新概念第四册-Lesson-5-Youth.pptVIP

新概念第四册 Lesson 5 Youth review listen to the passage and fill in the blank use your own words to summarize this passage. 5-1. People are always talking about the problem of youth. 【译文】人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。 Teenager 13-19 Adolescent: 1-16Under sixteen. Juvenile青少年juvenile delinquency Youth over 20 5-2. If there is one—which I take leave to doubt—then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. 假如确有这个问题的话——我冒昧对此表示怀疑——那么这个问题是由老年人而非青年人臆造的。 if there is one中的one指a problem of youth。 which I take leave to doubt插入语。 take leave to do sth. 冒昧做某事，擅自做某事。 take leave to be frank. take French leave What a bore. What a nuisance. What a jerk the young the poor/ rich/ weak / strong/ wealthy /jobless He is interested in the problems of the poor. 他对穷人的问题感兴趣。 5-3. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings—people just like their elders. people just like their elders作the young的同位语，对其进一步解说。 让我们来认真研究一些基本事实：承认青年和他们的长辈一样终究也是人 get down to fundamentals. 认真研究 get down to business / go about doing sth get along / get a grip on oneself / get on someones nerves fundamentals：基本原则（或原理），根本法则（或规律）；基础。例如 master the fundamentals of a trade 掌握某行业的基本规律 5-4. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is. a young one中one替代man以避免重复。 两个冒号，前一个介绍difference的同位语，后一个引出说明性内容。 老年人和年轻人只有一个区别：青年人有光辉灿烂的前景，而老年人的辉煌已成为过去。问题的症结恐怕就在于此。 rub: move over something with pressure, cause friction rub up the rub rub off There’s the rub. We’d like to travel, but the rub is that we have no money. at odds 有矛盾 Since then scholars have been at odds on how to interpret it. 自此以后，学者们便在如何翻译的问题上争执不休。 have words with sb. 和…拌嘴 Do you get the rub? 你抓住要点了吗 glorious: very beautiful and impressive. / victory, or occasion involves great fame or success. glory glorify glorious revolution morning glory in one’s