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1. Listening Comprehension
2. Background Information
Before Reading
3. Warm-up Questions
Manhattan
Amazon River
Ecuador
Andes
Orion
Hollywood
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The Niagara region.
Where is the author living
Niagara is one of the top crop producers in not only Ontario, but also Canada. And many of the people I met who were from Toronto had never seen a farm before, or enjoyed the small pleasures of picking their own fruit or going for hikes in scenic areas.
What was he/she surprised to learn when he/she went to university in Toronto
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Listening Comprehension
Questions and Answers
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awed, mystified, a sense of wonder
How did he/she feel when he/she decided to stop by and take a look at the falls through the eyes of a tourist
This is an open-ended question.
Have you ever had the same kind of experience as the author did
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Listening Comprehension
Questions and Answers
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Amazon River
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What do you know about
Amazon
2. According to the pictures,
describe the geographic
location of Amazon.
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Ecuador
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Andes
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According to the picture, describe the geographic situation of Andes.
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Orion
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Hollywood (California), unincorporated in the northwestern part of the city of Los Angeles,
California, famed as a center of the motion picture industry in the United States. It is also a major center of the U.S. television industry. The main thoroughfares, Sunset and Hollywood boulevards and Vine St., contain well-known restaurants, nightclubs, and studios. The Hollywood Bowl, a natural amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills, is the site
of cultural events. The was laid out in the late 1880s, after a real estate developer named Harvey Wilcox registered his 120-acre citrus ranch as Hollywood on February 1st, 1887, and started selling of the property. in 1903, it merged with Los Angeles in 1910. The first movie was established here in about 1911.
district
Hollywood
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southwestern
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broadcasting
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numerous
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community
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subdivisions
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Incorporated
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studio
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Manhattan
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BR3-Questions
Warm-up Questions
What are some distinctive features of an out-of-the-way, inaccessible place such as a jungle, desert, or remote mountainous area
Why would such a place appeal to many people today
What are the characteristics of those people who are attracted to such places
What do you think about San Mao's travel through the Sahara Desert
Have you ever been to such a place If yes, say something about your travel.
If you have both time and money, what places would you like to visit most Why
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Global Reading
1. Part Division of the Text
3. Text Analysis
4. Group Work
2. Further Understanding
For Part 1
For Part 2
Role Play
For Part 3
Questions and Answers
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Fill in the Table
Blank Filling
Skimming
GR1
Part Division of the Text
Part
Lines
Main Ideas
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Description of the Napo River and surrounding jungle scenery at night, together with the author's reflections on it.
Recalling what happened to her at their arrival at the village and what others felt about the Napo River and the people there.
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42~108
Detailed description of journeying in the jungle and her feelings about it.
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What happens in this part.
in the middle of the night; It was February, the middle of summer.
the Napo River in the Ecuadorian jungle; on the headwaters of the Amazon
three North Americans, four Ecuadorians
Like any out-of-the-way place, the Napo River in the Ecuadorian jungle seems real enough when you are there, even central.
Out of the way of what
When:
Where:
Who:
What:
Why:
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2. Find out the sensory impressions in this part.
1. A nightjar in deep-leaved shadow called three long
notes, and hushed.
2. In the thatch house across the clearing behind us
came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that
twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on
the bank side, and wandered over the river,
dissolving downstream.
Hearing:
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This will do, I thought. This will do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home.
Feeling:
Each breath of night smelled sweet.
Smelling:
cool drinks
Tasting:
idly watching a hand-sized tarantula seize moths
Seeing:
2. Find out the sensory impressions in this part.
Time Place What happened
in the village
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Fill in the Table
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2
Later that night
That afternoon
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Now
Fill in the table and identify the linking devices used to achieve coherence.
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I loosed my hair from its braids and combed it smooth…
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…had disembarked at the village
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…they were all braiding my hair…
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in the little tent
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I combed my hair…
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GR2_Part 2_ Role Play
Role Play
Four students form a group: one plays as the author, one as the freelance writer from Manhattan and the other two as Ecuadorians. Each talks about his or her life. Pay attention to the sharp contrast of the two different kinds of life.
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Find out the sensory impressions in this part.
…the unseen birds of twilight wistful, catching the heart.
What is there is interesting.
sweet air
…eat chicken …, together with rice, onions and heaps of fruit
Parrots in flocks dart in and out of the light.
Hearing:
Feeling:
Smelling:
Tasting:
Seeing:
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Questions and Answers
What is the point of going to the Napo River in Ecuador
according to the author
It is simply to see what is there. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
2. What did they find along the Napo River
Parrots in flocks, anacondas, gray strips of sandbar, palm-thatch shelters.
3. Can you imagine the Indian's life and why did they get up at three
They were getting warm.
4. What did the tourist group see inside the jungle
The trees, butterflies, a swath of ants.
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Questions and Answers
5. What animals did they see while canoeing on one of the lakes
Herons, kingfishers, cuckoos, great turkey like birds, hawks, turtle.
6. What did they eat that night in the village And what did they see there
They ate chicken, together with rice, onions and heaps of fruit. They saw the sunset, two nuns and children.
7. What message does the author want to convey to the reader by her description of what was going on in the evening in that village
It is not out of the way. It is in the way.
GR3_Text Analysis-1
Text Analysis
"Out of the way of what " asks the writer at the beginning of the text while talking about the Napo River. However, she finally comes to the conclusion that "it is not out of the way". All through the text there is overall coherence. There is an echo — "It would be worth it", "The Napo River: it is not out of the way. It is in the way".
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Skimming
Make a list of at least eight things that the author finds so attractive about life in the jungle.
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Birds, insects and animals of all descriptions
The sweet air
Various kinds of trees and other plants
River abundant in fish
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Little girls who liked to play with the writer's hair
Children singing lovely songs
Treating guests with wonderful foods
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People and nature in harmony
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GR4_Group work
Group Work
Students move around the classroom, find a partner, recite or read aloud to each other their favorite sentences from the text, explain why, then move on to find another partner. By thus doing you can appreciate the aesthetic side of English.
Article1_S
Like any out-of-the-way place, the Napo River in the Ecuadorian jungle seems real enough when you are there, even central. Out of the way of what I was sitting on a
In the Jungle
stump at the edge of a bankside palm-thatch village, in the middle of the night, on the headwaters of the Amazon. Out of the way of human life, tenderness, or the glance of heaven
Article1_s_POPWIN_Out of the way
Like any out-of-the-way place, the Napo River in the Ecuadorian jungle seems real enough when you are there, even central. Out of the way of what I was sitting on a
stump at the edge of a bankside palm-thatch village, in the middle of the night, on the headwaters of the Amazon. Out of the way of human life, tenderness, or the glance of heaven
What role does the sentence play
In the first paragraph the author asks a question to arouse the readers' interest and point out the main idea of the whole essay. This is a good way to begin and to develop an essay.
