Unit 4 Cultural Shock

2021年2月11日发(作者：花样)

Unit 4 Cultural Shock

The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts

from

the

Beginning

of

Spring.

Its

origin

is

too

old

to

be

traced.

Several

explanations

are

hanging

around.

All

agree,

however,

that

the

word

Nian,

which

in

modern

Chinese

solely

means

night before the beginning of a new year.

One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great

many

people

with

one

bite.

People

were

very

scared.

One

day,

an

old

man

came

to

their

rescue, offering to subdue Nian. To Nian he said,

can you swallow the other beasts of prey on earth instead of people who are by no means of

your worthy opponents?

harassed people and their domestic animals from time to time.

1.

不过，如何在展现魅力与奉迎讨 好之间达到平衡呢？

(ingratiation)

2.

加利福尼亚大学和加州大学都计 划强迫教职员工休假，扩大班级规模，减少课程。

(on

leave)

3.

但是这如果意味着他们的孩子被 扔在电视机前，由一个便宜的保姆看管，那么，这些

孩子也许还不如与母亲一起呆在家里 。

(worse off)

4.

一言蔽之，它做了一个城市巴士 应该做的一切

——

使人们可以到处逛而不需拥有一辆

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私车成为可能。

(get around)

5.

动物在自己的后代一旦能够生活 自理时，便不再给予关怀，但是人类，由于幼年时期

太长，很难做到这一点。

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(indifferent to)

6.

直到雷达技术应用于天文学以前，人类对金星的了解还极为肤浅。

( superficial)

7.

研 究教育行为、营销行为和法律行为区别的另一种途径同行为者及其目标原先存在的

自身利 益是否一致有关。

(in relation to)

8.

常务委员会审议法律案时，根据 需要，可以召开联组会议或者全体会议，对法律草案

中的主要问题进行讨论。

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(in the course of)

1.

Matter can be changed into energy, and energy into matter.

2.

As we know, all matter consists of molecules, and molecules (consists) of atoms.

3.

The best conductor has the least resistance and the poorest the greatest.

4.

Fine writer though he was, nobody believed that Winston Churchill received the 1953

Nobel Prize for literature for the quality of his books, but for his political prowess.

5.

Being stable in air at ordinary temperature, mercury combines with oxygen if heated.

6.

When the ends of a copper wire are joined to a device called an electric cell a steady

stream of electricity flows through the wire.

7.

The chief effects of electric currents are the magnetic, heating, and chemical effects.

8.

There

are

four

main

ways

of

joining

together

sheets

of

metal:

by

bolts,

by

rivets,

by

soldering and welding.

9.

This

chapter

has

clarified

the

relation

between

electric

charges

and

matter,

and

the

nature of the forces that unite atoms and molecules into solids.

10.

I had experienced generator and/or engine trouble.

11.

In

the

absence

of

force,

a

body

will

either

remain

at

rest,

or

continue

to

move

with

constant speed in a straight line.

12.

University applicants who had worked at a job would receive preference over those who

had not.