1、Unit 81. The screams were so faint and unclear that I could hardly hear them.2. My voice quieter and quieter as hers rose in crescendo: as my voice was getting quieter, hers grew gradually and continuously louder.3. no matter how intimate one is with this illness, the primordial fear of madness lurk
2、s deep within: However familiar one is with paranoid schizophrenia, the innate fear of madness stays hidden and deep in ones mind.4. She doesnt know how to take care of her own health as a normal person.5. I will do the best I can with the worst I have to live with: I will do my best to cope with th
3、e worst I have to put up with.IV. Translation1. Translating Sentences1). 当前不景气的汽车市场可能引发生产商之间新一轮的价格战。 (trigger) The current slack automobile market might trigger another round of price wars among manufacturers. 2). 支持者的欢呼声几乎淹没了示威者的抗议。 (drown out) The cheers by supporters almost drowned out the protes
4、ts by demonstrators.3). 许多历史性建筑因人为破坏和气候影响已近破落。 (at the mercy of) Many historic buildings are left to decay at the mercy of vandals and the weather. 4). 飞速上涨的房价快把渴望购买新房的工薪阶层逼到了绝望的边缘。 (drive someone to the edge of) The rapid up-flying house price has almost driven to the edge of despair the wage-earni
5、ng class who are longing for a new apartment. 5). 在你父亲找到另一份工作之前，我们都要勒紧裤带。 (tighten) We all have to tighten our belts until your father finds another job.6). 那家公司至今没能摆脱它的老传统的束缚。 (shake away) The company has been so far unable to shake away the shackles of its old fashion. 7). 他们意识到，在压倒性军事优势面前，抵抗意味着自杀
6、。 (overwhelm) They realized that it would be suicidal to resist in the face of overwhelming military superiority.8). 把狗叫式发声当作先锋派歌唱是一种误解。 (barking) It is mistaken that barking voice stands for avant-garde singing. Unit 9 1. Unlike traditional games and toys, “wired” entertainment encourages kids to b
7、e unimaginative, socially immature, and crudely desensitized to the world around them: different from traditional games and toys, entertainment provided by electronic devices, which is passive by nature, makes children become dull and unoriginal, lack emotional development in social communication an
8、d may crudely insensitive to the people around them.2. Hand a ball of Play-Doh to a child reared on the sterile adventure of video games, and youre apt to get a blank look and the hesitant question, “What do I do with it?”: if you hand a ball of Play-Doh to a child spends too much time on exciting b
9、ut unproductive video games, you are likely to see an expressionless look on his face and to be asked, in an uncertain manner, “What do I do with it?”3. Possibly one or two hot-tempered children will quit the game4. Although they are engaged in playing the game, they are not completely bound by it.5
10、. Far too often, even his parents, intimidated by the high-priced, high-tech gadget that has sucked their childs humanity away, tiptoe around rather than disturb him: far too often, even his parents, scared by the small high-priced, high-tech device that has deprived their child of human qualities,
11、walk about carefully and quietly on tiptoe rather than break his concentration or divert his attention.1). 总的说来，这个公司的前景显得相当美好。 (outlook) Overall the outlook for the company seems fairly rosy. 2). 我不赞同儿童玩电子游戏的一个原因是其中有太多的假想的暴力场面。(make-believe) One of reasons why I disapprove of kids playing video game
12、s is that there tend to be too many make-believe scenes of violence. 3). 一天又一天做同样形式的练习会让学生厌倦这些练习。 (tire of) Doing the same type of exercises day after day would easily get students tired of them. 4). 我已安排好周四同他共进午餐，届时我将向他透露我的计划。 (unfold) Ive arranged a lunch with him next Thursday at which Im going t
13、o unfold my proposal. 5). 请填好所附表格，尽快寄往所示地址。 (at ones convenience) Please fill in the form attached and send it to the address shown at your earliest convenience. 6). 美国总统竞选中最厉害的奚落语之一是“他绝不是杰克肯尼迪”。 (put-down) One of the biggest put-downs of the American presidential election campaign was the comment t
14、hat he was “no Jack Kennedy“. 7). 一位英国学者最近在自然杂志上撰文指出，人类的一切行为都是为了引起他人的注意。 (engage ones attention) Recently a British scholar wrote in Nature, pointing out that all the human acts are intended to engage others attention. 8). 为了帮助他们的孩子获得社会竞争的信心，家长经常在家庭游戏比赛中故意输给孩子。(gain confidence) In order to help thei
15、r kids gain confidence in social competition, parents often pretend to lose in games at home. Unit 101. Yet most of these five, like most of the college cheaters, would probably profess a strong social consciousness: however, most of these five people, like a majority of the college students who com
16、mit cheating on examinations, would probably claim that they have a strong sense of responsibility for society.2. These two examples exhibit a paradox of our age: these two examples clearly display a contradictory situation in our age.3. Beneficent and benevolent social institutions are administered
17、 by men who all too frequently turn out to be accepting “gifts”: charitable social organizations are managed or controlled by men who very often prove to be easily bribed.4. Morality means the acceptance of customs and moral values of society or adherence to proper behavior, and the established way
18、of conduct is the sole criterion of judgment.5. I still insist that for the individual himself nothing is more important than this personal, interior sense of right and wrong and his determination to follow that rather than to be guided by what everybody does or merely the criterion of “social usefu
19、lness”: I still insist that for the individual himself, his personal honor, honesty, and integrity is the most important, and it is also the most important for him to do things not because everybody else does it, nor because it is useful for the society, but because he himself determines to do them.
