[每日一贴] Good Sentences

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1.14  Review:  # 30

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Despite this age of informality, yes, kids still do need to learn manners

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Despite increasing efforts to ensure a level playing field, female fellows are still a tiny minority, being only 5% of the total. Awareness of this disparity undoubtedly makes the Royal Society keen to focus on celebrating successful women in science and on inspiring the next generation.

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I have bitten off more than I can chew by taking on this extra work – I don't think I'll get it finished on time.

David and Sarah planned to completely renovate their house by themselves. In the end, they bit off more than they could chew and had to pay builders to finish it.

Thanks for offering to babysit and cook dinner for us, but don't bite off more than you can chew.

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Life is measured by thought and action,not by time.  ----Lubbock

衡量生命的尺度是思想和行为，而不是时间

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It is far easier to concentrate power than to concentrate knowledge. That is why so many social engineers backfires and why so many despots have led their countries into disasters.
                                                                                                       ----Thomas Sowell

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Her latest novel isn't a patch on her others.

她这部新小说比以前所写的差得远。

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Her sarcastic remarks quenched his passion.

她讽刺的话冷却了他的热情。

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Old life blown away in the blink of an eye.   （from:  The Shawshank Redemption）

眨眼间 ， 一生就毁了

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It's healthier to release frustration than to bottle it up.

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This experience opened a new prospect in his mind.

这一经验为他的思想开阔了新的视野。

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Your calculation is way off beam.

你的计算大错特错.

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How can he reconcile it to his conscience?

他怎能问心无愧呢？

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Common preconceptions about life in this district are increasingly being challenged.

原先普遍存在著对那一地区生活的成见越来越站不住脚了.

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Her memory retains everything she reads.

她过目不忘。

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Little drops of water make the mighty ocean.

【谚】涓滴之水汇成洋。

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I am amazed to see a beggar step into a shiny Mercedes.

看到一个乞丐跨进一辆闪亮的奔驰轿车我惊愕不已。

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加油啊   不过同学你一天能记得了这么多吗

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252132618 发表于 2013-1-15 09:11
加油啊   不过同学你一天能记得了这么多吗

谢谢版主

我在扇贝上背单词，每天300个，然后把好的句子放在这里，有空就翻一翻；专门开个帖子有助于监督自己复习，否则以前老是存电脑上就不动了。:L

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Tragedy is in store for that poor girl from the beginning.

从一开始, 那个女孩的悲剧就是不可避免的。

There's a real treat in store for you this Christmas!

As we left, I wondered what the future held in store.

great trouble in store for her.她的即将来临的大烦恼

in store (for sb):  if something unexpected such as a surprise or problem is in store for someone, it is about to happen to them.   forthcoming 即将来临的

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Respect for the liberty of others is not a natural impulse in most men。

“对大多数人来说，尊重他人的自由并不是一种自然的本能”

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A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

人类，是一堆可以随意拆卸的铅管零件的巧妙装配。

           ----by Christopher Morley (1890-1957) U.S. author and poet, Rhodes scholar

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The struggling for knowledge hath a pleasure in it that of wrestling with a fine woman.

为知识而奋斗自有其乐——有如与美人角力之乐。

                                                                           ----by Lord Halifax

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Pundits who want to sound judicious are fond of warning against generalizing.

那些希望自己听起来很明智的学者喜欢警告人们不要妄自归纳。

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The sun loomed on the horizon

太阳隐约出现在地平线上

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The monitor is really a notch above us.

班长确实比我们略胜一筹。

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I felt completely squashed by her sarcastic comment.

她冷嘲热讽把我噎得一句话都说不出来.

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A person's health improves with the avoidance of stress.

人轻松了，身体就健康了！

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The child entertained himself with his building blocks.

孩子在搭积木玩。

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If you work hard, you will get greater fruitfulness.

如果你努力工作你就有更多的收获

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He speaks so mildly, yet firmly and impartially, about politics.

他谈起政治来是那么温和,然而坚定而公正。

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He is at the meridian of life.

他正值壮年。

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The flower that wreathe his parlor stifle him with their sensuous perfume.

包围著客厅的花以其刺激人的香味使他窒息。

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Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

【谚】结婚太急，后悔莫及；草率结婚必后悔。

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Genius is but one remove from insanity.

天才与疯狂之间只有毫厘之差。

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Politicians are usually uninformative and platitudinous.

