新概念四笔记.docx

1、新概念四笔记Lesson 1 Finding fossil man 发现化石人We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write.But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas-legen

2、ds handed down from one generation of storytellers to another. These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living

3、in the Pacific Islands came from. The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten. So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to

4、help them to find out where the firstmodern men came from.Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, especially flint, because this is easier to shape than other kinds. They may also have used wood and skins, but these have rotted away. Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago

5、have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.ROBIN PLACE Finding fossil manNew words and expressions生词短语recount /rikaunt/ v.叙述 / reikaunt/ 再数一次 record / rekd/ /ri kC:d/ 第一个音节带重音，名前动后 叙述：recount : emotionless重复describedepict： a little emotionalnarrate： tem

6、poral&spacial 根据时间或空间顺序描述。portray：描述saga /sa:g/ n.英雄故事描述的内容mostly real 北欧海盗活动的故事legend /ledVnd/ n.传说，传奇unreal e.g robin hoodanthropologist/ AnWrpCldVist/ n.人类学家 anthrop：人 philosophere :philosopher|爱智慧哲学家 philanthropist : 慈善家（对人有爱心的人） anthropology :人类学带-gy结尾的都是学科：biology 生物学 geography 地理学 ecology 生态学

7、remote/ rimut/ n.遥远ancestor / Ansest/ n.祖先 an 在前面 forefather,forebear ，predecessor祖先rot/ rCt/ v.烂掉 leave me rot.leave me along rot to death. soon ripe,soon rotten. decay 国家民族逐渐衰亡 decompose 逐渐衰竭 deteriorate关系逐渐恶化trace /treis/ n.痕迹，踪迹 trace the problem i follow your tracei follow where you gopolynesia

8、 波利尼西亚 poly-多polyandric: a wife with more than one husband polygeny : a husband with more than one wifeflint /flint/ n.燧石 flinting heartedfossil / fCsl/ n. 化石 cobble 鹅卵石 Notes on the text课文注释 read of 读到谈到：speak of ,talk of ,know of,hear ofnear east：近东 mediterranean, south europe,north afric far east

9、非限定性从句，表原因oral(spoken) language is earlier than written language. precede :什么在什么之前，不用比较，直接跟名词 counterpart: two things or two people have the same position oral(spoken) language is earlier than written counterpart.preserve: 保留，保存（腌制） 如果句中有only，那后面的表语结构就要用to do sth,而不是doing sth. storyteller: 讲故事的人fort

10、uneteller, palmreader: 算命先生migration ：移民）migrant）immigrant v. migrate:迁移，迁徙migratory bird:候鸟 none: no body peoples 民族 if they had any: 即便是有his relatives,if he hadany,never went to visit him when he was hospitalized.find out千方百计，费尽周折explore modern men :the men who were like ourselves howeveranywhere

11、you want ,加逗号but,yet不加标点，only at the beginning of the sentence therefore自由so自由tool:小工具 instrument:实验器械 equipment:设备shape:成型；教育，改造 may also have:表推测 peel:果皮leather:皮革hide:兽皮cowhide:牛皮without (any) trace:无影无踪 Lesson 2 Spare that spider别伤害蜘蛛Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends ? Because t

12、hey destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals. We owe a

13、lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the least harm to us or our belongings.Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly r

14、elated to them. One can tell the difference almost at a glance for a spider always has eight legs and an insect never more than six.How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf ? One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England, and he estimat

15、ed that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre, that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch. Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatur

16、es, not content with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country.T. H. GILLESPIE Spare that Spider from The ListenerNew words and expressions

17、生词短语flocks and herds 牛群和羊群 flCk/the birds of the same feather flock together.物以类聚，人以群分you are the same flock.也可指人herd多指牛群cowherd cowboythrong and crowd swarmowe /U/ vt.感激,欠i owe you.i owe you a big favor.欠 issue oblige indebt appreciate-常用口语词 正式：grateful thankfulbeast /bi: st/ n 兽形容人野蛮无比，不能用animal 形

18、容creature可以指小孩，女人，不用于男性fraction / frAkFn/ n.小部分分数，小数a fraction of rice will suffice on ones behalf 代表利益I beat you on your behalf.我打你是为你好 on behalf of somebody /somethinge.g on behalf of chinese governmenton behalf of representauthority /C:WCriti/ n.权威 authorize批准authoritative权威性的authoritarian独裁的tari

