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Supplementary Reading After Reading Detailed Reading Global Reading Before Reading Unit 8 Go Traveling in the Jungle Like any out-of-the-way place, the Napo River in the Ecuadorian jungle seems real enough when you are there, even central. Out of the way of what? I was sitting on a In the Jungle stump at the edge of a bankside palm-thatch village, in the middle of the night, on the headwaters of the Amazon. Out of the way of human life, tenderness, or the glance of heaven?
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Like any out-of-the-way place, the Napo River in the Ecuadorian jungle seems real enough when you are there, even central. Out of the way of what? I was sitting on a
In the Jungle
stump at the edge of a bankside palm-thatch village, in the middle of the night, on the headwaters of the Amazon. Out of the way of human life, tenderness, or the glance of heaven?
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A nightjar in deep-leaved shadow called three long notes, and hushed. The men with me talked softly: three North Americans, four Ecuadorians who were showing us the jungle. We were holding cool drinks and idly watching a hand-sized tarantula seize moths that came to the lone bulb on the generator shed beside us.
It was February, the middle of summer. Green fireflies spattered lights across the air and illumined for seconds, now here, now there, the pale trunks of enormous, solitary trees.
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Each breath of night smelled sweet. Each star in Orion seemed to tremble and stir with my breath. All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream.
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
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This will do, I thought. This will do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home. Later that night I loosed my hair from its braids and combed it smooth — not for myself, but so the village girls could play with it in the morning. We had disembarked at the village that afternoon, and I had slumped on some shaded steps, wishing I knew some Spanish or some Quechua so I could speak with the ring of little girls who were alternately staring at me and smiling attheir toes. I spoke anyway, and fooled
with my hair, which they were obviously dying to get their hands on, and laughed, and soon they were all braiding my hair, all five of them, all fifty fingers, all my hair, even my bangs.
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And then they took it apart and did it again, laughing, and teaching me Spanish nouns, and meeting my eyes and each other’s with open delight, while their small brothers in blue jeans climbed down from the trees and began kicking a volleyball around with one of the North American men.
Now, as I combed my hair in the little tent, another of the men, a free-lance writer from Manhattan, was talking quietly. He was telling us the tale of his life, describing his work in Hollywood, his apartment in Manhattan, his house in Paris….
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“It makes me wonder,” he said, “what I’m doing in a tent under a tree in the village of Pompeya, on the Napo River, in the jungle of Ecuador.” After a pause he added, “It makes me wonder why I’m going back.” The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place. We might as well get a feel for the fringes and hollows in which life is lived, for the Amazon basin, which covers half a continent,
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and for the life that — there, like anywhere else — is always and necessarily lived in detail: on the tributaries, in the riverside villages, sucking this particular white-fleshed guava in this particular pattern of shade. What is there is interesting. The Napo River itself is wide and brown, opaque, and smeared with floating foam and logs and branches from the jungle. Parrots in flocks dart in and out of the light. Under the water in the river, unseen, are anacondas — which are reputed to take a few village toddlers every year — and water boas, crocodiles, and sweet-meated fish.
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Low water bares gray strips of sandbar on which the natives build tiny palm-thatch shelters for overnight fishing trips. You see these extraordinarily clean people (who bathe twice a day in the river, and whose straight black hair is always freshly washed) paddling down the river in dugout canoes, hugging the banks.
Some of the Indians of this region, earlier in the century, used to sleep naked in hammocks. The nights are cold. Gordon MacCreach, an American explorer in these Amazon tributaries, reported that he was startled to hear the Indians get up at three in the morning.
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He was even more startled, night after night, to hear them walk down to the river slowly, half asleep, and bathe in the water. Only later
did he learn what they were doing: they were getting warm. The cold woke them; they warmed their skins in the river, which was always ninety degrees; then they returned to their hammocks and slept through the rest of the night.
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When you are inside the jungle, away from the
river, the trees vault out of sight. Butterflies,
bright blue, striped, or clear-winged, thread the
jungle paths at eye level. And at your feet is a
swath of ants bearing triangular bits of green leaf.
The ants with their leaves look like a wide fleet of
sailing dinghies — but they don’t quit. In either
direction they wobble over the jungle floor as far
as the eye can see.
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Long lakes shine in the jungle. We traveled one of these in dugout canoes, canoes paddled with machete-hewn oars, or poled in the shallows with bamboo. Our part-Indian guide had cleared the path to the lake the day before; when we walked the path we saw where he had impaled the lopped head of a boa, open-mouthed, on a pointed stick by the canoes, for decoration.
