新编大学英语第四册第六单元重点词汇和句子

In-class reading passage

Key words and Phrases

pose indefinitely partial accidentally otherwise accordingly assess

run the risk of play the part of may/might (just) as well reduce... to Significant sentences

1. At some time or other, all of us have played the part of a hypochondriac, imagining that we have some terrible disease on the strength of very minor symptoms.

在说不定的某个时候，我们大家都曾充当过疑病症患者的角色，只凭一些轻微的症状便怀疑自己得了某种可怕的病。

2. But fear of disease is not our only fear, and neither is risk of disease the only risk we run.

然而，对疾病的恐惧并非我们唯一的恐惧。同样，患病的危险也并非我们唯一会遇上的危险。

3. And from these threats come questions that we must pose to ourselves: …

从而产生了好些问题，我们不得不问自己，······。

4. It is much more difficult when anxiety about other forms of risk is concerned, because with many risks, the situation is not as simple.

但当涉及到其它形式的风险时，事情就要困难得多，因为对许多风险来说，情况并不那么简单。

5. But what if you get hit from the side and end up trapped inside the vehicle, unable to escape because of a damaged seat belt mechanism?

倘若你的车侧面被撞，结果你被困在车里，又因安全带装置遭破坏而无法挣脱，那怎么办呢？

6. There are risks, often potentially serious one, associated with every hobby we have, every job we take, and every food we eat－in other words, with every action. (l. 29-31)

有些风险，常常是潜在的重大风险，与我们的每个业余爱好、所做的每项工作、所吃的每种食物有关，换句话说，与所进行的任何活动有关。

7. The answer is that you are roughly twice as likely to die in a serious crash in a small car than in a large one.

答案是这样：在一起严重的车祸中，坐小车丧生的可能性是坐大车的两倍左右。

8. In the case just discussed, we would find the relative safety of car travel and coal mining by dividing the numbers of lives lost in each by the number of people participating in each.

在刚才讨论的例子中，我们可以用每一项活动中死亡的人数除以参与该活动的总人数，从而找出汽车旅行与采煤的相对安全性。

9. Once we understand that risk can never be totally eliminated from any situation and that, therefore, nothing is completely safe, we will then see that the issue is not one of avoiding risks altogether but rather one of managing risks in a sensible way.

一旦我们懂得在任何情况下都不能完全排除危险，因而任何事情都不是绝对安全的，我们就会明白问题不在于彻底避免危险而在于如何理智地管理危险。

After-class reading passages 1

Key words and Phrases

bring... under control bear in mind

Significant sentences

1. What makes today’s preoccupation with health slightly surprising is that Americans are far healthier now than they have ever been. (l. 3-4)

美国人现在对健康如此关注，是有点令人吃惊，因为他们目前比以往任何时候都要健康得多。

2. Nonetheless, health and the various threats to it remain everyone’s permanent concern. (l. 8-9)

然而，健康以及对健康的各种威胁，仍然是人们永久关注的问题。

3. One major problem with any comparison of health risks－especially life-threatening ones－is that they differ enormously in their immediacy. (l. 13-16)

将威胁健康的危险，特别是致命的危险，进行比较时，有一个主要的问题，就是这些危险的紧迫性有很大差异。

4. ... but a risk that may cause immediate damage is much more costly than one for which the piper needn’t be paid for a long time. (l. 35-37)

但是，会马上引起伤害的危险，要比一个很长时间不需付出代价的危险要昂贵得多。

5. That criticism fails to consider the fact that AIDS, by virtue of striking people principally in their 20s and 30s, generates far more YPLLs than the bare figure of 20,000 deaths per year, bad as that is, might suggest. (l. 52-55)

该批评没有考虑到这样一个事实：由于艾滋病的主要受害者是二三十岁的年轻人，尽管每年只造成二万人死亡——该数字本身也不小了——但是艾滋病引起的YPLL要大得多，远比简单的死亡人数更值得我们重视。

After-class reading passages 2

range qualified

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Significant sentences

1. The kinds of experiences that travel agents like Peter Evans are offering range from white-water rafting on Africa’s Zambezi River, to climbing some of the world’s highest mountains. (l. 9-11)

像彼得·伊文思这样的旅行代理商提供的活动内容丰富，从漂流非洲赞比西河，直到攀登世界最高峰。

2. “I’ve seen statistics quoted for base jumping that range up to about one in 700 jumps resulting in a fatality,”he says. “This compares to one in 90,000 for traditional parachuting.”(l. 31-32)

“我看到过一些关于这项运动的数据，大约每700次低空跳伞中就有一次是致命的。相比之下，传统的跳伞运动每90,000次才有一次是致命的。”

3. But risky though such activities may be, they allow people to expand their horizons, ... (l. 52-53)

这些运动虽然危险性高，却能帮助人们拓展视野。

Translation

This morning I accidentally met with a friend with whom I have never kept in touch for a long