复旦大学英语精读第二册unit5第二课翻译
大学英语精读第二册Unit 5-3
The Villain in the Atmosphere Study & Practice
Vocabulary Activities
• 1. • 1) h • 2) e • 3) a • 4) g • 5) f • 6) d • 7) b • 8) c
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8) transparent • 1) makes up 9) to make matters • 2) fraction worse • 3) perspective 10) consume • 4) from year to year11) be replaced 12) interior • 5) poisonous 13) has disappeared • 6) liberate 14) came about
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1. at first 2. firstly / first 3. First of all 4. first of all / first
5. firstly 6. first 7. at first 8. at first
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• 1) A ballet dancer who does not practice every day loses a lot of skill, as does a musician. • 2) Almost all the teachers at the training center were women, as were the majority of the learners. • 3) The first lines gripped him, as did the next verse and then the whole poem. • 4) Isaac watched her winning smile, as every man in the group. • 5) Anyone accompanying a disabled person will be admitted to the meeting, as will guide dogs. • 6) The second individual session began with a review of the homework assignment, as did all sessions.
大学英语精读第二册Unit-5-2
2. Translate the sentence into Chinese. 太阳光照射大气层的顶部，径直透过数英里的大气 层，温暖着地球的表面。
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7. However, the atmosphere is not quite as transparent to infrared radiation as it is to visible light. 1.Paraphrase the sentence.
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6. Sunlight, striking the top of the atmosphere, travels right through miles of it to warm the Earth’s surface.
1. What’s the function of “striking the top of the atmosphere” ?
1. Paraphrase the sentence. The water will move forward to the coastal areas that are not much above the land (in which a great number of people in the world live), as a result, many people have to move away and settle down inside their countries. 2. Translate the sentence into Chinese. 在那些低洼的沿海地区(在这些地区居住着世界上很大一部 分人口)，海水会稳步向前推进，迫使人们向内陆退居。
大学英语精读第二册lesson5_warm-up
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Lesson 5—Say Yes
II. Listen to a Song
Love is Color-Blind
It don't matter if you're black white or yellow, if your brown or red
Lesson 5—Say Yes
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Lesson 5—Say Yes
II. Listen to a Song
Love is Color-Blind
It don't matter if you're black white or yellow, if you're brown or red let's get down to that love is color-blind I remember when I was a child and couldn't understand people having fun discriminating all the different ones mama just used to say when you grow up you'll maybe find a way to make these people see that everything I do comes back to me
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Listen to the song.
精读2第五单元课后练习答案-unit5-a-quick-fix-society-exercises
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2. Translate the following Chinese into English.
• 9) subtle changes
• 10) pastoral scenery
• 11) rear-view mirror
• 12) exit sign
• 13) Civil War battlefield
• 8) weighty
• 9) informative
• 10) devoted
• 11) massive
• 12) moved, moving
• 13) medical, medicinal
• 14) pervasive
• 15) 2021/6/7 musical
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• 4) Thanks to government policy that
the unemployment rate has dropped. It
was reduced to less than four percent
for the first half of the year.
2021/6/7
• 1) fast food
• 2) best seller
• 3) homemade bread
• 4) musical excerpts
• 5) express mail
• 6) life style
• 7) personal relationship
• 8) 2021/6/7 mass movement
8) in; of; on
10) out; in
精读5第二版课文翻译
Book5 cataloguesLesson 1Who Are you and what are you doing here (1)Lesson 2 Two kinds (10)Lesson 3Goods move. People move. Ideas move. And cultures change (21)Lesson 4Professions foe women (29)Lesson 5Love is a fallacy (34)Lesson 6The way torainy mountain (47)Lesson 7Rewriting American history (53)Lesson 8 The Merely very good (73)Lesson 9 Al gore’s Nobel peace prize acceptance speech (82)Lesson10The Bluest Eye (89)Lesson 11HowNews becomes opinion off-limits (101)Lesson 12The Indispensable opposition (105)Lesson 1 Who Are you and what are you doing hereWelcome and congratulations: Getting to the first day of college is a major achievement. You’re to be commended, and not just you, but the parents, grandparents, uncles, and aunts who helped get you here.It’s been said that raising a child effectively takes a village: Well, as you may have noticed, our American village is not in very good shape. We’ve go t guns, drugs, two wars, fanatical religions, a slime-based popular culture, and some politicians who—a little restraint here—aren’t what they might be. To merely survive in this American village and to win a place in the entering class has taken a lot of grit on your part. So, yes, congratulations to all.You now may think that you’ve about got it made. Amidst the impressive college buildings, in company with a high-powered faculty, surrounded by the best of your generation, all you need is to keep doing what you’ve done before: W/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlork hard, get good grades, listen to your teachers, get along with the people around you, and you’ll emerge in four years as an educated young man or woman. Ready for life.Do not believe it. It is not true. If you want to get a real education in America you’re going to have to fight—and I don’t mean just fight against the drugs and the violence and against the slime-based culture that is still going to surround you. I mean som ething a little more disturbing. To get an education, you’re probably going to have to fight against the institution that you find yourself in—no matter how prestigious it may be. (In fact, the more prestigious the school, the more you’ll probably have to push.) You can get a terrific education in America now—there are astonishing opportunities at almost every college—but the education will not be presented to you wrapped and bowed. To get it, you’ll need to struggle and strive, to be strong, and occa/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlsionally even to piss off some admirable people.I came to college with few resources, but one of them was an understanding, however crude, of how I might use my opportunities there. This I began to develop because of my father, who had never been tocollege—in fact, he’d barely gotten out of high school. One night after dinner, he and I were sitting in our kitchen at 58 Clewley Road in Medford, Massachusetts, hatching plans about the rest of my life. Iwas about to go off to college, a feat no one in my family had accomplished in living memory. “I think I might want to be pre-law,” I told my father. I had no idea what being pre-law was. My father compressed his brow and blew twin streams of smoke, dragon-lik e, from his magnificent nose. “Do you want to be a lawyer?” he asked. My father had some experience with lawyers, and with policemen, too; he was not well-disposed toward either. “I’m not really sure,” I toldh/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlim, “but lawyers make pretty good money, right?”My father detonated. (That was not uncommon. My father detonated a lot.) He told me that I was going to go to college only once, and that while I was there I had better study what I wanted. He said that when rich kids went to school, they majored in the subjects that interested them, and that my younger brother Philip and I were as good as any rich kids. (We were rich kids minus the money.) Wasn’t I interested in literature? I confessed that I was. Then I had better study literature, unless I had inside information to the effect that reincarnation wasn’t just hype, and I’d be able to attend college thirty or forty times. If I had such info, pre-law would be fine, and maybe even a tour through invertebrate biology could also be tossed in. But until I had the reincarnation stuff from a solid source, I better get to work and pick out some English classes from the course catalog./b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.html “How about the science requirements?”