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The Chaser
By John Collier
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Debate
Biographical Sketch of John Collier
Pre-reading questions
Structure analysis of the Text
Questions for comprehension
Language points
Exercises
Writing Practice
Passage Dictation
Debate on the following situation
• A young couple were very much in love
and wanted to get married. However,
they were from two warring cultures
and their families would not allow it. If
they married, they would have to leave
their homes and families, and perhaps
even their country.
Position A: They should get married
anyway.
Position B: They shouldn’t get married.
Biographical Sketch of John Collier
• a writer of various genres, born in London in
1901 and died of a stroke in California in 1980.
• obtained a private education, and began
writing poetry at the age of nineteen and
concentrated on writing novels and short
stories during the early 1930s.
• best known as a writer of fantasy, and though
largely unpopular in his native country, holds
wide appeal among readers of fantasy. His
Monkey Wife, first published in 1930.
Works of John Collier
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His Monkey Wife (first published in 1930)
Tom's A-Cold (novel, 1933)
Defy the Foul Friend (novel, 1934)
Presenting Moonshine (short story
collection, 1941)
• Fancies and Goodnights (short story
collection, 1951)
• Pictures in the Fire (short story collection,
1958)
Screenplays of John Collier
• Elephant Boy (1937)
• I Am a Camera (1955)
• The War Lord (1965).
Siren（塞壬）
• Siren, in Greek mythology, one of the three sea
nymphs（女神）, usually represented with the head
of a woman and the body of a bird. Daughters of
Phoreus of Achelous（河神）, the Sirens inhabited an
island surrounded by dangerous rocks. They sang so
enchantingly（夺人心魂的） that all who heard were
drawn near and shipwrecked. Jason and the
Argonauts were saved from them by the music of
Orhenus, whose songs were lovelier. Odysseus
escaped them by having himself tied securely to a
mast and by stopping the ears of his men. Figuratively,
siren refers to a woman regarded as seductively （诱
惑的）beautiful.
Siren
Pre-reading questions
• 1. Do you believe love can be
fostered? How can you lure one
into love with you?
• 2. What is likely to happen when
a couple no longer love each
other?
Tips How to Attract Someone
to Love You
• Actually, you can't make someone love
you because truth to tell, people can't
help whom they love. However, you can
attract someone enough to get them
interested and then maybe, just maybe,
if everything falls into place, fall in love
with you.
• Again, there is nothing you can do to make
someone love you but there are ways you can
use to let them see what a wonderful person
you are. It‘s always a shot but it might not
always get you what you want. But if you’re
the stubborn kind and want to give fate a
nudge（轻推，注意）, here are some tips you
can use. Remember, though: you have been
warned.
• Begin as friends.
This is usually where good things begin and
being friends with someone you love isn't so
bad. It's not as good as being in love with
each other, but it can be a start. Right now,
the person you love probably sees you in a
one-dimensional light. There is a 50-50
chance that they'll learn to like you once they
get to know you.
• Make a list.
Find out what your beloved likes and dislikes
and make a list of every useful thing there is
to know about them. Check every trait or
quality that you have or use a rating system (1
being totally not you and 10 being you're proof
such a characteristic exists in a living person).
Be honest. You can't pretend forever, you
know.
• Get yourself in the line of sight.
You can‘t hope to attract someone
enough to make them love you if they
can’t see you. Increase your visibility by
a notch（刻痕，记号）, maybe two, hell
- three. Four or five will be pushing it.
You want to be visible, not annoying like
an ever-present fly or wallpaper.
• If the object of your desires goes to a
certain gym, you might want to join the
same outfit and get the same schedule.
Or if your future partner plays tennis,
learn to swing the racquet（球拍）
yourself. It won't be easy, but then again,
loving and being loved is never easy so
be prepared for possibilities.
• Show your good side.
Especially your best angle and we don‘t mean
just your profile. If your beloved likes someone
who can cook, casually mention you make a
mean lasagna（千层饼） or better yet, make
the best lasagna you can and give it away to
your friends, which of course, includes your
special someone. Just make sure it's really
good.
• You can have the
love you need,
want and deserve.
