Lesson 9 大学英语 预备级 1专用课件.pptVIP

Lesson 9 Fortune and the Beggar 1 One day a beggar was walking along from house to house. 1.From…to 从…到… He walked from classroom to café. 2.from house to house 挨家挨户 from door to door; from person to person; from top to bottom 有一天，一个乞丐挨家挨户的走着。 He carried an old bag in his hand, and was asking at every door for a few cents to buy something to eat. 他手中拿了一个旧的袋子，去每一家讨几分钱来买些吃的。 While he was begging he kept wondering why people who had so much money were never satisfied but were always wanting more. 1.keep+doing; keep on doing 当在乞讨的时候，他一直想不通为什么有些人那么有钱却永远不满足。 “Here,” he thought aloud, “is the master of this house”. 1.to think aloud 想着想着，不自觉地说出声来。 2.master 主人，大师 “这儿，”他自言自语到，这个房子的主人。 I know him well. He was very rich. If he had been wise he would have stopped his business and turned it over to someone else. Turn…over… 转让 我很理解他，他非常有钱。如果他聪明的话，他就会停止经商，把生意转让给别人。 Then he could have spent the rest of his life in comfort. The rest of one’s life 一个人有生之年 然后他就可以在有生之年好好享受了。 But, what did he do instead? He spared no efforts to build ships and sent them to sea to trade with foreign countries. 1.instead 代替 2.spare no efforts to do 不费吹灰之力的做 3.trade with 和..做生意 他不遗余力地建造船只运到海上去卖给其他国家。 He thought he would get mountains of gold. Mountains of 非常多 他以为他会赚到非常多的金子。 But the sea boiled in the storms; his ships were ruined by the waves. Now his hopes all lie at the bottom of the sea, and his great wealth has gone like the dreams of a night. 1.at the bottom of 在…底部 2. the dreams of a night 晚上做的梦 但是海上起大风暴，他的船被海浪卷走。现在他的所有希望都躺在了海底，他巨大的财富就像晚上做的梦一样消失了。 There are many such men. They seem to be never satisfied unless they can gain the whole world. 1.unless 除非 这个世界上有许多这样的人。他们好像在得到整个世界之前永远不满足。 As for me, if I had only enough to fill my stomach and cover my body I would not want anything more. 对于我来说，我只需要够我吃的和穿的，我就不会再想要多余的东西了。 Just at that moment, Fortune came down the street. She saw the beggar and stopped. She said to him 1.at that moment 在那时 就在那个时候，财富降临到街上。她看见乞丐后停下来。她对他说 Listen! I h