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第一课Face to face with Hurricane Camille 1. We’re elevated 23 feet.
We’re 23 feet above sea level.
2. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has bothered it.
The house has been here since 1915, andno hurricane has ever caused any damage to it. 3. We can batten down and ride it out.
We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage. 4. The generator was doused, and the lights went out.
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!
Everybody goes out through the back door and runs to the cars! 6. The electrical systems had been killed by water.
The electrical systems in the car (the battery for the starter) had been put out by water. 7. John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt.
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?
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.
Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and finally stopped. 10. Janis had just one delayed reaction.
Janis displayed the fear caused by the hurricane rather late.
1.Each and every plane must be checked out thoroughly before taking off.
每架飞机起飞之前必须经过严格的检查。
2.The residents were firmly opposed to the construction of a waste incineration plant in their neighborhood because they were deeply concerned about the plant’s emissions polluting the air.居民坚决反对在附近建立垃圾焚烧厂，因为他们担心工厂排放的气体会污染周围的空气。
3. Investment in ecological projects in this area mounted up to billions of Yuan. 在这个地区，生态工程的投资额高达数十亿元。
4. The dry riverbed was strewn with rocks of all sizes.干枯的河道里布满了大大小小的石块。
5. Although war caused great losses to this country, its cultural traditions did not perish.虽然战争给这个国家造成巨大的损失，但当地的文化传统并没有消亡。
6. To make space for modern high rises, many ancient buildings with ethnic cultural features had to be demolished.为了建筑现代化的高楼大厦，许多古老的，具有民族特色的建筑物都被拆毁了。
7. In the earthquake the main structures of most of the poor-quality houses disintegrated.在地震中多数质量差的房子的主体结构都散架了。
8. His wonderful dream vanished into the air despite his hard efforts to achieve his goals.他为实现自己的目标付出了最大努力，但最后美好的梦想还是化成了泡影。
第二课Hiroshima-the “Liveliest” City in Japan
1. Serious-looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them…
They were so absorbed in their conversation that they seemed not to pay any attention to the people around them. 2. At last this intermezzo came to an end, and I found myself in front of the gigantic City Hall.
At last the taxi trip came to an end and I suddenly found that I was in front of the gigantic City Hall.
3. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the
incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.
The traditional floating houses among high modern buildings represent the constant struggle between old tradition
and new development.
4. …experiencing a twinge of embarrassment at the prospect of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima in my socks.
I suffered from a strong feeling of shame when I thought of the scene of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima wearing my socks only.
5. The few Americans and Germans seemed just as inhibited as I was.
The few Americans and Germans seemed just as restrained as I was
6. After three days in Japan, the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.
After three days in Japan one gets quite used to bowing to people as a ritual to show gratitude.
7. I was about to make my little bow of assent, when the meaning of these last words sank in,
jolting me out of my sad reverie.
I was about to show my agreement by nodding when I suddenly realized what the meaning of his words. His words shocked me out my sad dreamy thinking.
8. ...and nurses walked by carrying nickel-plated instruments, the very sight of which would send shivers down the spine
of any healthy visitor.
...and nurses walked by carrying surgical instruments which were nickel plated and even healthy visitors when they see those instruments could not help shivering.
9. Because, thanks to it, I have the opportunity to improve my character.
I have the chance to raise my moral standard thanks to the illness.
1. There is not a soul in the hall. The meeting must have been put off.礼堂里一个人都没有，会议一定是延期了。 2. That modern construction looks very much like a flying saucer.那座现代建筑看上去很想个飞碟。
3. Sichuan dialect sounds much the same as Hubei dialect. It is sometimes difficult to tell one from the other.四川话和湖北话在北方人听起来很相似，有时难以区别。
4. The very sight of the monument reminds me of my good friend who was killed in the battle.一看见纪念碑就想起了再战斗中死去的好友。
5. He was so deep in thought that he was oblivious of what his friends were talking about.他陷入沉思之中，没有理会同伴们在谈些什么。
6. What he did had nothing to do with her.他干的事与她毫无关系。
7. She couldn’t fall asleep as her daughter’s illness was very much on her mind.她睡不着觉，女儿的病使她心事重重。 8. I have had the matter on my mind for a long time.这件事长期以来一直让我放心不下。
9. He loves such gatherings at which he rubs shoulders with young people and exchanges opinions with them on various subjects.他喜欢这些聚会，喜欢与年轻人交往并就各种问题交换意见。
10. It was only after a few minutes that his words sank in.几分钟以后大家才领悟他话中的含意。 11. The soil smells of fresh grass.土壤散发着青草的气味。
12. Could you spare me a few minutes? 我可以占用你几分钟时间吗？ 13. Could you spare me a ticket? 你能匀出一张票子给我吗？
14. That elderly grey-haired man is a coppersmith by trade.那个上了年纪的灰头发的人是铜匠。
第三课 Blackmail
1. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.
