 的词汇 黑正体后加 表示 更高要求 的词汇 黑色正体后加 表示 超纲词汇 黑色正体后加 表示 专有名词 1 messiness n 杂乱状况 Such is the glorious messiness of the English language Working underneath the car is always a messy job messy a 2 massive a large in scale amount or degree 大量的 大规模的 The ancient temple s massive stone pillars had begun to crumble The scale of the problem is so massive that it will require all our resources to deal with it 3 snack n a small meal 快餐 点心 I usually have a snack of a hamburger and a glass of Coke at lunchtime The children in the kindergarten have a midmorning snack of milk and biscuits 4 snack bar 快餐柜 小吃店 My uncle opened a snack bar in the town near my university last year 5 parade n 游行 阅兵队列 The Olympic Games began with a parade of all the competing nations 6 hit parade a weekly listing of the current best selling pop records 流行唱片目录 Jackson rushed out another record which was climbing the hit parade very steadily 7 corrupt vt cause errors to appear in cause to act dishonestly in return for personal gains 讹用 使 语言 变得不标准 腐蚀 贿赂 The Academy ruled that such foreign expressions were not permitted as they corrupted the language Has Japanese been corrupted by the introduction of foreign words This jargon merely corrupts your good English We believe films of violence will corrupt young people To our great surprise the former mayor turned out to have been corrupted by the desire for money and power To gain more profits the businessman tried every means to corrupt the officials in the local government 8 ban vt forbid sth officially 禁止 取缔 The local government will ban smoking in all offices later this year Scientists from many countries called on the international community to create an international convention to ban human cloning as soon as possible Tom was banned from driving for six months after being caught speeding again Lady Chatterley s Lover was banned when it was first published The government is considering a total ban on cigarette advertising The ban on underground nuclear tests is a vital step toward disarmament 9 Walkman n a small cassette player 随身听 I like having a walk after dinner with my walkman 10 fascinating a of great interest or attraction 迷人的 有极大吸引力的 The story of his adventures in the Arctic was fascinating to listen to I found the discussion about cloning absolutely fascinating It is fascinating to imagine what might have happened if the U S had not declared war against Japan in World War II 11 strictly speaking 严格地讲 He s not strictly speaking an artist he is more of a performer Strictly speaking she was not qualified for the job But we employed her because of her honesty 12 invent vt create a thing or idea that never existed before 发明 James Watt invented the steam engine Necessity is the mother of invention invention 13 manufacturer n 制造商 The manufacturers in some countries dumped their surplus commodities abroad 14 tolerance n willingness to accept or allow behavior beliefs etc which one does not like or agree with 容忍 宽容 忍耐 School teachers have to have a great deal of tolerance in order to deal with difficult children I think tolerance between students is extremely necessary since they live and study together Human beings have limited tolerance of noise The patient had no tolerance for pain Whenever he was given an injection he would cry 15 to a very real certain etc extent to the degree specified 在 极大 某种 程度上 I agree with him to some extent but there are still some areas of sharp disagreement between us To a certain extent the failure of the restaurant was due to bad management 16 necessity n 必需品 必要 性 Water is a basic necessity of life A lot of people would consider a TV as more of a necessity than a luxury item 17 Anglo Saxon n 盎格鲁 撒克逊人 18 core n the most important part of anything the hard central part of certain fruits 核心 果核 An apple core is the part of an apple left after the flesh has been eaten 19 arouse vt provoke a particular feeling or attitude 唤起 激起 These educational toys give children a feeling of self worth by arousing their interest in challenging tasks The man s strange behavior aroused the policeman s suspicions 20 channel n 海峡 渠道 频道 Thanks to Eurostar and the Channel Tunnel the journey between London and Paris is a convenient and comfortable one Stop channel surfing and get focused on one program The problem of criminal responsibility of foreigners who enjoy diplomatic privileges is to be resolved through diplomatic channels 21 surrender v give in 投降 After several weeks of severe attacks Afghanistan s Taliban forces surrendered to the Northern Alliance We ll never surrender to terrorism despite the terrorist attacks 22 for effect in order to impress people or make people notice 为了增强效果 为了引起注意 Everything he says and does is calculated for effect She paused for effect then carried on speaking 23 invade vt enter with armed forces 侵入 侵略 In July 1937 the Japanese army invaded China The Germans invaded Poland in 1939 leading to the start of World War II 24 B C short for before Christ 公元前 This stadium dates from 600 B C 25 Celt n 凯尔特人 26 inhabit vt live in a place 居住于 Long before the early settlers came to America the land was inhabited by tribes and nations of people known to us to