综英Unit-8-Two-Truths-to-Live-By上课讲义
TWO_TRUTHS_TO_LIVE_BY
new words and phrases
1.enjoin
• 禁止 forbid ban inhibit enjoin sb.from doing sth. The judge enjoined him from selling alcohol. • 命令，嘱咐 order to do impose on enjoin sb.to do /sth.on Our boss enjoined us to obey the rules. He enjoined a duty on his assistant.
Translation of long sentences
• 1. (Paragraph1) The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
• Tips: nay:adv,否，不；不但如此，而且
• 这是不太容易学到的教训，特别当我们年 轻，以为世界掌握在我们手中，无论我们 满怀激情、全力渴望什么，都能够，不， 都将是我们的。但是后来生活推进，让我 们面对现实，我们渐渐而确定地明白了第 二条真理。
• Rabbi Chanayo Ben Teradyon • When he was burned at the stake ,he replied “I see the parchment burning,but the letters of the law, they soar on high.”
《Two Truths to Live by》-backgroud & new words研究生英语课程-犹太教介绍
nay
【n.】 • a negative
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.我指著信实的神说:我们向你们所传的道并没有 是而又非的 【adv.】 • not this merely but also; not only so; but Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.然而靠著爱我们的主、在这 一切的事上已经得胜有馀了。
demise
【n.】 • transfer of the sovereignty to a successor. Upon his demise，his house passed to his son.他故 世后，房子便传给了儿子。 • death or a cessation of existence or activity. Focus upon death, disease, demise, and you shall live to experience such.聚焦于死亡、疾病、沮丧，而 你会活生生地去体验这些。 【v.】 • to convey by will or lease • to transmit by succession or inheritance • die, decease
cling to
• cling to:hold firmly it enjoins us to cling to many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
• cling together:unite as one We should cling together in times Live by
Unit 8 Two Truths to Live By Language Work 词汇
Unit 8Two Truths to Live ByLanguage WorkParagraph 1“when to hold fast and when to let go”Paraphrase: when to grasp something in your hand firmly and when to release it“For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.”Paraphrase: For life is a paradox: On one side, it encourages us to hold on to all those beautiful things it can offer us, on the other side, it commands us to let all of them go in the end.paradox n. a situation which is strange because it involves two qualities that could not be true at the same timeHere, the author means that you need to hold fast to something that you must let go of eventually.enjoin vt. to strongly advise or order someone to do somethinge.g. The proposed law enjoins employers to give workers time off to care for sickchildren and ageing parents.He enjoined caution about believing what they told us.The rabbis of old: The rabbis in ancient timesParagraph 2“Surely we ought to hold fa st to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of the earth.”Paraphrase:We must value every day we live, for it is surprisingly good, and from every little hole on the earth something beautiful springs up.wondrous adj. extremely and surprisingly goode.g. a wondrous sight/soundOur new improved face cream has wondrous effects on tired-looking skin.pore n. one of the very small holes in your skin that sweat can pass throughe.g. Sweat passes through the pores and cools the body down.Pimples form when pores become blocked with dirt.The border in this region is porous and many refugees have simply walked across.only in our backward glance: only as we examine our lives in retrospectParagraph 3“We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned.”Paraphrase: We’ll always remember a beauty that dimmed or a love that diminished.wane v. if a feeling or power wanes, it becomes weaker or less importante.g. By the late seventies the band’s popularity was beginning t o wane.Public interest in environmental issues tends to wane during a recession.Paragraph 5“The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard on a gurney.”Paraphrase: I was pushed across the courtyard on a gurney to the other side of the hospital where the necessary equipment was, in order to take some tests.wheel v.to move something that has wheels by pushing it; to publicly produce someone or something and sue them to help you achieve something; to turn around suddenlye.g. Doctors put her on a respirator and wheeled her downstairs to the intensive careunit.Every time we have this argument you wheel out the same old statistics, and I’mstill not convinced!She wheeled round and slapped him in the face.Paragraph 6“... the sunlight hit me.”Paraphrase: ... the sunlight suddenly shone upon me with force.Notice the word “hit”. It carries the meaning of affecting someone with considerable force.