Unit4词汇及翻译

新译林版高中英语选修三Unit4课文翻译1.ReadingHeritage in danger处境危险的遗产Welcome, everybody. It's wonderful to be here. Before we begin, I want to ask you: have you ever been awed by natural wonders? Have you ever been fascinated by human civilization? If so, you might already understand why UNESCO is fighting to preserve sites of cultural and natural importance to mankind. I have the beljef that some of you have heard about UNESCO heritage sites or maybe even visited one! There are currently around 1,100 sites in more than 160 countries worldwide. Unfortunately, they face a variety of dangers and many of them are in urgent need of protection. Let's look at some specific issues.欢迎大家。

很高兴来到这里。

在我们开始之前，我想问你：你曾经对自然奇观感到敬畏吗?你曾经为人类文明而着迷吗?如果是这样，你可能已经明白为什么联合国教科文组织要努力保护对人类具有重要意义的文化和自然遗迹。

我相信你们中的一些人听说过联合国教科文组织的遗产地，或者甚至去过一个!目前，该公司在全球160 多个国家拥有约1100个站点。

（完整版）Unit4CulturalEncounters课文翻译综合教程二Unit 4 Cultural EncountersSusan BassnettWe live in an age of easy access to the rest of the world. Cheap flights mean that millions of people are able to visit places their parents could only dream about, while the Internet enables us to communicate with the remotest places and the traditional postal services are now referred to almost mockingly as "snail mail." When students go off back-packing, they can email their parents from Internet cafes in the Himalayas or from a desert oasis. And as for mobile phones — the clicking of text messaging at any hour of the day or night has become familiar to us all. Everyone, it seems, provided, of course, they can afford to do so, need never be out of touch.Significantly also, this great global communications revolution is also linked to the expansion of English, which has now become the leading international language. Conferences and business meetings around the globe are held in English, regardless of whether anyone present is a native English speaker. English has simply become the language that facilitates communication, and for many people learning English is an essential stepping stone on the road to success.So why, you may wonder, would anyone have misgivings about all these wonderful developments, and why does the rise of English as a global language cause feelings of uneasiness for some of us? For there are indeed problems with the communications revolution, problems that are not only economic. Most fundamental is the profound relationship between language and culture that lies at the heart of societyand one that we overlook at our peril.Different cultures are not simply groups of people who label the world differently; languages give us the means to shape our views of the world and languages are different from one another. We express what we see and feel through language, and because languages are so clearly culture-related, often we find that what we can say in one language cannot be expressed at all in another. The English word "homesickness" translates into Italian as "nostalgia," but English has had to borrow that same word to describe a different state of mind, something that is not quite homesickness and involves a kind of longing. Homesickness and nostalgia put together are almost, but not quite, the Portuguese "saudade," an untranslatable word that describes a state of mind that is not despair, angst (English borrowed that from German), sadness or regret, but hovers somewhere in and around all those words.The early Bible translators hit the problem of untranslatability head-on. How do you translate the image of the Lamb of God for a culture in which sheep do not exist? What exactly was the fruit that Eve picked in the Garden of Eden? What was the creature that swallowed Jonah, given that whales are not given to swimming in warm, southern seas? Faced with unsurmountable linguistic problems, translators negotiated the boundaries between languages and came up with a compromise.Compromising is something that speakers of more than one language understand. When there are no words in another language for what you want to say, you make adjustments and try to approximate. English and Welsh speakers make adjustments regarding the colour spectrum in the grey / green / blue / brown range, since English has four words and Welsh hasthree. And even where words do exist, compromises still need to be made. The word "democracy" means completely different things in different contexts, and even a word like "bread" which refers to a staple food item made of flour means totally different things to different people. The flat breads of Central Asia are a long way away from Mother's Pride white sliced toasties, yet the word "bread" has to serve for both.Inevitably, the spread of English means that millions of people are adding another language to their own and are learning how to negotiate cultural and linguistic differences. This is an essential skill in today's hybrid world, particularly now when the need for international understanding has rarely been so important. But even as more people become multilingual, so native English speakers are losing out, for they are becoming ever more monolingual, and hence increasingly unaware of the differences between cultures that languages reveal. Communicating in another language involves not only linguistic skills, but the ability to think differently, to enter into another culture's mentality and shape language accordingly. Millions of people are discovering how to bridge cultures, while the English-speaking world becomes ever more complacent and cuts down on foreign language learning programmes in the mistaken belief that it is enough to know English.World peace in the future depends on intercultural understanding. Those best placed to help that process may not be the ones with the latest technology and state of the art mobile phones, but those with the skills to understand what lies in, under and beyond the words spoken in many different languages.文化冲突我们生活在一个交流非常便捷的时代。

