综合教程_4（第二版）主编:何兆熊; 上外;
课后翻译
Unit 1
1.I had arranged for them to meet each other at the pub but the young man never turned up.
我安排他们在小酒吧见面，但那个小伙子一直都没有来。（turn up）
2.You cannot tell merely from appearance whether things will turn out unfavorable to us or not.
你无法仅凭表象判断形势是否会变得对我们不利。（tell from appearance）
3.The soldier, who stood in the gap in every battle, gained the highest honors of the country.
那个士兵每次打仗都冲锋在前，从而赢得了国家最高的荣誉。（stand in the gap）4.Tha chairman spoke so forcefully that the rest of the committee yielded to his opinions.
主席讲话很有说服力，委员会其他成员都听从他的意见。（yield to）
5.They are well-to-do now, but along the way they had their ups and downs.
他们现在生活富裕了，但也曾经历坎坷。（ups and downs）
6.There are two questions to which I will address myself in this lecture.
这次演讲我将说明两个问题。（address oneself to）
7.We are planning a big Christmas party in your honour.
我们正筹划为你举办一次盛大的圣诞聚会。（in somebody’s honour）
8.Hearing that tune threw my mind back to my childhood.
听到那个曲子，我回想起了儿童时代。（throw one’s mind back）
Unit 2
1.The pigeon was wedged in the fork of a branch but fell off after a while.
那只鸽子被卡在树杈里，不一会儿就跌落下来。（wedge sth. / sb. in）
2.The payment that the motorist will have to make will be proportional to the amount of damage he has done to the other person’s car.
驾车人该付多少钱需要根据他对别人车子造成损坏的程度而定。（be proportional to）
3.You can only enter the cave by inching through a narrow tunnel on your stomach.
你只有伏在地上慢慢爬过一条狭长的地道才能进入山洞。（inch）
4.She stammered some apology as she sidled towards the door.
她一面结结巴巴地说着道歉的话，一面羞怯地朝门口走去。（sidle）
5.He took pains to explain to me t hat I was being dismissed not because I didn’t do my work well but because the company could not pay my wages.
他尽力向我解释说不是因为我的工作不好而解雇我，而是因为公司支付不了我的工资。（take pains to）
6.The enlistment of young soldiers infused new hope and morale into the army.
年轻士兵的入伍给军队带来了新的希望并鼓舞了士气。（infuse into）
7.Once the older boys stake a claim to the lawn, no other boys dare go on it.
一旦大一些的男孩子们声称草坪属于他们，别的孩子就不敢去玩了。（stake a claim to）
8.The man following her made her uneasy and she couldn’t help quickening her steps.跟在她身后的人让她心神不安，她不由得加快了脚步。（make sb. uneasy）
Unit 3
1.There’s no denying that smoking is addictive. And once you are addicted to it, it’s very difficult to get rid of the habit.
无可否认，香烟会使人上瘾。而一旦你上了瘾，就很难戒除这个习惯了。（addict）2.In a Japanese-made video game, players can simulate the experience of AIDS from HIV infection until death.
在日本人生产的一种电子游戏中，玩游戏的人可以模拟艾滋病患者从染上艾滋病毒直到死亡的经历。（simulate）
3.I’m sure he was in earnest when he said that you could use this money to continue your study of music.
我肯定，他说你可以用这笔钱继续学习音乐是认真的。（in earnest）
4.We can only increase production at the expense of quality, which could ruin the company’s reputation.
我们只能以牺牲质量为代价来提高生产效率，但这可能会损害公司的声誉。（at the expense of）
5.The explorers were confronted with an insurmountable valley.
探险者遇到了几乎难以逾越的峡谷。（confront with）
6.A teacher if foreign language should posses at the very last a graduate degree from a certified education university or institute if he is to teach in high school.
一名外语教师如果要在中学任教，他最起码要持有正规教育院校颁发的学位证书。（at the very last）
7.I soon perceived that I couldn’t make him cha nge his mind.
我很快觉察到我无法使他改变想法。（perceive）
Unit 4
1.Their cattle were branded with the letter C.
他们的牛都打上了字母C的烙印。（be branded with）
2.In the season Brooks has really come into his own as a goal scorer.
（come into one’s own）本赛季Brooks真正发挥了一个得分手（goal scorer）的作用。
3.An economic crisis is hanging over that country.
一场经济危机正在威胁着那个国家。（hang over）
4.He is the man who really gives the order, but he always remains in the background. 他是真正发号施令的任务，但他总是躲在幕后。（in the background）
5.After dispatching the messager, what is left for us to do is nothing but to wait.
排除信使后，我们所能做的就只有等待了。（dispatch）
6.You just have to call and he’s here in a flash.
