1、 Unit1 他对他的研究如此专心致志，从来没有过很快就要退休的念头。1. He is so devoted to his research that it never occurs to him that he will soon have to retire. 很多人都曾说过，如果没有有效的制约，我们都有滥用权力的倾向。2. Many people have observed that, without effective checks, we all have a tendency to abuse our power. 有些国家拒绝卷入这一争端，而且他们对外国的干涉非常反感。3. re
2、fuse countries Some foreign any resent they and dispute this in involved get to interference. 控制沙城暴需要大量的工作和资金。4. The control of sandstorm will involve a lot of work and money. 5. 你们用这些技术的时候，必须考虑到当地的条件。 You must take the local conditions into consideration when you apply these technologies. 美元的报名费。50
3、所有的申请者都必须填好这些表格，然后邮寄6. All applicants will have to fill out these forms and mail in an application fee of 50 dollars 他根据对孩子们行为的观察得出结论：学习是一种自然的乐趣。7. (careful) his on Based that conclusion the to came he behavior, s childrenof observation learning is a natural pleasure. 在一个多民族的国家里，各民族之间的和谐需要小心处理。8. In
4、 a country of many nationalities, ethnic harmony requires very careful handling. 政府决定严惩所有涉案的腐败官员。9. The government is determined to punish all the corrupt officials involved. 考试作弊并不经常发生，但一旦发生，学校会采取严厉的态度。10. Cheating at exams does not occur very often. But when it does, the school takes a very tough
5、position. Unit2 我怀疑这本书也行已经不用再印了。我去问书店的工作人员，他们说我说的对，这 1. 书已经绝版很多年了。 I suspected that the book might not be in print. I checked with the bookstore people, and they told me that I was right. The book had been out of print for years. 讲的是刘备如何尽量不引起曹操对他的雄心的怀这小说里有一个值得记住的故事， 2. 疑，因为如果引起怀疑，他的生命就会有危险。 s One me
6、morable story in the novel concerns how Liu Bei tried not to arouse Cao Cao suspicion about his ambitions, because if he did his life would be at stake. 但是他聪明地掩盖了他那令人刘备吓得筷子都掉了。当曹操称他为真正的英雄时， 3. 怀疑的举止。 his dropped he that shocked so was Bei Liu hero, real a him called Cao Cao When chopsticks. But he c
7、leverly covered up his suspicious behavior. 因为邻居们在案发当晚警察怀疑他谋杀了他的父亲，第一个嫌疑犯是死者的儿子。 4. 曾听到他们打架。 s son. The police suspected him of murdering his father The first suspect was the victimbecause the neighbors had heard them fighting on the night of the killing. 在学习当中，重要的不是把一切都记住，而是运用你的想象力，创造性地、批判性 5. In l
8、earning, the important thing is not to commit everything to memory, 地去进行思考。 but to use your imagination and think creatively as well as critically. 他肯定是你能想象到的最可笑的窃贼了。他偷偷进了屋子，尽情地吃喝，最后酩酊 6. funniest the been have must He 大醉，一脸满足的笑容，知道第二天早上被发现。 imaginable. burglar and content, hearts his to drank and a
9、te house, a into broke He remained dead drunk until discovered the next morning, with a perfectly content look on his face. have I 我现在记人的名字很困难。我想这肯定是年老造成的。 7.remembering trouble peoples names. I imagine it must result from old age. We often live under many 我们生活在很多想象的威胁当中，结果就常常感到沮丧。 8. imaginary thre
10、ats and feel disheartened as a result. I 我怀疑我们的教师有时候低估了学生的智力。其实年轻人脑子里充满了想象。 9. mental capacities. Young people suspect we teachers sometimes underestimate students as a matter of fact have very imaginative minds. Unit 3 他 们都伸长脖子想看个究竟，1. They all stretched their 就好像被一根无形的绳子牵着。 necks to see what was h
11、appening, as if pulled by an invisible string. We got out of the car to 我们下车去伸伸胳膊和腿。我们前面是一片美丽的开阔地。2. stretch a little. In front of us there was a beautiful stretch of open land. for talked They 他们连续谈判了好几个小时，但是仍然没有解决他们之间的分歧。3. hours at a stretch, but they still failed to settle their differences. the
12、 all For 尽管有温暖的天气、新鲜的空气和美味佳肴，她的健康仍然没有恢复。4. warm weather, fresh air and nice food, her health still did not recover. 5. 他瞟了那辆车一眼就知道它没法修了。他望望前面，只见一眼望不到头的沙漠，荒 One glance at the car and he knew that it was beyond repair. 他知道他陷入困境了。无人烟。 Looking ahead, he found the desert stretching as far as the eye coul
