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In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way oft with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.在餐厅里，我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。
Lesson Fifteen:No Signposts in the Sea___By V. Sackville -westI. Additional Background Knowledge1. About the author:( 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962 )Victoria MarySackville-west was anEnglish poet and novelist.She was born in KnoleHouse, Kent, UK. She wasa descendant of LordTreasurer ThomasSackville, who is the cousinof Queen Elizabeth I.In 1913 she married diplomat Harold Nicolson (1886-1968), and they traveled extensively during his years in the foreign office. In London she was a member of the Bloomsbury group of literary and artistic friends including Virginia Woolf. Lytton Strachey, E.M. Foster and others.In the 1920s Sackville-West became romantically involved with the writer, Virginia Woolf, who celebrated this love affair in the novel Orlando(1928). Dedicated to Sackville-West, the book traces the history of the youthful, beautiful, and aristocratic Orlando, and explores the themes of sexual ambiguity. This was followed by her novels, The Edwardians(1930), All Passion Spent(1931) and The Dark Island(1934).She was famous for herexuberant aristocratic life,her strong marriage, andher passionate affair with novelist Virginia Woolf. Sackville-West's first published works were a collection of poems, Powers of West and East(1917). Her long poem The Land won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She also wrote the novel Heritage (1919)Personal life, marriage and bisexuality (Bit of profligacy )In 1913, Sackville-West married Harold Nicolson, and the couple moved to Cospoli, Constantinople(君士但丁堡of Turkey). Nicolson was at different times a diplomat, journalist, broadcaster, Member of Parliament, author of biographies and novels and also bisexual in what would now be called an open marriage. Both Sackville-West and her husband had consecutive same-sex relations.(gay, lesbian)These were no impediment(obstacle) to a true closeness between Sackville-West and Nicolson, as is seen from their nearly daily correspondence (published after their deaths by their son Nigel), and from an interview they gave for BBC radio after World War II. Nicolson gave up his diplomatic career partly so that he couldlive with Sackville-West in England, uninterrupted by long solitary postings to missions abroad.They returned to England in 1914 and bought Long Barn, in Kent.The couple had two children:Nigel, also a politician and writer; and Benedict, an art historian. In the 1930s, the family acquired and moved to Sissinghurst Castle, near Cranbrook, in Kent.Her main writings(Prolific Writer)1) The land(1926): It‟s a long poem,which was praised as one of themost beautiful bucolic/idyllic inEnglish literature ant wonHawthorndon prize.2) The Garden(1946), won theHeinemann prize3) The Edwardians (1930), a novel.（爱德华时代的人）4) All passion spent (1931), a novel(激情耗尽)5) The Eagle and the Dove (1943)6) Another World than This (1945)(an anthology)7) No Signposts in the Sea (1961)2. Styles and Influence:1) Sackville–west’s novels are more widely known, yet her poetry may prove to be more enduring: there is a depth of feeling and perception in the best of her poems, a quality at once stately and moving. Her prose is of consistently in high quality, supple clear, and craftsman-like, viewed as one of Britain‟s p romising young writers in the 1920‟s. She is now regarded famous for her personality as much as for her writing.She is a prolific writer, the author of 15 novels, as well as biographies and travel books.2) About the novel:“No Signposts in the Sea”(1) The novel with144-pages is in theform of a journal kept by a man calledEdmund Carr, 50 years old, aninfluential political columnist and abachelor. He learns that he has alimited time to live___ a few weeks, amonth or two at most. How will hespend them? In this dilemma/(quandary, predicament), he met awidow_ Ms. Laura by chance,whohas booked on a cruise / trip to theFar East. Laura, the widow‟s warmth,and intelligence struck him. Therefore,he decided to board the ship.(2) While sailing at sea, Carr was full ofemotions, such as: the undercurrentsadness, the idyllic feelings, therelease from pressure, the dullrhythms of ship life, the enticing /(luring) scenery. Later he fell in lovewith the Window Laura.(3) Edmund Carr grows love for Laurathough he knows it is impossible toget her. Simultaneously, a handsomecolonel also shows great interest inLaura, which makes Carr feel jealous,despairing, and an outburst ofdisappointment against his “rival”.3) Styles: This story (a short novel) showsa romantic love affair. The cruise onthe sea is full of imagination, lyric,and idyllic.(1) Attitudes: __ more critical than praise/commendation;__ more pessimistic than optimistic. (2) Diary __ prose.3. Rhetorical Devices:1. transferred epithet;2. personification3. simile4. Pre-reading Questions1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr getby observing Laura without her knowing it?2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty?3) Why does Carr like islands?4) What kind of coastline does he like?II. : Detailed study of the text1. She wears soft rich colours.__ It means her dress is in deep, intense colors such as dark red, olive green. Rich: = banquet (luxurious, sumptuous ) ~ wine (full of strength & flavor )~ odors (very fragrant;Cf: flagrant =notorious)~ soil (fertile , yielding in abundance ) 2. The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire-builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs.___The Colonel, an Empire-builder who is not too disgustingly aggressive,sometimes tries to talk to me aboutpublic affairs.3.He says he used to read me(metonymy), and is ……charming deferential= to read my writings /articles metonymy: I like Shakespeare(his works ).__I find Saul Bellow very difficult tounderstand.= ( a U.S novelist. 1915- )4. (1) ill-informedeg. ill-bred, (considered, defined , mannered , treated,)(2) and just about ……anybody could go--- just about as conservative as anybody could be . (极端保守)5. I observe with amusement how totally the concerns of the world, which once absorbed me to the exclusion of all else …to the extent of a bored distaste. __I was once so completely absorbed in the important affairs of the world, anddevoted all my attention to it so that I only have one rest by reading poetry and listening to music. But now, I found amusingly that the world affaires are just some boring distaste.To the exclusion of=To do sth. only; without concerningother things.Eg: __ He plays golf to the exclusion of all other sports.__ Never concentrate all your attention on one or two problem, to theexclusion of others.Trans:我有趣的发现，自己过去偶尔借诗歌或音乐消遣放松一下，一心专注的世界大事现在不仅索然无味，而且到了令人厌烦的地步。