你只要一叫，他马上就到。（in a flash）
7.They have lived in the shadow of war for totally seventeen years.
他们在战争的阴霾下整整生活了17年。（in the shadow of）
8.These are the last seven Northeast Tigers in existence. If human beings failed to protect them, the tigers of this species would face extinction.
这些事现存的最后7头东北虎，如果人类不加以保护的话，这一群种的老虎将濒临灭亡。（in existence）
Unit 5
1. Your remarks do make sense, but your way of expression borders on rudeness.（border on）
2.Any unemployed person counts as deserving government help.
失业人员都应该得到政府的帮助。（count as）
3.On the whole I am quite satisfied with the experiment.
总的来说，我对这项实验是相当满意的。（on the whole）
4.A person’s appearance makes a difference in how others judge him.
一个人的外表会影响别人对他的看法。（make a difference）
5.Advertising tends to portray women in very traditional roles.
广告倾向于把妇女描绘成非常传统的角色。（portray）
6.Having inherited a considerable wealth, the twin sisters were eager to show off their jewelry.
刚刚继承了一大笔遗产的孪生姐妹急不可耐地炫耀她们的珠宝首饰。（show off）7.Public interest has once again shifted focus to the changes in the
urban environment.
公共关注的中心再次转移到了城市环境的变化问题。（shift focus）
8. The new type of trains can run smoothly at the speed of about 500 kilometers per hour; in contrast, the older ones are clumsy and slow.（in contrast）
Unit 6
1.The hall resonated with the music of the trumpet solo.
大厅里回想着小号独奏的乐曲声。( resonate with)
2.In my mind’s eye, I saw the pale face of the mother at the news of her son’s death.
我想象得出母亲在听到儿子的死讯时那张苍白的脸。（in one’s mind’s eye）
3.His way of walking reminds me of the way his father used to walk.
他走路的样子使我想起他父亲也是这样走路的。（remind of）
4.I mixed the dates up and arrived on a wrong day.
我把日期搞错了，所以到达的日期不对了。（mix up）
5.When she learned that her daughter was accepted by Oxford University, pride swelled in her heart.
听到女儿被牛津大学录取，她心中充满了自豪。（swell）
6.Theoretically speaking, all the citizens should have direct access to information without waiting for being filtered by the government or the media.
从理论上说，全体公民都有权直接获取信息，而不必等候政府或媒体的过滤。（have access to）
7.In this presidential election, the Democratic Party launched a campaign to win the support of the female voters.
在此次总统选举中，民主党发动了一场拉拢女性选民的活动。（launch）
8.After he inherited his father’s estate, he was immer sed in all kinds of pleasure.
他继承父亲的产业后，便沉溺于声色犬马之中。（be immersed in）
Unit 7
1.For the sake of your family, you should look before you leap and not venture so much.
为了你的家庭，你要三思而后行，不要冒那么多的险。（for the sake of）
2.I felt somewhat out of sorts because of last ni ght’s heavy drink.
昨晚喝了太多的酒，我感到有点不太舒服。（out of sorts）
3.His father pulled endless wires and helped him find a position in an overstaffed government department.
他的父亲找了无数的门路，帮他在一个已经臃肿不堪的政府机构找到一个位置。（pull wires）
4.If you go through his letter carefully, you can find his real intention between his lines.
如果你仔细读这封信，就会在字里行间发现他的真正用意。（between the lines）5.I knew I was downright rude to him, but I found enough excuse for myself.
我知道我对他真是无礼透顶，但我为自己找了各种理由。（downright）
6.Many of the outstanding figures of the past were exceptionally versatile. Leonardo da Vinci, for instance, was a paiter and inventor, rolled into one.
过去杰出的任务有许多事出类拔萃的多面手，像达芬奇就集画家与发明家于一身。（roll into one）
7.He finally committed suicide after being under the torment of insomnia for many years.
在多年遭受失眠的折磨之后，他终于自杀了。（under the torment of）
8.He was struck dumb with shock.
他惊讶得说不出话来。（be struck dumb with）
Unit 8
1.Search lights fingered across the black water.
探照灯光在黑漆漆的水面上纵横交错。（finger across）
2.Since a robbery happened in this building, the night watchman became more careful and made his rounds once every hour.
自从这座大厦发生了一起抢劫案之后，守夜人就更加小心了，他每小时都要巡视一次。（make one’s rounds）
3.He stuck to his plan, though there was nothing left to prop him up.
他坚持着自己的计划，虽然已经没有任何支持他的力量了。（prop up）
4.He is paid by the police to spy on the activities of the terrorists.
他被警方收买，暗中监视恐怖分子的活动。（spy on）
5.In time they will come to accept the harsh reality.
