Unit2 people.doc

Unit 2 peoplePhrases and Sentence:1、 I dont ever want to have the effect on a person that this person had on me, where I was just blown away by disappointment. It took a few years to get over it.PS：请高手重点解析“ever”的意思。=我甚至从未想过要给“给我留下印象的人”留下印象，在这一点上我感到十分失望。我用了许多年才克服这个毛病。ever,在否定句中起加强语气的作用，not ever从未。2、One thing I do is work with Make-A-wish. If an ill childs one wish is to see a celebrity and he picks me, then I make time to see him. But I have to be very careful with these kids, because if you get too attached, youre just setting yourself up for loss.PS：请高手重点解析“because if you get too attached, youre just setting yourself up for loss.”的意思。=我做的一件事就是带着许愿做事。如果一个病了的孩子的愿望是想看一个名人并且他选择的是我，然后我抽出时间去看望他。但是我必须非常小心的跟这些孩子相处，因为如果你太依恋，你会感到不舍。because if you get too attached, youre just setting yourself up for loss.因为如果你太依恋，你会感到不舍。其中attach是：使喜爱，使依恋：因情感因素，如爱戴或忠诚使联结。set oneself up for loss是引起自己处于受损失或失去的状态。3、Thank you for giving me the inspiration to stick around, at age 50, you have to feel youre contributing to something.PS：请高手重点解析“ you have to feel youre contributing to something.”=谢谢你给我关于等待的启示，在50岁时，你必须感到你正在做贡献。you have to fell youre contributing to something这句话的意思就是：在50岁时，你必须感到你正在对某些事情做贡献。4、We stayed at the Ritz-Carlton and just had a blast. Or Ill give everybody a ride in the Ultra light-its a flying kite.PS：请高手重点解析“ride”在这里怎么翻译。=我们待在Ritz-Carlton并开了个狂欢会。否则我会给每个人乘坐一下“超轻型”-一个飞行的风筝。ride就是乘坐。考试大论坛5、“One day Ill have my own barbecue.” In other words, every generation gets to improve on the dreams of the last generation.PS：请高手重点解析这段话的真正含义。=“有朝一日，我将拥有自己的烤肉(比喻:实现自己的梦想)。换句话说，每代人必须在他上代人的梦想上有所提高。6、But it came with a price because when he was drinking, we had jobs and money. When he quit, we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor. PS：请高手重点解析“we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.”这句话的真正含义。=但是这有一定的代价：因为当他饮酒的时候，我们有工作和工钱。当他戒酒了，我们就只有借酒消愁穷困潦倒了。we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor：其中的trade sth. for sth.以和交易,以酗酒和穷困潦倒交易。转自学易网 7、It got so bad that he either quit or got fired.PS：请高手重点解析“sothat”在此句中的意义。=一般sothat是如此以至于的意思，这里上下句不是因果关系: 变得糟糕的是，他既没有辞职也没有被解雇。后半句that he either quit or got fired是so bad的补充状语从句，补充说明so bad的细节，不要太拘泥语法结构，更应该注重的是：1.英语语序特征，2.英语国家的人的逻辑思维特征。8、He was a tool pusher essentially, sold drill bits to oil-drilling companies.PS：翻译这句话。来源：考试大=他其实就是一个工具推销者，卖钻头给开采石油的公司。9、I never think that I m doing eight-minute cures on television. But I think that 50 percent of the solution to any problem lies in defining it first. I can be an emotional compass that points them down the path.PS：请高手重点解析“cures”与“lies in”的意思，另外 “pointdown”是词组吗?=我从未想过我在用电视做一个8分钟的治疗。但是我认为任何问题50%的解决方法在于先界定它。我可能是沿着路径指向它们的情感罗盘(指南针)。cure：名词，治疗。point和后面的down可以认为没有关系，这里不是词组，down这里的意思是“沿着”，相当于along.down the path是介宾结构词组，在句中作points them的补充状语。建议：来源：考试大不要从语法分析着手来学习英语，因为这样效果很差。最好是提高阅读量，让一切语法变为理所当然的事情，让记忆单词成为阅读时的副产品1.John Travolta, a notable actor, is talking with Susan Grant, a reporter, about one aspect of his personality thatappeals to his fans.Grant: Your fans think of you as one of Hollywoods niceguys. Why is that?Travolta: When I was eighteen, I had met a brilliant Broadway star who now is quite nameless. As he talked to me, the star was so shocked that I interrupted him. I thought, thats right; I was bold and ill-mannered. Nevertheless, I was impacted so deeply that I made a decision: I thought, I dont ever want to have the effect on a person that this person had on me, where I was just blown away by disappointment. It took a fewer years to get over it.Grant: Do you feel likeyouve made a difference in your careerlike the inverse of the way that star treated you all those years ago?Travolta: I hope so. One thing I do is work with Make-A-Wish. Ifanill childs one wish is to see a celebrity and he picks me, then I make time to see him. But I haveto be very careful with these kids, because if you get too attached, youre just setting yourself up for loss. There was one girl who had cancer. She was only seven when I met her, and she didnt look likeshe was going to make it. But Im at the airport the other night in L.A., andthis beautiful 19-year-old girl comes up and says. Do you remember me? I was the Make-A-Wish girl. And she took a picture out of her with a bold head and wearing a scarf. After that visit with you,she said, I just decided, I aint going anywhere. Thank youfor giving me theinspiration to stick around.At age 50, you have to feel youre contributing to something.2. David Andrews, a successful businessman and an amateur pilot, is talking with Barbara Johnson, from a news magazine, about his family.Johnson: Are yourkids having a much different experiencethan you did growing up?Andrew: We were more important than my parents were, in their eyes. I feel that thats how my wife andIare withour kids. They are the stars of our family. They are everything to us, and we are secondary to them. People may disagree with that viewpoint, but I dont know how to be anyother way. Johnson: What has brought you thegreatestpersonal happinessin your life? Andrew: My children. I know that sounds clich, but theres a reason things are clich. Because they are true.Johnson: What kinds of things do you do just for fun?Andrew: Last weekend, I took the kids to Orlando. We stayed at theRitz Carlton and just had ablast. Or Ill give everybody a ride in the Ultra lightits a flying kite. But we also do the regular stuffgo to a movie, have a Sunday barbecue, swim. At the end of the day, we go to Dairy Queen. Its funny because thats exactly what I used to do on Sundays during the summer with my mother and father.Johnson: Are you just as happy as youwere a child?Andrew: Oh, well, more. Because I have my own kids. I loved my life as a child. But thats the time you are saying, One day Ill have my own barbecue. In other words, every generation gets to improve on the dreams of the last generation. Questions:1. How does David Andrew treat his children?2. Why are things clichs, according to David Andrews?3. What does David Andrews do just for fun?4. Why does David Andrews feel happier than when he was a child?3. Tom Lee, an established lawyer, is talking with Kate Jones, a reporter, about the impact of his childhood on his growth.Jones: You had a traumatic childhood. How did it shape who youve become? Lee: My mother was and is so loving, but she had to work all the time. I had an alcoholic father. I had sisters who married in high school to escape, and I just hadabsolutely no leadership whatsoever. A lot of what I ultimately defined myself to be was a reaction against that. My dad was beaten and abused by his mother all through his childhood. She was a mean woman. I knew what he grew up with and why he was so embittered, but it doesnt make it any easier to live with.Jones: Especially when you are a child.Lee: He was never abusive with me or my sisters. He drank to escape. We were living in Denver when I was in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. He was a tool pusher essentially, sold drill bits to oil-drilling companies. He entertained the drillers, the buyers, constantly. So he was out every night, drinking. It got so bad that he either quit or got firedas a kid you never know. All of a sudden, we were out of a job. He said, Im going to go back to get my Ph.D. inpsychology. He was admittedto the University of Oklahoma, sowe moved to Oklahoma City. For that period of time, he didnt drink at all. He just quit.Jones: You must have respected that.Lee: I did,but it came with a price because when he was drinking, we had jobs and money. When he quit, we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.Questions:1. Why did Tom Lees sisters marry in high school?2. What does Tom Lee think of his fathers mother?3. What do we learn about Tom Lees father?4. What does Tom Lee mean by saying We traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor?4. Phillip