1.English is a Crazy Language英语是一门疯狂的语言
1.Let's face it-English is a crazy language.There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;neither apple nor pine in pineapple.English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France.Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads,which aren't sweet,are meat.
1.让我们接受现实吧--英语是一种疯狂的语言。茄子(eggplant,字面意为鸡蛋植物)里并没有鸡蛋,汉堡包(hamburger,字面意为火腿夹饼)里也没有火腿。同样,菠萝(pineapple,字面意为松树苹果)里既没有松鼠也没有苹果。松饼(English muffin,字面意为英式松饼)并不是英国人发明的,而炸薯条(French fries,字面意为法式油炸食品)也不是法国人的发明。“甜肉”(sweetmeat)指的是蜜饯,而“甜面包”(sweetbread)不是甜的,它指的是牛杂碎。
2.We take English for granted.But if we explore its paradoxes,we find that quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.And why it is that writers write but fingers don't fing,grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?If the plural of tooth is teeth,why isn't the plural of booth beeth?If you have one goo,two gee,why not one moo,two mee,or one index,two indices?
2.我们理所当然地接受了英语的一切,但是如果我们分析一下英语中似是而非的情况,我们马上就会发
现“快的沙子”(quicksand,流沙,也指陷阱,困境)往往走得很慢,“拳击的圆圈”(boxing rings,拳击场)是方的,“几内亚猪”(guinea pig,天竺鼠)既不是来自几内亚,也不是猪。还有,既然名词作家(writers)去掉词尾的rs就可以成为动词“写作(write)”,那为什么名词“手指”(fingers)、杂货店(grocers)、锤子(hammers)去掉rs就不能成为各自相应的动词呢?如果牙齿的复数是teeth,那为什么售货亭的复数不是beeth?一只鹅我们用goo,两只鹅用gee,那么,一只驼鹿用moo(单复数同形),两只驼鹿就应该是mee了?为什么一条索引是index,两条索引却成了indices?
3.Doesn't it em crazy that you can make amends but not one amend,or that you can comb through the annals of history but not a single annal?If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,what do you call it?
3.如果你赔偿时只能赔偿复数不能赔偿单数,这是不是很莫名其妙?你可以梳理历史的编年史,为什么却不能复习某一个单个的编年史?如果你有一堆麻烦,那么在你把其他的都解决了只剩下一个的时候该怎么说呢?
4.If teachers taught,why didn't preachers praught?If a vegetarian eats vegetables,what does a humanitarian eat?意大利英文
4.如果教师教学是taught,那为什么传教士不是praught?如果素食主义者(vegetarian)吃蔬菜(veg
etable),那人道主义者(humanitarian)吃什么?
5.Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital;ship by truck and nd cargo by ship;have nos that run and feet that smell;park on driveways and drive on parkways?
5.有时候我觉得根据英国人说话时疯狂的用词可以将他们送进精神病院。哪一种语言人们可以在一出戏中朗诵,在朗诵中玩(分别指演戏和开独唱会)?用卡车运船,用船运货(分别只用卡车运输和用船运输)?鼻子可以跑而脚可以闻味道(分别指流鼻涕和脚有臭
玩具总动员3下载味)?车可以停在驾驶路上,而且在停车路上驾驶(driveway从字面上理解是驾驶路,parkway从字面上理解是停车路)。
6.How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,while a wi man and wi guy are opposites,and quite a lot and quite a few are alike?How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
6.为什么一个苗条的机会(slim chance,指没机会)和一个肥胖的机会(fat chant,也指没机会)意思是一样的,而一个聪明的人(wi man,聪明人)和一个聪明的家伙(wi guy,自作聪明的人)
却意思相反?为什么相当多(quite a lot)和相当少(quite a few)意思一样?(实际上quite a lot和quite a few都是相当多的意思。)为什么天气可以热的像地狱也可以冷得像地狱?(as hell字面意思像地狱一样,指非常)
7.You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your hou can burn up as it burns down,in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.
7.你不得不对这种精神病一样的语言表示惊奇,在这种语言中,你的房子在被烧下去(burn down,意为烧为平地)的同时又被烧上去(burn up,意为烧起来,烧掉)。你用填出来(fill out,意为填写)的方法填进去(fill in,意思也是填写)一个表格。闹钟在走(go on)的时候响(go off)了。
8.English was invented by people,not computers,and it reflects the creativity of the human race.That is why,when the stars are out,they are visible,but when the lights are out,they are invisible.And why,when I wind up my watch,I start it,but when I wind up this essay,I end it?
8.英语是人而不是机器创造出来的语言,它反映了人类的创造性。这也是为什么当星星出来的时候,我们是看得见的,当阳光出来(out)的时候是看不见的。同理,我“处理”我的手表之后,它就开始(走)了;而我“处理”完这篇文章后,它却结束了。
1.English is a Crazy Language英语是一门疯狂的语言2012湖北高考英语
1.Let's face it-English is a crazy language.There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;neither apple nor pine in pineapple.English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France.Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads,which aren't sweet,are meat.