“Take ’em later,” he said, “you never know.”My father, Wright AukenheadEdmundson, Malden High School Class of 1948 (by a hair), knew the score. What he told me that evening at the Clewley Road kitchen table was true in itself, and it also contains the germ of an idea about what a university education should be. But apparently almost everyone else—students, teachers, and trustees and parents—sees the matter much differently. They have it wrong.Education has one salient enemy in present-day America, and that enemy is education—university education in particular. To almost everyone, university education is a means to an end. For students, that end is a good job. Students want the credentials that will help them get ahead. They want the certificate that will give them access to Wall Street, or entrance into law or medical or business school. And how can we blame them? /b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlAmerica values power and money, big players with big bucks. When we raise our children, we tell them in multiple ways that what we want most forthem is success—material success. To be poor in America is to be a failure—it’s to be without decent health care, without basic necessities, often without dignity. Then there are those back-breaking student loans—people leave school as servants, indentured to pay massive bills, so that first job better be a good one. Students come to college with the goal of a diploma in mind—what happens in between, especially in classrooms, is often of no deep and determining interest to them.In college, life is elsewhere. Life is at parties, at clubs, in music, with friends, in sports. Life is what celebrities have. The idea that the courses you take should be the primary objective of going to college is tacitly considered absurd. In terms of their work, students live in the futureand/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.html not the present; they live with their prospects for success. If universities stopped issuing credentials, half of the clients would be gone by tomorrow morning, with the remainder following fast behind.The faculty, too, is often absent: Their real lives are also elsewhere. Like most of their students, they aim to get on. The work they are compelled to do to advance—get tenure, promotion, raises, outside offers—is, broadly speaking, scholarly work. No matter what anyone says this work has precious little to do with the fundamentals of teaching. The proof is that virtually no undergraduate students can read and understand their professors’ scholarly publications. The public senses this disparity and so thinks of the professors’ work as being silly or beside the point. Some of it is. But the public also senses that bec ause professors don’t pay full-bore attention to teaching they don’t have to work very hard—they’ve created /b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmla massive feather bed for themselves and called it a university.This is radically false. Ambitious professors, the ones who, like their students, want to get ahead in America, work furiously. Scholarship, even if pretentious and almost unreadable, is nonethelesslabor-intense. One can slave for a year or two on a single article for publication in this or that refereed journal. These essays are honest: Their footnotes reflect real reading, real assimilation, and real dedication. Shoddy work—in which the author cheats, cuts corners, copies from others—is quickly detected. The people who do this work have highly developed intellectual powers, and they push themselves hard to reach a certain standard: That the results have almost nopractical relevance to the students, the public, or even, frequently, to other scholars is a central element in the tragicomedy that is often academia.The students and the profes/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlsors have made a deal: Neither of them has to throw himself heart and soul into what happens in the classroom. The students write their abstract, over-intellectualized essays; the professors grade the students for their capacity to be abstract and over-intellectual—and often genuinely smart. For their essays can be brilliant, in a chilly way; they can also be clipped off the Internet, and often are. Whatever the case, no one wants to invest too much in them—for life is elsewhere. The professor saves his energies for the profession, while the student saves his for friends, social life, volunteer work, making connections, and getting in position to clasp hands on the true grail, the first job.No one in this picture is evil; no one is criminally irresponsible. It’s just that smart people are prone to look into matters to see how they might go about buttering their toast. Then they butter their toast.As for the admin/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlistrators, their relation to the students often seems based not on love but fear. Administrators fear bad publicity, scandal, and dissatisfaction on the part of their customers. More than anything else, though, they fear lawsuits. Throwing a student out of college, for this or that piece of bad behavior, is very difficult, almost impossible.The student will sue your eyes out. One kid I knew (and rather liked) threatened on his blog to mince his dear and esteemed professor (me) with a samurai sword for the crime of having taught a boring class. (The class was a little boring—I had a damned cold—but the punishment seemed a bit severe.) The dean of students laughed lightly when I suggested that this behavior might be grounds for sending the student on a brief vacation. I was, you might say, discomfited, and showed up to class for a while with my cellphone jiggered to dial 911 with one touch.Still, this was small potatoes. Co/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmllleges are even leery of disciplining guys who have committed sexual assault, or assault plain and simple. Instead of being punished, these guys frequently stay around, strolling the quad and swilling the libations, an affront (and sometimes a terror) to their victims.You’ll find that cheating is common as well. As far as I can discern, the student ethos goes like this: If the professor is so lazy that he gives the same test every year,it’s okay to go ahead a nd take advantage—you’ve both got better things to do. The Internet is amok with services selling term papers and those services exist, capitalism being what it is, because people purchase the papers—lots of them. Fraternity files bulge with old tests from a variety of courses.Periodically the public gets exercised about this situation, and there are articles in the national news. But then interest dwindles and matters go back to normal.On/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmle of the reasons professors sometimes look the other way when they sense cheating is that it sends them into a world of sorrow. A friend of mine had the temerity to detect cheating on the part of a kid who was the nephew of a well-placed official in an Arab government complexly aligned with the U.S. Black limousines pulled up in front of his office and disgorged decorously suited negotiators. Did my pal fold? Nope, he’s not the type. But he did not enjoy the process.What colleges generally want are well-rounded students, civic leaders, people who know what the system demands, how to keep matters light, not push too hard for an education or anything else; people who get their credentials and leave the professors alone to do their brilliant work, so they may rise and enhance the rankings of the university. Such students leave and become donors and so, in their own turn, contribute immeasurably to the university’s standing.T/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlhey’ve done a fine job skating on surfaces in high school—the best way to get an across-the-board outstanding record—and now they’re on campus to cut a few more figure eights.In a culture where the major and determining values are monetary, what else could you do? How else would you live if not by getting all you can, succeeding all you can, making all you can?The idea that a university education really should have no substantial content, should not be about what John Keats was disposed to call Soul-making, is one that you might think professors and university presidents would be discreet about. Not so. This view informed an address that Richard Brodhead gaveto the senior class at Yale before he departed to become president of Duke. Brodhead, an impressive, articulate man, seems to take as his e ducational touchstone the Duke of Wellington’s precept that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields ofEto/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmln. Brodhead suggests that the content of the courses isn’t really what matters. In five years (or five months,or minutes), the student is likely to have forgotten how to do the problem sets and will only hazily recollect what happens in the ninth book of Paradise Lost. The legacy of their college years will be a legacy of difficulties overcome. When they face equally arduous tasks later in life, students will tap their old resources of determination, and they’ll win.All right, there’s nothing wrong with this as far as it goes—after all, the student who writes a brilliant forty-page thesis in a hard week has learned more than a little about her inner resources. Maybe it will give her needed confidence in the future. But doesn’t the content of the courses matter at all?On the evidence of this talk, no. Trying to figure out whether the stuff you’re reading is true or false and being open to having your lif/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmle changed is a fraught, controversial activity. Doing so requires energy from the professor—which is better spent on other matters. This kind of perspective-altering teaching and learning can cause the things which administrators fear above all else: trouble, arguments, bad press, etc. After the kid-samurai episode, the chair of my department not unsympathetically suggested that this was the sort of incident that could happen when you brought a certain intensity to teaching. At the time I found his remark a tad detached, but maybe he was right.So, if you want an education, the odds aren’t with you: The professors are off doing what t hey call their own work; the other students, who’ve doped out the way the place runs, are busy leaving the professors alone and getting themselves in position for bright and shining futures; the student-services people are trying to keep everyone content, offering plenty of entertainment