Lesson Eighteen ;
Words and Expressions ;
accept/k'sept/ vt.接受 accuse/'kju:z/ vt.指责,控告 ;
advantage /d'va:ntid/n.优点 apply/'plai/ vi.适用 ;
bargain/'ba:gin/ vi.讨价还价,议价 buy/bai/vt.& vi.买 ;
bought/b:t/ (过去式,过去分词) ;
carrier bag /'kri bg/ n.购物袋 ;
cash/k/ n.现金,现款 cheque/tek/ n.支票(=[美]check) ;
close/kluz/vt.关,闭 compare/km'pe/ vt.比较 ;
compensate /'kmpenseit/ vt.& vi.补偿 ;
considerable /kn'sidrbl/ adj.相当大(或多)的 ;
consult/kn'slt/ vt.查阅 i consumer/kn'sju:m/ n.消费者,用户 ;
convenience /kn'vi:nins/ n.便利,方便 ;
convenience food n.方便食品 credit/'kredit/ n.信用 ;
credit card n.信用卡 customary /'kstmri/ adj.习惯的 ;
department store n.百货商店 detection/di'tekn/ n.检测 ;
develop/di'velp/ vt.发展,使成长,使发达 differ/'dif/ vi.不同，相异 ;
differ from 与...不同 discount/'diskaunt/ n.折扣 ;
discount store n.廉价商店 display/dis'plei/ 陈列 ;
electrical /i'lektrikl/ adj.电的,电动的 ;
electronic /ilek'trnik/ adj.电子的 ;
exchange/iks'teind/ vt.交换,调整 faulty/'f:lti/ adj.有缺点的,不完善的 ;
goods/gudz/ n.商品,货物 ;
guarantee /,grn'ti:/ n.保证,保证书 ;
high-street /'haistri:t/ n.(城镇的)主要街道 ;
household /'haushuld/ adj.家庭的 import/im'p:t/vt.进口 ;
internationally /,int:'nnli/ adv.国际上,世界上 ;
internationally-known adj. 国际知名的,世界闻名的 low/lu/adj.低的 ;
major/'meid/ adj.较大的,较重要的 ;
manufacturer /,mnju'fktr/ n.制造商,制造厂 ;
overseas/'uv'si:z/ adj.外国的 part/pa:t/ n.部分 ;
particularly /p'tikjulli/ adv.特别,尤其 ;
pay/pei/ vt.& vi.支付,付款 paid/peid/ (过去式,过去分词) ;
policy/'plisi/ n.政策,方针 ;
preparation /,prep'rein/ n.准备,配制 ;
price/prais/ n.价格,价钱 product/'prdkt/ n.产品 ;
prosecution /,prsi'kju:n/ n.起诉,告发 ;
providing /pr'vaidi/ conj.以...为条件,假如 ;
queue/kju:/n. (人或车辆等)行列,长队 ;
range/reind/ vi.(在一定范围内) 变化,变动 ;
range from...to 在...至..的 范围内变化,变动 ;
receipt/ri'si:t/ n.收据,增值税 ;
resident/'rezidnt/ n.居民 ;
right/rait/ n.权利 ;
self-service /'self's:vis/ n.顾客自理,无人售货 (类似超市) ;
service/'s:vis/ n.服务 shopkeeper /'p,ki:p/n.店主 ;
shoplifting /'p,lifti/ n.冒充顾客进商店行窃 ;
slightly/'slaitli/ adv.稍微 ;
specialize /'spelaiz/ vi.专门从事 ;
specify/'spesifai/ vt.详细说明 sterling/'st:li/ adj.英币的,英镑的 ;
street/stri:t/ n.街道,马路 ;
supermarket /'sju:p,ma:kit/ 超级市场 ;
tax/tks/ n.税 theft/eft/ n.偷窃,盗窃 ;
transfer/trns'f/ vt.转移 traveller/'trvl/ n.旅行者,旅客 ;
traveller's cheque n.旅行支票 unless/n'les,n'les/ n.如果不,除非 ;
useful/ju:sfl/ a.有用的 value/'vlju:/n.价值 ;
VAT /vi:ei'ti,vt/ n.Value Added Ta的首字母略词, ;
Proper Noun Napoleon 拿破仑 ;
TEXT ;
Shopping in Britain ;
Most shops in Britain are closed on Sundays ;
but open all day Monday to Saturday. Many towns and, ;
villages also have a half day closing during the week from about 13:00, ;
but they may stay open later on another evening. ;
There are one or two shopping customs ;
in Britain which may differ from your practice at home. ;
Bargaining is not customary in shops; ;
customers are expected to pay the marked price for goods. ;
The famous British queue applies particularly when shopping. ;
You may not always see a queue, ;
but those waiting are expected to take their turn. ;
In self-service shops and street markets, remember to take your own shopping bag ;
because many shops charge you for carrier bags. ;
In self-service shops, ;
however, always put the goods in the wire baskets provided by the shop first, ;
then pay for them and transfer them to your own bag later. ;
If you forget and put them straight into your own bag and leave without paying, ;
you may be accused of "shoplifting" ;
which can lead to a police prosecution for theft. ;
Unfortunately, this is a fairly common form of theft in some parts of Britain and ;
many shops have electronic detection equipment and a tough policy on prosecution. ;
If you are buying expensive household ;
goods you may like to consult Which magazine in a public library. ;
In this magazine the cost and quality of products from various ;
manufacturers are compared. ;
In recent years, Britain has developed ;
a considerable body of law to protect consumers'rights. ;
For example, ;
shops must exchange faulty goods providing you can produce a receipt, ;
so do keep receipts and guarantees, particularly for major purchases. ;
Napoleon I is said to ;
have remarked over 150 years ago that the British were a nation of shopkeepers', ;
today the variety of different shops is certainly an advantage. ;
They range from the internationally-known ;
department stores to much cheaper local street markets. ;
Most areas have what used to be known as "corner shops" for local residents which ;
often keep longer hours than the high-street shops. ;
Their slightly higher prices are usually compensated for by their convenience. ;
There are also discount stores specializing, for example, ;
in electrical goods, ;
where you may find prices much lower than in the normal high-street shops. ;
In general, supermarkets and street markets are ;
particularly good for fresh fruit and vegetables and in many places they have a ;
wide range of imported foreign foods ;
which may remind you of home! ;
There are also "convenience" foods which are already cooked, ;
need little preparation and are useful for people in a hurry. ;
VAT or Value Added Tax is a government purchase tax of ;
fifteen percent added to many goods and most services. ;
Most prices include tax unless otherwise specified, ;
but on large purchases it is wise to check. ;
As an overseas visitor you might not have to pay VAT on some large purchases. ;
You can pay for goods by cash, ;
by cheque on a British bank account with a bank guarantee card, ;
or by sterling travellers'cheques, usually with no problem. ;
If the shop displays a credit card sign, ;
it will accept that particular credit card. ;
Lesson Nineteen ;
Words and Expressions ;
advancement /d'va:nsmnt/ n.前进;进展 ;
angry /'gri/ adj.生气的 ;
biz/biz/=business n.[美俚]商业;生意 chain/tein/ n.连锁,连锁店 ;
childrearing /'taildriri/ n.抚养孩子 ;
combine/km'bain/ vt.使结合 ;
commute/k'mju:t/ vi.两地往返; 乘公交车辆上下班 ;
commuter/ka'mju:t/ n.两地往返的人 conduct/kn'dkt/ vt.经营;处理 ;
disappear/dis'pi/ vi.不见;消失 distance/'distns/ n.距离 ;
earache/'ireik/ n.耳痛 ;
enthusiasm /in'ju:zizm/ n.热情 ;
estimate/'estimeit/ vt.& vi.& n.估计 flexible/'fleksbl/ adj.可变通的,灵活的 ;
fly/flai/vi.乘飞机 flew/flu:/(过去式) flown/flown/(过去分词) ;
further/'f:/ adj.更远的;进一步的 graduate/'grdjuit/ n.大学毕业生 ;
hard /ha:d/adj.艰苦的 hate/heit/痛恨,不喜欢 increase/in'kri:s/ vt.& vi.增加 ;
independent /,indi'pendnt/ adj.独立的 ;
journalism /'d:nlizm/ n.新闻业 ;
marriage/'mrid/ n.结婚 memorize/'memraiz/ vt.记住 ;
mommy/'mmi/ n.[美]妈咪 ;
newscaster /'nju:zk:st/ n.新闻广播员 ;
obstacle/'bstkl/ n.障碍 own/un/ vt.拥有 ;
plus/pls/ prep.加上 politics/'plitiks/ n.政治 ;
producer/pr'dju:s/ n.生产者; (电影或电视)制作人 ;
reach/ri:t/vt.达到 requirement /ri'kwaimnt/ n.要求 ;
researcher /ri's:t/n.研究人员 respond/ris'pnd/ vi.回答;反应 ;
scarce/skes/ adj.缺乏的;罕见地 ;
schedule/'edju:l/ [美]/'skedul/ n.日程表,时间表 ;
sense/sens/n.感觉 separation /,sep'rein/ n.分离;(夫妻)分居 ;
solidLy/'slidli/ adv.坚固地;可靠地 support/s'po:t/ vt.支持 ;
telephone /'telifun/ n.电话 ;
tend/tend/vi.趋向 toddler/'tdl/ n.蹒跚行走的孩子 ;
tolerance/'tlrns/ n.忍受 tuck/tk/ vt.掖好(被子)等 ;
vice/vais/副的 wake/weik/叫醒 woke/wouk/(过去式) ;
waken/'weikn/ (过去分词) whatever/wt'ev/ pron.无论什么 ;
Proper Nouns Bob/'bb/(男人名) Boston/'bstn/ (美国)波士顿(市) ;
Davis/'deivis/ (姓) Doris/'dris/(女人名) ;
Etelson/'i:tlsn/ (姓) Hayden/'heidn/(姓) ;
Kate/'keit/(女人名) Long(姓) Newark/'nju(:)k/ [美国]纽瓦克 ;
Ohio/u'haiu/(美国) 俄亥俄(州) Robert/'rbt/ (男人名) ;
Susan/'su:zn/(女人名) Yarmouth Port (美国地名) ;
TEXT ;
The Ways and Means of Lons-Distance Marriases ;
Kate Hayden,32,and Bob Long,37,a couple for eight years and ;
a married couple for four, have never lived together in the same town or house. ;
She is a newscaster at WABC-TV in New York City. ;
He is an independent TV producer-director in Los Angeles. ;
Kate is on call seven days a week, ;
so Bob flies in to spend two weeks with her every month. ;
The rest of the marriage is conducted by telephone. ;
They talk six or seven times a day, and last month their phone bill was $800." ;
I tuck her in at night and wake her up in the morning," says Bob. ;
"There is nothing good about separation, but we refuse to let it be an obstacle." ;
Such determination helps. ;
There are at least 700,000 commuter couples, ;
according to some estimates. ;
The requirements are simple enough-jobs in two different cities, ;
each too good to turn down,a full-time sense of humor, ;
