(精选)现代大学英语精读5 Lesson 5 love is a fallacy课件.pptVIP

Love is a fallacy ; pre-reading questions;On love;Max Shulman ;Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881);John Ruskin(1819-1900);…that logic, far from being a dry…passion, and trauma.;Hyperbole ;Words and expressions;Paras 4-6 cool I Vs dumb Petey;Keen, calculating, … I was all of these.;Acute suggests a fine sensitivity or receptivity to nuances that might escape others. e.g. an acute awareness of the slightest ambiguity in each statement made by his opponent; it might also imply a high-keyed state of nervous attention that is not sustainable for long,; e.g. an acute alertness, heightened by the strange silence in the enemy trenches.;Astute suggests a thorough and profound understanding, stemming from a scholarly or experienced mind that is in full command of a given field, e.g. an astute assessment of the strengths and weakness of the plans for reorganizing the department; an astute evaluation of the gaps on our knowledge of how life evolved.;Perspicacious is the most formal of these words; it stresses intensity of perception, e.g. a perspicacious remark that illuminated the whole problem for all of them. Calculating means shrewd or cunning.;My brain was as powerful as a dynamo,…a scalpel.;Hyperbole ;Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. ;nothing upstairs;Fads, …negation of reason.;Words and expressions;Paras 7-59 the deal;Raccoon and raccoon coat;She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions. ;But I was not one…entirely cerebral reason.;shrewd: clever; sharp in practical affairs calculated: undertaken or accepted after the probable results have been estimated cerebral: (humorous) requiring the use of the intellect; intellectual rather than emotional ;With one omission, Polly fitted the specifications perfectly.;Pin-up: (American colloquialism) designating a girl whose sexual attractiveness makes her a subject for the kind of pictures often pinned up on walls proportion: lines, shapes of the body supply the lack: supply what is wanting He implies that tim