Lesson One Text as thoroughly as a surgeon knows the human body.(16 He loved it,and understood it.Not a mountain,not a canyon which had not much to tell him,not a change in the weather that he could not interpret.(17 And so among the pleasures of learning,we should include travel,travel with an open mind,an alert eve (18 and a wish to understand other peoples,other places,rather than looking in them for a mirror image of oneself (19 If I were a young man today,I should resolve(20)to see-no, to learn-all the 50 states before I was 35. 第一课课文
as thoroughly as a surgeon knows the human body.(16) He loved it, and understood it. Not a mountain, not a canyon which had not much to tell him,not a change in the weather that he could not interpret.(17)And so among the pleasures of learning, we should include travel, travel with an open mind, an alert eye (18)and a wish to understand other peoples,other places, rather than looking in them for a mirror image of oneself. (19)If I were a young man today, I should resolve(20) to see –no, to learn – all the 50 states before I was 35. Lesson One Text 第一课 课文
Lesson One Text Learning also means learning to practice,or at least to appreciate (21,an art.Every new art you learn appears like a new window on the universe;it is like acquiring a new sense.(22)Because I was born and brought up in Glasgow,Scotland,a hideous 19th century industrial city,I did not understand the slightest thing about architecture until I was in my 20s.Since then,I have learned a little about the art,and it has been a constant delight. Crafts,too,are well worth exploring. A friend of mine took up book-binding 第一课课文
Learning also means learning to practice,or at least to appreciate (21), an art. Every new art you learn appears like a new window on the universe; it is like acquiring a new sense. (22) Because I was born and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland, a hideous 19th century industrial city, I did not understand the slightest thing about architecture until I was in my 20s. Since then, I have learned a little about the art, and it has been a constant delight. Crafts, too, are well worth exploring. A friend of mine took up book-binding Lesson One Text 第一课 课文
Lesson One Text because his doctor ordered him to do something that would give him relaxation and activity without tension. It was a difficult challenge at first,but he gradually learned to square off the paper and the boards,23 sew the pages,fasten on the backstrip,and maintain precision and neatness throughout. Within a few years,this initially rather dull hobby had led him into fresh fields of enjoyment.He began to collect fine books from the past five centuries,he developed an 一课课文
because his doctor ordered him to do something that would give him relaxation and activity without tension. It was a difficult challenge at first, but he gradually learned to square off the paper and the boards,(23) sew the pages, fasten on the backstrip, and maintain precision and neatness throughout. Within a few years, this initially rather dull hobby had led him into fresh fields of enjoyment. He began to collect fine books from the past five centuries, he developed an Lesson One Text 第一课 课文
Lesson One Text interest in printing;eventually,he started a private press (24)and had the joy of producing his own elegant books.Many other crafts there are,and most of them contain one essential (25)pleasure,the pleasure of making something that will last. As for reading books,this contains two different delights One is the pleasure ofapprehending the unexpected,26 such as when one meets a new author who has a new vision of the world.(27 The other pleasure is of deepening one's knowledge of a special 第一课课文
interest in printing; eventually, he started a private press (24) and had the joy of producing his own elegant books. Many other crafts there are, and most of them contain one essential (25) pleasure, the pleasure of making something that will last. As for reading books, this contains two different delights. One is the pleasure of apprehending the unexpected,(26) such as when one meets a new author who has a new vision of the world. (27)The other pleasure is of deepening one's knowledge of a special Lesson One Text 第一课 课文
Lesson One Text field.One might enjoy reading about the Civil War, and then be drawn to a particularly moving part of it-the underground railway,say,which carried escaping slaves northward to freedom.One would then be impelled to visit the chiefway stations along the route,reconstructing the lives of those resolute organizers and thankful fugitives.28 Tradition says that 29 Ptolemy,the great astronomer of the Greek and Roman world. worked peacefully in his observatory under “课课文
field. One might enjoy reading about the Civil War, and then be drawn to a particularly moving part of it — the underground railway, say, which carried escaping slaves northward to freedom. One would then be impelled to visit the chief way stations along the route, reconstructing the lives of those resolute organizers and thankful fugitives.(28) Tradition says that(29) Ptolemy,the great astronomer of the Greek and Roman world, worked peacefully in his observatory under Lesson One Text 第一课 课文