13、d see without a soul in sight. He knew he was in a terrible fix. 武松奋力举起哨棒向老虎打去。但是哨棒“ 啪”的一声断了，而老虎毫发未伤。他6. the But strength. his all with stick his swung song Wu 一急打到附近树上去了。stick snapped and the tiger was unharmed. In his panic, he had hit the tree nearby. 我非常喜欢你在俄罗斯拍的那些照片，尤其是那张上面有个马车夫坐在黑海边，膝7. I am t
14、erribly fond of the pictures you snapped 盖上放着一块布，布上放着他晚餐的照片。 in Russia, especially the one showing a coachman sitting by the Black Sea with his supper in a cloth on his knees. ”他厉声说道。”我向他请求道。“ 这不关你事。“这事您不能就此罢休。8. just t canYou “ he ”business.your of none s It“him. with pleaded I ”that.at go it let s
15、napped. He snapped his briefcase ”“那就这 么定了。站起来说：地一下合上了公文包，“ 啪”他9. ”s all settled.Then that“to, stood up and said, was He 海啸来的时候，他正站在小山上的家门口，离码头大概只有一百米远。10. standing in front of his house on a hill, only about 100 meters away from the wharf when the tsunami came. Unit4 we can way this in Only 只有这样我们对
16、他的这种古怪行为才能给予合理的解释。1. account for his odd behavior. magic a have to claims She 她自称具有一种特异功能，用手一摸就能治病。2. power-the power to cure diseases by the touch of her hand. 他任命了五个人处理这个案件。他们组成了一个强有力的班子。几天内，他们就发3. five appointed He 现嫌烦拥有成卷的他无法说明来源的欧元、美元和大量贵重物品。 people to deal with/handle the case. They formed a s
17、trong team. Within (a few)days, they have found out that the suspect possessed rolls of euros, US dollars and large quantities of valuables the source of which he could not account for. often spirit evil this tale, this In 在这个故事里，这个妖怪常常以美女的样子出现。4. appears in the form of a pretty young woman. He roll
18、ed up the painting and said 他把画卷了起来，并说一百万美元以下绝对不卖。5. that he would never sell /part with it for less than 1 million US dollars. Of all the qualified 我不明白为什么她被任命到最高法院工作。有那么多的合格法官，6. t know why she was appointed to the supreme court. judges I don我对此知道得不多，不足以形成一大套理论。不过我肯定，仅仅是贫困还不能解释7. t know enough to
19、formulate/form an elaborate theory. But II don犯罪率上升。m sure that poverty alone can not account for the rise of crime rates. A 一块大石头突然从山上滚了下来。它是如此之大，一下子把一辆卡车砸得粉碎。8. stone suddenly rolled down the hill, so big that it smashed the truck to pieces. I said 笑了笑。但他就只是像哲学家一样转了转眼珠，我说我们得卷起袖子开始干活，9. eyes his ro
20、lled just he but working, start and sleeves our up roll must we that philosophically/like a philosopher and smiled. 古时候，我们的哲学家们认为一个好的皇帝对他的百姓就应该像一个好父亲对他10. In 的孩子那样，在任何情况下都不可残酷地对待他们。philosophers our times, ancient believed that a good king should be to the people as a good father is to his children.
21、He must never treat them cruelly on any account. Unit5 Building a house is no joking 你们每一步都必须仔细检查。造房子不是开玩笑的事情，1. matter. You have to check it at every step. His 这些敌人原先的企图是要来一个突然袭击。他的部队成功地阻止了敌人的前进。2. troops successfully checked the advance of the enemy whose original intention was to make a surprise
22、attack. I really 我当时很想反驳他的观点，但是我克制住了，因为我觉得那种场合不合适。3. wanted to refute his arguments, but I checked myself because I thought it was not the right occasion. for famous is Carson Rachel 雷切尔卡森以将她的一生都献 给了环保事业而闻名。4. devoting all her life to the cause of environmental protection. 在某些方面，我们对这些大坝和水库潜在的危害仍然一无所
23、知。它们可能造成不可5. In some ways we are still ignorant of the potential harm of these dams 恢复的环境变化。 and reservoirs. They might cause irrevocable changes in the environment. 应该有一整套平衡制约的手段，这样才不会由一个人在没有得到老百姓同意，在他6. checks of set a be must There 们不知情的情况下制订关系国家利益的重要政策。and one by made be can interests national c
24、oncerning policy important no that so balances person without the consent and knowledge of the people. 7. 要想在竞争中获胜，我们必须适应新的形势。比如这些花花绿绿的衣服就是特别设 new to adjust to have we successfully compete To 计的，他们针对的是年轻人市场。 conditions. These colorful garments, for example, are specially designed. They are intended
25、for the youth market. We teachers cannot be 我们教师如果对学生的健康情况缺少关心，那是不能原谅的。8. excused for our lack of concern for students health. He said that he would rather die 他说他宁可死也不愿意永远卧床不起，与外界隔绝。9. than be confined to bed all his life and isolated from the outside world. A mass protest swept 将他置于左右两方的交叉火力当中。一场群
