Unit 3
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2. Read the text for the better comprehension and answer the questions.
1) Here it means in the countryside.
2) It is difficult to tell the difference between the root crops you buy from stores and tho you grow yourlf in your garden.
Note:
(1) root crops: Wha子宫大出血
t are grown so that the roots can be ud for food, such as carrots.
(2) tell apart: Recognize the difference between two people or things that are very similar.
(3) when store bought: when they are bought in stores
3) having a particular effect or influence 在起作用
It refers to the back-breaking labor human beings pretend to do in a game. (Does he not refer to pretence as back-breaking Maybe as when a very sick person pretends to be well to save someone worry)
4) It means that he thought about it very calmly and carefully before he made this decision never to plant it again. He was exaggerating of cour.
5） waft thro唐太宗昭陵
ugh: float through the air in a gentle way, said of smell or noi
6） It means “riously intend to do what you say you will do.
7） The worms were slowing coming out of the melting soil and they were delicious food for the birds of cour. (And he was thinking it was delicious too, becau it meant the end of winter and he could begin to garden.)
8） a piece of land for a particular purpo
“Conflict” here refers to the struggle in his mind. (No. I think it is the n of conflict with the earth required to make a garden that he likes)
9） Sparingly: in small quantities 节约地。少量地
Broadcast: sow eds over a wide area, especially by hand
10） “neurotic” means “ extremely worried about something unimportant in a way that ems unreasonable to other people. The author is using this in a lf-mocking tone.
11)Also, your natural tendency to act as a kind and caring father or mother begins to have an effect.
12) as it were: ud for making a description sound less definite or less exact (well, ud to make a comparison – gardener as parent A kind of personification of the growing things) 可以说；在某种程度上可以说
turn upon you: Here, “turn upon/on sb” means “attack sb suddenly and without warning”
13) occupation: a job or employment, but here: a way of spending your time; a pastime
14) Here, a pointed piece of wood or metal etc for driving into the ground as a mark or f
or holding a rope etc
15) slight diffe田园日记
rences in degree of green
16) pocket: a small area different from the areas around it
personal reassurance: sth that makes a person feel less worried
thrusting life: life that is moving forward quickly and powerfully
17) an extension of onelf: the further growth or development of a person
Paraphra: Gardening has to be another place where people continue to work hard to achieve something.
18) character: the qualities that make up a person’s personality
character-building: helping to develop one’s character 性格锻炼；品德培养。 The author is now openly expressing the belief that gardening is an extremely important occu
pation, something human beings have been doing since Adam and Eve’老鹰的鹰组词
s time. The final ntence is ironical and humorous, referring to how they disobeyed God and was driven out of the Garden.
1. 累人的/繁重的
2. 耗费时间的
3. 炼性格/培养人品
4. 立法
5. 救火
6. 找工作/求职
7. 保护脸面的
8. 维和
9. 捣乱分子
10. 止疼药
11. 摘棉工人
12. 筹集资金的人
13. 算命先生
14. 管家
15. 银行老板
16. 自欺欺人
17. 自尊
18. 自信
19. 自制力
20. 自我牺牲
21. 自己的利益；
22. 自我保护/自卫
23. 自律
24. 店里买的
25. 手写的
26. 自家做的
27. 敌人占领的
28. 铺满白雪的
29. 四周为陆地包围的
30. 空降的
31. 包着糖衣的
32. 镀金的
2) 1. enrollment
2. maintenance
3. exposure
4. entrance;
5. assumption
6. average
7. consumption
8. involvement
9. success/succession
10. revival
11. implication
12. reception
13. deception
14. conception/concept
15. perception
16. graduation
17. penetration
18. cultivation
19. generation
20. appreciation
21. congratulation
22. celebration
23. frustration
3) 1. pursue
2. continue
3. compensate
4. exist
5. encourage
6. occupy
7. accomplish
8. conflict
9. compo
10. spare
11. reassure
12. extend
13. conceive
2. Synonyms
1. determine/decide
2. smell/odor
end/quit/discontinue
4. ray
5. destroy
work/trade/profession/career/pursuit
