III. Language Points.ppt

III. Language Points 1. lady hermits: A hermit is a person who goes away from other people and lives alone in a solitary place, usually from religious motives. A “lady hermit” means a woman hermit. By calling them “lady hermits”, the author means that although they live in a large crowded city like New York, these homeless women live alone in a solitary, mistrustful world of their own. That’s also why one sociologist has called them “urban hermits”. 2. down and out: adj. If the French boxer is down and out in this round, I’ll be the winner. (2) without money, friends, health, etc. He looked completely down and out. “Down and out” is originally a boxing term. When a boxer is knocked DOWN, the referee counts to ten. If the boxer is unable to rise to his feet by then, he is OUT, which means he is no longer in the game. “down and out” 一词源于拳 击。当一名拳击手被击“倒”， 裁判查数到10。如果到时候 该选手仍不能起来，他就“ 出局”，即该场他失败。 Down But Not Out: It is an adaptation of “down and out”. What the title indicates here is that those lady hermits are suffering from misfortune and are low in social position, but they refuse to accept defeat and persist in their clinging to life. 本标题指这些都市女隐士们 虽生活贫困潦倒，但仍未放 弃生活，潦而不倒。 3.Every large city has its shifting population of vagrants.------- “Shifting population” here means a number of people coming and going. 4.unhealthy: not good for the mind or body When he was young, he worked for years in the unhealthy environment of a coal mine. 5. . . . usually with an unhealthy appetite for alcohol: ------ . . . usually addicted to drinks (alcohol). 6. populace and population: “populace” quite often refers to the common people of a community, as distinguished from those of higher classes while “population” means the (number of) people living in one place, country, etc. populace 平民，百姓，民众（指某一社 区内的普通大众，区别于上层 社会的人）；population（某 地域的）全部居民（指某一地 区或国家的人口，包括所有的 人）