大学英语第四册期末复习材料包括课后翻译英语翻译

大学英语第四册期末复习材料

Unit 1

Cloze

There are many paths to greatness. Some people go down in history for their 1)_influential___ political leadership. Others are remembered for spectacular scientific 2)_breakthroughs___ for composing great symphonies, or writing 3)__brilliant__ poetry. But whatever path they take, great people seem to 4)__share__ a few common characteristics. They are relentlessly 5)_optimistic___ and persistent; they have both intellectual skills and the ability to work well with other people; and they love their work. In fact, 6)__for__ these people, work is more like an obsession than a job.Of course, many of the questions about greatness 7)_remain___ unanswered. What roles so genetics and environment 8)_play___ in the question?

How can we know who among our 9) contemporaries will be remembered as great and which people, though famous today, will be 10)__forgotten__ in the future? It’s also possible that our 11)__view__ of who is great is not always fair or accurate. For example, the 12)_achievenment___ of women are not recognized as often as they should be.Finally, we can’t even be 13)_sure___ if it is really good to be great. Maybe the happiest people are the normal ones. Normal people aren’t endowed 14)___with_ what it takes to be great, but they also don’t have to worry 15)_about___ the burdens of history.

汉译英

If great achievers share anything, said Simonton, it is an relenting drive to succeed. 西蒙顿说，如果事业上取得巨大成就者具有什么共性的话，那就是一种持续不断追求成功的动力“There is an tendency to think that they are endow ed with something super-normal,”人们往往认为他们具备一些超常非凡的东西he explained. “But what comes out of the research is that there are great people who have no amazing intellectual processes.

It’s a difference in degree.但研究表明，有的伟人并没有惊人的智力。有的只是程度上的差异而已Greatness is bui lt upon tremendous amounts of study, practice and devotion.”伟大是建立在大量的学习、实践和献身精神的基础之上的。

He cited Winston Churchill, Britain’s prime minister during World War II, as an example of a risk-taker who would never give up. 他举出二战时期的首相温斯顿·邱吉尔作为一个永不放弃的冒险者的典范。Thrus t into his office when his country’s moral was at its lowest, Churchill rose brilliantly to lead the British people. 邱吉尔在全国上下士气最为低落的时候被推上台，并出色的领导了英国人民。In a speech following the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940, he inspired to nation when he said, “We should not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end… We shall never surrender.”我们不会衰退，失败。我们将坚持到底……我们永远不会屈服。

1.美国人往往以从事的工作来对人们进行划分。家庭和教育背景这些特点被认为是不太重要的。

Americans tend to define people by the jobs they have/do. Such characteristics as their family and educational backgrounds are considered less important.

2.他决不妥协的个性是他再也无法容忍它的雇主，并最终递交了辞职书的原因。

His uncompromising personality explains why he could no longer put up with his employer and eventually submitted his resignation.

3. 如果你真想学好英语，你就必须投入大量的时间和精力，否则你就不会有任何进步。对于其他课程也可以这么说。

If you really want to learn English well, you must put in a lot of time and energy, or you’ll go

nowhere. The same can be said of other subjects.

4.有些演员的名声靠的是他们天生的美貌，但是达斯汀?霍夫曼（Dustin Hoffman）尽管身材矮小（short stature）, 还是出类拔萃，而使他与众不同的正是他精湛的演技。

Some actors’ fame is built on their innate beauty, but despite his short stature, Dustin Hoffman rose above and it is his excellent acting that sets him apart.

5. 他负责管理之后，我们发现他与前任（predecessor）有明显的不同：他有干劲和激情，想出了很多新点子，并把工作重点放在如何鼓舞我们的士气上。

After he took charge, we discovered that there were striking differences between him and his predecessor. He had the drive and passion, came up with many new ideas, and focused his work on how to raise our morale.

6.当邓小平宣布中国改革开放政策的时候，他被永远载入史册。尽管障碍重重，他以不懈的努力为我国的现代化作出了永久性的贡献。

Deng Xiaoping made history when he declared China’s reform and opening-up policy. Despite tremendous obstacles, he made lasting contributions to our country’s modernization with his unrelenting efforts.

