英语泛读教程3

Extensive reading 3

unit 2

Para4: Sympathy or admiration for artistic skill are felt to be stronger than laughter.

Para5: Like a sense of humor, sportsmanship is an English ideal which not all Englishmen live up to.

English school boys often show this sense of sportsmanship to a surprisingly high degree in their relations with each other.

同情心或对艺术技巧的崇敬比嘲笑的份量重的多。

如幽默感一样，运动员精神是英国式的理想，这一点并不是所有的英国人都做得到。

英国小学生在互相交往中往往把这种运动精神演绎的淋漓尽致。

Para 6: when the request is granted, and at any time when you are receiving something, however obviously you are entitled to it, you are always expected to s ay ”Thank you”.

Para 7: British people do not readily ask each other to do anything that would involve real inconvenience.

Para 10: more…than…Thus, “we need some young blood” i s often heard in organizations where the energy and modern methods of younger men are felt to be more likely to succeed than the long but partly irrelevant experience of older ones.

当你的要求被满足或者收到任何礼物，不管你怎样当之无愧，你也应该说谢谢。

--如果事情确实很麻烦，英国人一般不会要求别人去做。

--于是，在一些机构，与年长者漫长却不相关的工作经历比，年轻人旺盛的经历

和现代方法被认为更有可能成功。由此，人们常常可以听到“我们需要一些新鲜血液的说法“。

Vocabulary

Reserve/reserved

Restrained

Ill-bred

Conceited

Self-praise/self-deprecation

irritating

Disrespectful

Malic ious

Essence

Succeed in doing sth

Be keen on

Live up to

In obedience to

Take advantage of

To a surprisingly high degree

Elementary

Acknowledge

Accidental disturbance

Breach

gay

Maxim seniority

Compliment

Artificial

Disapproval

Be entitled to

Conform to

Keep pace with

Unit 4

Paraphrase

1.But now Ms. Mccabe’s slowly fading eyesight is almost gone

-- gradually lose her sight

But now Ms. M.gradually loses her sight and almost sees nothing clearly.

2.

In 2003, nearly 27% of American households consisted of one person living alone, up from 18% in 1970, putting a premium on friendship, a relationship without the legal status or social standing of kin.

Answer:

In 2003, almost 27% of American families are made up of one person living by himself or herself, which was up/ rose in percentage from 18% in 1970. As far as these families are concerned, what they really value is friendship, a relationship that has no lawful status or social position belonging to their relatives.

Translation

1.And demographers warn that the graying of the baby boom generation will swell the rank of single-person households, with illness and disability an inevitable corollary of old age.

人口统计学家警告说，生育高峰期出生的人老年化，疾病和残疾成为老年不可避免的必然结果，这将使独居者家庭队伍壮大。

2. Any one who is sick or disabled, Mr.B entley said,”needs someone to quarterback their care(take care of),” both in the hospital and afterward, but people who live alone can end up being their own quarterbacks at a particularly vulnerable (weak) time.

他说，任何病人或残疾人，在医院里或出院后都需要有人负责照料他们，但独居者在特别脆弱的时候却是自己照顾自己。

3.Barbara sees such nascent groups , and her own web of relationships that she calls a …mandala of friendship,? as models for the growing cohort of people facing illness and old age alone.

芭芭拉认为，这些新生的团队和自己那个被称为“友谊曼陀罗”的关系网，是疾病和老年孤独者日益庞大的队伍的榜样．

4.It is money (that) Ms.Martinez cannot spare since she stopped looking for work when Ms.Moran received her diagnosis last winter

去年冬天莫兰女士拿到诊断后Martinez女士停止了寻找工作，打那以后，她拿不出来的是钱。

steady hand reckless

font figuratively discharge household census report premium demographer corollary quarterback vulnerable

ad hoc peripheral errand

muslin dosage

far-fling spouse mortality patchwork array distraction diagnosis pathology lumpectomy emphysema parallel universe assess

shaky

pooled

lymph nascent

cohort premature muster

dimple

beauty parlor frizzy prognosis

slur

respirator therapist toddler

soprano

collaboration

recital

perforate

scrabble

flinch

unflappable

flagging

incur

renourish

dependence

Unit 6

Paraphrase

1)Pharmacy transactions seem so straightforward. How often could they go awry?

