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Unit 12 A Break from Life
I. New words
and expressions
New words
1.
cranky adj.
脾气坏的
2. laundry n.
要（或正在）洗的衣物；刚洗好的衣物
3. resemble v.
看起来像；显得像；像
resemble: take after
resemblance
4. throb n.
（强烈有规律的）跳动；阵阵的疼痛
5. subside v.
趋于平静；平息；减弱；消退
6.
ache v.
疼痛；隐痛
7.
joint n.
关节
8.
shuffle v.
拖着脚走
9. wiggle v.
（使）扭动，摆动，摇动
10.
sniffle n.
抽鼻子（声）
11. tissue n. (
尤指用作手帕的
)
纸巾，手巾纸
12.
pillow n.
枕头
13.
crack v.
找到解决（难题等的）方法
14. contagious adj.
患接触性传染病的
15. germ
n.
微生物；细菌；病菌
16.
resourceful adj.
机敏的；足智多谋的；随机应变的
17. scrounge v.
觅取；搜寻
18. nurture
v.
养育；养护；培养
19.
chore n.
令人厌烦的任务、乏味无聊的工作
20. respite n.
暂停；暂缓
21.
manufacture v.
编造；捏造
22. symptom n.
症状
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23. pamper
v.
细心照顾；精心护理；娇惯；纵容
24. hermit n.
隐土；隐修者；遁世者
25.
gel n.
凝胶，冻胶（尤指用于头发或护肤的产品）
26. hearty adj.
大的；丰盛的
27.
chamomile n.
苹果菊；春黄菊；甘菊
28. vanilla-scented adj.
香草味的
29. gingerly
adv.
谨慎地；小心翼翼地；轻手轻脚地
30. grateful adj.
感激的；表示感谢的
be grateful to sb. for sth.
ungrateful
比较：
graceful
disgraceful
31. spa n.
水疗
32. tub n.
浴缸；浴盆
33. drain
n.
下水道；排水管
34.
refresh v.
使恢复精力；使凉爽
35. emotionally adv.
感情上地；情感上地
emotion
emotional
36. empower v.
增加（某人的）自主权；使控制局势
37. permission n.
准许；许可；批准
permit
38. justify v.
对…作出解释；为…辩解（或辩护）
39. awareness n.
知道；认识；意识
Phrases and Expressions
1.
pile up
堆积；积压
2.
come down with
患，得，染上（小病）
3. slip away
消失；消亡；死去
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4. respond to
作出反馈；响应
5. care
for
照顾，照料（病、老、幼者等）
6. tend to
照料；照管；护理
II. Text
Learning
Feeling Free
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I woke up
feeling cranky. I didn't want to do
housework, though the laundry was
piling up. I didn't
want to read the
work I brought home from the office.
I
didn't want to do anything that resembled
responsible behavior. It was that kind
of day.
（承上总
结句）
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As I drank my
morning tea, I thought I felt a
headache coming on. Yes, there it was,
a dull
throb just behind my eyes. Maybe
I should go back to
bed until it
subsided. As I put the dishes in the sink,
it seemed that my muscles were
beginning to ache. Or
was the ache in
my joints? That could mean I
was coming
down with the flu.
（承上启下句）
Everyone
I knew had the flu
this year. Why should I be the one
to
escape it? I absolutely should be in bed.
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I shuffled back
to bed, wiggled under the covers
and
shut my eyes. (1)Another couple of hours of sleep
would be so nice, but I was already
completely
awake. I ought to get up.
But no, there was that
headache and the
beginning of a sniffle. Better get the
tissues.
本部分重点及难点：
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1. Another couple of
hours of sleep would be so nice,
but I
was already completely awake.
be
completely / wide awake
be fast / sound
asleep
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On my
way back from the bathroom with
a
family-sized
（适合全家用的）
tissue
box, I stopped to
grab that big new
novel I had bought but had no time
to
read. I opened the book and settled against the
pillows.
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The morning was moving along and so was
my
reading. Another twenty pages and I
was stretching. I
should try to
crack
（找到解决办法）
the report I
was
working on. I should at least get
up and do the wash.
What if I was
contagious? I certainly didn't want
to
spread any germs. The wash could wait. (2)My
family was resourceful enough to
scrounge clothing
for the next day.
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Maybe I wasn't
actually getting the flu. I didn't
really want to be sick. To be truthful,
all I wanted was
a little time off.
(3)I needed to nurture myself away
from
people, chores, career and the outside
world. Did I have to wait to be sick to
do that? As a
child, the only respite
from school or family chores
was
illness. But I wasn't a child any more. (4)Did I
have to manufacture symptoms to provide
myself
with an excuse? No, I decided, I
didn't.
本部分重点及难点：
2. My family was resourceful enough to
scrounge
clothing for the next day.
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家人足够有能力找到第二天能穿的衣服。
3.I needed to nurture myself away from
people,
chores, career and the outside
world.
nurture
养育，培养，培育；支持，鼓励
Parents want to know the best way to
nurture and
raise their child to
adulthood.
父母们想了解把他们的孩
子养育成人的
最好方法。
She had always
nurtured great ambitions for her son.
她一直在培养她儿子的雄心大志。
The human learns partly by nature,
partly by nurture.
人的学习能力部分是先天的，部分是后天培育的。
nature and nurture
先天与后天，遗传与
环境；先天遗传
说和后天培养说
We
want to nurture the project, not destroy it.
我们要
支持这个新工程，不要破坏它。
4. Did I have to manufacture symptoms
to provide
myself with an excuse?
(1) manufacture
编造，捏造
(2) provide
sb. with sth. / provide sth. for sb.
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I talked to
myself. Okay, I said, you need a day off.
Admit it. Accept it. Toss out the guilt
and enjoy a
mini-vacation. What would
you like to do? Read?