7. 为什么有人拥有天才级智商却被智商平平但很刻苦的人丢在后面？承认除了智商外，还有很多别的因素与一个认得成就有着很大的关系。

Why could someone with a genius IQ be left behind by a hardworking person with an average IQ? It has to be acknowledged that besides one’s IQ, many other factors have much to do with one’s achievements.

8. 这位教师真了不起，她能在教东西之前调动学生的积极性。这并不是因为她有天赋，而是因为她只想着在课堂上吸引他们的注意力。

This teacher is really remarkable in motivating her students before she can teach them something. It’s not that she is talented, it’s that she is obsessed with drawing their attention in class.

Unit 2

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Gratitude is defined as the art of showing ___1_appreciation_ for every kindness, great and small. Usually, ___2_expressing__ gratitude costs very little, but its rewards can be great. When gratitude is owed but not given, however, as when we ___3_fail__ to recognize a generous act on someone else’s___4_part_, this denial can lead to sore feelings, and even resentment. Sometimes, truly deep gratitude calls for personal sacrifice. One ___5_example__ is a mother of world war II soldier who traveled from her home ___6_in__ the U. S. to visit the French family who had ___7sheltered___ her son from Nazis. She was driven to ___8do___ this unselfish generosity which this family had shown her son. But gratitude can ___9also___ be shown by very simple acts. We can start ___10_by__ making sure that, in one way or another, we thank the family members and ___11_coworkers__ who help us every day.

In sum, the ___12key___ to gratitude is thoughtfulness, or ___13_taking__ pains to consider the feeling of others as well as out own. Being generous and __14unselfish___ with our affection and sentiments is one thing we all can do to make the world a more pleasant place. For all of these ___15_reasons__ gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much.

英译汉

Some person refrain from expressing their gratitude because they feel it will not be welcome. A patient of mine, a few weeks after his discharge from the hospital, came back to thank his nurse. “I don’t come sooner,” he explained, “because I imagined you must be bored to death with people

thanking you.”

一些人不愿表达感激之情，因为他们觉得这不会受欢迎。我的一个病人在出院几个星期后回到医院感激他的护士。“我没有更早地回来，”他解释说，“是因为我猜想你们对于人们的感激一定厌烦得要命。”

“On the contrary,” she replied, “I am delighted you came. Few realize how much we need encouragement and how much we are helped by those who give it.”

“正好相反，”她回答说，“我很高兴你来。很少有人意识到我们多么需要鼓励，我们从那些鼓励我们的人身上获得了多大的帮助。”

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build up their philosophy of life.

我们所给予的感激永远不会过多。因为我们身边的人在构筑他们的人生哲学时所依据的正是这些微笑、我们所表示的感激和我们表示欣赏的各种小小的示意动作。

汉译英

1. 他瞪眼看着约翰，对他拒绝合作感到恼怒。

He glared at John and was sore at his denial of cooperation.

2. 约翰真诚的讲话表达了他对那些在他处于困境时给过他慷慨帮助的人们感激之情。John’s sincere speech shows his gratitude to the people who rendered h im generous help when he was in difficulty.

3. 他可说是一个集邮家。他曾经积蓄了两年去买一张珍邮这件事便是证明。

He is something of a stamp collector. The fact that once he saved up for two years to buy a rare stamp is roof of it.

4. 这些玫瑰的美丽怎么评价也不过分。它们以各种方式吸引住了所有的游客。

The beauty of these roses could not be overstated. They took/caught all the visitors’s fancy in one way or another.

5. 起先，他理所当然地认为该地区应当多造一些公路。然而仔细计算费用后，他在作出最后决定前有不得不重新考虑了。

At first he took it for granted that they should build more highways in this area. Then a careful calculation of the expenditure compelled him to think twice before he made the final decision.

6. 每次收到我的礼物，不管多少，我的朋友比尔决不忘记表示感激。

Each time he receives a gift from me, no matter how small, my friend Bill never fail to acknowledge it.

7. 那位新闻记者决定找到那位老夫妇心中提及的年轻人。那封信赞赏了年轻人为使他们的生活条件更为惬意而付出的努力。

The journalist has decided to trace the young man referred to in the old couple’s letter, which is a tribute to the young man’s effort at making their living more agreeable.

8. 虽然他厌烦了那些每天上门来吹嘘起产品的推销员，但他克制着没有将他们推之门外。Though he was fed up with the salesman who knocked at his door and boasted about their products every day, he refrained from slamming the door in their face.

