笔记-考研英语1997年第1篇文章

①It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken.

vote [n.]选票：take votes 进行投票

[v.]投票：vote for/against sb. 选/不选某人 “when ”： 主谓…… 2补充 .

②After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia ′s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.

parliamentary [a.]议会的

parliament=congress=assembly [n.]议会

territory 领土→地区 Eastern/Western/Southern/Northern 〜 take one's live(s) = take the live(s) of sb. 带走某人的生命 incurably ill (patients) 绝症的病人

③The measure passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10.

measure 法案 [n.]举措：take effective measures to do sth.采取有效措施做某事 convincing 令人信服的

vote of 15 to 10 15比10的投票(结果)

④Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada.

消息几乎顷刻间出现在网上并且被xxx 看到了。

Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up by sb.。

Word came that the Chinese team has won the match. 消息传来… half a world away 在地球的另一端

executive [a.]执行的 [n.]执行官 CE ．

O ：Chief Executive Officer exe.可执行性文件 director [n.]主任、导演

right [n.]权利

Rights and Obligations 权利与义务

the right to (do) sth . (做)……的权利 the right to society 协会 Red Cross Society 红十字会 clubs and societies 社团协会 community …界、…团体

⑤He sent it on via the group′s on -line service, Death NET.

此处send it on = post bulletins 发布公告

via 通过、经由

…NET . …之网

⑥Says Hofsess: “We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isn′t just something that happened in Australia. It′s world history.”

post [n.]海报 [v.]张贴（发布）、邮寄 bulletin 公告

because of course 当然是因为

阅读中不读，写作时可用。

“……”,notes Dr .xxx ,a 61-year-old sociology professor at Zhejiang University .

例外：1、段首出现引号必须读。

2、其他句子中出现引号，只在有明确证据表明就考引号中的句子时才读。

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physician assisted suicide

①The full import may take a while to sink in.

这(部法律通过)的全部意义可能需要一段时间才能为人们所理解。

import[n.]含义/意义import=importance=significance (重要)意义

take+时间:花费/需要xx时间It took me three months to finish writing the book .

sink in 沉淀下来过去式sank/sunk ；过去分词sunk/sunken

②The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications.

terminally ill (patients) 晚期的病人late-stage cancer晚期的癌症primary-stage 初级阶段terminal [a.]终端的、末期的terminal user终端用户

terminal examination 期末考试ATM: automated teller terminal 自动出纳终端

leave sb. [-ed/-ing/to/adj./prep.] 使得xxx处于……的境地physician内科医生surgeon外科医生

…alike…之类的…

deal with= cope with 应对

moral and practical implication s道德和现实意义imply[v.]暗示、意味着→implication：by implication言下之意

③Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage.

some people many people few people those

people 大学毕业生：those who graduated from average universities 日本人：those who are from Japan

有时做噩梦的人：those who sometimes have bad dreams ...人→those who/whose...

breath sighs of relief 松了一口气

relief[n.]减轻、缓解to one′s relief 令某人轻松的是...

relieve [v.]relieve sb. of sth. 使某人摆脱... relieve one′s pain减轻某人的疼痛

relieve the incurably-ill patients of pains and sufferings使绝症患者摆脱病痛和折磨

association协会Chinese Football Association 中国足协Consumer′s Association 消协

bitterly attack猛烈地抨击

bill法律Bill Gates比尔.盖茨billion十亿Bill Clintion比尔.克林顿

haste [v./n.] 仓促草率More haste，less speed 越匆忙，速度越慢Haste makes waste. 欲速则不达

④But the tide is unlikely to turn back.

但是潮流不可能逆转。tide [n.]潮tide and clean 干净、整洁

⑤In Australia—where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part—other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.

an aging population 人口老龄化

life-extending technology 寿命延长技术

changing community attitudes 正在变化着的社会态度

play one′s part/role 起…作用；有…的重要身份/地位

consider [v.] 认真考虑= think carefully

eu than asia安乐死europe欧洲euro zone欧元区

⑥In the US and Canada, where the right-to-die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.

gather strength 召集力量

observer 观察者observation [n.]评论observe [v.]观察、评论remark [v./n.]评论

comment [v./n.]评论

review [v./n.]评论Beijing Review

dominoes effect多米诺骨牌效应

fall [v.] 下降、下跌[n.]秋天

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