综英精读3课后翻译答案

Unit 1

1.He is so devoted to his research that it never occurs to him that he will

soon have to retire.

2.Many people have observed that, without effective checks, we all have

a tendency to abuse our power.

3.Some countries refuse to get involved in this dispute and they resent

any foreign interference.

4.The control of sand storms will involve a tremendous amount of work

and money.

5.You have to take the local conditions into consideration when you

apply these technologies.

6.All applicants will have to fill out these forms and mail in an

application fee of 50 dollars.

7.Based on his careful observation of children’s behavior, he came to the

conclusion that learning is a natural pleasure.

8.In a country of many nationalities, ethnic harmony requires very

careful handling.

9.The government is determined to punish all the corrupt officials

involved.

10.C heating at/on exams does not occur very often. But when it does, the

school takes a very tough position.

Unit 3

1.They all stretched their necks to see what was happening, as if pulled

by an invisible string.

2.We got out of the car to stretch a little. In front of us was a beautiful

stretch of open land.

3.They talked for hours at a stretch, but they failed to settle their

differences.

4.For all the warm weather, fresh air and delicious food, her health still

did not recover.

5.One glance at the car, and he knew that it was beyond repair. He

looked ahead and found the desert stretching as far as the eye could see without a soul in sight. He knew he was in a terrible fix.

6.Wu Song swung his stick at the tiger with all his strength. But the stick

snapped and the tiger was unharmed. In his panic, he had hit the tree nearby.

7.I am terribly fond of the pictures you snapped in Russia, especially the

one showing the Russian coachman sitting by the Black Sea with his supper in a cloth on his knees.

8.“You can’t just let it go at that.” I tried to plead with him.

“It is none of your business,” he snapped.

9.He snapped his briefcase to, stood up and said, “Then it’s all settled.”

10.He was standing in front of his house on a hill, only about a hundred

meters apart/away from the wharf when the tsunami came.

Unit 5

1.Building a house is no joking matter. You have to check carefully at

every step.

2.His troops successfully checked the advance of the enemy whose

original intention was to make a surprise attack.

3.I really wanted to refute his argument, but I checked myself because I

thought it was not the right occasion.

4.Rachel Carson is famous for devoting all her life to the cause of

environment protection.

5.In some ways we are still ignorant of the potential harm of these dams

and reservoirs. They might cause irrevocable changes in the environment.

6.There must be a set of checks and balances so that no important policy

concerning national interests can be made by one person without the consent and knowledge of the people.

7.To compete successfully we have to adjust to new conditions. These

colorful garments, for example, are specially designed. They are intended for youth market.

8.We teachers cannot be excused for our lack of concern for students’

health.

9.He said that he would rather die than be confined to bed all his life and

isolated from the outside world.