新标准大英三unit2reading2PPT.ppt

…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 punish them slightly, which have little effect. ……父母对他们很宽容、很温和。 Language Points 翻译： They are seen as being closer to mad people than adults because they lack the highly prized quality of social competence … Something is prized if it is considered to be very important or valuable. The examples in the passage emphasize how different cultural communities may give importance to quite different qualities which they expect from children, so the children are brought up very differently.. 人们认为儿童和成年人相比更像疯子，因为他们缺乏被大家看重的社会能力。 Language Points 翻译： The Famished Road 《饥饿之路》 The Famished Road is the Booker Prize-winning novel written by Nigerian author Ben Okri. The novel, published in 1991, follows Azaro, an abiku or spirit child, living in an unnamed most likely Nigerian city. The novel employs a unique narrative style incorporating the spirit world with the real world in what some have classified as magical realism. Language Points Others have labeled it animist realism. Still others choose to simply call the novel fantasy literature. The book exploits the belief in the coexistence of the spiritual and material worlds that