研究生英语上册第三单元B讲解.pptVIP

Europeans Just Want to Have Fun 2. Work hours in Europe and in America In the early seventies hours worked per person were about the same in the U.S. and in Western Europe. Today they are almost 50 percent less in Europe than in the U.S. Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age, Italians 16.7, French 18.0 and German 18.7. The average employed American works 46.2 weeks per year; the average French 40.5; the average Swede 35.4. 3. The overworked American In the last twenty years the amount of time Americans have spent at their jobs has risen steadily. Americans report that they have only sixteen and a half hours of leisure a week, after the obligations of job and household are taken care of. Working hours are already longer than they were forty years ago. Structure of the Text 1.Introduction (Paras. 1-2) 2. Body (Paras. 3-6) 3. Conclusion (Paras. 7-8) paragraph1 Walking across Boulevard St.Michel in Pairs last week ,on the night before Bastile Day ,I bumped into an old friend-an American who has lived in the city for 25years-who told me he was taking up the tango.When I asked him why,he suggested I take a stroll along the Left Bank of the Seine,opposite Ile St.Louis and so of course I did 翻译 法国革命纪念日前夜当我穿越巴黎圣米歇尔大街时，遇见了一位在巴黎生活了25年的美国老朋友。他告诉我，他迷上了探戈。当我问他为何如此时，他建议我沿着圣路易岛对面的塞纳河左岸走一遭。当然，我照办了。 paragraph2 It was one big party. A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater. Nearby, a multiethnic group was doing the merengue. Hundreds of others were tucking into picnics by the river as a full moon rose in a cloudless sky. Much later that night, after a perfect fish soup in the Place des Vosges, I walked into the narrow passages of the Marais district and stumbled upon an impromptu block party. Someone had set up a sound system on the sidewalk, and the street was packed with people--straight and gay, young and old, black and white--dancing to salsa. makeshift：made to be used for a short time only whe