大学新视野英语unit 8ppt.ppt

Theres a lot more to life than a job; try to make life beautiful;discussion;lets come to the text;It has often been remarked that the saddest thing about youth is that it is wasted on the young. 人们常常说：对于青春来说，最令人悲伤的事情莫过于青春在年轻时被浪费掉了。;re-前缀 （ 表示再一次）;remark 谈论，说【say】;It has often been remarked that;have a try; ; If only与 only if的区别; The survey revealed what I had already suspected from informal polls of students both in Macon and at the Robins Resident Center: if it (whatever it may be) wont compute and you cant drink it, smoke it or spend it, then it holds little value. 这份调查报告印证了我以前根据在梅肯和罗宾斯住宿中心对学生进行的非正式民意调查所作的推断：学生们认为如果某种东西（不管它是何物）没有实际意义。不能把它当酒喝、当烟抽、当钱花，那么“它”就基本毫无价值;Compute v.[calculate a number or amount]计算，算出 在这里compute主动形式表被动意思 Eg: The book translates well The material washes easily. The question is difficult to answer. ; According to the survey based on responses from over 188,000 students, todays college beginners are more consumeristic and less idealistic than at any time in the seventeen years of the poll. 基于对188，000多名学生答卷的调查表明，当今的大学新生比这项民意测验开始17年以来的任何时候的大学新生都“更主张消费主义，同时也少了些理想主义”。; Not surprising in these hard times, the students major objective is to be financially well off”. Less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy of life. Accordingly, today the most popular course is not literature or history but accounting. 在这个经济不景气的时代，学生们的主要目标是追求“经济上的富裕”。与过去任何时候相比，树立有意义的人生哲学已不那么重要了。这一情况并不让人感到惊奇。 因此，如今最受欢迎的课程不是文学或历史，而是会计学。 less +形容词+than 放在句首，主谓语倒装 Less interesting than seeing film is watching TV more：p187 ; Interest in teaching, social service and the humanities is at a low, along with ethnic and womens studies. On the other hand, enrollment in business programs, engineering and computer science is way up. 如今人们对当教师、社会服务和人文学科、还有种族和妇女研究的兴趣都处于低潮。而另一方面，攻读商科、工程学及计算机科学的学生人数却在迅速增加。;At a low处于低潮（水平） Eg:I bought this watch at a low price. 我以便宜的价钱买了这只表。? The economy of