UNIT 1
2. Conversation is not for making a point.
Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view.
4.Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.
People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for
they are not deeply absorbed in each other’s lives.
6.They are cattle in the fields,but we sit down to beef.
These animals are called cattle when they are alive and fed in the fields; but when we
sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef.
8....English had come royally into its own.
The English language received proper recognition and was ud by the King once more.
10.The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.
There still exists in the working people, as in the early Saxon peasants, a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.
UNIT 2
2.All colonial empires are in reality founded upon this fact.儿童咽炎吃什么药
All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like
animals(by not treating the people in the colonies as human beings)
4.A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe,turning chair-legs at lightening speed.
Sitting with his legs crosd and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly
gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.
6...every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.
Every one of the poor Jews looks on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they
could not possibly afford.
8.In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything except the human beings
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.
12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.
14.How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?
UNIT 3酒瓶盆景
2.This much we pledge---and more.
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We promi to do this much and we promi to do more.
4....our last best hope in an age where the instrument of war have far outpaced the instruments
The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the tools to wage war have far surpasd and exceeded the tools to keep peace.
6....before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental lf-destruction.
Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now relea, wipe
out mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident.
8.So let us begin anew,remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign
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Let us start over again. We must bear in mind that being polite does not mean one is wea
k.
10....each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.
Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their
country (by fighting and dying for their country’s cau).
UNIT 4
2.Fads, I submit,are the very negation of reason.
A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shows a complet lack of reason.
4.All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them.Where’ve you been?
All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t know?
6.With one omission,Polly fitted the specifications perfectly.
Except for one thing (intelligence) Polly had all the other requirements.
8.In fact,she veered in the opposite direction.
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In fact, she went in the opposite direction, that is, she is not intelligent but rather stupid.
10.Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing,resolution waning.
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His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat then looking away from the coat.) Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly became weaker.
12.Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope,but I decided to give it one more try.
14.I was not Pygmalion;I was Frankenstein,and my monster had me by the throat.
UNIT 6
2.New York even prides itlf on being a holdout from prevailing
New Yor now boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion)
of American and that it is a place where people can escaped from uniformity and
commonness.
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来例假喝咖啡4...it is making something of a comeback as a
New York is regainning somewhat its status as a city that attract tourists.
