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Lesson 60
Too early and too late
人口稀少的农村
掐钟点
头脑敏捷
沮丧
早到总比晚到好
本课重点
词汇 intellectual, coordinate, reproach
句型 Without + 虚拟语气
Only句首倒装
WORDS
‘punctuality
punctual a.
精确的，准时的
她一直可靠守时。
She has been reliable and punctual.
punct=point
反义词：urban
rural area
农村地区
rural adj.
rural landscape
rural poverty
rural development
=ignore
忽视，漠视，不尊重
董事会完全无视我的建议。
The board completely disregarded my recommendations.
这里的人完全不守时。
The people here totally disregard punctuality.
disregard
an intelligent well-educated person who spends time thinking about complicated ideas and discussing them
学者，知识分子→academic
intellectual n.
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
Yoko Ono
:complicated and difficult to understand
Maths is a mix of abstruse theory and detailed calculations.
abstruse adj.
co-ordinate
To make the different parts of your body work well together
To organize the different parts of an activity and the people involved in it so that it works well
coordinate v. 协调
coordinate her body
coordinate her movements
协调政府行动
coordinate the actions of the government
协调食品安全政策
coordinate the policies on food safety
: gently ‘reprimand
责备，指责，批评
reproach v.
Recognizing who the customer was, the manager was most apologetic and reprimanded the assistant severely.
Lesson 31
He may gently reprimand an official or even suggest to parliament that a law the altered.
The policeman in question was severely reprimanded and was informed that if any further complaints were lodged against him, he would prosecuted.
Lesson 53
She was thinking that she must reprimand her home help the next morning for such a monstrous piece of negligence, when she remembered that she had gone shopping after the home help had left and she knew that she had turned both keys in their locks.
Lesson 58
I was reproached .
for heavy drinking
I was reproached for cheating.
blame: （造成不好结果）责怪
reproach/reprimand: (做错事)谴责，训斥
The report blames poor safety standards for the accident.
区分blame
一块玻璃扎破了轮胎。
A piece of glass punctured the tyre.
puncture v.
diversion of the river
河流改道
diversion
An experience or a person that causes difficulties for sb.
令人伤脑筋的事；惹麻烦的人
My brother is always a trial to my parents.
trial cn.
a very small amount of something
n. 很小一点儿
fraction
I got these shoes at a fraction of
the original price.
with a large confident movement that makes people notice you
（为引起注意的）夸张动作，挥舞
flourish n.
He opened his wallet with a flourish and took out a handful of notes.
microscopic adj.
microscope n. 显微镜
determined not to change your opinion or a decision that you have made
坚定的
adamant adj.
TEXT
Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs of a civilized society.
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Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs of a civilized society.
affairs: 一般是公事
political/military/economic…
an affair
a secret sexual relationship between two people, when at least one of them is married to someone else
Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs of a civilized society.
-ize: ……化
specialize
idealize
maximize/minimize
Let’s synchronize our watches.
syn: 同
chron: 时间
civilized society
industrialized society
modernized society
democratized society
Writing
Coming on time is necessary.
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Punctuality is necessary.
Writing
Punctuality is necessary.
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Punctuality is a necessary habit.
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Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs of a civilized society.
Be specific: narrowing down
诚实
Honesty is important.
Honesty is important in relationships.
Honesty is important in marriages.
Honesty is a key component in healthy relationships between men and women.
Plagiarism 抄袭
Plagiarism is a very bad habit in academic research.
Without it, nothing could ever be brought to a conclusion; everything would be in a state of chaos.
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Without it, nothing could ever be brought to a conclusion; everything would be in a state of chaos.
Without it,
=
If there were no punctuality,
如果你不帮助我，我不可能完成工作。
If you hadn’t helped me, I couldn’t have finished the job.
Without your help, I couldn’t have finished the job.
Without it, nothing could ever be brought to a conclusion; everything would be in a state of chaos.
conclusion: end (formal)
commencement: start (formal)
宣布开/闭幕
declare the commencement/conclusion of …
Only in a sparsely-populated rural community is it possible to disregard it.
