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1、精品文档Lesson 11. Were elevated 23 feet. Were 23 feet above sea level.2. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it. The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.3. We can batten down and ride it out.We can make the necessary prepa
2、rations and survive the hurricane without much damage.4. The generator was doused, and the lights went out. Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out.5. Everybody out the back door to the cars! Everybody go out through the back door an
3、d run to the cars.6. The electrical systems had been killed by water. The electrical systems in the car had been put out by water.7. John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he bla
4、med himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.8. Get us through this mess, will you? Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely.9. She carried on alone for a few bars; then her voice trailed away. Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice
5、 gradually grew dimmer and stopped.10. Janis had just one delayed reaction.Janis displayed rather late the exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension caused by the hurricane.Lesson 21. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. The burying-ground
6、is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up. 2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact.All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in t
7、he colonies like animals (by not treating the people in the colonies as human beings). 3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard. They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they
8、 die and are buried in graves without a name. 4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lighting speed. Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.5. Instantly, from th
9、e dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited. 6. every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury. Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a
10、 piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford. 7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. However, a white -skinned European is always quite noticeable. 8. In a tropical landscape ones eye takes in everything except the human beings. If you take a look at the natural scenery in a t
11、ropical region, you see everything but the human beings.9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas. No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas (for these trips would not be interesting)10. for nine-tenths of the people the rea
12、lity of life is an endless, back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil. life is very hard for ninety percent of the peopleWith hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor soil11She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden
13、. She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community，that she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal 12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible. People with brown skins are almost invisible13Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki
14、uniforms, The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction? How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack us?15Every white man there had this thought stowed somewh
15、ere or other in his mind. Every white man，the onlookers，the officers on their horses and the white N.C.Os. marching with the black soldiers，had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mindLesson 31And it is an activity only of human.And conversation is an activity which is found only among hum
16、an beings2Conversation is not for making a point. Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view 3In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force ot
17、hers to accept his point of view 4Bar friends are not deeply involved in each others lives. People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each others lives5. it could still go ignorantly onThe conversation could g
18、o on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong6There are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef (boeuf). These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eatwe call their meat beef 7. The new ruling class had built a cultu
19、ral barrier against him by building their French against his own language.The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers8English had come royally into its own.The English language received proper recognition and
20、 was used by the King once more9. The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. The phrase，the Kings English，has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal langu
21、age of the educated people10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there. There still exists in the working people，as in the early Saxon peasants，a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class11. There is always a great danger that “words will harden into things
22、for us. There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to representFor example，the word “dog is a symbol representing a kind of animalWe mustnt regard the word “dog as being the animal itself12. Even with the most educated a
23、nd the most literate, the Kings English slips and slides in conversation. Even the most educated and literate people do not use standard，formal English all the time in their conversationLesson 41. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe
24、. Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many countries around the world. 2. This much we pledgeand more
25、.This much we promise to do and we promise to do more. 3. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings. 4. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of h
26、ostile powers. We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope of progress to all our countries. 5. our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival
27、in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace. 6. to enlarge the area in which its writ may run We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force. 7. before the dark powers of destr
28、uction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction Before the terrible forces of destruction, which science can now release, overwhelm mankind; before this self-destruction, which may be planned or brought about by an accident, takes place8. yet both racing to
29、alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankinds final war Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankinds final war.9. So let us begin anew, remembering
30、on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, So let us start once again (to discuss and negotiate) and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness. 10. Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it c
31、an do. 11. each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country .12. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go fort
32、h to lead the land we love,Let history finally judge whether we have done our task welt or not, but our sure reward will be a good con-science for we will have worked sincerely and to the best of our ability.Lesson6 1. Science is committed to the universal. Science is engaged in the task of making i
33、ts basic concepts understood and accepted by scientists all over the world. 2. The Fiesta appears to have sunk without a trace. The car model, called Fiesta, seems to have disappeared completely. 3. It was the automotive equivalent of the International Style. The idea of a world car is similar to th
34、e idea of having a world style for architecture. 4. As in architecture, so in automaking. Things that are happening in auto making are similar to those happening in architecture. 5. No longer quite an individual, no longer quite the product of a unique geography and culture. The modern man no longer
35、 has very distinct individual traits shaped by a special environment and culture 6. The price he pays is that he no longer has a home in the traditional sense of the word. The disadvantage of being a cosmopolitan is that he loses a home in the old sense of the world 7 The benefit is that he begins t
36、o suspect home in the traditional sense in another name for limitations. The benefit of being a cosmopolitan is that he begins to think the old kind of home probably restricts his development and activities 8 The universalizing imperative of technology is irresistable. The compelling force of techno
37、logy to universalize cannot be resisted9 .when every artist thought he owed it to himself to turn his back on the Eiffel Tower, as a protest against the architectural blasphemy, When every artist thought it was his duty to show his contempt for and objection to the Eiffel Tower which they considered
38、 an irreverent architectural structure.10 .a mobile, extra human plasticity which was absolutely new. a flexible and pliable quality that was beyond human powers and absolutely new.11 It has thus undermined an article of faith: the thingliness of things. People used to firmly believe that the things
39、 they saw around them were real solid substances but this has now been thrown into doubt by science, 12. That, perhaps,establishes the logical limit of the modern aesthetic. This is perhaps the furthest limit of how solid objective things may be disappearinglesson 101.The slightest mention of the de
40、cade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged At the very mention of this post-war period, middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly.2. The rejection of Victorian gentility was,in any case, inevitable. In any case, an American could not avoid casting aside its middle-class respec
41、tability and affected refinement.3.The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure. The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.4. it was tempted,in America at least,to escape its responsibilities and retreat behind an
42、 air of naughty alcoholic sophistication. In America at least, the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily.5.Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit,. T
43、he young people found greater pleasure in their drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful added a sense of adventure. 6.our young men began to enlist under foreign flags. Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.7. theywanted to get into the fun before
44、 the whole thing turned belly up The young people wanted to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the whole war ended. 8. they had outgrown towns and families. These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.9. the returning veteran also had t
45、o facethe hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition, The returning veteran also had to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people.10. Something in the tension-ridden youth of America had to “give(Under all this force and pressure) something in the youth of A
46、merica, who were already very tense, had to break down.11.it was only natural that hopeful young writers,their minds and pens inflamed against war,Babbittry,and Puritanicalgentility,should flock to the traditional artistic center It was only natural that hopeful young Writers whose minds and writing
47、s extremely opposed war, Babbittry and Puritanical gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic center.12.Each town had its fastset which prided itself on its unconventionality, Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives.