上外版大学英语精读第5册1-8单元完整版翻译答案(包括短文翻译)

Passage Translation

Unit1 page 12

Mastering a large bank of vocabulary is crucial to speak a foreign language fluently. Unofficial but often quoted statistics about Cambridge First Certificate Examination show that students whose vocabulary less than 3500 words are less likely to pass this exam.

The recent research also indicates that the native English speakers educated to or above 18 years old know at least 16000 English words.

Unless you can speak a language like Spanish or German already, there is no short-cut to a large vocabulary: you have to depend on diligence and dedication.

Of course, you can infer from the context the meaning of some new words you come across in reading, but you often have to look up in a dictionary to clarify their exact meanings.

A practical method to learn new words may be reading widely, especially those you find interesting or exciting.

Reading the same book repeatedly is of great use: You’ll learn different new words every time you read, and the familiar context also helps to engrave those new words on your mind deeply.

Unit 2

4. page 36

1) I don’t think it is realistic to turn to him for help. As a matter of fact, he himself

is in need of help.

2) More and more people are being awakened to the urgent need of combating air

pollution.

3) There are visible signs that some of the time-honored old traditions and values

are no longer cherished by the young people.

4) Many of us find the notion of the immeasurable (boundless) universe hard to grasp.

5) Because of so many loopholes in the laws and regulations, it is little(small)

wonder that a handful of speculators got rich overnight.

6) An unprecedented boom in tourism brought sudden prosperity to the small

border town, which was formerly inhabited by only three hundred people.

7) In the light of this information, that country already has the capabilities to make

nuclear weapons.

8) Regardless of repeated warnings from his friends, he staked all his money on

high-risk ventures.

Unit3 page 65

If you set out to do some business but failed, do not lose your confidence. There are great differences between that “I failed three times” and “I am a failure”. As long as you try to learn from your failure instead of holding a negative view about yourself or identifying with failure, you are very likely to succeed in the future. Have you ever thought that those who have failed again and again are always the victims of bad self-image? They failed often because of not external reasons but internal reasons. Countless examples verify that if those people could be prevailed on the change of their view and set up positive self-image, their performance would change miraculously. Success can come at any time, whenever you are thirty, forty or when it