第1课 流行新语——巧用新词新义
Part 1 Marriage and Family
婚姻与家庭
Part 2 Work to Live
职场人生
Part 3 Social Life
社会百态
Part 4 Information Technology
信息科技
Part 5 Environment Protection
环境保护
Part 6 Emotion and Health
情感与健康
第2课 时事新闻——掌握标准用语
Part 1 Obama Gets a Lift on the Trail
奥巴马竞选宣传途中被拦腰抱起
Part 2 U.S. Productivity Growth Lags Behind that of Foreign
Competitors
美国生产力增长落后于国外竞争对手
Part 3 Pillow Talk-talk: Workers Answering Emails from Their Beds
as Overtime Tots Up
枕边谈工作:加班时间延长,员工们在床上回复电子邮件
Part 4 ECU Students Dig Up Questions at Bath
ECU学生在巴思镇探求考古问题
Part 5 No Yolk: Eating the Whole Egg as Dangerous as Smoking
拒绝蛋黄:吃完整蛋,危害堪比吸烟
Part 6 The Dangers of Doctor Google: How a Quarter of British Women
Misdiagnose Illness by Looking up Symptoms on the Internet 、
谷歌医生的危害:四分之一的英国妇女如何通过网络查询症状误诊疾病
第3课 环球万象——分享奇闻奇事
Part 1 The Rise of the “Mousewife”: How Mothers at Home Are Using
Their Computers to Beat the Recession
“鼠标主妇”的兴起:居家妈妈们用电脑对抗经济萧条
Part 2 Should a Tiger Be Your Pet
老虎可否当宠物
Part 3 You Cannot Be Serious! Child’s Tennis Rackets Destroyed by
Airport Security for Being “Lethal Weapons”
不会当真吧!机场安检,儿童网球拍当做“致命武器”被毁
Part 4 Concussion Turns Man into Musical Genius
遭遇脑震荡,男子变身音乐天才
Part 5 Gorillas Seen Using “Baby Talk” Gestures—A First
灵长类动物研究中的首次发现:猩猩居然使用“儿语”手势
Part 6 Wine Drinkers Will Pay More for Bottles with
Hard-to-Pronounce Names
葡萄酒名字绕口,消费者要多掏钱
第4课 礼仪趣事——跨越文化鸿沟
Part 1 Dating in America
美国人的约会文化
Part 2 Rich Meeting His Future Mother-in-law
里奇拜见未来的丈母娘
Part 3 John’s Taiwanese Wedding
约翰的台湾婚礼
Part 4 Lingo Learnings Cause Foot in Mouth
笨嘴拙舌学汉语
Part 5 Etiquette for Living with a Host Family
寄宿家庭礼仪须知
Part 6 Predicting the Future
预测未来
第5课 影视对白——重温别样感动
Part 1 Dead Poets Society
《死亡诗社》
Part 2 Titanic
《泰坦尼克号》
Part 3 Ratatouille
《料理鼠王》
Part 4 Saving Private Ryan
《拯救大兵瑞恩》
Part 5 You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow
《你会爱明天》
Part 6 Mike’s Madonna Story
《迈克的虚幻情人》
第6课 体育娱乐——充实休闲生活
Part 1 Sports in America
运动在美国
Part 2 Is Fan Bingbing the Cate Blanchett or Lady Gaga of
China
范冰冰,中国版的凯特?布兰切特或是嗄嗄小姐
Part 3 Olympic Legend Phelps: “I’m Done with Swimming”
奥运传奇人物菲尔普斯:“我不想再游泳了”
Part 4 Katie Holmes Finds Tom Cruise Is “Mission: Impossible”
凯蒂?霍姆斯认为汤姆?克鲁斯是“不可能完成的任务”
Part 5 Impressive Site, Comfortable Rooms but Thin Walls: Mirror
Reporter Spends the Night at Olympics Athletes’ Village
富有特色的选址,房间舒适但墙壁较薄——《镜报》记者在奥运村过夜所感
Part 6 Morgan Freeman Tops Our List of the Most Trustworthy
Celebrities
最值得信赖名人排行榜:摩根?弗里曼位居首位
第7课 名人访谈——修炼优雅谈吐
Part 1 Yang Lan’s Interview with Hillary Clinton
杨澜专访希拉里?克林顿
Part 2 Forbes Interviews Sheryl Sandberg
《福布斯》专访谢丽尔?桑德伯格
Part 3 Larry King Interviews Ahmadi-Nejad
拉里?金专访艾哈迈迪-内贾德
Part 4 An Interview with James Cameron
专访詹姆斯?卡梅隆
Part 5 I Am Because We Are
我在因为我们同在
Part 6 How Long Is the Great Wall
长城到底有多长
第8课 精彩演讲——增添语言力量
Part 1 A Tribute to the Dog
人类最忠贞的朋友
Part 2 Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Speech at Tsinghua University
阿诺德?施瓦辛格在清华大学的演讲
Part 3 A Speech Made by a 12-year-old Girl at UN
12岁女孩在联合国的演讲
Part 4 Love and Lost
爱与失
Part 5The Benefits of Failure
失败的好处
Part 6 Barack Obama’s Speech at Wakefield High School
巴拉克?奥巴马对全美中小学生的讲话
