上外课件：Unit 16A (第六册,英语综合教程,外教社)PPT.pptVIP

* Unit 16 Friendship  Text Explanation Part I About the Author Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 –1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid-1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society Text Structure Section 1: Paragraph 1 Section 2: Paragraphs 2-3 Section 3: Paragraphs 4-5 Section 4: Paragraph 6 Text Analysis This text is an excerpt from Emerson’s essay “Friendship” which was written in 1841. In the essay we can find that the author’s discussion on friendship is not confined to the relationship between friends, but rather extended to the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others. Given this proposition, the author discusses the nature of human affection in general and provides his own perception about the importance of such affection in human life. Paragraph 1 We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor, and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth. bathe v.1. cleanse the entire body; 2. suffuse with or as if with light; 3. clean ones body by immersion into water After the match, I was bathed with sweat.比赛之后我汗流浃背. Her dust-caked face was bathed with a sweet, cool draft.她那满是灰尘的脸，沐浴在清新凉爽的空气中。 Your eyes should be bathed with a special lotion.你应该用一种特殊的溶液洗眼。 The room was bathed in sunlight 房间里充满了阳光 ether (n.)1. a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic乙醚； 2. the fifth and highest el