andbu/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlilding another state-of-the-art workout facility every few months. The development office is already scanning you for future donations. The primary function of Yal e University, it’s recently been said, is to create prosperous alumni so as to enrich Yale University.So why make trouble? Why not just go along? Let the profs roam free in the realms of pure thought, let yourselves party in the realms of impure pleasure, and let the student-services gang assert fewer prohibitions and newer delights for you. You’ll get a good job, you’ll have plenty of friends, you’ll have a driveway of your own.You’ll also, if my father and I are right, be truly and righteously screw ed. The reason for this is simple. The quest at the center of a liberal-arts education is not a luxury quest; it’s a necessity quest. If you do not undertake it, you risk leading a life of desperation—maybe quiet, maybe, in time, very loud—and I/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlam not exaggerating. For you risk trying to be someone other than who you are, which, in the long run, is killing.By the time you come to college, you will have been told who you are numberless times. Your parents and friends, your teachers, your counselors, your priests and rabbis and ministers and imams have all had their say. They’ve let you know how they size you up, and they’ve let you know what they think you should value. They’ve given you a sharp and pro tracted taste of what they feel is good and bad, right and wrong. Much is on their side. They have confronted you with scriptures—holy books that, whatever their actual provenance, have given people what they feel to be wisdom for thousands of years. They’ve given you family traditions—you’ve learned the ways of your tribe and your community. And, too, you’ve been tested, probed, looked at up and down and through. The coach knows what your athletic prospects are, th/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmle guidance office has a sheaf of test scores that relegate you to this or that ability quadrant, and your teachers have got you pegged. You are, as Foucault might say, the intersection of many evaluative and potentially determining discourses: you boy, you girl, have been made.And—contra Foucault—that’s not so bad. Embedded in all of the major religions are profound truths. Schopenhauer, who despised belief in transcendent things, nonetheless thought Christianity to be of inexpressible worth. He couldn’t believe in the divinity of Jesus, or in the afterlife, but to Schopenhauer, a deep pessimist, a religion that had as its central emblem the figure of a man being tortured on a cross couldn’t be entirely misleading. To the Christian, Schopenhaue r said, pain was at the center of the understanding of life, and that was just as it should be.One does not need to be as harsh as Schopenhauer to understand the use ofrel/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmligion, even if one does not believe in an otherworldly god. And all of those teachers and counselors and friends—and the prognosticating uncles, the dithering aunts, the fathers and mothers with their hopes for your fulfillment—or theirfulfillment in you—should not necessarily be cast aside or ignored. Families have their wisdom. The question “Who do they think you are at home?” is never an idle one.The major conservative thinkers have always been very serious about what goes by the name of common sense. Edmund Burke saw common sense as a loosely made, but often profound, collective work, in which humanity has deposited its hard-earned wisdom—the precipitate of joy and tears—over time. You have been raised in proximity to common sense, if you’ve been raised at all, and common sense is something to respect, though not quite—peace unto the formidable Burke—to revere.You may be all that the good people who/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.html raised you say you are; you may want all they have shown you is worth wanting; you may be someone who is truly your father’s son or your mother’s daughter. But then again, you may not be.For the power that is in you, as Emerson suggested, may be new in nature. You may not be the person that your parents take you to be. And—this thought is both more exciting and more dangerous—you may not be the person that you take yourself to be, either. You may not have read yourself aright, and collegeis the place where you can find out whether you have or not. The reason to read Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to become more cultivated, or more articulate, or to be someone who, at a cocktail party, is never embarrassed (or who can embarrass others). The best reason to read them is to see if they may know you better than you know yourself. You may find your own suppressed and rejected thoughts flowing back to you with/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.html an “alienated majesty.” Reading the great writers, you may have the experience that Longinus associated with the sublime: You feel that you have actually created the text yourself. For somehow your predecessors are more yourself than you are.This was my own experience reading the two writers who have influenced me the most, Sigmund Freud and Ralph Waldo Emerson. They gave words to thoughts and feelings that I had never been able to render myself. They shone a light onto the world and what they saw, suddenly I saw, too. From Emerson I learned to trust my own thoughts, to trust them even when every voice seems to be on the other side. I need the wherewithal, as Emerson did, to say what’s on my mind and to take theinevitable hits. Much more I learned from the sage—about character, about loss, about joy, about writing and its secret sources, but Emerson most centrally preaches the gospel of self-reliance and that is/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.html what I have tried most to take from him. I continue to hold in mind one of Emerson’s most memorable passages: “Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.”Emerson’s greatness lies not only in showing you how powerful names and customs can be, but also in demonstrating how exhilarating it is to buck them. When he came to Harvard to talk about religion, he shocked the professors and students by challenging the divinity of Jesus and the truth of his miracles. He wasn’t invited back for decades.From Freud I found a great deal to ponder as well. I don’t mean Freud the aspiring scientist, but the Freud who was a speculative essayist and interpreter of the humanc/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlondition like Emerson. Freud challenges nearly every significant human ideal. He goes after religion. He says that it comes down to the longing for the father. He goes after love. He calls it “the overestimation of the erotic object.” He attacks our desire for charismatic popular leaders. We’re drawn to them because we hunger for absolute authority. He declares that dreams don’t predict the future and that there’s nothing benevolent about them. They’re disguised fulfillments of repressed wishes.Freud has something challenging and provoking to say about virtually every human aspiration. I learned that if I wanted to affirm any consequential ideal, I had to talk my way past Freud. He was—and is—a perpetual challenge and goad.Never has there been a more shrewd and imaginative cartographer of the psyche. His separation of the self into three parts, and his sense of the fraught, anxious, but often negotiablerelations/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.html among them (negotiable when youcome to the game with a Freudian knowledge), does a great deal to help one navigate experience. (Though sometimes—and this I owe to Emerson—it seems right to let the psyche fall into civil war, accepting barrages of anxiety and grief for this or that good reason.)The battle is to make such writers one’s ow n, to winnow them out and to find their essential truths. We need to see where they fall short and where they exceed the mark, and then to develop them a little, as the ideas themselves, one comes to see, actually developed others. (Both Emerson and Freud live out of Shakespeare—but only a giant can be truly influenced by Shakespeare.) In reading, I continue to look for one thing—to be influenced, to learn something new, to be thrown off my course and onto another, better way.My father knew that he was dissatisfied with life. He knew that none of the descriptions people had for h/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlim quite fit. He understood that he was always out-of-joint with life as it was. He had talent: My brother and I each got about half the raw ability he possessed and that’s taken us through life well enough. But what to do with that talent—there was the rub for my father. He used to stroll through the house intoning his favorite line from Groucho Marx’s ditty “Whatever it is, I’m against it.” (I recently asked my son, now twenty-one, if he thought I was mistaken in teaching him this particular song when he was six years old. “No!” he said, filling the air with an invisible forest of exclamation points.) But what my father never managed to get was a sense of who he might become. He never had a world of possibilities spread before him, never made sustained