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Self-contradiction

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Have you heard the story “Pandora’s box”?

Do you know what the expression self-contradiction means?

When you see the picture, what story or expression can you think of?

Do you think snakes have feet? What does the expression mean?

Answer the questions:1 What are the expressions above called in Chinese? 典故2 Then do you know some allusions in English? Match the two parts. Scrooge 最大最好的部分 a sacred cow 不可批评的人或事物 sour grape 吝啬的人 the lion’s share 把得不到的说成不

好

Allusions

kill the goose that lays 绞尽脑汁 the golden eggs rack one’s brains 打破沉默 break the ice 害群之马 black sheep 杀鸡取卵

When we refer to words or phrases like

these to talk about another person or thing,

we are using allusion. Now read the

guidelines of this section on Page56 to

know what an allusion is. An allusion is a way of making an indirect

reference to stimulate ideas and

associations with other things.

Read Points1-5 to learn the meaningof each allusion and find the ways of making an allusion.

a examples from literature

b examples from religion

c examples from works

d examples from history

e examples from real life

According to the Points1-5, fill in the form.

AllusionsAllusions Come Come fromfrom

The meaningsThe meanings

Lei FengLei Feng

Mona Mona LisaLisa

Real life

A work of

art

To describe a person

who is kind and ready

to help others

To describe a person with charming smile.

Lin DaiyuLin Daiyu

JudasJudas

To describe To describe someonesomeone

Who betray their Who betray their friends or beliefsfriends or beliefs

The battle The battle of of WaterlooWaterloo

To describe a To describe a final final

defeat or failuredefeat or failure

The novel Red Mansion

The Bible

History

To describe the young lady who is Sentimental and sickish

Read the instruction and the table to

understand the meaning of each

allusion and think over to decide

which of them are from literature,

religion, history, real life or other

sources. After that, put them in the

right places in Zhang Hong’s diary.

Answers:

1) a Herculean 2) dark horse

3) Mickey Mouse course

4) Daniel I the lion’s den

5)Achilles’ heel

6) good Samaritan

7) catch-22 8)Jonah

The coincidences The coincidences • 1. 完全对等型 Walls have ears. Easy come, easy go. A big tree is a good shelter . Strike the iron when it is hot. In black and white. Talk black into white. It takes two to make a quarrel. Constant dripping wears away the stone. Behind the mountains, there are people

to be found.

2基本对等型Save your breath.

Laugh one’s head off.

Love me, love my dog.

3 形式不同但意思一致 Make someone turn in his grave.

Burn one’s boats.

Don’t cast your pearls before swine.

The biter is sometimes bit. 　

When the cat’s away, the mice will play. Birds of a feather flock together. 　

Two heads are better than one.

Discussion Discuss in groups and decide which

situations the following allusions are

used in.

the prodigal son be over the moon

Pandora’s box dark horse

Scrooge sour grapes

Homework

1. Try to understand the meanings of

allusions learnt this class and use

them correctly.

2 Do PartC1and PartC2 on Page120

in workbook.