1、1TranslationUnit 11.这项计划为智力迟钝者提供长期的照顾。 （retarded）The program offers long-term care for the mentally retarded.2.他有一台又粗笨又庞大的旧电脑，速度慢，使用麻烦。 （cumbersome，bulky）Hes got a cumbersome, bulky, old computerits slow and complicated to use.3.他沿着房间后部慢慢移动，尽量不引起别人注意。 （conspicuous）He tried not to look conspicuous an
2、d moved slowly along the back of the room.4.安装一个不同的计算机系统将会导致巨大的变化。 （upheaval） It would cause a tremendous upheaval to install a different computer system.5.她再次与金牌失之交臂。 （elude）The gold medal continues to elude her.6. 你真是个傻瓜，竟然没抓住那么好的机会。 （embrace）Youd be a fool not to embrace an opportunity as good as
3、 that.7. 她的薪水将猛增 10%。 （hefty）Her salary will go up by a hefty 10%.8. 我草草的留了张纸条给希拉里，塞在门缝底下。 （scrawl）I scrawled a quick note to Hilary and put it under her door.9. 她的办公室视野极佳。 （smashing ）Theres a smashing view from her office.10 去那儿旅行很愉快，只是旅馆有些脏兮兮的。 （swell）The trip out there was swell, but the hotel wa
4、s a bit crummy.Unit 21.这家公司是由几名有事业心的年轻人创立的。 （enterprising） The company was started by a couple of enterprising young men.2.他是前重量级冠军，预计会轻松地拿下这场拳击赛。 （bout）Hes a former heavyweight champion and is expected to win the bout easily.3. 为写此书，投入了许多小时一丝不苟的前期准备。 （meticulous）Many hours of meticulous preparation
5、 have gone into writing the book.4.她从头到脚穿一身黑。 （be attired）She was attired from head to foot in black.5.我节衣缩食整整一年，为的是攒我们去度假的钱。 （scrimp and save ）Ive been scrimping and saving all the year to pay for our holiday.6 我知道他是好意，但我希望他别来管我们。 （well-meaning）I know hes well-meaning, but I wish hed leave us alone
6、.7.当有人提出他犯了错误时，他非常生气。 （indignant） He became very indignant when it was suggested he had made a mistake.8.说了多少次了，安东尼，刀子和叉子放入中间的抽屉。 （umpteenth） For the umpteenth time, Anthony, knives and forks go in the middle drawer!9.缝纫恐怕不是我的专长。 （forte） Im afraid sewing isnt one of my fortes.10.观众热烈的欢迎使她十分高兴。(buoy)
7、 She was buoyed by the warm reception her audience gave her.2Unit 31.她坚持努力把自己重新塑造成一位演员。 （reinvent as）She kept trying to reinvent herself as an actress.2.导演的新片回复到早期的电影风格。 （hark back to ）The directors latest film harks back to the early years of cinema.3.我发现他的幽默感相当幼稚。 （puerile ）I find his sense of hum
8、or rather puerile.4.别烦我，我还有许多工作要干呢。 （ream of）Leave me alone. I still have reams of work to do.5.禁烟活动对年轻人产生了不小的影响。 （make an impact on） The anti-smoking campaign made quite an impact on young people.6. 她的报道文章言简意赅。 （terse）Her newspaper articles are terse and to the point.7.这一事件引发了一场两国之间的外交争端。 （spark）Th
9、e incident sparked a diplomatic controversy between the two countries.8.参赛作品都是高水平的，很难对它们进行评判。 （caliber） The competition entries were of such a high caliber that judging them was very difficult.9.所有的售货员似乎都带着同样假惺惺的笑。 （phony）All salespeople seem to have the same phony smile.10 你有没有想过从事工程师这一行？（take up）.
