新标准大学英语三unit2(免费阅读).ppt

Social services are a series of services provided by a national or local government for people with social problems. One of these services may intervene and become involved in a situation when social workers or other professionals detect a problem. In some cases where the law has clearly been broken, this may include prosecution and a case will be taken to a civil or criminal court. Language Points sum up: give the main information in a report, speech etc. in a short statement at the end 总结，概括 e.g. 1. To sum up, only when strict punishment can be imposed on the lawless, can social stability be maintained. ? 总之，唯有严惩违法之徒才能维持社会安定。 2. After we accomplished this task, we sit down to sum up experience. ? 我们完成这项任务后，坐下来总结经验。 Language Points These changing ideas about children have led many social scientists to claim that childhood is a “social construction”. A social construction refers to the process or result of creating an idea or system of behaviour in social contexts, i.e. it is created and developed between people and is not something natural or genetic. 对儿童的看法不断变化着，这使得许多社会科学家宣称童年是一种“社会建构”。 Language Points 翻译： …within these communities, growing up is largelyseen as a process of acquiring thought, reason and understanding. In these societies, children’s growing up doesn’t just mean physical growth, but a process of mental growth such as forming their own judgment and living up to moral standards. ……在这些社会群落中成长是怎样大体上被看成是一个获得思想、理性和理解力的过程。 Language Points 翻译： …parents treat them with a great deal of tolerance and leniency. Tolerance is the attitude of someone who is willing to accept other people’s beliefs or way of life without criticizing them even if they disagree with them. The word leniency means giving a punishment or acting in a way that is not as severe or harsh as it could be. The sentence means that parents put up with their children’s immature actions and sometimes punis