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Unit1

1、If I could show the elite law firms I applied to that I had a radiant, well-spoken counterpart by my side, I just might edge past the competition.

如果我能够让我所申请的顶尖律师事务所看到我身边伴随着一位光彩照人、谈吐优雅的另一半，我就很有可能在竞聘中以微弱优势获胜

2、The man never answered the boss’s question. Instead he appealed to the boss’s sympathy.

这个人根本没有回答老板的问题，而只是在博取老板的同情。

3、Look at me, an ingenious student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with an assured future. Look at Rob, a muscular idiot, a guy who’ll never know where his next meal is coming from. Can you give me one good reason why you should be with him?”

看看我，一个聪明过人的学生，一个不同凡响的学者，一个前途无量的人。再看看罗伯，一个肌肉发达的蠢材，一个有了上顿没下顿的家伙。你是否能给我一个充足的理由，为什么要选择跟他？” Unit2

1、No amount of rehearsal will help you come up with the right answer. 对于她的这一问题，无论你事先练习多少次，都不会找到正确答案。

2、This is an absurd standard to live up to, especially when you consider the size of the doll’s waist, a relative measurement physically impossible for a living human to achieve. 要达到这样的标准是很荒唐的，尤其是当我们想想那种洋娃娃的腰围尺寸，就知道其相对尺寸对任何一个活人来说都是不可企及 3、I’m not saying that men are superior. I’m just saying that you’re not going to get a group of middle-aged men to plaster cosmetics to themselves under the instruction of Brad Pitt in hopes of looking more like him.

我并不是说男性优于女性。我的意思是你不可能让一群中年男子在布拉德· 皮特的指导下把化妆品敷到自己脸上，期望自己能看起来更像布拉德。

4、Anyway, to get back to my original point: If you’re a man, and a woman asks you how she looks, you can’t say she looks bad without receiving immediate and well-deserved outrage.

不管怎样，言归正传：如果你是一位男性，当有女士问你她看起来怎么样时，你千万不能说她看起来很糟糕，那样肯定会使她立刻迁怒于你，这也是你咎由自取。 Unit3

1、Recognized as an outstanding entrepreneur with an agreeable and winning personality, Smith is held in high regard by his competitors as well as his employees and stockholders.

史密斯被公认为是一位和蔼可亲、性格迷人的杰出企业家。无论是他的竞争者、员工，还是他公司股票的持有人，都对他十分敬重。 2、In the interim, he graduated from Yale in 1966, just as American’s involvement in the Vietnam War was deepening.

在此期间，他于1966 年从耶鲁大学毕业，那时正值美国在越战中越陷越深。

3、It was uncommon for FedEx drivers to pay for gasoline for their vans out of their own pockets.

联邦快递公司的司机自己掏腰包为货车付汽油费的情况屡见不鲜。 Unit4

1、Environmental sensitivity is now as required an attitude in polite society as is, say, belief in democracy or disapproval of plastic surgery.

在上流社会，对环境的敏感就如同信仰民主、反对整容一样，是一种不可或缺的态度。 2、A non-sentimental environmentalism is one founded on Protagoras’s idea that “Man

is the measure of all things.”

非感情用事的环保主义是建立在普罗泰哥拉的格言“人是万物的尺度”的基础上的。 3、Humanity should accommodate only when its fate and that of nature are inseparably bound up.

只有当人类的命运与自然的命运密不可分时, 人类才应该做出让步。