the ability to memorize airline schedules plus a tolerance for the ;
earaches that come from hours on the telephone. ;
According to the researchers, ;
about half of these married commuters are in the academic world, ;
where work schedules are flexible and jobs too scarce to turn down. ;
But the numbers are increasing in business, ;
politics, show biz, and journalism. ;
The education level is high-about 90 percent have done some graduate work. ;
Family income tends to average $ 3000 to $ 40000 a year. ;
Often the commuting comes about because ;
the wife has reached a level at which further advancement means moving, ;
and the husband solidly supports the move. ;
Doris Etelson,51, the first woman vice-president of Howard Johnson Co., ;
the restaurant chain, has been married for 32 years and commuting for five. ;
When she was offered the job in Boston, her husband Robert, ;
54,who owns a company in Newark, responded with enthusiasm. ;
"She supported me for years," ;
he says, "and now she should get whatever success she can get." ;
Combining long-distance marriage ;
with childrearing is the hardest part of commuting. ;
One two-year-old child of a commuter marriage, ;
who lives with his father in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, ;
has been to the airport so often that he calls all airplanes "Mommy". ;
Some toddlers,like the 18-month-old daughter of Susan Davis, ;
just hate commuting. "She was really very angry ;
that her father had disappeared, "says Susan." ;
He would kiss her and she would turn her head away." ;
So Susan's husband gave up a high-level job in Ohio and is now back in Chicago. ;
Lesson Twenty ;
Words and Expressions ;
anti-/'nti/ [前缀]表示 "反,抗,排斥" ;
Asian/'ein/adj.亚洲的 aspect/'spekt/ n. (问题,事物等的)方面 ;
basically/'beisikli/ adv.基本上 bi-[前缀]表示二(倍) 两,双,重复 ;
bicultural /bai'kltrl/ adj.两种文化的 ;
bilingual /bai'ligwl/ adj.两种语言的, (能)使用两种语言的 ;
border/'b:d/ n.边界,国界 brand/brnd/ n.商标,牌子 ;
Canadian /k'neidn/ adj.加拿大的 n.加拿大人 ;
complain/km'plein/ vi.抱怨 countryman /'kntrimn/n.同胞 ;
cross/krs/ vt.越过,穿过 ;
difference /'difrns/ n.差异,差别 ;
disturb/dis't:b/ vt.打扰(某人), 扰乱(人心) ;
economic /,i:k'nmik/ adj.经济(上)的 ;
effect/i'fekt/ n.影响,作用 emotion/i'mun/ n.感情,情绪 ;
escape/is'keip/ vi.逃跑 ;
European /,jur'pin/ adv.欧洲的 ;
exclusively /iks'klu:sivli/ adv.全部地 ;
finger/'fig/ n.手指 ;
foreignness /'frinis/n. 具有外国特点的性质 或状态 ;
franchise/'frntaiz/ vt.给...以特许 gas/gs/n.[美口]汽油 ;
human/'hju:mn/ adj.人的,人类的 inhabitant /,in'hebitnt/n.居民 ;
interior/in'tiri/ adj.内部的,内地的 intrigue/in'tri:g/ adj.引起..的兴趣 ;
large/la:d/adj.大的 latter/'lt/adj. (两者中)后者的 ;
line/lain/vt.沿..排列 magazine/,mg'zi:n/ n.杂志,期刊 ;
majority /m'driti/ n.多数,大多数 ;
makeup/'meikp/ n.组成,构成 ;
motel/mu'tel/ n.(附有停车场设施) 汽车游客旅馆 ;
movement/'mu:vmnt/ n.(政治,社会或思想) 运动 ;
mysterious /mis'tiris/ adj.神秘的,不可思议 ;
nationalist /'nnlist/ adj.民族主义的 ;
nature/'neit/ n.大自然 neither/'nai/ adv.也不 ;
novel/'nvl/ n.(长篇)小说 official/'fil/ adj.官方的,法定的 ;
operation /,p'rein/ n.[美]经营;业务 ;
outward/'autwad/ adj.向外地 ;
palace/'plis/ n.官殿,宏伟的建筑物 pardon/'pa:dn/vt.原谅 ;
powerful/'paufl/ adj.强大的 presence/'prezns/ n.存在 ;
pressure/'pre/ n.压力 province/'prvins/ n.省 ;
race/reis/n.种族,民族 removed /ri'mu:vd/ adj.远离 ;
resistance /ri'zistns/ n.反抗,抵抗 ;
separatist /'seprtist/ adj.主张独立地, 主张脱离的 ;
soul/sul/n.灵魂,心灵 stand/stnd/n.摊 station/'stein/ n.站 ;
style/stail/ n.风格,作风 suggest/s'dest/ vt.暗示 ;
superhighway / ,sju:p'haiwei/ n.超级公路 (供高速运输用) ;
supporter/s'p:t/ n.支持者,拥护者 tension/'tenn/ n.紧张(指心理状态等) ;
twist/twist/ vi.曲折(穿行) unique/ju'ni:k/ adj.独一无二 ;
wilderness /'wildnis/ n.荒野,荒地 ;
wood/wud/ n.(通常用复数) 树林,森林 ;
Proper Nouns America/'merik/ n.美州 ;
Asian/'ein/ adj.亚洲的 Canadian/k'neidjn/ adj.加拿大的 ;
European /,jur'pin/ adj.欧洲的 ;
Quebec/kwi'bek/ n.魁北克 ;
TEXT ;
"We re not the same." ;
Outward displays of emotion are not part of the Canadian style. ;
We are basically a northern people. ;
We do not live in the street as southern races do. ;
We are an interior people in more ways than one. ;
The Americans are far more outgoing than we are.One reason for this, ;
I think,is the very real presence of nature in our lives. ;
Although it is true that we are city folk, ;
most of us live within a few hours drive of the wilderness. ;
We escape to the woods whenever we can. ;
No Canadian city is far removed from those mysterious ;
and silent places which can have such an effect on the human soul. ;
There is another aspect of my country that makes it u-nique in the Americas, ;
and that is our bilingual and bicultural makeup. ;
(Canada has two official languages, English and French, ;
and in its largest province a majority ;
of the inhabitants speak the latter almost exclusively.) ;
Visitors are intrigued by the "foreignness" of Quebec City, ;
with its twisting streets and its French-style cooking. ;
But there is also a disturbing regional tension. ;
Quebec has become a nation within a nation, ;
and the separatist movement is powerful there. ;
French Canada's resistance to English ;
Canada's cultural and economic pressure can be seen as similar ;
to English Canada's resistance to the same kind of pressure from the United States. ;
This helps to explain why many English-speaking Canadians ;
who call themselves nationalists are ;
strong supporters of special rights for the province of Quebec. ;
This is not to suggest that Canadians are anti-American. ;
If anything, the opposite is true. We watch American television programs. ;
We read American magazines and the American best-selling novels. ;
We tend to prefer American-made cars over the European and Asian products. ;
We welcome hundreds of thousands of American tourists ;
to our country every year and don't complain much when ;
they tell us that we're exactly the same as they are. ;
Of course,we're not the same. ;
But the visitor may be pardoned for thinking ;
so when he or she first crosses the border. ;
The buildings in our cities are designed in the international styles. ;
The brand names in the supermarkets are all familiar. ;
The chicken palaces, hot dog stands, gas stations, ;
and motels that line our superhighways are American fran-chised operations. ;
It is only after several days that the newcomer ;
begins to sense a difference. ;
He cannot put his finger on that difference, but then, ;
neither can many of my country?men. ;
The only thing we are really sure of is that we are not Americans. ;
Lesson Twenty-one ;
Words and Expressions ;
anxiously /'ksli/ adv.忧虑地, 担心地,焦急地 ;
billy/'bili/ n.(野外烹饪或 烧水用的)铁罐 ;
blood/bld/n.血 breathe/bri:/ vi.呼吸 ;
chest/test/ n.胸腔,胸膛 ;
comfortable /'kmftbl/ adj.舒服的,舒适的 ;
companion /km'pnjn/n.同伴 condition /kn'din/ n.条件 ;
defend /di'fend/ vt.保卫 drag/drg/vt.拖,拉 ;
gate/geit/n.大门 gently/'dentli/ adv.轻轻地 hind /haid/adj.后面 ;
hind leg 后退 hurt/h:t/ vt. & vi.(使受)伤痛 ;
hut/ht/n.小屋,棚屋 leg /leg/n.腿 lift/lift/vt.提起,举起 mad /md/adj.发疯的 ;
pain/pein/ n.(肉体上的)痛,疼痛 ;
pause/p:z/vi.暂停,停顿 rib/rib/n.肋骨 shepherd/'epd/ n.牧羊人,羊倌 ;
smile/smail/vi.& n. 微笑 ;
swag/swg/n. [澳](步行者或矿工等) 行李包,包袱 ;
though/u/ conj.虽然,尽管 till/til/prep.&conj. 直到...为止 ;
towards/t'w:dz/ 向,朝 undress/n'dres/ vi.脱衣服 ;
Proper Nouns Lawson/'l:sn/(姓) Macquarie/m'kwri/ (姓) ;
Tally /'tli/(在本课作狗名) ;
TEXT A Man and His Dog after Henry Lawson ;
Macquarie the shepherd had had an accident. At least, that was his story. ;
In fact, he had had a fight in a bar. He had several broken ribs, ;
and his head was covered with blood. His dog, Tally, ;
had tried to defend him and one of its hind legs had been broken. ;
After the fight, ;
Macquarie had picked up his swag and had walked to the nearest hospital. ;
The dog had followed him all the way, on three legs. ;
The doctor examined him.He was surprised that the old ;
man had been able to walk so far. "You can have a bed here till you're better," ;
he said. "But we can't have that dog in the hospital. ;
Dogs aren't allowed here." ;
"You can put him in that hut outside," said Macquarie. ;
"No.He must go somewhere else. Dogs aren't allowed inside the gates. ;
This hospital is for people,not for animals." ;
Macquarie rose slowly to his feet, though the pain in his ribs was terrible. ;
He dragged himself across the room to ;
the corner where his dog was guarding his swag. ;
