賴世雄高級21課
Welcome again to Radio English on Sunday.
This is Bruce,
/ and this is Peter,
/ today in unit twenty one, we are going to take a look at a very important, interesting and influential novel written a hundred fifty years ago, but still quite important in American culture. On page one hundred seventy, take a look at a title with us. What's so big about Moby Dick?
/...
/ Moby Dick is the name in a novel of a very special whale. Those big mammals; they aren't fish; they are mammals. A sperm whale, as a matter of fact, which is not one of the really big whales, but was economically very important in the nineteenth century, because the sperm whale has a lot of fat and oil in the particular part of its body towards the top of the head. So when this whale goes far down into the water, to catch the squid,
/ 小烏賊，小魷魚，
/ This, a squid which it likes to eat very much, lives very far down in the water, this oil helps to bring them back up. It helps to protect them from the pressure when they are far down in the water. Well, this oil was used in many countries during the nineteenth century, to heat, a room or a factory, and it was used for lamps, oil lamps before there was electricity. It had many uses. So these whales were hunted almost to extinction. And in eighteen fifty one, MandinHermanMoilBill (人名）wrote a novel, which is considered by many people to be one of the most important pieces of early American writing. And today we'll introduce this very interesting story to you, and explain some of its influence as well.
A pretty, young lady goes swimming alone off the coast of New England in twilight. She is an agile swimmer, full of grace and speed. Without warning, though, she disappeared from sight, only to reappear a moment later, screaming in pain. A few shocking moments later, she is again dragged under the water, this time only to reappear the next morning in pieces on the shore.
/ Gumm gumm gumm...:D
/ Yeah, by now you should already know what we are talking about, in the second paragraph we'll let you know for sure. Here we are painting a picture of a good swimmer, who is going swimming, however, she doesn't realize that she's in big trouble. Because she was pulled down under the water, and then she surfaces or reappears, screaming in pain, only to be pulled down under the water again, but this time she doesn't come back up. The next morning people find pieces of her, mmm, on the shore.
/ only to...
卻...
一個正常的原因卻得到一個我們想不到的結(jié)果，這時我們就用only to,
Peter studies very hard, only to get a goose egg. :P
考試用on the test, 不要用 in the test, (已經(jīng)講過多次了）
/ Ok, next paragraph we will solve our mystery.
_____twilight,
The diffused light from the sky during the early evening or early morning when the sun is below the horizon and its light is refracted by the earth's atmosphere.
曙光，暮色清晨或黃昏期間當(dāng)太陽處于地平線以下時，太陽光被地球的大氣所折射而彌漫在天空中的光
The time of the day when the sun is just below the horizon, especially the period between sunset and dark.
黃昏一天中太陽剛剛處在地平線以下的時期，尤指在日落到天黑的這一段時間
Dim or diffused illumination.
微光微弱的或彌漫的亮光
A period or condition of decline following growth, glory, or success:
衰落時期在生長、興旺或成功之后的一個衰落的時期或狀況：
in the twilight of his life.
他一生中的衰落時期
A state of ambiguity or obscurity.
含糊不清或者晦澀的狀態(tài)
n.
(日出前的)微光; 曙光; (日落前的)薄暮, 黃昏
微弱的光芒;【天】晨昏蒙影, 曙暮光
全盛時期的前后
遙遠(yuǎn)的不被人熟知的時代
twilight of the gods
諸神 的末日(北歐神話)
Homer lived in the twilight of history.
荷馬(希臘詩人)生于歷遙遠(yuǎn)的時代。
_____agile,
adj.
Characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement; nimble.
敏捷的，靈活的具有迅速、輕巧和易動特點(diǎn)的；靈活的
See: nimble
Mentally alert:
機(jī)敏的：
an agile mind.
機(jī)敏的頭腦
adj.
活潑的, 輕快的, 敏捷的, 靈活的
an agile mind [wit]
頭腦靈活
Sounds familiar? By now nearly everyone has seen or heard this story of a killer great white shark in jaws, a hit novel turned into a blockbuster movie. Few people realize, however, that the story broadly follows the events depicted in what many people consider one of the best of American novels. Published in eighteen fifty one, Moby Dick has been making waves ever since.
_______blockbuster,
Something, such as a film or book, that sustains widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales.
流行佳作一些受到廣泛普及和銷售量巨大的事物，例如電影或書
n.
[俚]
(破壞性強(qiáng)的)巨型炸彈
神通廣大的人; 聲勢浩大, 風(fēng)靡一時之舉; 消耗巨資拍攝的影片
土地投機(jī)商, 房地產(chǎn)掮客
一鳴驚人的事或人
The campaign was a blockbuster.
