Letter to a B student(paragraph7~8)

1、.,Unit7 Letter to a B Student,Paragraph78,.,One instructor handled us very wisely, it seems to me. On Sunday evening in particular, he would make a point of stopping in at a local bar frequented by many of the GI-Bill student. There he would sit and drink, joke, and swap stories with men in his clas

2、s, men who had but recently put away their uniforms and identities: former platoon sergeant, bomber pilots, corporals, captains, lieutenants, commanders, majorseven a lieutenant colonel, as I recall. They enjoyed his company greatly, as he theirs. The next morning he would walk into class and give t

3、hese same men a test. A hard test. A test on which he usually flunked about half of them. Oddly enough, the men whom he flunked did not resent it. Nor did they resent him for shifting suddenly from a friendly gear to a coercive one. Rather, they loved him, worked harder and harder at his course as t

4、he semester moved along, and ended up with a good grasp of his subjecteconomics. The technique is still rather difficult for me to explain; but I believe it can be described as one in which a clear distinction was made between the student as classroom performer and the student as human being. A good

5、 distinction to make. A distinction that should put your B in perspectiveand your disappointment.,.,Military rank,将军 general 中将 lieutenant general 少将 major general 准将 brigadier general 上校 colonel 中校 lieutenant colonel 少校 major,上尉 captain 中尉 1st lieutenant 少尉 2nd lieutenant 上士 1st sergeant 中士 sergean

6、t 下士 corporal 列兵 private,.,Frequent v. to visit a particular place often e.g.: adj. happening often e.g.:,We met in a local bar much frequented by students.,There is a frequent bus service into the centre of town.,Derivative Frequency n. 频率，频繁 Frequently adv. 频繁地，经常,.,Swap v. give sth. to sb. in exc

7、hange for sth. else e.g.: n. an act of exchanging one thing or person for another a thing or person that has been exchanged for another e.g.:,I ve finished this magazine. Can I swap with you?,Lets do a swap. You work Friday night and Ill do Saturday.,Most of my football stickers are swaps.,.,Flunk v

8、. judge (sb. in an examination or test) not to have passed e.g.:,I flunked math in second grade.,Shes flunked 13 of the 18 students.,Phrasal verb flunk out (of sth.) to have to leave a school or a college because your marks/grades are not good enough 退学,.,Resent v. to feel bitter or angry about sth.

9、, especially because you feel it is unfair e.g.:,He bitterly resents being treated like a child.,Derivative Resentful adj. 憎恨的，愤慨的 Resentment n. 愤恨，怨恨,.,Gear n. the machinery in a vehicle that you use to go comfortably at different speeds e.g.:,What gear are you in?,Idiom get (sth.) into gear （使）开始工

10、作，进入工作状态 out of gear 失去控制,Phrasal verb gear sth. to/toward sth. 使与相适应，使适合于 gear up (for/to sth.) 为做好准备,.,Coercive adj. Using force to persuade people to do what they are unwilling to do e.g.:,The eighteenth-century Admiralty had few coercive powers over its officers.,Derivative Coerce v. 强迫，迫使 Coerc

11、ion n. 强迫，胁迫 Coercively adv. 强制地，压迫地,.,Make a point of doing sth. to be or make sure you do sth. because it is important or necessary e.g.:,I made a point of closing all the windows before leaving the house.,.,Stop in to make a short visit somewhere in order to do sth. e.g.:,He stops in at the clean

12、ers to take his clothes.,.,A good grasp of a persons understanding of a subject or of difficult facts e.g.:,He has a good grasp of German grammar.,Idiom beyond the grasp of 不能理解的,.,They enjoyed his company greatly, as he theirs.,Explanation: This is an elliptical sentence. The original sentence shou

13、ld be “They enjoyed his company greatly, as he enjoyed their company greatly”. In this sentence, “enjoyed their company greatly” has been omitted as “theirs”.,.,shifting suddenly from a friendly gear to a coercive one.,Explanation: The word “gear” originally means a device in a vehicle which control

14、s the rate at which the energy being used is converted into motion. While driving, a driver sometime shifts or changes gear. In the text, the shifting of gear refers to the change in the instructors manner of dealing with his students. When drinking with the students in the bar, he was easy-going and friendly but in the classroom, he became stern and severe.,.,one in which a clear distinction was made between the student as classroom performer and the student as human being.,Explanation: The distinction refers to what the instructor made with his studen