(
课件网) 新概念英语第四册 Lesson 5 Youth Lesson 5 Youth 青年 How does the writer like to treat young people People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'. If there is one -- which I take leave to doubt -- then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings -- people just like their elders. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is. When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain -- that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking. I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they not a dreary1 commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It's as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban2 creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited3, ill-mannered, presumptuous4 or fatuous5, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect of elders -- as if mere7 age were a reason for respect. I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong. New words and expression 生词和短语 leave n. 允许 fundamentals n. 基本原则 glorious adj. 光辉灿烂的 splendid adj. 灿烂的 rub n. 难题 identity n. 身份 dreary adj. 沉郁的 commitment n. 信奉 mean adj. 吝啬，小气 social climber 追求更高社会地位的，向上爬的人 devotion n. 热爱 cosmic adj. 宇宙的 suburban adj. 见识不广的，偏狭的 conceited adj. 自高自大的 presumptuous adj. 自以为是的，放肆的 fatuous adj. 愚蠢的 New words and expressions 生词短语 sb. take leave to do sth. 允许某人做某事，冒昧做某事 get down to sth.认真研究 get down to +名词／动名词 glorious 光辉灿烂的 rub 难题 teenager 青少年 for one thing 原因之一，有一点是…连接词… for another identity 身份 air of freedom 无拘无束air:神态、气势 dreary 沉郁的 ambition 追名逐利 cosmic being 宇宙人 human being 人 violent 强烈的，暴力的 suburban 见识不广的，有偏见的 conceited 自高自大的 presumptuous 自以为是的，放肆的 fatuous 愚蠢的 cliché 陈词滥调 I take leave to say… 我冒昧地说…I take leave to be frank 恕我直言。口语：maybe I’m too bold… or . say … I’m bold enough… or. Allow myself to Take one’s leave = take leave 离开（正式用法） Would you please take your leave 我很烦的几种表示法： What a bore. What a nuisance. What a trial What a jerk. get down to + 名词/动名词 例：我开始学习了。 I get down to my studies. to- 介词同 ... ...
