Unit1
when dad told us about the delivery work it sounded easy ,just a piece of cake.the trouble was,we did not take care to inqure just how much material was involved .before long trucks emded to be pull up outside our hou all day long ,leaving stacks of advertising.it emed we would have no chance of meeting the deadline .then we had thismarvelous idea.Hiring local kids to help would enable us to get the job done on time.True,it woule cut into our profits,but there was no native.Things emed to be going well,but then we had trouble over a pay claim.Our workersdemanded five dollars an hour,but fortunately for us they were ready to ttle for less.As for us,when we finally ttle our accounts we ended up earing less than the mimimum wage for all our efforts.I guess we should have know bettle to to believe that big bucks come easy.
1) 我们接到通知，财政部长将于次日接见我们。
We were informed that the Minister of Finance was to give us an audience /receive us the next day.
2) 我觉得很奇怪，他似乎不记得自己的生日。
I thought it odd that he didn't em to remember his own birthday.
3) 学期论文最迟应在下星期二交来，可是至今大部分学生却几无进展。
Next Tuesday is the deadline for handing in the term papers, but most students have hardly made a dent in the work so far.
4) 看到学生人数不断减少，校长心里很难受。(pain)
It pained the headmaster to find the number of students shrinking.
5) 在那个国家一般用现金付账，但支票变得普遍起来了，不久会代替现金作为人们结账的一种方式。
due
Cash is commonly ud in paying bills in that country, but checks are becoming more popular and will, in a short while, replace cash as a way for people to ttle their accounts.
6) 该公司声称，这条河流的污染不是它造成的。
The company claims that it is not responsible for the pollution in the river.
Unit2
While it is often said that love makes the world go round, scientists take a less romantic view. To their minds, energy is the fundmental force at work. All animal life is dependent on obtaining sufficient energy from food. Deer, like other wild animal, do this through eating as much food as possible in the summer, when food resources are abundant . Any excess of energy over their current needs is deposited in the body in the form of fat. Then, when food becomes scare in the winter, they can live off the fat. In addition, nature helps them to survive the winter by slowing down their metabolism, assisting them to pull through the cold weather. However, when the winter is particularly harsh, deer may have to draw on the fat they have built up more heavily. Under such conditions, only deer in good condition are able to survive to give birth to a new generation.
1) 比尔已是个成熟的小伙子，不再依赖父母替他做主。
Bill is a mature young man who is no longer dependent on his parents for decisions.
specification2) 这个地区有大量肉类供应，但新鲜果蔬奇缺。
There are abundant supplies of meat in this region, but fresh fruit and vegetables are scarce.
3) 工程师们依靠工人们的智慧发明了一种新的生产方法，使生产率得以提高。
Drawing on the wisdom of the workers, the engineers invented a new production method that led to incread productivity.
4) 他花了许多时间准备数学考试，因此当他获知自己只得了个B时感到有点失望。
fly awayHe spent a lot of time preparing for his math exam. Hence he was somewhat disappointed to learn that he got only a B.
5) 我们有充裕的时间从从容容吃顿午饭。
We have ample time for a leisurely lunch.
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some6) 地方政府不得不动用储备粮并采取其他紧急措施，以渡过粮食危机。
The local government had to draw on its grain rerves and take other emergency measures so as to pull through the food crisis.
荆轲刺秦王 翻译Unit3
In his essay George Orwell starts off by citing Bernard Shaw’s remark that people are more superstitious today than they were in the Middle Ages. They promptly accept the opinions of experts without asking any questions themlves .Obviously Shaw exaggerates just in order to prove his point that we should not always fall back on the theories of well-known authorities .Rather ,we should aim at finding out some things for ourlves .By way of illustration ,Orwell outlines arguments against the Flat Earth and the Oval Earth theories ,thus throwing light on the face that much of our knowledge actually rests on authority rather than on reasoning or onexperiment .Finally ,Orwell draws his conclusion that ours is acredulous age partly becau we have such an exceptionally heavy burden of knowledge.
when是什么意思中文
1) 萧伯纳在他一个剧本的前言中提出这样的看法：今天人们比在中世纪时更加迷信。
In the preface to one of his plays, Bernard Shaw advances the idea that people are more superstitious today than they were in the Middle Ages.
2) 丈夫死后，她只好独自挑起抚养五个孩子的经济重担。
volition
After her husband died, she had to bear the vere financial burden of raising five children by herlf.
3) 证明或驳斥某个论点的最好办法之一是从亲身经历中举出例子。
One of the best ways to prove or refute a point is to cite examples from your own experience.
4) 亨特说贝蒂老是夸大他的缺点，这话很可能会引起一场争吵。
Hunt's statement that Betty always exaggerates his faults may well lead to a quarrel.
5) 我当时对她绝对信任，无论她告诉我什么，我都会相信。
I trusted her so much that I would have swallowed any story she told me.
6) 一家人聚拢来讨论经济问题时，父亲一开头就说，每月存点钱是绝对必要的，遇到紧急情况，我们可以依靠积蓄。
When the family gathered to discuss matters of finance, Father started off by saying that it was absolutely necessary to t aside some money each month, for in an emergency we could fall back on our savings.
Unit4 The last time Lyz saw her husband was as he waved goodbye to her from the steps of their hou.he was due to fly off on business later that day.unluckly for him his flight was cancelled and he found himlf having to take united flight 93 the following day.
It was from on board that ill-fated flight that he telephoned with the news that hijackers had threatened to blow up the aircraft Cursing his bad luck,he nonetheless realized that his fate was in his own hands.hoping that the terrorists were bluffing when they claimed t
o have a bomb,he and some other pasngers decided to act.without hanging up,he t off with the others to attack the hijackers.from the telephone came the sound of screams .then silence.
Lyz still finds it hard to make n of what happened that day,what lay behind the terrorists' mission .all that she is certain of is how enormously proud she is of her husband and how blesd she was to have been his wife.
剪纸英语>我们身处的谎言世界