contact with the best that had been thought and said. He didn’t get to revise his understanding of himself, figure out what he’d do best that might give the world some profit.:///b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlarMy father was a gruff man, but also a generous one, so that night at the kitchen table at 58 Clewley Road he made an effort to let me have the chance that had been denied to him by both fate and character. He gave me the chance to see what I was all about, and if it proved to be different from him, proved even to be something he didn’t like or entirely comprehend, then he’d deal with it.Right now, if you’re going to get a real education, you may have to be aggressive and assertive.Your professors will give you some fine books to read, and they’ll probably help you understand them. What they won’t do, for reasons that perplex me, is to ask you if the books c ontain truths you could live your lives by. When you read Plato, you’ll probably learn about his metaphysics and his politics and his way of conceiving thesoul. But no one will ask you if his ideas are good enough to believe in. No one will askyo/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmlu, in the words of Emerson’s disciple William James, what their “cash value” might be. No one will suggest that you might use Plato as your bible for a week or a year or longer. No one, in short, will ask you to use Plato to help you change your life.That will be up to you. You must put the question of Plato to yourself. You must ask whether reason should always rule the passions, philosophers should always rule the state, and poets should inevitably be banished from a just commonwealth. You have to ask yourself if wildly expressive music (rock and rapand the rest) deranges the soul in ways that are destructive to its health. You must inquire of yourself if balanced calm is the most desirable human state.Occasionally—for you will need some help in fleshing-out the answers—you may have to prod your professors to see if they take the text at hand—in this case the divine and disturbing Plato—to be true. And you wil/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmll have to be tough if the professor mocks you for uttering a sincere question instead of keeping matters easy for all concerned by staying detached and analytical. (Detached analysis has a place—but, in the end, you’ve got to speak from the heart and pose the question of truth.) You’ll be the one who pesters his teachers. You’ll ask your history teacher about whether there is a design to our history, whether we’re progressing or declining, or whether, in the words of a fine recent play, The History Boys, history’s “just one fuckin’ thing after another.” You’ll be the one who challenges your biology teacher about the intellectual conflict between evolution and creationist thinking. You’ll not only question the statistics teacher about what numbers ca n explain but what they can’t.Because every subject you study is a language and since you may adopt one of these languages as your own, you’ll want to know how to speak itexper/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmltly and also how it fails to deal with those concerns for which it has no adequate words. You’ll be looking into the reach of every metaphor that every discipline offers, and you’ll be trying to see around their corners.The whole business is scary, of course. What if you arrive at college devoted to pre-med, sure that nothing will make you and your family happier than a life as a physician, only to discover that elementary-school teaching is where your heart is?You might learn that you’re not meant to be a doctor at all. Of c ourse, given your intellect and discipline, you can still probably be one. You can pound your round peg through the very square hole of medical school, then go off into the profession. And society will help you. Society has a cornucopia of resources to enc ourage you in doing what society needs done but that you don’t much like doing and are not cut out to do. To ease your grief, society offer/b436ae4d256db091cd1ac78ea.htmls alcohol, television, drugs, divorce, and buying, buying, buyi ng what you don’t need. But all those too have their costs.Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play—work you do so easily that it restores you as you go. Randall Jarrell once said that if he were a rich man, he would pay money to teach poetry to students. (I would, too, for what it’s worth.) In saying that, he (like my father) hinted in the direction of a profound and true theory of learning.。
大学英语精读第二册Unit5：TheProfessorandtheYo-Yo
Seen through the eyes of a young friend Einstein was a simple, modest and ordinary man.The professor and the Yo-yoMy father was a close friend of Albert Einstein. As a shy young visitor to Einstein's home, I was made to feel at ease when Einstein said, "I have something to show you." He went to his desk and returned with a Yo-Yo. He tried to show me how it worked but he couldn't make it roll back up the string. When my turn came, I displayed my few tricks and pointed out to him that the incorrectly looped string had thrown the toy off balance. Einstein nodded, properly impressed by my skill and knowledge. Later, I bought a new Yo-Yo and mailed it to the Professor as a Christmas present, and received a poem of thanks.As boy and then as an adult, I never lost my wonder at the personality that was Einstein. He was the only person I knew who had come to terms with himself and the world around him. He knew what he wanted and he wanted only this: to understand within his limits as a human being the nature of the universe and the logic and simplicity in its functioning. He knew there were answers beyond his intellectual reach. But this did not frustrate him. He was content to go as far as he could.In the 23 years of our friendship, I never saw him show jealousy, vanity, bitterness, anger, resentment, or personal ambition. He seemed immune to these emotions. He was beyond any pretension. Although he corresponded with many of the world's most important people, his stationery carried only a watermark - W - for Woolworth's.To do his work he needed only a pencil only a pencil and a pad of paper. Material things meant nothing to him. I never knew him to carry money because he never had any use for it. He believed in simplicity, so much so that he used only a safety razor and water to shave. When I suggested that he try shaving cream, he said, "The razor and water do the job.""But Professor, why don't you try the cream just once?" I argued. "It makes shaving smoother and less painful."He shrugged. Finally, I presented him with a tube of shaving cream. The next morning when he came down to breakfast, he was beaming with the pleasure of a new, great discovery. "You know, that cream really works," he announced. "It doesn't pull the beard. It feels wonderful." Thereafter, he used the shaving cream every morning until the tube was empty. Then he reverted to using plain water.Einstein was purely and exclusively a theorist. He didn't have the slightest interest in the practical application of his ideas and theories. His E=mc2 is probably the most famous equation in history - yet Einstein wouldn't walk down the street to see a reactor create atomic energy. He won the Nobel Prize for his Photoelectric Theory, a series of equations that he considered relatively minor in importance, but he didn't have any curiosity in observing how his theory made TV possible.My brother once gave the Professor a toy, a bird that balanced on the edge of a bowl of water and repeatedly dunked its head in the water. Einstein watched it in delight, trying to deduce the operating principle. But be couldn't.The next morning he announced, "I had thought about that bird for a long time before I went to bed and it must work this way…" He began a ling explanation. Then he stopped, realizing a flaw in his reasoning. "No, I guess that's not it," he said. He pursued various theories for several days until I suggested we take the toy apart to see how it did work. His quick expression of disapproval told me he did not agree with this practical approach. He never did work out the solution. Another puzzle that Einstein could never understand was his own fame. He had developed theories that were profound and capable of exciting relatively few scientists. Yet his name was a household word across the civilized world. "I've had good ideas, and so have other men," he once said. "But it's been my good fortune that my ideas have been accepted." He was bewildered by his fame: people wanted to meet him; strangers stared at him on the street; scientists, statesmen, students, and housewives wrote him letters. He never could understand why he received this attention, why he was singled out as something special.NEW WORDSmodesta. having or expressing a not too high opinion of one's merits, abilities, etc. 谦虚的yo-yon. 游游（⼀种⽤线扯动使⽤权忽上忽来的轮形玩具）easen. freedom from work, discomfort, trouble, difficulty, worry, etc. 悠闲；舒适；⾃在；安⼼displayn. show 展⽰loopvt. 把（绳等）打成环n. 圈；环strongn. 细绳；线；弦balancen. condition of being steady 平衡v. keep in a state of balanceproperlyad. really; completely ⾮常；完全地impressvt. have a strong effect on the mind or feelings of 给...