Unit1
1 Every plane must be checked out strictly before taking off.
2 The residents were firmly opposed to the construction of a waste incineration plant in their neighborhood, because they were deeply concerned about the plant’s emissions polluti ng the air.
3 Investment in ecological projects in this area mounted up to billions of yuan.
4 The dry river was strewn with rocks of all sizes .
5 Although the war caused great losses to this country, it’s cultural traditions did not perish .
6 To build modern high-rises buildings, many ancient buildings with ethnic cultural features had to be demolished.
7 In the earthquake, the main structures of most of the poor-quality houses disintegrated.
8 His wonderful dream vanished into the air despite his hard efforts to achieve his goals.
Unit2
1.There is no one in the hall. The meeting must have been put off.
2.That modern building looks very much like a flying saucer.
3.Sichuan dialect sounds much the same as Hubei dialect to the northerner. It’s sometimes difficult to distinguish one from the other.
4.The very sight of the monument reminds me of my good friend who was killed in the war.
5.He was so deep in thought that he was oblivious of what his friends were talking about.
6.What he did had nothing to do with her.
7.She could not fall asleep as her daughter’s illness was very much on her mind.
8.I have had the matter on my mind for a long time.
9.He loves these gatherings, because he loves to rub shoulders with young people and exchange opinions on all kinds of questions.
10.It was after a few minutes that his words sank in.
11.The soil smells of fresh grass.
12.Could you spare me a few minutes?
13.Could you spare me a ticket?
14.That elderly grey-haired man is a coppersmith by trade.
1.其次，因为我当时喉咙哽咽一心想着那些悲伤地场景，那与一个日本铁路官员会说什么毫不相干。
2.当踏上这片土地，呼吸着广岛的空气，这对我来说，本身就比我以往的任何一次旅行或采访任务更激动人心。
3.这座曾遭遇过劫难的城市的高楼大厦从我们身边呼啸而过，同时，我们的身体也随着司机手中急打的方向盘而东倒西歪。
4.非常出乎意料的是，在车站的那种奇怪情绪又回来了，当我想到我现在正站在第一颗原子弹轰炸的地方时，我的心情变得再一次沉重，这儿曾有成千上万的人在顷刻间被杀害，还有成千上万的人在痛苦的煎熬中慢慢死去。
5.很少有城市拥有像广岛这样的名望，我很自豪而高兴地欢迎大家来到广岛，一座因其牡蛎而举世闻名的城市。
6.在这个牡蛎之城，有两派不同的看法，一派想保留原子弹爆炸留下的痕迹，另一派则想销毁一切痕迹，甚至想要拆除在爆炸中心竖立的纪念碑。
7.如果你要写关于这座城市的文章，别忘记说它是日本最快乐的城市，即使这了的许多市民身上还带有内伤和灼伤。
8.但是后来，我的头发开始脱落，腹内开始积水。
Unit3
1.There is no need for hurry. Take your time.
2.Are you suggesting that I am telling a lie?
3.He tried every means to conceal the fact.
4.Even though our chance of success is very slim, we shall still do our utmost.
5.We will have our meeting at 10 tomorrow morning unless notified otherwise.
6.Neither of us is adept at figures.
7.Would it be possible to reach the destination before dusk assuming we set out at 5?
8.He was reluctant to comply with her request.
9.I know you are southerner. Your accent has betrayed you.
10.We have no alternative on this matter.
1.一想到这两个人随时都可能回来，她的紧张情绪就怎么也放松不下来。
2.一圈雪茄烟雾随着奥格尔维涌进了房间。
3.奥格尔维不慌不忙地拿掉令人厌恶的雪茄，弹掉烟灰，然后将烟蒂扔向右手边的一个装饰性壁炉。
4.现在该知道的我都知道，假如我按规矩办事的话，你们还来不及眨眼，就会有一队警察开到这里来的。
5.她猛地一下跳了起来，怒容满面，灰绿色的眼睛闪着光，直直地的盯着那个肥胖的保安头目。
6.新奥尔良的街道弯弯曲曲，很容易走错方向。
7.如果那样的话，你还不如现在就去警察局投案自首。
8.她再一次的意识到，唱主角的的角色又落到了她的身上，此时此刻，在这个不安好心的胖子和她之间的对话中，她的丈夫只不过充当了一名紧张而又消极的旁观者的角色而已。
9.她的双眼紧紧地盯着他的脸，她那漂亮的高颧骨的脸上显出一副傲慢的神态。
10.即使给你钱我们也得不到任何好处，不过是拖延了几天时间罢了。
Unit4
1.I did not anticipate that I would get involved in this dispute.
2.If you want to learn something, you should involve yourself into the work.
3.Racial discrimination still exists in different forms in the United States though racial segregation violates the law.
4.The jury deliberated and finally reached a verdict of guilty.
5.He thought the two opinions could be reconciled.
6.The spectators’ hearts went out to the defendant.
7.He always had the dictionary on hand when he read articles.
8.The construction of the dam got under way before any environment impact assessment had been done.
