新编英语教程6修订版(李观仪)Unit2教案.docVIP

Unit 2 The Fine Art of Putting Things Off Pre-class?Work II. Dictionary Work 1. cool one’s heels: be forced to wait; be kept waiting 2. attest to: (v.) testify to; serve as an evidence to affirm/ to be proof of????证实,?证明 3. apocalyptic: (adj.) foreboding imminent disaster or final doom???预示灾难或最后毁灭的 4. proconsul: (n.) an administrator in a colony usually with wide powers??地方总督 5. ruminate: (v.) go over in the mind repeatedly and often slowly?反刍,?沉思 6. nattering: (adj.) chattering; hence, noisy rel. natter: chatter; to talk for a long time, especially about unimportant things?唠叨；闲聊 7. echelon: (n.) rank, level??等级，阶层 e.g. a job in the lower echelon of the corporation??一份公司底层工作 8. fortify: (v.) encourage; support??鼓励；支持 e.g. Faith fortified us during our crisis. ???在关键时刻信念使我们变得坚强。 fortify could also mean to strengthen, to reinforce, etc. 9. reappraisal: (n.) re-evaluation 10. academe: (n.) the academic community; academics???学术界；学术 11. shrink: (slang) (n.) psychoanalyst or psychiatrist ?????????心理分析学者或神经科医生 12. subliminal: (adj.) existing or functioning outside the area of conscious awareness??潜意识的 13. truism: (n.) an undoubted or self-evident truth?不言而喻的道理；自明之理 14. mellow and marinate: (v.) to mellow is to become ripe or fully developed, and the marinate is to steep (浸,?泡) (meat, fish) in a savory sauce to enrich its flavor; here, ripen and mature??成熟及完善 III. Library Work 1.?Chesterfield ?Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl (伯爵) of Chesterfield , (1694-1773), English statesman, orator and author. His literary reputation rests upon his letters to his illegitimate son (私生子), Philip Stanhope, who was born in Holland in 1732. The letters, filled with wit and worldly wisdom, were published under the title?Letters to His Son?and?Letters to His Godson?(1774). Chesterfields fame as a man of letters rests upon a series of letters, published after his death, that give a faithful account of the manners and customs of aristocratic society in 18th-century England, written in a grace