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Lesson 1
Face to Face with Hurricane
Camille
1. We're elevated 23
feet. (para 3)
We' re 23 feet above sea
level.
2. The place has been
here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever
bothered it. (para 3)
The house has
been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever
caused any damage to it.
3. We can
batten down and ride it out. (para 4)
We can make the necessary preparations
and survive the hurricane without much damage.
4. The generator was doused, and the
lights went out. (para 9)
Water got
into the generator and put it out. It stopped
producing electricity, so the lights
also went out.
5. Everybody
out the back door to the cars! (para 10)
Everybody go out through the back door
and run to the cars.
6. The electrical
systems had been killed by water. (para 11)
The electrical systems in the car had
been put out by water.
7. John watched
the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing
guilt. (para 17)
As John watched the
water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong
sense of guilt because
he blamed
himself for endangering the whole family by
deciding not to flee inland.
8. Get us
through this mess, will You? (para 17)
Oh God, please help us to get through
this storm safely.
9. She carried on
alone for a few bars; then her voice trailed away.
(para 21)
Grandmother Koshak sang a few
words alone and then her voice gradually grew
dimmer
and stopped.
10.
Janis had just one delayed reaction. (para 34)
Janis displayed rather late the
exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension
caused by
the hurricane.
Lesson 2
1. The burying-ground is
merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a
derelict building-lot.
(para2)
The
burying-ground
is
nothing
more
than
a
huge
piece
of
wasteland
full
of
mounds
of
earth looking like a deserted and
abandoned piece of land on which a building was
going
to be put up.
2. All colonial empires are in reality
founded upon that fact. (para3)
All
the
imperialists
build
up
their
empires
by
treating
the
people
in
the
colonies
like
animals (by not treating the people in
the colonies as human beings).
3. They rise out of the earth, they
sweat and starve for a few years, and then they
sink back into
the nameless mounds of
the graveyard. (para3)
They are born.
Then for a few years they
work, toil
and starve. Finally they die and are buried in
graves without a name.
4.
A
carpenter
sits
crosslegged
at
a
prehistoric
lathe,
turning
chair-legs
at
lighting
speed.
(para9)
Sitting
with
his
legs
crossed
and
using
a
very
old-
fashioned
lathe,
a
carpenter
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quickly gives a round shape
to the chair-legs he is making.
5. Instantly, from the dark
holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of
Jews. (para10)
Immediately from their
dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of
Jews rushed
out wildly excited.
6. …every one of them looks
on a cigarette as a more or less impossible
luxury. (para10)
Every
one
of
these
poor
Jews
looked
on
the
cigarette
as
a
piece
of
luxury
which
they
could not possibly
afford.
7. Still, a white
skin is always fairly conspicuous. (para16)
However, a white -skinned European is
always quite noticeable.
8.
In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in
everything except the human beings.
(para16)
If you take a look
at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you
see everything but the
human beings.
9. No one would think of running cheap
trips to the Distressed Areas. (para17)
No one would think of organizing cheap
trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum
areas
(for these trips would not be
interesting)
．
10.
…for
nine
-tenths
of
the
people
the
reality
of
life
is
an
endless,
back-breaking
struggle
to
wring
a little food out of an eroded soil. (para17)
life is very hard for ninety percent of
the people
．
With hard
backbreaking toil they can
produce a
little food on the poor
soil
．
11
．
She accepted
her status as an old woman, that is to say as a
beast of burden. (para19)
She took it
for granted that as an old woman she was the
lowest in the community
，
that
she was only fit for doing heavy work
like an animal
．
12. People with brown skins are next
door to invisible. (para21)
People with
brown skins are almost
invisible
．
13
．
Their splendid
bodies were hidden in reach-me-
down
khaki uniforms,… (para23)
The
Senegalese
soldiers
were
wearing
ready-made
khaki
uniforms
which
hid
their
beautiful well-built
bodies
．
14. How
long before they turn their guns in the other
direction? (para25)
How much longer
before they turn their guns around and attack us?
