21世纪大学英语读写基础教程第9课内容详解.docx

1、21世纪大学英语读写基础教程第9课内容详解21世纪大学英语读写基础教程第9课内容详解 本文档格式为WORD,感谢你的阅读。 最新最全的 学术论文 期刊文献 年终总结 年终报告 工作总结 个人总结 述职报告 实习报告 单位总结 演讲稿21世纪大学英语读写基础教程第9课内容详解导语：在美国圣诞节，圣诞节一直以一堆礼物和豪华派对为特色。不久前，一群人呼吁市民放弃奢侈的圣诞庆祝活动，度过假期。下面是一篇题为保卫简单的圣诞节的英语课文，欢迎大家阅读。TextIn the U.SA., Christmas has long been characterized by piles of presents a

2、nd lavish parties. Not long ago, a group of people urged the public to give up extravagant Christmas celebrations and spend the holiday simply.In Defense of a Simple ChristmasBill McKibbenI know what I will be doing on Christmas Eve. My wife, my 4-year-old daughter, my dad, my brother and I will sno

3、wshoe out into the woods in the late afternoon, choose a suitable tree and saw it down. I have had my eye on three or four likely candidates all year.We will bring it home, shake off the snow, decorate it and then head for church, where the Sunday school class I help teach will perform this year#39;

4、s pageant. And then it is home to hang stockings, stoke the fire and go to bed. Our Christmas celebration is as traditional as it gets, except that there is no sprawling pile of presents under the tree.Several years ago, a few of us in northern New York started a campaign for quot;$100 holidays.quot

5、; We decided to urge people not to spend more than $100 per family on presents and to rely instead on simple homemade gifts. That first year, I made walking sticks for everyone. Last year, I made spicy chicken sausage. My mother has embraced the idea by making calendars illustrated with snapshots sh

6、e has taken.The $100 figure was a way to explain to children why they weren#39;t getting everything on their list. So far, our daughter, Sophie, does fine at Christmas. Her stocking is exciting to her. The tree is exciting. Skating on the pond is exciting. It is worth mentioning, however, that we do

7、n#39;t have a television, so she may not understand the degree of her impoverishment.This holiday idea may sound modest. It is modest. And yet at the same time, it is pretty radical. Christmas, it turns out, is a bulwark of the nation#39;s economy. Many businesses do a third of their volume in the m

8、onths just before Dec. 25. And so it hits a nerve to question whether we should celebrate the birth of a man who said we should give all that we have to the poor by showering one another with motorized tie racks.When we began the $100 campaign, merchants writing to the local newspapers made it clear

9、 to us what a threatening idea it was. Newspaper columnists thought it was pretty extreme, too. One said that while our message had merit, it would do too much damage to business.And he was right, or at least not wrong. If we all backed out of Christmas excess, we would sink many a gift shop. If we

10、threw less lavish office parties, caterers would suffer and florists and liquor wholesalers and so on down the feeding chain. But we have to start somewhere if we are to climb down from the unsustainable heights we have reached, and Christmas might as well be it.When we began to spread our idea abou

11、t celebrating Christmas in a new way, we were earnest and sober. Big-time Christmas was an environmental disgrace all that wrapping paper and all those batteries. The money could be so much better spent: The price of one silk necktie could feed a village for a day. And struggling to create a proper

12、Christmas drives poor families into debt. Here in New York, January finds many people cutting back on heat to pay off their Christmas bills.Those were all good reasons to scale back. But as we continued our campaign, we found we really weren#39;t interested in changing Christmas because we wanted fe

13、wer batteries. We wanted more joy. We felt cheated by the Christmases we were having so rushed, so busy and so full of hype that we couldn#39;t relax and enjoy the season.You may be too late for this Christmas. You already may have bought your pile of stuff. In fact, turning the focus of Christmas b

14、ack to Christ is a long and patient effort. But to judge from our family#39;s holidays in recent years, it is well worth the effort.New Wordsdefensen. the act or process of defending 维护，保卫;辩护snowshoevi. 穿雪鞋行走n. (用于在雪地上行走的)雪 鞋sawv. 锯，锯开candidaten. 候选者;候选人decoratev. add sth. to (an object or place), e

15、sp. in order to make it more attractive 装饰pageantn. a show or ceremony, usu. out of doors, in which there are people wearing rich dress or in which historical scenes are acted 盛大的庆曲;(露天演出的)历史剧stockingn. 长袜，袜子stokev. stir up and feed fuel to (a fire, etc.) 添加燃料拨旺(炉火)celebrationn. the act of celebrati

16、ng 庆祝sprawlvi. spread out irregularly over a large area (杂乱无章地)蔓生，蔓延，扩展campaignn. a planned set of actions intended to realize a particular goal 运动urgevt. try very hard to advise or ask (sb.) to do a particular thing 力劝;敦促perprep. for each 每，每一relyvi. (on) depend on sb. or sth. 依靠homemadea. made at