In the Jungle
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A nightjar in deep-leaved shadow called three long notes, and hushed. The men with me talked softly: three North Americans, four Ecuadorians who were showing us the jungle. We were holding cool drinks and idly watching a hand-sized tarantula seize moths that came to the lone bulb on the generator shed beside us.
It was February, the middle of summer. Green fireflies spattered lights across the air and illumined for seconds, now here, now there, the pale trunks of enormous, solitary trees.
Article2_w
A nightjar in deep-leaved shadow called three long notes, and hushed. The men with me talked softly: three North Americans, four Ecuadorians who were showing us the jungle. We were holding cool drinks and idly watching a hand-sized tarantula seize moths that came to the lone bulb on the generator shed beside us.
It was February, the middle of summer. Green fireflies spattered lights across the air and illumined for seconds, now here, now there, the pale trunks of enormous, solitary trees.
Article2_w_popwin_now here…
A nightjar in deep-leaved shadow called three long notes, and hushed. The men with me talked softly: three North Americans, four Ecuadorians who were showing us the jungle. We were holding cool drinks and idly watching a hand-sized tarantula seize moths that came to the lone bulb on the generator shed beside us.
It was February, the middle of summer. Green fireflies spattered lights across the air and illumined for seconds, now here, now there, the pale trunks of enormous, solitary trees.
now … now … : at one time ... at another time ...
What mixed weather, now sunny, now cloudy.
Collocation:
before now
以前
by now
到现在,至今
now and again / then
时而,偶尔
from now on
从现在起,今后
Now or never!
机不可失, 时不再来!
now that
既然, 由于
up to now/till now
到现在为止, 迄今
The market is very unstable, with the price now rising, now falling.
Article3_S
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
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Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
Article3_w_popwin_in all silence…
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
in (all) silence: with (complete) absence of sound or noise
We should not pass over this unfair thing in silence.
我们不能对这件不公平的事不闻不问.
The boys listened to the story in silence.
Article3_w_popwin_tangled
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
tangle:
My long hair's so tangled that I can't comb it.
1. v.
catch in or as in a net, trap; mix together or intertwine in a
confused mass
Don't move. You're tangling them up.
2) be involved in a fight or quarrel
I tangled with her over the mathematic homework.
They tangled heatedly over the problem.
Article3_w_popwin_tangled
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
2. n. confused mass or disordered state
His mind was in a tangle.
他的思想陷于困惑之中.
Collocation:
tangle over
对…发生争论
The traffic was in a terrible tangle because of the power failure.
tangle up
缠在一起,弄乱
tangle with sb.
与某人发生纠纷,与某人发生口角,与某人打架
be in a tangle
纠缠不清,陷于混乱之中
Article3_w_popwin_ traile
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
trail:
1. vi.
1) extend over a surface
We like very much the vines trailing through the garden.
The tablecloth trails on the floor.
2) walk tiredly
The defeated army trailed past us.
被打败的军队疲惫地走过我们的身边.
Article3_w_popwin_ traile
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
2. vt.
1) drag, pull
The child was trailing a toy dog, screaming happily.
The nun trailed her gown through the mud.
2) follow the tracks of
The policemen trailed the suspect for several days and finally to his hiding-place.
The hunters trailed a tiger for hours.
Article3_w_popwin_ traile
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
3. n. mark, trace
受伤的动物在身后留下一道血迹.
Follow the trail until you come to the camp.
The wounded animal left a trail of blood behind it.
Collocation:
trail after
追随
trail off / away
变弱,逐渐缩小
blaze a /the trail
(在森林中)在树上刻出指路的标志;开辟道路
follow the trail
追踪
in trail
成一列纵队
off the trail
失去踪迹;偏离目标
on the trail
跟踪,追赶
Article3_w_popwin_ traile
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
CF: trail, follow, chase & pursue
这些词都可用作动词,都可以表示"追随,跟踪"的意思.
trail 指根据某种踪迹进行追寻.例如:
The ground was soft and wet so we were able to trail her to the house.
地面松软潮湿,所以我们能够沿着脚印跟踪到她家.
follow 中性词,跟随的用意对被跟随者来说可好可坏.例如:
Don't keep following me about everywhere I go.
不要老是我走到哪里你就跟到哪里.
The dog followed her all down the street.
这只狗一路跟着她沿街走去.
Article3_w_popwin_ traile
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
chase 强调追赶者的速度和决心,其动机常为不甚友善,也可能
是出于好玩或取乐.例如:
The Johnsons' cat likes to chase the mice as if it were playing with them.
约翰逊家的猫喜欢追逐老鼠,好像它在跟它们闹着玩似的.
We are trying to chase down all possible clues to the theft.
我们正在设法寻找这起盗窃案的一切可能得到的线索.
pursue 不重视追随者的用意好坏,但其决心和速度比较明显.例如:
The police are pursuing an escaped prisoner.
警方正在追捕一个在逃的犯人.
We have always pursued a friendly policy towards the people all over the world.
对世界人民我们一贯奉行友好政策.
Article3_w_popwin_ looped
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
loop:
1. v. form or bend into a loop
Loop that end of the rope through this and knot it.
他把绳子绕系在柱子上.
2. n. circle
She put a loop of rope around the horse's neck.
The loop of string makes a handle for the parcel.
He looped the rope round a post.
Article3_w_popwin_ looped
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
Pattern: loop the loop (飞机,风筝等)在高空翻筋斗;
(在游乐园)乘坐绕环滑车
The airman looped the loop three times and won the cheer in chorus from the spectators.
Article3_S_popwin_Beneath us …
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
Translate the sentence and enjoy the aesthetic side of English.
在我们下方,褐黄色的纳波河水正在涨潮,万籁俱寂;惟见河水沿着沙岸蜿蜒流过,水沫裹挟在蔓生在森林里的藤蔓间以及盘绕岸边的树根上.
Article4_S
Each breath of night smelled sweet. Each star in Orion seemed to tremble and stir with my breath. All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream.
This will do, I thought. This will do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home.
Later that night I loosed my hair from its braids and combed it smooth — not for myself, but so the village girls could play with it in the morning.
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Each breath of night smelled sweet. Each star in Orion seemed to tremble and stir with my breath. All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream.
This will do, I thought. This will do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home.
