商务英语综合教程上册课件第二版房玉靖 ISBN9787566303288 PPTUnit 8.ppt

商务英语综合教程上册课件第二版房玉靖 ISBN9787566303288 PPTUnit 8.ppt

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商务英语综合教程 ISBN:978-7-81134-- 2011年11月 第2版 Unit 8 The Costs of Economic Growth Introduction The economy has developed greatly in the past years, and people’s life has changed a lot with invention of telephones, automobiles, computers etc. However, the weather is becoming warmer and warmer; the air and water are polluted more and more seriously. New Words desirable adj.可取的,值得拥有的 overwhelming adj. 势不可挡的 philosopher n. 哲学家 stationary adj. 稳定的,固定的 exceed v. 超过,超越 pivotal adj. 关键性的,核心的 jeopardize v. 损害 accumulate v. 积累 New Words accrue v. 逐渐增长 affluent adj. 富裕的 dislocation n. 混乱 paradox n. 悖论 megalopolis n. 特大城市 Notes 1.Citizens and scholars are today raising a fundamental question: Is economic growth desirable? 如今,公民和学者们都提出了一个根本问题:经济增长是否可取? 2.to put it only slightly less grandly 用一种通俗的话来说 3.Mill actually looked forward to the coming of a “stationary state,” providing, of course, that the population problem could be handled and a decent standard of life could be guaranteed to the working classes. 这句话中的providing 作连词用,含义为:以……为条件,相当于provided. stationary state稳定状态 Notes 4.The argument has many variants, but it is built around two fundamental themes. 争议的形式各有不同,但都是围绕两个主题的。 Variants:变体,不同的形式。 5.out of economic necessity出自于经济需要 6. “keeping up with the Jones” 意为“赶上琼斯家”,指与他人攀比,非要胜任一筹的行事方式。 Jones 是非常普通的英文名字,此处指左邻右舍、亲朋同事等。 Notes 7.Similarly, in the case of producer-induced demand, business firms advertise to convince the consumers that they need the goods that they would not have missed had the advertising and the additional production never occurred。  To convince the consumers 后带一个以that 引导的名词从句作宾语。其中包含一个that 引导的定语从句修饰the goods.这个定语从句中用的是虚拟语气,had…never occurred是条件句的一种形式,相当于if…had never occurred. Notes 8.Indeed, even the measurement of growth is made difficult by the fact that many of the products

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