英语自考二下册课件Unit 15.ppt

Unit 15 The Computer and the Poet Analysis of the text This text can be divided into two parts. Part One (Para 1-6 ) The computer has great advantages and shortcomings as well.　 Part Two (Paras 7-10) The junction of computer and poet will be fruitful. (计算机和诗人的思维方式相结合，可能会更富有成效。) Language Points Para. 1 That problem is not solely how to be more productive, more comfortable, more content, but how to be more sensitive, more sensible, more , more alive. 人类所面临的这个问题不仅仅是要提高生产力（如何更有成效），使人们更舒适、更满足，而且是怎样才能更有情感、更理智、更均衡、更有活力。 not solely…but 相当于not only…but… （不仅…而且…） 2. pull down 拆除；推翻; 拆毁（房屋等） They have managed to pull down the old building. 他们设法拆毁了那幢旧建筑。 They pulled down the warehouse to build a new supermarket. 　他们拆除了仓库来建一家新超市。 3. …whether the computer will make it easier or harder for human beings to know who they really are, to identity their real problems, to respond more fully to beauty, to place adequate value on life, and to make their world safer than it now is. 　　 但是，涉及到人类对自身的认识，对实际存在的问题的 辨别，对美更充分的理解， 对怎样给生活更充分的价 值以及怎样使人类世界比现在更安全等方面，计算机 给人类带来的究竟是更大的便利还是更多的困难…… Para. 2 4. dead end: 死胡同，没有出路的 有时候也会用blind alley表达 “死胡同”的说法，与dead end均表示 “（路等）走不通，没有前途（希望）”等意思，说得极端一点也可理解为“绝路，绝境”。例如： His present job seemed to be a blind alley. 他现在的工作看似没什么前途。 My job is a dead end; I just work in the stores and theres absolutely no prospect of promotion. 我的工作没有前途，我只是在仓库工作，因而绝对没有 晋升的指望。 5. eliminate: You must eliminate an unknown quantity. 你必须消去一个未知数。 The police have eliminated two suspects from their enquiry. 警方从调查中排除了两名受嫌疑的人。 6. Nor do they connect a man to the things he has to be connected to —the reality of pain in others; the possibilities of creative growth in himself; the memory of the race; and the rights of the next generation. 本句是部分倒装句，否定词nor 置到句首形成主谓倒装，在主语前加了助动词do. 译文：电脑也不能把人和应该与人有关系的事情联系起来：如，他人痛苦的现实、提高自身创造力的可能性、人类的记忆以及下一代人的权利等等。 Para. 3 7. mistake…for： 错把