作者：阳明学院 蔡思慧
作者简介：15级英语专业，曾获校口译大赛一等奖、校英语写作大赛二等奖，曾获省政府奖学金、校一等奖学金
笔记内容概述：本笔记针对综合英语3/4期末考试中的汉英翻译题型，为考试范围整理。
ISE3
六：
1. 当他看到将军走过来时，立刻站起来向他敬礼。(get to one's feet)
1. At the sight of the general walking towards him, he got to his feet at once and saluted.
2. "这些钱用来做什么的？""用来帮助那些失学儿童重返校园。"(be for)
2. "What is this money for?" "It's for helping those children who have lost the chance of schooling to come back to school again."
3. 昨夜的敲门声把我吓得直哆嗦。(quiver with)
3. The knock at my door last night sent me quivering with fright.
4. 我可以向你保证，他是最值得信赖的人。(assure)
4. I can assure you that he is a most reliable person.
5. 大家都希望他能接替即将退休的马丁先生做该系的系主任。(take over)
5. Everybody hopes that he will take over as dean of the department when Mr. Martin retires.
6. 虽然她竭力掩盖她的感情，可她的眼神还是流露她渴望赢得奖品。(betray)
6. She tried her best to hide her feelings, but her eyes betrayed her longing for the prize.
7. 据说经常在太阳底下曝晒会得皮肤癌。 (be exposed to)
7. It is said that people will get skin cancer if they are exposed to the sun too much.
七：
1. 春天和秋天我都喜欢，但是我更喜欢春天。(prefer over)
1. I prefer spring to autumn though I love both seasons.
2. 我相信电子汽车总有一天会取代汽油汽车。(supplant)
2. I believe that electric cars will one day supplant petrol-driven ones.
3. 他们提醒他攀登喜马拉雅山很危险，可他偏不听。(warn of)
3. They warned him of the danger of climbing the Himalayas, but he wouldn't listen.
4. 老师告诉学生，他们的前途取决于这次考试成绩。(hinge on)
4. The teacher told his students that their future prospects hinged on their performance in this examination.
5. 她获得了最佳演员奖，大家都觉得她当之无愧。(deserve)
5. Everybody thinks that she deserves the title "Best Actress of the Year" she has been awarded.
6. 这个孩子每次碰到困难都去找妈妈，而不是自己想办法。(turn to)
6. Every time the girl came across a problem, she would turn to her mother for a solution, rather than trying to solve it herself.
7. 丈夫去世后，她一如既往地培养3个女儿。(nurture)
7. After her husband died, she continued to nurture her three daughters.
8. 现在人们学英语，似乎不是在学习一门有实用价值的语言，而是在学一种语法。(less... than...)
8. It seems that a lot of people learn English less as a practical language than as a grammar.
八：
1. 在传统戏剧《白蛇传》里，白蛇以美女化身来到人间，爱上了许仙，与之结为夫妻。(in the shape of)
1. In the traditional Chinese opera, The White Snake, the white Snake comes down to the earth in the shape of a beautiful girl and falls in love with Xuxian to whom she gets married later.
2. 她一看到血就会头晕。(at the sight of)
2. She feels dizzy at the sight of blood.
3. 他今天上课时不停地打盹。(drowse)
3. He kept drowsing off in class this morning.
4. 他全盘道出了两家不和的事实。(relate)
4. He related the whole story of the long-standing dispute between the two families.
5. 她一想起她那死于车祸的孩子就泪水涟涟。(at the thought of)
5. She would burst into tears at the thought of her child killed in a traffic accident.
6. 我突然明白他原来是想帮助我。(dawn on)
6. It dawned on me that he was actually trying to help me.
7. 他们三人藏身的岩洞仅有两米高。 (no more than)
7. The cave for the three of them to hide in was no more than two metres high.
九：
1. 那天晚上詹姆斯(James)和你一起吃晚饭了吗？(in question)
1. Did James have supper with you on the night in question?
2. 教练对比赛的最终结果表示满意。(untimate)
2. The coach was satisfied with the ultimate victory of the match.
3. 为了排除各国人民交往中的语言障碍，许多语言学家都在研究新的世界语。(embark on)
3. To remove the linguistic barriers in communication among the peoples of the world, linguists have embarked on the study of a new universal language.
