Unit2 people

Unit 2 people

Phrases and Sentence:

1、 I don't ever want to have the effect on a person that this person had on me, where I was just blown away by disappointment. It took a few years to get over it. PS：请高手重点解析“ever”的意思。

==>我甚至从未想过要给“给我留下印象的人”留下印象，在这一点上我感到十分失望。我用了许多年才克服这个毛病。

ever,在否定句中起加强语气的作用，not ever从未。

2、One thing I do is work with Make-A-wish. If an ill child's one wish is to see a celebrity and he picks me, then I make time to see him. But I have to be very careful with these kids, because if you get too attached, you're just setting yourself up for loss.

PS：请高手重点解析“because if you get too attached, you're just setting yourself up for loss.”的意思。

==>我做的一件事就是带着许愿做事。如果一个病了的孩子的愿望是想看一个名人并且他选择的是我，然后我抽出时间去看望他。但是我必须非常小心的跟这些孩子相处，因为如果你太依恋，你会感到不舍。

because if you get too attached, you're just setting yourself up for loss.因为如果你太依恋，你会感到不舍。

其中attach是：使喜爱，使依恋：因情感因素，如爱戴或忠诚使联结。 set oneself up for loss是引起自己处于受损失或失去的状态。

3、Thank you for giving me the inspiration to stick around, at age 50, you have to feel you're contributing to something.

PS：请高手重点解析“ you have to feel you're contributing to something.” ==>谢谢你给我关于等待的启示，在50岁时，你必须感到你正在做贡献。

\这句话的意思就是：在50岁时，你必须感到你正在对某些事情做贡献。 4、We stayed at the Ritz-Carlton and just had a blast. Or I'll give everybody a ride in the Ultra light-it's a flying kite.

PS：请高手重点解析“ride”在这里怎么翻译。

==>我们待在Ritz-Carlton并开了个狂欢会。否则我会给每个人乘坐一下“超轻型”——-一个飞行的风筝。

ride就是乘坐。考试大论坛 5、“One day I'll have my own barbecue.” In other words, every generation gets to improve on the dreams of the last generation.

PS：请高手重点解析这段话的真正含义。

==>“有朝一日，我将拥有自己的烤肉(比喻:实现自己的梦想)。换句话说，每代人必须在他上代人的梦想上有所提高。

6、But it came with a price because when he was drinking, we had jobs and money. When he quit, we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.

PS：请高手重点解析“we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.”这句话的真正含义。 ==>但是这有一定的代价：因为当他饮酒的时候，我们有工作和工钱。当他戒酒了，我们就只有借酒消愁穷困潦倒了。

we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor：其中的trade sth. for sth.以……和……交易,以酗

酒和穷困潦倒交易。转自学易网 www.studyez.com 7、It got so bad that he either quit or got fired.

PS：请高手重点解析“so……that”在此句中的意义。

==>一般so……that是如此……以至于……的意思，这里上下句不是因果关系: 变得糟糕的是，他既没有辞职也没有被解雇。后半句that he either quit or got fired是so bad的补充状语从句，补充说明so bad的细节，不要太拘泥语法结构，更应该注重的是：1.英语语序特征，2.英语国家的人的逻辑思维特征。

8、He was a tool pusher essentially, sold drill bits to oil-drilling companies. PS：翻译这句话。来源：考试大

==>他其实就是一个工具推销者，卖钻头给开采石油的公司。 9、I never think that I 'm doing eight-minute cures on television. But I think that 50 percent of the solution to any problem lies in defining it first. I can be an emotional compass that points them down the path.

PS：请高手重点解析“cures”与“lies in”的意思，另外 “point……down”是词组吗? ==>我从未想过我在用电视做一个8分钟的治疗。但是我认为任何问题50%的解决方法在于先界定它。我可能是沿着路径指向它们的情感罗盘(指南针)。

cure：名词，治疗。point和后面的down可以认为没有关系，这里不是词组，down这里的意思是“沿着”，相当于along.down the path是介宾结构词组，在句中作points them的补充状语。

建议：来源：考试大

不要从语法分析着手来学习英语，因为这样效果很差。最好是提高阅读量，让一切语法变为理所当然的事情，让记忆单词成为阅读时的副产品

1.

