全国公共英语等级考试(PETS)三级教程与笔记精编版

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Unit 1 Greeting and introuduction
Dialogues monologues:
1、You can tell they lived during the Depression.
这里的是断定的意思，咳……常常把它的意思与(告知、告诉)联系在一起，脑子便
转不过弯来。
此句意思应该是： 你可以断定他们生活在那时的大萧条期。
2、He really knows how to bring a person out.
是“鼓励一个人的”的意思。
整句话的意思是：他非常善于鼓励别人使别人振作起来。
PS：to bring sb. out
意思为：to make someone feel more comfident, happy, and friendly 使某人更加自
信、开朗
3、he looks like his fun to be with.
整句话的意思是：他看起来是个很有意思的人。或，和他在一起应该会很有意思。
句子解析
4、since we're going to recruit some staff so that we can get our new school going
in time。
这里的since, 和so that 是基于...原因的意思.根据意思我将其译成: 届时...将...以
便...
整句话的意思是：届时我们将聘请一些工作人员以便使我们的新学校及时开学.
5、Would you address character description for the commercial and industrial arts
staff?
arts staff 怎么翻译?
==>你能够给商业与工艺美术的职员讲讲特征描述吗?
arts跟前面的commercial and indutrial连在一起看，而非与后面的staff:
(the commercial and industrial arts) staff.
6、There are a number of other positions to consider.
换成 或者是”a great many”行不行，为什么?
==>可以换成a lot of或a great many of,因为position是可数名词。如果这里是不可数
名词，则只能用
a number of代替而不能用a great many.
修饰可数不可数都行：a number ofa lot of,
只能修饰可数：a great many of(与many性质一样)
7、Would you mind letting me take a look in your briefcase?
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将换成 行不行，为什么?
==>不行，min d是动词，后面不能直接跟动词原形，一般接名词(或动名词),这里的letting
是let的
动名词形式。
8、I’m afraid I certainly do mind, if it’s all the same to you.
“Do mind”与” all the same”什么意思?
==>do mind: 在英语中强调动词，用助动词do(各种时态)+动词原形。
==>all the same: 完全一样，用于强调。如：
Although you didn't complete it in time, I appreciate you all the same.
尽管你没有及时完成，我还是一样很感激你。
9、One day the life free from the harsh decrees of state-sponsored racial repression.
(种族压迫)
在这句话中，state-sponsored 翻译成什么意思最好?
==>state- sponsored:国家发起的。用于修饰racial repression(种族压迫),是复合形容词，
复合形容词的
相结合。
10、The state in which she was born had laws in place waiting to characterize her
as unwelcome.
整句话的意思是：在她出生的洲有专门针对象她那一类人并将他们列为不受欢迎人士的法
律。
11、Present was the usual mix that had so often accumulated into a burden too heavy
for a single-parent household like the one Oprah Winfrey grew up in.
整句话的意思是：目前，这种平常的税收会不断地压迫在单亲家庭的身上,就象Winfrey 这
样的例子.
12、One day the life free from the harsh decrees of state-sponsored racial
repression.
整句话的意思是：有一天，生活可以从洲政府怂恿的残酷种族压迫中解放。
Passage:
The circumstances surrounding the birth of a female infant in Kosciusko, Mississippi,
on Jan.29, 1954,were not promising present was the usual mix that had so often
accumulated into a burden too heavy for a single-parent household like the one Oprah
Winfrey grew up in. The state in which she was born had laws in place waiting to
characterize her as unwelcome, to bar her participation in otherwise acceptable social
activities, to shackle her to the residue of slavery and other injustices of the past.
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The simple truth is that her grandmother, her great-grandmother and all the
great-great-grandmothers before them never experienced one day of life free from the
harsh decrees of state-sponsored racial repression.
In hindsight, it appears that her birth was an uneventful one. But at age three
she was reciting speeches from church pulpits. Upon discovering books, the child delved
into the written word, turning out weekly book reports for her father. Even during
turbulent times, not a moment was wasted. Seeds were being planted, watered, and nurtured.
On April 13, 1964, nearly an adolescent and watching television from the linoleum floor
of her mother’s walk-up flat in something deep inside of her. She was watching the
live broadcast of the Academy Awards ceremony and saw a young African-American actor
receiving the film industry’s highest honor. Sharing in that moment and all it implied
she later told me, caused her to say softly to herself, “If he can do that, I wonder
what I could do?”
The ground had been set. The journey of Oprah Winfrey had begun. The babe, the child,
the adolescent, the young woman-all their strengths were harnessed into a force of
astonishing power that placed itself in the service of nature and the human family.
That the world has changed in meaningful ways since 1954 is beyond question. Oprah and
her activities were driving forces in many of those changes. Her enormously influential
talk show, her philanthropic work with children in Africa and elsewhere, her popular
book club and magazine, her empowering spiritual message, her contribution (by action
and example) to improving race relations-all speak to the human family, touching hearts
and leaving each one uplifted.
Mississippi too seems to be mellowing out into a more congenial place than it was
in 1954. that may also be partly due to the very special energy that is Oprah Winfrey-a
courageous, funny, compassionate, well-informed, dazzlingly curious person, as
down-to-earth and loving as any human being I’ve ever known.
参考译文:
故事的 详情围绕在1954年六月29日出生于密西西比，科修斯科山的一个女婴。那时，对
于像Oprah Winfrey (奥普来.温弗里)这样日常开销负担特别繁重的单亲家庭来说，她的出身并
不是那么 让人期待。她所在的国家，已经有适当的法律等候着将她列为不受欢迎的对象，阻击
她参加其它合理的社 交活动，让她背负上了奴隶制度剩余产物的枷锁，还有以往其它一些不公
平的待遇。简单的事实就是她的 祖母、曾祖母以及更早的一代之前，在政府纵恿的种族镇压法
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之后的迹象表明，她的出生似乎平淡无奇。但是， 在她三年的时候，便开始在教堂的讲道
坛背诵演说，在发现了书籍的之后，她便钻研上面写过的句子，每 周向她的父亲作一次书籍汇
报。即使在那个动荡不安的年代，也从不浪费一刻功夫。种子正在播种灌溉。 在1964年4月13
日，她已成长为一个青少年，在她母亲那间无电梯的公寓的油布地毯上，电视里的 一些东西深
深地了触动了她。那时她正在看奥斯卡奖项的现场直播，一位年青的美国黑人演员被授予了电
影行业中的最高荣誉。在分享那个神圣的时刻之后，她告诉了我所有这一切都在暗暗地促使她
轻 声地告诉自己“他能做到，难道我就做不到吗?”
道路已经被铺平了，Oprah Winfrey 开始了她的旅程。从婴儿到小孩、到青少年、再到年
轻女士——万事俱备，使得她在服 务于自然界与人类家庭上迸发出一种惊人的能力。从1954年
起，毫无疑问，世界已经以一种积极的方 式发生着改变。Oprah和她的脱口秀是其中的很多改变
动力。她影响深远的脱口秀、对非洲乃至其它 地方的小孩博爱举动、广受欢迎的书籍杂志俱乐
部、激动人心的演说辞、以身作则为改善种族关系所作的 贡献。这一切都讲给人类家庭，触动
了他们的内心，每个人都深受鼓舞。
密西西比也受到了潮流的影响，比1954年看起来适意得多。其中的部分也许同样归功于
Oprah Winfrey的非常独特的精神力量——一个勇敢、有趣、富有同情心、见识广博、闪耀着知
识光芒的 人，是我所知的人中最脚踏实地、让人钟爱的一个。


Unit 2 People
Phrases and Sentence:
1、 I don't ever want to have the effect on a person that this person had on me,
where I was just blown away by disappointment. It took a few years to get over it.
PS：请高手重点解析”ever”的意思。
= =>我甚至从未想过要给“给我留下印象的人”留下印象，在这一点上我感到十分失望。我
用了许多年才 克服这个毛病。
ever,在否定句中起加强语气的作用，not ever从未。
2、One thing I do is work with Make-A-wish. If an ill child’s one wish to see a
celebrity and he picks me, then I make time to see him. But I have to be very careful
with these kids, because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself up for
loss.
PS：请高手重点解析” because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself
up for loss.
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==>我做的一件事就是带着许愿做事。如果一个病了的孩子的愿望是想看一个名人并且他选
择的是我，然后我抽出时间去看望他。但是我必须非常小心的跟这些孩子相处，因为如果你太
依恋，你 会感到不舍。
because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself up for loss.因为
如果你太依恋，你会感到不舍。
其中attch是：使喜爱，使依恋：因情感因素，如爱戴或忠诚使联结。
set oneself up for loss是引起自己处于受损失或失去的状态。
3、Thank you for giving me the inspiration to stick around, at age 50, you have
to feel you’re contributing to something.
PS：请高手重点解析” you have to feel you’re contributing to something.”
==>谢谢你给我关于等待的启示，在50岁时，你必须感到你正在做贡献。
contributing to something这句话的意思就是：在50岁时，
你必须感到你正在对某些事情做贡献。
4、We stayed at the Ritz-Carlton and just had a blast. Or I’ll give everybody a
ride in the Ultra light-it’s a flying kite.
PS：请高手重点解析“ride”在这里怎么翻译。
==>我们待在Ritz- Carlton并开了个狂欢会。否则我会给每个人乘坐一下“超轻型”---一
个飞行的风筝。
ride就是乘坐。
5、“One day I’ll have my own barbecue.” In other words, every generation gets
to improve on the dreams of the last generation.
PS：请高手重点解析这段话的真正含义。
==>“有朝 一日，我将拥有自己的烤肉(比喻:实现自己的梦想)。换句话说，每代人必须在
他上代人的梦想上有所 提高。
6、But it came with a price because when he was drinking, we had jobs and money.
When he quit, we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.
PS：请高手重点解析“we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.”这句话的真正含义。
==>但是这有一定的代价：因为当他饮酒的时候， 我们有工作和工钱。当他戒酒了，我们就
只有借酒消愁穷困潦倒了。
we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor：其中的trade sth. for sth.以...和...
交易,以酗酒和穷困潦倒交易。
7、It got so bad that he either quit or got fired.
PS：请高手重点解析“so……that”在此句中的意义。
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==>一般so...that是如此...以至于...的意思，这里上下句不是因果关系: 变得糟糕的是，
他既没有辞职也没有被解雇。后半句that he either quit or got fired是so bad的补充状
语从句，补充说明so bad的细节，不要太拘泥语法结 构，更应该注重的是：1.英语语序特征，
2.英语国家的人的逻辑思维特征。
8、He was a tool pusher essentially, sold drill bits to oil-drilling companies.
PS：翻译这句话。
==>他其实就是一个工具推销者，卖钻头给开采石油的公司。
9、I never think that I ‘m doing eight-minute cures on television. But I think
that 50 percent of the solution to any problem lies in defining it first. I can be an
emotional compass that points them down the path.
PS：请高手重点解析“cures”与“lies in”的意思，另外 “point……down”是词组吗?
==>我从未想过我在用电视做一个8分钟的治疗。但是 我认为任何问题50%的解决方法在于
先界定它。我可能是沿着路径指向它们的情感罗盘(指南针)。
cure：名词，治疗。point和后面的down可以认为没有关系，这里不是词组，down 这里的
意思是“沿着”，相当于along。down the path是介宾结构词组，在句中作points them的补
充状语。
建议：
不要从语法分析着手来学习英语，因为这样效果很差。最好是提高阅读量，让一切语法变
为 理所当然的事情，让记忆单词成为阅读时的副产品。
Passage：
If a computer were to design the perfect U.N. Secretary-General, he or she would
look something like this: African born; European and American educated, with decades
of service in the U.N. system; married to a European; and possessing a quiet charisma
and calm authority as chaos arises.
That the U.N. in 1996 found such a person to restore its sense of direction and
purpose was a near miracle. But out of the U.N.’s failures in Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda
came Kopi Annan, the career international civil servant who had participated in these
disasters yet somehow survived and learned from them.
Today Annan is in the middle of his second term. His task is not finished, and the
U.N. is still far from what it should be. But Annan has tested the limits of the job,
accumulating more authority-one cannot use the word power, given the constraints the
U.N. system places on him-than any of his predecessors.
His complex relationship with the U.S. government is little understood. When Annan
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its attack dogs. Yet when administration officials found their policies in Iraq
floundering, they asked the U.N. for help. Some observers told Annan that he should
responsibility was to the cause of stabilizing Iraq. He began to work toward the decisive
date of June 30, when the u.s. will hand over control to Iraqi authorities and an
uncertain situation will prevail determined by factors way beyond his, or anyone else’s,
ability to control. But it is Annan’s destiny to be handed the very worst problems
after they have been unsuccessfully addressed by others. Anyone who knows him knows
he wades into such problems with his usual blend of courage, self-control, modesty and
optimism.
参考译文：
如果让电脑来 设计一个完美的联合国秘书长，他她应该是这样的：出生在非洲;在欧洲和
美国接受教育;在联合国工作 十年以上;配偶是欧洲人;出现混乱局面时能保持冷静、富有领导魅
力的权威人士。
19 96年联合国找到了这样一个人来恢复它的方向感和目的性，这简直就是个奇迹。联合国
在波斯尼亚、索 马里和卢旺达的行动失败后，科菲.安南却脱颖而出。身为国际公务员的他对参
与了这一系列的空难性行 动，幸存下来，并且从中学到很多东西。
现在，安南的第二任期已过一半。然而，他的任务还没有 圆满完成，联合国离其理想状态
还很远。但安南已经体验到了他这份工作的局限性——因为联合国体制对 他的限制，他不能利
用言语力量，然而他却比他的前任们积累了更多的权威性。
他与美国 政府的复杂关系鲜为人知，当安南在公众面前的表现不能取悦布什政府的时候，
美国就会攻击他。反过来 ，当美国政府官员发现他们的政策在伊拉克举步维艰的时候，他们却
向联合国寻求帮助。有些观察家建议 安南不要帮助美国摆脱困境，但是安南明白，自己最大责
任是促成伊拉克局势的稳定。他开始朝6月30 号这个决定性的日子努力，美国将会在这天向伊
拉克政府移交政权，这将千万动荡局面。不管是安南还是 其他任何人，在伊拉克问题上的成功
与否都不会取决于他个人的控制能力。但是，安南注定要处理这些棘 手的问题，而这些问题是
由别人的失败造成的。所有熟悉安南的人都知道他将带着他一贯的勇气、自我控 制能力、谦恭
和乐观来介入这一难题。


Unit 3 House and Family
Phrases and Sentence:
1、 She soon called my attention to the fact that she couldn’t work full time and
keep house, too.
call attention to(唤起注意)
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keep house(当家)
2、 I guess I just took it for granted that a wife was supposed to take care of
her kids and husband.
take it for granted：(视为当然)
be supposed to：(应该、被期望)
3、 You’ve got to get to know them.
have got to do：(必须做……)
get to：(在这里作“开始”的意思)
4、 But maybe I’d better take that back and give her a hand.
take bake：(在这里作“取消”的意思)
give Sb. A hand(抽出空或腾出手帮助某人)
5、 They put me in mood for Italian food.
put in mind：(使记起、提醒)
6、 I’ve put aside some money that I earned by doing some extra mechanical work.
put aside：(储存、备用)
7、 I was putting a machine together today.
put together：(把……加起来、装配)
8、 I am putting forth a lot of effect to make this tablecloth.
put forth：(生出、作出)
9、 Do you want me to put my needlework away?
put away：(在这里作“放弃、处理掉”的意思)
请注意上面5个以“put”打头的短语与词组的用法
10、I was going by the store near your house ..
go by：(顺便走访)
11、Your black purse and shoes go nicely with that dress.
go with：(伴随、与……相配)
12、He always goes beyond my expectations.
go beyond：(超出)
13、The kids can’t go along with you.
go along with：(一起去、附和)
14、Your offer goes to prove that you’re a wonderful mother-in-law.
offer：(在这里作为“提意”的意思)
go to：(愿意为定位、转到的意思，在这里引申为?)
15、You know I get sick every single time the temperature goes below 68°.
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go below：(下降)
请注意上面5个以“go”打头的短语与词组的用法
16、I could really go for a good comedy.
go for：(在这里作为“主张”的意思)
17、we can barely make ends meet.
ends meet：指收支平衡
18、Every thing I say goes in one ear and out the other.
goes in one ear and out the other.：(一个耳朵进，一个耳朵出。指听不进去的意思)
19、I’ve been keeping track of all of our phone bills.
keep track of：(明了、一目了然的意思)
20、I’ll have to call them and have them straighten it out.
straighten out：(改正、更正)
Passage:
On the day the World Trade Center fell, the Empire state Building once again became
the tallest building in New York City. In the months that followed, six of its commercial
tenants ran off. They did not want to be in the tallest anything, anywhere, anymore.
At a time when U.S. Vice president Dick Cheney was still being shuttled around to
undisclosed locations, skyscrapers suddenly seemed like the most disclosed locations.
For a while, it looked as though the tall building, at least in the U.S., might be one
more casualty of war.
Three years later, despite fears of terrorist attacks, big is beautiful again. On
July 4, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided at the rise at the World Trade
Center site. New skyscraper projects are under way once more elsewhere in the city and
around the U.S. Meanwhile, outside the states, where the taste for tall buildings never
really faded, the skyscraper has also been
poking its head up in very different ways, and not just for reasons having to do
with security. Since the 1990s, tall buildings have been reshaped by a number of global
architecture stars whose vision is finally beginning to penetrate the more conservation
American market.
Some of the best examples of that rethinking now fill two large galleries of the
Museum of Modern Art’s temporary outpost in Queens, New York. Using 25 spectacular
architectural models (some of more than 4 m high), “Tall buildings”, a show that runs
at MOMA through Sept.27, looks at the ways in which the skyscraper has evolved since
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are proposing-and even producing, but usually in other nations-buildings that don’t
resemble the dull boxes that crowd most American downtowns.
Engineering is, among others, a path to new kinds of beauty. Just look at Renzo
piano’s London Bridge Tower, a slender glass pyramid that forms a glittering stalagmite
against the old city’s skyline. You get a grasp of what ingenious engineering is all
about from the London Headquarters of the insurance firm Swiss Re, designed by Norman
Foster. Even before it opened in April, it was known as the small cucumber because it
rises against the sky like a green pickle. But the building’s single feature is the
inclusion of larger interior gardens throughout. But there’s a dematerializing spirit
even in a building that didn’t requiring new fears of engineering-the Arcos Bosques
Corporativo in Mexico City, an arched tower with a vertical slot down its center that
lightens the building’s mass brings the sky itself into play.
“Not only did American invent skyscraper”, says the Spanish designer Santiago
Calatrava, “it invented the skyline.” But American skylines have got a little dull.
With some work, the world’s architects might bring them back to a very tall standard.
参考译文:
世贸大厦倒榻的那一天，帝国大厦又一次成为纽约最高的建筑。在接下来的几个月，六 家
帝国大厦的商务住户搬走了，他们再也不想住在最高的楼里了，无论在什么地方。曾经有一度，
当美国副总统迪克.切尼仍旧被不停地周转护送到各个隐蔽地点时，摩天大楼似乎突然间成了最
暴露的 地点。一时间，高楼大厦似乎成了战争的又一种牺牲品，至少美国是这样。
三年之后，人们依旧害 怕恐怖袭击，但是高楼大厦再次成了美的化身。7月4号，纽约州州
长乔治.帕塔奇和纽约市市长米歇尔 .布鲁伯格主持了自由大厦的破土仪式，这座写字楼将建在
世贸大厦原址上。在纽约的其他地方，甚至全 美国，新摩天大楼的建设工程又开始火热地进行。
同时，在摩天热从末褪去的其他国家，摩天大楼以截然 不同的形态拔地而起，而这不仅仅是因
为安全问题。从九十年代初期开始，高楼大厦的形态就被一些世界 设计大师重塑了，这些设计
大师的远见最终打入了较为保守的美国市场。}
那些新设计中 的一些杰作现在正占据着位于纽约皇后区的现代艺术博物馆的两个临时展
区。9月27号，现代博物艺术 馆会举行一次名为“摩天大楼”的建筑模型(有些有四米多高)，
以此来向人们展示九十年代初以来摩天 大楼是如何发展的。至少在那些最有天赋的设计者手里
设计出来或者是建造出来的建筑物，这些通常出现 在别的国家，不再像一堆呆头呆脑的盒子簇
拥在美国各城市的中心。
在众多领域里，工程 建设是通向另类美丽的一种途径。看看雷佐.皮耶罗设计的伦敦塔，细
长的玻璃金字塔组成一个闪耀的石 笋直指伦敦上空，在空中形成美丽的轮廓。从瑞士在保险公
司的伦敦总部大楼我们就能看出工程建设是多 么的巧妙，那栋楼是由罗曼.弗斯特设计的。甚至
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在四 月份对外之前，这座楼就被人们称为小黄瓜，因为它直耸入云，在天空的映衬下看上去就
像一根绿黄瓜。 但是这栋楼最显著的特点却是遍布室内各处的室内大花园。即使在不需要新工
程技术的建筑物里也存在着 非物质精神——墨西哥城的阿克斯.波斯克期公司大楼是一座拱行
的楼，在这座楼的中间有一条狭槽从上 通向底部，这座狭槽把光带到了楼里的大部分地方并且
使楼里的人能看见天空。
“美国发 明的不光是摩天大楼”西班牙设计师圣地亚哥.卡拉托弗说，“它发明的还有摩天
大楼的空中轮廓。”但 是美国的空中轮廓显得有些单调。一段时间的努力之后，世界建筑大师
们或许会使其重返“高”标准。


