综合英语2---课后答案

Unit 1

1.They were ridiculous to show that they were more important than others and only made

friends with people of high social status.

2.The two eldest daughters were about to go mad when they heard the news.

3.After experience a lot of difficulties with no result, he came back as poor as before.

4.He began to understand that he would be either starved to death with cold and hunger, or else

eaten by the wolves.

5.As he was very tired and it was late at midnight, he decided to close the door and go to bed.

6.I didn’t intend to make you anger for picking up a rose for one of my daughters.

7.The merchant did not want to offer his daughter’s life to the ugly Beast.

8.The merchant was so sad when he thoughts of losing his daughter.

9.… as she was an extremely determined woman, she lent herself to the decision of God.

1.千万不要与不诚实的人交往。

2.Never keep company with dishonest persons.

3.如果一个人没有找到他愿意为之牺牲的事业，他就不适合活在这个世上。

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for , he isn't fit to live.

4.我们坚持让他不要去日本。

We insisted that he didn't go to Japan .

4.30年前他被迫离开了家乡。

He was obliged to leave his town 30 years ago.

5.爱通常只不过是人与人之间的一种融洽的互动，得到他们所期望的。

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect.

6.我儿子喜欢讲笑话，虽然他没有意图想当一个相声演员。

My son likes to tell jokes ,although he has no intension to become a comedian.

7.成功之后，她对世界感到失望和厌倦了。

After her success,she was disppointed about the world and therefore she was weary of it.

8.爱是不求回报的。

Love is something that ask for nothing in return.

9.听到那消息后，他放声大哭。

He burst into tears when he heard the news.

10.让我们携手并肩，为实现中非发展，为推动建设持久和平，共同繁荣的和谐世界而共同努力。

Let's join hands and endeavour to promote development in both china and africa , improve the well-being of our peoples and build a harmonious world of enduring peace and common prosperity.

Unit 2

1.Almost every important movement in the history of human progress was caused by the

discovery of some great source of power in nature.

pared with the power of the propagation of the species, the power of love is more

plentiful, more influential and more significant.

3.Though the energy of love is widespread in the universe, it is the heart of man that can

perform the mightiest operation of it.

4.It is widely acknowledged or long accepted that if there is a shortage of love among people,

there definitely will lead to the shortage of happiness among them.

5.If we could only be in love all our lives without any negative feelings, such as hate, malice,

worry, envy, greed, selfish, and son.

1.人已经懂得如何利用大自然中的能源以满足自己的需求。

Man has learnt how to harness powers in nature to the service of his needs and his desires.

2.就像在物质的世界里，地心引力是一个无法逃避的规律一样，在人类关系的世界里，爱情是一个必然法则。

Love is a law as inescapable in the world of human relations as gravitation is in the world of physical objects.

3.很多人缺乏幸福正是因为他们缺少爱，这种说法已不新鲜。

It is trite to say that the scarcity of happiness among many people is due to the corresponding scarcity of love among them.

4.伟大的幸福之道，其重要性应等同于科学上的其他任何伟大发现。

There is a great law of happiness which should rank in importance with any other great discovery in science.

5.他对家庭从来都是尽职尽责。

He never failed to in his obligations to the family .

6.爱情使她的面容愈加发出美丽，迷人的光彩。

Love irradiated her face with more beauty and attractiveness.

7.爱能够透视一切，能够穿透肉体的遮蔽一睹内在闪耀的灵魂。

Love is clairvoyant and can penetrate the veil of flesh and see the radiant spirit within .

8.凯丽对她明天能见到那个著名的电影明星仍然抱有幻想。

Kelly is still under the illusion that she can see the famous movie star tomorrow.

Unit 3

1.The study by the sociologist Rutt Veenhoven was also done in U.S., whose result shows that

what Grandma said, money can not buy happiness, was right.

2.Sociologists said that people always try to have all the possessions and attain social

achievements which the wealthier achieve; and, they always compare with the wealthier;

therefore they can’t feel much happier.

3.The second person who earns more with less expectation of salary increase is much wealthier

than the first who earns less but expect salary raise; while the first one is much happier than the second.

4.Because people have accustomed to the thinking that compared with the last year, one should

make more money and achieve higher goal, thus making people with the high standards of living in U.S. difficult to feel the happiness.

5.It is paradoxical that the increase of material expectation with the increase of money you earn

in turn makes you feel unsatisfied.

6.With gap in income distribution widening, reference anxiety in America is also soaring.