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This important matter brooks no delay. We must talk about it now.

这件要事不容耽搁，我们必须现在谈谈。

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China suffered a devastating earthquake measuring 8.0 magnitude in 2008.

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Time is fleeting.You should seize the day.

时间飞逝。你要好好珍惜每一天

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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

生活的艺术在于对坚持与废弃的合理调配。

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He would dilate on any subject that took his fancy.

他会详述任何他一时爱好的话题。

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He lives in utter degradation.

他生活十分潦倒。

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Remove an old tree and it will wither to death.

【谚】老树移栽活不了，老人迁居命不长。

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Genetics is beyond my scope.

遗传学我是外行。

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety- nine percent perspiration.

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Curse, like chicken, come home to roost.

诅咒像鸡雏，必回栖息木。

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Blue skies are not a guarantee of continuing fine weather.

蔚蓝的天空不一定担保天气持续晴朗。

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He had precious little right to complain

“他根本没有权利抱怨”

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If the government goes on exacting so much from the taxpayer, it will not last long.

如果该政府继续如此征税的话，它将不会持续多久。

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1.16   Review:  #1,  #31,  #34
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Ruth went pale as the news sank in.

All other anxieties paled into insignificance besides the possibility of war.

和可能打仗相比，所有其他忧虑都变得微不足道了。

The amounts of money involved pale into insignificance when compared with the sums spent each year on research.


Many experts predict the health consequences of radiation in Japan will pale compared with deaths caused by the earthquake and tsunami that set off the nuclear crisis.

许多专家预计，日本核泄漏所导致的健康隐患和地震以及引起核危机的海啸来说根本不足为道了。

Both incidents pale in comparison to the 2008 scandal that led to the death of six babies and the poisoning of 300,000 people by milk products tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical.

这两起事件和2008年那起导致六名婴儿死亡、30万婴儿中毒的三聚氰胺（一种工业化学品）毒牛奶丑闻相比就相形见绌了。

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We had a few near misses in the first raid.

在第一次袭击中,有几次我们都差一点就命中目标.

Police made a lightning raid on the house.

警方突然查抄了那座房子.

The bombing raid practically leveled the town.

空袭几乎把这座城镇夷为平地。

I caught him raiding the fridge again(= taking food from it).

我撞见他又在扫荡冰箱里的食物。

The larvae learn who they belong to by smell, so the slave-making ants get them while they’re young so they can turn them into slave-making workers who then go off to raid other colonies.

幼年蚂蚁通过气味辨识自己的归属，所以“造奴蚂蚁”在它们年幼时便占有它们，如此一来就能将之变为“奴隶工”，这些“奴隶工”会去攻击其他(蚂蚁的)领地

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At no time has the country been more prosperous than at present.

我国任何时候都没有现在这样繁荣。

The city at one time must have been prosperous, for it enjoyed a high level of civilization.

这座古城在一个时期准是很繁荣的，因为它曾享有高度文明。

We will embrace prosperous future if we plug this hollow of our fiscal deficit.

如果我们填上我们的财政赤字的大洞，我们将会迎来繁荣的明天

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Jane's mom just past away ,we should spare her feelings.

简爱的妈妈刚去世，我们别惹她伤心

Just tell me the truth. Don't worry about sparing my feelings.

[spare sb's feelings:

to avoid doing something that would upset someone]

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The doctor tried to spare him from pain.

医生尽力使他免受痛苦

Luckily, I was spared the embarrassment of having to sing in front of everyone.

[spare: To save or relieve from experiencing or doing (something):

使免遭：使解除或免于经历或做（某事）：

eg: spared herself the trouble of going  她省却了去一趟的麻烦]

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We paid our bills and had money to spare.

我们付帐后还有节余

We should get there with half an hour to spare.

[to spare: In addition to what is needed 有节余]

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She never spared herself in the pursuit of excellence.

[not spare yourself: to try as hard as you can to achieve something:]

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No expense was spared in making the guests feel comfortable.

No effort will be spared to bring the people responsible to justice.

We will spare no effort to find out who did this.


[spare no effort/expense:  to use a lot of effort/expense (= money), etc. to do something]

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We should keep up the balance of nature.

我们应该保持自然界的平衡。

What was the most difficult part of your life to bring in balance or in accordance with your dreams? How did you manage to do that?

在你的生活平衡或者和梦想冲突时,什么是你生活中最艰难的部分?你是怎样度过的?