Unit 3

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Traditional western ways of thinking can often lead to an 1)__impass__ when we are confronting a truly difficult problem. This happened to Dr. Edward Jenner when he was trying to 2)_come___ up with a vaccine for the deadly disease known as smallpox. Jenner was 3)__able__ to solve the

problem he faced by changing the 4)__framework__ within which he looked at it. Rather than focusing on people who had smallpox, he 5)_looked___ carefully at those who seemed never to get the disease. This change in 6)_tactics___ is an example of what is known as “lateral thinking.” The term means choosing not to approach a problem head-on, but instead looking at it 7)_sideways___. In lateral thinking, being able to take in and 8)_consider___ all kinds of ideas, no matter how unlikely they might seem, is of the 9)_utmost___ significance. Lateral thinking can help all kinds of people, from smokers who want to give 10)_up___ their habit, to archers who need to relax in order to perform 11)_at___ their best. This idea does not 12)_imply___ that solutions which come from vertical thinking are always deeply 13) _flawed___. The truth is that different ways of thinking have different 14)__advantages__ when you get stuck struggling with

a problem head-on, thinking laterally can help you to shift your point of view and perhaps see a

15)__solution__ you wou ldn’t other wise notice.

英译汉

The normal Western approach to a problem is to fight it. 一般西方人解决问题的方法是与之搏斗。The saying, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going,” is typical of this aggressive attitude toward problem-solving. “进展越困难，硬汉子越向前”这句话便代表了这种解决问题的积极进取的态度。No matter what the problem is, or the techniques available for solving it, the framework produced by our Western way of thinking is fight. 不管是什么问题，或者可以用来解决问题的方法是什么，我们西方人的思维方式产生的框架总是搏斗。

Dr. de Bono calls this vertical thinking; the traditional, sequential, Aristotelian th inking of logic, moving firmly from one step to the next, like toy blocks being built one on top of the other. 德?博诺医生称之为纵向思维；即那种传统的、按顺序的、亚里士多德式的逻辑思维，坚定地从一步移到下一步，就像玩具积木一块搭在另一块上。The flaw is, of course, that if at any point one of the step is not reached, or one of the toy blocks is incorrectly placed, then the whole structure collapse. 当然，它的缺点是，如果在任何时刻其中一步没有达到，或者一块积木没有放对，那么整个结构就会坍塌。Impasse is reached, and frustration, tension, feelings of fight take over. 事情就会陷入僵局，沮丧、紧张和搏斗的情绪就会笼罩心头。

汉译英

1. 汤姆因一问题而心神不宁但又一筹莫展，直到他学会以不同的策略把它解决才不心烦。Tom was hung up on the problem but could do nothing about it until he learnt to solve it with different tactics.

2. 横向思维帮助他提出了原来似乎走进死胡同的新理论。

Lateral thinking has helped him to advance his new theory which seemed to have reached a dead end.

3. 我们最新的建设计划的框架已获得地方政府的批准。它是否会按时实施对这座沿海城市的发展具有极为重大的意义

The framework of our latest construction plan has been affirmed by the local government. Whether it will be carried out on time is of the utmost significance to the development of the coastal city.

4. 在设法寻找一个解决问题的办法的过程中，爱德华在思想上陷入了僵局，但后来他改变了观察角度，以一种完全意想不到的方式解决了问题。

While trying to find a solution to the problem, Edward reached an impasse in his thinking, but later he changed his point of view and solved the problem in an entirely unexpected fashion

5. 许多人认为计算机机房将最终取代图书馆，想吸收新知识的学生最终将在计算机机房里

学习一切。

Many people believe that computer labs will eventually take over from the libraries and students who want to take in new knowledge will end up learning everything in the computer lab.

6. 昨天他的汽车几乎是迎头撞上了一辆卡车。如果他继续这样随便开车，我确信他最后一定会被送进医院的急诊室。

His car crashed into a truck almost head-on yesterday. If he does not stop driving so carelessly, I am sure he will wind up in the emergency room of a hospital.

7. 这幅画的结构设计有一个缺点。你为什么不擦掉那几条垂线，把它简化一点呢？There is a flaw i n the design of the structure of the painting. Why don’t you erase the vertical lines and simplify it a little bit?

