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精彩三年课程探究与巩固英语必修第二册 全国I卷
Unit 4 History and Traditions
Period Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
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Road is stepped out①,and history is written. Every step of man is writing his own history.路是脚踏出来的,历史是人写出来的。人类的每一步都在书写自己的历史。
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Few will have the greatness②to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation③.几乎没有人伟大到足以改变历史本身,但我们每个人都能努力改变一小部分事件,而且总的来说,这些行为都将被书写成这一代人的历史。
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We have seen many such simple currents soon lost in the sand, and novelty is better than repetition. Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited④, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour. It involves, in the first place, the historical sense, which we may call nearly indispensable
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to anyone who would continue to be a poet beyond his twentyfifth year, and the historical sense involves a perception⑤, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.
—Tradition and the Individual Talent
我们曾多次观察到涓涓细流很快消失在沙砾之中,而新颖总是胜过老调重弹。传统是一个具有广阔意义的东西。传统并不能继承。假若你需要它,你必须通过艰苦劳动来获得它。首先,它包括历史意识。对于任何一个超过二十五岁仍想继续写诗的人来说,我们可以说这种历史意识几乎是绝不可少的。这种历史意识包括一种感觉,即不仅感觉到过去的过去性,而且也感觉到它的
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现在性。
——《传统与个人才能》
China was the first country to experiment with chopsticks nearly 3,000 years ago. But at that time, they weren't used as eating utensils. The Chinese used them for cooking since they
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could safely put them into boiling pots of water. Over time, chopsticks have developed a lot and been widely used beyond China.
中国是近3 000年前第一个尝试使用筷子的国家。 但那个时候,筷子没有被用作餐具。 中国人用它们做饭,因为人们可以把它们安全地放进沸腾的热水坛子里。 随着时间的推移,筷子有了很大的改进,并被广泛应用于中国以外的地方。
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【日积月累】
①step out走出来
②greatness/ˈgreɪtnəs/n.伟大;重要;崇高
③generation /ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃn/ n.一代(人)
④inherit /ɪnˈherɪt/ v.继承;经遗传获得
⑤perception /pəˈsepʃn/ n.感觉;感知方式
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Period Ⅰ Listening and Speaking
Learning without understandi