新概念英语课件第三册Lesson

1、Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness?,Wage carry on (a war or campaign) Launch,Revulsion,be filled with, feel 充满厌恶；感到厌恶 cause 引起反感 express 表达反感 conceal 掩饰反感,a feeling/sense of revulsion,厌恶感,Horde,A school of fish 一群小鱼 A flock of birds 一群鸟 A colony of bees 一群蜜蜂 A herd of sheep （羊群） A troop of wolves 一群狼,

2、Luscious,Sweet and juicy,How luscious the wine is ! 多么香甜的美酒！,luscious peaches 甘美多汁的桃子,We have been brought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good.,Do more harm than good : 害多益少 Do more good than harm : 益多害少,Be brought up to do:在-中长大成人。,The sad truth i

3、s that most of us have been brought up to eat certain foods .),We continually wage war on them, for they contaminate our food, carry diseases, or devour our crops.,Sin original sin Wrath Envy Gluttony Greed Lust Sloth Pride,They sting or bite without provocation; they fly uninvited into our rooms on

4、 summer nights, or beat against our lighted windows.,Uninvited: =unexpected,Provocation:,你一惹他，他就会打你。,（at the mere provocation）,They fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights,= They are uninvited when they fly into our rooms on summer nights,We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like sp

5、iders or wasps, but of quite harmless one like moths. Reading about them increases our understanding without dispelling our fears.,unpleasant insects: terrible ,awful. increases our understanding: 提高眼界，打开胸怀，拓展平台,In dread of 介词分开,Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society do

6、es nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.,crawl into/out of bed ：to get into or out of bed slowly because you are very tired: We crawled into bed at 2 am.,does nothing to:对-无济于事。= Its no use（找例句）,highly orga

7、nized: highly disciplined high degree of responsibility/ trust/ attention high level of civilization,No matter how much we like honey, or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess, we have a horror of being stung.,Most of our fears are unreasonable, but they are i

8、mpossible to erase. At the same time, however, insects are strangely fascinating., but we find them impossible to erase.,We enjoy reading about them, especially when we find that, like the praying mantis, they lead perfectly horrible lives.,perfectly: = completely,We enjoy staring at them, entranced

9、 as they go about their business, unaware (we hope) of our presence.,go about their business： go about doing sth 忙于干-,Who has not stood in awe at the sight of a spider pouncing on a fly, or a column of ants triumphantly bearing home an enormous dead beetle?,stood in awe： fear but respect 敬畏,bear： L

10、The wedding guests arrived, bearing gifts.,who-修辞性疑问（期待得到回答，否定表示肯定。） 例句： why didt you tell me? 为什么不告诉我？ （你早该告诉我） Who doesnt know? 谁不知道啊？ （地球人都知道）,Last summer I spent days in the garden watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prize peach tree.,The tree has grown against a warm wall on

11、a sheltered side of the house. I am especially proud of it, not only because it has survived several severe winters, but because it occasionally produces luscious peaches.,severe winters：harder/bitter winter.,A flower from the greenhouse cannot survive the storm. Life is not about how to survive the

12、 storm, but how to dance in the rain.,During the summer, I noticed that the leaves of the tree were beginning to wither. Clusters of tiny insects called aphids were to be found on the underside of the leaves.,Be to do = can,may.,They were visited by a large colony of ants which obtained a sort of ho

13、ney from them.,Visit:(灾害，疾病)侵袭=attacked. The place was recently visited by a serious volcanic eruption. 这地方最近遇到了一次火山大爆发。 Poets were often visited by fits of gloom. 诗人常有一阵阵忧郁。,I immediately embarked on an experiment which, even though it failed to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated for twenty-fo

14、ur hours.,kept me fascinated： “I find myself fascinating.” -Milan Kundera (Czech Novelist, Playwright and Poet, b.1929) “I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.” - Jerome K. Jerome, despite its

15、failure to get rid of the ants,I bound the base of the tree with sticky tape, making it impossible for the ants to reach the aphids. The tape was so sticky that they did not dare to cross it.,Bind : bind up a wound 包扎伤口,He wants a shirt that does not bind him. 他要一件不使他觉得过紧的衬衫。,For a long time. I watc

16、hed them scurrying around the base of the tree in bewilderment.,in blank astonishment in complete puzzlement,in bewilderment :,I even went out at midnight with a torch and noted with satisfaction (and surprise) that the ants were still swarming around the sticky tape without being able to do anythin

17、g about it.,do anything about it：无法扭转乾坤。 You can do nothing but let matters take their course. 你无能为力,只能听其自然。 I have to watch you in silence without being able to do anything about it. 我只能默默的注视着你，无能为力。,I got up early next morning hoping to find that the ants had given up in despair. Instead, I saw th

18、at they had discovered a new route.,Jiangjieshi returned to Nanjing 希望得知 that The Rad Army had 已在绝望中放弃 after the fifth encirclement and suppression. Instead ,he saw that they had discovered a new route- The Long March .,Red star over china.,EDGAR SNOW,They were climbing up the wall of the house and

19、then on to the leaves of the tree.,I realized sadly that I had been completely defeated by their ingenuity.,Be completely defeated ： 彻底被打败,The salvage operation had been a complete failure. L 32 ,The ants had been quick to find an answer to my thoroughly unscientific methods!,Daniel Mendoza was quick to learn.（21） “Simple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.” American Quote,Find an answer to sth: = solve The police do