综英4课文1,3,4,5,6,9单元重点翻译

综英4课文1,3,4,5,6,9单元重点翻译
综英4课文1,3,4,5,6,9单元重点翻译

Unit1

1.Those memories of forking out thousands of pounds a year so that he could eat w

ell andgo to the odd party,began to fade.那些每年为孩子支付费用让他可以吃好参加新奇排队的记忆开始慢慢消退。

2.This former scion of Generation Y has morphed overnight into a member of Gene

ration Grunt.

这位前“千玺一代”的后裔一夜之间变成哼哼唧唧的一代的成员

3.I passed the exams,but at the interviews they accused me of being?too detached‘

and talking in language that was?too technocratic‘,which I didn‘t think possible, but obviously it is我通过了考试,但是面试时他们却谴责我太冷漠,讲话像技术政治论者,我不这样认为,但显然我的确是这样的。

4.For the rest it is9-to-5―chilling‖before heading to the pub.其余的都是朝九晚五的

“无所事事”,晚上去酒吧喝酒打发时间。

5.I went to a comprehensive and I worked my backside off to go to the gooduniversi

ty.我上的是一所综合性中学,我拼命读书才考上一所好的大学。

6.but having worked full-time since leaving school herself,she and her husband fin

d it tricky to advis

e him on how to proceed.她自从离开学校就开始做全职工作,因

此她和她的丈夫发现建议孩子如何继续找工作是件很棘手的事情

7.Carry on life as normal and don‘t allow them to abuse your bank account or sap y

our reserves of emotional energy父母要过正常的生活,不要让孩子滥用你的银行卡或榨干你的情感能量

8.After that the son or daughter needs to be nudged firmly back into the

Saddle.在这之后,儿女就该被父母坚决要求继续求职

9.If you ask me,real life is not all it‘s cracked up to be.Twelve years at school and t

hree years at university,teachers banging on about opportunities in the big wide

world beyond our sheltered life as students,and what do I find?依我看,现实生活并没有人们想象的那么美好。我们上了12年的中、小学,又上了3年大学,这期

间老师们一直在没完没了地谈论在备受呵护的学生生活之外的那个广阔天地里的各种机会,可我遇到的又是什么呢?

10.Try as I might to stay cheerful,all I ever get is hassle,sometimes with people(esp

ecially boys,god,when will they grow up?),but mostly with money.It‘s just so exp ensive out here!Everyone wants a slice off you.The Inland Revenue wants to de duct income tax,the bank manager wants repayments on my student loan,the lan dlord wants the rent,gas,water,electricity and my mobile bills keep coming in,an

d all that‘s befor

e I‘ve had anything to eat.And then some bright spark calls me o

ut of the blue,asking if I‘m interested in buying a pension.And this rate,I won‘t ev en last till the end of the year,let alone till I‘m60.无论我怎么想保持心情愉快,可麻烦事总是接踵而来:有时是跟人发生矛盾(尤其是跟男孩子,天哪!他们什么时候才能长大?),但通常是为钱发愁。这个地方什么东西都很贵!人人都想从我身

上赚点钱:税务局要收个人所得税,银行经理要我偿清学生贷款,房东催我交房租、燃气费、水费、电费,手机账单也不断地寄来。所有这些还没算上吃饭的钱。

更可气的是,不知从哪里冒出一个自作聪明的家伙我打电话,问我要不要买养老金。照这样下去,我甚至都支撑不到年底,更别提活到60岁领养老金了。11.…spending money when you don?t have any is dead easy.你会发现在你没钱时

花钱最容易

12.What were the odds on anyone being so nice?这世界上这么好的人能有几个?

13.…looking back after all these years,you only need one or two breaks in your life t

o succeed.