EXERCISES 15Ⅰ. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr get by observing Laura without her knowing it? What compliment does he pay her?2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty? Was he always like that?3) What effect does the moon and the cool water of the swimming pool have on him?4) What kind of coastline does he like? Why?5) Who is in charge of the lighthouse? Does he like his job?6) Why does Edmund Carr like islands?7) Why does he say: "God, is there no escape from suffering and sin? "8) What is the 'green flash'?Ⅱ. Paraphrase:1) The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs2) Or maybe Laura's unwitting influence has called it out.3) Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane.4) And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colours of sunsets!5) I want my fill of beauty before I go.6) Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.7) there is a touch of rough poetry about him8) I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence9) I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonel's otherwise not very interesting mind.10) This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.Ⅲ.Translate the following into Chinese:1) What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high alti tudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura's character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, forthe discovery of the venturesome.2) In all this serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy littleflying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves, 'the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, ' and doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does happen from time to time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range , lonely, unblemished, re mote. Does one like islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me suck a queer sensation to reflect that that island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral) and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me.IV. Look up the dictionary for the following loan words. Try to find out from what languages they are borrowed and then put them into Chinese.Model: creme de menthe-- (法) 薄荷酒1) ad hoe 2) blitzkrieg3) skoal 4) charg6 d'affairs5) concerto 6) coup d'dtat7) d6eor 8) detente9) hors d oeurves 10) intermezzo11) kimono 12) kowtow13) kulak 14) macho15) smorgasbord 16) status quo17) fiesta 18) rajah19) emir 20)eurekaⅤ.Make sentences with the following words using the parts of speech indicated in the brackets:1) fill (v. n. ) 6) range (n. v. )2) ripple (n. v. ) 7) beach (n. v. )3) marble (n. v. ) 8) catch (v. n. )4 ) pile (n. v. ) 9) hump (n. v. )5) touch (v. n. ) 10) obscure (adj. v. )Ⅵ.pick out from the text all the words and phrases describing colours.Ⅶ.Replace t he italicized words with simple, everyday words or expressions"1) and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner ( )2) prefacing his remarks by 'Of course it's not for me to suggest to you' ( )3) I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane. ( )4) I once flattered myself that I was an adult man. ( )5) or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach ( )6) So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground ( )7) Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent gleam of a lighthouse on a solitary promontory. ( )8) which he imparts from time to time without insistence ( )9) and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand ( )10) We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill ( ) ( )11) ‘ Vicious viridian’ I say, not to be outdone. ( )12) I would never have believed in the simplde bliss of being, day after day, at sea. ( )Ⅷ. Replace the italicized words or phrases with specific words that appear in the text:1) The teacher tends to fill us with too many facts. ( )2) As the policemen approached on horseback, the demonstrators went away quickly in different directions. ( )3) The thief moved stealthily along the corridor. ( )4) The detective inspected the room and wrote something hastily in his notebook. ( )5) Prices went up rapidly when the war broke out. ( )6) There is more and more work for me. ( )7.)Some idlers were standing about in a lazy way at the street corner. ( )8) After the tide went back, the kids began to pick shells on the shore. ( )9) On hearing the shot, he quickly put out his hand and took the gun lying on the table. ( )10) She struck him on the face with the palm of her hand. ( )Ⅸ.Point out the metaphors, similes and alliterations used in the text.Ⅹ.Point out the figures of speech used in the following sentences:1) in the evening she wears soft rich colours ( )2) he says he used to read me ( )3) I want my fill of beauty before I go. ( )4) The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. ( )5) and the cool support of the water ( )6) I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be one of the loneliest, most forbidding spots on earth. ( )7) and the sky a tender palette of pink and blue ( )8) I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South ( )9) And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. ( )10) but above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been. ( )Ⅺ. Choose the right word from the list given below for each blank. Pay attention to the correct combinations of adverbs and adjectives. disappointed simple beautifulconscious close highobvious inadequate beatenignorant impartial confidentinterested clear jealousexaggerated1) A referee should always try to be strictly __2) The answer is laughably __ when you think it over.3) The rate of income-tax in this country is astronomically4) He was insanely __ of his brother's success. 