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Unit 1 :1. And it is an activity only of humans.交谈是人类特有的活动。And the conversation is an activity which is unique to the human beings.2. Conversation is not for making a point.交谈并不是为了要表明一种看法。 Conversation is not for persuading others to accept your viewpoint.3. In fact,the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.事实上，最好的交谈者是那些准备输的人。 In fact, the people who are skilled in conversation are those who will not force other to accept their views.4. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each others lives.酒吧的朋友没有深层次的涉及彼此的生活。 Bar friends are never absorbed in each others secret.5. it could still go ignorantly on.它可以不顾这些问题而继续下去。 Conversations will go on and nobody knows where it goes.6. They are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef.田野里的牛被称为cattle，但我们坐下来吃的牛肉被称为beef。 When they are alive, they are called cattle, when they are killed, and their meat is served on the table, it is called beef.7. The new ruling class has built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.新的统治阶级用法语来对抗其语言，这样就建立起了对抗这些农民的文化壁垒。 The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it hard for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.8. English had come royally into its own.英语取得了统治地位。 English is used in England including the king.9. The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes.下层阶级使用这个短语时，带有贬义，甚至讥讽的味道。 The kings English has always been disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes.10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.对文化支配的反抗仍然存在。 As the early saxon peasants, the working people still have a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.11. There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that words will harden into things for us. 正如卡莱尔提出的，“对我们而言，词语会变成具体的事物”，这始终会有极大的危险。 There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that we always take the words for things and forget words are only symbols.Unit 2 :1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.坟场只不过是一片巨大的如同一块废弃的建筑工地般土丘林立的荒原。 The burying-ground is just a huge wasteland of mounds of earth, just like a deserted piece of land which the building is built.2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon this fact.但事实上，这正是所有殖民帝国赖以建立的基础。 All the imperialists are in fact be built upon the fact that people in the colonies are treated as animals.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他们生于土地，挥汗如雨，忍饥挨饿的过上几年以后，就被埋到坟场里不知名的坟堆之下。 They are born. Then they work for a few years, work hard and starve. Finally, they die and are buried in graves without a name.4. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.一个木工盘腿坐在一架古老的车床旁，速度极快的旋制着椅子腿。 Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs which he is making.5. Instantly, from the dark holes all around, there was a frenzied rush of Jews刹那间，大批疯狂的犹太人从四面八方的黑洞窟里钻了出来。 Immediately, from the dark holes like cells everywhere, Jews rushed out, wildly excited.6. every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.但每个人都视一根香烟为一种无法承担的奢侈品。 Every one of these poor Jews considers a cigarette as a piece of luxury which they cannot possibly afford.7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.然而，白皮肤却总是那么显眼。 However, white people are always noticeable.8. In a tropical landscape ones eye takes in everything except the human beings.在热带地区，一切自然景观尽收眼底，唯独看不见人。 In a tropical area, people can see everything but the human beings.9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.没人会想组织游客去贫民窟旅游，尽管费用低廉。 No one would think of organizing cheap trips to the poor slum areas.10. for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, backbreaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.对于当地90%的居民而言，生活是一场为了从贫瘠的土地上榨出一点食物而进行的无休无止的艰苦抗争。 For 90% of the people, life is very hard. By working extremaly hard, they can only produce a little food from the poor soil.11. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say, as a beast of burden.她接受了自己既是老妇人，也是负重牲口的社会地位。 She took it for granted that she was at the bottom of the society, that she was only fit for heavy work just like animals.12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.棕色人近乎于无形。 People with brown skins are almost unnoticeable.13. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down Khaki uniforms他们壮硕的身体上穿着旧的卡其布制服。 They were wearing second-hand khaki which hid their strong bodies.14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?还要多久他们的枪口就会对准我们。 How long before they turn their guns around and attack us?15. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.在场的每个白人心里都隐藏着这样的想法。 Every white man there had this thought hidden somewhere in his mind.Unit 3 :1. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe但我们祖先为之奋斗的革命信念仍是全世界问题的焦点。 Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war for the belief that men were created equal but this issue has not been decided in many countries around the world.2. This much we pledge and more.以上这些是我们保证要做到的并且我们要做到更多。 We promise to do this much and we promise to do more.3. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.只要我们团结起来，我们将在大量的合作型事业中战无不胜。 Working together, we can accomplish a lot in a number of joint undertakings.4.our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace联合国承载着我们最后的最美好的希望 The UN is our last and best hope in an age where the tools of war surpass the tool of peace.5. to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.扩展其职责行使的范围。 