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New Horizon College English Book 3
新视野大学英语3
School of Foreign Studies
外国语学院
Bu Youjuan
卜佑娟
Unit 5: Section A
Graceful Hands
Graceful
1. characterized by beauty of movement,
style, form, or execution
2. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Contents
• New Words
•Writing devices & Text analysis
• Reading Comprehension
• Language Points
• Assignments
1. chart:
n. 1. a visual display of information 图表
2. a map designed to assist navigation by sea 海图，图纸
v. make a map or chart of 制图
Example
Columbus discovered America first and drew the
new chart.
We have charted the course of our study at the
beginning of the new term .
新学期伊始我们已制订好学习步骤。
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1. chart:
Compare:
diagram统
graph
计图，原理图
曲线图
illustration
table
图解，插图
表格
figure
图形，数
字
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2. Preceding :
a. 在前的，上述的
Example
This concept has been mentioned in the
preceding chapter.
这个概念在前章已经提到过了。
Precede
v. 领先，在…..之前，优于
M precedes N in the alphabet.
Manager precedes section chief in the company.
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2. Preceding :
a. 在前的，上述的
Compare:
previous
先前，在….之
前
prior
优先的，在…之前
a previous engagement
It happened previous to my
arrival.
a prior choice of house
The house was sold prior to
auction.
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3. switch:
n. /v. 开关;转换
Example
离开房间的时候，请记得关上开关。
Please switch off when you leave your
room.
switch on
You can switch between the two modes any
time.
你可以随时在这两个模式之间切换。
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4. secure:
a. 安全的，安定的
free from danger, fear
v.确保，固定 make certain of; firmly attach to
Example
the secure area
a secure job/ life/ investment
The dam secured the city from the flood.
Please secure the boat to the tree.
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5. outline:
skeleton:
n. 大纲，概要
v.概述，描画…轮廓
n.骨骼，骨架；纲要 a.骨瘦如柴的，概略的
Example
Could you write an outline of the article before
your writing?
the child’s skeleton growth
She showed only the skeleton of
her theory.
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Contents
• New Words
• Writing devices & Text analysis
• Reading Comprehension
• Language points
• Assignments
Main Idea of the passage:
The story deals with a doctor’s view of
a terminally ill grandmother as a
terrible-looking lady with graceful
hands from the outset but a
considerate lady with graceful heart
and mind in the end.
writing device: 1.Double clues (双线法)
Explicit clue
Inplicit clue
Time sequence
The author’s
emotional experience
for details: Explicit clue --- Time sequence
As a major device used in narrative, the order of
time is employed in this text like a thread to string
all the events together.
Sentences with time markers:
1) I have never seen Mrs. Clark before, but I know
that tonight she will die. (Para. 1)
2) As I stand there , the smell hits my nose. (Para. 2)
3) When I am finished, I pull a chair up …(Para. 6)
4) Some unknown interval of time passes before her
eyes open again, …(Para. 8)
5) Two days later, I read about Mrs. Clark in the
newspaper. (Para. 9)
Sentences without time markers:
1) I reach for the light switch, …, I return to
bed…(Para. 2)
2) I reach for the long, thin fingers…(Para. 4)
3) I bend close to her…I put my finger over the end
of the straw…We repeat the procedure. (Para. 4)
4) I go about providing for her needs. …I turn her
on her side. …I remove the lid …I rub cream
into the yellow skin … I notice that …(Para. 5)
5) …her shallow breathing stops, …I begin to cry
quietly. …still holding her hand, I become
aware that …(Para. 8)
for details: Implicit clue --- Emotional experience
The author’s feeling for Mrs’ Clark is changing with
the development of the story. Following this clue
unconsciously, the reader seems to experience the
same shock and change in emotion as the author did.
1) …, I return to the bed to observe the patient with an
unemotional, medical eye. (para.2)
2) I reach for the long, thin fingers that are lying on the
chest.(para.4)
3) I … again notice the long, thin fingers. Graceful. (para.6)
4) Her long fingers … I nod my head slowly, smiling. (para.7)
5) No one should die alone, and I’m glad I was there.(para.8)
6) Yes, they were long and graceful fingers. (para.10)
writing device: 2.detailed description
(细节描写法) --- for appreciation
The detailed descriptions are centered
around the conditions of “the ward” and
“the patient” as well as around the help the
doctor gave to the patient.
This device produces the result that the
reader feels to be on the spot as the author is,
and that the writer’s mental activities can
find echoes in the reader.
The conditions of the ward:
The only light in her room is coming from a
piece of medical equipment, which is flashing
its red light as if in warning.