5) The children played on, blissfully __ of their parents' death. 6) Our host made it painfully __ that we should leave.7) The casualties in the war have been grossly __8) The team played badly and were soundly __9) It was abundantly __ to everyone that he had something on his mind.10) Just before the exam, he appeared to be supremely __ of Success.11) He was bitterly __ when he heard the result.12)The roads are woefully __ and simply can’t meet today’s requirements?13)The bullet passed uncomfortably __ to his head.14)Jim is keenly__ in collecting stamp。
高级英语L e s s o n-15--N o-S i g n p o s t s-i n-t h e-S e a-课后练习及答案EXERCISES 15Ⅰ. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr get by observing Laura without her knowing it? What compliment does he pay her?2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty? Was he always like that?3) What effect does the moon and the cool water of the swimming pool have on him?4) What kind of coastline does he like? Why?5) Who is in charge of the lighthouse? Does he like his job?6) Why does Edmund Carr like islands?7) Why does he say: "God, is there no escape from suffering and sin? "8) What is the 'green flash'?Ⅱ. Paraphrase:1) The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs2) Or maybe Laura's unwitting influence has called it out.3) Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane.4) And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colours of sunsets!5) I want my fill of beauty before I go.6) Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leavingthe confessional after the solemnity of absolution.7) there is a touch of rough poetry about him8) I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence9) I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonel's otherwise not very interesting mind.10) This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.Ⅲ.Translate the following into Chinese:1) What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high alti tudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura's character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome.2) In all this serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves, 'the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, ' and doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does happen from time to time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range , lonely, unblemished, re mote. Does one like islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me suck a queer sensation to reflect that that island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral) and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me.IV. Look up the dictionary for the following loan words. Try to find out from what languages they are borrowed and then put theminto Chinese.Model: creme de menthe-- (法) 薄荷酒1) ad hoe 2) blitzkrieg3) skoal 4) charg6 d'affairs5) concerto 6) coup d'dtat7) d6eor 8) detente9) hors d oeurves 10) intermezzo11) kimono 12) kowtow13) kulak 14) macho15) smorgasbord 16) status quo17) fiesta 18) rajah19) emir 20)eurekaⅤ.Make sentences with the following words using the parts of speech indicated in the brackets:1) fill (v. n. ) 6) range (n. v. )2) ripple (n. v. ) 7) beach (n. v. )3) marble (n. v. ) 8) catch (v. n. )4 ) pile (n. v. ) 9) hump (n. v. )5) touch (v. n. ) 10) obscure (adj. v. )Ⅵ.pick out from the text all th e words and phrases describing colours.Ⅶ.Replace the italicized words with simple, everyday words or expressions"1) and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner ( )2) prefacing his remarks by 'Of course it's not for me to suggest to you' ( )3) I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane. ( )4) I once flattered myself that I was an adult man. ( )5) or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach ( )6) So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground ( )7) Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent gleam of a lighthouse on a solitary promontory. ( )8) which he imparts from time to time without insistence ( )9) and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand ( )10) We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill ( ) ( )11) ‘ Vicious viridian’ I say, not to be outdone. ( )12) I would never have believed in the simplde bliss of being, day after day, at sea. ( )Ⅷ. Replace the italicized words or phrases with specific words that appear in the text:1) The teacher tends to fill us with too many facts. ( )2) As the policemen approached on horseback, the demonstratorswent away quickly in different directions. ( )3) The thief moved stealthily along the corridor. ( )4) The detective inspected the room and wrote somethinghastily in his notebook. ( )5) Prices went up rapidly when the war broke out. ( )6) There is more and more work for me. ( )7.)Some idlers were standing about in a lazy way at the street corner. ( )8) After the tide went back, the kids began to pick shells on the shore. ( )9) On hearing the shot, he quickly put out his hand and took the gun lying on the table. ( )10) She struck him on the face with the palm of her hand. ( )Ⅸ.Point out the metaphors, similes and alliterations used in the text.