Later that night I loosed my hair from its braids and combed it smooth — not for myself, but so the village girls could play with it in the morning.
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Each breath of night smelled sweet. Each star in Orion seemed to tremble and stir with my breath. All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream.
This will do, I thought. This will do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home.
Later that night I loosed my hair from its braids and combed it smooth — not for myself, but so the village girls could play with it in the morning.
mute: v. reduce or stop the sound of
He muted but stared at his father to protest.
他一声不吭但瞪着他的父亲以表示抗议.
We muted our voices at the sight of the national flag.
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Each breath of night smelled sweet. Each star in Orion seemed to tremble and stir with my breath. All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream.
This will do, I thought. This will do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home.
Later that night I loosed my hair from its braids and combed it smooth — not for myself, but so the village girls could play with it in the morning.
dissolve: v.
His strength dissolved.
1) fade away, disappear
The view dissolved in mist.
Water dissolves salt.
水溶解盐.
Salt dissolves in water.
盐溶解于水中.
Heat dissolved the candle into a pool of wax in a few minutes.
3) bring to end
They dissolved the business partnership, so did the friendship between them.
政府解散了该国议会并暂停一切政治活动.
The government dissolved the country's parliament and suspended all political activities.
2) become liquid
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Each breath of night smelled sweet. Each star in Orion seemed to tremble and stir with my breath. All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream.
This will do, I thought. This will do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home.
Later that night I loosed my hair from its braids and combed it smooth — not for myself, but so the village girls could play with it in the morning.
loose:
He loosed his collar of his overcoat.
1. v. untie, release
Wine loosed his tongue.
Hikers loosed their packs at camp.
远足者们在营地解下背包.
2. adj.
1) not fastened; free from control
2) not bound together
3) not tight
4) not exact
5) without morals
Match the definitions with the phrases below.
a loose hour
闲暇时间
a loose package
松散的包裹
a loose woman
放荡的女人
loose coffee
散装咖啡
loose shoes
宽松的鞋
loose papers
散页纸
a loose translation
意译
Article4_w_loosed
Each breath of night smelled sweet. Each star in Orion seemed to tremble and stir with my breath. All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream.
This will do, I thought. This will do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home.
Later that night I loosed my hair from its braids and combed it smooth — not for myself, but so the village girls could play with it in the morning.
Collocation:
let loose
放任,放开
at loose end
无所事事
on the loose
自由,放纵,逍遥法外
Article4_S_popwin_this will…
Each breath of night smelled sweet. Each star in Orion seemed to tremble and stir with my breath. All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream.
This will do, I thought. This will do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home.
Later that night I loosed my hair from its braids and combed it smooth — not for myself, but so the village girls could play with it in the morning.
Be sufficient in meeting the needs.
2. What's the role of the sentences
1. What does "do" mean
By the sentences the author summarizes the first part and expresses her true and deep feeling: her love for this beautiful place.
3. Translate the sentence into Chinese.
人生遇此情景足矣,我暗想.在此度过周末足矣,在此小住数月足矣,在此安家足矣.
Article4_S_popwin_all at…
Each breath of night smelled sweet. Each star in Orion seemed to tremble and stir with my breath. All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream.
This will do, I thought. This will do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home.
Later that night I loosed my hair from its braids and combed it smooth — not for myself, but so the village girls could play with it in the morning.
Pay attention to the structure of the sentence.
If the prepositional phrase is at the beginning of a sentence, the following subject and the predicate should be of inverted order. Note the parallel construction of three verbs: twined, muted and wandered.
2. Translate the sentence into Chinese.
突然,我们身后空地旁的茅屋里,传出了录音机的声音,一首乐曲在村子空地之上缭绕,减弱了我们在河畔谈话的声音,然后又传至河面,随流飘去.
Article5_s
We had disembarked at the village that afternoon, and I had slumped on some shaded steps, wishing I knew some Spanish or some Quechua so I could speak with the ring of little girls who were alternately staring at me and smiling at
their toes. I spoke anyway, and fooled with my hair, which they were obviously dying to get their hands on, and laughed, and soon they were all braiding my hair, all five of them, all fifty fingers, all my hair, even my bangs.
Article5_w
We had disembarked at the village that afternoon, and I had slumped on some shaded steps, wishing I knew some Spanish or some Quechua so I could speak with the ring of little girls who were alternately staring at me and smiling at
their toes. I spoke anyway, and fooled with my hair, which they were obviously dying to get their hands on, and laughed, and soon they were all braiding my hair, all five of them, all fifty fingers, all my hair, even my bangs.
Article5_w_slumped
We had disembarked at the village that afternoon, and I had slumped on some shaded steps, wishing I knew some Spanish or some Quechua so I could speak with the ring of little girls who were alternately staring at me and smiling at
their toes. I spoke anyway, and fooled with my hair, which they were obviously dying to get their hands on, and laughed, and soon they were all braiding my hair, all five of them, all fifty fingers, all my hair, even my bangs.
slump:
1. v.
1) sit or fall down heavily
She slumped exhaustedly onto the sofa.
The boy's feet slumped through the ice.
2) go down in number or strength
Business slumped after the holidays.
Sales have slumped badly in the last week.
2. n. general drop in prices, trade activity, etc; business
depression
a stock market slump
a slump in farm prices
The slump certainly had some impact on inflation.
Article5_w_were
We had disembarked at the village that afternoon, and I had slumped on some shaded steps, wishing I knew some Spanish or some Quechua so I could speak with the ring of little girls who were alternately staring at me and smiling at
their toes. I spoke anyway, and fooled with my hair, which they were obviously dying to get their hands on, and laughed, and soon they were all braiding my hair, all five of them, all fifty fingers, all my hair, even my bangs.
be dying to do sth. / for sth.: desire (to do) sth. eagerly
We are dying to know what happened.
I feel like a cup of tea but he's dying for a cup of coffee.
Article5_w_get their hands on
We had disembarked at the village that afternoon, and I had slumped on some shaded steps, wishing I knew some Spanish or some Quechua so I could speak with the ring of little girls who were alternately staring at me and smiling at
their toes. I spoke anyway, and fooled with my hair, which they were obviously dying to get their hands on, and laughed, and soon they were all braiding my hair, all five of them, all fifty fingers, all my hair, even my bangs.
get one's hands on: catch hold of, find or get (sth.)
I have the book, but now can't get my hands on it.
The old women keeps everything she can get her hands on.
我是有这本书的,就是现在找不到.