4. 合资企业的出现使我们有了更多接触外国人的机会。（contact with)
4. The emergence of joint-venture enterprises has increased our opportunities to have contact with foreigners.
5. 妈妈嘱咐他收拾起桌上的零碎东西，把它们放进抽屉里。(bits and pieces)
5. Mother asked him to gather up the bits and pieces of his belongings from the desk and put them in the drawer.
6. 因为一句小小的玩笑，他们之间发生了一场争吵。(arise out of)
6. Their argument arose out of a small joke.
7. 照片不清楚，我认不出其中的女孩。(identify)
7. The picture is too blurred for me to identify the girl in it.
8. 如果有人说他自己能和鬼神交流，你会信吗？(claim)
8. If someone claims to have the ability to communicate with ghosts, would you believe it?
十：
1. 毕业后，他先是做工程师，然后当了厂长。(to start with)
1. After graduation, he became an engineer to start with, then the director of a plant.
2. 我想我还是接收他的邀请为好，因为你不能老是拒绝别人。(may as well)
2. I think I may as well accept his invitation, for you can't keep saying no to people.
3. 为了安全起见，车上每个人都必须系上安全带。(for the sake of)
3. Everyone in the car must wear a seat belt for the sake of safety.
4. 把温度降到摄氏零度，水就会变成冰。(reduce to)
4. Reduce the temperature to zero degree centigrade and water will freeze / turn into ice.
5. 他被指控犯盗窃罪。事实上，他是无辜的。(be accused of)
5. He was accused of theft. But actually he was innocent.
6. 除了女主角的表演有点过火外，这是一部优秀的影片。(otherwise)
6. The heroine's performance is a little exaggerated, but otherwise it is an excellent movie.
7. 有时大人也会上小孩的当。(fall for)
7. Sometimes even adults will fall for children's tricks.
8. 如果她和你分手，那是你活该，谁让你老对她撒谎呢？ (serve somebody right)
8. You lied to her again and again. So if she leaves you, it serves you right.
IEC3
Unit 3
1. 这所大学是世界上历史最悠久的高等学府之一。（venerable）
The university is one of the most venerable institutions of higher learning in the world.
2. 如果一个人缺乏实践经验，仅凭课堂里学的东西是难以成功的。（deficient）
If one is deficient in practical experience, he can hardly become a success with only what he has acquired in class.
3. 我火冒三丈，这篇专题文章本周内必须写完，但老是被打断。（exasperate）
I felt exasperated by constant interruptions, for I had to finish writing the monograph by the end of this week.
4. 他认为用旧文体来写一个当代的主题是滑稽可笑的。（ludicrous）
He feels that it is ludicrous to write on a contemporary theme in a old style.
5. 上海的外滩在上世纪七八十年代是年轻情侣喜欢来的谈情说爱之地。（coo） The Bund in Shanghai was a place where young couples liked to come to coo in the 70s and the 80s of the last century.
6. 作为10来岁的孩子，他女儿算是非常恬静的，因为她喜欢读书胜于嬉戏。（sedate）
His daughter is very sedate for a girl of about ten, for she prefers reading to playing.
7. 当第一抹阳光洒向大地的时候，这对情侣手拉手，在乡村道路上散步。（stroll） The couple strolled hand-in-hand along the country road when the sun in its first splendor steeped the earth.
8. 这个诗人在世时被普遍认为是一个怪僻的浪漫天才。（eccentric）
The poet was commonly considered as an eccentric romantic genius when alive.
Unit 5
1. 当哈姆雷特拿不定主意该采取什么行动时，他就装疯。（feign）
Hamlet feigned madness when he was hesitating about what to do.
