现代大学英语精读5_Lesson_5.pptVIP

Lesson 5 Love Is a Fallacy About the Author One of America’s best-known humorists in the 20th century How can love be a fallacy? Did you know…? Charles Lambs, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, unfettered the informal essay… (Para. 1) …logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing. (Para. 3) Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute—I was all of these. (Para. 4) Did you know…? A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs…Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. To be swept up in every new craze…to me, is the acme of mindlessness. (Para. 5) “Raccoon,” he mumbled thickly. (Para. 7) The smell bad. They weigh too much. They’re unsightly… (Para. 16) Did you know…? “It’s the thing to do. Don’t you want to be in the swim.” (Para. 17) My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into the high gear. “Anything?” I asked, looking at him narrowly. (Para. 20) I stroked my chin thoughtfully. (Para. 22) I had long coveted Polly Espy. (Para. 23) In a few years I would be out in practice. (Para. 24) Did you know…? …a dipper of sauerkraut—without even getting her fingers moist. (Para. 26) Intelligent she was not. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction. (Para. 27) … “I mean are you going steady or anything like that?” (Para. 30) “In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open.” (Para. 34) “I guess so. What are you getting at?” (Para. 35) Did you know…? I threw open the suitcase and revealed the huge, hairy, gamy object that my father had won… (Para. 41) “Oh yes!” he cried, clutching the greasy pelt to him. Then a canny look came into his eyes. (Para. 44) “Your girl,” I said, mincing no words. (Para. 45) He flung the coat from him. “Never,” he stoutly. (Para. 48) Did you know…? First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window…Back and forth his head