研究生英语第一单元课件.ppt

Mother of 8 babies receives death threat 讨论 Why is the mother threatened for having more babies? The welfare system is meant to protect the weak and poor, which seems very righteous; but how can such problems occur? 本课需要掌握的词汇 Bulk Cohabit Delinquent Household Incentive Inculcate Intractable Penalize Predictor Predominant Sacrament Temper (v) Vessel Virtually Wedlock Welfare 本课需要掌握的词汇 Bulk 大小；体积；块儿 Cohabit 同居 Delinquent 失职的；罪犯 Household 家庭；家族 Incentive 动机 Inculcate 灌输；劝导 Intractable 难驾驭处理的 Penalize 处罚 Predictor 预报者 Predominant 卓越的；主要的；支配的 Sacrament 圣事 Temper (v) 调和；缓和 Vessel 容器；导管 Virtually 实质上 Wedlock 婚姻（状态） Welfare 福利 本课需要掌握的短语 By comparison Call up Phase out So as to Space sb. Apart 本课需要掌握的短语 By comparison 相比而言 Call up 使想起；使记起 Phase out 逐步撤除；一次一个阶段地结束 So as to 为了 Space sb. Apart 隔开 Structure Analysis Para 1-2: The traditional American family has lost its Predominant position. Para 3-5: Children from single parents or broken families suffer greatly negative influence. Para 6: More and more women choose to be working moms. Para 7-9: To nourish marriage, the reform for social security and welfare is necessary. Predominant as the social pattern for several hundred years, that American family has lost its place. (para 1)v/adj+ as: 虽然，尽管 1. Try as I might, I couldn’t persuade him.2. Young as he is, he already knows what career he wants to follow. Paraphrase:Although the traditional American family with a man and wife and two or three children has prevailed for several hundred years, such a family pattern has lost the leading/chief position. And only about 20 percent of families fit into the traditional structure with father as the only breadwinner. (para 1)fit into: 适合，符合Paraphrase:And (there are) only about 20 percent of families accord with (according with) the traditional pattern that father is the sole economic source /pocketbook of the whole family. Marriage, or the lack of it, is the best predictor of poverty, greater even than race and unempl