We pledge to help the UN to increase its members so that its authority would continue in effect.6. before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.在科学所释放出的黑暗的破坏力量将人类推向有计划性的或偶然的自我毁灭之前，我们双方重新开始对和平的追求。 Before the evil force of destruction unleashed by science overwhelm all the humanity in a planned way or accidental way.7. yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankinds final war.但是，双方却都在争着改变那种制止人类发动最后战争的不确定的恐怖均势。 Two super powers are competing with each other to change the balance of military power that stops the human beings from starting the final war.8. So let us begin anew remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness因此，让我们重新开始，双方都要记住礼貌不是软弱的表现。 So let us start again and remember that being polite doesnt mean weakness.9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.让双方寻求利用科学的奇迹，而不是科学的恐怖。 Let both sides try to bring about the wonderful things that science can do terrible things.10. each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.每一代美国人都应召证明了对祖国的忠诚。Americans of each generation have called upon to prove their loyalty to their country.11. 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良心是我们唯一可靠的报酬，历史是我们行为的最终裁判，让我们出发去领导我们所热爱的国家。 Our reward will be nothing but a good conscience. And history will finally judge whether we have done our task will or not.Unit 5 :1. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged只要稍微提一下那个年代，就会引起中年人的怀旧回忆。 The very mention about middle-aged people think about longingly.2. The rejection of Victorian gentility was, in any case, inevitable.摒弃维多利亚时代的文雅无论如何都是不可避免的。 Americans would inevitably cast away the principles middle-class respectability.3. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure在维多利亚社会结构瓦解的过程中，战争仅仅起到了催化剂的作用。 The war only helped to speed up the destruction of the Victorian social systems.4. it was tempted, in America at least, to escape its responsibilities and retreat behind an air of naughty alcoholic sophistication至少美国的年轻人，被诱惑去逃避责任，退缩到以酒度日，老于世故的生活作风之中。 In American at least the young people were inclined to escape their respectability and pretended to be worldly-wise. 5. Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasure illicit禁酒令使得青年们有了更多机会寻求非法快乐。 By making drinking illicit, prohibition added a sense of adventure.6. our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.我们的青年人开始加入外国的军队。 Young people will join the foreign armies.7. they wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up.想趁着在战争结束之前，去寻找些乐趣。 The young people wanted to enjoy to glorious adventure before the war ended.8. they had outgrown towns and families他们长大成熟而不再适应家乡和家人了。 The young people could no long adapt themselves to live in their towns and families.9. the returning veteran also had to face the sodden, Napoleonic cynicism of Versailles, the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition退伍军人还要面对凡尔塞和约那令人无精打采的拿破仑犬儒主义，面对禁酒令伪善的行善主义。 The returning soldiers had to face the Prohibition which the low makers claimed hypocritically that would do good for people.10. Something in the tension-ridden youth of America had to give充满压力的美国青年必然要爆发。 All ready very fence, the young people in America had to yield. 11. it was only natural that hopeful young writers, their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and Puritanical gentility, should flock to the traditional artistic center那些满怀希望的年轻作家汇集到了这个传统的艺术中心，他们的思想和作品充斥着对战争、低级趣味和清教徒式文雅的反抗。 It was only natural that hopeful young writers full of anger against war, Babbittry, and Puritanical morality, would come in large numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic center. 12. Each town had its fast set which prided itself on its unconventionality每一个城镇都有一群放荡不羁者。 Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, the people who lived unconventional way of live.Unit 9 :1. with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter一个脸上很少有笑容的男孩。 With a face that was very serious and never laughed.2. Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl在星期六晚上，老朱勒斯或者是他的大儿子经常会酗酒闹事。 Sometimes old Jules and his son Lazarus, would get involved in a noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night, after drinking to much.3. her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible.可能是因为她经常缺课，而且对学习毫无兴趣。 She often missed her classes and had little interest in schoolwork.4. she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence我就只知道她是一个让人感到不舒服的人。 Her presence would make other people fell ill at ease.5. She dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of vision虽然她在我的眼前晃来晃去。 She lived and moved within my range of sight, but I paid little attention to her.6. If it came to a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not.如果在麦克劳德祖母和皮格特之间进行选择，母亲会选皮格特，不管她头上是否有虱子。 If my mother had to make a choice, she would certainly chose Piquette, neither she has nits or not.7. My acquaintance with Indians was not extensive.我同印第安人接触不多。 I dont know many Indians.8. she remained both a reproach and a mystery to me.她既让我感到自责，又让我觉得她是个谜。 I blamed myself and at the same time found her very mysterious.9. Her defiant face, momentarily, become unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope.她那张卸下保护罩和面具的脸庞透露出一种坚强不屈的神色，眼睛里透出一种令人生畏的希望。 In a brief moment, there was an expression of defiance on her face, in her eyes there was a kind of hope that was intense and violent and would terrify people.10. she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern, dressed any old how她看上去非常邋遢，老实说，她穿的马虎极了。 She was messy, terrify,untidy, and dressed on a careless way.11. She was up in court a couple of times drunk and disorderly, of course.