现代大学英语精读4 课后翻译答案

Lesson 3
1.尚不知飞机坠毁的原因。

The cause of the aircraft crash is so far unknown.
2.地球转暖的原因目前在科学家当中还在热烈争论。

The cause of global warming is still hotly debated among scientists.
3.他把他的一生都献给了环保事业。

He devoted all his life to the cause of environmental protection.
4.历史上这条河给我们造成了大量的问题。

The river has caused us a lot of trouble in history.
5.你认为国际恐怖主义的高涨是什么造成的？
What do you think caused the upsurge of international terrorism?
6.我们必须团结那些反对过我们的人。

We must try and unite with those who have opposed us.
7.任何进步和改革都会遭到反对。

There is always opposition to any progress and reform.
8.有些人对新事物总是反对的。

Some people are always opposed to new things.
9.这些贷款中不少从未归还。

这些呆账最后导致了这个世界上第二大经济强国的经济危机。

A lot of those loans were never repaid. That high ratio of bad debts finally led to the financial crisis in this second economic power in the world.
10.工商银行现在给那些缴不起学费的学生提供一种特别贷款。

The Business Bank now offers a special loan for students who can't pay for their education. 11.这男孩问斯多太太能否将她的望远镜借他一用。

The boy asked Mrs.Stow for the loan of her binoculars.
12.她在结束讲话时说，她希望哪天能再来，多看看这个国家。

Her concluded her speech by saying that she hoped she could come again some day and see more of the country.
13.他们一结束调查就向安理会报告。

As soon as they concluded the investigation, they were to report to the Security Council.
14.在他访问期间，他将和印度签署一个新的贸易协定。

During his visit, he will conclude a new trade agreement with India.
15.根据这些有理疑点，陪审团只能得出结论，这个少年是无罪的。

Based on those reasonable doubts, the jury had to conclude that the boy was not guilty.
16.他将经东京飞往纽约。

She is flying to New York by way of Tokyo.
17.我想谈谈上世界60年代的情况作为对这个电影的介绍。

I'd like to say a few words about the situation in the sixties of the last century by way of an introduction to the movie.
18.他们决定召回大使以示抗议。

They decided to recall their ambassador by way of protest.
1.英雄是具有非凡品质的人们。

Heroes and heroines are people with unusual qualities.
2.名流是因媒体炒作而出名的人们。

Celebrities are people who become famous because of publicity through the media.
3.在中国大陆，“爱人”指的是一个人的丈夫或妻子。

In China mainland, "sweet heart" often refers to a person's husband or wife.
4.一个不能共患难的朋友是你在困难时立即抛弃你的那种人。

A fair-weather friend is one who will desert you as soon as you are in trouble.
5.从广义上说，货币指一般可以接受用来交换其他商品或服务的任何一种物品。

Broadly speaking, money refers to anything generally accepted in exchange for other goods and services.
6.一个坐在扶手椅里的革命者是一个只高谈革命而不付诸实践的人。

An armchair revolutionary is one who talks about revolution, but who doesn't put what he says into practice.
7.鲁教授说一个好教师应努力使自己成为学生不需要的人。

Professor Lu says that a good teacher is one who does all he/she can to make himself/herself unnecessary for the students.
8.经济学定义为研究商品和服务的生产、分配和消费的社会科学。

Economics is defined as the social science that deals with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.
9.DVD是上面能储藏大量在计算机上使用的信息特别是图片和录像的圆盘。

DVD is a disk on which large amounts of information, esp.photographs and vodeo can be stored, for use on a computer.
10.《牛津高级学生词典》把“工作狂”定义为“一个大部分时间工作并难以停下来做别的事情的人”。

The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines "workaholic" as "a person who works most of the time and finds it difficult to stop working in order to do other things".
Lesson 6
1.我们要不惜一切代价取得这一结果。

We will achieve this result at any cost.
2.由于改革开放政策，经济开始迅速增长。

Our economy began to grow by leaps and bounds as a result of the reform and open policy.
3.他的压制政策结果只造成他的迅速垮台。

His repressive policies only resulted in his quick fall.
4.我们目前很多问题在一定意义上讲都来自我们巨大的人口。

Many of our present problem in a way result from our large population.
5.你喜欢某一个人可能会使你同时也喜欢他的观点。

The fact that you like somebody may dispose you to like his ideas also.
6.到目前为止，我们还没有找到处理核废料的安全办法。

So far we still have not found a safe way to dispose of nuclear waste.
7.这鞋对我正合适，我买了。

The shoes fit me perfectly. I'll take them.
8.这一套家具摆在我们起居室正合适。

This set of furniture fits into our sitting room.
9.那个客栈老板发现那个人的长相和警察要找的嫌疑谋杀犯相符合。

