新世纪研究生英语B课文电子版 unit2概要1.doc

Text Learning （B Unit 2） The New Singles Carla Power Increasing numbers of Northern Europeans are choosing to live alone. 1. You know the type. Eleanor Rigby, who picks up the rice in the church where the wedding has [lɑ?v?] n. 熔岩[l??] adj. 茂盛的，性感的 [l?bi?d??]n. 性欲；生命力 been. Austin Powers, proud owner of a Lava lamp, lush chest hair and an equal-opportunity libido. [w?bl?] adj.?不稳定的；摆动的 [i?g??] n.?自我意识 ?[st?k] adj. 常的 Bridget Jones, of the wobbly ego and much-watched answering machine. The Single, long a stock [mɑ?d??n] n. 边缘 figure in stories, songs and personal ads, was traditionally someone at the margins of society: ?[??] n. 敬畏 a figure of fun, pity or awe. 代替，取代 [w?e?d] adj. 枯萎的；憔悴的[sp?nst?] n. 老姑娘；未婚女人 2.Those days are gone. In the place of withered spinsters and bachelors are people like Elizabeth [p?rizj?n] n. 巴黎人 de Kergorlay, a 29-year-old Parisian banker who views her independence and her own apartment [sp??lz] n. 战利品 [sku?t] v. 疾走；猛冲 as the spoils of professional success. Scooting around Paris in her Golf GTI, one hand on the wheel [kl?t?] v. ?抓住；紧握[re?v]v. 赞扬 and the other clutching her cell phone, de Kergorlay pauses between calls to rave about life alone. [?nt?s???(?)l]adj. 不爱交际的 “I’m not antisocial,” she says. “I love people. But living alone gives me the time and space for self-reflection. I’ve got the choice and the privacy to grow as a human being.” [se?d?] n. 圣人；贤人 3.As the sages would say, we are all ultimately alone. But an increasing number of Europeans are [st?f] n. 东西；材料[,m?d?te??n]n. 沉思，冥想 choosing to be so at an ever earlier age. This isn’t the stuff of gloomy philosophical meditations, [l?n(d)ske?p] n. 风景 [?mbre?s]v.采用，接受? [di?m?ɡr?f?] n. 人口学家 but a fact of Europe’s new economic landscape, embraced by demographers, real-estate developers and ad executives alike. The shift away from family life to solo lifestyles, observes [m?ment?m] n.趋势 French sociologist Jean-Clau