Unit2 综英课件.ppt

Unit2 Read more The Common Stream 英师一班 宣丹 蒋鑫芳 What does title The Common Stream mean? The Common Stream refers to the merger of village life and town life. In other words, the differences between village life and town life are less and less distinguishable. The style of the article Then……Then……Finally….. Chronological Main idea The narrator told us the country life in the past, people’s behavior in the country, how the world war and social avalanche changed the country, made country life and town life indistinguishable. And at last, the writer showed his own view about the change. Sentences I can remember one such outing which involved a three-mile ride on a horse-drawn dray, the other clutching warm pennies which were intended to be exchanged for sticks of rock if we ever got to the seaside - which we did, via the nearest railway station. 我记得有一次出游，坐着马拉的板车走了三里路,摇摇晃晃地坐在长木凳上,一只手紧紧抓住板车一边,另一只手则攥着暖得热乎乎的硬币,假如能到海边的话，我打算要用那些钱来换硬棒糖。而经由最近的火车站我们真的到了海边。 It took for a time all the able-bodied men out of the village and killed fifteen of them, but it was not so much their loss that affected village life as what the experiences of the war did to those who came back. 一时间村子里所有身强力壮的男人离开村庄,其中15人丧命。与其说是他们的死亡影响了村里的生活,不如说是幸存者的战争经历影响了村里的生活。 For the first time I am able to give credit to politicians and planners, and I do it unreservedly - for the 1944 Education Act and subsequent legislation which has brought about a huge expansion in secondary and higher education; for the Social Security plan which did more to abolish poverty in ten years than Poor Laws had done in four hundred years; for Town and Country Planning, Housing Authorities, Health Services, etc. 这是我第一次可以称赞而且是毫无保留地称赞那些参政者和决策者---他们制订了1944年《教育法案》和后续的法规,使中等和高等教育得到了巨大的发展；他们制订了《社会安全计划》, 10年中它在消灭贫穷方面的成绩超过了《穷人法》在400年中所拥有的成绩；还要感谢他们制订的《城镇和农村计划》,《住房制度》以及《医疗保健制度》等。 All this, in conjunction with paid holidays, higher wages, cheaper travel, cars by the million, air-travel, television and a host of electrical gadgets in the home,