Unit4 Body language肢体语言(话题阅读精练） 主题词块积累 Vary vi.(根据情况)变化；改变→various adj.各种各样的 Approve vi.赞成；同意vt.批准；通过→approval n．批准；赞成；同意 Employ vt.使用；应用；雇用→employment n．使用；雇用 Interpret vt.把……理解(解释)为vi.&vt.口译→interpreter n．口译人员；口译者 Differ vi.相异；不同于→different adj.不同的；相异的→difference n．差异；不同 reliable adj.可靠的；可信赖的→rely v．依靠；依赖；相信 slight adj.轻微的；略微的；细小的→slightly adv.略微；稍微 nonverbal adj.不涉及言语的；非言语的→verbal adj.言语的 assessment n．评定；评价→assess v．评估；评价 educator n．教师；教育工作者；教育家→educate v．教育；教导；训练 Lower vt.把……放低；降低；减少 adj.下面的；下方的；较小的→low adj.低的；浅的 embarrassed adj.难堪的；尴尬的→embarrass v．使……难堪；使……尴尬 ashamed adj.羞愧的；惭愧的→shame n．羞愧；惭愧；令人惭愧的事情 Inquire vi.&vt.询问；打听→inquiry n．调查；询问 ultimately adv.最终；最后→ultimate adj.最终的；最后的 Adjust vt.调整；调节vi.&vt.适应；(使)习惯→adjustment n．调整；调节 时文拓展阅读 A Universal Greeting: Shaking Hands A handshake seems to be a normal gesture. In fact, in the 9th century BC, an ancient site during the ruling of Shalmaneser III clearly shows two figures holding hands.The Iliad,usually dated to the 8th century BC, mentions that two characters “taking each other's hands and expressing their loyalty," Centuries later, Shakespeare once wrote of two characters who shook hands and swore to be brothers in the bookAs You Like It.Shaking hands seems to be an ancient custom whose roots have disappeared in the sands of time. Historians who have studied ancient etiquette books note that the modern handshake did not appear until the middle of the 19th century, when it was considered a slightly inappropriate gesture that could only be used between friends. But what if Shakespeare had written about handshaking hundreds of years earlier According to author Torbjorn Lundmark in hisTales of Hi and Bye: Greeting and Parting Rituals Around the World,the problem comes in differing definitions of the handshake. The early handshakes mentioned above were part of making deals or peace; King Shalmaneser 111 referred to a rebellion in which he signed a treaty with the King of Babylon. In theIliad,Diomedes and Glaucus shook, hands when they realized they were guest-friends, and Diomedes declared: "Let's not try to kill each other." Shakespeare was similarly referencing settlement of a conflict. The modern handshake as a form of greeting is harder to trace. As a Dutch sociologist Herman Roodenburg — the chief authority for the history of handshaking — wrote in a chapter of ananthologycalledA Cultural History of Gesture,“More than in any other field, that of the study of gesture is one in which the historian has to make the most of only a few clues”. One of the earliest clues he cites is a 16th-century German translation of the French writer Rabelais'sGargantua and Pantagruel.When one characte ... ...
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