• You will learn to
love yourself and
others will be
drawn to you
because of it.
• Are you loved? I know it may be an odd
question, but it‘s a question you really do need
to ask yourself. Do you feel loved? Do you
have someone special to share your life with,
or do you feel lost and alone in the abyss（深
渊） of people surrounding you? Are you
waiting for the perfect soul mate? Are you
looking for the right person to love you and
make you feel complete? You can attract the
love you long for. It's just a matter of
knowing what to do and how to do it.
• If you really, truly want to attract love,
there is one question that you first need
to ask. Do you love yourself? Do you
really truly love the person you are? If
you don't love yourself, it will be hard for
others to love you. Once you love
yourself, it will be easier to attract the
love of others.
• So how do you learn to love yourself and
how do you go about attracting the love
of others? You need to awaken your
love from within. Like a delicate flower
waiting to bloom, your love is sealed up
tight within a bud. With the right
ingredients that bud will bloom into a
beautiful and magnificent creation.
• Where do you buy the ingredients for
love? You cannot buy them in a store.
The key ingredients for loving
yourself and attracting the love of
others actually lie within you. The trick
is in knowing how to use them. That's
where self hypnosis comes in.
• Millions of people have been helped by
the powerful benefits of self hypnosis
（催眠状态）. The 'attract love' self
hypnosis session takes the power of
hypnotism and uses it to teach you
how to love yourself and how to
attract the love of others.
Imagine what it would be like if:
• Every morning you woke up with a smile
because you knew that you were truly loved?
• You had someone you loved, and who loved
you back, to share your days and nights with?
• You had someone to turn to every time you
needed support or encouragement?
• You never felt empty, alone or abandoned
again.
• The 'attract love' self hypnosis session can
turn your dreams into reality. You will learn to
love yourself and others will be drawn to
you because of it. Through the power of self
hypnosis, you will be able to attract the love
you have so desperately wanted. Let the
'attract love' self hypnosis CD/MP3 hypnosis
download change the way you feel about
yourself and the way you attract others.
• Attract love into your life!
Love potion爱的魔药
• a recipe for: LOVE POTION TEA
1 pinch（撮） of rosemary （迷迭香）
2 teaspoons of black tea
3 pinches thyme(麝香草）
3 pinches nutmeg（肉豆蔻）
3 fresh mint（薄荷） leaves
6 fresh rose petals花瓣）
6 lemon leaves
3 cups pure spring water
Sugar、Honey
• To make another person fall in love with you,
brew（酝酿） this tea on a Friday during a
waxing moon （盈月moving from empty to
full).
Place all ingredients in an earthenware or
copper tea kettle. Boil three cups of pure
spring water and add to the kettle. Sweeten
with sugar and honey, if desired.
• Before drinking, recite this rhyme:
BY LIGHT OF MOON WAXING
I BREW THIS TEA
TO MAKE [lover's name] DESIRE ME.
• Drink some of the tea and say:
GODDESS OF LOVE
HEAR NOW MY PLEA
LET [lover's name] DESIRE ME!
SO MOTE IT BE
SO MOTE IT BE
• On the following Friday, brew another
pot of the love potion tea and give some
to the person you want to love you. He
or she will soon begin to fall in love with
you.
• All in fun - but good luck!!!
Structure analysis of the Text
This short story, which combines elements of
horror and love, is built almost entirely
through dialogue between a young man, Alan
Austen, who is deeply in love and wants to
possess his lover entirely, and an unnamed
old man who believes in a life free of romantic
involvement. As the dialogue develops,
Austen’s attitude towards the potion changes
from skeptical and hesitant to excited and
overwhelmed.
Questions for comprehension
• 1. What is the implied meaning of the old man’s
remark. ‘Young people who need a love potion
very seldom have five thousand dollars.
Otherwise they would not need a love potion”?
(para. 13)
• What the old man means is that the young men
who fall in love one-sidedly are seldom rich
enough to win a young girls heart. If they are rich,
it will be easier for them to gain girls’ hearts, and
they don’t need to buy love potions. The old man
suggests that money is an important factor for
love.