总有一天他们会接受这个残酷的现实的。（in time）
6.That man’s behavior looks very suspicious. He is pretending to sleep, but now and then he steals a furtive glance at the passers-by.
那个人的行动非常可疑。他在假装睡觉，可是又不失地偷看过往的行人。（furtive）7.The social and economic changes that have taken place in this country are so sweeping that it has dwarfed all its neighbors.
这个国家近几年发证的社会、经济变化如此彻底，使所有邻国相形见绌。（dwarf）8.In the dim light of the daybreak, I saw a dark shape looming athwart the door.
在拂晓前昏暗的光线中骂我看到一个黑影挡在门口。（athwart）
Unit 9
1. .With the development of economy large numbers of farmers flooded from the countryside into cities to seek a job.
2. Young as he is, all judges share the opinion that his performance at the international piano competition has come close to perfection.
3. Perhaps because of the spirits she had drunk, she was in a daze all the way to London.
4.You can find the best climate in the country in this mountain retreat.
在这个山区疗养所你会找到全国最好的气候。（retreat）
5.He learned against the seat, relaxed and savoring the confront.
他倚到座位上，浑身放松，细细体味那份舒适。（savor）
6.The young couple are proud of the fact that their child could recite poems from memory at the age of three.
让这对年轻夫妇引以为荣的是他们的孩子3岁就能背诗了。（recite…from memory）
7.He repeated in public what he had said in private.
他当众重复了他私下说的话。（in public）
8.A family vibrant with life and love needs the joint efforts of all its members.
建立一个充满生机和爱意的家庭需要全家人的共同努力。（vibrant with）
Unit 10
1.The government spared no effort to support our environmental protection projects. 政府不遗余力的支持我们的环保项目。（spare no effort）
2.Before she came to China, she had no knowledge of Chinese history, geography and culture.
她来之前对中国的历史、地理和文化一无所知。（have no knowledge fof）
3.The big fire that bro ke out in the kindergarten endangered 23 children’s lives.
幼儿园里燃起的大火危及23个孩子的生命。（andanger）
4.We strained every nerve to head he off the topic, because we knew he would reveal confidential information.
我们竭力把他从那个话题上扯开，因为我们知道他会泄露机密。（head）
5.The resonant voice of the speaker is echoing round the hall.
演讲人洪亮的声音在大厅里回荡。（echo）
6.Diligence and loyalty sometimes can compensate for the lack of ability.
勤勉和忠诚有事可以弥补能力不足。（compensate for）
7.As far as I know, he was one of the few people who got out the rat race.
就我所知，他是从激烈的竞争中挣脱出来的少数人之一。（rat rece）
8.He left a few soldiers behind to clean up the last of the enemy position.
他留下了一些士兵来清除敌人的最后阵地。（clean up）
Unit 11
1.My whole morning’s work has been out of gear by that unlucky accident.
我整个上午的工作都由于那件不幸之事而陷于停顿。（out of gear）
2.At last the flung off his pleasures by hiding himself among the bushes.
他躲在树丛中，终于甩掉了追赶的敌人。（fling of）
3.We should try our best to wipe out the injustice in the system.
我们应该尽力消除制度中不公正的东西。（wipe out）
4.The soldiers held on to that isolated position until reinforcements arrived.
士兵们坚守在那个孤立无援的阵地上，直到援兵到来。（hold on to）
5.He was compelled to admit that he had stolen that top secret file in front of all the facts.
在所有的事实面前，他被迫承认偷了那份绝密文件。（compel）
6.His inability to speak English puts him at a disadvantage when he attends international conference.
他不会说英语，这是他在参加国际会议的时候出于不利的地位。（at a disadvantage）
7.Here there was no one in sight for miles, which made me feel very lonely.
8.In early May, 1945, even the most zealous followers of Hitler were quite clear that the “Thousand Year Reich” was doomed.