2. 搪塞推诿是这生意人的惯用伎俩。（prevarication）
Prevarication is one of this businessman’s habitual tricks.
3. 真理之光有时太刺目，于是善意的谎话随处可见。（ubiquitous）
Sometimes the light of the truth is too dazzling, so white lies are ubiquitous.
4. 美国许多妇女声称她们对自己二等公民的地位感到不满。（profess）
Many women in America profess that they are not satisfied with their status of second-class citizens.
5. 一时冲动之下，他失言抖出了秘密。（blurt out）
On impulse, he blurted out the secret.
6. 你应该摆脱偏见，抵制诱惑，不让任何东西扭曲你的判断。（wrap）
You should free yourself from prejudice, resist temptations, and let nothing warp your judgment.
7. 他是一个过于敏感和富于想象力的人，经常在头脑里编织一张复杂的网络。（a tangled web ）
Being over-sensitive and imaginative, he often weaves a tangled web in his mind.
8. 他在伙伴中很受欢迎，因为他尽量不给别人添麻烦。（spare）
He is very popular among his peers, as he always tries to spare others any trouble.
Unit 6
1. 有时，我们不得不做出选择，因为没有中间路可走。（middle ground）
Sometimes, we have to make a choice because there is no middle ground.
2. 他脑海里经常浮现过去的景象：那时的他无忧无虑，没有生活的重压。（conjure up） He often conjured up visions of the past when he was free from the pressures of life.
3. 当他有倦意的时候，经常喝杯浓浓的清咖啡提提神。（refresh）
He often refreshed himself with a cup of strong black coffee when he felt tired.
4. 他挤过一群醉鬼和讨价还价的女人，穿过灯火闪耀的街市。（thrust）
He thrust a throng of drunken men and bargaining women and walked on through the flaring streets.
5. 老道的译者虽然理论不多，但可以凭借经验将一种语言转换成另一种语言。（rule of thumb）
Experienced translators, though lacking in theory, can render one language into another by rule of thumb.
6. 人们普遍认为外长此行的主要目的是打破两国关系的僵局。（break the ice）
It was generally held that the major purpose of the foreign minister’s trip was to break the ice with regards to the relations between the two countries.
7. 读好书、交好友可以提升境界。（elevate）
Reading good books and making friends with good people can elevate the mind.
8. 鲜花和彩灯为古老的小镇平添了节日的喜气。（lend）
The flowers and the colorful lights lent a festive atmosphere to this ancient small town.
Unit 8
1. 实验结果远远超出了他们的预料。（surpass）
The result of the experiment far surpassed their expectations.
2. 我们应该充分考虑这个项目的费用和可能遇到的困难。（take account of）
We should take full account of the cost of the project and the difficulties we might encounter.
3. 好天气是这次远征科学考察成功的原因之一。（contribute to）
The good weather contributed to the success of the scientific expedition.
4. 巴西足球球星罗纳尔多在2002年世界杯足球赛中射进好几个精彩的球。（spectacular） Ronaldo, a football star of Brazil, scored several spectacular goals in 2002 FIFA World Cup.
5. 罗伯特·弗罗斯特由于对诗歌的杰出贡献被美国许多大学授予名誉学位。（confer…upon） Many honourary degrees from American universities were conferred upon Robert Frost for his remarkable contributions to poetry.
6. 摆脱坏习惯需要耐心和毅力。（emancipation from…）
Patience and perseverance are required in emancipation from bad habits.
7. 他们努力将这些新观念灌输到学生的头脑中去。（instill）
They tried to instill these new ideas into students’ minds.
8. 你对员工进行评估时应该做到公正。（impartiality）
You should demonstrate impartiality in your assessment of the employees.
Unit 12
1. 一个生活在恐惧边缘的人是不可能感到快乐的。（close quarters）
A man living at close quarters with fear can’t possibly be happy.
2. 他心里感到很不舒畅，因为他刚刚出版的书中许多页面上都有明显的印刷错误。（glare） He felt greatly unhappy, for misprints glared from so many pages of his newly published book.