1.原教旨主义者坚持按照字面意思去解释《旧约全书》，但另一方面，现代主义者则接受了查尔斯?达尔文提出的理论—认为所有动物，包括猴子和人，都是由一个共同的祖先进化而来的。
2.在这样的一次辩论中，拉普利耶说，任何人要讲授生物学，都必须得教授进化论。
3.来自周围山区的人们，大多是原教旨主义者，赶来为布莱恩喝彩并打击那些“外来的异教徒”。
4.他被带到这里是因为愚昧和顽固还很猖獗，而且这还是一个很强大的结合。
5.“《圣经》”，他用响亮的声音怒喊道，“是不会被那些不远千里赶来作证的专家们驱赶出这个法庭的，他们只想证明进化论关于人类祖先来自于丛林的说法和上帝按照天机的一部分创造了人类的说法是一致的”。
6.真理是永恒不朽的，并且不需要任何人类机构去维护它。
7.然而虽然马隆恩赢得了同布莱恩进行的这场唇枪舌战大战，但法官还是裁定不允许科学家们为被告作证。
8.我只是在盘问你那些愚蠢的想法，有才智的基督教徒是不会相信你那些想法的。
9.达德利?费尔德?马隆称把我的判决说成是“虽败犹荣”。
10.由克拉伦斯?达罗和达德利?费尔德?马德在代顿的法庭上掀起的那场辩论风暴像一阵清风吹遍了美国的学校和立法机关，随之而来的是随着时光流逝而日益增多的知识和学术自由的新风貌。
Unit 5
A.
1.The cultural diversity of Shanghai Expo is the richest even seen on earth.
2.The poverty at that area is almost beyond imagination.
3.Don’t ask him about his father’s death in the car accident, don’t even allude to it.
4.There is not a tree in sight on the free wilderness.
5.Despite massive natural disaster,people in stricken area still believe in love and the future.
6.On the whole your report is well-written, but there is still plenty of room for improvement.
7.I have made up my mind not to buy a car for I prefer to ride a bike in the city,
8.Many children’s love of internet games border upon craziness.
B
1.大部分房屋都是那样东倒西歪，摇摇欲坠地架在地基上。
2.然而，世界上没有一个地方，无论国内还是国外，我曾见过其丑陋程度能比得上那些拥挤在宾夕法尼亚铁路从匹兹堡调车场到格林斯堡路段沿线的村庄。
3.无法想象单凭人的力量如何能造出如此可怕的东西来，也很难想象人类竟能在其中生活下去。
4.单凭愚昧无知居然能造出这样令人恐怖的杰作，真是令人难以置信。
5.美国中下层家庭的住宅使用了某种墙纸而丑陋不堪，但我们不能将其归咎于选购者的疏忽大意，也不能归咎于制造商低俗的幽默感。
6.显然墙纸的可怕图案以某种莫名其妙的方式满足了某些人晦涩难解的心理需要。
7.在费尽心思设计并修建好这个运动场之后，他们又不可思议地在上
面盖了一个小阁楼，并涂上鲜艳夺目的黄色油漆，这在他们看来是完美的。
8.其效果正如一个胖女人有着一只乌青的眼睛，或是一位长老会教徒咧嘴而笑。但他们就喜欢这样的。
9.这个大熔炉中产生了一个痛恨美丽就像痛恨真理一样的种族。
10.这种变态心理的产生根源值得更多的研究。
Unit6
A
1.Tom was every bit as intelligent as the top one in his class.
2.He was obsessed with anxieties of poverty.
3.Dongting Lake teems with fish and shrimps.
4.Under pressure,he had no choice but quit.
5.At that time,many children succumbed to smallpox.
6.Much to his horror,he found the cabin flooded.
7.It was not until the midnight that the doctor finished the complex major operation.
8.That’s Peter’s personalities all over.
9.The history course has acquainted me with ancient civilizations.
10.The pursuit and anxiety of young people find expression in the newly-staged play
B
1.这个人出生时名字是塞穆尔?兰霍恩?克莱门斯，后来才改为马克?吐温。他一生之中有超过三分之一的时间是在游历全国各地，感受着美国的新生活，此后便以作家和演说家的身份将他所感受到的这一切于全世界分享。
2.所有这一切，连同他那如留声机般准确可靠地记忆所吸收的丰富多彩的语言信息，后来都在他的作品中得以再现。
3.蒸汽船的甲板上不仅挤满了富有开创精神的人们，也挤满了失业流浪汉、登徒浪子、赌徒和恶棍等这样的社会败类。
4.从所有这些形形色色的人身上，马克吐温敏锐地认识了人性，看到了人们言与行之间的差距。
5.对于一个习惯于由西海岸地区引领潮流趋势的现代世界来说，他对那些尚未开发的东海岸地区的描写听上去并不陌生。
6.他不经意地揭穿了那些受人尊敬的艺术家和艺术珍品，甚至对圣地也用了亵渎性的言语予以抨击。
7.那个寡妇要按时吃饭，按时睡觉，按时起床，什么事都是那么规规矩矩简直让人受不了。
8.他和一个逃跑的奴隶一起乘坐木筏沿着密西西比河顺流而下的漂流航程展现了一副揭示美国社会生活全貌的生动画面。
9.他们从世界上消失了，在那个世界上，他们无足轻重，一事无成；在那个世界上，他们的存在本身就是个错误，是个失败，是件愚蠢的事；在那个世界上，他们没有留下丝毫能表明他们曾经存在过的痕迹——那个世界将为他们哀悼一日，然后便将他们永久地忘却。