回顾这些年,我发现人只要有一两次的转折就能成功

Unit3

14.No history of fashion in the years1960to2010can overlook or underestimate tw

o constant factors:the ubiquitous jeans and the rise and fall of hemlines for

women’s skirts and dresses.1960至2010年的时装史不可忽略和低估的两个不变事实是“无处不在的牛仔和女装裙摆的升降。

15.Exactly why women should want to expose more or less of their legs during perio

ds of economic boom

and bust remains a mystery.经济繁荣和萧条时期女性到底为什么要多暴露或少暴露双腿仍是谜

16.It was given greater respectability when the great French designer,Courrèges,d

eveloped it into an item of high fashion.当法国杰出的时装设计师Courrèges把超短裙变成一套高级时装时,超短裙受到了更多的尊敬。

17....which were described by one commentator as―the prim and proper look isin

…‖正如一位评论家所言,一本正经,循规蹈矩的服装又开始流行。

18.During the whole period,fashion styles have ranged widely,and have usually be

en sparked off by a desire to identify people as belonging to a particular sub-cultur

e.在这段时期时装的风格多种多样,他们的诞生源于人们希望归属于某种亚文化、

与之认同的愿望。

19.Sometimes the hemline indicator,as it‘s called,can even precede and predict a c

hange in the mood of the stock market long before it actually happens.In Septem ber2007,at the New York fashion shows,which were displaying their styles for s pring2008,the trend was for much longer dresses and skirts,many to mid-calf or even down to the ankles.Some people felt this showed that the hemline indicator was no longer reliable,and that designers no longer dictated what people would wear.During the London and New York fashion shows in September2008,hemli nes continued to drop.But sure enough,in the fall of2008,the stock market index

es fell dramatically when the banking crisis hit the US,Europe and then the rest of the world.Hemlines were no longer following the stock market–they were showi ng the way and indicating future economic trends.有时候,所谓的裙摆标志甚至能够预示股市的行情。2007年9月的纽约时装展展示了2008年春节流行式样,

潮流转向了长衣、长裙,裙摆长及小腿中部,甚至到了脚踝。有人觉得这表明裙摆标志靠不住了,服装设计师已经丧失了对时装的主宰权。2008年9月,在伦敦和纽约时装展中,裙摆的高度继续降低。果然,2008年秋天金融危机袭击欧美,

并波及全球,股指急剧下跌。这时,裙摆不再被动地追随股市的变化,而是预示股市行情及未来的经济趋势。

20....sidling up and down in the surf...在海浪里起起伏伏

21.I‘ve burnt my shoulders我的肩膀被晒伤了

22.There is no hard and fast rule...这里没有硬性规定

23....but she works mostly to commission...但她主要做订单产品

24....a huge glass cabinet that preside over her studio.在她的工作室内有一个巨大

的橱柜放在显眼的位置展示海洋玻璃

25.The creation of sea glass is a form of recycling,but more than that,it is an exampl

e o

f nature compensatin

g for man‘s folly.海洋玻璃的发明是回收利用的一种形式,

不仅如此,它还是大自然补救人类愚蠢行为的一个例子

26.Although no one considered the consequences of hurling glass into the sea…虽

然没有人思考过向大海倾倒玻璃会造成什么样的后果,但这件事最后演变成一个完美的过程:玻璃最终碎了,变成了沙子。

27.Today‘s responsible attitude to its disposal,revolving around recycling where pos

sible,is vastly superior,but it signals the end of the sea-glass era如今,对玻璃废

物处理的负责态度是尽量重新回收利用废旧玻璃,这的确是有巨大的好处,但同时也预示着海洋玻璃时代的结束

28.Its eco-credentials lend sea glass further appeal…Gold‘s murky reputation for d

amaging the environment in the extraction process and the diamond industry‘s p

oor human rights record play into the hands of designers who have chosen to wor k with a material that puts a waste product to use.

