《研究生英语学习》PPT课件.ppt

Unit Three,Text A The Three New Yorks,Warming - up,Where are you from? If you come from other places, whats your opinion on the city of Nanjing? Whats your opinion on the local residents and migrants in this city? Describe the city that impresses you the most. Describe the local residents and migrants in that city.,About the author,Elwyn Brooks E. B. White (July 11, 1899 - October 1, 1985)1 was an American writer, best known as the author of childrens books Charlottes Web.,True or False Questions,According to the writer, commuters are the greatest New Yorks. Commuters are too busy to enjoy the city of New York. When the train is buried in the mud at the bottom of the East River, commuters would become quite anxious. Commuters have to work as hard as local residents to climb the career ladder. Even people who have no real independence of spirit can find in New York a protection.,About the title,What does New York in the title mean? Does it refer to the city or people living in this city? Why?,Paragraph 1-2: three kinds of New Yorks,There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. (natives) Paraphrase: The first New York of the man or woman was the local residents, who was born and brought up here, and naturally accepts New York as a large and chaotic metropolis as it is.,Second, there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. (commuters) Discussion: Why did the writer compare this New York as locusts? Why did they come New York ? Metaphor,Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. (settlers) In your opinion, what did they search for in this city?,Of the three New Yorks, which one is the greatest? Why?,The third accounts for the citys high-strung disposition poetical deportment dedication to the arts Incomparable achievements,Commuters, tidal restlessness.,Natives, solidity and continuity.,Settlers, passion.,The second paragraph gives some examples of the commuters. Can you summarize this paragraph in one sentence? It is not the background but the commuters love, adventuring spirit, dreams and contributions that make the city of New York different.,Whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference;,a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors Say by way of comment 评论； 一位为了逃避被邻居指指点点的屈辱从密西西比州的一个小镇远道而来的少女,a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart See Note 3,Corn Belt,Paragraph 3-4: The life of commuters in New York,Topic sentence:,The commuter is the queerest bird of all.,The suburb he inhabitates,The city of New York,Further elaboration: Para 4,The commuter is the queerest bird of all. Metaphor The commuter is the most unusual person of all.,The suburb he inhabits has no essential vitality of its own and is a mere roost where he comes at days end to go to sleep. Branch, pole, etc. where a bird or a hen rests on 栖身之处,Except in rare cases, the man who lives in Mamaroneck or little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses, and the path to a quick lunch. discovers about the city only,He is deck-bound, and has never, idly roaming in the gloaming, stumbled suddenly on Belvedere Tower in the park, seen the ramparts rise sheer from the water of the pond and the boys along the shore fishing for minnows, girls stretched out negligently on the shelves of the rocks; He is always taking bus or ship, or train Stumble on = find unexpectedly or by chance,Belvedere Tower in Central Park,He has never come suddenly on anything at all in New York as a loiterer, because he had no time between trains. Meet or see by chance,He has fished in Manhattans wallet and dug out coins, but has never listened to Manhattans breathing, never awakened to its morning, never dropped off to sleep in its night. See note 6; Drop off to sleep = fall asleep,Paragraph 4: analyzing sentences,About 400,000 men and women come charging onto the Island each weekday morning, out of the mouths tubes and tunnels. Metaphor,in the great rustling oaken silence of the reading room of the Public Library, 在公众图书馆静得只能听到橡树叶的沙沙声的阅览室中,Public Library,They tend their furnaces in Westchester and in Jersey, but have never seen the furnaces of the Bowery, the fires that burn in oil drums on zero winter nights. Take care of,They may work in the financial district downtown and never see the extravagant plantings of Rockefeller Center the daffodils and grape hyacinths and birches of the flags trimmed to the wind on a fine morning in spring.,Rockefeller Center,The commuter dies with tremendous mileage to his credit, but he is no rover. His entrances and exits are more devious than those in a prairie-dog village; To his honor winding 通勤者死时值得骄傲的是巨大的汽车里程数，但他不是一位漫游者。他上下班路上的入口和出口比场拔鼠的聚居地的出入口还要迂回曲折。,Paragraph 5,Topic sentence: The terrain of New York is such that a resident sometimes travels farther, in the end, than a commuter. Discussion: What does this mean? Do they just travel in terms of distance? How does the writer further elaborate this point?,Luo Jiahui: The cottage where his grandfather live as a servant was only yards away from the Governors official mansion of Washington State, but his family took a century to complete the trip.,Luo Jiahui, ex-governor of Washing State, ambassador of USA to China,Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest American songwriters in history. He was born in Russia, and settled down in New York later.,Paragraph 6,What gift does the City of New York give to commuters? Whats the significance of this gift? New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy on any person who desires such queer prizes.,Paraphrase,It is this largeness that accounts for the presence within the citys walls of a considerable section of the population; for the residents of Manhattan are to a large extent strangers who have pulled up stakes somewhere and come to town, seeking sanctuary or fulfillment or some greater or lesser grail. 纽约之大在于其人口之多(人口之多成就了纽约之大)。因为相当多的曼哈顿的居民都是受够了苦难而来到纽约寻找圣地、功名或大大小小的圣杯（难圆之梦）的。,How do you understand the following sentences? It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.,Paragraph 7,Although New York often imparts a feeling of great forlornness or forsakenness, what is the charm of New York in the eyes of the commuters?,New York seldom seems dead or un-resourceful,Rejuvenation,How?,Even for People with no real independence of spirit,A protection, or an easy substitution,Homework,Translation (Before tomorrow) Presentation (Before Friday) Migrant People in Big Cities Housing Problem and Emotional Well-Being,