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1
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A scarce fierce
bird can easily pierce a commercial boat with
great force.
一只珍稀的猛禽能轻易地用力量穿透一只商船。
2
、
A mistake in
staking can overtake you like an earthquake.
下注的一个错误能像地震一样压倒你。
3
、
Handsome men
are wholesome, though tiresome.
英俊的男人有益健康,虽也令人疲倦。
4
、
The
newly
described
languages
were
often
so
strikingly
different
from
the
well
studied languages of Europe and
Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused
Boas
and Sapir of fabricating their
data.
这些新近被描述的语
言和得到充分研究的欧洲和东南亚地区的语言往往差别显著,
以至
于有些学者甚至指责
Boas
和
Sa
pir
编造了材料。
5
、
As
a physician, I know the most costly and dramatic
measures may be ineffective
and
painful.
作为一名医生
,我深知最昂贵和最激进的手段也可能是无效的和痛苦的。
6
、
This passage
appears to be a digest of a book review.
本文似乎是一篇书评的摘要。
7
、
With the start of BBC World Service
Television, millions of viewers in Asia and
America can now watch the Corporation’s
news coverage, as well as listen to it.
随着
BB
C(
英国广播公司
)
全世界电视节目的
开播,
亚洲和美洲的数以百万计的人不仅可
以听到它的新闻广播
,而且也能看到它的电视新闻报道了。
8
、
The
big city bewildered the old woman from the
countryside.
大城市把乡下来的老奶奶弄糊涂了。
9
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The
saw a bizarre animal in the lake.
他们在湖中看见一个奇怪的动物。
10
、
Her face
beamed with joy.
她面露喜色。
11
、
The applauding
shepherd in the yard cannot offer the hazard of
laughing at the
absurd landlord who has
a sword in his hand.
院子里正在鼓掌的牧人无法承受嘲笑那个手里有剑的荒唐地主的代价。
12
、
An agreeable
fable comes from a noticeable cable which has been
supposed to
reliable and remarkable for
an available variable. The message has enable the
preferable
innumerable.
一个宜人的故事从一条被认为是可靠且可观的重要电缆传给了
一个可获得的变量。
这一
消息使可疑的东西变得有理由,
无理的东西变得有能力,
可观的东西变得不可忍受,
< br>而可取
的东西则变得无可计数了。
13
、
The experience
as audience gives us both conscience and obedience
which will
then lead to our patience
instead of violence.
做听众的经验使得我们有了良心和顺从,这将让我们具备耐心而非暴力。
14
、<
/p>
Anthropologists have discovered that
fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise are
universally reflected in facial
expression.
人类学
家们已经发现,恐惧,快乐,悲伤和惊奇都会行之于色,这在全人类是共通的。
15
、
It is more
difficult to write simply, directly, and
effectively than to employ flowery
but
vague expression that only obs
cure
one’s meaning.
简明,直接,有力的写作难于花哨,含混而意义模糊的表达。
16
、
With
modern offices becoming more
mechanized, designers are attempting
to
personalize them with warmer, less
severe interiors.
< br>随着现代办公室的日益自动化,
设计师们正试图利用较为温暖而不太严肃的内部装
饰来
使其具有亲切感。
17
、
The difference
between libel and slander is that libel is printed
while slander is
spoken.
诽谤和流言的区别在于前者是书面的,而后者是口头的。
18
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The knee is
the joints where the thigh bone meets the large
bone of the lower leg.
膝盖是大腿骨和小腿胫的连接处。
19
、
Acids
are
chemical
compounds
that,
in
water
solution,
have
a
sharp
taste,
a
corrosive action on metals, and the
ability to turn certain blue vegetable dyes red.
酸是一种化合物,
它在溶于水时具有强烈的气味和对金属的腐蚀性,
并且能够使某些蓝
色植物染料变红。
20
、Billie Holiday’s
reputation as a great jazz
-blues singer
rests on her ability to give
emotional
depth to her songs.
Billie Holiday’s
作为一个爵士布鲁斯乐杰出
歌手的名声建立在能够赋予歌曲感情深度的
能力。
21
、
Essentially, a
theory is an abstract, symbolic representation of
what is conceived to be
reality.
理论在本质上是对认识了的现实的一种抽象和符号化的表达。
22
、
Thanks to
modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in
areas where once
nothing but cacti and
sagebrush could live.