John Travolta, a notable actor, is talking with Susan Grant, a reporter, about one aspect of his personality that appeals to his fans.

Grant: Your fans think of you as one of Hollywood?s' nice guys. Why is that?

Travolta: When I was eighteen, I had met a brilliant Broadway star who now is quite nameless. As he talked to me, the star was so shocked that I interrupted him. I thought, that's right; I was bold and ill-mannered. Nevertheless, I was impacted so deeply that I made a decision: I thought, I don't ever want to have the effect on a person that this person had on me, where I was just blown away by disappointment. It took a fewer years to get over it.

Grant: Do you feel like you've made a difference in your career——like the inverse of the way that star treated you all those years ago?

Travolta: I hope so. One thing I do is work with Make-A-Wish. If an ill child's one wish is to see a celebrity and he picks me, then I make time to see him. But I have to be very careful with these kids, because if you get too attached, you're just setting yourself up for loss. There was one girl who had cancer. She was only seven when I met her, and she didn't look like she was going to make it. But I'm at the airport the other night in L.A., and this beautiful 19-year-old girl comes up and says. \with a bold head and wearing a scarf. \going anywhere. Thank you for giving me the inspiration to stick around.\feel you're contributing to something.

2.

David Andrews, a successful businessman and an amateur pilot, is talking with Barbara Johnson, from a news magazine, about his family.

Johnson: Are your kids having a much different experience than you did growing up?

Andrew: We were more important than my parents were, in their eyes. I feel that that's how my wife and I are with our kids. They are the stars of our family. They are everything to us, and we are secondary to them. People may disagree with that viewpoint, but I don't know how to be any other way.

Johnson: What has brought you the greatest personal happiness in your life?

Andrew: My children. I know that sounds cliché, but there's a reason things are cliché. Because they are true.

Johnson: What kinds of things do you do just for fun?

Andrew: Last weekend, I took the kids to Orlando. We stayed at the Ritz Carlton and just had a blast. Or I'll give everybody a ride in the Ultra light——it's a flying kite. But we also do the regular stuff——go to a movie, have a Sunday barbecue, swim. At the end of the day, we go to Dairy Queen. It's funny because that's exactly what I used to do on Sundays during the summer with my mother and father.

Johnson: Are you just as happy as you were a child?

Andrew: Oh, well, more. Because I have my own kids. I loved my life as a child. But that's the time you are saying, \to improve on the dreams of the last generation. Questions:

1. How does David Andrew treat his children? 2. Why are things clichés, according to David Andrews? 3. What does David Andrews do just for fun?

4. Why does David Andrews feel happier than when he was a child?

3.

Tom Lee, an established lawyer, is talking with Kate Jones, a reporter, about the impact of his

childhood on his growth.

Jones: You had a traumatic childhood. How did it shape who you've become?

Lee: My mother was and is so loving, but she had to work all the time. I had an alcoholic father. I had sisters who married in high school to escape, and I just had absolutely no leadership whatsoever. A lot of what I ultimately defined myself to be was a reaction against that. My dad was beaten and abused by his mother all through his childhood. She was a mean woman. I knew what he grew up with and why he was so embittered, but it doesn't make it any easier to live with. Jones: Especially when you are a child.

Lee: He was never abusive with me or my sisters. He drank to escape. We were living in Denver when I was in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. He was a tool pusher essentially, sold drill bits to oil-drilling companies. He entertained the drillers, the buyers, constantly. So he was out every night, drinking. It got so bad that he either quit or got fired——as a kid you never know. All of a sudden, we were out of a job. He said, \was admitted to the University of Oklahoma, so we moved to Oklahoma City. For that period of time, he didn't drink at all. He just quit. Jones: You must have respected that.

Lee: I did, but it came with a price because when he was drinking, we had jobs and money. When he quit, we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor. Questions:

1. Why did Tom Lee's sisters marry in high school? 2. What does Tom Lee think of his father's mother? 3. What do we learn about Tom Lee's father?

4. What does Tom Lee mean by saying \

4.

Phillip McGraw, a famous talk show host, is talking with Laura Yorke, a reporter, about his work and family.