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牛津译林2020版 必修二
Unit 4 Reading
Read and underline the following key words or expressions.
1. amaze 2. unnoticed 3. in store for sb.
4. appeal to … 5. be capable of … 6. awaken
7. in the presence of … 8. permanence 9. adapt
A child and a man were walking on the beach when the child found a shell and held it to his ear. Suddenly he heard strange, low(低沉), musical(悦耳) sounds. These sounds seemed to be from another world and the child listened to them with wonder. Then the man explained that the child heard nothing strange, and that the shell caught a range of sounds too faint for human ears. What amazed the child was not a new world, but the unnoticed music of the old. a range of 一系列;各种
1. sb. be doing...when ... 某人正在走某事时,突然...
2. sb. be about to ....when ....某人正要做某事时,突然....
3. a range of : 一系列;各种
4. faint:(光、声、味)微弱的,不清楚的
Para. 1
with/in wonder
惊奇地
hold sth. to one’s ears
把某物放到某人耳边
all kinds of =all sorts of
Some such experience as this lies in store for us when we begin the study of literature. Let a little song appeal to the ear, or a great book (appeal) to the heart, and we discover a new world, a world of dreams and magic. To enter and enjoy this new world, we need to love literature, and make an effort to explain it. Behind every book is a man, behind the man is the race, and behind the race are the natural and social environments(自然和社会环境). We must know all these, if the book is to speak its whole message. In a word, we have now reached a
point where we wish to enjoy and understand literature. The first step is to determine(决定;确定) some of its significant qualities.(特质)
make an effort to do sth.: 努力做某事
Behind every book is a man:用了倒装 A man is behind every book.
Para. 2
in store (for sb.)
即将发生在某人身上;等待着某人
appeal to
对...有吸引力
如果要了解一本书所传递的全部信息,我们就必须了解所有这些内容
be to do sth. 将要做某事
阶段
n. significance
总之
The first quality of literature is its description of truth and beauty. Some truth and beauty remain unnoticed until a sensitive(敏锐的) human soul brings