10、Have you ever thought of taking up engineering?Unit 41.她对上菜场买菜之类的凡俗之事不感兴趣。 （mundane）Mundane matters such as going to the market to buy food do not interest her.2.我还记得我那快乐的学生时代。 （carefree ） I still remember my carefree student days.3.在孩子幼年时由于缺少家长养育造成的损害是很难消除的。 （undo） Its very difficult to undo the da
11、mage caused by inadequate parenting in a childs early years.4.观众显然为她的表演所陶醉。 （be enchanted by） The audience was clearly enchanted by her performance.5. 威尼斯电影节一直都是展示优秀的意大利电影的盛会。 （showcase）The Venice Film Festival has always been the showcase of the Italian cinema.6. 她因车祸大脑受损，智力退化到一个五岁孩子的水平。 （regress t
12、o ）She suffered brain damage from a car accident and regressed to the mental age of a five-year-old.7.小心点，否则他会欺骗你的。 （take fr a ride ） Be careful or hell take you for a ride.8.她的故事对那些单身旅行的女性来说是一种告诫。 （cautionary tale）Her story is a cautionary tale for women traveling alone.9.她离开了家园，飘洋过海寻找乌托邦，但是从来都没能找到
13、。 （utopia） She left her home and traveled across the sea in search of a utopia, but she never found it.10.他的论点的实质是教育应当贯穿我们的一生。 （essence）The essence of his argument was that education should continue throughout our lives.3Unit 51.很少有人像山姆一样流露出如此的自信。 （exude） Few people exude such confidence as Sam.2.他两
14、次被判犯了纵火罪。 （convict of）He has twice been convicted of arson.3.经过三年多的侦破，他们终于于上周抓获了那个大毒枭。 （baron） After tracking down the drug baron for more than three years, they finally arrested him last week.4.由于战争，他们失去了一个正常的童年时代。 （deprive of）They were deprived of a normal childhood by the war.5. 银行计划给他们建于 30 年代的办
15、公楼进行彻底翻新改造。 （face-lift）The bank is planning to give its 1930s building a complete face-lift.6.节俭的概念对我来说是陌生的。 （thrift） The concept of thrift is foreign to me.7.顶嘴的孩子被认为是厚脸皮和不懂礼貌的。 （talk back） Children who talk back are regarded as cheeky and disrespectful.8.刑满释放人员找工作总是很不容易。 （do time）Its not always ea
16、sy to find a job after youve done time.9.她已经放弃了对这一项目的所有职责。(abdicate)She has abdicated all responsibility for the project.10.冰箱里几乎什么都没有，我怎么凭空给他的六个朋友变出一顿饭来？（conjure up）How am I expected to conjure up a meal for six of his friends with almost nothing in the fridge?Unit 61.他是家里的长子，所以他是唯一得到父母全身心照顾的孩子。 （u
17、ndivided attention） Being the eldest son in the family, he was the only one to have gained the undivided attention of his parents.2.他不具备干这项工作所需要的技能。 （requisite）He lacked the requisite skills for the job.3.在那场危机中，联合国在当地政府和叛军之间进行了斡旋。 （mediate） The United Nations mediated between the local government a
18、nd the rebels during the crisis.4.他用杰出的成就为自己在学术界谋得了一个顶尖科学家的席位。 （carve out a niche） He has carved out a niche for himself as a leading researcher in his field of study.5.当我告诉别人我有多大岁数时，每个人都故作惊讶。 （feign）Everyone feigned surprise when I told them how old I was.6.数据被输入到电脑中去后，电脑会自动确认其有效。 （be validated by）
19、 The data is validated automatically by the computer after it has been entered.7.当他意识到自己的错误后，露出了羞愧神情。 （shamefaced0 He looked somewhat shamefaced when he realized his mistake.8.这部小说以上世纪为背景，讲述了一个因和外国人结婚，父母与之断绝关系的姑娘的故事。 （disown）Set in the last century, the novel tells a story about a girl who was disow
20、ned by her parents when she married a foreigner.49.我必须面对面地和詹姆斯谈谈星期四的安排。 （vis-a-vis）Ive got to speak to James vis-vis the arrangements for Thursday.10.此时还说不准她是否能彻底痊愈。 （at this juncture） At this juncture, it is impossible to say whether she will make a full recovery.Unit 71.他的父母因他的行为越来越乖僻而担忧。 （irratio
21、nal）His parents were worried by his increasingly irrational behavior.2.有些评论家批评该电影队妇女的刻画带有性别歧视。 （be condemned by） The film was condemned by some critics for its sexist portrayal of women.3.你不必勉强带我和你一起去。如果你不带我去，我不会生气的。 （under compulsion to）Dont feel under any compulsion to take me with you. I wont be