3. 一个工于心计的人喜欢玩诡计，但往往没有大智慧。（calculating）
A man of calculating nature likes to play tricks, but tend to lack much wisdom.
4. 老人感到纳闷，为什么这么多姑娘想当流行歌曲明星。（crave） The old man is wondering why so many girls crave to be pop stars.
5. 我认为抓住别人的错误不放是一种不厚道的行为。（jump upon） I consider it an inhumane act to jump upon others’ blunders.
6. 他经常用一种傲慢的口吻嘲笑他的兄弟，说他是一个无知的懦夫。（taunt） He often taunted his brother in an arrogant voice and called him an ignorant coward.
7. 在酷暑中，那个身体虚弱的姑娘突然晕倒了。（keel over）
In the scorching heat, the girl in delicate health suddenly keeled over.
8. 在过去的5年中，城市不断地朝四周无序蔓延。（sprawl）
Over the past five years, the city has been sprawling out in all directions.
Unit 13
1. 如果协商不成，他最后的一招是诉诸法律。(recourse)
If negotiations should fail, his last recourse was to resort to the law.
2. 在火车车厢这么促局的地方，我有种被禁闭束缚的感觉。(hem in)
In such a confined space of a train compartment, I feel hemmed in.
3. 他们拒绝进一步紧密合作，因此，整个计划告吹。(fall through)
As they have refused a closer cooperation, the whole idea/project has fallen through.
4. 这个雄心勃勃的年轻人希望在这个充满机会的大城市里为自己开创一番事业。(carve out)
The ambitious young man wishes to carve out a career for himself in this city full of opportunities.
5. 学生们正在为期末考试临时抱佛脚。(cram)
The students are cramming for their final examinations.
6. 诗人那异想天开的怪念头无法用理性去理解。(defy)
The poet’s whims and fancies defy rational explanation.
7. 每周两次钢琴课和必须的练琴时间几乎插不进她已经很紧的时间表里了。(fit into)
Taking piano lessons twice a week plus the required practice can hardly fit into her already full schedule.
8. 随着故事的展开，几个主要人物之间的关系变得越来越复杂。(unfold)
As the story unfolds, the relationships between the main characters become more and more complicated.
ISE4
汉译英 U9
1.她似乎不怎么喜欢干这些事。 take pleasure in
She seems to take little pleasure in doing such things.
2.教授告诉我们风景画的传统可追溯到史前时代。 date from
The professor told us that the tradition of landscape painting could date from the prehistoric age.
3.听了这位作家的讲座之后，他决定弃医从文。 take to
After attending the lecture of the famous writer, he decided to give up
medicine and take to literature.
4.让我们免去礼节，直接进入讨论吧。 dispense with
Let's dispense with the formalities and go directly into the discussion.
5.这些动物跑得非常快，因此它们的捕食方法确实很有效。 in consequence
These animals run extraordinarily fast and in consequence their hunting methods are very efficient indeed.
6.警方搜查了这个地区的每幢房子寻找逃犯，但毫无成果。 to no avail
The police searched every house in the district for the escaped criminal,
but to no avail.
7.父母往往会为孩子的成就感到非常自豪。 take pride in
Parents tend to take very great pride in the achievements of their children.
U10
1.许多新兴国家在刚获得独立的时候，都遇到过经济问题的困扰.afflict with
Many developing countries, after independence, were afflicted with economic problems to begin with.
2.为了保护国内工业，政府决定对进口倾销产品征收反倾销关税。
anti-dumping tariff (impose … upon / on)
In order to protect domestic industries, the government decided to impose an anti-dumping tariff on imported products.
3.只有学问而没有实践经验，这种学问没有多少价值。 count for
Knowledge without practical experience counts for little.
4.敌军入侵使得成千上万的老百姓只好弃家而逃。 abandon
Thousands of people were forced to abandon their homes to the invading enemy troops.
