新编英语教程6 Unit 3 西工大[文字可编辑].ppt

preclude (L 39): prevent from happening; make impossible e.g. What he said seemed to preclude all possibilities of drawing up an ideal plan. 23. in the first place (L 41): used at the end of a sentence to talk about why sth. was done or whether it should have been done or not 当初；首先；究竟 e.g. I still dont understand why you chose that name in the first place . 我仍然不明白你究竟为什么取了这么个名字。 I should never have taken that job in the first place . 我一开始就不该接受那份工作。 第七段课文译文 例如，在原始社会，人们把世界想象成为一个巨大 无边、令人恐惧、怀有恶意、人类无法控制的东西。因 此他们用巨大的石头建起了厚重的墙壁。只有呆在墙壁 的后面，他们才会感觉到自己置身于一个可以控制、安 全可靠的限定空间之内。这些厚重的墙壁表明，人们害 怕外部的世界，不管保护措施是多么的虚无缥缈，人们 也需要找到它。有人可能会争辩说，当时的技术尚未发 展起来，人们无法建筑更为精巧的墙壁。这当然也很正 确，但是，首先仍然是对世界的害怕这一态度而非技术 使得人们想要建筑墙壁。恐惧越大，墙壁就越厚。我们 甚至发现，古代的国王的陵墓实际上全部都是由墙壁构 成的，其最大的恐惧就是害怕腐烂。 Paragraph 8 24. Para 7 is an expansion of Para 6, and it illustrates why “walls are not simply walls but physical symbols of the barriers in mens minds”. “And then” (L 44) at the beginning of Para 8 bridges Para 7 and Para 8 and indicates that Para 8 is a continuation of the discussion of walls carried on in the preceding paragraph, but from another aspect. 25. pry (=snoop) (L 46) When someone pries , they try to find out about someone elses private affairs, or look at their personal possessions, often secretly. e.g. Look, Im not trying to pry . You dont have to tell me anything about that. So dont go prying into my affairs or youll get hurt. 26. vile (=immoral; ≈shameful) (L 46) If you say that someone or something is vile, you are saying that they are so disgusting that people are likely to be shocked or horrified by them, or you are emphasizing how unpleasant they are and how much you dislike them. e.g. Would you be so vile as to steal a coat from a blind man? “Its just terrible. This food is vile !” said the lady angrily. 27. the prevalent conviction (L 49): the common belief at the time prevalent: widespread in a particular area at a particular time e.g. The desire that children must get a decent ed