当人们开始对珠宝的来源提问时,海洋玻璃的生态优势就让它更具吸引力。黄金提炼会给环境带来损害,它的坏名声及钻石业糟糕的人权记录正好给选择变废为宝的珠宝设计师带来了极大的优势

Unit4

29.My credit card was a fairly pathetic, status-free dark blue, whereas hes was a

very exclusive gold one.我的信用卡太寒酸了,是不显示身份地位的深蓝色卡,而她的信用卡则是高级的金卡。

30.Now I had a job which was as steady as any job was in those days -that‘s to

say ,not very,but you know,no complaints.我有一份跟那时候任何工作相比还算安定的工作——虽然不是非常安定,不过我也没什么可抱怨的。

31.They target people who are prone to impulse-buying, and potentially bad credit

risks,tempted to spend more than they have, and liable to fall behind with

repayments.他们的目标客户是那些随时有购物刷卡的冲动、有潜在信用风险、经不住诱惑超支消费、并且经常延期还款的人。

32.After I‘d hauled her back into the house.it transpired that her bank had written to

her offering a credit card at a low interest for a trial three-month period , subject to suitability ....and so on.Her bank! I trusted them! They know even better than I do how broke she is.我费了好大劲儿才把她从外面拽了回来。原来她的银行来信告诉

她说:她可以申请一张试用期为三个月的、能够低息贷款的信用卡,只要满足要求……如此云云。她的银行!我才不相信他们!他们甚至比我更清楚,我的女儿一贫如洗。

33.Naturally,there was a lengthy correspondence while she tried to sort this out,so

the delay in being able access her funds meant that she went into the red,and her debates began to rise more than £200above the agreed limit on her

overdraft of £1500.通过书信同银行交涉的时间相当长,而未能及时支取账户资金使她欠了银行的债,欠款额超过了透支额度(1,500英镑)200多英镑。

34.And here we are today, caught in the Credit crunch, with world economies in free

fall, all because the wicked bankers set us traps which we fall into ,attracting us with endless publicity for loan of money which even they didn‘t have!这就是我们

现在的处境。随着世界经济一落千丈,我们都处在信贷危机之中。所有这一切都是因为邪恶的银行家通过大量广告推销他们压根就不存在的贷款来吸引我们,给我们设圈套。

35.Today,while most of us marry for romantic reasons,marriage at its core is still a fi

nancial union.So much of what we want–or don‘t want–out of life boils down to dollars and cents,whether it‘s how hard we choose to work,how much we consu me or how much we save.For some people,it‘s working80-hour weeks to financ

e a third home and country club membership;for others,it means cutting back on

office hours to spend more time with the family.如今,尽管我们大多数人是因相爱而结婚,婚姻从根本上讲仍然是金钱上的结合。不管是工作的努力程度,还是决定消费多少或储蓄多少,我们生活中想要得到的-或不想得到的-许多东西归根结底都跟钱有关。对有些人来说,他们想要的就是一周工作80小时来支付第三套房的

房款和乡村俱乐部的会员费;而对另一些人来说,他们想缩短上班时间,花更多的时间陪伴家人。

36.A lot of the debates people have about money are code for how we want to live o

ur lives,‖said Betsey Stevenson,assistant professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania‘s Wharton School,who researches the econo mics of marriage and divorce.―A lot of the choices we make in how we want to li ve our lives involve how we spend our money.―关于钱的许多争论是提示我们想如何生活的密码,而生活方式的许多选择则与如何花钱密切相关。‖宾夕法尼亚大

学沃顿商学院的商业及公共政策助理教授贝齐·史蒂文森如是说,他研究婚姻和离婚经济学。

37.Making those choices as a team is one of the most important ways to preserve yo

ur marital assets,and your union,experts say.But it‘s that much easier when you already share similar outlooks on money matters–or when you can,at the very le ast,find some middle ground.专家们说夫妻双方共同做出选择是保护婚姻资产及

婚姻关系的重要方式,当然,如果一开始就和跟你有相同金钱观的人结婚,或者至少和另一方在金钱观上互相妥协,事情就容易得多。

Unit5

38.As sport and leisure have been shown to occupy about10per cent of conversatio

n time,discussion of football could well account for the difference.由于体育和休闲大约占10%的说话时间,所以很可能是谈论足球的时间导致了这种性别的差异。

