北师大版高中英语模块5--Unit 15 Learning Lesson4-1

[00:00.00]Unit 15 Learning¹
[00:06.18]Lesson 4 Understanding
[00:10.75]Sophie Amundsen is a fourteen-year-old girl,
[00:13.30]who starts to receive very strange letter
[00:15.40]from a philosopher² who asks her questions.
[00:19.01]The first two letters include these:
[00:21.37]"Who are you?"
[00:22.63]and "Where does the world come from?"
[00:25.90]These questions get Sophie thinking seriously
[00:28.34]about things she has never thought about before
[00:32.23]she felt her heart beating fast
[00:34.01]as she opened the mailbox.
[00:36.08]At first she found only a letter from the bank
[00:38.37]and some big brown envelopes for her mother.
[00:41.34]Darn!Sophie had hoped to find another letter
[00:43.68]from the unknown sender.
[00:46.43]As she closed the gate behind her,
[00:48.08]she noticed her own name
[00:49.36]on one of the big envelopes.
[00:52.03]Turning it over,she saw writen on the back:
[00:55.07]"Course in Philosophy³,Handle with care."
[00:59.56]Inside the envelope there were three typed
[01:01.66]pages held together with a paper clip⁴.
[01:04.69]Sophie began to read.
[01:07.82]What is philosophy?
[01:11.17]A Greek⁵ philosopher who lived more
[01:12.96]than two thousand years ago,
[01:15.38]believed that philosophy had its origin
[01:17.69]in people's sense of wonder.
[01:17.69]

1 learning   

n.学问，学识，学习；动词learn的现在分词

参考例句：

• When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
• Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。

2 philosopher   

n.哲学家，哲人

参考例句：

• The philosopher has his ideas built on the rock of reason.那位哲学家把思想稳固地建立于理性之上。
• What a philosopher seeks after is truth.一个哲学家所追求的是真理。

3 philosophy   

n.哲学，人生观，原理

参考例句：

• He believed in the philosophy of Russell.他信奉罗素的哲学。
• I can't sum up his whole philosophy in one sentence.我无法用一句话来概括他的全部人生观。

4 clip   

n.夹子，别针，弹夹，片断；vt.夹住，修剪

参考例句：

• May I clip out the report on my performance?我能把报道我的文章剪下来吗？
• She fastened the papers together with a paper clip.她用曲别针把文件别在一起。

5 Greek   

adj.希腊(人)的，希腊语的；n.希腊人；希腊语

参考例句：

• The Greek seaman went to the hospital five times.这位希腊海员到该医院去过五次。
• Delta is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.δ是希腊字母中的第四个字母。