2)Against this backdrop/background, too many people are taking the prescription transaction for granted.

3)No wonder (that) so many people assume nothing can go wrong .

4)Of course, pharmacists are supposed to /should check /test/inspect/supervise technicians? wo rk. Failure to do so was cited as /was regarded as a major cause of dispensing errors by nearly a third of pharmacists in the Drug Topics survey/statistics.

5)W h o C a l l s f a r-f l u n g l o v e d o n e s w i t h g o o d n e w s o r b a d?

K e y:W h o c o u l d c a l l t h e f a m i l i e s a n d r e l a t i v e s l i v i n g f a r a w a y a n l e t t h e m k n o w n t h e p a t i e n t s?s i t u a t i o n?

Key

1)It is easy to get medicine from a pharmacy, but how often could they make mistakes?

2)Pharmacies have to prescribe a lot to make profits, the more they prescribe, the bigger the risk (of giving wrong medicines) will be. But people still pay no attention to this background and have blind faith in them.

3)It is not surprising that so many people have blind faith in pharmacists.

4. Pharmacists should direct techni cians? work. According to the statistics from Drug Topics, nearly a third of dispensing errors were caused because they failed to supervise the latter?s work.

Unit 7

Key words

Bring her to life

Poetically and prosaically 诗意的；实际的

Illumination

Substantial实质的

Anecdote轶事

Presume/assume

Parish教区

Supplement补充

Deplore/deplorable谴责；强烈反对

Escapade恶作剧

Get/have access to

Agog to:eager to

Stew

moon about胡思乱想

Substantial数目大的；可观的；殷实的

The apple of one’s eye掌上明珠

Guffaw大笑

Bellow 大放厥词

Tavern酒馆

Roam游荡

Scribble涂抹

On the sly/secretly

Translation and Paraphrase

A worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and beauty in a kitchen chopping up suet.

一只长着鹰的翅膀的小虫，一个在厨房里剁着板油的生命与美的精灵。

That she is a vessel in which all sorts of spirits and forces are coursing and flashing perpetually.

她是一个容器，各种各样的精神和力量在里面追逐闪烁。

The woman in fiction is like a container, and you can find varieties of thoughts and forces are chasing and shining in it for ever.

Paraphrase

Y et her genius was for fiction and lusted to feed abundantly upon the lives of men and women and the study of their ways.Y et she had a genius to write fictions and had great interest in different people?s way of life.

但是她的天份是写小说，并渴望着从男人女人的生活以及对他们生活方式的研究中得到滋养。

Who shall measure the heat and viol ence of the poet?s heart when caught and tangled in a woman?s body?

又有谁知道那颗诗人的心会变得怎样的灼热和狂烈？

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils,……with the torture that her gift had put her to.

不过，当读到某个女巫被按在水中，或某个女人被魔鬼附身，或者某个聪明的女人在卖草药，甚至某位有母亲的非常出类拔萃的男人时，我想，或许看到一位消失了的小说家，一位受到压抑的诗人，某位不声不响而默默无闻的简.奥斯汀，某位艾米莉.勃朗特，她被自己的天才折磨的发了狂，在旷野中拼命拉扯自己的脑袋，要不就在大路边洗盘子。P 126

Indeed, I would venture to…… of the winter?s night

我愿意进一步揣测，那个写了那么多诗歌而没有署名的阿侬，多半是个女性。Fitzgerald认为，是一位女性创作了那些民谣和民歌，低声为她的孩子吟唱，在那冬日的漫漫长夜，唱着歌谣纺线。

Any woman born with a great……and mocked at

任何生于16世纪而且具有伟大天才的女性，必定都会发疯，自己在村外一座孤零零的茅舍里度过余生，一半象女巫，一半象术士，让人害怕，遭人耻笑。

Unit 10\

Fulfill one’s promise履行诺言

Keep commitments遵守

Break one’s promise违反

Violate the Credibility Principle破坏

Credibility principle

Credibility crisis诚信危机

Rational: reasonable合理的

Frustration: disappointment灰心；沮丧；Delivery: sending…运送

Contractor承包商

Agony: great pain 痛苦

Agonize over: to cause great pain

Plague 瘟疫

V ow to do sth 发誓

Prediction 预测；推断

Foresight 先见之明

Fiscal 财政的

Zest热情；兴趣

Be blessed with : have sth luckily

Be on schedule : be on time

(sth) be a high priority: be the most important thing to do

Come up with: bring up , produce

Translation

The person who does what he says he will do is a rare individual who stands tall in the crowd.