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Only in a sparsely-populated rural community is it possible to disregard it.
It is possible to disregard it only in a sparsely-populated rural community.
sparsely/thinly/lightly populated
densely/thickly/heavily populated
Only in a sparsely-populated rural community is it possible to disregard it.
Sparsely-populated 人烟稀少的
I’m in the middle of nowhere. It is so sparsely-populated.
我处在一个前不着村，后不着店的人烟稀少的地方。
Only in a sparsely-populated rural community is it possible to disregard it.
只有这样才能学好英语。
Only in this way can you learn English well.
疫情结束后他才能恢复工作。
Only when the pandemic is over was he able to get back to work.
Only in a sparsely-populated rural community is it possible to disregard it.
True eccentrics never deliberately set out to draw attention to themselves. They disregard social conventions without being conscious that they are doing anything extraordinary.
Lesson 31
In ordinary living, there can be some tolerance of unpunctuality.
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The intellectual, who is working on some abstruse problem, has everything coordinated and organized for the matter in hand.
work on 从事…致力于,对…产生作用或结果
His charm doesn’t work on me.
他的魅力对我不起作用。
他正在写一部小说。
He is working on a new novel.
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He is therefore forgiven, if late for a dinner party.
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But people are often reproached for unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine.
be reproached for sth. 因某事被责骂
He publicly reproached his son for his behavior.
他公开谴责了儿子的行为。
人们常常因为不守时而被责备。
People are often reproached for unpunctuality.
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But people are often reproached for unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine.
cutting it/things fine 掐点；把时间算很准
Even in normal traffic, 20 minutes to get to the airport is cutting things fine.
给自己的通勤（commute)留足够的时间，不要掐着点来。
Leave yourself enough time for commute, don’t cut things fine.
It is hard for energetic, quick-minded people to waste time, so they are often tempted to finish a job before setting out to keep an appointment.
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It is hard for energetic, quick-minded people to waste time, so they are often tempted to finish a job before setting out to keep an appointment.
adj.-minded/hearted
-minded:
broad-minded 胸怀宽广的
narrow-minded
like-minded
-hearted:
lion-hearted
very brave
big-hearted
very kind and generous
It is hard for energetic, quick-minded people to waste time, so they are often tempted to finish a job before setting out to keep an appointment.
be tempted to do sth
忍不住做某事
她忍不住想给他打电话，但是她的自尊心阻止了她。
She was tempted to ring him up, but her pride would not let her do this.
It is hard for energetic, quick-minded people to waste time, so they are often tempted to finish a job before setting out to keep an appointment.
Keep an appointment
= go to an appointment
If no accidents occur on the way, like punctured tyres, diversions of traffic, sudden descent of fog, they will be on time.
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They are often more industrious, useful citizens than those who are never late.
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The over-punctual can be as much a trial to others as the unpunctual.
trial:
an experience or a person that causes difficulties for sb
令人伤脑筋的事，惹麻烦的人，考验
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The guest who arrives half an hour too soon is the greatest nuisance.
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The guest who arrives half an hour too soon is the greatest nuisance.
nuisance: 人物事通用
The injury which on the previous day had been a nuisance to her was now a torment.
Some friends of my family had this irritating habit.
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The only thing to do was ask them to come half an hour later than the other guests.
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Then they arrived just when we wanted them.
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If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortably early than even a fraction of a minute too late.
It is better to be….. than 宁可…也不要
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If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortably early than even a fraction of a minute too late.
His family were comfortably off. (丰衣足食)
他的家里相当有钱。
她赚的钱足够她过得很舒服。
She earns enough money to live comfortably.
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If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortably early than even a fraction of a minute too late.
I was a second too late.
一秒都太晚。
如果你决心要进行手术（go for surgery)，那就越早越好，拖一天都有可能致命。
If you’ve decided to go for surgery, it is always better to do it sooner than one day too late.
Although being early may mean wasting a little time, this will be less than if you miss the train and have to wait an hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration of arriving at the very moment when the train is drawing out of the station and being unable to get on it.
