新概念英语四册课堂笔记 Lesson58 Painting as a Pastime

Notes on the text 课文注释
     Worry is a spasm of the emotion 忧虑是情绪的突然发作。
     It is useless to argue with the mind in this condition.
     1） agrue with 争论
     2） the mind 指人，而不是人脑.
 eg.Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同。
3. One can only gently insinuate something else into its convulsive grasp.
1)insinuate = to push 慢慢灌输
2)its 指代 minds
3)grasp 抓住不放，这里指 minds.
[译]我们只能对他温柔的灌输其他思想到他痉挛的脑子里。
4. …..，if it is really attended by the illumination of……the process of recuperation and
repair begins.
1）attend vt.辅佐，辅助
2）by 通过某种手段
3）recuperation = recovery 恢复
5. The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of first
importance to a public man.
     1） cultivation = to build up 培养，建立
1.
2.
2) therefore adv. 所以 (承接上文)
3）policy ：method 方法
4）first importance 第一位的重要性
5）public man :go out to work;参与社会工作的人
 [译] 对一个公众人士而言，你需要培养兴趣爱好，这是至关重要的。
6. The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process.
   1） alternative adj. 二中选一的
alternative interests 替换型兴趣，指的是工作之外的兴趣
    [译] 替换型的智力兴趣的培养需要一个很长的过程。
7. The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; they must be
sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed. （推荐记忆）
此句用了一个暗喻 metaphor(延伸：明喻 simile)
interests 比喻为 seeds
vivify vt.给与生气，生动，使活跃
8. It is no use starting late in life to say:….
论述句型： it is no using doing…
       it is no point doing …
      eg. it is no using crying over the spilt milk.覆水难收。
9.
It is no use doing what you like, you have got to like what you do.(推荐记忆)
have got to [英]= have to [美]
[译] 只想做你想做的事是没用的，你必须喜欢你所做的事。
10. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week's sweat and effort,
    the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon.
               offer sb.sth. 双宾语
sweat and effort 辛勤劳动
               with = because of 因为，由于
11. As for the unfortunate people…. a new excitement is only an additional satiation.
as for….= about 谈及，关于
additional satiation :多余的满足
12. For them discipline in one form or another is the most hopeful path.
     discipline:约束
     [译]对他们而言，生活有规律才有获得兴趣的可能。
13.But fortune's favoured children belong to the second class.
     fortune's favoured children 天子骄子
14. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced
interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
    1) ordinary holidays 正常的假日
2)
3)
4)
grudge = regard with hatred 憎恶
enforced 被迫地
vocation 天职/vacation 假期
[译]每天都是假日，而且当正常的假日到来时，他们都把它当作对其投入的天职所进行的一
种被迫的打搅。
15. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook,…
     an alternative outlook 理解为这两类人的想法可以转换（替换）一下
16. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the
means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
 1) it may well be that……或许事情正是这样
 2) at intervals 不时，间隔一段时间
 3）banish = get rid of 去除
 4) means = method ,way
17. Catch hold of, 抓住……；let … go, 放掉……。
18. Lay one’s hands on, 得到……，抓到……。
19. Fortune’s favoured children 中的 Fortune 是指“命运女神”。