大学英语精读课文翻译十单元

大学英语精读第三版第三册Book3Unit1~Unit10课后翻译答案Unit1 翻译1) 发言人（spokesman）明确表示总统在任何情况下都不会取消（cancel）这次旅行。

The spokesman made it clear that the President would not cancel the trip under any circumstances.2) 杰克对书架上那些书一本也不了解，所以他的选择是很随意的。

Jack didn't know anything about any of the books on the bookshelf, so his choice was quite arbitrary.3) 随后发生的那些事件再次证明了我的猜疑（suspicions）是对的。

(confirm)The subsequent events confirmed my suspicions once again.4) 我认为我们应该鼓励中学生在暑假找临时工作。

I think we should encourage high school students to find temporary jobs / employment during their summer holidays.5) 令我们吃惊的是，这位常被赞为十分正直的州长（governor）竟然是个贪官（corrupt official）。

To our surprise, the governor who had often been praised for his honesty turned out to be a corrupt official.6) 少数工人得到提升（be promoted），与此同时却有数百名工人被解雇。

A few workers were promoted, but meanwhile hundreds of workers were dismissed.7) 如果有机会，约翰也许已成为一位杰出的画家了。

大学英语精读6-10课后翻译大学英语精读2（6—10单元课后翻译）Unit61)只要你不断努力，你迟早会解决这个难题的。

If / As long as you keep (on) trying, you will be able to resolve this difficult problem sooner or later.2)我们预料我们的计划会受到抵制(resistance)。

We anticipate encountering / that we will encounter resistance to our plan / our plan will meet with resistance.3）吉姆的朋友说，他们那个城市的噪音污染十分严重，但是他们只好忍着。

Jim's friends said that the noise pollution in their city was terrible, but they had to live with it.3)汤姆起初认为，凭他的知识、技术和经验，一定能够找到一份称心如意的工作。

At first Tom thought that with his knowledge, skill and experience he was bound to find a satisfactory job.4)冷静耐心地处理这个微妙(delicate) 问题是明智的。

It would be wise / advisable to handle this delicate problem with calmness and patience5)迪克以为，如果他拆不开那台机器，那么很可能厂里别的工人也拆不开。

Dick thought that if he wasn't able to take the machine apart, chances were that no other worker in the plant could, either.6)你是否认为公共汽车司机应对乘客的安全负完全的责任？Do you think bus drivers should take full responsibility for the passengers' safety?7)你不必再去多想那些判断上的失误了。