McGraw, a famous talk show host, is talking with Laura Yorke, a reporter, about his work and family.Yorke: Youve talked about finding meaning in suffering. What do you mean by that?McGraw: Everybody at some point is going to have misfortune. I think if we dont learn from that, then it was just a penalty. But if you use it, then it becomes tuition. I draw a loton my personal experiences. Its hard for people to deceive me, because Im a pretty street-smart guy. Some husband comeson my show and tries to tell me hes not reallya workaholic? I say, You are talking to one. Ive been there.Yorke: Are there families who come on your show but whom you feel you just cant help?McGraw: I never think that Im doing eight-minute cures on television. But I think that 50 percent of the solutions to any problem lies in definingit first.I can be an emotional compass that points themdown the path, but the real work will start when they walk off the stage. Yorke: I understand that you and Robin and your two sons are an incrediblytight-knit family.What would you say is the greatest value system that you, the McGraws have? What runs you guys?McGraw: It may sound dull, but its really family first. Our family and its priorities, needs, values, come before everything elsework, recreation, whatever. When I say family first, that means marriage also, because our belief has always been that one of the greatest gifts you can give your children is a good marriage between their mom and dad, so they dont wind up living in a divorce situation.Yorke: How do you feel youve succeeded as a parent?McGrow: Our approach is that if Robin and Ifell off the world tomorrow, would our boys be equipped to manage their lives, would they have the values, work ethic, and goals-management skills they needed to go forward? I think they would.5.Passage：If a computer were to design the perfect U.N. Secretary-General, he or she would look something like this: African born; European and American educated, with decades of service in the U.N. system; married to a European; and possessing a quiet charisma and calm authority as chaos arises.That the U.N. in 1996 found such a person to restore its sense of direction and purpose was a near miracle. But out of the U.N.s failures in Bosnia , Somalia and Rwanda came Kopi Annan, the career international civil servant who had participated in these disasters yet somehow survived and learned from them.Today Annan is in the middle of his second term. His task is not finished, and the U.N. is still far from what it should be. But Annan has tested the limits of the job, accumulating more authority-one cannot use the word power, given the constraints the U.N. system places on him-than any of his predecessors.His complex relationship with the U.S. government is little understood. When Annan takes positions in public that are displeasing to the Bush administration, it unleashes its attack dogs. Yet when administration officials found their policies in Iraq floundering, they asked the U.N. for help. Some observers told Annan that he should responsibility was to the cause of stabilizing Iraq. He began to work toward the decisive date of June 30, when the U.S. will hand over control to Iraqi authorities and an uncertain situation will prevail determined by factors way beyond his, or anyone elses, ability to control. But it is Annans destiny to be handed the very worst problems after they have been unsuccessfully addressed by others. Anyone who knows him knows he wades into such problems with his usual blend of courage, self-control, modesty and optimism.转自学易网 Translation Reference：如果让电脑来设计一个完美的联合国秘书长，他/她应该是这样的：出生在非洲;在欧洲和美国接受教育;在联合国工作十年以上;配偶是欧洲人;出现混乱局面时能保持冷静、富有领导魅力的权威人士。1996年联合国找到了这样一个人来恢复它的方向感和目的性，这简直就是个奇迹。联合国在波斯尼亚、索马里和卢旺达的行动失败后，科菲.安南却脱颖而出。身为国际公务员的他对参与了这一系列的空难性行动，幸存下来，并且从中学到很多东西。现在，安南的第二任期已过一半。然而，他的任务还没有圆满完成，联合国离其理想状态还很远。但安南已经体验到了他这份工作的局限性因为联合国体制对他的限制，他不能利用言语力量，然而他却比他的前任们积累了更多的权威性。