1945年5月初，即使是希特勒最狂热的支持者也都明白“千年帝国”（Thousand Year Reich）是注定要毁灭的。（doomed）
攻势已经持续了三天，但是我们并没有取得多少进展。我们在前线与敌人交战的部队遇到了强力的抵抗。师长（DIVISION COMMANDER）命令我们营（BATTALION）绕到敌人后方发起突然袭击。然而，要绕到敌人后方，我们必须越过一片沼泽地（MARSHLAND）。我们很多人担心会陷入泥潭之中。我们营长决定冒一下险。我们在夜幕掩盖下出发，不顾困难，奋勇向前。幸运的是，夜间温度突然下降到摄氏零下20度，烂泥地都结上了冰。由于这寒冷的天气，我们于天亮前到达并从敌人后方发起进攻。这一下扭转了战局。敌人没有戒备，不久便投降了。 The offensive had already lasted three days, but we had not gained much ground. Our troops engaging the enemy at the front were faced with strong/fierce/stiff resistance. The division commander instructed our battalion to get around to the rear of the enemy and launch a surprise attack. To do so, however, we had to cross a marshland and many of us were afraid we might get bogged down in the mud. Our battalion commander decided to take a gamble. We started under cover of darkness and pressed on in spite of great difficulties. By a stroke of luck, the temperature at night suddenly dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius and the marsh froze over. Thanks to the cold weather, we arrived at our destination before dawn and began attacking the enemy from the rear. This turned the tide of the battle. The enemy, caught off guard, soon surrendered. Unit 2 汽车在二十世纪改变了世界，尤其是在美国和其他工业国家。汽车确实对我们大有用处，但也带来了一些危害，比如声音污染、空气污染以及公路死亡事故。据报导汽车事故被列为全世界导致死伤的主要原因之一。可庆幸的是，现代发明家们正在重新发明汽车。新的推进系统（PROPULSION SYSTEM）、燃料、设计以及制造汽车的手段在过去的十年中得到迅速发展。例如，通过使用卫星辅助的全球定位系统，汽车里的计算机能给汽车精确定位；随着遥感器的应用，智能汽车能排除不少汽车事故。 Automobiles changed the world during the 20th century, particularly in the United States and other industrialized nations. They are indeed of great use to us, but they have brought some hazards as well, such as noise and air pollution, and highway fatalities. It is reported that automobile accidents rank among the leading causes of death and injury throughout the world. Fortunately modern innovators are reinventing the automobile. New propulsion systems, fuels, designs, and means of manufacturing cars have all developed rapidly in the past decade. For example, by using the satellite-aided global positioning system (GPS), a computer in the automobile can locate the vehicle's precise position, and with the application of sensors, smart cars can eliminate most car accidents.
●UNIT 1 ●第一段翻译：（艺术家追求成名，如同狗自逐其尾，一旦追到手，除了继续追逐不知还能做些什么。 成功之残酷正在于它常常让那些追逐成功者自寻毁灭。） ●第二段翻译：（对一名正努力追求成功并刚刚崭露头角的艺术家，其亲朋常常会建议“正经的饭碗不能丢！” 他们的担心不无道理。 追求出人头地，最乐观地说也困难重重，许多人到最后即使不是穷困潦倒，也是几近精神崩溃。 尽管如此，希望赢得追星族追捧和同行赞扬之类的不太纯洁的动机却在激励着他们向前。 享受成功的无上光荣，这种诱惑不是能轻易抵挡的。） ●UNIT 2 ●第六段翻译：（这种震惊唤起了他的想象。 卓别林并没有把他的笑料事先写成文字。他是那种边表演边根据感觉去创造艺术的喜剧演员。 没有生命的物体特别有助于卓别林发挥自己艺术家的天赋。 他将这些物体想象成其他东西。 因此在《当铺老板》中，一个坏闹钟变成了正在接受手术的“病人”. 在《淘金记》中，靴子被放在锅里煮，靴底被蘸着盐和胡椒吃掉，就像上好的鱼片一样（鞋钉就像鱼骨那样被剔除）。 这种对事物的转化，以及他一次又一次做出这种转化的技巧，正是卓别林伟大喜剧的奥秘所在。） ●UNIT 4 ●第一段翻译：（一个将会大大提高发展中国家生活水准的转变正方兴未艾。 一些不久前还是信息闭塞的地方正在迅速获得最新的通信技术，这将促进他们吸纳国内外投资。 亚洲、拉丁美洲和东欧的许多国家也许需要10年时间来改善其交通、电力供应和其他公用设施。 但是只一根直径小于半毫米的光纤电缆就可以比由铜丝制成的粗电缆承载更多的信息。
由于安装了光纤电缆、数字转换器和最新的无线传输系统， 从北京到布达佩斯的一系列城区和工业区正在直接步入信息时代。 一个蛛网般的数字和无线通信网络已经发展到亚洲的大部分地区和东欧的部分地区。） ●第二段翻译：（所有这些发展中地区都把先进的通信技术看作一种跨越经济发展诸阶段的途径。 例如，信息技术的广泛应用有望缩短劳动密集型的组装工业转向涉及工程、营销和设计的那些产业所需的时间。 现代通信技术“将使中国、越南这样的国家比那些困于旧技术的国家拥有巨大的优势”。） ●第三段翻译：（这些国家应以多快的速度向前发展是人们争论的一个问题。 许多专家认为，越南在目前急需电话的情况下，却要求所有的移动电话都必须是昂贵的数字型电话，这种做法太超前了。 一位专家说：“这些国家缺乏成本估算和选择技术的经验。） ●UNIT 5 ●第一段翻译：（事实如此，我们孤独无依地生活着。据最近的统计，共有2,200万人独自生活在自己的住所里。 其中有些人喜欢这种生活，有些却不喜欢。有些离了婚，有些鳏寡无伴，也有些从未结过婚。 ●第二段翻译：（孤独或许是这里的一种民族弊病，我们羞于承认它，甚于其他任何罪恶。 而另一方面，故意选择独处，拒绝别人的陪伴而非为同伴所弃，却是美国式英雄的一个特点。 孤独的猎人或探险者去鹿群和狼群中冒险，征服广袤的荒野时，并不需要有人陪伴。 梭罗独居在湖畔的小屋，有意疏离了城市生活。现在，这成了你的个性。 独处的灵感是诗人和哲学家最有用的东西。） ●108页第十三段翻译：（科学调查表明，独居的人会对着自己、对着宠物、对着电视机唠叨不休。 我们问猫儿今天该穿蓝色套装还是黄色裙装， 问鹦鹉今天晚餐该做牛排还是面条。 我们跟自己争论那个花样滑冰选手和这个滑雪运动员到底谁更了不起。 这没什么不妥，也对我们有好处，而且不像有些人那么令人尴尬：在超市付款处，排在前面的女人告诉收银员， 她的侄女梅利莎星期六可能会来看她。