Unit 4 Environment
Phrases and Sentences:
1、He is famous for vigorously opposing the use of chemicals to kill pets.
PS:解析vigorously opposing 并翻译这句话。
==>vigorously opposing积极反对
全句翻译：他因为积极反对用化学品杀宠物而出名。
2、What would you recommend for a tenth-grader?
PS:解析tenth- grader到底是十年级的学生，还是十岁的小孩?
==>tenth- grade是“十年级”，所以tenth- grader当然是“十年纪的学生”了。十岁的小
孩是：teenager
3、They used Singapore as a microcosm for examining a regionwide tropical
biodiversity crisis,
and compiled population data from the past two centuries.
PS:翻译这句话。
==>他们用新加坡作为检查 热带地区的区域性的生活差异危机一个缩影，并用过去两个世纪
(的历史)来编纂人口数据。
其中biodiversity是由前缀bio-和diversity组合而成的，意思是生命的差异性。
4、Animals that call the forest home have suffered enormously.
PS:翻译这句话，重点解析在这句话的意思。
==>call称为，当作。
全句翻译：以森林为家的动物们受到了巨大的灾难。
5、American and Europe will pool research into hydrogen-powered fuel cells.
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==>pool集中投入，pool的名词意思是“池塘”，动词本义是“汇合成塘”的意思，这里
用的 是比喻义，想象一下不难理解的。
全句翻译：
美国和欧洲将集中注资到氢燃料电池的研究中。
6、It shows the United States is out to make peace with eco-friendly Europe.
PS:翻译这句话
==>这表明美国将尽力与生态环境好的欧洲和平相处。
out这里是副词，表示“致力于”。
7、Fuel cells create electricity by combining oxygen and hydrogen without producing
harmful emissions, and technical construction poses few basic challenges.
PS:翻译这句话，重点解析在这句话的意思。
==>燃料电池通过氧气和氢气反应来发电而不发出有害物质，并且在技术的组建上提出了很
少的挑战。
这里没有call,只有cell,是电池的意思，名词。pose challenge提出挑战，就是指技术上
的难关。
8、But opinion is sharply divided over how to obtain hydrogen without wasting more
natural resources.
PS:翻译这句话，重点解析在这句话的意思。
==>但是在如何不浪费更多自然资源的情况下获得氢气这个问题上，意见出现了分歧。
其中的over相当于on,就是“关于”的意思。
9、That means making use of renewable resources for the task, say wind and solar
resources.
PS:翻译这句话，重点解析在这句话的意思。
==>那意味着该任务是要利用可再生资源，比如风能和太阳能。
其中的say是副词，比如，相当于for example.
10、Whitman assured the public that the air was safe before testing was conclusive.
In addition, all EPA statements were required to be screened by the White House.
PS:翻译这句话
==>惠特曼向公众保证在测试下结 论之前空气是安全的。而且，所有的EPA(美国环保署)申
明都要求经过白宫的筛选。
screen：动词，筛选过滤。
11、But New York Sen.(senator,参议员。)Hillary Clinton is calling for an
investigation, saying somebody surely leaned on the EPA to lie, which Whitman strongly
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PS:翻译这句话
==>但是纽约的科学家希拉里.克林顿要求调查此事，说某些人明显的偏向于EPA(美国环保< br>署)而说谎，对于这个，惠特曼坚决否认。
call for:相当于demand,require，
lean on:偏向于。
Passage:
When it comes to air pollution, the simple life isn’t necessarily the safest. The
most poisonous atmosphere in Asia is found not in rapidly modernizing cities like New
Delhi or Beijing but inside the kitchens of homes in rural Asia. Millions of families
in the countryside heat their abodes and cook with open fires using cheap fuels that
belch carbon monoxide and other noxious fumes at level up to 500 times international
safety limits. Rural women and children often spend hours each day in poorly, ventilated
kitchens, breathing this putrid air. “This is a problem that has been around forever,
as long as humankind has existed, but it’s been ignored,” says Eva Rehfuess, a World
Health Organization expert on indoor air pollution. “If you walked into these kitchens,
your eyes would start tearing and you would find it difficult to breathe. It’s
terrible. ”
The WHO estimates that indoor air pollution cause 1.6 million deaths per year in
developing countries around the world, up to 555,000 of which occur in India alone-and
overwhelmingly it’s the poor who are dying. Villagers have no choice but to use wood,
coal or dung fires, raising the risk that young children will be killed by
carbon-monoxide poisoning or a bad case of pneumonia ravaging weakened lungs. Likewise,
the women who typically keep their home fires burning are vulnerable to chronic
respiratory diseases. “Day in and day out for 50 years, some of these women might be
cooking six hours a day, exposed to pollutions,” says Rehfuess.
Curtailing indoor air pollution can be as simple as replacing open wood fires with
better- ventilated cookstoves, but more sophisticated stoves can cost up to $$120. China
and India, home to the world’s largest rural populations, have launched ambitious
national programs in recent decades to supply villagers with safer stoves at subsidized
prices. But the programs have not always worked, in India, for example, some 33 million
stoves were given out free to villagers in rural areas from 1984 to 2000—but because
of a lack of health education or follow-up maintenance, most families abandoned the
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That’s left nongovernmental organizations like the shell Foundation to step into
the gap. It has begun a pilot program with local Indian NGOs in a pair of rural states
to develop and market clean, wood-burning stoves that cost just $$5-$$10 yet can reduce
emissions by up to 40%. The project is on track to sell 1000,000 stoves by the end of
2005, and the groups plan to expand the program nationally in the future. Program manager
Karen Westley says Shell and its partner NGOs made an effort to sell their customers
not just more efficient tools but also the idea that different is better. “You have
to make sure people actually want that damn thing,” says Westely. “They need to make
the connection between having a better stove, breathing less smoke and experiencing
better health in the end.”
But habits ingrained by tradition can be hard to break. “They’ve been living with
this always, and so have their mothers and grandmothers,” says Rehfuess. “You have
to give people the felling they can do something about it.” And that they’ll breathe
a lot easier for their trouble.
参考译文:
说到空气污染 ，并不是说简单的日常生活就必然是最安全的。研究显示，在亚洲，毒气最
浓的空气并不在新德里和北京 这样的现代化速度很快的城市，而是在亚洲农村家庭的厨房里。
在农村，上百万的家庭用明火取暖或是做 饭，他们使用的是廉价的燃料，这些燃料所释放的一
氧化碳量和其他有毒烟雾量是国际标准的500倍。 农村地区的妇女和孩子经常每天在通风不好
的厨房里待上几个小时，呼吸这种有毒的空气。“这个问题从 人类诞生以来就一直存在着，但
是却一直被忽视了，”一位名叫伊娃.瑞弗丝的世界卫生组织室内空气污 染方面的专家说道，
“走进厨房你的眼睛就开始流泪，而且你会觉得呼吸困难，这太可怕了。”
世界卫生组织估计，在发展中国家，室内空气污染造成每年160万人死亡，其中印度占55
万——而且死亡的大部分都是穷人。村民们除了用木头，煤或者是粪肥来烧火之外别无选择，
这样会增 加小孩子一氧化碳中毒死亡的危险，肺功能减弱，肺炎得病率增加。同样，那些在家
里生火的妇女很容易 得慢性呼吸道疾病。瑞弗丝说“有些妇女一天要花6小时做饭，五十年里
日复一日，每天都生活在污染中 。”
减少室内空气污染其实非常简单，只要用一套通风比较好的厨灶来代替木头生火就可以了，< br>但是比较高级的厨灶要花120美元。中国和印度是世界上两个农村地区人口最多的国家，在最
近 几十年里启动了全国范围的救助项目，以补贴价格供给农村居民安全性能最好的厨灶。但是，
这个项目并 不是一直起作用。例如，印度政府在1984-2000年间免费发放了三百三十万套厨灶
给农村地区农 民，但是由于缺少健康知识教育和相关维护，多数家庭几年之后就又回到他们原
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这使得一些像谢尔基金会这样的非政府组织参与进 来。该组织与印度当地非政府组织在一
些乡村地区开始小规模实验项目，开发和推广干净的、燃烧木头的 厨灶，并使之市场化。这样
厨灶可以减少40%的氧化排放量，并且只需要5-10美元。这个项目计划 到2005年底出售15套
厨灶，该组织准备今后在全国范围内推广这个项目。该项目的经理凯温.威斯 特里说谢尔和它的
非政府组织合作伙伴努力销售给顾客的不光是一种最高效的工具，而且还有一种理念， 那就是：
有所改变会更好。威斯特里说：“你必须要确定人们确实想要那东西与他们最终需要的联系，< br>即在拥有一套好的厨灶，少呼吸烟雾和体验到健康的身体这三者之间建立一种联系。”
但是 根深蒂固的传统习惯很难改变。瑞弗丝说：“他们一直是这样生活的，包括他们的母
亲和祖母也是这样生 活的，你需要给他们一种感觉，那就是他们可以对此做些改变。”这样人
们会对自己的麻烦事感到轻松许 多。


Unit 5 Weather and Climate
Dialoguesmonologues:
I am passionate about English, and the challenge of expressing English fluently
and swimmingly with
foreigners was the principal motivation.
1、……having been brought up in the countryside.
2、Those mighty winds pulled in a band of cloud and some patchy rain through the
small hours, and into the
first part of the morning.
我的翻译是：那些强劲的大风卷起一层云彩，还有些零星的小雨下了好一会，一直持续到
清晨。
不知道准确否?请高手赐教。
3、clearer skies and much light winds allowed temperatures to drop well into single
figures resulting in a touch
of grand frost in some rural areas.
清凉的天空和微风让温度值降到了个位数,使得很多乡村地区出现了霜.
4、The early sunshine giving away to a bit more clouds.
give away：让步。
太阳被一小片云层遮住了。
5、There was something of a drier interlude before an active weather system moved
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6、Some of the more exposed locations saw sustained winds of 40mph with gusts of
58mph.
Passage:
The Greenhouse effect and Global warming
The heart-trapping capacity of the atmosphere is popularly known as the “greenhouse
effect”. Despite public controversy surrounding global warming, the natural greenhouse
effect has been long established as fact in the scientific community.
Indeed, carbon dioxide, and other gases, the earth’s natural climate would be about
33℃ cooler than it is. Life would have evolved quite differently in such a climate.
Most scientists believe that the rapid expansion of agriculture and industrial
activities over the last several hundred years have generated significant increases
in carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. However, experts disagree about whether
such changers have caused the increase of approximately 0.5℃ in the earth’s surface
temperature that has been documented over the past century. Many scientists cite the
fact that 1997 was the warmest year on record, following a decade in which 9 of the
11 hottest years of this century were reported, as strong, but circumstantial, evidence
that human activities have altered the earth’s climate. Other experts, however, believe
this temperature trend is a natural variation.
Also disputed is whether projected world population growth to more than 10 billion
people by the year 2100 will result in a doubling or tripling of atmospheric
concentrations of carbon dioxide. If such a buildup occurs, as many scientists predict,
global surface temperatures could increase by anywhere from about one Celsius degree
to about 4 Celsius degrees during the next century. The higher half of range involves
temperature changes outside of those experienced by human civilizations since the end
of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago. During the last ice age, average global
temperatures were only about 5 Celsius degrees cooler than the present period.
A temperature increase of several degrees Celsius could result in a sea level rise
ranging from about 10 cm to about 1 m. A sea level rise of about 0.5 m would be noticeable
primarily in the most vulnerable, low-lying islands and coastal areas. Larger sea level
rises would result in extensive flooding of lowland beaches, wetlands, and coastal
settlements. Moreover, a higher sea level base would increases the risk of catastrophic
storm surges in coastal areas, since flooding would likely extend island well beyond
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Warmer temperature could also intensify droughts in some regions, destabilize
ecosystems, and cause the decline or extinction of some species. Since carbon dioxide
enhances photosynthesis, some scientists have calculated that higher concentrations
in the atmosphere would increase the productivity of crops and forests. But others have
point out that carbon dioxide increase and a warming climate could encourage the spread
of destructive pests, including weeds and disease-carrying insects.
参考译文：
大气 储存热量的能力被普遍看作是“温室效应”。尽管公众对于全球气候变暖这一问题存
在争议，但是在科学 界，自然的温室效应问题很久前就被看作是事实了。确实，如果不是因为
云层、水蒸气、二氧化碳以及其 他气体对热量的储存，地球的自然温度应该比现在低33度，生
命在那种气候条件下的进化将会大不一样 。
大多数科学家相信，在过去几百年里农业和工业的迅速发展使得大气中二氧化碳和甲烷的
含量迅速增加。然而，对于这些改变是否是造成地球表面温度比上个世纪增加了大约0.5摄氏
度的原 因，专家们持不同意见。许多科学家引述了这样一个事实：1997年是有气象记录以来最
热的一年，之 前的十年里有九年排在本世纪温度最高的前11名里，这充分且有力地证明了人类
活动已经改变了地球的 气候。但是另外一些科学家却认为这种温度变化趁势是自然变化。
另一个争议是关于世界计划人口 到2100年突破100亿是否会使大气中二氧化碳含量增加一
倍到两倍?许多科学家预测说如果这种情 况真的发生的话，下个世纪世界各地的气温都将升高，
升高程度从一度到四度不等。这个温度变化范围中 最大的部分比从上个冰河时代末期到现在的
10000年间人类经历的温度变化还要大。在上一个冰河时 期，全球平均气温只比现在低5摄氏度。
温度升高几度会造成海平面升高10厘米到1米不等。海 平面上升0.5米对于处在低地的岛
屿和沿海地区来说就相当危险了。海平面再升高一些就会给低地的海 滩、湿地、和沿海居民带
来特大洪灾。而且，海平面升高就会增加沿海地区发生灾难性暴风雨的可能性， 因为洪水可能
会以前所末有的强度登陆。
温度升高还会加剧一些地方的干旱，破坏生态平 衡，造成一些物种数量的减少甚至灭绝。
由于二氧化碳能促进光合作用，所以一些科学家估计大气中二氧 化碳含量的增加会提高庄稼的
产量并且促进森林生长。但是另外一些科学家则指出二氧化碳的增加和气候 变暖会使得具有破
坏性的害虫、杂草以及携带疾病的昆虫大规模扩散。


Unit 6 Eating and Drinking
Dialogues monologues:
1、 I’m in a hurry.
我得赶紧。 “in a hurry”指匆忙，有时用作口语也表示轻易地做好某件事情。
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2、 These days the most sought-after tables are hidden away, several floors above
ground, in the city’s high-rise apartments, which are run by chefs out of their own
homes or from rented spaces..
这句话的意思我翻译为：目前，很多广受欢迎的餐馆总是藏匿在公寓大厦地面上方的楼层，
就在厨
师们自家门口或是租的空地外面营业。
3、 Merely requesting a reservation can be as difficult as getting one.
哪怕是仅仅要求预定(房间)都有可能象真要得到它一样那么难。
4、 Exclusively is the main attraction for customers in a city that is still obsessed
with status.
独有性(专用权)是吸引城市消费者的主要因素，因为人们还是会被身份地位(带来的虚荣感)所迷惑的。
5、 I can’t make up my mind about what to have for dessert.
make up one’s mind：下决心、作决定。
本句的意思是：餐后吃什么甜点，我还没能做出决定。
Passage:
The ladies were puzzled. Cheryl Spangler, Valeria Borunda Jameson and Susan Puckett,
three university-admissions workers on a training visit to Florence, Kentucky, had
walked into a local barbecue joint called Chung Kiwha. But instead of sauce-covered
mutton served up from the kitchen, they saw a buffet of uncooked meats and vegetables.
Instead of knives and forks, they were given large scissors, chopsticks and metal tongs.
No candle flickered at their table, but a bucket of fiery wood charcoal hissed in the
tabletop grill pit. Chung Kiwha served barbecue, all right—cook-it-your-self Korean
barbecue. “I didn’t realize there were restaurants like this,” marveled Spangler
to her friends, who hail from Knoxville, Tennessee, and I worked in restaurants for
20 years.
The secret is out, thanks to the growing popularity of restaurants where the customer
is the chef. Long a staple of immigrant communities in big cities, restaurants where
diners chop, grill, boil, or dip their dip their food are hot in the American heartland.
, Minnesota, has Thai hot- pot cooking. Indianapolis, Indiana, has Japanese
shabu-shabu (another type of hot pot). A pizzeria in Las Vegas lets customers roll the
dough.
Why would people bother going out to cook their own meal? “Americans want control,”
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Association. “The cook-it- your-self experience embodies the American values of freedom
of choice and independence.” With families spending 46% of their food budget on meals
outside the home, they miss the cooking experience—sort of. “Psychologically, people
want to be a little involved,” says Pamela Parseghian, executive food editor at
Nation’s Restaurant News.
Not every diner, however, embraces the experience. Dragged in by enthusiastic wives,
“men often sit with their arms crossed…that is, until we fill them up with good wine,”
says Will Layfield, owner of the Melting Pot in Westwood, New Jersey. At the Vinoklet,
diner Grey Schafer says, “I don’t cook at home, and if I’m going to pay good money,
I want someone to do the cooking for me.” What’s more, do-it-your-self dining isn’t
cheap. At the Minturn Country Club in Minturn, Colorado, Kobe beef costs
$$49.95—uncooked. Still, restaurant-owners insist that the customer knows best. “Who
knows what to them is rare?” says Mikulic, owner of Vinoklet. “This way, if they screw
it up, I get no complaints.” Back at Chung Kiwha in Florence, diner Puckett sees it
this way: “We don’t have to clean up, do we?.”
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这些女士有些迷惑不解。谢丽尔.斯潘格勒，维丽瑞尔.波兰达.达姆森 ，和苏珊.帕克特是
大学招生工作人员。在肯塔基州的弗罗伦斯培训时，她们走进了当地一家叫做强.吉 瓦的烧烤酒
吧去吃饭。然而，他们看到的并不是从厨房端出来抹好了酱的羊肉，而是生肉和蔬菜。服务员
给她们端上来的餐具也不是刀和叉，而是剪子、筷子和钳子。餐桌上没有闪烁的烛光，有的只
是 一桶在烧烤架上嘶嘶作响的燃烧着的木炭。强.吉瓦经营的是烤肉——韩式自助烤肉。“我在
餐馆里工作 了20年，从来不知道还有这样的餐馆。”，来自田纳西州洛克思尔的斯潘格勒好奇
地对她的朋友说道。
由于就餐的客人就是厨师的餐馆数量在不断增加，秘密也就随之而被公开了。在美国中部
大 城市的主要移民聚集区，一些由顾客自己切、烤、煮、泡食物的餐厅非常火。明尼苏达州的
圣.保罗有泰 式火锅，印第安纳的印第安纳波利斯有日式涮锅(另外一种火锅)。拉斯维加斯的一
家比萨店让顾客自己 动手和面团。
为什么人们不怕麻烦在饭店里自己动手做饭呢?国家酒店协会一个研究项目部的副主 任哈
德逊.瑞艾尔说，“美国人有很强的控制欲，这种自己动手做饭的体验表现了美国自主选择和独立的价值观。”对于那些把46%的饮食开销都用于在外面吃饭的家庭来说，他们有点怀念自己动
手 做饭的体验。“从心理学角度来说，人们想要参与进来。”帕米拉.帕斯伊恩这样说，他是《国
家酒店新 闻报》食品专栏的主编。
然而，并不是每个去饭店吃饭的人都渴望有这种体验。男人们被充满热情 的妻子拉进饭店。
“他们常常是双臂交叉地坐在那儿…也就是说，直到我们用好酒填满他们的肚子。”新 泽西州
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威斯伍德一家叫做坩埚店的餐馆老板威尔.雷菲 尔德说到。在维诺克利特餐厅，一名叫格瑞德.
斯凯夫的就餐者说，“我在家从不做饭。如果在外面吃饭 要花好多钱的话，我就希望别人来为
我做。”此外，在自助餐厅吃饭并不便宜。在科罗拉多州明特恩乡村 俱乐部，一份生的神户牛
排要49.95美元。餐馆的老板仍然坚持说顾客清楚自己想要什么。“谁知道 对他们来说，什么
样才是适合他们的?”维诺克利特的老析米库利科说道，“这样，如果他们兴致很高， 我也不落
抱怨。”我们再回头说说弗罗伦斯的强.吉瓦吧，在那儿就餐的帕克特这样看问题：“最起码我
们不需要收拾碗筷，不是吗?”