5.我在上海住了很久，已把这个城市看作我的第二故乡。 look upon / on
I've lived in Shanghai so long that I’ve looked upon / on the city as my second hometown.
6.修理屋顶时底下必须用东西支撑着。 prop up
The roof will have to be propped up while repairs are being carried out.
7.在困难前面，他仍然保持着幽默感。 in (the) face of
In (the) face of great hardship, he managed to keep his sense of humor.
U11
1.他们平时五点下班，但今天不得不加班了。 leave off
They usually leave off work at 5 o’clock, but today they have to work overtime.
2.这座城市里的博物馆和美术馆都对公众免费开放。 be open to
All the museums and art galleries in the city are open to the public for free.
3.老是被他们讥笑，真窝囊。 sneer at
It’s very discouraging to be sneered at by them all the time.
4.她最近感到有点疲乏，医生要她休息几天。 run down
She has been a little run down lately and the doctor has advised her to take a short holiday.
5.今天，整个城市沐浴在一片欢乐的海洋里。 bathe in
The whole city is bathed in a sea of joy today.
6.外面一片漆黑，天空好像被黑幕遮住了似的。 as it were
It’s very dark outside, and the sky is covered, as it were, with a black curtain.
7.我昨天以托马斯的名义打电话预定了两张电影票。 in the name of
I booked two film tickets by phone yesterday in the name of Thomas.
IEC4
U1
1. 我安排他们在小酒吧见面,但那小伙子一直都没有来。turn up
I had arranged for them to meet each other at the pub but the young man never turned up.
2. 你无法仅凭表象判断形势是否变得对我们不利。tell from appearance
You cannot tell merely from appearance whether things will turn out unfavorable to
us or not.
3. 那个士兵每次打仗都冲锋在前，从而赢得了国家的最高荣誉。stand in the gap
The soldier, who stood in the gap in every battle, gained the highest honors of the country.
4. 主席讲话很有说服力,委员会其他成员都听从他的意见。yield to
The chairman spoke so forcefully that the rest of the committee yielded to his
opinion.
5. 他们现在生活富裕了,但也曾经历坎坷。ups and downs
They are well-to-do now, but along the way they had their ups and downs.
6. 这次演讲我将说明两个问题。address oneself to
There are two questions to which I will address myself in this lecture.
7. 我们正在筹划为你举办一次盛大的圣诞聚会。in somebody's honour
We are planning a big Christmas party in your honor.
8. 听到那个曲子,我回想起了儿童时代。throw one's mind back
Hearing that tune threw my mind back to my childhood.
U3
1.无可否认，香烟会使人上瘾，而一旦你上了瘾，就很难戒除这个习惯了。（addict）
There is no denying that smoking is addictive. And once you are addicted, it's very difficult to get rid of the habit.
2.在日本人生产的一种电子游戏中玩游戏的人可以模拟艾滋病患者从染上艾滋病毒直到死亡的经历。（simulate）
In a Japanese-made video game, player can simulate the experience of AIDS from HIV infection until death.
3.我肯定，他说你可以用这笔钱继续学习音乐是认真的。（in earnest）
I'm sure he was in earnest when he said that you could use this money to continue your study of music.
4.我们只能以牺牲质量为代价来提高生产率，但这可能损害公司的声誉。（at the expense of)
We can only increase production at the expense of quality, which could ruin the com-pany reputation.
5. 她难得生气，不过这次她可真的是发脾气了。（be given to)
She is not often given to anger, but this time she really lost her temper.
6.一名外语老师如果要在中学任教，他最起码要持有正规教育院校颁发位证书。（at the very least）
A teacher of foreign language should posses at the very least a graduate degree from a
certified education school or institute if he is to teach high school.
7.我很快察觉到我无法使他改变想法。（perceive)
I soon perceived that I couldn't make him change his mind.
U5
1. 你的话的确有理，但你的表达方式近于粗暴。(border on)
Your remarks do make sense, but the way of expression borders on rudeness.