這次競選運(yùn)動聲勢浩大。
blockbuster
[5blRkbQstE(r)]
n
轟動
Our new film will be a real blockbuster.
我們的新影片一定會大為轟動。
blockbuster
[ 5blCk5bQstE ]
n.(破壞力極大的)巨型炸彈, 一鳴驚人者
_______depict, [di'pikt]
To represent in a picture or sculpture.
圖示用畫或雕刻表示
To represent in words; describe.
描述用文字表示；描述
See: represent
vt.
畫, 刻畫
描寫, 描繪, 敘述
depict the horrors of war
描述戰(zhàn)爭的恐怖
______make waves, v, 興風(fēng)作浪，搗蛋，
The first paragraph is a description of the beginning of the movie, Jaws, in which a great white shark attacks a young lady who swimming alone in the ocean. Well, that description comes from a book, which was popular and then was made into this blockbuster movie, a really hot movie twenty years ago or so called . But the story of the shark actually follows pretty closely the story of the whale Moby Dick in the novel by the same name. It's a hundred fifty years old, but it is still making waves or influencing American culture. has quite a strong effect on Americans after it first came out. It was reported that the resorts, and the beaches, that summer lost a lot of business because people became afraid to go swimming.
/ Mmm. :P
To make waves, --> to be influential,
When things are going quite smoothly, some people may say, hey, don't change any plans, don't make waves, 不要制造麻煩，don't upset the apple cart,
/ That is what I was just thinking of. The same idea. Upset the apple cart. Both of these ideas "don't make waves" and "don't upset the apple cart," and "let sleeping dogs lie".
/ Don't rock the boat.
/ Oh, don't rock the boat. All of these means let it be, don't make trouble here. Just keep doing things the way things have been done.
/ ..Moby Dick has been making waves, 這里可不是說 causing trouble, 而是說 has been casting influence, influential,
/ Certainly has.
Now let's find out about the author of the; a little bit of the history of the book.
/ Thank you. You are talking about me.
/ Moby Dick?
/ ..:D
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The author, Furmanmalbill (人名), was born in New York on August first, eighteen nineteen. As a youth in a large family, he suffered many insecurities due to the family's constantly changing fortunes. As a young man, he worked as a farmer and seaman, the latter providing most of the material for several of his later novels and essays. In his twenties, MillBole found fame with two novels based on imaginary happenings in the South Pacific. Moby Dick, ironically, was not well-received. Afterwards, MillBill produced another masterpiece, Billy Budd. He continued writing until his death in eighteen ninety one.
Here in this paragraph we find a kind of biography of Herman Millbill, the author of Moby Dick.
/ Yeah, but remember this very fact that he was born in New York. :D
/ Now you know I have to put that there.
/ Yeah.
/ Also, ..August first, that was my sister's birthday.
/ Ohh! :P
Okok, let's go through the next page.
Why has Moby Dick since become such a classic despite its initial luckwarm reception? Millbill had a keen eye for not only the human condition but for the tenor of his times, the United States was in his day a country of disadvantaged and mistreated immigrants, many of whom became sailors and laborers, with untrammeled capitalism crushing both nature and man underneath its new country exuberance. His stress on the individual and fate-often pessimistically, or at least realistically----were harbingers of the future of literature.
This paragraph, let us know a little bit more not only about Millbill, but about the US and literature in the middle of the nineteenth century. At this time, when capitalism was just getting going, just getting started in the US, there was great enthusiasm for it, as millions of people from mostly European countries went to the US, and provided cheap laborer for the new country which was building roads, and cities, courts, and what we call it infrastructure, just before the Civil War period, and the individual was not so important at this time, and was often mistreated or even abused. Millbill saw all of this around him and in fact he was a bit of this, too, and he wrote about it from the advantage of having lived this kind of life himself. He also stressed the individual and fate, which for the last hundred and fifty years has been a very important thing (scene?) in American literature.
/ infrastructure, 相當(dāng)于我們講的基礎(chǔ)建設(shè)。這個字很少看到加s的。
/ Uhh, you don't need a plural..
/ capitalism, ---> v, capitalize, 不過這個capitalize 可以當(dāng)“利用”的意思. + on.
to capitalize on this opportunity ...
/ take advantage of,
/ to take advantage of this opportunity to study English. You should capitalize on this opportunity to study English whenever you see Bruce. Every time you see Bruce, talk to him, even though he keeps talking nonsense. :P
/ crush,
to have a crush on someone, 迷戀
The little boy has a crush on his teacher.
/ By the way, Peter,
/ Yes?
/ Why do you have a crush on this month?
/ Your friend by the name of Mary because she looks quite rich.
/ Oh! :D
_______have a crush on sb.
[俚]迷戀某人, 深深 地愛上某人
get a crush on sb.