Unit 7 Food culture
Dialogues monologues:
1、 Cooking at table side has always been part of traditional haute cuisine, or
art of cooking.
art of cooking:烹饪术，例：art of defense: 武术。
2、 I’m a very cook.
这里应该翻译为：我是一个绝对的厨师。
3、 Stir the mixture until it leaves sides of the bowl.
直译：与碗边脱离，即不沾碗边。引申义：就是要求充分搅匀.
4、 Roll the crust mixture into a round shape.
roll into: 卷成, 使合为一体。
将外面的蛋糕皮混合物卷成一团。
5、 Yes, the apple pie is ready to serve.
be ready to: 预备, 即将
是的，苹果派可以预备供应享用了。
Passage:
What should be more French than an outdoor market on a sunny Sunday morning? The
air is filled with vital fragrances from the fruits and vegetables piled high in the
greengrocers’ creative layouts. A trace of the Atlantic blows off the shellfish on
the fishmonger’s bed of ice.
This, you think, is the very essence of France, until read those little signs that
tell you the tomatoes (which are really pretty tasteless) come from Moroccan hothouses,
the grapes from South Africa, and the kiwis from Chile.
For generations, the French have prided themselves on their distinctiveness.
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Gallic talent, taste and techniques have been exported all over the world. And therein
lies part of the problem. From the Thames to Tokyo, non-French cooks have cracked the
codes of the best French cuisine. Meanwhile, what was mediocre elsewhere has been
imported. (Believe it or not, one restaurant associate with a famous Paris chef serves
steak with a sauce that’s indistinguishable from the stuff on a Big Mac.) The result:
many tourists—as well as the French themselves—no longer see what’s so special about
French cooking.
The decline goes well beyond recent surveys that show growing complaints about
mediocre quality and high prices. More and more restaurants-owners say that government
tax and economic policies are limiting their profits, and thereby hurting their capacity
to invest and hire more staff. They have got stuck in the red tape for which France
is infamous—not to mention regulations from Brussels that affect everything from sales
taxes to the bacteria in the Brie cheese. Many warn that expanding the European Union
to the east will hurt small French farmers, who remain the backbone of traditional
cuisine—and, hence French identity: Unfortunately for the French, there are few
reassuring answers to these questions.
France’s problem isn’t the lack of creativity, but rather an unfavorable political
environment for creativity. If you’re choked by bureaucracy and taxes, as so much of
France is, “there is not much you can do,” says Raymond Blanc, born in the Jura region
of France and chef of the two-star hotel-restaurant Manoir aux Quat’saisons. “I can
open a business in England in five days. In France it would take three months.” The
manoir aux Quat’saisons, by the way, is in Oxford, Britain, France’s ancient rival.
And, when it comes to cooking, a future one as well.
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还有什么比晴朗的周日上午的露天市场更具 法国风情呢?空气中满是水果和蔬菜的香味，这
些水果和蔬菜被商贩们摆放得极具创意。鱼贩子们冰床上 的新产品还带着大西洋的痕迹。
你可能会认为这就是法国的精髓所在，直到你看到那些小标签上标 明西红柿(真的很难吃)
是摩洛哥的温室里培养出来的，葡萄是从南非出产的，而猕猴桃的产地则是智利 。
对于几代法国人来说，他们都为自己的独特而感到骄傲。没有什么比烹饪更能代表法国的
优越性。法国人的烹饪天赋、品味以及技术已经遍及世界各地，但是却存在着问题。从泰晤士
到东京， 非法国本土厨师已经破解出了最高水平法式烹饪的秘诀。与此同时，其他地方平庸的
烹饪技艺被引入法国 。(信不信由你，一家号称有巴黎名厨的餐馆做牛排用的酱料与做巨无霸所
用的酱料别无两样。)其结果 是：许多游客——连同法国人自己——根本就看不出法国烹饪到底
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这种衰落与最近一项调查吻合。这项调查显示人们对法式烹饪的 平庸及高价的抱怨在不断
增加。越来越多的餐馆老板声称政府的税收和经济政策使他们的利润减少，因而 削弱了他们进
一步投资或者雇用更多员工的能力。他们陷入繁文缛节使得法国声名狼籍——更不用提布鲁 塞
尔的那些条条框框，从销售税到布里干酪里的细菌含量，这些条条框框的影响远处不在。许多
人警告说，欧盟东扩会损害法国小农场主的利益，而这些人是法国传统烹饪的支柱——因此出
现了法国的 身份问题。让法国人感到不幸的是，对于这些问题，至今没有找到让人放心的解决
办法。
法国的问题并不在于缺少创造性，而是政治环境不利于创造性的发展。如果官僚作风和税
收压得你透不过 气来，就像法国一样，“你根本就没办法有所作为。”瑞蒙德.布朗说道，他出
生在法国的钕拉地区，现 在是一家叫做四季庄园的二星级宾馆的主厨。“在英国，我能在五天
之内开店，而在法国则要花上三个月 时间。”顺便说一句，四季庄园开在英国的牛津，法国的
老对手那里。在烹饪方面，英国在未来仍将是法 国的竞争对手。


Unit 8 At Home
Dialogues monologues:
1、 Karen has just had her house redecorated.
凯瑞刚让人把房子重新装修。
注意这里的用法，had sth done — 强调的是让别人做了什么
例：I had my clothes washed.(我让人把衣服洗了)
2、 The architect and Tom put there heads together to discuss what we wanted and
what was possible.
put heads together：共同商量、集思广益。
建筑师和提姆共同商讨以可行的方式来满足我们的需求。
3、 After a few meetings, they came up with some super idea that everybody agreed
with.
come up with：提出、拿出。
经过一会儿的交谈，他们拿出了一些大家都同意的好点子。
4、 But the rest of it was surprisingly expensive.
the rest：其余者。It：代指装修所用的材料。
但是其余的材料简直便宜得让人吃惊。
5、 We were able to make do with the materials we already have.
make do with：设法应付。
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6、 I made up some of the curtains and pillows on the couch form mere sheets.
make up ：在这里指做缝制.编织.
我缝制了一些窗帘和睡椅靠垫，仅仅是用一些床单做的.
7、 It’s funny how people can find solution after they kick something around for
a while.
kick something around：直译——将什么东西踢来踢去。引申意——讨论。
人们怎样通过暂时的讨论之后，就能找到解决方法是件有趣的事情。
8、 You’re on your own.
on one's own：独立地、独自地。
本句的意思为：你自己玩吧!
9、 I’d like to concentrate on getting the best score ever on this game.
concentrate on：精中(精力)、全神贯注于
我将集中精力在这个游戏上取得最好的分数。
注意even在这里的用法——
10、No matter how busy you are, always take time out to check that your child hasn't
gotten hold of
something that could hurt him.
take time out to：暂停下来。Get hold of：抓住、得到。
11、But quit my job and took up housekeeping the year after my marriage. Daily
household chores keep
me on my toes; I’m delighted all day long.
take up：开始从事。 on one’s toe ：准备行动。 all day long：一整天。
keep me on my toes：让我保持活力的状态，结合句意就：一刻也闲不着，乐此不疲。
我的翻译是：但是自从我结婚以后，便放弃了工作，开始打理家务。每天的家务琐事让
我乐此不疲。我一整天都眉天眼笑的。
12、“in a moment”与 “or so”
一个表示“立刻”，一个表示“大约”。都是形容时间的。
13、That's the “tremendous business” for me out of the three meals a day, for,
except for the weekends,
we have only this meal together. Besides, he always has his lunch in a neglected
way at his workplace.
这句话我的翻译是：那对于我来说，是除了三顿饭以外，最为重大的事情。 因为，除了周
末，我们只能在一起吃一顿正餐。此外，他总是在他的工作场所，很轻率的打发他的午餐。
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Mrs. Chambers sits comfortably in her armchair, enjoying a cup of coffee. She has
the right to relax. She has had a long and very busy life.
Mrs. Chambers has retired now to a small house in Bangor, a popular seaside town
not far from Belfast. But for most of her life she lived in the country. Her husband’s
farm was on an island in the middle of Strangford Lake. There, Mrs. Chambers baked bread
twice a week, made jam every summer, and put her husband’s dinner on the table at twelve
0’clock exactly every day. The island farm had been owned by the Chambers family for
may years, passing on from father to son. It was a quiet and beautiful place to live.
They grew potatoes and vegetables, and kept hens and cows. When Mr. Chambers died, his
son took on the farm, Mrs. Chambers moved away.
She takes another sip of coffee, and smiles as she remembers people from the past.
“The old lady down the road thought she had a ghost in the house,” she says, “but
it was only old Tom MaAleer, frightening her for fun.” The memories come fast. “Twenty
men, they had, only tem years ago, to bring in the potato crop. Young Hugh has a machine
now. He only needs five.”
It’s time for the news on TV. Mrs. Chambers wants to see the racing results. She
won quite a lot of money last week. Next month she’s going down to Tipperary in the
Republic of Ireland. The horse-racing there is wonderful. She finds it hard to stay
away. But before the racing results there’s another item of news. A bomb has exploded
in Belfast. Several people have been killed. Mrs. Chambers shakes her head. “They’re
all crazy,” she says. “It’s just a few who make all the trouble. The rest of us want
to live in peace. We’ve all got life long friends from both sides. And most of the
time we never talk about the trouble.”
The racing results come on. She leans forward to watch. For her, ordinary everyday
life is the most important thing.
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乔柏斯太太舒服地坐在扶手椅里，享受着一杯咖啡。她有权利放松，她已经过了很长时间
的忙碌生活了。
现在乔柏斯太太已经退休了，住在班戈区的一所小房子里。班戈区是贝尔法斯特附近一个
广 受喜爱的海边小城。但是在生命中的大部分时间里，她都住在农村。她丈夫在斯福德湖中间
的一座岛上有 一个农场。乔柏斯太太每周都烤两次面包，每个夏天都要做果酱，每天12点准时
把丈夫的午饭摆在桌上 。岛上的那个农场属于乔柏斯家族已经很多年了，是从父辈传下来的。
那是个安静美丽的地方。他们自己 种土豆和蔬菜，还养母鸡和奶牛。乔柏斯先生去世后，他的
儿子接管了农场，乔柏斯太太搬离了那里。
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她喝了口咖啡。想起以前那些人的时候，她笑了。 “住在路尽头的那个老太太以为自己房
子里有鬼，”她说，“其实那只是老汤姆.麦艾里尔唬她逗她玩的 。”记忆被快速的唤醒。“仅
仅在十年前，他们请了二十个人来挖土豆。年轻的休现在有了自己的机器， 他只需要五个人。”
现在到电视新闻时间了。乔柏斯太太想看看跑马比赛的结果。她上个礼拜赢了 一大笔钱。
她下个月要去爱尔兰的蒂帕雷里，那里的跑马比赛很精彩，她发现自己很难不参与进去。但是
在比赛结果公布之前还有另外一则新闻：贝尔法斯特发生了一起爆炸，几个人被炸死了。乔柏
斯 太太摇了摇头。“他们疯了”她说，“制造麻烦的只是少数人，我们其余的人都想过平静的
生活。我们都 有来自双方的终身朋友(双方指天主教徒和新教徒)，多数时候我们从不谈论烦心
事。”
比赛结果出来了。她倾着身子去看。对她来说，普通平凡的日常生活才是最重要的。


Unit 9 At Work
Dialogues monologues:
1、 TUC：(Trades Union Congress)——英国劳工联合会。
2、 This should remind Britain’s employers just how much they depend on the
good-will and voluntary extra work of their staff, the TUC says.
just ：起强调语气的作用--(是否)可以翻译成”正是”，
全句是：这会提 醒英国的雇主们自己是怎样依赖于怀着善意且自愿加班工作的员工。英国
劳工联合会说到。
3、 And if it makes people and employers think a bit harder about organizing a better
work-life balance, so much the better.
organizing：在这里我将它翻译成营造。
全句是：如果它能够让职员与雇主充分考虑一下营造一个更好的工作、生活平衡点，那是
最好不过了。
4、 It is often said that more business is done during social events than at the
office.
is done 这里是被动语态。 生意当然是被做的咯。
全句是：经常有人说在社交场合做成的生意比在办公室里做成的多。
5、 One person out of eight in labor force is said to be employed by a government
unit on the state or local level. is that the case?
全句是：据说，八分之一的劳动力被政府部们或地方国有企业录用。 是那么回事吗?
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The Unite States supplies a larger share of the international trade than any other
nation in the world. The transactions of trade between countries are often kept in
American dollars, and payments are frequently made in American currency as well. Many
American banks have established branches in important commercial centers overseas to
handle the business that results from world trade. Similarly, many foreign banks also
have branches in the United States.
The United States has many trading partners; one that has become increasingly
important in recent years is China. The city of Shanghai in eastern China is one of
the world’s great seaports and has also become active in both manufacturing and finance
in the world. Many American banks have set up offices there. John William is the manager
of one of these branch banks in Shanghai.
John majored in accounting and business administration in Harvard. After graduation
he got a job with a large New York bank. After two years in accounting, he was transferred
to the loan involved international transactions. Some of them were so complicated that
John felt he didn’t have a broad enough background to understand them. To get more
experience, he asked for a transfer to the bank’s international department. He became
so expert in international finance that he made it his career.
When the bank decided to open a branch in Shanghai, John was selected to set it
up and run it for the first few years. He has been in Shanghai for more than three years
now. He has a comfortable apartment in a high- rise building in the business center of
the city. The bank provides him with a car and driver as well as the apartment.
Mandarin is the most common language of Shanghai, but John has learned only a few
courtesy expressions. He has little need to speak Chinese, however, because all of the
employees of the bank are fluent in English. His chief assistant, Miss Wang, went to
graduate school in the States, so her English is excellent.
John has enjoyed being in Shanghai, but he may not be there much longer. Now that
the bank is operating efficiently, he might be transferred back to New York in a few
months. But he hopes to be back to china soon after for he loves it living there.
参考译文:
在国际贸易中，美国比世界上任何国家占有更大的份额。各国之间贸易成交后也往往以美
元 计算并以其为支付手段。为了处理世界贸易带来的商业往来，美国银行在海外的重要商业中
心开设了许多 分行。同样地，许多外国银行也在美国开设分支机构。
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美国有很多商业合作伙伴，近几年来日益重要的一个合作伙伴便是中国。位于中国东部的
上 海是世界上重要的港口城市之一，在世界制造业和金融业领域都非常活跃。许多美国银行都
在那里设立了 办事处。约翰.威廉就是其设在上海的一个分行经理。
约翰在哈佛上学时学的是会计学和商业管理 。毕业后在纽约一家大银行工作。干了两个的
会计工作后他被调到信贷部。他所经手的许多货款都涉及到 国际贸易。其中一些贸易操作起来
非常复杂，约翰觉得自己没有足够的背景知识不能胜任这份工作。为了 获得更多的经验，他要
求调到银行的国际贸易部。现在他已经成为国际金融银行方面的行家，并且以此作 为自己的事
业。
当银行决定在上海开分行时，约翰被选派到上海开展筹建工作并负责头几 年的经营。到现
在为止他已经在上海呆了三年多时间了。他在市商业中心一幢高层建筑里有一套舒适的公 寓。
银行不仅给他提供了住所，而且还给他配备了汽车和司机。
普通话是上海最常用的语 言，但是约翰只学会几句礼貌用语。然而，他几乎用不着说汉语，
因为银行的所有员工都说一口流利的英 语。他的高级助理王小姐是在美国读的硕士，所以她的
英语非常地出色。
约翰非常喜欢待 在上海，但是他可能不久就要离开了。这是因为既然银行已经步入正轨，
几个月后他有可能被调回纽约总 部。但是他希望很快就能回到中国，因为他喜欢那里的生活。


Unit 10 Hobbies and Interests
Dialogues monologues:
1、The remarkable Chicago bull presented a striking contrast to its opponent, and
the crowd just went wild!
presented a striking contrast to：和……成显著的对比。
本句的意思：那只非凡的西班牙公牛与它的对手形成鲜明的对比，人群已开始疯狂起来。
2、I can book a court for this Tuesday.
Book：预订
我能在这个星期二安排好一个场子。
3、 Sports can really get me away from a stressful day and exercise my brain.
get away from：从……中逃离，把……送走。
Passage:
I love reading novels, especially those classics. My favorite writer is Jane Austen,
the one who wrote pride and prejudice. When BBC screened its latest adaptation of Jane
Austen’s novel pride and prejudice, it was watched by a record 18 million British
viewers. The series was then sold to 18 countries round the world, from America to
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Australia, from Iceland to Israel, there are Jane Austen fans in all corners of the
globe, and even special Jane Austen discussion groups on the internet.
Jane Austen never once traveled aboard in her life time and she hardly ever left
the south of England. When she died a spinster in 1817, only four of her six novels
had been published, all anonymous and she eared a grand total of 648.65 pounds from
her books. Now, nearly 200 years later, sales of her novels rival modern bestsellers,
reaching 35,000 a week. There have been film and television productions of not only
pride and prejudice, but also Emma, Persuasion, and the Oscar-winning Sense and
Sensibility. Her house in Chawton in Hampshire is visited by 200 people a day.
She wad born in 1775, the seventh of eight children. Her father was the reverend
George Austen. They were not well off, and lived in a village. By the time when she
was 12, Jane was writing stories about heroines imprisoned in haunted castles, being
rescued by glamorous heroes. In Jane’s own life there were three romantic attachments.
The first was a handsome Irish law student called Tom Lefroy, who she met in 1795, but
who had to return to Ireland a year later. The second, in 1801, was a young man called
Samuel Blackall who she fell in love with when on holiday in Devon, but who tragically
died suddenly soon after. The third was a large young man called Harries whose proposal
she briefly accepted in 1802, “but he had nothing to recommend him but his size,”
so she changed her mind.
In 1801 the family moved to Bath, where she was very unhappy. To make matters worse,
in 1805 her father died, leaving his widow, Jane and her only sister Cassandra, also
unmarried, even poorer than before. For four years they had to move from house to house,
often staying with relatives. Finally in 1809 her brother Edward allowed them to live
in a house on his estate in Chawton, only a few miles from Steventon where she had grown
up. Here she was much happier, despite being the poor relation, dependent on charity.
She not only revised her earlier novel but was able to write new ones, using her
experiences to satirize and make fun of the social inequalities she saw around her.
At last in 1811, Sense and Sensibility was the first of her novels to be published.
参考译文：
我喜欢看小说，特别是那些精典名著。我特别喜 爱的一个作者是简.奥斯丁。她写过一部小
说叫《傲慢与偏见》。当BBC(英国广播公司)上映简.奥 斯丁的《傲慢与偏见》小说的最终改写
本时，当时创下了1800万英国观众的收看记录。之后，一系列 的丛书出售到全世界18个国家，
从美国到澳大利亚，从冰岛到以色列，全世界到处到有简.奥斯丁的狂 热书迷，甚至在互联网上
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简.奥斯丁在她的生活中没有出过一次国，甚至从末离开过英国 的南部。在1987年她过世
的时候，还是个末婚女子，她的六部小说只有四部已经出版，并且全部是匿 名的，她只挣到了
共648.65英镑，这就是她小说的全部酬劳。如今，也就是此后将近200年后， 她小说的销售商
击败了当今的顶级推销员，每星期可达到35000英镑的收益。已经成为电影、电视出 版物的不
仅仅是《傲慢与偏见》，还有《埃玛》、《劝导》、还有奥斯卡获奖作品《理智与情感》。她< br>在汉普郡Chawton的家，每天都不低于200人参观拜访。
简.奥斯丁出生于1775年，是家里八个孩子中的第七个。她的父亲是受人尊敬的牧师乔治.
奥斯丁 。她们家不富裕，而且住在一个乡村里。直到她十二岁的那年，简.奥斯丁一直在写关于
女主人公被关押 在魔鬼城堡的故事，直到被魅力英雄拯救出来。在简的生命中，有三次浪漫的
情感历程。第一次，是与一 个英俊的爱尔兰法律系的学生，名叫Tom Lefroy，她是在1795年遇
到他的，但他不得不在 一年之后返回爱尔兰。第二次是在1801年，一个名叫Samuel Blackall
的年青男子在 德尔郡的假日里让她坠入爱河。但是那个男子没过多久，突然悲惨地死去了。第
三次是与一个名叫Har ries大个子年青人，在1802年他向她未婚的时候，她暂且允诺了他，“但
是他除了他的架码之外 ，一无所长”，于是她改变了主意。
1801年，她们家搬迁到了巴思，她在那儿过得非常不幸。 更为糟糕的是，她父亲在1805年
撇下她们孤儿寡母撒手人鬟了，简和她同样未完婚的妹妹卡珊德娜比 以前更加贫困。四年以来，
他们到处搬家，经常在亲戚家逗留。终于在1809年，她的兄弟爱德华同意 她们住进他在Chawton
作为不动产的房子，只离她成长的Steventon这个地方几英里的距 离。在这儿她生活幸福得多，
尽管是由贫弱的亲戚关系和依靠他们的施舍维系。她不仅修正了她以前的小 说，而且还创作出
了新的作品。用她个人的经历和见闻来嘲讽社会的不平等。最终在1811年，《理智 与情感》作
为她的第一部小说被出版了。