Section B ReadingsPassage 1Hyperactivity Disorder多动症Symptoms and Signs1 For over 50 years physicians have been evaluating and treating children who show various combinations of motoric overactivity, impulsivity, distractibility, and inattentiveness. During that time, the terminology describing these children has changed, reflecting the shifting ideas about etiology and about the relationship of the symptoms of overactivity to the symptoms of inattentiveness. Called at different times minimal brain damage, minimal brain dysfunction, hyperactive child syndrome, hyperactive reaction of childhood, and attention-deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity, the syndrome is now known as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In DSM-IV, ADHD is divided into three subtypes：a combined type (most frequent), a pre- dominantly inattentive type, and a predominantly hyperactive-impulsive type. This most recent diagnostic terminology reflects current thinking about the possible heterogeneity of this disorder.症状和体征1 内科医生们一直在进行着对一类孩子长达五十多年的诊断和治疗，这些孩子都体现出了一种或几种如下特点，即：肢体运动过于活跃，性格易冲动，注意力涣散，和粗心大意。

Unit 4 Meeting the MuseUnderstanding ideasWhat inspires you?Every artist’s wish is to create something that expresses an idea. But where do artists get their ideas from? Who or what inspires them? Here we find out more about the influences behind the successes of three very different artists.express v. 表达n.expression influences n./v. 影响（力）adj. influentialinspire v. 激励，启发n. inspiration find out 查明，弄清你的灵感从哪儿来？每位艺术家都希望创作出能表达自己理念的作品。

但艺术家们的这些理念从何而来？是谁，抑或是什么启发了他们？下面，我们进一步发掘了三位截然不同的艺术家成功背后的因素。

Florentijn Hofman, visual artist①Florentijn Hofman is a Dutch artist, whose large sculptures are on display all over the world.One way for him to find inspiration is turning to his children’s toys. These objects have given him ideas for his animal sculptures, such as the famous Rubber Duck. A more recent work of his is the huge Floating Fish, which was set among the beautiful landscape of Wuzhen West Scenic Zone.②Hofman’s inspiration for Floating Fish came from Chinese folk tales passed down through thegenerations. He was particularly interested in the old story about a fish jumping through the “Dragon Gate”. This story came to life for Hofman when he visited Wuzhen and saw how people lived there.③“During the walk and my stay here in the town, I saw the fish being fed by people. You see alsosome fish sculpted on the wall.” These sights set Hofman’s idea for Floating Fish in motion.visual 视觉的turn to 求助于，转向sculpture n.雕像，雕塑品on display展出，陈列inspiration 灵感，鼓励folk tales民间故事set… in motion使…开始pass…down through generations把某物世代相传float漂浮being fed by people 在句子中作定语成分,修饰fishsculpted on the wall在句子中作定语_成分,修饰fish弗洛伦泰因·霍夫曼，视觉艺术家①弗洛伦泰因·霍夫曼是一位荷兰艺术家，他创作的大型雕塑在世界各地进行展出。

人教版高一英语必修一unit4课文翻译和知识点详解Unit 4 EarthquakeA night the earth didn’t sleepStrange things were happening in the countryside in northeast Hebei. For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks （n. 裂缝）in them. A smelly gas came out of the cracks. In the farm-yards, the chickens and even the pigs were too nervous to（太。

