Unit 11、“I was beside myself with excitement: my imagination fuelled by glamorous shots of the popular Hollywood temptresses.”I was extremely excited when I imagined myself in attractive pictures like those of popular actresses in Hollywood.2、Tears of frustration threatened to break fee as I wondered for the umpteenth time why the unfeeling teacher couldn’t look past my clothes for once and see the obedient and eager-to-participate young girl beneath.I could hardly hold back my tears because of frustration as I wondered, as I had many, many times before, why the unsympathetic teacher couldn’t overlook my clothes for once and notice How submissive and eager I was to participate.Unit 21、.writers compose in a kind of collaborative heat,knocking ideas against one another until t hey spark.”...writers work in a kind of cooperation by engaging themselves in heated discussions and argum ents about different ideas until they come up with really brilliant ones.2.Unless they adjust to the new medium,professional writers can come across as self-importan t blowhards in debates with more nimble networkers.”If they do not adjust themselves to the medium of netwriting,they can make themselves look co nceited and self-important in online debates with more quick-witted and flexible networkers.Unit 31、ever the learned say about a book, however unanimous they are in their praise of it, unless it interests you, it is no business of yours.”Even though many scholars highly praise a book, you don’t have to read it at all if you don’t find it interesting.2、when my work is done and I feel at ease, but not inclined for mental exercise of a strenuous character, I read history, essayswhen I finish my work, and I feel relaxed, and don’t want to beat my brains, I usually read history, essaysUnit 41、…securing admission to a top-flight university provides a child with an irrevocable passport to success,guaranteeing a life of uninterrupted economic mirth.…entering a first-rate university will certainly put children on the road to success and promise a w ealthy life.2.Here it is never entirely clear what parents are looking for,particularly in high-profile instituti ons whose renown has in some way preceded them.Given that the parents are already familiar with the achievements of the college.It is not clear w hat the parents come to search.Unit 51.The more the teaching of formal religion declines,or takes a sociological form,the less God appears to great numbers of people as a God of Love,resuming his older form of a watchful,min atory power,to be placated and cajoled.Religion seems to be a watchful dog with a threatening appearance and becomes less comforting when it loses its credibility or when it distances itself from people by taking a sociological form.2.Superstition in general is linked to man’s yearning to know his fate,and to have some hand i n deciding it.Generally,superstition has something to do with man’s strong desire to know what will happen t o him in the future and his wish to have some control over his fate.Unit 61.When we travel,we put aside our defenses,our anxiety,and invite regression.We go backw ard instead of forward.We cultivate our hysteria.When we travel,our alertness is slackened and our anxiety relieved;we turn our eyes to the past ,to what once happened instead of to what will happen in the future.We do not try to control ou rselves or suppress our desires any more.2.The centrifugal tendency turns centripetal,and modern travel books may be about the absen ce of things just as the classic books are about their presence.The tendency to travel in order to see the exotic world has become one to examine ourselves,an d modern travel books may focus on what we have“eliminated or edited out”of our culture,just as the classic travel books focus on what is still there.Unit 71.The best any of them can hope for is the honor of being a district or county vice-chairman,a k ind of separate-but-equal position which a woman is rewarded for years of faithful envelope st uffing and card-party organizing.After years of devoted service,the highest position a woman can expect to get is county vice-chai rman ----an auxiliary and subordinate position which can be regarded as an extension of the“sep arate-but-equal”doctrine to the nation’s political life concerning sex differentiation.2.The women of a nation mold its morals,its religion,and its politics by the lives they live. The women of a nation strongly influence its morals,its religion,and its politics by their actionsUnit 81.The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience it self:life’s gifts are precious --- but we are too heedless of them.The truth gathered from that experience is really very common or ordinary,just as the experience itself:Life’s gifts are precious,but we are often blind to them.2.Put them all together,exalt them above their present imperfections,add to them the vision of humankind redeemed,forever free of need and strife and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope.Put all these virtues together,glorify them despite the fact that they are still imperfect,add to th em the wisdom of humankind that is saved from sins and no longer suffers from poverty and figh ting,and then we will have a future glowing with hope.Unit 91.The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of sucking vigour from its vitalit y.The other thing one should avoid is being emotionally attached to young people,from whom one hopes to draw energy and vigor.2....and it is in this sphere that the wisdom born of experience can be exercised without being oppressive.…and it is in this area of impersonal interests(such as academic and artist interests)that the wisd om you have accumulated in your life can be practiced without putting any pressure on your child ren and grandchildren.Unit 101. deliberate September--- in its own time and tempo--begins to sum up another summer. September – coming as scheduled and in its unhurried pace – begins to reap what summer has yielded.2.the plant commits its future to the seed and the root. The insect stows tomorrow in the egg and the pupa.The plant entrusts its future to the seed and the root. The insect produces the egg and pupa in which its future is stored.3. By september’s end the treasure chest of autumn begins to “spill over” with wealth.By the end of September, the autumn season has gathered in an overwhelming abundance of wealth.Unit 111.possession is one with loss.Possession is the same as loss, because when one gains the possession of something, he loses something else or he also gains the risk of losing that possession.2.and perhaps i shall come to this in time. I shall wall in and fence out until i really taste the sweets of property.Perhaps I shall also build high stone walls before it is too late, i shall keep the wood exclusively to myself and enjoy the satisfaction of being a man of property.Unit 121.If the great myth ... of America is the story of progress, then Disney World is a place that masquerades as the happy ending, in which progress culminates in a utopia of transcendence that undoes the fallen state of nature, society and ourselves..…if the great myth of America is the story of progress,then Disney World servesas the happy ending in which progress reaches the ideal state of utopia that goes beyond limits of our physical world and changes the decadent state of nature,society and ourselves.2.... it does so by inviting us to regress to a state of happiness before the fall from childhood, with simplified visions of life that filter out the difficult truths of the self and society..…it does so by inviting us to see a world that is free from imperfection and to retreatto a happy period before childhood ended which is marked by unsophistication, free from moral decay, both individual and social.Unit 131.But it is necessary to write a letter to a friend --and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words.But it is necessary to write a letter to a friend, and the moment he begins to do it, affectionate thoughts immediately flood into his head and are expressed in well-chosen words.2.how beautiful, on their approach to this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!How beautiful are the walking steps and shapes of the two persons who are gifted and devoted, when they approach the one who is waiting for them in excitement!3....as many thought in succession substantiate themselves, well shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation...As many thoughts become reality one after another, we shall eventually live in a brand -new world created by ourselves, and then we will no longer be strangers or travelers in traditional world.Unit 141.“What is a course of history or philosophy, or poetry , no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine oflife ,compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?”任何学术课程，如历史、哲学或诗歌，无论多么深刻或选择得多么恰当，无论我们结交的最优秀的人，或确立的最佳生活方式，都不如与自然的直接接触和对周围事物的直接观察好。
