学习中高级英语，理解英文含义是关键。
拿到一篇文章，首先要掌握主旨大意。通读全文，查阅新词，一定要用双语词典看原版英文解释。交替进行直到理解文章主旨。
选择新4最后一篇，因为我觉得把最难的搞通了，望前面去每一课都是容易的。
含义和词汇
这一课词汇特别丰富，不是生词特别多，而是应用特别灵活。所以搞定词汇，对于理解作者的意思非常重要。
通读后，了解到中心意思：死刑是过于严重的量刑。同情是出于道义的勇气，和追求真实和公平一样。同情是出于对鲜活生命的尊重。死刑对于阻止犯罪没有作用。死刑的流程冗长，行为野蛮，不是文明手段。
中心名词 关于死刑和犯罪, 支持和反对
capital punishment；capital crime; death penalty; penal code; penal low; condemned man; condemned cell; murder; murderer; murder with robbery; violent thief; poiner; abolition; abolitionist; upholder; gallow；hanging; compassion, sentimentality; sentimental compassion; agony, ordeal，illogical qualification, the Homicide Act, offences against the low, gaoler, judge, argument; plea; procedure, retention
名词 关于生命和文明
taking another’s life, the value of life, the assurance of another life, a life in another world; the miracle of life; the sacredness of life , a life in the world to come; human being, civilized humanity; backward mind, mankind.
形容词：
merciful, muddle headed ,sentimental; pre-occupied; self-satisfied; civilized; sickening; arguable; reasonable; dreadful; atrocious; archaic; barbarous; deeper; more widespread;
动词(短语)：
accuse… of sth ; rob… of sth; kill; murder; don, launch…into sth, keep… doing, be greatly regarded; be taken for granted; animate, urge, inflict upon; administrate of sth. retain, sustain
英文解释的新词
一定要查看双语词典。
Impulse: an instinctive motive ;a sudden desire;
Compassion: a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering ; the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
Sentimentality: effusively or insincerely emotional;
Tentatively: under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon;
Flimsy: lacking solidity or strength; having little substance or significance;
Administration: a method of tending to (especially business) matters; the act of administering medication
Pre-occupied: engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively; occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance。
Deterant: try to prevent; show opposition to。Try to prevent by saying out the dangerous.
Ordeal: a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
Agony: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
Dread: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
Barbarous: primitive in customs and culture。
带of的名词词组特别多，含义非常丰富
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