Unit 11 Entertainment and Sports
Dialogues monologues:
1、 I am reading the garden column written by Steve Mann.
2、 Gil was named the 2005 winner of the Polar Music Prize for his contributions
to music.
3、 The Olympic silver medalists will have to beat the double Olympic champions.
4、 Today, I heard people talking about the director general for Swimming Canada.
5、 Cinecenta always offers an excellent choice of movies—from alternative, foreign,
independent, documentary films to Hollywood blockbusters.
6、 Everyone is welcome to attend student recitals, held every Friday at 12:30 pm
in the Phillip T. young recital hall located in the music wing of the Maclaurin building.
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7、To start up a club, all you need is at least ten members, two thirds of whom
are UVic undergrads, and five of whom are executive members and a club constitution.
Passage:
There are many art galleries and ongoing displays on the campus of the University
of Victoria (UVic). The Student Union Building lounge displays various works including
local student art. The Maltwood Art Museum Gallery, located in the main lobby of the
University Center, features local, national, and international works. The McPherson
Library Gallery located on the main floor of the library, features art produced by UVic
students. To see ongoing art displays, you can visit the Fine Arts Building.
CFUV broadcasts at 101.9 FM. This unique campus radio station offers a diversity
of programming, which includes alternative rock, folk, classical and jazz music as well
as news, public affairs and multicultural programming. CFUV also features Victoria’s
only regular rap, rhythm and blues, electronic experimental, and women’s programming.
The station is operated by students and community volunteers.
Cinecenta is the students’ society’s 300-seat movie theater Celebrating its 30th
anniversary, Cinecenta always offers an excellent choice of movies—from alternative,
foreign, independent, documentary films to Hollywood blockbusters. Take the time on
a Sunday afternoon and catch a 2:30 matinee for only $$3.75 or catch a midnight classic!
Movies are only $$4.75 for students with a valid student ID—or buy a 10-film pass and
pay only $$3.75 each. You can pick up a free time table around campus.
Providing funding for clubs is one of the many important services of the many clubs
that are already established. To start up a club, all you need is at least ten members,
two thirds of whom are UVic undergrads, and five of whom are executive members and a
club constitution.
The music department on campus holds over 100 concerts a year. Everyone is welcome
to attend student recitals, held every Friday at 12:30 pm in the Phillip T. young recital
hall located in the music wing of the Maclaurin building. Student discounts are available
at some performances of the Pacific Opera Victoria. The Victoria symphony offers reduced
price tickets to students if tickets are purchased the day of the concert. The symphony
also performance frequently at the University Center.
Copies of the following publications can be picked up from campus publication boxes
that are located in virtually every building on campus. The Martlet, the official student
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Partially through student and fees and is produced by an autonomous collective of
students and staff. It is available across campus and throughout Victoria every Thursday.
Published monthly by CFUV, Offbeat is your guide to CFUV’s program schedule. The Ring,
published every two weeks, is UVic’s community newspaper for faculty, staff, students
and off-campus readers. An autonomous publication funded by UVic and produced by the
women’s center, the Womyn’s publication network is the oldest women’s studert
newspaper in Canada. The paper has a feminist focus.
参考译文:
在维多利亚大学的校园有许多画廊和正在进行的画展.学生会建造了一个展厅来陈列本地
学生各种各样的 美术作品. Maltwood美术博物馆位于教学楼的主休息厅.他们的作品在当地、国
内，乃至国际 上都享有盛名。麦克弗森图书展览馆位于图书馆的主楼层上，学生们创作的艺术
作品也颇俱特色。到那去 看正在进行的美术画展，您随便可以参观一下美术大楼。
CFUV 广播电台在调频101.9播 段。这个独特的校园广播站提供多种不同的节目安排，不仅
包括可供选择的摇滚、民族音乐和古典、爵士 乐。而且还有新闻、宣传联络工作和多元文化的
节目。CFUV 同时还拥有维多利亚独特的有规律的说 唱音乐、节奏蓝调、电子实验和女子节目。
广播站是由学生们和其中的团体志愿者运作的。
Cinecenta是学生社区能容纳三百个座位的电影院，在庆贺它所30周年纪念日，Cinecenta< br>总是有非常精彩的电影供人选择—从……到好莱坞巨片。利用星期天的时间，只需要花3.75$$,
就可以赶一场下午2:30的音乐会或午夜的精典!学生们持有效证件看电影只需花费4.75$$—如果
一次性买十张电影票，每张只需花3.75$$。你可以在校园周围随时观看时间表。
提供俱乐部 会员卡，是许多已经建成的俱乐部的重要服务之一，起动一个俱乐部，你所需
要的是至少有十个会员，其 中三分之二是维多利亚大学的在校生，并且其中有五个是俱乐部经
常光顾的可调控人员。
校园的音乐系每年举行100次以上的音乐会。每位学员都是非常受欢迎加入学生独唱会的，
音乐会在每 个星期五的下午12:30在Phillip T.年青团独唱会大厅举行。学生们在一些表演节
目上可 以获得折扣。如果他们同样买了当天音乐会的票的话,维多利亚的交响乐也提供折扣价
格，同时，交响乐 经常在学校中央举行表演。
下面出版物的副本，几乎可以在位于校园每个建筑物下的刊物岗亭处获 得。Martlet——维
多利亚大学的校园报，是以学生们的部分学费作为基金,由这里的职员与学生 自主管理。这些报
纸在每个星期二都会通过校园遍及到维多利亚的每个角落。CFUV每月出版一次。你 要清楚CFUV
的节目安排表是不规则的,《铃声》每两个星期出版一次，它是维多利亚大学为全体教职 员工、
学生们以及非在校读者而自主投资的社区报纸，由女子中心负责出版。在加拿大，Womyn的出 版
物网络是最早的女子学生报，那份报纸的焦点就是维护女权,主张男女平等。

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Unit 12 Shops and Commodities
Dialogues monologues:
1、 It severs as a bridge for southern goods to enter northern markets and vise
versa.
2、 Yup! Or Best Buy.
3、 Every once in a while.
4、 Most mothers dream about the flowery pink frocks, smart and cute pants for their
babies long before they make their debut on earth.
5、 But of course, this fancy of most parents does not come without a cost attached
to it.
6、 The stores will purchase a large amount of each type and size of bead at a lower
price from wholesale and then pass on part of the savings to the customer.
Passage:
To purchase beads there are many alternatives in the way to shop for them. Beads
are available as a single or as part of a jewelry item. Popular jewelry items include
necklaces, bracelets and caps.
Firstly, bead shops are available in shopping malls. This is possibly the cheapest
means of purchasing a single bead. The stores will purchase a large amount of each type
and size of bead at a lower price from wholesale and then pass on part of the savings
to the customer. This form of bead shopping will enable the purchase to buy as many
single beads as are required in order to make a personal item of jewelry or other beaded
item. Shopping malls very often sell every type of bead imaginable, the types of beads
include seed beads, crystal beads, glass beads, lamp work beads and silver beads, etc.
shopping malls also sell beaded jewelry items at reasonable prices. These items may
be fashionable, off purchases or of unusual requirements.
Secondly, specific outlets are also an option when one purchases beads. Swarovski
is the most popular outlet of crystal beads. Therefore many customers may prefer to
deal directly with that specific supplier. This will ensure that the crystal beads are
genuine and possibly offering the most choice. Specific outlets may be more expensive
because of the brand names that are usually attached. This is also the case when
considering the purchase of jevelry items from specific outlets.
Thirdly, catalogues are a hassle free means of purchasing beads and beaded items.
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two weeks the catalogue will be delivered. The customer can then send off the desired
purchase by post or over the phone. Payments can usually be made by credit card either
at the time of at a later date. It is important to consider postage and packaging costs
when catalogue purchasing.
Finally, the Internet is quick and efficient source of purchasing beads. This is
especially useful if rare or collectable beads are purchase these types of beads. Shops
are also available online and this can be an easy purchasing method. Again, many Internet
companies will also require an additional charge for postage and packaging.
参考译文:
买珠子的方式有很多种。可以单个买珠子，也可以作为珠宝首饰中的一部分。大众流行 的
珠宝首饰包括项链、手镯和镶嵌珠宝的帽子。
首先，大型购物商场就有珠宝店。要买到 最便宜的单个珠宝要数这里了。这里的珠宝店从
批发商那里以较低的价格大量购进各种款型和规格的珠子 ，然后让利于消费者。这种形式的珠
子购买方式可以使购买者想买多少珠子，以便于定制个人珠宝首饰或 其他镶嵌珠宝的物件。购
物中心总是出售你可以想像得到的各种各样的珠子，包括植物种子做成的珠子、 水晶珠子、玻
璃珠子、能照明的珠子、银珠子等等。大型购物中心还以比较合理的价位销售镶珠的首饰。 这
些首饰有可能是时尚的，不供出售的或者是按特殊要求定制的。
顾客都愿意直接与那些 专营供应商交易。这样可以确保买到的水晶珠子是真货，而且有可
能有更多的选择。专营店的珠宝价格可 能会比较昂贵，这是因为珠子上面通常贴有商标。当你
考虑购买专营店的珠宝首饰时更是如此。
第三，按商品目录购买珠子和珠宝首饰会省去很多麻烦。顾客通常打电话向商家索要产品
目 录，商家会在一两周内发送目录。然后顾客通过邮寄或电话的方式订购想要的产品。通常可
以用信用卡当 时付款或晚些付款。重要的是，按目录购买货物时要考虑邮资和包装成本问题。
最后，网络是一种 快捷、高效的购买珠宝的方式。尤其是需要购买稀有珠宝或是要收藏珠
宝时非常有用。现在还设有专门的 地方以方便珠宝收藏者交换和购买各种类型的珠子以及网上
商店这种便捷的购物方式。重申一下，许多网 络公司会因邮资和包装收一些额外费用。


Unit 13 Shopping
Dialogues monologues:
1、 Are you being attended to, Miss?
本句的意思是：小姐，有人在为您服务吗?在商场、饭店中，to attend to sb.的意思是，
招呼、照顾、协助某位顾客。
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Is anybody attending to you, Miss?
2、 You may divide cyber retailers into three subsets and attack each with a different
strategy.
本句的意思是：您可以将网上零售商分成三个子类，用不同的战略对付他们。
注意：divide into：分成
Passage:
Buying computer and software
At first, I was reluctant to buy computer products completely online. Many of the
online computer stores used to sell exclusively through printed catalogs, addressing
the technically astute. I found those printed catalogs intimidating and confusing. And
preferred to go to a physical store, where knowledgeable sales people could guide me
through the maze of choices, explaining the benefits and risks and costs.
When egghead, the prominent software retailer, closed its physical stores and
decided to operate solely online, I was shocked and disappointed, as I had shopped
hardware or software regularly at the local egghead store and depended on expertise,
judgment and advice from their sales people. Also, I greatly valued the fact that when
I brought new add-ons or upgrades for my PC, I could pay to have them installed on the
spot. But now I was forced to learn more about computers than I ever expected to learn.
As it turns out, that’s probably a good thing for me and for my budget.
Today, the computer industry is a commodity, standards-driven marketplace. Computer
“manufactures” are really just assembles. They buy processors from one, software,
disks, memories, from other sources, and assemble them into systems. The competition
is fierce and the profit margins are slim. In terms of the basic specs—speed, memory,
and storage—what we now define as a “complete system” for home use would have made
a wealthy technical guru tremble with jealousy ten years ago.
Fifteen years ago, is seemed inconceivable that an ordinary individual would ever
need a 100 MHZ machine with 1 gigabyte of disk storage space. Yet, with the predictable
improvement of technology, the speed of commercially available processors doubles about
every 18 months according to a rule of thumb (known as “Moore’s law”). While at some
point, technology must meet barriers that will slow the pace of change, the computer
industry has been adapting at this incredibly rapid rate for more than two decades now,
with great regularity. And the software industry has been keeping in lock step with
these hardware developments by making each new version of the common applications that
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the latest and greatest hardware. I believe this software inflation results from the
consequences of human nature—software expands to fill the capacity available for it.
Basically, “Moore’s law” plus software inflation mean today’s computer system
will not last. And the new versions of software will make your equipment seem painfully
slow in two years, and obsolete in four. To stay compatible with other people with whom
you have to share files, you should invest time learning about these add-ons gadgets,
etc. to upgrade your system. Thus you can make full use of the shopping resources on
the Internet, and save again and again.
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购买电脑和软件
刚开始的时候，我不太情 愿完全依靠网络购买电脑产品。许多网上电脑商店过去主要靠打
印出来的产口目录进行销售，上面清楚地 写明了技术需求。但是我总认为那样的产品目录看起
来让人感觉有些发怵而且稀里糊涂的，所以我还是偏 爱实体商店，因为那里有精通业务的销售
人员，他们能指引我走出迷宫做出选择，他们还能向我解释产品 的优点、风险性和成本。
当著名的软件销售商Egghead关闭实体店铺，决定只走网络运营路 线的时候我感觉震惊和
失望。因为我总是定期到Egghead在当地的实体店铺去购买软件和硬件，仰 仗那里的销售人员
的专业技能、判断力和经验。还有一点让我非常看重的是：每当我购买新的附加软件或 是将我
的个人电脑升级时，我只需付些费用就可以让他们在现场给我安装完毕。但是现在我却被迫去了解更多的电脑知识，而我以前是不需要了解这么多的。但是后来发现，这或许对我来说是件
好事， 而且节省了我的预算。
今天，计算机产业是一种商品，是一个以标准为市场导向的市场。计算机“ 制造者”们实
际上只不过是组装者。他们从某个渠道购买处理器，从其它渠道购买软件、光盘和内存，然 后
将它们组装成系统。竞争是激烈的，利润空间也不大。从最基本的配置——速度、内存和硬盘
空间——来讲，我们现在所定义的家用“全套系统”足以让十年前富有的技术权威羡慕地发颤
不可。
15年以前，似乎难以想象一个普通人会需要100兆的机器和十亿字节的磁盘存储空间。然
而，随着可以预见的技术进步，仅凭经验(被称为“摩尔定律”)就可以推知：商用存储器的速
度每隔 18个月就会成倍增长。然而，技术必定会在某个时候遇上某种障碍，使其减缓变化的步
伐。计算机产业 在最近二十年来，一直处于令人难以置信的发展速度，到现在已经稳步发展了。
软件产业一直与硬件发展 保持着齐肩并进的态势，人们最常用的应用软件的更新版本愈发复杂
与宠大，只有用最新及功能最强大的 硬件才能操作使用。我认为软件企业的这种膨胀源于人类
的天性——软件需要扩展以充分利用已有的空间 。
从根本上来讲，“摩尔”定律加上软件膨胀就意味着当今的计算机系统不会维持长久。更
新的软件版本会在两年内使你的装备显得速度极慢，四年以后就该彻底淘汰了。为了与和你共
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享文件的其他人步调保持一致，你需要花些时间了解这些附加软件、 小工具等，以便将你的计
算机系统升级。因此，你可以充分利用网上购物资源，一遍又一遍地反复保存更 新软件和工具。


Unit 14 Holidays and festivals
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Dialogues monologues:
1、 Chang-O was banished to the moon where, according to the legend, Chang-O can
be seen at her most beautiful on the night of the bright harvest moon.
翻译：嫦娥被驱逐到月宫,根据传说,每当 中秋之夜明月当空的时候,可以看到她最美的容
颜。---where在这里的用法称为 关系副词，引导非限制性定语从句，对前面的 先行词the
moon起补充说明的作用.where=on which.在月亮上
2、 Especially exciting are the dragon and lion dances done during the festival.
3、 And to cap it all the food in the restaurant is awful. It was so bad we had
to eat out all the time despite having paid for meals in the price of our holiday.
4、 Ancient people offered the year’s first ripe grains to the gods in thanks for
the crops that would sustain their communities for the coming year.
5、 The ancient harvest festival of Europe helped give rise to contemporary
Thanksgiving Day celebrations.
Passage:
Holiday refers to the day set apart for religious observance or for the commemoration
of some extraordinary event total stoppage of work and normal business activities,
including feasting, parades and carnivals, or displays of flags and speechmaking.
Originally, in ancient times, holidays were predominantly religious in character
and linked to natural events such as the annual course of the sun or the phases of the
moon. The word “holiday”, in fact, is derived from “holy day”. Subsequently, secular
holidays commemorating historical occasions or distinguished persons outnumbered holy
days, although many ancient religious rituals and customs have been carried over into
modern times and incorporated into both secular and religious observations. Today, the
outstanding holiday is one of religious observance and abstention from normal work
routines, taking place on Sunday for Christians, Friday for Muslims, and Saturday for
Jews. In the U.S., Sunday is not only a religious holiday but is also the only common-law
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National holidays are set aside by official government proclamation to celebrate
such occasions as the achievement of independence, the founding of the nation, the
adoption of a constitution, the birthday of the ruler, or the national patron saint’s
day.
The U.S. has no national holidays as such legal holidays—on which banks, schools,
or other public institutions and most places of business are closed—are designated
by legislative enactment or by executive proclamation. Congress and the president
designate the legal holidays for the District of Columbia and the federal territories
but are without power to declare national holidays. Independence Day and other holidays
are observed on a national scale as a result of action by the calendar date and requests
national observance, and the states then usually enact the necessary legislation.
Federal statutes often specify certain days as holidays for purposes related to the
legislation.
In order to give federal employees three-day weekends, a 1968 federal law made
several changes in dates of holiday observances, effective in 1971: Washington’s
Birthday now falls on the third Monday in February; Memorial Day, on the last Monday
in May; Columbus Day, on the second Monday in October. Individual states later adopted
these Monday holidays.
A number of states commemorate important events in their history. In Vermont, for
example, the Battle of Bennington, fought in the American Revolution, is commemorated
annually on August 16; in Louisiana the Battle of New Orleans of the War of 1812 is
commemorated on January 8; Patriot’s Day, commemorating the first battle of the
American Revolution, is celebrated on or about April 19 in Massachusetts and Maine;
and several southern states celebrate a confederate Memorial Day on different days in
the spring.
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假日是由于宗教仪式，或为纪念某些特殊事件或著名人物而特地指定的日 子。假日的主要
特点是部分或完全停止工作和常规商务活动。一般来说，假日往往伴有公众或私人庆祝会 ，包
括参加宴会、游行、狂欢会，或者参观旗帜展览和做演讲等。
在古代，最初的假日主 要以宗教为特色，与自然现象如每年的太阳运行过程或月相等相关。
实际上，“假日”一词是由“圣日” 这个词演变而来的。而在之后的岁月里，世俗假日如纪念
历史事件或著名人物的次数远远超过了圣日，尽 管许多古老的宗教仪式和习俗一直流传到现在，
并且融于世俗和宗教仪式这两者之中。今天，具有突出特 点的假日是宗教庆典和远离日常工作
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的日子：对于基督 徒来说是星期日，穆斯林是星期五，犹太人则是星期六。在美国，星期日不
仅是宗教节日而且还是惟一的 习惯法定假日。
法定假日是由官方政府宣布的假日，用于庆祝特殊历史事件，如获得独立，国家建 立，宪
法实施，统治者诞辰，或圣徒纪念日。
美国没有全国性的法定假日。法定假日，即 银行、学校或其他公共机构和大多数商业场所
都关门歇业的日子，是由立法机关制定或执行宣布的。国会 和总统有权指定哥伦比亚特区和联
邦领土内的法定假日，但却没有宣布全国性法定假日的权力。由于州政 府的参与，独立日和其
他节日得以在全国范围内进行。就拿感恩节来说吧，总统指定日历上的日期，建议 全国举国欢
庆。然后，州政府通常就开始立法并以颁布。联邦政府法令往往明确规定假日的具体日期以便
与立法相对应。
为了给联邦政府雇员提供为期三天的周末，1968年的一项联邦法案对 假日做了几项修改，
并于1971年生效。这项法案规定：华盛顿的诞辰日为2月的第3个星期一;阵亡 将士纪念日是5
月的最后一个星期一;哥伦布发现美洲纪念日为10月的第2个星期一;退伍军人节是1 0月的第4
个星期一。各个独立州后来都采纳了这些星期一假日。
许多州都纪念本州发生 的重要历史事件。假如，在佛蒙特每年都会在8月16日纪念为美国
独立战争而战的本宁顿战役。路易斯 安那州在1月8日纪念1821年战争中的新奥尔良战役。为
纪念美国独立战争的首次战役的爱国者日， 于每年的4月19日左右在马萨诸塞州和缅因州举行
庆祝活动。每年春天的不同时候，南方各州会有联邦 阵亡将士纪念日。


