公共英语3级精讲班第24讲讲义
Dialogue
Dialogue 1:
Douglas Hurd is the former Foreign Secretary of Britain, a powerful politician. Now
BBC’s Sophie Wigram is interviewing him.
1. Was it was inevitable that you would go into politics?
你进入政坛是不可避免的吗？
2. Don’t go straight into politics.
不要直接进入政治领域。
3. What’s left the deepest impression on you?
什么留给你的印象最深？
leave impression on sb 给某人留下深刻的印象
4. We were sometimes at odds with the Americans, and even the German.
我们有时候和美国产生纠纷，甚至和德国也产生纠纷。
at odds with sb 和---意见不一致，和某人吵架
They are constantly at odds with each other.
He’s always at odds with his father constantly.
5. We were doing what we thought was best to rescue the situation。
我们做的是我们认为最能挽救局势的事情。
6．You, and the British government, were criticized for being too cautious over Bosnia
— for not making an active enough commitment to stopping the war？
你和英国政府被指责对 太过仔细，对停止战争没有付出自己的努力。
1) be criticized for 因为某事而受到某人的批评
2） be cautious over sth 对某事过于仔细
3） make commitment to doing sth 做出努力做某事
7．Is that criticism valid?
那种批评是否有效？
Dialogue 2:
Doris Meissner works as Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service. Now reporter Claudia Dreifus is interviewing her. 1. But the new bill requires that any American wishing to sponsor immigrants must
have an income 125 percent above the poverty level.
但是新的法案要求希望支持移民者的美国人收入必需超出贫困线的125%.
2. Doesn’t this discriminate against immigrants from poor countries?
这难道不是反对从穷国来的移民的歧视的政策吗？
3. A lot of proposals floating around state legislatures are aimed at throwing the
children of illegal immigrants out of public schools.
一些建议在政府机关盛行，目标是把非法移民的孩子从公立学校中赶出去。
1) float 广为流传
There’s a rumor floating around a new job in the unit.
2) throw --- out of 把---赶出去
The drunk was thrown out of the pub.
4. I also disagree with the similar notion of barring the U.S.-born children of illegals
from citizenship.
我同样不同意把美国出生的孩子排除在合法公民以外的主张。
Monologue 1:
The following is from the remarks that Hillary R. Clinton made to the United Nations
Fourth World Conference on Women.
1. There are some who wonder whether the lives of women and girls matter to
economic and political progress around the globe.
有很多人对妇女和女孩对全球经济发展非常重要有所疑问。
matter to 对---重要
It doesn’t matter to me what you do.
2. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish.’
如果妇女远离暴力，他们的家庭会非常繁荣。
be free from 不受危险事物的影响，不受不愉快事物的影响
be free from harm ,prejudice, pain
3. This is why every woman, every man, every child, every family, and every nation
on our planet has a stake in the discussion that takes place here.
这就是为什么我们星球上的每位妇女、每位男士、每位儿童、每个家庭和每个国家和这儿发生的事情有厉害关系的原因。
have a stake in sth与---有厉害关系
Dialogue 3:
1. Richard Goldstone is one of South Africa’s leading judges. He was appointed chief
prosecutor for the international criminal tribunal for Rwandan. He talks here to
Chris harmer about his work for the war crimes tribunals.
是南非的首席法官。他被提升为卢旺达国际战争法庭的首席起诉人。
2. It was agreed that it was an important job — important from human rights point
of view, especially an international human rights point of view, and also because it
was the first, important position offered to a South African since South Africa’s
readmission into the international community.
我认为从人权的角度、特别是从国际人权的角度、自从南非回到国际舞台这是给南非第一次重要的位置这些点来说，这都是一项重要的工作。
3. In that way, victims can at least have the comfort of some sort of official
acknowledgment, and then the healing process can begin.
这样，受害者最少因为受到了政府的承认而感到一点的安慰，这样可以治愈他们的伤痛。
4. Otherwise, feelings of injustice and revenge can develop — certainly if the
violence is on a massive scale.
否则，他们会认为这是不公正的而进行报复，特别是在对他们进行的是大规模的暴力的时候。
on a large scale 大规模
Passage
Passage:
Background knowledge:
The House of Commons 下议院（英国议会由上议院和下议院构成）
first-past-the-post 英国的选举制度，即在一个选区获得票数最多的候选人就能获得在议会的席位。 Member of Parliament 国会议员
The Conservative Party （英国）保守党
The Labour Party （英国）工党
The Liberal Democrats （英国）自由民主党
Language points:
1. Compared to elections in other countries, a British election is a rapid and
straightforward affair.
和别的国家相比，英国的选举是快速的简单的事情。
straightforward 简单的、不难的
a straightforward examination question
written in straightforward language
The procedure is quite straightforward.
2. Currently, there are 651 geographical constituencies in Britain.
目前，英国一共651个选区。
3. Only bankrupts, prisoners, members of the clergy, peers and certain senior public
officials are not allowed to stand.
只有破产者、犯人、宗教人员、贵族和某些高级政府官员不允许当候选人。
stand 任候选人
She stood unsuccessfully in the local election.
stand for president
4. This makes the election campaign quite short in comparison to countries like the
U.S.A., where the campaign to elect the president lasts for up to nine month.
这使选举和象美国一样的国家相比快得多。在美国总统选举要持续九个月。
in comparison to 和---相比较
5. It’s estimated that up to fifth of voters in Britain only decide who they will vote for
in the last 4 weeks before an election.
据统计英国五分之一的选民在选举前四个星期才决定选谁。
1) It’s estimated that --- 据推测
2) up to 总共，总计
