英语临床夏季.pptxVIP

会计学1 Warm-up Questions: 1．Explain your motto in life. 2. Do you find life sometimes paradoxical? Why or why not?★ Text Explanations This essay discusses one of the paradoxes in life: “to let something go” and “to hold something fast.” The author tries to explain in the importance of cherishing beauty when it is offered and to let it go when it is inevitable. Thus “to let it go” is as important as “to hold fast” in our lives.第1页/共49页 Paragraph 1 ANALYSISThe theme of the essay is explicitly stated in the first sentence. The author points out that life itself is a paradox: We should cling to its gifts and let go of them in time, which is explained by the rabbis statement of analogy. 1) paradox---a situation which is strange because it involves two qualities that could not be true at the same time. Here, the author means that you need to hold fast to some- thing that you must let go of eventually. 2) The rabbis of old---the rabbis in ancient times. e. g. the knights of old in England第2页/共49页 QUESTIONWhy does the author quote the saying from the ancient rabbis?The author intends to use the metaphor to illustrate the paradox. A man comes to this world with his fist clenched means that a man holds fast to the gift of life when he is born, but when he leaves this world, he has to let go of it.第3页/共49页 LANGUAGE WORKFor life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. ---For life is a paradox: On one side, it encourages us to hold on to all those beautiful things life can offer us, on the other side, it commands us to let all of them go in the end.第4页/共49页 enjoinThe proposed law enjoins employers to give workers time off to care for sick children and ageing parents.He enjoined caution about believing what they told us.第5页/共49页 Paragraph 2---3ANALYSISIn these two paragraphs, the author explains one side of lifes paradox and points out that we often fail to see the beauty and wonder of life whe