2. 失业人员都应该得到政府的帮助。(count as)
Any unemployment person counts as deserving government help.
3. 总的来说，我对这项实验是相当满意的。(on the whole)
On the whole I am quite satisfied with the experiment.
4. 一个人的外表会影响别人对他的看法。(make a difference)
A person’s appearance makes a difference in how others judge him .
5. 广告倾向于把妇女描绘成非常传统的角色。(portray)
Advertising tends to portray women in very traditional roles.
6. 刚刚继承了一笔遗产的孪生姐妹急不可耐地炫耀她们的珠宝首饰。(show off)
Having inherited a considerable fortune, the twin sisters just couldn’t wait to show off their jewelry.
7.公众关注的中心再次转移到了城市环境的变化问题。(shift focus)
Public interest has once again shifted its focus to the changes in the urban environment.
8. 新型列车可以以500公里左右的时速平稳地行驶，相比之下，那些旧车显得又慢又笨拙。(in contrast)
The new type of trains can run smoothly at the speed of about 500 kilometres per hour; in contrast, the old ones are slow and clumsy.
U7
1.为了你的家庭，你要三思而后行，不要冒那么多的风险。(for the sake of)
For the sake of your family, you should look before your leap and not take so many risks.
2.昨晚喝了太多酒，我感觉有点不舒服。(out of sorts)
I feel a bit out of sorts after last night’s heavy drink.
3.他的父亲找了无数的门路，帮他在一个已经臃肿不堪的政府机构找到了一个职位。(pull wires)
His father pulled endless wires and got him a position in an inflated government department.
4.如果你仔细读这封信，你会在字里行间发现他的真正用意。(between the lines)
If you read this letter carefully you can find his real intention between the lines.
5.我知道我对他真的无礼透顶，但我为自己找了各种理由。(downright)
I know I was downright rude to him, but I found excuses for myself.
6.过去杰出的人物有许多是出类拔萃的多面手，像 Leonardo da Vinci 就集画家与发明家与一身。(roll into one)
Many of the outstanding figures of the past were exceptionally versatile man. Leonardo da Vinci for instance, rolled a painter and a inventor into one.
7.遭受了多年失眠的折磨后，他终于自杀了。(under the torment of)
He finally killed himself after being under the torment of insomnia for many years.
8. 他惊讶得说不出话来。(be dumb with)
He was (struck) dumb with amazement.
U10
1. 政府承诺将不遗余力地支持我们的环保项目。 (spare no effort)
The government promises that it will spare no effort to support our environmental protection projects.
2. 她来之前对中国的历史、地理和文化一无所知。 (have no knowledge of)
She had no knowledge of Chinese history, geography and culture before she came to China.
3. 幼儿园里燃气的大火危及23个孩子的生命。 (endanger)
The fire that broke out in the kindergarten endangered 23 children’ s lives.
4. 我们竭力把他从那个话题上扯开，因为我们知道他会泄露机密。(head)
We tried our best to head him off the topic, because we knew he would reveal confidential information.
5. 演讲人洪亮的声音在大厅里回荡。(echo)
The sonorous voice of the speaker is echoing around the hall.
6. 勤勉和忠诚有时可以弥补能力不足。(compensate for)
Industry and loyalty sometimes compensate for the lack of ability.
7. 就我所知，他是从激烈的竞争中挣脱出来的少数人之一。 (rat race)
As far as I know, he was one of the few people who got out of the rat race.
8. 他留下了一些士兵来清除敌人的最后阵地。 (clean up)
He left a few men behind to clean up the last of the enemy positions.
U11
1. 我整个上午的工作都由于那件不幸之事而陷于停顿。(out of gear)
My whole morning’s work has been put out of gear by that mishap.
2. 他躲在树丛中，终于甩掉了追赶的人。(fling off)
By hiding himself among the bushes, he at last flung off his pursuers.
3. 我们应该尽力消除制度中不公正的东西。(wipe out)
We must make every effort to wipe out the injustice in the system.