大学体验英语综合教程4(第三版)课文翻译及课后答案
Unit 1 无名英雄：职业父亲意味着什么？ 在我们的孪生女儿出生后的第一次“约会”时，我和丈夫一起去看了一部名为《玩具总动员》的电影。我们很喜欢这部片子，但随后我丈夫问道：“父亲在哪儿呢？”起初我还认为因为一个小小的失误而批评一部很吸引人的家庭影片似乎是太偏狭了。可后来越想越觉得这一疏忽太严重了。父亲不仅没有出现，他甚至没有被提到——尽管家中有婴儿，说明他不可能离开太长时间。影片给人的感觉是，父亲出现与否似乎是个极次要的细节，甚至不需要做任何解释。 新闻媒体倾向于把父亲的边缘化，这只是一个例子，它反映了在美国发生的巨大的社会变化。大卫?布兰肯霍恩在《无父之国》一书中将这种倾向称之为“无需父亲”观念。 职业母亲（我想这应是与无职业母亲相对而言的）奋斗的故事从媒体上无尽无休地轰击着我们。与此同时，媒体上绝大多数有关父亲的故事又集中表现暴力的丈夫或没出息的父亲。看起来似乎父亲惟一值得人们提及的时候是因为他们做家务太少而受到指责的时候（我怀疑这一说法的可靠性，因为“家务”的定义中很少包括打扫屋顶的雨水沟、给汽车换机油或其它一些典型地由男人们做的事），或者是在他们去世的时候。当布兰肯霍恩先生就“顾家的好男人”一词的词义对父亲们进行调查时，许多父亲都回答这一词语只有在葬礼上听到。 这种“无需父亲”综合症的一个例外是家庭全职父亲所受到的媒体的赞扬。我并非暗指这些家庭全职父亲作出的承诺不值得人们的支持，我只是想指出在实际生效的双重标准：家庭全职父亲受到人们的赞扬，而家庭全职母亲和养家活口的父亲，所得到文化上的认同却很少，甚至完全得不到。 我们用来讨论父亲角色（即没出息的父亲）的话语本身就显示出人们对大多数男人默默无闻而自豪地履行对家庭承担的责任缺乏赏识。我们几乎从来没听到“职业父亲”这一说法，在人们呼吁应该考虑给予工作者在工作地点上更大的灵活性时，很少有人认为这种呼吁不但适用于女子，同样也适应于男子。我们这个社会表现出似乎家庭职责对父亲来说并不象对母亲那么重要——似乎事业上的满足就是男人生活的全部。 更让人感到侮辱的是最近媒体的这种倾向，即把家庭主妇看成是一种“地位的象征” ——就像一辆名贵的汽车，只有据说少数男人才享受得起这种奢侈与豪华。这暗示家里有家庭主妇的男人比那些妻子在外工作的男人日子过得更舒适，因为他们拥有全职管家这种“奢侈品”。然而，实际上作为家庭惟一挣钱者的男人要承受很多压力。当他们的那份工作是家庭收入的惟一来源的时候，失业，或者甚至只不过是受到失业的威胁，对他们来说显然构成更大的困难。同样，家庭惟一的工资收入者在想辞去不太满意的工作时，其灵活程度也要小一些，因为这种工作变换会使他们失去收入。此外，为了给家庭挣更多的钱，许多丈夫超时工作或兼做第二职业。对于这些男人来说，正是这份工作所支撑的家庭，使得他们值得付出努力。很多男人相信母亲呆在家里对小孩十分重要，这种信念使得他们乐意地担起家里惟一挣钱人的担子。 目前，研究者们普遍认为家庭中没有父亲会对小孩——因此对整个社会——带来严重的问题。然而，我们这个社会并没有把“普通”父亲作为正面角色为未来的父亲树立榜样，相反地，却常常持放弃态度，认为传统的父道从最好的方面说是已经过时，从最坏的方面讲就是危险的反动。这使得许多男人对他们作为父亲的角色的价值提出疑问。 作为一个社会，我们需要认识到对于孩子来说，父亲是与母亲同等重要的，不仅仅在经济支
Unit1 Working with words and expressions 1. 2. cloze Translation
Answers to Unit 2 Book 4 Unit Two Man and Technology Words in Action Working with Words and Expressions 1. 1) monitor 2) phenomenon 3) isolation 4) gradual 5) opponent 6) advent 7) genetic 8) consciously 9) extreme 10) nasty 11) boom 12) formal 13) soar 14) survey 15) Similarly 16) modify 17) rough 2. 1) at the same time 2) are stuck with 3) for certain 4) make no difference 5) on average 6) when it comes to 7) depends on 8) built into 9) come to mind 10) at work Increasing Your Word Power 1. Adjectives Nouns Adjectives
Nouns 1) technological technology 6) luxurious luxury 2) eternal eternity 7) leisurely leisure 3) miraculous miracle 8) subjective subject 4) relevant relevance 9) prosperous prosperity 5) analytical Analysis 10) innovative innovation 2. 2) multi-faith 3) multiform 4) multifunction 5) multi-ethnic 6) multilateral 7) multi-lingual 8) multimedia 9) multimillionaire 10) multinational 1) a multi-faith society 2) a multi-lingual secretary 3) a multimillionaire 4) a multinational motor-manufacturing corporation 5) a multifunction video camera
Unit 1 1)The village is so close to the border that the villages live in constant fear of attacks from the enemy. 2)In only twenty years the country was transformed into an advanced industrial power. 3)This company has evolved into one of the major chemical manufacturing bases in this region. 4)Given the current financial situation, it is inevitable that the US dollar will be further devalued. 5)The government’s call for suggestions about the control of water pollution produced very little response from the citizens. 6)The weather showed no signs of getting better so the government called upon us to get prepared for flood. 7)At one time scientists thought that there was nothing smaller than an atom but now most people know that an atom consists of even smaller particles. 8)The students were all very much concerned about t he World Cup, spending at least two hours every day watching the live matches on TV. 9)The department store lost out because loans were very hard to come by and it could not start business on time. 10)We can’t go there for a walk because there is a navy base there,