Ogilvie said these words suddenly and rudely, throwing away his pretended politeness.
2. When they find who done that last night, who killed that kid an ‘its mother, then high-tailed it, they’ll throw the book,
and never mind who it hits, or whether they got fancy titles neither.When they find who killed the mother and the kid and then ran away,they'll carry out the maximum punishment no matter who will be punished in this case or what their social position is.
3. The Duchess of Croydon- three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance behind her- did not yield easily.
The Duchess was supported by her arrogance coming from parents of noble familieswith a history of three centuries and a half. She wouldn’t give up easily.
4. Even the self-assurance of Ogilvie flickered for an instant.
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The Duchess appeared so firm about their innocence thatOgilvie felt unsure if his assumption for a moment. But the moment was very short.
The house detective took his time, leisurely puffing a cloud of blue cigar smoke, his eyes sardonically on the Duchess as if challenging her objection.
The house detective was took his time smoking his cigar and puffed a cloud of blue smoke leisurely.At the same time,his eyes were fixed on the Duchess with contempt as if he was openly daring her objection as she has done earlier. There ain’t much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I don’t get to hear about. No matter who stays in this hotel does anythingimproper, I always get to know about it. The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind.
The Duchess of Croydon is thinking quickly, but at the same time keeping her thoughts under control.
And when they stopped for petrol, as they would have to, their speech and manner would betray them, making them conspicuous.
Furthermore, when they had to stopfor petrol, their speech and manner would make them noticeable and reveal their identity.
There must be no mistake, no vacillation or delaying because of her own smallness of mind.
She mustn’t make any mistake, show any hesitation or deal with the situation carelessly due to her smallness of mind. 1) There is no call for hurry．Take your time．不用着急慢慢来。
2) Are you suggesting that I am telling a lie? 你的意思是说我在撒谎吗？
3) He tried every means to conceal the fact． 他企图尽一切办法掩盖事实的真相。 4) Our chance to succeed is very slim．Nevertheless we shall do our utmost．
5) We will have our meeting at 10 tomorrow morning unless notified otherwise． 如不另行通知，我们的会在明天上午十点开。虽然成功的机会很少，我们仍然要竭尽全力去干。 6) Neither of us is adept at figures． 我们俩谁也不善于计算数字。
7) Would it be possible to reach that place before dark assuming we set out at 5 o'clock? 假定五点出发，我们在黄昏前能到达目的地吗？
8) He was reluctant to comply with her request. 他不愿意依从她的要求。
9) I know you are from the South. Your accent has betrayed you. 我知道你是南方人，一听你的口音就知道了。 10) We have no alternative in this matter. 在这件事情上，我们没有任何选择的余地。
第四课The Trial That Rocked the World
1. ”Don’t worry, son, we’ll show them a few tricks.”
Don’t worry, young man. We have some clever and unexpected tactics and we will surprise them in the trial. 2. The case had erupted round my head…
The case had come down upon me unexpectedly and violently.
3. No one, least of all I, anticipated that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U.S. history.
I was the last one to expect that my case would become one of the most famous trials in US history. 4. ”That’s one hell of a jury!”
The jury iscompletely inappropriate.
5. ”Today it is the teachers,”he continued,” and tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers.”
“Today it is the teachers who are put on trial because of teaching scientific theory,” he continued to say,” Soon the magazines, the books and newspaper will not be allowed to spreadideas of science.” 6. “There is some doubt about that,” Darrow snorted.
“There is some doubt about whether man has reasoning power,” said Darrow scornfully. 7. ...accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death between science and religion.
...accused Bryan of challenging a life and death strugglebetween science and religion. 8. Spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder whether they might be related.
People had to pay in order to have a look at the ape and to consider carefully whether they and the apes could have a common ancestry.
9. Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a witness for the defense.
Darrow surprised everyone by asking for Bryan as a witness for the defense which was a clever idea. 10.My heart went out to the old warrior as spectators pushed by him to shake Darrow’s hand.
I felt sorry for Bryanas the spectators rushed past him to congratulate Darrow.