Unit 15 Holiday Activities
Dialogues monologues:
1、 It is a far different world today than it was last Memorial Day, and what a
year ago would have been perceived perhaps as an inconvenience is now being embraced
as extra security checks.
2、 Where is the blessing in giving away something I would like to keep for myself?
3、 We have each helped in a different aspect as schedules and talents allowed.
4、 School children blitz the community asking for canned contributions.
5、 The guided working weekends and the guided working holidays.
6、 But Foot Trails specializes in offering gentle paced, soft guided walking so
you will feel relaxed and refreshed, definitely not exhausted.
Passage:
The Story of Mother’s day
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The earliest Mother’s Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring
celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the
1600’s, England celebrated a day called“Mothering Sunday”. Celebrated on the 4th
Sunday of lent,“ Mothering Sunday”honored the mothers of England.
During this time many of the England’s poor worked as servants for the wealthy.
As most jobs were located far from their homes, the servants would live at the houses
of their employees. On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were
encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. A special cake, called
the mothering cake, was often brought along to provide a festive touch.
As Christianity spread throughout Europe the celebration changed to honor the
“Mother Church”— the spiritual power that gave them life and protected them from
harm. Over time the church festival blended with the Mothering Sunday celebration.
People began honoring their mothers as well as the church.
In the Unite States Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe
as a day dedicated to peace. Ms. Howe would hold organized Mother’s Day meetings in
Boston every year.
In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national
Mother’s day. Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother’s church in Grafton, West Virginia to
celebrate Mother’s Day on the second anniversary of her mother’s death, the second
Sunday of May. By the next year Mother’s Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.
Ms. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman, and
politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother’s Day. It was successful
as by 1911 Mother’s Day was celebrated in almost every state. President Woodrow Wilson,
in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother’s Day as a national holiday
that was to be held each year on the second Sunday of May.
While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother’s Day at different
times throughout the year, there are some countries such as Denmark, Finland, Italy,
Turkey, Australia, and Belgium which also celebrate Mother’s Day on the second Sunday
of May.
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母亲节的来历
母亲节最早可追溯到古希腊，人们为了表示对众神之母瑞亚的敬重，每年春天都会举行重
大的庆祝活动。 在十七世纪，英国开始庆祝拜望双亲日。拜望双亲日定于复活节前四旬斋的第
四个星期日，表达对英国母 亲们的敬意。
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此时，英国有许多穷人都在有钱人 家里当奴仆。因为许多工作都离自家非常远，所以奴仆
们都不得不寄宿在主人家里。在拜望双亲日这天， 主人们会放他们假，并鼓励他们返回家园与
母亲团聚。为了增加节日气氛，他们总是带一种特殊的蛋糕“ 母亲蛋糕”回家。
随着基督教在欧洲扩散，这个节日转为对主母教堂的庆祝，表达人们对赋予他们 生命、保
佑他们免于伤害的精力力量的感谢。从此，教会仪式便与拜望双亲日的庆祝活动相结合，于是，
人们除了表达对母亲的敬意外，还表达对教会的尊重。
在美国，母亲节最早是由朱莉亚. 瓦德.霍于1872年提出的，她建议将这一天献给“和平”，
并每年在波斯顿等地举行母亲节的集会。
1907年，费城的安那.贾维斯发起为了建立全国性的母亲节的活动。她劝说位于弗吉尼亚洲西部的格拉夫顿教堂，也就是她妈妈经常去的教堂，在她母亲逝世两周年的日子，也就是五月
的第二 个星期日，庆祝母亲节。第二年，费城也开始了庆祝母亲节的活动。
贾维斯小姐和她的支持者们开 始给教会牧师、商人、政界要员写信，要求建立全国性的母
亲节。他们的努力非常成功，1911母亲节 那一天几乎所有的州都在开展庆祝活动。1914年，美
国总统伍德罗.威尔逊郑重声明，宣布母亲节为 全国性节日，并于每年5月第二个星期天举行庆
祝活动。
许多国家在一年中不同的时节庆 祝属于他们自己的母亲节。然而，有些国家如丹麦、土耳
其、澳大利亚和比利时，都是在五月的第二个星 期日庆祝母亲节的。


Unit 16 Places and locations
Dialogues monologues:
1、 About a block down from here.
2、 I went to the conference to register and to set up my exhibition stand.
3、 I set out our brochures ready for the official opening.
4、 Coal could be moved from Welsh mining villages right into the heart of London.
5、 Britain’s rail network is still second to none.
6、 That doesn’t necessarily follow.
7、 There will be taxies to cross down, but it will naturally be more economical
to use bicycles and buses or to work.
Passage:
Washington, D.C. serves as the seat of government for the United States of American.
Over the 200 years, Washington, D.C. has grown with the nation, and it now represents
the very best of America. From its majestic monuments to its incomparable museums, from
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the Mall to the steps of the Capital, Washington offers visitors one-of-a-kind
attractions.
The majestic capital building stands at the center of the city, allowing
unobstructed views of the city’s most famous attractions. The immense open space of
the Mall is marked off by the various museums of the Smithsonian Institution, the largest
cluster of museums in the world. The national Air and Space Museum celebrates the
nation’s achievements in flight and space exploration, from the Wright brother’s first
biplane to the Apollo moon mission and beyond. Visitors also line up for the Natural
History Museum to learn about the sciences and to view the famous Hope Diamond. The
Smithsonian Institution also includes the world-famous galleries. Art lovers should
also appreciate the nearby National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of American
Art.
Looking past the Mall, the Washington Monument stands 505 feet above the city. It
was the tallest man-made structure in America from its completion until the early 1900’s.
Behind this monument are the reflecting pool and the trio of memorials dedicated to
remembering President Lincoln and the wounded and killed of the Vietnam and Korean
conflicts. New to the area of the tidal basin, and facing the Jefferson Memorial, a
memorial to Franklin Roosevelt lies on the Potomac River which hosts millions of visitors
each year.
The offices of the various government agencies take up most of the space of the
city, and most offer free tours to the public. The White House also offers free tours
to the public. Just outside of the city, the national zoo houses thousands of animals
on 163 acres of park. Among its residents are two giant pandas given to the United States
as gifts from the People’s Republic of China. Across the river in Arlington, the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier stands amidst the dim, grave and majestic Arlington National
Cemetery.
Washington has many other distractions from politics. Washington’s theatre life
is thriving; it is second only to New York in number of theatre seats. The National
Symphony and other musical companies play four schedules. As a temporary home to
diplomats from around the world, Washington’s restaurant offerings are the finest and
most diverse around.
The beauty and grandeur of the nation’s capital continue to captivate millions
of American and foreign tourists who visit Washington, D.C. each year.
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华盛顿特区(又称华盛 顿哥伦比亚特区)是美利坚合众国政府所在地。在过去的200多年中，
华盛顿特区与美国一起成长，现 在它是美国国家的象征。从宏伟的纪念牌到无与伦比的博物馆，
从首都广场到国会大厦的台阶，它以自己 的特征吸引着游客。
宏伟的国会大厦耸立于市中心，人们能在此饱览华盛顿特区著名的风景。首都 广场的硕大
空间被世界上最大的博物馆群——史密森博物馆院的各种博物馆划分开来。国家航空航天博物
馆展示了美国在飞行和宇宙探索方面取得的成就，从莱特兄弟的第一架双翼飞机到阿波罗号登
月 任务以及其他。游客们还排长队参观自然历史博物馆，了解科学知识，欣赏著名的“希望之
星”。史密森 博物院还包括世界著名的艺术馆。艺术爱好者们肯定会钟情不远处的国立肖像馆
和国立美国艺术博物馆。
首都广场过去，就是高505英尺的纪念碑。在二十世纪初以前，它曾是美国最高的人造建
筑。纪念碑之后是映像池，和林肯纪念堂及为在越南及朝鲜战争中受伤和阵亡的将士建造的纪
念碑。位于 潮汐湖畔、与杰弗逊纪念堂正对的是新建的弗兰克林.罗斯福纪念堂，它座落在波托
马克岸边，每年吸引 数百万游客。
各种政府机关的办公用地占了城市大部分空间，多数政府机关都向公众提供免费参观 时段，
包括白宫在内。城外不远处的占地163英亩的国家动物园里容纳了数千种动物。其中有两只是< br>中华人民共和国作为礼物赠送给美国的大熊猫。海对岸的阿灵顿，无名烈士墓坐落在昏暗、庄
严肃 穆的阿灵顿国家公墓里。
华盛顿特区除了政界机构以外还有许多其他娱乐场所。华盛顿的戏剧非常 繁荣，剧院可容
纳座位数仅次于纽约。国家交响乐团和其它音乐团体全天候都有演出。作为来自世界各地 的外
交官们的临时家园，华盛顿所提供的饭店档次最高，而且种类繁多。
作为国家首都的华盛顿，其优美景色和宏大建筑将继续吸引每年数百万美国和外国游客到
此参观浏览。


Unit 17 Travel and Tourism
Dialogues monologues:
1、 The acceptable standard is 15% of the tall bill.
2、 You can stock up on something to have for later—for example, cheese and caviar
in Mexico City.
3、 Meditation room
4、 When you walk in, relaxing music comes and pictures of clouds are projected
on the wall.
5、 Christen cruises are popular with those who are not interested in the drinking,
gambling, and Las Vegas style shows that are a part of most cruising vacations.
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6、 Enjoying retracing the journeys of the apostle Paul in Turkey and Greece on
a luxurious tall sailing ship.
Passage:
To attract tourism to one’s country was once thought of as an unqualified success;
there seemed to be no negative aspects to it. However, today we are coming to realize
that tourism is a mixed blessing: it has advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand,
it can bring money to parts of the world that very much need it. People can earn a great
deal through tourism. And this income can help to preserve the environment. Anything
that helps to protect the ecosystem, the interrelated community of plants and animals
that makes up the earth, is, of course, positive.
A recent worry, however, is the fact that tourism can cause serious damage to the
fragile environments they love to visit. Ecosystems are delicate and easily damaged.
Around the world, areas are endangered by the large numbers of tourism who visit them.
On every continent, tourism threatens the environment. Even trekkers who take difficult
journeys on foot can cause damage.
There are, then, serious dangers that come with the promise of tourism. Every
advantages bring with it real disadvantages. This dilemma makes planning difficult for
nations trying to decide what to do. Countries can make a good deal more money from
the tourist industry than they need to put into attracting tourists. This financial
profit can help nations protect habitats where endangered animals and plants live. It
also may be that tourism can help strengthen local culture by encouraging awareness
of traditions and ceremonies. Historic buildings thrive on tourism. These cultural
locations enjoy great success with the money and respect brought by tourism.
But there is a down side to all this. Because cultural sites are becoming too crowded,
Disneyland-like reproductions are being created. These are not authentic cultural sites
but copies of something that may or may not have ever really existed. Some people say,
“what’s the value of tradition if it’s kept alive for profit, and bears little
relation to real life?”
Taken together, the negative effects of tourism grow larger over time. The
cumulative effects of tourism are great because every time we use cars or planes to
travel we contribute to one of the greatest disruptions in the history of the planet:
global warming and climate change are interrupting what has been the normal climate
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New approaches to the problem are also being developed. One initiative has been
the development of tourist opportunities in which the tourists both give and receive
through working vacations. This kind of personal, small-scale tourism is meant to be
a positive response with its large-scale organizing. Working tourism may not be for
everyone, but the hope is that some kinds of travel can become more planet friendly.
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吸引游客到某个国家旅游曾一度被认为是绝对成功 的，因为这种做法似乎没有什么负面效
应。然而，今天我们开始意识到旅游业是福也是祸;它既能给我们 带来有利的一面，也会给我们
带来不利之处。一方面，它可以为急需资金的国家带来财富。人们可以从旅 游业赚到很多钱，
这些收入足够用来保护环境。当然，任何有助于保护生态系统——这个构成我们赖以生 存的世
界、由动物和植物组成的生物群落，都是值得肯定的。
然而，最近令人们担心的一 个事实是：游客会对自己钟爱的脆弱环境千万严重破坏。生态
系统非常脆弱，容易遭到破坏。全世界范围 内游客云集的地区都面临着危险。无论在哪个洲，
游客们都危胁着那里的环境。就连喜欢艰苦跋涉的步行 爱好者们也会对环境赞成危害。
那就是说旅游业给人们带来希望的同时，也给人类带来了危险。每 个优点都伴随着缺点。
这种两难境地使得那些国家在做规划时难以抉择。这些国家从旅游业挣到的钱远比 他们为吸引
游客而投入的奖金多得多。这部分财政收入可以帮助这些国家保护濒危动物和植物的栖息地。
通过鼓励人们保持传统和风俗的意识，旅游业还可以起到促进当地文化的作用。历史景点需要
旅 游业的支持才能得以繁荣。旅游业带来的奖金和人们对历史的尊重会使这些文化景点越来越
兴旺。
但是，除此以外，旅游业也有负面影响。因为文化景点变得越来越拥挤，类似迪尼斯乐园
的 娱乐场所越来越多。而这些并不是真正的文化景点，只是可能存在或是可能不存在的某种东
西的翻版而已 。有些人会问：“如果传统的存在只是为了盈利，而与真实生活无关，那么传统
的价值又何在呢?”
归结起来，旅游业带来的负面效应随着时间的推移会越来越大。旅游业的累积效应是巨大
的 ，因为每次我们驾车或乘飞机出游，都会对我们所生活的星球造成破坏：全球气温升高和气
候变化会打乱 几世纪以来一直正常的气候模式。
解决问题的新办法也正在陆续出台。其中一个首创就是在旅游者 工作休假期间给其提供度
假机会。这种个人的、小规模旅游被认为是那种典型的、已经产业化的大规模旅 游业的积极反
应。工作旅游并非对所有人适用，但是给人希望的是：有些旅游形式能够更有益我们生活在 这
个星球。


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Dialogues monologues:
1、 Right after lunch, the tour makes a stop at St. Paul’s. Then the rest of the
afternoon is spent at the museum.
“right”在这里表示“正好”的意思。makes a stop：停留、休息.。
be at：从事于，做。
2、 A：Anyway, is there still room? B：Yes, there is. Will this be for yourself
only?
“Will this be for yourself only?”的肯定形式是：
This will be for yourself only，如果是一般现在时，就是：This is for you。
Will this be for yourself only? ——“这是给你一个人的吗?”，就是这么简单的意思。
3、 When I started this company 20 years ago, we were commended, as a new kind of
travel company, for putting travelers with flexible schedules in touch with fantastic
bargains.
“in touch with”：同……有联系。
全句的意思：当我在20年前着 手这家公司的时候，大伙受到了称赞。作为一个新型的旅游
公司，用灵活的时间安排赋予旅客们极大的实 惠。
4、 You’ll also be able to get fast, free quotes online, including the very
up-to-date specials, discounts and promotions.
你也可以得到快速，免费的网上报价，包括最新的特价、打折与促销。
5、 Building a tradition of the extended family all going away together is a great
way to build long-lasting family bonds.
这句话用在写作里可是相当实用哦。
我将它翻译成： 让大家庭的所有成员一起外出旅行成为一种惯例，是维系一个家族长期亲
密和谐的有效方式。
Passage:
Anyone lucky enough to be going to Honolulu doesn’t have to give a reason for going.
They can just say, “We’re going to Honolulu,” and imagination will take care of the
rest. Moreover, Honolulu can probably live up to and even surpass whatever we imagine.
World-famous beaches and tropical weather set the scene for an amazing mix of pacific
cultures in this Hawaiian capital. There is a reason why Hawaii is consistently rated
as one of the nation’s top travel destinations; in fact, there are several of them.
Waikiki Beach is the center of activity for Hawaii’s biggest industry: tourism.
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beautiful beaches and hotels in the world. Visitors from all over the world flock here
to enjoy the sun, the sand and the incredible nightlife.
Besides the beaches, visitors to Honolulu can take tours of the countryside
surrounding the downtown area. These tours are amazing, bringing visitors to some of
the most beautiful rainforests and volcanoes in the world. Animal and plant life are
abundant, and the scenery is unsurpassed. A five-minute car ride from Honolulu brings
visitors into some of Nature’s most beautiful and awe-inspiring sights. Several museums,
including the Bishop Museum, combine exhibits on Hawaiian natural history with lessons
about history and culture of its many diverse peoples. The Waikiki Aquarium is the third
oldest public aquarium in the United States, and it features many of Hawaii’s most
interesting sea animals.
The history of Hawaii is very rich, as the islands have always attracted many
different people. Visitors can tour the Tolani Palace, the residence of the last of
the Hawaiian monarchs. They can also visit Honolulu’s Chinatown, which is more
authentic than many of its mainland counterparts. They can also visit the Arizona
Memorial, commemorating the destruction of the battleship Arizona during the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor that brought America into World War II.
Honolulu exhibits the best of Hawaii in a thorough way. From its famous beaches
to its incredible natural preserves, this town has attracted millions of people from
around the world. Many of those visitors stayed, helping to make Hawaii one of the most
diverse places to visit in the Unite States. Anyone lucky enough to be going to Hawaii
knows that he won’t be disappointed.
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所有有幸去檀香山的人都无需给自己找什么理由，而只需说：“我们要去檀香山了。” 其
余的就全交给想象力吧。而且，对于檀香山而言，无论我们的想象力有多丰富，都只会有过之
而无不及。世界闻名的沙滩和热带天气，使这个夏威夷首府令人惊异地融合了大西洋的变化。
夏威夷一向 居于全国旅游景点前列，是有原因的。事实上，原因远不止一个。
怀基基海夏威夷的最大产业—— 旅游业的娱乐活动中心，也是世界上最大的游乐景点之一，
主要以世界上最漂亮的海滩和旅店为特色。世 界各地的游客云集此地，心情地享受阳光、沙滩、
以及令人难以置信的夜生活。
除了海滩 以外，游客们还可以到市中心周围的乡村浏览观光。这些令人惊异的旅行，会将
游客带入世界上最漂亮的 热带雨林，欣赏最壮观的火山美景。这里的动物和植物种类繁多，景
色美不胜收。从檀香山出发，仅五分 钟的车程游客就会进入自然界最美、最令人惊叹的天然美
景中。有些博物馆，包括主教博物馆在内，将夏 威夷自然历史展览和有关当地多种不同民族的
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历史和文 化讲座结合起来。怀基基水族馆是美国第三古老的水族馆，以许多夏威夷有趣的海洋
动物为特色。
夏威夷岛有着丰富的历史，因此这个岛屿总是吸引着各种各样的游客。游客们可以参观夏
威 夷最后一个君王的住所——托拉尼宫殿。还可以参观檀香山的唐人街，这里的唐人街要比美
国本土上的许 多唐人街正宗得多。游客们还可以参观亚利桑那纪念馆，纪念日本袭击珍珠港致
使美国卷入第二次世界大 战时而摧毁的亚利桑那战舰。
檀香山全方位展现了夏威夷之最，从闻名于世的海滩，到令人难以置 信的自然保护区，这
个城市吸引了来自世界各地的数百万游客。许多游客留了下来，使得夏威夷成为美国 最杂居的
地区之一。任何一位有幸到夏威夷一游的人都知道：这里绝对不会令你失望。


