新概念英語第三冊(cè)課堂筆記-第5課
新概念英語第三冊(cè)課堂筆記 第五課
Lesson 5
The facts
確切數(shù)字
【New words and expressions】 生詞和短語
★editor
n. 編輯
edit:(v.)編輯
edition:(n.)編輯
editorial:(a)編輯的，主編的
(n.)社論，評(píng)論
★extreme
n. 極端
go to extreme(s) to do: 走極端
He went to extreme to say that the play was the best one.
He went to extremes to say that his girlfriend was the most beautiful in the world.
go from one extreme to the other
★statistics
n. 統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)字
★journalist
n. 新聞?dòng)浾?BR>reporter:(電視臺(tái)）記者
correspondent:(電臺(tái)）記者，通訊員
★president
n. 總統(tǒng)
★palace
n. 王宮；宏偉的住宅
★publish
v. 出版
They have already published the magazine
=print(vt.),go to press
The book has already been published.
The book has gone to press.
★fax
n. 傳真
send a fax
★impatient
adj. 不耐煩的
patient :有耐心的
patiently:有耐心地
impatient:不耐煩的
impatiently:不耐煩地
n.: patience,impatience
★fire
v. 解雇
He was fired from his job
dismiss(正式）
The manage dismissed him from his company.
sack(俚語)“解雇，辭退“
If you do it wrong again you will be sacked.
★originally
adv. 起初，原先，從前
original (a.)
Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
聽錄音，然后回答以下問題。
What was the consequence of the editor's insistence on facts and statistics?
Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace'. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but the took a long time to send them Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.
參考譯文
報(bào)刊雜志的編輯常常為了向讀者提供成立一些關(guān)緊要的事實(shí)和統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)字而走向極端。去年，一位記者受一家有名的雜志的委托寫一篇關(guān)于非洲某個(gè)新成立共和國(guó)總統(tǒng)府的文章。稿子寄來后，編輯看第一句話就拒絕予以發(fā)表。文章的開頭是這樣的：“幾百級(jí)臺(tái)階通向環(huán)繞總統(tǒng)的高墻
