华东理工大学 高级英语 授课教案 Book 2 Unit 5.pptVIP

Unit 5 Love is a Fallacy Fallacy: a false or mistaken idea It is a fallacy to suppose that riches always bring happiness. Love is a fallacy: 1. There is a deceptive or delusive quality about love. 2. Love is an error, a deception that does not fellow the principle of love About the Author:  Max Shulman a writer in the early 40s as one of America’s best-known humorists. Lots of his novels were adapted to the screen. Best remembered for creating the popular character Dobie Gillis, a typical American teen who frequently suffered from romantic angst. The character appeared on a popular television sitcom during the 50s and was in a feature film in 1953. Enterprising: energetic, initiative In a month of Sundays: in a long time Unfetter: free from fetter, to set free or keep free from restrictions or bonds. Limp: drooping, having lost stiffness, rigidity Flaccid:Lacking firmness and resilience, flabby spongy: soft and porous * Pedantic: Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules 迂腐的， 乏味 a pedantic attention to details. 学究式地注意细枝末节 a pedantic style of writing; 学究式的写作风格； an academic insistence on precision; 一种学院式的苛求精神； donnish refinement of speech; 学究式的雅语； scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning. 学究式且过于机巧的推理 *  Trauma:A painful emotional experience, wound or shock that creates substantial, lasting damage to the psychological development of a person, often leading to neurosis. Perspicacious:acutely perspective, having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted Acute and astute:Having or showing shrewdness and discernment, especially with respect to ones own concerns. * Dynamo: generator Scale:standard in measurement Scalpel:A small, straight knife with a thin, sharp blade used in surgery and dissection. Impressionable: Readily or easily influenced; suggestible Faddist:a person who always follows fashion with craze To be swept up: be carried away 失去自制力 Acme:summit, the highest po