大学英语精读四unit.ppt

1、Unit 4 Flight 93: What I Never Know,9-11,Terrorism Airplanes World Trade Center Pentagon,New York-the Big Apple,the financial center of the nation The largest city and port with the largest population UN; Rockefeller Center; Grand Central Terminal Wall Street; The Statue of Liberty; Broadway Empire

2、State Building,hijacker -robber -seize control by threatening,hijack,I was arrested at the airport. Just because I was greeting my cousin Jack!All that I said was Hi Jack, but very loud.,Pun,He is not a grave man until he is a grave man. They pray for you today and prey on you tomorrow. A bicycle ca

3、nt stand on its own because it is two-tyred.,grave,grave,pray,prey,two-tyred,enormously: adv. to a very great extent,Im not sure eating totally uncooked beef or raw egg yolks is really enormously good for you.,我非常感谢你的帮助。,Im enormously grateful for your help.,precious:,1. adj. valuable and important,

4、We cannot afford to waste our precious time.,她在他心中占着非常重要的地位。,She is very precious to him.,This is a gift from my boyfriend, so it is very precious to me,precious做副词时通常用在little, few等词前面，意思为“很”， “非常”。例如：,She has precious little to be cheerful about.,2. adv. very little or very few,I had precious littl

5、e time for reading.,没有什么人出得起那个价钱。,Precious few people can afford prices like that.,（她几乎毫无乐趣。）,The next day, September 10, was busy, with Jeremy due to fly from Newark,With + n/pron. + adj,with,He is used to sleeping with the windows open.,With + n/pron. + adv,He left the room with all the lights on.

6、,She came back with a box of chocolate in her hand.,With so much work to do, I have no time for sleep.,We found her easily with the little boy leading the way.,With + n/pron. + 介词短语,With + n/pron. + to,With + n/pron. + done/doing,1.应支付的;欠款的;欠的That money isdueto me, but I havent got it yet. 2.应有的,正当的

7、,合适的He handled it withduecare. 3.到期的The bank loan isduethis month.,The next day, September 10, was busy, with Jeremy due to fly from Newark,due,4.(车船)预定应到的;预期的;约定的 We aredueto leave tomorrow. 我们定于明天动身。 Phils train isdueat 7:00 p.m. 菲尔的火车下午七点钟到。 5.因为,由于(+to) Her illness was due to the bad food.,Wave,

8、v.(of a person) move ones hand to and fro or up and down,He waved a hand in the air to attract her attention.,wave sb. goodbye / wave goodbye to sb.,Collocation:,The nurses came out to wave Tom goodbye.,fumble: v. move the fingers or hands awkwardly in search of ( sth.) or in an attempt to do (sth.)

9、,I fumbled around in my bag for a cigarette.,她手忙脚乱地翻找讲稿, 然后开始讲话.,She fumbled with her notes and began to speak.,fumble at / for / with sth.,笨手笨脚地做某事或寻找某物,fumble about / around,笨拙地四处乱走（做某事或寻找某物）,Collocation:,管闲事,开某人的玩笑; 嘲弄或嘲笑某人,poke ones nose into sth.,poke fun at sb.,Be careful with that umbrella or

10、 youll poke someone in the eye.,2) push sharply with a stick or ones finger,A pen poked out of his pocket.,钢笔从他口袋中露了出来。,poke: v.,1) be visible coming ( through a hole, slit, etc.) suddenly,Forty-one people were killed in the plane crash.,n. an accident in which a vehicle violently hits something els

11、e,The plane crashed into a mountain.,vi. have an accident in a car, plane, etc. by violently hitting something else,crash:,a car crash,汽车撞车事故,an air crash,飞机坠毁,the great financial crash,经济大萧条,The Pentagon was probably the jolt that made him see clearly that his fate and that of his fellow passengers

12、 in the rear of the plane were completely in their own hands.,五角大楼一事可能使他受到极大震惊，使他认清他和待在客舱后面的其他乘客的命运完全掌握在他们自己的手中。,3. Translate the sentence into Chinese.,We can infer that Jeremy had understood that something must be done to save him and other passengers, and decided to fight against the terrorists.,

13、2. What can we infer from this sentence?,1. What does “the Pentagon” refer to?,It refers to “the affair that a plane crashed into the Pentagon”.,（借蒙骗别人）逃离困境,I hope well be able to bluff our way past the guard.,bluff ones way out of / through / past sth.,bluff: v. try to deceive (sb.) by pretending t

14、o be stronger, braver, etc. than one is,You wouldnt really tell her. Youre bluffing!,The price rise caused many readers to desert the magazine.,2. vt. leave someone or something with no further help or support,This area of the country is mostly desert.,He plans to travel across the Sahara Desert.,1.

15、 n. a large area of land where it is always very hot and dry, and there is a lot of sand,desert:,The interests of the two countries collide.,2) meet in opposition; conflict,The ships collided in the fog.,1) come together with solid or direct impact,collide: vi.,He took his coat off and hung it up.,2

16、) hang clothes on a hook, etc.,I said goodbye and hung up.,1) finish a telephone conversation,hang up:,无论如何都不,in no sense,从某种意义上来说,in a sense / in one sense / in some senses,失去 / 恢复理智,lose / regain ones senses,有道理；有意义；讲的通,make sense,Its hard to make some sense of Einsteins theory.,make sense of: und

17、erstand (sth.), especially sth. difficult or complicated,是否我们这个国家的人越轨了，做得过分了，伤及了人家自古而来的情感？,I think Jeremy always suspected he had a higher purpose.,Jeremy always thought he was destined to perform a noble mission in life.,Did we in this country somehow overstep, push too hard, tread on ancient sensi

18、bilities?,It wasnt mere luck that an airline passenger with precisely the right physical skills to abort one of the terror missions happened to be on the only plane hijacked that day where there was an opportunity to do that.,一位具有足够挫败恐怖行径体能的旅客正好搭乘了那天被劫持的飞机中唯一一个可以有机会进行反击劫机者的航班，这不仅仅是一种巧合。,1. “It was /

19、 is that ” is a pattern used for emphasis.,It was the marketing manager that I talked to yesterday.,触怒某人的感情,挫伤某人的感情,offend ones sensibilities,outrage ones sensibilities,伤害某人的感情,wound ones sensibilities,He has the sensibility of the artist.,2) ability to receive and appreciate delicate impressions,Pl

20、ease avoid using words that might offend someones racial or moral sensibilities.,1) capacity for being easily offended or shocked,sensibility: n.,She aborted after four months.,她怀孕四个月后流产了。,2) terminate the pregnancy of before term,The law allows women to abort an early-stage pregnancy.,The rescue mi

21、ssion had to be aborted.,1) stop an activity because it would be difficult or dangerous to continue it,abort: v.,中止一次（航天）任务,中止计算机的程序,中止旅行,中止计划,abort a (space) mission,abort a trip,abort a computer program,abort a plan,Fortunately were both blessed with good health.,在某方面有福,be blessed with something,Bless all those who are hungry