第一课救赎 ----兰斯顿.休斯 在我快13岁那年，我的灵魂得到了拯救，然而并不是真正意义上的救赎。事情是这样的。那时我的阿姨里德所在的教堂正在举行一场盛大的宗教复兴晚会。数个星期以来每个夜晚，人们在那里讲道，唱诵，祈祷。连一些罪孽深重的人都获得了耶稣的救赎，教堂的成员一下子增多了。就在复兴晚会结束之前，他们为孩子们举行了一次特殊的集会——把小羊羔带回羊圈。里德阿姨数日之前就开始和我提这件事。那天晚上，我和其他还没有得到主宽恕的小忏悔者们被送去坐在教堂前排,那是为祷告的人安排的座椅。 我的阿姨告诉我说：“当你看到耶稣的时候，你看见一道光，然后感觉心里似乎有什么发生。从此以后耶稣就进入了你的生命，他将与你同在。你能够看见、听到、感受到他和你的灵魂融为一体。”我相信里德阿姨说的，许多老人都这么说，似乎她们都应该知道。尽管教堂里面拥挤而闷热，我依然静静地坐在那里，等待耶稣的到来。 布道师祷告，富有节奏，非常精彩。呻吟、喊叫、寂寞的呼喊，还有地狱中令人恐怖的画面。然后他唱了一首赞美诗。诗中描述了99只羊都安逸的待在圈里，唯有一个被冷落在外的情形。唱完后他说道：“难道你不来吗？不来到耶稣身旁吗？小羊羔们，难道你们不来吗？”他向坐在祷告席上的小忏悔者们打开了双臂，小女孩们开始哭了，她们中有一些很快跳了起来，跑了过去。我们大多数仍然坐在那里。 许多长辈过来跪在我们的身边开始祷告。老妇人的脸像煤炭一样黑，头上扎着辫子，老爷爷的手因长年的工作而粗糙皲裂。他们吟唱着“点燃微弱的灯，让可怜的灵魂得到救赎”的诗歌。整个教堂里到处都是祈祷者的歌声。 最后其他所有小忏悔者们都去了圣坛上，得到了救赎，除了一个男孩和依然静静地坐着等侯的我。那个男孩是一个守夜人的儿子，名字叫威斯特里。在我们的周围尽是祈祷的修女执事。教堂里异常闷热，天色也越来越暗了。最后威斯特里小声对我说：“去他妈的上帝。我再也坐不住了，我们站起来吧，就可以得到救赎了。”于是他就站了起来，也因此得到了救赎。 祈祷席上只剩下我一个人孤零零的。里德阿姨走过来，开始跪在我的旁边，小声哭泣。祷告者的诵诗充满了整个教堂。所有人都在为我一个人祈祷，时而呻吟时而呼号。我依然很平静的等待耶稣，等待等待——可是他没有来。我希望可以看见他，可是什么都没有发生。我希望有些事发生，可什么都没有变化。 我听见大主教说：“为什么你不来呢？我亲爱的孩子，为什么你不来到耶稣身边？他正等着你。他需要你。为什么你不来呢？里德修女，这个孩子叫什么名字？” “休斯顿。“我的阿姨啜泣着说。”休斯顿，你为什么不过来，得到救赎呢哦上帝的小羊羔啊，你为什么不过来呢？“现在天真的黑了。我开始惭愧，是自己把他们托得这么晚。我开始想上帝会怎么认为威斯特里。他当然也没有看见主，但现在正骄傲地坐在圣坛上，晃着灯笼裤的褪，露齿嘲笑我。周围围着一群跪着祈祷的老女人。上帝并没有因为他亵渎神灵或在教堂里撒谎而惩罚他。所以我决定也许为了省去更多的麻烦，我最好也撒谎，说耶稣已经来了，然后站起来，得到救赎。 于是我站了起来。 整个屋子突然成了欢呼的海洋，当她们看见我站起来时。欢呼声一阵接着一阵。女人们跳了起来。我的阿姨拥抱了我，大主教拉起我的手，把我牵到了主席台上。 当一切渐渐平息的时候，教堂安静了下来，只听见几声愉悦的阿门。所有的小羊羔们都得到了上帝的祝福。教堂里充满了欢悦的吟唱。 但那天晚上我却哭了。那是我一生倒数第二次哭泣，因为我已经是个12岁的大男孩了。我独自一人躺在床上，哭泣不已。担心里德阿姨会听到，我把头埋在被子下面。她还是醒了，告诉我的叔叔说：“我哭是因为神圣的上帝进入了我的生命，因为我看见了耶稣。但是我哭的真正原因是我羞于告诉她我撒谎了，我骗了教堂里所有人。我没有看见耶稣，我也不再相信有一个耶稣，因为他没有来拯救我。 第二课名字游戏 约翰·史密斯正朝我走过来。虽然他只是我的一个很平常的熟人，但按照美国人的问候习惯，我得说出那么几个字来（如：“你好！”或“早上好！”之类的话。）向他表示我的好意。然而，我该怎么叫他呢？叫他约翰？或是史密斯？或者史密斯医生？像这样的问题在平常，是不用思考的事情。 对于在美国土生土长讲美语的人来说，我们长大后，学会语法规则的同时也学会了称呼别人的规则。乍一想，我们会认为仔细去考察我们称呼的方式是一件不值得做的事情，然而正是这些称呼的方式揭示了我们对同一个语言社区的人们的主观看法。 首先，我们会用讲话者的年龄关系去判断使用的称呼是否合适。如果我们招呼的是个孩子，那么我们就可以毫无顾虑地忽略那些无意之中学来的规则，而简单地直呼其名（FN）。然而，孩子却要用“头衔+姓氏”的方式来招呼大人。
Lesson Thirteen Work 工作 究竟工作是幸福还是痛苦的源泉，这可能是一个难以回答的问题。 Whether work should be placed among the causes of happiness or among the causes of unhappiness may perhaps be regarded as a doubtful question. 毫无疑问有许多工作是非常令人厌烦的，而且过多的工作总是十分痛苦的事。 There is certainly much work which is exceedingly irksome, and an excess of work is always very painful. 然而我认为，只要不过量，对多数人来说即使是最枯燥的工作也比终日无所事事要好些。 I think, however, that, provided work is not excessive in amount, even the dullest work is to most people less painful than idleness. 工作给人的愉快的程度多种多样，从仅仅是消烦解闷到产生巨大的快乐，这会随工作的性质和工 作者的能力而异。 There are in work all grades, from mere relief of tedium up to the profoundest delights, according to the nature of the work and the abilities of the worker. 