综合英语教程 第四册 Unit9 Brainstorming(2011-02-27 16:21:06)转载▼标签： 教育 分类： 综合英语
1. Expressions of being healthy:
be healthy, stay in good shape, have a clean bill of health, a sound mind in a sound body, fit and robust, glowing health, hale and hearty, feel like a million, can't complain, sound as a whistle, fresh, able-bodied, full of life, in the pink, physically fit, safe and sound, blooming, rosy-cheeked
2. Expressions of being ill:
be ill / sick / feeble and frail, come down with (flu / fever), ill health, feeling terrible / ill / awful / rotten / rundown, feeling like the walking dead / feeling rundown, feeling out of sorts, break out with, sick as a dog, on one's back, under the weather, unwell, have / run a temperature
3. Expressions of treatment (medical / non-medical):
take medicine, have ... removed, (have an operation), therapeutic healing, injection, inoculation, medical check-up, medical tests, antibiotic treatment, cure-all, pick-me-up, painkiller, antidote, miracle drugs, medicinal, faith healer, panacea, acupuncture (针刺疗法), osteopathy (推拿疗法), homeopathy (草药疗法)
4. Expressions of keeping fit:
do exercise / aerobics (有氧操), stay positive, an apple a day keeps the doctor away, do yoga(逾迦), practise martial arts (武术), do soft boxing (打太极拳), practise qi-gong (气功) Notes
robust a. 强健的；茁壮的 hale a. 健壮的
feeble a. 无力的；软弱的 frail a. 虚弱的；身体单薄的
disability n. 无能力；无力
therapeutic a. 有疗效的；有益健康的 antibiotic a. 抗生素的，抗菌的 painkiller n. 止痛药 antidote n. 解毒药
medicinal a. 药用的；有疗效的 palliative n. 缓和物 acupuncture n. 针刺疗法 osteopathy n. 推拿疗法 homeopathy n. 草药疗法 aerobics n. 有氧运动(操) remedy n. 治疗；药品
\completely by the individual. One can listen to music, but the sound may enter in one ear and go out through the other; one may listen to a lecture or conversation, and day-dream about many other things; one may attend to matters of business, and one's heart or interest may be altogether elsewhere ... In the matter of food and eating however one can hardly remain completely indifferent to what one is doing for long. How can one remain entirely indifferent to something which is going to enter one's body and become part of oneself? How can one remain indifferent to something which will determine one's physical strength and ultimately one's spiritual and moral fibre and well-being?\Kenneth Lo
---- Kenneth Lo
生活中很少有几样东西像食物一样实在，像食物一样与我们息息相关的了。你可以在听音乐时，乐声左耳进，右耳出；你可以在听报告或讲话时，梦想许多其他的事情；你可以在关照生意时，心思早已跑到九霄云外......然而，关于食物和饮食，你几乎不能很长时间漠不关心。你怎能漠不关心那些要吃进肚子里并且成为你身体一部分的东西？你怎能漠不关心那些将决定你的体力甚至情操气节的东西？
肯尼士.罗
[summary] Kenneth Lo thinks that eating is the most important thing in life.
[author] Keenth Lo, a Chinese British, is a well-known gourmet and successful restaurant owner. He wrote a number of books on food.
1. Few things in life are as positive as food, or are taken as intimately and completely by the individual.
[grammatical point] as...as
The first ‘as' is often dropped in an informal style, especially in American English.
She's hard as nails.
When a personal pronoun follows the second ‘as', we can use either a subject-form or an object-form. Subject forms are more common in a formal style, but object-forms are much more common in informal speech and writing. She is as clever as me.
The dress is twice as expensive as that. He looks as ill as he sounded on the phone.
2. One can listen to music, but the sound may enter in one ear and go out through the other...
enter in one ear and go out through the other: go in at one ear and out at the out, be heard but either ignored or quickly forgotten一耳进，一耳出；左耳进，右耳出；当作耳边风
You've forgotten to buy the eggs! It (i.e. What I tell you) enters in one ear and go out through the other.
3. ...one may attend to matters of business, and one's heart or interest may be altogether elsewhere...
[paraphrase] One may take care of business matters, and at the same time one may be absent-minded...
4. In the matter of food and eating however one can hardly remain completely indifferent to what one is doing for long.
in the matter of sth.: concerning sth.关于某事物 I want to speak to her in the matter of my salary. [idioms]
It's all, (only, etc) a matter of time (before...): This consequence is inevitable though it may not happen immediately只是迟早的问题
let the matter drop / rest: stop mentioning sth. or trying to change it就此作罢 make matters worse: make an already difficult situation more difficult将事情弄得更糟糕
a matter of sth. / doing sth. 涉及??之问题
a matter of life or death: issue that is crucial to survival, success, etc生死攸关的事情；成败关键
a matter of opinion: issue on which there is disagreement见仁见智的事 It's simply a matter of time before the rebels are crushed. She reluctantly agreed to let the matter drop.
Her attempts to calm them down only made matters worse. Dealing with these problems is all a matter of experience.
Of course this must have priority --- it's a matter of life and death. \
be indifferent to sb. / sth.: having no interest in sb. / sth.漠不关心，毫不在乎 How can you be indifferent to thee sufferings of starving people?
5. How can one remain indifferent to something which will determine one's physical strength and ultimately one's spiritual and moral fibre and well-being?
determine: decide forcefully, strongly决定，决意 cause something to be decided确定
He determined to work harder.
The money we have will determine how long we can stay there.
and ultimately one's spiritual and moral fibre and well-being:
and food can determine whether a person is spiritual and morally strong and sound
ultimately: considered as a foundation or base 基础地，基本地 The president is ultimately responsible for the affair.
moral: concerning character, behavior, or actions, considered or judged as being good or evil, right or wrong道德上的；based on the idea of what is right (compared with what is lawful)精神上的，良心上的，道义上的
Commercial matters must be judged by moral as well as business standards. His judgment was based on the law of the land and not on moral law. cf. ethical: morally right or good合乎道德的 I shouldn't do that; it isn't ethical.
Para 1 This is an easy question for a Chinese to ask, but a Westerner might find it difficult to answer. Many people in the West are gourmets and others are gluttons, but scattered among them also is a large number of people who are apparently pretty indifferent to what goes into their stomachs, and do not regard food as having any ultimate moral effect on them. How, they might ask, could eating a hamburger or drinking Coca Cola contribute anything to making you a saint or a sinner? For them, food is quite simply a fuel.
对于中国人而言，这是一个很容易问的问题，但在西方人看来就可能难以回答。西方有很多人是美食家，其他的便是贪食者。而在他们中间又夹着一大批这样的人，他们看上去对那些进入他们胃里的东西毫不在意，也从不去想食物对他们会有什么精神上的影响。他们也许会问，难道吃一个汉堡或喝一罐可乐就会使你变成圣人或罪人？在他们眼中，食物仅仅是用来填饱肚子的。
[summary] A large number of Westerners regard food simply as a kind of fuel and do not think that it has any moral effect on them.
1. Many people in the West are gourmets and others are gluttons, but scattered among them also is a large number of people who are apparently indifferent to what goes into their stomachs, and do not regard food as having any ultimate moral effect on them.