[俚]迷戀某人, 深深 地愛上某人
_______infrastructure,
The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines, and public institutions including schools, post offices, and prisons.
基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施社會或社區(qū)正常運(yùn)作所需要的基本設(shè)施，服務(wù)和安裝設(shè)備等，如交通與通信系統(tǒng)，水與電力供給線，以及學(xué)校、郵局和監(jiān)獄等公共機(jī)構(gòu)
Ok, let's continue here.
Why does the story of Moby Dick continue to enthrall generation after generation? The story line is simple enough: a mad sea captain vows revenge against a white whale which on the previous expedition bit off one of his legs. In his vain attempt at justice against nature, the captain meets the ultimate tragedy. This was no documentary, however, the characters and setting become vehicles for far larger and more universal themes of the setbacks and successes of the human spirit, as well as its darker urges. So accurately does Melville depict the whaling scenes and sea voyages that the reader is taken on an exhilarating ride. Coupled with the absorbing, mad Captain Bhab, the book is "a good read" even by 20th century standards.
Now we come back to the story of MobyDick itself. Why does it enthrall, why does it make generation after generation so excited and interested in it? We have the mad sea captain, captain Bhab, who unfortunately had an accident with the white whale in the past. The whale bit his legs off and he's trying to find and kill that whale, whether he kills him or not, and this urge, this dark urge of revenge is very well-described in the book, and it's a very exciting story to be on a ship, which is powered by the wind, and which encounters storms and the white whale itself MobyDick, so it's a good read. That means it's a very interesting story even in our exciting twentieth century.
/ sperm whale, 抹香鯨
/ spout water, 上面那個噴水的東西，
/ Yeah, the top of the head with that hole is spout water, that's a blow hole. 噴氣孔
/ I wonder if they do that for fun.
/ I have no idea.
/ Playing games with each other.
/ Probably want to you know, take more oxygen or something.
/ Yeah, they can breathe through the mouth and their blow hole.
/ Mmm-huhh.
/ Let's continue and finish our article.
/ Excuse me. One more thing.
..the book is a good read, here the "good" is a noun.
buy,
it's a good buy,
Wow, that car is a good buy.
That car is a bargain.
/ Well now the last paragraph, we'll conclude today's lesson.
_______absorb, v, 吸收，absorbing, 吸引人的，非常有趣的，－－－＞ gripping,
_______Coupled with, 加上，外加，
＿＿＿＿注意setback, success, standard, 都可以加s,
_______enthrall,
en.thralled; en.thrall.ing; en.thralls;
To hold spellbound; captivate:
迷住；吸引住：
The magic show enthralled the audience.
魔術(shù)表演吸引住了觀眾
To enslave.
奴役
vt
迷 住，著迷
The boy was enthralled by the stories of adventure.
這孩子被冒險故事迷住了。
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Alright. Now the last paragraph; we'll conclude today's lesson.
Earlier in this century, the Nobel Prize winner Earnis Heminwai（人名）and, another story of man's struggle with nature on the open ocean. This theme strikes a chord in Americans, whose culture developed along the Atlantic Coast of North America, and whose seaward passage from the Old World took them to the colonies of the eighteenth century or the young country of the nineteenth century by the millions. This fascination with the maritime still holds today. Over half the population of the US lives in counties touching the Atlantic, Pacific, or Gulf Coasts. Perhaps some future writer (s?) will once again use the metaphor of sailors and the sea to create yet another great American novel.
_____chord,-----> harmonize, attune,
Music
【音樂】
A combination of three or more usually concordant tones sounded simultaneously.
和弦三個或三個以上聽起來同時奏出的通常為諧和的音調(diào)的結(jié)合
Harmony, as of color.
顏色等和諧
chord
v.
chord.ed; chord.ing; chords;
chord
v.intr.
To be in accord; agree.
和諧一致；符合
Music
【音樂】
To play chords on an instrument.
在一件樂器上演奏和弦
chord
v.tr.
Music
【音樂】
To play chords on.
在…上演奏和弦
To harmonize.
使和諧
An emotional feeling or response:
心弦情感上的感受或反應(yīng)：
Her words struck a sympathetic chord in her audience.
她的話撥動了觀眾的心弦
n.
樂弦, 琴弦
[喻]心弦
【音】和弦, 和音
(=cord)【解】腱, 帶, 索
【數(shù)】弦
【航空】翼弦[長]
【建】弦材, 桁材
可變基準(zhǔn)線
木[石]紋
touch a sympathetic chord
觸及憐憫的心弦
chord organ
和弦風(fēng)琴
the vocal chords
聲帶
the spinal chord
脊髓
strike a responsive chord
打動對方的心弦
touch the right chord
觸動情緒; 扣人心弦
_____maritime,
Of, relating to, or adjacent to the sea.