第9课 评论杂谈——分享独到见解
Part 1 The Perfect Life
完美人生
Part 2 Take Things as They Are
接受世界
Part 3 The Importance of Rivals
竞争对手的重要性
Part 4 To Be or Not to Be
六字名言
Part 5 Who Robs Chinese of Their Happiness
谁偷走了中国人的幸福
Part 6 American Hospitality
美国人的待客之道
第10课 心灵鸡汤——温暖内心世界
Part 1 The Wisdom of One Word
改变一生的邂逅
Part 2 What Motherhood Really Means
何为母性
Part 3 It Is Never Too Late to Compliment Others
赞美他人,永远不迟
Part 4 Listening Is Powerful Medicine
倾听是一剂良药
Part 5 Every Day Is a Lucky Day
每天皆为幸运日
Part 6 Working Christmas Day
圣诞节特别急诊
第11课 职场生活——感悟职场百态
Part 1 How Apple Trains Its Staff
苹果如何培训员工
Part 2 How to Cope with Bullying in Workplace
如何应对职场恶人
Part 3 The New Fad: Standing at Work
最新时尚:站着工作
Part 4 Will You Inform on Your Colleagues
你会告密吗
Part 5 The Father Factor of a Successful Career
职场成功与父亲因素
Part 6 A Reflection on Career
职场感悟
第12课 科普知识——开阔思维视野
Part 1 Ultra-light Computers
超轻电脑
Part 2 Easy Way to Keep Fit
健美秘诀
Part 3 Drink for Your Health
为健康饮酒
Part 4 Sleep Less, Live Longer
少睡一点,延年益寿
Part 5 Telepathy—Mind to Mind Contact
心灵感应:心与心的交流
Part 6 Can GM Foods Feed the World
转基因食品能养活世界吗
英语新词往往最先出现在报刊中,继而流行于世,以报刊为载体展示社会生活各方面的最新变化。在本堂阅读课中,我们为大家精选了若干新鲜有趣的英语新词,分为和我们生活密切相关的6个主题:婚姻与家庭、职场人生、社会百态、信息科技、环境保护以及情与健康,并辅之以麦克米兰在线词典的原始定义和英美报刊原文节选。这样,我们就可以从真实鲜活的语言环境中学习最新潮的英语表达,以这些词汇为载体透视我们这个时代特别是西方社会的流行现象和文化。
Part 1 Marriage and Family
婚姻与家庭
1. speed-dating also speed dating
Definition: a method of meeting a potential romantic partner
by briefly talking to a series of individuals at an organised
event, and indicating whether you are interested in seeing any of
them again
Quotation: But now British men and women who lack the time to
conduct a gentle courtship have a new way to find a partner.
Welcome to the world of speed-dating, where young singles can meet
a prospective partner on a “dating conveyor belt” that allows them
three minutes to decide if this is Mr or Ms Right.
速配约会
定义:通过在有组织的聚会上和一连串人的简单交谈来寻找未来爱侣的方式。如遇到意中人,你需要给对方继续约会的暗示。
引文:现在没有时间慢慢追求异性的英国男女有了一种寻找伴侣的新方法。欢迎来到速配空间。在这里,年轻的单身族们可以在“配对传送带”上结识未来的伴侣。他们只有3分钟时间来决定对方是否就是他们的“白马王子”或“白雪公主”。
课堂笔记
“dating conveyor
belt”直译为“配对传送带”。这里是诙谐的比喻,指在速配约会中,一个人会与一连串的陌生人进行简短交谈以确定是否“来电”,其情形就像站在生产车间的传送带上快速且连续。
2. read dating
Definition: a method of meeting a potential romantic partner
by attending an organized event in which a person meets a series of
individuals and talks briefly to each of them about a favourite
book
Quotation: Yes, you can judge a guy by his cover … this event
is not an ordinary speeddating occasion, all beer and bells and
braying chat-up lines. This is read dating and after half a glass
of wine my companions start to look less like terrifying predators
and more like the sort of pleasant, slightly shy types that, well,
you’d expect to meet in a library on a quiet Thursday night …
读书约会
定义:通过在有组织的聚会上与一连串的人简单谈论最喜欢的书来寻找潜在爱侣的方法。
引文:是的,在这里你能以貌取人……这不是一次一般的速配派对,人们喝啤酒、摇铃铛、大声地说笑。这是一个读书约会,喝了半杯葡萄酒后,我的伙伴们开始看着不再像可怕的猎食者,相反,他们令人愉快,还有些腼腆,就像那些在一个安静的周四夜晚你在图书馆碰到的一样……
课堂笔记
“judge a guy by his cover”这一用法来源于习语“never judge a book by its
cover”,意为“不要根据书的封面判断书的内容”,引申为“不要以貌取人”。文中指在读书约会中,人们会根据一个人的外表来判断其为人。
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