NB:
get one's hands = lay one's hands on
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And then they took it apart and did it again, laughing, and teaching me Spanish nouns, and meeting my eyes and each other's with open delight, while their small brothers in blue jeans climbed down from the trees and began kicking a volleyball around with one of the North American men.
Now, as I combed my hair in the little tent, another of the men, a free-lance writer from Manhattan, was talking quietly. He was telling us the tale of his life, describing his work in Hollywood, his apartment in Manhattan, his house in Paris….
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And then they took it apart and did it again, laughing, and teaching me Spanish nouns, and meeting my eyes and each other's with open delight, while their small brothers in blue jeans climbed down from the trees and began kicking a volleyball around with one of the North American men.
Now, as I combed my hair in the little tent, another of the men, a free-lance writer from Manhattan, was talking quietly. He was telling us the tale of his life, describing his work in Hollywood, his apartment in Manhattan, his house in Paris….
Article6-w_ took … apart
And then they took it apart and did it again, laughing, and teaching me Spanish nouns, and meeting my eyes and each other's with open delight, while their small brothers in blue jeans climbed down from the trees and began kicking a volleyball around with one of the North American men.
Now, as I combed my hair in the little tent, another of the men, a free-lance writer from Manhattan, was talking quietly. He was telling us the tale of his life, describing his work in Hollywood, his apartment in Manhattan, his house in Paris….
take apart: separate into its different parts
He took the clock apart to repair it.
When I was a little boy, I liked to take the toys apart and put them together again and again.
Collocation:
lay / put / set sth. apart for
把(某物)留给…
know / tell apart
区分开
apart from
离开;除…之外;要不是
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"It makes me wonder," he said, "what I'm doing in a tent under a tree in the village of Pompeya, on the Napo River, in the jungle of Ecuador." After a pause he added, "It makes me wonder why I'm going back."
The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. We might as well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived,
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"It makes me wonder," he said, "what I'm doing in a tent under a tree in the village of Pompeya, on the Napo River, in the jungle of Ecuador." After a pause he added, "It makes me wonder why I'm going back."
The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. We might as well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived,
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"It makes me wonder," he said, "what I'm doing in a tent under a tree in the village of Pompeya, on the Napo River, in the jungle of Ecuador." After a pause he added, "It makes me wonder why I'm going back."
The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. We might as well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived,
spectacular: adj. extraordinary; very attractive or impressive
Because of a spectacular achievement in science, he is now world famous.
We enjoyed a spectacular display of fireworks on Tian'anmen Square.
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"It makes me wonder," he said, "what I'm doing in a tent under a tree in the village of Pompeya, on the Napo River, in the jungle of Ecuador." After a pause he added, "It makes me wonder why I'm going back."
The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. We might as well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived,
fringe: n. the outer edge or limit of sth.
It was easier to move about on the fringe of the crowd.
这是一个很广阔的领域, 我在这里只能谈个大概.
This is an enormous field of which l can here touch only the fringe.
CF: fringe, border, edge & rim
这些词都是名词,都有"边界","边缘"的意思.
fringe 指衣服,地毯或其他饰物的须边,或指事物的最外边,或离中心
位置最远的边缘.例如:
A fringe of trees stood round the pool.
池塘的四周耸立着一圈树木.
She was wearing a white silk scarf with a fringe at each end.
她披了一条白色丝绸围巾,其两端带有须边.
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"It makes me wonder," he said, "what I'm doing in a tent under a tree in the village of Pompeya, on the Napo River, in the jungle of Ecuador." After a pause he added, "It makes me wonder why I'm going back."
The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. We might as well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived,
我能听到鸟儿在林边鸣叫.
We turned back to the sea's edge yesterday.
昨天我们回到了海边.
border 指围定范围的界线或最接近外缘的地带,也可用以比喻. 例如:
I could hear birds singing at the border of the wood.
难民们生活在饥饿的边缘.
The refugees live on the border of starvation.
edge 指任何物体较窄的边缘或两个平面的交接线.例如:
我把茶杯放在桌边以便能够得着.
I put the cup at the edge of the desk so I can reach it.
rim 常指圆或曲面的边缘.例如:
The lady's hat had a wide rim.
这个女士的帽子有一个宽帽沿.
The boy wore funny-looking pair of glasses with blue rim.
男孩戴了一副样子很逗的蓝边眼镜.
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"It makes me wonder," he said, "what I'm doing in a tent under a tree in the village of Pompeya, on the Napo River, in the jungle of Ecuador." After a pause he added, "It makes me wonder why I'm going back."
The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. We might as well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived,
hollow: n. a space sunk into sth.
More sand is needed to fill the hollow in the driveway.
Let's have a picnic down in the hollow.
Article7_S_popwin_it maks…
"It makes me wonder," he said, "what I'm doing in a tent under a tree in the village of Pompeya, on the Napo River, in the jungle of Ecuador." After a pause he added, "It makes me wonder why I'm going back."
The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. We might as well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived,
1. What does the structure of "wonder what / why / if / how…"
mean
不知道,感到疑惑/好奇,想知道
I was just wondering how to do it.
I wonder if you could post this letter for me.
2. What's the implied meaning of the sentence
They enjoy the peaceful life here very much and don't want to go back to the modern world.
Article8_S
for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent, and for the life that -- there, like anywhere else -- is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade.
What is there is interesting. The Napo River itself is wide and brown, opaque, and smeared with floating foam and logs and branches from the jungle. Parrots in flocks dart in and out of the light. Under the water in the river, unseen, are anacondas -- which are reputed to take a few village toddlers every year -- and water boas, crocodiles, and sweet-meated fish.
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for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent, and for the life that -- there, like anywhere else -- is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade.
What is there is interesting. The Napo River itself is wide and brown, opaque, and smeared with floating foam and logs and branches from the jungle. Parrots in flocks dart in and out of the light. Under the water in the river, unseen, are anacondas -- which are reputed to take a few village toddlers every year -- and water boas, crocodiles, and sweet-meated fish.
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for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent, and for the life that -- there, like anywhere else -- is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade.
What is there is interesting. The Napo River itself is wide and brown, opaque, and smeared with floating foam and logs and branches from the jungle. Parrots in flocks dart in and out of the light. Under the water in the river, unseen, are anacondas -- which are reputed to take a few village toddlers every year -- and water boas, crocodiles, and sweet-meated fish.
in detail: with specifics
The CEO explained her proposal in great detail.
We will talk about the accident in more details later on.
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for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent, and for the life that -- there, like anywhere else -- is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade.