1.让我们接受现实吧--英语是一种疯狂的语言。茄子(eggplant,字面意为鸡蛋植物)里并没有鸡蛋,汉堡包(hamburger,字面意为火腿夹饼)里也没有火腿。同样,菠萝(pineapple,字面意为松树苹果)里既没有松鼠也没有苹果。松饼(English muffin,字面意为英式松饼)并不是英国人发明的,而炸薯条(French fries,字面意为法式油炸食品)也不是法国人的发明。“甜肉”(sweetmeat)指的是蜜饯,而“甜面包”(sweetbread)不是甜的,它指的是牛杂碎。
2.We take English for granted.But if we explore its paradoxes,we find that quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.And why it is that writers write but fingers don't fing,grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?If the plural of tooth is teeth,why isn't the plural of booth beeth?If you have one goo,two gee,why not one
moo,two mee,or one index,two indices?
2.我们理所当然地接受了英语的一切,但是如果我们分析一下英语中似是而非的情况,我们马上就会发现“快的沙子”(quicksand,流沙,也指陷阱,困境)往往走得很慢,“拳击的圆圈”(boxing rings,
拳击场)是方的,“几内亚猪”(guinea pig,天竺鼠)既不是来自几内亚,也不是猪。还有,既然名词作家(writers)去掉词尾的rs就可以成为动词“写作(write)”,那为什么名词“手指”(fingers)、杂货店(grocers)、锤子(hammers)去掉rs就不能成为各自相应的动词呢?如果牙齿的复数是teeth,那为什么售货亭的复数不是beeth?一只鹅我们用goo,两只鹅用gee,那么,一只驼鹿用moo(单复数同形),两只驼鹿就应该是mee了?为什么一条索引是index,两条索引却成了indices?
3.Doesn't it em crazy that you can make amends but not one amend,or that you can comb through the annals of history but not a single annal?If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,what do you call it?
3.如果你赔偿时只能赔偿复数不能赔偿单数,这是不是很莫名其妙?你可以梳理历史的编年史,为什么却不能复习某一个单个的编年史?如果你有一堆麻烦,那么在你把其他的都解决了只剩下一个的时候该怎么说呢?
4.If teachers taught,why didn't preachers praught?If a vegetarian eats vegetables,what does a humanitarian eat?
4.如果教师教学是taught,那为什么传教士不是praught?如果素食主义者(vegetarian)吃蔬菜(vegetable),那人道主义者(humanitarian)吃什么?
5.Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital;ship by truck and nd cargo by ship;have nos that run and feet that smell;park on driveways and drive on parkways?
5.有时候我觉得根据英国人说话时疯狂的用词可以将他们送进精神病院。哪一种语言人们可以在一出戏中朗诵,在朗诵中玩(分别指演戏和开独唱会)?用卡车运船,用船运货(分别只用卡车运输和用船运输)?鼻子可以跑而脚可以闻味道(分别指流鼻涕和脚有臭味)?车可以停在驾驶路上,而且在停车路上驾驶(driveway从字面上理解是驾驶路,parkway从字面上理解是停车路)。
6.How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,while a wi man and wi guy are opposites,and quite a lot and quite a few are alike?How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
身份证查四级准考证号6.为什么一个苗条的机会(slim chance,指没机会)和一个肥胖的机会(fat chant,也指没机会)意思是一样的,而一个聪明的人(wi man,聪明人)和一个聪明的家伙(wi guy,自作聪明的人)却意思相反?为什么相当多(quite a lot)和相当少(quite a few)意思一样?(实际上quite a lot和quite a few都是相当多的意思。)为什么天气可以热的像地狱也可以冷得像地狱?(as hell字面意思像地狱一样,指非常)
7.You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your hou can burn up as it burns down,in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.
7.你不得不对这种精神病一样的语言表示惊奇,在这种语言中,你的房子在被烧下去(burn down,意为烧为平地)的同时又被烧上去(burn up,意为烧起来,烧掉)。你用填出来(fill out,意为填写)的方法填进去(fill in,意思也是填写)一个表格。闹钟offer的意思
在走(go on)的时候响(go off)了。
8.English was invented by people,not computers,and it reflects the creativity of the human race.That is why,when the stars are out,they are visible,but when the lights are out,they are invisible.And why,when I wind up my watch,I start it,but when I wind up this essay,I end it?