海的，有關(guān)海的，鄰海的
Of or relating to marine shipping or navigation.
海船的，航運(yùn)的海船或航運(yùn)的，與海船或航運(yùn)有關(guān)的
See: nautical
Of or resembling a mariner.
水手的水手的或象水手的
adj
海的；近海的
maritime peril
海難
maritime provinces
沿海省份
_____seaward,
Toward or at the sea.
朝向或在海上的
seaward
n.
A seaward place or direction.
向海的地方或方向
_____metaphor,
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in 揳 sea of troubles?or
隱喻一種語言表達(dá)手法，通常用指某物的詞或詞組來指代他物，從而暗示它們之間的相似之處，如 “憂愁之海”或
揂ll the world's a stage?Shakespeare)
“整個世界一臺戲”(莎士比亞)
n.
隱喻; 暗喻(一種修辭手段); 比喻說法; 象征
In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.
玫瑰在詩中通常作為愛的象征。
Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors.
因此她是天使, 他是雄獅都是比喻說法。
n
隱喻；比喻
These two metaphors are mismatched.
這兩個比喻放在一起很不相配。
Here we started with Moby Dick. We also introduce the novel and the movie, but at the beginning of this century, we had another famous novel with the same theme, that is, one man struggle with nature, and this nature was the sea or an animal in it, was the great novel, the Old Man and Sea, by Earnist Heaminway. So from MobyDick through the Old Man and Sea to , we have the same kind of person who is struggling with some kind of fish, first is the whale, MobyDick, and then a big fish and the old man and the sea, and then in jaws a great white shark. But you can see how similar these stories are, even though it's been a hundred and fifty years since MillBil's famous novel Moby Dick, it seems every generation of Americans is enthralled, they are just so interested in this story, but we look at the population of the US, we realize many of them came by boat to the US, from Europe to the US over the Atlantic Ocean. And still today, over half the population of the US lives in counties which are along the sea coast. We have a long sea coast, the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf coast and the Pacific Coast. So, most of the people live along these coastline counties. So Americans seem to be very interested in the sea.
/..to strike a chord in..., 引起了...的共鳴。
/ Oh, actually it just means to have sympathy with, or be sympathetic to, if you, if someone or something someone does strikes a chord in you, it means you feel close to it. Or you feel that it is a part of you; that is nothing strange, and something you can understand easily.
/ echo,
/ ..what my son does echoes what his grandfather used to do.
還有一個要點(diǎn)，
So accurately does Melville depict the whaling scenes and sea voyages that the reader is taken on an exhilarating ride.
這就是So放在句首的倒裝句型。
He studied so hard that he passed the test.
So hard did he study that he pass the test.
He is so nice that...
So nice is he that I like him.
Ok, that's for today's lesson.
___________Pan. 2003. 9.
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Lesson 21,
What's So Big about Moby Dick?
白鯨記
A pretty, young lady goes swimming alone off the coast of New England in twilight. She is an agile swimmer, full of grace and speed. Without warning, though, she disappears from sight, only to reappear a moment later, screaming in pain. A few shocking moments later, she is again dragged under the water, this time only to reappear the next morning in pieces of the shore.
Sound familiar? By now nearly everyone has seen or heard the story of a killer Great White Shark in Jaws, a hit novel turned into a blockbuster movie. Few people realize, however, that the story broadly follows the events depicted in what many people consider one of the best of American novels. Published in 1851, Moby Dick has been making waves ever since.
The author, Herman Melville, was born in New York on August 1 1819. As a youth in a large family he suffered many insecurities due to the family's constantly changing fortunes. As a young man he worked as a farmer and seaman, the latter providing most of the material for several of his later novels and essays. In his 20s Melville found fame with two novels based on imaginary happenings in the South Pacific. Moby Dick, ironically, was not well received. Afterwards, Melville produced another masterpiece, Billy Budd. He continued writing until his death in 1891.
Why has Moby Dick since become such a classic despite its initial lukewarm reception? Melville had a keen eye for not only the human condition but for the tenor of his times: the Unites States was in his day a country of disadvantaged and mistreated immigrants (many of whom became sailors and laborers), with untrammeled capitalism crushing both nature and man underneath its new country exuberance. His stress on the individual and fate-often pessimistically, or at least realistically----were harbingers of the future of literature.