My career is not hanging in balance.

我的事业岌岌可危！

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There is no fundamental diversity between the two ideologies.

这两种思想意识之间并没有根本的分歧。

a wide diversity of opinion

看法上的众说纷纭.

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Violence in movies gives audience the false feeling that any problem can be solved by force.

电影中的暴力行为给观众传递了错误的观念，以为一切问题都可以用武力解决。

The violence on TV is one of the reason for juvenile delinquency.

银屏上的暴力是导致青少年犯罪率的原因之一

The wind blew with great violence.

风异常猛烈地吹着。

The report said that the government is losing legal acceptability by using violence against students.

报道称，政府正在失去公信力，因为他们对学生使用暴力。

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1.17    Review:  #34, #2, #5,  #6[unfinished]

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He that has patience may compass anything.
有耐心的人事事做得到。
                                             -----拉伯雷

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Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life.

理想是指路明灯；没有理想就没有坚定的方向，没有方向，就没有生活。


                                                       Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer

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He has no inner resources and hates being alone.
他没有内在的精神寄托，因而害怕孤独。  [inner resources:  内在力量；精神财富]

He is a man of great resource.
他是一个足智多谋的人。

Reading is a great resource.
读书是一种极好的消遣。

I had no resource but to comply.
我没有办法，也只能顺从照办了


The job called for all my resources of energy and patience.
这项工作需要我拿出自己的全部精力和耐性

at the end of one's resources
山穷水尽, 无计可施, 智穷才尽

He is full of resource in any emergency.
他富有随机应变的才能。

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The offer of a new job provided just the catalyst she needed.
这份新工作正式她所需要转变的契机

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It's hard work to pump facts into unwilling students.
向不自觉的学生灌输知识并非易事。

Whenever I feel depressed, my dad will pump gas for me.
无论我什么时候感到沮丧，爸爸都会为我打气。
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The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
生活的艺术就是知道何时坚持不放与何时松手放弃。因为生活是一条悖论：它甚至指示我们牢牢抓住许多到头来注定要放弃的东西。

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New words in "Must-Reads from Around the World(Time World)"
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first-trimester (period of three months)


a bastion of Roman Catholicism and a region where evangelical faiths are growing rapidly
   [evangelical (n.  新教徒; 福音派教徒  adj.  福音的; 新教的) ]


British public schools are regarded as one of the last bastions of upper-class privilege.

You are a bastion of strength.你是一座有力的精神堡垒. [bastion n. fortress, stronghold, castle]

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Decades of mismanagement have battered public services in Egypt.


He was battered to death with a rifle-butt.

The waves battered against the rocks at the bottom of the cliff.

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     “The state of Egypt’s public health care,” said the Times, “mirrors a nation burdened by economic turmoil, striking workers, widespread poverty, overwhelmed institutions and the sense that little has improved since President Hosni Mubarak was deposed in February 2011.”


    China quadrupled its defense budget since 2000.


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Metaphor Examples
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Life's a journey not a destination

And I just can't tell what tomorrow brings.

(from the album A Little South Of Sanity)

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She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

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The executives had golden parachutes to land safely after the company crashed.

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She let such beautiful pearls of wisdom slip from her mouth without even knowing.

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The teacher planted the seeds of wisdom.

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The path of resentment is easier to travel than the road to forgiveness.

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"Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food." ~ "Keystones of Thought", Austin O'Malley

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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

  梦想不会魔法般的实现，而是通过汗水，决心和奋斗才能实现。

                                                                      Colin Powell

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Fresh food is so scarce that prices have rocketed.

The nation has experienced four years of rocketing crime. = soar

He rocketed to stardom overnight.

他转瞬间成了明星.

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Wheat prices skyrocketed.
小麦价格猛涨。

Discovery of oil here has skyrocketed land values.
在这里发现了石油使土地价值大幅度上升

Housing prices have skyrocketed in recent months.
Production has dropped while prices and unemployment have skyrocketed.

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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.

懒惰像铁锈一样，比劳动更能消耗身体。


He has kept sloth out.

他已经克服了懒惰。

Sloth turneth the edge of wit.(Sloth turns the edge of wit.)

懒散能磨往才智的锋芒。

The report criticizes the government's sloth in tackling environmental problems.

