南航研究生英語(yǔ)課本教學(xué)pptUnit3

1、Text Anving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observedby her neighborsnSay by way of commentn評(píng)論；n一位為了逃避被鄰居指指點(diǎn)點(diǎn)的屈辱從密西西比州的一個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)遠(yuǎn)道而來(lái)的少女om the Corn Beltwith a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heartnSee Note 3n來(lái)自玉米地帶，提箱里裝著手稿，心中充滿痛苦的男孩Poihe queerest bird of all.

2、nMetaphor nThe commuter is the most unusual person of all.Poihabits has no essential vitality of its own and is a mere roost where he comes at days end to go to sleep. nBranch, pole, etc. where a bird or a hen rests onn棲身之處Poihave ever spent a drowsy afternoon in the great rustling oaken silence of

3、the reading room of the Public Library, with the book elevator (like an old water wheel) spewing out books onto the trays. n在公眾圖書(shū)館靜得只能聽(tīng)到橡樹(shù)葉的沙沙聲的閱覽室中Poiurnaces in Westchester and in Jersey, but have never seen the furnaces of the Bowery, the fires that burn in oil drums on zero winter nights. ntake c

4、are of n在寒冷的冬夜烤著油燦燦的雞腿的火爐Poiys bridge while his train is buried in the mud at the bottom of the East River. n當(dāng)他所乘坐的火車(chē)從東河底的泥漿中（隧道中）穿行而過(guò)時(shí)，他平靜地打著橋牌。PoiRail Road alone carried forty million commuters last year; but many of them were the same fellow retracing his steps.n跟隨他腳步的同路人（都是通勤者）Paradea of this pa

5、ragraph?nTo live in New York is by no means easy.Poik is such that a resident sometimes travels farther, in the end, than a commuter. The journey of the composer Irving Berlin from Cherry Street in the lower East Side to an apartment uptown was through an alley and was only three or four miles in le

6、ngth; but it was like going three times around the world.nThis paragraph implies that it is hard for a resident of New York to get upper in the ladder.Paragrangers come to New York?Poiake such dubious gifts is a mysterious quality of New York. n紐約的一個(gè)神秘之處就是能提供這些毫無(wú)把握的禮物（讓人們趨之若鶩）。Poik often imparts a f

7、eeling of great forlornness or forsakenness, it seldom seems dead or un-resourceful; nUnhappiness or being abandonedPoie no real independence of spirit depend onthe citys tremendous variety and sources of excitement for spiritual sustenance and maintenance of morale. n許多缺乏真值得精神獨(dú)立的人們渴望在這個(gè)富于變化的、充滿刺激的城

8、市獲得精神食糧并且保持斗志。ss: find unexpectedly or by chancenEg. The lawyer stumbled on an evidence in his favor.nStumble over: 絆跌,絆倒nStumble over ones words結(jié)結(jié)巴巴nCome on: 1)meet or see by chancea came upon him.n3) come upon sb. for sth.向某人要求某物Text B A Unified TheN950, only 30% of the worlds population was urban

9、ized. Today, more than half live in urban centers. The developed world is now about 80% urban and this is expected to be true for the entire planet by around 2050, with some 2 billion people moving to cities.Nocess whereby a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair(失修,破損)

10、 and decrepitude(衰老,老朽). It may feature deindustrialization, depopulation or changing population, economic restructuring, abandoned buildings, high local unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement(剝奪的公民權(quán)), crime, and a desolate, inhospitable city landscape. Nd as independent iss

11、ues, not in conjunction with other problems. Nired per capita shrinks, thanks to denser settlement and a more intense use of infrastructure. Two, the pace of all socio-economic activity accelerates, leading to higher productivity. And three, economic and social activities diversify and become more i

12、nterdependent, resulting in new forms of economic specialization and cultural expression.Neasure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. The concept originates from ecological footprint discussion. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced

13、in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc.碳足跡是指每個(gè)人、每個(gè)家庭或每家公司日常釋放的溫室氣體數(shù)量（以二氧化碳即CO2的影響為單位），用以衡量人類(lèi)活動(dòng)對(duì)環(huán)境的影響。Nof a good or a service can be produced on a larger scale, yet with (on average) less input costs,economies of scale (ES) are said to be

14、achieved. As a city grows and its population increases, it will have a better chance to decrease the costs in infrastructure, energy, housing, etc.Ngrowth not restrained by definite limits, restrictions, structure, or patterns. Such growth allows for or is adaptable to changes from time to time. Npt

15、 in science and engineering. It refers to variables which change drastically depending on the scale (size) being considered. For example, if you tried to build a 50-ton mining vehicle using the same engineering assumptions as a 2-ton car, you would probably end up with a vehicle that doesnt even run

16、. The term “scaling laws”often appears when considering the design of a construct that is unusually large or small, so that careful thought is necessary to extend principles of typical-sized constructs to unusually-sized constructs. Further usn2. strike up a conversationn3. eye-contactn4. a truly in

17、ternational metropolis n5. ethnic; subduen6. unworkable; or impracticaln7. a variety of racesn8. unstable; tolerantTransla瞰，維多利亞港，無(wú)數(shù)的船只演奏著無(wú)聲的旋律。眺望，依山而立令人嘆為觀止的城市風(fēng)景一望無(wú)際。這不是一個(gè)普通的機(jī)場(chǎng)。這也不是一座普通的城市。一位穿著睡衣的老人從旁邊走過(guò)，手上提著一個(gè)鳥(niǎo)籠，一只顏色鮮艷的鳥(niǎo)兒在里面歡快地歌唱。上班一族聚在路邊的餐館里吃面條，喝粥，吃小蝦。一個(gè)小道觀里飄出來(lái)的檀香混雜著從迪斯科廳里流出的搖滾樂(lè)有力的節(jié)奏，渾然一體。一只渡船穿梭在附近的水面上，把乘客們帶到離此處40分鐘里程的一座孤島上，島上，寺廟和漁村交相輝映。香港，在北回歸線以南161公里處，如同東南亞的心臟時(shí)刻搏動(dòng)；這里東西交融，時(shí)光匯聚。k of the Huangpu, the English first built sheds for their goods. Thereafter, came other traders: Americans, Germans,