人文英语阅读教程4单元：CD语言点.doc

Unit 4 Classics Appreciation Section C Three Days to See Notes and information related to the text 1. Anne Sullivan Macy (Para. 4) Anne Sullivan Macy: special educator (April 14，1866October 20，1936). She began teaching Helen Keller after regaining her eyesight from a series of operations and graduating as class valedictorian in 1886 from the Perkins Institute for the Blind. I should call to me all my dear friends and look long into their faces, imprinting upon my mind the outward evidences of the beauty that is within them. (Para. 5) Meaning： I should call all my dear friends to my place and look into their faces for a long time, learning by heart and putting the outward beauty they have deep into my memory. 3. I should let my eyes rest, too, on the face of a baby, so that I could catch a vision of the eager, innocent beauty which precedes the individual’s consciousness of the conflicts which life develops. (Para. 5) precede: v. come, exist, or occur before in time, place or sequence E.G. The tourists were preceded by their guide. 此句意为：我也会把我的目光投向婴儿的脸，以便去_感受一下好奇、渴望、天真无邪 的美——这种美早在人们意识到生活中的冲突之前就诞生了。 This day I should devote to a hasty glimpse of the world, past and present. (Para. 10) devote: v. give or apply (one’s time, attention, or self) entirely to a particular activity, pursuit, cause, or person E. G. He has devoted his whole life to benefiting mankind. 此句意为：今天我要快速浏览这个世界的过去与现在。 Often I have visited the New York Museum of Natural History to touch with my hands many of the objects there exhibited, but I have longed to see with my eyes the condensed history of the earth and its inhabitants displayed there. (Para. 10) the New York Museum of Natural History: the largest natural history museum in the world. It displays more than 30 million specimens from all branches of natural history along with a wealth of anthropological artifacts. My next stop would be the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for just as the Museum of Natural History reveals the material aspects of the wo