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1. Typical of the grassland dwellers 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 people
will live long enough to see
it return
in the twenty-first century.
2.
1986
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.
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 as
a 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
organization
must,
in
the
long run,
produce
something consumers consider useful or
desirable.
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
greater
the
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 effectively than 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 are
attempting 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 printed while
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 bone of 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 a sharp taste, a corrosive
action on
metals, and the ability to
turn certain blue vegetable 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
rests on 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 of what 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 areas
where 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 for more 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 rigorous set of methods and
techniques
to document observations
that can be checked by others.
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 returns ingredients 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 of the
United States, they are found
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。
21.
Eliminating problems by transferring the blame to
others is often called scape-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。<
/p>
22. The chief foods eaten in
any country depend largely 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,
the
probability
of
an
event’s
occurring
is
equal
to
the
probability that it will
not 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 that the density o
f a
substance’s solid is higher
than the
density of its liquid.
24.<
/p>
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 memories is 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, painters and sculptors in the United
States had begun
to exert a great
worldwide influence over art.
< br>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 medical doctor in the United States, founded
the New
York Infirmary, an institution
that has always had a completely female medical
staff.
28. Elizabeth Blackw
ell
，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 that he would rather be
remembered as a teacher
of the deaf
than as the inventor of the 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 being picked, 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
elasticity
that
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 was once believed by scientists.
32.
科学家曾相信：氙气是不能形
成化合物的。
33.
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.
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 that the amount of money used in repaying a
loan
would have the same value as the
amount of money borrowed.
3
4.
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 in art, rejected all
traditions and attempted to
glorify
contemporary life by emphasizing 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。<
/p>
36. One of the wildest and
most inaccessible parts of the United States is
the Everglades where
wildlife is
abundant and largely protected.
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 that she has been credited by
some authorities as
the originator of
feminism in the United States.
37. Lucretia Mott
’
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。
< br>
38. The activities of
the international marketing researcher are
frequently much broader than those
of
the domestic marketer.
38.<
/p>
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
imaginary line 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
Earth
indicate
that
its
crust
and
mantle
yield
when
unusual weight is
placed on them.
40.
< br>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。
41.
The
annual
worth
of
Utah’s
manufacturing
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 weak stems
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。<
/p>
43. It is the interaction
between people, rather than the events that occur
in their lives, that is the
main focus
of social psychology.
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
to the 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
Eli
zabeth
Williams
的热
情。
45.
Quails
typically
have
short
rounded
wings
that
enable
them
to
spring
into
full
flight
instantly when disturbed in their
hiding places.
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
earliest
ancestors of
humans
that
stood
upright
resembled
chimpanzees facially, with sloping
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 successful transatlantic
cable finally laid.
47.
直到
1866
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
what
he
considers
the
spiritual
barrenness
of
society brought about by
science and technology.
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 of self-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
< br>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
a
large
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
of
doctrines
and
attitudes
whose
principal
uniting
feature is the belief that government
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 daily lives of most people in
the Untied States than
did Henry Ford a
pioneer in automobile 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 makes possible the testing of many
basic hypotheses
in the field of
language learning.
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 of events that probably
began with the very first
pictures ever
made.
55.
优化历史是由一
连串的迷人事件组成，其源头大概可以上溯到最早的图画。
56. Perfectly matched pearls, strung
into a necklace, bring a far higher price than the
same pearls
told individually.
56.
相互般配的珍珠，串成一条项
链，就能卖到比单独售出好得多的价钱。
57.
During
the
eighteenth
century,
Little
Turtle
was
chief
of
the
Miami
tribe
whose
territory
became what is now
Indiana and Ohio.
57.
十八世纪时，
小乌龟
是迈阿密部落的酋长，该部落的地盘就是今天的印第安那州和俄
亥俄州
。
58. Among
almost seven hundred species of bamboo, some are
fully grown at less than a foot high,
while others can grow three feet in
twenty-four hours.
58.
在竹子的近七百个品种中，有的全长成还不到一英尺，有的却能在二十四小时内长出三
英尺。
59.
Before
staring
on
a
sea
voyage,
prudent
navigators
learn
the
sea
charts,
study
the
sailing
directions, and
memorize lighthouse
本地
s to
prepare themselves for any conditions they might
encounter.
59.
谨慎的航海员在出航前，会研究航向，记录的灯塔的位置，以便对各种可能出现的情况
做到有备无患。
60.
Of all the economically important plants, palms
have been the least studied.
60.
在所有的经济作物中，棕榈树得到的研究最少。
61. Buyers and sellers
should be aware of new developments in technology
can and does affect
marketing
activities.
61.
购
买者和销售者都应该留意技术的新发展，原因很简单，因为技术能够并且已经影响着
营销
活动。
62.
The
application
of
electronic
controls
made
possible
by
the
microprocessor
and
computer
storage have
multiplied the uses of the modern
无效
writer.
62.
电脑储存和由于电子微处理机得以实现的电控运用成倍的增加了现代打
字机的功能。
63.
The human skeleton consists of more than two
hundred bones bound together by tough and
relatively inelastic connective tissues
called ligaments.
63.
人类骨骼有二百多块骨头组成，住些骨头石油坚韧而相对缺乏弹性的，被称为韧带的结
蒂组连在一起。
64.
The pigmentation of a pearl is influenced by the
无效
of oyster in
which it develops and by
the depth,
temperature, and the salt content of the water in
which the oyster lives.
64.
珍珠的色泽受到作为其母体牡蛎种类及牡蛎生活水域的深度，温度和含盐度的制约。
65.
Although
mockingbirds
superbly
mimic
the
songs
and
calls
of
many
birds,
they
can
nonetheless be quickly identified as
mockingbirds by certain aural clues.
<
/p>
65.
尽管模仿鸟学很多种鸟的鸣叫声惟妙惟肖，但人类还是能够
依其声音上的线索很快识别
它们。
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