This lake was wonderful. Herons plodded the shores, kingfishers and cuckoos clattered from sunlight to shade, great turkeylike birds fussed in dead branches, and hawks hung overhead.
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There was all the time in the world. A turtle slid into the water. The boy in the bow of my canoe slapped stones at birds with a simple sling, a rubber thong and leather pad. He aimed brilliantly at moving targets, targets, always, and always
missed; the birds were out of range. He stuffed his sling back in his shirt. I looked around.
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The lake and river waters are as opaque as rainforest leaves; they are veils, blinds, painted screens. You see things only by their effects. I saw the shoreline water heave above a thrashing paichi, an enormous black fish of these waters; one had been caught the previous week weighing 430 pounds. Piranha fish live in the lakes, and electric eels. I dangled my fingers in the water, figuring it would be worth it.
We would eat chicken that night in the village, together with rice, onions and heaps of fruit. The sun would ring down, pulling darkness after it like a curtain. Twilight is short, and the unseen birds of twilight wistful, catching the heart.
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would glide to the open cane-and-thatch schoolroom in darkness, and start the children singing. The children would sing in piping Spanish, high-pitched and pure; they would sing “Nearer My God to Thee” in Quechua, very fast. As the children became excited by their own singing,
The two nuns in their dazzling white habits — the beautiful-boned young nun and the warm-faced old —
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they left their log benches and swarmed around the nuns, hopping, smiling at us, everyone smiling, the nuns’ faces bursting in their cowls, and the clear-voiced children still singing, and the palm-leafed roofing stirred.
The Napo River: it is not out of the way. It is in
the way, catching sunlight the way a cup catches
poured water; it is a bowl of sweet air, a basin of
greenness, and of grace, and, it would seem, of
peace.
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What role does the sentence play?
In the first paragraph the author asks a question to arouse the readers’ interest and point out the main idea of the whole essay. This is a good way to begin and to develop an essay.
Out of the way of what? I was sitting on a stump at the edge of a bankside palm-thatch village, in the middle of the night, on the headwaters of the Amazon. Out of the way of human life, tenderness, or the glance of heaven?
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Translate the sentence and enjoy the aesthetic side of English.
Beneath us the brown Napo River was rising, in all silence; it coiled up the sandy bank and tangled its foam in vines that trailed from the forest and roots that looped the shore.
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Pay attention to the structure of the sentence.If the prepositional phrase is at the beginning of a
sentence, the following subject and the predicate should be of inverted order. Note the parallel construction of three verbs: twined, muted and wandered. Translate the sentence into
All at once, in the thatch house across the clearing behind us came the sound of a recorder, playing a tune that twined over the village clearing, muted our talk on the bankside, and wandered over the river, dissolving downstream.
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This will do, I thought. This will do, for a weekend, or a season, or a home.
What does “do” mean? Be sufficient in meeting the needs. What’s the role of the sentences?By the sentences the author summarizes the first part and expresses her true and deep feeling: her love for this beautiful place.
Translate the sentence into Chinese.人生遇此情景足矣，我暗想。在此度过周末足矣，在此小住数月足矣，在此安家足矣。
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“It makes me wonder,” he said, “what I’m doing in a tent under a tree in the village of Pompeya, on the Napo River, in the jungle of Ecuador.” After a pause he added, “It makes me wonder why I’m going back.”
不知道，感到疑惑 /好奇，想知道I was just wondering how to do it.
I wonder if you could post this letter for me.What’s the implied meaning of the sentence?
They enjoy the peaceful life here very much and don’t want to go back to the modern world.
What does the structure of “wonder what / why / if / how…” mean?
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At the Berezina River, the Russians nearly trapped the retreating French by burning the bridges over the swollen river.
Paraphrase the phrase “the swollen river”.
the swollen river: the rising river
Translate the sentence into Chinese.
在别列兹那河，俄国人焚烧了涨水的河道上的桥梁，差点将后撤的法军困于河边。
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Pay attention to the structure.
Here “what is there” is used as a subjective clause with the meaning: 那里的一切 .
What is there is interesting.
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This is an inverted sentence. When “only + adverbial” is used at the beginning of the sentence, the following subject and predicate should be partially inverted.
Analyze this sentence.
Only later did he learn what they were doing: they were getting warm.
More examples:
Only in this way can you solve the problem.
Only when we had studied the data again did we realize that there was a mistake.
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There was all the time in the world.
1. Translate the sentence into Chinese.
我们毋庸为时间担忧，可以从容地欣赏周围的一切。
2. What can you infer from the sentence?
Life here is quiet, peaceful and happy. There isn’t much tension and pressure, so we can enjoy and relax ourselves.
