高英1lesson 1middle eastern bazaar.ppt

* * Camels— ‘ships of the desert’. The first, known as an Arabian, or dromedary, camel, has a single hump on its back. The other, known as a Bactrian camel, has two humps. * * disdainful: contemptuous, showing lack of respect, regard sb. or sth. as low and worthless Here, arrogant, in a superior manner, suggesting that the camels are all stately, strong, heads holding high Camels lie disdainfully chewing…, while the great bales of merchandise…lie beside them. A Bale is a large bundle of goods bound up for storage or transportation and esp. one composed of materials (as hay, straw, cotton or wool) which are closely pressed together so as to form a mass, usu. tightly bound with cord or wire * * Section 4 – linseed oil mill: vast, sombre, old Vast: thirty-feet high, sixty-feet square massive stone wheels, huge pole largest camels: muscular, massive and stately vast ramshackle apparatus of beams dizzy height Old: dimly visible walls and roofs, dust of centuries, ancient girders. Dark sombre cavern of a room * * a cavern of a room/ a cavernous room metaphor; the room is like a cavern, e.g. a mountain of waves a storm of applause the maze of vaulted streets * * a _____ leather bellows; ______ knowledge/interests a _____ eater; a _____ expanse of the sky; a _____ mass of earth; China is a populous country with a _____ territory. huge vast commonly suggests immensity of bulk; when used figuratively, it stresses the greatness of a person’s (thing’s) capacity suggests immensity of extent; stresses a thing’s range, scope or variety, as well as extent huge huge huge vast vast vast * * Cohesive devices in para. 8 In this cavern are three stone wheels, each with a huge pole through its centre as an axle. The pole is attached at the one end to an upright post, around which it can revolve, and at the other to a camel, which walks constantly in a circle, providing