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Although being early may mean wasting a little time, this will be less than if you miss the train and have to wait an hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration of arriving at the very moment when the train is drawing out of the station and being unable to get on it.
Divorce is more common than …
it was a generation ago.
fifty years ago.
I imagined.
before.
On the whole, ambitious students are more likely to succeed in their studies than are those with little ambition.
On the whole, ambitious students are more likely to succeed in their studies than those with little ambition are.
倒装: than + 助动词 + 主语
我比我妹妹更懂电脑。
I know about computers more than my sister (does).
I know about computers more than does my sister.
Research shows that children living in villages watch more television than do their counterparts in inner city areas.
Far more Japanese workers expressed dissatisfaction with their jobs than did their counterparts in the 10 other countries surveyed.
尽管买保险也许意味着浪费一些钱，但这也比如果你发生意外了的钱要少得多。
Although buying insurance may mean wasting a little money, this will be much less than if you have an accident.
An even harder situation is to be on the platform in good time for a train and still to see it go off without you.
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An even harder situation is to be on the platform in good time for a train and still to see it go off without you.
方便说话吗？
Is it a good time
You kind of caught us at a bad time.
你现在来找我可不是时候。
The money/wage is good.
$30 sounds like a good price for me.
Such an experience befell a certain young girl the first time she was travelling alone.
sth befall sb
发生在（某人）身上
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She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due, since her parents had impressed upon her that it would be unforgivable to miss it and cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeys to meet her.
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She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due, since her parents had impressed upon her that it would be unforgivable to miss it and cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeys to meet her.
due
expected to happen or arrive at a particular time
be due + to do/for/… + time
His new book is due to be published next year.
His new book is supposed to be published next year.
His new book should be published next year.
The baby is due in April.
The baby is expected to be born in April.
with all due respect
Dad, with all due respect, is not a good husband.
恕我直言
She gave her luggage to a porter and showed him her ticket. To her horror， he said that she was two hours too soon.
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She felt in her handbag for the piece of paper on which her father had written down all the details of the journey and gave it to the porter.
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He agreed that a train did come into the station at the time on the paper and that it did stop, but only to take on mail, not passengers.
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The girl asked to see a timetable, feeling sure that her father could not have made such a mistake.
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The porter went to fetch one and arrived back with the station master, who produced it with a flourish and pointed out a microscopic 'o' beside the time of the arrival of the train at his station; this little 'o' indicated that the train only stopped for mail.
produce
v. to show sth or to make sth appear
出示，展现
He produced a letter from his pocket.
他从兜里掏出一封信来。
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Just at that moment the train came into the station. The girl, tears streaming down her face, begged to be allowed to slip into the guard's van.
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Just as that moment the train came into the station. The girl, tears streaming down her face, begged to be allowed to slip into the guard's van.
独立主格
But the stationmaster was adamant: rules could not be broken. And she had to watch that train disappear towards her destination while she was left behind.
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SUMMARY WRITING
The girl entered the railway station twenty minutes early, but the porter said she was two hours too soon. When she showed him the details of the journey, he agreed it was correct, but said it was a mail train, not a passenger train. When she demanded to see a timetable, the station master came and pointed out that the train only stopped for mail. The train came in but the girl was still not allowed to get on.
参考答案
WORD DRILL
intellectual
flourish
punctuality
diversion
puncture
trial
adamant
fraction
microscope
rural
abstruse
coordinate
reproach
Only in a sparsely-populated rural community is it possible to disregard it.
But people are often reproached for unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine.
It is hard for energetic, quick-minded people to waste time, so they are often tempted to finish a job before setting out to keep an appointment.
Key sentences
4. If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortably early than even a fraction of a minute too late.
5. Although being early may mean wasting a little time, this will be less than if you miss the trian and have to wait an hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration of arriving at the very moment when the train is drawing out of the station and being unable to get on it.
Key sentences
人口稀少的农村
掐钟点
头脑敏捷
沮丧
早到总比晚到好
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