15
．
Every white
man there had this thought stowed somewhere or
other in his mind. (para26)
Every
white
man
，
the
onlookers
，
the
officers
on
their
horses
and
the
white
.
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marching with
the black soldiers
，
had this
thought hidden somewhere or other in his
mind
．
Lesson 3
1
．
And it is an
activity only of human. (para1)
And conversation is an activity which
is found only among human
beings
．
(Animals and
birds are not capable of
conversation
．
)
2
．
Conversation is
not for making a point. (para2)
Conversation is not for persuading
others to accept our idea or point of
view
．
3
．
In fact, the
best conversationalists are those who are prepared
to lose. (para2)
In fact a person who
really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will
not argue to win or
force others to
accept his point of view
．
4
．
Bar
friends are not deeply involved in each other’s
li
ves. (para3)
People who
meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub
are not intimate friends for
they are
not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other's
lives
．
5. …it
could still go ignorantly on… (para6)
The conversation could go on without
anybody knowing who was right or
wrong
．
6
．
There are
cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef
(boeuf). (para9)
These animals are
called cattle when they are alive and feeding in
the fields
；
but when
we sit down at the table to
eat
．
we call their meat
beef
．
7. The new ruling class had built a
cultural barrier against him by building their
French against
his own language.
(para11)
The new ruling class by using
French instead of English made it difficult for
the English
to accept or absorb the
culture of the rulers
．
8
．
English had
come royally into its own. (para13)
The
English language received proper recognition and
was used by the King once
more
．
9.
The
phrase
has
always
been
used
a
little
pejoratively
and
even
facetiously
by
the
lower
classes. (para15)
The
phrase
，
the King's
English
，
has always been used
disrespectfully and jokingly by the
lower
classes
．
The
working
people
very
often
make
fun
of
the
proper
and
formal
language of the
educated people
．
10. The rebellion against a cultural
dominance is still there. (para15)
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There
still
exists
in
the
working
people
，
as
in
the
early
Saxon
peasants
，
a
spirit
of
opposition to the cultural authority of
the ruling class
．
11. There is always a great danger that
“words will harden into things for us.”
(para18)
There is always a
great danger that we might forget that words are
only symbols and
take them for things
they are supposed to
represent
．
For
example
，
the word “dog” is a
symbol representing a kind of
animal
．
We mustn't regard the
word “dog” as being the
animal
itself
．
12.
Even
with
the
most educated
and
the
most
literate,
the
King’s
English
slips
and
slides
in
conversation. (para18)
Even the most educated and
literate people do not use
standard
，
formal English all
the
time in their
conversation
．
Lesson4
Inaugural
Address
1. And
yet the same revolutionary beliet for which our
forebears fought is still at issue around
the globe (para 2)
Our
ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain
that all men were created equal and
God
had
given
them
certain
unalienable
rights
which
no
state
or
ruler
could
take
away
from
them.
But
today
this
issue
has not
yet
been
decided
in
many
countries
around
the
world.
2. This much we pledge--and
more. (para 5)
This much we promise to
do and we promise to do more.
3. United, there is little we cannot do
in a host of cooperative ventures. (para 5)
United and working together we can
accomplish a lot of things in a great number of
joint
undertakings.
4. But this peaceful revolution of hope
cannot become the prey of hostile powers. (para 9)
We will not allow any enemy country to
subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope
of progress to all our countries.
5. our last best hope in an
age where the instruments of war have far outpaced
the instruments of
peace (para
10)
The United Nations is our last and
best hope of survival in an age where the
instruments of war have far surpassed
the instruments of peace.
6. to enlarge the area in which its
writ may run (para 10)
We pledge to
help the United Nations enlarge the area in which
its authority and mandate
would
continue to be in effect or in force.
