新概念英语第四册05-01

New words and expressions 生词短语

sb. take leave to do sth. 允许某人做某事，冒昧做某事

get down to sth.认真研究 get down to +名词／动名词

glorious 光辉灿烂的

rub 难题 摩擦

teenager 青少年

for one thing 原因之一，有一点是…连接词… for another

identity 身份

air of freedom 无拘无束 air:神态、气势

dreary 沉郁的

ambition 追名逐利

cosmic being 宇宙人 human being 人

violent 强烈的，暴力的

suburban 见识不广的，有偏见的

conceited 自高自大的

presumptuous 自以为是的，放肆的

fatuous 愚蠢的

cliché 陈词滥调 法语词

I take leave to say…

我冒昧地说:I take leave to say.

I take leave to be frank. 恕我直言

。口语：

maybe I’m too bold…

I’m bold enough…

Allow myself to say sth.

Take one’s leave = take leave 离开（正式用法）

Would you please take your leave? 你能不能走呢?

我很烦的几种表示法：

What a bore. What a nuisance. 真烦.

What a trial.

What a jerk.

get down to + 名词/动名词

例：我开始学习了。 I get down to my studies.

to- 介词

同义词： be engaged in

glorious 光辉灿烂的

glory n. 光荣

（rosy ,shining , brilliant , magnificent , gorgeous）

in one’s glory: 在某人的鼎盛时期

in one’s day in one’s golden days

in one’s prime time in the pride of one’s life

rub 摩擦 难题

at odds 有矛盾

have words with sb. 和…拌嘴

你听懂了吗? 各种表达:

Do you get the rub? Do you get the picture?

Do you catch me ? Do you get me ?

I get down to learning my book.

What’s the range? 问年龄

teenager 13到 19 adolescent: 13 到 16

juvenile 青少年 youth 20 到 30

air :神态（多用复数） He always puts on airs. 摆谱

arrogant airs : 傲气 bureaucratic airs : 官气 finicky airs 娇气

dreary 同: drearisome a.无味，无聊

sterile : 枯燥无味 monotonous: 乏味无聊

gloomy： 沉闷lifeless: 无生气的

I have ambition for going abroad/to go abroad.

Fish …(wealth and fame)

Chase …(fame and gains)

Pursue …

Lesson 6 Youth 青年

People are always talking about' the problem of youth '. If there is one—which I take leave to doubt--then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings--people just like their elders. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a gloriousfuture before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.

When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain--that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.

I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It's as if they were in some sense cosmic beings in violent an lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, illmannered, presumptuous of fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders--as if mere age were a reason for respect. I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.

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人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。如果这个问题存在的话 -- 请允许我对此持怀疑态度 -- 那么，这个问题是由老年人而不是青年人造成的。让我们来认真研究一些基本事实：承认青年人和他们的长辈一样也是人。老年人和青年人只有一个区别：青年人有光辉灿烂的前景，而老年人的辉煌已成为过去。 问题的症结恐怕就在这里。

我十几岁时，总感到自己年轻，有些事拿不准 -- 我是一所大学里的一名新生，如果我当时真的被看成像一个问题那样有趣，我会感到很得意的。因为这至少使我得到了某种承认，这正是年轻人所热衷追求的。

我觉得年轻人令人振奋，无拘无束。他们既不追逐卑鄙的名利，也不贪图生活的舒适。他们不热衷于向上爬，也不一味追求物质享受。在我看来，所有这些使他们与生命和万物之源联系在了一起。从某种意义上讲，他们似乎是宇宙人，同我们这些凡夫俗子形成了强烈而鲜明的对照。每逢我遇到年轻人，脑子里就想到这些年轻人也许狂妄自负，举止无理，傲慢放肆，愚昧无知，但我不会用应当尊重长者这一套陈词滥调来为我自己辨护，似乎年长就是受人尊敬的理由。我认为我和他们是平等的。如果我认为他们错了，我就以平等的身份和他们争个明白。