Why does the story of Moby Dick continue to enthrall generation after generation? The story line is simple enough: a mad sea captain vows revenge against a white whale shich, on a previous expedition, bit off one of his legs. In his vain attempt at "justice" against nature, the captain meets the ultimate tragedy. This was no documentary, however; the characters and setting become vehicles for far larger and more universal themes of the setbacks and successes of the human spirit as well as its darker urges. So accurately does Melville depict the whaling scenes and sea voyages that the reader is taken on an exhilarating ride. Coupled with the absorbing, mad Captain Bhab, the book is "a good read" even by 20th century standards.
Earlier in this century, the Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway penned the Old Man and the Sea, another story of a man's struggle with nature on the open ocean. This theme strikes a chord in Americans, whose culture developed along the Atlantic coast of North America and whose seaward passage from the Old World took them to the colonies of the 18th century or the young country of the 19th century by the millions. This fascination with the maritime still holds today: over half the population of the United States lives in counties touching the Atlantic, Pacific, or Gulf coasts. Perhaps some future writer will once again use the metaphor of sailors and the sea to create yet another Great American Novel.
Welcome again to Radio English on Sunday.
This is Bruce,
/ and this is Peter,
/ today in unit twenty one, we are going to take a look at a very important, interesting and influential novel written a hundred fifty years ago, but still quite important in American culture. On page one hundred seventy, take a look at a title with us. What's so big about Moby Dick?
/...
/ Moby Dick is the name in a novel of a very special whale. Those big mammals; they aren't fish; they are mammals. A sperm whale, as a matter of fact, which is not one of the really big whales, but was economically very important in the nineteenth century, because the sperm whale has a lot of fat and oil in the particular part of its body towards the top of the head. So when this whale goes far down into the water, to catch the squid,
/ 小烏賊，小魷魚，
/ This, a squid which it likes to eat very much, lives very far down in the water, this oil helps to bring them back up. It helps to protect them from the pressure when they are far down in the water. Well, this oil was used in many countries during the nineteenth century, to heat, a room or a factory, and it was used for lamps, oil lamps before there was electricity. It had many uses. So these whales were hunted almost to extinction. And in eighteen fifty one, MandinHermanMoilBill (人名）wrote a novel, which is considered by many people to be one of the most important pieces of early American writing. And today we'll introduce this very interesting story to you, and explain some of its influence as well.
A pretty, young lady goes swimming alone off the coast of New England in twilight. She is an agile swimmer, full of grace and speed. Without warning, though, she disappeared from sight, only to reappear a moment later, screaming in pain. A few shocking moments later, she is again dragged under the water, this time only to reappear the next morning in pieces on the shore.
/ Gumm gumm gumm...:D
/ Yeah, by now you should already know what we are talking about, in the second paragraph we'll let you know for sure. Here we are painting a picture of a good swimmer, who is going swimming, however, she doesn't realize that she's in big trouble. Because she was pulled down under the water, and then she surfaces or reappears, screaming in pain, only to be pulled down under the water again, but this time she doesn't come back up. The next morning people find pieces of her, mmm, on the shore.
/ only to...
卻...
一個正常的原因卻得到一個我們想不到的結(jié)果，這時我們就用only to,
Peter studies very hard, only to get a goose egg. :P
考試用on the test, 不要用 in the test, (已經(jīng)講過多次了）
/ Ok, next paragraph we will solve our mystery.
_____twilight,
The diffused light from the sky during the early evening or early morning when the sun is below the horizon and its light is refracted by the earth's atmosphere.
曙光，暮色清晨或黃昏期間當(dāng)太陽處于地平線以下時，太陽光被地球的大氣所折射而彌漫在天空中的光
The time of the day when the sun is just below the horizon, especially the period between sunset and dark.
黃昏一天中太陽剛剛處在地平線以下的時期，尤指在日落到天黑的這一段時間
Dim or diffused illumination.
微光微弱的或彌漫的亮光
A period or condition of decline following growth, glory, or success:
衰落時期在生長、興旺或成功之后的一個衰落的時期或狀況：
in the twilight of his life.
他一生中的衰落時期
A state of ambiguity or obscurity.
含糊不清或者晦澀的狀態(tài)
n.
(日出前的)微光; 曙光; (日落前的)薄暮, 黃昏
微弱的光芒;【天】晨昏蒙影, 曙暮光
全盛時期的前后
遙遠(yuǎn)的不被人熟知的時代
twilight of the gods
諸神 的末日(北歐神話)
Homer lived in the twilight of history.
荷馬(希臘詩人)生于歷遙遠(yuǎn)的時代。
_____agile,
adj.
Characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement; nimble.
敏捷的，靈活的具有迅速、輕巧和易動特點(diǎn)的；靈活的
See: nimble
Mentally alert:
機(jī)敏的：
an agile mind.
機(jī)敏的頭腦
adj.
