Basic Needs
形 名词复数: -ties
义 Everyday Expressions
◆ n. 美丽的人或事物
She was a famous beauty in her youth.
◆ n. 美，抽象的美
We shall never forget the beauty of the old Beijing.
◆ n. 优点，极具魅力的特色
The beauty of this machine is its simplicity.
衍生词语
◆ beautify 美化
◆ beautiful 美丽的
复合词语
◆ beauty contest 选美比赛
◆ beauty salon 美容院
Linguistic Skill
常见搭配 useful Phrases
◆ 美容师 --- beauty aid
◆ 选美皇后 --- Beauty Queen
◆ 美容指南 --- Beauty Guide
◆ 风景点 --- beauty spot
习语与俗语 Idioms & Slang
◆ beauty sleep --- 美容觉(午夜前的睡眠)
◆ the beauty of sth --- 有优势的方面
◆ beauty and the beast --- 美女与野兽
Communicating Clearly
生活用语 Street Talks
◆ A: Mom it hurts.
B: This black eye you got in the fight is a real beauty, huh?!
A: Please! Mom!
◆ Saving petrol, you know, that’s the beauty of buying a small car.
◆ The beauty of his new job is that he works his own hours.
◆ A: Why don’t you come with us?
B: I need my beauty sleep, you know.
Cultural Focus
电影对白 Transcripts
句 型
◆ And now for your listening and viewing pleasure, direct from Hollywood, California, our very own beatnik beauty, let’s give a big round of applause to the luscious Bobby Dylan. 《阿甘正传》
对 话
◆ Jesse Jackson: It’s beautiful to be black, but beauty is not enough.
Crowd Leader: What do you want?
Crowd Response: Black power! 《阿甘正传》
谚语 Proverbs
◆ Beauty is but skin-deep.
红颜易变。
◆ Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.
貌美而无德，犹如花之无香。
◆ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
情人眼里出西施。
名言 Quotations
◆ “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”-that is all Ya know on earth, and all ya need to know.
John Keats (1795-1821), English poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn.
◆ It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But … it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish author. Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 17 (1891).