19、an带有这种词缀的词都是坏词 dictator独裁者dictatorial独裁的authorities 权威（可单数可复数）当局（复数）census /senss/ n.统计数据the fifth national population census.censor审查,censorious 挑剔的，挑刺的acre /eik/ n.英亩acresquare metersfootball pitch 足球场football yard football court football field be content with 满足于满足作表语，不能出现定语结构He is content with s

20、tatus quo.contented heart :心满意足的人spare /spZ/ v. 不伤害，宽恕spare me He doesnt spare himself. I spare no efforts to learn english.( spare no efforts: 不遗余力作什么)Notes on the text课文注释why, you may wonderyou may wonder why插入语先不管插入语，弄清句子结构you may wonder why spiders should be our friends？插入语位置不固定why以疑问句 开头why,you

21、 may wonder,the problem of pollution befalls human beings. why,you may wonder,one of my friends is so kindhearted.destroy程度比damage要重得多，片甲不留，消灭光tear into pieces greatest enemies:天敌 dying enemycrying enemydear enemy human race:人的种族，一般不加复数，表示一个总称词impossible 和possible 永远不要以人开头It is impossible for somebo

22、dy to do something. likely可以以人做主语。i am likely to go.probable 也不以人做主语they would表示假设devour狼吞虎咽devour the foodmake a cake of myselfmake a god of myselfdevour the book it虚拟语气前面是主句，下面是条件句 前面一般的加动词devour,后面用一般过去时If it were not for:如果这不是因为I would not survive if it were not for his timely help. but for 一定是虚

23、拟语气 if it were not forowe感激，欠 i owe you.引出主题all of them put together:把他们堆到一起谓语动词是kill destroyed 后置定语，重心转到 spider Lesson 3 Matterhorn man马特霍恩山区人Modern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which will give them good sport, and the more difficult it is, the more highly it is regarded. In the pion

24、eering days, however, this was not the case at all. The early climbers were looking for the easiest way to the top because the summit was the prize they sought, especially if it had never been attained before. It is true that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the

25、 most perilous nature, equipped in a manner which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement. They had a single aim, a solitary goal-the top!It is hard for us to realize nowadays how difficult it was for the pioneers. Except for

26、one or two places such as Zermatt and Chamonix, which had rapidly become popular, Alpine villages tended to be impoverished settlements cut off from civilization by the high mountains. Such inns as there were were generally dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread oft

27、en twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine. Often a valley boasted no inn at all, and climbers found shelter wherever they could-sometimes with the local priest (who was usually as poor as his parishioners), sometimes with shepherds or cheesemakers. Invariably the background was the same

28、: dirt and poverty, and very uncomfortable. For men accustomed to eating seven-course dinners and sleeping between fine linen sheets at home, the change to the Alps must have been very hard indeed.New words and expressions生词短语1、 alpinist(1.1)/$lpinist/n登山运动员climbermountaineer词根：alp Alps(1.16)/$lps/

29、n阿尔卑斯山脉 Alpine(1.9)/$lpain/adj阿尔卑斯山的2、 attain(1.4)/+tein/ v到达to get toto arrive at/into attain ones goal=realizeto attain the top/peak/summit 达到顶点 attain youth 永葆青春attainment (n) attainments 成就 accomplishment3、perilous(1.5)/peril+s/adj危险的 peril（随时可能出现的）危险 avalanche 雪崩4、shudder (1.5)/M)d+/ v不寒而栗shudd

30、er:quick and suddentremble:long and very obviousquiver:excitement ,maybe coldshiver: cold and nervous5、 go out of ones way专门 by the way 顺路too much for me 受不起6、 court （multiple meanings 多义词）1） 朝廷朝臣 courtier2） courteous 彬彬有礼的3） 法庭4） 娱乐场 足球场 soccer/football court 高尔夫球场 golf court5） 追求6） 招致骄兵必败 pride co

31、urts failure7、 solitary(1.6)/s&lrt+ri/adj唯一的sol-独 solo 独唱独奏solitude 孤独I live in solitude.=I live a lonely life.8、 pioneer(1.2)/?pai+n+/ v开辟，倡导；n先锋，开辟者9、 impoverish(11.9-10)/$mp&v+rM/v使贫困 poor（口语词）罗素名言：A great many man will cheerfully face inpoverishment if they can securecomplete ruin for their rival,hence present level of taxation.许多人会高兴的面对贫困，如果他们能使对手落魄，因此出现了现在的税收水平。10、coarse(1.12)/k&:s/adj粗劣的coarse throat 嗓子哑 sore throat嗓子发炎 coarse fare粗粮refined fair 细粮coarse and refinedin a coarse manner 粗暴无礼11、boast(1.12)/b+