Lesson Three Text Frankl was a psychiatrist imprisoned in a German concentration camp during World War II.As the shrinking number of surviving prisoners descended to new depths of hell,Frankl and his closest prisoner friend sought desperately for ways to keep from dying.(55 Piled on top of malnutrition,exhaustion and disease,suicidal despair was the big killer in these citadels of degradation. As a psychiatrist,Frankl knew that humor was one of the soul's best survival weapons,(56 since it can create,if only for moments,aloofness from horror Therefore,Frankl made a rule
Lesson Three Text Frankl was a psychiatrist imprisoned in a German concentration camp during World War II. As the shrinking number of surviving prisoners descended to new depths of hell, Frankl and his closest prisoner friend sought desperately for ways to keep from dying. (55)Piled on top of malnutrition, exhaustion and disease, suicidal despair was the big killer in these citadels of degradation. As a psychiatrist, Frankl knew that humor was one of the soul’s best survival weapons, (56)since it can create, if only for moments, aloofness from horror. Therefore, Frankl made a rule
Lesson Three Text that once each day he and his friend must invent and tell an amusing anecdote,specifically about something which could happen after their liberation. Others were caught up in the contagion of defiant laughter. One starving prisoner forecast that in the future he might be at a prestigious formal dinner,and when the soup was being served, 57 he would shatter protocol by imploring the hostess,"Ladle it from the bottom!
Lesson Three Text that once each day he and his friend must invent and tell an amusing anecdote, specifically about something which could happen after their liberation. Others were caught up in the contagion of defiant laughter. One starving prisoner forecast that in the future he might be at a prestigious formal dinner, and when the soup was being served, (57)he would shatter protocol by imploring the hostess, “Ladle it from the bottom!
(58 If humor can be used successfully against such odds,what can't You and I do with it in daily life? the End of Ter
(58) If humor can be used successfully against such odds, what can’t You and I do with it in daily life?
Language Points Language Points (1 A lot of us lose life's tougher confrontations 2 by mounting a frontal attack---when a touch of (3 humor might well enable us to chalk up win.4 Meaning:When we find ourselves facing a serious conflict, we may respond with an angry or aggressive attack. However,if we respond with a little humor,we might resolve the conflict successfully. 我们许多人往往由于采取正面攻击的方式，而在较为棘手 的对抗中遭到失败-然而，来点幽默却可以使我们取胜
Language Points Language Points (1) A lot of us lose life’s tougher confrontations (2) by mounting a frontal attack --- when a touch of (3) humor might well enable us to chalk up win.(4) Meaning: When we find ourselves facing a serious conflict, we may respond with an angry or aggressive attack. However, if we respond with a little humor, we might resolve the conflict successfully. 我们许多人往往由于采取正面攻击的方式，而在较为棘手 的对抗中遭到失败---- 然而，来点幽默却可以使我们取胜
Language Points 2 confrontation(a.)对抗，对峙 confront(v.)对抗，面对；与介词with连用意 思为“使不得不面对，使不得不承认”。 同义词：encounter,.face,oppose 1.We cannot risk (another)confrontation with the union. 我们不能冒（再次）同工会对抗的危险。 2.When the police confronted her with the evidence,she admitted that she was guilty. 当警察拿出证据与她当面对证时，她承认了自己是有罪的。 ③a touch of::有一点的
Language Points (2) confrontation (n.) 对抗，对峙 confront (v.)对抗，面对；与介词with 连用意 思为“使不得不面对，使不得不承认”。 同义词：encounter, face, oppose 1. We cannot risk (another) confrontation with the union. 我们不能冒（再次）同工会对抗的危险。 2. When the police confronted her with the evidence, she admitted that she was guilty. 当警察拿出证据与她当面对证时，她承认了自己是有罪的。 (3) a touch of: 有一点的