1、Unit 11 text A,My Fathers Shadow,1. My husband, Gary, and I were flying to Hawaii from New York City to show our five-month-old son, Timmy, to our parents for the first time. But what should have been a mission of joy filled me with apprehension. For five years Id hardly spoken to my father. Loving
2、but stern in the manner typical of Chinese fathers, he had made particular demands on me, and though we were very much alike, wed grown very far apart.,next,up,home,2. When I became a teenagers, my father held up my mother as a model of feminine behavior. But she was social, while I preferred books
3、to parities. He pressed me to mingle with his friends children. I insisted on choosing my own companions. He assured Id follow in my mothers footsteps and enroll in the local university to study teaching, and that Id marry into one of the other long-established Chinese clans on the islands and settl
4、e down, as he and my mother had.,next,up,home,3. But I didnt settle. As bullheaded as my father, I escaped to the University of California, where I feel in love with a haole, as we called Caucasians from the mainland. Gary had blue haole eyes and sandy haole hair. I announced that we were getting ma
5、rried- in Berkeley, not Hawaii. No large, clamorous clan wedding for me. My parents came and met Gary just two days before our small, simple wedding. Afterward we moved to New York, as far from the island as we could get without leaving American soil.,next,up,home,4. My fathers subsequent silence sh
6、owed his disapproval. He didnt visit; neither did I. when my mother telephoned, he never asked to speak to me, and I never asked for him. We might have gone on like that, the habit of separation hardening into a permanent . Then Timmy was born, and I felt an unexpected tidal pull back to the islands
7、.,next,up,home,5. On the long flight to Hawaii, memories of my childhood, when I was my fathers small shadow, came flooding back. I was three years old, running behind him as he walked between the banana trees in the plantation town where he taught high school. When grew tired, he carried me on his
8、shoulders. From there I could see forever. “ You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.” he would sing. “ You make me happy when skies are gray.” I laughed, taking his devotion as my due.,next,up,home,6. Now the prodigal daughter was returning with the firstborn of the next of generation- a hazel-eyed,
9、golden-skinned hapa haole (half-white) child who looked little like his Chinese ancestors. How would my father react? If he disapproved of Timmy, as he had of me, the separation between us would be complete. I would never return.,next,up,home,7. The plane landed, and I gradually placed a crying, hun
10、gry Timmy into my mothers eager arms. Here was instant and unconditional acceptance of a child by his grandmother.,next,up,home,8. My fathers expression was passive and hard to read. He greeted us politely: “Good trip?” Then he peered cautiously at Timmy, who promptly began to cry. My father stepped
11、 in alarm. Did he find it disturbing that this crying stranger might be his own flesh and blood?,next,up,home,9. After dinner at my parents house, Gary and I retired to my old bedroom. My mother tucked Timmy into a borrowed crib in a room down the hall.,next,up,home,10. Four hours later mother insti
12、nct pulled me from sleep. This was the time Timmy usually woke for a feeding bottle, but there were no cries of hunger. Instead, I heard only the sweet, soft gurgle of baby laughter. I tiptoes down the hall.,next,up,home,11. In the living room, Timmy lay on a pillow on the floor in a circle of light
13、, his plump, tiny fists and feet shaking happily. He studied the face bent over him, an Asian face burned dark by the Hawaiian sun, with laugh wrinkles at the corners of the eyes. My father was giving Timmy a bottle, tickling his tummy and singing softly, “You are my sunshine”,next,up,home,12.I watc
14、hed from the darkness, not wanting to break the scene and then crept back to my room. It was then that I began to suspect that my father had wanted to mend the breach as much as I had. Timmy became the bridge over which we could reach for each other.,next,up,home,13. For the rest of our stay, the te
15、nsion slowly melted. My father and I didnt discuss our rift directly. Thanks to Timmy, we didnt need to. Having claimed his hapa haole grandson, my father no longer defined our family by a uniform set of features. Curly-haired, hazel-eyed Timmy was loved for himself.,next,up,home,14. We returned to
16、the islands the following summer. Timmy, now a toddler, splashed in the surf with his grandfather. The summer after that, they built a tree house out of scrap lumber and painted it blue.,next,up,home,15. So pleased was my father with his new grandfather status that he took early retirement when Timm
17、y was four, to spend more time visiting his “ New York family”. My son and my father made a handsome pair as they walked together the Chinese grandfather happily followed by a different, bouncing shadow.,next,up,home,home,haole:hauli: /hali, -le n. (夏威夷)白人;非土著,back,home,assure: vt. 使确信,使放心vt. 想保证,e.
