Fish 研究生英语课件.ppt

TAKE THIS FISH  AND LOOK AT IT Samuel Scudder About the author a. Samuel Hubbard Scudder was an American entomologist (昆虫学家） and palaeontologist （古生物学家）. He was born 13 April 1837 in Boston, Massachusetts and died in the same city 17 May 1911. He had very weird sideburns. b. most widely known for his essay on the importance of first-hand, careful observation in the natural sciences. C. The treatise on inductive reasoning, entitled The Student, the Fish, and Agassiz, reflects his initial experience under the tutelage of Louis Agassiz at Harvard University. Text Analysis 1. Group One: Scan the beginning sentence of each paragraphs ( sometimes ending sentence) to find out how many times slots there are in the text. (make a list of all the time words and phrases.) 2. Group Two: Scan the text to make out all the conversations that took place between professor Agassiz and Scudder. 3. Compare notes and try to find something. (in each time slot except for the last one there is an important conversation) Conclusion: the text is divided into five sections. Language pointspart one Para 1. enroll: 1) Vt To enter or register in a roll, list, or record: 注册，登记：在花名册、名单或记录上登记注册或记录： enrolled the child in kindergarten; enroll the minutes of the meeting. 注册孩子们入幼儿园；作会议记录 2) v.intr.（不及物动词） To place ones name on a roll or register; sign up: 注册登记：注册、记录某人名字在花名册上；登记： We enrolled in the army. 我们登记入伍了 Para 5. entrust 1) To give over sth to another for care, protection, or performance: 委托：把某物交与他人以照顾、保护或运行： “He still has the aura of the priest to whom you would entrust your darkest secrets. “他身上仍散发牧师的气味，使你愿将自己内心最深处的秘密交付与他” 2) To give as a trust to (someone): 委托（某人）管理： entrusted his aides with the task. 他把这项任务委托给了他的助手们 Paragraph 7. Those were not the days of ground-glass stoppers and elegantly shaped exhibition jars; all the old students will recall the huge neckless glass bottles with their leaky, wax-besmeared corks, half eaten by insects, and begrimed with ce