Unit Nine The Damned HumanRace
Period 7-8 Exercises
Euphemism: a substitutionof an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggestsomething unpleasant
Examples:
old people —senior citizens
fat people —weight-watchers
penniless— out of pocket
the poor— the underprivileged
not studying seriously — academic disengagement
词义辨析：
1. renounce/ denounce
re·nounce：( formal ) to state officially that you are no longer going to keep a title, position, etc. 声明放弃；宣布放弃
• to renounce aclaim/title/privilege/right/ideals/principles/beliefs, 宣布放弃要求╱头衔╱特权╱权利……
If you renounce a belief or a way of behaving, you decide and declare publicly that you no longer have that belief or will no longer behave in that way. 宣布放弃 (信仰、行为方式)
de·nounce：to strongly criticize sb/sth that you think is wrong, illegal, etc. 谴责；指责；斥责
If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil. 谴责
2. distinction/ difference
dis·tinc·tion: a clear difference or contrastespecially between people or things that are similar or related 差别；区别；对比
• Philosophers did not use to make adistinction between arts and science. 哲学家过去习惯不把艺术和科学区别开来。
• We need to draw a distinction between the two events. 我们得把两起事件区别开来。
[ sing.] the quality of being sth that is special 特质；特点；不同凡响
• She had the distinction of beingthe first woman to fly the Atlantic. 她不同凡响，是第一个飞越大西洋的女子。
dif·fer·ence: the way in which two people or things are not like each other; the way in which sb/sth has changed 差别；差异；不同（之处）；变化（之处）
Assignments:
Topics for debating:
Human nature is/ isn't good.
Ancient Chinese had the famous line: “人之初，性本善”. Compare this sentence with those western quotations on the previous pages.
