Unit 5 Keeping Your Dreams Alive
I. New words and expressions
New words
1. transcend v. 超出，超越〔通常的界限〕
2. incessantly adv. 不停地；持续不断地
3. noisily adv. 喧闹地
noi
noisy
4. subtly adv. 不易发觉地；不明显地；微妙地
5. enormity n. 巨大；深远影响；严重性
enormous
6. burden n. 〔义务、责任等的〕重担，负担
7. belief n. 相信；信心
believe
believable
里奇波士 unbelievable
disbelief
8. unique adj. 唯一的；独一无二的；独特的
9. affliction n. 折磨；痛苦
10. especially adv. 尤其；特别；格外
11. tribe n. 部落
12. species n. 种，物种〔分类上小于属〕
13. discipline n. 自制力；遵守纪律
14. confront v. 处理，解决〔问题或困境〕
15. evoke v. 引起，唤起〔感情、记忆或形象〕
16. grief n. 〔尤指因某人去世引起的〕悲伤，悲哀，伤心
17. guiltout什么意思 n. 内疚；悔恨
guilty
be guilty of
be / feel guilty about
18. anxiety n. 焦虑；忧虑
anxious
19. anguish n. 剧痛；极度痛苦；苦恼
dictator20. despair n. 绝望
21. uncomfortable adj.〔使〕焦虑的，为难的，害怕的，不自在的
22. physical adj. 身体的；肉体的；躯体的
23. equal v. 比得上；敌得过
24. conflict n. 冲突；争执；争论
25. engender v. 产生，引起〔某种感觉或情况〕
26. po v. 造成〔威胁、问题等〕；引起；产生
27. distinguish v. 区分；区分；分清
28. wisdom n. 智慧；才智；精明
29. mentally adv. 精神上；智力上；思想上
30. spiritually adv. 精神上；心灵上
31. desire v. 渴望；期望
32. deliberately adv. 成心；蓄意；存心
33. instruct v. 教授；指导
34. dread v. 非常害怕；极为担忧
Phras and Expressions
1. moan about 抱怨
cau是什么意思2. a ries of 系列；连续
3. becau of 因为
4. as well as 除…之外
5. cutting edge 〔处于某事物开展的〕尖端，最前沿，领先阶段
6. call forth 引起；使产生
II. Text Learning
Life Is Difficult
① Life Is Difficult.
② This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth becau once we truly e this truth we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Becau once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.佛罗里达州立大学〔承上句〕
③ Most people do not fully e this truth that life is difficult.
④ Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. jump的过去式(1)They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties reprent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or el upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.柔和的意思 I know about this moaning becau I have done my share.最好听的背景音乐〔承上、总结的句子〕
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1. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties reprent a unique kind of
affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or el upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.
visit sth. on / upon sb./sth. 〔古〕inflict〔造成，使遭受〕 punishment on sb./sth. 对某人/某物进行惩罚
visit the sins of the parents upon their children相当于make the children suffer for their parent's failings 使子女因父母之过错而受惩罚
⑤ Life is a ries of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Do we want to teach our children to solve them?
⑥ Discipline is the basic t of tools we require to solve life's problems.〔主题句〕 Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
⑦ What make life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration of grief, sadness, loneliness, guilt, regretheight是什么意思, anger, fear, anxiety, anguish, despair. The are uncom
劳动节 英语fortable feelings, often very uncomfortable, often as painful as any kind of physical pain, sometimes equaling the very worst kind of physical pain. (2)Indeed, it is becau of the pain that events or conflicts engender in us all that we call them problems.〔承上启下句〕 (3)And since life pos an endless ries of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
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