7. before the dark powers of
destruction unleashed by science engulf all
humanity in planned or
accidental self-
destruction (para 11)
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before
the
terrible
forces
of
destruction,
which
science
can
now
release,
overwhelm
mankind;
before
this
self-
destruction,
which
may
be
planned
or
brought
about
by
an
accident, takes place
8. yet both racing to alter
that uncertain balance of terror that stays the
hand of mankind's final
war (para 13)
Yet
both
groups
of
nations
are
trying
to
change
as
quickly
as
possible
this
uncertain
balance of
terrible military power which restrains each group
from launching mankind's
final war.
9. So let us begin anew, remembering on
both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness
(para
14)
So let us start
once again (to discuss and negotiate)and let us
remember that being polite is
not a
sign of weakness.
10. Let
both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science
instead of its terrors. (para 17)
Let
both
sides
try
to
call
forth
the
wonderful
things
that
science
can
do
for
mankind
instead of the frightful things it can
do.
11. each generation of
Americans has been summoned to give testimony to
its national loyalty
(para 21 )
Americans
of
every
generation
have
been
called
upon
to
prove
their
loyalty
to
their
country (by fighting
and dying for their country's cause).
12. With a good conscience
our only sure reward, with history the final judge
of our deeds, let
us go forth to lead
the land we love (para 27)
Let history
finally judge whether we have done our task welt
or not, but our sure reward
will be a
good con-science for we will have worked sincerely
and to the best of our ability.
6.
从天窗中消失
1. Science is engaged in
the task of making its basic concepts understood
and accepted by
scientists all over the
world.
2. The car model,
called Fiesta, seems to have disappeared
completely.
3. The idea of
a world car is similar to the idea of having a
world style for architecture. /As
architecture
was
moving
toward
a
common
International
Style,
it
was
natural
for
the
automobile to do the same.
4.
Things
that
are
happening
in
auto
making
are
similar
to
those
happening
in
architecture.
5.
The
modern
man
no
longer
has
very
distint
individual
traits
shaped
by
a
special
environment and
culture
．
5
6
．
The
disadvantage of being a cosmopolitan is that he
loses a home in the old sense of the
world
．
7
．
The
benefit
of
being
a
cosmopolitan
is
that
he
begins
to
think
the
old
kind
of
home
probably restricts his
development and activities
．
8
．
The
compelling force of technology to universalize
cannot be resisted
．
9
．
When every
artist thought it was his duty to show his
contempt for and objection to the
Eiffel Tower which they considered an
irreverent architectural
structure
．
10
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a flexible and
pliable quality that was beyond human powers and
absolutely new.
11
．
People
used
to
firmly
believe
that
the
things
they
saw
around
them
were
real
solid
substances but this has now been thrown
into doubt by science,
12
．
That
，
pe
rhaps, shows how far logically modern aesthetic
can go
．
／
The solid
banks can
become
almost
abstract
and
invisible
．／
This
is
perhaps
the
furthest
limit
of
how
solid
objective things may be
disappearing
．
Lession7
The Libido for the Ugly
1. boy and man, I had been
through it often before (para 1)
As a boy and later when I was a grown-
up man, I had of- ten travelled through the
region.
2. But
somehow I had never quite sensed its appalling
desolation.(para 1)
But somehow in the
past I never really perceived how
shocking and wretched this whole region was.
3. it reduced the whole
aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke
(para 1 )
This dreadful
scene makes all human endeavors to advance and
improve their lot appear
as a ghastly,
saddening joke.
4. The country itself is not uncomely,
despite the grime of the endless mills. (para 3)
The country itself is
pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread
by the innumerable
mills in this
region.
5. They
have taken as their model a brick set on end.
(para 3)
The model they
followed in building their houses was a brick
standing upright. / All the
houses they
built iooked like bricks standing
upright.
6. This
they have converted into a thing of dingy
clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof.
(para 3)
These brick-like
houses were made of shabby, thin wooden boards and
their roofs
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