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To give students some guidelines on how to improve their studies

【text】curiosity Such people are tremendously curious. The whole world is of interest to them, and they observe what others do not. Nobel-Prize winner physician Albert ~~ put it wellwhen he said,”discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something differently.” With this curiosity comes an “investigative spirit”; the learning is not so much the acquisition of information as it is an investigation ----a questioning, a turning over of the object of study to see all sides and facets. It is not knowing in the sense of having a rigid opinion, but the ability to look again at another time, in a different sight, as ~~ suggests, and to form a new understanding based on that observation.

Discipline Any discipline—but especially those with great subtlety and complexity, like yoga and t’ai chi—can be a lifelong pursuit. Persistence, consistency, and discipline are required. Without these, our learning is but froth without substance. There are no shortcuts. The fruit of these seemingly dry qualities(which we prefer to admire in others) is the satisfaction of having tasted the fullness of completion, or the thrill of meeting a difficult challenge with success. Perhaps, though, our culture is in need of redefining what it means to study. If we can look at our chosen discipline or craft as an ongoing process rather than a discrete accomplishment, the potential for learning can be infinite. With this attitude we may find ourselves treating even the most mundane discovery with wide-eyed wonder and joy.

WORD

1.习得acquisition (v.acquire)

2.方法approach

3.獾，纠缠badger

4.自满complacency(https://www.sodocs.net/doc/4a5510008.html,placent 自满的)

5.通信correspondence(correspondent 记者)

6.累积的cumulative (cumulus 积云)

7.恶魔demon

8.分散离散的discrete（不谨慎不显眼的discreet）

9.象征,化身embody (n.embodiment

=personification=representation)

10.构想出formulate 11.主动性，积极性initiative

12.生计livelihood

13.平庸的mundane

14.不断发展的ongoing

15.吃，喝，参与活动partake

16.相关的pertinent

17.陷阱pitfall

18.史无前例precedence (v.precede)

19.之前的prior~to

20.与。。。成比例的(dis~) proportional

21.开放receptivity

22.放弃relinquish

23.仓库，智囊repository

24.僵硬的，一尘不变的rigid(rigorous严密的)

25.严格批评的scathing

26.（名誉上的）污点stigma

27.竭尽全力地strain 28.不符合职业道德的unethical

29.瑜伽yoga

30.充分实现live up to

31.千方百计地做go out of one’s way to do

32.细微之处,微妙subtlety

PARAPHRASE

Look again at another time, in the different light= view again at another time from different perespective

With wide-eyed wonder and joy= with immense pleasant surprise

Be spoon-fed= be provided with ready answers and ideas

Do thing that have no precedence in our experience= do pioneering work

Drop your prior knowledge= don’t let the knowledge you have acquired be a hindrance to your learning of something new

Derivation

1)substantial----substance

2)motivate—motivation

3)commitment—committed

4)restrictive—restriction(s)

5)subtle—subtlety

6)thrilling(enjoyable,exciting)—thrill

1)At will= as one wishes

2)With a will= energetically

3)Put it well=explain(put one’s point of

view)=say

4)Take precedence over 超越

5)Break through defense line

6)Hold on to =insist

7)Live up to the principles we have laid

down制定

8)Hand in the thesis= submit

9)See to =take care of

10)Be absorbed in = attentive to

11)Dedicate to =written in honor of

12)Face up to=accept

13)Be bogged down=get so involved in

14)Be caught up in =enthralled 15)Enter on= begin considering

16)In the mood for doing

17)Own up to doing

18)Exempted from diong

19)Set one’s heart on doing=decide

20)Justify/excuse for doinng

21)Dissuade sb from doing

22)Stand up for

23)Be worn out

24)Be back out of the schemed

25)Run up against a difficulty=come

across

26)Come round to 过访，回心转意

27)Fall in with=agree with

28)Try on

sentence rewriting

Non-finite verb forms(a general sense)

prepositions and adverbs

TRANSLATION

感到压力很大feel heavily weighted

用积极的观点in a favorable light

特别喜欢诽谤他人go out of one’s way to backbite others

许多宗教的教义敦促人们超越尘世的成功

Many religious teachings urge people to transcend the mundane success.