有几次她都被法院传唤了去，当然是因为酗酒和扰乱治安。 She was taken to the courtshe was drunk and disorderly.12. The one store had become several dozen, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flourishing resorthotels, a dance-hall, cafs with neon signs, the penetrating odours of potato chips and hot dogs.湖区原先只有一家商店，现在已经发展到好几十家了，一个繁荣兴旺的度假胜地所具有的一切特征都可以在这里找到 There used to be one store here, but now there were several dozen, this area has all the traits of a popular tourist resorthotels, a dance-hall, cafs with neon signs, the penetrating odours of potato chips and hot dogs.13. Perhaps they had been unable to find such a place, and had simply died out, having ceased to care any longer whether they lived or not.或许它们已经飞往某一遥远的归属之地，或许它们找不到这样一个地方，再也无心顾及自己的死活，就此都灭亡了。 Perhaps they failed to find a suitable habitat and become simply extinct, having lost interest live cease to care lived or not.Unit 15 :1. Science is committed to the universal.科学是能够被人们普遍接受的。 Science is engaged in the task of making it accepted by the scientists all over the world.2. The Fiesta appears to have sunk without a trace.菲爱斯塔牌汽车似乎没留下任何踪迹就消失了。 The Fiesta seems to have disappeared completely.3. It was the automotive equivalent of the International Style.这是国际风格的汽车。 The idea of a world car is similar to the idea of International Style.4. As in architecture, so in automaking.汽车制造业就像建筑行业一样。 What is happening in automaking is similar to what happening in architecture.5. No longer quite an individual, no longer quite the product of a unique geography and culture不再有鲜明的特性，不再是特定的地理和文化孕育下的产物。 The modern man no longer has individual traits shaped by specific environment and culture.6. The price he pays is that he no longer has a home in the traditional sense of the word.他所付出的代价是，他不再拥有传统意义上的家。 The disadvantage of being a cosmopolitan is that he loses a home in the old sense.7. The benefit is that he begins to suspect home in the traditional sense is another name for limitations好处就是他开始认为传统意义上的家是牢笼的别称。 The advantage of being a cosmopolitan is that he begins to think the home of traditional sense limits his development and activities.8. The universalizing imperative of technology is irresistible.技术的普遍应用是不可抵制的。 The compelling force of technology to universalize cannot be resisted.9. when every artist thought he owed it to himself to turn his back on the Eiffel Tower, as a protest against the architectural blasphemy每一个科学家认为背弃埃菲尔铁塔是自己的责任。 Every artist thought he should contempt for the Eiffel Tower, because they thought it was irreverent.10. It has thus undermined an article of faith: the thingliness of things.动摇了人们关于世界是客观实在的观念。 It has shaken our believe that the things we saw around us were solid substances.11. The disappearance of history is thus a liberation what Madame Buffet-Picabia refers to as the discovery of a mobile extra-human plasticity which is absolutely new.因此，历史的消失是一种解放，即布菲皮卡比亚夫人所谓的“一种全新的、灵活的、超出人们的理解能力的可塑性”的发现。 The disappearance of history is thus a liberation just as what Madame Buffet-Picabia said, a flexible and pliable quality which is definitely new with beyond human power. 12. That, perhaps, establishes the logical limit of the modern aesthetic.或许，这成了现代美学上的逻辑限制。 That shows how far modern aesthetic can logically.Practice with Words and Expressions:Unit 1 :1. their marriage may be on the rocks is likely to tail 2. they got out of bed on the wrong side be in a bad temper/had a bad mood for the day 3. The conversation was on wings. exciting/spirit/heated 4. the Norman lords of course turned up their noses at it. to scorn 5. we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of Saxon peasant. in anothers position 6. English had come royally into its own.receive recognition of/be successful 7. we sit up at the vividness of the phrase be alert Unit 2 :1. then lowered its head and tired to butt me. push with horns 2. An Arab navvy working on the path nearby unskilled laborer 3. When you go through the Jewish quarters a piece of a city 4. his left leg is warped out of shape bend/curved/twist 5. As the Jews lived in a self-contained community self-sufficient 6. they could not even work enough magic to get themselves a square meal. Satisfying/solid 7. The plough is a wretched wooden thing poor in quality/pitiful 8. All of them are mummified with age and the sun shrink like mummies 9. There is no question that the donkeys are damnably treated. terribly/horribly/detestable 10. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms second-hand/ready-made11. It was the shy, wide-eyed Negro look eyes opened widely12. so had the officers on their sweating chargers a horse ridden in battle Unit 3 :1.the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago. to set down/impose 2. For man holds in his mortal hands the power something of man 3. disciplined by a hard and bitter peace to obey rules and control ones behavior 4. to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights open/abolish 5. we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. Sth in disagreement 6. to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. cruel/merciless 7. struggling to break the bonds of mass misery chains 8. to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective a violent verbal attack/ insult curses 9. to enlarge the area in which its writ may run. to continue in effect or force 10. that would stays the hand of mankinds final war. to stop/ to restrain 11. tap the ocean depths to explore/make use of 12.not as a call to bear arms but a call to bea