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1、新概念英语第四册第5课:YouthFirst listen and then answer the following question: 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 How does the writer like to treat young people? People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'. If there is one - which I take leave to doubt - then it is older people who create it, not the young the

2、mselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings - people just like their elders. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe th

3、at is where the rub is. 人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。假如这个问题存在的话 - 请允许我对此持怀疑看法 - 那么，这个问题是由老年人而不是青年人造成的。让我们来仔细探讨一些基本领实：承认青年人和他们的长辈一样也是人。老年人和青年人只有一个区分：青年人有 光辉绚丽的前景，而老年人的辉煌已成为过去。 问题的症结唯恐就在这里。 When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain - that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have bee

4、n very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking. 我十几岁时，总感到自己年轻，有些事拿不准 - 我是一所高校里的一名新生，假如我当时真的被看成像一个问题那样好玩，我会感到很得意的。因为这至少使我得到了某种承认，这正是年轻人所热衷追求的。 I

5、find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It's as if t

6、hey were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect of elders - as if mere age

7、 were a reason for respect. I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong. 我觉得年轻人令人激昂，自由自在。他们既不追逐卑鄙的名利，也不贪图生活的舒适。他们不热衷于向上爬，也不一味追求物质享受。在我看来，全部这些使他们与 生命和万物之源联系在了一起。从某种意义上讲，他们好像是宇宙人，同我们这些凡夫俗子形成了剧烈而显明的比照。每逢我遇到年轻人，脑子里就想到这些年轻人 或许傲慢自负，举止无理，高傲放纵，愚昧无知，但我不会用应当敬重长者

8、这一套陈词滥调来为我自己辨护，好像年长就是受人敬重的理由。我认为我和他们是同等 的。假如我认为他们错了，我就以同等的身份和他们争个明白。 New words and expression 生词和短语 leave n. 允许 fundamentals n. 基本原则 glorious adj. 光辉绚丽的 splendid adj. 绚丽的 rub n. 难题 identity n. 身份 dreary adj. 沉郁的 commitment n. 信奉 mean adj. 吝啬，小气 social climber 追求更高社会地位的，向上爬的人 devotion n. 酷爱 cosmic ad

9、j. 宇宙的 suburban adj. 见识不广的，偏狭的 conceited adj. 自高自大的 presumptuous adj. 自以为是的，放纵的 fatuous adj. 愚蠢的 cliche n. 陈词滥调 Notes on the text课文注释 1 which I take leave to doubt, 这是一个插入成分，用两个破折号与句子的主要部分分开。take leave to do sth.是“擅自做”，“冒昧去做”的意思。 2 get down to , 仔细处理，仔细探讨。 3 . that is where the rub is.There's the rub.= That's the problem.这就是问题所在。 4 for one thing , 首先。 5 air of freedom, 自由自在。 6 in some sense, 在某种意义上。 7 turn to . for . 为.而求助于.Lesson 5 课后练习和答案Exercises and Answer