NewceB5-U2.ppt

Unit 2 sentence study Try to translate the following sentences from English into Chinese. 1. (L1-3) I am sitting in a local restaurant offering takeout home style meals, surrounded by exhausted but happy shoppers, families out for Friday night dinner, and students taking a break from college exams. 2. (L5-10 ) well-known local homeless man—very untidy but clean—comes in, places an order, pays for it, then sits quietly waiting for his dinner. （parallelism平行结构） 3. (L24-26) Had I taken a poll of the room, though, I bet everyone there would have considered themselves as having more manners than a person who lives on the streets. 5. (L34-36)manners are a tool to remind us of others around us. Our actions affect each other; there is always give and take . However , if youth today are any indication, we are truly destined to become a society of people who think only themselves. 4. …but my parents would have killed me had I done some of the things I endure from today’s youth.(L37-38) …要是我做了某些我容忍今天的年轻人所做的那些事的话，那非把我父母气死不可。 6. (L42-44)these embarrassing moments didn’t harm me; rather, they caused me to become aware that there are others inhabiting this world besides myself and my actions affected them. 7. …and only half the time have the parents apologized. (L46) 只有半数的父母会为此表示歉意。 eg：Only when he had finished all his work did he go to bed. Only later did they realize what a terrible thing it is. 8. (L 56-59) I don’t blame the children, however. They emulate what they see. And what they are seeing is a society focused solely on acquisition- be it the dream house or another drink in a restaurant or a space on a crowded freeway – without ever stopping to thank the source. be 开头的倒装结构表示让步 某些相当于让步状语从句的固定结构，动词原形位于句首。 Be it ever so later, I must do another experiment. Be a man ever so successful, he should not be proud. All magnets behave the same, be they large or small. 类似的让步状语从句： Come what may (=Whatever may happen), I will try it. Say what I would (Whatever I wou