39.On further questioning,however,the difference turned out to be more a matter of

semantics than practice:What the women were happy to call―gossip‖,the men d efined as―exchanging information‖.在接下来的提问中,我发现两者的差别只在于

语义层面而非实践层面:女性通常称为―说闲话‖的活动在男性那里被定义为―信息交流‖

40.Clearly,there is a stigma attached to gossip among English males,and unwritten

rule to the effect that,even if what one is doing is gossiping,it should be called so mething else.显然,在英国男性眼里说闲话是一件可耻的事情,这条不成文的规则已经深入人心,因此就算一个人真的在说闲话,他也会把它说成是另一回事。

41.For women,this detailed speculation about possible motives and causes,requirin

g an exhaustive raking over―history‖,is a crucial element of gossip.对女人而言,

详细推测动机和原因与详细推测可能的后果一样是闲话的关键因素,它要求对―过去的历史‖进行详尽的梳理

42.The term―marked‖is a staple of linguistic theory.―带标记的‖这个术语是语言学理

论的一个主要概念

43.Any marked form can pick up extra meaning beyond what the marking is intende

d to denote.任何带标记的形式都很容易产生超出该标记含义的额外含义。

44.Although no man wore make-up,you couldn‘t say the men didn‘t wear make-up i

n the sense that you could say a woman didn‘t wear make-up.虽然男人不化妆,

但男人不化妆的含义和女人不化妆的含义却大不相同。对男人而言,不化妆是不带标记的。

45.She was caught completely off guard.这个问题让她感到惊讶

46.Yet no make-up at all is anything but unmarked你不化妆不代表着你没被标记

47.A married woman who wants to have her cake and at it too may use her surname

plus his.But this too announces that she is or has been married and often results in a tongue-tying string that makes life miserable for anyone who needs to alphab etize it.一个希望两全其美的已婚妇女可以用自己的姓加上丈夫的姓,但这样也同

样是宣布她已经结婚,还常常会带来一串长得叫人说不清的名字,让那些必须叫她名字的人倍感煎熬。

48.Women can‘t even fill out a form without telling stories about themselves.Most a

pplication forms now give four choices for titles.Men have one to choose–―Mr.‖–so their choice carries no meaning other than to say they are male.But women must choose among three,each of them marked.A woman who checks the box f or―Mrs.‖or―Miss‖communicates not only whether she has been married but al so that she has conservative tastes in forms of address,and probably other cons ervative values as well.Checking―Ms.‖declines to let on about marriage(where as―Mr.‖declines nothing since nothing was asked),but it also marks the woman who checks it on her form as either liberated or rebellious,depending on the attitu des and assumptions of the one making the judgment.女人一填表就会暴露自己

的个人经历。现在大多数的申请表会给出四种称谓选择。男人只有一种选择,即―先生‖(Mr.),这除了表明他们是男性之外没有其他任何含义。女人则必须从三种称谓中选一个,而任何一种都是标记性的。如果一位女士勾选了―太太‖(Mrs.)或者―小姐‖(Miss)的称谓,那么她不仅暴露了自己的婚姻状况,而且还表明她在称谓方面很保守,或许在其他价值观念方面也很保守。如果她选择―女士‖(Ms.)这

一称谓,那么说明她拒绝透露自己的婚姻状况(而男士选―先生‖这个称谓时则没有故意隐瞒任何事情,因为本来就没有要求他透露婚姻信息)。另外,在表格中勾选―女士‖这一称谓的人会被标记为思想解放的人或叛逆者,这就要看评判她的人持什么样的态度和看法了。

49.I sometimes try to duck these variously marked choices by giving my title as―Dr.‖

–and thereby risk marking myself as either uppity(hence sarcastic responses lik e―Excuse me!‖)or an over-achiever(hence reactions of congratulatory surprise, like―Good for you!‖).我有时会选择―博士‖头衔,以避开这几种带标记的称谓选

项。但这么做又会给自己带来风险,标明自己要么骄傲自大(于是乎招来讥讽的反应,比如―对不起,我不知道你是博士!‖),要么是一个成功欲过强的人(那么对方的反应就是祝贺时的惊奇,比如―你真行!‖)

UNIT6

50.…to wage war against a monstrous tyranny,never surpassed in the dark,lament

able catalogue of

human crime.和黑暗的、可悲的人类罪恶史上最穷凶极恶的暴政作战。

51.But self-belief was something he maintained despite rather than because of his fa

mily.

