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Unit 3, book4 Longing for a New Welfare System Language Points: A welfare client is supposed to cheat. (Para.1) Meaning: People believe that a welfare client cheats / is cheating. be supposed to: 1) be generally believed or expected to be or do I havent seen it myself, but its supposed to be a great movie. 我还没有看过这部影片，但据说它挺不错的。 Shes supposed to have had five hundred pairs of shoes. 据说她有500双鞋。 2) be expected or required to do or be sth. according to a rule, a custom, an arrangement, etc. Youre supposed to buy a ticket, though not many people do. 尽管没有多少人买票，但你应该买。 Youre supposed to ask the teacher if you want to leave the room. 如果你要离开教室，得跟老师说。 Faced with sharing a dinner of raw pet food with the cat, many people in wheelchairs I know bleed the system for a few extra dollars. (Para.1) Meaning: In the face of sharing uncooked pet food with the cat, many of my wheel-chaired acquaintances have to lie about their circumstances, thus getting a little extra money from welfare givers. face with：meet (sth. bad or difficult) Faced with the evidence, he had to confess. 面对证据，他不得不坦白。 …bleed the system for a few extra dollars…(Para.1) Meaning: force the system to pay a few extra dollars I have opted to live a life of complete honesty. So instead, I go out and drum up some business and draw cartoons. (Para. 2) Meaning: I have chosen to live a completely honest life. So I dont lie to get some extra welfare money, but I go out and try hard to get some business and draw cartoons. opt to do sth.: choose to do sth.; decide to do sth. in preference to anything else When he left school, he opted to go to college and study for a degree, rather than getting a job straight away. 毕业后他选择上大学读学位，而不是直接工作。 …drum up some business … (Para.2) drum up: try hard to get support, customers, business, etc. He had flown to the north of the country to drum up support for the campaign. 他飞到该国北方去为竞选争取支持。 The department store is offering big discounts to drum up business. 这家百货商店