课文翻译（Unit1——10）第一单元Translation of Text A半日1我走在父亲的一侧，牢牢地抓着他的右手。

我身上穿的，戴的全是新的：黑鞋子，绿校服，红帽子。

然儿我一点儿也高兴不起来，因为今天我将第一次被扔到学校里去。

2母亲站在窗前望着我们缓缓前行，我也不时的回头看她，希望她会救我。

我们沿着街道走着，街道两旁是花园和田野，田野里栽满了梨树和椰枣树。

3“我为什么要去上学？”我问父亲，“是我做错了什么了吗？”4“我不是在惩罚你，”父亲笑着说道，“上学不是一种惩罚。

学校是把孩子培养成才的地方。

难道你不想象你哥哥们那样，成为一个有用的人吗？”5我不相信他的话。

我才不相信把我从家里拽出来，扔进那个大大的，高墙围绕的建筑里对我有什么真正的好处呢。

6到了学校门口，我们看到了宽阔的庭院，站满了孩子。

“自己进去吧，”我父亲说，“加入他们。

笑一笑，给其他的孩子做个好榜样。

”7我紧抓着父亲的手，犹豫不决。

但是父亲却把我轻轻地推开了。

“拿出点男子气概来，”他说，“从今天起你就要真正开始自己的生活了。

放学时我会在这等你的。

”8我走了几步，便看见了一些孩子的面孔。

他们中我一个也不认识。

他们也没有一个认识我的。

我感觉自己像是一个迷了路的陌生人。

然而这时有些男孩开始好奇的打量我，其中一个走过来问到，“谁带你来的？”9“我爸爸”我小声说道。

10“我爸爸死了，”他简短地说。

11我不知道该说些什么。

这时学校的门已经关上了，有些孩子哭了起来。

接着，铃响了，一位女士走了过来，后面跟着一群男人。

那些人把我们排成几行。

使我们形成一个错综复杂的队行，站在那四周高楼耸立的院子里。

每层楼都有长长的阳台，阳台上带有木制顶棚，从阳台上可以俯视到我们。

12“这是你们的新家，”那位女士说道，“这儿有你们的父母。

一切能带给你们快乐，对你们有益的事物，这儿都有。

因此擦干你们的眼泪，快快乐乐地面对生活。

”13这样看来我之前的顾虑都是毫无根据的了。

大学英语精读第三版(上海外语教育出版社董亚芬主编)第一册Book1Unit1~Unit10 翻译答案Unit1 翻译1) 史密斯太太对我抱怨说，她经常发现与自己十六岁的女儿简直无法沟通。

Mrs. Smith complained to me that she often found it simply impossible to communicate with her 16-year-old daughter.2) 我坚信，阅读简写的 (simplified) 英文小说是扩大我们词汇量的一种轻松愉快的方法。

I firmly believe that reading simplified English novels is an easy and enjoyable way of enlarging our vocabulary.3) 我认为我们在保护环境不受污染 (pollution) 方面还做得不够。

I don’t think we’re doing enough to protect our environment from pollution.4) 除了每周写作文外，我们的英语老师还给我们布置了八本书在暑假里阅读。

In addition to/Apart from writing compositions on a weekly basis, our English teacher assigned us eight books to read during the summer vacation.5) 我们从可靠的消息来源获悉下学期一位以英语为母语的人将要教我们英语口语。

We’ve learned from reliable sources that a native English speaker is going to teach us spoken English next term/semester.6) 经常看英语电影不仅会提高你的听力，而且还会帮助你培养说的技能。

Pre-class Work1 ) Give the nouns of the following.(1) conquest (5) block/blockage (9) conversion(2) guffaw (6) restraint (10) inhabitation(3) satire (7) flattery (11) complexity(4) emulation (8) procurement (12) generosity2) Give the verbs of the following.(1) to inquire (4) to store (7) to acclaim(2) to squat (5) to perish (8) to elaborate(3) to sweat (6) to fortifyMore Work on the Text II V ocabulary1.7)From Chinese into English．(1)to scratch each other’S backs (9)to inhabit that island(2)to do business with that country (10)tO admire thei_r courage(3)Publish or perish．(11)to neglect one’S duty(4)to found a new religion (12)to escape the consequences(5)to convert RMB into foreign currency (13)to erase it from one’S memory(6)to seek the truth ．(14)tO take command(7)to discard the old traditions (15)to block one’S way(8)to satirize human vanity(16)to ruin one’S reputation2)From English into Chinese．(1)年久失修的防御工事(8>当前的风云人物(2)(美国历史上的)擅自占用土地的人(9)英雄人物所搭的I艋时简陋房子，(10)一种带有历史使命感的神态(3)储物缸。