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A problem-free life is a fantasy —a mirage in the desert。

一个毫无问题的人生是幻想——是沙漠中的海市蜃楼

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The divergence between the incomes of the rich and the poor countries seems to be increasing.

富人和穷人的收入差距似乎又增大了。

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The dying embers of a former passion can still be seen in his article.

往日激情将熄的余烬仍可从他的文章中看出来。


In his passion, he tore the letter into pieces.

在盛怒之下, 他把那封信撕得粉碎。

Nothing could rekindle her extinct passion.

她激情已逝, 无从心回意转.

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The bank manager was really to blame, though he tried to pin it on a clerk.

真正受责备的应该是银行经理，可是他却想把责任推到一个职员身上。

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THE French government's long-awaited pension reform, which was announced on June 16th, turns out to be at once symbolically bold and yet ultimately disappointing.



The symbolism of this change is clear.



Finally, the government's forecasts are based on some fairly heroic assumptions about the French economy. One such is that the rate of unemployment, which is currently running at 10%, will by 2021 fall as low as 4.5%. Yet it has not reached that level since 1978. It could well be that equilibrium in the pension fund by 2018 turns out to be something of a mirage.



All the same, the government has timed the reform carefully to coincide with the approach of the annual long summer holidays. The hope is that this will keep protests to a minimum, although they could revive in the autumn.



For Mr Sarkozy, the pensions overhaul is the last big reform on his list ahead of the next presidential election, and a critical test of his ability to shake up old French habits and bring about change. With his popularity languishing near an all-time low, he may gain nothing from sticking firmly to his plans despite the howl of protests, but he has almost nothing to lose either.

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1.19    Review:  #37,  #12,  #21,  #30

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Most experts agree that there are five basic functions all managers perform: planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling.

大部分专家认为有五个基本方面需要经理们去执行，那就是，计划，组织，员工关系，领导力和管控力

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She intended to shield the child from the bad information.

她打算不让这个孩子知道这个坏消息.

She hid her true feelings behind a shield of cold indifference.

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We lay on the beach, saturated in sunshine.

我们躺在沙滩上, 沐浴在阳光里.


If your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts and make success impossible no matter how hard you work.

如果你的思想里充满了对失败的恐惧，这将扼杀你所有的努力，不管你是如何的刻苦，都不可能成功

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I had never been spontaneously approached by a publisher and such condescension rather turned my head.

还从没有一个出版商主动来与我接洽，这种屈尊有点让我受宠若惊。


The poor young fellow, who was still just a boy, still at the age when feelings express themselves spontaneously, burst into tears.

可怜的青年这时还是一个孩子,还在极易流露感情的年纪,他眼泪涌了出来

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They clapped together a stage so that they could have somewhere to perform.

他们匆忙搭起一个舞台，以便有地方演出。


A single hand that wipes tears during failures is much better than countless hands that come together to clap on success.

失败的时候一直拭泪的手比成功的时候无数的鼓掌更有意义


He had to clap his hands to his mouth to stop himself from screaming.

他不得不用手捂住嘴巴，才没有失声尖叫起来。 [clap: To put or place quickly and firmly 快速而稳当地放置]

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Will could see the tightness around Gared’s mouth, the barely suppressed anger in his eyes under the thick black hood of his cloak.

威尔观察到盖尔紧绷的嘴角以及斗篷厚厚的黑色兜帽下双眼中勉强压抑的愤怒。

{cloak  [kləʊk] n.  斗蓬; 掩护; 宽大外衣 v.  遮掩, 披斗蓬, 隐匿}

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Changes are avoidable, but they come together with opportunities.

变化是不可避免的，机遇随之而来。



Whether scientists or not, people frequently fall into avoidable errors because of a failure to reason correctly.

不管是否科学家,人们经常因推理不当而陷入可以避免的错误。


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Failure to take into consideration the relevant situation would lead to an adverse effect on future transactions.

若不考虑这些情况，将对以后的交易产生不良影响。


Journalists stayed away from the funeral out of consideration for the bereaved family.

The proposals are currently under consideration (= being discussed).

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Efficiency is more important than the time you consume.

效率比你消耗的时间更重要


The efficiency is greatly raised, and the intensity of labor is decreased.

工作效率大大地提高了，而劳动强度却降低了。


What is so impressive about their society is the efficiency of the public services.

他们的社会给人留下最深刻印象的是其高效率的公共服务。

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Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons.