“That’s all there was to my experience.”Paraphrase: That is the only thing I experienced at that moment — the sunlight.Paragraph 7“Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splendor of it all.”Paraphrase:Then I remembered how often I, too, had ignored the magnificence of each day, since I was too busy with insignificant and even unpleasant things.preoccupy vt. (preoccupation n.) if something preoccupies you, you think about it a lot, or it takes a lot of your timee.g. She’s been very preoccupied recently because her mother has been very ill.My main preoccupation now is trying to keep life normal for the sake of my two boys.petty adj. (pettiness n.) not important and not worth worrying about; unkind and caring too much about small unimportant thingse.g. Don’t be so petty!It was the pettiness of their arguments that irritated her.splendor n. great beauty which attracts admiration and attentione.g. They bought a decaying 16th century manor house and restored it to its originalsplendor.So many writers have described the splendors of Venice.Paragraph 8“The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itsel f: life’s gifts are precious —but we are too heedless of them.”Paraphrase: What we have learned from that experience is, in fact, nothing unusual: Life is full of wonderful experiences, but we seldom give them the attention they deserve.glean vt.to learn small pieces of information by asking questions or watching or listening carefullye.g. They’re leaving on Tuesday — I managed to glean that much from them.Their decisions were based on financial information gleaned from the Internet.commonplace adj. happening frequently or often seen or experienced and so not considered to be speciale.g. Home computers are increasingly commonplace.It is now commonplace for people to use the Internet at home.heedless adj.not giving attention to a risk or possible difficultye.g. Heedless destruction of the rainforests is contributing to global warming.Heedless of the terrible noise all around, the boy carried on with his work.Paragraph 9“Never be too busy for the wonder and the awe of life.”Paraphrase: We should always manage to squeeze some time out of our daily routine to show respect to the marvels and wonders of life.awe n. a feeling of great respect and admiration, often combined with feare.g. I’ve always held musicians in awe.As children we were rather in awe of our grandfather.We stood there in awed silence.Paragraph 10“Hold fast to life ... but not so fast that you cannot let go.”Paraphrase: Cherish every day we live ... but when it is time to give things up, we should be able to do so.let go: to stop holding something or someone; to stop worrying or thinking too much about something; to relax completely and enjoy yourselfe.g. Hold on tight and don’t let go!I know what he said wasn’t strictly accurate but I let it go anyway.It’s a party —let yourself go!Paragraph 11“But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us.”Paraphrase: But then life goes on and we have to face realities. Little by little, we are sure to become aware of the second truth.dawn v. if something such as a thought or a feeling dawns, you begin to realize, understand, or feel ite.g. It eventually dawned that they would never be coming back.Realization of the danger soon dawned on us.We had trusted him for many years, but gradually the truth about him dawned. Paragraph 12“At every stage of life we sustain losses —and grow in the process.”Paraphrase: At every stage of life we suffer losses — and we mature in the process.sustain vt. to suffer damage, an injury or loss of moneye.g. She sustained multiple injuries in the accident.Most buildings sustained only minimal damage in the earthquake.The company has sustained heavy losses this year“... when we emerge from the womb and lose its protective shelter.” Paraphrase: ... when we are born and lose the protection of our mother’s womb.“enter a progression of schools”Paraphrase: enter schools one after another in a progressive way (from kindergarten to college)childhood homehomes where we spend our childhood“... as the parable of the open and closed hand suggests ...”Paraphrase: Here the author refers to the saying of the rabbis in ancient times mentioned inParagraph 13“But why should we be reconciled to life’s contradictory demands?” Paraphrase:But why should we be prepared to accept life’s paradoxical demands?reconcile vt. (reconciliation n.) to find a way to make ideas, beliefs, needs, etc. that are opposed to each other capable of existing togethere.g. It’s difficult to reconcile suc h different points of view.How can you reconcile your fur coat with your love of animals?It took hours of negotiation to bring about a reconciliation between the two sides.Paragraph 14“In order to resolve this paradox, we must seek a wider perspectiv e, viewing our lives as through windows that open on eternity.”Paraphrase: In order to get to the bottom of this paradox, we must try to see further and wider. Then we’ll be able to realize that human life is something that can last for ever.perspective n. a way of thinking about somethinge.g. Her attitude lends a fresh perspective to the subject.Because of its geographical position, Germany’s perspective on the situation inEastern Europe is rather different from Britain’s.Total investments for this year reached ￡53 million, and, to put this intoperspective, investments this year were double those made last year.Paragraph 15“The institutions we build endure, and we will endure through them.” Paraphrase: The social systems and customs we create will continue to exist, and thus our influence also.