而不能）eat. Mice（mouse的复数）ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out of bowls and ponds. At about 3:00 am on July 28, 1976, people saw bright lights in the sky. The sound of planes could be heard outside Tangshan even when no planes were in the sky. In the city, the water pipes in some buildings cracked and burst. But the one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, went to bed as usual（像往常一样）that night.At 3:42 am everything began to shake. It seemed as if the world was at an end! Eleven kilometers directly below the city the greatest earthquakes of the 20th century had began. It was felt in Beijing, which is more than 2 hundredkilometers away. One - third of the nation felt it. A huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and canals. Steam burst from holes in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. The suffering of the people was extreme. Two-thirds of them died or were injured during the earthquake. Thousands of families were killed and many children were left without parents. The number of people who were killed or seriously injured reached more than 400,000.But how could the survivors believe it was natural? Everywhere they looked nearly everything was destroyed. All of the city’s hospitals, 75% of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were gone. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves. No wind, however, could blow them away. Two dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were not safe for traveling. The railway tracks were now useless piece of steel. Tens of thousands of cows would never give milk again. Half a million pigs and millions of chickens were dead. Sand now filled the wells instead of(代替，取代) water. People were shocked. Then,。

Unit-4-文章翻译Unit 4 Imagination and Creativity Einstein’s achievement s were so astonishing that it is sometimes tempting to view him almost as a creature from another planet rather than as an ordinary human being. Yet in certain ways he can be seen as a child of his time.爱因斯坦的成就令人无比惊讶，以至有时人们几乎想把他看成是外星人，而不是普通的地球上的人。

然而，在某些方面他可被看成是他那个时代的产儿。

Was Einstein a space Alien?爱因斯坦是外星人吗？Tony PhillipsAlbert Einstein was exhausted. For the third night in a row, his baby son Hans, crying, kept the household awake until dawn. When Albert finally dozed off… it was time to get up and go to work. He couldn’t skin a day. He needed the job to support his young family.阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦精疲力竭。

他幼小的儿子汉斯连续三个晚上哭闹不停，弄得全家人直到天亮都没法入睡。

阿尔伯特总算可以打个瞌睡时，已是他起床上班的时候了。

他不能一天不上班，他需要这份工作来养活组建不久的家庭。

Walking briskly to the Patent Office, where he was a “Technical Expert, Third Class,”Albert worried about his mother. She was getting older and frail, and she didn’t approve of his marriage to Mileva. Relations were strained. Albert glanced at a passing shop window. His hair was a mess; he had forgotten to comb it again.阿尔伯特是专利局三等技术专家。

unit4 Problems and Advice【词汇讲解】1.（be) on a diet 节食我们都不应该为了减肥而节食。

2.regret v. 懊悔同义词regret doing sth 后悔/内疚做过某事regret to do sth 遗憾地去做某事I now regret school so young. 我现在后悔如此年轻就离开学校了。

I regret you that you can't pass the examination.我很遗憾地告诉你，你没有通过考试。

see sb. doing sth. 看到某人正在做某事see sb. do sth 看到某人做过（经常做）某事我看见小偷进来了。

我经过那个公园时，我看见一个小女孩在哭。

3.though 虽然, 尽管= althoughthough放在句首或句中，不能与but连用尽管数学很难，但是他一直都很努力。

4.feel ashamed of sth 对……感到惭愧我对我跟他说的东西感到惭愧。

5.drive sb. mad 让某人受不了他说的话让我受不了。

6.mess n. 杂乱；不整洁messy adj.杂乱的；不整洁的make a mess 搞得一塌糊涂The house was a _____________. The house was _____________.When I got home, the house was _______________. 当我到家时，房子被搞得一塌糊涂。

7.annoying adj. 令人恼怒\生气的annoyed adj. 感到恼怒\气恼的annoy v. 使生气, 惹恼类似构词：interest interesting interestedsurprise surprising surprisedfrighten frightening frightenedexcite exciting excited8.out of place 格格不入在她的生日聚会上，我觉得格格不入。