高英2 第五课 4-59段分析.ppt

Detailed Study My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. (Para.4) dynamo: an earlier form of generator, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy chemist’s scales: Such scales are more precise and accurate for they have to weigh small quantities of powder or other medicine. scalpel: a surgeon’s sharp knife used in operations手术刀；解剖刀 Detailed Study My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. (Para.4) Simile, comparing his brain to three different things. Hyperbole, exaggerating for effect. Detailed Study Emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist. (Para.5) faddist: a person who follows fads (a passing fashion or craze) All four sentences are elliptical. The subject and verb “he is” is left out. The ellipsis reveals the narrator’s attitude toward Petey Burch; he looks down upon him. Detailed Study To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender yourself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it—this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness. Not, however, to Petey. (Para.5) acme: n. the highest point of development, success, etc. 极度；发展、成就的顶点；登峰造极 the acme of perfection acme of mindlessness: the height of stupidity; the greatest lack of intelligence Not, however, to Petey: Ellipsis. This was not the acme of mindlessness, however, to Petey. Detailed Study “I want a raccoon coat,” he wailed. (Para.9) wail: v. (often derog.) to cry out with a long sound (as if) in grief or pain 嚎啕大哭；大声哭叫 “She’s taken my apple, mummy,” he wailed mournfully. The wind wailed in the chimney all night. That narrator repeats “raccoon” as a question to show that he was surprised and didn’t understand why Petey mumbled this word. Detailed Study “All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where’ve you been?” (Para.13) Where’ve you been: not to be taken literally. It implies that the person is rather ignor