大学英语教程4（南方版）读写译UNIT 4facing anxiety and danger.ppt

Read aloud the following sentences and figure out what each italicized word means. The Clue in the parentheses will help. 1. Mead admonished others not to interpret anxiety from one-sided standpoint.(advice) 2. They castigated modern man for having too many anxious things to deal with.(criticize) 3. This is not the personal and immediate sense of impending disasters.(approaching) 4. Violence is a menace; it does serious harm to innocent civilians.(threat) 5. The critics try to repudiate the modern world; they strongly disagree with the way of life in the present age.(reject) 6. He stooped to drink from the spring.(bent one ’ s head or body downwards) 7. The savages were no more anxious than dreaded for immediate things such as hungry.(uncivilized people) 8. The man is a carper; he keeps criticizing almost everything.(complaint) 9. No one can stand up to testify what kind of life the savages really lived.(prove) 10. Pessimistic people usually believe their future to be unmanageable.(uncontrollable) A Read aloud the following sentences and figure out what each of the italicized words means. When you finish, check your answers in the glossary section of the book. A. Study the following expressions A. Study the following expressions . . comment on make (esp. critical) remarks 评论,谈论 in contrast to noticeably different from another 与……形成对比,与……截然不同 conjure up cause to appear to eye or mind 想象出 set in motion cause to start moving or working 开动,调动 identify... with regard oneself sharing the 把……等同于 characteristic of (another person) B. Read aloud each of the following sentences. See how these expressions are used. 1. Mrs. Smith likes ment on whatever she knows. 2. Mead ’ s opinions on anxieties are in marked contrast to those of the critics. 3. He has conjured up a vivid image of the leisure life the untouched savages lived. 4. The explosion there may set in motion forces which end up by ruining one ’ s planned education. 5. Some Americans identify themselves