自学新概念英语第三册笔记 Lessons 29

学以致用

　　Notes on the text课文注释

　　1  whether we find a joke funny or not，这是一个名词性的从句，在句中作主语。

　　2  be bound up with，与……联系在一起。

　　3  you would find it difficult not to laugh at, say, Charlie Chaplin's early films. 比如说，你看了查理·卓别林的早期电影很难不发笑。句中的say是插入语，可译作“比如说”。查理·卓别林是电影史上最有名的演员之一。他在诸如《淘金记》（1924）这类电影中扮演的流浪汉“小人物”在各种不利的条件下仍获得了成功。

　　4  stem from，起源于。

　　5  come into fashion，开始流行，时兴起来。

　　6  judge for yourself，你自己来判断。

　　7  take heart，振作精神。

　　8  the man drank a little more than was good for him．这个人稍微多喝了一点酒。

　　此句than后面省略了主语what， be good for sb. 是“对某人有益”的意思。

　　参考译文

　　我们觉得一则笑话是否好笑，很大程度上取决于我们是在哪儿长大的。幽默感与民族有着神秘莫测的联系。譬如，法国人听完一则俄国笑话可能很难发笑。同样的道理，一则可以令英国人笑出泪来的笑话，俄国人听了可能觉得没有什么可笑之处。

　　大部分令人发笑的故事都是根据喜剧情节编写的。尽管民族不同，有些滑稽情节却能产生普遍的效果。比如说，不管你生活在哪里，你看了查理·卓别林的早期电影很难不发笑。然而，近来一种新式幽默流行了起来，这种幽默主要来自美国。它被叫作“病态幽默”。喜剧演员根据悲剧情节诸如暴死、重大事故等来编造笑话。许多人认为这种笑话是低级庸俗的。下面是个“病态幽默”的实例，你可以据此自己作出判断。

　　圣诞节前几周，某人摔断了右腿被送进医院。从他进医院那一刻时，他就缠住医生，让医生告诉他什么时候能回家。他十分害怕在医院过圣诞。尽管医生竭力医治，但病人恢复缓慢。圣诞节那天，他的右腿还上着石膏，他在床上郁郁不乐地躺了一天，想着他错过的种种欢乐。然而，第二天，医生安慰他说，出院欢度新年的可能性还是很大的，那人听后振作了精神。果然，除夕时他可以一瘸一拐地去参加晚会了。为了补偿住院这一段不愉快的经历，那人喝得稍许多了一点。在晚会上他尽情娱乐，一再告诉大家他是多么讨厌医院。晚会结束时，他嘴里还在嘟哝着医院的事，突然踩到一块冰上滑倒了，摔断了左腿。

　　Multiple choice questions 多项选择题

　　Choose the correct answers to the following questions.

　　Comprehension理解

　　1  Whether you find ‘sick humour’ funny or not will depend on ______ .

　　a．your having been brought up in America

　　b．the joke being related to a fundamentally comic situation

　　c．your ability to see the funny side of an unpleasant event

　　d．your ability to laugh until you cry

　　2  The man spent Christmas Day feeling miserable because ______ .

　　a．the doctor had failed to attend to him

　　b．he was not able to be with his friends

　　c．being unable to walk, he did not enjoy the celebrations at the hospital

　　d．he thought he might also miss the New Year's Eve celebrations

　　3  The point of the joke taken to illustrate ‘sick humour’is that ______ .

　　a．no sooner was the man out of hospital than he had to go back in again

　　b．the man should not have said how much he hated hospitals

　　c．the man would be unable to walk for the rest of his life

　　d．the man had not got a leg to stand on

　　Structure 结构

　　4  ______ , for instance, might find it hard to . . . (11. 3-4)

　　a．The French

　　b．A French

　　c．A man in France

　　d．If you were French

　　5  ______ amusing stories are based on comic situations. (1. 7)

　　a．Most

　　b．Most of

　　c．The majority

　　d．Mostly

　　6  A man ______ broken was taken to hospital . . . (1. 13)

　　a．whose right leg had been

　　b．who had the right leg

　　c．with one right leg

　　d．to whom the right leg had been

　　7  He had no sooner arrived there ______ pestering his doctor . . . (11. 13-14)

　　a．and then he began

　　b．than he began

　　c．he began

　　d．to begin

　　8  The man compensated for his unpleasant experiences in hospital ______ a little more than . . . (11. 19-20)

　　a．drinking

　　b．to drink

　　c．by drinking

　　d．and drunk

　　Vocabulary词汇

　　9  Though the doctor ______ . . . (1. 15)

　　a．worked very well

　　b．could not have been better

　　c．was extremely skilled

　　d．did all he could

　　10  The doctor him by ______ . . . (1. 17)

　　a．felt

　　b．advised

　　c．pleased

　　d．comforted

　　11  - and kept telling everyone ______ he hated hospitals. (1. 21)

　　a．at great lengths that

　　b．to their cost

　　c．to what extent

　　d．why

　　12  He was still mumbling something ______ at the end . . . (11. 21-22)

　　a．in the same way

　　b．to the same effect

　　c．of common sense

　　d．of some sort