全新版大学英语第二册第四册unit 6(6)

4 After Reading

1. Vocabulary

Useful Expressions

1. 吞噬 eat into

2. 困于交通堵塞 stuck in traffic jams

3. 越洋购物旅行 the transatlantic shopping expedition 4. 在大多数情况下 in most cases 5. 使?摆脱 free sb. from

6. 个人的穿着打扮 personal grooming 7. 处理软件故障 fix software glitches 8. 除去技术发展 technology apart

9. 信息爆炸 the information explosion 10. 感到时间紧迫 feel time-pressed

11. 从世界各个角落 from every corner of the world 12. 在整个世界学术界 in the whole world of scholarship 13. 在?的推动下 driven on by 14. 无休止的选择 endless choice 15. 适用于 apply to

16. 预测小组 forecasting group

17. 分配不均匀 be unevenly distributed 18. 抚养子女 nurture offspring 19. 做有报酬的工作 take paying jobs 20. 家务杂活 household chores 21. 越做越大的市场 a growth market 22. 家政服务 concierge services 23. 更充分的利用 make better use of 24. 工业革命 industrial revolution 25. 注定 be doomed to

Scanning

1. (Directions:) Scan the text, circle all phrases containing a hyphen, and then explain their meanings and how they are formed.

1. ever-increasing quantities of time (Para. 1) the quantities of time increasing all the

time

2. horse-drawn carriage (Para. 3) the carriage drawn by the horse

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3. time-consuming journeys (Para. 4) journeys consuming time

4. the laptop-on-the-beach syndrome (Para. 6) the syndrome caused by going to the

beach with a laptop

5. feel time-pressed (Para. 7) feel the press caused by the lack of time

6. ever-larger quantities of goods and services (Para. 11) the quantities of goods and

services that become larger and larger

7. be time-starved (Para. 12) be lack of time

8. the London-based Henley Center (Para. 14) the Henley Center with its

headquarter located in London

9. be self-imposed (Para. 14) be imposed by one’s own

10. hour-by-hour logs (Para. 15) logs written at different hours 11. the mid-1960s (Para. 16) the middle of the 1960s 12. empty-nesters (Para. 17) people without offsprings

13. pre-school children (Para. 17) children before entering the schools 14. on-line retailers (Para. 21) retailers shopping on line

15. work-life debate(Para. 22) debate on ―which to choose, work or life‖

16. long-hours culture (Para. 22) the tradition to increase the working hours

17. family-friendly working policies (Para. 22) the policies used in the working places to

treat employees in a friendly way like members in a family

18. the cell-phone (Para. 28) the mobile phone

2. (Directions:) make words with the following prefixes or patterns. 1. ever- (=ever-green, ever-lasting, ever-more…) 2. self- (=self-control, self-made, self-educated…) 3. pre- (=pre-history, pre-mature, pre-recorded…)

4. adj. + n + -ed ( blue-eyed, simple-mined, left-handed…)

5. adv. + v + -ed (well-informed, much-used, poorly-dressed…)

Sentence Translation

1. And as each invention arrives, it eats further into our time.

(=而每一项新发明问世，就进一步吞噬我们的光阴。)

2. Instantaneity rules. Pollsters use electronic devices during political speeches to

measure opinions on the wing, before they have been fully formed; fast-food restaurants add express lanes.

(=即时行为主宰着一切。人们发表政治演说时，听众尚未形成看法，民意调查人员就利用电子装置进行当场测定；快餐店增设了快速通道。)

3. In so many households the TV just stays on, like a noisy light bulb, while the life

of the family passes back and forth in its shimmering glow.

(=在许多家庭里，电视机就一直开着，如同一个发出噪声的灯泡，人们在其微弱的闪光里来回忙碌着。)

4. A sense of well-being comes with this saturation of parallel pathways in the brain.

We choose mania over boredom every time. \

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for slower,‖ points out the historian Stephen Kern.

(=随着脑海中充斥着的这种多路并进状态而来的是一种幸福感。我们总是宁要狂热地工作也不要无聊乏味地生活。―人类从未，也永远不会选择放慢速度，‖ 历史学家斯蒂芬 · 克恩说。)

5. 如今，这些大脑休想容纳下一天中产生的新信息中的小小一部分。

(=Today, those heads could not hope to accommodate more than a tiny fraction of the information generated in a single day.)

6. 除不平等外，时间不够用的感觉也普遍存在，并引起了各种反应。

(=Inequalities apart, the perception of the time famine is widespread, and has provoked a variety of reactions.)

7. 你比过去更常听到人们早早退休，放弃压力大的工作去从事工作时间短的工作。

(=You hear more about people taking early retirement or giving up high pressure jobs in favour of occupations with shorter working hours.)

8. 更有效的解决方式或许在于去理解这一问题，而不是回避这一问题。

(=A more successful remedy may lie in understanding the problem rather than evading it.)

Dictation

Students Offer Insight into Exam-time Stress

______ (1) week means different things to different students. For some students, exams are no sweat (不费力地). First-year business student Joe Tirpak said, \exams stress me out because I'm ______ (2) I'm as ______ (3) as I can be.\

For others, ______(4) is the key to ______(5) their exam jitters(神经过敏). Second-year marine science student Zac Duval said, \helped me know how to ______ (6) my time and be well-prepared.\

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