8. 约翰本该在很久以前就把烟戒掉了。毕竟健康对每个人来说都是最重要的。

John should have given up smoking a long time ago. After all, health is of the utmost importance to everybody.

Unit 4

Cloze

A recent educational experiment showed that the difference between “gifted” children and regular ones may have as much as to do with 1)_expectations___ as with intelligence. An elementary school teacher was 2)_deceived___ into thinking that her students were above average in intelligence. She then 3)__managed__ to get them to do outstanding work, even though their true IQs were well within the normal range. It seems that her belief in her students’ intelligence was enough to turn them 4)__into__ better learners.

It’s difficult to 5)_pinpoint___exactly how such beliefs are expressed. It 6)__may__have to do with how a teacher talks to the class: many positive, supportive expressions and few expressions of impatience, annoyance, or 7)__irritation__. Non-verbal communication, including 8)_facial___expressions, probably plays a role too. But one thing is clear: labels and expectations 9)__strong__ influence results. Outside of the classroom, labeling can, as 10)__often__ as not, have a negative effect. The labels we put on different social groups are usually not 11)__inclusive__. In fact, they are often sexist or racist. Of 12)_course___ , there is good and bad in all kinds of people. But we 13)_tend___to accept some ideas about certain groups more readily than about others. The school experiment shows that such labels have

a 14)_great___ deal of power. But when labels are unfair and negative they can be very

15)_damaging___.

英译汉

When a student's work did not measure up to the teacher's expectations, as often happened, the student was not treated with disappointment, anger, or annoyance.

学生的成绩达不到老师的期望是常有的事。当这种情况发生那个学生面对的不是失望、愤怒或恼怒。

Instead, the teacher assumed that this was an exception, an accident, a bad day, a momentary slip —and the student believed her and felt reassured. The next time around, he tried harder, determined to live up to what the teacher knew he could to.

相反，老师认为这是一个例外，一次意外事件，倒霉的一天，一次暂时的失误—而学生相信了她，并消除了疑虑。

The exact part of communication that tells a child, "I expect the best," is difficult to pinpoint. In part it consists of a level tone showing assurance, a lack of verbal impatience, an absence of

negative qualities such as irony, put-downs, and irritation.

很难精确地确定老师传达的信息中到底是哪一部分告诉了孩子：“我期待着最好的成绩。” 它的一部分是由显示信心的平和声调，没有言语上的不耐烦，没有讽刺、贬低和恼怒等消极因素所组成

The teacher who expects the best asks her questions with conviction, knowing the answers she gets will be right, and the child picks up that conviction.

期待着最好成绩的老师满怀信心地提问，因为她知道她得到的答案将是正确的，而孩子也感受到了那种信心

汉译英

1．学校应避免仅按学生考试成绩来判别孰优孰劣并以此对待他们。相反，好的教育体制应使每一位学生都能达到良好的水准，成为全面发展的人。

Schools should avoid deciding who are superior only in terms of the students’ exam results and treating them accordingly. Instead, a good educational system should enable every student to measure up to good standards as well-rounded people.

2．大学生课后有问题时，往往在办公时间之外不容易找到老师。这是由于教师繁忙的学术研究，而不是他们对学生漠不关心。

As often as not, when college students have questions after class, their teachers are not readily available except during office hours. This is due to teachers’ busy academic research, rather than their indifference to the students.

3．这个班级由40名学生组成，他们中大部分按英语水平过去常被归在中等之列。但由于这位老师从不在言辞中表露出不耐烦，学生们对他的教学方法产生了积极的反应，从而没有辜负他的期望。

This class consists of forty students, most of whom used to be labeled average in terms of English level. But as this teacher has never shown any verbal impatience, the students have reacted positively to his teaching methods and lived up to his expectations.

4．在美国，教书变得越来越难了，部分原因是学生越来越多样的种族背景以及需要另外培训才能掌握的更为复杂的教学技术。

Teaching is becoming increasingly demanding in the the United States, due in part to the diversity of students racial background and the complexity of educational technologies that require additional training.

