研究生英语综合教程上之unit7的summary

Unit 7

The Monster

Deems Taylor

1 He was an undersized little man, with a head too big for his body ― a sickly little

man. His nerves were bad. He had skin trouble. It was agony for him to wear

anything next to his skin coarser than silk. And he had delusions of grandeur.

2 He was a monster of conceit. Never for one minute did he look at the world or at

people, except in relation to himself. He believed himself to be one of the greatest

dramatists in the world, one of the greatest thinkers, and one of the greatest

composers. To hear him talk, he was Shakespeare, and Beethoven, and Plato, rolled

into one. He was one of the most exhausting conversationalists that ever lived.

Sometimes he was brilliant; sometimes he was maddeningly tiresome. But whether

he was being brilliant or dull, he had one sole topic of conversation: himself. What

新一代大学英语提高篇2综合教程unit7全文翻译

The story of our English language is typically one of

massive stealing from otherlanguages. That is why English today

has an estimated vocabulary of over onemillion words, while

other major languages have far fewer.

French, for example, has only about 75,000 words, and that

includes Englishexpressions like snack bar and hit parade. The

French, however, do not likeborrowing foreign words because

they think it corrupts their language. Thegovernment tries to

ban words from English and declares that Walkman is

notdesirable; so they invent a word, balladeur, which French

kids are supposed to sayinstead -- but they don't.

Walkman is fascinating because it isn't even

English.Strictly speaking, it wasinvented by the Japanese

manufacturers who put two simple English wordstogether to name

UNIT7

1. Several leading modern business leaders seem, surprisingly, to

downplay the importance of strategy. You can make too much fuss about

strategy, they imply--- you have a few clear options; just choose one and

get on with it. is it really that simple?

2. “Strategy is straightforward---just pick a general direction and

implement like hell.”

Jack Welch, for example---the chairman and CEO of the USA’s General

Electric Company; the man who grow the company from a market

capitalization of $27 billion to a $140 billion, making GE the largest and

most valuable company in the world. he must know a thing or two about

strategy. But here’s what he says: “In real life, strategy is actually very

straightforward. You pick a general direction and you implement like hell.”

Or Allan leighton, the man who was recruited by Archie Norman to help

. Unite 1

P15

1.Your job as a future employee is to help the hiring manager mitigate/alleviate(减轻，降低) that

risk.作为一个未来的员工,你的工作是帮助招聘经理降低风险。

2.You need help them identify(认定，认同) you as prospective/expected(预期的，未来的) “key

player”.你需要帮助他们认定你有潜力成为一名核心员工。

3.Kelly was outstanding and outshone/surpassed(优于,超过) every other player on the field.凯利非常出色，胜过了球场上所有其他球员。

4.Better still,develop a reputation inside your lab and with people your lab collaborates with as a

person who fosters and initiates/originates(发动，创建) collaborations.更为有利的是，要在你实验室内部，以及在和你们实验室合作的人之间，培养一个良好的声誉：一个鼓励并发动合作的人。

5.He is a former scientist who transitioned/transferred(转变，改变) to industry many years ago

and then on to a senior management position.他之前是一名科学家，许多年前他转向了企业，并一直做到高级经理的职位。

6.The unions mobilized/organized(组织) thousands of workers in a protest(抗议，游行) against