What is there is interesting. The Napo River itself is wide and brown, opaque, and smeared with floating foam and logs and branches from the jungle. Parrots in flocks dart in and out of the light. Under the water in the river, unseen, are anacondas -- which are reputed to take a few village toddlers every year -- and water boas, crocodiles, and sweet-meated fish.
flock:
1. n.
1) a group of certain animals
The family keeps flocks and herds to make a living.
这家庭靠养羊和牛群为生.
a flock of geese / duck / sheep / pigeons / wild geese
2) (infml) a crowd, large number of people
人们成群结队地来参观水坝旁边新建的水电站.
People came in flocks to see the new hydraulic power station beside the dam.
It is a small flock that has not a black sheep.
(谚语)人多必有败类.
Pattern:
in flocks
成群的
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for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent, and for the life that -- there, like anywhere else -- is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade.
What is there is interesting. The Napo River itself is wide and brown, opaque, and smeared with floating foam and logs and branches from the jungle. Parrots in flocks dart in and out of the light. Under the water in the river, unseen, are anacondas -- which are reputed to take a few village toddlers every year -- and water boas, crocodiles, and sweet-meated fish.
2. v. gather or move in large crowds
It rarely happened that people in the town flocked to the theatre to see the new opera.
Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚,人以群分.
CF: flock, herd, school & swarm
这些词都可用作名词,都可以表示"群"的意思.
flock 主要指鸟群,羊群,有时也可指较小的其他动物,如兔,鹅,
鸭,还可指人.例如:
一大群鸽子
a large flock of pigeons
人们成群结队地来看这个新建筑.
People came in flocks to see the new building.
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for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent, and for the life that -- there, like anywhere else -- is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade.
What is there is interesting. The Napo River itself is wide and brown, opaque, and smeared with floating foam and logs and branches from the jungle. Parrots in flocks dart in and out of the light. Under the water in the river, unseen, are anacondas -- which are reputed to take a few village toddlers every year -- and water boas, crocodiles, and sweet-meated fish.
The turtles meet together in great herds every year.
herd 主要指较大的动物,如牛,马,象等陆地动物或鲸,海豹等水上动
物,也可指人,但有时含有贬义.例如:
海龟每年都大群大群地聚在一起.
A herd of elephants are grazing in the grassland.
一群大象在草地上吃草.
school 指一群同类的鱼或其他的海洋生物.例如:
Whales like to swim together in large school.
鲸鱼喜欢大群大群地在一起游泳.
swarm 主要指移动的较小的动物,如蜜蜂,蚂蚁,也可指人,但为非正式
用词.例如:
There were thousands of bees in swarms in the tree.
树上有几千只成群的蜜蜂.
Article8_w_ dart
for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent, and for the life that -- there, like anywhere else -- is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade.
What is there is interesting. The Napo River itself is wide and brown, opaque, and smeared with floating foam and logs and branches from the jungle. Parrots in flocks dart in and out of the light. Under the water in the river, unseen, are anacondas -- which are reputed to take a few village toddlers every year -- and water boas, crocodiles, and sweet-meated fish.
dart: v. move suddenly and rapidly
Swallows were darting through the clouds.
The dog darted across the street.
The squirrel darted its head
from side to side before
scampering up the tree.
Article8_S_popwin_what is…
for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent, and for the life that -- there, like anywhere else -- is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade.
What is there is interesting. The Napo River itself is wide and brown, opaque, and smeared with floating foam and logs and branches from the jungle. Parrots in flocks dart in and out of the light. Under the water in the river, unseen, are anacondas -- which are reputed to take a few village toddlers every year -- and water boas, crocodiles, and sweet-meated fish.
Pay attention to the structure.
Here "what is there" is used as a subjective clause with the meaning: 那里的一切.
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Low water bares gray strips of sandbar on which the natives build tiny palm-thatch shelters for overnight fishing trips. You see these extraordinarily clean people (who bathe twice a day in the river, and whose straight black hair is always freshly washed) paddling down the river in dugout canoes, hugging the banks.
Some of the Indians of this region, earlier in the century, used to sleep naked in hammocks. The nights are cold. Gordon MacCreach, an American explorer in these Amazon tributaries, reported that he was startled to hear the Indians get up at three in the morning.
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Low water bares gray strips of sandbar on which the natives build tiny palm-thatch shelters for overnight fishing trips. You see these extraordinarily clean people (who bathe twice a day in the river, and whose straight black hair is always freshly washed) paddling down the river in dugout canoes, hugging the banks.
Some of the Indians of this region, earlier in the century, used to sleep naked in hammocks. The nights are cold. Gordon MacCreach, an American explorer in these Amazon tributaries, reported that he was startled to hear the Indians get up at three in the morning.
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Low water bares gray strips of sandbar on which the natives build tiny palm-thatch shelters for overnight fishing trips. You see these extraordinarily clean people (who bathe twice a day in the river, and whose straight black hair is always freshly washed) paddling down the river in dugout canoes, hugging the banks.
Some of the Indians of this region, earlier in the century, used to sleep naked in hammocks. The nights are cold. Gordon MacCreach, an American explorer in these Amazon tributaries, reported that he was startled to hear the Indians get up at three in the morning.
strip: n. a long narrow region of land or body of water; a long
narrow piece
我们看着飞机从起落跑道起飞.
About 30 million people live along the Californian coastal strip.
The room was bare, apart from a strip of carpet.
We watched the plane taking off from the landing strip.
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He was even more startled, night after night, to hear them walk down to the river slowly, half asleep, and bathe in the
water. Only later did he learn what they were doing: they were getting warm. The cold woke them; they warmed their skins in the river, which was always ninety degrees; then they returned to their hammocks and slept through the rest of the night.
Article10_S_popwin_only later…
He was even more startled, night after night, to hear them walk down to the river slowly, half asleep, and bathe in the
water. Only later did he learn what they were doing: they were getting warm. The cold woke them; they warmed their skins in the river, which was always ninety degrees; then they returned to their hammocks and slept through the rest of the night.
Here the sentence is an invert sentence.
When "only + adverbial" is used at the beginning of the sentence, the following subject and predicate should be partially inverted.
More examples:
Only in this way can you solve the problem.
Only when we had studied the data again did we realize that there was a mistake.
Article11-s
When you are inside the jungle, away from the river, the trees vault out of sight. Butterflies, bright blue, striped, or clear-winged, thread the jungle paths at eye level. And at your feet is a swath of ants bearing triangular bits of green leaf. The ants with their leaves look like a wide fleet of sailing dinghies -- but they don't quit. In either direction they wobble over the jungle floor as far as the eye can see.
