Passage 11 经济-社会现象-教育.doc

Passage Eleven 经济—社会现象—教育 In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. 1, in the age of …在…时代-----hood时代childhood/ girlhood2, shortage 缺少，缺乏– be short of 省略，简写 They are suffering from food shortage.---suffer from 遭受 There is no shortage of ideas when it comes to children’s education. When it comes to…提到… 表示缺乏，缺少的词：deficient, absence/ in the absence of, lack of, run out, short, dearth, void(空白，空缺), scarce, paucity(缺乏，不足), poverty, famine, bare, starve, poor, empty, insufficient, impoverishment(贫穷，贫困)His face is void of emotion. A dearth of ideas Scarce resource Paucity of imagination 3, mindless adj. 无知识的，无意识的，无聊的 4, occupy v. 占用 ---occupation 职业 5, Keep sth done/ adj/ doing ---- please just keep the girl staying at the house. 在今天这个充斥着网络聊天、电子游戏和真人电视秀的时候，占据孩子们空闲时间的无聊活动并不缺乏。 Yet, despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. Compete with sb for sth----competitive 6，despite 尽管— despite the rain, we still want to go out for dinner. 7，leisure time 闲暇之时 = spare time—Balance--- flexible time At leisure 不慌不忙地，空闲地 Students seem to like leisure and easier class. 但是，尽管这些活动都在尽力争宠，我8岁的女儿丽贝卡却愿意在空闲时间里写些短篇故事。 She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest, a competition she won last year.Compete – competitive 她希望将其中的一个故事投去参加一个写作比赛。去年她曾在这个比赛中获奖。 As a writer I know about winning contests, and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection slip from the publisher. I also know the pressures of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. 8, rejection slip 退稿通知 表示拒绝的词：reject, turn down, refuse, decline, abnegate(放弃) TAbnegate the fact/ old things Refusal 9， live up to 遵循，符合’s expectation 10, reputation 名声，名望 – fame, renown, repute, popularityFamous- 11, previous 先前的，较早的—former 作为一个作家，我很了解赢得比赛或输掉比赛怎么一回事。我了解辛辛苦苦写出的故事却只换来出版社的退稿单时