Chapter two unit two How to Grow Old

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Chapter twounit two How to Grow Old

• Key points
• I. Analyze text structures
• II. Understand the authors purpose

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Review wording through context 1

• Try to translate the following sentences
• He is working in the factory.
• He is working a machine.
• He is working at English.
• The machine works properly.
• My watch doesnt work.
• Will these methods work?
• The ship is working eastward.
• Electronic computers work quickly and accurately.

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Review wording through context 2

• He is the last person I will ask for help.
• ????????
• He is impossible to predict in detail the shape
  and mechanism of the robot slave. It might carry
  its computer and response mechanism around with
  it and also its source of power.
• ?????????????????????????????????????????????

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Key PointsI. Analyze text structure II.
Understand the authors Purpose
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Analyze text structure

• Analyze the text structure of unit two (the first
  step of translation)
• The text can be divided into 2 parts according to
  the ideas the author tries to show
• Part one para1-3, the problems the old meet
• para1, about health
• para23, two dangers in psychology
• Part two para45, how to grow old
• para4, attitude towards himself and his sons and
  daughters
• para5, attitude towards death

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Understand the authors purpose

• How to understand it
• Organization of the text
• Analyze that of paragraph 4 and 5
• Collocation of words (last)
• Sentence structures (next)
• Punctuations (eg. 1 on P27)
• Printing forms
• IN THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC
• AND THE ENVIRONMENT
• PLEASE
• SWITCH OFF YOUR ENGINE
• WHILST STATONARY

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Discussion 1

• Pay attention to the mood when translating.
• Each of us has his carrot and stick. In my case,
  the stick is my slackening physical condition,
  which keeps me from beating opponents at tennis
  whom I overwhelmed two years ago. My carrot is to
  win.
• ??????????????(??????)???????(?????),????????,????
  ???????????,????????????(???)??????

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Discussion 2

• Some scout-masterish philosophers argue that the
  appeal of jogging and other body-maintenance
  programs is the discipline they afford.
• Scout-masterish ????????,?????????
• XX????????(?????)???????
• ???????????????,???????????????????????????

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Discussion 3

• Weekend worship ????????
• The more obligations one takes on, the more time
  one occupies, the less threat freedom poses.
• Context ???(?/??)???????,???????,???????????
• For a portion of his day, the jogger is not his
  own man, he is obedient to a regimen he accepted.
• Ones own man ????,????

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Discussion 4

• Our lack of confidence in any hereafter , that
  makes us anxious to stretch our mortal stay as
  long as possible.
• Hereafter vs. mortal stay
• ??(life after death) vs. ??(??)
• We run, as the saying goes, for our lives,
  hounded by the suspicion that these are the only
  lives we are likely to enjoy.
• Hounded by ???? (??)
• Suspicion ??,??

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Discussion 5

• As the growth of cults and charismatic religions
  and the resurgence of enthusiasm for the military
  draft suggest, we do crave commitment.
• As the growth of cults and charismatic religions
  and the resurgence of enthusiasm for the military
  draft suggest, / we do crave commitment.
• Cults?????????
• Chairsmatic religion ?????????????
• do crave commitment emphasis ????????

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Discussion 6

• And who can doubt, watching so many middle-aged
  and older persons torturing themselves in the
  name of fitness, that we are unreconciled to
  death, more so perhaps than any generation in
  modern memory?
• And who can doubt, watching so many middle-aged
  and older persons torturing themselves in the
  name of fitness, that we are unreconciled to
  death, more so perhaps than any generation in
  modern memory?
• In modern memory modern history

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Discussion 7

• I suspect that what motivates us even more than a
  fear of death is a fear of dearth.
• I suspect that what motivates us even more than a
  fear of death is a fear of dearth.
• We feel more or less helpless and yet, at the
  same time, desirous to protect what resources we
  can.
• We feel more or less helpless and yet, at the
  same time, desirous to protect what resources we
  can.

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Discussion 8

• We recycle soda bottles and restore old buildings
  and protect our nearest natural resourceour
  physical healthin the almost superstitious hope
  that such small gestures will help save an earth
  that we are blighting.
• We recycle soda bottles and restore old buildings
  and protect our nearest natural resourceour
  physical healthin the almost superstitious hope
  that such small gestures will help save an earth
  that we are blighting.
• In the almost superstitious hope ????,??

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Homework

• Translate the rest of passage 2
• Read from P24 to P31
• Read the text in unit three