深刻的印象mailvt. send by postpoemn. piece of writing in verse 诗personalityn. character 个性logicn. the science or method of reasoning 逻辑(学);推理(法)simplicityn. the state of being simple; an absence of pretense 简单;简朴;单纯functionvi. workintellectuala. 智⼒的frustraten. cause to have feeling of annoyed disappointment; defeat 使沮丧;挫败frustrationn.jealousyn. envy 妒忌jealousa.vanityn. state of being too proud of oneself or one's looks, abilities, etc. 虚荣⼼bitternessn. the quality or state of being bitter 苦;痛苦resentmentn. feeling that one has when insulted, ignored, injured, etc. 怨恨ambitionn. strong desire for success, power, riches, etc. 野⼼,抱负ambitiousa.immunea. 有免疫⼒的;不受影响的immunityn.emotionn. strong feelingpretensionn. 矫饰,做作,不受影响correspondvi. exchange letter regularly 通信stationeryn. paper for writing letters, usu. with matching envelopes; writing materials 信笺;⽂具watermarkn. mark made on paper by the maker, seen when it is held against light ⽔印padn. a number of sheets of writing paper fixed along one edge 便笺簿razorn. sharp instrument for taking hair off the body 剃⼑shavevt. cut off (hair or beard) with a razorcreamn. any thick, soft liquid 膏状物arguevt. give reasons for or against (sth.) 争辨painfula. causing painshrugvi. lift (the shoulders) slightly (to show in difference, doubt, etc.) 耸肩finallyad. at last; lastly 最终;最后presentvt. give;offer 赠送;提供tuben. 管;软管beamvi. look or smile happily and cheerfully ⾯露喜⾊;⾼兴地微笑beardn. hair of the lower part of the face (excluding the moustache) 胡须thereafterad. after that; afterwardsrevertvi return (to a former state, condition, etc.) 回复,回返exclusivelyad. only; completelyexclusivea. person who forms theories 理论家theoristn. ⽅程式equationn. small in degree, not considerable or serious 微⼩的,轻微的applicationn. using 应⽤theoryn. (explanation of the) general principles of an art or science 理论theoreticala.reactorn. 反应堆atomica. of or concerning an atom or atoms 原⼦的atomn.photoelectrica. 光电的seriesn. group of things of the same kind that come one after another 系列;套,组relatively。
复旦大学英语精读第二册unit5第二课翻译
Unit Five Science & TechnologyText 2 Bell LabsI. Pre-Reading DiscussionIBM (International Business Machine), Microsoft, Dell, HP, AT & T, Motorolla, Nokia, Sony, Panasonic, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).II. Close Reading of the Text【Introduction】1. sweep (n.): a broad reach or extent一大片；范围e.g.: the sweep of a lantern beam；a sweep of green lawn2. Big Bang:the cosmic explosion that marked the origin of the universe according to the big bang theory.按照大爆炸理论，标志宇宙形成的宇宙爆炸3. dynamic (adj.): characterized by continuous change, activity, or progress 动态的e.g.: a dynamic market；dynamic economics；a man of dynamic personalities 【Paragraph 1】4. (L1) premier (adj.): first in status or importance; principal or chief主要的；首要的e.g.: take the premier place；a designer of premier rank5. (L1) facility (n.):all equipment, sites, lines, circuits, and software available for d ata processing and data communications设施［备］e.g.: facilities for cooking；washing facilities6. (L2) transistor (n.): [电子]晶体管e.g.: a transistor radio7. (L5) crucial (adj.): extremely significant or important至关紧要的e.g.: a crucial problem；at the crucial moment8. (L7) revenue (n.): all the income produced by a particular source收入e.g.: the Public Revenue；revenue duty；administrative revenue9. (L8) wither (v.): to cause to shrivel or fade消亡, 破灭e.g.: Age cannot wither her. The flowers withered in the cold.10. (L8) run-of-the-mill (adj.): not special or outstanding; average一般的，不突出的；普通的e.g.: No mill, no meal. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 【Paragraph 2】11. (L11) scathe (v.): to harm or injure, especially by fire危害, 损害, 损伤e.g.: keep from scathe; without scathe12. (L13) license (vt.): to give or yield permission to or for同意，批准，许可e.g.: a driver's license；We are sure that these purchases will soon be licensed.13. (L13) afield (adv.): to or at a great distance; far afield远方, 远处，远离e.g.: get far afield from one's subject；Do not go too far afield.【Paragraph 3】14. (L16) proportion (n.):a relationship between things or parts of things with respect to comparative magnitude, quantity, or degree比例，比率e.g.: the proportion of births to the population；do a sum in [by] proportion；in (direct) proportion to；in inverse proportion to【Paragraph 4】15. (L20) epochal (adj.): highly significant or important; momentous有重大或重要意义的e.g.: epochal decisions；mark [form] an epoch in science；an entire historical epoch16. (L24) single out:to separate or choose from a group, esp. for special treatment or notice挑选,选拔e.g.: Why did you single him out for punishment?【Paragraph 5】17. (L30) conversion (n.): the act of converting转变e.g.: channel conversion；data conversion【Paragraph 6】18. (L35) drastically (adv.): greatly激烈地, 彻底地e.g.: a drastic debate；make drastic change19. (L35) robotic (n.): the science or study of the technology associated with the design, fabrication, theory, and application of robots机器人学【Paragraph 7】20. (L41) ebullient (adj.): zestfully enthusiastic热情高涨的e.g.: the ebullience of youth21. (L42) make one’s mark: 出名，做出成绩，暂露头角22. (L46) mast (n.): a tall vertical antenna, as for a radio天线杆，收发塔23. (L46) pipe up: to speak up说，讲话24. (L47) emit (vt.): to give out as sound; utter发出，发射e.g.: a stove emitting heat；emit an opinion；The sun emits light and heat.25. (L49) disband (v.): to dissolve the organization of (a corporation, for example)解散，遣散e.g.: The army was disbanded when the war ended.The tennis club has disbanded.【Paragraph 8】26. (L51) track down: to find after a long and difficult search 跟踪追捕27. (L52) static (adj.): random radio noise静电噪声e.g.: static electricity静电28. (L53) residual (adj.): remaining as a residue剩余的, 残留的e.g.: waste residual【Paragraph 9】29. (L60) sundry (adj.): various各式各样的e.g.: a purse containing keys, wallet, and sundry items；sundry tax；on sundry occasions30. (L64) corridor (n.): a narrow hallway, passageway, or gallery, often with rooms or apartments opening onto it走廊，回廊e.g.: corridor carriage；side corridor；air corridoropen corridor31. (L65) cram (v.):to force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff塞满，填满e.g.: There was such a cram in the church on Chiristmas Eve.It's dangerous for too many people to be crammed into a bus.The hall was crammed with many people standing.【Paragraph 11】32. (L78) outlet (n.): a store that sells the goods of a particular manufacturer or wholesaler商店e.g.: The shoe manufacturer had several outlets.emergency outlet33. (L80) integrate (vt.): to join with something else; unite使成整体, 使一体化e.g.: integrate theory with practice；They are trying to integrate all the children into society.【Paragraph 12】34. (L83) harness (vt.): to bring under control and direct the force of统治，管理，支配e.g.: harness a horse to a carriage；harness a waterfall35. (L83) ephemeral (adj.): lasting for a markedly brief time短暂的e.g.: an ephemeral flower；ephemeral joys36. (L85) optical (adj.): relating to or using visible light光学的e.g.: optical instruments；an optical defect37. (L86) counterpart (n.):one that has the same functions and characteristics as another; an opposite number配对物，对方e.g.: Night is the counterpart of day.It has no counterpart in the world.38. (L89) boon (n.): a benefit bestowed, especially one bestowed in response to a request恩赐；恩惠；裨益e.g.: Radio is a boon to the blind.A bicycle is a real boon when you live in a small town.。
大学英语精读第二册Unit1-Unit5课后翻译
Unit 11.她砰地关上门，一声不哼地走了，他们之间那场争执就此结束。
Their argument ended when she slammed the door and left without a word.2.出席晚宴的客人对那个美国威严的语气感到有点意外。
The guests the dinner party were slightly surprised at the commanding tone of the American.3.约翰尼已成大成熟，不再害怕独自呆在家里了。
Johnny has outgrown the fear of staying at home alone.4.当全部乘客都向出口处走去时，他却独自留在座位上，好像不愿意离开这架飞机似的。
While all the other passengers made for the exit , the alone remained his seat as if unwilling to leave the plane.5.这封信必须交给威尔逊博士本人。
The letter is to be handed to Dr .Wilson himself.6.南希虽然很想参加辩论，但腼腆得不敢开口。
While she felt like joining in the argument .Nancy was too shy to open her mouth.7.你觉得什么时候最后可能在家里找到他？What do you think is the likeliest time to find him at home?8.猎人一看见有只狐狸从树丛中出现并向他设下的陷阱方向跑去，脸上顿时显出了兴奋的表情。
The hunter’s face lie up with excitement as soon as he saw a fox emerge from among the bushes and run in the direction for the trap he had laid.Unit 21．会上有人建议任命一个十一人委员会来制定新章程It was suggested at the meeting that a committee of 11 be appointed to make a new constitution. 2．这些青年科学家通过现场观察，获得了研究工作所需的第一手资料By making on-the-spot observation the young scientist obtained first-hand information they needed in their research work.3．他很可能会因视力不好而被拒收入伍It is very likely that he will be rejected by the army because of his bad eyesight.4．委员会成员在新机场最佳选址这一问题上持有不同意见The committee members have conflicting opinions as to the best location of the new airport.5. 亨利创作的艺术品在许多方面比他兄弟的要好Henry’s works of art are superior in many respects to those of his brother’s.6. 我们产品质量的稳步提高在很大程度上是由于设备有所改进The steady rise in the quality of our products owes much to the improvement of our equipment. 7. 吉姆本想按照自己的判断行事，但他没有这样做，因为作为军人他得服从命令Jim would have preferred to act on his own judgment but he didn’t because as a soldier he had to obey the order.8. 如果让我来决定我们是要一个没有自行车的城市呢，还是要一个没有汽车的城市，我会毫不犹豫地选择后者Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a city without bikes or one without cars. I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.Unit 31. 她在当地一家银行找到一份出纳员的工作，但不久因不称职而被解雇了。
复旦大学英语精读第二册unit5第一课翻译
