another school year U盘.ppt

Another School Year What For The greatest of the ancient Roman poets fresh: 1. young, healthy and active； not tired (精力充沛的） feel fresh after a nap 2. (of water) not salty 3. another and different Light a fresh cigarette Make a fresh start 4. (of wind) rather strong; gaining in force a fresh spring morning 一个凛冽的春天的早晨。 She is quite fresh to office work. 缺乏经验。 fresh out of: We are fresh out of tomatoes 刚用完。。。；刚卖完。。。 He was fresh out of words. 无话可说 Body: a group of people who work or act together, often for official purpose 机构、团体 A law-making body 立法机构 He served on the governing body of the university。 他在大学的行政管理部门任职。 as if: Used in front of infinitive, participle, adjective, prepositional phrases Cultural notes: 1. In American universities, an instructor has office hours during which students taking the course can go and ask questions or discuss term papers with him/her. 2. College students in the United States are required to take a number of courses in areas other than their major. That was why the pharmacy major took a course in literature. with his hands on his hips: This shows that the student wasn’t carrying anything, and what’s more, this business-minded young man came to challenge his instructor, like customers questioning about the goods or service they have bought. New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. Though I was a new teacher, I knew I could tell him what a university was for, but I didn’t. (我虽然经验不多)也讲得出这些道理（但我没有讲） In the remaining part of the paragraph, the writer tells us what he could but did not say to the student. Note that the writer now referred to the student as a specimen in a humorous way, meaning he was typical of a type of students who came to a university just to get training for a career, as if he were typical of a certain race of animals. new to sth.: not yet familiar with sth. because you have only just started,