Lesson Four Text to my despair (46)I do not know.Would they be better off(47)without me?I do mot know. When I first lost my job,the real pain derived from the eventual realization that I had failed not only myself but for others.(48 I weep when I write my mother,my brother and my sister. I tell them that we're all well,that the family fabric is intact. that I have a half-dozen irons in the fire.(49 But they've heard all that too many times now,so I seldom write
to my despair.(46) I do not know . Would they be better off (47) without me? I do mot know. When I first lost my job, the real pain derived from the eventual realization that I had failed not only myself but for others. (48) I weep when I write my mother, my brother and my sister. I tell them that we’re all well, that the family fabric is intact, that I have a half-dozen irons in the fire. (49) But they’ve heard all that too many times now, so I seldom write. 课 文 Lesson Four Text
Lesson four text I have nothing to say (The end of the text)
I have nothing to say. (The end of the text) Lesson Four Text 课 文
Language Points Language Points Darken your Graying Hair,and Hide your Fright Meaning:to dye their gray or graying hair in order to hide their age,and try to conceal their anxiety 染黑你的白发，隐藏你的惶恐 gray grey (v):to become or turn gray (使)变成灰白 l.graying hair灰白的头发 2.She has turned quite gray recently. 她近来头发多已班白。 darken (v):become dark 表示“使，使有”；“变得” l.Sharpen your pencils.把你的铅笔削尖。 语言要点解释
Language Points 语 言 要 点 解 释 Language Points (1) Darken your Graying Hair, and Hide your Fright Meaning: to dye their gray or graying hair in order to hide their age, and try to conceal their anxiety 染黑你 的白发，隐藏你的惶恐 gray = grey (v): to become or turn gray (使）变成灰白 1.graying hair 灰白的头发 2.She has turned quite gray recently. 她近来头发多已班白。 darken (v) :become dark 表示“使，使有”；“变得” 1.Sharpen your pencils. 把你的铅笔削尖
Language Points 2.Workers are lengthening the road. 工人们正在加长公路。 (2)Anonymous:a.the name is not made known 无名的，匿名的 1.an anonymous letter匿名信 2.an anonymous painter无名氏画家 anonymous used in the text means that the author's name is not necessary to be known,because the problem is not personal,but social.The author is sure,as we all are, that the experience he described can happen,and is happening to hundreds of people in the same age group. 语言要点解释
Language Points 语 言 要 点 解 释 2. Workers are lengthening the road. 工人们正在加长公路。 ( 2) Anonymous: a. the name is not made known 无名的，匿名的 1.an anonymous letter 匿名信 2.an anonymous painter 无名氏画家 anonymous used in the text means that the author’s name is not necessary to be known, because the problem is not personal, but social. The author is sure , as we all are, that the experience he described can happen, and is happening to hundreds of people in the same age group
Language Points (3)a mortgaged home a house bought on a mortgage 所抵押贷款的房子 mortgage (n):an agreement to have money lent esp.so as to buy something,with the thing belonging to the leader until the money is repaid.(v):convey (a property)by mortgage 抵押；把.…当作抵押 1.We will have to pay off the mortgage in two years. 我们得在两年内还清抵押借款。 2.mortgage a house to sb.for 2,000 用房子向某人抵押两千美元 mortgagee(n):承受抵押者，受压人 mortgager/.mortgagor(n)抵押人，出押人 语言要点解释
Language Points 语 言 要 点 解 释 (3) a mortgaged home : a house bought on a mortgage 一所抵押贷款的房子 mortgage (n): an agreement to have money lent esp.so as to buy something, with the thing belonging to the leader until the money is repaid. （v):convey (a property)by mortgage 抵押; 把…当作抵押 1.We will have to pay off the mortgage in two years. 我们得在两年内还清抵押借款。 2.mortgage a house to sb.for $ 2,000 用房子向某人抵押两千美元 mortgagee (n) : 承受抵押者，受压人 mortgager/ mortgagor(n) 抵押人，出押人