新概念4的好句子

1.生命和青春话题：

L5：非常好的文章，值得背

There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him.

老年人和青年人只有一个区别：年轻人有光辉灿烂的前景，老年人的辉煌已经成为过去。

I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins o f things. It’s as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.

我觉得年轻人令人振奋，无拘无束。他们既不追逐卑鄙的名利，也不贪图生活的舒适。他们不热衷于向上爬，也不一味追求物质享受，在我看来，所有这些使他们和生命与万物之源联系了起来。从某种意义上讲，他们似乎是宇宙人，同我们这些凡夫俗子形成了鲜明的对照。

L11：非常好的文章，值得背

The best way to overcome the fear of death is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes is increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river—— small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the bank recede, the water flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.

克服惧怕死亡的最好方法就是，逐渐使自己的兴趣更加广泛，逐渐摆脱个人消息的圈子，直到自我的围墙一点点的倒塌下来，自己的生活慢慢和整个宇宙的生活融合在一起。个人的存在应该像一条河流，开始很窄，被紧紧的夹在两岸中间。接着热情奔放的冲过巨石，飞下瀑布。然后河面渐宽，两岸后撤，河水流的平缓起来，最后连绵不断的汇入大海，毫无痛苦的失去了自我的存在。

I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

有长眠的愿望未尝不是一件好事，我希望工作到死为止，明白了有人会继续我未尽的事业，想到能做的事情都做了，也就坦然了。

2.性格兴趣培养话题：

L3：

But they did not go out of to court such excitement, they had a single aim, a solitary goal——the top!

但是他们并非故意寻找刺激，他们只有一个目的，唯一的目标——顶峰！

L21：

Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found it pleasant to escape to a time when life, though hard, was relatively simple. We still do; living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.

生活在20世纪20年代的观众认为，逃到一个即使艰苦但比较简朴的时代是件愉快的事情，我们今天仍然有这样的感觉。如今，不宣而战的侵略、战争、虚伪、诈骗、无政府状态以及即将临头的毁灭成了我们日常生活的一部分，我们都希望有一个赖以生存的行为准则。

L33:

Education is one of the key words of our time. A man without an education, many of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities.

教育是我们这个时代的关键词之一。我们许多人都相信：一个没有受过教育的人，是逆境的牺牲品，被剥夺了20世纪最优越的机会之一。

A large group of the enlightened young man and women who are potential leaders.

那些可能成为未来栋梁的一大批有知识的男女青年

L45：

Competition between ourselves, person against person, community against community, still persists, however, and it is as fierce as it ever was.

然而人类之间的竞争，人与人，团体与团体，依然在进行着，而且和以前一样激烈。

A gifted American psychologist has said:“Worry is a spasm of the emotion; the mind catches hold of something and will not let it go.”

一个天才的美国心理学家曾经说：“烦恼是感情的发作，此时脑子纠缠住了某种东西又不肯放手。”The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of the first importance to a public man. But this is not business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process. The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed.

因此，对于一个从事社会活动的人来说，培养一种业余爱好和各种新的兴趣是头等重要的做法。但这不是一日之工，也不是单凭意志一蹴而就的事情，精神上多种情趣的培养一个长期的过程。要想在需要的时候可随手摘取充满生计的果实，那积聚必须从精选良种开始，然后将其植入肥沃的土地，还需要勤勉的护理。

3.竞争、科技发展和生活环境类话题：

L6:

Nearly all the sports practiced nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win.

现在开展的体育运动几乎都是竞争性的。参加比赛就是为了取胜，如果不拼命去赢，比赛就毫无意义。

L10：

T echnology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future.

技术的发展趋势可能可以把硅谷重新推向未来。（换个地名，适于用技术类做文的开头）

L16:非常适合背诵

In the organization industrial life the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely.

在现代生活的组织中，工厂对工人的生理和精神状态的影响完全被忽视了。

The modern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark, narrow streets full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds. Obviously, it has not been planned for the good of its inhabitants.

街道上充斥着汽油味和有毒气体，出租车、卡车、公共汽车得当噪音刺耳难忍，络绎不绝的人群挤来挤去。显然，现代化的城市不是为居民的利益而规划的。

L38：

Contamination of water supplies is usually due to poor sanitation close to water sources,

sewage disposal into the sources themselves, leakage of sewage into distributions systems or contamination with industrial or farm waste.

水源的污染通常是由于接近水源的地方卫生条件太差而造成的：污水排入水管，污水渗入给水的系统或工农业污水造成污染。

4.文化、艺术、思想类话题：

L24：非常好的文章，值得背

A young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him, concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyond.

