高级英语第三版Everyday Use课文结构及知识要点.docx

1、高级英语第三版Everyday Use课文结构及知识要点 高级英语第三版Everyday Use课文结构及知识要点 Structure? Part 1 (1-2): General introduction? Preparation made to receive Dee hints the relationship between Mother and Dee is alienated; the relationship between the two sisters is unfriendly and tense.? Part 2 (3-12): description of Mother

2、 and two sisters? what Mother was expected to be (3-4)? what Mother actually was (5-6)? description of the two sisters (7-12)? Part 3 (13-16): more about Mother and Dee ? Part 4 (17-81) Dees visit? (17-23) Dee and her boyfriends arrival ? (24-41) Dees new name ? (42-44) about Dees boyfriend ? (45-54

3、) during the dinner: Dee wanted churntop and dasher ? (55-81) After dinner: Dee wanted the quilts.? Part 5 (the last para): Mother and Maggie felt relieved to see Dee leave? Rhetorical device ? simile? My skin like an uncooked barley pancake. (para. 5) ? The scalding humor that erupted like bubbles

4、in lye. (para.15)? metaphor? She tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. (para. 18)? rhetorical question? Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? (para. 6) ? Who can ever imagine me looking a strange white man inthe eye? (同上)? extended: prolonged, enlarged延长了的；扩展了的? extended family: usual

5、ly three generations are involved; nuclear family? groove: a long narrow path or track made in a surface, esp. to guide the movement of sth. 凹槽? A groove is a wide, deep line cut into a surface.? Sliding door moves along the groove it fits into.? She thinks her sisterof one hand,to say to her.? She

6、thinks that her sister has a firm control of her life, and could always have anything she wanted. Life was extremely generous to her.? limousine: a large and very comfortable car, esp. one with a glass screen between the front and back seats.Limousines are usually driven by a chauffeur. （尤指 富人或要人的）司

7、机? sledgehammer: a way of doing something that uses a lot more power or force than seems necessary (多费力气；多花精力)? He took a approach to the whole thing. 他 对整件事采取的是大锤敲胡桃的办法。 ? take/use a sledgehammer to crack a nut (Br. E): to do something with more force or energy than you need to? into: facing or loo

8、king towards sth.? She was gazing into the mirror.? Again, can I remind you to speak into the microphone? Johnny Carson has much to doand witty tongue.? Even Johnny Carson, well known for his witty and quick tongue, has to try hard if he wants to catch up with me.? It seems to me I have talked to th

9、em in flight, with my headfrom them.? I am always nervous when talking to them, and ready to leave as quickly as possible. I turned my head away from them to avoid them as much as possible for the same reason.? She would always look anyone in the eye.? She would always look at somebody directly and

10、steadily, not feeling embarrassed or ashamed.? Hesitation was no part of her nature.? She never hesitated by nature in anything she wanted to do.? sidle: move sideways, esp. in a shy or stealthy manner to avoid notice 侧身行走? shuffle: walk by pulling your feet slowly along the ground rather than lifti

11、ng them; drag? If you shuffle, you walk without lifting your feet properly off the ground.? She washed us need to know:? She imposed on us a lot of false beliefs, and so-called knowledge that is totally useless to us.? make-believe n./a.: the activity of pretending that sth. is real or that situatio

12、n is better than it really is 假装 （的），虚构（的）? shove: to push, esp. in a rough or careless way? There was a lot of pushing and shoving to get on the bus.? Help me to shove this furniture aside.? She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts.? She was determined to face up and defeat any

13、efforts to refute her with her insistence.? stare down: two people looking at each other persistently until one shifts his eye? fight something off: to free yourself from an illness or a desire to do something you should not do:? At sixteen, she had a style of her own and knew what a style was.? At

14、sixteen, she had a unique way of doing things, and knew what was the fashionable way of dressing, speaking, acting, etc.? stumble: a. to stop and /or make mistakes in speaking or reading aloud; b. to catch the foot on the ground while moving along and start to fall? I stumbled over a tree root. 我在一个

15、树根上绊了一跤。 cf:? stammer: to speak or say with pauses and repeated sounds, either habitually or because of excitement, fear, etc. : stammer out sth. / stammerer? stutter: to speak or say with difficulty in producing sounds, esp. habitually holding back the first consonant. : stutter sth. / have a stutt

16、er/speak with a / stutterer? Like good looks, quickness passed her by.? She was not bright just as she was neither beautiful nor rich.? soothing: freeing from fear and anxiety? A soothing drink for fatigue. 一种减缓疲劳的镇静酒。 ? Her words had a soothing effect. ? 她的话起了安慰的作用。 ? Her manner, he thought, was soothing attractive, delightful.? 他认为她的态度是温和媚人,讨人喜欢的。 ? shingle: a thin, flat tile usually made of wood and fixed in rows to make a roof? furtiv