大多数人不得不从事的工作本身大都无乐趣可言，但即使是这样的工作也有一些很大的好处。Most of the work that most people have to do is not in itself interesting, but even such work has certain great advantages. 首先，工作可将一天的许多时间占满，人们不必再费神来决定应干些什么，大多数人在可以自由地按自己的愿望打发时间时，常常会不知所措，想不起有什么令人愉快的事值得去做。 To begin with, it fills a good many hours of the day without the need of deciding what one shall do. Most people, when they are left free to fill their own time according to their own choice, are at a loss to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing. 而他们的决定又总是受到干扰，觉得干别的什么事也许会更令人愉快。 And whatever they decide on, they are troubled by the feeling that something else would have been pleasanter. 能够有意义地利用闲暇时间是文明发展到最高阶段的结果，而目前很少有人能达到这一层次。To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. 何况作出选择本身就是件令人厌烦的事。 Moreover the exercise of choice is in itself tiresome. 除了那些具有非凡主动性的人，其他的人肯定有人乐于被告诉一天中的每时每刻该做什么， 当然命令他们做的事不能太令人厌烦。 Except to people with unusual initiative it is positively agreeable to be told what to do at each hour of the day, provided the orders are not too unpleasant. 多数无所事事的阔佬免遭从事单调乏味工作之苦，但代价是莫名其妙的无聊。 Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from drudgery. 有时他们去非洲猎取巨兽或环绕世界飞行来解闷，但这类刺激的数量有限，尤其到了中年以后更 是如此。 At times they may find relief by hunting big game in Africa, or by flying round the world, but the number of such sensations is limited, especially after youth is past. 因此较为明智的阔佬们工作起来几乎像穷人一样卖力，而有钱的女人则大多忙于她们自以为
关于希特勒入侵苏联的讲话 二十二日星期天早晨，我一醒来便接到了希特勒入侵苏联的消息。这就使原先意料中的事变成了无可怀疑的事实。我完全清楚我们对此应该承担何种义务，采取何种政策。我也完全清楚该如何就此事发表声明。尚待完成的只不过是将这一切形成文字而已。于是，我吩咐有关部门立即发表通告，我将于当晚九点钟发表广播讲话。不一会儿，匆匆从伦敦赶到的迪尔将军走进我的卧室，为我带来了详细情报。德国人已大规模入侵苏联，苏联空军部队有很大一部分飞机都没来得及起飞便遭到德军的突袭。德军目前似乎正以凌厉的攻势极为迅猛地向前推进。这位皇家军队总参谋长报告完毕后又补了一句，“我估计他们将会大批地被包围。” 一整天我都在写讲稿，根本没有时间去找战时内阁进行磋商，也没有必要这样做。我知道我们大家在这个问题上的立场是完全一致的。艾登先生、比弗布鲁克勋爵，还有斯塔福德?克里普斯爵士——他是十号离开莫斯科回国的——那天也同我在一 起。 那个周末值班的是我的私人秘书科维尔先生。由他执笔记述的下面这段关于那个星期天里切克 尔斯首相官邸发生的情况的文字，也许值得一提： “六月二十一日，星期六。晚饭前我来到切克尔斯首相官邸。怀南特夫妇、艾登夫妇和爱德华?布里奇斯等几位均在那儿。晚饭席上，邱吉尔先生说，德国人人侵苏联已是必然无疑的了。他认为希特勒是想指望博取英美两国的资本家和右冀势力的同情和支持。不过，希特勒的如意算盘打错了。 我们英国将会全力以赴援助苏联。维南特表示美国也会采取同样的态度。 晚饭后，当我同邱吉尔先生在槌球场上散步时，他又一次谈到了这一话题。我当时问他，对于他这个头号反共大将来说，这种态度是否意味着改变自己的政治立场。‘绝非如此。我现在的目标只有一个，即消灭希特勒。这使我的生活单纯多了。假使希特勒入侵地狱，我至少会在下议院替魔 鬼说几句好话的。’ 次日清晨四点钟，我被电话铃惊醒，原来是外交部来的电话，内容是报告德国已开始进攻俄国的消息。首相一向吩咐，只有当英国遭到入侵时才可以叫醒他。因此，我等到八点钟才向他报告这一消息。他听完消息后只说了一句话：‘通知英国广播电台，我今晚九点要发表广播讲话。’他从上午十一点开始撰写讲稿，中间除与斯塔福德．克里普斯爵士、克兰伯恩勋爵和比弗布鲁克勋爵共进午餐外，这一天的全部时间都花在写讲稿上了……讲稿直到九点差二十分才写好。” 在这次广播讲话中，我说道： “纳粹政体与共产主义的最糟糕之处毫无两样。除了贪欲和种族统治外，它没有任何指导思想和行动准则。它在残酷压迫和疯狂侵略过程中所犯下的滔天罪行在人类历史上可谓空前绝后。在过去的二十五年中，我比任何人都更坚定而始终如一地反对共产主义。过去对共产主义所作的批评我仍然一句也不想收回。但现在展现在我们面前的景象已经将那一切冲得烟消云散了。过去的一切，连同它的种种罪恶、蠢行和悲剧全都从眼前乍然消失。此刻我眼前看到的是俄国的士兵昂然挺立于自己的国土，英勇地捍卫着他们祖祖辈辈自古以来一直辛勤耕耘着的土地。我看到他们正在守卫着自己的家园，在那里母亲和妻子正在向上帝祈祷——是啊，任何人都总有祈祷的时候——祈求上帝保佑她们的亲人的平安，并保佑她们的壮劳力、她们的勇士和保护者凯旋归来。我看见成千上万的俄国村庄，那儿的人们虽然要靠在土地上辛勤耕作才能勉强维持生计，却依然能够享受到天伦之乐，那儿的姑娘在欢笑，儿童在嬉戏。我看到这一切正面临着凶暴的袭击，正杀气腾腾地扑向他们的是纳粹的战争机器同它的那些全副武装、刀剑当当有声、皮靴咚咚作响的普鲁士军官以及它的那些奸诈无比、刚刚帮它征服并奴役了十多个国家的帮凶爪牙。我还看到那些呆头呆脑、训练有素、既驯服听话又凶残野蛮的德国士兵像一群蝗虫般地向前蠕动着。我看见天空中那些屡遭英军痛击、余悸未消的德国轰炸机和战斗机此时正庆幸终于找到他们以为是无力反抗、可手到即擒的猎物。“在