Unit 19 Visiting a Doctor and Health Insurance
Dialogues monologues:
1、I seem to be suffering from all the illnesses imaginable.
这里的“suffer from……”是个固定搭配：(遭受、忍受的意思。)
2、To crown it all, I had an accident the other day.
To crown it all：(更糟糕的是)the other day：前几天。
3、I get short of breath.
short of breath：呼吸短促。
4、For the sake of your health, keep off alcohol. If possible, give up smoking.
谈谈 “for the sake of” 与“in order to”的区别：
for the sake of 由于.. 或者是看在...的份上
for the sake of God 看在上帝的份上
in order to 为了...
Many students listen to the teacher carefully in order to receive a good mark.
学生上课认真听讲是为了得到好成绩
for the sake of + 名词
in order to + 动词
虽然二者都是表示为了这个意思
可以这么看,前者 是 为了某个东西,所以+ 名词
后者是为了做某事,所以+ 动词
5、Likewise, many changes are taking place in hospitals, where the costs of medical
equipment and care is skyrocketing.
同样，医院里正发生着很多的改变，医疗设备与医疗保健的费用突升猛涨。
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6、Because of the high costs, patients now spend a limited number of days in the
hospital, depending on their illness.
因为高价的花费，现在,病人们根据自身的病情,尽量花更少的时间呆在医院里。
7、It has worried me a good deal for the last week, and so now I am going to put
it on my dressing- table and watch it ache.
上周牙疼一直困扰着我，所以现在我要把它摆放在我的梳妆台，看它还怎么疼!
Passage:
For all it flaws, medical care in the United States has been reformed gigantically
over the past several decades. Deaths from heart disease have fallen by 40 percent since
1970. thanks to better detection and treatment, cancer advances have helped to raise
U.S. life expectancy from an average of 68 years in 1950 to 77 years today.
Not only have American lives grown longer, but their quality has improved. The
proportion of people over 65 with one or more chronic disabilities—such as the inability
to walk, or to get dressed, without aid—declined from greater than 25 percent in 1982
to less than 20 percent in 1999. and the development of vision- correction surgery, among
many other drugs and procedures, has allowed many Americans to prolong pleasures
historically with youth.
Of course, not all the recent improvements in American health and longevity can
be directly attributed to our health-care system; some are as much the result of adopting
healthier habits( exercise, better diet) or of dropping unhealthy ones (smoking, too
much alcohol-drinking). Still, better medical care is the principal cause of
improvements in American health and life span over the past 50 years.
But the problem is that since 1960 health-care spending has grown significantly
faster than the economy, meaning that we’re spending an ever larger portion of our
incomes on medical core. In 1960 health care constituted 5.1 percent of the U.S. economy;
in 1980 it constituted 8.8 percent; today it constitutes 13.3 percent. Meanwhile,
private health-insurance premiums—which rose by 14 percent last year alone —are
becoming unaffordable for ever Americans. The number of things we can do to pay for
them. 41 millions of our citizens are now uninsured. So the key question is not whether
health care should be rationed in the United States; it already is. Rather the question
is how health care should be rationed. How should the potential benefits of reduced
pain, improved quality of life, or extended life be weighted against the high costs
of the medications or procedures involved? And who should weigh them? These are hard
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questions with high moral stakes. But we do hope that the health-care system will cover
more people.
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因为存在缺陷，所以美国的医疗保健在过去几十年里进行了重大改革。心 脏疾病导致的死
亡自1970年以来下降了40%。由于较先进的监测和治疗，癌症死亡率自1990年 以来一直处于下
降趋势。总的来看，医疗进步使美国人均寿命从1950的68岁提高到现在的77岁。
美国人不仅提高了寿命，而且还提高了生活质量。65岁以上患有至少一种长期残疾——如
在无人帮助下不能独立行走，或不能自己穿衣——的比例从1982年的20%以上下降到1990年的
20%以下。视力矫正手术的发展，以及其他药品和治疗程序的发展，使得许多美国人历史性地延
长了与 年轻有关的生活乐趣。
当然，并不是美国人健康和长寿方面取得的所有进步都直接归功于我们的医 疗保健系统。
有些是养成健康习惯(锻炼身体、合理饮食)或戒除不健康习惯(吸烟、过量饮酒)的直接 结果。
然而，良好的医疗保健依旧是过去50多年来产美国人健康改善和生命延长的主要因素。
但问题是，自1960年以来，医疗保健费用的增长速度远远超过了经济增长速度，这意味着
我们的收入中用于医疗保健上的比例越来越大。1960年医疗保健费用占美国经济的5.1%;到1980< br>年的时候，就升高到了8.8%;而现在已达到13.3%了。与此同时，私人健康保险费用——仅去年< br>一年就上升了14%——让越来越多的美国人感到难以承受。我们为健康而采取措施的数量已经超
过了美国人的承受能力。目前有4100万人口还没有上医疗保险。因此，关键问题不是在于美国
医疗保 健是否应该定量配给，因为我们已经实现了这个目标，而是在于医疗保健怎样定量配给。
美国人民在痛苦 减少、生活质量改善或寿命延长等方面所获得的潜在益处，怎样才能抵消伴随
而来的药品或就医高消费呢 ?谁来负责平衡呢?没有很高的道德责任，这些问题是难以解决的。
但是，我们还是希望医疗保健系统能 够涵盖更多的人。


Unit 20 Bodybuilding and Environment Sanitation
Dialogues monologues:
1、 Do they need long workouts to get the benefit, or will short, intense ones do
the trick?
do the trick：获得成功。
他们需要长期的体能训练获得益处,还是短暂、剧烈的训练取得成功?
2、 Bone mass and bone loss.
Bone mass：骨骼块数bone loss：骨质疏松
3、 Immediate effects may show up after a single exposure or repeated exposures.
通过单一或多次的暴露之后，即刻效应便体现出来了。
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4、 Experts found that inhabitants in the three regions have more in common than
calories.
专家发现这三个地区的居民在其他方面的共同点超过了他们在卡路里方面的共同点。
5、 Humans should not try to avoid stress any more than they would keep away from
food, love, or exercise. While there is no question that prolonged stress is harmful,
several studies suggest that challenging situations in which you’re able to rise to
the occasion can be good for you.
rise to the occasion：应付自如。
跟人不能避开食物，爱或锻炼一样，人也不应该躲避压力，毫无争议长时间的压力是有害
的 ，但也有不少研究显示，你可以应对的挑战性局面对你是有好处的。
Passage:
Being young has universal appeal and today people are searching for the qualities
that youth comprises good health, mental alertness, physical attractiveness, and
vigor—in a word, fitness. Fitness is the magical term that has pervaded our daily lives.
Via the media, we are constantly bombarded with suggestions to be slim, do exercise,
and feel fit. Many television and radio programs are devoted to fitness information
and group exercise. Newspapers and magazines regularly feature columns that present
the latest nutritional discoveries and exercise equipment. In fact, it is almost
impossible to pick up a general interest magazine and not find the perfect diet and
easy exercise programs. Countless books and tapes on fitness are available in bookstores
and libraries. The medical profession, too, advocates being slender, doing exercise,
and feeling energetic.
The intense interest in the condition and appearance of the body has generated a
steady flow of highly marketable innovations. In fact, consumers spend billions of
dollars annually on activities and products in their quest for fitness. Health clubs
have come into bud throughout the nation, and many people sigh up for lifetime
memberships. Others, who prefer convenience and privacy, set up fitness equipment in
their own homes. Many people shop in health food stores for organically growth goods
and dietary supplements to add extra vitamins to their diets.
For many years, it has been the practice of giant corporations to maintain a gym
or health club for the exclusive use of their executives. By working out at the gym,
or playing tennis, the top people in management could release some of the tensions
generated at work. Membership in these corporate facilities was, and still is, a status
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tensions and pressures and could benefit from this type of recreation. As a matter of
fact, studies contributes is also a financial gain for the company. It therefore is
sensible of those major corporations to offer health club memberships to all their
employees. This concept is revolutionary, but it is being considered seriously. There
is no doubt about it: when people are physically fit, they are at their best. It makes
sense to maintain optimum health in order to live life to the fullest.
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年轻具有普遍吸引力，今天人们在搜寻着构成年轻的要素：好的身体，精力充沛、身体 的
外在魅力，朝气蓬勃——一句话，健康。健康这个富有魔力的术语在我们日常生活中蔓延开来。
通常媒体，我们不断地被各种各样的建议所包围，诸如要保持苗条、要锻炼身体、还要保持好
的精神状 态等等。许多电视和广播节目致力于向人们提供健身信息和群体健身活动。报纸和杂
志也辟有特色专栏， 向人们呈现关于营养的最新发现和健身设备。实际上，随便拿起哪本大众
杂志，都可以找到关于完美饮食 和简易健身的项目。书店和图书馆里随处可见无数有关健康的
书籍和磁带。医学行业也倡导人们保持苗条 身材、加强身体锻炼、保持精力充沛。
对身体状况和外在形体的广泛关注，导致高度市场化的创新 稳步发展。事实上，消费者为
健身活动和产品每年都要支出数十亿美元。健康俱乐部如雨后春笋遍布全国 ，许多人都注册成
为终生会员。那些喜欢方便和隐私的人则自家购置了健身器材。许多人在保健品店购买 有机产
品和膳食补充剂来额外补充维生素。
多年以来，大型公司为企业高层管理人员配备 专用健身房和健康俱乐部。通过健身房的锻
炼，或者打网球，高级管理人员可以释放工作中的压力。拥有 这样的会员身份，至今仍是一种
身份地位的象征。然而，目前又出现了一种新的趋势。公司所有员工都背 负沉重的工作压力和
紧张，因此都可以享受这种娱乐活动。实际上，研究显示，身体和精神健康可以切实 帮助员工
提高工作效率。病假时间减少也是公司的一项财政收入。因此，那些大公司向全体员工提供健< br>康俱乐部会员身份是很明智的决策。这种理念是革命性的，但是需要认真给予考虑。毫无疑问
的是 ：当人们身体健康的时候，其工作状态也处于最高峰。为了能够更充实地生活，保持身体
处于最佳状况是 非常有意义的一件事情。


Unit 21 Services(1)
Dialogues monologues:
1、 Hotel in London or in England specially, will ask for a credit card or a
confirmation which will guarantee that your room is held, basically all night or for
late arrival.
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关于：precise 与 accurate 是否有区别?
accurate，correc t，delicate，exact，precise都含有一定的正确,精确之意
accurate 准确的，精确的，指某人或某事不仅不出错，而且与事实无出入，强调准确性
correct 正确的，指某人或某事合乎事实或公认的标准或规则，没有错误
delicate 精美、精细的、雅致的
exact 确切的、精确的,语气较accurat e强,指某人或某事数量或质量完全符合事实或标准,
而且在细致末节上也丝毫不差
precise 精密的,指具有高度的精确性和准确性,强调范围界限的鲜明性或细节的精密,有
时略带吹毛求疵的贬义
3、 Art-house.
Art-house： 艺术电影院
指 放映不属于商业主流电影的电影院。艺术电影院放映的影片，重视电影本身的品质，较
不注重商业吸引力 ，如当代重要导演的影片、独立制片影片、影史的经典作品，及发行有限的
前卫及实验电影。亦称 Art theater。
4、 Your restaurant specializes in hamburgers and chicken, right?
specializes in：擅长于，专攻。
5、 As an unadvertised special, you can have a trip to the salad bar with your order
for only a dollar more.
作为一个末做广告的特价餐，您可以多出一美元随意的在沙拉吧里定购。
6、 Take my order out of this.
out of：作为“根据”的意思。全句是：根据我点的去做吧。
7、 No sooner do we start to look for a motel, when one appears.
每当我们想找汽车旅馆的想法一出现，都回恰逢其时的有一家跃入我们的视线。
No sooner ：一旦…立即…
Passage:
The sale of alcohol in Britain is strictly controlled by licensing laws. These
restrict where, when and by whom alcohol may be sold. In order to open a pub or wine
bar the owner must obtain the approval of the local magistrates who must be satisfied
that he or she is a suitable person to sell alcohol. If the application is approved
the owner obtains a license to sell alcohol and becomes the license. The name of the
licensee is displayed above the front door. If magistrates are not happy with the way
a pub is being run they can cancel the license. The name of the licensee is displayed
above the front door. If magistrates are not happy with the way a pub is being run they
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Many pubs are licensed to sell alcohol for drinking on or off the premises. However,
most people buy alcohol for drinking at home in a supermarket or an off- license. Shops
and supermarket have to get a license, called on off-license before they can sell alcohol.
Nobody under 18 is allowed to buy alcohol, either in a pub or in shop.
Pubs are only allowed to sell alcohol during official opening hours. They are allowed
to remain open all day from 11a.m. to 11p.m. though many close in the afternoon. If
they wish to stay open after 11p.m., they must obtain a special late license pubs open
for a shorter time on Sundays, and in some parts of Wales they are closed altogether.
In the US, there are local laws about when and where alcohol can be sold. Some towns
are dry, i.e., no alcohol can be sold there at all. In general, restaurants and bars
need a license to sell beer and wine. In some states alcohol for drinking at home is
sold only in special liquor stores; in other places it is sold in any food shop. There
are fewer restrictions on when alcohol can be sold than there are in Britain, and bars
can stay open very late. The most common restriction is that alcohol may not be sold
early on Sunday mornings.
参考译文:
在英国经营酒是受酒类专卖法严格控制的。在哪卖 ，什么时间卖，由谁卖，都有严格的规
定。想要开酒吧或是葡萄酒吧，老板必须要得到地方官员的同意， 而地方官员要觉得这个人合
适才会同意他她经营酒类。如果申请批准了，老板拿到营业执照并成为执照持 有人，他的名字
就会被贴在正门上。一旦地方官员不满意此人的经营方式，他就会被吊销执照。
在很多有执照的酒吧，客人可以在店里喝酒也可以买酒带走。但是，很多人在超市或者卖
酒 执照的商店买酒回家去喝。商店和超市都必须拿到营业执照，在准许卖酒之前他们要申请卖
酒经营执照。 不管是在酒吧还是在商店，18岁以下的人都不准买酒。
酒吧只能在官方规定的营业时间卖酒，可 以从上午11点开到晚上11点，但是很多酒吧在
下午就关门了。如果想到在晚上11点仍然营业的话就 需要一个特殊的夜间营业执照。酒吧在礼
拜天的营业时间一般很短，在威尔士的一些地方，酒吧在礼拜天 不营业。
在美国，卖酒的时间和地点也受地方法律的限制。一些城镇根本不允许卖酒。通常情况下 ，
餐馆和酒吧需要有执照才可以卖啤酒和葡萄酒。在有些州，家里喝的酒只能在酒类专卖店才能
买得到;而在其他地方，任何食品商店里都可以买得到酒。美国酒类经营店的营业时间比起英国
要宽松的 多，酒吧也可以营业到很晚。两国最相近的规定是都不可以在礼拜天早上卖酒。


Unit 22 Services(2)
Dialogues monologues:
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1、 He’s now turning to Mary, his fellow student yet a native American, for help.
turning to：在这里是“求助于”的意思。
2、 I’m desperately in need of your help.
in need of：需要。
3、 EMS [邮政特快专递 (Express Mail Service)]
4、 From the moment, when the service started, EMS constantly stick to serving the
economic reform and opening to the outside world by reorganizing the operational
procedures and accelerating the transmission of the items to meet the various need of
the people, by increasing the investment to the production capacity and adopting
high-tech to improve services, by offering 11185, the hotline and desk-to-desk,
door-to-door service to qualify the services.
meet one’s need：满足某人的需要。
长句解析：从服务开始启动之后，特快专递坚持不懈地致力于为经济 改革服务，并且通过
改造运作程序和加速项目传输为外面世界打开阀门，以此来满足人们各种不同需求。 通过对产
量的加大投资和采用高科技来改善服务，通过提供11185热线以及点对点、面对面的服务来 验
证服务质量。
Passage:
A modern bank provides many services other than checking accounts. One of the most
important of these is regular passbook savings.
If you went to a bank to open a savings account, you would go through almost the
same procedures as followed in applying for a checking account. First you would be asked
to fill out a signature card. Then you would be given a passbook in which your initial
deposit would be recorded. All deposits and withdrawals from your account are entered
into your passbook. This means that the passbook contains an actual record of all savings
you have at any one time. With a regular passbook savings account, you would be able
to withdraw money whenever you need it .all you would have to do is fill out a withdrawal
order and present it, along with your passbook, to the teller.
All banks pay interest on savings accounts. The interest rate varies from bank to
bank, but the general range is from 4 to 6 percent. Banks also pay interest at different
times. But the majority of them pay semiannually. Suppose, for example, that on January
1, you deposit $$1000 in bank that paid 5 percent interest semiannually. By July 1, you
would have earned $$50 interest. The interest would automatically be credited to your
account; and if you left it in the bank, along with your original deposit, you would
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receive interest on $$1050 for the nest six-month period. That is, your interest would
be compounded.
If you knew that you could keep your money in the bank for a certain period of time,
you could get a higher interest rate by buying a savings certificate. These certificates
are for three months. You can also buy certificates for periods of one or two years.
When you buy a savings certificate, you sign a contract with the bank stating that you
will not be able to get your money back until the date when the certificate is due.
Another important service that banks provide is traveler’s checks. If you go on
a vacation or traveled on business to another cit or state or country, you probably
want to bring some traveler’s checks along with you. They have two important advantages
over cash. One is that your money is always safe. If the checks are lost or stolen,
you can receive a refund for the total amount. Another is that they are more convenient.
Many businesses are reluctant to cash personal checks on out-of-town banks. But with
proper identification, you can readily cash traveler’s checks almost anywhere in the
United States or abroad. Every traveler’s check has its own individual number. When
you buy these checks (you must purchase at least $$50 worth), the teller gives you a
slip on which the number of every check is recorded. A copy of this slip is kept b the
bank. If the checks are lost or stolen, you can bring this slip to the bank and your
money will be returned. Before you are given the checks, you are asked to sign each
one of them at the top. When you cash the check, you must sign it again in the presence
of the person who gives you the money at the bottom. For this service, the bank charges
1 percent of the amount of the check. If you bought a $$50 check, for example, you would
have to pay $$0.50 for it.
参考译文:
除了活期账户，银行还提供主许多其他的服务。其中最重要的是存折储蓄。
去银行开一个储蓄账户 的过程和申请活期账户大致一样。首先是填一张签名卡。然后银行
工作人员会给你一个存折，上面有你第 一笔的存款记录。以后每次存款或取款都会在存折上有
记录，这就是说存折上会显示你在任何需要的时候 取钱。取钱的时候只需要填一张取款单，把
它同存折一并交给出纳员。
所有的银行都付利息给储蓄账户。各个银行的利率不一样，但总体在4%到6%之间波动。
各银行 ，付利息的时间也不一样，但是大部分银行都是半年付一次。比如说你在1月1号
存入了1000美元， 利息为5%，那么到7月1号，你就能得到50美元的利息，利息会自动存入
你的账户。如果你将利息和 原来的存款一起留在账户里的话，下六个月你得到的利息是$$1050的
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如果你确定自己的 钱将会在银行存比较长的时间，你可以买一张储蓄单据，这样得到的利
息就比较高。你可以买$$500的 储蓄单据或者更多。储蓄单据开出的时间越长，你得到的利息就
越多。短期的储蓄单据是三个月。你还可 以买时间是一年或两年的储蓄单据。在买储蓄单据的
时候，你要跟银行签一项合同，说明在单据最后期限 之前你不能从银行取钱。
银行的另一项重要服务是旅行支票。如果你去别的城市，别的州或国家度 假或者是出差，
你大概会想带一些旅行支票。比起现金，旅行支票有两个重要优点：一是安全，如果你的 支票
丢了或是被偷了，上面的钱还可以如数找回。另外是方便。有些私人支票在城镇的银行兑不到
钱，但是只要有身份证明，旅行支票在哪都能兑到钱，不管是在美国还是在国外。每一张旅行
支票都有 特定的号码。在买支票的时候(至少买50美元的)，出纳员会给你一张记录所有支票号
码的单子。银行 也会将这张单子备份保存，如果支票丢了或是被偷了你可以拿着这张单子到银
行拿回支票上面的钱。在给 你支票之前出纳员还会在每张支票上方签上自己的名字，兑钱的时
候还要在给你钱的出纳员那儿再签一次 ，这次是签在支票下方。银行会收取支票面额的1% 作为
手续费，比方说，你买一张50元的支票要付0.5美元的手续费。