Ⅹ.Point out the f igures of speech used in the following sentences:1) in the evening she wears soft rich colours ( )2) he says he used to read me ( )3) I want my fill of beauty before I go. ( )4) The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. ( )5) and the cool support of the water ( )6) I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be oneof the loneliest, most forbidding spots on earth. ( )7) and the sky a tender palette of pink and blue ( )8) I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South ( )9) And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. ( )10) but above all I love these long purposeless days in whichI shed all that I have ever been. ( )Ⅺ. Choose the right word from the list given below for each blank. Pay attention to the correct combinations of adverbs and adjectives.disappointed simple beautifulconscious close highobvious inadequate beatenignorant impartial confidentinterested clear jealousexaggerated1) A referee should always try to be strictly __2) The answer is laughably __ when you think it over.3) The rate of income-tax in this country is astronomically4) He was insanely __ of his brother's success. 5) Thechildren played on, blissfully __ of their parents' death. 6) Our host made it painfully __ that we should leave.7) The casualties in the war have been grossly __8) The team played badly and were soundly __9) It was abundantly __ to everyone that he had something on his mind.10) Just before the exam, he appeared to be supremely __ of Success.11) He was bitterly __ when he heard the result.12)The roads are woefully __ and simply can’t meet today’s requirements?13)The bullet passed uncomfortably __ to his head.14)Jim is keenly__ in collecting stamp。
高级英语L e s s o n-15--N o-S i g n p o s t s-i n-t h e-S e a-课后练习及答案EXERCISES 15Ⅰ. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr get by observing Laura without her knowing it? What compliment does he pay her?2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty? Was he always like that?3) What effect does the moon and the cool water of the swimming pool have on him?4) What kind of coastline does he like? Why?5) Who is in charge of the lighthouse? Does he like his job?6) Why does Edmund Carr like islands?7) Why does he say: "God, is there no escape from suffering and sin? "8) What is the 'green flash'?Ⅱ. Paraphrase:1) The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs2) Or maybe Laura's unwitting influence has called it out.3) Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane.4) And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colours of sunsets!5) I want my fill of beauty before I go.6) Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leavingthe confessional after the solemnity of absolution.7) there is a touch of rough poetry about him8) I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence9) I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonel's otherwise not very interesting mind.10) This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.Ⅲ.Translate the following into Chinese:1) What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high alti tudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura's character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome.2) In all this serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves, 'the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, ' and doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does happen from time to time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range , lonely, unblemished, re mote. Does one like islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me suck a queer sensation to reflect that that island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral) and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me.IV. Look up the dictionary for the following loan words. Try to find out from what languages they are borrowed and then put theminto Chinese.Model: creme de menthe-- (法) 薄荷酒1) ad hoe 2) blitzkrieg3) skoal 4) charg6 d'affairs5) concerto 6) coup d'dtat7) d6eor 8) detente9) hors d oeurves 10) intermezzo11) kimono 12) kowtow13) kulak 14) macho15) smorgasbord 16) status quo17) fiesta 18) rajah19) emir 20)eurekaⅤ.Make sentences with the following words using the parts of speech indicated in the brackets:1) fill (v. n. ) 6) range (n. v. )2) ripple (n. v. ) 7) beach (n. v. )3) marble (n. v. ) 8) catch (v. n. )4 ) pile (n. v. ) 9) hump (n. v. )5) touch (v. n. ) 10) obscure (adj. v. )Ⅵ.pick out from the text all th e words and phrases describing colours.Ⅶ.Replace the italicized words with simple, everyday words or expressions"1) and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner ( )2) prefacing his remarks by 'Of course it's not for me to suggest to you' ( )3) I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane. ( )4) I once flattered myself that I was an adult man. ( )5) or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach ( )6) So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground ( )7) Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent gleam of a lighthouse on a solitary promontory. ( )8) which he imparts from time to time without insistence ( )9) and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand ( )10) We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill ( ) ( )11) ‘ Vicious viridian’ I say, not to be outdone. ( )12) I would never have believed in the simplde bliss of being, day after day, at sea. ( )Ⅷ. Replace the italicized words or phrases with specific words that appear in the text:1) The teacher tends to fill us with too many facts. ( )2) As the policemen approached on horseback, the demonstratorswent away quickly in different directions. ( )3) The thief moved stealthily along the corridor. ( )4) The detective inspected the room and wrote somethinghastily in his notebook. ( )5) Prices went up rapidly when the war broke out. ( )6) There is more and more work for me. ( )7.)Some idlers were standing about in a lazy way at the street corner. ( )8) After the tide went back, the kids began to pick shells on the shore. ( )9) On hearing the shot, he quickly put out his hand and took the gun lying on the table. ( )10) She struck him on the face with the palm of her hand. ( )Ⅸ.Point out the metaphors, similes and alliterations used in the text.