Text A of Unit 2 课文分析及知识点
The confusing pursuit of beauty
课文的标题是一个名词短语，话题是pursuit of beauty，“对美的追求”，confusing“令人困惑的”对名词短语起修饰作用，做定语，表明作者的态度。本文是一篇对比性的文章，就男性和女性对美的追求，分三个方面进行概述，并举例说明。注意开头和结尾的写法：开头设置情景，引出话题。结尾呼应。思考结论是什么？
1 If you're a man at some point a woman will ask you how she looks.
at some moment 在某个时候
2 You must be careful how you answer this question. The best technique is to form an honest yet nsitive respon then promptly excu yourlf for some kind of emergency. Trust me this is the easiest way out. No amount of rehearsal will help you come up with the right answer.
Form a respon 给予答复
感恩的名言Excu onelf for some kind of emergency借口有急事马上脱身
Way out ：exit; a way of escaping from a difficult situation出路
例如：She was in a mess and could e no way out
句子学习1：
No amount of sth. will do…用于表达“无论如何都不会发生期待的结果”。
No amount of rehearsal will help you come up with the right answer.
对于她的这一问题，无论你事先练习多少次，都不会找到正确答案。
come up with 想出（答案）
3 The problem is that men do not think of their looks in the same way women do. Most men form an opinion of themlves in venth grade and stick to it for the rest of their lives. Some men think they're irresistibly desirable and they refu to change this opinion even when they grow bald and their faces visibly wrinkle as they age.
句子学习2：
The problem is that men do not think of their looks in the same way women do.
本句的结构：主从复合句，从句部分为 that 引出的表语从句，和way 后面的定语从句。“其原因是，男性和女性对外表的看法截然不同。限行通知”
Stick to: keep doing what you believe
Some men think they're irresistibly desirable and they refu to change this opinion even when they grow bald and their faces visibly wrinkle as they age.
Irresistibly (adv.) visibly (adv.)
age (v.) to become older
E.g. As he aged, his memory got wor.他随着年事增高，记忆力就变差了。
家庭宽带测速The population is aging(=more people are living longer).人口正在老龄化。
有些男性认为自己有不可抗拒的魅力，即使随着年龄的增长，他们头发掉光了，脸上布满皱纹，他们仍然拒绝改变这种看法。
4 Most men I believe are not arrogant about their looks. If the transient thought pass through their minds at all they like to think of themlves as average-looking. Being average doesn't bother them; average is fine. They don't affix much value to their looks or think of them 广西习俗in terms of aesthetics. Their primary form of beauty care is to shave themlves， which is esntially the same care they give to their lawns. If at the end of his four minute allotment of time for grooming a man has managed to wipe most of the shaving cream out of the strands of his hair and isn't bleeding too badly he feels he's done all he can.
Be arrogant about…对 感到傲慢
Average-looking 样貌平常的，长相普通的 good-looking 好看的，美貌的香菇粥
weird-looking 样貌古怪的 （Para 6）
Affix value to sth. 认为 有价值 consider sth. valuable
in terms of aesthetics从美学的角度/方面
句子学习3：
Their primary form of beauty care is to shave themlves， which is esntially the same care they give to their lawns. 他们的打扮方式主要就是刮刮胡子，就像打理自家草坪一样。
句子结构：which 引出非限制性定语从句，其中they give to their lawns又是定语从句修饰先行词care
5 Women do not look at themlves this way. If I had to guess what most women think about their appearance it would be: "Not good enough." No matter how attractive a woman may be, her perception of herlf is eclipd by the beauty industry. She has trouble thinking "I'm beautiful." She magnifies the smallest imperfections in her body and imagines them as glaring flaws the whole world will notice and ridicule.
句子学习4：
No matter how attractive a woman may be, her perception of herlf is eclipd by the beauty industry. 一位女士，无论她看起来多么吸引人，她对自己的看法总是由于受美容业的影响而蒙着一层阴影。
句子结构：No matter how 引出让步状语从句，无论
•Eclip n. 日蚀,月蚀,衰落帝都泱泱 v. 鸬鹚怎么读引起日蚀,引起月蚀,使...黯然失色
E.g. Twilight—eclip 《暮光之城—蚀》
6 Why do women consider their looks so deficient? This chronic incurity isn't inborn but created through the interaction of many complex psychological and societal factors beginning with the dolls we give them as children. Girls grow up playing with dolls proportioned so that if they were human they would be ven feet tall and weigh 61 pounds with tiny thighs and a large upper body. This is an absurd standard to live up to especially when you consider the size of the doll's waist a relative measurement physica
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lly impossible for a living human to achieve. Contrast this absurd standard with that prented to little boys with their "action figures". Most of the toys that young boys have played with were weird-looking like the one called Buzz-Off that was part human part flying inct. This guy was not a looker but he was still extremely lf-confident. You could not imagine him saying to the others "Is this accessory the right shade of violet for this outfit?"