UNIT 10TEXTAre we too quick to blame and slow to praise? It seems we are.Profits of PraiseIt was the end of my exhausting first day as waitress in a busy New York restaurant. My cap had gone awry, my apron was stained, my feet ached. The loaded trays I carried felt heavier and heavier. Weary and discouraged, I didn't seem able to do anything right. As I made out a complicated check for a family with several children who had changed their ice-cream order a dozen times, I was ready to quit.Then the father smiled at me as he handed me my tip. "Well done," he said. "You've looked after us really well."Suddenly my tiredness vanished. I smiled back, and later, when the manager asked me how I'd liked my first day, I said, "Fine!" Those few words of praise had changed everything.Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellows the warm sunshine of praise.Why - when one word can bring such pleasure? A friend of mine who travels widely always tries to learn a little of the language of any place she visits. She's not much of a linguist, but she does know how to say one word - "beautiful" - in several languages. She can use it to a mother holding her baby, or to lonely salesman fishing out pictures of his family. The ability has earned her friends all over the world.It's strange how chary we are about praising. Perhaps it's because few of us know how to accept compliments gracefully. Instead, we are embarrassed and shrug off the words we are really so glad to hear. Because of this defensive reaction, direct compliments are surprisingly difficult to give. That is why some of the most valued pats on the back are those which come to us indirectly, in a letter or passed on by a friend. When one thinks of the speed with which spiteful remarks are conveyed, it seems a pity that there isn't more effort to relay pleasing and flattering comments.It's especially rewarding to give praise in areas in which effort generally goes unnoticed or unmentioned. An artist gets complimented for a glorious picture, a cook for a perfect meal. But do you ever tell you laundry manager how pleased you are when the shirts are done just right? Do you ever praise your paper boy for getting the paper to you on time 365 days a year?Praise is particularly appreciated by those doing routine jobs: gas-station attendants, waitresses - even housewives. Do you ever go into a house and say, "What a tidy room"? Hardly anybody does. That's why housework is considered such a dreary grind. Comment is often made about activities which are relatively easy and satisfying, like arranging flowers; but not about jobs which are hard and dirty, like scrubbing floors. Shakespeare said, "Our praises are our wages." Since so often praise is the only wage a housewife receives, surely she of all people should get her measure.Mothers know instinctively that for children an ounce of praise is worth a pound of scolding. Still, we're not always as perceptive as we might be about applying the rule. One day I wascriticizing my children for squabbling. "Can you never play peacefully?" I shouted. Susanna looked at me quizzically. "Of course we can," she said. "But you don't notice us when we do."Teachers agree about the value of praise. One teacher writes that instead of drowning students' compositions in critical red ink, the teacher will get far more constructive results by finding one or two things which have been done better than last time, and commenting favorably on them. "I believe that a student knows when he has handed in something above his usual standard," writes the teacher, "and that he waits hungrily for a brief comment in the margin to show him that the teacher is aware of it, too."Behavioral scientists have done countless experiments to prove that any human being tends to repeat an act which has been immediately followed by a pleasant result. In one such experiment, a number of schoolchildren were divided into three groups and given arithmetic tests daily for five days. One group was consistently praised for its previous performance; another group was criticized; the third was ignored.Not surprisingly, those who were praised improved dramatically. Those who were criticized improved also, bus not so much. And the scores of the children who were ignored hardly improved at all. Interestingly the brightest children were helped just as much by criticism