活潑的, 輕快的, 敏捷的, 靈活的
an agile mind [wit]
頭腦靈活
Sounds familiar? By now nearly everyone has seen or heard this story of a killer great white shark in jaws, a hit novel turned into a blockbuster movie. Few people realize, however, that the story broadly follows the events depicted in what many people consider one of the best of American novels. Published in eighteen fifty one, Moby Dick has been making waves ever since.
_______blockbuster,
Something, such as a film or book, that sustains widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales.
流行佳作一些受到廣泛普及和銷售量巨大的事物，例如電影或書
n.
[俚]
(破壞性強(qiáng)的)巨型炸彈
神通廣大的人; 聲勢浩大, 風(fēng)靡一時之舉; 消耗巨資拍攝的影片
土地投機(jī)商, 房地產(chǎn)掮客
一鳴驚人的事或人
The campaign was a blockbuster.
這次競選運(yùn)動聲勢浩大。
blockbuster
[5blRkbQstE(r)]
n
轟動
Our new film will be a real blockbuster.
我們的新影片一定會大為轟動。
blockbuster
[ 5blCk5bQstE ]
n.(破壞力極大的)巨型炸彈, 一鳴驚人者
_______depict, [di'pikt]
To represent in a picture or sculpture.
圖示用畫或雕刻表示
To represent in words; describe.
描述用文字表示；描述
See: represent
vt.
畫, 刻畫
描寫, 描繪, 敘述
depict the horrors of war
描述戰(zhàn)爭的恐怖
______make waves, v, 興風(fēng)作浪，搗蛋，
The first paragraph is a description of the beginning of the movie, Jaws, in which a great white shark attacks a young lady who swimming alone in the ocean. Well, that description comes from a book, which was popular and then was made into this blockbuster movie, a really hot movie twenty years ago or so called
/ Mmm. :P
To make waves, --> to be influential,
When things are going quite smoothly, some people may say, hey, don't change any plans, don't make waves, 不要制造麻煩，don't upset the apple cart,
/ That is what I was just thinking of. The same idea. Upset the apple cart. Both of these ideas "don't make waves" and "don't upset the apple cart," and "let sleeping dogs lie".
/ Don't rock the boat.
/ Oh, don't rock the boat. All of these means let it be, don't make trouble here. Just keep doing things the way things have been done.
/ ..Moby Dick has been making waves, 這里可不是說 causing trouble, 而是說 has been casting influence, influential,
/ Certainly has.
Now let's find out about the author of the
/ Thank you. You are talking about me.
/ Moby Dick?
/ ..:D
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The author, Furmanmalbill (人名), was born in New York on August first, eighteen nineteen. As a youth in a large family, he suffered many insecurities due to the family's constantly changing fortunes. As a young man, he worked as a farmer and seaman, the latter providing most of the material for several of his later novels and essays. In his twenties, MillBole found fame with two novels based on imaginary happenings in the South Pacific. Moby Dick, ironically, was not well-received. Afterwards, MillBill produced another masterpiece, Billy Budd. He continued writing until his death in eighteen ninety one.
Here in this paragraph we find a kind of biography of Herman Millbill, the author of Moby Dick.
/ Yeah, but remember this very fact that he was born in New York. :D
/ Now you know I have to put that there.
/ Yeah.
/ Also, ..August first, that was my sister's birthday.
/ Ohh! :P
Okok, let's go through the next page.
Why has Moby Dick since become such a classic despite its initial luckwarm reception? Millbill had a keen eye for not only the human condition but for the tenor of his times, the United States was in his day a country of disadvantaged and mistreated immigrants, many of whom became sailors and laborers, with untrammeled capitalism crushing both nature and man underneath its new country exuberance. His stress on the individual and fate-often pessimistically, or at least realistically----were harbingers of the future of literature.
This paragraph, let us know a little bit more not only about Millbill, but about the US and literature in the middle of the nineteenth century. At this time, when capitalism was just getting going, just getting started in the US, there was great enthusiasm for it, as millions of people from mostly European countries went to the US, and provided cheap laborer for the new country which was building roads, and cities, courts, and what we call it infrastructure, just before the Civil War period, and the individual was not so important at this time, and was often mistreated or even abused. Millbill saw all of this around him and in fact he was a bit of this, too, and he wrote about it from the advantage of having lived this kind of life himself. He also stressed the individual and fate, which for the last hundred and fifty years has been a very important thing (scene?) in American literature.
/ infrastructure, 相當(dāng)于我們講的基礎(chǔ)建設(shè)。這個字很少看到加s的。
/ Uhh, you don't need a plural..
/ capitalism, ---> v, capitalize, 不過這個capitalize 可以當(dāng)“利用”的意思. + on.
to capitalize on this opportunity ...
