新编英语教程 5 unit 13.ppt

* * Unit 13 What Life Means to Me, Part I Dictionary Work remunerate: reward; pay somebody for work 2. travail: toil; exertion; drudgery; very hard work 3. Scraping and scrimping: being very frugal and spending sparingly 4. spoils: loot; plunder; something taken from another by force 5. rebate: a return of a part of a payment 6. fulminate: protest loudly and bitterly 7. forsooth: in truth; indeed (often used to imply contempt or doubt) 8. pitch in: set to work with energy 9. prone: liable; likely; inclined 10. replenish: put new supplies into 11. put up one’s shutters: stop doing business (for the day, or permanently) 12. vender: seller (more often spelt “vendor”) II. Library Work Jack London Jack London (born Jan. 12, 1876, died Nov. 22, 1916)is best known for his books The Call of the Wild, White Fang,and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as To Build a Fire and The White Silence. ??????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Jack London, deserted by his father who was a roving astrologer, was raised in Oakland, California, U.S.A., by his spiritualist mother and his stepfather, whose surname, London, he took. London’s poverty-stricken childhood early taught him that one must fight to survive. His ten-hour days in a canning factory at ten cents an hour inspired him at fourteen, to borrow enough money to buy a boat so that he could join in raids on privately owned oyster beds. At fifteen, he was known as the “Prince of the Oyster Pirates”. He went to Japan as a sailor and saw much of the U.S. as a hobo riding freight trains and as a member of Kelly’s industrial army (one of the many protest armies of unemployed). Observation of depression conditions, fortified by a prison term for vagrancy turned London, in 1894, into a militant socialist. London educated himself at public libraries, where he studied, usually in pop