听力综合能力提高—— Day18
讲义

听力片段一：

Jobs slipped quietly into the back row of the auditorium to listen to Sculley explain to the troops the new order of battle.
There were a lot of sideways glances, but few people acknowledged him and none came over to provide public displays of affection.
He stared without blinking at Sculley, who would remember "Steve's look of contempt" years later.

知识点:词汇表达
slip /slɪp/ v. 滑动
搭配：a slip of the tongue 口误；I didn’t mean to tell my wife about the bankrupt. It was a slip of the tongue.

auditorium /ˌɑː.dəˈtɔːr.i.əm/ n.礼堂
display /dɪˈspleɪ/ v.展现
affection/əˈfek.ʃən/ n.喜爱
blink /blɪŋk/ v.眨眼
contempt/kənˈtempt/ n.蔑视


听力片段二：

"It's unyielding," Sculley recalled, "like an X-ray boring inside your bones, down to where you're soft and destructibly mortal."For a moment, standing onstage while pretending not to notice Jobs,Sculley thought back to a friendly trip they had taken a year earlier to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to visit Jobs's hero, Edwin Land.

He had been dethroned from the company he created, Polaroid, and Jobs had said to Sculley in disgust,"All he did was blow a lousy few million and they took his company away from him."


知识点:词汇表达
unyielding/ʌnˈjiːl.dɪŋ/ adj.不屈的
bore /bɔːr/ v.钻
dethrone /diˈθroʊn/ v. 罢免
in disgust 厌恶地


听力片段三：


Now, Sculley reflected, he was taking Jobs's company away from him.
As Sculley went over the organizational chart, he introduced Gassee as the new head of a combined Macintosh and Apple II product group.
On the chart was a small box labeled "chairman" with no lines connecting to it, not to Sculley or to anyone else.