新概念英语综合版第三册NCE3 Lesson14（共8个样品课件）.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * put…out of order If he keeps fiddling with the clock, he is sure to put it out of order. My whole mornings work has been put out of order by that mishap. As the old saying goes, The house must first be put in order before the kingdom can be ruled and the country pacified.” 老话说，要齐家而后能治国平天下。? Before making complaints about how another person arranges his life, it is better to put ones own house in order. 一屋不扫，何以扫天下？ 早在14世纪，英国人约翰就有过非凡的发现:人们情愿拿出大笔的钱，也不愿毕生的心血毁于歹徒之手。 As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters. I met my boyfriend as long ago as the year 2000. would rather do sth than do sth would prefer to do……than do would prefer doing……to doing would rather + that would rather Bell once told his family that he would rather be remembered as a teacher of the deaf than as the inventor of the telephone. Bell曾告诉家人，他更愿意让后人 记住他是聋子的老师，而非电话的 发明者。 The average woman would rather have beauty than Brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. 如果可以在美丽和智慧中任选其一, 普通的女人宁愿选择美丽,因为普通 的男人的眼睛通常比脑子好使。 Six hundred years ago, Sir Johan Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence. settle 定居 解决 Dont hope to marry him because hes not the type to settle down. “A rolling stone gathers no moss”, as they say. 别指望他会娶你，因为他是一种安 定不下来的人。正如人们说的，漂 泊者难以成家。 I am just leaving school; and twenty-one years of age. I am anxious to settle down to office work. 本人现年21岁，即将毕业，希望能 尽快安定下来进入贵公司做文职工 作。 The government may step in to settle the disagreement between the union and the employers. 政府可能会出面干预,解决工会和雇主之间的纠纷。 A conciliation service helps to settle disputes between employers and workers. 调解机构协助解决劳资纠纷. a period of settled weather 一段稳定的天气 a settled opinion 固定的看法 a settled area