The innkeeper found that the man fit the description of the wanted murder suspect.
10.为了保持健康，你应该避免吃太多的盐，糖，和脂肪。

To keep fit, you should avoid eating too much salt, sugar and fat.
11.那水在里面游泳都不行，更不要说饮用了。

The water was no longer even fit to swim in, let alone to drink.
12.他突然忍不住发出一阵大笑。

He was suddenly seized by a fit of laughter.
13.她从小就常常癫痫发作。

She has had fits every now and then since she was a child.
14.这条地铁将要被延长到包括整个城市。

This subway will be extended to cover the whole city.
15.我想利用这个机会向您表示衷心的感谢。

I would like to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt thanks to you.
16.经济改革的效果当然会扩大到别的领域。

The effect of the ecomomic reform will naturally extend to other fields.
17.很多人更喜欢国库券而不是股票。

Many people prefer government bonds to stocks.
18.这一种外套已经没存货了。

This kind of jacket is out of stocks.
19.这是他的老笑话，我听过很多遍了。

This is one of his stock jokes. I have heard it many times.
1.要是得到更好的医疗我爷爷本来是会恢复健康的。

With better medical care my grandfather could have pulled through.
2.在现在的条件下他们干的够好了。

（不可能更好）
They wouldn't have been able to do better under present condition.
3.就是在枪杆子的威逼下我也会说:“他有罪。

”
Even at gunpoint I would say, "He is guilty."
4.继续拖延就会给我们造成更大的损失。

Futher delay would cause us even greater losses.
5.要不是那安全带她在车祸中就会受重伤。

But for the seat belt, she would have been severely injured in the accident.
6.一个没有强烈正义感的人是不会提出这件事的。

A man without a strong sense of justice wouldn't have brought the matter up.
7.要是人口少些，这个国家失业的情况可能会轻些。

With a smaller population there might be less unemployment in the country.
8.要不是有像她那样有经验的向导我们很可能会陷在丛林中出不来。

Without an experienced guide like her, we might have been trapped in the jungle.
9.她不追求名利，否则她就不会回来了。

She is not after name and money; otherwise she wouldn't have come back.
10.要是没有正确的政策，许多中国农民不会这么快就富起来。

But for the correct policy, many Chinese peasants wouldn't have become well-off so soon.
11.要是处在他的境地，我不知道我们中有多少人会做同样的事。

I wonder how many of us would have done the same in his position.
12.要是那时有一台更加先进的计算机，我们会更快完成这项工作。

With a more sophisticated computer we should have completed the job much sooner.
13.这可是你不该做的事，那会断送你的记者生涯。

This is something you should never do. It would mean the end of your journalist career.
14.没有顽强的意志，就就是健康的人在两小时内也爬不到山顶。

Without a strong will even a healthy man wouldn't have reached the top of the mountain in two hours.
15.一个办法少一点的人不可能在这样不利条件下完成这个项目。

A less resourceful person wouldn't have been able to complete the project under such unfavorable conditions.
Lesson 7
1.诸葛亮装得十分镇静，把司马懿给骗了。

司马懿不知道这座城其实是空城。

Zhuge Liang pretended to be very calm and succeeded in fooling Sima Yi who did not know that the city was really unguarded.
2.他假装什么事也没发生。

He pretended that nothing had happened.
3.她假装在听，其实她的思想已经开了小差。

She pretended to be listening, but actually her mind had really wandered far away.
4.我不想装着好像我是这方面的专家。

I don't want to pretend that I'm an expert on this subject.
5.你现在的生活和改革开放前相比怎么样？
How would you compare your life today with your life before the reform started?
6.如果你拿美国学生和中国学生相比，你会发现一些有趣的相同点和不同点。

If you compare American students with Chinese students, you'll find some interesting similarities and differences.
7.社会达尔文主义者相信我们可以拿人类社会比作动物世界。

Social Darwinists believe that we can compare our human society to the animal world.
8.这些大规模生产的鸡和我们过去自家养的鸡没法比。

These mass-produced chickens do not compare with chickens we used to raise at home.
9.我们对那个国家的出口与前一年同期相比增长了30%。

Our exports to that region increased by 30% compared with the same period the previous year.
10.水管破裂了，我们得马上让人修。

The water-pipe has burst. We must get it fixed immediately.
11.这听起来好像是气球爆了的声音。

It sounded like the bursting of a balloon.
12.和平常一样，熊猫馆里挤满了孩子。

As usual, the Giant Panda House was bursting with children.
13.你可以看得出来，学生们有满肚子的问题要问。

You can see that the students are bursting with questions.
14.当时有大约八百人在看剧，突然三十多个武装恐怖主义分子冲了进来。

There were about 800 people watching a play when some thirty armed terrorists burst into the theatre.
15.此人急切想和他的同车人说他为什么把他的一个小提箱扔出了火车窗外。