1. What he did is always inconsistent with what he said, so on one will take him into confidence. 2. The preface to Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English was written by Randolph Quirk. 3. In his article he paid tribute to China’s great achiev ements. 4. Justice prevailed; the guilty man who had killed her father was punished. 5. He is a famous director, but he is always simply dressed, amiable and easy of approach, never using pretentious language in his talk. 6. The food is only so-so in that restaurant; the one redeeming feature is its fine service. 7. Jack said he felt drawn to this singer. 8. Though a bedridden invalid, she remains optimistic about life. 9. We should go ahead defying all difficulties. 10. When he heard the news, the smile faded from his face. 11. Mary intended to expand her article into a book. 12. The plane fully loaded with cargo and passengers took off on time. 13. They are facing unprecedented difficulties, and it is our indispensable duty to help them. 14. He and Jack in the same class for three years, and he took Jack into his confidence, telling him everything concerning his affairs. Lesson 9 1.He was born in a peasant family and grew up in an environment of poverty. 2.Don’t worry. The insurance company will remunerate you for your loss. 3.When people asked me why I would go to study abroad, I was hard put to answer the question. 4.Three people were cruelly killed last night, and the police are trying to ascertain the facts about the murder. 5.Ten years ago Jack made a meager 500 dollars a month. 6.Tom thought it profitable to be in the second-hand car business. Sometimes he bought an old car for 200 dollars, but with a turn of the wrist he could sell it for 400 dollars. 7.The police officer Hunter was on leave, but as soon as he was given the urgent task, he pitched in without the least hesitation. 8.After the death of Mr Johnson, his wife became the company’s president both in name and in reality. 9.His son has a poor physique and is prone to illness. 10.The ruffian dropped his gun and ran down the street, with two policemen in hot pursuit. 11.He gave in to our persuasion and acquiesced in Bill’s suggestion. 12.Mr Brown decided to endow the university where he had studied for four years. 13.Insufficiently trained workers are prone to turn out rejects. 14.She was hard put to find a solution to the domestic financial crisis.