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When you are inside the jungle, away from the river, the trees vault out of sight. Butterflies, bright blue, striped, or clear-winged, thread the jungle paths at eye level. And at your feet is a swath of ants bearing triangular bits of green leaf. The ants with their leaves look like a wide fleet of sailing dinghies -- but they don't quit. In either direction they wobble over the jungle floor as far as the eye can see.
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When you are inside the jungle, away from the river, the trees vault out of sight. Butterflies, bright blue, striped, or clear-winged, thread the jungle paths at eye level. And at your feet is a swath of ants bearing triangular bits of green leaf. The ants with their leaves look like a wide fleet of sailing dinghies -- but they don't quit. In either direction they wobble over the jungle floor as far as the eye can see.
out of sight: no longer in view
Keep out of my sight.
Out of sight, out of mind.
(谚)人别情疏;眼不见,心不烦.
Collocation:
at first sight
乍看起来,初次看见
at the sight of
一看…就
in sight
可见,看得见;在望;不远
keep sight of
保持在视线内,记住
lose sight of
看不见;失去联系;忘记
on sight
一看见立刻
Article12_S
Long lakes shine in the jungle. We traveled one of these in dugout canoes, canoes paddled with machete-hewn oars, or poled in the shallows with bamboo. Our part-Indian guide had cleared the path to the lake the day before; when we walked the path we saw where he had impaled the lopped head of a boa, open-mouthed, on a pointed stick by the canoes, for decoration.
This lake was wonderful. Herons plodded the shores, kingfishers and cuckoos clattered from sunlight to shade, great turkeylike birds fussed in dead branches, and hawks hung overhead.
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Long lakes shine in the jungle. We traveled one of these in dugout canoes, canoes paddled with machete-hewn oars, or poled in the shallows with bamboo. Our part-Indian guide had cleared the path to the lake the day before; when we walked the path we saw where he had impaled the lopped head of a boa, open-mouthed, on a pointed stick by the canoes, for decoration.
This lake was wonderful. Herons plodded the shores, kingfishers and cuckoos clattered from sunlight to shade, great turkeylike birds fussed in dead branches, and hawks hung overhead.
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Long lakes shine in the jungle. We traveled one of these in dugout canoes, canoes paddled with machete-hewn oars, or poled in the shallows with bamboo. Our part-Indian guide had cleared the path to the lake the day before; when we walked the path we saw where he had impaled the lopped head of a boa, open-mouthed, on a pointed stick by the canoes, for decoration.
This lake was wonderful. Herons plodded the shores, kingfishers and cuckoos clattered from sunlight to shade, great turkeylike birds fussed in dead branches, and hawks hung overhead.
fuss:
1. v. bustle about; give too much attention to small and unimportant
matters (often followed by around / about / over)
Don't fuss; we're sure to catch our train.
She fussed about, unable to hide her impatience.
2. n. unnecessary nervous state, esp. about unimportant things
Everyone made a fuss over the new baby.
What a fuss about nothing!
他们发现窗子打破后一定会有麻烦.
There's sure to be a fuss when they find the window's broken.
Collocation:
make a fuss
激动,大惊小怪
Pattern:
fuss over / about / around
Article13_s
There was all the time in the world. A turtle slid into the water. The boy in the bow of my canoe slapped stones at birds with a simple sling, a rubber thong and leather pad.
He aimed brilliantly at moving targets, always, and always missed; the birds were out of range. He stuffed his sling back in his shirt. I looked around.
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There was all the time in the world. A turtle slid into the water. The boy in the bow of my canoe slapped stones at birds with a simple sling, a rubber thong and leather pad.
He aimed brilliantly at moving targets, always, and always missed; the birds were out of range. He stuffed his sling back in his shirt. I looked around.
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There was all the time in the world. A turtle slid into the water. The boy in the bow of my canoe slapped stones at birds with a simple sling, a rubber thong and leather pad.
He aimed brilliantly at moving targets, always, and always missed; the birds were out of range. He stuffed his sling back in his shirt. I looked around.
slap: v.
1) hit with something flat
slap in the face
打一记耳光
slap on the back
鼓励
医生拍了拍那个歇斯底里发作的孩子,使他安静一点.
The doctor slapped the hysterical child to make him calmer.
2) shoot, throw with force (常与down连用)
She slapped the book down on the table.
He took a check from his wallet and slapped it on the bar.
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There was all the time in the world. A turtle slid into the water. The boy in the bow of my canoe slapped stones at birds with a simple sling, a rubber thong and leather pad.
He aimed brilliantly at moving targets, always, and always missed; the birds were out of range. He stuffed his sling back in his shirt. I looked around.
out of range: too far away to be reached, seen or heard
He has gone out of range of my gun.
He said it was out of his range of responsibility.
Article13_s_popwin_there was…
There was all the time in the world. A turtle slid into the water. The boy in the bow of my canoe slapped stones at birds with a simple sling, a rubber thong and leather pad.
He aimed brilliantly at moving targets, always, and always missed; the birds were out of range. He stuffed his sling back in his shirt. I looked around.
1. Translate the sentence into Chinese.
我们毋庸为时间担忧,可以从容地欣赏周围的一切.
2. What can you infer from the sentence
Life here is quiet, peaceful and happy. There isn't much tension and pressure, so we can enjoy and relax ourselves.
Article14_S
The lake and river waters are as opaque as rainforest leaves; they are veils, blinds, painted screens. You see things only by their effects. I saw the shoreline water heave above a thrashing paichi, an enormous black fish of these waters; one had been caught the previous week weighing 430 pounds. Piranha fish live in the lakes, and electric eels. I dangled my fingers in the water, figuring it would be worth it.
We would eat chicken that night in the village, together with rice, onions and heaps of fruit. The sun would ring down, pulling darkness after it like a curtain. Twilight is short, and the unseen birds of twilight wistful, catching the heart.
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The lake and river waters are as opaque as rainforest leaves; they are veils, blinds, painted screens. You see things only by their effects. I saw the shoreline water heave above a thrashing paichi, an enormous black fish of these waters; one had been caught the previous week weighing 430 pounds. Piranha fish live in the lakes, and electric eels. I dangled my fingers in the water, figuring it would be worth it.
We would eat chicken that night in the village, together with rice, onions and heaps of fruit. The sun would ring down, pulling darkness after it like a curtain. Twilight is short, and the unseen birds of twilight wistful, catching the heart.
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The lake and river waters are as opaque as rainforest leaves; they are veils, blinds, painted screens. You see things only by their effects. I saw the shoreline water heave above a thrashing paichi, an enormous black fish of these waters; one had been caught the previous week weighing 430 pounds. Piranha fish live in the lakes, and electric eels. I dangled my fingers in the water, figuring it would be worth it.