The man was bursting to tell his fellow-traveler why he had pitched his suitcase out of the train window.
16.当牢中难友突然放声大唱起来时，那个看守长吓坏了。

When the prisoners burst out singing, the prison warden was frightened.
17.航天飞机离开了发射台，庄严地升空，不久就成了一个小点。

The spaceship left the launching-pad and rose majestically, soon becoming a little dot.
18.这整个地区现在遍布工厂。

The whole area is now dotted with factories.
19.这家公司拥有的野营地遍布全国各地。

The company has camp-sites dotted around the country.
20.年轻人更有反传统的倾向。

Young people are more likely to rebel against old traditions.
21.他小时候就是一个不太顺从的孩子。

He was quite a rebel at home even when he was a boy.
22.他宣布说，所有叛乱贩子只要放下武器就能得到赦免。

He declared that all the rebels would be pardoned if they laid down their arms.
1.面试时一切都如我所预料的那样发展。

Everything at the interview worked out as I had expected.
2.无论是作为一个人还是作为一位领导他都受到高度尊重。

He was highly respected both as a leader and as a man.
3.我现在是以朋友的身份，而不是以指导者的身份和大家讲话。

I'm speaking to you not as an instructor, but as a friend.
4.这位重量级拳击运动员就想我们搬一把椅子一样轻而易举地把那个保险柜举了起来。

The heavyweight champion lifted the safe as easily as we lift a chair.
5.正如报纸所报道的那样，日本首相此次对朝鲜的访问意义重大。

As the newspaper reports, the Japanese Prime Minister's visit to North Korea is of great significance.
6.众所周知，中国是一个发展中国家，中国只能以此身份加入WTO。

As everyone knows, China is a developing country, and only as such will she enter the WTO. 7.美国常常被称为美元万能的国土。

The United States of America is often described as the land of the almighty dollar.
8.以家里的远亲身份引见的那个留宿客人其实是联邦调查局的便衣。

Their houseguest who was introduced as a distant relative of the family was actually a plainclothes FBI agent.
9.作为局外人我认为艺术家的职责是按他们所看到的去展示世界，而不是在作品中去美化它。

As an outsider, I think that the business of artists is to show the world as they see it, not to make it better in their works.
10.詹天佑是个多才多艺的人，但是人们记得最牢的是他是设计并参与了建设中国第一条铁路的人。

Zhan Tianyou was a man of many talents. But he is best remembered as the man who has helped to design and build China's first railway line.
Lesson 8
1.我们公司预计明年的增长速度为8%。

Our country projects an 8% growth rate next year.
2.中国预计10年后将成为世界工厂，但是这不应该使我们自满。

China is projected to be the world's workshop in 10 years. But that should not make us smug. 3.你可以将你的幻灯片打到墙上。

You can project your slides on the wall.
4.在那次竞选中，他极力把自己塑造成一个强人形象。

He tried to project himself as a strong man in the election campaign.
5.我有时设想将来我自己成为一个母亲的情况。

I sometimes try to project myself into the future when I shall become a mother myself.
6.这个大坝的建造是一个价值几十亿美元的项目。

The building of the dam is a multibillion-dollar project.
7.我们有一个6个人的强有力的班子在搞这个项目。

We have a strong team of six people working on this project.
8.我听到这消息心里如释重负。

I'm greatly relieved to hear the news.
9.你想减轻痛苦，有一个办法就是使自己不断忙于工作。

One way to relieve your distress is to keep yourself busy.
10.第欧根尼斯常常像狗一样就在路边方便。

Diogenes would relieve himself by the roadside just like a dog.
11.我6点到12点值班，然后由小王来接替我。

I am on duty from six to twelve, and then Xiao Wang will come to relieve me.
12.这位将军因为违抗命令被解除指挥权。

The general was relieved of his command for disobedience.
13.这只是一种止痛药。

它能缓解你的痛苦，但是不能治你的病。

This is just a pain-reliever. It gives you relief, but it does not cure the disease.
14.她后来终于安全地回来了，这下大家都松了一口气。

Finally she came back safe and sound. We all sighed with relief.
15.使我十分庆幸的是，那肿瘤证明是良性的。

To my great relief, the tumor turned out to be benign.
16.被水淹没的地方的老百姓都得到了很好的照顾。

政府的救济即使到达了。

The people in the flooded area are well taken care of. Government relief arrived just in time.
17.我们必须把他们争取过来，或者至少使他们中立，以便彻底孤立我们的主要敌人。

We must try to win them over or at least neutralize them so that we can completely isolate the main enemy.
18.通货膨胀很大程度上把这次提薪给抵消掉了。