26、众抗议席卷了全国，10. the country and he was caught in a crossfire from both the right and the left. Unit 6 我们都知道可卡因是容易上瘾的。海洛因也一样。但实际上，权力和金钱也同样使1. 人上瘾。那些上瘾的人其实都是严重的病人。 We are money and power actually But heroin. is So addictive. is cocaine that know all addictive too. Those who get addicted to them are reall
27、y very sick people. 2. 科学家们一直在主张退耕还林，把新开垦的地还给江河湖泊，沼泽草地。 and marshes lakes, rivers, to land reclaimed returning advocating been have Scientists meadows. 根据很多经济学家的说法，政府挽救那些资不抵债的公司不一定是个好主意。有时3. 一个处于破产边缘的公司，最好就让它破产。 According to many economists, it is not always a good idea for the government to bail ou
28、t financially insolvent companies. Sometimes, a company on the verge of bankruptcy is better allowed to go bankrupt. 他被逮了个正着。有无可辩驳的证据证明他书里有整整一章是从另外一个教授的书4. 里原封不动地抄袭过来的。 He has been caught red-handed. There is indisputable evidence that a whole chapter of his book was bodily lifted from a book writte
29、n by another professor. 他们政府早已有法律禁止珍稀鸟类和兽类的进出口。但是要实行该法律并不容易。5. Their government long since passed a law to ban the import and export of rare species of birds and animals. But the law is not easy to enforce. 6.现在很难让年轻人相信，曾经有过这么一段时期，中国妇女被禁止穿裙子。牛仔裤、 外国电影、音乐都被禁止了。 a time when Chinese women was young peo
30、ple believe nowadays that make hard to is It all were music Western and movies foreign Jeans, skirts, wearing from banned were forbidden. 在黑暗中，我们的船触了礁，船底留了个大洞。我们都拼命设法把水从船里弄出来，8.但船在快速下沉。幸亏附近有条渔船，使我们绝处逢生。 In the darkness our ship hit a hidden rock, which left a gaping hole in the bottom. We all tried
31、desperately to bail out the water, but the boat was sinking fast. Luckily a fishing boat was nearly and saved us from drowning. 示威者要求立即取消经济制裁，因为它通常只会伤害无辜的百姓。9. they because immediately lifted be sanctions economic that demanded demonstrators The usually only hurt ordinary, innocent people. 会上倡导者和反对者
32、都摆出了有力的观点。但大多数人都赞成将进一步的改革立即10. 提上日程。 most but argument, strong gave opponents and advocates the both meeting, the At participants favored having further reforms placed on the agenda immediately. Unit 8 这完全是在浪费金钱和宝贵的土地资源。他们真是疯了，把这么肥沃的农田变成少1. 数有钱人的高尔夫球场。 s an utter waste of money and precious land res
33、ources.They must be out of their minds to It turn such fertile farmland into golf courts for a few rich people. 想要对核废料的安全性有百分之百的把握是根本不可能的。问题早晚都会发生。所2. utterly s It以除非我们准备接受这不可避免的结果，否 则我们不应该匆忙做决定。 impossible will problem some later or waste.Soon nuclear with safety complete have to t rush to a decisi
34、on. occur.So unless we are ready to accept the inevitable,we mustn整个会议过程中，她一直受到 严厉的攻击。但她一句话也没说。她已经决定马上递3.交辞职报告。a occur t didnshe meeting,but the throughout attack severe under was She word.She had decided to hand in her resignation right away. Many 很多人出于虚荣心都被诱骗去追求那些漂亮的称号。我也有这个毛病。4.people m also guil
35、ty of this. are lured to go after fancy titles out of vanity,and I正如之前警告的那样，今年第一季度，他 们的通货膨胀率还在继续上升。这等于他5. As we were warned in 我们的消费也在上升。但凡事也有光明的一面，们的收入下降了。 advance,the inflation rate in the firet quarter of this year was still on the rise.This amounted s income.But every cloud has its silver lining
36、.Consumption was also on to a drop in people the rise. 你记住，我们也许可以阻止年轻人说心里话，但我们永远无法做到让他们停止思考。6. Keep in mind that we may be able to prevent young people from speaking their mind,bu we can never succeed in making them stop thinking. 任何头脑正常的人都知道，自由和纪律，我们两者都需要。不是两者兼得，就是两7. Anybody in his right mind know
37、s that we 因此不能无条件的让学生们为所欲为。者均失。 need both freedom and discipline.We either have both or neither.Therefore students cannot have their way unconditionally. 年代的时候她就警告过这些国家，要是不消除经济泡沫，他们的经90世纪20早在8.She warned those countries in advance way back to 1990s that if they 济就会面临硬着 陆。 t get rid of their economic
