新应用大学英语第三册 unit-1-Self-discovery (导入式).ppt

3. This advice assumes that we all have a pre-existing passion waiting to be discovered. 1) assume: v. 假定，假设 e.g. ① They assume his innocence before getting the evidence against him. ② We assume that everyone is kind and self-disciplined in his inner heart. 2) pre-existing: a.先前的，预先存在的 前缀pre- 表示“在……之前的，先于”，例如：predict, prewar, prepare, preference, prehistory等。 【拓展】 fore-，表示“ 预先的，在前部的”，例如： forecast, foretell, forehead等。 4. If we have the courage to discover this calling and to match it to our livelihood, the thinking goes, we’ll end up happy. 1) match... to: 将……与……相匹配 e.g. It takes more processing to match the outgoing signal to the return signal. 2) the thinking goes: 这种观点认为，其中go 是“ 说，表达”的意思。 e.g. As the saying goes, there is no smoke without fire. 3) end up (doing / with)：以……而告终 e.g. ① If you don’t know what you want, you might end up getting something you don’t want. ② Depending on the assumptions that they made, they could end up with very different answers. 5. This constant doubt generates anxiety and chronic jobhopping. 1) generate: v.产生；使形成 e.g. ① The labor secretary said the reforms would generate new jobs. ② The company burns coal to generate power. 2) chronic: a. 长期的 e.g. He suffered a lot from the chronic disease these years. 6. The alternative career philosophy that drove me is based on this simple premise. alternative: a.可供选择的；n.替代 e.g. ① We have two alternative flights to go to Shanghai. ② New ways to treat headache may provide an alternative to painkillers. 7. Or, with the advance from my first book, I could have hunkered down in a quiet town to write. 1） 该句可以理解为：If I had kept writing and made further efforts, I could have settled down in a quiet town to be a writer. 2） with短语作条件状语可用if改写为完整的虚拟语气从句，此用法还常见于without, but for。 e.g. ① What would you do with a million dollars (= if you had a million dollars)? ② We could not have finished the work ahead of time without your help (=