扩展英语词汇unit 10-4
范仲淹简介-学期末个人总结
Unit 10 Roots about “Law”, “Cutting”,
“Parting” and “Dividing”
Lecture 4
Roots about “Equality”
1. Warming-up
课程准备
A famous American actress who stared in
the movie Legally Blonde and Legally
Blonde 2.
The blonde’s legendary tale of winning the law
case sounds really a
Cinderella story.
The
concept of the American court, and a jury of
12members.
The concept of judges.
2. Words
to Watch 词汇锦囊
Roots “par” and “equ” or “equi”
and the words: compare, parity, disparity,
imparity,
disparage, equate, equation, equity,
equivalent and equivocal.
3. Cultural
Interaction 文化采撷
Some knowledge about the law
of the USA , China and other countries.
4.
Critical-Thinking Questions 思辨问题
1.
Warming-up 课程准备
The unit talks about a very
popular American movie star, who stared in a well
renowned movie Legally Blonde and Legally
Blonde 2. Also it mentions concepts
about the
American court, jury and judges.
Legally
Blonde and is a film which describes a very pretty
girl who made her
great effort to go to a
famous law school and then she experienced a
legendary tale of
winning a law case. Since it
is a story related to law students and law cases,
words
like “law” “court” “jury” “judge” and
“equality” almost appear everywhere. The
four
lectures in this unit will dwell on the roots
respectively related to the meanings of
law,
judging (giving a final decision), and equality.
And the fourth one is on the
root “par” and
“equ” or “equi”, which means “being equal”.
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2. Words to Watch 词汇锦囊
Roots “par” and “equ” or “equi” and the words:
compare, parity, disparity,
imparity,
disparage, equate, equation, equity, equivalent
and equivocal..
1）compare 相互比较，对照 （vt.&
vi.）
compare A and B,
compare A with B,
compare A to B
E.g. Can you compare Reese
Witherspoon with Jennifer Aniston for us?
E.g.
I think it’s very hard to compare them.
compare把…比作（vt.）
compare A withto B
compare A withto doing something
E.g. Do
you know some people compare Steve Jobs to (or
with)a burnt-out star.
A compares
favorably with B “A与B比起来更好”
A compares
unfavorably with B “A与B比起来更差”
E.g. I
personally like Legally Blonde 1 better Legally
Blonde 2. So I can say Legally
Blonde 1
compares favorably with Legally Blonde 2.
do not compare无法匹敌, 媲美（vi. ）
A does not
compare with B, that means A is much worse than B.
E.g. If you don’t much care for Legally Blonde
2, can we say you think Legally
Blonde 2
cannot compare with Legally Blonde 1?
beyond compare 无法匹敌的
E.g. Can you
immediately think of one thing beyond compare?
E.g. I think you are a teacher beyond compare.
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Derivative:
comparison n. 比较
make a comparison between
A and B
把A和B进行比照
in comparison with by
comparison with in comparison to
与…相比;与…比较而言
there is no comparison between A and B
A太好了 B根本就没有可比性
A stands bears comparison
with B
表示两者可以相媲美，A不亚于B
beyond without
comparison
无与伦比的
2) parity n．平等；同等；相等
E.g. The two sides soon achieved parity.
双方很快就达到了平局
E.g. Women have yet to achieve
wage or occupational parity in many fields.
女性在很多领域还没能争取到薪金、职位方面的平等。
3) disparity
n. 不同、不等、差异
the disparity of age 年龄差异
wage disparity工资差别
regional disparity 地区差异
4) imparity n. 表示 不平等，不同
E.g. Women
still suffer wage or occupational imparity in many
fields.
5) disparage vt. 轻视、贬低、不赞同；使……蒙羞；
E.g. Please don't disparage our attempts to
become a great team.
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别贬低她想成为一名女演员的努力。
E.g. I think your
bad behavior has disparaged your whole family.
她的坏行为已损害了她全家的名声。
6) equal adj. 平等的
7) equality n. 平等
8) equate vt.
使相等；把…相提并论；与…等同
equate A with B
E.g. A
lot of people in China equate American culture to
the whole Western cultures.
E.g. Please don’t
equate wealth with happiness. Neither should we
equate poverty
with misery.
9）equation n. 方程式 等式
E.g. The equation of
wealth with happiness is wrong.
把财富与幸福等同起来是很危险的
E.g. formulate〔state〕 an
equation 列出方程式
E.g. solve〔work out〕 an
equation 解方程式
E.g. chemical equation 化学方程式
E.g. literal equation 文字方程
E.g. military
equation 军事上的平衡
E.g. the supply-demand
equation (市场)供求平衡
E.g. equation between…
之间的平衡
E.g. equation of state 地位相等
E.g.
equations of power 势力均衡
10）equity n.
公平、公正
E.g. He seeks after equity all life
long.
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他一生都在追求公正。
E.g.
He has become a model of social justice and
equity.
这位法官已经成了公正正义的楷模。
E.g. We shared
the housework with perfect equity.
他们很公平地分担屋内的工作。
Derivative:
equitable
adj. 公正的，正当的
E.g. Paying a person what he has
earned is equitable.
酬其应得，乃公平之事。
E,g. We
pledge personal respect, fair compensation and
honest and equitable
treatment.
我们保证尊重个人，提供合理的报酬，真诚而公平的对待每个人。
E.g. They
are always prompt and equitable in settling
claims.
他们总是迅速而公正地解决索赔。
E.g. equitable
price公道价格
E.g. equitable settlement公平解决...
E.g. equitable distribution of
income公平的收入分配...
11）iniquity n. 极不公正、邪恶
E.g. In his view a disco is exactly a den of
iniquity.
迪斯科舞厅并非藏污纳垢之处。
E.g. The
iniquity of the transaction made all of us very
angry.
这笔交易的不公引起了普遍的愤怒。
12）equivalent
n.（可数名词）对等物、等价物、对应者
adj. 相等的、 等价的
E.g. I
want to change my RMB for the equivalent amount in
American dollars.
我把美元兑换成等值的英镑。
E.g. A
dime is equivalent to 10 pennies.
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一角银币等于十分。
13）equivocal adj
支支吾吾的、模棱两可的、难以理解的
E.g. Politicians tend to
give equivocal answers.
那政客的答复模棱两可。
E.g.
Many people are equivocal about what is MOOC.
很多人对这一观点都含糊其词。
3. Cultural Notes
文化采撷
Legal systems both in American, China and
other countries:
E.g. Abortion is legal in
China. But in a lot of other countries abortion is
illegal.
E.g. A new retirement age for Chinese
people has been legislated recently.
E.g.
People’s Congress is the highest legislative body
of China.
E.g. A jury of 12 members helps the
judge make the final decision.
E.g. China has
an independent judiciary system.
E.g. The
administrative officer' power cannot go across
into judiciary territory.
4. Critical-
Thinking Questions 思辨问题
Why do people say that
we shouldn’t equate wealth with happiness
nowadays?
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