Ⅹ.Point out the f igures of speech used in the following sentences:1) in the evening she wears soft rich colours ( )2) he says he used to read me ( )3) I want my fill of beauty before I go. ( )4) The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. ( )5) and the cool support of the water ( )6) I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be oneof the loneliest, most forbidding spots on earth. ( )7) and the sky a tender palette of pink and blue ( )8) I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South ( )9) And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. ( )10) but above all I love these long purposeless days in whichI shed all that I have ever been. ( )Ⅺ. Choose the right word from the list given below for each blank. Pay attention to the correct combinations of adverbs and adjectives.disappointed simple beautifulconscious close highobvious inadequate beatenignorant impartial confidentinterested clear jealousexaggerated1) A referee should always try to be strictly __2) The answer is laughably __ when you think it over.3) The rate of income-tax in this country is astronomically4) He was insanely __ of his brother's success. 5) Thechildren played on, blissfully __ of their parents' death. 6) Our host made it painfully __ that we should leave.7) The casualties in the war have been grossly __8) The team played badly and were soundly __9) It was abundantly __ to everyone that he had something on his mind.10) Just before the exam, he appeared to be supremely __ of Success.11) He was bitterly __ when he heard the result.12)The roads are woefully __ and simply can’t meet today’s requirements?13)The bullet passed uncomfortably __ to his head.14)Jim is keenly__ in collecting stamp。
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In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way oft with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.在餐厅里，我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。
o Signposts in the SeaIn the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way off with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.The tall Colonel whose name is Dalrymple seems a nice chap. He and I and Laura and a Chinese woman improbably galled Mme Merveille have made up a Bridge-tour and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner while others dance on deck. The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire-builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs; he says he used to read me, and is rather charmingly deferential, prefacing his remarks by “Of course it’s not for me to suggest to you…” and then proceeding to tell me exactly how he thinks some topical item of our dome, the or foreign policy should be handled. He is by no means stupid or ill-informed; a little opinionated perhaps, and just about as far to the Right as anybody could go, but I like him, and try not to tease him by putting forward views which would only bring a puzzled look to his face. Besides, I do not want to become involved in discussion. I observe with amusement how totally the concerns of the world, which once absorbed me to the exclusion of all else except an occasional relaxation with poetry or music, have lost interest for me eve to the extent of a bored distaste. Doubtless some instinct impels me gluttonously to cram these the last weeks of my life with the gentler things I never had time for, releasing some suppressed inclination which in fact was always latent. Or maybe Laura’s unwitting influence has called it out.Dismissive as Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane. Protests about damage to natural beauty froze me with contempt, for I believed in progress and could spare no regrets for a lake dammed into hydraulic use for the benefit of an industrial city in the Midlands. And so it was for all things. A hard materialism was my creed, accepted as a law of progress; any ascription of disinterested motives aroused not only my suspicion but my scorn.And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colour s of sunsets! I once flattered myself that I was an adult man; I now perceive that I am gloriously and adolescently silly. A new Clovis, loving what I have despised, and suffering from calf-love into the bargain, I want my till of beauty before I go. Geographically I did not care and scarcely know where I am. There are no signposts in the sea.The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. Not a star but might not shoot down and accept the invitation to become her lover. When all my fellow-passengers have finally dispersed to bed, I creep up again to the deserted deck and slip into the swimming pool and float, no longer what people believe me to be, a middle-aged journalist taking a holiday on an ocean-going liner, but a liberated being, bathed in mythological waters, an Endymion young and strong, with a god for his father and a vision of theworld inspired from Olympus. All weight is lifted from my limbs; 1 am one with the night; I understand the meaning of pantheism. How my friends would laugh if they knew I had come to this! To have discarded , as I believe, all usual frailties , to have become incapable of envy, ambition, malice , the desire to score off my neighbour, to enjoy this purification even as I enjoy the clean voluptuousness of the warm breeze on my skin and the cool support of the water. Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.Sometimes Laura and I lean over the taffrail, and that is happiness. It may be by daylight, looking at the sea, rippled with little white ponies, or with no ripples at all but on-ly the lazy satin of blue, marbled at the edge where the passage of our ship has disturbed it. Or it may be at night, when the sky surely seems blacker than ever at home and the stars more golden. I recall a phrase from the diary of a half-literate soldier, “The stars seemed little cuts in the black cover, through which a bright beyond was seen.” Sometimes these untaught scribblers have a way of putting things.The wireless told us today that there is fog all over England.Sometimes we follow a coastline, it may be precipitous bluffs of grey limestone rising sheer out of the sea, or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach, and no sign of habitation, very bleached and barren. These coasts remind me of people; either they are forbidding and unapproachable , or else they present no mystery and show all they have to give at a glance, you feel the country would continue to be flat and featureless however far you penetrated inland. What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high altitudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s Character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome.My fellow-passengers apparently do not share my admiration.“Drearee sorter cowst,” said an Australian. “Makes you Iong for a bit of green.”Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent g1eam of a 1iahthouse on a solitary promontory.We rounded just such a cape towards sunset, the most easterly point of a continent, dramatically high and lonely, a great purple mountain overhung by a great purple cloud. The sea had turned to a corresponding dusk of lavender. Aloof and on the top, the yellow 1iaht revolved, steady, warning; I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be one of the loneliest, most forbidding spots on Earth. Haunted too, for many wrecks had piled up on the reefs in the past, when there was no beacon to guide them.The Colonel joined us.“How would you care for that man’s job?” he said.“I suppose he gets relieved every so often?”“On the contrary, he refuses ever to leave. He is an Italian, and he has been there for years and years, with a native woman for his only company. Most people would think him crazy, but I must say I find it refreshing to think there are still a few odd fish left in the world.”This is the unexpected kind of remark that makes me like the Colonel; there is a touch of roughpoetry about him. I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence; he has traveled much, and has used his eyes and kept his ears open. I have discovered also that he knows quite a lot about sea-birds; he puts me right about the different sorts of gull, and tells me very nicely that that couldn’t possibly be an albatross, not in these waters. The albatross, it appears, follows a ship only to a certain latitude and then turns back; it knows how far it should go and no farther. How wise is the albatross! We might all take a lesson from him, knowing the latitude we can permit ourselves. Thus, and no farther, can I foIlow Laura. I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonel’s otherwise not very interesting mind. Laura likes him too, and although I prefer having her to myself I don’t really resent it when he lounges up to make a third.In all this great serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves; the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does happen from time to “Time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range, lonely, unblemished, remote. Does one like islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me such a queer sensation to reflect that that island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me. It is the same sensation as I have experienced in looking at a photograph of, say, some river valley of innermost China, and seen a boulder, and thought that if I could find myself transported to that spot I could touch the reality of that particular piece of rock ... It is there. For me. I could sit on that very boulder. I explain myself badly, and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand, but of such incommunicable quirks is the private mind made up.Well, the islands. I divert myself by inventing the life upon them, and am amused to find my imagination always turning towards the idyllic. This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance. If we have seen a skiff sailing close in shore, I follow the fisherman as he beaches his craft in the little cove and gives a cry like a sea-bird to announce his coming. His woman meets him; they are young, and their skins of a golden-brown; she takes his catch from him. In their plaited hut there is nothing but health and love.One night we passed two islands, steeply humped against faint reflected moonlight; and on each of them, high up, shone a steady yellow gleam.“Not lighthouses.” I said to Laura. “Villages.”We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill, never to be seen by us again. So peaceful and secret; so self-contained.One of the ship’s officers joined us, off duty.“Yes,” he said, following our gaze. “‘One of them is a leper colony and the other a penal settlement.”God, is there no escape from suffering and sin?Laura and I amuse ourselves by watching for the green flash which comes at the instant the sundisappears below the line of the horizon. This does not happen every day, for sky must be entirely clear of cloud and clouds seem very liable to gather along the path of the setting sun, but we are as pleased as children when our game succeeds. Laura claps her hands. Only a second does it last, that streak of green light; we wait for it while the red ball, cut in half as though by a knife, sinks to its daily doom . Then come the twilight colours of sea and heaven (we have discovered the fallacy of saying that darkness falls suddenly in these latitudes, at any rate on sea level), the wine pink width of water merging into lawns of aquamarine, and the sky a tender of pink and blue. But the green flash is our chief delight.“creme de menthe ,” says Laura.“Jade,” I say.“Emerald,” says Laura. “Jade is too opaque.”“icious viridian,” I say, not to be outdone.“You always did lose yourself in the pleasure of words.”“Edmund, say green as jealousy and be done with it.”