南航研究生英语课本教学pptUnit3.ppt

* * Text Analysis Text A The Three New Yorks * * a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors Say by way of comment 评论； 一位为了逃避被邻居指指点点的屈辱从密西西比州的一个小镇远道而来的少女 * * a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart See Note 3 来自玉米地带，提箱里装着手稿，心中充满痛苦的男孩 * * Point 1 The commuter is the queerest bird of all. Metaphor The commuter is the most unusual person of all. * * Point 2 The suburb he inhabits has no essential vitality of its own and is a mere roost where he comes at day’s end to go to sleep. Branch, pole, etc. where a bird or a hen rests on 栖身之处 * * Point 4 He is deck-bound, and has never, idly roaming in the gloaming, stumbled suddenly on Belvedere Tower in the park, seen the ramparts rise sheer from the water of the pond and the boys along the shore fishing for minnows, girls stretched out negligently on the shelves of the rocks; He is always taking bus or ship, or train Stumble on = find unexpectedly or by chance * * Point 1 Not many among them have ever spent a drowsy afternoon in the great rustling oaken silence of the reading room of the Public Library, with the book elevator (like an old water wheel) spewing out books onto the trays. 在公众图书馆静得只能听到橡树叶的沙沙声的阅览室中 * * Point 2 They tend their furnaces in Westchester and in Jersey, but have never seen the furnaces of the Bowery, the fires that burn in oil drums on zero winter nights. take care of 在寒冷的冬夜烤着油灿灿的鸡腿的火炉 * * Point 6 and he calmly plays bridge while his train is buried in the mud at the bottom of the East River. 当他所乘坐的火车从东河底的泥浆中（隧道中）穿行而过时，他平静地打着桥牌。 * * Point 7 The Long Island Rail Road alone carried forty million commuters last year; but many of them were the same fellow retracing his steps. 跟随他脚步的同路人 （都是通勤者） * * Paragraph 5 What is the main idea of this paragraph? To live in New York is by no means easy. * * Point 1 The terrain of New York is such that a resident sometimes travels fart