Unit Five Science & TechnologyText 1 Can We Know the Universe?I. Pre-Reading Discussion:Universe: numberless galaxies beyond human understanding and reach Solar System: part of the Milky Way GalaxyThe Earth: part of the Solar System that consists the Sun and nine planets that revolve around it: Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Satum, Uranus, Neptune and PlutoII. Close-Reading of the Text:【Introduction】1. reflection (n.): mental concentration; careful consideration反省, 沉思, 反映e.g.: the reflection in a mirror；reflections on the current situation；2. grain (n.):谷物, 谷粒, 颗粒, 粮食e.g.: Grain is used for making flour.a grain of salt一粒盐3. metaphysics (n.): the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value形而上学，玄学哲学一分支，研究现实的本质，包括意识和物质、物质和特性、事实和价值之间的关系4. exhilaration (n.): the state of being stimulated, refreshed, or elated高兴, 兴奋e.g.: exhilarate one's spirits5. blade (n.): the flat-edged cutting part of a sharpened weapon or tool刀刃, 刀片；草叶，叶片e.g.: the blade of a knife；a blade of grass；in the blade【Paragraph 1】6. (L2) fathom (n.): a unit of length equal to 6 feet (1.83 meters), used principally in the measurement and specification of marine depths长度单位，相当于6英尺(1.83米），主要用于测量水深7. (L5) regularity (n.): the action to control or direct according to rule, principle, or law规律性, 规则性e.g.: regulate temperature. regulate one's eating habits；regulate a clock8. (L6) penetrate (v.): to grasp the inner significance of; understand 洞悉，明了, 洞察e.g.: penetrate the phenomena of things to study their essenceThe rain penetrated (through) our clothes.A smell of gunpowder penetrated the woods.9. (L7) organism (n.):生物体, 有机体the social organism社会10. (L8)cosmos (n.):the universe regarded as an orderly, harmoniouswhole宇宙e.g.: microscopic cosmos11. (L9) intuition (n.): a sense of something not evident or deducible; an impression直觉*** (L8-9) Our intuition is by no means an infallible guide. Paraphrase: We should not always rely on our instinctive feelings for a perfect judgment.12. (L9) perception (n.):recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory.领悟力, 主要在记忆基础上的再认识和对感觉刺激物的理解, 感知13. (L9) distort (v.):to give a false or misleading account of; misrepresent扭曲, 歪曲e.g.: distort one’s motives；a distorted view14. (L13) friction: a force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.摩擦力e.g.: Friction gradually caused the sliding box to slow down and stop. Matches are lighted by friction. There is some friction among the family members.15. (L13) lead (n.): a soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, dense metallic element, extracted chiefly from galena and used in containers and pipes for corrosives, solder and type metal, bullets, radiation shielding, paints, and antiknock compounds. Atomic number 82; atomicweight 207.19; melting point 327.5=C; boiling point 1,744=C; specific gravity 11.35; valence 2, 4.铅, 一种柔软、有延展性和可锻性的，蓝白色高密度金属元素，主要从方铅矿中提取，用于集装箱、耐腐蚀管道、焊料和字铅、子弹、放射性防护屏、涂料及抗爆化合物。
大学英语精读第二册课文翻译（全）
大学英语精读第二册课文翻译(全)UNTH 2-1It is humorous essay. 这是一篇幽默的文章。
But after reading it you will surely find that the author is most serious in writing it.但是读过之后你将会发现作者写这篇文章的时候是很严肃的。
Is There Life on Earth? 地球上有生命吗？Art Buchwald阿特.布奇沃德There was great excitement on the planet of V enus this week. 金星上本周异常热闹。
For the first time V enusian scientists managed to land a satellite on the plant Earth, 那里的科学家首次成功地将一颗卫星送上了地球，and is has been sending back signals as well as photographs ever since. 从此卫星便一直不断地发回信号和照片。
The satellite was directed into an area know as Manhattan 卫星被发射到一个叫曼哈顿的地区(named after the great V enusian astronomer Prof. （它是用金星上伟大的天文学家曼哈顿教授的名字命名的, Manhattan, who first discovered it with his telescope 20,000 light years ago). 两万光年前是他首次用望远镜发现了该地区）。
Because of excellent weather conditions and extremely strong signals, 由于良好的天气条件以及高质量的信号，V enusian scientists were able to get valuable information 使得金星上的科学家们能够获得宝贵资料as to the feasibility of a manned flying saucer landing on Earth. 有关载人飞碟能否在地球上着陆。
大学英语精读5课后翻译（精选五篇）
大学英语精读5课后翻译（精选五篇）第一篇：大学英语精读5课后翻译Unit 1Mastering a large number of words is essential to achieving fluency in a foreign language.An unofficial, but often quoted, figure for the Cambridge First Certificate examiniation suggests that students with a vocabulary of less than 3,500 words are unlikely to be successful in the exam.Current research also suggests that native English speakers who have been educated up to 18 years old or beyond know at least 16,000 English words.And unless you already speak a language like Spanish or German, there are no short-cuts to a large vocabulary in English: you just have to rely on diligence and dedication.Of course you can figure out from the context the meanings of some new words you come across in your reading, but more often than not you have to look them up in a dictionary in order to be clear about their accurate meanings.A practicable way to pick up new words is, perhaps, to read a lot, preferably stories that you find interesting or exciting.It often pays to read the same book over and over again: each time you read it you will learn different new words, and the familiar context helps to fix them in your mind.Unit 21.I don’t think it is realis tic 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 a boundless universe hard to grasp.5.There being so many loopholes in the laws andregulations, it is little 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.Unit 3 If you started on some venture and failed, do not despair / lose heart.There is a world of difference between ‘I have failed three times’ and ‘I am a failure.’So long as you do not h old a negative concept of self or identify with failures but try to learn from them, you stand a good chance to succeed in the future.Did it ever occur to you that those who fail repeatedly are often victims of a poor self image?Often their failures are due to internal causes rather than external causes.Numerous cases have borne it out that if they can be induced to change their viewpoint and construct a positive self image, miraculous changes may take place in their performance.Success can come anytime—at thirty, forty or even after a lifetime of apparent failure.Early triumphs may be sweet, but success in later life often tastes even better.Unit 41.Somebody says that the best response to unfair criticisms is to forgive and forget.2.For God’s sake, why didn’t you call me?3.I kicked the door open with desperation, and found him lying in the bedunconsciously.4.The mechanician flung the tools with anger, never to continue.5.Mark was so childish that he left the meeting just because some representativescontested his ideas.6.She was thankful that she kept her job when most of her co-workers werelaid off.7.Courage, selflessness and strength of will stand out all over the Gadfly.8.If you build an extension to your house without the consent of the local planningauthorities, you will be ordered to demolish/pull down what you have built.Unit 5Scientists are a small group of people who are striving to gain insightinto nature and seek for laws in the superficial disorder.They have aspecial ability to think and analyze, and unlimited patience in observingand collecting date.However , not all scientific discoveries can beascribed to abilities and patience;they usually connect closely withcreative imagination.Of course, the leap of imagination is often thefirst step leading to discoveries.Moreover , scientists are famous fortheir honesty.They put a high premium on honesty, mainly because thathonesty is cardinal to their career.Every theory they put forward hasto be further tested.Every error and lie are sure to be found.So, iffinding some evidence contradiction with their ideas, scientists modifyeven abandon their ideas, instead of concealing them.In this way, theyaccumulate an immense amount of knowledge, which canhelp us understandourselves and surroundings better.Unit 61.The highlight of the circus performance was the panda’s representation.Its clumsyand funny acting amused all the spectators.2.It’s just as well you didn’t take the flight of Swiss Airline yesterday-it crashed onehour after taking off and all the 229 people on plane were killed.3.He never considered that when somebody wanted to help the handicapped girl, shewould feel ill at ease.4.As a person taking delight in controlling everything and getting interest fromordering, Charles adapted quickly the new role of the company’s general manger.5.In the past twelve years, Amy has learned to live depending on herself.She takesdelight in self-reliance and doing everything by herself.6.Amy refused to go out with Charles as a matter of course, because she disliked tobe treated as a handicapped person dependent on others.Unit 7One day, we received an invitation to my father’s birthday party.Jenny thought my father was reaching out to me for a reconciliation and we should accept the invitation.I was in the midst of abstracting an important case and in the virtual shadow of exams, so I just told her in the simplest possible terms that there would never be a reconciliation.My refusal obviously made Jenny very upset, but being a rational woman she didn’t quarrel with me.She just tried hard to persuade me.But this only filled me with fury, thinking that Jenny was just upsetting me deliberately.I must have gone out of my mind for I did something for which Iwould never forgive myself—I yelled at Jenny and hurled the phone at her.But the instant I did it I regretted.And when I turned to look at her, she was already gone.I went out and searched everywhere but Jenny was nowhere to be found.I was