20、6. They have a wrong idea of, and dont actually understand, what the real, the ultimate security means.1). 没有必要装出一副受到伤害的表情 是你理亏。 (put on) Theres no need to put on that injured expression youre in the wrong.2). 我一直认为快乐和知足比金钱和名望更重要。 (count) Ive always believed that pleasure and self-contentedness coun
21、t more than money and fame.3). 压力很容易使人作出错误的决定。 (lead sb. to do sth. ) Being under pressure can easily lead people to make the wrong decisions.4). 精英一族似乎满足于只在他们那个小圈子里打交道。 (content) The elite seem content to socialize with the small circle of their own.5). 学生在英语学习中必须强调培养交际能力。(lay stress upon) Stress s
22、hould be laid upon the training of students communicative competence in their English studies.6). 董事会对公司在最困难的时刻收到的来自各方的经济援助表示谢意。 (acknowledge) The board of directors acknowledged the financial assistance received from all sources at the companys most difficult time. 7). 反对党抗议那是由执政党操纵的舞弊选举。 (rigged)
23、Opposition parties protested that it was a rigged election manipulated by the ruling party.8). 他几十年前作的许多预测现在都被印证了。 (turn out ) Many of his predictions made decades ago have turned out to be true now. Unit 11.1. Greeks thought beauty was a fine virtue, a type of perfection. people at that time were e
24、xpected to be beings of integrity, whom we now call whole persons, a term used somewhat awkwardly and not without envy.2. The Greeks may have refused to accept Socrates lesson, but we dont. Thousands of years later, we are now more cautious about the charm and attraction of beauty.3. For close to tw
25、o centuries it has become a convention to attribute beauty to only one of the two sexes: the sex which, however Fair, is always Second: for nearly two hundred years, it has become a customary practice to assign beauty to only one of the two sexes: the female sex, which is always second in position,
26、no matter how fair it is.4. Women are the beautiful sex to the detriment of the notion of beauty as well as of women: women are the beautiful sex, which does harm or causes a loss to the notion of beauty as well as of women.5. It does not take someone in the throes of advanced feminist awareness to
27、perceive that the way women are taught to be involved with beauty encourages narcissism, reinforces dependence and immaturity: anyone, not to mention those who endeavor to promote a strong awareness of womens rights, can be aware that the way women are taught to be associated with beauty encourages
28、them to have abnormal and excessive love and admiration for themselves, strengthens their sense of dependence, and causes them to develop immature qualities.6. Given these stereotypes, it is on wonder that beauty enjoys, at best, a rather mixed reputation: with these conventionally fixed ideas, we f
29、ind it little wonder that beauty is given, at the most, a rather mixed reputation.7. Even if some parts of the body are accepted as satisfactory, some others are still below past.8. But to get out of the trap requires that women get some critical distance from that excellence and privilege which is
30、beauty, enough distance to see how much beauty itself has been abridged in order to prop up the mythology of the “feminine”: women should keep a sufficiently long distance away from beauty, which is supposed to be their excellence and privilege, to find out to what extent the notion of beauty has be
31、en reduced to support the make-up story of the women.1. Translating Sentences1.) 有什么要求就快说，别说那些肉麻的奉承话。 (flatter) Speak out what requirement you have of me, and stop mouthing those flattering remarks.2). 对自己所受到的待遇不满，他愤然离开了球队。 (split off) Dissatisfied with the treatment he had received, he split off fr
