[外语学习]words AR 2.ppt

* Words Phrases sophomore n. [C] (AmE) a student in the second year of a US college or high school （美国大学或高中的）二年级学生 freshman: a student in the first year of a US college or high school 一年级学生 junior: a student in the third year of a US college 三年级大学生 senior: a student in the last year of a US college or high school 四年级学生、毕业班学生 Words Phrases Lit n. (BrE) the abbreviation of literature or literary 文学课程 e.g. 1. The girl is interested in French Lit. 这个女孩对法国文学课程感兴趣。 2. I don’t know much about the light Lit. 我对大众文学这门课了解不多。 Words Phrases ironic a. (also ironical) expressing the opposite of what you really think, especially in order to be humorous 反语的；讽刺的 e.g. 1. Your car was stolen at the police station! How ironic! 你的车在警察局被盗！多么讽刺！ 2. It’s ironic that her husband smoked for thirty years, and yet she’s the one who died of lung cancer. 讽刺的是，她丈夫吸烟三十年，但最后患肺癌去世的竟然 是她。 Word family: ironically ad. irony n. Words Phrases gender n. [C,U] (fml) the fact of being either male or female 性别 e.g. 1. people of the same gender 2. Discrimination on grounds of race or gender is forbidden.  性别相同的人 严禁种族歧视和性别歧视。 Words Phrases colonialism n. [U] a situation in which one country rules another 殖民主义 e.g. a legacy of European colonialism 欧洲殖民主义的遗留问题 post-colonialism n. [U] an era or attitude relating to the period after the settlement of one country by another, or very broadly, after the 1960s, when many colonised countries gained their independence 后殖民主义 Words Phrases modernism n. [U] a style of art, literature etc that developed in the early part of the 20th century （艺术、文学等方面的）现代主义 postmodernism n. [U] ideas, attitudes, or styles of art, literature, or thinking that have developed after modernism, often as a reaction agai