scared to death, not knowing what to do next.Just as I was about to give up, I caught sight of her sitting in front of our house.I went up to her and said, ‘Jenny, I’m sorry…’ but she cut off my apology and said, ‘Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.’Unit 81.When I was a kid, I was so fascinated with the idea of travelling round the world that I would spend hours in my grandfather’s study spinning the globe and dreaming of the places I would like to visit.2.A time bomb exploded this afternoon in one of London’s biggest supermarkets, evoking a great panic among the population.3.Accompanied by his father, Bill went to the police station and confessed to the police officer that he had robbed an old man of his gold wathc two weeks before.4.After getting engaged to Jane, Stephen started working hard for the first time in his life.And before long he distinguished himself as a young theorectical physicist.5.Prof.Stone is distinguished for his sternness.But, to everyone’s surprise, the speech he made at his daughter’s wedding last Saturday was full of wit and humor.6.It’s amazing that so many people are willing to do voluntary work for the beefit of the community.Unit 101.The increasing prosperity of the country was in a large measure attributable to the government’s pursuit of a policy of economic reform.2.The black leader look it as his sacred obligation to fight hard all his life to achieve racial equality.3.The year 1976 saw the deaths of Premier Zhou En-lai, Marshal Zhu De and Chairman Mao Ze-dong, the three leading architects of thePeople’s Republic.4.On more t han one occasion I reminded the principal of his promise to stand up for the legitimate interests of retired teachers.5.The theme of the story is that a person’s destiny is closely tied up with that of the whold nation.6.The large fortune the young man fell heir to enabled him to live out his dream.第二篇：大学英语精读2课后翻译第三版Unit1 翻译1.她砰地关上门，一声不吭地走了，他们之间那场争执就此结束。
现代大学英语第二版精读2-Unit-5-Key-to-Exercises-Quick-Fix-Society
现代大学英语第二版精读2-Unit-5-Key-to-Exercises-Q uick-Fix-SocietyLesson 5Key to Exercises ◆Vocabulary◆1◆1 above, over ,extremely ,very◆2 before◆3 small◆4 two◆5 between◆2◆1 超人◆2 超级明星；超自然地◆3 洲际的高速公路◆4 预计；芯片/集成电路；超级计算机◆5 双/半月刊；预先安排好的◆6 工业化前的；微生物学；显微镜◆7 学前的；史前的；◆8预先确定的◆9 过早的；先决条件◆10 互相关联的；互动◆4◆1 attentive◆2 personal◆3 convenient◆4 symbolic◆5 favorable, favorite◆6 true, truthful◆7 impatient◆8 weighty◆9 informative◆10 devoted◆11 massive◆12 moved, moving◆13 medical, medicinal◆14 pervasive◆15 musical◆2◆1 fast food◆2 best seller◆3 home-made bread◆4 musical excepts◆5 express mail◆6 life style◆7 personal relationship◆8 a mass movement◆9 subtle changes◆10 pastoral changes◆11 a rear-view mirror◆12 an exist sign◆13 a Civil War battlefield◆14 horse carriages◆15 antique cars◆16 factory outlets◆17 quality time◆18 deferred gratification◆19 a credit card◆20 ready-made clothes◆21 an Automatic Teller Machine◆22 a convenience store◆23 Polaroid store◆24 current affairs◆25 news briefings◆26 the Fifth Symphony◆27 classic novelQ Rewrite the sentences below using the expressions given in brackets.1. We have decided to slow down our economic growth so as to devote ourselves more to the improvement of people’s living standard.2. Lucy is good at swimming. More often than not she can win a prize in a contest.3. My sister said that she wanted to be on her own instead of working for that company any longer, but she had not saved up enough capital. She wondered if I could help her out.4. Thanks to government policy, the unemployment rate has dropped. It was reduced to less than four percent for the first half of the year.5. Joe was crazy about the raw fish and he stuffed himself with it. The fish didn’t agree with him, and that night he had a terrible stomachache. Finally hehad to go to the hospital for quick relief.6. I am getting sick and tired of this unpleasant job. We have been lingering over it for almost a week. Let’s finish it today somehow to get it over and done with.7. The new president ordered professors to double their publications in three years hoping that that would make the school more famous. Well, he sped out of control. Teaching suffered because the professors did not have enough time to devote to it. The quality of their publications also suffered and so did the professors’ health.◆4◆1 up, out◆2 down, at◆3 for; up◆4 aside/away; out of; with◆5 On; with◆6 with; off◆7 in; out◆8 in; of; on◆9 into; around; at◆10 out; in◆5◆1 The government will have to decide when and how to put brakes on the economy before it speeds out of control.◆2 Why waste money building an airport in the middle of nowhere? We must not ignore the fact that what people here need most is clean water and clean air.◆3 They thought they might take a different route on their return trip so as to explore the great canyon in Tibet.◆4 She traveled around the world and came back home quite a changed person, educated and greatly revitalized.◆5 There is no quick fix for our social problems. We should explore all possibilities and move one step at a time.◆6 All old traditions die a slow and lingering death/The disappearance/death of all old traditions is a slow and lingering process. Customs and habits that have taken so long to form can’t be expected to disappear overnight.◆7 Madam Chang was considered a pioneer who advocated combining classic Chinese music with Western music.◆8 When I heard the news, I was so stunned that for quite some time I didn’t know what to say.◆9 The soldiers are learning how to survive in the wilderness.◆10 I’ll go there with you if you insist. But really I won’t be much help to you.Q Point out the difference between the gerund and the infinitive when they are used as objects after the same verb.◆try doing sth: to do sth to see if it works or will be successful◆try to do sth: to make an effort or take action to do sth that you may not be able to do◆like doing sth: to enjoy doing sth, referring to a general preference◆like to do sth: to want or prefer to do sth, referring a particular case◆begin to do sth:very little difference◆begin doing sth:◆regret doing sth: to feel sorry about sth you did or did not do◆regret to do sth: {formal) used in writing to express sad feelings about sth that is disappointing or unpleasant◆stop doing sth: not to continue what you had been doing◆stop to do sth: to stop (doing one thing) so as to do another◆mean doing sth: to have or represent a particular meaning◆mean to do sth: to intend to do sth◆◆2◆1 to live◆2 living, living◆3 arguing◆4 to watch◆5 pretending◆6 to perform◆7 trying◆8 settling down◆Translate, choosing between the gerund and the to-infinitive.◆1. Remember to bring your ID with you when you go to the airport.◆2. I remember feeling greatly disappointed after my first job interview.◆3. Finally they decided to apologize to the passengers for what had happened at the airport◆4. I’m sorry that I clean forgot to pass the message to Big Li.◆5. At midday we stop to have lunch in a fast food restaurant.◆6. I stopped listening about the disaster on the radio, but I was too shocked to move out of the chair.◆Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.◆⑴affect◆(2) signs◆(3) passing◆(4) depend◆(5) providing◆(6) lack◆(7) Whether◆(8) superficial◆(9) on◆(10) isolated◆4◆1◆1 prepositional phrase◆2 adjective phrase◆3 three to-infinitive phrase◆4 past participle phrase◆5 present participle phrase◆6 adjective◆2◆1 sth important to say◆2 known as a nation on wheels◆3 as well-informed about Beijing opera as Anna◆4 called the sixth generation of Chinese directors◆5 living and working overseas/ abroad/in foreign countries◆6 with a big nose and big hands◆7 sitting in the corner◆8 to play center forward/central forward on the university team◆9 anything particular to do◆10 all the things mentioned above◆Identify and correct the mistake(s) in each of the sentences.◆Those who refused to work for the invaders were sent to concentration camps.◆I don’t remember seeing the man anywhere before.◆Some day they will bitterly regret having done what they did.◆4. The teacher didn’t leave the shaking building until all his students had.◆5. It wasn’t long before an ambulance arrived and rushed the injured man to a nearby hospital.◆6. In the library, a friend of mine found the book I wanted.◆7. I wouldn’t beli eve it unless/even if I saw it with my own eyes.◆8. Whatever your feelings may be, don't let them interfere with your work.◆9. Shrieking and stumbling, the residents rushed out of the burning house.◆10. The American journalist who taught News Reporting at our university three years ago is coming again next semester.。
大学英语精读第二册 Unit Five
3. 千万别说可能会被误解的话. (capable of)
Be sure not to say anything capable of being misunderstood.
4. 我被他们互相矛盾的意见搞糊涂了, 不知如 何去做才是.
I am bewildered by their contradictory opinions and do not know how to do.
四、 if 条件句中如果有were, should, had, 可以 省去if, 并使用倒装句序。 宾语从句中的虚拟语气 一 wish后面宾语从句中的虚拟语气：根据从句的 意义来判断： 1．与现在和将来相反的事实，从句谓语动词用 过去时态； e.g. I wish I were a bird. 2．与过去相反的事实，从句谓语动词用过去完 成时态。 e.g. I wished he hadn’t done that.
阿尔伯特.爱因斯坦(1879-1955)
他是一位德裔美籍科学家, 历史上最伟大的理论物 理学家之一, 以提出狭义与广义相对论著称. 对物 质动力论与比热原理贡献卓著,是量子论的先驱之 一. 爱因斯坦出生于德国一犹太人家庭,他从小即 对简单代数和几何问题兴趣浓厚, 14岁接触自然 科学书籍, 受到极大影响而将兴趣转向理论物理学. 1916年发表广义相对论, 1921年获诺贝尔物理学 奖, 以表扬他在光电效应方面的成就. 爱因斯坦以 钟情于“简单与真理”的信念而闻名于世, 完全不 受传统枷锁束缚, 具有高度的幽默感. 他继承母亲 对古典音乐的爱好, 拉得一手好小提琴; 偏好帆船 运动. 他致力于研究工作, 却不象牛顿一样与人隔 绝疏离, 他对前辈大师相当敬重. 他的成就为他赢 得了二十世纪理论物理学之父的尊称.