历史学家迄今认为日历是随农业的问世而出现的， 因为当时人们面临着了解四季的实际需要，


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I have benefited a lot from extensive reading.

广泛的阅读让我获益匪浅。

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What we should do is not to focus on the benefit, but things make us happy really.

我们不应该总是关注利益，而应该想想到底什么才是真正令我们开心的

The news of reached an agreement in the Copenhagen conference is benefit to all the people live in this world.

哥本哈根会议达成一致观点的消息，益于地球人

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This fact is too evident to require proof.

这事实很明显, 用不着证明。

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Revelations of wrongdoing helped bring about the eclipse of the governor's career.

恶行的揭发导致州长的政治生涯毁灭


The governor has no authority to acquire more benefits than ordinary residents.

管理者不应该比普通的居民有权利享受更多的福利。

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I can't make that decision for you, you will have to use your judgement.

我不能代你做决定，你应该自己拿判断


At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the ages wit;at 40 the judgement.

20岁我们按意愿做事；30岁我们凭智慧做事；40岁我们靠判断做事。

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The divisions between the various classes of society are not so sharply marked as they used to be.

现在社会上各阶级的区分不象过去那样明显了。


Their experiences contrast sharply with those of other children.

他们的经历和其他孩子的形成鲜明的对比。

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The memory remains sharply engraved on my mind.

这件事仍然深深地铭刻在我心中。

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Good novels broaden your horizons.

好的小说开阔人的眼界。

My first trip to the theater broadened my cultural horizons.

It is hoped that the course will open up new horizons for students.

Their horizons were limited/narrowed/restricted to events within the village community.

They had become aware of possibilities beyond their own limited horizons.


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That can broaden and enhance and create options for your daughter.

Few would disagree that travel broadens the mind.

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[How Friendship Makes You More Successful      By Carlin Flora]


Back in college, my dorm-mate Sofia and I invented a ritual we called “Power Wednesdays.” Every week,
we headed to the campus fitness center for a workout, and then to the library for four hours of hard studying. We would stride back to our dorm with a huge feeling of accomplishment. But that uplifting cocktail of virtuousness, productivity and sore muscles — rewarding as it was — wasn’t what kept us repeating Power Wednesdays. Our real motivation was each other’s company.

I’ve been immersed in the study of friendship for the past several years, and among the many things I’ve learned, one idea stands out: If you truly want to change some aspect of your life, developing friendships with people who aspire to the same goals as you do — like I did with Sofia 15-plus years ago — can lead to more successful endeavors than embarking on solitary efforts.

Shortly after we make a decision to change our behavior, we often sense a softening of what at first felt like ironclad conviction. We chastise ourselves for our inability to summon motivation and return to the poor habits we’re trying to break to comfort us, actively undermining our goals. What a disheartening cycle. But research shows that having friends with the same goal can interrupt that cycle.

{chastise  [chas·tise || tʃæ'staɪz]  v. punish, discipline; criticize harshly}

{summon  [sum·mon || 'sʌmən]  v.  召唤, 号召, 召集}



The same type of scenario is at play with addiction recovery programs like Alcoholics Anonymous.

Friends can help you reinforce individual willpower.

The desire to be with, be like, and be liked by friends is primal. We’re all built to seek out strong bonds with friends
on whom our very survival might have once been dependent. While we don’t necessarily need friends to help hunt or fight off predators these days, most of us probably still feel like we can’t live without them. Tap into that deep-down social motivation and you’ll not only be primed for success, you’ll take pleasure in the proverbial journey.

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Fahmy was at once transparent and subtle, convivial and abrasive, suave and prickly.

法赫米这个人既开朗又阴沉,善于交际而又喜欢磨人,说话和蔼而又带刺。



But even the most convivial bar must close eventually, and when the time came, I staggered out into the street, and with many warm farewells to my companions, turned down an empty street that led to my train station.

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The speaker was clearly playing to the gallery when he uttered so many doubtful jokes.

演说者讲了这么多似是而非的笑话， 显然是迎合低级趣味。



A politician may be tempted to play to the gallery.

政客可能很想博得群众的赏识。



The trial featured a gallery of famous and flamboyant witnesses.

这次审判的特色是有一批声名显赫的证人



The gallery is a treasure trove of medieval art.