4. 士兵们坚守在那个孤立无援的阵地上，直到援兵到来。 (hold on to)
The soldiers held on to that isolated position until reinforcements arrived.
5. 在所有事实面前，他不得不承认偷了那份绝密文件。(compel)
In front of all the facts, he was compelled to admit that he had stolen that confidential document.
6. 他不会说英语，这使他在参加国际会议的时候处于不利地位。(at a disadvantages)
His inability to speak English puts him at a disadvantage when he attends international conferences.
7. 这个地方几英里内都看不到一个人，这使我感到十分孤独。(in sight)
Here there was no one in sight for miles, which made me feel very lonely.
8. 1945年5月初，即使是希特勒最狂热的支持者也都明白“千年帝国” (Thousand Year Reich)是注定要毁灭的。 (doomed)
At the beginning of May 1945, it was clear even to the most zealous of Hitler’s followers that his “Thousand Year Reich” was doomed.
英译汉U1
1. But we must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough.
但我们必须同样善于应付短暂而干脆与漫长而艰难的局面。
2. It is generally said that the British are better at the last.
人民普遍认为英国人最终会胜出。
3. Britain,other nations thought ,had drawn a sponge across the slate.
其他国家认为英国被彻底的征服了。
4. We stood all alone a year ago,and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed.
一年前我们孤军作战，许多国家都以为我们被彻底打败了。
U3
1. Given the relatively few restrictions governing access and usage, it is the communications modal equivalent of international waters.
由于登录和使用互联网的限制相对较少，它的作用就等同于通讯传播中的国际海域。
2. At first this might sound like an apparent contradiction: how can something, that is on the one hand responsible for global unification by enabling the free exchange of ideas, alienate the participants?
乍听起来这时候互相矛盾：一种东西怎么会既能让人们自由地交流思想，从而使全球融为一体，同时又让人们彼此疏远呢？
3. I have not known this fellow to be given to exaggeration, therefore when he described his Internet binges, when he would spend over twenty-four hours on line non-stop, it gave me pause to think.
据我所知，此人不喜欢夸大其词，因此当他描述自己的网瘾，说常常连续泡网一天一夜时，这引起了我的思考。
4. But at the expense of the time that would have otherwise been available for involvement in other activities which might foster a sense of community in their villages, towns and cities.
但代价是消耗了原本可以用来参加一些培养他们村庄及城镇社区意识的活动的时间。
U5
1. It seemed that the peculiar eye, the social lens of the cinema, had drastically shifted its focus.
电影镜头这种观察社会的特殊眼睛好像彻底变换了聚焦对象。
2. There had been something almost atavistic about these visions of attachments — as if producers culled their plots from some pop anthropology book on male bonding.
这些形影不离的荧幕形象似乎具有久远的历史——故事情节好像是制片人从诠释男性间密切关系的人类学通俗读物里选取出来似的。
3. Buddies came linked, like accessories, to one activity or another .
男性伙伴总是一起参加各种各样的活动，形影不离。
4. A man once told her that men weren’t real buddies until they had been “through the wars” together － corporate or athletic or military.
一个男士曾经告诉她说，男人只有共同患难过——无论是商业合作、体育竞争还是军事行动——才能成为真正的伙伴。
U7
1. The slightest hint of disagreement, from anyone, on the most trivial point, was enough to set him off on a harangue that might last for hours, in which he prove himself right in so many ways ,and with such exhausting volubility, that in the end his hearer, stunned and deafened, would agree with him, for the sake of peace.
任何人即使在最无关紧要的问题上，有一丁点和他意见不同的迹象，都足以使他开始慷慨陈词几个小时，用他那雄辩的本事从多方面论证自己是正确的，结果是他的听众听得目瞪口呆，两耳发聋，为了息事宁人，只好顺从他。
2.He wrote begging letters by the score, sometimes groveling without shame, at others loftily offering his intended benefactor the privilege of contributions to his support ,and being mortally offended if the recipient declined the honor.