大学英语精读2(第三版)unit5--10 课后题翻译答案
翻译unit51) 如果富有的国家多花些钱搞绿色工业，而不是去建立军事机器和制造核武器，当今许多广泛存在的污染问题将会逐渐消失。
If the rich countries spent more money on green industries, instead of on building up military machines and nuclear weapons, many of today's widespread pollution problems would gradually disappear.2) 烧煤的时候，不仅消耗房子里面的氧气，而且还散发出有毒的气体。
The burning of coal not only consumes the oxygen in the house but also gives out poisonous gases.3) 显然，找到替代能源对我们经济的稳定发展是至关重要的。
Apparently, finding alternative energy sources is essential to the steady development of our economy.4) 太阳能电池（solar cell）能吸收阳光并把它变成电。
Solar cells can absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity.5) 如果地球上的温度继续年复一年地上升，极地的冰帽将会开始融化，沿海城市中一半的建筑物很可能会消失在劈啪飞溅的海浪下面。
If the temperature on the Earth continues to go up from year to year, the polar ice caps will begin to melt and, in all likelihood, half of the buildings in coastal cities will disappear beneath splashing sea waves.6) 因为这些生物很小并且常常躲在叶子茂密的植物下面，肉眼并不都可以看见。
大学英语精读5课文翻译
⼤学英语精读5课⽂翻译 ⼤学精读5课⽂翻译店铺已经整理好了，各位们，我们⼤家⼀起看看吧，欢迎各位阅读！ ⼤学英语精读5课⽂翻译 Never, ever give up! 永不⾔弃！ As a young boy, Britain's great Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, attended a public school called Harrow. He was not a good student, and had he not been from a famous family, he probably would have been removed from the school for deviating from the rules. Thankfully, he did finish at Harrow and his errors there did not preclude him from going on to the university. He eventually had a premier army career whereby he was later elected prime minister. He achieved fame for his wit, wisdom, civic duty, and abundant courage in his refusal to surrender during the miserable dark days of World War II. His amazing determination helped motivate his entire nation and was an inspiration worldwide. 英国的伟⼤⾸相温斯顿·丘吉尔爵⼠，⼩时候在哈罗公学上学。
大学英语精读第二册2-5
范围：第二册第二——第五课班级：08级英语潇六BOOK2, Lesson2alert [ [all (全，都)+ert (活动) 原义为―全都活动起来，警觉起来‖]able to think quickly;quick to notice things 警惕的，警觉的：Suddendly he found himself awake and fully alert. 突然他发现自己醒过来而且高度警觉。
[补充意义]：adj. 1）alter to sth : away of sth ,especially a problem or danger 意识到，注意到：We must be alert to the possibility of dangour. 我们必须认识到危险的可靠性。
v.[often passive] 1) to warm sb about a dangerous, or urgent situation 向……报警，使警觉：Neighbours quickly alerted the emergency services. 邻居们很快向紧急中心报了警。
2) [VN] alert sb to sth : to make sb aware of sth 使意识到，使认识到：They had been alerted to the possibility of further price rises.他们已意识到价格可能继续上涨。
n.1)[sing.,U] a siuation in which people are watching danger and ready to deal with it 警戒，戒备：Police are warning the public to be on the alert for suspicious packages. 警方警告公众要警惕可疑的包裹。
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Unit Five Science & TechnologyText 2 Bell LabsI. Pre-Reading DiscussionIBM (International Business Machine), Microsoft, Dell, HP, AT & T, Motorolla, Nokia, Sony, Panasonic, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).II. Close Reading of the Text【Introduction】1. sweep (n.): a broad reach or extent一大片；范围e.g.: the sweep of a lantern beam；a sweep of green lawn2. Big Bang:the cosmic explosion that marked the origin of the universe according to the big bang theory.按照大爆炸理论，标志宇宙形成的宇宙爆炸3. dynamic (adj.): characterized by continuous change, activity, or progress 动态的e.g.: a dynamic market；dynamic economics；a man of dynamic personalities 【Paragraph 1】4. (L1) premier (adj.): first in status or importance; principal or chief主要的；首要的e.g.: take the premier place；a designer of premier rank5. (L1) facility (n.):all equipment, sites, lines, circuits, and software available for d ata processing and data communications设施［备］e.g.: facilities for cooking；washing facilities6. (L2) transistor (n.): [电子]晶体管e.g.: a transistor radio7. (L5) crucial (adj.): extremely significant or important至关紧要的e.g.: a crucial problem；at the crucial moment8. (L7) revenue (n.): all the income produced by a particular source收入e.g.: the Public Revenue；revenue duty；administrative revenue9. (L8) wither (v.): to cause to shrivel or fade消亡, 破灭e.g.: Age cannot wither her. The flowers withered in the cold.10. (L8) run-of-the-mill (adj.): not special or outstanding; average一般的，不突出的；普通的e.g.: No mill, no meal. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. 【Paragraph 2】11. (L11) scathe (v.): to harm or injure, especially by fire危害, 损害, 损伤e.g.: keep from scathe; without scathe12. (L13) license (vt.): to give or yield permission to or for同意，批准，许可e.g.: a driver's license；We are sure that these purchases will soon be licensed.13. (L13) afield (adv.): to or at a great distance; far afield远方, 远处，远离e.g.: get far afield from one's subject；Do not go too far afield.【Paragraph 3】14. (L16) proportion (n.):a relationship between things or parts of things with respect to comparative magnitude, quantity, or degree比例，比率e.g.: the proportion of births to the population；do a sum in [by] proportion；in (direct) proportion to；in inverse proportion to【Paragraph 4】15. (L20) epochal (adj.): highly significant or important; momentous有重大或重要意义的e.g.: epochal decisions；mark [form] an epoch in science；an entire historical epoch16. (L24) single out:to separate or choose from a group, esp. for special treatment or notice挑选,选拔e.g.: Why did you single him out for punishment?【Paragraph 5】17. (L30) conversion (n.): the act of converting转变e.g.: channel conversion；data conversion【Paragraph 6】18. (L35) drastically (adv.): greatly激烈地, 彻底地e.g.: a drastic debate；make drastic change19. (L35) robotic (n.): the science or study of the technology associated with the design, fabrication, theory, and application of robots机器人学【Paragraph 7】20. (L41) ebullient (adj.): zestfully enthusiastic热情高涨的e.g.: the ebullience of youth21. (L42) make one’s mark: 出名，做出成绩，暂露头角22. (L46) mast (n.): a tall vertical antenna, as for a radio天线杆，收发塔23. (L46) pipe up: to speak up说，讲话24. (L47) emit (vt.): to give out as sound; utter发出，发射e.g.: a stove emitting heat；emit an opinion；The sun emits light and heat.25. (L49) disband (v.): to dissolve the organization of (a corporation, for example)解散，遣散e.g.: The army was disbanded when the war ended.The tennis club has disbanded.【Paragraph 8】26. (L51) track down: to find after a long and difficult search 跟踪追捕27. (L52) static (adj.): random radio noise静电噪声e.g.: static electricity静电28. (L53) residual (adj.): remaining as a residue剩余的, 残留的e.g.: waste residual【Paragraph 9】29. (L60) sundry (adj.): various各式各样的e.g.: a purse containing keys, wallet, and sundry items；sundry tax；on sundry occasions30. (L64) corridor (n.): a narrow hallway, passageway, or gallery, often with rooms or apartments opening onto it走廊，回廊e.g.: corridor carriage；side corridor；air corridoropen corridor31. (L65) cram (v.):to force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff塞满，填满e.g.: There was such a cram in the church on Chiristmas Eve.It's dangerous for too many people to be crammed into a bus.The hall was crammed with many people standing.【Paragraph 11】32. (L78) outlet (n.): a store that sells the goods of a particular manufacturer or wholesaler商店e.g.: The shoe manufacturer had several outlets.emergency outlet33. (L80) integrate (vt.): to join with something else; unite使成整体, 使一体化e.g.: integrate theory with practice；They are trying to integrate all the children into society.【Paragraph 12】34. (L83) harness (vt.): to bring under control and direct the force of统治，管理，支配e.g.: harness a horse to a carriage；harness a waterfall35. (L83) ephemeral (adj.): lasting for a markedly brief time短暂的e.g.: an ephemeral flower；ephemeral joys36. (L85) optical (adj.): relating to or using visible light光学的e.g.: optical instruments；an optical defect37. (L86) counterpart (n.):one that has the same functions and characteristics as another; an opposite number配对物，对方e.g.: Night is the counterpart of day.It has no counterpart in the world.38. (L89) boon (n.): a benefit bestowed, especially one bestowed in response to a request恩赐；恩惠；裨益e.g.: Radio is a boon to the blind.A bicycle is a real boon when you live in a small town.。