• 2. What are the effects of the love
potion? Describe them in detail .
• The love potion has a powerful, everlasting
effect. It will make a gay girl care nothing
but her lover. She will feel jealous of him
when her lover is with other girls. She will
want to be everything to him. She will be
only interested in her lover and take every
concern of his. Even if he slips a little, she
will forgive him in the end. In a word, she
will love him deeply if she drinks the love
potion.
3.Why is the love potion priced so low while the
glove-cleaner so high?
• In this story, the author seems to stress the great
gap between the price of the love potion and the
glove-cleaner. The reasons maybe is that it is easy
for people to fall in love, but it is hard to keep it.
So, when he wants to get out of it, he has to pay a
lot of money to buy the glove-cleaner. Because of
the lower price of the love potion, the old man can
allure the customers to buy his other goods,
including the glove-cleaner.
• 4. What moral lessons can be drawn
from the story?
• One of the moral lessons we can draw
from the story is that love is precious. It
is easy for one to fall in love. But it is
hard for him to keep it fresh. So we must
be wise and cherish love.
• 5. How do the speeches of the young man
and the old man differ? How does that help to
build up the theme?
• The young man’s speech is short and
changing. At first, he speaks in short
sentences with hesitation, but later on his
speech changes into a succession of cries
with excitement. The old man’s speech is
long, logical, persuasive and stable. This
sharp contrast can make the theme of the
story of the story clearer.
Summary of the essay
• Alan Austen goes to an old man to buy some
love potion to win a girl’s heart. At the very
beginning, he is very nervous and hesitant.
When he asks the old man whether he has a
certain mixture that has extraordinary effects.,
the old man tells him that everything he sells
is extraordinary. He then reaches for a bottle
from the shelf and shows Alan one liquid
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colorless,
tasteless,
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imperceptible. It is called a life-cleaner.
• However, it is very expensive. For he can not
afford it. Then the old man reassures him that
a love potion is not as expensive as that. He
goes to tell Alan the powerful effect of the
medicine; if the girl drinks one tiny measure of
it, she will be changed altogether. She will
want to do everything for Alan. She will be
totally devoted to him, taking good care of him,
worrying about him if he is late, and forgiving
him when he slips. Convinced by the old
man’s words, Alan cries with great joy. That is
what he wants. For this miraculous medicine,
the old man only charges one dollar. Finally,
Alan thanks the old man and leaves him with
the love potion.
Language points
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peer vi.(at, into): look carefully
peer at the traffic lights
peer into the distance
She peered at the tag to read the price.
The sun was peering through the clouds.
太阳从云中隐约出现。
• peep (in into out at): to look at something
quickly and secretly, especially through a hole
or other small openings
Language points
• Oblige vt.(1)do something a favor; to
fulfill the wishes of (2) to make it
necessary for somebody to do sth.
• Circumstances oblige me to do that.
• I am sorry I cannot oblige you.
• Please oblige me with your presence.
• Will any gentleman oblige the lady?
• We are much obliged to you for your
help.
• Could you oblige me with ten yuan?
• Much obliged!
[口]谢谢!
• be obliged to sb.
• be obliged to do sth.
• oblige (sb.) with 给...
She asked him to lend his car, and he
willingly obliged her.
• I should/would be obliged if you could
speak louder.
• The heavy snow obliged me to abandon
the car and continued on foot.
• Eric felt obliged to resign after such an
unpleasant quarrel with the vice
president.
apprehensive adj.
• apprehensive for sb.‘s safety 近义词：
afraid agitated(焦虑的，激动不安的）
anxious concerned fearful troubled
uneasy worried
acquaintance n.
• a speaking acquaintance
• I have no acquaintance with this book.
• I have some acquaintance with English,
but I do not know it well.
• He has a large circle of acquaintances.
• a passing acquaintance with
• drop [cut] sb.'s acquaintance (=cut an
acquaintance with sb.)
• have a nodding acquaintance with sb.
• have a bowing acquaintance with sb.
• have no acquaintance with
• make the acquaintance of sb.
