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1、高级英语试题句子释义及参考答案1.The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. The burying-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up.2. All

2、colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact.All the imperialists built up their empires by treating in the colonies like animals/by not treating the people in the colonies as human beings.3. They rise out of earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the na

3、meless mounds of the graveyard.They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally the 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.Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fash

4、ioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.5.Instantly, from the dark hole s all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews.Immediately, from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited.6.Every one of them looks on a c

5、igarette as a more or less impossible luxury.Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford.7.Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.However, a whit-skinned European is always quit noticeable. /However, people always notice an

6、y one with a white skin.8.In a tropical landscape ones eye takes in everything except the human beings.If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.9.No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.No one would think of org

7、anizing cheap trips for the tourist to visit 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.Life is very hard for ninety percent of the people. They can produce a little food on the poor soil

8、 only with hard backbreaking toil.11.She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden.She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community, that she was only fit for dong heavy work like an animal.12.People wit brown skins are next door to invi

9、sible.People with brown skins are almost invisible.13.Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms.The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies.14.How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?How much l

10、onger before they turn their guns around and attack us?15.Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.Every white man marching with the black soldiers had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mind.16. After a month or two no one can even be certain where his

11、 own relatives are buried. With no gravestone, name or identifying mark, naturally after some time, people cannot find the graves even of their own relatives.17.Are they really the same flesh as your self? Do they even have names? Or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as i

12、ndividual as bees or coral insects? They are not really treated as human beings like as you and me. Perhaps they dont even have names. They are merely treated like as bees or coral insects.18.And even the graves themselves soon fade back into the soil.Nameless and with no identifying marks, graves s

13、oon become indistinguishable from an ordinary piece of ground.19.Thanks to a lifetime of sitting in this position his left leg is warped out of shape. Because of sitting in fixed position over the years and because of using his left foot to control the chisel while turning chair-legs, his left leg h

14、as become deformed.20.A good job Hitler wasnt here.It was lucky for the Jews that Hitler had not come to this place. (If he had, the Jews would have been exterminated as they were in Poland and other European countries. 21.Perhaps he was on his way, however. You hear the usual dark rumors about Jews

15、, not only from the Arabs but from the poorer Europeans.From the dark rumors about the Jews spread by Arabs and the poorer Europeans one might think that Hitler was once on his way here.22.In just the same way, a couple of hundred years ago, poor old women used to be burned for witchcraft when they

16、could not even work enough magic to get themselves a square meal. Jews were now being condemned by prejudice and ignorance as some poor old women who could not even get themselves a decent meal were condemned and burned for witchcraft.23. In northern Europe, when you see a laborer ploughing a field,

17、 you probably give him a second glance.Laborers, farmers in northern Europe are white complexioned so people take notice of them. 24.This is as much as the strength of the animals is equal to.The animals yoked to the plough had just enough strength to plough the soil to a depth of about four inches.

18、25.It is only because of this that the starved countries of Asia and Africa are accepted as tourist resorts.It is only because of this reason that these poor starved countries are accepted as tourist resorts.26.An orange grove or a job in Government service.27.In a hot country, anywhere south of Gib

19、raltar or east of Suez, the chances are that you dont even see him.In any hot country south of Gibraltar or east of Suez, you quite probably dont even see the laborer ploughing the field.28.Along the edges of the fields channels are hacked out to a depth of thirty or forty feet to get at the tiny tr

20、ickles which run through the subsoil.Marrakech is very dry, even at a depth of 30 or 40 feet there is only but a trickle of water.29.All of them are mummified with age and the sun, and all of them are tiny.Years of hard life and heat of the tropical sun have dried up the old women here, so that they

21、 look like mummies. They shrink to the size of children.30.She answered with a shrill wail, almost a scream, which was party gratitude bur mainly surprise.Her response was a thin loud piercing cry. The cry expressed a bit of gratitude but mainly showed her surprise.31.They had registered themselves

22、on my eyeballs I cannot truly say that I had seen them. Everyday a file of old women went past his house. His eyes must have recorded the scene but he did not consciously observe what was happening.32.Yet I suppose I had not been five minutes on Moroccan soil before I noticed the overloading of the

23、donkeys and was infuriated by it.As soon as I landed in Morocco I noticed the donkeys (but for several weeks he did not notice the poor old woman were being overloaded. This made me very angry.33.This kind of thing makes ones blood boil, whereas on the whole the plight of the human beings does not.T

24、he cruel treatment of the donkey makes one very angry but the sufferings of the human beings do not.34.Their feet squashed into boots that looked like blocks of wood, and every tin hat seemed to be a couple of sizes too small.Their feet were squeezed into boots that were too small and were flat and

25、square like blocks of wood and their heads were also squeezed into tin hats which seemed to be a couple of sizes too small for them.35.But there is one tho ught which every white man (and in this connection it doesnt matter twopence if he call himself a socialist thinks when he sees a black army mar

26、ching past. Every white man, even those who call themselves socialists cant help but think this thought when he sees a black army marching past.36.How much longer can we go on kidding these people?How much longer can we go on fooling these people?37.And really it was like watching a flock of cattle

