Unit+6——Language+Points课件.ppt

Old Father Time Becomes a Terror ;Para 2： But instead of liberating us, technology has enslaved us. Innovations are occurring at a bewildering rate: as many now arrive in a year as once arrived in a millennium [mileni?m] . And as each invention arrives, it eats further into our time.;1.??If something?eats into?your time or your resources, it uses them, when they should be used for other things.??消耗，耗费（时间或资源） 家庭和工作的双重负担耗费了他的时间。 Responsibilities at home and work?eat into?his time. Wages were rising faster than productivity and this was eating into profits. 工资的涨幅高过了生产率增长的速度，从而消耗了利润所得。 2.? ?If a substance such as acid or rust?eats into something, it destroys or damages its surface.??. (酸、锈等)侵蚀，腐蚀 The waves eat into them only when they are charged with sand or pebbles. 只有挟带沙砾和碎石的波浪，才起侵蚀作用。 Dont let decadent ideas?eat?into?yourselves. 别让颓废的思想侵蚀你们。 ; Para 3: The motorcar, for example, promised unimaginable levels of personal mobility. But now, traffic in cities moves more slowly than it did in the days of the horse-drawn carriage, and we waste our lives stuck in traffic jams. ;[2] unimaginable;?If you describe something as unimaginable, you are emphasizing that it is difficult to imagine or understand properly, because it is not part of peoples normal experience.??不可想象的；难以理解的；异乎寻常的 e.g. [1]The scale of the fighting is almost?unimaginable. 战斗的规模几乎无法想象。 [2]这里的孩子经历了难以想象的恐惧。 The children here have lived through?unimaginable?horrors. ;源于imagine, adj imaginative：表示“富有想象力的，爱想象的”；形容人或事物 [1] He is an imaginative science fiction writer who is good at producing unearthly ideas(怪異的构想). [2]We have to try an imaginative alternative at this critical time. 在这个非常时期，我们需要尝试一个富有想象力的另类方法。 [3]The novel is funny and imaginative, so it attracts a lot of young readers. an imaginative artist; 　;Imaginable: 字面意思是“可以想像的”。 [1] She tries every imaginable way to help the poor child. Imaginable可强调某个现象达到最极端的程度，有“超乎想像”的含义。 [1]她是美的不能再美的女孩。（能想像有多美，便有多美。） She was the most beautiful girl imagin