5．英国人经常被归类为保守型，显然这一归类带有成见。实际上，英国在民族特性方面与其他欧洲国家相比并没有太大的差异。他们有礼貌，爱整洁，讲秩序，充满自信

The English are, as often as not, labeled conservative. Obviously this label is prejudiced. In reality, Britain is not very different from other European countries in terms of national characteristics. They are polite, neat, orderly and confident.

6．有些年轻人在成长过程中有着要求独立的强烈愿望。他们宁可通过自己的努力来渡过生活中的困难，也不愿意带着负罪感求助于他们的父母。

Some young people grow up with a strong desire for independence. They would rather try hard themselves to go through life than turn to their parents for help with a sense of guilt.

7．你的朋友对你非常真诚，你也应该同样以诚相待，决不应该欺骗他，或者带着讽刺的口吻谈论他的挫折

Y our friend treats you sincerely, so you should respond accordingly and mustn’t deceive him or talk about his setbacks with irony.

8．邻居们恼火的原因是他们发出的噪音，但是由于他们一再保证夜间停工，从而得以完成

这套公寓的装潢

The neighbor’s irritation/annoyance was due to the noise they made. However, because of their reassurances that they would stop working at night, they went through with the decoration of this apartment.

Unit 5

Cloze

when I came to prison, my reading skills were ___1_terrible_ and my penmanship was worse. But because I wanted to ___2_emulate__ some of the more well-read inmates, I decided to do something about it, I began by copying ___3over___ the dictionary. Y ou know the dictionary had all kinds of information. It’s something like an encyclopedia in ___4miniature__. But the most important result ___5of__ studying dictionary was that it gave me the word ___6_base__ I needed to read ___7_effectively__. Soon, I could pick up___8_almost__ any book and read it. I checked ___9out___ all kinds of books from the prison library, both non-fiction and literature. I love to read so much that I could I always find myself ___10engrossed___ in something when “lights out” came. I was so ___11hungry___ for knowledge that I would then lie on the floor and read by the faint ___12__glow_ of the hallway light until I heard the guard coming back down along the corridor. Many people say that no true __13rehabilitation__ is possible in prison. But I felt that I learned more there than I could have in any college, even if no degree was ___14conferred___ on me. After all, where else could I have ___15_cmobated__ my own ignorance more effectively than in a place where I could be left alone and allowed to read for up to 15 hours per day?

英译汉

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me.我经常思考阅读为我打开的新的远景I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. 我当时在狱中就知道，阅读已永远改变了我的人生历程As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some dormant craving to be mentally alive.正如我现在所认识的，阅读能力唤醒了在我内心潜藏已久对于思想活跃的渴望。I certainly wasn’t seeking any degree, the way college confers a status symbol upon its students. 我当然不是在追求任何学位，那只是大学赋予学生一种地位象征的方式。

My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. 我通过自学所受的教育使我每读一本新书就更意识到正在折磨着美国人的聋、哑和盲。Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking me question. One was, “What’s your alma mater?” 你的母校是哪儿？I told him, “Books.” Y ou’ll never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel I might be able to help the black man. 在任何一个休闲的十五分钟里，你都会发现我在学习一些我觉得可能有助于黑人的东西。

汉译英

1．正如你可以想象到的，阅读为我打开了一个新的天地并永远改变了我的人生道路。

As you can imagine, reading has opened a new world to me and changed forever the course of my life.

2. 他从童年起就对书籍表现出一种非常强烈的兴趣。他对书籍如此迷恋，以致从不让一天过去而不进行一些阅读。

He had demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books since childhood. So fascinated with

books was he that he never let a day pass without doing some reading.

3. 他每次乘地铁上下班身边都有一本想读的书。他就这样在过去三年中读了一百本书。Every time he takes the subway to and from work, he was with him a book that he wants to read. That is the way he has read nearly a hundred books in the past three years.

4. 他读中学时常在自己的房间里读书至深夜。每次听到母亲走进的脚步声，他便关掉灯假装睡着。而母亲一走过去，他便打开灯，重又读起来。

When he was in high school, he used to read deep/far into the night in his own room. Each time he heard the approaching footsteps of his mother, he would turn off the light and feigned sleep. But as soon as his mother passed, he would turn on the light and begin reading again.

5.几乎没有什么关于中国的东西是他不感到好奇的。为了满足自己的好奇心他已决定

亲自到那里去尽量多看一些。

There is hardly anything about China he’s not curious ab out. And to satisfy his curiosity he has decided to go there in person.