27、to see the long column, a mile or two miles of armed men, flowing peacefully up the road.Watching the one-or-two miles long column of soldiers marching peacefully up the road was just like watching a flock of cattle. Cattle dont think, dont ask questions, but follow their masters blindly. These blac

28、k soldiers were just like cattle.38.As the Jews live in self-contained communities they follow the same trades as the Arabs, except for agriculture.As a community they were self-sufficient. Except for agricultural produce, they produced everything that was necessary. Hence they followed the same tra

29、des as the Arabs. 39.Firewood was passing that was how I saw it.The author only saw the firewood that was being carried past and not the poor old women who were carrying the heavy loads.40.Tearing up the prickly weeds with their hands, and the peasant gathering lucerne for fodder pulls it up stalk b

30、y stalk instead of reaping it, thus saving an inch or two on each stalk. They cant afford a tool so they have to tear up the prickly weeds painfully with their bare hands. They pull up each stalk laboriously to save an inch or two in stalk so that they may increase their fodder harvest somewhat.41.A

31、nd yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe.Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today t

32、his issue has not yet been decided in many countries around the world. 42.This much we pledge and more.This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.43.United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a gre

33、at number of joint undertakings.44.But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope of progress to all our countries.45.Our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war hav

34、e far outpaced the instruments of peace.The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed and exceeded the instruments of peace.46.We pledge to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the

35、 area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.47.Before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.Before the terrible forces of destruction, which science can now release, overwhelm mankind;

36、 before this self-destruction, which may be planned or brought about by an accident, takes place.48.Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terro r that stays the hand of mankinds final war.Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of te

37、rrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankinds final war.49.So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness. So let us start once again (to discuss and negotiate and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness.50.Let b

38、oth sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.51.Each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. American

39、s of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their countrys cause.52.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.With Gods blessing and help, let us

40、start leading the country we love, knowing that on earth we must do what God wants us to do. Let history finally judge whether we have done our task well or not but our sure reward will be a good conscience for we will have worked sincerely and to the best of our ability.53.For man holds in his mort

41、al hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.Man has made great progress in science and technology so he has the power to abolish poverty, but he also has the power to destroy human life.54.We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolutio

42、n.We dare not forget that we are the descendants of those who fought the first revolutionary war the war of independence.55.Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. Those countries which foolishly seek the aid of socialist countries will end up by losing thei

43、r independence as many other countries did in the past.56.If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. If the poor are continuously exploited and oppressed, they will rise up someday and overthrow the “free society” or the rule of “the few who are rich”.5

44、7.And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.And let every country know the nations of this hemisphere will not tolerate any interference in their affairs by countries outside this hemisphere.58. We pledge to prevent it from becoming merely a fo

45、rum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak.We pledge to prevent the United Nations from becoming an assembly where people just criticize, insult and abuse each other, to strengthen the power of the United Nations to protect the newly independent and the weak nations.59.We da

46、re not tempt them with weakness.We dare not be weak because it might tempt the enemy to take rash actions.60.For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.If we are strong our enemy will not dare to attack us. Hence, our military m

47、ight willnever be employed.61.But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course.The two great and powerful groups of nations find no comfort in the present international situation.62.Both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarm

48、ed by the steady spread of the deadly atom.Both sides are feeling the great financial burden of the arms race and both sides are alarmed by the proliferation of atomic weapons.63.Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankinds final war.Yet both groups of na

49、tions are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankinds final war.64. Ones sincerity must be proved by facts. People may say or promise all kinds of nice things but they must be proved by deeds.65.Let both

50、 sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.Let us try to find out where we agree and where we can cooperate and work together instead of wasting our time squabbling over things we disagree on.66.And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jung

51、le of suspicion.And if a little bit of cooperation can lessen the deep suspicion that exists on both sides. 67. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe. There are graves of young Americans in all parts of the world. They fought and died for their country whe

52、n they were called upon to do so.68.All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.All this will not be finished in a very short time.69. Now the trumpet summons us again.Now our country is calling on us once more.70. Not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to bat

53、tle, though embattled we are.Today our country is not calling on us to join the army or to go to war, although we need a strong army and although we are prepared for war.71.But it is a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out. It is a call to face the challenge of th

54、e cold war which includes a fight against poverty and disease which would serve to win over the poor developing countries of the Third World. 72. Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West?Can we together with the nations of the world form a real a

55、lliance in every part of the world to fight against tyranny, poverty, disease and war?73.The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.The energy, the faith and the devotion that

56、the Americans bring this task will inspire not only the United States and her people but also the whole world.74.Ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. Demand that we here show the same high standards of strength and sacrifice that we demand of you.75.T

57、o those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery.To the poor and backward people in Africa and Asia struggling to free themselves from poverty and suffering.76.We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an

58、end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.It is not simply a victory of the Democratic Party over the Republican Party. It celebrates the freedom of people to elect freely their own head of state. It symbolizes the end of one presidential term and the beginning of a new term. The presidency or the office of president is renewed, but the president has changed.77.I had made a logician out of Polly.I had turned Polly into a logician.78.She was worthy of me at last.Polly was now good enough to be my wife.79. The time had come to change our relationship from ac