His father Lord Randolph Churchill…and his mother,Jennie…were both cold a nd distant people.

但是他一直能够保持自信却与他的家庭无关,他的家人并没有给他多少支持。他的父亲伦道夫·丘吉尔勋爵(1849-1895)和母亲珍妮(1854-1921)都是冷漠、拒人于千里之外的人。

52.Winston’

s father predicted his child would“degenerate into a shabby,unhappy and futile existence”.

温斯顿的父亲不仅没有给他支持和帮助,还预测他的儿子将来会“沦落到穷困潦倒,一事无成,抑郁而终的地步”

53.This was the onset of his first major bout of depression,a curse he called his“bla

ck dog”.丘吉尔第一次犯严重的抑郁症就是从那个时候开始的,他把这个让他痛苦不堪的疾病称为他的“黑狗”(沮丧)。

54.She kept him together,but he got himself out of it,in true Churchillian fashion.她让

他振作起来,但最终丘吉尔以自己特有的方式走出了抑郁

55.But by1930,Labour was in power and he was on the backbenches,a nobody an

d a has-been.但是到了1930年,工党开始执政,而他只是一名后座议员,一个无

足轻重的小人物,一个过气的政客。

56.He largely sat out the1930s at his country retreat Chartwell.30年代的大部分时

间,他都在他的乡间别墅查特威尔庄园里闲坐度日

57.The billboards said“Cheer Churchill,Vote Labour”,and thats what people did.

That was the irony.the very democracy that Churchill was prepared to lay down h is life to defend was the same

democracy that knew the difference between the needs of peace and the needs o

f war.许多告示牌上写着“为丘吉尔喝彩,给工党投票”,后来人们的确是这么做

的。这真是充满了讽刺意味。丘吉尔随时准备誓死保卫的民主国家知道和平时代的需求和战时的需求是不一样的

58.If Britain–its eccentricity,its strength of character,its big-heartedness–had to

be summed up in one person,it was him.如果要用一个人来代表英国的怪僻、坚强的个性、宽大的胸怀,那就是丘吉尔。

59.The historian is not required to have the special skills which enable the expert to d

etermine the origin and period of a fragment of pottery or marble,to decipher an o

bscure inscription,or to make the elaborate astronomical calculations necessary t o establish a precise date.These so-called basic facts which are the same for all historians commonly belong to the category of the raw materials of the historian ra ther than of history itself.The second observation is that the necessity to establish these basic facts rests not on any quality in the facts themselves,but on a priori d ecision of the historian.In spite of C.P.Scott?s motto,every journalist knows toda y that the most effective way to influence opinion is by the selection and arrangem ent of the appropriate facts.It used to be said that facts speak for themselves.Thi s is,of course,untrue.The facts speak only when the historian calls on them:It is he who decides to which facts to give the floor,and in what order or context.It wa s,I think,one of Pirandello‘s characters who said that a fact is like a sack–it won?t stand up till you?ve put something in it.The only reason why we are interested to know that the battle was fought at Hastings in1066is that historians regard it as a major historical event.It is the historian who has decided for his own reasons that Caesar?s crossing of that petty stream,the Rubicon,is a fact of history,whereas t he crossing of the Rubicon by millions of other people before or since interests no body at all.The fact that you arrived in this building half an hour ago on foot,or on a bicycle,or in a car,is just as much a fact about the past as the fact that Caesar c rossed the Rubicon.历史学家不需要掌握特殊的技能去确定陶瓷或大理石残片的