18、g.,Investigations assured us of the soundness of the plan.,调查研究使我们确信这个计划是可行的。,T,e.g.,I can assure you that the information is reliable.,我可以向你保证这消息是可靠的。,T,back,home,enroll: vi. & vt. 登记，招收，使入伍，使入学vt. 卷，包,e.g.,We enrolled in the army.Mary enrolled her daughter in the kindergarten.,我们登记入伍了。,T,e.g.,Plea
19、se enroll all the books before you leave.,在离开前，把这些书捆起来。,T,back,玛丽为女儿注册进了幼儿园。,T,home,settle: vt. 使定居，使移居vt. 解决，调停vi. 沉淀，降下，沉落,e.g.,Many young people were settled in the countryside in the Cultural Revolution.,在文化大革命中，许多年轻人都移居乡下。,T,e.g.,The internal affairs of each country should be settled by its own
20、 people.,每个国家的内部事务应该由本国人民解决。,T,back,e.g.,next,home,vi.镇定下来，稳定下来settle for 对感到满足，满足于,Darkness settled over the fields.,黑暗笼罩在田野上。,T,e.g.,The weather has settled at last.,天气最后总算稳定下来了。,T,back,e.g.,He demanded a hundred dollars but had to settle for half that amount.,他要一百美元，但是只得到了半数而了结。,T,settle,up,home,
21、due: adj. 应付的，应要求可支付的adj.预定的，应有的，正当的adj.预定的，约定的，预期的，（尤指）预定达到的,e.g.,This is the amount due to the landlord.,这是应付给房主的金额。,T,e.g.,We should give the Japanese aggressors due punishment.,我们应该给日本侵略者应有的惩罚。,T,back,e.g.,next,home,n.应得到的东西due to因为，由引起，由于,Their plane is due in 15 minutes.,他们的飞机预定在15分钟后到达。,T,e.g
22、.,You finally received your due.,你终于得到了你应得的东西。,T,back,e.g.,Her illness was due to bad food.,她的病是坏了的食物引起的。,T,settle,up,home,retire: vi. 退休，退离，回房（睡觉）；后撤,e.g.,Most college teachers in China retire at 60.We must retire early as we have to catch an early train tomorrow.Our armies have retired to form the
23、mselves into new groups before attacking again.,大部分中国高校教师60岁退休。,T,back,我们必须早回房睡觉，因为明天要赶早班火车。,T,我们的不对撤退了，要在进攻前重新编组。,T,home,thanks to:多亏了，由于注意：thanks to 有时可用于反语中，,e.g.,Thanks to Johns help, we finished the task earlier.Thanks to the doctor, I am well again.,对亏了约翰帮忙，我们提前完成了任务。,T,back,多亏了那位医生，我现在好了。,T,e
24、.g.,Thanks to the bad weather, our journey was very uncomfortable.It was thanks to your stupidity that we lost the game.,都是那糟糕的天气，我们旅行很不舒服。,T,都是你的蠢笨，我们比赛输了。,T,home,Caucasian: 原指高加索人，白种人，此处指住在美国大陆的白种人。,back,home,apprehension: n. 理解,忧惧,e.g.,Apprehension by the senses.The apprehension she had felt had
25、been shapeless.We waited for their decision with a great deal of apprehension.He felt some apprehension over the result.,通过感官领悟。,T,back,她感到一种难以名状的恐惧。,T,我们怀着及其焦虑的心情等待他们作出决定。,T,他对结果有点担心。,T,home,rift: n.裂缝，裂隙n.分裂，不和,e.g.,The sun appeared through a rift in the clouds.,太阳从云层间隙中冒出来。,T,e.g.,He was anxious
26、to mend the rift between the two men.,他急于弥合这两个人之间的裂痕。,T,back,home,fill with：（使）充（挤）满使满怀（某种感情等）,e.g.,They filled the hole with rubbish.The hall was filled with persons welcoming him.,他们用垃圾填坑。,T,back,大厅里挤满了欢迎他的人。,T,e.g.,The sight of him filled her with happiness.I was filled with admiration.,一见到他，她心里就
27、充满了幸福。,T,我内心充满了羡慕。,T,home,In the manner of : 照的式样，做出的样子,back,home,make demand on：提出要求，有求于,e.g.,This job makes a lot of demand on my duty.,这项工作要我付出很多时间。,T,back,home,far apart：离得很远,e.g.,She stood far apart from me.,她远离我站着。,T,back,home,alike: adj.同样的，相像的adv.同样地,e.g.,The twins are so alike that I cant t
28、ell which is which.,这对双胞胎一模一样，我分辨不出谁是谁。,T,e.g.,She treats all her students alike.,她对所有的学生都同样看待。,T,back,home,hold up （someone as a model): 把当做榜样，拿展示,back,hold up :举起, 抬起, 拿起；支持, 支撑, 承受住；拦住, 使停顿, 耽搁；拦劫, 抢劫，(天)继续晴下去, 放晴；(情况)良好；举出, 提出,e.g.,Dont hold me up as a model.,不要拿我当典型。,T,home,social: adj.社会的adj.交