22、offended if you dont.4.在政治问题上他表现得极为幼稚，真令人担心。 （worrying naivete ） He demonstrated a worrying naivet about political issues.5.每当他们开始争吵，我总是离得远远的。 （remain aloof） Whenever they started quarreling, I would always remain aloof.6.无须惊慌。警方已经控制了局面。 （havein hand ） Theres no need to panic. The police have the si
23、tuation in hand.7.遇上一个好老板不是那么容易的。 （come by0A good boss is not so easy to come by.8.她脸上丝毫没有懊恼的表情。 （absent from ） Any sign of remorse was completely absent from her face.9.你必须打消一切报仇的念头。 （banish from） You must try to banish all thoughts of revenge from your mind.10.她对女儿们的影响很大。 （have a hold on） She has
24、a strong hold on her daughters.Unit 81.七月份全国上下掀起了旅游热。 （wanderlust）In July, wanderlust takes over the whole nation.2.我正在研究他的私人生活和公众形象之间扥矛盾。 （persona） I am doing research on the contradictions between his private life and his public persona.3.他感觉自己在所有那些聪明人中间像个冒牌货似乎他根本没资格在那儿。(impostor）He felt like an i
25、mpostor among all those intelligent peopl90e, as if he had no right to be there.4.她因滑稽，粗俗和大胆成了美国最出名的电视名人之一。 （profane）Funny, profane and fearless, she has become one of Americas biggest television celebrities.5.一群好奇的旁观者很快聚拢过来看发生了什么事。 （onlooker）A crowd of curious onlookers soon gathered to see what wa
26、s happening.6.再次听到那支曲子使他内心充满了怀旧之情。 （nostalgia） Hearing that tune again filled him with nostalgia.7.我讨厌不得不在天还没亮时起床。 （detest）I detest having to get up when its still dark outside.8.作为悔过，她说要给他们买一盒巧克力。 （penance） 5As a penance, she said she would buy them a box of chocolates.9.这本书中有好几个优美的描写片段。 （sublime)T
27、he book contains sublime descriptive passages.10.我察觉到他对安排不大满意，于是预订了另一家旅馆。 （perceive）Perceiving that he wasnt happy with the arrangements, I booked a different hotel.Unit 91.也许有人会觉得我的报告过于悲观，但至少我在报告中实事求是地反映了我们面临的问题。 （strike as ）My report may strike some people as pessimistic, but at least its realisti
28、c about the problems we face.2.这本书很有意思，书中就人际关系所表达的许多观点很深刻.（insight into）It was an interesting book, full of fascinating insights into human relationship.3.我发现在这个国家没有车还真不行。 （handicap） I found it quite a handicap not to have a car in the country.4.警察自己排除了意外事件的可能性，因为时间上太巧合了。 （eliminate ） The police hav
29、e eliminated the possibility that it could have been an accident because it was so well timed.5.她看着他，一脸鄙视。 （undisguised ） She looked at him with undisguised contempt.6.这本书中的人物都是模式化的。 （stereotype） The characters in the book are just stereotypes.7.只要你坚持锻炼下去，很快就会尝到将抗带来的种种甜头。 （reap） You will soon reap t
30、he various benefits of being fit as long as you keep doing exercise.8.如果你企图逃税，你就有坐牢的危险。 （evade0 If you try to evade paying your taxes you run the risk of going to prison.9.他一直试图按他的标准塑造我。 （mold into） He kept trying to mold me into what he wanted me to be.10.我们没有屏幕，但我们可以把幻灯打在后墙上。 （project onto）We dont
31、 have a screen but we can project the slides onto the back wall.Unit 101. She relinquished control of the family investments to her son.2. With a knife clenched between his teeth, the boy climbed up the tree to cut some coconuts.3. This small company has been enjoined to end all such restrictions on
32、 consumers.4. They were finally reconciled to each other, after not on speaking terms for nearly five years.5. We only have a finite amount of time to complete this taskwe cant continue indefinitely.6. He nearly died in the car accident and was in intensive care for over a month.7. It is an interesting book, full of valuable insights into human relationships.8. I had a dim recollection of having met her many years ago.9. I dont relish telling her that her son has been arrested.10. The demise of the company was sudden and unexpected.