课文翻译 艺术家追求成名，如同狗自逐其尾，一旦追到手，除了继续追逐不知还能做些什么。 成功之残酷正在于它常常让那些追逐成功者自寻毁灭。 对一名正努力追求成功并刚刚崭露头角的艺术家，其亲朋常常会建议“正经的饭碗不能丢！”他们的担心不无道理。 追求出人头地，最乐观地说也困难重重，许多人到最后即使不是穷困潦倒，也是几近精神崩溃。 尽管如此，希望赢得追星族追捧和同行赞扬之类的不太纯洁的动机却在激励着他们向前。享受成功的无上光荣，这种诱惑不是能轻易抵挡的。 成名者之所以成名，大多是因为发挥了自己在歌唱、舞蹈、绘画或写作等方面的特长，并能形成自己的风格。 为了能迅速走红，代理人会极力吹捧他们这种风格。他们青云直上的过程让人看不清楚。 他们究竟是怎么成功的，大多数人也都说不上来。 尽管如此，艺术家仍然不能闲下来。 若表演者、画家或作家感到无聊，他们的作品就难以继续保持以前的吸引力，也就难以保持公众的注意力。 公众的热情消磨以后，就会去追捧下一个走红的人。 有些艺术家为了不落伍，会对他们的写作、跳舞或唱歌的风格稍加变动，但这将冒极大的失宠的危险。 公众对于他们藉以成名的艺术风格以外的任何形式都将不屑一顾。 知名作家的文风一眼就能看出来，如田纳西·威廉斯的戏剧、欧内斯特·海明威的情节安排、罗伯特·弗罗斯特或T.S.艾略特的诗歌等。 同样，像莫奈、雷诺阿、达利这样的画家，希区柯克、费里尼、斯皮尔伯格、陈凯歌或张艺谋这样的电影制作人也是如此。 他们鲜明独特的艺术风格标志着与别人不同的艺术形式上的重大变革，这让他们名利双收，但也让他们付出了代价，那就是失去了用其他风格或形式表现自我的自由。 名气这盏聚光灯可比热带丛林还要炙热。骗局很快会被揭穿，过多的关注带来的压力会让大多数人难以承受。 它让你失去自我。你必须是公众认可的那个你，而不是真实的你或是可能的你。 艺人，就像政客一样，必须常常说些违心或连自己都不完全相信的话来取悦听众。 一滴名气之水有可能玷污人的心灵这一整口井，因此一个艺术家若能保持真我，会格外让人惊叹。
Unit1 1, There has been this long lull with nothing particular turning up! you are beginning to be anxious because there has been no progress of the war in such a long quiet period… 2,we must "...meet with Triumph and Disaster. And treat those two impostors just the same." We are sure to experience both Triumph and Disaster and we must treat them as the same thing taking different appearances because they are essentially interchangeable. 3,never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense Never give in unless we are convinced that it is honorable and sensible for us to do so. 4,Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. Britain, in other nations’ eyes, was completely wiped out/conquered. 5,we have only to persevere to conquer. … we have no choice but to hold on until victory comes. Unit2 1, The phrase "personal space" has a quaint, seventies ring to it The phrase “personal space” sounds old-fashioned and reminds one of the seventies…2, T-shirt weather can make proximity more alluring (or much, much less). … I have suspected that maybe the cause (of the space invasion) is the season: summer may either make people want to be closer to each other or more likely, to keep a distance between each other. 3, The logistics of it vary according to geography people in different regions are given different size of personal space. 4, individuals routinely commandeer booths and sets of facing seats meant for foursomes. …individuals, as usual, occupy the booths and seats which are desi gned for four people. 5,In the same way that the breeze from a butterfly's wings in Japan may eventually produce a tidal wave in California, I have decided to expand the contracting boundaries of personal space. Because the initial invasion of personal space can cause a chain of reactions, which may bring about a catastrophic consequence, as the breeze from a butterfly’s wings in Japan, if it initiates a chain of waves, may eventually produce a tidal wave in California, I have decided to enlarge the shrinking personal space. Unit3 1,Given the relatively few restrictions governing access and usage, it is the communications modal equivalent of international waters As there are relatively few restrictions for reaching and using the Internet, communications via the Internet are comparable to traveling through the international waterways. 2,But much less widely reported has been the notion that the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users A lot of people talk about the “new information age”, but not so many people are acquainted with the idea that the Internet separates people form each other and fragments society further as a result