17、home, locally or at the place bought 自制的spicya. having or producing a pleasantly strong taste and smell 有香(料)味的;辛辣的sausagen. 香肠;腊肠embracevt. (fml) accept eagerly 正式欣然接受vt. amp; vi. take and hold (sb. or each other) in the arms (互相)拥抱calendarn. 日历illustratevt. 1. add pictures to (a book, etc.) 给(书等)加

18、插图2. make clear by examples (用例子)说明;表明snapshotn. an informal photo, usu. taken with a simple camera (简易照相机拍的)快照figuren. 1. an amount, esp. of money (钱等的)数目2. any of the number signs 数字符号pondn. an area of water smaller than a lake 池塘mentionvt. speak about (sth.) in a few words 提及，谈起impoverishmentn. p

19、overty 贫穷modesta. 1. not large in amount, size, value, etc. 适度的，不过分的2. having a lower opinion of one#39;s own ability than is probably deserved 谦虚的radicala. extreme; thoroughgoing 激进的;彻底的bulwarkn. any protection against danger, injury, etc. 保障;支柱economyn. the system by which a country#39;s wealth is

20、 produced through trade, industry, etc. 经济体制，经济情况volumen. the number or amount of sth. 份量，量;额nerven. 1. 神经2. courage; determination 勇敢;决心showervt. send or give (sth.) (to sb.) in great numbers 大量地给予motorizeda. equipped with a motor 机动化的;摩托化的rackn. 架子，挂架，搁架merchantn. a person who buys and sells goods

21、 for profit 商人threatenv. express a threat against 威胁columnistn. a person who writes a newspaper or magazine column 专栏作家meritn. the quality of being good 优点，长处damagen. injury or harm to a person or thing 破坏，损害vt. do damage to 破坏，损害excessn. immoderate indulgence, as in eating, drinking, etc. (饮食烟酒等的)无

22、节制，无度lavisha. very wasteful in giving or using 非常浪费的caterern. a person or company that provides food for large social events 酒席承办人floristn. a person or company that owns or works in a shop which sells cut lowers and plants 花商;花店工作人员liquorn. 酒，含酒精饮料wholesalern. a businessman who sells goods in large

23、quantities and usu. at low prices 批发商unsustainablea. unable to be continued in its present form 无法支撑(或维持)的earnesta. serious; not joking; sincere 认真的;真诚的* sobera. serious; thoughtful 严肃的;审慎的environmentala. 环境的disgracen. shame or loss of other people#39;s respect; a person or thing that brings shame,

24、dishonor, etc. 丢脸，耻辱;丢脸的人(或事)wrapv. cover or enclose within a covering 包裹batteryn. 电池necktien. (esp. AmE) tie (尤美)领带;领结debtn. money or other things owed to sb. else 欠债，债务scalevt. increase or reduce, esp. by a fixed rate (按比例)调节n. a set of numbers or standards used to measure or compare (测量或比较的)标准;等级

25、cheatv. deceive 欺骗hypen. 天花乱坠的宣传Phrases and Expressionsin defense ofsupporting 维护;为-辩护shake offget rid of 抖落;摆脱rely ondepend on 依靠，依赖so farup to the present 到目前为止turn outbe found or known to be 结果(是);原来(是);证明(是)hit/touch a nerverefer to a subject that causes sb. pain, anger, etc.触及要害;触到痛处do damage t

26、o损害，破坏back outwith draw 退出，撒手不干many a(fml) many 正式许多climb down1. 往下爬2. admit that you are wrong 认错;退让might as well还是-为好，不妨drive. intoforce (sb.) into a usu. unpleasant condition 迫使，逼使cut back onreduce 缩减，削减pay offpay (a debt) in full 还清scale backreduce (sth.) by a fixed rate 按比例缩减Proper NamesBill Mc

27、Kibbenmiddot;默基本(人名)Sophie索菲(女子名)Christ阅读相关文档:21世纪大学英语读写基础教程The Future课文解读 21世纪大学英语读写教程第一册Unit1内容介绍 21世纪大学英语读写教程第一册单元2内容解析 21世纪大学英语读写教程第一册第3课内容讲解 21世纪大学英语读写教程第一册Unit4课文简介 21世纪大学英语读写教程第一册第5单元内容解读 21世纪大学英语读写教程第一册课程6内容详解 大学英语作文四大黄金原则 大学生日常英语口语的练习 出国逛超市必备英语口语大全 快速提高英语口语的技巧 适合练习英语口语的5部美剧 小学英语口语练习方法介绍 最适合练口语的10部英语动画片 练习英语口语的几个技巧 2018如何最新最全【学术论文】【总结报告】 【演讲致辞】【领导讲话】 【心得体会】 【党建材料】 【常用范文】【分析报告】 【应用文档】 免费阅读下载 *本文若侵犯了您的权益，请留言。我将尽快处理，多谢。*