1、space invadersBackground Information About the author Richard Stengel is an American editor, journalist and author and is Time magazines 16th managing editor. While best known for his work for Time, he has written a number of books including a collaboration with Nelson Mandela on Mandelas autobiogra

2、phy. Prior to taking up his role as managing editor of Time in 2006, Stengel was the president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center. About Time magazine Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is an American news magazine. An European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as

3、 Time Atlantic) is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (Time Asia) is based in Hong Kong. As of 2009, Time no longer publishes a Canadian advertiser edition. The South Pacific edition, covering Australia, New Zealand and

4、the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney Time is the worlds largest weekly news magazine, and has a domestic audience of 20 million and a global audience of 25 million. As of mid-2006, Richard Stengel is the managing editor. Personal spaceIs personal space important to you? Why or why not?cultural in

5、formation Personal space can be imagined as a kind of bubble surrounding a person that protects his or her privacy and which other people may not normally enter. So allowing somebody to get very close and enter your personal space may be a sign of trust or love. On the other hand, intruding others p

6、ersonal space can be rather offensive. Four kinds of personal distance between people Intimate distance: it is just 0cm to 45cm (such as relatives,close friends,lovers or couples) Personal distance: it is about 45cm to 120cm(people know eachother, but no specialy relationship.) Social distance: by a

7、bout 120cm to 360cm. Public distance: it up to 360cm away. different cultural ideas of personal space The closest distance between two people in a conversation takes place in Middle Eastern. Men usually talk to each other at very short distances.They even push and shove each other. The distance betw

8、een two people in a conversation is also very close in Latin America They commonly put a hand on their conversation partners shoulder while speaking. On the other end of the distance spectrum,Asians tend to keep much more distance between each other than Westerners do. The perception of personal spa

9、ce is very strong in Japan. Crossing between two people or intruding into anothers space to move through a crowded room is seen as ruder than in other cultures. The British keep a big distances when they talk to each other. In the United States, the accepted distance for conversation is about 18 inc

10、hes.Other factors sex people of the same sex may sit or stand closer to each other than to somebody of the opposite sex familiarity between people strangers and casual acquaintances usually need more space than friends and members of the same family who know each other well crowdedness of the situat

11、ion in a noisy street people may need to stand closer than they would normally, simply in order to hear each other. Structural analysis In the text, the writer first points out the fact that nowadays people are more concerned about themselves and want to have a larger personal space than decades ago

12、, and then he analyzes the causes of space invasion. The text can be divided into three parts. part 1(Paragraphs 1 2) part 2(Paragraphs 3 7) part 3(Paragraphs 8 9)SPACE INVADERS At my bank the other day, I was standing in a line snaking around some tired velvet ropes when a man in a sweat-suit start

13、ed inching toward me in his eagerness to deposit his Social Security check. As he did so, I minutely advanced toward the woman reading the Wall Street Journal in front of me, who, in mild annoyance, began to sidle up to the man scribbling a check in front of her, who absent-mindedly shuffled toward

14、the white-haired lady ahead of him, until we were all hugger-mugger against each other, the original lazy line having collapsed in on itself like a Slinky.1.snakeV.move in a twisting way蛇行，曲折滑行，蜿蜒行進，迂回而行eg: The train was snaking its way through the moutains.火車在群山間蜿蜒行進2.tiredadj.疲倦的；困倦的；厭煩的some tired

15、 velvet ropes一些松垂的天鵝絨繩子adj.loosened；drooping松垂的adj.timeworn，overused陳舊的，陳腐的eg：The film had a rather tired plot.那電影的情節(jié)是老掉牙的。3.a sweat-suitgarment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt運動套裝*4.inchv.move slowly and carefully 一點點地挪動，慢慢移動，緩慢行進eg: I inched my way through the narrow space between the c

16、ars.我在車和車之間的狹窄空間緩慢移動。5.in ones eagerness 急切地eg: The children tore the wrapping off in his eagerness to see what his birthday present was這些孩子急切地扯下包裝，看他的生日禮物是什么。6.deposit v.put (money) in a bank 交與/委托保管; 存錢；寄存 eg :It is safest to deposit your money in the bank. 錢存入銀行最保險。*7.minutelyad.carefully and pre

17、cisely;in great detail詳細地，精密地eg: The film has been minutely dissected by the critics.影評家對這部電影做了詳細地分析。*8.annoyancen.the feeling or state of being annoyed煩惱，惱怒；使人煩惱的事in mild annoyance: with a little anger or impatience 有些惱怒milda. not very great in degree溫柔的；輕微的；不濃的*9.sidle v. 1). walk sideways 側(cè)身而行 eg

18、:We had to sidle through the narrow doorway. 我們得側(cè)身穿過狹窄的門道.2). walk secretively 秘密的,偷偷摸摸的,遮遮掩掩的 eg:If you sit at the back you can sidle out without anyone seeing you leave. 假如你坐在后面你可以偷溜出去而沒人看見。 sidle up to 秘密地/偷偷地側(cè)身挨近,悄悄貼/挨/走近某人3). walk in a nervous or timid manner 羞怯地/膽怯不安地行進Translation (P33): 她一面結(jié)結(jié)

19、巴巴地為沒有敲門就進入 我的辦公室而道歉，一面羞怯地朝門走去。 She stammered some apology for entering my office without knocking as she sidled towards the door.*10.scribble v. write draw (something) carelessly or hurriedly 潦草書寫,亂涂 eg: She cant write yet ,but she loves to scribble with a pencil. 她現(xiàn)在還不會寫字，但她喜歡用鉛筆亂涂。*11.shufflev. w

20、alk by dragging ones feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground 拖著腳走拖著腳走Collocations:shuffle sth off/shuffle out of sth.avoid doing what one ought to do 推卸應(yīng)做的事eg:He tries to shuffle his work off onto others他想把工作推給別人eg:She shuffled out of the chores by saying she felt ill她說她生病了，把雜事都推掉*1

21、2.hugger-muggera.confused;disorderly雜亂的n.秘密；雜亂eg:He engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance.他參與到了混亂的國際金融領(lǐng)域 *13.Slinky: n. “機靈鬼”，一種用軟彈簧做成的會翻跟頭的玩具 SPACE INVADERS 空間入侵者 At my bank the other day, I was standing in a line snaking around some tired velvet ropes when a man in a sweat-suit sta

22、rted inching toward me in his eagerness to deposit his Social Security check. 前幾天在銀行，我站在一支蜿蜒繞著松垂的天鵝絨繩子的隊伍里，這時一個身穿運動服的男子開始慢慢向我挪近，急著存他的社會保障支票。 As he did so, I minutely advanced toward the woman reading the Wall Street Journal in front of me, who, in mild annoyance, began to sidle up to the man scribbl

23、ing a check in front of her, who absent-mindedly shuffled toward the white-haired lady ahead of him, until we were all hugger-mugger against each other, the original lazy line having collapsed in on itself like a Slinky. 因為他這樣做，我不得不稍稍靠近我前面正在看華爾街日報的女士。她有些惱怒地 側(cè)身貼近她前面的正在支票上潦草簽字的男子。男子心不在焉地拖著腳步走近他前面的白發(fā)女士

24、。最后我們都雜亂地貼向彼此，原來松散的隊伍像Slinky玩具一樣緊縮在一起。 I estimate that my personal space extends eighteen inches in front of my face, one foot to each side, and about ten inches in back though it is nearly impossible to measure exactly how far behind you someone is standing.The phrase “personal space” has a quaint,

25、 seventies ring to it (“Youre invading my space, man”), but it is one of those gratifying expressions that are intuitively understood by all human beings. Like the twelve-mile limit around our national shores, personal space is our individual border beyond which no stranger can penetrate without mak

26、ing us uneasy.1.quaintadj.古香古色的，古怪的eg:The piano has a quaint old-world tone about it.這架鋼琴的音色具有一種古雅的，老式風味2.ring: n.tone or feeling of a particular kind 某種語氣或感覺eg:Her story had a ring of truth about it. 她的話聽起來不假。3.gratifying: a. giving pleasure or satisfaction令人高興的，令人滿意的eg：It is gratifying to see such

27、 good results. 看到這么好的結(jié)果令人欣慰 The situation is gratifying . 形勢喜人 5.intuitively adv直覺地，直觀地eg:Avoid making intuitively obvious but unfounded assertions.避免作出直覺上顯而易見卻沒有依據(jù)的論斷 4.penetrate v.force a way through sth. 穿過，刺入，穿透 The arrow penetrated through the target just in the centre. 箭正好射穿了靶子的中心。 I estimate that