《现代大学英语 精读6（第二版）》教学课件Unit 4-(2003版).pptVIP

* Text Analysis Even when she put on weight—which she had done—she looked not matronly but majestically girlish. (Para. 16) matronly: (disapproving) (of a woman) no longer young, and rather overweight 不再年轻且发胖的 majestically girlish: looking like a girl in a majestic way 即便她发胖时——她确实胖了——看着也不像发福的已婚女人，而更像是带有几分庄重的女孩子。 Our pregnancies had dovetailed, so that we had managed with one set of maternity clothes. (Para. 19) to dovetail: to fit perfectly together. 我们俩的怀孕期正好前后衔接，所以我们能够共用一套孕妇服。 * Text Analysis In my kitchen or in hers, once a week or so, distracted by our children and sometimes reeling for lack of sleep, we stoked ourselves up on strong coffee and cigarettes and launched out on a rampage of talk—about our marriages, our fights, our personal deficiencies, our interesting and discreditable motives, and our forgone ambitions. (Para. 19) rampage: an outbreak of violent or raging behavior discreditable: damaging to one’s reputation or status forgone: that has gone before; previous; former 大约每周一次，在我家厨房或她家厨房里，我们天南海北地聊天——聊婚姻、奋斗、个人的不足，聊有趣但丢人的动机，聊曾经的抱负…… 孩子们不断地来打扰，我们有时还因睡眠不足而感到头晕，于是就多喝浓咖啡、猛吸香烟来提神。 to feel dizzy, have a sensation of whirling to “stoke up” means to eat large quantities of food * Text Analysis During that time of life that is supposed to be a reproduc- tive daze, with the woman’s mind all swamped by maternal juices, we were still compelled to discuss Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and “The Cocktail Party”. (Para. 19) P: As young mothers, we were supposed to lead a busy and sometimes bewildering life filled with giving birth to and caring for babies, which was supposed to fully occupy our minds. However, we still felt the need to discuss the important thinkers of our time such as Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and T. S. Eliot’s sophisticated verse play “The Cocktail Party”. the stupefying and confusing condition that young mothers are stereotypically supposed to experience (figurative) the young mothers were preoccupied with their maternal