英语自考本科高级英语笔记-下册-Lesson_Five_2
英语自考本科高级英语笔记-下册-Lesson_Fifteen_2
Lesson Fifteen Is America Falling Apart Words and ExpressionsText Explanation1 a castellated townThis is a town built in the style of a castle.2the hammer and sickle painted on the rumps of public statuesThe hammer and sickle is the symbol of the Communist Party in Italy. It shows that the Communist Party was active at that time.3 a thousand-lira note shrunk to the slightness of a dollar billThis tells us that the Italian money was very much depreciated (贬值) at that time.4the open markets are luscious with esculent colorthe open markets are full of delicious fruits and vegetables in mouth-watering color.5…the human condition is humorously accepted.Italians accept their difficult living condition with a sense of humor.6… but the next Wednesday's return of an old Western is something to look forward to.…but an old American film about cowboys to be re-showed next Wednesday is something the local people look forward to.7What matters is… the wresting of minimal sweetness of the long-known bitterness of living.For many years they have been living a bitter life, yet they can still get through effort the least amount of pleasure out of the bitter life. This is what is important to them.8…prewar, if one thing went wrong the day was ruined; postwar, if one thing went right the day would be made.…before the war people felt everything was going on fine and they were unprepared for anything to go wrong. So if anything went wrong, they would be in a bad mood, feeling the whole day was spoiled. But after the war, if one thing went right, people would be in high spirits, feeling the whole day was nice.9…the Kafka feeling that the whole marvelous fabric of American life is coming apart at the seams.… the feeling that the whole of American society is breaking down fundamentally, which is similar to the feeling described in Kafka's novels.come apart: fall to pieces 破掉，碎掉The teapot just came apart in my hands.10The run-down rail services of America are something I try, vainly, to forget.The railway services of America are extremely bad, I try to forget them, but I failed to.11American individualism…wishes to manifest itself in independence of the community.American individualism…finds its expression in being independent of or being different from other people in the community.12Once let the acquisitive instinct burgeon, and there was ruggedly individual forces only too ready to make it come to full and monstrous blossom.As soon as the acquisitive instinct begins to grow, strong individual forces will develop it fully, which is something outrageous.ruggedly individual forces: often termed rugged individualism, the disguised, hot pursuit of practical and realisticinterests of an didividualonly too ready to make it come to full and monstrous blossom:very ready to make the acquitive instinct develop fully.13This self-elected deprivation was a way into the nastier side of the consumer society.I myself chose not to buy an automobile and that led me to see the more disgusting side of the consumer society.14The nightmare of filth, outside and in, that enfolds the trip from Springfield, Mass., to Grand Central Station would not be accepted in backward Europe.The filth inside the trains and along the railway line from Springfield to New York is so horrible that it would not be accepted in backward Europe.15The more efficiently self-contained the home seems to be, the more dependent it is on the great impersonal corporations…When the home is efficiently equipped with all sorts of gadgets, it becomes dependent on the great indifferent corporations.The more the home is thus equipped, the more dependent it is on the latter…16Skills at the lowest level have to be wooed slavishly and exorbitantly rewarded.Even workers doing the least skilled jobs have to be begged to come and paid much too high.17And doctors…know their scarcity value and behave accordingly.And doctors…know their great value because there are not enough doctors to meet the needs and therefore charge excessive medical fees.18Planned obsolescence is not conductive to pride in workmanship.Articles that are designed to break or wear out quickly do not help people to take pride in their work.19On another level, consumption is turning sour.… consumption is becoming something unpleasant.20Indestructible plastic hasn't even the grace to undergo chemical change.to have the grace to do something means to be polite enough to do something proper.明智地做某事，爽爽快快地做某事He had the grace to say that he was sorry.Here it is used humorously to refer to the fact that goods made of plastic cannot be recycled.21Awareness of this is a kind of redemptive grace, but it has not led to repentance and a revolution in consumer habits.Awareness of this is a kind of compensation for their guilty feelings about consumption. Yet it has not noticeably brought about deep regret for or a drastic change in the way they consume.22… they don't noticeably clamor for a decrease in the number of owner-vehicles.…they don't demand loudly a decrease in the number of private cars.23America has always despised its teachers and, as a consequesnce, it has been granted the teachers it deserves.America has always looked down upon its teachers, as result, it deserves to have the kind of teachers it gets.as a consequence: as a result 结果He's never studied hard, as a consequence, he's never passed examinations.24The quality of first-grade education…could not…be faulted on the level of dogged conscientiousness.You could not find fault with the teachers for the quality of first-grade education. The teachers were conscientious and determined to do a good job.on the level of: in the aspect of, in connection with25But there seemed to be no spark, no daring, no madness, no readiness to engage the individual child's mind as anything other than raw material for statistical reductions.但是除了把孩子的头脑当作进行数字计算训练的原料以为，似乎不存在能使孩子开动脑筋的火花，胆识，激情与愿望。
高级英语笔记下册
高级英语下册Lesson One1.The lower your position is, the more people you are afraid of . (1)—此处采用了‖the + 比较级…+ the + 比较级…‖结构，表示‖越…，就越…‖，前者是状语从句，后者是主句。
E.g. the more, the better 越多越好。
The harder she worked, the more progress she made. 她工作越努力，进步越大。
2. And all the people are afraid of the twelve men at the top who helped found and build the company and now own and direct it. (1)—who found and build the company and now own and direct it为men 的定语从句。
另外注意，found 意为‖创立、设立‖。
E.g. The People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949. 中华人民共和国于1949年成立。
这里不要与find 的过去分词found 混淆，因常用的搭配形式为help (to) do sth.3. In the normal course of a business day…(3)—in the course of为固定词组，意为‖在…当中‖。
E.g. In the course of the discussion many constructive opinions were heard.在讨论当中，听到了很多具有建设4. Green is afraid of me because most of the work in my department is done for the Sales Department, which is more important than his department,… (3)—which is more important than his department为the Sales Department的非限时性定语从句。
自考基础英语下册重点笔记：第5课
自考基础英语下册重点笔记：第5课Lesson Five Comparative Advantage and Interdependence重点词汇及短语interdependence n．彼此依赖。
inter为前缀，表示“互相，……之间”suppose vt．假定，假设speciality n.专长，专业one another 彼此depend on依靠involve in 卷入sorting process 归类程序refer to指；关系到by contrast比拟之下comparative advantage 比力利益the law of comparative advantage 比力利益原则production processes 生产过程重点语段解析(1) In freeing people from the soil the International Revolution bound them to machines, and the machines have become so complicated that one person generally learns to operate only one or two of them．在将人们从土地上解放出来时，工业革命将人们束缚在机器上，并且机器变得如此复杂以致一个人通常只能学会把持它们中的一两个。
①free.…from.…把……从……解放出来，使……摆脱……。
例句：The little girl freed the parrot from its cage．阿谁小女孩把鹦鹉从笼子里放出来。
②bind…to…使……束缚于……。
例句：Business bound him to the city．生意把他限制在这个城市。
③so…that…如此……以致于。
例句：He was so angry that he punched me．他如此生气以致动手打了我。
英语自考本科高级英语笔记-下册-Lesson_Six_2
Lesson Six Trifles (Part Two) Words and ExpressionsText Explanation1You won't feel them when you go out.If you don't take of your things (coat,etc.), when you put them on again to go out into the cold you won't feel you have them on.2Frank's fire didn't do much up there…The fire Frank made didn't make the upstairs room warmer…3Well, let's go out to the barn and get that cleared up.Here " to clear up" means to find out what can be discovered there, so that we know whether the barn has anything to do with the murder.4…smoothing out a block with decision.…she smoothed a square part of the quilt with determination.5It's all over the place!针脚很乱！6…as if she didn't know what she was about!…as if she didn't know what she was doing!7They may be through sooner than we think.They may finish their work in the barn sooner than we expected.8…they'd be about it.…they should hurry up with it.9… and no company when he did come in.…after work when he finally came into the house, he did not keep his wife company, which means he was not pleasant to be with and his wife still felt lonely even though he was in the house.10Not to know him.I don't know him well.11Here's some red.Here are some red patches.12It's all - other side to.The neck is twisted to the other side.13They're superstitious, you know. They leave.Cat have insticts for unlucky things to happen and they leave the place before unlucky things happen.14I knew John Wright.I knew what kind of person John Wright was, I am sure it was he who killed the bird.15But you know juries when it comes to women.Juries are always more sympathetic to women and we need convincing evidence to make them convict women.16…a sheriff's wife is married to the law.…a sheriffs wife is law abiding, is always on the side of the law.17Not - just that way.Not just thinking about the law and being law abiding.18 A moment Mrs. Hale holds her…Mrs. Hale's eyes hold Mrs. Peter's eyes for a moment…They look into each other's eyes for a moment…19He didn't drink, and kept his word as well as most.He didn't drink alcohol and tried his best to keep his promise.keep one's word: keep one's promise 信守诺言He never fails to keep his word so you can rely upon him.20Now let's go up again and go over it piece by piece.Now le't go upstairs once again and examine the room little by little.piece by piece: one at a time 一件一件地，逐渐地We have to clean the big house piece by piece.21The two women sit there not looking at one another, but as if peering into something.The two women sit there not looking at each other, but as if gazing into something.peer into: look closely 凝视，盯着看He peered into the pictures on the screen.22Catches herself.Mrs. Peters stopped speaking suddenly.catch oneself: stop speaking suddenly, shut up 突然住嘴Tome caught himself, knowing that he had said something unsuitable.23Very nervously begins winding this around the bottle.Very nervously begins wrapping the petticoat closely around the bottle.wind something around something: fold or wrap closely 包紧，裹住She wound a blanket around her baby.24Under her breath.Mrs. Hales speaks in a whisper.under one;s breath: in as whisper 低声地说某事The grandpa spoke to me under his breath.25She …goes to pieces, stands there helpless.She breaks up mentally, stands there without knowing what to do.go to pieces: break up physically, mentally or morally （肉体，精神，或道德）崩溃He went to pieces when he knew that he was dismissed.。
自考高级英语课后翻译下册
1.They hold meetings ,make promotions , and allow their names to be used on announcements that are prepared and issued by somebody else .他们主持会议,研究该提升谁,别人准备并发布的通告上也要署上他们的名字.2. He makes it clear to me every now and then that he wishes to see everything coming out of my department before it is shown to other departments .他不时地让我清楚一个事实,即希望我的部门所做的每项工作在显示给其他部门之前先给他看看.3. The result of this photocopying and distributing is that there is almost continuous public scrutiny and discussion throughout the company of how well or poorly the salesmen in each sales office of each division of the company are doing at any given time .把统计数字复印,分发,这种做法的结果是公司每个部门的每个销售办事处的推销员在任何时期内业绩的好坏都不断地处于公众的审查和评论之中.4. They are stimulated and motivated by discipline and direction . 纪律和监督激励他们.5. Their budget , too , is small , for they are no longer permitted to undertake large projects .》他们的经费很少，因为不再允许他们承担大的项目。
英语专业自考专升本—— 00600高级英语课后答案
高级英语课后答案上册Lesson One What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society?A1. 1) The author uses the two quotations to introduce the discussion and express his ideas aboutrock music and young culture heroes. 2) Yes, they are.2. The author uses the three examples to show that the young people worship the rock superstarsvery much, but the adults find these rock superstars are sick. These examples are used to show that young people and adults have totally different attitudes towards rock music.3. Irving Horowitz believes that rock music can express its time. He sees it as a debating forumwhere American society struggles to define and redefine its feelings and beliefs.4. When he appeared on the Ed. Sullivan Sunday night variety show in front of millions, a kind of“debate” took place. Most of the old people frowned while most of the young viewers applauded.5. Bob Dylan touched a nerve of disaffection. The Beatles urged peace and piety. The RollingStones demanded revolution.6. Apart from politics, the rock music dealt with a range of feelings and emotions.7. The rock superstars got applause, praise and money.8. No, he hasn’t. It is impossible for the author to give a complete answer in a short article. Heends his article with questions because he wants to leave the question to the readers and let them think.B1.他描述道：“贾格尔抓起半加仑水，沿着前台跑，边跑边把水洒向前几排酷热难耐的歌迷身上……”2. 你对这种赞美和英雄崇拜是怎样看的？3. 或者是由于他把你狂热的幻想表演出来了，你就不知不觉地被这个不可思议的小丑吸引？4. 一些社会学家认为，你对这些问题的回答，可以说明你在想什么，社会在想什么。
(自考专升本资料)《高级英语》复习笔记3
高级英语复习笔记及讲解3Lesson Four1.dodge ： avoid , evade or elude 逃避.如；He was accused of dodging his taxes .他被指控逃税.You shouldn 't dodge your responsibilities. 你不能回避责认.move aside suddenly 突然闪开.如：I dodged out of the way when he threw a chair at me . 他将椅子向我扔来的时候,我急忙闪开.2.condemn： express an unfavorable judgement or opinion of 谴责.如：We condemned empty talk instead of hard work.我们谴责只说空话不务实的行为.3.to come to light ： to be discovered or revealed 暴露.如；On investigation some new facts came to light . 一经调查，一些新的事实就被暴露了.It has now come to light that he was financially backed by some interest group.人们刚刚得知，他受到了某个利益集团的经济支持.nguish ：1) become feeble ;droop ; lose liveliness orthe will to do things 凋萎，有气无力.如；languish from the heat /in prison/ in his dull job 由于天气炎热/坐牢/工作乏味而萎靡不振.2)suffer from a feeling of longing 苦思.如；languish for some kind words/her love 苦苦期盼一些抚慰的话语/ 她的爱.5.moral ： the moral teaching or practical lesson continued ina fable , tale , experience,etc.寓意.如；There is a moral to the story .这个故事有个寓意.arre ： unusual in appearance, style , or characters 夕卜貌,风格或性格怪异.如；a bizarre coincidence——次奇，怪的巧合;his bizrre behavior 他，怪异的行为.7.at her own request根据她本人的要求.另如：He wrote this book at the request of his 写了他根据……的要求那本书._vote on ：就进行表决.如：Let 's vote on this issue , since we can' t agree . 既然我们不能达成一致意见,就来投票表决吧.8.inprivate ： not publicly , secretly 私下.如：Such a thing is best discussed in private . 这种事情最好私卜讨论.He can be very rube in private, though he is usually polite in public .他私下可能很粗鲁，但在群众面前通常彬彬有礼.9.taboo adj.忌讳的，禁止的.如：This topic is taboo on the campus .校园里忌讳讨论这个话题.10.A. prolong ： cause sth. to continue longer 延长.如：I have to prolong my stay here for another three days . 我必须继续在这里呆三天时间.You should not have prolonged the ceremony . 你本不该延长仪式的时间.B. throes ： agony 痛苦.如；in death throes处于临终痛苦.11.h old out ： continue to last 坚持，挺住.如：Can you hold out much longer ?你能再坚持一段时间吗?12.a dminister to apple as a remedy 施用.如：administer laws执彳亍法律.The doctor administered some me medicine to the girl . 医生给女孩施用了一些药.ply with ： act in accordance with wishes , requirements or conditions 遵守（意愿，要求或条件等）.如；You ought to comply with the rules /the demands/ the 1aw/ the requests.你应该遵守规章/命令/法律/要求.14.p ose danger 造成危险.pose ： cause sth. to exist 导致产生.另如：pose problems 引起问题.15.b y contrast 相比之下.By contrast , his brother is quite easygoing . 相比之下，他的兄弟比拟好相处.16.u sher in ： herald 预报，宣告.如；usher in a new age of prosperity宣告新的繁荣时期的到来.The rising sun ushered in a new day . 太阳的升起宣告新的——天开始了.The cuckoo ushered in Spring.布谷鸟宣布春天到来.。
高级英语第二册LESSON5课后答案
Ⅱ .1.The younger generation of the 1920s were thought to be wild because they visited speakeasies, denounced Puritan morality, etc. (See para. 1).2. "Yes" and "no Yes" because the business of growing up is always accompanied by a Younger Generation Problem, "no" because all their actions can now be seen in perspective as being something considerably less sensational than the degeneration of jazz mad youth.3. Yes. Youth was faced with the challenge of changing the standards of social behavior, of rejecting Victorian gentility. But in America the young people tried to escape their responsibilities and retreat behind and air of naughty alcoholic sophistication and a pose of Bohemian immorality.4. The revolt was logical and inevitable because of the conditions in the age. First of all, the rebellion affected the entire Western world. Second, people in the United States realized their country was no longer isolated in either politics or tradition and that they could no longer take refuge in isolationism.5. All the activities mentioned above were means to help the young people to escape their more serious responsibilities of changing society and most young people went in for these activities. It became a general pattern of behavior.6. The war whipped up their energies but destroyed their naivette. It made them cynical. They could not fit themselves into postwar society so they rebelled and tried to overthrow completely the genteel standards of behavior.7. Intellectuals and non-intellectuals began to imitate the pattern of life set by those living in Greenwich Village. These people lived a Bohemian and eccentric life. They defied the law and flouted all social conventions. They attacked the war, Babbittry, and "Puritanical" gentility.8. These young intellectuals wanted America to become more sensitive to art and culture, less avid for material gain, and less susceptible to standardization.9. They emigrated to Europe because there "they do things better" than in the United States where people only care for money and wealth. Only in Europe will they be able to find remedy for their sensitive minds.10. They were called the "lost generation" by Gertrude Stein because they were troubled and worried and had emigrated to Europe. But they were never really lost for they finally returned to America and produced the liveliest, freshest, most stimulating works in America's literary experience.Ⅲ .1. The structural organization of this essay is clear and simple. The essay divides logically into paragraphs with particular functions: to introduce the subject (introduction) in paragraph 1, to support and develop the thesis (the body or the middle) in paragraphs 2 through 9, to bring the discussion to an end (conclusion)in paragraphs 10 and 11.2. Horton and Edwards state their thesis in the last paragraph of the essay: "The intellectuals of the Twenties, the "sad young men", as F. Scott Fitzgerald called them, cursed their luck but didn't die; escaped but voluntarily returned; flayed the Babbits but loved their country, and in so doing gave the nation the liveliest, freshest, most stimulating writing in its literary experience. "3. They support their thesis by providing historical material concerning the revolt of the younger generation of the twenties in a series of paragraphs and paragraph units between the introduction and conclusion.4. Yes. Each paragraph or paragraph unit develops a new but related aspect of the thoughtstated in the thesis. Frequently the first sentence of these middle paragraphs states clearly the main idea of the material that follows and indicates a new but related stage of the developing thought. For example : The rejection of Victorian gentility was, in any case, inevitable. (paragraph 3). The rebellion started with World War I . (paragraph 5) Greenwich Village set the pattern. (paragraph 7) Meanwhile the true intellectuals were far from flattered. (paragraph 9).5. The two paragraphs form a single unit. The writers begin with a clearly stated main idea -- Greenwich Village set the pattern and use paragraph 7 to explain Greenwich Village to the reader, following in paragraph 8 with supporting material showing how the rest of the country imitated life in the "Village".6.Student' s choice.7.Student's choice.III. Paraphrase1.At the very mention of this post-war period, middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly.2.In any case, an American could not avoid casting aside抛弃；废除its middle-class respectability and affected做作的；假装的refinement精制；文雅.3.The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.4.In America at least, the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise老于世故的；精于世故的, drinking and behaving naughtily.5.The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful, added a sense of adventure.6.Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.7.The young people wanted to take part in the glorious adventure before the whole war ended.8.These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.9. The returning veteran also had to face the stupid cynicism of the victorious allies in Versailles who acted as cynically as Napoleon did, and to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people.10. (Under all this force and pressure) something in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down.11. It was only natural that hopeful young Writers whose minds and writings were filled with violent anger against war, Babbitry, and "Puritanical" gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic centre.12. Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives.IV. A.1. speakeasy：a place where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally，esp．such a place in the U．S．during Prohibition2. sheik: a masterful有驾驭力的man to whom women are supposed to be irresistibly attracted3. flapper: (Americanism) (in the 1920s) a young woman considered bold and unconventionalin action and dress4. drugstore cowboy: a western movie extra群众演员who loafs游荡in front of drugstores betweenpictures5. Prohibition: the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes, specifically in the U. S., the period (1920-1933) of Prohibition by Federal law6. orgy: any wild, riotous暴乱的；狂欢的, licentious放肆的；放纵的merrymaking寻欢作乐; debauchery放荡；纵情酒色7. soap opera: a daytime radio or television serial drama of a highly melodramatic情节剧的，sentimental nature．It has been so called since many original sponsors were soap companies8. action: military combat in general9. whip up: rouse; excite10. give: bend, sink, move, break down, yield, etc. from force or pressure11．burden：repeated central idea; theme12．keep up with the Joneses：strive to get all the material things one’s neighbors or associates have13．write off：drop from从…除去considerationB.1.flourish意为向很理想的状况发展或正处于该状况，即发展的鼎盛时期。
自考高级英语下册课文讲解
I wish the speaker would confine himself to the subject.我希望演讲者不要离题。
Confine your criticism to matters you understand. 发表评论不要超出自己所了解的范围。
11. justify (v): show that sb. / sth. is right , reasonable or just 表明是正当的，有理的，公正的
They found it hard to justify their son's giving up a secure well-paid job. 他们难以理解儿子竟放弃收入颇丰的稳定工作。Tiredness cannot possibly justify your treating staff this way. 你不能以疲劳为由就这样对待职工
remain in the press by making a contrast with television based on the date out of a survey.
Having sharply criticized the partisan bit and the abuse of the sacred right entrusted to the
She'll be glad to get the exam over with. 等考试结束她就高兴了。
He looked upon the wedding ceremony as a mere formality --- something to be got over with as quickly as possible. 他只把婚礼看成一种形式，一件应尽快了结的事。
英语自考本科高级英语笔记-下册-Lesson_One_2
Lesson One The Company in Which I work Words and ExpressionsText Explanation1All these twelve men are elderly now and drained by time and success of energy and ambition.All of them are elderly now and are exhausted, both physically and mentally, by long years of striving to fulfill their ambition for success.2They seem…always courteous and mute when they ride with others in the public elevators.They always show good manners and do not say a word when they ride with others in the elevators that all company members can use.3They …make promotions…They … decide who are given higher positions…4…and allow their names to be used on announcements that are prepared and issued by somebody else.These announcements have to bear their names to be authoritative. Although they do not prepare and issue theseannouncements, they must allow their names to be used on them.5Nobody is sure anymore who really runs the company (not even the people who are credited with running it), but the company does run.Even the managers at different levels who are thought to be managing the company don't know who really manages the company. This is because their responsiblities are limited. They are also afraid of their superiors. They appear to be running the company, but they do not have the final say. Nevertheless, the company goes in working order.6I will bypass him on most of our assignments rather than take his time and delay their delivery to people who have an immediate need for them.I will ignore him on most of our assignments and deliver them directly to people who need them. I prefer to do so becauseI do not want to take up his time and delay their delivery.7Green distrusts me fitfully.Green distrusts me from time to time.8He truns scarlet with rage and embarrassment if he has not seen or heard of it.His face turns red because of rage and embarrassment. He is extremely angry because the narrator does not show due repect to him as his boss. He feels embarrassed because it is considered his neglect of duty not to have seen or heard of it.9They are always on trial…They are always examined to see how well they do…10The strain, …, to look good on paper; and there is much paper for them to look good on.They work hard…to make their performances look good in written form, even if their performances may not be that good in reality. And there are a lot of documents such as records and reports, on which they have to make themselves look good.11When they are doing poorly, they are doing terribly.When they are doing badly, that is, when they fail to sell products, they are getting along terribly, that is, they are havinga terrible time.12When a salesman lands a large order or brings in an important new account…When a salesman obtains a large order of goods from a client or brings in an important new account receivable…13They are a vigorous, fun-loving bunch when they are not suffering abdominal cramps or brooding miserably about the future.Apart from this physical trouble in digestion, they are also worried about their future. Otherwise they are vigorous, struggling for success.14who he feels has a grudge against him and is determined to wreck his careerwho he feels has resentment against him and is determined to ruin his careers. This reveals the horrible human relationship in the corporation. People bear ill will against each other.15that they squander generously on other people in and out of the company.that they are generous in spending money on other people.16The company, in fact, will pay for their country club membership and all charges they incur there…The company encourages salesmen to establish good relationship with their clients, so it will pay the fees for them to be members of country clubs, and pay them back the money they spend there.17…it is difficult and dangerous for unmarried salesmen to mix socially with prominent executives and their wives or participate with them in responsible civic affairs.This is to indicate the danger of possible love affairs between unmarried salesman and the wives of prominent executives.With such a fear, prominent executives don't like to mix socially with unmarried salesmen. Yet prominent executives are the company's important clients, whom it cannot afford to lose. So the company does not employ unmarried salesmen in order to avoid such a difficult and dangerous situation.18They thrive on explicit guidance toward clear objectives.They succeed and become prosperous by following their boss's clearly expressed guidance.19There must be something in the makeup of a man that enables him not only be a salesman, but to want to be one.A man must have some special character and temperament to want to be a salesman.20…all that does matter is that the information come form a reputable source.…what is important is that the information should come from a respected source. So long as the source is reputable, they don't mind whether or not the information suits their individual case.21They are not expected to change reality, but merely to find it if they can and suggest ingenious ways of disguising it.This satirizes the nature of their work, which is to use some clever ways to cover up reality.22…in converting whole truths into half truths and half truths into whole ones.…in changing the whole truth into a half truth and changing a half truth into the whole truth. In either case, deception is done.23I am continuously astonished by people in the company who do fall victim to their own propaganda.This is a satire on the people who are deceived by their own propaganda.to fall victim to something: to become a victim of, or be deceived by something.24who graduated from a good business school with honors.who graduated from a good business school with special excellence, or at a level higher than the most basic level.This implies that they shouldn't have been deceived since they are intelligent people.25We goose-step in and goose-step out, change our partners and wander all about, and go back home till we all drop dead."to goose-step" originally means to march without bending the knees.We get inot and out of the company in a seemingly important but actually foolish manner. After work, we go out withpeople from other departments instead of our working partners and stay out late having fun and then go back home till we are so tired out as to fall asleep at once. We live like this day after day till we die.26This makes my boredom worse.This makes me feel even more bored.27I rejoice with tremendous pride and vanity in the compliments I receiveI feel extremely proud and self-conceited when I receive compliments.28I began constructing tables of organization…I began making systematic arrangements by way of tables…A table is a list of facts, information, etc. arranged in columns.29I call these charts my Happiness Charts.Happiness Charts are charts in which one can find happiness. Only when he was arranging these charts could he forget about his agony and feel happy.30These exercises in malice never fail to boost my spirits…Every time I do these exercises with ill desire to harm others, I feel I am in a much better mood…This is a dark satire on his inability to do anything against those he dislikes.31to whom the company is not yet an institution of any sacred meritto those young people the company is not yet an organization that has any important worth. If the company has any excellence that is extremely important to them, they will be loyal and stick to the company, instead of taking it as a temporary place to work.32…he would give you a resounding No!, regardless of what inducements were offered.…no matter what incentives might be offered, he would still say loudly that he would not work for the company all his life.33He makes it clear to me every now and then that…He makes it clear to me from time to time that…every now and then: from time to time 时而，不时He goes shopping with his wife every now and then.34And I will bypass him on most of our assignments rather than take up his time…And I will not let him know on most of our assignments in order not to occupy his time…take up one's time: occupy one's time 占用某人的时间You shouldn't take up the manager's time.35Most of the work we do in my department is, in the long run, trivial.Most of the work we do in my department is of small importance ultimately.in the long run: ultimately 最终地，终极地He will lose money in the longrun.36They are…, always on the verge of failure…They are always on the border of failure.on the verge of: very close to, on the border of 处于……的边缘The bride was on the verge of committing sucide.37for fear they may start doing worse.They are afraid that they may start doing worse.for fear: in order that…should not occur 以免…；唯恐...I daren't tell you what he did, for fear he should be angry with me.38For the most part, they are cheerful, confident and gregarious…。
英语自考本科高级英语笔记-下册-Lesson_Fourteen_2
Lesson Fourteen Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Words and ExpressionsText Explanation1at an elbowclose to somebody or something 靠近，在近旁His secretary is always at his elbow to help him.2old men on their last legsold men in very bad condition and about to die3 A soundless and minuscular explosion of water caught his eye.A sudden, soundless and slight moving of the water attracted his attention.catch one's eye: attract one's attention 引起注意The dress in the window caught her eye when she passed store.4away from it allaway from all the bother5…as you sat on the lavatory.… as you sat on the toliet.6the things that came to youthe things that you thought about7For himself, his own catch had been made, and he would have to wrestle with it for the rest of his life.And he had to fight with the unpleasant working and living conditions for the rest of his life.8in a way of speakingin some ways though not exactly 不妨说，可以说9then you were roped in by a factory, had a machine slung around your neck.to rope in: to persuade somebody to do something when he/she does not want to.to have a machine slung aroud one's neck has the meaning of somebody being tried to the manual labour of factory and weighed down with overwork.10…and then you were hooked up by the arse with a wife.…and then you were tied to your wife sexually.11Mostly you were like a fish…Most of the time you were like a fish.12Without knowing what you were doing you had chewed off more than you could bite and had to stick with the same piece of bait for the rest of your life.Without knowing what you were doing you had been engaged in something that you were not able to cope with, and you would suffer from it for the rest of your life.13…he could still disengage his mouth from thenibbled morsel.…he could give up what he had got or what he was doing.14…that would be no life at all.…that kindl of life would not be worth living.15…which will probably bump it up to a couple of hundred.to bump up means to suddenly increase by a large amount.16So they would be sitting pretty…to be sitting pretty means to be in very good or favorable position.17an earthquake to crack it in two and collapse the city around theman earthquake to break up England into two blocks and cause the city to fall into the crack.18to get something out of lifeto achieve something in life.19One more chance.I now give you one more chance to live.20… its curtains for 'em.…its death for 'em.21This time it was war…This time he wouldn't be benevolent and merciful and would endeavor to catch a fish. There is no benevolence and mercifulness in war.22It's trouble for you and trouble for me, and all over a piece of bait.Trouble for the fish, because once it is caught, it means death;Trouble for me, because it will take my time, energy and skill to catch the fish.all over a piece of bait means all this trouble just because of a piece of bait.23And trouble…fighting everyday…when we're fighting up to the hilt fight means struggling to attain some end.up to the hilt: completely, as much as possible 完全地，彻底地His guilt was proved to the hilt.24Fighting with mothers and wives…fight means to be engaged in conflict with25If it's not one thing it's another…If we don't fight with one thing, we fight with another. There is no getting away.26…because trouble it's always been and always will be.there has always been trouble and there always will be trouble. There is no end of it.27Slung into khaki at eighteen, and when they let you out…Called up for military service at eighteen, and when you were released from military service…28grabbing for an extra pinttrying to have another pint of beer29doing women at the weekend and getting to know whose husbands are on the night-shift…having sex with women at the weekend and trying to find out which women's husbands are on the nightshift so that you can have their wives during the absence of those husbands…30working with rotten guts and an aching spine拼命地干活，干得全身疼痛。
自考00600《高级英语》背熟重点
Lesson 1: Rock Superstars: What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society?How do you feel about all this adulation and hero worship? When Mick Jagger’s fans look at him as a high priest or a god, are you with them or against them? Do you share Chris Singer’s almost religious reverence for Bob Dylan? Do you think he – or Dylan – is misguided? Do you reject Alice Cooper as sick? Or are you drawn somehow to this strange clown, perhaps because he acts out your wildest fantasies?Lesson 2: Four Choices for Young PeopleThe trouble with this solution is that it no longer is practical on a large scale. Our planet, unfortunately, is running out of noble savages and unsullied landscaped; except for the polar regions, the frontiers are gone. A few gentleman farmers with plenty of money can still escape to the bucolic life – but in general the stream of migration is flowing the other way.Lesson 4: Die as You ChooseIn January the Journal of the American Medical Association published a bizarre letter, in which an anonymous doctor claimed to have killed a 20-year-old cancer patient at her own request. This started a debate that will rumble on into the autumn, when Californians may vote on a proposed law legalizing euthanasia. The letter was probably written for polemical impact. It is scarcely credible. It’s author claims that he met the cancer patient for the first time, heard five words from her – “Let’s get this over with” – then killer her. Even the most extreme proponents of euthanasia do not support such an action in those circumstances.Lesson 5: I’d Rather Be Black than FemaleIt is still women – about three million volunteers – who do most of this work in the American political world. The best any of them can hope for is the honor of being district or county vice-chairman, a kind of separate-but-equal position with which a woman is rewarded for years of faithful envelope stuffing and card-party organizing. I n such a job, she gets a number of free trips to state and sometimes national meetings and conventions, where her role is supposed to be to vote the way her male chairman votes.Lesson 6: A Good Chancethe back door which hung open, we saw people standing in the kitchen. I asked carefully, “What’s wrong?”Nobody spoke but Elgie came over, his bloodshot eyes filled with sorrow and misery. He stood in front of us for a moment and then gestured us to go into the living room. The room was filled with people sitting in silence, and finally Elgie said, quietly, “They shot him.”Lesson 7: Miss BrillAlthough it was so brilliantly fine – the blue sky powdered with gold and the great spots of light like white wine splashed over the Jardins Publiques – Miss Brill was glad that she had decided on her fur. The air was motionless, but when you opened your mouth there was just a faint chill, like a chill from a glass of iced water before you sip, and now and again a leaf came drifting – from nowhere, from they sky. Miss Brill put up her hand and touched her fur. Dear little thing! I t was nice to feel it again. She had taken it out of its box tat afternoon, shaken out the moth-powder, given it a good brush, and rubbed the life back into the dim little eyes. “What has been happening to me?” said the sad little eyes. Oh, how sweet it was to see them snap at her again from the red eiderdown! …But the nose, which was of some black composition, wasn’t at all firm. It must have had a knock, somehow. Never mind – a little dab of black sealing-wax when the time came – when it was absolutely necessary. … Little rogue! Yes, she really felt like that about it. Little rogue biting its tail just by her left ear. She could have taken it off and laid it on her lap and stroked it. She felt a tingling in her hands and arms. But that came from walking, she supposed. And when she breathed, something light and sad – no, not sad, exactly – something gentle seemed to move in her bosom.Lesson 8: A Lesson in Living"It was the best of times and the worst of times. . ." Her voice slid in and curved down through and over the words. She was nearly singing. I wanted to look at the pages. Were they the same that I had read? Or were there notes, music, lined on the pages, as in a hymn book? Her sounds began cascading gently. I knew from listening; to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn't really heard, heard to understand, a single word.I have tried often to search behind the sophistication of years for the enchantment I so easilyI said aloud, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done…" tears of love filled my eyes at my selflessness.Lesson 9: The Trouble with TelevisionEverything about this nation—the structure of the society, its forms of family organization, its economy, its place in the world— has become more complex, not less. Yet its dominating communications instrument, its principal form of national linkage, is one that sells neat resolutions to human problems that usually have no neat resolutions. It is all symbolized in my mind by the hugely successful art form that television has made central to the culture, the 30-second commercial: the tiny drama of the earnest housewife who finds happiness in choosing the right toothpaste.When before in human history has so much humanity collectively surrendered so much of its leisure to one toy, one mass diversion? When before has virtually an entire nation surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling?Lesson 11: On Getting Off to SleepWhat a bundle of contradictions is a man! Surety, humour is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation. With me, nothing illustrates the contrariness of things better than the matter of sleep. If, for example, my intention is to write an essay, and 1 have before me ink and pens and several sheets of virgin paper, you may depend upon it that before I have gone very far I feel an overpowering desire for sleep, no matter what time of the day it is. I stare at the reproachfully blank paper until sights and sounds become dim and confused, and it is only by an effort of will that I can continue at all. Even then, I proceed half-heartedly, in a kind of dream. But let me be between the sheets at a late hour, and I can do anything but sleep. Between chime and chime of the clock I can write essays by the score. Fascinating subjects and noble ideas come pell-mell, each with its appropriate imagery and expression. Nothing stands between me and half-a-dozen imperishable masterpieces but pens, ink, and paper.Lesson 12: Why I Writeof good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience whichvaluable and ought not to be missed…Lesson 14: I Would Like to Tell You SomethingThe investigation was not staged so that veterans could spill out their hearts or purge their souls; it was done to prove that the policy of the United States in Indochina is tantamount to genocide, and that not only the soldiers are responsible for what is happening, but that everyone here in America who has allowed the brutalization and de-personalization to go on is responsible. It was done also to show that you don't start making things right by prosecuting William Galley, no matter how guilty he may be; you also prosecute the men who encouraged the situation. It was done to show that there is not just one Mylai but countless Mylais and they are continuing every single day. There was an almost total press blackout on the testimony of those veterans.Lesson 15: The Beauty IndustryWomen, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only to perform the generally unenviable social functions hitherto reserved to the male, but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, feminine privilege of being attractive. They have the right, if not to be less virtuous than their grandmothers, at any rate to look less virtuous. The British Matron, not long since a creature of austere and even terrifying aspect, now does her best to achieve and perennially preserve the appearance of what her predecessor would have described as a Lost Woman. She often succeeds. But we are not shocked—at any rate, not morally shocked. Aesthetically shocked—yes; we may sometimes be that. But morally, no. We concede that the Matron is morally justified in being preoccupied with her personal appearance. This concession depends on another of a more general nature—a concession to the Body, with a large B, to the Manichaean principle of evil. For we have now come to admit that the body has its rights. And not only rights—duties, actually duties. It has, for example, a duty to do the best it can for itself in the way of strength and beauty. Christian-ascetic ideas no longer trouble us. We demand justice for the body as well as for the soul. Hence, among other things, the fortunes made by face-cream manufacturers and beauty-specialists, by the vendors of rubber reducing belts and massage machines, by the patentees of hair-lotions and the authors of books on the culture of the abdomen.下册Lesson One The Company in Which I workOn days when I ‘m especially melancholy , I began constructing tables of organization….classifying people in the company on the basis of envy , hope , fear , ambition , frustration, rivalry , hatred , or disappointment . I call these charts my Happiness Charts . These exercises in malice never fail to boost my spirits ----but only for a while . I rank pretty high when the company is analyzed this way , because I ‘m not envious or disappointed , and I have no expectations . At the very top , of course , are those people , mostly young and without dependents , to whom the company is not yet an institution of any sacred merit but still only a place to work , and who regard their present association with it as something temporary . I put these people at the top because if you asked any one of them if he would choose to spend the rest of his life working for the company , he would give you a resounding No ! , regardless of what inducements were offered . I was that high once . if you asked me that same question today, I would also give you a resounding No ! and add:Lesson Two EvelineBut in her new home , in a distant unknown country , it would not be like that . Then she would be married ---she , Eveline . People would treat her with respect then . She would not be treated as her mother had been . Even now , though she was over nineteen , she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father’s violence . She knew it was that that had given her the palpitations . When they were growing up he had never gone for her , like he used to go for Harry and Ernest , because she was a girl ; but latterly he had begun to threaten her and say what he would do to her only for her dead mother’s sake . And now she had nobody to protect her , Ernest was dead and Harry ,who was in the church decorating business , was nearly always down somewhere in the country . Besides , the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary her unspeakably . She always gave her entire wages ----seven shillings ----and Harry always sent up what he could , but the trouble was to get any money from her father . He said she used to squander the money , that she had no head , that he wasn’t going to give her his hard-earned money to throw about the streets ,elbowed her way through the crowds and returning home late under her load of provisions . She had hard work to keep the house together and to see that the two young children who had been left to her charge went to school regularly and got their meals regularly . It was hard work ----a hard life ----but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life .She stood among the swaying crowd in the station at the North Wall .He held her hand and she knew that he was speaking to her , saying something about the passage over and over again . The station was full of soldiers with brown baggages . Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat , lying in beside the quay wall , with illumined portholes . She answered nothing . She felt her cheek pale and cold and , out of a maze of distress , she prayed to God to direct her , to show her what was her duty . The boat blew a long mournful whistle into the mist . If she went , tomorrow she would be on the sea with Frank , steaming towards Buenos Ayres . Their passage had been booked . Could she still draw back after all he had done for her ? Her distress awoke a nausea in her body and she kept moving her lips in silent fervent prayer .Lesson Three What’s Wrong With Our Press ?The fact is that although network television still allots too little time to the vital service of informing the public , it does a better job in that little time than the nation’s press as a whole . And when I speak of the nation’s press as a whole , I am not speaking of the five or six splendid newspapers ----and the one great newspaper -----which serve the world as models of responsible public information . I am speaking of the local press which in hundreds of American communities is the only news available , aside from those recitals of ticker tape that pass for radio news .Fortunately for the American public , television does not tolerate the kind of distortion of fact , the kind of partisan virulence and personal peeve , that many newspapers not only welcome but encourage . In its entertainment , television caters far too much to the lowest instincts of man , particularly the lust for violence . But there is one appetite it does not feed and which the partisan newspapers of the nation do : the appetite for hate ---hate of whatever is different . I do not find on televison the kind of editorials chronic in the New York tabloids as well as in many local papers across the country .that elevates news above dogfood . it is easier to write editorial copy that appeal to emotion rather than reason .Lesson Four The Tragedy of Old Age in AmericaWhat can we possibly conclude from these discrepant points of view ? Our popular attitudes could be summed up as a combination of wishful thinking and stark terror . We base our feelings on primitive fears , prejudice and stereotypes rather than on knowledge and insight . In reality , the way one experiences old age is contingent upon physical health , personality , earlier-life experiences , the actual circumstances of late –life events ( in what order they occur , how they occur , when they occur ) and the social supports one receives : adequate finances , shelter, medical care , social roles , religious support , recreation . All of these are crucial and interconnected elements which together determine the quality of late life .Lesson Seven Ace in the HoleNo sooner did his car touch the boulevard heading home than Ace flicked on the radio . He needed the radio , especially today . In the seconds before the tubes warmed up , he said aloud , doing it just to hear a human voice , “ Jesus . She ‘ll pop her lid . “ His voice , though familiar , irked him ; it sounded thin and scratchy . In a deeper register Ace added , “ She’ll murder me . “ Then the radio came on , warm and strong , so he stopped worrying . The five Kings were doing “ Blueberry Hill “ ; to hear them made Ace feel so sure inside that from the pack pinched between the car roof and the sun shield he plucked a cigarette , hung it on his lower lip , snapped a match across the rusty place on the dash . He rolled down the window and snapped the match so it spun end-over-end into the gutter . “ Two points , “ he said , and cocked the cigarette toward the roof of the car , sucked powerfully , and exhaled two plumes through his nostrils . He was beginning to feel like himself , Ace Anderson , for the first time that whole day , a bad day . He beat time on the accelerator . The car jerked crazily .The run must have tuned Bonnie up . When they got back home , as soon as he lowered her into the crib , she began to shout and wave her arms . He didn’t want to play with her . He tossed some blocks and rattle into the crib an walked into the bathroom , where he turned on the hot water andwent bald first . He remembered reading somewhere , though , that baldness shows virility .Lesson Eight Science Has Spoiled My SupperEconomics entered . It is possible to turn out in quantity a bland , impersonal , practically imperishable substance more or less resembling , say cheese ---at lower cost than cheese . Chain groceries shut out the independent stores and “ standardization “ became a principal means of cutting cost .Lesson Ten How Market Leaders Keep Their EdgeThe third value discipline we have named customer intimacy . Its adherents focus on delivering not what the market wants but what specific customers want . Customer-intimate companies do not pursue one-time transactions ; they cultivate relationships . They specialize in satisfying unique needs , which often only they recognize , through a close relationship with ---and intimate knowledge of ----the customer . Their proposition to the customer: We have the best solution for you , and we provide all the support you need to achieve optimum results , or value , or both , from whatever products you buy . Long distance telephone carrier Cable& Wireless , , for example , practices customer intimacy with a vengeance , achieving success in a highly competitive market by consistently going the extra mile for its selectively chosen , small-business customers .Lesson Eleven On Human Nature and PoliticsBut great as is the influence of the motives we have been considering , there is one which outweighs them all... Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the casual efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates. In the happy days before 1914,when well-to-do ladies could acquire a host of servants, their pleasure in exercising power over the domestics steadily increased with age. Similarly, in any autocratic regime, the holders of power become increasingly tyrannical with experience of the delights that power can afford. Since power over human beings is shown inconsent. If you require a building permit, the petty official concerned will obviously get more pleasure from saying "No" than from saying "Yes". It is this sort of thing which makes the love of power such a dangerous motive . But it has other sides which are more desirable . The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. In politics, also, a reformer may have just as strong a love of power as a despot . It would be a complete mistake to decry love of power altogether as a motive. Whether you will be led by this motive to actions which are useful, or to actions which are pernicious, depends upon the social system, and upon your capacities.Lesson Twelve The Everlasting WitnessThe three were eating breakfast on the terrace, a thousand and one felicitous birds in the garden trees. In unsullied damp brown circles of soft earth the roses bloomed serenely against the pink Mexican wall. Marian's brother-in-law read the English page, as dedicated as a nice little boy reading the funnies, and Theresa, Marian's sister, chatted softly and merrily about their next week-end holiday. Theresa's bright smile had always been her mark and now, childless and with a husband beyond war age, and a life both ordered and gay, it looked as if that smile had justified itself.Lesson Thirteen Selected SnobberiesAll men are snobs about something. One is almost tempted to add : There is nothing about which men cannot feel snobbish. But this would doubtless be an exaggeration. There are certain disfiguring and mortal diseases about which there has probably never been any snobbery. I cannot imagine, for exam4ple, that there are any leprosy-snobs. More picturesque diseases, even when they are dangerous, and less dangerous diseases, particularly when they are the diseases of the rich, can be and very frequently are a source of snobbish self-importance. I have met several adolescent consumption-snobs , who thought that it would be romantic to fade away in the flower of youth , like Keats or Marie Bashkirtseff. Alas, the final stages of the consumptive fading are generally a good deal less romantic than these ingenuous young tubercle-snobs seem to imagine . To anyone who has actually witnessed these final stages, the complacent poeticizings of these adolescents must seem as exasperating as they are profoundly pathetic. In the case ofexasperation is not tempered by very much sympathy. People who possesssufficient wealth, not to mention sufficient health, to go travelling from spa to spa. from doctor to fashionable doctor, in search of cures from problematical diseases (which, in so far as they exist at all. probably have their source in overeating) cannot expect us to be .very lavish in our solicitude and pity.lesson fourteen Saturday Night and Sunday MorningHe sat by the canal fishing on a Sunday morning in spring, at an elbow where alders dipped over the water like old men on their last legs, pushed by young sturdy oaks from behind. He straightened his back, his fingers freeing nylon line from a speedily revolving reel. Around him lay knapsack and jacket, an empty catch-net, his bicycle, and two tins of worms dug from the plot of garden at home before setting out. Sun was breaking through clouds, releasing a smell of earth to heaven. Birds sang. A soundless and minuscular explosion of water caught his eye. He moved nearer the edge, stood up, and with a vigorous sweep of his arm, cast out the line.Lesson Fifteen Is America Falling Apart?During my year's stay in New Jersey I let my appetite flower into full Americanism except for one thing. I did not possess an automobile. This self-elected deprivation was a way into the nastier side of the consumer society. Where private ownership prevails, public amenities decay or are prevented from coming into being. The rundown rail services of America are something I try, vainly, to forget. The nightmare of filth, outside and in, that enfolds the trip from Springfield, Mass., to Grand Central Station would not be accepted in backward Europe. But far worse is the nightmare of travel in and around Los Angeles, where public transport does not exist and people are literally choking to death in their exhaust fumes . This is part of the price of individual ownership.Lesson sixteen Through the TunnelAs for Jerry, once he saw that his mother had gained her beach , he began the steep descent to the bay . From where he was, high up among red-brown rocks, it was a scoop of moving bluish green fringed with white. As he went lower, he saw that it spread among small promontories and inlets of rough, sharp rock, and the crisping, lapping surface showed stains of purple and darkerblue.。
大学英语精读第二册UnitFive讲解
大学英语精读第二册UnitFive讲解大学英语精读第二册Unit Five讲解导语：你玩过Yo-yo吗，下面是一篇关于Yo-yo的英语课文，欢迎大家学习!TEXTSeen 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 beyondany 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。
英语自考本科高级英语笔记-下册-Lesson_Two_2
Lesson Two Eveline Words and ExpressionsText Explanation1She would not cry many tears at leaving the Stores.It doesn't mean that she would still cry a little. The meaning is negative, indicating she would not feel sorry or sad to leave the Stroes.2People would treat her with respect then.In those days a married woman was more worthy of respect than an unmarried woman.3…and say what he would do to her only for her dead mother's sake.But for the sake of her dead mother, he said he would beat her.…并且说，要不是看在她死去的母亲的份上，看他会怎么对付她。
only for: but for要不是for somebody's sake (for the sake of somebody): for the benefit of; because of a desire for 为了…起见；为了…之好处She worked very hard for the sake of her child.4She had hard work to keep the house together…It wasn't easy for her to keep the family members together under the same roof.to keep house: 管家，持家；to keep the house together: 一家人团聚在一起5She always felt pleasantly confused.She was a girl in love with a sailor, so when Frank sang the song, she didn't know if he was merely singing the song about any girl in love with a sailor, or if he meant her who was in love with him, a sailor.6the different servicesthe different kinds of work on the ship7He had fallen on his feet in Buenos Ayres.He had settled dwon in Buenos Ayres.8I know these sailor chaps…I know what kind of people sailors are, fooling around with girls at every port of call （停靠港）.9laid its spell on the very quick of her being.Her mother's sad life cast a strong infulence on the deepest of her feelings.10she prayed to God to direct herWhen she didn't know what to do, she turned to God, a detail which showed how strong the infulence of religion was.11All the seas of the world…Her mind was in a turmoil. She was in a state of utter confusion.12Amid the seasAmid tintense mental struggle13Little Keogh used to keep nixLittle Keogh used to watch outkeep nix: watch out 警戒That little boy likes to keep nix for his brother.14She had always had on edge on her,…She had always had an advantage over herhave an edge on somebody: have an advantage over somebody 较某人占优势，胜过某人It's hard to have an edge on her in study.15When they were growing up he had never gone for her.When the children grew up, the father had never beaten Eveline.go for somebody: attack somebody 攻击某人The dog went for the postman as soon as he opened the garden gate.16She elbowed her way through the crowds and…She pushed her way through the crowdselbow one's way through: push one's way through 推挤向前A young girl elbowed her way through the crowds to shake hands with the movie star.17When she had been laid up for a day, he…When she stayed at home for a day because of illness, he…be laid up: be forced to stay in bed 被迫卧床休息My boss was laid up with a bad cold.。
自考英语本科《高级英语》考点精析
考点精析Lesson one Rock Superstars : What do they tell us about ourselves and our society ?＃Sprinkling its contents over the first few rows of sweltering listeners。
sprinkle v。
to scatter in drops or small grains 喷/洒/撒eg: Sprinkle sand along the icy path . 把沙子撒在冰封的路上。
＃They surge to follow him , eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops .surge v。
to move ，esp.forward ，in or like powerful waves 汹涌，澎湃eg：The crowd surged past him 。
人潮从他身边汹涌而过。
n。
strong，wavelike ，forward movement 波涛,巨浪eg: The surge crashed against the coast .汹涌的波涛拍打着海岸。
# How do you feel about all this adulation and hero worship ?adulation n. praise that is more than necessary or deserved 奉承,谄媚eg: He received many adulations from his colleagues 。
他受到许多同事的奉承.adulate v。
praise more than is truthful to win favor 奉承，逢迎eg：The leader are easily adulated . 领导容易受逢迎.＃Do you share Chris Singer’s almost religious reverence for Bob Dylan ？reverence n. great respect 尊敬，崇敬eg：They show great reverence to him 。
英语自考本科高级英语笔记-上册-Lesson_Five
Lesson Five I'd Rather Be Black than Female Words and ExpressionsText Explanation1CongressThe American congress consists of two houses: the Senate and the House of Representative (参议院和众议院) 2Being the first black woman elected to Congress has made me some kind of phenomenon.Being the first black woman elected to Congress has made me quite an extraordinary person.3That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still strikes nearly all men - and, I am afraid, most women - as bizarre.strike sb as bizarre means make sb feel surprised, can be translated as: 使某人感到很奇怪。
歧视妇女的说法会使几乎所有的男人－－恐怕还有多数妇女－－感到莫名其妙。
4Prejudice against blacks was invisible to most white Americans for many years.Prejudice against blacks was taken for granted, therefore unnoticed by many white Americans.5When black finally started to "mention" it…"mention" here refers to the use of action to fight against prejudice against blacks.6"Who, us?" they asked in injured tones. "We're prejudiced?"American whites asked in a tone as if there were unfairly blamed for being prejudiced against blacks and thus felt hurt.7For all but the last six, I have done the work-all the tedious details that make the difference between victory and defeat onelection day-while men reaped the rewards, which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics.Except for the last six years, I have done all the boring routine jobs that can determine the outcome of an election while men got the rewards, that is, got elected.the lot: a person's fortune or destiny 命运除了最后六年，我所做的工作一直非常乏味，只是些在大选那天决定胜负的琐事。
高中英语第二课five
高中英语第二节5This is the fifth period of this unit.In this parttwo items will be dealt with，that is，the words left in the vocabulary，the reading in the workbook.The first item，learning new words left in the vocabulary is to remove the barrier in the following study.And how to let students learn the words with interest is a difficult issue.I think it is better to give students the chance to learn new words by themselves.Let students look up words in the dictionary and then communicate with others in class，which can inspire students.And then let them make up some sentences.The second item is another passage on the subject “English”.It gives students much more information on English.To deal with this passage，7 steps are designed：（1）predict what will be talked （2）listen to find out answers （3）answer questions （4）scanning to fill in a table （5）summary （6）discussionmand：（1）v.to tell sb.to do sth. （2）an order2.standard：generally used or accepted as normal3.play a part in：play a role in4.dialect：a way of speaking that is used only in a particular area5.request：（1）v.to ask sb.to do （2）n.an act of asking for sth. ina polite or formal way6.polite：the opposite of rude7.retell：to tell a story again or in a different form8.accent：a way of saying words that shows what country，region or social class sb. comes from9.recognize：to know who the person is10.eastern：in or from the east of a country or placeT：Well done!Now let’s deal with the some of the words and phrases in deal.mandv.命令，指挥command sb. to do；command sth.；博得，应得command that-clausee.g.He commanded his man to retreat.The troops were commanded by Gerneral Haig.The king commanded that she （should）be executed.（建议，命令，要求一类词后从句中用虚拟语气，此类动词有suggest，advise，order，request，require，command，demand...）He commanded the building （should）be torn down.n.命令［C］；指挥，控制［U］e.g.Are you refusing to obey my commands？You must obey his command that the building （should）be torn down.Take command of；be in command；under one’s command；under the command of sb.e.g.She took command of this class after the former manager left.She felt in command of her life.The battleship is under the command of Captain Blake.2.requestv.request sth. （from sb.）；request sb. to do；request that-clausee.g.You can request a free copy of the leaflet（宣传单）.You are requested not to smoke in the restaurant.She requested that no one （should）be told of her decision until the next meeting.n.request （for sth.）；request （that）e.g.Requests for visas will be dealt with within 48 hours.Her request that more sweets be served was refused.3.recognize 辨认出；意识到；承认recognize sb./sth. （by/from sth.）通过……认出……；recognize sth. （as sth.）；把……认作是……recognize that意识到；承认e.g.I recognized the house from your description.Drugs were not recognized as a problem then.Nobody recognized how urgent the situation was.We recognized that the task was not easy.4.standardn. 规格，标准［C&U］raise/improve/lower standard 提高/降低标准set （sb.）a standard 给某人定一个标准e.g.He set himself such a high standard that he often disappoints himself.of high/low standard 具高/低标准的standards 行为标准，道德标准a man of high standards 一个道德高尚的人Step 3 ReadingT：We have learnt English for many years.Then in your opinion，what is a very important help to your English study？S：teachers，books，tapes ...T：Anything else？Is there anything that you can turn to for help when you are confused while learning English？S：I think a dictionary is a great help.T：Yeah.When we meet across new words we often look them up in a dictionary.What is the most widely-used dictionary in Chinese？S：Xinhua Dictionary.T：Then which one do you think is used widely in English？S：I’m sorry I have no idea.T：It’s Longman Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary.Today，we’ll read a passage on the Oxford English Dictionary.Now according to the title，what do you think will bementioned in the passage？S：I think the writer，the time when was it written，why it was written，how it was written，the feature of the dictionary will be mentioned.T：Now，let’s listen to it to see whether your answer is right.（after listening）T：Do you think that your answer is right？S：I think that it doesn’t mention the feature of the dictionary.T：Yes.Now let’s read it aloud to answer these questions then.①Why was it written？②When did it start to be written？③Who is the writer？④How it was written？S：①To encourage everybody to spell the same.②The idea was raised in 1857.And 22 years later，it began to be written.③Three men worked together on the dictionary：Samuel Johnson，Noah Webster，and James Murray.④It took the three men nearly all of their lives to try to collect words.T：Good job!Then who first began to work on the dictionary？S：Murray.T：Yes.Now let’s read the last paragraph.And then finish the table about notes on James Murray’s life with your partners.（check together）Step 4 Consolidation/discussionT：After reading it，can you say something about Murray？Let’s do a chain reaction.Each student just says one sentence about Murray.T：Do you think it worth so these people’s spending so much time on？Why？Now discuss with your partner and list some reasons.（discuss for about 3 minutes）Now，it’s show time.S：We think that it worth their job.If there were no dictionaries，people would have no rule to guide them while using the language，which will lead to a mess in English because different people would use different laws to use it.Then there will be more difficulty in understanding one another.With the dictionary，people have a set rule to judge whether their way of using the language is right.Step 5 Summary and homeworkToday，we have learned the words left in the vocabulary and we’ve got some information on the large English dictionary.After class，please read the words again and again to recite them and try to use them to make up sentences.This research is to do research on the concept of the Oxford Dictionary and some other kinds of dictionary in English spokencountries.So students should work in groups to study the items of the Oxford Dictionary and find out the names of other types of dictionary and tell which one is the most popular and what’s the reason.About the Oxford English DictionaryThe Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning，history，and pronunciation of over half a million words，both present and past.It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources，from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world，from North America to South Africa，from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean.It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings，and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.As the OED is a historical dictionary，its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English，in which onlypresent-day senses are covered，and in which the most common meanings or senses are described first.For each word in the OED，the various groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to the quotation evidence，i.e.the senses with the earliest quotations appear first，and the senses which have developed more recently appear further down the entry.In a complex entry with many strands，the development over time can be seen in a structure with several “branches”.The Second Edition of the OED is currently available as a 20-volume print edition，on CD-ROM，and now also online.Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries，OED Online offers unparalleled access to the greatest continuing work of scholarship that this century has produced’（Newsweek）.To find out more about the OED Online，why not follow our free tour？“About the Oxford English Dictionary”invites you to explore the intriguing background and distinctive character of the OED.Here，you will find in-depth articles about the history of the OED，an inside look at the programmes used to enlarge and update the OED entries，little-known facts about its content，and much more.。
英语自考本科高级英语笔记-下册-Lesson_Seven_2
英语自考本科高级英语笔记-下册-Lesson_Seven_2 Lesson Seven Ace in the Hole Words and ExpressionsText Explanation1in the holein an embarassing situation, in an awkward situation.在困境中2No sooner did his car touch the boulevard heading home than Ace flicked on the radio.As soon as his car touched the boulevard heading home, Ace flicked on the radio.3She'll pop her lid.She will be very angry.4He was beginning to feel like himself…"to feel like oneself" means to be in one's normal healthy and happy state.5He beat time on the accelerator.He stepped on and off the gas pedal in time with the music.6He just wanted too much for his money.He wanted too much work out of his employees. He overworked his employees to make more money.7…you had the brains to get out of it.…you were smart enough to leave the job.8this is just between us.this will be a secret between you and me.9any time Evey thinks she can do betterany time Evey thinks that she can lead a better life without you.10There, I've said it.The mother had been wanting to say this to her son for a long time but had been hesitating. Now finally she spoke out.11Evey's a wonderful girl of her own kind.Among people like her, that is to say, Roman Catholics, Evey is a wonderful girl. Here the mother is implying that to her Evey is not wonderful at all.12…but when they get out into the greater world.…but wen they leave their small Catholic world and mix with other people, their weakness becomes apparent.13…she's her mother's daughter.…she is just like her mother.14Well I had everything…Of course I was the best-natured boy, because you gave me all I wanted… Ace said this to appease his mother.15Cars were the death of legs.If you drove in a car all and time and did not walk often, your legs would become so weak that you wouldn't be able to walk much.16Every day, his hair-line looked higher.He was getting increasingly bald.17… that baldness shows virility.It is not a good thing to get bald when he was only in his late twenties, but he comforted himself by thinking that baldness showed his masculine strength and acctractiveness, which was regarded as very important in a man.18… Evey never got around to cooking.… Evey never managed to find time to cook the hot dogs.19…made him feel crowded.He felt upset because he felt the was pressured.20sure-fingered center中锋神投手21 a season's grand total一个赛季所得的总分22but then the sportswriters were all office boys anyway.Ace was unhappy, but he comforted himself by thinking that the sportswriters were not really smart journalists of always on the scence, but people who sat in offices, ignorant of what really happened.23…his stomach was tight.The feeling a person had when he was nervous, tense or anxious.24Whaddeya mean, …What do you mean, …25Ace eased into the living room and got hit with, …Ace moved slowly and quietly into the living room, but as soon as he was in the room, his wife abruptly threw a question at him.26Hit me…An American slang used in begging for something. Here she wanted Ace to give her a cigarette.27…who said it only had thirteen thousand on it.…the old man said that the car has only been driven thirteen thousand miles altogether. It here means the odometer.28he'd bought a suirrelhe'd bought something worthless29Suit yourself.You can do whatever you like, I don't care. This is an expression toshow one's displeasure towards the other person.30…and snap it back in line.… and move it backwards quickly straig ht in between the two cars.31"… He said" - Ace laughed again - "never mind."At first Ace was going to tell Evey what Friedman said, but he laughed, changed his mind and decided not to tell her.32Anybody under six-six they don't want.The professional basketball team doesn't want anybody who is under six feet and six inches in height.33that the be-all and end-all of my life is you and your hot-shot stuntsIf you think that yu and what you regard as your wonderful skills mean everything to me and that I can't get along without you and your skills, you are very much mistaken.34she's a natural…She is a born basketball player.35It's the cooktail hour.Time to relax and enjoy oneself.36This is getting us no place…This is getting us nowhere…; This is not solving any of our problems.37Fred Junior, I can see him now…We are going to have a son, I can even see him now…38…into his lead.The man led the woman in ballroom dancing (交谊舞). The woman followed the man's lead.39…keeping the beat with his shoulders.… he moved his shoulders to the rhythm of the music.40The music ate through his skin and mixed with the nerves and small veins.His whole being was immersed in music.41But I wanted to keep at it, for the family's sake.But I wanted to go on doing my present job in order to support the family.keep at something: work at; not give up 不息地做As long as you keep at it, you will succeed sooner or later.42Ace shose to let that go by.Ace did not make any response to what his mother said.go by: pass 经过We waited fot the procession (行列，队伍) to go by.43Bonnie is a dear little girl, but without a doubt she's her mother's daughter.Bonnie is a lovely girl, but doubtlessly she resembles her mother in nature.without a doubt: doubtlessly 毫无疑问Without a doubt, somebody must have broken into the house when we were away.44What the hell do you think - I read her tiny mind.What on earth do you think - I guessed what she thought.read one's mind: to understand what the other person thinks 看出某人的心思The boy likes to stay alone and no one can read his mind.45If you'd been on your feet all day a block would look like one hell of a long way.If you had stood all day a block would look like a very long way.be on one's feet: be standing 站立着I'm tired out for I have been on my feet all day.46I cut the smart stuff out ever since Palotta laid me off.I have no longer made a joke ever since I was fired by Palotta.cut out: stop doing or using 戒除，不再His doctor told him he must cut out tobacco.lay somebody off: dismiss somebody temporarily 暂时解雇The boss laid off his workmen because of the shortage of materials.47I'm fed up.I have had too much.be fed up: have had too much; be discontented 因多而厌烦，不满We are fed up with his story.Hanent整理。
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Lesson Five Trifles (Part One) Words and Expressions
Text Explanation
1are all much bundled up
all of them wear a lot of clothes
2and would ordinarily be called more comfortable looking
in ordinary times you would say she is cheerful, relaxed looking woman
3and you know Frank
and you know what kind of person Frank is.
4 a party telephone / line
a telephone line shared by two or more houses, offices, etc.
5that I didn't know as (that) what his wife wanted made much difference to John.
It shows that even the neighbour knows that John Wright doesn't pay attention to his wife's needs, that he decides things in the family and that the wife has no say.
6And kind of done up.
She was, roughly speaking, dressed up.
to do up: tidy oneself up, to dress up properly.
7Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder and worrying about her preserves.
The sheriff was very much surprised at Mrs. Wright's worry about her preserves. To him, since she was arrested for murder, she should worry about her own life, not such unimportant things as preserves.
Can you beat that?
Have you ever seen or heard anything as surprising as that?
8…that would point to any motive
…that would indicate why somebody should want to kill John Wright.
9I shouldn't say she had the homemaking instinct.
I thingk that it is because she lacks the instinct to mak the home a cheerful place.
10I want to get the lay of things…
I want to find out the layout of things upstairs, the arrangements of things upstairs
11Of course it's no more than their duty.
You can't blame them. They are only doing what their duty demands them to do.
12but I guess that deputy sheriff … have got a little of this on.
but the deputy sheriff might have made the roller towel dirty.
13I wonder if it's all gone.
I wonder if all the jars containing her preserved fruit were broken.
14This all you was to take in?
Are these all the things you are going to take in to Mrs. Wright?
15I want you to know I had my hands full yesterday.
I want you to know that I was very busy yesterday.
have one's hands full: to be busy with something 忙于做事
David always has his hands full with the work, so he seldom goes shopping with his wife.
My daughter always has her hands full with her study.
16I spoke to Wright about it once before and he put me off,…
I talked about a party telephone with Wright once before but he made excuses to avoid installing a telephone.
put somebody off: make excuses and try to avoid 闪避，敷衍
He tried to put me off with vague promises.
17To be sure.
Yes.
to be sure: it is admitted, granted 诚然，的确
Tom is not rich, to be sure, but he is a gentleman.
18But I would like to see what you take, Mrs. Peters, and keep an eye out for anything that might be of use to us.
I would like to see what you take and check carefully whether there is something that might be useful to us.
keep an eye on: keep a watch on 注意，留神
Would you please keep an eye on my lugguage.
19I think maybe that's why she kept so much to herself.
I think maybe that's why she avoided meeting other people.
keep to oneself: avoid meeting people 不与人交往
Sally has kept to herself since her husband died.
Hanent整理。