"What are you going to do?"the doctor asked. ;
"If my dog can't stay, I can't." ;
He lifted his swag, but the pain was so great that he dropped it again. ;
"You must be mad," the doctor said." You can't leave here in that condition. ;
Let the nurse help you to undress. ;
Then get into bed, and I'II deal with your broken ribs." ;
"No!" said Macquarie. "No.My dog needs more help than I do. ;
I've only hurt my chest, but he has a broken leg." ;
He paused. Even breathing gave him a lot of pain. ;
"That old dog has followed me for twelve hungry years. ;
He's my only friend in the world." He paused again. ;
Then he added with a sad smile'-"That dog was born in the bush. ;
His mother died a few weeks later. ;
I carried him in a billy till he was old enough to walk far. ;
He has been a true companion. Several times he has saved my life." ;
The dog raised itself on its three good legs and looked anxiously at the old man's face. ;
He gently touched its head. ;
Then he picked up the swag and took two steps towards the door. ;
But he never reached it.The nurse and the doctor caught him as he fell. ;
When he woke, an hour later,he was in bed. His chest was feeling more comfortable. ;
"Where's my dog?" he asked at once. "Oh, the dog' s all right," ;
said the nurse. "Don't worry. ;
The doctor's fixing his leg in the hut outside. ;
He couldn't send away your only friend." ;
Lesson Twenty-Two ;
Words and Expressions ;
acceptable /k'septbl/ adj可接受的 ;
acceptance /k'septns/ n.接受 ;
agreement /'grirmnt/ n.同意 ;
argue/'a:gju:/ vi.争论 aside/'said/ adv.在旁边;到一边 ;
base/beis/ n.基础 blare/ble/ vi.大声放音 ;
bother/'b/vt.烦扰 comment/'kment/ n.评论 ;
companionship /km'pnjnip/ n.同伴关系 ;
confusing /kn'fju:zi/ adj.令人糊涂的 ;
consider/kn'sid/ vt.考虑,认为 ;
conversational /,knv'seinl/ adj.会话的 court/k:t/n.法庭 ;
diplomat/'diplmt/ n.外交官 direction/di'rekn/ n.方向 ;
disagree/,dis'gri:/ vi.不同意 draw/dr:/ vt.拖,拉 ;
extent/iks'tent/ n.程度 fill/fil/vt.填补 ;
formal/'f:ml/ adj.正式的;拘谨的 ;
formality /f:'mliti/ n.正式;拘谨 ;
heritage/'heritid/ n.传统;遗产 housewife/'hauswaif/ n.家庭妇女 ;
immediate/i'mi:djt/ adj.直接的;立即的 ;
impolite/,imp'lait/ adj.不礼貌的 indicate/'indikeit/ vt.表明 ;
inherit/in'herit/ vt.继承 judge /dd/ n.法官 ;
merely/'mili/ ady.仅仅 military/'militri/ adj.军事的 ;
mininium/'minimm/ adj.最小的 Ms./miz/ n.女士 ;
nationality /,nae'nliti/ n.民族 ;
noticeably /'nutisbli/ adv.明显地 ;
occupational /,kju'peinl/ adj.职业的 ;
offend/'fend/ vt.冒犯;触怒 officer/'fis/ n.官员,军官 ;
personal/'p:snl/ adj.个人的;私人的 position/p'zin/ n.地位 ;
post/pust/ n.职位 priest/pri:st/n.牧师 ;
questioner /'kwestn/询问者 quietness/'kwaitnis/ n.安静 ;
rank/rk/ n.等价;地位 ;
recognition /,rekg'nin/ n.承认;公认 ;
relationship /ri'leinip/ n.关系 ;
request/ri'kwest/ n.& vt.请求 respect/ris'pekt/ n.& vt.尊敬 ;
result/ri'zlt/n.结果 search/s:t/ n.& v.搜寻 ;
senate/'senit/ n.(美国的)参议院; 立法机构 ;
shock/k/ n.冲击;震惊 silence/'sailns/ n.沉默 ;
simply/'simpli/ adv.简单地 somewhat/'smwt/ adv.有点;稍微 ;
sound/saund/ n.声音 standard /'stndd/n.标准 ;
stiff/stif/ adj.拘谨;生硬 topic/'tpik/ n.题目 ;
treat/tri:t/vt.对待 variation /,veri'ein/ n.变化 ;
whole/hul/ adj.完整;n.全部 Proper Nouns ;
Andrew/'ndru:/ (男人名) Brown/braun/(人名) ;
Hartley/'ha:tli/(人名) RockefeUer /'rkifel/ (人名) ;
Sally/'sli/(女人名) ;
Text ;
When You Are with Americans ;
Doing Your Own Thing Because our people have come from so many nationalities, ;
there is a far wider range of what is "acceptable" ;
than in some countries where the inhabitants have grown up with a common heritage. ;
As a result,no one needs to feel ;
uncomfortable in following his or her own customs. ;
Although Americans are noticeably informal, ;
if you prefer somewhat greater formality, feel free to act in your own way. ;
This will be acceptable to those around you. ;
As the young say, ;
each person can "do his own thing" and be respected here to a very large extent. ;
Personal Questions Conversational questions may seem to ;
you both too personal and too many, especially when you first arrive. ;
"Where do you work?" "Are you married?" "How many children do you have?" ;
"Have you taken your vacation yet?" ;
are not personal questions by American standards. ;
They are a search for common ground on which to build a ;
relationship or base a conversation. ;
Understand that such questions are meant to be friendly. ;
It shows the questioner is interested in you. ;
If you are asked questions that seem to you to be too personal, ;
you need not answer them. ;
You can simply smile or say pleasantly ;
that you "do not know" or "In my country that would be a funny question," ;
or turn the questions gently aside by some comment such as ;
"Isn't it interesting to see how different nationalities begin a conversation?" ;
or something similar. If you do that, follow it quickly with another topic, ;
or make some comment of your own on variations in customs, ;
or lead the conversation off in some other direction. ;
The American will not be offended, but he or she will get the point. ;
Meeting People The whole matter of ;
names is a "culture shock" to many people. ;
Americans have a minimum feeling for "rank," especially socially. ;
Most do not themselves enjoy being treated with special respect for age or position; ;
it makes them uncomfortable. ;
Many Americans find even the terms "Mr.","Mrs.",or"Ms." stiff and formal. ;
You hear people well beyond middle age say-even to quite ;
young people-"Just call me Sally (or Henry or Don)." ;
Being on first-name terms is taken as a sign of acceptance and friendliness. ;
However,this need not bother you. ;
If you are not comfortable in ;
following the boss's immediate request to "Call me Andrew," ;
it is quite all right. Just smile and say "After a while perhaps, ;
but thank you anyway." What we do use, however, ;
are occupational titles. These are considered to be different, ;
because they show a recognition that has been earned, ;
not merely inherited. Occupations that most ;
frequently carry titles include diplomats, ;
members of the Senate (or certain other top government posts), ;
judges of the courts, military officers above a certain rank, ;
medical doctors, professors and priests. Examples would be Ambassador Jones, ;
Senator Smith, Governor Rockefeller, Judge Hartley, General Clark, ;
Doctor Brown (medical), Doctor Green(Ph. D.), Father White. ;
Silence Many Americans find silence uncomfortable. ;
They will say anything to fill any quietness if it extends for more than a moment. ;
Students often study with their radios blaring; ;
housewives leave televisions on for ;
the "companionship" of sound even though they may be working in some other room. ;
If you are silent for long periods, ;
they will do their best to "draw you out" ;
or will ask if you feel all right or if there is anything they can do to help you. ;
One aspect of silence can be confusing, however; ;
if Americans disagree with what you are saying, ;
many of them will remain quiet. This may not indicate agreement; ;
often it only means that they consider it impolite to argue further. ;
Lesson Twenty-three ;
Words and Expressions ;
apartment /'pa:tmnt/[美] 一套公寓房间 ;
asleep/'sli:p/ adj.睡着,睡熟 awake/'weik/醒 ;
awoke/'wuk/(过去式) awoke或awaked (过去分词) ;
basement/'beismnt/ n.地下室,底层 bench/bent/ n.长凳 ;
boat/but/ n.小船,艇 can/kn/n. [美](包藏食物的)罐头 ;
canning factory 罐头食品制造厂 crane/krein/ n.鹤 ;
creep/kri:p/ vi.爬行 crept(过去式, 过去分词) ;
cry/krai/vi.& vt. duck/dk/n.鸭 fisherman/'fimn/ n.捕鱼人 ;
fly/flai/vi.飞 flew/flu:/(过去式) flown/flun/(过去分词) ;
free/fri:/vt.使自由 hallway/'h:lwei/ n.[美]门厅,过道 ;
jump /dmp/vt.跳过 knock/nk/ vt.& n.敲,击,打 ;
koh/ku/n.鸟叫声 lake/leik/n.湖 nap/np/n.打盹,瞌睡 ;
nowhere/'nuwe/ n.无处 pack/pk/vt.包装 ;
plate/pleit/n.盘子 repair/ri'pe/vt.修理 roll/rul/vt.使滚动 ;
rope/rup/n.绳,索 sail/seil/vt.开(船) shine/ain/vi. 发光,发亮 ;
shone/n;un/ (过去式,过去分词) sir/强s:;弱s/ n.先生,阁下 ;
softly/'sftli/ adv.柔和地,轻轻地 stone/stun/ n.石头,石 ;
struggle/'strgl/ vi.挣扎 surface/'s:fis/ n.面,表面 ;
tiny/'taini/ adj.极小的 toy/ti/n.玩具 ;
tuna/'t(j)u:n/ n.金枪鱼 Proper Nouns ;
Karen/'kern/ Myoto/'mjutu/ ;
Text ;
The Crane Girl (1) ;
In a city by the sea, there lived an old man and his wife. ;
They were very poor because they were too old to work. ;
All his life, the old man had been a tuna fisherman. ;
He sold his fish to the city canning factory. ;
The old woman had worked in a Japanese restaurant. ;