“I have never known the meaning of jealousy.”I am sorry to see the sun go, for one of the pleasures I have discovered is the warmth of his touch on my skin. At home in London I never noticed the weather, unless actually inconvenienced by fog or rain; I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South and understood little when people spoke or wrote of sunlight on white walls. Now the indolence of southern latitudes has captured me. I like to see dusky men sitting about doing nothing. I like the footfall of naked feet in the dust, silent as a oat passing. I like turning a corner from the shade of a house into the full torrid glare of an open space. I put my hand on metal railings and snatch it away, burnt. But it is seldom that I go ashore.I would never have believed in the simple bliss of being, day after day, at sea. Our ports of call are few, and when they do occur I resent them. I should like this empty existence to be prolonged beyond calculation. In the ship’s library stands a large globe whose function so far as I am concerned is to reveal the proportion of ocean to the landmasses of the troubled would; the Pacific alone dwarfs all the continents put together. Blue, the colour of peace. And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. I have been exhilarated by two days of storm, but above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.(from o Signposts in the Se a, 1961)。
高级英语L e s s o n15 N o S i g n p o s t s i n t h e S e a课后练习及答案EXERCISES 15Ⅰ. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr get by observing Laura without her knowing it? What compliment does he pay her?2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty? Was he always like that?3) What effect does the moon and the cool water of the swimming pool have on him?4) What kind of coastline does he like? Why?5) Who is in charge of the lighthouse? Does he like his job?6) Why does Edmund Carr like islands?7) Why does he say: "God, is there no escape from suffering and sin? "8) What is the 'green flash'?Ⅱ. Paraphrase:1) The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs2) Or maybe Laura's unwitting influence has called it out.3) Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane.4) And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colours of sunsets!5) I want my fill of beauty before I go.6) Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leavingthe confessional after the solemnity of absolution.7) there is a touch of rough poetry about him8) I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence9) I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonel's otherwise not very interesting mind.10) This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.Ⅲ.Translate the following into Chinese:1) What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high alti tudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura's character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome.2) In all this serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves, 'the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, ' and doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does happen from time to time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range , lonely, unblemished, re mote. Does one like islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me suck a queer sensation to reflect that that island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral) and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me.IV. Look up the dictionary for the following loan words. Try to find out from what languages they are borrowed and then put theminto Chinese.Model: creme de menthe-- (法) 薄荷酒1) ad hoe 2) blitzkrieg3) skoal 4) charg6 d'affairs5) concerto 6) coup d'dtat7) d6eor 8) detente9) hors d oeurves 10) intermezzo11) kimono 12) kowtow13) kulak 14) macho15) smorgasbord 16) status quo17) fiesta 18) rajah19) emir 20)eurekaⅤ.Make sentences with the following words using the parts of speech indicated in the brackets:1) fill (v. n. ) 6) range (n. v. )2) ripple (n. v. ) 7) beach (n. v. )3) marble (n. v. ) 8) catch (v. n. )4 ) pile (n. v. ) 9) hump (n. v. )5) touch (v. n. ) 10) obscure (adj. v. )Ⅵ.pick out from the text all th e words and phrases describing colours.Ⅶ.Replace the italicized words with simple, everyday words or expressions"1) and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner ( )2) prefacing his remarks by 'Of course it's not for me to suggest to you' ( )3) I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane. ( )4) I once flattered myself that I was an adult man. ( )5) or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach ( )6) So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground ( )7) Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent gleam of a lighthouse on a solitary promontory. ( )8) which he imparts from time to time without insistence ( )9) and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand ( )10) We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill ( ) ( )11) ‘ Vicious viridian’ I say, not to be outdone. ( )12) I would never have believed in the simplde bliss of being, day after day, at sea. ( )Ⅷ. Replace the italicized words or phrases with specific words that appear in the text:1) The teacher tends to fill us with too many facts. ( )2) As the policemen approached on horseback, the demonstratorswent away quickly in different directions. ( )3) The thief moved stealthily along the corridor. ( )4) The detective inspected the room and wrote somethinghastily in his notebook. ( )5) Prices went up rapidly when the war broke out. ( )6) There is more and more work for me. ( )7.)Some idlers were standing about in a lazy way at the street corner. ( )8) After the tide went back, the kids began to pick shells on the shore. ( )9) On hearing the shot, he quickly put out his hand and took the gun lying on the table. ( )10) She struck him on the face with the palm of her hand. ( )Ⅸ.Point out the metaphors, similes and alliterations used in the text.