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The two adjectives: beautiful-boned and warm-faced are formed by adjective +noun-ed, with the meaning: 身材姣好的，慈眉善目的 .
Word formation.
The two nuns in their dazzling white habits …… and start the children singing.
Scan the text and find more examples: deep-leaved (L.6)
The ground was soft and wet so we were able to trail her to the house. 地面松软潮湿，所以我们能够沿着脚印跟踪到她家。
trail 指根据某种踪迹进行追寻。例如：
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follow 中性词，跟随的用意对被跟随者来说可好可坏。例如：Don’t keep following me about everywhere I go. 不要老是我走到哪里你就跟到哪里。The dog followed her all down the street. 这只狗一路跟着她沿街走去。chase 强调追赶者的速度和决心，其动机常为不甚友善，也 可能是出于好玩或取乐。例如：The Johnsons’ cat likes to chase the mice as if it were playing with them.约翰逊家的猫喜欢追逐老鼠，好像它在跟它们闹着玩似的。We are trying to chase down all possible clues to the theft.我们正在设法寻找这起盗窃案的一切可能得到的线索。
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pursue 不重视追随者的用意好坏，但其决心和速度比较 明显。例如：
The police are pursuing an escaped prisoner. 警方正在追捕一个在逃的犯人。We have always pursued a friendly policy towards the people all over the world. 对世界人民我们一贯奉行友好政策。
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Loop that end of the rope through this and knot it.
He looped the rope round a post.
他把绳子绕系在柱子上。
loop: 1. v. form or bend into a loop
2. n. circleShe put a loop of rope around the horse’s neck.The loop of string makes a handle for the parcel.
Pattern: loop the loop （飞机、风筝等）在高空翻筋斗； （在游乐园）乘坐绕环滑车
The airman looped the loop three times and won the cheer in chorus from the spectators.
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mute: v. reduce or stop the sound ofWe muted our voices at the sight of the national flag.他一声不吭但瞪着他的父亲以表示抗议。He muted but stared at his father to protest.
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His strength dissolved.The view dissolved in mist.
水溶解盐。Water dissolves salt.
dissolve: v.1) fade away, disappear
2) become liquid
盐溶解于水中。Salt dissolves in water.
Heat dissolved the candle into a pool of wax in a few minutes.
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They dissolved the business partnership, so did the friendship between them.
政府解散了该国议会并暂停一切政治活动。The government dissolved the country’s parliament and suspended all political activities.
放荡的女人loose coffee 散装咖啡loose shoes 宽松的鞋loose paper 散页纸a loose translation 意译
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She slumped exhaustedly onto the sofa.
Business slumped after the holidays.
slump: 1. v.
1) sit or fall down heavily
The boy’s feet slumped through the ice.
2) go down in number or strength
Sales have slumped badly in the last week.2. n. general drop in prices, trade activity, etc; business depressiona stock market slump
a slump in farm prices
The slump certainly had some impact on inflation.
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be dying to do sth. / for sth.: desire (to do) sth. eagerlyWe are dying to know what
happened.I feel like a cup of tea but he’s dying for a cup of coffee.
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The old women keeps everything she can get her hands on.
get one’s hands on: catch hold of, find or get (sth.)
我是有这本书的，就是现在找不到。I have the book, but now can’t get my hands on it.
NB: get one’s hands = lay one’s hands on
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He took the clock apart to repair it.
When I was a little boy, I liked to take the toys apart and put them together again and again.
take apart: separate into its different parts
Collocation:
lay / put / set sth. apart for
把 ( 某物 ) 留给…
know / tell apart 区分开
apart from 离开；除…之外；要不是
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spectacular: adj. extraordinary; very attractive or impressive
Because of a spectacular achievement in science, he is now world famous.
We enjoyed a spectacular display of fireworks on Tian’anmen Square.
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fringe: n. the outer edge or limit of sth.It was easier to move about on the fringe of the crowd.
This is an enormous field of which l can here touch only the fringe.
这是一个很广阔的领域 , 我在这里只能谈个大概。
fringe, border, edge & rim这些词都是名词，都有“边界”、“边缘”的意思。
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fringe 指衣服、地毯或其他饰物的须边，或指事物的最外 边，或离中心位置最远的边缘。例如 :
A fringe of trees stood round the pool.池塘的四周耸立着一圈树木。
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border 指围定范围的界线或最接近外缘的地带，也可用以 比喻。 例如 :
I could hear birds singing at the border of the wood. 我能听到鸟儿在林边鸣叫。The refugees live on the border of starvation. 难民们生活在饥饿的边缘。
edge 指任何物体较窄的边缘或两个平面的交接线。例如 :I put the cup at the edge of the desk so I can reach it. 我把茶杯放在桌边以便能够得着。We turned back to the sea’s edge yesterday. 昨天我们回到了海边。
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rim 常指圆或曲面的边缘。例如 :
The lady’s hat had a wide rim. 这个女士的帽子有一个宽帽沿。The boy wore funny-looking pair of glasses with blue rim. 男孩戴了一副样子很逗的蓝边眼镜。
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Let’s have a picnic down in the hollow.
hollow: n. a space sunk into sth.