They had lived well. But now that they were too old to work, they had no money. ;
The couple lived in a tiny apartment in the basement of a big apartment house. ;
The old man repaired things that broke down in the other apartments. ;
He had sold his fishing boat ;
so that he and the old woman could use the money. ;
The old woman walked the dogs of the other people in the apartment building. ;
They had little money, but they were happy. ;
One morning the old man got all of his work done early, ;
and he decided to spent the rest of the day at the park. ;
He went into his apartment and packed himself a bit of lunch. ;
He was looking forward to spending the day in the sunshine. ;
When he arrived at the park, he was tired from the walk. ;
He picked out a bench in the sun and sat down to eat his lunch. ;
From his bench he could see the park lake. ;
He liked to watch the ducks swim. ;
There were children at the water's edge sailing their toy boats. ;
Once in a while a fish would jump on the lake surface. ;
That reminded him of the days when he was a fisherman. ;
As he sat eating his sandwich,he heard the cry of a bird, Koh, ;
Koh, near the water's edge. ;
The old man walked to the bushes at the ;
water's edge and saw a struggling white crane. ;
It must have been one of the animals that belonged to the park. ;
Its foot was caught between two stones, and it could not fly. ;
Feeling sorry for the great bird, the old man crept close, ;
and, speaking softly to calm the crane, he rolled the stones a-part and freed it. ;
With a cry of Koh, ;
Koh, the crane rose into the air and flew to the other side of the lake. ;
The old man returned to his bench. ;
He watched the children with their boats until he nodded off to sleep. ;
After a short nap, he awoke and started home. ;
It would be time to help his wife prepare dinner. ;
While they were working in the kitchen, ;
he told her about freeing the crane. "That was nice," ;
she said. "Doesn't it make you feel good to know that you helped the bird?" ;
As soon as she spoke, there was a knock on the door. ;
The old man answered the door and found a small, ;
Japanese girl standing there. ;
Her little face shone with the light from the hallway. ;
She was quite beautiful. ;
"Please excuse me for knocking at your door, sir. ;
I was in the park with my mother and father. ;
I jumped rope with some other children. ;
When I went back to find my parents, they were gone. ;
I have nowhere to go. I saw your light, so I came in here. ;
My name is Karen Myoto."Poor girl," cried the old woman. ;
"Come in, dear, and have dinner with us." A third plate was put on the table, ;
and the old couple shared their meal with the girl. ;
After dinner the old woman made her a bed ;
on the sofa while the old man cleaned up in the kitchen. ;
The girl fell asleep the moment she got into bed. ;
Lesson twenty-four ;
Words and Expressions ;
amaze/'meiz/ vt.使惊奇,惊噩 arm/a:m/n.臂 ;
in one's arms bolt/bult/ n.(棉布等的)匹 ;
cake/keik/ n.饼,糕 careful/'kefl/ adj.仔细的,小心的 ;
cloth/kl:/ n.布(棉,毛,丝,麻, 合成纤维等)织物 ;
crack/krk/ n.裂缝,缝隙 ;
dollar/'dl/元 (美国,加拿大等国的 货币单位,符号为$) ;
fabric/'fbrik/ n.织物,布 feast/'fi:st/n.盛宴 ;
feather/'fe/ n.羽毛 furnace/'f:nis/ n.炉子 ;
giant/'daint/ adj.巨大的 gift/gift/ n.礼物 ;
hard/ha:d/ adj.艰难的 kindness/'kaindnis/ n.仁慈,照顾 ;
laughter/'la:ft/ n.笑声,笑 loom/lu:m/n.织机 ;
merchant/'m:tnt/ n.商人 ;
neighborhood /'neibhud/ n.[美]附近,四邻 [英]neighbourhood ;
neighbor/'neib/ n.[美]neighbour [英]邻居,邻人 ;
owner/'un/ n.所有人,物主 payment/'peimnt/ n.报偿,支付 ;
peek/pi:k/ vi.从缝隙看,偷看 pleasure/'ple/ n.愉快,乐趣 ;
pull/pul/vt.拉,拔 repay/ri:'pei/ vt.& vi.偿还,报答 ;
repaid/ri:'peid/ (过去式,过去分词) reward/ri'w:d/ n.报酬,奖赏 ;
rice/rais/n.稻,米,饭 rush/r/冲,奔,赶紧 shuttle/'tl/ n.(织机的)梭 ;
silk/silk/n.丝织品 tidy(up)/'taidi/ vt.& vi.收拾,整理 ;
tiptoe/'tiptu/ vi.踮着脚走 ;
unfinished /'n'finit/ adj.未完成的 ;
voice/vis/ n.说话声,声音 weak/wi:k/ adj.弱的 ;
weave/wi:v/ vt.& vi.织(布) wove/wuv/(过去式) ;
woven/'wuvn/ (过去式) ;
Text ;
The Crane Girl (2) ;
The next morning, ;
the old man and woman were surprised to find tea already made. ;
The girl was making breakfast. ;
The apartment had already been cleaned and tidied up. ;
"Good morning," Karen greeted them. "I hope you slept well. ;
Breakfast is ready." The old man laughed." Imagine. ;
A daughter at our age. "This is a reward for helping the bird yesterday," ;
replied the old woman. Every day Karen would go with the old woman to walk the dogs, ;
in hopes that she would see her parents. ;
But she returned every night with less and less hope. ;
Children in the neighborhood soon met Karen and grew to love her. ;
The home of the old couple was filled with the sound of laughter and children's voices. ;
Several weeks had passed, ;
and it would soon be time to celebrate the Japanese New Year. ;
The old man said to his wife, "Karen has been such a pleasure to us. ;
I would like to give her a gift." "So would I," said the old woman. ;
Karen heard them talking, and she felt sad because they were so poor. ;
She came to them and said, "I know that life is hard for you. ;
If you will let me repay your kindness to me, I will weave cloth for you to sell. ;
I ask only one thing-that no one watches me while I weave." ;
The old couple thought that this was strange, but they agreed. ;
Karen went into the furnace room, ;
and soon they heard the sound of the loom as the shuttle moved back and forth. ;
For three days, Karen wove without stopping. ;
She finally stepped into the apartment holding a beautiful bolt of cloth. ;
The old man and woman had never seen anything like it. ;
They told Karen how beautiful it was. "Father,"said the girl, ;
"take this to the fabric shops and show it to the owners. ;
Do not put a price on it,but let the merchants price it. ;
This is a small payment for the home you have given me." ;
The old man took the cloth and rushed to the street where all the shops were. ;
The first shop owner looked at the cloth. "Where did you get this?"he asked. ;
"My cousin in Japan sent it to me," answered the man. ;
"I will pay you fifty dollars for it." The old man went into another shop. ;
"This is very fine silk,"said the owner." I will pay you three hundred dollars." ;
The old man sold him the cloth. On the way home, ;
the old man stopped to buy rice cakes and a gift for Karen. ;
The three of them prepared a feast for the New Year, ;
and some of their friends came for a party. ;
Even though they were careful, the money was soon spent. ;
One day, Karen said, ;
"I must weave more cloth. You can sell it again to the merchants. ;
But remember what you promised. No one must see me while I work." ;
Two days went by, ;
and all the time the sound of the loom filled the apartment building. ;
The people who lived in the building came downstairs. ;
"What is the noise?" they asked. "That is Karen weaving," ;
the old woman answered. "Weaving? May we see?" asked the neighbors. ;
"Oh, no," ;
replied the old man. "We have promised her that no one will watch her." ;
All this time the old woman had wondered how Karen wove such beautiful cloth. ;
She could stand it no longer. Quietly,she tiptoed to the furnace room. ;
She peeked through a crack in the door. ;
The old man missed her and ran down the hall to the furnace room. ;
"Stop! Please stop!" he called to his wife. It was too late. ;
She had already seen inside the room. What she saw amazed her. ;
There,at the loom, was a giant white crane. ;
The crane pulled feathers from its body and wove them into cloth. ;
The old woman stepped back,and the door opened. Karen stepped out, ;
holding in her arms an unfinished bolt of cloth. ;
"Dear people," she said in a weak voice, ;
"I am the crane you saved by the lake in the park. ;
I wanted to help you by weaving cloth for you to sell." ;
She began to cry. "But, now that you know, I will have to leave." ;
She walked from the building toward the park. ;
The old couple followed her. When she reached the park she stopped. ;
Going to the old man and woman, she kissed them. ;
Then she changed into a white crane and flew into the air. ;
The bird looked down and cried,"Koh!" as if she were saying good-bye. ;
Then the bird rose and the crane girl was gone. ;