Lesson Eleven On Getting off to Sleep谈睡眠 人真是充满矛盾啊! 毫无疑问，幽默是惟一帮助我们摆脱矛盾的办法，要是没有它，我们就会死于烦恼。 What a bundle of contradictions is a man! Surety, humour is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation. 在我看来，没有什么比睡眠更能说明事物间的矛盾。 With me, nothing illustrates the contrariness of things better than the matter of sleep. 比如，我打算写一篇文章，面前放好了笔、墨和几张白纸，准保没写几个字我就会困得要命，无论当时是几点都会那样。 If, for example, my intention is to write an essay, and 1 have before me ink and pens and several sheets of virgin paper, you may depend upon it that before I have gone very far I feel an overpowering desire for sleep, no matter what time of the day it is. 我瞪着那似乎在谴责我的白纸，直到眼前一片模糊，声音也难以辨清，只有靠意志力才能勉强坚持。 I stare at the reproachfully blank paper until sights and sounds become dim and confused, and it is only by an effort of will that I can continue at all. 即使这时，我也会迷迷糊糊地像在做梦一样继续坚持工作。 Even then, I proceed half-heartedly, in a kind of dream. 但是当深夜躺在床上，我什么事都能干，只有睡觉无法做到。 But let me be between the sheets at a late hour, and I can do any-thing but sleep. 随着时钟一遍一遍的报时，我可以完成大量的文章。 Between chime and chime of the clock I can write essays by the score. 极有吸引力的主题和崇高的思想纷纷出现在脑海，随之而来的还有恰如其分的意象和措辞。Fascinating subjects and noble ideas come pell-mell, each with its appropriate imagery and expression. 除了笔、墨和纸，什么也不能阻止我写出半打不朽的杰作。 Nothing stands between me and half-a-dozen imperishable masterpieces but pens, ink, and paper. 如果，我们的思想和主观意象对于来世的人来说真的就像我们的书本和图片一样是有形的、摸得着的，那么我在来世会比在今生获得更高的声誉。 If it be true that our thoughts and mental images are perfectly tangible things, like our books and pictures, to the inhabitants of the next world, then I am making for myself a better reputation there than I am in this place. 只要我躺在床上有一两个小时睡不着觉，我就能令自己满意地解决人类一切的疑虑。 Give me a restless hour or two in bed and I can solve, to my own satisfaction, all the doubts of humanity. 如果我有兴致的话，我可以谱写出宏伟的交响乐，描绘出壮丽的画卷。 When I am in the humour I can compose grand symphonies, and paint magnificent pictures. 我就是莎士比亚、贝多芬和米开朗基罗。但这一切仍无法令我满意，因为我还是无法入睡。
1 Rock music began in America in the late 1950’s . It was not only a new musical form , but a forum for the American youth to express their ideas of the world and life . In this forum , the stars sang out the attitudes of the youth towards civil rights , war and peace ,the disaffection of their society , and a range of emotions between love and hate . Allin all , in this forum , the American youth redefined the beliefs and feelings of their society . The typical representatives of the early rock music were Elvis Presley , singer and poet Bob Dylan , the Bealtles , the rolling Stones and so on . They were the culture heroes whom the young people worshipped . 2 The American young people in 1960’s were a generation of rebellion . They found that the affluent American society was filled with poverty , injustice and gypocrisy . They didn’t trust the adult world that didn’t belong to them and refused to take their beliefs and values . Many young people took active part in the struggle which protested against poverty , racial discrimination and Vietnam War . Some young people even tried to overthrow this world by armed revolution. Many other young took passive ways to show their disaffections . They took drugs , refused to take any responsibilities and lived a parasitic way of life . Or they escaped to the frontiers and lived a primitive way of life . 3 Mathilda had been ill for three days . Her mother had given her some medicine, but it did n’t do any good . So they had to ask the doctor to come . There had been a number of cases of diphtheria in Mathilda’s school and two of them had been dead . When the doctor arrived at Olson’s home , he wanted to examine Mthilda’s throat first . But no mat ter how he coaxed ,,She wouldn’t open her mouth . So the doctor had to get the tongue depressor into her mouth . But Mathilda reduced it to splinters . In order to protect Mathilda herself and other children , the doctor had to make sure