Ⅹ.Point out the f igures of speech used in the following sentences:1) in the evening she wears soft rich colours ( )2) he says he used to read me ( )3) I want my fill of beauty before I go. ( )4) The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. ( )5) and the cool support of the water ( )6) I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be oneof the loneliest, most forbidding spots on earth. ( )7) and the sky a tender palette of pink and blue ( )8) I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South ( )9) And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. ( )10) but above all I love these long purposeless days in whichI shed all that I have ever been. ( )Ⅺ. Choose the right word from the list given below for each blank. Pay attention to the correct combinations of adverbs and adjectives.disappointed simple beautifulconscious close highobvious inadequate beatenignorant impartial confidentinterested clear jealousexaggerated1) A referee should always try to be strictly __2) The answer is laughably __ when you think it over.3) The rate of income-tax in this country is astronomically4) He was insanely __ of his brother's success. 5) Thechildren played on, blissfully __ of their parents' death. 6) Our host made it painfully __ that we should leave.7) The casualties in the war have been grossly __8) The team played badly and were soundly __9) It was abundantly __ to everyone that he had something on his mind.10) Just before the exam, he appeared to be supremely __ of Success.11) He was bitterly __ when he heard the result.12)The roads are woefully __ and simply can’t meet today’s requirements?13)The bullet passed uncomfortably __ to his head.14)Jim is keenly__ in collecting stamp。
No Signposts in the Sea一、In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men, Laura sits some way off with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures,①whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or②turns with a remark to one of her neighbors or takes a cigarette from her casewith those slender fingers（loose sentense松散句）.I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shinyin the tropical heat; in the evening, she wears soft rich colors（metonymy借代）, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said. I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.PS：①soft：ADJ Something that is soft is very gentle and has no force. For example, a soft sound or voice is quiet and not harsh. A soft light or colour is pleasant to look at because it is not bright. (声音、光线或色彩) 柔和的；②rich:Rich smells are strong and very pleasant. Rich colours and sounds are deep and very pleasant. 浓郁的(气味); 浓厚的(色彩)因此soft和rich这里的修辞手法是：oxymoron n. （修词中的）矛盾修饰法在餐厅里我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。
高级英语no-signposts-in-the-sea翻译讲课稿In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way oft with a married couple and their daughter.I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.在餐厅里，我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。
N o S i g n p o s t s i n t h e S e aBackground Information1. About the authorVictoria Mary Sackville- West (1892-1962) was an English poet and novelist, a member of the Bloomsbury group【布鲁姆伯利(英国伦敦中北部的居住区, 因在20世纪初期与知识界的人物, 包括弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫、E.M.福斯特及约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯的关系而闻名于世)】, an informal group of literary and artistic friends, a close friend of Virginia Woolf.Her poems include The Land (1926), Solitude (1938), The Garden (1946), All Passion Spent (1931).Her poetry is traditional in form, reminiscent（怀旧的，使人想起的）of the work of the English nature poets of the age of romanticism.A prolific（多产的）writer, Victoria Sackville-West is the author of15 novels, as well as biographies and travel books.2. About the novel No Signposts in the SeaThis novel is writen in the form of a journal kept by a man called Edmund Carr, 50, an influential political columnist and bachelor. He learns that he has a limited time to live--- a few days or weeks, a month or two at most. How shall he spend them? In this quandary（dilemma）, he learns that a widow who he has lately met at random （unplanned/unexpected）social occasions has booked passage on a cruise(漫游) to the Far East. Her qualities, her intelligence and warmth stiffened（strengthened）by a deep reserve（矜持coolness of manner or emotional retraint）, have struck him as uncommon; he decided to be abroad. His contact with Laura, the widow, gives Carr an unfamiliar peace and a profound change in perspective ( particular evaluation of sth. , especially from one person’s point of view). Power, prestige(威望、威信), practicality（state of being practical）--- the former watchwords of his career--- lose their ring （echo）. Illusion, which he had adhered（追随）, and the natural world, uninvaded by civilization, begin to seem transcendent（超然的、超验的independent of the world or beyond the limits of experience）. 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高级英语no-signposts-in-the-sea翻译讲课稿In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way oft with a married couple and their daughter.I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.在餐厅里，我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。
EXERCISES 15
Ⅻ.Translate the following into English(using the following words or expressions： to have an eye for， to recede，to relieve a touch of， to read sb， to venture， to take to， if not…，to the exclusion of，to pile up，to beguile with)：
1)他对水彩画很有鉴赏能力。
He has a good eye for water-colours.
2)女儿大胆地表示不同意父母对她婚事的安排。
The daughter ventured to object to her parents's arrangement of her marriage.
3)由于贫困的逼迫，他开始进行偷窃活动。
Pressed by poverty, he took to stealing.
4)在旅途中，我看小说，以消磨时间。
My long journey was beguiled with novels.
5)我想你一定读过马克?吐温的书。
I suppose you have read Mark Twain.
6)他的全部注意力都集中在这个问题上，而不顾其他的问题。
He concentrated all his attention on this problem to the exclusion of all others.
7)不立刻做出正确的决定将会使整个事情很困难，如果不是不可能的话。
Failure to make the right decision at once will make the whole thing very difficult if not impossible.
8)问题堆积如山，我们必须尽快地解决。
Our problems are piling up. We must solve them as quickly as we can.
9)哨兵每四个小时换一次岗。
The sentries are relieved every four hours.
10)他的话里带有一点讽刺的味道
There was a touch of irony in his remark.
11)童年的回忆渐渐淡漠了。
Memories of childhood are gradually receding.。