他写了大量的信件恳求别人给他钱，有时卑躬屈膝、厚颜无耻,有时又傲慢地授予他未来的捐赠人掏钱养活他的特权；如果收信人谢绝了这种荣幸，可就极大地冒犯了他。
3.He would pull endless wires in order to meet some man who admired his work and was able and anxious to be of use to him—and would proceed to make a mortal enemy of him with some idiotic and woolly uncalled-for exhibitions of arrogance and bad manners.
如果有人仰慕他的作品，能够并且愿意为他所用，他就会动用各种关系，想尽办法和他见上一面；可是他也会因为表现出某种愚蠢的、毫无意义的傲慢和无礼而树立死敌。
4. It is a matter of being dumb with wonder that his poor brain and body didn't burst under the torment of the demon of creative energy that lived inside him, struggling, clawing, scratching to be released; tearing, shrieking at him to the music that was in him.
这简直就是一个让人难以言表的奇迹，他那可怜的大脑和身体竟 然没有在如此强大的创造力的折磨下崩溃。这个恶魔挣扎着，抓挠着要挣脱出来，撕扯着，尖叫着，想要他把内心的音乐谱写出来。
U10
1. Now and then a car comes out of the silence and cruises easily through the blinking traffic lights.
偶尔从寂静中开来一辆车，在闪烁的交通灯下轻巧地驶过。
2. No effort is spared to let city dwellers imagine they are living anywhere but in a city: patches of grass in the more modest suburbs, broader spreads in the richer ones further out.
他们不遗余力地让城里人想象自己现在住的地方决不是城市：在较为现代化的城郊铺上几块草坪，在更为富裕的远郊，草坪的面积更大。
3. Even outside at home in their suburbs the city dwellers may know that sometimes it’s hot, and sometimes it’s cold, but no true sense of the rhythms of the seasons is to be had from a lawn in the backyard and a few spindly trees struggling to survive.
即使城市居民在他们郊区的家外面能知道有时天气热了，有时天气冷了，但仅凭他们后院的草坪或几棵半死不活的小树，他们是无法知道季节更迭的真正节奏的。
4. It is from this day-to-day existence of unreality, pretence, and idiocy that the city people, slumping along their streets even when scurrying, never looking up at their buildings, far less the sky, have the insolence to disdain and mock the useful and rewarding life of the country people who support them.
城里人日复一日地生活在非现实之中，自命不凡、举止愚蠢，他们即使在赶路时也是步履沉重，他们从不仰视他们的建筑，更不会仰望天空。恰恰是这种生活使他们带着傲慢的神情蔑视和讥讽供养他们的乡下人的有益且有回报的生活。
U11
1. All the shrewd contrivances and safeguards of man had been thrown out of gear by thirty seconds’ twitching of the earth-crust.
人类所有聪明的发明创造和保护措施，在地壳震动30秒钟后便完全失效了。
2. Day and night this dead calm continued, and yet, near to the flames, the wind was often half a gale, so mighty was the suck.
这死一般的沉寂从白天持续到黑夜，可是在大火周围，由于上升的热空气形成强大吸力，风力经常接近狂风。
3. An enumeration of the buildings destroyed would be a directory of San Francisco. An enumeration of the buildings undestroyed would be a line and several addresses. An enumeration of the deeds of heroism would stock a library and bankrupt the Carnegie medal fund. An enumeration of the dead ― will never be made.
要记录被烧毁的建筑那将是整个旧金山的所有在册房屋，而要记录没有每烧毁的建筑可能只需要一行字加几个地址。如果记下所有英勇事迹，肯定会塞满整个图书馆，耗尽全部卡内基奖章基金。死亡人数的记录则将永远无法获得。
4. The exhausted creatures, stirred on by the menace of bayonets, would arise and struggle up the steep pavements, pausing from weakness every five or ten feet.
这些精疲力竭的人，在刺刀的威胁下，不得不又站起身来，在陡峭的路面上继续挣扎，可是每走五到十英尺又累得停下脚步。