Lesson Thirteen Work工作 究竟工作是幸福还是痛苦的源泉，这可能是一个难以回答的问题。 Whether work should be placed among the causes of happiness or among the causes of unhappiness may perhaps be regarded as a doubtful question. 毫无疑问有许多工作是非常令人厌烦的，而且过多的工作总是十分痛苦的事。 There is certainly much work which is exceedingly irksome, and an excess of work is always very painful. 然而我认为，只要不过量，对多数人来说即使是最枯燥的工作也比终日无所事事要好些。 I think, however, that, provided work is not excessive in amount, even the dullest work is to most people less painful than idleness. 工作给人的愉快的程度多种多样，从仅仅是消烦解闷到产生巨大的快乐，这会随工作的性质和工作者的能力而异。 There are in work all grades, from mere relief of tedium up to the profoundest delights, according to the nature of the work and the abilities of the worker. 大多数人不得不从事的工作本身大都无乐趣可言，但即使是这样的工作也有一些很大的好处。 Most of the work that most people have to do is not in itself interesting, but even such work has certain great advantages. 首先，工作可将一天的许多时间占满，人们不必再费神来决定应干些什么，大多数人在可以自由地按自己的愿望打发时间时，常常会不知所措，想不起有什么令人愉快的事值得去做。To begin with, it fills a good many hours of the day without the need of deciding what one shall do. Most people, when they are left free to fill their own time according to their own choice, are at a loss to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing. 而他们的决定又总是受到干扰，觉得干别的什么事也许会更令人愉快。
坤塔娜 坤塔娜这一周要满11岁了。她迈入青少年期的过程我只能用神气自信来形容，看着她从襁褓里一路成长，就像看棒球手桑迪·考法克斯投球或是比尔·拉赛尔打篮球那样精彩。他们身上都有着一股不经意的傲气，觉得没有人能够做的比他们更好。然而，对于一个父亲来说，看着女儿一天天成长却不是件容易的事。每一次生日她都变得越来越像我们，一个大人，而我们却还沉浸于她孩提时的记忆。我记得第一次看见她是在圣约翰医院的育儿室。探望时间已经过了，我和妻子站在玻璃隔音墙外张望着，猜想摇篮里的孩子们哪一个是我们的。随后，一个带着口罩的护士从后面的房间出来，手里抱着一个正在张牙舞爪的头上绑着蝴蝶结的黑发婴儿。她才刚出生不到十七个小时，脸上的褶子还没打开、红扑扑的，手腕上的身份证明印的不是我们的名字，而是两个字母“NI”。“NI”代表着“信息不详”，是医院给准备被领养的婴儿的代码。昆塔娜是领养的。 对于我们来说，说出这几个字/公开这一点并不困难，尽管会引来尽管用意善良却让人不爽的赞美之辞。“就算她是你们亲生的，你们也不可能更爱她了。”每当这种时候，我和妻子都沉默不语，勉强从齿缝里挤出一点微笑。然而，我们并不是没有意识到，在不远的将来，我们将会面临只有我们这些养父母才会面临的时刻——我们的女儿要决定是否去寻找她的亲生父母。 我记得在我成长的那个年代，不少广播剧是围绕领养展开的。通常剧情都起因于一个孩子意外得知了自己是被领养的。这些消息只能是意外得知，因为在那些日子里，父母告诉子女他们不是自己的亲生骨肉都被认为是有悖伦常的。
如果这个秘密不得不被泄露，通常都会加上一些似是而非的附加情节，如当孩子还在襁褓时，他的亲生父母就已双亡。一场车祸也被认为是送走双亲最迅速有效的方式。我的一个同龄人，当时是一名年轻的女演员，直到二十二岁成为她生父小笔遗产继承人时才得知自己是被收养的。她的养母无法亲口告诉她遗产的来历，便把这个任务托付给了威廉姆·毛利事务所来完成。 如今，我们对此比以前开明了，心理学也证明了这样一味地隐瞒真相只会带来伤害。当坤塔娜出生时，她是被接生她的妇产科医生私下交给我们的。在加州，这样的私下收养不仅合法，在六十年代中期甚至非常普遍。因为当时堕胎尚未合法化，性解放也未开始，人们还无法接受一个未婚母亲抚养自己的孩子。那天晚上，我们第一次去圣约翰医院看坤塔娜时，我们之间有一个默契：“信息不详”只是一个手链。对于同意如此开诚布公地对待坤塔娜的身世我们感到很自豪，但那纯粹是因为当时我们得知的唯一信息只是她妈妈的年龄，籍贯和健康证明。我们没有想到的是，办事过程中的一个疏忽我们会知道她妈妈的名字，因为同样的疏忽，她也会知道我们的和坤塔娜的。 从我们把坤塔娜从医院抱回家的那天起，我们就努力不对她含糊其辞。她还很小的时候，我们经常雇讲西班牙语的保姆。她最初学的一些词中，有一个就是“领养”，尽管她还不懂这个词的意思。随着她慢慢长大，她开始不知疲惫地问我们为什么我们收养的是她。我们告诉她我们去医院时，医院允许我们选育儿室里的任何一个小孩。“不，不是这个，”我们说：“不是这个，也不是这个。”这些话都伴随着手势，直到：“就是这个！”她脸上会突然一亮，说：“坤塔娜。”每当她问一个关于领养她的问题，我们就回答一个，除非她问起，我们不会主动提起。我们明白随着她长大，她的问题会变得越来越尖锐，越来越复杂。我
Unit 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English 人类的一切活动中，只有闲谈最宜于增进友谊，而且是人类特有的一种活动。动物之间的信息交流，不论其方式何等复杂，也是称不上交谈的。 闲谈的引人人胜之处就在于它没有一个事先定好的话题。它时而迂回流淌，时而奔腾起伏，时而火花四射，时而热情洋溢，话题最终会扯到什么地方去谁也拿不准。要是有人觉得“有些话要说”，那定会大煞风景，使闲聊无趣。闲聊不是为了进行争论。闲聊中常常会有争论，不过其目的并不是为了说服对方。闲聊之中是不存在什么输赢胜负的。事实上，真正善于闲聊的人往往是随时准备让步的。也许他们偶然间会觉得该把自己最得意的奇闻轶事选出一件插进来讲一讲，但一转眼大家已谈到别处去了，插话的机会随之而失，他们也就听之任之。 或许是由于我从小混迹于英国小酒馆的缘故吧，我觉得酒瞎里的闲聊别有韵味。酒馆里的朋友对别人的生活毫无了解，他们只是临时凑到一起来的，彼此并无深交。他们之中也许有人面临婚因破裂，或恋爱失败，或碰到别的什么不顺心的事儿，但别人根本不管这些。他们就像大仲马笔下的三个火枪手一样，虽然日夕相处，却从不过问彼此的私事，也不去揣摸别人内心的秘密。 有一天晚上的情形正是这样。人们正漫无边际地东扯西拉，从最普通的凡人俗事谈到有关木星的科学趣闻。谈了半天也没有一个中心话题，事实上也不需要有一个中心话题。可突然间大伙儿的话题都集中到了一处，中心话题奇迹般地出现了。我记不起她那句话是在什么情况下说出来的——她显然不是预先想好把那句话带到酒馆里来说的，那也不是什么非说不可的要紧话——我只知道她那句话是随着大伙儿的话题十分自然地脱口而出的。 “几天前，我听到一个人说‘标准英语’这个词语是带贬义的批评用语，指的是人们应该尽量避免使用的英语。” 