an argument with a person have a different bias. This has one advantage, and only one, as compared with actual conversation with opponents; this one advantage is that the method is not subject to the same.
Unit 9
1. 总的说来，这个公司的前景显得相当美好。 (outlook) Overall the outlook for the company seems fairly rosy.
2. 我不赞同儿童玩电子游戏的一个原因是其中有太多的假想的暴力场面。(make-believe)
One of reasons why I disapprove of kids playing video games is that there tend to be too many make-believe scenes of violence.
3. 一天又一天做同样形式的练习会让学生厌倦这些练习。 (tire of)
Doing the same type of exercises day after day would easily get students tired of them.
4. 我已安排好周四同他共进午餐，届时我将向他透露我的计划。 (unfold)
I've arranged a lunch with him next Thursday at which I'm going to unfold my proposal.
5. 请填好所附表格，尽快寄往所示地址。 (at one's convenience)
Please fill in the form attached and send it to the address shown at your earliest convenience.
6. 美国总统竞选中最厉害的奚落语之一是“他绝不是杰克·肯尼迪”。 (put-down) One of the biggest put-downs of the American presidential election campaign was the comment that he was \
7. 一位英国学者最近在《自然》杂志上撰文指出，人类的一切行为都是为了引起他人的注意。 (engage one's attention)
Recently a British scholar wrote in Nature, pointing out that all the human acts are intended to engage others' attention.
8. 为了帮助他们的孩子获得社会竞争的信心，家长经常在家庭游戏比赛中故意输给孩子。 (gain confidence)
In order to help their kids gain confidence in social competition, parents often pretend to lose in games at home.
A long, long time ago, people rose with the sun, and set with it.
Nobody cared if it was sunny somewhere else. Voices didn't carry across the planet. Time was a local concept: time to milk the cows, time to get in the wheat and rice, time to sit and rest. Who knows when the changes began; all these have changed. Today, commerce and communication never cease but go around the clock. On cable TV news shows, event did
not happen at such and such hour, but an hour or thirty minutes ago. Local time is no longer the meaning marker of events.
从前，人们日出而作，日落而息。没有人关心其他地方是否阳光灿烂。声音传达不到地球的另一端。时间只是一个区域性概念：挤牛奶有规定的时间，收割稻麦有规定的时间，坐下来休息也有规定的时间。不知从哪一天起，这些事情都发生了变化。今天，商务和通讯24小时不停地进行着。有线电视新闻节目中报道的事件不再是哪个小时发生的，而是一小时或30分钟前的事情。当地时间不再是一个有意义的事件标志。