起源与断代、解读一段意义隐晦的铭文的含义、或是为确定一个准确的日期而进行繁复的天文计算。这些所谓的基本事实对所有的历史学家来说都是一样的,它们是历史学家可用的原始素材,而非历史本身。我要说的第二点是,之所以有必要确定这些基本的事实并不取决于事实的可靠性,而是取决于历史学家事先做出

的判断。尽管C.P.司各特的那句箴言深入人心(注:司各特的箴言

comments are free,but facts are sacred.―事实不可歪曲,评述大可自由‖),但是

现在每一名新闻记者都知道要影响大众舆论,最有效的方式就是对特定的事实进行选择和剪接。人们以前常说事实不言自明。这种说法显然是错误的,历史事实只是在历史学家用到时才会不言自明。哪些事实可以现身说法,以及这些事实以什么样的顺序或是在什么样的情景中出现都是由历史学家来决定的。我记得皮兰德娄笔下的一个人物曾经说过:事实就像一个麻袋——不塞点东西进去就立不起

来。我们之所以对1066年发生在黑斯廷斯的战役感兴趣的唯一原因就是历史学家

把这一战役看作是一个重大的历史事件。历史学家们依照自己的推断,认为凯撒穿越那条小河——卢比孔河——是一个史实,但没有人对在他之前或是之后几百万其他人穿过这条河的举动感兴趣。你半个小时之前或徒步、或骑车或开车来到这幢大楼,这件事和当年凯撒渡过卢比孔河一样都是一个关于过去的客观事实。

60.The belief in a hard core of historical facts existing objectively and independently o

f the interpretation of the historian is a preposterous fallacy有人坚信史实是确实存

在的,是客观的,不为历史家的阐释而左右。这种见解非常荒谬,但却难以根除。

61.Its present status,I suggest,is that it has been proposed for membership of the s

elect club of historical facts.认为,在这个对入会标准有严格规定的史实俱乐部里,

这个事件现在的地位相当于候选会员。

62.Alternatively,nobody may take it up,in which case it will relapse into the limbo of u

nhistorical facts about the past…另外还有一种可能,就是再也没人提起这件事。

这样它就会重新被湮没在关于过去的那些非历史的事实堆中而被人遗忘,基特森?克拉克博士拯救它的英勇努力也就付之东流了。

Unit9

63.I‘ve been spending several years learning Chinese for my work her in Beijing,so t

he latest news that there‘s to be a new campaign to introduce the language into U S schools,and a recent report estimating that over500schools in the UK are teac hing it prompts me to tell you something which you may not want to hear.Learnin

g Chinese is really,really tough.有最新消息说美国正在策划一个新的在学校推广

汉语的活动;最近的一个报告称,在英国估计有500多所学校在教授汉语。为了

便于在北京工作,我已经花了好几年时间学习汉语。上面这两则消息使我想告诉你们一些你们也许不太想听的话:汉语真的特别特别难学。

64.With the dominance of English as an international language set to decline over th

e next years,it‘s not surprising that this fall is matched by a rise o

f interest in learni

ng Chinese伴随着英语的衰落,人们对学习汉语的兴趣日益高涨。

65.First of all,learning thousands of characters is a chore,and there‘s nothing for it b

ut to learn them by heart.首先,学习几千个汉字就是一件苦差事,除了把它们牢记在心之外,没有别的办法

66.It takes a lot of patience,it can be very disappointing,and my disgraceful strike rat

e is scarcely20characters an hour.这个过程需要很大的耐心,会让人灰心丧气。

说起来很丢人,我自己查汉字的速度每小时还不到20个字。

67.It‘s a very beautiful,profoundly inspiring and

thought-provoking challenge.I have to keep going,asthe journey will fascinate m

e as much as the arrival at my destination汉语学习是一个极其美妙、极其鼓舞人

心、引人深思的挑战。我必须不断前进,因为这个旅程本身和到达目的地同样让我着迷。

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