当一个年轻人看到日落，由于无法理解和表达日落在他新中国唤起的激情，便得出结论：日落处想必是通向遥远世界的大门。

That all great art has this power of suggesting a world beyond is undeniable.

不可否认，一切伟大的艺术都具有使人遐想到进入天外世界的魅力。

There is no sky in June so blue that is does not point forward to a bluer, no sunset so beautiful that it does not weaken the vision of a greater beauty, a vision which passes before it is fully glimpsed, and passing leaves an indefinable longing and regret.

六月蔚蓝的天空总使人遥想一个更加蔚蓝的苍穹；美丽的落日总会引起一个更加绚丽的景象，这景象未及饱览便一闪即逝，并在消逝中给人留下了不可名状的渴望和惆怅。

……这篇文章太好了，最好全文看一下吧。

L44：

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and ways of thinking.

没有一个人是用纯洁毫无偏见的眼光看待世界。人们所看到的是一个受特定的风俗习惯、制度和思想方式剪辑过的世界。

L45：

We cannot think outside the particular patterns that our brains are conditioned to, or, to be more accurate, we can think only a very little way outside, and then only if we are very original.

我们不能脱离我们大脑所限定的模式去思考问题，我们只能稍微离开一点，就这也需要我们有独创的思想。

5.父母与子女关系问题：

L34:

Disillusionment with the parents, however good and adequate they may be both as parents and as individuals, is to some degree inevitable.

不管家长的人品有多么好，作为父母多么合格，孩子们对家长幻想的破灭在某种程度上不可避免的。

The adolescent, with his passion for sincerity, always respects a parent who admits that he is wrong, or ignorant, or even that he has been unfair or unjust. What the child cannot forgive is the parents’ refusal to admit these charges if the child know them to be true.

青少年酷爱真诚，对于能够承认错误或者无知，甚至承认自己做得不公平或不公正的父母，他们总是尊敬的。孩子们所不能原谅的是：父母错了，孩子们也看出来了，可是做父母的还不肯承认。It’s always wiser and safer to face up to reality, however painful it may be at the moment.

遇事采取面对现实的态度总是比较明智和稳妥的，尽管会有暂时的痛苦。

根据本人的理解，以下文章值得反复背诵

lesson 3 matterhorn man第一段是写类似文章的典范,第二段有独特的文化深意

lesson 5 youth 作者迂回曲折阐述观点的功力非常人能比

lesson 6 sporting spirits 沿着作者的思路梢动脑筋就可写出一篇更好的驳论

lesson 8 trading standards 大词小用小词大用达到极致

lesson 11 how to grow old 参透本文的奥妙,人生足以

lesson 16 modern city 与三册中的41课针锋相对,值得细读

lesson 17,18 动物真是可爱

lesson 21 early western movies 爱电影,爱文化

lesson 22 knowledge and progress值得反复思考的文章,每句话都值得揣摩

lesson 24 beauty 此文看似mission impossible, 生命的意义跃然纸上

lesson 26 past life of the earth选自discovery探索频道的纯正英语

lesson 27 the vasa 很多人认为此文不值得背,绝对错误,能把一艘普通的船写的那么优美绝非易事

lesson 28 patients and doctors 医疗背景知识是表面,对社会变化的深层思考是内涵

lesson 30 exploring the sea-floor 背完这篇,考研再遇到类似主题就是piece of cake啦

lesson 31 the sculptor speaks 雕塑家的语言也是人类的语言,难!

lesson 32 galileo reborn 完美的构思,完美的句型,写论文的最高境界,没有一个废词废句

lesson 33 education 各大考试常涉及的内容,每一句都值得好好模仿

lesson 34 与youth 那课观点有冲突也有统一,值得推敲

lesson 36 the cost of gov. 结构甚佳

lesson 37 the process of aging 一个字:棒!!如此有哲理的说明文恐怕只有在新概念四册中才能看到

lesson 39 what every writer needs 典型的英国式轻松笔调,精致的长短句变化,不仅写作方法值得模仿,还有比在晴朗的午后大声朗读这样的文章更令人愉悦的事情吗

lesson 40 waves 海浪是灾难性的,海浪有是可爱的,这篇文章适合背诵论述的两段

lesson 43 are there strangers in space 作者几乎将英语学习者所能接触到的所有句型运用得游刃有余.

lesson 44 patterns of culture 这种美文我等俗辈永远写不出，但是我可以背!!!!!

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lesson 46 hobbies 邱吉尔写的,他是哪路人,大家自己掂量

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