Words and Expressions ;
accept/k'sept/ vt.接受 accuse/'kju:z/ vt.指责,控告 ;
advantage /d'va:ntid/n.优点 apply/'plai/ vi.适用 ;
bargain/'ba:gin/ vi.讨价还价,议价 buy/bai/vt.& vi.买 ;
bought/b:t/ (过去式,过去分词) ;
carrier bag /'kri bg/ n.购物袋 ;
cash/k/ n.现金,现款 cheque/tek/ n.支票(=[美]check) ;
close/kluz/vt.关,闭 compare/km'pe/ vt.比较 ;
compensate /'kmpenseit/ vt.& vi.补偿 ;
considerable /kn'sidrbl/ adj.相当大(或多)的 ;
consult/kn'slt/ vt.查阅 i consumer/kn'sju:m/ n.消费者,用户 ;
convenience /kn'vi:nins/ n.便利,方便 ;
convenience food n.方便食品 credit/'kredit/ n.信用 ;
credit card n.信用卡 customary /'kstmri/ adj.习惯的 ;
department store n.百货商店 detection/di'tekn/ n.检测 ;
develop/di'velp/ vt.发展,使成长,使发达 differ/'dif/ vi.不同，相异 ;
differ from 与...不同 discount/'diskaunt/ n.折扣 ;
discount store n.廉价商店 display/dis'plei/ 陈列 ;
electrical /i'lektrikl/ adj.电的,电动的 ;
electronic /ilek'trnik/ adj.电子的 ;
exchange/iks'teind/ vt.交换,调整 faulty/'f:lti/ adj.有缺点的,不完善的 ;
goods/gudz/ n.商品,货物 ;
guarantee /,grn'ti:/ n.保证,保证书 ;
high-street /'haistri:t/ n.(城镇的)主要街道 ;
household /'haushuld/ adj.家庭的 import/im'p:t/vt.进口 ;
internationally /,int:'nnli/ adv.国际上,世界上 ;
internationally-known adj. 国际知名的,世界闻名的 low/lu/adj.低的 ;
major/'meid/ adj.较大的,较重要的 ;
manufacturer /,mnju'fktr/ n.制造商,制造厂 ;
overseas/'uv'si:z/ adj.外国的 part/pa:t/ n.部分 ;
particularly /p'tikjulli/ adv.特别,尤其 ;
pay/pei/ vt.& vi.支付,付款 paid/peid/ (过去式,过去分词) ;
policy/'plisi/ n.政策,方针 ;
preparation /,prep'rein/ n.准备,配制 ;
price/prais/ n.价格,价钱 product/'prdkt/ n.产品 ;
prosecution /,prsi'kju:n/ n.起诉,告发 ;
providing /pr'vaidi/ conj.以...为条件,假如 ;
queue/kju:/n. (人或车辆等)行列,长队 ;
range/reind/ vi.(在一定范围内) 变化,变动 ;
range from...to 在...至..的 范围内变化,变动 ;
receipt/ri'si:t/ n.收据,增值税 ;
resident/'rezidnt/ n.居民 ;
right/rait/ n.权利 ;
self-service /'self's:vis/ n.顾客自理,无人售货 (类似超市) ;
service/'s:vis/ n.服务 shopkeeper /'p,ki:p/n.店主 ;
shoplifting /'p,lifti/ n.冒充顾客进商店行窃 ;
slightly/'slaitli/ adv.稍微 ;
specialize /'spelaiz/ vi.专门从事 ;
specify/'spesifai/ vt.详细说明 sterling/'st:li/ adj.英币的,英镑的 ;
street/stri:t/ n.街道,马路 ;
supermarket /'sju:p,ma:kit/ 超级市场 ;
tax/tks/ n.税 theft/eft/ n.偷窃,盗窃 ;
transfer/trns'f/ vt.转移 traveller/'trvl/ n.旅行者,旅客 ;
traveller's cheque n.旅行支票 unless/n'les,n'les/ n.如果不,除非 ;
useful/ju:sfl/ a.有用的 value/'vlju:/n.价值 ;
VAT /vi:ei'ti,vt/ n.Value Added Ta的首字母略词, ;
Proper Noun Napoleon 拿破仑 ;
TEXT ;
Shopping in Britain ;
Most shops in Britain are closed on Sundays ;
but open all day Monday to Saturday. Many towns and, ;
villages also have a half day closing during the week from about 13:00, ;
but they may stay open later on another evening. ;
There are one or two shopping customs ;
in Britain which may differ from your practice at home. ;
Bargaining is not customary in shops; ;
customers are expected to pay the marked price for goods. ;
The famous British queue applies particularly when shopping. ;
You may not always see a queue, ;
but those waiting are expected to take their turn. ;
In self-service shops and street markets, remember to take your own shopping bag ;
because many shops charge you for carrier bags. ;
In self-service shops, ;
however, always put the goods in the wire baskets provided by the shop first, ;
then pay for them and transfer them to your own bag later. ;
If you forget and put them straight into your own bag and leave without paying, ;
you may be accused of "shoplifting" ;
which can lead to a police prosecution for theft. ;
Unfortunately, this is a fairly common form of theft in some parts of Britain and ;
many shops have electronic detection equipment and a tough policy on prosecution. ;
If you are buying expensive household ;
goods you may like to consult Which magazine in a public library. ;
In this magazine the cost and quality of products from various ;
manufacturers are compared. ;
In recent years, Britain has developed ;
a considerable body of law to protect consumers'rights. ;
For example, ;
shops must exchange faulty goods providing you can produce a receipt, ;
so do keep receipts and guarantees, particularly for major purchases. ;
Napoleon I is said to ;
have remarked over 150 years ago that the British were a nation of shopkeepers', ;
today the variety of different shops is certainly an advantage. ;
They range from the internationally-known ;
department stores to much cheaper local street markets. ;
Most areas have what used to be known as "corner shops" for local residents which ;
often keep longer hours than the high-street shops. ;
Their slightly higher prices are usually compensated for by their convenience. ;
There are also discount stores specializing, for example, ;
in electrical goods, ;
where you may find prices much lower than in the normal high-street shops. ;
In general, supermarkets and street markets are ;
particularly good for fresh fruit and vegetables and in many places they have a ;
wide range of imported foreign foods ;
which may remind you of home! ;
There are also "convenience" foods which are already cooked, ;
need little preparation and are useful for people in a hurry. ;
VAT or Value Added Tax is a government purchase tax of ;
fifteen percent added to many goods and most services. ;
Most prices include tax unless otherwise specified, ;
but on large purchases it is wise to check. ;
As an overseas visitor you might not have to pay VAT on some large purchases. ;
You can pay for goods by cash, ;
by cheque on a British bank account with a bank guarantee card, ;
or by sterling travellers'cheques, usually with no problem. ;
If the shop displays a credit card sign, ;
it will accept that particular credit card. ;
Lesson Nineteen ;
Words and Expressions ;
advancement /d'va:nsmnt/ n.前进;进展 ;
angry /'gri/ adj.生气的 ;
biz/biz/=business n.[美俚]商业;生意 chain/tein/ n.连锁,连锁店 ;
childrearing /'taildriri/ n.抚养孩子 ;
combine/km'bain/ vt.使结合 ;
commute/k'mju:t/ vi.两地往返; 乘公交车辆上下班 ;
commuter/ka'mju:t/ n.两地往返的人 conduct/kn'dkt/ vt.经营;处理 ;
disappear/dis'pi/ vi.不见;消失 distance/'distns/ n.距离 ;
earache/'ireik/ n.耳痛 ;
enthusiasm /in'ju:zizm/ n.热情 ;
estimate/'estimeit/ vt.& vi.& n.估计 flexible/'fleksbl/ adj.可变通的,灵活的 ;
fly/flai/vi.乘飞机 flew/flu:/(过去式) flown/flown/(过去分词) ;
further/'f:/ adj.更远的;进一步的 graduate/'grdjuit/ n.大学毕业生 ;
hard /ha:d/adj.艰苦的 hate/heit/痛恨,不喜欢 increase/in'kri:s/ vt.& vi.增加 ;
independent /,indi'pendnt/ adj.独立的 ;
journalism /'d:nlizm/ n.新闻业 ;
marriage/'mrid/ n.结婚 memorize/'memraiz/ vt.记住 ;
mommy/'mmi/ n.[美]妈咪 ;
newscaster /'nju:zk:st/ n.新闻广播员 ;
obstacle/'bstkl/ n.障碍 own/un/ vt.拥有 ;
plus/pls/ prep.加上 politics/'plitiks/ n.政治 ;
producer/pr'dju:s/ n.生产者; (电影或电视)制作人 ;
reach/ri:t/vt.达到 requirement /ri'kwaimnt/ n.要求 ;
researcher /ri's:t/n.研究人员 respond/ris'pnd/ vi.回答;反应 ;
scarce/skes/ adj.缺乏的;罕见地 ;
schedule/'edju:l/ [美]/'skedul/ n.日程表,时间表 ;
sense/sens/n.感觉 separation /,sep'rein/ n.分离;(夫妻)分居 ;
solidLy/'slidli/ adv.坚固地;可靠地 support/s'po:t/ vt.支持 ;
telephone /'telifun/ n.电话 ;
tend/tend/vi.趋向 toddler/'tdl/ n.蹒跚行走的孩子 ;
tolerance/'tlrns/ n.忍受 tuck/tk/ vt.掖好(被子)等 ;
vice/vais/副的 wake/weik/叫醒 woke/wouk/(过去式) ;
waken/'weikn/ (过去分词) whatever/wt'ev/ pron.无论什么 ;
Proper Nouns Bob/'bb/(男人名) Boston/'bstn/ (美国)波士顿(市) ;
Davis/'deivis/ (姓) Doris/'dris/(女人名) ;
Etelson/'i:tlsn/ (姓) Hayden/'heidn/(姓) ;
Kate/'keit/(女人名) Long(姓) Newark/'nju(:)k/ [美国]纽瓦克 ;
Ohio/u'haiu/(美国) 俄亥俄(州) Robert/'rbt/ (男人名) ;
Susan/'su:zn/(女人名) Yarmouth Port (美国地名) ;
TEXT ;
The Ways and Means of Lons-Distance Marriases ;
Kate Hayden,32,and Bob Long,37,a couple for eight years and ;
a married couple for four, have never lived together in the same town or house. ;
She is a newscaster at WABC-TV in New York City. ;
He is an independent TV producer-director in Los Angeles. ;
Kate is on call seven days a week, ;
so Bob flies in to spend two weeks with her every month. ;
The rest of the marriage is conducted by telephone. ;
They talk six or seven times a day, and last month their phone bill was $800." ;
I tuck her in at night and wake her up in the morning," says Bob. ;
"There is nothing good about separation, but we refuse to let it be an obstacle." ;
Such determination helps. ;
There are at least 700,000 commuter couples, ;
according to some estimates. ;
The requirements are simple enough-jobs in two different cities, ;
each too good to turn down,a full-time sense of humor, ;
