大学英语教程4 【Unit 5】【One Vote for This Age of Anxiety】-课文内容展示课件

1、BOOK 4UNIT 5One Vote for This Age of Anxiety给焦虑时代投上一票Outline Summarize This essay talks about a word we are all familiar with anxiety. For a really long time people have taken it as a tragedy which can damage our future, but the author gives some entirely new point about it. He compares our living c

2、ondition with the ones belong to savages and peasants, who always had to be afraid of death, hunger, warfare and so on. From the comparison the author found that our todays world is actually a world of relative safety, a world in which no one feels that he himself is facing sudden death. Anxiety, if

3、 used properly and controlled in an appropriate level, can actually do a lot of good to human beings, and it can really be positive.StructurePart para.1-2 Our society is anxious.Part para.3-5 The savage and peasant is taut and fearful but not be anxious.Part para.6-8 Anxiety is a kind of emotion.Par

4、t para.9-13 The necessity and benefit of anxiety.Part para.14 The author appeals for us to believe that the age is filled with hope.WordsRepudiate ( Line 1 ) 1. 拒绝 拒绝接受或履行: The new government repudiated the treaty signed by the former rules. 新政府不承认前政府领导人所签署的那个条约。 2. 拒付，拒绝清偿： He announced that he wou

5、ld repudiate all debts incurred by his wife. 他宣称他要拒付由他妻子造成的债务。 3. 判断，否定：The accused repudiated the charge of treason. 被告驳斥对他的叛国指控。Repudiation n. 遗弃，抛弃；否认。Repudiator n. 抛弃者；否认者；赖账者。同义词：deny 否认； reject 拒绝Castigate ( Line 2 ) v. 1. 严厉批评： In the education of students, teachers shouldnt be always castiga

6、ting the when they misbehave themselves. 教育学生，老师不该总是在他们行为不端时一味严厉批评他们。 2. 惩治： The government has taken drastic measures to castigate corruption in judicial departments. 政府已经采取严厉措施惩治司法部门中的腐败。同义词：criticize 批评 discipline 惩罚 反义词：praise 赞扬 reward 奖励WordsAdmonish ( Line 12 ) v.（1）劝告，训诫： The teacher admonis

7、hed the boys against smoking. 老师告诫男同学不要抽烟。 （2）警告： He admonished me of the danger. 他告诫我当心危险。同义词：warn 警告，告诫； caution 警告，告诫； advise 劝告； counsel 劝告，忠告WordsMeager ( Line 52 )adj. 1. 贫乏的，不足的 : He cannot exist on his meager income. 他难以靠着微薄的收入生活。 2. 消瘦的： He was so weak from hunger that he could hardly raise

8、 his meager arms. 他已经饿得没有力气，抬不起那消瘦的手臂。WordsGo about ( Line 5 ) 1.四处走动 2.从事 3.(消息)传开 (疾病)蔓延Comment on ( Line 8 )1. 发表评论 2. 说闲话，说长道短In contrast to ( Line 17 )与形成对比同义词： in comparison withPhrasesDraw upon ( Line 89 ) 1. 利用 2. 临近同义短语：make use of 利用 take advantage of 利用Indentify with ( Line 92 ) 把等同于 2. 同

9、情同义短语：associatewith 把和联系在一起PhrasesThis is what we have arrived at with all our vaunted progress, our great technological advances, our great wealth-everyone goes about with a burden of anxiety so enormous that, in the end, our stomachs and our arteries and our skins express the tension under which w

10、e live. ( Line 3 - Line 7 )Sentences表语从句获得sothat结果状语从句，修饰enormousSentences 这就是我们所夸耀的进步、我们巨大的技术飞跃、我们觉得财富带给我们的 我们每个人都忧心忡忡地生活，压力之大最终显现于我们的胃部、动脉和皮肤。2. The savage who, on his South Sea island, simply sat and let breadfruit fall into his lap, the simple peasant, at one with the fields he ploughed and the

11、beasts he tended, the craftsman busy with his tools and lost in the fulfillment of the instinct of workmanship-these are the counter-images conjured up by descriptions of the strain under which men live today. ( Line 26 - Line 31 )Sentences掉到怀里(机会)来临沉浸于 做定语指代上述的并列主语3. The number of people who consul

12、t psychiatrists today is not a symptom of increasing mental ill health, but rather the precursor of a world in which the hope of genuine mental health will be open to everyone, a world in which no individual feels that he need be hopelessly broken-hearted, a failure, a menace to others or a traitor to himself. (