Spring sowing现代大学英语课文读后感
A simple life is a true life
Spring sowing, a simple but meaningful story, describes the first day of the first spring sowing of a newly-wedded couple against the background of a traditional agricultural country. Although the development of the story is flat without any suspense, just describing a whole day of spring sowing, but their life and dreams are fully revealed by the detailed description, such as their talks, behaviors and thoughts.
The story can be divided into four parts. Part one was the description of the setting of the story and the introduction of the two main characters of the story. The next part mainly told us about the young couple’s preparation for the work of spring sowing after their breakfast. The third part was the detailed description of their first day of spring sowing work. They worked very hard and were hopeful with their future. In addition, the author also described the different thought between the couple, especially the feelings of Mary. The last part described that they finished the work of the first day of the first spring sowing.
For Mary and Martin Delaney, as this important day will show what kind of wife or husband they have had, so they’re excited and a bit nervous about the spring sowing. Above all, as they’re hoping for a fruitful autumn and a good beginning of their new life, so they
work so hard regardless of the pain and fatigue from the dawn to dark. Spring sowing, in some ways, for them, means sow the hope of their life, their future. They have the typical farmer’s virtues. They’re painstaking, hardworking, frugal and responsible.
After reading this story, frankly speaking, the life in the story just the one I’m looking for all the time, simple but real, toilsome but meaningful. A simple life is a true life. Every day, in the morning, you and your lover go to your own field and start a day’s work. Maybe sometimes you feel so bored and tired that you want to leave just like Mary once thought. However, mutual love will melt everything. Once you and your lover sweated together; you and your lover suffered hardship together. You can not forget all of these unique memories, for the true and deep love already have been created during this time. The difficulty, poverty and common experience connect you with your lover tightly. In my view, that’s the true happiness, and the spiritual contentment surpasses the material contentment. Nevertheless, nowadays, the meaning of love has been spoiled and twisted. The marriage is more like a transaction rather than a promise of true love. Once in a while, I will feel sad and wonder that why people like fooling themselves. Possibly, you can not agree with me, because in the story Mary seems not to be very happy. But I think it is just her complaint, and everyone has complaint, in
addition, she is so young after all. What’s more, at the end of the story we know that all her dissatisfaction and weariness are vanished from her mind, and night will always bring sleep and forgetfulness.
I think for Mary, the happiness is that working with her husband. Definitely, the happiness, in fact, is simple and easy. Don’t always relate happiness with the money or the reality. Happiness is a kind of peaceful and magical feeling, which only belong to human beings. A simple life is a true life.
现代大学英语3课件
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现代大学英语精读翻译
现代大学英语精读翻译 Revised by Hanlin on 10 January 2021
第三课 T1. Today we are in the throes of a worldwide reformation of cultures, a tectonic shift of habits and dreams called, in the curious vocabulary of social scientists, “globalization”. (Para.1)今天我们正经历着一种世界范围文化剧变的阵痛,一种习俗与追求的结构性变化,用社会科学家奇特的词汇来称呼这种变化,就叫“全球化”. T2. Whatever their backgrounds or agendas, these critics are convinced that Western—often equated with American—influences will flatten every cultural crease, producing, as one observer terms it, one big “McWorld”. (Para.4) 不管他们的背景和纲领如何,这些对全球化持反对态度的人深信西方的影响—往往等同于美国的影响—会把所有文化上的差异一一压平,就像一位观察家所说的,最终产生一个麦当劳世界,一个充斥美国货和体现美国价值观的世界. T3. But I also discovered that cultures are as resourceful, resilient, and unpredictable as the people who compose them. (Para.8) 不过我也发现文化就如同构成文化的民族一样,善于随机应变,富有弹性而且不可预测.
现代大学英语精读book4-unit6课文
Book 4-Unit 5 Text A The Telephone Anwar F. Accawi 1.When I was growing up in Magdaluna, a small Lebanese village in the terraced, rocky mountains east of Sidon, time didn't mean much to anybody, except maybe to those who were dying. In those days, there was no real need for a calendar or a watch to keep track of the hours, days, months, and years. We knew what to do and when to do it, just as the Iraqi geese knew when to fly north, driven by the hot wind that blew in from the desert. The only timepiece we had need of then was the sun. It rose and set, and the seasons rolled by and we sowed seed and harvested and ate and played and married our cousins and had babies who got whooping cough and chickenpox—and those children who survived grew up and married their cousins and had babies who got whooping cough and chickenpox. We lived and loved and toiled and died without ever needing to know what year it was, or even the time of day. 2.It wasn't that we had no system for keeping track of time and of the important events in our lives. But ours was a natural or, rather, a divine—calendar, because it was framed by acts of God: earthquakes and droughts and floods and locusts and pestilences. Simple as our calendar was, it worked just fine for us. 3.Take, for example, the birth date of Teta Im Khalil, the oldest woman in Magdaluna and all the surrounding villages. When I asked Grandma, "How old is Teta Im Khalil" 4.Grandma had to think for a moment; then she said, "I've been told that Teta was born shortly after the big snow that caused the roof on the mayor's house to cave in."