受当代灌溉
(
技术设施
)
之赐,
农作物在原来只有仙人掌和荞属科植物才能生存的地方
旺
盛的生长。
23
、
The
development of mechanical timepieces spurred the
search for more accurate
sundials with
which to regulate them.
p>
机械计时器的发展促使人们寻求更精确的日晷,以便校准机械计时器。
24
、
Anthropology
is a science in that anthropologists use a
rigorous set of methods
and techniques
to document observations that can be checked by
others.
人类学是一门科
学,
因为人类学家采用一整套强有力的方法和技术来记录观测结果,
而
这样记录下来的观测结果是供他人核查的。
25
、
Fungi are
important in the process of decay, which returns
ingredients to the soil,
enhances soil
fertility, and decomposes animal debris.
真菌在腐化过程中十分重要,
p>
而腐化过程将化学物质回馈于土壤,
提高其肥力,
< br>并分解
动物粪便。
26
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When it is
struck, a tuning fork produces an almost pure
tone, retaining its pitch
over a long
period of time.
音叉被敲击时,产生几乎纯质的音调,其音量经久不衰。
27
、
Although
pecans are most plentiful in the southeastern part
of the United States,
they are found as
far north as Ohio and Illinois.
虽然美洲山河桃树最集中于美国的东南部但是在北至俄亥俄州
及伊利诺州也能看见它
们。
28
、
Eliminating
problems
by
transferring
the
blame
to
others
is
often
called
scape-goating.
用怪罪别人的办法来解决问题通常被称为寻找替罪羊。
29
、
The chief
foods eaten in any country depend largely on what
grows best in its
climate and soil.
一个国家的主要食物是什么,大体
取决于什么作物在其天气和土壤条件下生长得最好。
30
、Over a very
large number of trials, the probability of an
event’s occurring is equal
to the
probability that it will not occur.
在大量的实验中,某一事件发生的几率等于它不发生的几率。
31
、Most substance contract
when they freeze so that the density of a
substance’s
solid is higher than the
density of its liquid.
大多数物质遇冷收缩,所以他们的密度在固态时高于液态。
32
、
The mechanism
by which brain cells store memories is not clearly
understood.
大脑细胞储存记忆的机理并不为人明白。
33
、
By the middle
of the twentieth century, painters and sculptors
in the United States
had begun to exert
a great worldwide influence over art.
到了二十一世纪中叶,美国画家和雕塑家开始在世界范围内对
艺术产生重大影响。
34
、
In the eastern
part of New Jersey lies the city of Elizabeth, a
major shipping and
manufacturing
center.
伊丽莎白市,一
个重要的航运和制造业中心,坐落于新泽西州的东部。
35
、
Elizabeth
Blackwell, the first woman medical doctor in the
United States, founded
the New York
Infirmary, an institution that has always had a
completely female medical
staff.
Elizabeth Black
well
,美国第一个女医生,创建了员工一直为女性纽约诊所。
36
、
Alexander
Graham Bell once told his family that he would
rather be remembered
as a teacher of
the deaf than as the inventor of the telephone.
Alexander
Graham Bell
曾告诉家人,他更愿意让后人记住他是聋子的老师,而非电话<
/p>
的发明者。
37
、
Because
its
leaves
remain
green
long
after
being
picked,
rosemary
became
associated with the idea of
remembrance.
采摘
下的迷迭香树叶常绿不衰,因此人们把迷迭香树与怀念联系在一起。
38
、
Although
apparently rigid, bones exhibit a degree of
elasticity that enables the
skeleton to
withstand considerable impact.
骨头看起来是脆硬的,但它也有一定的弹性,使得骨骼能够承
受相当的打击。
39
、
That
xenon
could
not
FORM
chemical
compounds
was
once
believed
by
scientists.
科学家曾相信:氙气是不能形成化合物的。
40
、
Research into
the dynamics of storms is directed toward
improving the ability to
predict these
events and thus to minimize damage and avoid loss
of life.
对风暴动力学
的研究是为了提高风暴预测从而减少损失,避免人员伤亡。
41
、
The
elimination of inflation would ensure that the
amount of money used in repaying a
loan
would have the same value as the amount of money
borrowed.
消除通货膨胀应确保还贷的钱应与所贷款的价值相同。
42
、
Futurism, an
early twentieth-century movement in art, rejected
all traditions and
attempted to glorify
contemporary life by emphasizing the machine and
motion.
未来主义,
p>
二十世纪早期的一个艺术思潮。
拒绝一切传统,
试图通过强调机械和动态来
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