新标准大学英语综合教程4课后翻译 Uint 1 If you ask me, real life is not all it's cracked up to be. Twelve years at school and three years at uni versity, teachers banging on about opport un ities in the big wide world bey ond our sheltered life as stude nts, and what do I find? 依我看，现实生活与人们想象的不一样。我们上了12年的中、小学，又上了3年的大学， 这期间老师们一直在没完没了地谈论在安宁的学生生活之外那个广阔天地里的各种机会，可 我遇到的又是什么呢？ Try as I might to stay cheerful, all I ever get is hassle, sometimes with people (especially boys, god, whe n will they grow up?), but mostly with mon ey. It's just so expe nsive out here! Everyone wants a slice off you. The Inland Revenue wan ts to deduct in come tax, the bank man ager wants repayments on my student loan, the Iandlord wants the rent, gas, water, electricity and my mobile bills keep coming in, and all that's before I've had anything to eat. And then some bright spark calls me out of the blue, ask ing if rm in terested in buying a pension. At this rate, I won't even last till the end of the year, let alone till I'm 60. 无论我怎么想保持心情愉快，麻烦事总是接踵而来：有时是跟人争吵(尤其是跟男孩，天哪！他们什么 时候才能长大？)，但通常是为钱发愁。这个地方什么东西都很贵！人人 都想从我身上拿点钱去：国税局要收个人所得税，银行经理要我偿清学生贷款，房东催我 交房租、燃气费、水费、电费，手机账单也不断地寄来。所有这些还没算上吃饭的钱。更 可气的是，不知从哪里冒出一个自作聪明的家伙冷不丁地给我打电话，问我要不要买养老金。 照这样下去，我连今年都活不过去了，更别提活到60岁领养老金了。 汉译英 我认为，选修第二专业并不适合每一位本科生。我大学本科主修英语专业，大一时就开始辅修经济学了。无疑，我是班里最用功的学生。我竭尽全力想同时达到两个不同专业的 要求，但还是有不及格的时候。因为经济学需要良好的数学基础，我不得不花大量时间钻 研数学，因而忽略了英语学习。 If you ask me, tak ing a sec ond major isn't good for every un dergraduate. In my freshma n year as an En glish major, I took economics as my minor. By all odds, I was the most hardwork ing stude nt in my class. But try as I might to meet the requireme nts of the two differe nt subjects, I still could n't do well eno ugh to pass all the exams. Given that the study of econo mics required a good comma nd of mathematics, I had to spe nd so much time on math that I n eglected my En glish major. 第二学期，《英国文学》及《宏观经济学》两门课不及格给我敲响了警钟，这可是我一生中第一次考 试不及格，这大大打击了我的自信心。虽然我不是一个容易向命运低头的人， 在暑假结束的时候，我还是决定放弃经济学，以免两个专业都难以完成。当我只需修一个 专业的时候，一切似乎又回到了正轨。(if you ask me; odds; try as …might; sap on e's con fide nee; give n that; bow to fate;come to a close; for fear that; now that) Faili ng En glish Literature and Macroec onomics in the sec ond semester soun ded the alarm for me. This was the first time I did not pass a course in my life, which had greatly sapped my con fide nee. Although I was n ot a man who would easily bow to fate, as the summer break came to a close, I decided to give up econo mics for fear that I would fail in both subjects. Now that I had only one subject to attend to,everything seemed to be on the right track again. Uint2 In dubitably the vast majority of books overlap one ano ther. Few in deed are those which give the impressi on of orig in ality, either in style or in content. Rare are the unique books -less tha n 50, perhaps, out of the whole storehouse of literature .In one of his recent auto-biographical no vels, Blaise Cendrars points out that R my de GSurmont, because of his knowledge and awareness of this repetitive quality in books, was able to select and read all that is worthwhile in the entire realm of literature.Cendrars himself —who would suspect it? —is a prodigious reader. He reads most authors.Not only that, but when he likes an author he reads every last book the man has written, as well as his letters and all the books that have been written about him. In our day his case is almost un paralleled, I imagi ne.For, not only has he read widely and deeply, but he has himself written a great many books. All on the side, as it were. For, if he is anything, Cendrars, he is a man of action, an adventurer and explorer,a man who has known how to ——waste II his time
