外研社高级英语face to face with hurricane camille.ppt

Language study Para 1 　1 John Koshak, Jr., knew that Hurricane Camille would be bad. Radio and television warnings had sounded throughout that Sunday, last August 17, as Camille lashed northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico. It was certain to pummel Gulfport, Miss., where the Koshers lived. Along the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, nearly 150,000 people fled inland to safer ground. But, like thousands of others in the coastal communities, john was reluctant to abandon his home unless the family -- his wife, Janis, and their seven children, abed 3 to 11 -- was clearly endangered. John Koshake Jr. — Jr. is the abbreviation of junior. Sr. is put after the name of the father. John Rockefeller I, John Rockefeller II …Hurricane Camille would be bad …would be destructive /ˊdevastating / , terribly forceful Lash v. to strike with great force， to move violently or suddenly The waves lashed the shore. The rain was lashing against the windows. The Judge lashed drug-dealers.抨击 The rain was lashing the roof The lash of the waves She felt the lash of my tongue Fear lashed him into a frenzy. lash sb into a fury/rage/frenzy 故意激怒 The crowd was being lashed into a frenzy by the speaker. Whip fall heavily on “Wind and rain now whipped the house”. Pummel: to beat or hit with repeated blows, esp. with the fist. The thief was pushed and pummeled by an angry crowd. He trapped the man in a corner and pummeled him ferociously for thirty seconds. Pummeled the bully soundly Coastal communitiespeople living together in towns, cities, villages along the coast. Para.2 Trying to reason out the best course of action, he talked with his father and mother, who had moved into the ten-room house with the Koshaks a month earlier from California. He also consulted Charles Hill, a long time friend, who had driven from Las Vegas for a visit. Trying to reason out the best course of action: trying to figure out the ways to cope with the prese