1. Life is just one damned thing after another. -----Elbert Hubbard
可应用知识点:被动语态;one after another;句型仿写:Success is just one damned failure after another.
2. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.—Isaac Asimov
前两个小短句虽短却运用了对比及压头韵的手法,令人感到震撼,深思。
第三句的强调句用法可以与新二56课结合,并可讲解troublesome 的用法。
3. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.—sir Winston Churchill
排比的写作手法可用于新二25课讲解排比成分;
By what we get, by what we give 可用于讲解宾语从句。
4. Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.—Linda creed
Learning 动名词作主语可用于新二20课讲解;
The greatest love 形容词最高级可用于新二8课讲解。
5. Love is not blind- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.—Rabbi Gordon
副词比较级,可用于新二8课。
6. Misfortune shows those who are not real friends.---aristotle
“患难见真情”who引导的定语从句可用于新二28课定语从句的讲解。
7. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ---Abraham Lincoln
励志教育:快乐源于努力,快乐源于心态
As…as…第25课短语补充;make up one’s mind to do sth
8. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.--- Albert Schweitzer
形容词比较级与最高级在意思上的转换, 如:second to none
9. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dream. Barack Obama
Realize后的宾语从句;dream 的用法;at the expense of
关于实现梦想的说法:realize one’s dream; one’s dream come true
10. This time we want to talk about shuttered mills that once provided