We would eat chicken that night in the village, together with rice, onions and heaps of fruit. The sun would ring down, pulling darkness after it like a curtain. Twilight is short, and the unseen birds of twilight wistful, catching the heart.
heap: n.
1) an untidy pile of something
A heap of old clothes was lying in the corner.
They lay hay on the garden rubbish heap.
2) plenty of, a lot of (usu. in plural)
We have heaps of / a heap of work to do.
妈妈曾经去过那里很多次,但依然会迷路.
My mother has been there heaps of times, but she would still get lost.
Article15_S
young nun and the warm-faced old --would glide to the open cane-and-thatch schoolroom in darkness, and start the children singing. The children would sing in piping Spanish, high-pitched and pure; they would sing "Nearer My God to Thee" in Quechua, very fast. As the children became excited by their own singing,
The two nuns in their dazzling white habits--the beautiful-boned
Article15_w
young nun and the warm-faced old --would glide to the open cane-and-thatch schoolroom in darkness, and start the children singing. The children would sing in piping Spanish, high-pitched and pure; they would sing "Nearer My God to Thee" in Quechua, very fast. As the children became excited by their own singing,
The two nuns in their dazzling white habits--the beautiful-boned
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young nun and the warm-faced old --would glide to the open cane-and-thatch schoolroom in darkness, and start the children singing. The children would sing in piping Spanish, high-pitched and pure; they would sing "Nearer My God to Thee" in Quechua, very fast. As the children became excited by their own singing,
The two nuns in their dazzling white habits--the beautiful-boned
glide: vi.
1) move quickly and silently with ease
The boat glided over the river.
The first sound glides on to the next.
2) fly through the air without power
The pilot shut off the motors and glided down to the
landing field.
The bird glided to the ground.
CF: glide, skid, slip & slide
这些词都是动词,都有"滑"或"滑行"的意思.
glide 表示在滑行时,可以是从表面上滑行,也可以是稍微深入地滑行,有
时还可以表示不与滑面接触的滑行.例如:
The boat glided through the water.
那条船在水上滑行.
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young nun and the warm-faced old --would glide to the open cane-and-thatch schoolroom in darkness, and start the children singing. The children would sing in piping Spanish, high-pitched and pure; they would sing "Nearer My God to Thee" in Quechua, very fast. As the children became excited by their own singing,
The two nuns in their dazzling white habits--the beautiful-boned
The skaters sometimes glided across the ice.
滑冰者有时滑行跃过冰面.
skid 指车子失去控制的打滑或滑向一侧. 例如:
When the driver tried to start it again, the wheels skidded
and the car finished up deep in the snow.
当驾驶员试图再次发动汽车时,车轮打滑,汽车深深地陷入雪中.
The car skidded on the wet road.
车子在湿路上滑向一侧.
slip 可指在光面上滑动,但指身不由己地滑行,含有失足或摔倒之意.例如:
He slipped on the ice road and broke his leg.
他在结冰的路上滑了一跤,把腿摔骨折了.
The fish slipped out of my hand.
鱼从我手中滑落.
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young nun and the warm-faced old --would glide to the open cane-and-thatch schoolroom in darkness, and start the children singing. The children would sing in piping Spanish, high-pitched and pure; they would sing "Nearer My God to Thee" in Quechua, very fast. As the children became excited by their own singing,
The two nuns in their dazzling white habits--the beautiful-boned
The boys like to slide down banisters.
男孩喜欢顺着栏杆往下滑.
slide 通常含有加速运动和不断地与光滑的表面保持接触的意思,
既可指人也可指运动的物体.例如:
They were sliding on the ice.
他们在滑冰.
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young nun and the warm-faced old --would glide to the open cane-and-thatch schoolroom in darkness, and start the children singing. The children would sing in piping Spanish, high-pitched and pure; they would sing "Nearer My God to Thee" in Quechua, very fast. As the children became excited by their own singing,
The two nuns in their dazzling white habits--the beautiful-boned
1. Word formation.
The two adjectives: beautiful-boned and warm-faced are formed by adjective +noun-ed, with the meaning: 身材姣好的,慈眉善目的.
2. Scan the text and find more examples:
deep-leaved (L.6)
树叶茂密的
sweet-meated (L.54)
肉质鲜美的
open-mouthed (L.79)
张开大口的
high-pitched (L.100)
声调高昂的
clear-voiced (L.104)
声音清脆的
palm-leafed (L.105)
棕榈叶铺的
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young nun and the warm-faced old --would glide to the open cane-and-thatch schoolroom in darkness, and start the children singing. The children would sing in piping Spanish, high-pitched and pure; they would sing "Nearer My God to Thee" in Quechua, very fast. As the children became excited by their own singing,
The two nuns in their dazzling white habits--the beautiful-boned
3. What does the structure "start / get / have / set sb. doing…"
mean
让某人做某事.
More examples:
The news started me thinking.
The sudden noise set the dog barking.
We can't have you going everywhere by taxi.
His behavior got people complaining.
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they left their log benches and swarmed around the nuns, hopping, smiling at us, everyone smiling, the nuns' faces bursting in their cowls, and the clear-voiced children still singing, and the palm-leafed roofing stirred.
The Napo River: it is not out of the way. It is in the way, catching sunlight the way a cup catches poured water; it is a bowl of sweet air, a basin of greenness, and of grace, and, it would seem, of peace.
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they left their log benches and swarmed around the nuns, hopping, smiling at us, everyone smiling, the nuns' faces bursting in their cowls, and the clear-voiced children still singing, and the palm-leafed roofing stirred.
The Napo River: it is not out of the way. It is in the way, catching sunlight the way a cup catches poured water; it is a bowl of sweet air, a basin of greenness, and of grace, and, it would seem, of peace.
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they left their log benches and swarmed around the nuns, hopping, smiling at us, everyone smiling, the nuns' faces bursting in their cowls, and the clear-voiced children still singing, and the palm-leafed roofing stirred.
The Napo River: it is not out of the way. It is in the way, catching sunlight the way a cup catches poured water; it is a bowl of sweet air, a basin of greenness, and of grace, and, it would seem, of peace.
hop: vi. (of a person) jump on one foot; (of a bird or other
animals) jump with two or all feet at once
She hopped across the room
because she had hurt her foot.
The robber hopped into his ready
car and rushed off.
A hare hopped straight into the yard.
CF: hop, jump, bound & spring
这些词都是动词,都有"跳"的意思.
hop 用于人时,指单脚跳;用于动物如青蛙,小鸟或兔子是指双脚齐
跳.例如:
The birds hopped about.
