Section A

1. Section A Premarital Agreements

2. Warming-up Activities • Say something about your ideal husband or wife. • 2. There are many campus lovers in our university, can you imagine the future of their love story? • 3. Would you ask for a prenuptial agreement before your marriage? Why or why not?

3. Reference for Answering Questions (1) • 1. an ideal husband: • tall, handsome, wealthy, healthy, smart, hardworking, non-smoker, soft-spoken, tolerant, considerate, laborious, honest • an ideal wife: • pretty, slim, fashionable, passionate, sociable, hospitable, independent, tender, elegant • 2. playmate, emptiness, follow the lead of one’s classmates or friends, experience (v.&n.), say farewell to each other, pursuit one’s own aim, each goes his or her own way

4. Reference for Answering Questions(2) • 3. it depends, bathe oneself in, the last thing sb. should do, take sth. out of, true love, must (n.), save… from, shed light on, result in, let there be, prevent a terrible marriage.

5. Premarital agreements • Premarital agreements or prenuptial agreements are binding legal contracts between two people who intend to marry each other.

6. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis • Born on July 28, 1929, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was first lady of the United States during the administration (1961-1963) of her first husband, John F. Kennedy. She had been a newspaper reporter and photographer before their marriage • in 1953. She was riding beside President Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963. In 1968 she married the Greek shipping millionaire Aristotle Onassis.

7. Aristotle Onassis • Born on January 20, 1906, Aristotle Onassis was a Greek shipping millionaire who accumulated a fortune of more than $500 million. Born of Greek parents in Turkey, he went to Buenos Aires in 1923 and became a telephone operator there. Soon Onassis established a tobacco import business, and by 1930s he bought unused freighters at low prices and by the end of World War II had amassed great wealth in shipping. After the war he increased his shipping fleet by purchasing surplus wartime freighters.

8. The American Academy of Marriage Lawyers • Its official name is the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

9. 1. What causes premarital agreements? • The distribution of wealth or financial asset. • 2. What kind of people favor the premarital agreement?Some of the people with accumulated wealth. • 3. Why premarital agreement is favored by people with accumulated considerable wealth?

10. They want to reduce their exposure of future problems, and want to make their own arrangement rather than let a court decide. 4. What is another situation that calls for premarital agreement?When a potential spouse has great inherited wealth or a family business, especially if the future partner has little or nothing at all.

11. 5. Why can’t it be possible to enforce the agreement in court sometimes?Because some people concerned don’t followproper guideline in signing the agreement. 6. What can lead to “court-shopping?When the couple, living abroad or with different passports decide to divorce.7. Does romantic love have sth. to do with premarital agreement?No. They consider prenups to be business agreement.

12. 8. Why does a lawyer say that there is still hope? • Because many people who signed an agreement put it in a drawer and never look at it again. • 9. Do you think it necessary to sign the premarital agreement at the first marriage? • Yes, when none of us are not rich. • 10. When did prenups come into being in great number? • As early as 1980s.

13. Back II.Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It • marital • premarital • ice-cream • collection • verify • clause • nuptial • prenuptial • bind • acceptance • division • headline • contest • candidate • sting • exposure • chapter • payment • shield • retire • retired • enforce • preposition • consultant • sword • invitation • signature • cite • awkward • edit • delete • forge • dispute • upon • make no • mistake • (about sth.) • gain in • make/hit the • headlines • call for • be in line • for • under • pressure • draw up • passport • circumstance • static • bearing • justification • heap • shed • drawer • Phrases and • Expressions • work out • store away • insist on/ • Lawyers • Ed Smith • lay bare • to shed/throw • /cast light on • Proper Names • Jacqueline • Kennedy • Onassis • Aristotle • Onassis • The American • Academy of • Marriage • send out • take advice • under sb.’s • nose • argue over/ • about • break out • just about • lead to • enter into sth. • have no • bearing on • end up

14. Text Analysis (1) • Main idea of the text • The author gives the reader a detailed exposition of what prenups are, who needs prenups, what points to be taken care of before signing prenups, and how people evaluate prenups.