此语一出，谈话立即热烈起来。有人赞成，也有人怒斥，还有人则不以为然。最后，当然少不了要像处理所有这种场合下的意见分歧一样，由大家说定次日一早去查证一下。于是，问题便解决了。不过，酒馆闲聊并不需要解决什么问题，大伙儿仍旧可以糊里糊涂地继续闲扯下去。 告诉她“标准英语”应作那种解释的原来是个澳大利亚人。得悉此情，有些人便说起刻薄话来了，说什么囚犯的子孙这样说倒也不足为怪。这样，在五分钟内，大家便像到澳大利亚游览了一趟。在那样的社会里，“标准英语”自然是不受欢迎的。每当上流社会想给“规范英语”制订一些条条框框时，总会遭到下层人民的抵制。 看看撒克逊农民与征服他们的诺曼底统治者之间的语言隔阂吧。于是话题又从19世纪的澳大利亚囚犯转到12世纪的英国农民。谁对谁错，并没有关系。闲聊依旧热火朝天。 有人举出了一个人所共知，但仍值得提出来发人深思的例子。我们谈到饭桌上的肉食时用法语词，而谈到提供这些肉食的牲畜时则用盎格鲁一撒克逊词。猪圈里的活猪叫pig，饭桌上吃的猪肉便成了pork(来自法语pore)；地里放牧着的牛叫cattle，席上吃的牛肉则叫beef(来自法语boeuf)；Chicken用作肉食时变成poultry(来自法语poulet)；calf加工成肉则变成veal(来自法语vcau)。即便我们的菜单没有为了装洋耍派头而写成法语，我们所用的英语仍然是诺曼底式的英语。这一切向我们昭示了诺曼底人征服之后英国文化上所存在的深刻的阶级裂痕。 撒克逊农民种地养畜，自己出产的肉自己却吃不起，全都送上了诺曼底人的餐桌。农民们只能吃到在地里乱窜的兔子。兔子肉因为便宜，诺曼底贵族自然不屑去吃它。因此，活兔子和吃的兔子肉共用rabbit 这个词表示，而没有换成由法语lapin转化而来的某个词。 当我们今天听着有关双语教育问题的争论时，我们应该设身处地替当时的撒克逊农民想一想，新的统治阶级把法语用来对抗撒克逊农民自己的语言，从而在农民周围筑起一道文化障碍。当英国人在像觉醒者赫里沃德这样的撒克逊领袖领导下起来造反时，他们一定深深地感受到了文化上的屈辱。“标准英语”——如果那时候有这个名词的话——已经变成法语。而九百年后我们在美国这儿仍然继承了这种影响。 那晚闲聊过后，第二天一早便有人去查阅了资料。这个名词在16世纪已有人使用过。纳什作于1593年的《截获信函奇闻》中就有过“标准英语”(Queen’s English)的提法。1602年德克写到某人时有句话说：
Lesson One 1.This picture brings back many pleasant memories of her Spanish holiday. 2.News and weather forecasts reports are staples of radio programmes. 3.By mere accident Tom met in a bar his long-lost brother who was thought to have been killed in action during the war. 4.Bill intuited something criminal in their plan. 5.They think that obsessive tidiness in factory is a bad sign . 6.Yesterday his mother sold several years’ worth of paper and magazines. 7.His heartening speech impelled us to (work with) greater efforts. 8.Those who enjoy pulling off a miracle often fail. 9.As language students we should have a sense of nuances of plain words and expressions. 10.The rude behavior of Mrs. Taylor’s ado pted son is driving her into a nervous breakdown. 11.I like to see films in general, and American Western and horrors in particular. 12.In some sense Mary saw in her aunt a surrogate of her mother. 13.My father never equivocated, and he always gave some brief but poignant opinions. 14.Though he disabled, he never tries of helping people. 15.In any country, those who are remiss in their duty must be severely punished. 16.Awareness of the fact that the child was in danger impelled the policeman to action. Lesson 2 1. A. The chances are that they will be held up by traffic on their way to the airport. B. the plane takes off at 6:35. It would be a pity if they couldn’t make it. 2.Another popular notion which is in fact a misconception is that expensive clothes invariably raise one’s status. 3.Can you imagine what kind of life a man has lived who aspires to excellence and abhors mediocrity? 4. A copy of our latest product catalogue will be sent free of charge if you will fill up the form on the reverse of this card and post it. 5.It will be an absurdity, if not a catastrophe. If half of the population of this city abandons their posts and goes in for business. 6.Because they want their kids to be somebodies, some well-intentioned parents exercise enormous pressures on their children and the results all too often prove the reverse. 7.The revered professor predicted that these brilliant young people would surely make their way in the scientific-technical realm in a few years. 8.Many writers have quitted writing stories because, as they say there is no market for them. Yet Lessing sticks and she would go on even if there really wasn’t any home for them but a private drawer. 9.Satire under his pen is only a means to an end, a form to expose social evils. 10.It seemed no body at the party, not even the reporters, made special note of the general’s absence which might have aroused the suspicion of his rivals.