the ability to memorize airline schedules plus a tolerance for the ;
earaches that come from hours on the telephone. ;
According to the researchers, ;
about half of these married commuters are in the academic world, ;
where work schedules are flexible and jobs too scarce to turn down. ;
But the numbers are increasing in business, ;
politics, show biz, and journalism. ;
The education level is high-about 90 percent have done some graduate work. ;
Family income tends to average $ 3000 to $ 40000 a year. ;
Often the commuting comes about because ;
the wife has reached a level at which further advancement means moving, ;
and the husband solidly supports the move. ;
Doris Etelson,51, the first woman vice-president of Howard Johnson Co., ;
the restaurant chain, has been married for 32 years and commuting for five. ;
When she was offered the job in Boston, her husband Robert, ;
54,who owns a company in Newark, responded with enthusiasm. ;
"She supported me for years," ;
he says, "and now she should get whatever success she can get." ;
Combining long-distance marriage ;
with childrearing is the hardest part of commuting. ;
One two-year-old child of a commuter marriage, ;
who lives with his father in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, ;
has been to the airport so often that he calls all airplanes "Mommy". ;
Some toddlers,like the 18-month-old daughter of Susan Davis, ;
just hate commuting. "She was really very angry ;
that her father had disappeared, "says Susan." ;
He would kiss her and she would turn her head away." ;
So Susan's husband gave up a high-level job in Ohio and is now back in Chicago. ;
Lesson Twenty ;
Words and Expressions ;
anti-/'nti/ [前缀]表示 "反,抗,排斥" ;
Asian/'ein/adj.亚洲的 aspect/'spekt/ n. (问题,事物等的)方面 ;
basically/'beisikli/ adv.基本上 bi-[前缀]表示二(倍) 两,双,重复 ;
bicultural /bai'kltrl/ adj.两种文化的 ;
bilingual /bai'ligwl/ adj.两种语言的, (能)使用两种语言的 ;
border/'b:d/ n.边界,国界 brand/brnd/ n.商标,牌子 ;
Canadian /k'neidn/ adj.加拿大的 n.加拿大人 ;
complain/km'plein/ vi.抱怨 countryman /'kntrimn/n.同胞 ;
cross/krs/ vt.越过,穿过 ;
difference /'difrns/ n.差异,差别 ;
disturb/dis't:b/ vt.打扰(某人), 扰乱(人心) ;
economic /,i:k'nmik/ adj.经济(上)的 ;
effect/i'fekt/ n.影响,作用 emotion/i'mun/ n.感情,情绪 ;
escape/is'keip/ vi.逃跑 ;
European /,jur'pin/ adv.欧洲的 ;
exclusively /iks'klu:sivli/ adv.全部地 ;
finger/'fig/ n.手指 ;
foreignness /'frinis/n. 具有外国特点的性质 或状态 ;
franchise/'frntaiz/ vt.给...以特许 gas/gs/n.[美口]汽油 ;
human/'hju:mn/ adj.人的,人类的 inhabitant /,in'hebitnt/n.居民 ;
interior/in'tiri/ adj.内部的,内地的 intrigue/in'tri:g/ adj.引起..的兴趣 ;
large/la:d/adj.大的 latter/'lt/adj. (两者中)后者的 ;
line/lain/vt.沿..排列 magazine/,mg'zi:n/ n.杂志,期刊 ;
majority /m'driti/ n.多数,大多数 ;
makeup/'meikp/ n.组成,构成 ;
motel/mu'tel/ n.(附有停车场设施) 汽车游客旅馆 ;
movement/'mu:vmnt/ n.(政治,社会或思想) 运动 ;
mysterious /mis'tiris/ adj.神秘的,不可思议 ;
nationalist /'nnlist/ adj.民族主义的 ;
nature/'neit/ n.大自然 neither/'nai/ adv.也不 ;
novel/'nvl/ n.(长篇)小说 official/'fil/ adj.官方的,法定的 ;
operation /,p'rein/ n.[美]经营;业务 ;
outward/'autwad/ adj.向外地 ;
palace/'plis/ n.官殿,宏伟的建筑物 pardon/'pa:dn/vt.原谅 ;
powerful/'paufl/ adj.强大的 presence/'prezns/ n.存在 ;
pressure/'pre/ n.压力 province/'prvins/ n.省 ;
race/reis/n.种族,民族 removed /ri'mu:vd/ adj.远离 ;
resistance /ri'zistns/ n.反抗,抵抗 ;
separatist /'seprtist/ adj.主张独立地, 主张脱离的 ;
soul/sul/n.灵魂,心灵 stand/stnd/n.摊 station/'stein/ n.站 ;
style/stail/ n.风格,作风 suggest/s'dest/ vt.暗示 ;
superhighway / ,sju:p'haiwei/ n.超级公路 (供高速运输用) ;
supporter/s'p:t/ n.支持者,拥护者 tension/'tenn/ n.紧张(指心理状态等) ;
twist/twist/ vi.曲折(穿行) unique/ju'ni:k/ adj.独一无二 ;
wilderness /'wildnis/ n.荒野,荒地 ;
wood/wud/ n.(通常用复数) 树林,森林 ;
Proper Nouns America/'merik/ n.美州 ;
Asian/'ein/ adj.亚洲的 Canadian/k'neidjn/ adj.加拿大的 ;
European /,jur'pin/ adj.欧洲的 ;
Quebec/kwi'bek/ n.魁北克 ;
TEXT ;
"We re not the same." ;
Outward displays of emotion are not part of the Canadian style. ;
We are basically a northern people. ;
We do not live in the street as southern races do. ;
We are an interior people in more ways than one. ;
The Americans are far more outgoing than we are.One reason for this, ;
I think,is the very real presence of nature in our lives. ;
Although it is true that we are city folk, ;
most of us live within a few hours drive of the wilderness. ;
We escape to the woods whenever we can. ;
No Canadian city is far removed from those mysterious ;
and silent places which can have such an effect on the human soul. ;
There is another aspect of my country that makes it u-nique in the Americas, ;
and that is our bilingual and bicultural makeup. ;
(Canada has two official languages, English and French, ;
and in its largest province a majority ;
of the inhabitants speak the latter almost exclusively.) ;
Visitors are intrigued by the "foreignness" of Quebec City, ;
with its twisting streets and its French-style cooking. ;
But there is also a disturbing regional tension. ;
Quebec has become a nation within a nation, ;
and the separatist movement is powerful there. ;
French Canada's resistance to English ;
Canada's cultural and economic pressure can be seen as similar ;
to English Canada's resistance to the same kind of pressure from the United States. ;
This helps to explain why many English-speaking Canadians ;
who call themselves nationalists are ;
strong supporters of special rights for the province of Quebec. ;
This is not to suggest that Canadians are anti-American. ;
If anything, the opposite is true. We watch American television programs. ;
We read American magazines and the American best-selling novels. ;
We tend to prefer American-made cars over the European and Asian products. ;
We welcome hundreds of thousands of American tourists ;
to our country every year and don't complain much when ;
they tell us that we're exactly the same as they are. ;
Of course,we're not the same. ;
But the visitor may be pardoned for thinking ;
so when he or she first crosses the border. ;
The buildings in our cities are designed in the international styles. ;
The brand names in the supermarkets are all familiar. ;
The chicken palaces, hot dog stands, gas stations, ;
and motels that line our superhighways are American fran-chised operations. ;
It is only after several days that the newcomer ;
begins to sense a difference. ;
He cannot put his finger on that difference, but then, ;
neither can many of my country?men. ;
The only thing we are really sure of is that we are not Americans. ;
Lesson Twenty-one ;
Words and Expressions ;
anxiously /'ksli/ adv.忧虑地, 担心地,焦急地 ;
billy/'bili/ n.(野外烹饪或 烧水用的)铁罐 ;
blood/bld/n.血 breathe/bri:/ vi.呼吸 ;
chest/test/ n.胸腔,胸膛 ;
comfortable /'kmftbl/ adj.舒服的,舒适的 ;
companion /km'pnjn/n.同伴 condition /kn'din/ n.条件 ;
defend /di'fend/ vt.保卫 drag/drg/vt.拖,拉 ;
gate/geit/n.大门 gently/'dentli/ adv.轻轻地 hind /haid/adj.后面 ;
hind leg 后退 hurt/h:t/ vt. & vi.(使受)伤痛 ;
hut/ht/n.小屋,棚屋 leg /leg/n.腿 lift/lift/vt.提起,举起 mad /md/adj.发疯的 ;
pain/pein/ n.(肉体上的)痛,疼痛 ;
pause/p:z/vi.暂停,停顿 rib/rib/n.肋骨 shepherd/'epd/ n.牧羊人,羊倌 ;
smile/smail/vi.& n. 微笑 ;
swag/swg/n. [澳](步行者或矿工等) 行李包,包袱 ;
though/u/ conj.虽然,尽管 till/til/prep.&conj. 直到...为止 ;
towards/t'w:dz/ 向,朝 undress/n'dres/ vi.脱衣服 ;
Proper Nouns Lawson/'l:sn/(姓) Macquarie/m'kwri/ (姓) ;
Tally /'tli/(在本课作狗名) ;
TEXT A Man and His Dog after Henry Lawson ;
Macquarie the shepherd had had an accident. At least, that was his story. ;
In fact, he had had a fight in a bar. He had several broken ribs, ;
and his head was covered with blood. His dog, Tally, ;
had tried to defend him and one of its hind legs had been broken. ;
After the fight, ;
Macquarie had picked up his swag and had walked to the nearest hospital. ;
The dog had followed him all the way, on three legs. ;
The doctor examined him.He was surprised that the old ;
man had been able to walk so far. "You can have a bed here till you're better," ;
he said. "But we can't have that dog in the hospital. ;
Dogs aren't allowed here." ;
"You can put him in that hut outside," said Macquarie. ;
"No.He must go somewhere else. Dogs aren't allowed inside the gates. ;
This hospital is for people,not for animals." ;
Macquarie rose slowly to his feet, though the pain in his ribs was terrible. ;
He dragged himself across the room to ;
the corner where his dog was guarding his swag. ;
"What are you going to do?"the doctor asked. ;