“Our flesh may perish, our hands will wither, but that which they create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come.”Paraphrase: Our body may die, our hands will become dry and decay, but the beauty, the goodness, and the truth that they have created will continue to exist for eternity.perish v.to die, usually because of an illness or something that happens suddenlye.g. Three hundred people perished in the earthquake.Sunlight has caused the rubber to perish.Me, get married? Perish the thought.wither vi. to become weaker or smaller and then disappeare.g. Grass had withered in the fields.withered leaves/flowersThere was some debate as to whether the benefit scheme should be withdrawnor simply allowed to wither on the vine.Paragraph 16“Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.”Paraphrase: Do not put too much value on the material, because only ideals can add meaning to life and be of lasting value.pursue vt. to follow a course of activity; to try to achieve somethinge.g. The hunters spent hours pursuing their prey.He’s been pursuing her for months and yet she’s so clearly not interested.The press has pursued this story relentlessly.She is ruthless in pursuing her goals.Paragraph 17“Add justice to the far-flung round of human endeavor and you have civilization”Paraphrase:We will have civilization, if we add justice to our continuous efforts far and wide.“... you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope.”Paraphrase: ... you have a bright future full of hope.radiant adj. very bright; someone who is radiant looks extremely happye.g. He gave a radiant smile when he heard her news.He was struck by the radiance of her smile.A single beam of light radiated from the lighthouse.。
two truths to live by课文课件
two truths to live by课文课件全文共四篇示例，供读者参考第一篇示例：Two Truths to Live By1. Truth #1: Treat Others as You Would Like to Be TreatedThe golden rule, “treat others as you would like to be treated,” is a fundamental principle that can help us create harmonious relationships with others. When we treat others with kindness, respect, and empathy, we are more likely to receive the same treatment in return. By showing love and compassion to those around us, we can build a strong support system and create a positive environment for ourselves and others.第二篇示例：在我们的日常生活中，有许多值得我们遵循的真理和道理。
在这篇文章中，我们将探讨两个可以帮助我们更好生活的真理。
这两个真理是：诚实和善良。
这两个真理是我们在日常生活中应该遵循的基本原则，并且可以帮助我们建立更加积极、正面的人生态度。
第一个真理是诚实。
诚实是一个人最基本的品质之一，也是构建良好人际关系的基础。
在我们的日常生活中，经常会遇到需要说谎的情况，但是诚实才是我们应该遵循的原则。
只有诚实才能建立信任，而信任是人与人之间互相依赖的基础。
不管是在工作、家庭还是社交圈中，诚实都是至关重要的。
另一个真理是善良。
善良是一个人品德的象征，也是我们应该保持的态度。
大学英语综合教程2UNIT8
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新编大学生基础英语综合教程第二册教学课件Unit 08--Lesson 2
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Two_Truths_to_Live_by(中英对照)
Two Truths to Live byHold fast, and let go: Understand this paradox, and you stand at the very gate of wisdomAlexander M. SchindlerCommencement speech at the University of South Carolina in 1987The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of old put it this way: “A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God's own earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more.We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered.A recent experience re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place.One morning, I had to have some additional tests. The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard on a gurney.As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. That's all there was to my experience. Just the light of the sun. And yet how beautiful it was--how warming, how sparkling, how brilliant!I looked to see whether anyone else relished the sun's golden glow, but everyone was hurrying to and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground. Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splendor of it all.The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: life's gifts are precious--but we are too heedless of them.Here then is the first pole of life's paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be reverent before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute.Hold fast to life...but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of life's coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passionate being can, nay, will, be ours.But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us.At every stage of life we sustain losses--and grow in the process .We begin our independent lives only when we emerge from the womb and lose its protective shelter.We enter a progression of schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let them go. We confront the death of our parents and our spouses. We face the gradual or not sogradual waning of our own strength.And ultimately, as the parable of the open and closed hand suggests, we must confront the inevitability of our own demise, losing ourselves, as it were, all that we were or dreamed to be.But why should we be reconciled to life's contradictory demands Why fashion things of beauty when beauty is evanescent Why give our heart in love when those we love will ultimately be torn from our graspIn order to resolve this paradox, we must seek a wider perspective, viewing our lives as through windows that open on eternity. Once we do that, we realize that though our lives are finite, our deeds on earth weave a timeless pattern.Life is never just being. It is a becoming, a relentless flowing on. Our parents live on through us, and we will live on through our children. The institutions we build endure, and we will endure through them. The beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death.Our flesh may perish, our hands will wither, but that which they create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.Add love to a house and you have a home. Add righteousness to a city and you have a community.Add truth to a pile of red brick and you have a school. Add religion to the humblest of edifices and you have a sanctuary. Add justice to the far-flung round of humanendeavor and you have civilization.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.人生的两条真理抓紧与放松：理解了这一悖论，你便立于智慧之门亚历山大·辛德勒1987年在南卡罗来那大学毕业典礼上的演讲生活的艺术就是要懂得适时地收与放，因为生活本身即是一种悖论：一方面，它让我们依恋于它所赋予的各种馈赠；另一方面，又注定了我们对这些礼物最终的弃绝。
综合英语(2)Unit 8 课件
zeal
• noun [U] extreme enthusiasm热心;热诚[U] [(+for)] • e.g. His boss highly appreciates his zeal for his work. 他的上司十分欣赏他的工作热情。 He shows great zeal（=desire) for knowledge.他表现 出极大的求知欲。 religious zeal • Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
reflection
• On reflection (= after thinking again), I think I was wrong. • After a minute's reflection, he answered. 他沉思片刻后才回答。 • Her achievements are a reflection of her courage. 她的成就是她勇气的显示 • a reflection on sb./sth.: something that makes people have a particular opinion about someone or something, especially a bad opinion reflections on the current situation对当前形势的看法 • He is simply a reflection of his father.他极象他的父亲。
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• It is plain that one may gain no inconsiderable body of learning in some special field of knowledge without at the same time acquiring those habits and traits which are the marks of an educated gentleman. • no inconsiderable: immense, large and important • The relationship between learning and knowledge • The relationship between learning and habits and traits
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综合教程6(第2版)电子教案
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2. Life is a process in which you gain and lose in turn. Nowadays, we won’t be so surprised to hear that someone would resign from a job with bright prospects, and decide to start a voyage around the world or go to the poorest areas to be a volunteer. If you are required to give up something for something else, how would you make the choice? And why? Think of one or two such instances in your life.
综合教程6(第2版)电子教案
Learning Objectives Rhetorical skill: parallelism in imperative sentences Key language & grammar points Writing strategies: descriptive narration Theme: life itself is a paradox
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Some famous sentences about life 1) Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for
4) The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do. -- Henry David Thoreau 尽管失败和挫折等待着人们，一次次地夺走青春的容颜，但 却给人生的前景增添了一份尊严，这是任何顺利的成功都不 能做到的。 -- 梭罗
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Something you want emerges, would you capture it or let it go?
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Unit 8 Two Truths to Live By
Contents Learning Objectives Pre-reading Activities Global Reading Detailed Reading Consolidation Activities Further Enhancement
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Some famous sentences about life 3) 换个角度，没有了苦，我们怎能知道什么是甜？没有了痛苦
，我们怎能知道什么是幸福？也就是说，因为苦的存在，才 有了甜，有了痛苦烦恼的存在，才有了快乐幸福。当你能飞 的时候就不要放弃飞；当你能梦的时候就不要放弃梦；当你 能爱的时候就不要放弃爱。
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综合教程6(第2版)电子教案
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人生潮起潮落 若能把握机会乘风破浪，必定能马到成功 若不能把握机会，人生的航行就只能受限于浅陋和悲苦之中 我们正漂流在茫茫大海 当浪潮涌来时，我们必须把握住它 否则就会使我们的冒险失败 -----莎士比亚：《裘里斯.凯撒》
people. 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。 2) There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. ----- William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar