伊卡莱姆的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day

练习材料：

Lesson5-2 Youth

I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It's as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings inviolent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary clichésa bout respect for elders -- as if mere age were a reason for respect. I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记： dreary/drɪri    comfort/kʌmfərt    anxious/æŋkʃəs    material/məˈtɪriəl    origins/ɔrəʤɪnz    cosmic/kɑzmɪk    violent/vaɪələnt    contrast/kɑntræst    suburban/səˈbɜrbən    conceited/kənˈsitəd    ill-mannered/ɪl-mænərd    presumptuous/prɪˈzʌmpʧəwəs    fatuous/fæʧəwəs    clichés/clichéɛs   

练习感悟：用时52分。今天这部分篇幅不长，但是生词很多，也比较难读。用时比较长。