"If my dog can't stay, I can't." ;
He lifted his swag, but the pain was so great that he dropped it again. ;
"You must be mad," the doctor said." You can't leave here in that condition. ;
Let the nurse help you to undress. ;
Then get into bed, and I'II deal with your broken ribs." ;
"No!" said Macquarie. "No.My dog needs more help than I do. ;
I've only hurt my chest, but he has a broken leg." ;
He paused. Even breathing gave him a lot of pain. ;
"That old dog has followed me for twelve hungry years. ;
He's my only friend in the world." He paused again. ;
Then he added with a sad smile'-"That dog was born in the bush. ;
His mother died a few weeks later. ;
I carried him in a billy till he was old enough to walk far. ;
He has been a true companion. Several times he has saved my life." ;
The dog raised itself on its three good legs and looked anxiously at the old man's face. ;
He gently touched its head. ;
Then he picked up the swag and took two steps towards the door. ;
But he never reached it.The nurse and the doctor caught him as he fell. ;
When he woke, an hour later,he was in bed. His chest was feeling more comfortable. ;
"Where's my dog?" he asked at once. "Oh, the dog' s all right," ;
said the nurse. "Don't worry. ;
The doctor's fixing his leg in the hut outside. ;
He couldn't send away your only friend." ;
Lesson Twenty-Two ;
Words and Expressions ;
acceptable /k'septbl/ adj可接受的 ;
acceptance /k'septns/ n.接受 ;
agreement /'grirmnt/ n.同意 ;
argue/'a:gju:/ vi.争论 aside/'said/ adv.在旁边;到一边 ;
base/beis/ n.基础 blare/ble/ vi.大声放音 ;
bother/'b/vt.烦扰 comment/'kment/ n.评论 ;
companionship /km'pnjnip/ n.同伴关系 ;
confusing /kn'fju:zi/ adj.令人糊涂的 ;
consider/kn'sid/ vt.考虑,认为 ;
conversational /,knv'seinl/ adj.会话的 court/k:t/n.法庭 ;
diplomat/'diplmt/ n.外交官 direction/di'rekn/ n.方向 ;
disagree/,dis'gri:/ vi.不同意 draw/dr:/ vt.拖,拉 ;
extent/iks'tent/ n.程度 fill/fil/vt.填补 ;
formal/'f:ml/ adj.正式的;拘谨的 ;
formality /f:'mliti/ n.正式;拘谨 ;
heritage/'heritid/ n.传统;遗产 housewife/'hauswaif/ n.家庭妇女 ;
immediate/i'mi:djt/ adj.直接的;立即的 ;
impolite/,imp'lait/ adj.不礼貌的 indicate/'indikeit/ vt.表明 ;
inherit/in'herit/ vt.继承 judge /dd/ n.法官 ;
merely/'mili/ ady.仅仅 military/'militri/ adj.军事的 ;
mininium/'minimm/ adj.最小的 Ms./miz/ n.女士 ;
nationality /,nae'nliti/ n.民族 ;
noticeably /'nutisbli/ adv.明显地 ;
occupational /,kju'peinl/ adj.职业的 ;
offend/'fend/ vt.冒犯;触怒 officer/'fis/ n.官员,军官 ;
personal/'p:snl/ adj.个人的;私人的 position/p'zin/ n.地位 ;
post/pust/ n.职位 priest/pri:st/n.牧师 ;
questioner /'kwestn/询问者 quietness/'kwaitnis/ n.安静 ;
rank/rk/ n.等价;地位 ;
recognition /,rekg'nin/ n.承认;公认 ;
relationship /ri'leinip/ n.关系 ;
request/ri'kwest/ n.& vt.请求 respect/ris'pekt/ n.& vt.尊敬 ;
result/ri'zlt/n.结果 search/s:t/ n.& v.搜寻 ;
senate/'senit/ n.(美国的)参议院; 立法机构 ;
shock/k/ n.冲击;震惊 silence/'sailns/ n.沉默 ;
simply/'simpli/ adv.简单地 somewhat/'smwt/ adv.有点;稍微 ;
sound/saund/ n.声音 standard /'stndd/n.标准 ;
stiff/stif/ adj.拘谨;生硬 topic/'tpik/ n.题目 ;
treat/tri:t/vt.对待 variation /,veri'ein/ n.变化 ;
whole/hul/ adj.完整;n.全部 Proper Nouns ;
Andrew/'ndru:/ (男人名) Brown/braun/(人名) ;
Hartley/'ha:tli/(人名) RockefeUer /'rkifel/ (人名) ;
Sally/'sli/(女人名) ;
Text ;
When You Are with Americans ;
Doing Your Own Thing Because our people have come from so many nationalities, ;
there is a far wider range of what is "acceptable" ;
than in some countries where the inhabitants have grown up with a common heritage. ;
As a result,no one needs to feel ;
uncomfortable in following his or her own customs. ;
Although Americans are noticeably informal, ;
if you prefer somewhat greater formality, feel free to act in your own way. ;
This will be acceptable to those around you. ;
As the young say, ;
each person can "do his own thing" and be respected here to a very large extent. ;
Personal Questions Conversational questions may seem to ;
you both too personal and too many, especially when you first arrive. ;
"Where do you work?" "Are you married?" "How many children do you have?" ;
"Have you taken your vacation yet?" ;
are not personal questions by American standards. ;
They are a search for common ground on which to build a ;
relationship or base a conversation. ;
Understand that such questions are meant to be friendly. ;
It shows the questioner is interested in you. ;
If you are asked questions that seem to you to be too personal, ;
you need not answer them. ;
You can simply smile or say pleasantly ;
that you "do not know" or "In my country that would be a funny question," ;
or turn the questions gently aside by some comment such as ;
"Isn't it interesting to see how different nationalities begin a conversation?" ;
or something similar. If you do that, follow it quickly with another topic, ;
or make some comment of your own on variations in customs, ;
or lead the conversation off in some other direction. ;
The American will not be offended, but he or she will get the point. ;
Meeting People The whole matter of ;
names is a "culture shock" to many people. ;
Americans have a minimum feeling for "rank," especially socially. ;
Most do not themselves enjoy being treated with special respect for age or position; ;
it makes them uncomfortable. ;
Many Americans find even the terms "Mr.","Mrs.",or"Ms." stiff and formal. ;
You hear people well beyond middle age say-even to quite ;
young people-"Just call me Sally (or Henry or Don)." ;
Being on first-name terms is taken as a sign of acceptance and friendliness. ;
However,this need not bother you. ;
If you are not comfortable in ;
following the boss's immediate request to "Call me Andrew," ;
it is quite all right. Just smile and say "After a while perhaps, ;
but thank you anyway." What we do use, however, ;
are occupational titles. These are considered to be different, ;
because they show a recognition that has been earned, ;
not merely inherited. Occupations that most ;
frequently carry titles include diplomats, ;
members of the Senate (or certain other top government posts), ;
judges of the courts, military officers above a certain rank, ;
medical doctors, professors and priests. Examples would be Ambassador Jones, ;
Senator Smith, Governor Rockefeller, Judge Hartley, General Clark, ;
Doctor Brown (medical), Doctor Green(Ph. D.), Father White. ;
Silence Many Americans find silence uncomfortable. ;
They will say anything to fill any quietness if it extends for more than a moment. ;
Students often study with their radios blaring; ;
housewives leave televisions on for ;
the "companionship" of sound even though they may be working in some other room. ;
If you are silent for long periods, ;
they will do their best to "draw you out" ;
or will ask if you feel all right or if there is anything they can do to help you. ;
One aspect of silence can be confusing, however; ;
if Americans disagree with what you are saying, ;
many of them will remain quiet. This may not indicate agreement; ;
often it only means that they consider it impolite to argue further. ;
Lesson Twenty-three ;
Words and Expressions ;
apartment /'pa:tmnt/[美] 一套公寓房间 ;
asleep/'sli:p/ adj.睡着,睡熟 awake/'weik/醒 ;
awoke/'wuk/(过去式) awoke或awaked (过去分词) ;
basement/'beismnt/ n.地下室,底层 bench/bent/ n.长凳 ;
boat/but/ n.小船,艇 can/kn/n. [美](包藏食物的)罐头 ;
canning factory 罐头食品制造厂 crane/krein/ n.鹤 ;
creep/kri:p/ vi.爬行 crept(过去式, 过去分词) ;
cry/krai/vi.& vt. duck/dk/n.鸭 fisherman/'fimn/ n.捕鱼人 ;
fly/flai/vi.飞 flew/flu:/(过去式) flown/flun/(过去分词) ;
free/fri:/vt.使自由 hallway/'h:lwei/ n.[美]门厅,过道 ;
jump /dmp/vt.跳过 knock/nk/ vt.& n.敲,击,打 ;
koh/ku/n.鸟叫声 lake/leik/n.湖 nap/np/n.打盹,瞌睡 ;
nowhere/'nuwe/ n.无处 pack/pk/vt.包装 ;
plate/pleit/n.盘子 repair/ri'pe/vt.修理 roll/rul/vt.使滚动 ;
rope/rup/n.绳,索 sail/seil/vt.开(船) shine/ain/vi. 发光,发亮 ;
shone/n;un/ (过去式,过去分词) sir/强s:;弱s/ n.先生,阁下 ;
softly/'sftli/ adv.柔和地,轻轻地 stone/stun/ n.石头,石 ;
struggle/'strgl/ vi.挣扎 surface/'s:fis/ n.面,表面 ;
tiny/'taini/ adj.极小的 toy/ti/n.玩具 ;
tuna/'t(j)u:n/ n.金枪鱼 Proper Nouns ;
Karen/'kern/ Myoto/'mjutu/ ;
Text ;
The Crane Girl (1) ;
In a city by the sea, there lived an old man and his wife. ;
They were very poor because they were too old to work. ;
All his life, the old man had been a tuna fisherman. ;
He sold his fish to the city canning factory. ;
The old woman had worked in a Japanese restaurant. ;
