| Hit the Nail on the Head | Background: 1. The author--- Alan Warner 2. Flaubert 3. Uganda 4. Professor Raleigh | drive home one’s point more or less scrupulous far afield rife coercion epitomize disprove expire indigent | 1. How can I know what I think till I see what I say? 2. The exact use of language gives us mastery over the material we are dealing with. 3. But words are very similar in meaning have fine shades of differences, and a student needs to be alive to these differences. 4. A good carpenter is not distinguished by the number of his tools, but by the craftsmanship with which he uses them. | Organization of the Text: Para4-7: Illustrating how words with common roots have different meanings (Semantic aspect语义方面) Para 8: Illustrating how words with similar meanings may have different associations (Connotational aspect隐含意义) Para 9: Illustrating how words with similar meanings may have stylistic differences. (Stylistic/situational aspect文体方面) Para 10: Pointing out that a general notion may be expressed by a variety of specific words (Variation in expression ) Analogy : it is a special kind of comparison and a more concrete way to explain things. Writing exercise: using analogy to write a composition. | Workbook: Translation Language work |
| Unit Two The Great Escape | Camping Scouting Boy Scout | Motive Manoeuvre Entail Preponderance Wary Alienate Hierarchy worship Sophisticated Inclement Vie with | 1. Economy is one powerful motive for camping, since after the initial outlay upon equipment, or through hiring it, the total expense can be far less than the cost of hotels. 2. Granted, a snobbery of camping itself, based upon equipment and techniques, already exists; but it is of a kind that, if he meets it, he can readily understand and deal with. 3. The opinion does not survive experience of a popular Continental camping place. 4. Granted, a preponderance of Germans is a characteristic that seems common to most Mediterranean sites; but as yet there is no overwhelmingly specialized patronage. | Topic sentence: it is a statement that tells what the paragraph is about. What is a good topic sentence? How to locate the topic sentence in a paragraph? Writing exercise: write a composition, find the topic sentence in each paragraph. | Workbook: Translation Language work |
| Unit Three My Friend, Albert Einstein | 1. Albert Einstein 2. The author--- Banesh Hoffmann 3. Mozart 4. Beethoven | Knack Awry Staggering Vestige Prodigy Recalcitrant Ineffable Offshoot Haggard Agitate Plausible akin | 1. In school, though his teachers saw no special talent in him, the signs were already there. 2. Thus we got to know not merely the man and the friend, but also the professional. 3. The intensity and depth of his concentration were fantastic. When battling a recalcitrant problem, he worried it as an animal worries its prey. 4. A dreamy, faraway an yet inward look would come over his face. There was no appearance of concentration, no furrowing of the brow---only a placid inner communion. | Description: it is an art of translating what one sees or hears in to words. Objective description Impressionist description
Writing exercise: using description method to describe an object or a place. | Workbook: Translation Language work |