32、om the team. 3). 女权主义者强烈地批评这个电视节目含有性别歧视。 (overtone) Feminists have strongly criticized the TV broadcast for carrying sexist overtones.4). 她上大学时沉溺于玩电脑游戏，影响了学业。 (to the detriment of) She indulged in computer games at college, to the detriment of her studies.5). 那时，这个国家正处在二战后经济最萧条时期。 (in the throes of)
33、 The country was then in the throes of the worst economic recession after the Second World War. 6). 我们的计算似乎出了点问题。 (adrift) Something seems to have gone adrift in our calculation. 7). 对不太熟悉的人，我不太轻易把我的住址告诉他们。 (wary of) Im a bit wary of giving people my address when I dont know them very well.8). 他靠着枕头
34、，笔直地坐在病床上。 (prop up) He was sitting upright in his hospital bed, propped up by pillows.Unit 121. Women automatically resolve to get ready fro any fashion coming up next.2. Mens minute choices about fashion always embodied and absolute and enormous meaning in their own world, serving as tokens of men
35、s identity which women could hardly comprehend to form their own judgments.3. Generally speaking, men, young or old, dont want in the end to abandon the habit of adhering to a proper self-image and then taking good care of it instead of indulging in a variety of styles.4. Stepping across the boundar
36、ies was not allowed.5. According to the institution, men were officially immune from fashion risk while women were perpetually being laughed at with official permission for running fashion risks.1. Translating Sentences1). 深更半夜的电话最令人揪心，因此我通常整夜关断电话。(disconcerting) Finding late-night calls most discon
37、certing, I usually switch the phone off the whole night.2). 严格遵守规则意味着你必须顺从别人对你的期望。(stick to the rules) Sticking to the rules implies that you have to conform to others expectations.3). 直升机会变成常用的交通方式吗？(catch on) Will helicopters ever catch on as a common mode of transportation?4). 我让迈克看一看发动机，希望他能找出症结
38、。(throw light on) Hoping that he might be able to throw light on the problem, I asked Mike to take a look at the engine.5). 他们正试图削减开支，所以不会找新人来替代离去的职员。(trim) They are trying to trim their costs, so staff who leave are not to be replaced.6). 每个学校的首要目标应该是让每个学生发挥他们的全部潜力。(overriding) The overriding aim o
39、f every school should be to enable each student to achieve his full potential.7). 这项工作的主要任务是处理好顾客提出的问题。(sort out) Most of the job involves sorting customers out who have queries. 8). 最近的一系列爆炸排除了任何和平谈判的可能性。(rule out) The recent wave of bombing has ruled out any chance of peace talks.Unit 131. Enormou
40、s armies of ants covered my woodyard up and down with the dead and dying, both red and black, scattered all over the place.2. Possibly he was as brave, stout as Achilles, having built up his rage alone, and had now come to avenge or rescue his fellow combatants.3. Three ants were locked with one ano
41、ther so closely fighting for life that other forms of adhesive or locks could never match.1). 一场运动正在兴起，要求解除王室残留的君主立宪权力。 (divest) There is a growing movement to divest the monarchy of its remaining constitutional power.2). 乔治唠唠叨叨地述说着他身患的各种疾病。(at length) George went on at great length about his variou
42、s illnesses.3). 这家公司用新开发的计算机系统和竞争对手一争高低。(pit against) The company is pitting the new computer system it has produced against those of its competitors.4). 这里的每位员工都以能干、刻苦和勤奋而出名。(industry) Every member of the staff here is noted for their competence, assiduity, and industry.5). 昨晚新闻中关于饥荒的报道实在令人难以忍受。(ha
43、rrow) The famine reports in last nights news are too harrowing.6). 当地居民抱怨，音乐会后公园中到处都是散落的垃圾。(strew with) Local residents complained that the park was strewn with litter after the concert.7). 我感到羞愧，因为我过了这么长时间才给戴维写上我早该给他写的信。(put to shame) It puts me to shame that it has taken me so long to write David the letter I owe him.8). 她大有希望获胜，因为只有两个人争夺这个位置，而另一个候选人很不得人心。(contest) She stands a good chance since only two people are contesting the seat and the other candidate is very unpopular.