as by praise, but the less able children reacted badly to criticism, needed praise the most. Yet the latter are the very youngsters who, in most schools, fail to get the pat on the back.To give praise costs the giver nothing but a moment's thought and a moment's effort - perhaps a quick phone call to pass on a compliment, or five minutes spent writing an appreciative letter. It is such a small investment - and yet consider the results it may produce. "I can live for two months on a good compliment," said Mark Twain.So, let's be alert to the small excellences around us - and comment on them. We will not only bring joy into other people's lives, but also, very often, added happiness into out own.NEW WORDSprofitn. advantage or good obtained from sth... money gained in business 益处；利润exhaustvt. tire out 使筋疲力尽waitressn. woman waiterawrya. with a turn to one side 歪；斜apronn. 围裙stainvt. make dirty marks on 玷污loadvt. put a full amount of things on or in (sth.) 装满trayn. 托盘wearya. very tired 厌倦的，厌烦的discouragevt. cause to lose courage or confidence 使泄气，使灰心ice-creamn. 冰淇淋dozenn. twelve （一）打quitv. stop (doing sth.) and leave 离（职），不干sunlightn. light of the sun; sunshinehumana. of or concerning peopleapplyvt. 运用，实施applicationn.somehowad. for some reacon or other; in some way or other 不知怎么地，以某种方式reluctanta. unwilling 不情愿的；勉强的sunshinen. light of the sunlinguistn. person who is good at foreign languages; person who studies the science of language 通晓数国语言的人；语言学家salesmann. man whose work is selling a company's goods to businesses, homes, etc. 推销员earnvt. get in return for work or as a reward for one's qualities, etc. 挣得，赢得charya. careful; cautious 谨慎小心的complimentn. praise 赞美（话）vt. praise 赞美gracefullyad. 大大方方地；优美地gracefula.embarrassvt. make awkward or ashamed 使尴尬defensivea. 防御surprisinglyas. in a surprising manner or degreepatn. tap made with the open hand 轻拍v. tap gently with the open handindirectlyad. in an indirect way 间接地indirecta.spitefula. having or showing ill will 恶意的conveyvt. make (ideas, views, feelings, etc.) know to another person 转达，传达relayvt. 传送；传达flattervt. praise too much; praise insincerely (in order to please) 过奖；谄媚，奉承commentn. opinion, explanation or judgment written or spoken about an event, book, person, state of affairs, etc. 评论vi. make comments (on); give opinionsrewardinga. worthwhile; worth doing; giving a reward to 值得（做）的；报答的rewardvt.generallyad. usually 通常，一般地artistn. person who practises or works in one of the fine arts, esp. painting 画家，艺术家gloriousa. splendid 辉煌的laundryn. 洗衣店appreciatevt. understand and enjoy; be thankful for 欣赏，鉴赏；感谢，感激routinea. not unusual or exciting; regular 常规的，例行的gas-stationn. 加油站attendantn. 服务人员tidya. neatly arranged 整洁的，整齐的houseworkn. work done on taking care of a house 家务劳动drearya. dull and uninteresting 沉闷乏味的grindn. hard uninteresting work 苦差使scrubvt. clean by rubbing hard, esp. with a stiff brush 擦洗wagen. (pl.) 工资，报酬measuren. am adequate or due portion 份儿instinctivelyad. 本能地scoldvt. blame with angry words 申诉，怒骂perceptivea. 感觉灵敏的criticizevt. 批评squabblevi. quarrel, esp. noisily and unreasonably 争吵，口角peacefullyad. in a peaceful manner; quietly 安静地peacefula.quizzicallyad. 嘲弄地；疑惑地drownvt. cover completely with water; cause (sb.) to die by keeping under water 淹没；使（某人）淹死criticala. fault-finding 挑剔的，苛求的constructivea. helping 建设性的favo(u)rablyad. helping 赞成地，称赞地favo(u)rablea.briefa. using a few words; shortmarginn. blank space round the printed or written matter on a page 页边的空白behaviorala. of or relating to behavior 行为的countlessa. too many to be countedarithmeticn. science of numbers 算术consistentlyad. 始终如一地；一贯地consistenta.previousa. coming earlier in time or order 以前的lgnorevt. not to take notice of, pay no attention to 不理,忽视dramaticallyad. strikingly 显著地dramatica.reactvi. respond 反应youngstern. young person, esp. a boyappreciativea. thankful; gratefulinvestmentn. 投资investv.alerta. watchful and keen 警觉的excellencen. an excellent or valuable quality; virtuePHRASRS & EXPRESSIONSmake outwrite out; complete or fill in 开出;填写only toovery 极,非常not much of anot a very good 不十分好的fish outbring out after searching 掏出shrug offdismiss as not deserving attention or as sth. unimportant 耸肩表示对...不屑理睬pat on the backword or gesture of praise or encouragement 赞扬;鼓励pass onconvey (to another) 传递live ondepend upon for support 靠...生活PROPER NAMESJanet Graham珍妮特.格雷厄姆Shakespeare莎士比亚Susanna苏珊娜Mark Twain马克.吐温。