15. Back II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It Part I (Paras. 1-4) Part II Part III Part IV For details Main idea ? A general introduction of prenups: What are prenups and how they are forged? Devices for developing it ? Listing (列举法) Para. 1

16. Back II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It Part I Part II (Paras. 5-8) Part III For details Part IV Paras. 5-7 Main idea ? This part is about who needs prenups. Devices for developing it ? Quotation（引言法）

17. Back II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It Part I Part II Part III (Paras. 9-14) Paras. 9 & 10 For details Part IV Main idea？ This part deals with what points should be taken care of when one goes into a premarital agreement. Devices for developing it ? Problem-solution（问题—解决法）

18. II. Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It Part I Part II Part III Part IV (Paras.15-16) For details Main idea？ This part is about possible evaluations of prenups. Devices for developing it ? Quotation (引言法) Paras. 15-16

19. GeneralStatement For more General-specific exposition (总分法 ) Back Who want prenups?(Paras. 5 - 8) Detail 1: Those who will be involved in great economic consequences in a divorce and those who want to remarry. (Para. 5) Detail 2: Those who have accumulated considerable wealth, have already been stung once, and want to reduce their exposure to future problems. (Para. 6) Detail 3: Those who want to shield assets to be passed on to children and grandchildren and plan to remarry after a spouse has died. (Para. 7) Detail 4: Those who have, or are in line for, great inherited wealth or family businesses, especially if the future partners have little or nothing at all. (Para. 8)

20. GeneralStatement For more General-specific exposition (总分法 ) Back What points to be taken care of before signing prenups?(Paras. 9-14) Detail 1: Proper guidelines are necessary; a lawyer is required to write the document; and do not use the same lawyer as your future spouse does. (Para. 9) Detail 2: Do not sign a prenup under pressure. (Para. 10) Detail 3: Watch out that a dispute of carrying out prenups could happen if a couple decides to divorce while living abroad with different passports. (Para. 12) Detail 4: Have a correct understanding of the nature of prenups: they are business agreements. (Para. 14)

21. GeneralStatement Back General-specific exposition (总分法) Evaluations of prenups (Paras. 15 - 16) Detail 1: Prenups sometimes may help save a couple from a terrible marriage. (Para. 15) Detail 2: Prenups sometimes prove to be of no use to some happy marriages. (Para. 16) 返回

22. 1.marital, marriage, marry, martial • Your marital status is whether you are single, married, widowed or divorced. • Martial law is control of an area that is established and maintained by soldiers instead of civilians.

23. 2. Work out • develop well, prove successfully • At first we didn’t think we’d ever move into our new house, but it all worked out in the end. • 起初我们觉得搬新家无望，不过最终事随人愿。 • There have been enormous problems with the project, but it has all worked out now. • 这项工程问题一直很多，不过现在一切顺利。

24. work on 致力于，从事 • work off 摆脱， 消除 • work, labor, toil, drudgery • work 泛指体力与脑力的活动 • labor 和 toil（更正式而且不常用）可指那些辛苦劳累，枯燥乏味的工作

25. 3. verify account /allegation / report /theory or confirm • Before the bank was willing to lend him money, it had to veri--- that he was the true owner of the house. • The experiment veri--- his theory. • An expert was called in to verif_ whether the passport had been forged. • The news has not yet been officially conf____.

26. 4. bind • 1. tie tightly • 他们用绳子捆住我的手脚。 • They bound my arms and legs with rope. • 2. Hold (people or things) together; unite • 他的爱国心使他和祖国紧密联系在一起。 • His patriotism has bound him to his motherland.

27. Hence the study of primitive culture is intimately bound up with that of primitive religion. • 因此，原始文化研究与原始宗教研究紧密相关。 • 3. force sb to obey esp. by a law or promise • The agreement binds her to repay the debt in full within six months. • 协议规定她必须在6个月内还请全部债务。 • 4. be bound to • He is bound to come this weekend.

28. 5. gain in • get more of a particular quality • You seem to have gained a lot in weight since I last saw you. • The army has gained greatly in fighting power with the acquisition of five hundred of the latest airplanes. • 在装备了500架最新式飞机后， 部队战斗力大大增强了。

29. 6. Candidate, participant, applicant • She was a willing _p___in these campaigns. • __A_should be at their desks 5 minutes before • the start of the exam. • Successful_c___will be notified by phone.

