A Tribute to the Dog

　　1 The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his eniy.(主題句) His son or daughter whom he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. (1)Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith.

　　2 The money that a man has he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most.(承上句) (2)A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. (3)The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolute, unselfish friend a man may have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

　　本部分重點及難點：

　　1. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith

　　(1) … those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name，定語從句中whom是trust的賓語，即trust whom with our happiness and our good name 我們把自己的幸福和名譽都寄托在他們身上

　　(2) trust sb. with sth. 信得過，托付，寄托

　　I'd trust him with my life. 我把命交給他都放心。

　　1. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered(欠考慮的，考慮不周的) action.

　　ill-considered 欠考慮的 (結(jié)合Unit 1 講過的ill-informed)

　　ill-humored / good-humored

　　ill-bred / well-bred

　　ill-intentioned / well-intentioned

　　ill-informed / well-informed

　　3. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads.

　　(1) be prone to do sth. 容易，傾向于

　　(2) fall on one's knees 下跪

　　(3) do sb. honor 向某人表示敬意

　　(4) 譯文：當我們功成名就，一些人卑躬屈膝極力討好;當失敗的陰云籠罩在我們的頭頂，那些人又可能最先對我們落井下石。

　　3 A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. (主題句)He will sleep on the cold ground when the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he can be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. He will lick the sores and wounds that come in the encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince.(承上、總結(jié)的句子)

　　4 When all other friends desert, he riains. (4)When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. (5)If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard him against danger, to fight against his eniies. And when the last scene of all comes and death takes its master in its ibrace and the body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness(獨立主格) faithful and true even to death.

　　本部分重點及難點：

　　4. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. 當主人家財四散、名譽掃地，它對主人的忠誠熱愛仍宛如日升日落，亙古不變。

　　5. If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard him against danger, to fight against his eniies.

　　(1) the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard him against danger， that代替前面的privilege，具體參考Unit 1

　　(2)"否定詞+比較級"，表示最高級。(到Unit 6再詳細講)例如：

　　He loves nothing better than sweet food. 相當于He loves sweet food best.