1.Not very far from Naples, a strange city sleeps under the hot Italian sun. It is the city of Pompei i, and there is no other city quite like it in all the world. Nothing lives in Pompeii except crickets a nd beetles and lizards, yet every year thousands of people travel from distant countries to visit it.1. 在离那不勒斯不远的地方，一座奇特的小城寂静的沉睡在意大利炙热的骄阳之下。

那就是庞培城。

全世界再没有任何一个城市和庞培城相像。

在庞培城中，除了蟋蟀、甲虫和蜥蜴之外，别无其他生物，然而每年都有成千上万的人从不同国度不远万里前来参观。

2.Pompeii is a dead city. No one has lived there for nearly two thousand years----not since the su mmer of the year A.D. 79, to be exact.2.庞培是一座死城。

确切的说自从公元79年的那个夏天开始，两千年来没有人在这里生活过。

3.Until that year Pompeii was a prosperous city of 25,000 people. Nearby was the Bay of Naples, an arm of the blue Mediterranean. Rich men came down from wealthy Rome to build seaside vill as. Farmlands surrounded Pompeii. Rising behind the city was the 4000-foot Mount Vesuvius, a gr ass-covered slope where the shepherds of Pompeii took their goats to graze. Pompeii was a busy city and a happy one.3.直到那年夏天庞培成还是一座拥有25000人的繁荣城市，离那不远就是蓝色地中海之臂的那不勒斯湾。

