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　　Unit 3 Life Money -----With What Do You Buy Your Money?

　　Lead-in

　　What’s your attitude towards money?Money is everything 钱是万能的。Money is not everything, but without it you can do nothing.钱非万能，没钱万万不能。

　　Money is not everything

　　It can buy you a house but not a home. It can buy you a bed but not sleep.

　　It can buy you a clock but not time.It can buy you books but not knowledge.

　　It can buy you blood but not life. It can buy you sex but not love.

　　It can buy you a position but not respect.It can buy you medicine but not health.

　　Lead-in

　　If one day you earn lots of money, what will you do?

　　Travel around the world?

　　Buy what you want

　　give it to your family?

　　deposit it in the bank?

　　Invest it in business?

　　Make positive contributions to the society?

　　Read in With What Do You Buy Your Money?

　　你用什么“购买”金钱？

　　Find the corresponding English expression from the context

　　年度演讲 感触颇深 相提并论 传统说法 为金钱而丧命 被---所困扰 可怕的事实 熟视无睹 合理的答案 成为生活中的胜者 拿生命换取金钱 寻求智慧 一大笔钱 衣食无忧 财迷心窍 清澈的眼睛

　　Try to find the answer “with what do you buy your money” in the text

　　Make sentences

　　be longing for in the same breath remark disturb be fixated on admit be subject to be obsessed with put away live well off take --seriously

　　structurePara 1 Author’s annual report

　　Conversation between the author and a Para 2-7 businessman about money and God. Para 8-13

　　The conversation between the author and the businessman

　　Para 14 Author’s attitude towards to life

　　Read inWith money, we can buy a lot of things we are longing for (想要). But some people try too hard to earn money. Do you know with what they buy money?

　　miners

　　Answer the following questions after general readingHow can money be God? God is love ,God is everywhere, God is infinite. Money is love ,Money is everywhere, money is infinite. So money is like God ,money is God.

　　Two years ago, I gave my yearly talk before the Applied Philosophy Institute in Sunnyvale, California. The topic was Money God. The audience turnout was excellent. Almost everyone had some deep feelings about money and God -- taken separately or united in various holy and unholy alliances.两者既是分离又是统一的，它们之间 的关系既是神圣的又是世俗的。

　　1.yearly 年度的 ~ly表形容词 2 .turnout 出席人数

　　e.g. I hadn’t expected such a big turnout.There is a great increase in the factory’s turnout this year. He gives little thought to his turnout.

　　I struggled to bring these two ultimate subjects together in the same 1.Struggle to do sth 努 力做某事 breath(融合为一). One businessman wanted to make it 2 ultimate subject:毫不 simple. He said, Money is God. 相干的主题 Anything you can say a

　　bout God, you c a n a l s o s a y a b o u t m o n e y. 3 bring together相提并 论 “What do you mean?” I responded.

　　4 in the same breath 同时 Well, think of the tradition alstate ment s about God, he said. e.g. She laughed and cried in the same “Okay. God is love. God is breath everywhere. God is infinite. God is all powerful ,” I remarked( 评论) . 神是爱，神是无处不在，神是无限的，神是万能的。

　　That's it! he said with delight. Money is love. Money is everywhere. 2 with delight 高兴地 Money is infinite. Money is all powerful. if you win 1000 yuan in People want to treat you as if they a lottery, your heart love you when you have lots of will beat fast with money. Everywhere I go there is delight. money -- an ATM machine or bank in 高兴得心跳加速。 every part of the world. Money is so 3. 当你腰缠万贯时，人们 powerful that we go to war and give up 就装出一副很爱你的样 our lives for it. And, since money is 子来对你。 abstract, we can create infinite amounts out of it. Therefore Money is 4. Automatic Teller like God, Money is God. Machine 6. creat—out of 创造

　　1. That is it: 没错，对了

　　5.since:既然

　　e.g. People in the book are all created out of the air.

　　Therefore Money is like God, Money is God.God is love. God is everywhere. God is infinite. God is all powerful 神是爱，神是无处不在，神是无限的，神是万 能的

　　Money is love. Money is everywhere. Money is infinite. Money is all powerful.

　　This businessman was serious. I could see that he was deeply disturbed by his position. He was admitting an awesome truth that most people would not take seriously.

　　1. awesome truth:可怕 的事实 2. take seriously: 严肃对 待

　　Money= God?

　　Afterwards an older white-bearded gentleman came up to me and asked this question: With what do you buy your money? I looked at him, just to make sure I understood what he said.

　　1.Afterwards:后来

　　Again he asked, With what do you 2 come up 走进 buy your money?

　　Come up with an idea 想出个主意

　　I can only think of one good answer, I said, I buy my money with my life.

　　Right! he said. You might win the game of life. I wish I had asked myself this question when I was much younger. I worked for money for so many years, not realizing that I was trading life for money. Don't the bad guys always say, 'Your money or your life?' I said.

　　1. game of life: 生命

　　的游戏

　　2.

　　wish:此处是虚拟语 气

　　Wish 虚拟语气的用法：

　　1.表示与现在事实相反的愿望 构成： 主语 + wish (that) + 从句主语 + 动词过去式 (be 一律用were) 例如：We wish we had wings. 2.表示与过去事实相反的愿望 构成： +had + 过去分词 例如： I didn’t go to the party, but I wish I had been there. 3.表示将来不大可能实现的愿望 构成：would/should/could/might +

　　原形动词

　　例如： We wish that our dream come true.

　　This old man had

　　the clear 1.这位老人有着一双寻求智慧 eyes of a wisdom seeker, not 的清澈的眼睛，而不是一双 those of a man lost in the money 迷失在金钱游戏中的眼睛 game. Perhaps, I thought half in 2. half in jest. jest, he had put away a good sum for his retirement, and was living e.g. I said half in jest that I would marry Jim well off of it. Yet, most older people that I knew were still obsessed with 3 put away 存储 put off 推迟 money even if they had enough. put on 穿上，戴上 They had spent their youth fixated put out 熄灭 on it; such lifetime habits cannot put up 举起 be easily dropped. 4 These people are/live very well off . 6. fixated on 5. Be obsessed with 迷恋于 e.g. He is fixated on the idea of e.g. David was obsessed with travelling around the world. the girl he had just met.

　　Ultimately, all of my investments start with how I use my time. Some say, 1. start with: 以… 开 始，从…着手 Time is money. I say, Life is the time we have, so use the time allotted well. Yo u m a y n o t h a v e a n y time to spare. I may spend so much 2. allot 分配 time working for life and health insurance payments, that I die earlier of stress-related disease. Such is life. 3. spend …(in)

　　doing sth.

　　口袋英语