• make sb.'s acquaintance
• pick acquaintance with
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acquaint
vt. (with)
be directly acquainted with
Let me acquaint you with the facts.
My mother acquainted her with my
intention.
• I am already acquainted with him.
• You must acquaint yourself with your
new duties.
• 过去分词acquainted已经失去动作意义,
相当于一个形容词。例如: “我是去年认识
他的。”不能译作: I acquainted him last
year. 或 I was acquainted with him last
year. 第一句是语态错误, 第二句混淆了
“状态”和“动作”, 只能译成: I got
[became] acquainted with him last year.
或 I made his acquaintance last year.
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acquaint oneself with
acquaint sb. With
acquaint sb. Of
be [get] acquainted with
perceive
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perceive by the nose
To perceive differences.
To understand; perceive.
To perceive with the eye.
To perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.
The ability to feel or perceive.
Having the ability to so perceive.
Did you perceive anyone come in?
Can't you perceive this obvious truth?
To perceive in terms of past experiences.
Overwhelm vt.
• be overwhelmed by grief
• （1) to give somebody a particular feeling
very strongly.
 His generosity overwhelmed us.
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The family of the victim was overwhelmed
by/with grief.
(2) to make powerless by using force
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Government troops overwhelmed the
rebels.
• The boat was overwhelmed by the waves.
Adj. overwhelming: very large or very
great
e.g. The policy was adopted by an
overwhelming majority.
• amaze astonish astound bewilder
conquer crush defeat dumbfound
flabbergast(目瞪口呆) overcome startle
surmount(超越挑战） surprise vanquish
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Conceive vt.
conceive a hatred 怀恨
conceive prejudices抱偏见
conceive a child
Scientists first conceived the idea of
atomic bomb in the 1930s.
• vi. （of）conceiver
n.
• indulge vt.
• indulge oneself in eating and drinking
纵情于吃喝
• He indulges his children too much.
• vi. indulge in tobacco
• Will you indulge? [俚]喝一杯吧?
• indulge in
沉溺于; 纵情享受; 饱享
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Confidential adj. 机密的，易于信任他人的
confidential clerk
confidential files
confidential information
strictly confidential
no longer confidential
on confidential terms with sb.
Don't become too confidential with strangers.
• rapture n.
• listen with rapture
• greet sb. with raptures of delight 欣喜若
狂地欢迎某人
• be in [go into] raptures over [about]对...
狂喜, 对... 欢天喜地
• fall [go] into raptures over
detachment:
the state of not reacting in an emotional way, so
that you can do your job properly or make the
right decisions(超然，不偏不倚，公正)
e.g. Doctors need to have some degree of
emotional detachment.
Verb.: detach
e.g. She detached the baby’s hand from her
dress.
He detached his watch form the chain.
Adj. detached
e.g. He spoke in a detached way about
the danger.
A detached house is one not joined to
another one.
A judge must be detached when
weighing evidence.
Translation exercises
• 1.To me, you are definitely more than an
acquaintance.
• 2. Many artisans deal in a variety of
handicrafts in the region.
• 3. They went into raptures over the
unexpected success.
• 4. Much to my surprise, he analyzed
with detachment the dangerous situation
that threatened all of them.
• 5.She peered at the stranger from
behind the curtain.
• 6. During the holidays, he indulged in
the luxury of a bath of sunshine on the
beach.
• 7. When she learnt the news of his
death, she was overwhelmed with grief.
• 8. I’m not in favor of buying a house on
the installment plan; instead , I maintain
that everyone of us should save up for a
rainy day.
Passage Dictation
The Importance of Keeping a Good Mood
It is necessary and important for people to keep
a good mood in their daily life in this fastpaced modern society.
First of all, today’s society is full of competition
that develops very quickly.
As a result, there is a lot of pressure on
everyone.
People usually feel stressed as they try hard to
do their best in education, career or family
situations.
It is thus very important that they should
keep a good mood.
A cheerful person is likely to be optimistic
when he or she faces challenges and
competitions and is likely to succeed.
Even when he or she meets a difficult
situation, if he or she keeps a good
mood and is cool-headed, they can use
their intelligence to solve the problem