Do animals think? How could the earth show so many signs of design and purpose and yet be random? Our best scientists are heatedly debating both sides of these and other scientific questions. In the following essay, the author takes a look at science education and argues that as well ass telling students the facts and theories that have already been proved and accepted, science teacher should spend more time introducing their students to the many mysteries that remain unsolved and the arguments taking place between scientists. What better way, he argues, to stimulate their interest in thing scientific? DEBATING THE UNKNOWABLELewis Thomas The greatest of all the accomplishment of twentieth-century science has been the discovery of human ignorance. We live, as never before, in puzzlement about nature, the universe, and ourselves most of all. It is a new experience for the species. A century ago, after the turbulence caused by Darwin and Wallace had subsided and the central idea of natural selection had been grasped and accepted, we thought we knew everything essential about evolution. In the eighteenth century there were no huge puzzles; human reason was all you needed in order to figure out the universe. And for most of the earlier centuries, the Church provided both the questions and the answers, neatly packaged. Now, for the first time in human history, we are catching glimpses of our incomprehension. We can still make up stories to explain the world, as we always have, but now the stories have to be confirmed and reconfirmed by experiment. This is the scientific method, and once started on this line we cannot turn back. We are obliged to grow up in skepticism, requiring proofs for every assertion about nature, and there is no way out except to move ahead and plug away, hoping for comprehension in the future but living in a condition of intellectual instability for the long time. It is the admission of ignorance that leads to progress, not so much because the solving of a particular puzzle leads directly to a new piece of understanding but because the puzzle —— if it interests enough scientists —— leads to work. There is a similar phenomenon in entomology know as stigmergy, a term invented by Grasse, which means "to incite to work." When three or four termites are collected together in a chamber they wander about aimlessly, but when more termites are added, they begin to build. It is the presence of other termites, in sufficient numbers at close quarters, that produces the work: they pick up each other's fecal pellets and stack them in neat columns, and when the columns are precisely the right height, the termites reach across and turn the perfect arches that form the foundation of the termitarium. No single termite knows how to do any of this, but as soon as there are enough termites gathered together they become flawless architects, sensing their distances from each other although blind, building an immensely complicated structure with its own air-conditioning and humidity control. They work their lives away in this ecosystem built by themselves. The nearest thing to a termitarium that I can think of in human behavior is the making of language, which we do by keeping at each other all our lives, generation after generation, changing the structure by some sort of instinct. Very little is understood about this kind of collective behavior. It is out of fashion these days to talk of "superorganisms", but there simply aren't enough reductionist details in hand to explain away the phenomenon of termites and other social insects: some very good guesses can be made about their chemical signaling systems, but the plain fact that they exhibit something like a collective intelligence is a mystery, or anyway an unsolved problem, that might contain important implications for social life in general. This mystery is the best introduction I can think of to biological science in college. It should be taught for its strangeness, and for the ambiguity of its meaning. It should be taught to premedical students, who need lessons early n their careers about the uncertainties in science. College students, and for that matter high school students, should be exposed very early, perhaps at the outset, to the big arguments currently going on among scientists. Big arguments stimulate their interest, and with luck engage their absorbed attention. Few things in life are as engrossing as a good fight between highly trained and skilled adversaries. But the young students are told very little about the major disagreements of the day; they may be taught something about the arguments between Darwinians and their opponents a century ago, but they do not realize that similar disputes about other matters, many of them touching profound issues for our understanding of nature, are still going on and, indeed, are an essential feature of the scientific process. There is, I fear, a reluctance on the part of science teachers to talk about such things, based on the belief that before students can appreciate what the arguments are about they must learn and master the "fundamentals". I would be willing to see some experiments along this line, and I have in mind several examples of contemporary doctrinal dispute in which the drift of the argument can be readily perceived without deep or elaborate knowledge of the subject. There is, for one, the problem of animal awareness. One school of ethologists devoted to the study of animal behavior has it that human beings are unique in the possession of consciousness, differing from al other creatures in being able to think things over, capitalize on past experience, and hazard informed guesses at the future. Other, "lower", animals （with possible exceptions made for chimpanzees, whales, and dolphins） cannot do such things with their minds; they live from moment to moment with brains that are programmed to respond, automatically or by conditioning, to contingencies in the environment, Behavioral psychologists believe that this automatic or conditioned response accounts for human mental activity as well, although they dislike that word "mental". On the other side are some ethologists who seems to be more generous-minded, who see no compelling reasons to doubt that animals in general are quite capable of real thinking and doquite a lot of it —— thinking that isn't as dense as human thinking, that is sparser because of the lack of language and the resultant lack of metaphors to help the thought along, but thinking nonetheless. The point about this argument is not that one side or the other is in possession of a more powerful array of convincing facts; quite the opposite. There are not enough facts to sustain a genuine debate of any length; the question of animal awareness is an unsettled one. Another debatable question arises when one contemplates the whole biosphere, the conjoined life of the earth. How could it have turned out to possess such stability and coherence, resembling as it does a sort of enormous developing embryo, with nothing but chance events to determine its emergence? Lovelock and Margulis, facing this problem, have proposed the Gaia Hypothesis, which is, in brief, that the earth is itself a form of life, "a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet." Lovelock postulates, in addition, that "the physical and chemical condition of the surface of the Earth, of the atmosphere, and of the oceans has been an is actively made fit and comfortable by the presence of life itself." This notion is beginning to stir up a few signs of storm, and if it catches on, as I t h i n k i t w i l l , w e w i l l s o o n f i n d t h e b i o l o g i c a l c o m m u n i t y s p l i t i n t o f u m i n g f a c t i o n s , o n e s i d e s a y i n g t h a t t h e e v o l v e d b i o s p h e r e d i s p l a y s e v i d e n c e s o f d e s i g n a n d p u r p o s e , t h e o t h e r d e c r y i n g s u c h h e r e s y . 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Unit Three第三单元Can you prove that the earth is round?你能证明地球是圆的吗？Go ahead and try!继续去试一试！Will you rely on your senses or will you have to draw on the opinions of experts? 你将依靠你的感觉还是不得不利用专家的观点？WHY DO WE BELIEVE THAT THE EARTH IS ROUND?我们为什么相信地球是圆的？Somewhere or other-记得在什么地方I think it is in the preface to Saint Joan-我想是在《圣女贞德》序言中——Bernard Shaw remarks that we are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages,肖伯纳评论说，今天我们比在中世纪时更加轻信，更加迷信。

and as an example of modern credulity he cites the widespread belief that the earth is round. 而作为现代轻信的例证，他举出地圆这一广为传播的信念。

The average man, says Shaw,肖伯纳说，普通人can advance not a single reason for thinking that the earth is round.举不出一条理由来说明为什么相信地球是圆的。

He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth-century mentality.他全盘接受这一理论，只是因为这一理论有一种迎合20世纪心态的东西。