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,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,GROUNDLESS BELIEFS,A.E.Mander,Unit 6,1/30,Group Discussion,One thing we all do every day is expressing our views,,,stating our beliefs or discussing our ideas,We say to one another,:,I think,,,I believe,,,Im convinced,,,Im sure,,,It goes without saying,,,Its crystal clear,,,Its as simple as ABC,,,No doubt,,,etc,,,every day and often many times a day,We may not be professional thinkers.But we all do thinking as a habit,We may not have reached the level of grade-one thinking,But we cannot avoid thinking,,,rightly or wrongly.However,2/30,Do we really know what we are doing?,Do we really know what it means when we say we are thinking?,Do we really think for ourselves?Are our beliefs and ideas really well-grounded?,Are we sure that all the beliefs we hold with intense conviction and accept without question are really true?,What constitutes adequate grounds for beliefs?,3/30,Choose one of these,beliefs,and talk about them in your familiar aspects,Buddhism Religion Beliefs History,Christianity Jesus Christ Christian,Catholicism Catholic Church,Daoism Daoist Beliefs,Confucianism ConfuciusBeliefs,Some other beliefs,4/30,Listen to the,recording,and answer,What is the theme of the passage?,What do you think is the style of this passage?,Find out the main factors influencing the forming of a belief.,5/30,ground,Often,grounds,The foundation for an argument,a belief,or an action;a basis.,常作,grounds,依据:争论,信仰或行动基础;依据,Often,grounds,The underlying condition prompting an action;a cause:,常作,grounds,理由,原因:促使采取行动根本条件;原由,6/30,assertion,The act of asserting.,Something you declare or state positively,often with no support or attempt at proof.,He repeated his assertion that he didnt kill his father.,7/30,staunch,Firm and steadfast;true.faithful,A staunch friend is one who waits for you to tie your shoelace in urgency.,Staunch,is more common than stanch as the spelling of the adjective.,Stanch,is more common than staunch as the spelling of the verb.,8/30,9/30,sentiment,A cast of mind;general mental disposition,n.,情操,情感,情绪,观点,多愁善感,感情,10/30,as such,as the word is usually understood;in the exact sense of the word.,从字面意义看,严格来说,The new job is not a promotion as such,but it has good prospects.,11/30,dogma,A principle or belief or a group of them,教条,教义,信条,信念,信仰,dogmatic,dogmatism,12/30,credit,to believe sth is true,We all find the Maya prophecy difficult to credit.,She refused steadfastly to credit the reports of his death,13/30,It pays(sb)to do sth.,be beneficial for sb.to do sth,It will pay to be prudent and cautious.,It doesnt pay us to earn big money by all means in the long run.,14/30,indignant,adj.不平,愤慨,be indignant at over,about sth.,对某事感到愤慨,be indignant with sb.,对某人表示愤愤不平,15/30,attribute,attribute sth.to,认为某事物是.属性;把某事物归功于;认为某事物是(某人)创造,We cannot attribute all the food security problems to a lack of regulation.,16/30,bungling,bunglesome,adj.拙劣;不精巧,He is a fool who bungles constantly.,他真是个笨蛋,做起事来总是笨手笨脚,17/30,antagonism,n.对立;反抗;反抗性,antagonize,antagonist,18/30,belittle,vt.轻视,使渺小,使.显得渺小,A poor but honest man is not to be belittled.,19/30,legitimate,Being in compliance with the law;lawful:,正当:遵照法律;正当:,Based on logical reasoning;reasonable:,合理:建立在逻辑推理之上;合乎逻辑:,20/30,improvident,Not providing for the future;thriftless.,Rash;incautious.,He is too improvident to be a good decision-maker.,21/30,go to the dogs,To go to ruin;degenerate.,Its been 25 years since Chernobyl went to the dogs due to the nuclear accident.,22/30,As it were,Used when describing sb.or sth.in a way that is not quite exact.,能够说,姑且这么说,好像,宛如,He is,as it were,a walking dictionary.,They waited,as it were,breathless for the result.,23/30,fit in with,If sth.fits in with other things,it is similar to them or goes well with them.,适合,符合,与一致,His opinion fits in with mine.,24/30,old fogey,old fogey(US old fogy),person(esp a man)with old-fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change 老顽固,守旧人(尤指男子).,25/30,make,allowance,for,to take sth.into consideration,考虑到,顾及到,为留出余地,26/30,27/30,28/30,29/30,30/30,
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