西工大新编英语教程 5 Unit 2.pptVIP

4. … sluices its sewage, untreated, into the sea – let out into the sea the waste materials which have not been treated and not made safe as if through a sluice（水闸）, which is a passage for water Paragraph 4 8. despoil – to steal from using forces, especially, in time of war; plunder 抢夺；掠夺 e.g. – despoil somebody of his right 剥夺某人的权利 9. as it were – as we might say; so to speak 可以这么说； 在某种程度上 e.g.: He became, as it were, a man without a country. 在某种程度上，他成了一个无国籍的人。 I’m a sort of unpaid adviser, as it were, to the committee. 可以说，我是委员会的义务顾问。 Question 3: How do you understand the first sentence of Paragraph 4 “It is still early here”? Is it echoed or contradicted near the end of the article? SA: Environmental pollution here has just begun; it is not very serious yet. This is contradicted by the sentence in Paragraph 11 --- The lesson of our fouled beach is that we may not even have realized how late it is already. The author’s message is “Don’t you think that it will be some time before pollution gets really serious here; when the beach is found to be fouled, it is already too late to keep pollution away from the island.” Paragraph 5 Paraphrase: Only his neocortex, the “thinking cap” on top of his brain, has enabled him to invent and construct artificial aids to accomplish what he could not do by himself. (ll. 24-26) People use his head to think hard to create and make some artificial tools. They use them to do what they are not capable of. Question 4: How do you justify Whipple’s inclusion of those paragraphs dealing with man’s inefficiency in adapting himself to his environment? SA: As man is not so well adapted to his living environment as, say, a bird, he has to resort to artificial aids, which have eventually given rise to pollution. Paraphrase: Without his brain, his artificial aids, his technology, he would have been unable to cope with, even survive in, his environment. Man could not deal with his circumstances if they have not brains,