30. 7. shield • V. protect from harm; defend from criticism,attack, etc.保护 （shield sb/sth from) • Motorcyclists should wear helmets to shield them from injury.骑摩托车者必须带头盔以防受伤。 • Jennie put her hand over her eyes as if shielding them from the sun, and closed out the sight of her husband. • 詹尼把手放在眼睛上， 似乎在遮阳，其实是不想看见她丈夫。

31. shield sth from view • The house was shielded from view by tall trees. • n. sth, that is used as protection 保护物 • Nevertheless, the vastly expanded social contacts removed a shield of isolation from village life. • 不管怎样，这种大范围的社会接触使村民们的生活不再封闭。

32. 8. in line for/to do sth • Likely to get or do sth • John is in line for the presidency of the club next year.约翰明年有望成为俱乐部主席。 • Mary is fourth in line to be admitted to the society. • 玛丽是有可能进入该社团的第四号人选。

33. His actions were not in line with his beliefs. • The offensive was successful all along the line. • Somewhere along the line your strategy has gone badly wrong. • He opened with a question on(along) the lines of “What do you think of the present political situation?”

34. Getting them to sign on the dotted line won’t be easy. • He wrote that he liked college life very much, but I could read between the lines that he was homesick.

35. 9. enforce • 1）cause (a rule, law,etc) to be obeyed or • carried out effectively 执行，实施 • 应当始终严格执行规章制度。 • The regulations should always be strictly enforced. • The army are enforcing a curfew and searching houses.

36. make sth happen esp by force 强迫，强加（on, upon) • It manipulates the environment, and it is able to enforce moral duties on those who are inclined to disregard them. • 它控制着周围环境， 并且能够将道德义务强加于那些容易忽视它们的人。

37. 10. draw up • 1) write out • The lawyer drew up a contract for the sale of the property.律师起草了一份房产出售合同。 • The rich man had his lawyer draw up his will so that each of his children would receive part of his money when he died. • 富豪让律师写下遗嘱，使他的每个孩子在他死后都可以得到一份财产。

38. 2) ( of a vehicle) arrive at a certain point and stop • A taxi drew up in front of the hotel. • 一辆出租车停在饭店前。 • A police car drew up just as the robbers were about to leave the bank. 正当抢劫犯离开银行时， 一辆警车到了。

39. draw back (from) 退缩， 后退 • draw on (时间）临近，消逝；利用 • draw out 拉长，拖长 • draw in (白昼）渐短；到站

40. 11. under somebody’s nose • just in front of sb • The thief walked out of the museum with the painting right under the guard’s nose.小偷在 • 警卫的眼皮底下拿着那幅画走出了博物馆。

41. 12. Classic, classical, classics • Their marriage is a_sic___example of love at first sight.(typical) • He studied__ics__at the University of Cambria in Portugal. • The divide between popular and_sical__music is obvious.

42. 13. forge • I learned how to forge someone else’s signature. • The smith forged the horseshoe with great skill. • In the years after the Second World War the US forged ahead in nuclear research.

43. 14. end • The football game between Britain and Argentina finally ended upas a draw. • (neither side wins) • I’m at my wit’s end with this terribly complicated situation. • Firms that fail to make ends meet are warned they could go out of business. • At the end of the day the new manager is no better than the previous one.

44. 15. bearing • He is straight-backed, with an imposing military bearing. (deportment) • That is all in the past, it has no bearing on what is happening today. • find/get one’s bearing(position) • lose one’s bearing(confused)

45. 16. heap • n. • 1)一堆 （of) • A heap of books / clothes • All her clothes are in a heap on the floor. • 她的衣服统统堆在地板上 • 2) 大量，许多（常作复数） • heaps of time/people

46. V. • 1) 堆积，使成堆，积累（up) • I’m going to heap all the leaves up over there. • 我要把叶子都堆到那儿。 • 2) 使充溢（with) • They heaped more food on my plate than I could eat. • 他们在我的盘子上堆满食品， 我吃都吃不了。 • The table was heaped with presents

47. 17. lay bare • expose or make known sth.hidden • All the facts are laid bare in this special report. • 在这份特别报告了， 所有的事实都被披露出来了。 • In his confession, the man laid bare the whole story of his life. • 在它的坦白陈述中， 这名男子讲述了他的整个人生故事.

48. 18. Out, down, up, off • It is laid_down___that all applicants must attend a written exam. • The factory has laid_off___workers because of the drop in sales. • The gardens are beautifully laid__out__. • They have laid__up__large supplies of food for the coming winter.

49. 19. shed • shed tears • Many tears have been shed in memory of the dead. • Mrs Thatcher is unlikely to shed any tears at his retirement. • shed blood • He said there was no reason for shedding the blood of innocents.

50. shed light on (make it clear) • Officials hope the voice recorder will • shed light on the reasons for the crash.