江苏自学考试英语本科《泛读三》学习笔记.docx

1、江苏自学考试英语本科泛读三学习笔记Unit 1 University and Their FunctionText A词汇superfluous : 多余的 impart ：传授faculty ：教职员工 elicit ：bring out justification ：正当的理由 be consistent with : 与一致preserve ：保持 feeble ：weakzest ：激情 temperate :温和的arise from ：来自 construe ：explaintransform ：change 改变 hamper : 阻碍energize as: catalyst

2、激励 acquisition ：控制力divorce assertion ：断言illuminate ：富于启发的 in obedience to : according toin great measure fatigue : tired slight: little reliability : trustweld: combine obstinacy: stubbornness 固执 pedant：老学究 letters: arts reflection：思考 prolong : long period of flinch: draw back 退缩 dull ：迟钝engage ：从事

3、drudgery: uninteresting hard work 苦差工 modes: kinds rule of thumb ：凭经验 interlocking: interwoven 相互交织 binding forces: unity 团结的力量 句子释义1、It is energizing as the poet of out dreams , and as the architect of our purpose.A: If taught imaginatively, students will be able to associate a pure fact with vario

4、us meaning, seeing a fact as an agent that can bring out our dreams in a poetic fashion and help arrange our purposes into orderly structure.2、It enable men to construct an intellectual vision of a new world , and it preserves the zest of life by the suggestion of satisfying purposes.A: People with

5、imagination will be able to form a new outlook which is different from that of people without imagination .Imagination is capable of preserving peoples enthusiasm for life because it can show people that life has many purposes which can be pleasing.3、It requires that discipline of character which ca

6、n say “yes” and “no” to other men , not by reason of blind obstinacy ,but with firmness derived from a conscious evaluation of relevant alternatives.A :A firm character should be able to decide to say “yes” or “no” to others points of view after taking all relevant choices into careful consideration

7、 .Such a decision is not made out of unreasonable stubbornness.4、The conduct of business now requires intellectual imagination of the same type as that which in former times has mainly passed into those other occupations .A: In the past , intellectual imagination was required of professionals such a

8、s the priests, the lawyers ,the statesmen ,the doctors , the men of science and arts as mentioned above in their work. Now business people should be able to apply this kind of imagination into their work ,too .5、There is no reason why business men , and other professional men ,should not pick up the

9、ir facts bit by bit as they want them for particular occasions.A: Imagination and facts are not mutually exclusive . People trained in imagination should be able to pick up facts when necessary.问答1、primary function of university : imaginative teaching and learning.2、How does imagination throw light

10、on the facts？It works by eliciting the general principles,then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilitiesIt enables men to build an intellectual vision of new world and it preserves the zest of life by the suggestion of satisfying purposes.3、Analyze the relationship between imagination a

11、nd experience.Youth is imaginative,and if the imagination be strengthened by discipline, it can in great measure be persevered though life.The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative is to weld together imagination and experience.4、What knowledge are you supposed to acquire?Psychologi

12、es of population engaged in differing modes of occupation.5、How prevent prolonged routine work from dulling our imagination?A：Promoting the imaginative consideration of the various general principles underlying that career.翻译1、The universities are schools of education, and schools of research. But t

13、he primary reason for their existence is not to be found either in the mere knowledge conveyed to the students or in the mere opportunities for research afforded to the members of the faculty.T: 大学是实施教育的机构，也是进行研究的机构。但大学之所以存在，主要原因并不在于仅仅向学生们传播知识，也不在于仅向教师们提供研究的机会。2、The justification for a university is

14、 that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.T: 大学存在的理由是，它使青年和老年人融为一体，对学术进行充满想象力的探索，从而在知识和追求生命的热情之间架起了桥梁。3、A fact is no longer a bare fact: it is invested with all its possibilities. It is no l

15、onger a burden on the memory: it is energizing as the poet of our dreams, and as the architect of our purposes.T: 当一个事实不再是简单的事实：它具有了自身所有的各种可能性，它不再是记忆的一个负担：他充满活力，像诗人一样激发了我们的能像，像设计师为我们制定目标。4、The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experi

16、enced have feeble imagination. The task of a university is to weld together imagination and experience.T: 人类的悲剧在于，那些富有想象力的人缺少经验，而那些有经验的人则想象力贫乏。愚人没有知识却凭想象办事；书呆子缺乏想象力但凭知识行事。而大学的任务就是将想象力和经验融为一体。5、We need not flinch from the assertion that the main function of such a school is to produce men with a grea

17、ter zest for business.T: 我们无需害怕这样的说法，即一所商业学校的主要作用就是培养具有较高经商热情的人才。6、It requires an imaginative understanding of laws of political economy, not merely in the abstract, but also with the power to construe them in terms of the particular circumstances of a concrete business.T: 它需要充满想象力去理解政治经济学的原理，不仅仅从理论