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1.The dinner party I first heard this tale in India, where is told as if true -- though any naturalist would know it couldn't be. Later someone told me that the story appeared in a magazine shortly before the First World War. That magazine story, and the person who wrote it, I have never been able to track down. The country is India. A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party. They are seated with their guests -- officers and their wives, and a visiting American naturalist -- in their spacious dining room, which has a bare marble floor, open rafters and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda. A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they haven't. "A woman's reaction in any crisis," the major says, "is to scream. And while a man may feel like it, he has that ounce more of control than a woman has. And that last ounce is what really counts." The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests. As he looks, he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess. She is staring straight ahead, her muscles contracting slightly. She motions to the native boy standing behind her chair and whispers something to him. The boy's eyes widen: he quickly leaves the room. Of the guests, none except the American notices this or sees the boy place a bowl of milk on the veranda just outside the open doors. The American comes to with a start. In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing -- bait for a snake. He realizes there must be a cobra in the room. He looks up at the rafters -- the likeliest place -- but they are bare. Three corners of the room are empty, and in the fourth the servants are waiting to serve the next course. There is only one place left -- under the table. His first impulse is to jump back and warn the others, but he knows the commotion would frighten the cobra into striking. He speaks quickly, the tone of his voice so commanding that it silences everyone. "I want to know just what control everyone at this table has. I will count three hundred -- that's five minutes -- and not one of you is to move a muscle. Those who move will forfeit 50 rupees. Ready?" The 20 people sit like stone images while he counts. He is saying "...two hundred and eighty..." when, out of the corner of his eye, he sees the cobra emerge and make for the bowl of milk. Screams ring out as he jumps to slam the veranda doors safely shut. "You were right, Major!" the host exclaims. "A man has just shown us an example of perfect self-control." "Just a minute," the American says, turning to his hostess. "Mrs. Wynnes, how did you know that cobra was in the room?" A faint smile lights up the woman's face as she replies: "Because it was crawling across my foot." UNIT 2-1 一场关于男人是否比女人勇敢的激烈的讨论以一个意外的方式。 晚宴 我最初听到这个故事是在印度，那儿的人们今天讲起它来仍好像实有其事似的——尽管任何一位博物学家都知道这不可能是真的。后来有人告诉我，在第一次世界大战之后不久就出现在一本杂志上。但登在杂志上的那篇故事, 以及写那篇故事的人，我却一直未能找到。故事发生在印度。某殖民官员和他的夫人举行盛行的晚宴。跟他们一起就座的客人有——军官和他人的夫人，另外还有一位来访的美国博物学家——筵席设在他们家宽敞的餐室里，室内大理石地板上没有铺地毯；屋顶明椽裸露；宽大的玻璃门外便是阳台。 席间，一位年轻的女士同一位少校展开了热烈的讨论。年轻的女士认为，妇女已经有所进步，不再像过去那样一见到老鼠就吓得跳到椅子上；少校则不以为然。 “女人一遇到危急情况，”少校说，反应便是尖叫。而男人虽然也可能想叫，但比起女人来，自制力却略胜一筹。这多出来的一点自制力正是真正起作用的东西。” 那个美国人没有参加这场争论，他只是注视着在座的其他客人。在他这样观察时，他发现女主人的脸上显出一种奇异的表情。她两眼盯着正前方，脸部肌肉在微微抽搐。她向站在座椅后面的印度男仆做了个手势，对他耳语了几句。男仆两眼睁得大大的，迅速地离开了餐室。 在座的客人中，除了那位美国人以外论证也没有注意到这一幕，也没有看到那个男仆把一碗牛奶放在紧靠门边的阳台上。那个美国人突然醒悟过来。在印度，碗中的牛奶只有一个意思——引蛇的诱饵。他意识到餐室里一定有条眼镜蛇。他意识到餐室里一定有条眼镜蛇。他抬头看了看屋顶上的椽子——那是最可能有蛇藏身的地方——但那上面空荡荡的。室内的三个角落里也是空的，而在第四个角落里，仆人们正在等着下一道菜。这样，剩下的就只有一个地方了餐桌下面。