6.我不知道是什么使得你的儿子羡慕那位流行歌手并试图事事模仿他。你还是问问他

本人好了。

I don’t know / I have little / no idea what made your son feel envy of that pop singer and try to emulate him in everything. Y ou might as well ask him in person.

7. 他从图书馆一借到那本书就在走廊的灯光下飞快地把它翻了一遍。

As soon as he checked out the book from the library, he thumbed through its pages by the corridor light.

8. 我认为没有哪个人在农村学到的比我更多。实际上，农村的三年使我比进某个大学学习得更深入细致。

I don’t think anybody ever learned more in the co untryside than I did. In fact, the three years in the countryside enabled me to study far intensively than I would have if had attended some college. Unit 6

Cloze

what does a young child’s ability not to eat a marshmallow __1have_ to do with success in life? Quite a lot, as it turns out. The 4-year-old who is able to __2hold out__ in order to receive a second treat is ___3demonstrating__ more self-control than will serve him or her well as an adult.

This ability to control one’s __4impulses__ is just one part of what is called Emotional Intelligence.

The children who demonstrate it will grow up to be better adjusted and ___5more___ successful. Those kids who don’t have it are less likely to succeed when it comes to meeting challenges and ___6_dealing__ wi th life’s frustration.

In the past, our concept of intelligence was mainly limited ___7to___ the kinds of skills that ___8enable___ one to do well in school. But Emotional Intelligence ___9redifines__ what it means to be smart by focusing on how the mind ___10_processes__ feelings rather than ideas. There are many ways in which an understanding of Emotional Intelligence can be every __11_handy_. It can help parents ___12_raise__ their children, help corporations manage employees, and help solve many social problems. These ideas are not very controversial, but some other ___13_aspects__ of Emotional Intelligence are. For example, some scholars are offended at the idea that such a __14_complex__ and abstract idea would be reduced to a simple numerical measure in the ___15form___ of an “EQ”.

英译汉

EQ is not the opposite of IQ. Some people are blessed with a lot of both, some with little of either. 情商不是智商的对立面。一些人有幸两者都拥有很多，一些人则每一样都拥有很少。What the researchers have been trying to understand is how they complement each other; how one’s ability to handle stress, for instance, affects the ability to concentrate and put intelligence to use. 研究者们一直试图理解的是它们如何互补；比如，一个人对付压力的能力如何影响其集中思想合发挥才智的能力

Among the ingredients for success, researchers are now generally agree that IQ accounts for about 20%; 研究者们大都同意，在成功的要素中智商约占20％

the rest depends on everything from class to luck to the neural pathway that have developed in the brain ever millions of years of human evolution. 其余则取决于多种因素，从所属的阶级到运气到在人类进化的几百万年中已在大脑中形成的神经途径。

汉译英

1. 他生来就有残疾，但他从不沮丧，也从未屈服于任何困难。

He was disabled form birth, but he never felt frustrated, nor did he give in to any difficulty.

2. 汤姆一直坚决要求提升。当这样的机会出现时，他立即抓住了。

Tom had been holding out for the promotion. When such an opportunity showed up, he grabbed it at once.

3. 他对所有的标准化考试都不信任并认为应该由某种更好的东西来取代它们。

He distrusts all standardized tests and believes that there should be something better to substitute for them.

4. 我的论点是我们应当马上对这些又争议的问题逐个进行调查。

My thesis is that we should carry out a survey of these controversial issues one by one right now.

5. 贝蒂勤劳而又可靠。她从不在困难面前退缩。总之，她是我们都为之感到骄傲的那种学生。

Betty is diligent and dependable. She never shies away from any difficulties. In short, she is the kind of student that we are all proud of.

6. 把汽油箱放在你的房子里是不明智的，因为它极易燃烧，并且可能在几分钟内就将你辛辛苦苦挣来的财产付之一炬

It is ill-advised to keep the gas tank in your home for it ignites easily and may burn up your hard-earned fortune in a few minutes.

7. 史密斯博士的讲座等于是说，很早就显示出高情商的孩子无论面对什么困难都会最终取得成功。

Doctor Smith’s lecture accounts to saying that a child who displays high EQ early on in life will succeed eventually in the face of all kinds of difficulties.