/ take advantage of,
/ to take advantage of this opportunity to study English. You should capitalize on this opportunity to study English whenever you see Bruce. Every time you see Bruce, talk to him, even though he keeps talking nonsense. :P
/ crush,
to have a crush on someone, 迷戀
The little boy has a crush on his teacher.
/ By the way, Peter,
/ Yes?
/ Why do you have a crush on this month?
/ Your friend by the name of Mary because she looks quite rich.
/ Oh! :D
_______have a crush on sb.
[俚]迷戀某人, 深深 地愛上某人
get a crush on sb.
[俚]迷戀某人, 深深 地愛上某人
_______infrastructure,
The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines, and public institutions including schools, post offices, and prisons.
基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施社會或社區(qū)正常運(yùn)作所需要的基本設(shè)施，服務(wù)和安裝設(shè)備等，如交通與通信系統(tǒng)，水與電力供給線，以及學(xué)校、郵局和監(jiān)獄等公共機(jī)構(gòu)
Ok, let's continue here.
Why does the story of Moby Dick continue to enthrall generation after generation? The story line is simple enough: a mad sea captain vows revenge against a white whale which on the previous expedition bit off one of his legs. In his vain attempt at justice against nature, the captain meets the ultimate tragedy. This was no documentary, however, the characters and setting become vehicles for far larger and more universal themes of the setbacks and successes of the human spirit, as well as its darker urges. So accurately does Melville depict the whaling scenes and sea voyages that the reader is taken on an exhilarating ride. Coupled with the absorbing, mad Captain Bhab, the book is "a good read" even by 20th century standards.
Now we come back to the story of MobyDick itself. Why does it enthrall, why does it make generation after generation so excited and interested in it? We have the mad sea captain, captain Bhab, who unfortunately had an accident with the white whale in the past. The whale bit his legs off and he's trying to find and kill that whale, whether he kills him or not, and this urge, this dark urge of revenge is very well-described in the book, and it's a very exciting story to be on a ship, which is powered by the wind, and which encounters storms and the white whale itself MobyDick, so it's a good read. That means it's a very interesting story even in our exciting twentieth century.
/ sperm whale, 抹香鯨
/ spout water, 上面那個噴水的東西，
/ Yeah, the top of the head with that hole is spout water, that's a blow hole. 噴氣孔
/ I wonder if they do that for fun.
/ I have no idea.
/ Playing games with each other.
/ Probably want to you know, take more oxygen or something.
/ Yeah, they can breathe through the mouth and their blow hole.
/ Mmm-huhh.
/ Let's continue and finish our article.
/ Excuse me. One more thing.
..the book is a good read, here the "good" is a noun.
buy,
it's a good buy,
Wow, that car is a good buy.
That car is a bargain.
/ Well now the last paragraph, we'll conclude today's lesson.
_______absorb, v, 吸收，absorbing, 吸引人的，非常有趣的，－－－＞ gripping,
_______Coupled with, 加上，外加，
＿＿＿＿注意setback, success, standard, 都可以加s,
_______enthrall,
en.thralled; en.thrall.ing; en.thralls;
To hold spellbound; captivate:
迷住；吸引住：
The magic show enthralled the audience.
魔術(shù)表演吸引住了觀眾
To enslave.
奴役
vt
迷 住，著迷
The boy was enthralled by the stories of adventure.
這孩子被冒險故事迷住了。
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Alright. Now the last paragraph; we'll conclude today's lesson.
Earlier in this century, the Nobel Prize winner Earnis Heminwai（人名）and
_____chord,-----> harmonize, attune,
Music
【音樂】
A combination of three or more usually concordant tones sounded simultaneously.
和弦三個或三個以上聽起來同時奏出的通常為諧和的音調(diào)的結(jié)合
Harmony, as of color.
顏色等和諧
chord
v.
chord.ed; chord.ing; chords;
chord
v.intr.
To be in accord; agree.
和諧一致；符合
Music
【音樂】
To play chords on an instrument.
在一件樂器上演奏和弦
chord
v.tr.
Music
【音樂】
To play chords on.
在…上演奏和弦
To harmonize.
使和諧
An emotional feeling or response:
心弦情感上的感受或反應(yīng)：
Her words struck a sympathetic chord in her audience.
她的話撥動了觀眾的心弦
n.
樂弦, 琴弦
[喻]心弦
【音】和弦, 和音
(=cord)【解】腱, 帶, 索
【數(shù)】弦
【航空】翼弦[長]
【建】弦材, 桁材
可變基準(zhǔn)線
木[石]紋
touch a sympathetic chord
觸及憐憫的心弦
chord organ
和弦風(fēng)琴
the vocal chords
聲帶
the spinal chord
脊髓
strike a responsive chord
打動對方的心弦
touch the right chord
觸動情緒; 扣人心弦
_____maritime,
Of, relating to, or adjacent to the sea.
