大学英语第一单元.doc

英语第一单元

・ My parents managed to get by on a small amount of money. 我父母亲靠很少的一些钱凑食着过下去。

2. The rescue team hauled medical supplies and food to the flooded villages.

救援队把药品和食物运到被淹的村庄。

3. She has been ill and must have supplements to her ordinary food.

The doctor suggested supplementina my diet with vitamins E and A.

医生建议在我的饮食中衽充维生素E和Ao

4. A car went past and sprayed me with water. 汽车开过，溅

了我一身水。

5. The police are pursuin。an escaped prisoner.

He is pursuing his studies at the university.

pursue one's interests/ one's goals

6. We are all born good, but can be taught to be wicked.

7. -The local government has taken some measures to ensure

that all the people will qet through the winter.当地政府己采取一些措施以确保全体人民熬过冬天。

--She aot throuqh the entrance examination aid was accepted by the college.

The bills got through.

8. I think, on balance, I prefer the new system.

我想，总的来说我更喜欢新的体制。

keep one's balance 保持平衡lose one's balance 失去平衡strike a balance 力求折中

9. illustrate表示不仅使用具体事例而且有时使用图画,目的是使说明生动、逼真或有效，从而真实地说明某一观点。例如：-Let me use another example to illustrate this difficult point. demonstrate表示用足够数量及可靠的证据说明某一学术争论、结论的真实性，也可用于说明人或事。例如：

-Galileo demonstrated that objects of different weights fall at the same speed.

伽俐略证实了重量不同的物体以同样的速度下落。

10. Reader's Digest is a popular magazine in the US.

Mary can't diaest fat.

玛丽吃肥肉不消化。

It often takes long time to digest new ideas.

吸收新思想往往需要很长时间。

11. When coal burns, it generates heat.

煤燃烧时，产生热量。

12. Everything was quiet, aside from ( apart from) the occasional sound of a car in the distance.

万籁俱寂，除了从远处偶尔传来汽车喇叭声。

13. We oppose any plans to cut beck (on) education budget. 我们反对任何削遮教育预算的计划。

14. The police suspect him of murder.

The police have arrested two suspects in connection with the bank robbery.

15. -At last, the governments efforts to balance the budget ended in failure.

最后，政府使预算平衡的努力以失败告终。

16. -The project was undertaken on a grand scale.

工程以宏大的规模开始了。

17. resist temptation 抵制诱惑

be exposed to temptation 受到诱惑

18. -She decided to invest $10,000 in the gas industry.

19. Men can usually run faster than women, primarilv because they have greater muscular strength.

男子通常比女子跑得快，主要是因为他们的肌肉力量更大。1：4