新編英语教程UnitNine(toss).docVIP

Unit Nine Text I Writing Skills It is a magazine editorial. The writer gives us a serious account of a single incident the death of Paret. II. Language Points fledgling / fledgling ① fledgling/fledgling n. a young bird just able to fly; (fig) a young inexperienced person eg: Are you fledglings now? He is a fledgling teacher ② fledged (adj.) (of birds) with fully grown feathers; able to fly eg: The birds are fledged now. a fully-fledged man 2. beat n. the particular source or activity that a reporter is responsible for covering (范围) [只限用在新闻工作范围] often: Beat is also called news beat or news run. eg: My beat is education. (I am responsible for education news.) His beat is White House. My responsibility is White House beat. The news reporter is on the social security beat. Par: Li Wei Tsien is responsible for sports news. (Li Wei Tsien is on sports beat.) He is responsible for science news. (He is on science beat.) My brother is responsible for traffic news. (My brother is on traffic beat. /My brothers beat is traffic.) assignment ① assign (v.) vt. a) give to sb. for use or enjoyment, or as a share or part in a distribution (of work, duty, etc.) 分配, 分派(工作任务等给某人) assign sth to sb./ assign sb. sth eg: The leader will assign a new house to him. They have assigned another class to John. Well be assigned a new house. assign sb to + sth eg: Well assign him to a new post. A new headmaster will be assigned to this school. Please assign your best men to this job. Par: Well give him a new duty. He will receive the guard duty. The school will send him to XingJiang. assign sb to do sth eg: The headmaster assigned the students to sweep the floor. The editor assigned the new reporter to cover international news. b) name, put forward (as a time, place, a reason etc.) 指定(时间,地点等), 指出(理由) assign (a time/place) for... eg: We assigned a day in July for the pe