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1. Typical of the grasslanddwellers of
the continent
is the American antelope,
or pronghorn.
1.
美洲羚羊，或称叉角羚，是该大陆典型的草原动物。
2. Of the millions who saw Haley's
comet in 1986, how
many peoplewill live
long enough to see it return in the
twenty-first century.
2.
1
986
年看见哈雷慧星的千百万人当中，有多少人能够长
寿到足
以目睹它在二十一世纪的回归呢？
3. Anthropologists have
discovered that fear,
happiness,
sadness,and
surprise
are
universally
reflected
in facial
expressions.
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/p>
3.
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。
4.
Because
of
its
irritating
effect
on
humans,
the
use
of phenol
asa general antiseptic has been largely
discontinued.
4.
由于苯酚对人体带有刺激性作用
，
它基本上已不再被当作
常用的防腐剂了。
5. In group to remain in existence, a
profit-making
organizationmust, in the
long run, produce something
consumers
consider useful ordesirable.
5.
任何
盈利组织若要生存，
最终都必须生产出消费者可用或
需要的产品
。
6. The greater the population there is
in a locality,
the greaterthe need
there is for water, transportation,
and
disposal of refuse.
6.
一个地方的人口越多，
其对水，
交通和垃圾处理的需求就
会越大。
7.
It
is
more
difficult
to
write
simply,
directly,
and
effectivelythan to employ flowery but
vague expressions
that only obscure
one's meaning.
7.
简明，
直接，
有力的写作难于花哨，
含混而意义模糊的表
达。
8. With modern offices becoming more
mechanized,
designers areattempting to
personalize them with warmer,
less
severe interiors.
8.
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。
9. The difference between
libel and slander is that
libel is
printedwhile slander is spoken.
9.
诽谤
和流言的区别在于前者是书面的，而后者是口头的。
10. The knee is
the joints where the thigh bone meets
the large boneof the lower leg.
10.
膝盖是大腿骨和小腿胫的连接处。
11. Acids are chemical compounds that,
in water
solution,
have
asharp
taste,
a
corrosive
action
on
metals,
and
the ability to turn certain bluevegetable dyes
red.
11.
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。
12.
Billie
Holiday's
reputation
as
a
great
jazz-blues
singer restson her ability to give
emotional depth to her
songs.
12.
Billie Holiday's
作为一个爵士布鲁斯乐杰出歌手的
< br>名声建立在能够赋予歌曲感情深度的能力。
13.
Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic
representation ofwhat is conceived to
be reality.
13.
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。
14. Long before children
are able to speak or
understand a
language,they communicate through facial
expressions and by making noises.
14.
儿童在能说或能听懂语言之前，很久就会通过面部表情
和靠发出
噪声来与人交流了。
15. Thanks to modern
irrigation, crops now grow
abundantly
in areaswhere once nothing but cacti and
sagebrush could live.
15.
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。
16. The development of mechanical
timepieces spurred
the search formore
accurate sundials with which to
regulate them.
16.
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。
17.
Anthropology
is
a
science
in
that
anthropologists
use a
rigorousset of methods and techniques to document
observations that can be checked
byothers.
17.
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。
18.
Fungi
are
important
in
the
process
of
decay,
which
returnsingredients to the soil,
enhances soil fertility,
and decomposes
animal debris.
18.
真菌在腐化过程中十分重要，而腐化过程将化学物质回<
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馈于土壤，提高其肥力，并分解动物粪便。
19.
When
it
is
struck,
a
tuning
fork
produces
an
almost
pure tone,retaining
its pitch over a long period of time.
19.
音
叉被敲击时，
产生几乎纯质的音调，
其音量经久不衰。
20. Although pecans are most plentiful
in the
southeastern part ofthe United
States, they arefound as
far north as
Ohio and Illinois.
20.
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。
ating problems
by transferring the blame to
others is
often calledscape-goating.
21.
用怪罪别人的办法来解决问题
通常被称为寻找替罪羊。
22.
The
chief
foods
eaten
in
any
country
dependlargely
on what grows
best in its climate and soil.
22.
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。
23.
Over
a
very
large
number
of
trials,
theprobability
of an event's
occurring is equal to the probability that
it willnot occur.
23.
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。
24.
Most substance contract when they freeze so
thatthe density of a substance's solid
is higher than the
density of its
liquid.
24.
大多数物质遇冷收缩，所以他们的密度在固态时高于液
态。
25. The mechanism by which
brain cells store
memoriesis not
clearly understood.
25.
大脑细胞储存记忆的机理并不
为人明白。
26. By the middle of the
twentieth century,
paintersand
sculptors in the United States had begun to
exert a great worldwideinfluence over
art.
26.
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。
27. In the eastern part of
New Jersey lies the city
of Elizabeth,a
major shipping and manufacturing center.
27.
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。
28. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first
woman
medicaldoctor in the United
States,founded the New York
Infirmary,
an institution that has always had a
completelyfemale medical staff.
28.
Elizabeth Blackwell
，美国第一个女医生，创建了员
工一直为女性纽约诊所。
29.
Alexander
Graham
Bell
once
told
his
family
thathe
would rather be remembered as a teacher
of the deaf than
as the inventor ofthe
telephone.
29. Alexander Graham Bell
曾告诉
家人，他更愿意让后人
记住他是聋子的老师，而非电话的发明者。
30. Because its leaves remain green
long after
beingpicked, rosemary became
associated with the idea of
remembrance.
30.
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。
31.
Although
apparently
rigid,
bones
exhibit
a
degree
of elasticitythat
enables the skeleton to withstand
considerable impact.
