新标准大学英语第四册 unit 7 active reading 1 课文及译文.

1、 the passage is written imaginatively as the memories of a house. using unusual narrators such as houses, cars, pets and so on is frequently a feature of childrens books. the statements are made by thehouse.美好的回忆i can still remember the men who built the walls, and raised the roof,on the other side

2、of the roadhouse over the way needed a lodge for his groundsman to live, and 马路对面found a clearing in the huge orchard which ran up and down the a small house at the entrance to the grounds of a large househills. he sent workman to bring the golden stone from the local 偏房，下房a groundsman is a person w

3、hose job is to look after a parkor sports ground 管理员a clearing is a small area in a forest where there are no treesor bushes 空地an orchard is an area of land on which fruit trees are grown果园a quarry is place, often a hole in the ground, from wherestones are extracted 采石场a cottage is a small, usually

4、one-storied house, often one thatis the dwelling of a peasant or a farm laborer.one of the cottage. the story is written from the perspectivei only see my neighbor from the side. ive never seen him face on,exact opposite of each other, with my front door facing east and myexactly the sameneighbours

5、facing west, my bedroom in the back over his kitchen, know 的宾语从句on 在上头光的照耀。shine；reflect lights 闪耀 apart from the autumn, it was quiet here, and the groundsmansmell of cooking. while the groundsman was at work, the womantulips, summer plants and chrysanthemums. there was a riot of 水仙colors, from blo

6、ssom in early spring to the dark golden colors of lateautumn. it felt good to look after the happy couple.菊花 there was a large amount of various types of colors;blossom: flower esp. of a fruit-bearing treesoon there were children to look after too, first a girl, who gurgledhappily and slept deeply,

7、and then a boy with powerful lungs, who 咯咯笑来嗓门很大，让我们大家都不得安宁。 但是他们都很快乐， kept us all awake. but both were happy and good children. they 嗓门大（哭）也很听话。 他们会静静地在屋里或花园里一起玩耍。渐渐地， played quietly together inside or in the garden, and gradually grew他们长大了，也长高了。 最让我感到愉快的一个记忆是：在 older and taller. one of my happiest

8、 memories is of one warmmy windows are my eyes, and they look onto trees and fields, with矮的丘陵围绕着，仿佛一切都栖息在它的怀抱里。 远处是尖 low hills surrounding the whole scene as if everything nestled in 风景 view landscape塔林立的城市，平日里静悄悄的，只有在特定的日子里，才会响起钟声。 在那些特定日子里，园丁和他的家人会穿上漂 when the bells sound. on these days, the groun

9、dsman and his family亮的衣服外出，几个小时之后才回来。 used to dress smartly and leave the house for several hours.their arms. in the distance is a city of spires, silent except on daystall pointed structure on the top of abuilding 尖顶 the children grew up, and the daughter disappeared, only to returna bunch of; a gr

10、oup of objects held/tied together tightly常坐在我的门廊下相拥而泣。for some time after this, they sat on my porch holding each other a covered entrance to a building 门廊he always faints at the sight of blood.他一见血就会晕倒。as the years passed by, the couple grew older, and suddenly thechance to say goodbye.a new family

11、 arrived, a smart man and his wife, with two children.a case used for carrying documents infootballs. around this time, the view from my windows began tomade of bricks and looked taller and thinner than we were. i thoughtthey looked rather coarse against my handsome stone. and manymore people came t

12、o live around here as well, the streets became rough, unpolished, unrefinedquite busy with people walking up and down on their waysomewhere. it seemed as if no one spent much time at home anymore.because of the care they showed to my rooms and my garden.的样子。 她们还给房间通了电我以前不知道电灯有这么 everything was very

13、clean and tidy; it was as if they had furnished pipes into the house. and gradually they installed all sorts ofappliances, such as a cooker and washing machine. but we were allwarm and clean, and although it was different, it wasnt unpleasant.appliances are often electrical.used to the horse-drawn d

14、eliveries made by the milkman, or the a delivery is a giving or bringing of something to someonerag-and-bone man calling from his cart for old cloth and metal things people who collect (come and buy) used things理查德不喜欢在工作时被打断。 richard resent beingmorning, both the man and the woman left me and walked

15、 down theinterrupted while he is working.hill or waited for the bus. when their children came home, they let childrenthe parents returned. they had a pet dog who sat outside all day,barking and howling, or digging up my garden, which i have to 嚎叫 make a long, loud, crying soundmake a holeadmit i res

16、ented.我喜欢住在我这儿的最后一个人，约瑟夫。 他在家里干活， i liked the last person who lived with me. joseph worked at home put different parts of furniture together 组装家具组装家具。所以我整天都能看到他，我们相依为伴。 他已经 assembling furniture, so i saw him all day, and we kept each other can you keep me company while i cook?上了年纪，腿脚不太灵便，走路非常慢，要用双手扶

17、着桌椅company. he wasnt a young man, and had trouble moving around,我煮饭的时候可以陪我吗？ walking very slowly, using his hands to steady himself, sometimesstopping to catch his breath.整个晚上屋子里都会有奇怪的声音，好像闹鬼一样。 每一个 creak, and ghosts make strange noises throughout the night. there 嘎吱响 makes a short, high-pitched sou

18、ndare signs of everyone who has lived with me, marks on the walls, 痕迹my age.gradually become badseparate from the thing to which it was attached and movestowards the ground铰链 合页shoot dropsshe has learned to live with her husbands laziness.许他们是来和我一起住的。 但是从拐角传来一阵巨大的发动 other devices. perhaps theyre coming to live with me. but around the car disappeared round the bend in the road.