18、上，还要具备根据具体商业活动的特殊情况解释这些原理的能力。7、It requires that discipline of character which can say “yes” and “no” to other men, not by reason of relevant alternatives.T: 它需要对人的性格进行那样的训练，使他对周围的人做出“是”或“否”的回答时不是出于盲目的固执，而是出于对相关可选择的方案进行自觉评价后得到的明确答案。8、In any large organization the younger men, who are novices, must be

19、 set to jobs which consis in carrying out fixed duties in obedience to orders.T: 在任何一种庞大的组织中，那些比较年轻的新手必须从事这样一类工作：遵照他人的吩咐去做固定工作。9、There can be no criticism of the custom, but there may be an unfortunate effectprolonged routine work dulls the imagination.T: 对这种符合惯例的做法不会有任何批评，但它却可能导致一种不幸的后果长时间按固定的程序使人的

20、想象力变得迟钝。Text B facile of speech : able to express oneself easily in fluent languageUnit 2 Mother TongueText A词汇variations: changes steering : give advise to 指导fascinated : 被迷住 disprove : 证明是错switch : change enroll ：注册intimacy ：亲密 freelancer ：自由撰稿人quote ：引用 quandary ：窘境transcribed ：抄写 envision ：想象sho

21、w up : turn up watered-down: weak and not effectiveuntrue intent ：打算 converse :talk counted ：起作用with ease :freely verdict ：观点wince : flinch 退缩 evoke : summon up 引起perception : view point 感觉 lengthy: long be ashamed of sth / to do sth adopt：收养reflect ：反映 belie ：show sth to be untrue 使成为谎言adolescent :

22、 very young cash out ：兑现 whispering loudly ：矛盾修辞 behold: look routine ：例行共事 insular ：孤立的 benign ：良性的 override : replace budge ：屈服 for lack of peers ：people of the same age impeccable ：无可挑剔的 block out of ：挡住 句子释义1、It has become our language of intimacy.A : The kind of broken English my mother uses ha

23、s been used in the family when me talk about our personal matters.2、My mothers expressive command of English belies how much she actually understands.A : My mothers broken English often gives people an impression that she knows little , but in fact she understands a lot.3、Whereas, for me at least ,

24、the answers on English test were always a judgment call ,a matter of opinion and personal experience.A: In my opinion , a question in language tests should not have just one correct answer ; instead , it requires the examinees to make a judgment ,express an opinion and relate the question to their p

25、ersonal experience . In other words , a language question could have multiple answer.4、I could not block out of my mind the images .A: Although I knew the tests meant to use “sunset is to night fall ” to imply a logical relationship rather than concrete images , I couldnt help imagining beautiful pi

26、ctures of sunset and nightfall.5、I had succeeded where it counted .A：I had succeeded in respects which I deemed important.问答1、power of language : the way it can evoke an emotion , a visual image , a complex idea , or a simple truth . Language is the tool of my trade.1、What about the feature of Tans

27、talk give large people and her mother?Large people : carefully wrought grammatical phrases ,nominalized forms , past perfect tenses , conditional phrases.Her mother : vivid , direct , full of observation and imagery ,broken or fractured English.2、Tow examples imply for new immigrants with little Eng

28、lish proficiency : discrimination from main stream of society.4、her mothers English had limited her possibilities in life ,why?A persons developing language skills are more influenced by peers.5、the most important and favorable role her mother had played : build the style of her language .翻译1、In thi

29、s essay, Tan tries to legitimize Chinese American English, the language spoken by her mother, as simply another American dialect and says that it should not be called “broken English.”T: 在这篇文章中，唐试图赋予中式英语合法性，她母亲所说的英语不能被称为是不规范的英语，而应该认为这仅仅是又一种美国方言。2、I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the po

30、wer of languagethe way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade.T: 花了很长的时间思考语言的魔力它可以激发感情，启发视觉图像，一个复杂的观念，或者是一个简单的真理，语言是我的事业的工具。3、And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I ha

31、ve never used with her.T: 也许这是她是第一次听我做这种冗长的演讲，而且使用一种和她交谈用的所截然不同的英语。4、You should know that my mothers expressive command of English belies how much she actually understands.T: 你应该知道我母亲对英语的出色的领悟能力掩饰了了她真正懂得多少。5、We had assurances the CAT scan would be found, promises that a conference call on Monday wou

32、ld be held, and apologies for any suffering my mother had gone through for a most regrettable mistake.T: 我们被承诺扫描图会找到，并且星期一会举行电话会议，并且对由于令人遗憾的错误所带给母亲的痛苦表示歉意。6、I think my mothers English almost had an effect on limiting my possibilities in life as well.T: 我想母亲的英语在某种程度上也限制了我生活上的可能性。7、Whereas, for me at least, the answers on English tests were always a judgment call, a matter of opinion and personal experience.T: 而英语测试，至