Unit 1 If you ask me, taking a second major isn’t good for every undergraduate. In my freshman year as an English major, I took economics as my minor. By all odds, I was the most hard-working student in my class. But try as I might to meet the requirements of the two different subjects, I still couldn’t do well enough to pass all the exams. Given that the study of economics required a good command of mathematics, I had to spend so much time on math that I neglected my English. Failing English Literature and Macroeconomics in the second term sounded the alarm for me. This was the first time I did not pass a course in my life, which had greatly sapped my confidence. Although I was not a man who would easily bow to fate, as the summer bread came to a close, I decided to give up economics for fear that I would fail both subjects. Now that I had only one subject to attend to, everything seemed to be on the right track again. Unit 2 It was not until after he had graduated from university and started to work that Zhang Lei became aware of the pleasure of reading. reflecting on his undergraduate studies, he lamented that he, unlike some of his classmates who had immersed themselves in various interesting books they were able to lay hands on from the library or bookshops, had only read textbooks, none of which was really worthwhile, or could be read in one sitting. He was deprived of the privilege of gaining access to the writers’ fantastic worlds through the windows their books have opened, so to speak. Now he has become an avid and omnivorous reader. It is as if he wants to read all those marvelous books he hadn’t had a chance to read in his university days. By now, in his spare time, he had read several hundreds of books, including novels, biographies and travel notes. He realizes that books can not only reveal to him the vista of a hopeful future and help him withstand stresses and strains, they can also help him clear up some misconceptions and discover the true meaning of life. Unit 3 What you wear seems to dictate your behavior. Take primary school and high school students for example. One of the hard and fast rules they have to observe is that they must wear uniforms at school. There is no doubt that school uniforms would not have achieved their currency without a symbolic correlation between the uniformity of clothes and the students’ conformity to some common code of conduct. However, after years of school life, there is always a backlash secretly nursed in the students’ mind against the ubiquitous uniform which suppresses the expression of individuality. To compensate for this loss, students usually wear more casual and popular clothes on weekends. It is not until they start university, however, that they can really enjoy the freedom of dress, an anarchy associated with the cultivation of creativity and the encouragement of free expression of ideas and talents. But this situation won’t obtain for long. After a relatively short time of liberty, they may experience again the revived pressure of dress code as soon as they become professions. Unit 4 When it comes to the effects of the current economic downturn, the decrease of student activities is a good case in point. To enliven campus life, the university is always willing to carve out some money for activities organized by student clubs and societies, but such sponsorships have been pared down this year because of huge budget cut. Apparently, student organizations need to weather their own financial crisis if they want to recover from their current state of inactiveness. Some suggest enrolling more club members, on the ground that the consequent increase of membership fees may help them get out of the difficulty.