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Unit 1 Word List 查字典：due， contract， identify， embark，concentrate Text A shadowland 虚幻境地，Life in the ～：生活在阴影重，看不到希望的日子 private 私人的，个人的，【喻】孤独的 career生涯，职业 requite：报答，酬谢 a freelance writer: a person who makes his / her living by selling what he/she writes, without regular working institution or salary( 自由撰稿人)； cf. a freelance worker / singer / actor ..prospect: 前景 【注释】English has four languages as its main source of vocabulary: German, French, Latin and Greek. Simple and daily vocabulary is mainly based on German and French, while academic and formal words may be traced back to Latin or Greek. This is an important way to build up your vocabulary. -spect- : anything related to look, vision, light： 例如：Expect预期, inspect视察, aspect方面, respect尊敬, perspective, 潜在的，剖面suspect嫌疑, retrospect回顾, spectator观众, spectacle出丑，镜片, prospect前景, genuine: real, but more formal: a genuine Marxist / CP [communist party member,一个真正的马克思主义者，共产党员]; 反义词：fake 假的，伪造的 a fake note假钞 siren： a warning, 警报声, Siren: female ghost in Greek story who lures you to stay with her and eat you up 女妖 ￠= a half, 25￠= a quarter, 10￠= a dime, 5￠=a five, a nickel, 1￠ = a cent, a penny. A dime a dozen: worth nothing。【成语：一分不值】 crumple 弄皱，压垮 help sb. over the rough spots帮助某人度过难关 wilted: not fresh 枯萎的，焉的 Rumor has it that… [ idiom. 有谣言说]－ Of course it is a joke and exaggeration. Reader’s Digest : 美国的《读者文摘》, a very influential magazine with a wide readership Background : a contract for writing: 美国作家分类：自由作家（撰稿人），写作营作家，住校作家，合同作家如张爱玲和丈夫赖雅曾接受写作营救助 limelight: 聚光灯，焦点;The shadows turn into dazzling limelight. 【喻】从默默无闻到声名大振。 mini-, 迷你，小的mini-series 系列电视短片 exhilarating令人喜欢的，令人愉快的 corrode 腐蚀，侵蚀 riptide 激流 huddle 拥挤，挤作一团， Roots: 根【此处，有双关意思，一是指他的作品《根》，第二是他的生活阅历也是自己创作的根源】 frame：像框 prizes and awards in US: 美国新闻类大奖 Pulitzer Prize普利策图书奖 Emmy 艾美奖 Spingarn: Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939) 斯平加恩新闻奖 NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People美国有色人种协进会 Fast Reading: Passage 1 target目标 sleepwalker梦游症患者 routine 常规，日程，routi