The inflation largely neutralized the pay raise.
19.作为一个法官，你应该严守中立。

As a judge, you should be strictly neutral.
20.改革开始的时候，有一种普遍的乐观情绪。

A general feeling of optimism prevailed when the reform started.
21.我们还要看看全球化是否能压倒民族主义。

It remains to be seen whether globalization will prevail over nationalism.
22.在以后几天里，预计不会下雨。

There is little prospect of rain in the next few days.
23.我相信我们的旅游业有着光明的前景。

I am quite sure that our tourist industry has bright prospects.
1.在整个漫长的回家旅途中，受伤的女孩子受到朋友和不少陌生人的照顾。

Throughout the long journey home, the injured girl was taken good care of by her friends and quite a number of strangers.
2.我爷爷说30年以前他第一次踏上那个海滨小镇就爱上了它。

My grandpa said that the first time he set foot on the coastal town 30 years before, he fell in love with it.
3.1642年元月8日伽利略去世，同年年末一个男孩在圣诞节诞生于英格兰，他就是牛顿。

On January 8, 1642, Galileo died; at the end of the year, a boy, Isaac Newton, was born in England on Christmas Day.
4.晚年当人们赞扬他的巨大的贡献时，牛顿说他天赋并不高，他只不过是耐心的思维能力。

In his old age, when praised for his great contributions, Newton said that he was not particularly talented, and that he had only "the power of patient thought".
5.1998年夏天，成千上万的抗洪战士日夜奋战在大堤上，发誓不惜一切代价保卫这个城市。

Thousands of flood fighters worked on the dam day and night in the summer of 1998, and vowed to defend their city at any cost.
6.把水龙头打开，让水流一会到热为止。

Turn on the tap and let the water run until it gets warm.
7.世纪之交出生的婴儿长大成人的时候会看到整个中华民族都过着小康的日子。

When they grow up, babies born at the turn of the century will see the whole Chinese nation enjoying a respectable standard of living.
8.昨天他们呆到凌晨，急切地等待选举的结果。

Yesterday they stayed up until the small hours of the morning, waiting anxiously for the results of the election.
9.早在20世纪70年代就有人建议中国引进市场经济。

Back in the 1970s, there were people who suggested that China introduce the market economy.
10.每10分钟护士就会来看看母亲和婴儿是否安好。

Every ten minutes, the nurse would come to see if the mother and baby were all right.
Lesson 14
1.他不知道他的女儿已经成为瘾君子了。

He didn't know that his daughter had become a drug addict.
2.孩子们玩电子游戏容易玩上瘾。

Kids can become addicted to video games.
3.他抽烟上瘾了，简直就像活烟囱。

He is addicted to smoking. He is really a living chimney.
4.可卡因是容易上瘾的。

海洛因也一样。

Cocaine is addictive. So is heroin.
5.很多经济学家现在提倡把重心转到服务行业中去。

Many economists now advocate shifting our emphasis to the service industry.
6.科学家们一直在主张退耕还林，把新开垦的地还给江河湖泊，沼泽草地。

Scientists have been advocating returning the reclaimed land to the rivers, lakes, marshes and meadows.
7.会上主张和反对这么做的人都摆出了有力的观点。

At the meeting both the advocates and opponents presented very strong arguments.
8.他们的政府已决定禁止珍稀鸟类和动物的出口。

Their government has decided to ban the export of rare species of birds and animals.
9.现在很难让年轻人相信，曾经有过这么一段时期，妇女被禁止穿裙子。

It's hard nowadays to make young people believe that there was a time when women were banned from wearing skirts.
10.越来越多的人现在要求禁止黄色的东西。

More and more people now demand a ban of pornography.
11.但是用了四个人才抬起这块石头。

在石头下面他们发现了这个箱子。

It took four people to lift the stone, and under the stone they found the box.
12.当我最需要帮助的时候，他都不肯动一个手指头。

When I was desperately in need of help, he did not so much as lift a finger.
13.天气预报说明天下午雾就散了。

The weather forecast says that the fog will lift tomorrow in the afternoon.
14.她在店里顺手牵羊拿走一瓶香水的时候给抓住了。

She was caught lifting a bottle of perfume.
15.整个段落是从一本美国出版的书里原封不动地抄袭来的。

The whole paragraph was bodily lifted from a book published in the United States.
16.示威者要求立即取消经济制裁。

The demonstrators demanded that the economic sanctions be lifted immediately.
17.他们像在一条船上，而船又在漏。

他们必须抱成一团，设法把水从船里弄出去。

They were like people in the same boat and the boat was leaking. They had to stick together and try to bail out the water.
18.那时候我正处于破产的边缘，是他救了我一把。

At that time I was on the verge of bankruptcy; it was he who bailed me out.
19.政府挽救那些资不抵债的公司不是一个好主意。

It is not a good idea for the government to bail out financially insolvent companies.。