Unit 9 Do the elderly work 英美报刊选读教材.ppt

Unit 9 Do the Elderly Want to Work? Culture:10 Important Bestselling U.S. Magazines Reader’s digest National Geographic Family Circle Time People Weekly Newsweek American Legion U.S. News and World Report Smithsonian 《史密斯森学会》杂志 Star《明星》 I. Culture: 1. social security: 1935年，美国政府通过“社会保障条例”，对老年或残疾人以及贫苦儿童、失业工人等给予最低额救济金。有退休/失业/残废保险.近来一部分职能已转交给地方政府. 2. baby boom: 指二战后1947-1961年间美国的生育高峰期。 baby boomer指生育高峰期出生的人。 Mcdonalds:McDucks (sl.)美国最大的快餐联营店。以专售汉堡包快餐为特色，总部设在IL橡树溪。国外分店，9530。 Brookings Institution: cf concise AARP: American Association of Retired Persons (美国退休人员协会) codger: an often mildly eccentric and usually elderly fellow old codger legion: a very large number : MULTITUDE Itch: to have a restless desire or hankering for something were itching to go outside figure out: DISCOVER, DETERMINE try to figure out a way to do it2 : SOLVE, FATHOM figure out a problem Mores:the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group 习俗，惯例 2 : moral attitudes3 : HABITS, MANNERS whopping:extremely large; also : EXTRAORDINARY, INCREDIBLE exodus: a mass departure : EMIGRATION The bottomless pit: New Testament: the hell on and off: with periodic cessation : INTERMITTENTLY flurry: a sudden occurrence of many things at once : BARRAGE 2 a flurry of insults conviction: a: strong persuasion or belief b : the state of being convinced 确信;深信 Keep one’s noses at the grindstone:使自己埋头从事辛苦的劳动 Flip: to cause to turn and especially to turn over flipped the carflipping the pages of a book b : to move with a small quick motion oldster: an old or elderly person picky:FUSSY, CHOOSY bow: RETIRE, WITHDRAW; also : LOSE *bowed out in the first round of the tournament* sinecure: an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income baby boom: a marked rise in birthrate (as in the United States immediately following the end of World War II) Notes 1. A flurry of press reports…at McDonald’s a flurry of: a sudden occurrence of many things at once :