Unit 23 Making friends and communication
Dialogues monologues:
1、we lived with a cousin in Dallas for 2 years.
lived with：与……同住(寄宿在…家)
2、I have to do a load of laundry today.
我今天还得洗完一筐衣服。
3、I think my parents would have liked to live overseas for at least 20 more years.
我想(要不是这样),父母可能还要在海外生活至少20年。(虚拟语气，实际上父母已经
回国了)
4、A lot of proposals floating around state legislatures are aimed at throwing the
children of illegal immigrants out of public schools. Do you find such ideas helpful?
许多旨 在从公立学校驱逐非法移民子女的提议日日涌向州立法团体，您认为这些办法有益
吗?(floatin g是“未决定的”)
Passage:
I got a chance to actually meet an online friend in real life when I went on vacation
to San Francisco. I‘d left a note in my live Journal telling everyone where I’d be
going. When I went online at the hotel, I found a comment from my friend Kim telling
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After checking with my parents, I rushed back to the computer to let her know that
I cloud meet her on my way back too Los Angeles. We exchanged cell phone numbers and
set up a meeting place and time. After hanging up, though, I began to get nervous. I
had known her for a few months, but meeting someone in person is a lot different than
chatting over the internet, and I was worried it wouldn’t turn out well.
We both brought people with us for safety reasons—I brought my parents and she
brought a friend—and met in front of a bookstore. I got there a few minutes early,
and instructed my parents to please try not to embarrass me. I didn’t see her at first,
but after a few minutes, we both recognized each other.
Even though I’d never met her before, I felt like I knew her from all the times
we’d talked online. We talked about graphic design, the classes we were taking, clubs
we were in and college, which we were both stressed out about since California schools
are so competitive and it’s becoming harder to get accepted into good universities.
My parents seemed to have a good time too—my dad got into some incredibly involved
science conversation with Kim’s friend Derrick.
The meeting lasted less than an hour, since I had to get home. At the end, we hurried
outside to take photos with each other, them said goodbye. Even though the meeting was
short, it was a lot of fun, and we made plans to get together again if I came up north
or she visited near Los Angeles. Now, we talk online several times a week. Before we
had only a few conversations a month.
Meeting Kim helped my parents and I get more used to the idea of online and offline
life intersecting. I’m glad to have found friends whom I never would have discovered
otherwise.
参考译文:
在 去旧金山度假的途中，我得以有机会在现实生活中与每一位网友见面。我在网络日记里
告诉大家我要去哪 。在旅馆上网的时候看到了我的朋友金的留言，她说她住在附近的Palo Alto，
问我想不想聚聚。
在征得父母同意之后，我跑回电脑旁边告诉她我可以在回洛 杉矶的时候见她。我们交换了
手机号码，并且约好了见面的地点和时间。然而在下线之后我开始紧张了。 我认识她几个月了，
但是见面和在网上聊天是很不一样的，我担心见面之后会感觉不好。
由于安全问题，我们都自带了人过去——我带着父母，她带着一个朋友，我们在书店门口
见的面。我早到 了几分钟，我对爸爸妈妈说不要让我难堪。开始我没看见她，但是过了一会儿
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虽然我们从末见过面，但是我感觉从我们开始在网 上聊天起我就认识她了。我们聊了图画
设计，各自的班级，参加的俱乐部以及大学，在谈到大学的时候我 们都说压力很大，因为加利
福尼亚的学校竞争激烈，申请好大学越来越困难了。我爸爸妈妈看上去也很愉 快——爸爸正跟
金的朋友德瑞克聊科学聊得起劲。
我们见面的时间不到一个小时，因为我 要回家了。在最后，我们抓紧时间跑出去照了个合
影，然后就说再见了。虽然这次见面时间很短，但是却 很开心，我们说好如果我来北部或者她
去洛杉矶附近的话再见面。现在，我们一周在网上聊几次，而以前 ，我们一个月才聊几次。
与金的见面使我和我父母对网上世界和现实世界的交合更加习惯了。我很 高兴通过这种方
式结识新朋友，如果没有网络，也许我们永远都不可能认识。


Unit 24 Political, Legal and Social Issues
Dialogues monologues:
1、 Don’t go straight into politics, because no one will be particularly interested.
不要直面政治界，因为没人会特别感兴趣。
2、 There were big, difficult decisions to be taken during the Gulf War.
have sth to be done 意思是有某事将要去做.
在海湾战争中，曾有许多重大、艰难的事务有待决断。
3、 We were sometimes at odds with the Americans, and even the Germans.
我们有时候和美国人合不来，有时候甚至和德国人也不亲善。
4、 But the new bill requires that any American wishing to sponsor immigrations
must have an income 125 percent above the poverty level. Previously, a sponsor needed
only an income at poverty level.
但是新的法案要求，每个愿作移民担保的美国人必须拥有高于贫困线125%的收入。以前，
担保人只要 不在贫困线之下就可以了。
5、 Wasn’t it after the women’s conference in Nairobi ten years ago that the world
focused for the first time on the crisis of domestic violence?
难道不是十年前在内罗毕召开的妇女大会让全世界首次聚焦家庭暴力吗?
6、 What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated,
their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will
flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society,
their families will flourish.
我 们在全世界看到的都是，如果妇女健康又受过教育，她们的家庭就兴旺;如果妇女免于暴
力之苦，她们的 家庭就安康;如果妇女有工作机会并能同工同酬，她们的家庭就富裕。
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7、 That is why every woman, every man, every child, every family, and every nation
on our planet in society, has a stake in the discussion that takes place here.
这就是 为什么我们这个星球上的每个女子、男子、儿童、家庭、国家，都参与了此时此刻
的决定。(这里的st ake是“股份”而不是“赌注”的意思，所以我这样翻译)
8、 I took it after consultation with members of the then new South African government,
including President Nelson Mandela.
我在征询了新一届南非政府成员，包括纳尔逊*曼德拉总统的意见之后，这样决定。
Passage:
Compared to elections to other countries, a British election is a rapid and
straightforward affair. Traditionally about 75 percent of the country’s 44 million
registered voters take part. They each place a cross next to the name of the candidate
they want to vote for on a ballot paper. In a general election, voters choose the man
or woman they wish to represent them in the House of Commons.
Unlike other countries, Britain uses the “first- past-the-post” method for
choosing its government. Under this system, the candidate who wins the highest number
of votes in each constituency becomes the Member of Parliament (MP) for the seat, even
if he or she has less than half of the total vote. Currently, there are 651 geographical
constituencies in Britain.
Most candidates are members of Britain’s 3 main political parties. They are the
conservatives, Labour, and the smaller Liberal Democrats.
Any citizen of Britain can try and get elected as an MP. Only bankrupts, prisoners,
members of the clergy, peers and certain senior public officials are not allowed to
stand. But in order to limit the number of people who do take apart, each candidates
is required to deposit? before the election. They “lose their deposit” if they fail
to win 5 percent of the poll.
The “first-past-the-post” principle is also used to decide which party will from
the new government. As a rule, the party which wins the most seats is invited by the
Queen to form the government. The leader of that party then becomes the new prime
minister.
The exact date of the election is chosen by the prime minister and is normally
announced about a month in advance. This makes the election campaign quite short in
comparison to countries like the U.S.A., where the campaign to elect the president lasts
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It’s estimated that up to a fifth of voters in Britain only decide who they will
vote for in the last 4 weeks before an election. As a result, parties spend huge sums
of money on advertising in the last few weeks. Individual candidates are limited by
law on how much they may spend but no such restriction applies to the parties.
参考译文:
比起其他国家的选 举，英国大选是一件快速且简单的事情。一般来说，全国登记的4400万
选民中会有75%的人参加投 票。他们只要在选票上自己支持的候选人名字旁边画上一个叉叉就可
以了。在普选中，选民根据自己的意 愿来选出下议院的代表。
与别的国家不同，英国采用“得票最多就获胜”的选举制度来组成政府， 即：在一个选区
获得票数最多的候选人就能获得议会的席位，即使他她获得的选票不足总票数的一半。现 在，
英国有651个从地理上划分的选区。
大部分的候选人都属于英国的三个主要政党，即保守党、工党和最小的自由民主党。
英国所有的公 民都有机会竞选议员，除了破产的人、囚犯、神职人员、贵族和某些高级官
员。为了限制参加竞选的人数 ，每一个侯选人在大选之前都要交500英镑。如果他们获得的选
票不足5%，政府就不退还那500英 镑。
“得票最多就是获胜”的原则也用于决定哪个政党组成新的政府。根据惯例，获得席位最多的政党受女王的邀请来组阁。该政党的领袖成为新的首相。
选举的确切日期是由首相选定的 ，通常会提前一个月公布。这使得英国的竞选时间同美国
这样的国家相比要短得多，美国的总统竞选时间 最长可持续9个月。
有估计说五分之一的英国选民是在选举前四个礼拜才决定选谁。这就导致了各 政党在最后
几周花大把大把的钱做广告。英国有法律规定候选人在竞选过程中只能花多少钱，但是对政党
没有规定。


Unit 25 Work and Posts
Dialogues monologues:
1、 Inevitably sometimes I’ll end up working evenings and weekends to meet deadline.
有时候，我为了最后期限前完成工作，无可避免地开夜车、放弃周末加班。
2、 There’s often as much stress or even more, because your success all boils down
to what you do.
压力经常一样、甚至更大，因为你的所有成功都得自你的所作所为。(boil down to sth.
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3、 Sometimes you’ll need to do the books (and let’s hope you’re not too creative
with that), and sometime you have to market your services, or clean up code, or cut
and paste copy.
有时 候你得做书面工作(让我们姑且认为你不在这方面创意泛滥吧)，有时候你必须推广你
们的服务，或者整 理代码，或者剪切、粘贴副本。
4、 You may be working with an entire company’s worth of differing agendas and
personalities to develop a website.
为了建成 一个公司网站，你可能要利用到整个公司的种种议事日程和个性信息。(worth在
这里是个量词，“ 整个的”)
5、 Take the approach that in order to fit in and contribute.
利用刚才的方法及早上手，并作出点贡献吧。
6、 Will I have interesting features from APTN, Reuters, CNN or other partners?
我们会不会上美联环球电视、路透社、有线新闻网或者其他伙伴的特别报道啊?
Passage:
I work in a university library. I’m a library aide which isn’t very high up the
ladder in fact and on those organizational flow charts you get mine is the job put at
the bottom of the page right in the corner. But I like my work which I know makes me
luckier than a lot of people. There’s variety, and I get to meet some interesting people.
In fact I meet people from places I wouldn’t even know where to look for on the map.
There are periods of boredom however, skull-crushing, mind-numbing boredom. And
summer is the worst, as you can imagine summer in a university library doesn’t exactly
buzz. You might think that’s a bonus, especially if you’ve worked somewhere when at
times there is almost nothing to do you can’t appreciate the sense of time creeping,
the felling of sleepiness, the sheer physical dullness in the atmosphere and the sense
of something like panic that sets in at the thought of yet another hour of trying to
shelve from empty shelves or an hour standing at a desk waiting and hoping for readers
to appear. But that only lasts two or three months until, suddenly, they’re back and
the year starts again with its moments of frantic effort and spells of inactivity.
There are a lot of misconceptions about library work—many of which I was guilty
of before I started working in one. Most people think of it, when they think of it at
all, for it seems to have this reputation as dull, as a nice, quiet almost charming
job. Well, think again. At the sharp end it’s hard, heavy and sometimes dangerous work.
And if you think I’m kidding about the dangerous part how about the risk of a heavy
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has nearly happened to me more than once or a five or six pound book dropping on your
head or your foot—both of which actually did happen to me. There are a lot of bruises,
paper cuts—and dust.
For all that I have to repeat I enjoy it. When it’s not dead quiet it’s hectic,
the time flies and you get a good feeling of accomplishment. It’s a nice place to work,
the students mainly are great and so, with one or two exceptions, are the academic staff
we have to deal with. And there’s a good feeling among the staff, especially among
us lowly, put at the foot of the page in the corner aides.
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我在一所大学的图书馆工作。作为一名图书馆的助手，我 的地位不是那么高，甚至在工作
表上我的名字都在最下面的角落里。
但是我喜欢我的工作 ，我觉得这工作使我比许多人都幸运。我能见到各种各样有趣的人。
事实上在我遇到的人中，有些来自我 听都没听说过的地方。
但是有时候也会很无聊，令人无计可施、麻木的无聊。夏天是最难过的。你 可以想象得到
大学的图书馆在夏天毫无生气。你也许会觉得这是件好事，尤其是在不停的工作的时候。但 是
你错了。除非你曾在某些地方工作，在那里你有时完全无事可做只能深切感受时光的流逝，并
且昏昏欲睡;在这样的环境下，你的身体会变得迟钝，一想到又要花一个小时去摆书架或者站在
书桌前等 待读者出现你就会感到恐惧，这些都不是你喜欢的。但是这种情况只会持续两、三个
月，突然学生们都回 来了，新的学年又开始了，大家又重新投入到快节奏的生活当中，偶尔也
会有不活跃的时候。
对于图书馆的工作有很多错误的观念——我对来此工作之前的一些想法感到很惭愧。多数
人在想到这个工 作的时候都觉得这是份有些呆板，但是舒服、安静甚至有些迷人的工作。实际
上这工作很难，并且繁重， 有时还有危险。如果我觉得我说危险是在开玩笑的话，那么挂在书
架上的那么有弹性的金属书挡从书架上 掉下来砸到你的脸上会怎样?这种事差点发生在我身上
可不止一次了;又或者是五、六磅重的书砸在你的 头上或者脚上呢?这些在我身上都发生过。还
有多次的擦伤，被纸割伤——更不要说灰尘。
我还是强调我喜欢这份工作。不死气沉沉的时候就是紧张忙碌的，时间过得飞快，你会很
有成就感。这是 个工作的好地方，除了个别学生不好对付之外，大部分的学生都很好，而且我
们接触的教师也都是搞学术 的。和同事之间的相处感觉也很好，尤其是我们这些名字都排在工
作表角落里。


Unit 26 Find a Job
Dialogues monologues:
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1、 Once, everyday brought new challenges and experiences. Now, As far as your job’s
concerned, you’ve been there, seen it and done it too.
As far as… concerned：就……而言。如：
As far as we’re concerned you can go whenever you want.
就我们而言，随时想走都可以走。
2、My experience it that if you have a control of several languages, then you put
it in, you put that
to use only occasionally—but the occasion is often a highly critical one!
put sth in 花时间(精力)做某事。如：
Thank you for all the hard work you’ve put in.——谢谢你的这一切努力。
全句翻译：我的经验是如果你确实已经掌握了几种语言，也要花 很多时间去练习，因为在
某些场合你会用到这些语言——而这些场合通常都是至关重要的!
Passage:
How to find freelance administrative work
If you have good office management and computer sills, you might consider looking
for freelance administrative work. As a general category, this includes word processing,
data entry, calendar or appointment planning, basic billing and other administrative
support tasks. If you have administrative experience, then all the better for showing
prospective employers that you are knowledgeable, skilled and reliable.
Your first step to finding freelance administrative work is to craft a list of
services. Write something up yourself, then research online and in newspaper classified
ads to get ideas about services to add to your list or other ways to word your offerings.
The goal is to present a comprehensive list of services that leaves no questions in
the reader’s mind.
Once you have this list, you can add your hourly fees. If you’ve unsure about what
your rates should be, call several local temp agencies to learn what they charge their
clients. You can also use the salaries advertised in the newspaper as a guild—simply
divide the annual salary into an hourly rate.
You’ll also need a current resume. Even if you go through temp agencies or Web
sites to find work, having both a resume and a list of services will help you look
professional and easily fill out all the forms and paperwork.
There are many sources for finding work. You many want to target one source at a
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Either way, you will be making lots of phone calls and visiting lots of local businesses
to make your pitch.
You may talk to any previous employers and let them know you are freelancing. Inform
the human resources or temp workers. If you are working now, consider starting your
freelance business on the side and working slowly toward independence. You may even
be able to get freelance work from your company.
You may also do some research at your local library, the chamber of commerce and
through the local paper to target small businesses that might need occasional or ongoing
part-time work. Small operations such as landscaping, construction, food or catering
and painting are sometimes too small to pay for a full-time office helper and too busy
to do the work themselves. These companies could use someone in the office for a few
hours a week or a monthly billing session.
No matter where you get your work, remember that your performance will impact whether
a company wants to hire you again and recommend you to other people. Work-of-mouth is
an important resource for getting work, so make the best of any work and networking
opportunities.
参考译文:
怎样找到行政方面的自由职业
如果你有很强办公室管理能力和电脑技术，也许可以考虑找一份行政 管理方面的自由职业。
根据一般分类，这种工作包括：文字处理，数据输入，制定日程表或者安排会面， 开账单或者
是其他支持性质的行政事务。如果你有行政管理的工作经验，能向未来的雇主展示你是有知识
有技巧，并且可靠的那就更好了。
要找一份自由职业性质的行政管理工作，第一步是要列 一张包含服务内容的清单，首先自
己写一些，然后在网上或是报纸小广告上找找，看还有什么可以添加的 服务内容，或者是用文
字把自己的能力和所能做的事情表达出来。这样做的目的是要做一张一目了然的清 单，不要让
看清单的人心存疑问。
清单做好之后你可以在上面加上自己每小时想要多少工 钱。如果你不确定自己处在哪个标
准，可以打电话去当地的临时事务咨询所问问看他们收取客户多少钱。 你也可以参照报纸上的
薪水建议——只需要简单地把薪水换算成小时费率就可以了。
你还 需要一份现在的简历。即使你是去临时工作事务所的网站上找工作，有简历和清单也
会使你看上去很专业 ，并且能使你很快就能填完所有的表格和书面材料。
你可以从很多地方找工作。也许你每次以一种 渠道为目标，或者把各种渠道打听到的公司
列下来，从其中一些入手。无论是这两种方法中的哪一种，都 需要你打很多电话，并且不停地
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你可以跟以前的任何雇主交谈，让他们知道你现在从事自由职业 。通知人力资源部门，因
为不管是自由职业者还是临时员工的工作都是他们安排的。如果你现在有工作也 可以考虑做点
自由职业作为副业，慢慢地走向独立。你甚至可以从自己的公司接到活干。
你还可以在当地图书馆、商会做些调查，或者是通过当地的报纸来找一些小型的公司，这
样的公司可能会 有不定时的兼职工作或者正有兼职工作。一些像搞园林美化、建设、食品和承
办酒席的小公司承担不了全 职的员工自己又忙不过来，这样的公司可能会需要人手一个礼拜工
作几个小时或是一个月工作一段时间。
不管你是在哪找到的工作，都要记住你的表现，这关系到以后这家公司还会不会用你或者
会 不会推荐你去别的公司。口头宣传对于找工作是很重要的，所以要充分地利用每一次的工作
和人际关系带 来的机会。