29、际的，社交活动的,e.g.,Please tell me some opinions on various social questions.,请告诉我关于各种社会问题的意见。,T,e.g.,Guy led a full social life.He is not a very social person.,盖伊的社交活动丰富多彩。,T,back,他不很合群。,T,home,press: vt.按，压vt. 逼迫，强迫,e.g.,Press the button, then the machine will work.,按下电钮，机器就能转动了。,T,e.g.,The man was pres
30、sed to pay off his debt.,那人被逼还债。,T,back,home,mingle: vt. & vi. 混合，混入vi. 混进，与交往 （联系）,e.g.,Mingle these two substances before the experiment.,实验之前先将这两种物质混合起来。,T,e.g.,They mingled as everyone started to relax.,当大家开始放松的时候，他们就开始交往了。,T,back,home,follow in sb.s footsteps ：效法他人；从事与他人同样的职业或采取相同的生活方式,e.g.,She
31、 works in theatre, following in her fathers footsteps.,她继承父业，也从事戏剧工作。,T,back,home,settle down: 安居，过安定生活（使）安静下来，平静下来,e.g.,He should get a house and settle down.,他应该买幢房子安定下来。,T,e.g.,Has that noisy class settled down yet?You had better settle yourself down and start working.,那个吵闹的班安静下来了吗？,T,back,你最好安下心
32、来工作。,T,home,subsequent: adj. 后来的，随后的,e.g.,Subsequent events proved me wrong.His illness was subsequent to his wifes death.,后来发生的事证明我错了。,T,back,他在妻子死后就病倒了。,T,home,unexpected: adj.没有料想到的，意外的，突如其来的,e.g.,This was a sudden and unexpected blow.His promotion was unexpected.,这是一个突如其来的意外打击。,T,back,他的升迁出人意料。,
33、T,home,take sth. as sth：（以某种方式）理解或解释某事（不用于进行时态）,e.g.,She took what he said as a compliment.,她把他的话看作是恭维。,T,back,home,prodigal: adj.(文、贬)浪费的；铺张的；挥霍的(of sth.)（文）慷慨的，不吝惜的（idm 习语）the prodigal (son/daughter) 回头的浪子，改邪归正的人,e.g.,He is prodigal of money.,他挥霍无度。,T,back,e.g.,Nature is prodigal of her gifts.,大自然
34、不吝惜其恩赐。,T,e.g.,next,All the family went to the airport to welcome home the prodigal son.,全家人都去机场迎接这个回头的浪子。,T,home,back,up,home,bouncing: adj.跳跃的，活泼的，（with sth.）健壮的，强健的,e.g.,He was bouncing with energy.He came bouncing into the room.,他身强体壮。,T,back,他蹦蹦跳跳的进了房间。,T,home,splash: vt. 使（液体）溅起vi.（指液体）溅落,e.g.
35、,The children love splashing water over each other.,儿童喜欢互相泼水。,T,e.g.,Water splashed into the bucket from the tap.,水从水龙头里喷溅着注入水池。,T,back,home,acceptance: n. 接受，认可n. 赞同，赞成,e.g.,We have the pleasure to ask your acceptance of our presents.,恭请接受我们的礼物。,T,e.g.,The new laws gained widespread acceptance.,新法令
36、受到广泛赞同。,T,back,home,peer: vi.凝视，盯着看n.贵族n. 同辈，同龄人,e.g.,He peered at his fathers face.,他凝视着父亲的脸。,T,back,e.g.,He is a peer.,他是一个贵族。,T,e.g.,next,home,As peers we should help each other.,作为同龄人，我们应该互相帮助。,T,back,up,home,ones own flesh and blood: （习惯用语）.近亲，嫡亲,e.g.,He felt as much for that girl as if she had
37、 been his own flesh and blood.,他同情那女孩，就好像她是他的亲骨肉。,T,back,home,tuck: vt. 卷起；挤进，塞；使隐藏,e.g.,He tucked his shirt into his trousers.Emily was only too willing to be tucked up in bed by nine.The farm was tucked away in the hills.,他把衬衫塞进了裤子里。,T,back,艾米丽最愿意九点钟前就掖好被子睡觉。,T,那个农场隐蔽在群山之中。,T,home,tickle: vt. & vi
38、. (使)发痒（使）愉快，逗乐,e.g.,Babies want to be tickled and hugged.,婴儿喜欢轻轻呵痒和紧紧拥抱。,T,e.g.,He tickled the crowd with his jokes.,他的笑话把人们逗乐了。,T,back,home,creep: vi. 蹑手蹑脚地走，缓慢地进行爬行，匍匐,e.g.,The hunter crept up to the deer.,猎人蹑手蹑脚地走进了那头鹿。,T,e.g.,The dog crept under the car to hide.,狗爬到汽车下藏着。,T,back,home,suspect: v
39、. 猜疑，怀疑（是），觉得（是）,e.g.,I suspect him to know everything about that.I suspect (that) you once thought otherwise.,我猜想那件事他全都知道。,T,我觉得你一度有过不同的想法。,T,back,home,melt: vt. & vi. （使）融（溶，熔）化，溶解（使）消散，消失,e.g.,The ice will melt when the sun shines on it.,当太阳照到冰的时候，它就融化了。,T,e.g.,I dont know where my money goes, it just seems to melt.,我不知道我的钱哪儿去了，就像消失了。,T,back,
