现代大学英语3 Unit 6 Drugs.ppt

32. Drugs are a symptom of deeper ills in certain segments of our society, particularly the impoverished segments. （para. 19) a symptomof sth: an outward sign of a usu. bad or undesirable condition or event Poor attendance is a symptom of dissatisfaction among the students. ills: bad things ot problems that cause people to worry segment: a separate part of anything * 3. This will require heroic honesty.(para.1) It requires courage to tell the truth because many people have vested interest(既得利益) in creating the myth. 4. Dont say that marijuana is addictive and dangerous when it is neither-unlike speed, which kills most unpleasantly, or heroin, which is addictive and difficult to kick.(para. 1) Dont exaggerate the harmful effect of marijuana. It is neither addictive nor dangerous, as it is often described. Differentiate it fromspeed and heroin. Speed causes death while heroin is difficult to stop using once a person is addicted to it. marijuana: the most widely used drug among young people.More than one out of ten of the population in the US have tried it. speed: a form of amphetamine(安非他命), used by some doctors to help patients lose weight, because it depresses the appetite(胃口). to give up;to break(a bad habit) 5. For the record, I have tried almost every drug and liked none, diapproving the popular theory that a whiff of opium will enslave the mind.(para.2) for the record: declared openly and officially so as to make known ones disagreement, e.g. For the record, I find parents are naking a big mistake imposing their values on their children. a whiff of sth: a small amout of sth; a slight sign or feeling of sth, e.g. a whiff of onion/fear/scandal/hypocrisy/success * ensalve the mind: to affect people to the extent that they will lose control over their own minds * 6. Along with exhortation and warning, it might be good for our citizens to recall that the United States was the creation of men who believed that...as long as he does not interfere with his neighbours pu