单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,Page,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,上海交通大学外教口语,培训教程,新概念第四册,Lesson 5 Youth,上海市徐汇区华山路1954号浩然高科技大厦7F,咨询电话：021-60514662 60514663,官方网站:klenglish,上海交通大学外教口语 培训教程 上海市徐汇区华山路1954号,第五课青年,5-1.People are always talking about the problem of youth.,【译文】人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。,2,第五课青年5-1.People are always ta,5-2.If there is onewhich I take leave to doubtthen it is older people who create it,not the young themselves.,【,译文,】,假如确有这个问题的话,我冒昧对此表示怀疑,那么这个问题是由老年人而非青年人臆造的。,【,讲解,】,if there is one,中的,one,指,a problem of youth,。,which I take leave to doubt,系插入语。,the young,意为“年轻人”。,the,形容词表示具有某种性质的一类人。,【,单词和短语,】,take leave to do sth.:,冒昧做某事，擅自做某事。,3,5-2.If there is onewhich I t,5-3.Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beingspeople just like their elders.,【,译文,】,让我们来认真研究一些基本事实：承认青年和他们的长辈一样终究也是人。,【,讲解,】,people just like their elders,作,the young,的同位语，对其进一步解说。,【,单词和短语,】,fundamentals,：,基本原则（或原理），根本法则（或规律）；基础。例如：,master the,fundamentals,of a trade,掌握某行业的基本规律,4,5-3.Let us get down to fundam,5-4.There is only one difference between an old man and a young one:the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him:and maybe that is where the rub is.,【,译文,】,老年人和年轻人只有一个区别：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于此。,【,讲解,】,a young one,中,one,替代,man,以避免重复。关于句中的两个冒号，前一个介绍,difference,的同位语，后一个引出说明性内容。,【,单词和短语,】,the rub,：,困难，障碍。例如：,Theres,the rub,.,难就难在这儿。,Wed like to travel,but,the rub,is that we have no money.,我们喜欢旅行，问题是没有钱。,5,5-4.There is only one differe,5-5.When I was a teenager,I felt that I was just young and uncertainthat 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.,【,译文,】,我十几岁时，总觉得自己年轻，懵懵懂懂,我感到我就像一所大学校里的新生，假如我当时真的极为有趣地被人看作是个问题，我真会感到非常得意。,【,讲解,】,that I was a newproblem,作,felt,的宾语，破折号表示引出被强调的部分。请注意句中的暗喻（,metaphor,）修辞手法，作者把社会比作,a huge school,，把自己比作,a new boy,。,I would have been very pleased,是表示与过于事实不符的虚拟结构。,to be regarded asa problem,相当于,if anyone regarded me asa problem,，表示条件，作原因状语，修饰,pleased,。汉语的条件句一般位于主句之前，所以这里的,to be regarded asa problem,译成汉语时应前移。,so interesting as a problem,作,something,的定语。,【,单词和短语,】,uncertain,的名词形式是,uncertainty,。,6,5-5.When I was a teenager,I,5-6.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.,【,译文,】,因为这至少使我具有某种个性，这正是年轻人孜孜以求的事情之一。,【,讲解,】,that,指,being a problem gives you a certain identity,。,【,单词和短语,】,identity,：,个性，特性（,the qualities and attitudes that a person or group of people have,that make them different from other people,），例如：,The planners decided to enlarge the four villages and preserve their distinct,identities,.,设计者们决定扩大这,4,个村庄并保留它们各自的特色。,The struggle of people in that area to maintain their own,identities,is continuing.,那地区人民维护自身独特性的斗争仍在继续。,7,5-6.For one thing,being a pr,5-7.I find young people exciting.,【译文】我觉得年轻人令人振奋。,8,5-7.I find young people excit,5-8.They have an air of freedom,and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.,【,译文,】,他们无拘无束，不枯燥地沉湎于卑鄙的名利和物质享受。,【,单词和短语,】,dreary,：,枯燥无味的；单调的；令人生厌的（,dull and making you feel sad or bored,），例如,:,a,dreary,meeting,枯燥的会议,mean,：,卑鄙的（,cruel and not kind,），例如：,a,mean,motive,卑鄙的动机,It is,mean,to spread gossip about others.,散布有关他人的流言蜚语是卑鄙的。,9,5-8.They have an air of freed,5-9.They are not anxious social climbers,and they have no devotion to material things.,【,译文,】,他们不是社会上那些急切向上爬的人，也不一味追求物质享受。,【,单词和短语,】,devotion,：,专心，热心，专心（,the loyalty that you show towards a person,job etc,especially by working hard,），例如：,sb.s,devotion,of time and money,to,the project,某人对这一项目所花费的时间和金钱,Two,devotions,have filled her life.,她的生活被两样他所专注的事情占据了。,10,5-9.They are not anxious soci,5-10.All this seems to me to link them with life,and the origins of things.,【,译文,】,在我看来，所有这些使他们与生命以及万物的起源联系在了一起。,【,讲解,】,all this seems to me to link,中,to me,乃插入语。,linkwith,意为“把,同,联系起来”。,them,指年轻人。,【,单词和短语,】,origin,：,起源；来源；由来，起因（,the place or situation in which something begins to exist,），例如：,the,origin,of the universe,宇宙的起源,a word of Latin,origin,源自拉丁语的词语,11,5-10.All this seems to me to,5-11.Its as if they were,in some sense,cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.,【,译文,】,从某种意义上讲，他们似乎是超凡脱俗之人，同我们这些见识短浅的俗物形成鲜明而有趣的对照。,【,讲解,】,as if they weresuburban creatures,是表语从句，,were,是虚拟语气结构。,in violent and lovely contrast with,作定语修饰,cosmic beings,。,suburban creatures,作,us,的同位语，注意这里作者用,creatures,（生物）指人，即“以种代类”，属提喻（,synecdoche,）修辞手法。,【,单词和短语,】,suburban,：,有郊区（人）特点的；,平淡乏味的；古板的（,boring and typical of people who live in the suburbs,），例如：,a,suburban,lifestyle,郊区生活方式,12,5-11.Its as if they were,in,5-12.All that is in my mind when I meet a young person.,【,译文,】,每逢遇到年轻人，我就想到这些。,【,讲解,】,all that is in my mind,中,all that,指上文提到的事。,a young person,中的,a,表示类别，意即“年轻人”，不是指某个年轻人。,13,5-12.All that is in my mind w,5-13.He may be conceited,ill-mannered,presumptuous or fatuous,but I do not turn for protection to dreary clichs about respect of eldersas if mere age were a reason fo