何兆熊综合英语第三册Unit-4.ppt

Para.12 “It occurred to me, while I was sitting around waiting for the fun to start, that not much is, and that I should tell you just in case you’re worried about your fun capacity.” It occurs to sb. --- sb. thinks of sth. suddenly in case --- lest; for fear While I was sitting around waiting for the fun to start, I suddenly thought of something: not much is fun, and I tell you this for fear that you might be worried about your ability to find fun in life. Para. 13: rhetorical device Find out examples of the following rhetorical devices: personification: A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form simile:A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as Para. 13 Paraphrase “I don’t mean to put damper on things. I just mean we ought to treat fun reverently. It is a mystery. It cannot be caught like virus. It cannot be trapped like an animal.” I don’t want to make things dull. I just suggest that we should have more respect on fun. It is a kind of divine force, and we cannot catch it as easily as catching a virus, or trap it as irreverently as trap an animal. Para. 13 Paraphrase “The god of mirth is paying us back for all those years of thinking fun was everywhere by refusing to come to our party. I don’t want to blaspheme fun anymore.” pay sb. back for sth. --- to make sb. suffer for doing sth. wrong or unpleasant (revenge/punish) The god of happiness is punishing us for regarding fun as easily obtained all through the year, the punishment was that real fun or happiness has been absent from our merry-making parties. I don’t want to treat fun in that irreverent way anymore. Para.12-15: Grammar Vocabulary damper: (infml.）something that stops an occasion from being as enjoyable as it was intended to be The bad news put/cast/threw a damper on the party. Will the snow put a bit of a damper on