They had lived well. But now that they were too old to work, they had no money. ;
The couple lived in a tiny apartment in the basement of a big apartment house. ;
The old man repaired things that broke down in the other apartments. ;
He had sold his fishing boat ;
so that he and the old woman could use the money. ;
The old woman walked the dogs of the other people in the apartment building. ;
They had little money, but they were happy. ;
One morning the old man got all of his work done early, ;
and he decided to spent the rest of the day at the park. ;
He went into his apartment and packed himself a bit of lunch. ;
He was looking forward to spending the day in the sunshine. ;
When he arrived at the park, he was tired from the walk. ;
He picked out a bench in the sun and sat down to eat his lunch. ;
From his bench he could see the park lake. ;
He liked to watch the ducks swim. ;
There were children at the water's edge sailing their toy boats. ;
Once in a while a fish would jump on the lake surface. ;
That reminded him of the days when he was a fisherman. ;
As he sat eating his sandwich,he heard the cry of a bird, Koh, ;
Koh, near the water's edge. ;
The old man walked to the bushes at the ;
water's edge and saw a struggling white crane. ;
It must have been one of the animals that belonged to the park. ;
Its foot was caught between two stones, and it could not fly. ;
Feeling sorry for the great bird, the old man crept close, ;
and, speaking softly to calm the crane, he rolled the stones a-part and freed it. ;
With a cry of Koh, ;
Koh, the crane rose into the air and flew to the other side of the lake. ;
The old man returned to his bench. ;
He watched the children with their boats until he nodded off to sleep. ;
After a short nap, he awoke and started home. ;
It would be time to help his wife prepare dinner. ;
While they were working in the kitchen, ;
he told her about freeing the crane. "That was nice," ;
she said. "Doesn't it make you feel good to know that you helped the bird?" ;
As soon as she spoke, there was a knock on the door. ;
The old man answered the door and found a small, ;
Japanese girl standing there. ;
Her little face shone with the light from the hallway. ;
She was quite beautiful. ;
"Please excuse me for knocking at your door, sir. ;
I was in the park with my mother and father. ;
I jumped rope with some other children. ;
When I went back to find my parents, they were gone. ;
I have nowhere to go. I saw your light, so I came in here. ;
My name is Karen Myoto."Poor girl," cried the old woman. ;
"Come in, dear, and have dinner with us." A third plate was put on the table, ;
and the old couple shared their meal with the girl. ;
After dinner the old woman made her a bed ;
on the sofa while the old man cleaned up in the kitchen. ;
The girl fell asleep the moment she got into bed. ;
Lesson twenty-four ;
Words and Expressions ;
amaze/'meiz/ vt.使惊奇,惊噩 arm/a:m/n.臂 ;
in one's arms bolt/bult/ n.(棉布等的)匹 ;
cake/keik/ n.饼,糕 careful/'kefl/ adj.仔细的,小心的 ;
cloth/kl:/ n.布(棉,毛,丝,麻, 合成纤维等)织物 ;
crack/krk/ n.裂缝,缝隙 ;
dollar/'dl/元 (美国,加拿大等国的 货币单位,符号为$) ;
fabric/'fbrik/ n.织物,布 feast/'fi:st/n.盛宴 ;
feather/'fe/ n.羽毛 furnace/'f:nis/ n.炉子 ;
giant/'daint/ adj.巨大的 gift/gift/ n.礼物 ;
hard/ha:d/ adj.艰难的 kindness/'kaindnis/ n.仁慈,照顾 ;
laughter/'la:ft/ n.笑声,笑 loom/lu:m/n.织机 ;
merchant/'m:tnt/ n.商人 ;
neighborhood /'neibhud/ n.[美]附近,四邻 [英]neighbourhood ;
neighbor/'neib/ n.[美]neighbour [英]邻居,邻人 ;
owner/'un/ n.所有人,物主 payment/'peimnt/ n.报偿,支付 ;
peek/pi:k/ vi.从缝隙看,偷看 pleasure/'ple/ n.愉快,乐趣 ;
pull/pul/vt.拉,拔 repay/ri:'pei/ vt.& vi.偿还,报答 ;
repaid/ri:'peid/ (过去式,过去分词) reward/ri'w:d/ n.报酬,奖赏 ;
rice/rais/n.稻,米,饭 rush/r/冲,奔,赶紧 shuttle/'tl/ n.(织机的)梭 ;
silk/silk/n.丝织品 tidy(up)/'taidi/ vt.& vi.收拾,整理 ;
tiptoe/'tiptu/ vi.踮着脚走 ;
unfinished /'n'finit/ adj.未完成的 ;
voice/vis/ n.说话声,声音 weak/wi:k/ adj.弱的 ;
weave/wi:v/ vt.& vi.织(布) wove/wuv/(过去式) ;
woven/'wuvn/ (过去式) ;
Text ;
The Crane Girl (2) ;
The next morning, ;
the old man and woman were surprised to find tea already made. ;
The girl was making breakfast. ;
The apartment had already been cleaned and tidied up. ;
"Good morning," Karen greeted them. "I hope you slept well. ;
Breakfast is ready." The old man laughed." Imagine. ;
A daughter at our age. "This is a reward for helping the bird yesterday," ;
replied the old woman. Every day Karen would go with the old woman to walk the dogs, ;
in hopes that she would see her parents. ;
But she returned every night with less and less hope. ;
Children in the neighborhood soon met Karen and grew to love her. ;
The home of the old couple was filled with the sound of laughter and children's voices. ;
Several weeks had passed, ;
and it would soon be time to celebrate the Japanese New Year. ;
The old man said to his wife, "Karen has been such a pleasure to us. ;
I would like to give her a gift." "So would I," said the old woman. ;
Karen heard them talking, and she felt sad because they were so poor. ;
She came to them and said, "I know that life is hard for you. ;
If you will let me repay your kindness to me, I will weave cloth for you to sell. ;
I ask only one thing-that no one watches me while I weave." ;
The old couple thought that this was strange, but they agreed. ;
Karen went into the furnace room, ;
and soon they heard the sound of the loom as the shuttle moved back and forth. ;
For three days, Karen wove without stopping. ;
She finally stepped into the apartment holding a beautiful bolt of cloth. ;
The old man and woman had never seen anything like it. ;
They told Karen how beautiful it was. "Father,"said the girl, ;
"take this to the fabric shops and show it to the owners. ;
Do not put a price on it,but let the merchants price it. ;
This is a small payment for the home you have given me." ;
The old man took the cloth and rushed to the street where all the shops were. ;
The first shop owner looked at the cloth. "Where did you get this?"he asked. ;
"My cousin in Japan sent it to me," answered the man. ;
"I will pay you fifty dollars for it." The old man went into another shop. ;
"This is very fine silk,"said the owner." I will pay you three hundred dollars." ;
The old man sold him the cloth. On the way home, ;
the old man stopped to buy rice cakes and a gift for Karen. ;
The three of them prepared a feast for the New Year, ;
and some of their friends came for a party. ;
Even though they were careful, the money was soon spent. ;
One day, Karen said, ;
"I must weave more cloth. You can sell it again to the merchants. ;
But remember what you promised. No one must see me while I work." ;
Two days went by, ;
and all the time the sound of the loom filled the apartment building. ;
The people who lived in the building came downstairs. ;
"What is the noise?" they asked. "That is Karen weaving," ;
the old woman answered. "Weaving? May we see?" asked the neighbors. ;
"Oh, no," ;
replied the old man. "We have promised her that no one will watch her." ;
All this time the old woman had wondered how Karen wove such beautiful cloth. ;
She could stand it no longer. Quietly,she tiptoed to the furnace room. ;
She peeked through a crack in the door. ;
The old man missed her and ran down the hall to the furnace room. ;
"Stop! Please stop!" he called to his wife. It was too late. ;
She had already seen inside the room. What she saw amazed her. ;
There,at the loom, was a giant white crane. ;
The crane pulled feathers from its body and wove them into cloth. ;
The old woman stepped back,and the door opened. Karen stepped out, ;
holding in her arms an unfinished bolt of cloth. ;
"Dear people," she said in a weak voice, ;
"I am the crane you saved by the lake in the park. ;
I wanted to help you by weaving cloth for you to sell." ;
She began to cry. "But, now that you know, I will have to leave." ;
She walked from the building toward the park. ;
The old couple followed her. When she reached the park she stopped. ;
Going to the old man and woman, she kissed them. ;
Then she changed into a white crane and flew into the air. ;
The bird looked down and cried,"Koh!" as if she were saying good-bye. ;
Then the bird rose and the crane girl was gone. ;