More sand is needed to fill the hollow in the driveway.
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The CEO explained her proposal in great detail.We will talk about the accident in more details later on.
in detail: with specifics
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a flock of geese / duck / sheep / pigeons / wild geese 这家庭靠养羊和牛群为生。The family keeps flocks and herds to make a living.
人们成群结队地来参观水坝旁边新建的水电站。People came in flocks to see the new hydraulic power station beside the dam.
flock: 1. n. 1) a group of certain animals
2) (infm.) a crowd, large number of people
It is a small flock that has not a black sheep.
( 谚语 ) 人多必有败类。
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flock, herd, school & swarm这些词都可用作名词，都可以表示“群”的意思。
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a large flock of pigeons 一大群鸽子
flock 主要指鸟群、羊群，有时也可指较小的其他动物，如 兔、鹅、鸭，还可指人。例如：
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in flocks 成群的2. v. gather or move in large crowds
It rarely happened that people in the town flocked to the theatre to see the new opera.
The turtles meet together in great herds every year. 海龟每年都大群大群地聚在一起。A herd of elephants are grazing in the grassland. 一群大象在草地上吃草。
Whales like to swim together in large school. 鲸鱼喜欢大群大群地在一起游泳。
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swarm 主要指移动的较小的动物，如蜜蜂、蚂蚁，也可指 人，但为非正式用词。例如：
There were thousands of bees in swarms in the tree. 树上有几千只成群的蜜蜂。
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dart: v. move suddenly and rapidlySwallows were darting through the clouds.
The dog darted across the street.The squirrel darted its head from side to side before scampering up the tree.
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strip: n. a long narrow region of land or body of water; a long narrow piece
About 30 million people live along the Californian coastal strip.
我们看着飞机从起落跑道起飞。We watched the plane taking off from the landing strip.
The room was bare, apart from a strip of carpet.
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out of sight: no longer in viewKeep out of my sight.Out of sight, out of mind.（谚）人别情疏；眼不见，心不烦。
Collocation: at first sight 乍看起来，初次看见
at the sight of 一看…就in sight 可见，看得见；在望；不远keep sight of 保持在视线内，记住lose sight of 看不见；失去联系；忘记on sight 一看见立刻
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fuss: 1. v. bustle about; give too much attention to small and unimportant matters (often followed by around / about / over)
Don’t fuss; we’re sure to catch our train.She fussed about, unable to hide her impatience.2. n. unnecessary nervous state, esp. about unimportant thingsEveryone made a fuss over the new baby.What a fuss about nothing!他们发现窗子打破后一定会有麻烦。There’s sure to be a fuss when they find the window’s broken.
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Collocation:
make a fuss激动，大惊小怪
Pattern: fuss over / about / around
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slap in the face打一记耳光slap on the back
slap: v. 1) hit with something flat
鼓励医生拍了拍那个歇斯底里发作的孩子，使他安静一点。The doctor slapped the hysterical child to make him calmer.
2) shoot, throw with force ( 常与 down连用 )She slapped the book down on the table.
He took a check from his wallet and slapped it on the bar.
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He has gone out of range of my gun.
out of range: too far away to be reached, seen or heard
He said it was out of his range of responsibility.
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A heap of old clothes was lying in the corner.They lay hay on the garden rubbish heap.
heap: n.1) an untidy pile of something
2) plenty of, a lot of (usu. in plural)We have heaps of / a heap of work to do.妈妈曾经去过那里很多次，但依然会迷路。My mother has been there heaps of times, but she would still get lost.
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The boat glided over the river.
The bird glided to the ground.
The first sound glides on to the next.
glide: vi.1) move quickly and silently with ease
2) fly through the air without power
The pilot shut off the motors and glided down to the landing field.
The boat glided through the water. 那条船在水上滑行。The skaters sometimes glided across the ice. 滑冰者有时滑行跃过冰面。
skid 指车子失去控制的打滑或滑向一侧。 例如 :When the driver tried to start it again, the wheels skidded and the car finished up deep in the snow. 当驾驶员试图再次发动汽车时，车轮打滑，汽车深深地陷入雪中。The car skidded on the wet road.
