新视野大学英语读写教程2-Unit7.docVIP

Unit7 SectionA Lighten Your Load and Save Your Live Detailed study of the Text Her skill as a musician is beyond praise.作为一个音乐家，她的演奏技巧令人赞叹不已。 If you often feel angry and overwhelmed ,like the stress in your life is spinning out of control , then you may be hurting your heart. (Para.1) Meaning:If you are often angry and very strongly affected by negative feelings ,as if the stress you experience is going out of control ,then it is possible that you are doing harm to your heart. overwhelm:vt. affect someone’s emotions in a powerful way He was overwhelmed with joy at the news that his son won the champion.听到儿子得冠军的消息，他欣喜若狂。 Defeat Our table tennis players overwhelmed the players from Europe.我们的乒乓球运动员击败了 欧洲队员。 spin:v.(cause to)move round quickly I sat and watched the ceiling fan spinning.我坐着，看着吊扇旋转。 I used to sit in Grandpa’s study ,spinning the globe and dreaming of the places I wanted to visit.以前我常常坐在祖父的书房里，转着地球仪，憧憬着我想去游历的地方。 So says Dr. Robert S. Eliot…(Para.3) →It’s an inverted sentence.The normal order is: Dr. Robert S. Eliot…says so. “So”refers to what is talked about in Paragraph 2.The reasons for the inverted order of the sentence are that the subject of the sentence is too long and ,what is more ,the subject bears the new information of the whole sentence.To keep the sentence in balance ,and to achieve the end-weight(that is:leave the complex structure toward the end of the sentence)and end-focus(that is:leave the new information toward the end of the sentence),the word “so”is put at the very beginning and the verb comes before the subject.One more example: So goes the story.故事如此云云。 … “hot reactors”. (Para.4) Meaning: … “people who are hot-tempered” 脾气暴躁的 →Here the word “reactor”is used in its figurative sense. …stressed people have higher cholesterol levels ,among other things. (Para.5) among other things:used to say that you are only mentioning one or two things out of a much large group At the meeting ,they discussed ,among other things ,recent events in