Unit 27 Education
Dialogues monologues:
1、I would have thought they'd be very useful for children without brothers and
sisters.
wouldshould have +过去分词，表示“应该做某事”，而实际没有。
本句可以翻译为：我应该想到它们对独生子女是很有用的。
2、The reality is that people learn subjects such as languages and mathematics at
different speeds.
Speed：【俚语】在这里应翻译为： 嗜好，个性：适合某人的兴趣、技能或性格的东西：
E.G. Living in a large city is not my speed.
住在大城市里不是我所喜欢的
1、 My parents recognized that the best learning is learning-by-doing, and they
facilitated a lot of interesting experiences for me, whether it was driving me across
town, paying for courses and lessons, or just including me in their lives.
我的父母认识到，最好的学习方法是边干边学。为此，他 们让我体会了许多有趣的经历：
或者开车带我在镇里转转，或者花钱让我让各种班，或者干脆将我直接纳 入他们的生活。
本句解析：My parents recognized that the best learning is learning-by-doing, and
they facilitated a lot of interesting experiences for me, (前半部分是具有递进意义的
两个并列分句)whether it was driving me across town, paying for courses and lessons,
or just including me in their lives. (后半部分是样态状语从句，其中由三个现在分词短
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2、 interacting with a large group of people my own age was one of the joys I derived
from school.
Derive sth from sth.
<1> 得到，获得。如：
She derived no benefit from the course of drugs. 用药疗程后她并无好转。
<2>对某事物穷本穷源。如：
We can derive the word ‘derelict’ from the Latin ‘derelictus’
derelict 一词的起源可追溯到拉丁词 derelictus。
Passage:
China’s education system
The development of education is of primary importance in china. Under the policy
of “developing the country through science and education,” each child is offered free
education for a compulsory nine years and the education system is constantly being
improved. “oriented towards modernization, the world, and the future” is the guiding
principle for the development of the Chinese education system, both in the long and
the short term.
China’s education system can be divided into the following stages:
Pre-school education is for 3-5 year olds and takes place in kindergartens.
Primary education is from 6-11. Primary schools are usually run by local educational
authorities and over free tuition, although there are some private schools owned by
enterprises and individuals.
Secondary schooling is for children from 12-17 years of age. Education of this kind
is run by local governments and various business authorities. State-run secondary
schools include junior middle schools and senior middle schools, both with three grades
or years. The first three years of secondary school are compulsory and tuition is free.
Senior middle school is not compulsory and students must pay minimal tuition fees.
Private secondary schools often offer specialized education and have a more vocational
bent, but the qualifications they offer are considered to be on the same level as those
of state-run middle schools. However, graduates from secondary professional schools
are seen to have achieved a higher level in some ways akin to a university education.
Students graduating from junior middle schools usually go on to senior middle schools,
although some move to vocational high schools or secondary professional schools for
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For higher education there are vocational courses as well as undergraduate,
postgraduate, and doctoral degrees. Bachelor’s degrees usually require 4-5 years of
study, master’s degrees need 2-3 years and Ph.D.s are granted after 3 years. Higher
education is offered in universities, colleges, institutes, and vocational colleges.
These institutes conduct academic and scientific research and provide social services
as well as offering courses to students. To enter a university or college, students
have to take the national entrance examination, which takes place every July and is
now open to people of all ages. Selection is based on each student’s marks in this
exam, and due to the number of people sitting the exam, getting into university is highly
competitive. Those who fail to get selected have to go to private colleges if they want
to continue their education. Tuition at such colleges is more expensive than at the
state-run universities. Those who have missed out on higher education can continue their
studies as adults in the workplace.
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中国的教育制度
在中国，教育的 发展是至关重要的。在“科教兴国”的方针政策下，每个孩子都有权利享
受9年义务教育并且教育体系也 在不断完善。无论是从长期还是从短期来说，“面向现代化、
世界和未来”是中国教育体制的指导原则。
中国的教育体系可分为以下几个阶段。
3-5岁为幼儿园学前教育阶段。
小学教育是从6岁到11岁。小学是由当地教育部门开办，实行免费。也有由企业和个人办
的私立学校。
中学教育时间为12-17岁。中学是由当地政府和各种商业机构办的。公立的中学包括初中
和高中两个阶段，各三年。初中是免费义务教育，高中不是义务教育，学生要交少量的学费。
私立中学 一般提供专业性的教育，学生的职业技能强一些，但是私立中学所发的文凭和公立中
学所发的是同一水平 。然而，在某些方面从专业学校毕业的学生与接受过大学教育的学生是差
不多的。初中毕业生一般接着上 高中，有些会去上职业高中或者是去技校学习3-5年。
高等教育包括高职、本科、硕士、博士。 拿到学士学位一般需要4-5年时间，硕士学位需
要2-3年，博士学位需要3年。提供高等教育的机构 有大学，专科学院，研究所和职业学院。
这些机构开展学术和科学研究，给学生提供学习课程和社会服务 。要进大学，考生们必须参加
每年平7月举行的全国高考，现在高考面向所有年龄的人开放。大学对学生 的挑选是看高考成
绩，由于参加高考的人数很多，所以竞争很激烈。那些没考上的人如果想要进大学学习 的话只
能去私立大学，私立大学的学费比设立大学高的多。没有接受高等教育的人可以在工作之后继续学习。
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Unit 28 Popular Science
Dialogues monologues:
1、what does the gravity has to do with the planets staying in orbit around the
sun?
has to do with：V. 与……有关
2、It may be a case of communicating knowledge, drawing attention to new issues
or enteraining on the basis of science subjects—and there is no reason why the same
program cannot combine all three.
draw sb attention to sth：令某人注意某事。如：
She draw my attention to the boy who is crying on the road.
3、The film opens with an interview with Andrew Wiles, the man who discovered the
solution to Fermat’s last theorem, which had remained unsolved for centuries.
open with：用……作为开场，以……开头。如：
He opened the conference with a speech of welcome.
4、But I still hope I can open screens of any size depending on the distance I want
to be from the wall in my living-room.
但是我还希望可以根据我离起居室墙的距离随意调整屏幕的大小。
Passage:
The World Wide Lab
The 20th century was the golden age of the laboratory. Answers to the great research
questions were sought within sheltered chambers, where small groups of specialized
experts scaled down (or up) phenomena in joyful isolation. Call it the era of
trickle-down science: knowledge emerged from a confined center of rational
enlightenment, then slowly became known to the rest of society. Science was what was
made inside the walls where white coats were at work. Outside the laboratories boundaries
began the realm of mere experience—not experiment.
Today, all this is changing. Indeed, it would be an understatement to say that soon
nothing, absolutely nothing, will be left of this top-down model of scientific
influence.
First, the laboratory has extended its walls to the whole planet. Instruments are
everywhere. Houses, factories, and hospitals have become lab outposts. Think, for
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biologists can now take measurements outside their laboratories with the same degree
of precision they achieve inside. Meanwhile, a worldwide network of environmental
sensors monitors the planet in real time. And research satellites observe it from above,
as if the earth were under a microscope. The difference between outdoor science and
lab science has slowly eroded.
Second, you no longer need a white coat or a Ph.D. to research specific questions.
Take the AFM, a French patient advocacy group that focuses on ignored genetic diseases.
It has hired researchers, pushed for controversial procedures like genetic therapy,
and built an entire industry, producing at once a new social identity and a new research
agenda. In the U.S., the audacity to challenge the experts, to storm the labs, started
with AIDS activists and breast cancer groups; not it has spread to interested parties
of all sorts, from patients who organize their own clinical trials to environmentalists
who do their won fieldwork. A crucial part of doing science is formulating the questions
to be solved; it’s clear that scientists are no longer alone in this endeavor.
Third, there is the question of scale. The size and complexity of scientific
phenomena under examination has grown to the point that scaling them down to fit in
a laboratory is becoming increasingly difficult. Think of global warming: to be sure,
labs are running complex models on huge computers. But how do you simulate a phenomenon
that is happening on us, with us, through the action of each of us as much as those
of entire oceans and the high atmosphere? If the working hypothesis for global warming
is that it’s a product of human activity, isn’t the only way to test this hypothesis
to stop our harmful emissions and see—later and collectively—what has happened?
The sharp divide between a scientific inside, where experts are formulating theories,
and a political outside, where non-experts are getting by with human values, is
evaporating. And the more it does, the more the fate of humans is linked to that of
things, the more a scientific statement(“the earth is warming)resembles a political
one(“the earth is warming!). The matters of fact of science become matters of concern
of politics.
参考译文:
20世纪是实验 室的黄金时期。一组一组的专家们抱着愉快的心情躲在实验室里分析各种现
象，他们正是在这些隐蔽的实 验室探索那些伟大研究课题的答案。我们把这个叫做滴入式科学
时代，即研究成果先从实验室出来，然后 再慢慢向社会传播。科学是实验室里那些穿大白褂的
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今天，所有的这一切都变了。当然，说在科学影响方面这种自上而下的模式将不复存在，
只是轻描淡写。
首先，实验室已将领域扩张到了全世界，到处都是仪器。房子，工厂，医院已经成了实验
场 所。比方说全球定位系统：由于卫星的覆盖网络，地质学家和生物学家可以在实验室外面进
行测量而且精 确度和在实验室里测量的一样。同时，全球的环境监测器随时对地球进行观察，
就仿佛把地球置于一个显 微镜下面。室外科学和实验室科学之间的差异正在慢慢消失。
其次，不再非得是穿白大褂的研究人 员或者是博士才可以对具体的问题进行研究。像AFM，
一个法国病人组织，主要针对不被重视的基因疾 病。这个组织专门请了研究人员，力图在诸如
基因治疗这样备受争议的研究上取得进展，而且他们建立了 一整套体系，这套体系在为该组织
获得新的社会地位的同时还设置了一个新的研究日程。在美国，关心艾 滋病的活动家们和乳癌
组织首先大胆地对专家们提出挑战并且攻击实验室。这种影响现在已经扩大到了各 种利益集团，
从自己组织临床试验的病人到亲自进行实地调查的环境保护者。做科学最关键的就是阐述那 些
等待解决的问题，很显然，在这方面科学家们不再是单独的团体。
再次，还有范围的问 题。要想到等待检测的科学现象的范围缩小到适合实验室的研究是越
来越难了。想想全球变暖的问题：可 以肯定的是，复杂的模型在实验室里巨大的电脑上运行。
但是怎么样模拟我们身上以及周围正在发生的现 象?还有我们的行为所引起的整个海洋和大气
层上空所发生的现象?如果全球变暖是由人类活动的这一假 设可行的话，那么检测这个假设的唯
一方法是不是就是停止释放有害气体然后集中来看会发生什么?
实验室内部是科学家们构思假设的地方，而外部是非科学家们靠人类价值勉强维持的政治，
这两者之间的差异正在消失。而且，这种差异越消失，人类的命运就越与政治联系在一起。科
学的表述( 地球正在变暖!)体现的是政治的表述(地球正在变暖!)。科学的事实变成了与政治利
益有关的事情。


Unit 29 History
Dialogues monologues:
1、 Brief Account of the history of China. (中国历史简述)
Account：在这里应理解为“说明”的意思。
2、 China traces its origins as a clearly separate political and cultural unit to
ancient times.
追溯到古代，中国是一个政治与文化划分得很清楚的国家。
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3、 The dominating class in the later dynasties was made up of scholar-officials,
who were recruited to serve the government based on their intelligence and skills rather
than their family background.
(1)make up of sth 由……组成。如：
Farming and mining make up most of the country’s industry.
(2)rather than 与其(某人某事)，不愿，不要，不是。如：
It’s management that’s at fault rather than the work-force.
错在资方而不在劳方。
4、 Its downfall in 1911 led the country to be torn apart by warlords, civil war,
and Japanese invasion for several decades.
tear sth apart：彻底毁灭或击败某物，严厉地批评某事物。如：
The critics tore her new play to pieces. (剧评家们把她的新戏批评得一无是处。)
5、 Governor Arthur Phillip directed the ships carrying “transported” convicts
and jailors into Jackson, to the north.
transported 在这里为过去分词作定语，修饰 convicts and jailors.
Passage:
Why study history?
I turned down the lights in my classroom and asked the students to close their eyes
and, “Imagine you are at a beach on a sunny day.” With your mind’s eye, look around
you. You see the waves lapping at the shore. To your left you see children in colorful
swimsuits building sand castles, laughing and splashing in the water. To the right you
see a boat dock painted blue. Several small boats are tied to the dock. You are living
in the present, observing your surroundings and feeling the warmth of the sun on your
skin.
After spending some time sitting on the beach, you are becoming bored and hot, and
you begin to think of the future. What do you want to do? How did you decide? Based
on your past experience you know the water will be cool and refreshing, and playing
in the waves will be fun, so you decide to go for a swim. Living in the present, you
are making a plan for the future based on your knowledge of the past. The present, the
future and the past are always tied together and are always with us.
It’s getting later now, and the sun is beginning to set over the water. It is time
to think about going home. You recall that you arrived at the beach on a boat and that
you left the boat tied to the dock. You know how you will get home. This knowledge is
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comforting, and you decide to stay awhile longer and enjoy the sunset. As you can see,
your decisions about the future are based on your knowledge of the past.
But, suddenly a spaceship falls from the sky knocking you unconscious. You awake
with amnesia, remembering nothing of the past. You don’t know why you are on a beach,
where home is or how to get there. It’s getting dark and you are frightened. You groaned
in agony because your loss of the past means you are hopelessly lost in trying to cope
with the future.
Relax. You will probably never be struck by a falling spaceship… and you will learn
what you need to know about beaches and swimming and getting home from your own personal
experience. But, how will you learn of important thing that you cannot experience for
yourself? How will you learn of the larger world outside your own personal experience?
This is why we have schools, so you can learn from the experiences of others gathered
over centuries of human experience. Without this knowledge, you would suffer from a
kind of amnesia that would leave you lost when it comes to understanding important
matters in you future. For example, why would foreign terrorists want to attack you
and other Americans? Should the United States go to war with Iraq? Should we try to
stop global warming? Should we work for economic justice in the world? Should scientists
be allowed to alter human genes?
You live in a free society, in a democracy, where citizens are expected to help
decide these kind of issues and—the truth is—citizens DO help decide important issues
in our country. It was the people, not the government, that brought the Vietnam War
to an end. It was the people who led the way in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s;
the government followed. The people of the United States, and their elected
representatives, will decide if they can support a war against Iraq.
We all need knowledge from the past—whether it comes from personal experience or
from studying history. It is our only guide to the future.
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我将教室的灯光调暗并且叫学生们闭上眼睛， “想象这是阳光灿烂的一天，你在海边，”
用你想象的眼睛去看看周围，你看见波浪在拍打着海岸。左边 是穿着五颜六色泳衣的孩子，有
的在用沙子做城堡，有的笑着，有的在戏水;右边有一个漆成蓝色的船坞 ，上面系着几艘船。你
身处现在，一边观察着周围，一边感受着阳光照在身上的温暖。
在 沙滩上坐了一会儿后，你觉得无聊了并且感觉热，然后你开始考虑接下来的事情。你想
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思，所以你决定去游泳。你身在现在，但是却在根据以前的经验为将 来作计划。现在，将来，
过去，这三者总是连在一起也总是伴随着我们的。
天色渐晚了， 太阳慢慢地隐没在水中。该是考虑回家的时候了。你记起来你是坐船来海边
的，而且把船系在船坞上了， 你知道怎么回家。想到这里你感到很欣慰，并且决定再多待一会
儿，享受一下夕阳西下的美景。就像你所 知道的，关于未来的决定是以过去的经验为基础的。
但是，突然一艘宇宙飞船从空中掉下来把你打 晕了，你醒了过来但是失忆了，过去的事情
什么都不记得了。你不知道自己为什么在海滩上，家在哪，怎 么回去。天黑了，你感到很害怕。
你痛苦的叹息，因为你失去了过去就意味着没有办法应付将来的事情。
放松，你也许永远也不会被掉下来的宇宙飞船砸中，而且你会从自身的经验中得到你需要
知 道关于海滩、游泳和回家的事情。但是你怎么学习那些自己无法亲身体会但是又很重要的事
情呢?你怎么 学习自己没经历过的外面的世界呢?
这就是为什么我们有学校，因为有学校所以我们可以学习几个 世纪以来前人所积累的经验。
没有这些知识，你可能要经历一种失忆的感觉，这种感觉会使你在将来面临 很多重要的事情的
时候感到迷失。例如说，为什么国外的恐怖分子想要袭击你和其他美国人?美国应该对 伊拉克发
动战争吗?我们应该阻止全球变暖吗?我们应该为世界经济的公正而努力吗?科学家应该修改人
类的基因吗?
我们生活在一个自由民主的社会，在这样的社会中，公民应该协助政府在这 些问题上作决
定，事实上，我们国家的公民确实在这些问题上起了作用。结束越南战争的不是政府，而是 人
民。站在60年代民权运动最前面的也是人民，政府跟在后面。美国的人民以及他们所选出来的
代表会决定是否应该支持对伊拉克的战争。
我们都需要过去的经验——不管是我们的亲身经验还是从历史中学来的，它是我们前进的
唯一指导。


Unit 30 Geography
Dialogues monologues:
1、Geography has been integrating many different subjects in its approach.
has been integrating：现在完成进行时
现在完成进行时与现在完成时皆可表示动作 对现在产生的结果，但前者所表示的结果是直
接的，而后者所表示的则是最后结果。如：
A：Be careful! John has been painting the door.
B ：John has painted the door.
A句表示约翰刚刚把门刷漆过，现在油漆还末干，所以得小心。
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2、Many schools have eliminated geography in favor of more math and science courses.
In favor of：
(1)赞成某人某事;支持某人某事。如：
Was he in favor of the death penalty? (他赞成死刑吗?)
(2)(指支票)以某人某部门为收款人。如：
Cheques should be written in favor of the Red Cross.
支票上请写明以红十字会为收款人。
3、SoI has a vital social cause other than recovering costs.
other than
(1) 除了(表示所说的不包括在内)。如：
She has no close friends other than him. (她除了他之外没有好朋友。)
(2) 不同于，而不。如：
I have never known him behave other than selfish. (我只知道他自私自利。)
4、At least, if someone like moved to your school and they’re like “I’m from
whatever country” and you don’t know where that is ,it’s kind of sad.
Passage:
Ecosphere thinking
Although in theory every educated person knows that the world is more than people,
resources, and a vague environment to be protected, the very fact of seeing it as one
spherical air-water-land system gives it a new and different reality. From a vantage
point outside our home, a revealing perspective has shown us the planet for what it
really is; a ball of living star dust, a four- and-one-billion year old miracle.
Perhaps the strange human desire to fly away from the planet, to “slip the surly
bonds of earth,” is a necessary impulse for discovering who we are. Perhaps we can
never be satisfied on earth until we have traveled away in space and come back home,
back to our roots, to where we belong.
To the question, “what is the world?” the answers still tend to be ambiguous.
In the traditional sense, the earth remains the supportive environment for humanity;
merely the means for enhancement of the one animal “made in God’s image.” To physical
science that has denatured reality the world is a material place of molecules and atoms,
of solids, liquids and gases, of atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere.
For biological science it is a scene wherein mechanistic organisms compete for survival,
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until transformed by the “innovative genius of man” into marketable commodities. There
are our humanistic homo-centred legacies—no longer reasonable.
In the profounder ecological sense, the world is now known as a unity. The various
spheres—atom, hydro, litho, and bio—are intertwined and related, both in the
historical evolutionary sense and in the present functional sense. Organic tissues of
living things are fashioned from the elements of air, water and soil which in turn bear
the imprints of life. Thus, the nutrient composition of sea water is maintained by
organisms which also stabilize the improbable composition of the atmosphere. Plants
and animals formed the limestone in mountains whose sediments make our bones. Our blood
and sea water are akin. On the earth’s surface the artificial divisions that we have
made between living and non-living, biotic and abiotic, organic and inorganic, are not
only false but mischievous.
The reality of the world is not people and separate “other things”. Nor is the
earth a machine whose secrets lie in its fragmented parts. It is — beyond all
understanding—an integrated ecosphere of marvelous creativity.
The root meaning of “eco” is “home”, and the revealed ecosphere is the
home-sphere from which all life came and in which all life exists. Thanks to NASA,
ecology—which means study of the home—has had its eyes opened to the reality of the
Home of all homes.
Ecology needs to escape its obsession with organisms—the legitimate subject matter
of biology—and fasten its attention on the larger whole in which organisms, including
people, function as parts. Ecology’s natural subject of interest is the earth-home,
the ecosphere, not its fragmentary compositional parts. Ecology studies the whole;
biology studies the organic constituents of the whole that are no more important than
air, water and soil.
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从理论上讲，所有受过教育的人都知 道不光是人、资源和一个模糊的需要保护的环境，把
世界看作是一个空气—水—土地为整体的球体会赋予 它一个全新的、不同的实际意义。从地球
以外的有利地位来看，地球是一个有生命的、虚无缥缈的球体， 一个有着50亿年生命的奇迹。
人类有一个奇怪的想法，那就是从地球上远走高飞以挣脱这个乖戾 的星球。或许这个冲动
对于发现我们究竟是谁是必要的。也许我们永远不会对地球感到满足，直到我们去 太空旅行一
圈再回来，回到我们的根，回到这个我们从属的地方。
对于“什么是地球?” 这个问题的答案还不明确。从传统的感觉上讲，地球仍是给予人类支
持的环境;它的作用仅仅是增强人类 这种“以上帝形象创造的”动物。对于具有变性的物理学来
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对于 生物学家来说，世界是一个有机理性的有机物为了生存而展开竞争的地方，这种竞争是被
自私所驱;对经 济学家来说，地球是原材料和资源，这些资源如果不被人类天才般的创造力转化
为市场商品的话就毫无价 值。这些都是以人类为中心的人本主义思想的遗留物，已经不再合理。
站在深刻的生态学角度，世 界现在被看作是一个整体。各个圈——大气圈，水圈，岩石圈，
生物圈——都是相互依赖相互联系的，不 管是以过去进化的角度来看还是以现在功能的角度来
看。生物休的有机经组织是由空气、水和土壤中的元 素构成，这些元素都带着生命的印记。海
水中的养分保存在有机物中，有机物对大气层奇异的构成也有稳 定作用。山上的植物和动物形
成石灰岩，石灰岩的沉积物构成人体骨骼。我们的血液和海水相近。在地球 表面，我们对生物
和非生物、生命体和非生命体、有机物和无机物所作的人为划分不光是错误而且是有害 的。
真正的世界不是人类和分开的“其他东西”;也不是一台机器，这台机器的秘密在于所分裂< br>的各个部分。真正的世界——不同于所有的理解——是一个完整的，充满了各种绝妙创造物的
生物 圈。
“eco”的根本意思是“家”。裸露的生物圈就是家，我们从这个家里来也在这个家里生存 。
多亏了美国宇航局，生态学——也就是研究我们的家园——已经注意到我们这个大家庭的现实。
生态学需要逃离有机生物的束缚——有机物是生物学的正规课题——而将注意力放在更大
范 围上。有机生物，包括人，只是这个范围的一部分。生态学本质主题的兴趣在于地球——我
们的家、生物 圈，而不是分裂开的各个组成部分。生态学研究的是整体;生物学研究的是这个整
体里的有机成分，这些 有机成分并不比空气、水和土壤更重要。

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