8.英语是人而不是机器创造出来的语言,它反映了人类的创造性。这也是为什么当星星出来的时候,我们是看得见的,当阳光出来(out)的时候是看不见的。同理,我“处理”我的手表之后,它就开始(走)了;而我“处理”完这篇文章后,它却结束了。
3.On Mobile Office移动的办公室
1.Mobile1office is the mutual2product of economic,scientific,and social progress.Mobile office has be
come a solution that provides urs with convenient,prompt,safe,reliable,and reasonably priced communications and office faculty3anywhere anytime via4the support of mobile interconnection platform5 (MIP)and its applications systems.Using mobile office and WAP technology,people can do their work anywhere anytime,can nd and receive data via terminals6such as mobile phone,palm computer,and PDA,and can surf the Internet.Integrating7 Internet and mobile communications network,and providing powerful applications support capacity for wireless8interconnection,mobile interconnection platform (MIP)is an important network support technology to accomplish mobile office.1.移动办公室是经济、科技、社会三者发展进步的共同产物。通过无线互联平台(MIP)及其应用系统的支撑,移动办公室已经成为一种能够使用户获得随时随地、简便快捷、安全可靠、价格合理的通信和办公能力的解决方案。通过移动办公室和无线接入协议(WAP)技术,人们可以在任何时间任何地点办公,可以从移动电话、掌上电脑、个人数字助理(PDA)等终端设备上收发数据,遨游于互联网上。无线互联平台将因特网和移动通信网络有机地整合起来,为无线互联提供强大的应用支撑能力,是实现移动办公室重要的网络支撑技术。
2.When you leave your office to attend meetings or travel on business,what would happen to your business routine?Of cour,faxes and e-mails would be still nt to your fax machine or e-mail box,but you cannot read them and make prompt reaction timely.When your clients need you to make swl
some urgent modifications9on your work and you are neither in the office nor carrying relevant10documents,what can you do?Maybe you have to say“sorry”to the clients.But,your business will be affected,the clients will be unhappy and disappointed becau of your delay,and you will lo a lot of business opportunities.2.当你离开办公室,忙于参加会议或出差在外时,你的日常工作业务会怎样呢?当然,传真和电子邮件依然会到达你的传真机和电子信箱,但是你却不能及时地看到它们并迅速作出反应。当你的客户需要你对某项工作进行一些紧急修改,而你恰好不在办公室,又没有随身携带相关文件时,怎么办呢?你也许只能向客户说“对不起”了。但是,你的业务将受到影响,客户们也会因为你的延迟而感到不快和失望,因而你失去许多商机。
3.In fact,very frequently,you need to
check,reply,distribute11,display,modify,or read some materials when you are not in your office.You must get out of this dilemma12.The best solution to normally handle your business anywhere anytime and not to disappoint your clients is to影视动画培训
let your office“move”with you.Thus,you can have
convenient,prompt,safe,reliable13,and reasonably priced communications and office faculty anywhere anytime.With the development of communications technology,network application,and wir
eless interconnection,mobile office has become simpler and smaller,and even can be realized via one mobile phone with data communications function.Thus,mobile office has already been put into your pocket,and office mobility has been realized.It us its mobile phone function to make voice communication,and us its data communications function to do most computation14and storage15in the network's other mainframes16.It us the network to get necessary materials and data,and us mobile phone's infrared17 interface18to connect with computers,printers,scanners19,etc.3.实际上,当你不在办公室,但需要对某些材料进行查阅、回复、分发、展示、修改或宣读的情形是很常见的。因此,你必须从这种困境中解脱出来。使自己能够随时随地正常处理业务,不让客户失望,最好的解决办法就是让你的办公室也随你一起“移动”起来,使你获得随时随地、简单快捷、安全可靠、价格合理的通信和办公能力。随着通信技术、网络应用以及无线互联的发展,移动办公室已经变得越来越简单小巧,甚至只需一个具有数据通信功能的移动电话即可实现。此时,移动办公室已经被你装进了口袋,从而真正实现了办公的移动性。它利用移动电话功能进行语音通信;利用数据通信功能,使大部分计算和存储工作都在网络的其他主机上进行;利用网络获得需要的材料和数据;利用移动电话的红外接口与电脑、打印机、扫描仪等设备相连。
动画片埃及王子4.Mobile office has provided people with convenient,casual working environment,but at the same time it still has some unsatisfactory aspects such as mismatching equipment interface and inadequat
e battery.Nevertheless,we believe that with technical progress,people can certainly overcome all kinds of difficulties.Mobile office will make your career unimpeded20,and will realize the dream of completely free communication.Urs will enjoy more colorful life and better working environment,and urs'living standard,working efficiency,and even enterpris'production efficiency will certainly be immenly raid.4.移动办公室给人们带来了方便随意的工作环境,但同时也存在着一些诸如设备接口不匹配、电池电力不足等不尽如人意的地方。但是,我们相信,随着技术的进步,人们肯定能战胜种种困难。移动办公室将使你的事业畅通无阻,实现完全自由通信的梦想。用户将会享受多彩的生活和美好的工作环境;用户的生活水平、工作效率以及企业的生产效率,必将大大提高。
4.How to Explore a City探索城市轻松游北边
1.Are you spending two days in Tokyo?Are you moving to Melbourne?No matter where you're going or how long you're staying,keep reading!The tips will help you make the most of any urban adventure.
要去东京待两天?还是要搬到墨尔本?不管打算去哪里、要待多久,往下读吧!一下介绍的小诀窍能帮你充分享受每趟都市旅游。
hollween2.Before you arrive抵达前
3.Read a city guidebook.Some are even specially designed for a24-hour visit!If you don't want to buy one,just look through the guidebooks in a store.They can give you hints on how to plan your trip.