The smell hits my nose, and I close my eyes as
I remember the smell of decay from past
experiences. In my mouth, I have a sour,
vinegar taste coming from the pit of my
stomach.
The conditions of the patient:
1) Refer to Para. 3.
2) In Para. 5: They are cold. Naked, except for
a light hospital gown, she is very small and
light that she seems like a victim of some
terrible famine. The yellow skin rolls freely
over the bones.
3) In Para. 8: Without warning, her shallow
breathing stops, and within a few moments,
the faint pulse is also gone. One single tear
flows from her eye, across the cheek and
down onto the pillow.
The help given to the patient
I bend close to her… I put my finger
over…and allow a few drops…and ease her
thirst. (Para. 4)
Picking her up in my arms like a child, I turn
her on her side. … I remove the lid from a jar
of skin cream and put some… Carefully, to
avoid injuring her, I rub cream into the
yellow skin,… (Para. 5)
Contents
• New Words
•Writing devices & Text analysis
•Reading Comprehension
• Language points
• Assignments
Read the text again and
answer the questions below.
1. How does the writer describe the smell
of Mrs.Clark’s ward?
2. What is the look of Mrs. Clark’s skin?
3. Why does the writer wonder whether she has anyone
loves her?
4. Why does Mrs. Clark send her family home that night?
5. What does the writer mean by saying it is a special
moment between “I” and Mrs’ Clark?
6. Why the writer mention Mrs’ Clark’s fingers several
times? What kind of a person she is?
Contents
• New Words
•Writing devices & Text analysis
•Reading Comprehension
• Language points
• Assignments
1. Reach for (L.7)
伸手去够…
Example
那名士兵伸手去拿枪。
The soldier reached for his gun.
Make by yourself: 你能帮我够下桌上的苹果吗？
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2. Feel for(L.16)
摸索,感受
Example:
share the suffering of
I felt for the switch carefully in the darkness.
我对篮球有了一点我以前从来没有过的
感觉。
I acquired a feel for the game I
never had before.
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3. Bend close to(L.17)
弯腰靠近；服从
Example
如果我们想赢得战争，那就
要服从将军的命令。
We had to bend to the order
of general if we want to win in
this war.
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4. Ease one’s thirst(L.20)
缓解某人的口渴
（ease：缓解）
Example
It eased my mind (=make me
less worried) to know that my
girlfriend was settled in the
new school.
Ease makes thief. [谚语]贪图安逸的人会起盗心。
Stand at ease.
[口令]
稍息。
5. Go about providing for…(L.24)
开始做…所需要的 [Go about 干(某事)，着手做；着手进行 …]
Example
如果不想让父母失望，就开始努力学习吧。
It is necessary to go about your
study if you do not want to
disappoint your parents.
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6. Not until… do I feel…(L.31)
Example
Not until last week did I get a work permit.
直到上周我才拿到工作许可。
Finish the exercise in textbook P.129.
Ambition never dies until there is no way out.
不到黄河心不死。
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7. Read one’s mind/sense one’s
thoughts(L.38/41) 看穿了我的心思
Example
如果你能看出我的心思，你就会明白我的
苦衷。
If you could read my mind/sense
my thought, you will know my
difficulties.
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8. Her suffering is done, yet so is the life.(L.54)
Mrs’ Clark needn’t bear her pains from
Paraphrase : the disease any more, but her life is also
finished together with the suffering.
Structure:
So + be + sth.
yet
Sth. is done the same as the
former one.
Here is used as conj., means 然而，但是
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9. Mrs’ Clark spared her family an episode that
perhaps they were not equipped to handle. (L.57)
他们或许无力面对
Example
I don't think he's equipped for the
entrance to the society.
我认为他还没有为步入社会做好准备。
A. Language points
Can you find other useful expressions?
1. medical chart
1. 医疗记录单
2. to observe the
2. 用无动于衷的、
patient with an
医生的目光观察
unemotional, medical
着病人
eye
3. to hang loosely
around exaggerated
3.松松地裹在嶙峋的
骨骼上
bones
4. to rise or fall with the
uneven breaths
4. 随着不均匀的呼
吸一起一伏
Can you find other useful expressions?
5. the faint pulse
5. 微弱的脉搏
6. to make no attempt
6. 没有用力去吞咽
to swallow
7. to spend her last
ounce of strength
8. to spare her family
an episode
7. 用尽她最后一丝
力气
8. 为她家人省去了
一段人生插曲
Contents
• New Words
•Writing devices & Text analysis
•Reading comprehension
• Language points
• Assignments
V Assignment
Write an article
on the meaning of
life
after
the
appreciation of the
plot in the film
Forest Gump.
Thanks for your attention

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