31.
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。
32. That xenon could not FORM chemical
compounds
wasonce believed by
scientists.
32.
科学家曾相信：氙气是不能形成化合物的。
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33. Research into the dynamics of
storms is
directedtoward improving the
ability to predict these
events and
thus to minimizedamage and avoid loss of life.
33.
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。
34.
The
elimination
of
inflation
would
ensure
thatthe
amount
of
money
used
in
repaying
a
loan
would
have
the
same
value as theamount of money borrowed.
34.
消除通货膨胀应确保还贷的钱应与所贷款的价值相同。
35.
Futurism, an early twentieth-century movement
inart, rejected all traditions and
attempted to glorify
contemporary life
byemphasizing the machine and motion.
35.
未
来主义，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美化
生活。
36. One of the wildest and most
inaccessible parts
ofthe United States
is the Everglades where wildlife is
abundant and largelyprotected.
36.
Everglades
是美国境内最为荒凉和人迹罕至的地区之
一，此处有大量的野生动植物而且大多受
(
法律
)
保护。
37. Lucretia
Mott's influence was so significant
thatshe has been credited by some
authorities as the
originator of
feminism in the United States.
37. Lucretia Mo
tt's
的影响巨大，所以一些权威部门认定
她为美国女权运动
的创始人。
38. The activities of the
international
marketingresearcher are
frequently much broader than
those of
the domestic marketer.
38.
国际市场研究者的活动范围常
常较国内市场研究者广
阔。
39.
The
continental
divide
refers
to
an
imaginaryline
in the North American Rockies that
divides the waters
flowing into the
Atlantic Ocean from those flowing into
the Pacific.
39.
大陆分水岭是指北美洛矶山脉
上的一道想象线，该线把
大西洋流域和太平洋流域区分开来。
40.
Studies
of
the
gravity
field
of
the
Earthindicate
that its crust and mantle yield when
unusual weight is
placed on them.
40.
对地球引力的研究表明，在不寻常的负荷之下地壳和地
幔会发生
位移。
annual
worth
of
Utah'smanufacturing
is
greater
than that of its
mining and farming combined.
41.
尤
它州制造业的年产值大于其工业和农业的总和。
42.
The
wallflower
is
so
called
because
its
weakstems
often grow on walls and along stony
cliffs for support.
42.
墙花之所以叫墙花，是因为其
脆弱的枝干经常要靠墙壁
或顺石崖生长，以便有所依附。
43.
It is the interaction between people, rather
thanthe
events
that
occur
in
their
lives,
that
is
the
main
focus of socialpsychology.
43.
社
会心理学的主要焦点是人与人之间的交往，而不是他
们各自生活中的事件。
44. No social crusade aroused Elizabeth
Williams'enthusiasm more than the
expansion of
educational
facilities
for
immigrants
tothe
United
States.
44.
给
美国的新移民增加教育设施比任何社会运动都更多的
激发了
El
izabeth Williams
的热情。
45.
Quails typically have short rounded wings
thatenable
them
to
spring
into
full
flight
instantly
when
disturbed in their hidingplaces.
45.
典型的鹌鹑都长有短而圆的翅膀，凭此他们可以在受惊
时一跃而
起，飞离它们的躲藏地。
46. According to
anthropologists, the
earliestancestors
of humans that stood upright resembled
chimpanzees facially, withsloping
foreheads and
protruding brows.
46.
根据人类学家的说法，直立行走的人的鼻祖面部轮廓与
黑猩猩相
似，额头后倾，眉毛突出。
47. Not until 1866 was the
fully
successfultransatlantic cable
finally laid.
47.
直到
1866
< br>年第一条横跨大西洋的电缆才完全成功的架
通。
48.
In
his
writing,
John
Crowe
Ransom
describes
whathe
considers the spiritual barrenness of
society brought
about by science
andtechnology.
48. John Crowe Ransom
在他的著作中描
述了他认为是由科
学技术给社会带来的精神贫困。
49.
Children with parents whose guidance is
firm,consistent,
and
rational
are
inclined
to
possess
high
levels ofself-confidence.
49.
父
母的教导如果坚定，始终如一和理性，孩子就有可能
充满自信。
50. The ancient Hopewell people of
North America
probably cultivated corn
and other crops,but hunting and
gathering were still of critical
importance in their
economy.
50.
北美远古的
Hopewell
人很可能
种植了玉米和其他农作
物，但打猎和采集对他们的经济贸易仍是至关重要的。
51.
Using
many
symbols
makes
it
possible
to
put
alarge
amount of inFORMation
on a single map.
51.
使用多种多样的符号可以在一
张地图里放进大量的信
息。
52. Anarchism
is a term describing a cluster
ofdoctrines
and
attitudes
whose
principal
uniting
feature
is the belief
thatgovernment is both harmful and
unnecessary.
52.
无
go-vern-ment<
/p>
主义这个词描述的是一堆理论和态度，
它们的主要共同点在于相信
go-vern-
ment
是有害的，没有必要
的。
53. Probably no man had more effect on
the dailylives
of most people in the
Untied States than did Henry Ford
a
pioneer inautomobile production.
53.
恐
怕没有谁对大多数美国人的日常生活影响能超过汽车
生产的先驱亨利
.
福特。
54. The use of
well-chosen nonsense words
makespossible
the
testing
of
many
basic
hypotheses
in
the
field of
languagelearning.
54.
使用精心挑选的无意义词汇，
可以检验语言学科里许多
基本的假定。
55.
The history of painting is a fascinating chain
ofevents
that
probably
began
with
the
very
first
pictures