38、 bubbles,their economies would face a hard landing. didn我心中想的就是在郊区 买个房子，因 为我讨厌大城市的污染问和喧闹。如果这么一9. What I have in mind is to buy a house 我也不管了。来我无法每个星期天去王府井逛街了， in the suburbs as I loathe the heavy pollution as well as the hustle and bust of the big city.If s just too bad. t go shopping in Wangfujing
39、every Sunday,thatbecause of this I can那里的很多人似乎对即将到来的选举都无所谓。目前他们就希望战争的乌云能早点10. Many people there seem to be indifferent to the coming 消散，他们可以过上和平的生活。 election.Right now they just hope the dark clouds of war will clear away so that they can live in peace. Unit 9 Our 。2%，比去年增 长8%我们公司预计今年的增长速度为1.an proj
40、ects company 8%growth rate this year,up by 2%compared with last year. favor increasingly to projected is China 预计中国将越来越赞成跨国的兼并与收购。2. more and more cross_border mergers and acquisitions. 投影到屏幕上的幻灯片表明，在那次竞争中他极力想把自己塑造成一个强人的形象。3. The slides projected on the screen showed that he tried to projected himse
41、lf as a strong man in the election campaign. 消息说当局已经接受了他的建议，这项价值几十亿美元的项目已经被无限制的推迟4. He was greatly relieved to hear that the authorities had 了，他听到后心里感到特别宽慰。 postponed been had project multibillion-dollar the and recommendation his accepted indefinitely. 纳尔逊大夫已经连续五个小时给一个又一个伤员做手术了，所以当梅森大夫能来接5. Dr.Nels
42、on had been operating on one wounded soldier after 替他的时候我们都如释重负。 another for five hours.Therefore we all sighed with relief when Dr. Mason was able to come to relieve him. 政府救济就像止痛药。他能缓解你的痛苦但不能治你的病。不仅如此，你还很容易6. t Government relief is like a pain-killer.It gives you relief,but it doesn无法摆脱。形成依赖， cure
43、 the disease.Besides,you can easily get hooked on it. Private 私营企业并不要求政府保护他们不受竞争威胁。他们只希望不要受歧视。7. asking the government to shield them against competition.They just hope t businesses aren not to be discriminated against. We must 我们必须把他们争取过来，或者使他们中立以便彻底孤立我们的主要敌人。8. try to win them over or neutralize t
44、hem so we can completely isolate the main enemy. 从目前通货膨胀的情况来看，可能还有必要再次提息，这样才不至于把最近这次提9.薪给完全抵消掉。raise to necessary is it far,perhaps so inflation of rate the by Judging interest rates again so that the recent pay raise will nor be completely neutralized. 改革开始的时候，人们普遍有一种乐观的情绪。大家都相信我们的现代化事业有着10. all st
45、arted.People reform the when prevailed optimism of feeling general A 光明的前景。 believed that there were bright prospects for our modernization. Unit 11 科学家们大致同意全球变暖这个事实，但是其成因目前还在热烈争论之中。不少人1.认为，如果我们把现有的证据放在一起，就可得出结论，这是人类活动造成的。但另外有些人认为我们还要进一步研究这个问题，他们认为自然的力量起码有着同等的重 Scientist more or less agree that glob
46、al warming is a fact,but its cause is still hotly 要性。 debated among them.Many believe that if we piece together all the available evidence we could conclude that is is caused by human activities,but others think we need to dig into the problem further,and that natural forces are at least of equal im
47、portance. 他把自己的一生都献给了水利工程。他是少数几个最早看到在这里建大坝可能给我2. water of cause the to life his all devoted He 们造成多大麻烦的科学家中的一位。 conservancy.He was one of the few scientists who first saw what kind of trouble it would cause us in future if we were to build a dam here. 那些同情国际恐怖主义的人从一个不同的前提出发来看待这一问题。他们相信，为3.了达到这个目的不择手
48、段。但我强烈反对这种观点。我认为任何借口都不能为冷血谋杀无辜的妇女，Those who sympathize with international terrorism view 儿童老人做辩护。 the point from different premise.They believe that their goal can justify by means.But I am strongly opposed to this view. I believe that on excuse can justify cold-blooded murder of innocent women,chil
49、dren and old people. 有民间非政府组织在起作用是件好事。在一个多元化的社会里，人们的观点总是不4.同的。反对者不但应该被容许，而且还应该得到尊重和鼓励。这么做对我们自己也有 s views are It is a good thing to have NGOs at work.In a pluralistic society,people好处。 and respected be also allowed,but be only not should differ.Opposition to bound encouraged.It is also to our advantage to do this. 政府的过度投资意味着很多国有银行的贷款不可能得到偿还。这些呆账最后就会导5.Government致金融危机。s over-investment means that many state bank loans will not be repaid a