一个说到做到的人是出类拔萃的人，以至于难得一见。

The failure to perform as promised is a losing image, and you must avoid it like the plague.

不能遵守诺言会让你的形象大打折扣，因此你应该象躲避瘟疫一样躲避它。

Toward the end of the day, when you still haven?t heard from him, you will give him a call before you leave the office, but he is still going to be unavailable.

直到一天结束他还是没有消息，你在离开办公室之前给他打电话，还是找不到他

My “ex”/former personal physician, Bo ris, almost made me mad enough to give him a black eye/beat him for the abuse he inflicted upon me.I almost want to hit my former personal physician in the eye for the insults he gave me.我的前私人医生因为作弄我把我气得发疯，差点照他脸上来一拳。

Much to my dismay/disappointment, twenty other patients were also waiting in the reception room when the nurse arrived at twenty to nine to open the door to let everyone in.

使我惊诧的是，当护士八点四十来开门让人们进来时，还有二十个病人也在接待室等候。

confidence in our local and national leadership.

普通美国百姓对我们的地方和国家领导失去信心，这对我们的政治制度来说实在是可悲可叹，也是生活中令人不快的事实。

This is probably the most notorious situation in which the public expects promises to be broken。

这大概是公众料到许诺将会落空的最臭名昭著的情况。

Keeping commitments was very important to us when my father and I started our business, and to this day that is still a high priority.

我父亲和我开始创业时，信守承诺对我们很重要，直到今天，这仍然是我们的首要信条。

The majority of businesses ignore the Credibility Principle, and in their zest to make a good impression on a loan officer, they oversell/boast.

大多数的商家忽视诚信原则，他们热情很高，为了给负责放贷的人一个好印象，他们不惜大吹特吹。

Lynn Flynn, a real estate agent, is a good example of an excellent salesperson, who, though she has all the talent necessary to do a fine job, lacks the commitment to follow through on what she initially tackles.

Lynn Flynn,房地产经纪人，优秀的推销员，就是一个很好的例子。尽管拥有干好工作所需的才能，但她缺乏信用，不能将最初处理的事情坚持到底。

Many people whose talent borders on genius achieve only mediocre results in their career because they lack the necessary follow-through to actually perform well.

许多人虽然才智与天才相等，但事业上成就平平，就是因为缺乏坚持到底把事情真正做好的精神。

Unit 11

paraphrase

He got up from his chair like a condemned man and plodded to the lectern as though going to the guillotine.

Key

He got up from his chair like a sentenced criminal and walked slowly with heavy steps as if toward the guillotine.他像个死囚般从椅子上站起来，步履沉重的走上讲台，那样子像是走向断头台。

Translation

Clinical studies have demonstrated that in some situations these signals account for much of the meaning communicated by speakers.

临床研究表明，在有些情况下，这些信号很大程度上可以解释说话者要表达的意思。

Barring/except the occasional eccentric, every speaker is expected by his or her audience to exhibit a personal appearance in keeping with/in line with the occasion of the speech.

除去个别古怪之人，听众期望每一个演讲者应该使外表与演讲的场合一致。

Novice/inexperienced/beginner speakers are often unsure what to do with their bodies while giving a speech.

新手们在演讲时往往不知道该拿自己的身体怎么办。

3) He found that the more he made himself look confident, the more confident he became.

If you are prone/likely to distracting mannerisms, your teacher will identify them so you can work on controlling them in later speeches.

如果你易于慌乱无措，你的老师会给你指出来，这样你就可以在今后的演讲中努力加以控制。

Few aspects of delivery seem to cause students more anguish than deciding what to do with their hand. 演讲中很少有那些方面比决定手该干什么会给学生们带来更大的苦恼。

关注以下作品的故事梗概

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d’Urbervilles《德伯家的苔丝》、

Jude the Obscure《无名的裘德》、

Thackeray

V anity Fair《名利场》