鸟儿们跳来跳去.
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they left their log benches and swarmed around the nuns, hopping, smiling at us, everyone smiling, the nuns' faces bursting in their cowls, and the clear-voiced children still singing, and the palm-leafed roofing stirred.
The Napo River: it is not out of the way. It is in the way, catching sunlight the way a cup catches poured water; it is a bowl of sweet air, a basin of greenness, and of grace, and, it would seem, of peace.
She had hurt her foot and had to hop along.
她一只脚受伤了,只得用另一只脚跳着走.
jump 是普通用语,指从地面上或其他平面上双脚跳起,也可指从一地跳
到另一地;比喻义可指价格或数量的剧增. 例如:
She was so excited that she jumped up.
她激动地跳了起来.
They jumped the admission prices by 50 percent.
他们把入场券涨价百分之五十.
bound 指轻快的弹跳,起伏时间长,富有弹性,也还有弹回的意思.例如:
The ball stuck the earth and bounded across the field.
那只球撞击到地上之后便跳着滚过了球场.
The deer bounded over the fences.
这只鹿跳过了篱笆.
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they left their log benches and swarmed around the nuns, hopping, smiling at us, everyone smiling, the nuns' faces bursting in their cowls, and the clear-voiced children still singing, and the palm-leafed roofing stirred.
The Napo River: it is not out of the way. It is in the way, catching sunlight the way a cup catches poured water; it is a bowl of sweet air, a basin of greenness, and of grace, and, it would seem, of peace.
The screen door sprang shut after the children rushed
out to play.
孩子们冲出去玩,纱门又弹回关好.
spring 着重指突然而迅速地从某处跳起,跳得轻快,好像弹起一样.
例如:
He sprang out of bed when the alarm went off.
警报一响,他纵身跳下床.
After reading-Main
1. Useful Expressions
2. Brainstorming
3. Spot Dictation
4. Translation
5. Group Discussion
After Reading
6. Talk about the Pictures
7. Role Play
8. Proverbs and Quotations
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Useful Expressions
1. 偏远之地
2. 在源头
3. 在密密的树叶间
4. 在空地上
5. 一会儿… 一会儿
out-of-the-way place
on the headwaters
in deep-leaved shadow
across the clearing
be alternately doing…and doing…
6. 喜形于色
with open delight
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7. 自由作家
8. 不妨
9. 感受一下
10. 忽而飞进阳光里,
忽而飞入树荫里
a freelance writer
might as well
get a feel for
dart in and out of the light
sweet-meated fish
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11. 肉质鲜美的鱼
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12. 惊讶地
13. 一眼望去
14. 有着一半印第安血统的
15. 偏离目标
16. 从表象看事物
be startled to do sth.
at eye level
part-Indian
miss the target
see things by their effects
Useful Expressions
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17. 落幕
18. 动人
19. 声音清脆的
20. 近在咫尺
ring down the curtain
catch the heart
clear-voiced
in the way
Useful Expressions
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Brainstorming
1. The vocabulary of travel:
TRAVEL
trip
tour
journey
tourist
traveler
travel agent
reservation
guide
camera
souvenir
litter
graffiti
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Brainstorming
2. The modern means of transportation:
MODERN MEANS
ship
boat
yacht
car
bus
train
horse
airplane
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3. The conveniences for a traveler:
CONVENIENCES
the help of
a travel agent
the possibility of
paying by check
the telephone
good means of transportation
comfortable hotels
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4. The inconveniences:
INCONVENIENCES
the noise
the heat
the crowds
the souvenir shops
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Spot Dictation
A man in a small red car. One day he . When he came back,
. Some boys told him that an elephant had damaged it. The man did not believe them, but they took him to a circus . The owner of the elephant said, "I am very sorry! My elephant
. He thought that your car was his chair, and !" Then he gave the man a letter,
and that he would pay for all the damage.

was traveling abroad
_________________
left the car and went shopping
________________________
its roof was badly damaged
______________________
which was near there
_________________
has a big, round, red chair
_____________________
he sat on it
__________
in which he said that he was sorry
___________________________
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When the man , the customs officers would not believe his story. They said, "You sold your new car and bought this old one!" from the circus man that they believed him.
Spot Dictation
got back to his own country
______________________
while you were abroad
__________________
It was only when the man showed them the letter
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For thousands of years men have been wandering around--for pleasure, for profit, or to satisfy their curiosity. When the only means of transportation were horses, camels and small boats, travelers were already crossing seas and deserts to acquire rare goods or to visit famous places. For the pure joy of learning, scholars ventured into distant kingdoms and observed their customs. They tasted the foods; they questioned the wise men about their gods and their history; they sat in awe on the banks of newly discovered rivers. Then they went back home, reflecting upon what they had seen, and perhaps they wrote a book or two about their discoveries. Slowly, nations learned about each other, men met and ideas spread -- for better or worse.
Translation
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几千年来,人们为了享乐,挣钱或为了满足好奇心而到处漫游.在只有马,骆驼和小船作为交通工具的年代里,旅行者就已经横渡大海,穿越沙漠去获取稀有的货物或参观名胜.学者们为了获得求知的最大快乐,冒险到遥远的王国去观察那里的风俗.他们品尝食品,向智者询问他们的神和历史,怀着敬畏的心情坐在刚被发现的河边,然后回到家里,思考所见到的一切,或者将他们的发现写一两本书.不管结果怎样,国与国之间逐渐相互了解了,人们经常相聚,各种思想都得到了传播.
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Group Discussion
Why do people travel nowadays
Now that so many people travel abroad, do you think that they understand other countries better
Which do you think is better: to travel in the modern way, comfortably, but with crowds of people, guides and souvenir shops, or alone and in peace, but slowly and uncomfortably
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Role Play
Based on the three sample letters on Pages 295, 296 and 342 in Student's Book, make three phone calls to reserve a room.
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Proverbs and Quotations
1. He who travels far knows much.
远行者见闻多.
只有不断观察生活的人,才能全面了解生活.
2. Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
快乐可遇不可求.
3. Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought.
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5. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
-- Francis Bacon, British philosopher
最幸福的人们似乎是那些知足常乐者.
旅游对年轻人是一种教育,对老年人是一种体验.
-- 英国哲学家 F. 培根
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
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6. Work while you work; Play while you play; this is the way to be cheerful and gay.
-- Richard Stoddart, American poet
工作时工作,玩乐时玩乐,依此方法做,轻松与快乐.
-- 美国诗人 R. 斯托达德