You're already
doing that. Pamper yourself? Take a
bubble bath. Be a hermit? Let the
machine answer
the phone.
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I poured half
the bottle of bath gel into the
streaming water and added a hearty
handful of
chamomile bath salts. Then I
lit a vanilla-scented
candle and
gingerly stepped into the bathtub. With a
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grateful
sigh, I immersed myself in my homemade spa.
I heard the phone ring somewhere off in
the distance
and smiled.
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It is funny how
the aches subsided in the heat of
the
tub. They just slipped away with the last of the
bubbles down the drain. My head felt
just fine, the
throb replaced by a
sense of well-being.
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By late afternoon, I was back at it,
refreshed
physically, mentally and
emotionally. And rather
than feeling
helpless, I felt empowered. (5)I had given
myself permission to listen and respond
to my needs,
to care for myself the way
I tended to my family. (6)I
didn't need
the crutch of illness to justify a rest. It
was such a simple awareness, but then
isn't it the
simple things that set us
free?
本部分重点及难点：
5. I had given myself permission to
listen and respond
to my needs, to care
for myself the way I tended to my
family.
(1) give sb.
permission to do sth.
(2) respond to
one's needs: meet one's needs
(3) the
way sb. did sth.
(4) tend to sb.
照顾，照料
(5)
译文：我给了自己倾听并满足自己需求的机会，像照顾
家人一样关心一下自己。
6. I didn't need the crutch
of illness to justify a rest.
(1)
crutch:
拐杖；依靠，支持
(2) justify: prove sth. to be
reasonable
The high quality of the
cloth justifies its high price.
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III.
部分练习讲解
P325
Bridging the Gap
Directions: Fill in
the blanks with a word or a phrase
that
best completes the passage. You may choose a
suitable one from the list given.
解题方法：把词分类
动词
形容词
副词
介词
代词
get out of
positive
physically
through
one
free
unfortunately
in
addition to
either
（限定词）
rather
than
Nothing takes its toll
on the body
（对身体有害）
like
stress. 1 In addition
tothe mental damage that it
causes,
stress is also linked to many diseases,
including cancer. 2Unfortunately, in
today's world,
most of us are
experiencing a stressful life with no
way to get out of it - or so we think.
If you are 3 oneof the many people who
want to
alleviate your stress, you can
learn some simple
techniques to help
you 4 get out ofthe vicious cycle of
leading a stressful life. Your
stressful life does not
just affect
you, but everyone around you. It affects
your relationships as well as any
children or
co-workers. Most of all, it
can actually make
you 5physicallyill.
Do you really want to go 6 throughthe
rest of your life
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feeling
Perhaps
it is time for you to confront this situation
and seek help to restore some sort of
balance in your
life and break 7 free
from this cycle.
There are many facets
to stress. Stress manifests
itself
（显露）
in many different ways and can
be 8 eitherself-
induced
（自诱导的）
or something
that
occurs in life. We can never
eliminate stress from our
lives, as
stressful situations are part of life. However,
we can learn to react to stress in a 9
positivemanner
and take control of the
situation 10 rather
thanallowing the
stress to remain in control.
I. New
words and expressions
New words
1. skinny adj.
极瘦的；干瘦的；皮包骨头的
2.
curly adj.
鬈发（或毛）的；卷曲状的
3. adjust v.
适应；习惯
4.
worthwhile adj.
重要的；令人愉快的；有趣的；得花时
间（或花钱、努力等）的
5. puberty
n.
青春期
6.
tempting adj.
吸引人的；诱人的；有吸引力的
7. celeb n.
名人（
ce
lebrity
的缩写）
8.
bloomer n.
完全成熟的人
9. temporary adj.
短暂的；暂时的；临时的
10.
spurt n.
（速度、干劲、活动或感情的）短时激增，迸
发
11. permanently adv.
永久地；永恒地；长久地
12.
gene n.
基因
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13. embarrassed adj.
（人或行为）（尤指在社交场合）
窘迫的，尴尬的，害羞的
embarrass
embarrassed
embarrassing
embarrassment
to
one's embarrassment
much to
one's embarrassment
to
one's great embarrassment
14. mature v.
成熟；长成
maturity
immature
15. bulked-up adj.
胀大的；发起来的
16.
influence v.
影响；对…起作用
influential
注意比较
benefit-beneficial
17. criticize v.
批评；批判；挑剔；指责
critic
critical
criticism
18.
hurtful adj.
感情的；伤害自尊的
19. peer n.
身份（或地）
l
相同的人；同龄人；同辈
20. racial adj.
种族的；种族间的
21.
ethnic adj.
种族的；民族的
22. prejudice n.
偏见；成见
23.
ignorance n.
无知
ignore
ignorant
24. independent adj.
自立的；自食其力的
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25. boost v.
使增长；使兴旺
26.
optimistic adj.
乐观的；抱乐观看法的
optimist
optimism
反义词：
pessimist
pessimistic
pessimism
27. capable adj.
有能力的；有才能的
incapable
capability
28. lifestyle n.
生活方式；工作方式
29.
combination n.
结合体；联合体；混合体
combine
combined
结合的，化合的
30. verify v.
核实；查对；核准
31.
ultimately adv.
最终；最后；终归
32. nutritious adj.
有营养的；营养丰富的
nutrition
malnutrition
再如：
maltreat, malfunction
Phrases and Expressions
1. put
…
down
使（当众）出丑；使出洋相；让某人现眼
2. go through
经历；遭受
3. be
linked to
与…有联系
4. fill out
膨胀；扩张；长胖；长肥
5.
feel good
感到愉快
(
或有
信心等
)
6. keep track of
了解…的情况（或动态）
II.
Text Learning
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