高英复习资料（5）

高英复习资料（5）Unit 1 :1. And it is an activity only of humans.交谈是人类特有的活动。

And the conversation is an activity which is unique to the human beings.2. Conversation is not for making a point.交谈并不是为了要表明一种看法。

Conversation is not for persuading others to accept your viewpoint.3. In fact,the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.事实上，最好的交谈者是那些准备输的人。

In fact, the people who are skilled in conversation are those who will not force other to accept their views.4. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other's lives.酒吧的朋友没有深层次的涉及彼此的生活。

Bar friends are never absorbed in each other's secret.5. …it could still go ignorantly on.它可以不顾这些问题而继续下去。

Conversations will go on and nobody knows where it goes.6. They are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef.田野里的牛被称为cattle，但我们坐下来吃的牛肉被称为beef。

When they are alive, they are called cattle, when they are killed, and their meat is served on the table, it is called beef.7. The new ruling class has built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.新的统治阶级用法语来对抗其语言，这样就建立起了对抗这些农民的文化壁垒。

The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it hard for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.8. …English had come royally into its own.英语取得了统治地位。

English is used in England including the king.9. The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes.下层阶级使用这个短语时，带有贬义，甚至讥讽的味道。

The king's English has always been disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes.10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.对文化支配的反抗仍然存在。

As the early saxon peasants, the working people still have a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.11. There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that "words will harden into things for us." 正如卡莱尔提出的，“对我们而言，词语会变成具体的事物”，这始终会有极大的危险。

There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that we always take the words for things and forget words are only symbols.Unit 2 :1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.坟场只不过是一片巨大的如同一块废弃的建筑工地般土丘林立的荒原。

The burying-ground is just a huge wasteland of mounds of earth, just like a deserted piece of land which the building is built.2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon this fact.但事实上，这正是所有殖民帝国赖以建立的基础。

All the imperialists are in fact be built upon the fact that people in the colonies are treated as animals.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…他们生于土地，挥汗如雨，忍饥挨饿的过上几年以后，就被埋到坟场里不知名的坟堆之下。

They are born. Then they work for a few years, work hard andstarve. Finally, they die and are buried in graves without a name.4. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.一个木工盘腿坐在一架古老的车床旁，速度极快的旋制着椅子腿。

Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs which he is making.5. Instantly, from the dark holes all around, there was a frenzied rush of Jews…刹那间，大批疯狂的犹太人从四面八方的黑洞窟里钻了出来。

Immediately, from the dark holes like cells everywhere, Jews rushed out, wildly excited.6. …every one of them looks on a c igarette as a more or less impossible luxury.但每个人都视一根香烟为一种无法承担的奢侈品。

Every one of these poor Jews considers a cigarette as a piece of luxury which they cannot possibly afford.7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.然而，白皮肤却总是那么显眼。

However, white people are always noticeable.8. In a tropical landscape one's eye takes in everything except the human beings.在热带地区，一切自然景观尽收眼底，唯独看不见人。

In a tropical area, people can see everything but the human beings.9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.没人会想组织游客去贫民窟旅游，尽管费用低廉。

No one would think of organizing cheap trips to the poor slum areas.10. …for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, backbreaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.对于当地90%的居民而言，生活是一场为了从贫瘠的土地上榨出一点食物而进行的无休无止的艰苦抗争。

For 90% of the people, life is very hard. By working extremaly hard, they can only produce a little food from the poor soil.11. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say, as a beast of burden.她接受了自己既是老妇人，也是负重牲口的社会地位。

She took it for granted that she was at the bottom of the society, that she was only fit for heavy work just like animals.12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.棕色人近乎于无形。