高教版公共英语3级精讲班讲义24

公共英语3级精讲班第24讲讲义

Dialogue

Dialogue 1:

Douglas Hurd is the former Foreign Secretary of Britain, a powerful politician. Now BBC’s Sophie Wigram is interviewing him.

1.Was it was inevitable that you would go into politics?

你进入政坛是不可避免的吗？

2.Don’t go straight into politics.

不要直接进入政治领域。

3.What’s left the deepest impression on you?

什么留给你的印象最深？

leave impression on sb给某人留下深刻的印象

4.We were sometimes at odds with the Americans, and even the German.

我们有时候和美国产生纠纷，甚至和德国也产生纠纷。

at odds with sb和---意见不一致，和某人吵架

They are constantly at odds with each other.

He’s always at odds with his father constantly.

5.We were doing what we thought was best to rescue the situation。

我们做的是我们认为最能挽救局势的事情。

6．You, and the British government, were criticized for being too cautious over Bosnia —for not making an active enough commitment to stopping the war？

你和英国政府被指责对太过仔细，对停止战争没有付出自己的努力。

1) be criticized for因为某事而受到某人的批评

2）be cautious over sth对某事过于仔细

3）make commitment to doing sth做出努力做某事

7．Is that criticism valid?

那种批评是否有效？

Dialogue 2:

Doris Meissner works as Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Now reporter Claudia Dreifus is interviewing her.

1. But the new bill requires that any American wishing to sponsor immigrants must have an income 125 percent above the poverty level.

但是新的法案要求希望支持移民者的美国人收入必需超出贫困线的125%.

2. Doesn’t this discriminate against immigrants from poor countries?

这难道不是反对从穷国来的移民的歧视的政策吗？

3. A lot of proposals floating around state legislatures are aimed at throwing the children of illegal immigrants out of public schools.

一些建议在政府机关盛行，目标是把非法移民的孩子从公立学校中赶出去。

1) float广为流传

There’s a rumor floating around a new job in the unit.

2) throw --- out of 把---赶出去

The drunk was thrown out of the pub.

4. I also disagree with the similar notion of barring the U.S.-born children of illegals from citizenship.

我同样不同意把美国出生的孩子排除在合法公民以外的主张。

Monologue 1:

The following is from the remarks that Hillary R. Clinton made to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women.

1.There are some who wonder whether the lives of women and girls matter to

economic and political progress around the globe.

有很多人对妇女和女孩对全球经济发展非常重要有所疑问。

matter to 对---重要

It doesn’t matter to me what you do.

2.If women are free from violence, their families will flourish.’

如果妇女远离暴力，他们的家庭会非常繁荣。

be free from 不受危险事物的影响，不受不愉快事物的影响

be free from harm ,prejudice, pain

3.This is why every woman, every man, every child, every family, and every nation

on our planet has a stake in the discussion that takes place here.

这就是为什么我们星球上的每位妇女、每位男士、每位儿童、每个家庭和每个国家和