Unit 8

Lesson 36 Danger for the fun of it

Character

Dennis Joyce White-water canoeing To put some excitement into his life

It provide “a total isolation from anything that can interfere with your own personal sense of self

Scuba divingSteve Kaufman

Everything else seems boring compared to it

Hang gliding George Weigel

Sport of interest Reason for the interest

Eric D. Rosenfeld Mountain climbing It is quite addictive and in the arctic no one’s around

Susan Tripp Skin diving It is not something many people do

John Wolcott Hot air ballooning It makes me a hero

为生活增添一些新鲜刺激的东西完全与世隔绝，没有任何东西能干扰你自己感受到的自我存在

P1L6 Take up (sports hobby ) Become interested in (a hobby )

开始从事于某种爱好E.g. 退休后，我父亲开始爱上了钓鱼

My father took up fishing after he retired.

P1L7 fill the leisure hours spend the spare time 充实闲暇时间

fill in for 临时补缺，暂代fill out 填写

fill in the time 消磨时光

What does the people who take in risky sports have in common?

1. Most are men 2.They don’t like others to think of them as thrill seekers. 3.Almost all of them look down on sports like tennis and golf .

majority

thrill : v. To cause to feel a sudden intense sensation; excite greatly. 使激动使感到突然而强烈的感觉；使非常激动seek: look for 寻找thrill seeker: person who looking for thrill. 寻找刺激者

n.great excitement 巨大的刺激

look down on look down upon 轻视，看不起e.g. 他过去常看不起残疾人。

He used to look down on the handicapped people.

L3Manhattan :n. 曼哈顿岛 ( 美国纽约一区 )L3 bill collector : 票据收款人 bill collection 票据托收L6 alien: different

e.g Their ideas are quite alien to our own. 他们的想法跟我们的截然不同。L8 isolate 分开，隔离 - isolation 孤立；隔离

P4 L1 There’s just nothing happening in sports like tennis and golf =There’s nothing wxciting and eventful in sports like tennis and golf 网球和高尔夫球这样的体育运动没什意思。

L9 interfere with: to get in the way of ,prevent from working or happening

妨碍，扰乱e.g 电视机的声音妨碍我的工作

The sound of the TV interferes with my work .

P6 L1 carpenter : 木匠L3 risk-taker ：Person who likes to taking risk 冒险者L5 be regarded as: be considered to be ,be thought to be 被认为

e.g. 'Titanic' is regarded as his best film so far.泰坦尼克号 ' 被认为是到目前为止他拍得最好的影片L6 scare the living daylights out of somebody 把某人吓了一跳吓得失去知觉scare sb. to death

beat (knock ) the living daylights out of somebody 把某人 打得失去知觉L7 compare A to/with B : compare to find out alike and different

e.g.Compare the education in China to it in Western counties.

A teacher's work is often compared to a candle.比较一下中国的教育与西方的教育教师的工作常被比作蜡烛。（把 ... 比喻为）

P7&8 Why do people willingly seek out danger ?Most men do it to prove their masculinity .

P7L2 associate 副的associate professor 副教授 associate editor[ 美 ] 副主编

L3 clinical psychiatry n. 临床精神病学psychologyn. 心理学 , 心理状态

n. 精神病学 , 精神病治疗法psychiatry L5 masculinity n. 男子气，男性

manlike adj. 男人似的 , 有男子气质的manly adj. 男子气概的 , 果断的 , 雄赳赳

womanly adj. 像女人的 , 有女子气质的womanlike adj. 像女人的 , 女人似的

P8L1 undertake : vt. 进行，承担 , 担任 , 许诺 , 保证 undertake a post 担任一个职位I can't undertake that you will make a profit.我不能担保你会获利。

L2 confront :To come face to face with 勇敢地面对，对抗e.g. to confront danger 勇敢地）面对危险

P9L4 addictive :

e.g. undertake a task. 开始进行一项任务

adj. 使上瘾的；使入迷的addict vt. 使沉溺 , 使上瘾He became addicted to the drug. 他上了毒瘾。n. 上了瘾的人 film addict 电影迷

L3 habit-forming adj. 使人上瘾的，成习惯性的P10L2 contrast : n. v. 对照 , 对比

contrast A to/B : compare A to/with B A 与 B 对比e.g. It is interesting to contrast the two writers .将这两个作家加以比较很有意思。

White -water canoeing 在急流上画独木舟

scuba-divingn. 配戴水肺的潜水

skin-diving :n. 不带笨重的呼吸装备、不穿游泳衣的 )潜泳，裸用

snorkel

使用通气管潜泳 [潜航 ]

hand gliding n. ( 不是用飞机，而是用大风筝进行的）悬挂式滑翔

hot air ballooning

乘热气球飞行