【正文】 Back Next 上海交通大 學(xué) 出版社 Text Lead in The Beginning (Paras. 14) More and more unemployed people are spending their severance pay on plastic surgery. Body (Paras. 516) Senior people, together with some professionals and high executives, in order to get a petitive advantage in jobseeking, are undergoing plastic surgery too. The End (Paras. 1719) The effect of plastic surgery and other forms of cosmetic treatment is still not clear. 9 Back Next 上海交通大 學(xué) 出版社 Hunting for a Job? Don’t Expect Plastic Surgery to Help After the recession hit, business at Dr. Mary Lee Peters? plastic surgery practice grew steadily. The downturn brought new types of patients to her Seattle office—people with severance packages who were still smarting from layoffs and too much time on their hands. Several put the money towards cosmetic surgeries, and Peters went to work helping them look “fresher” for their job interviews, she said. That meant Botox and fillers for the more conservative patients, but “most of the time it would be somebody who would have their eyes done or their face done,” she said. Question about Paras. 14 Meaning: Don’t think that you may find a good job after beautifying your face. Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the “correction” or “restoration” of form and function. The best known form of plastic surgery is cosmetic or aesthetic surgery. 整容 . Some movie stars suffer from the failure of plastic surgery. 有些電影明星由于整容失敗而倍感痛苦 。t h e si t at e b e c a u s e t h e w o rl d s e e m s c ol dSt a y y o u n g a t h e a rt b e c a u s e y o u 161。v e t o u c h e d o n s o rro w f u l d a y sF u t u re p a s s , t h e y d i s a p p e a rYo u w i l l f i n d p e a c e o f m i n dI f y o u l o o k w a y d o w n i n y o u r h e a rt a n d s o u lD o n 161。v e c o m e t o g e t h e r o n t h i s s p e c i a l d a yT o s i n g o u r m e s s a g e l o u d a n d c l e a rL o o k i n g b a c k w e 161。上海交通大 學(xué) 出版社 Book I 應(yīng) 用 型 大 學(xué) 英 語 系 列 教 程 Applicationoriented College English Course 2 上海交通大 學(xué) 出版社 Back Next ?Language Skills Development ?Language in Use ?Enhancement of Crosscultural Communication Abilities Unit 3 Unit Three Table of Contents 3 上海交通大 學(xué) 出版社 focus1highlights Back Next Highlights S: A song: that’s the way of the world L: A plastic surgery experience R: Hunting for a job? Don’t expect plastic surgery to help W: Compound sentences (2) Inter work: Introducing what can lead to a failure and a success in a job interview Part 1 Language Skills Development 4 上海交通大 學(xué) 出版社 focus1starter Back Next 1. Starter A. Read the lyrics of a song. Then listen to the tape or the CD and sing in chorus. T h a t39。 s th e W a y o f th e W o r l dH e a rt s o f f i re c re a t e s l o v e d e s i reT a k e y o u h i g h a n d h i g h e r t o t h e w o rl d y o u b e l o n gH e a rt s o f f i re c re a t e s l o v e d e s i reH i g h a n d h i g h e r t o y o u r p l a c e o n t h e t h ro n eW e 39。175。175。175。 Meaning: After the economic crisis happened, more and more people came to Dr. Mary Lee Peters’ shop to have a plastic surgery. Note: hit here means attack。 A severance package is pay and benefits an employee receives when he or she leaves employment at a pany. 解雇補償 . One of our consultancy services is to help you negotiate your severance package before taking a new job. 我們咨詢服務(wù)之一就是在你開始一份新工作之前 ， 就幫你談好離職補償 。 on (one?s) hand: very close to sb. and ready for use when needed 手頭 ， 手邊 . If you need more people, I still have three engineers on hand. 如果你還需要人手 ， 我手上還有三個工程師 。 Meaning: That meant peoplewho are more careful abouttheir bodies would only need a couple of injections (注射 ) toslim their faces or fill somematerials into parts of their bodies so as to heighten them. Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA 肉毒桿菌素 ), also called botulinum (肉毒桿菌 ) toxin type A, is made from the bacteria that causes botulism. Botulinum toxin blocks nerve activity in the muscles, causing a temporary reduction in muscle activity. It is a prescription medicine that is injected into muscles and used to temporarily improve the look, and also used totemporarily lessen the appearance of facial wrinkles. fillers: Facial fillers and injectables (血管注射劑 ) can reduce a variety of signs of facial aging, including fine lines, wrinkles, folds, sunken cheeks and a sallow (蠟黃色的 ) plexion. Facial injectables cannot repair sagging (下垂的 ) skin along the jaw, neck, chin or brow. For these concerns, more invasive (侵入體內(nèi)的 ) procedures such as facelift, neck lift or brow lift may be required. conservative: a. not liking changes or new ideas 保守的 . The headmaster is rather conservative to the educational reform. 校長對教育改革的態(tài)度相當(dāng)保守。李 經(jīng)濟衰退給她在西雅圖的診所帶來了新的病人 ——就是那些領(lǐng)了遣散費，對失業(yè)仍然倍感痛苦而且手上有大把時間的人們。 對比較保守的病人來說，那也就是打個瘦臉針，或注射點填充物什么的，但是“大多數(shù)情況下，他們是來做眼部或臉部手術(shù)的。 10 1. Why did many people e to Peters’ office for a plastic surgery? Hunting for a Job? Don’t Expect Plastic Surgery to Help Back Next 上海交通大 學(xué) 出版社 Because they lost their jobs in the recession and wanted to look “fresher” when searching for new jobs. 11 Hunting for a Job? Don’t Expect Plastic Surgery to Help Back Next 上海交通大 學(xué) 出版社 “People would use their money from being laid off, their severance pay … to get cosmetic surgery so they could look better for their next job interview,” Peters recalled in an interview with The Fiscal Times. “You?d be amazed at how often I?d see that. You would think that people would be scampering away from something like this.” With a growing nu