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PPT模板下载：/moban/ 行业PPT模板：/hangye/ 节日PPT模板：/jieri/ PPT素材下载：/sucai/ PPT背景图片：/beijing/ PPT图表下载：/tubiao/ 优秀PPT下载：/xiazai/ PPT教程： /powerpoint/ Word教程： /word/ Excel教程：/excel/ 资料下载：/ziliao/ PPT课件下载：/kejian/ 范文下载：/fanwen/ Loving and HatingNew York 1、2段精讲 Geography 5 Boroughs Manhattan Brooklyn Queens Bronx Richmond The Statue of Liberty The Empire State Building Loving and HatingNew York ①Those ad campaigns celebrating the Big Apple, those T-shirts with a heart design proclaiming “I love New York,” are signs, pathetic in their desperation, of how the mighty has fallen. the Big Apple It is a nickname for New York City. 1 2 the T-shirts Why New York is called the Big Apple ? It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, known now as NYC Company. The New York City Visitors Bureau says jazz musicians and entertainers first called New York the Big Apple. The early jazz musicians described each town and city in America as an apple on a tree. Naturally they called New York City the Big Apple. pathetic?[p?θet?k] adj. 1. 可怜的；悲哀的 例：..a pathetic little dog with a curly tail. …一只可怜的卷尾小狗。 2.差劲的; 无力的表不满 例：What pathetic excuses. 多么无力的借口！ adv. 可怜地 pathetically 例：She was pathetically thin. 她那时瘦弱得可怜。 3 pathetic ②New York City used to leave the bragging to others, for bragging was “bush”. Being unique, the biggest and the best, New York didn’t have to assert how special it was. 1 2 brag [br?g] v. 吹牛，自夸 例：Hell probably go around bragging to his friends. 他可能会到处去向他的朋友们吹嘘。 brag about吹嘘，炫耀 n. 吹牛，自夸 bush （*metaphor） n. 灌木；矮树丛 vt. 以灌木装饰；使…精疲力竭 vi. 丛生；浓密地生长 adj. 如灌木般长得低矮的；粗野的 (a) bush of hair 浓浓的头发 beat about the bush旁敲侧击；转弯抹角 3 assert vt. 1.(坚定地)断言，肯定地说(出)，宣称： She asserted that she was innocent. 她坚称