他与美国政府的复杂关系鲜为人知，当安南在公众面前的表现不能取悦布什政府的时候，美国就会攻击他。反过来，当美国政府官员发现他们的政策在伊拉克举步维艰的时候，他们却向联合国寻求帮助。有些观察家建议安南不要帮助美国摆脱困境，但是安南明白，自己最大责任是促成伊拉克局势的稳定。他开始朝6月30号这个决定性的日子努力，美国将会在这天向伊拉克政府移交政权，这将千万动荡局面。不管是安南还是其他任何人，在伊拉克问题上的成功与否都不会取决于他个人的控制能力。但是，安南注定要处理这些棘手的问题，而这些问题是由别人的失败造成的。所有熟悉安南的人都知道他将带着他一贯的勇气、自我控制能力、谦恭和乐观来介入这一难题。6. Florence Sephton is 77 and lives in Deganwy, North Wales. She is reading for an arts degree. “Im more of a creature to polish my mind than polish my furniture. The house takes second place while I put the studying first.”“I was very happy at school and had wonderful teaching. I passed the university entrance examination and was ready to go to university but with World War II I went into banking. I was paid 1 a week. Manchester University kept my place open for three years but I was enjoying the money and the freedom so I turned it down.”Mrs Sephton is now in the second year of her Open University course and is finding it hard work. “Im feeling tired more frequently. I cant do more than an hours work at a time. The memorys shocking. Im supposed to be reviewing and I look up notes I took earlier this year and think, Have you read this before? So Im doing it very slowlyone credit (学分) a year, so itll take six years.”“At the moment the greatest reward is simply the increase in knowledgeand the discipline. I had an essay failed this week. The professor said I hadnt answered the question. Ive been thinking about it all week. I find it difficult to organize ideas of an essay properly. I just let myself go and get excited. I feel more emotionally than I do mentally. Im very ordinary really.”While claiming to be ordinary and lazy, Mrs. Sephton is still working hard daily at her assignments (作业) . Mrs. Sephton sees her studies as keeping her fit and independent. “Because of my life Ive been self-sufficient. Its not a very nice characteristic. It means I dont care enough about people. I cant say I find comfort in what Im learning, so Ill be interested to see if theres a life ahead.”7.At political gatherings, he is treated like a pop star. Young girls scream(尖叫), young men shout his name and everyone from small children to the elderly pushes closer to get a glimpse (瞥) of the man.For the last four years, in stadiums and community halls, on farms and on soccer fields, Nelson Mandela has traveled South Africa and the world promoting his vision of racial reconciliation (和解). His tireless campaigning and his insistent commitment to the cause of non-racialism have won him a Nobel Peace Prize and made him a global symbol of hope in the post-Cold-War era of ethnic (人种的) conflicts and instability (不稳定). But now with the election behind him, Mandela must transform the dream that has sustained him into the reality of a new, multiracial(多种族的) South Africa.In the four years since he emerged from prison, he has led the push for democracy with a determination and vision that have left his leadership unchallenged. Although he lives in a suburb of Johannesburg, where the upper class lives, he has retained the respect of his countrys poor masses. He has met with the general staffs of both the South African defense force and the national police force, which some suspect has secretly cooperated with white extremists(极端主义者), and also held talks with leaders of the right wing. Talking to foreign reporters last week, Mandela said he does not intend to ban(禁止) the extremist white organizations the way the former government banned his organization, the African National Congress. At the same time, however, Mandela made it clear that he will not tolerate(容忍) disobedience(不服从) in his government.Tall and dignified, with the erect bearing(举止) of a king, Mandela seems destined to become the President. Right from the outset Nelson had a presence; he always made an impression on anybody that met him because of his sincerity(真诚) and strong will, says one activist who has known Mandela since the 1940s, when he emerged as an energetic y