现代大学英语第三册Unit_8_In_my_day.ppt

Becoming old Can you use some adjectives to describe the young and the old? What are the advantages and disadvantages to be young and to be old? Are you afraid of being old? China’s aging problem Russell says, “At the age of eighty my mother had her last bad fall…” What inferences can you draw from this sentence? What was his mother’s state of mind after her last bad fall? senile dementia 老年痴呆症，帕金森病 It showed in that angry challenging thrust of the chin when she issued an opinion, and a great one she had always been for issuing opinions. (p.10) This character trait of hers was shown when she expressed an opinion. She would stick out her chine angrily and defiantly. Whenever she had something to say, she would say it, never afraid of speaking her mind. 她发表观点时，总是气鼓鼓地、挑战性地抬起下巴。这表情充分显现出这种性格。她一贯勇于发表自己的看法。 For ten years or more the ferocity with which she had once attacked life had been turning to a rage against the weakness, the boredom, and the absence of love that too much age had brought her. (p.23) Throughout her life, Russell’s mother had fiercely fought numerous difficulties she encountered. About ten years or more ago, she began to suffer physical and psychological problems of aging, which she couldn’t tackle, and she became angry with this situation. Now, after the last bad fall, she seemed to have broken chains that imprisoned her in a life…a time in which she was needed. (p.32) She seemed to have found a way of escaping from her present life by reminiscing her good, old days when she was loved and needed. I …had written her with some banal advice to look for the silver lining, to count her blessings instead of burdening others with her miseries. (p.33) In a letter I had advised her to make a special effort to appreciate the good things in her life and not to worry those who came to see her by complaining about her unhappiness and suffering. This one was written out of a childish faith in the eternal strength of parents, a naive belief that age and wear co