海的，有關(guān)海的，鄰海的
Of or relating to marine shipping or navigation.
海船的，航運(yùn)的海船或航運(yùn)的，與海船或航運(yùn)有關(guān)的
See: nautical
Of or resembling a mariner.
水手的水手的或象水手的
adj
海的；近海的
maritime peril
海難
maritime provinces
沿海省份
_____seaward,
Toward or at the sea.
朝向或在海上的
seaward
n.
A seaward place or direction.
向海的地方或方向
_____metaphor,
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in 揳 sea of troubles?or
隱喻一種語言表達(dá)手法，通常用指某物的詞或詞組來指代他物，從而暗示它們之間的相似之處，如 “憂愁之海”或
揂ll the world's a stage?Shakespeare)
“整個世界一臺戲”(莎士比亞)
n.
隱喻; 暗喻(一種修辭手段); 比喻說法; 象征
In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.
玫瑰在詩中通常作為愛的象征。
Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors.
因此她是天使, 他是雄獅都是比喻說法。
n
隱喻；比喻
These two metaphors are mismatched.
這兩個比喻放在一起很不相配。
Here we started with Moby Dick. We also introduce the novel and the movie
/..to strike a chord in..., 引起了...的共鳴。
/ Oh, actually it just means to have sympathy with, or be sympathetic to, if you, if someone or something someone does strikes a chord in you, it means you feel close to it. Or you feel that it is a part of you; that is nothing strange, and something you can understand easily.
/ echo,
/ ..what my son does echoes what his grandfather used to do.
還有一個要點(diǎn)，
So accurately does Melville depict the whaling scenes and sea voyages that the reader is taken on an exhilarating ride.
這就是So放在句首的倒裝句型。
He studied so hard that he passed the test.
So hard did he study that he pass the test.
He is so nice that...
So nice is he that I like him.
Ok, that's for today's lesson.
___________Pan. 2003. 9.
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Lesson 21,
What's So Big about Moby Dick?
白鯨記
A pretty, young lady goes swimming alone off the coast of New England in twilight. She is an agile swimmer, full of grace and speed. Without warning, though, she disappears from sight, only to reappear a moment later, screaming in pain. A few shocking moments later, she is again dragged under the water, this time only to reappear the next morning in pieces of the shore.
Sound familiar? By now nearly everyone has seen or heard the story of a killer Great White Shark in Jaws, a hit novel turned into a blockbuster movie. Few people realize, however, that the story broadly follows the events depicted in what many people consider one of the best of American novels. Published in 1851, Moby Dick has been making waves ever since.
The author, Herman Melville, was born in New York on August 1 1819. As a youth in a large family he suffered many insecurities due to the family's constantly changing fortunes. As a young man he worked as a farmer and seaman, the latter providing most of the material for several of his later novels and essays. In his 20s Melville found fame with two novels based on imaginary happenings in the South Pacific. Moby Dick, ironically, was not well received. Afterwards, Melville produced another masterpiece, Billy Budd. He continued writing until his death in 1891.
Why has Moby Dick since become such a classic despite its initial lukewarm reception? Melville had a keen eye for not only the human condition but for the tenor of his times: the Unites States was in his day a country of disadvantaged and mistreated immigrants (many of whom became sailors and laborers), with untrammeled capitalism crushing both nature and man underneath its new country exuberance. His stress on the individual and fate-often pessimistically, or at least realistically----were harbingers of the future of literature.
Why does the story of Moby Dick continue to enthrall generation after generation? The story line is simple enough: a mad sea captain vows revenge against a white whale shich, on a previous expedition, bit off one of his legs. In his vain attempt at "justice" against nature, the captain meets the ultimate tragedy. This was no documentary, however; the characters and setting become vehicles for far larger and more universal themes of the setbacks and successes of the human spirit as well as its darker urges. So accurately does Melville depict the whaling scenes and sea voyages that the reader is taken on an exhilarating ride. Coupled with the absorbing, mad Captain Bhab, the book is "a good read" even by 20th century standards.
Earlier in this century, the Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway penned the Old Man and the Sea, another story of a man's struggle with nature on the open ocean. This theme strikes a chord in Americans, whose culture developed along the Atlantic coast of North America and whose seaward passage from the Old World took them to the colonies of the 18th century or the young country of the 19th century by the millions. This fascination with the maritime still holds today: over half the population of the United States lives in counties touching the Atlantic, Pacific, or Gulf coasts. Perhaps some future writer will once again use the metaphor of sailors and the sea to create yet another Great American Novel.