Unit 4 Great Minds伟大的思想家

Section 1 Basic 初级基础

万用表达一览

□came up for conversation 提到了

□heard of 听说

□look up 查阅，查找

万用表达详解

1. came up for conversation

释 be mentioned提到了

例 Zhu Zaiyu came up for conversation in music class today. He was the first to discover a mathematical solution for the equal-ratio chromatic scale.

今天音乐课上提到了朱载堉，他是第一个发现“十二平均律”的人。

2. heard of

释 If you have heard of someone or something, you know that that person or thing exists．听说。

例 It's a tiny country that most people have never even heard of.那是一个很小的国家，大多数人都没听说过。

3. look up

释 find sth. out by looking in sth. such as reference book or a list.查阅，查找

例 I looked your address up in the personnel file.

我从人事档案里查到了你的地址。

实用对话场景

Linda: We were talking about great minds in class today. Really fascinating stuff!

Mike: Who came up for conversation?

Linda: Well, Leonardo da Vinci of course, and some guy I had never heard of before.

Mike: Who was that?

Linda: Some guy was called Luca Pacioli, who taught Leonardo geometry.

Mike: Yes. He is a famous geometer and is also called the Father of Accounting.

Linda: Really? Did he invent accounting or something?

Mike: No. Accounting has been around for thousands of years, but he was the first to publish a book on the accounting practices of the Genoan and Venetian merchants, which we call the double-entry book-keeping method.

Linda: Naturally, we also talked about the great philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, but it all went in one ear and out the other.

Mike: Well, you can thank Plato and Aristotle for asking and answering many of life's important questions, and of course for teaching us their thinking techniques.

Linda: Thanks for the summary.I think I'll look up those two guys again.

Mike: Hey, glad I could help.

琳达：今天我们在课上讨论伟大的思想家，真的很有意思！

迈克：谈到了谁？

琳达：嗯，当然有达·芬奇，还有一个我以前没听说过的人。

迈克：是谁？

琳达：一个叫卢卡·帕乔利的人，他教过达·芬奇几何。

迈克：对。他是一位著名的几何学家，也被称之为“会计学之父”。

琳达：真的吗？他发明了会计学还是怎样？

迈克：不是，会计学已有几千年了，但他是发表关于热那亚和威尼斯商人会计实务书的第一人，那种会计实务我们称之为“复式记账法”。

琳达：我们自然也谈到了伟大的哲学家，像柏拉图和亚里士多德，但都是左耳进右耳出的。

迈克：嗯，你要谢谢柏拉图和亚里士多德提出并回答了很多人生的重要课题，当然还要谢谢他们教给我们思维的技巧。

琳达：谢谢你的总结，我想我要重新查阅他们两个人的资料。

迈克：嘿，很高兴我能帮上忙。

跨文化交际小常识

工业革命以前，欧洲的上流社会、贵族世家的女孩子在成年以前，基本上是没有机会接触到异性的。但是到了一定的年纪，她们就要穿上礼服、盛装打扮，参加成人礼舞会，这标志着她们正式进入上流社会的社交圈。那个时候，社交的意义远不像现在这样广泛，女孩子进入社交圈的唯一目的就是物色一个门当户对的如意郎君。工业革命以后，中产阶级在经济上的地位逐渐上升，很多中产阶级的家长为了拥有特权，在自己的女儿成年后，也把她们送到各种社交舞会，以期望和贵族攀上亲戚，加入贵族的行列，取得政治上的地位。如今，这种具有特殊意义的社交舞会仍然不时地在国外贵族圈里上演。