1) I did not anticipate that 1 would get involved in this dispute.我没有预料到会卷入这场争端。 2) You must involve yourself in the work if you want to learn something.如果你想学到一些东西，那你自己就应该参加到这项工作中去。
3) Racial discrimination still exists in various forms in the United States though racial segregation is violating the law.虽然种族隔离室违法的，但种族歧视在美国仍然以不同形式存在着。
4) The jury brought in a verdict of guilty after their discussion.陪审团议论了一番，最后裁决他有罪。 5) He thinks the two views could be reconciled.他认为这两个观点是可以一致起来的。 6) The spectators' hearts went out to the defendant.观众对被告充满了同情心。
7) He always put a dictionary on hand while reading an article.他阅读文章时总把字典放在手边。
8) The dam construction project has got under way before conducting environment impact assessment.还没有进行环境影响评估筑坝工程就开工了。
第五课The Libido for the Ugly
1. … it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke.
This dreadful scene makes all human endeavors to advance and improve their lot appear as a ghastly, saddening joke. 2. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills.
The country itself is pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread by the innumerable mills in this region. 3. They have taken as their model a brick set on end.
The model they followed in building their houses was a brick standing upright.
4. This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof.
These brick-like houses were made of shabby, thin wooden boards and their roofs were narrow and had little slope. 5. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. When the brick is covered with the black soot of the mills it takes on the color of a rotten egg. 6. Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with some dignity.
Even in a steel town, old red bricks still appear pleasing to the eye.
7. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.
I have given Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness after having done a lot of hard work and research and after continuous praying.
8. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical.
They show such fantastic and bizarre ugliness that, in looking back, they become almost fiendish and wicked. 9. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.
It is hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just because they did not know what beautiful houses were like. 10. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly…
People in certain strata of American society seem definitely to hunger after ugly things; while in other less Christian strata, people seem to long for things beautiful.
11. They meet, in some unfathomable way, its obscure and unintelligible demands.
These ugly designs, in some way that people cannot understand, satisfy the hidden and unintelligible demands of this type of mind.
12. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth. The place where this psychological attitude is found is the United States.
1. The cultural diversity of Shanghai Expo is the richest ever seen on earth. 上海世博会的文化多样性是世界上有史以来最为丰富的。
2. The poverty of that region is beyond imagination. 那个地区的贫困状况几乎是无法想象的。
3. Don’t ask him about his father’s death in the car accident; don’t even allude to it. 不要问他父亲在车祸总丧生的事，这事连提都别提。
4. On the cast expanses of wilderness there is not a single tree in sight. 在这片荒原上连棵大树也看不到。
5. Despite severe natural catastrophe, people in the stricken areas still believe in love and the future. 尽管遭受了特大自然灾害，灾区的人民依然相信爱、相信未来。
6. On the whole your report is well-written, but there is still plenty of room for improvement. 总的来说，你的报告写的很好，但还有很大的改进余地。
7. I’ve made up my mind not to buy a car as I prefer to ride a bile in the city. 我决定不买汽车，在城市里我更喜欢骑自行车。
8. Many children’s love of Internet games borders upon craziness. 不少儿童对网络游戏的爱好近于痴狂。
第六课Mark Twain-Mirror of America Paraphrase：
1. Most American remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sa
wyer’s endless summer of freedom and adventure.
Mark Twain is known to most Americans as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn is noted for his simple and pleasant journey through his boyhood which seems eternal and Tom Sawyer is famous for his free roam of the country and his adventure in one summer which seems never to end. The youth and summer are eternal because this is the only age and time we knew them. They are frozen in that age/season for all readers.
2. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied--a cosmos.
His work on the boat made it possible for him to meet a large variety of people. It is a world of all types of characters.
3. All would resurface in his books,together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed
phonographic.
All would reappear in his books, written in the colorful language that he seemed to be able to remember and record as accurately as a phonograph.
4. Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity,but its flotsam of hustlers,gamblers,and
thugs as well.
Steamboat decks were filled with people who explored and prepared the way for others and also lawless people or social outcasts such as hustlers, gamblers and thugs.
5. He went west by stage coach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada’s Washoe region. He took a horse-drawn public vehicle and went west to Virginia, following the flow of people in the gold rush. 6. ...Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.
Mark Twain began to work hard as a newspaper reporter and humorist to become well known locally. 7. “It was a splendid population-for all the slow,sleepy,sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home...”
Those who came pioneering out west were energetic, courageous and reckless people, because those who stayed at home were the slow, dull and lazy people. 8. “Well,that is California all over.” That's typical of California.
9. “What a robust people,what a nation of thinkers we might be,if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally
and renew our edges.”
If we relaxed, rested or stayed away from all this crazy struggle for success occasionally and kept the daring and enterprising spirit, would be able to remain strong and healthy and continue to produce great thinkers. 10. The last of his own illusions seemed to have crumbled near the end.
At the end of his life, he lost the last bit of his positive view of man and the world.
1. 汤姆的聪明丝毫不亚于班上的第一名学生。
Tom was every bit as intelligent as the top boy in his class. 2. 对贫困的担心使他忧虑重重。