新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程3第二单元讲义概要1.docVIP

Unit 2 Book 3 Love I. Difficult Sentences 1. Given the busy nature of our lives, it’s to be appreciated that we even find the time to indulge in matters of the heart. (1) What does “matters of the heart” mean? (=something spiritual and emotional like love.) (2) Paraphrase this sentence. (=Taking into account that we are all busy satisfying our material needs, we should feel grateful that we still have the time to enjoy the feeling of\ loving and being loved.) 2. Harmless puppy loves that are as brief as soap bubbles. (1) What are puppy loves? (=Puppy loves happen to people too young to understand true love.) (2) What are the same characteristics that puppy loves and soap bubbles share according to the sentence? (=They are both short in existence and won’t produce too much influence on people nor will they do harm to people.) 3. …nothing could be more serious an affair for me. (1) What does this sentence imply? (= To me, a love affair was the most serious thing.) (2) Analyze this sentence grammatically. (=The structure “nothing can be more (+adj.) than sth.” means sth. is the most (=adj.). When the comparative degree is used in a negative sentence, most often it means the superlative degree. More examples: *Nobody can do the job better than he can. *It can’t be worse.) 4. Those three hours of unhesitant attention by a group of well-groomed young gentlemen provided with enough content to talk and feel excited about for the next four weeks. (1) What usually would happen at the social? (=Those neatly dressed boys would never hesitate to pay attention to the girls or to attract the girls’ attention.) (2) What usually would happen to the girls after the social? (=They always felt excited and would keep on talking about the social experience for weeks.) 5. And it has to be distinguished from the intense but short-lived love or the pleasures of the flesh. (1) What’s the difference between true love and the intense but shor