现代大学英语第三册第一单元(精)
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(6 to resent the treatment (15 to expand business (7 to establish their identity (16 to expect better results (8 to frustrate the students (17 to assemble cars (9 to declare war (18 to present facts 2. Give synonyms and antonyms of the following. (P15 1 Give synonyms. (1 objective, purpose, end (7 choice (2 to happen (8 to choose/to pick or pick out (3 to increase/to enlarge/to grow/to develop (9 main/chief/principal/leading (4 to try/to attempt/to make an effort (10 belief (5 clear (11 strong feeling (6 magazine (12 to get/to gain/to obtain 2 Give antonyms. (1 masculine (9 to exclude (2 immature (10 disapproval (3 independence (11 mistrust/distrust
现代大学英语第二版第二册课后翻译
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现代大学英语精读2课文
Unit1 Another School Year — What For Let me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as a teacher. It was January of 1940 and I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. Part of the student body was a beanpole with hair on top who came into my class, sat down, folded his arms, and looked at me as if to say "All right, teach me something." Two weeks later we started Hamlet. Three weeks later he came into my office with his hands on his hips. "Look," he said, "I came here to be a pharmacist. Why do I have to read this stuff" And not having a book of his own to point to, he pointed to mine which was lying on the desk. New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Science. It would not read: Qualified Pill-Grinding Technician. It would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history. That is to say, he had not entered a technical training school but a university and in universities students enroll for both training and education.
现代大学英语精读3课文电子版
Michael Welzenbach 1. When I was 12 years old, my family moved to England, the fourth major move in my short life. My father’s government job demanded that he go overseas every few years, so I was used to wrenching myself away from friends. 2. We rented an 18th-century farmhouse in Berkshire. Nearby were ancient castles and churches. Loving nature, however, I was most delighted by the endless patchwork of farms and woodland that surrounded our house. In the deep woods that verged against our back fence, a network of paths led almost everywhere, and pheasants rocketed off into the dense laurels ahead as you walked. 3. I spent most of my time roaming the woods and fields alone, playing Robin Hood, daydreaming, collecting bugs and bird-watching. It was heaven for a boy —but a lonely heaven. Keeping to myself was my way of not forming attachments that I would only have to abandon
现代大学英语精读1课本内容及翻译
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现代大学英语精读第3册教案
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现代大学英语精读1课文翻译
现代大学英语精读1unit6课文翻译 第六单元 青香蕉 1.尽管这种事情在任何地方都可能发生，但我与青香蕉的邂逅却源自于巴西腹地一条险峻的山路上。我那老式吉普车正吃力地穿过景色优美的乡村，这时，水箱突然漏水了，而离我最近的汽车修理站也 还要十英里。发动机过热迫使我在临近的村庄停了下来。村里有一个小商店和分布在四处的几座房子。有村民围过来看，三股细细的热水柱从水箱外壳上的小孔喷出来。“这容易解决，”一个人说到。他让一个小男孩跑去拿些青香蕉来。这个人还拍了拍我的肩膀，安慰我问题会解决的。“青香蕉。”他笑了，其余的人都这么说着。 2.我和他们闲聊起来，心里却一直在想他们用这青香蕉怎么能修补好水箱。毫无疑问，提问会暴露我的无知，因此我开始赞叹眼前美 丽的乡村景色。耸立在我们周围巨大的岩石群，很像里约热内卢著名的糖面包山。“看见那边那块高高的岩石了吗？”那人指着一块特别 高而且细长的黑色石柱问我，“那块岩石标志着世界的中心。” 3.我看着他，想知道他是否在和我开玩笑，但他却表情严肃，反过来认真地审视着我，似乎想确定我是否领会了他那句话的深刻含义。这种情况要求我必须表现出认同。他点头说：“绝对是中心。这儿的人都知道。” 4.这时，小男孩抱着青香蕉回来了。那个男子把其中一根掰成两
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paraphrase excercise现代大学英语第3册
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