We’re Only Human 现代大学英语教材.ppt

Paragraph 6 … self-advancement and self-indulgence are powerful innate drives: … the desire to improve yourself, move ahead, or achieve your purposes, and the desire to enjoy life are very powerful and natural, inborn, instinctive. Paragraph 6 Seemingly altruistic behaviors: Altruistic behaviors on the surface. Altruistic behavior: behavior that shows you care more about others than you do for yourself Paragraph 8 … character, which I once heard defined as “what you are when no one else is looking.”: If you do good things when no one else is looking it means to one will know what you have done. It will then mean that you can never get anything in return. It means that you are doing what you are doing not for returns of any kind, but because you feel happier doing them. Paragraph 9 He didn’t have…on it: He didn’t really own Polly Espy, or Polly espy didn’t really belong to him.he meant they were not married or going steady. But they were friends so Petey had the first claim or the privilege of first asking Polly Espy to be his wife. Paragraph 9 At Jack’s bachelor party: A party for men only, esp. the night before a man’s wedding. Paragraph 9 The entertainment-type of women: A person who entertains is a person who sing, dance or gives other kinds of performances to amuse people. But here the author seems to be suggesting that it is a stripper or even a prostitute. Lesson Eight We’re Only Human Dr. Laura C. Schlessinger About the author .Dr. Laura C. Schlesinger was born in Brooklyn. New York in 1947. She has a Ph.D. in physiology from Columbia University and a post-doctoral certification in marriage, family and child counseling from the University of Southern California, where, upon graduation, she became a faculty member and taught for five years. Dr. Laura Schlessinger is the recipient of many national awards and the author of many New York Times best-sellers, including: Parenthood by Proxy; Don’t Have Them if You Won’t Raise Them. About The Text The present text