第四讲词义的选择、引伸与褒贬课后作业
一、试译一下各句，注意根据right 在句中的词类来确定它的词义：
1.It is not right for children to sit up late.
孩子们睡得晚不好。（形容词）
2.The plane was right above our heads.
飞机正好在我们头顶上。（副词）
3.In the negative, right and left, and black and white are reversed.
照片底片上，左右黑白与正片恰好相反。（名词）
4.She tried her best to right her husband from the charge of robbery.
她尽力为她丈夫被控抢劫伸冤。（及物动词）
二、试译下列各句，注意根据上下文及搭配关系来确定斜体词的词
义：
1.account for:
1) He is ill; that accounts for his absence.
他病了，这就是他缺席的原因。
2) In this battle he accounted for five of the enemy.
他在这场战斗中消灭了五个敌人。
3) I want you to account for every cent you spent.
我要你把花费的每分钱都交代清楚。
2.make up
1)If the stove isn’t made up, it will go out.
如不添煤，炉子就会熄灭。
2)There isn’t any girl called Clementine. He’s just made her up.
根本没有个叫克莱门蒂的姑娘，全是他捏造出来的。
3)Half the roads in the region are still to be made up.
这地区的路面有一半还没有修好。
4)Society is made up of people with widely differing abilities.
社会是由具有迥然不同的能力的人组成的。
5)It took Laurence Oliver more than an hour to make up for the part of
“Othello”.
扮演“奥赛罗”这个角色，劳伦斯奥利维花了一个多小时来化装。
6)They made up a bed on the sofa for the unexpected visitor.
他们把沙发收拾一下，让这位不速之客睡。
7)We have to drive fast to make up the hour we lost in Boston.
我们不得不加快车速，以弥补在波士顿所耽误的的时间。3.figure
1)The foreign trade has risen to unprecedented figures.
对外贸易的数字由了空前的增长。
2)Dr. Eliot was one of the most revered figures in the world of
learning.
埃利奥特博士是学术界最受尊敬的人物之一。
3)On the desk there was a bronze figure of Plato.
书桌上有一尊柏拉图的铜像。
4)He saw dim figures moving towards him.
他隐隐约约看见一些人影在向他跟前移动。
5)June was good at figure skating.
琼善于花式滑冰。
三、试译下列各句，注意根据上下文及逻辑关系对斜体词做进一步
引伸。
1.There was no provocation for such an angry letter.
写这样一封生气的信简直是毫无道理。
2.Fatty’s Restaurant had become an institution in his life in the last
seven years.
去“发体餐厅”就餐，7年来已成为他生活中惯常的事情。
3.The trunk was big and awkward and loaded with books. But his case
was a different proposition.
那个箱子又大又笨重，装的都是书，不过他随身带的箱子却是另一回事。
4.The wedding, which Heyward still remembered with pride, was
attended by a Who’s Who of Boston Society.
参加婚礼的有波士顿社会名流，赫华德想到这次婚礼时，仍然感到非常得意。
5.The invention of machinery had brought into the world a new era—the
Industrial Age. Money had become King.
机器德发明使世界进入了一个新纪元即工业时代，金钱成了主宰一切的权威。
四、试译下列各句，注意根据上下文来确定斜体词的褒贬：
1.It was mid-August and the subject for discussion was the future of
Rommel and his African corps..
当时是八月中旬，他们讨论德题目是隆美尔及其非洲军团德的下场。
2.They predicted the youth would have a bright future.
他们预言，这个年轻人会有一个锦绣前程。
3.John was an aggressive salesman who did his job quite well.
约翰是个积极肯干德推销员，他工作得很出色。
4.Hitler pursued an aggressive policy after he seized power.
希特勒夺取了政权后就推行侵略政策。