这个画廊是中世纪艺术的宝库。

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Below, the captain realized to his horror that the Titanic was sinking rapidly

下面，船长惊恐的地发现“泰坦尼克号 号正在急速下沉



No matter how much we like honey,or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess,we have a horror of being stung. x

不管我们多爱吃蜂蜜，或读过多少关于蜜蜂具有神秘的识别方向的灵感的书，我们也无法抑制对它们的反感。



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The enemy fired away with wild abandon,but luckily with little accuracy John was able to escape.

敌人疯狂地向远处扫射，但是幸运的是，枪法的不准使约翰得以逃身。



Jenny and Tony are abandoning themselves to the sweet love.

詹尼和托尼正沉浸在甜蜜的爱情之中。



Those who abandon themselves to despair can not succeed.

那些自暴自弃的人无法成功。

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I'm not attachment of my parents, I am what I am!

我不是父母人附属物，我就是我



Days and days past, he grow sentimental attachment to the poor girl.

一天天过去了，他渐渐对那个可怜的女孩产生了爱慕之情。



He has a strong/great attachment to his family

他对家庭有很强的依赖性



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By bringing aboard a number of blacks as department heads, lawyers, and accountants, the Mayor has also broadened the racial mix in top city jobs

“市长让大量黑人担任部门主管、律师及会计师，这样就扩大了城市高层工作的种族融合”



There were more than 1,500 people aboard the Titanic at that time.

当时泰坦尼克号上有1，500多名乘客。

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It's an all inclusive price; there is nothing extra to pay.

这是一个包罗一切的价格, 不需再额外付款了。

This measure is more effective and inclusive than top-down regulation.

这个措施比自上而下的规定更加有效和具有包容性。

Culture is an abstract and sometimes all-inclusive term.

文化是抽象的，有时是一个包括一切的术语。

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Nobody would be happy with their life absolutely.

每人会对他们的生活100%满意。



Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future,boy?

你难道一点也不关心你自己的前途，孩子？

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I anticipate deriving much instruction from the lecture.

我期望从这演讲中获得很多教益。

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She has an insatiable hunger for knowledge.

Geffen has a hunger for success that seems bottomless.

But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for/after adventure.

Nothing seemed to satisfy their hunger for truth.



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Death comes to all of us in the end. There's no way of getting out of it. There may not be much choice in how it happens, but there are ways to avoid the most embarrassing and unnecessary deaths that plague modern civilization. Death from stupidity is an avoidable demise. A little common sense and a few good choices can ensure whatever the final performance entails, it will not end up in a late night comedy sketch or on the front of the local newspaper.

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Does Technology Makes Us Smarter or Dumber?



Ever since journalist Nicholas Carr posed a provocative question — “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” — in a widely-read 2008 Atlantic magazine article, we’ve been arguing about whether the new generation of digital devices is leading us to become smarter, or stupider, than we were before. Now psychologists and cognitive scientists are beginning to deliver their verdicts.



Calculators.

Cognitive scientists long ago identified the “generation effect” — the fact that we understand and remember answers that we generate ourselves better than those that are provided us (by a calculator, for instance).



Auto-complete.

Frequent users of smartphones quickly get used to the “auto-complete” function of their devices—the way they need only type a few letters and the phone fills in the rest. Maybe too used to it, in fact. This handy function seems to make adolescent users faster, but less accurate, when responding to a battery of cognitive tests, according to research published in 2009 in the journal Bioelectromagnetics.



Search engines.

The ready availability of search engines is changing the way we use our memories, reported psychologist Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University in a study published in Science last year. When people expect to have future access to information, Sparrow wrote, “they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it.” It’s good to know where to find the information you need—but decades of cognitive science research shows that skills like critical thinking and problem-solving can be developed only in the context of factual knowledge. In other words, you’ve got to have knowledge stored in your head, not just in your computer.



Websites.

Way back in 2001, reading specialists Anne Cunningham and Keith Stanovich reported in the Journal of Direct Instruction that scores on a test of general knowledge were highest among people who read newspapers, magazines and books, and lowest among those who watched a lot of TV. Watching television, they noted, is “negatively associated with knowledge acquisition” — except when the TV watching involved public television, news, or documentary programs. Cunningham and Stanovich didn’t look at Internet use, but the same information divide exists online: high-quality, accurate information, and, well, fluff.



So does technology make us stupid, or smart? The answer is “both,” and the choice is up to us.



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    People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.
    很多笨人成功了，因为他们还没有学会放弃。
                                  Goerge Allen

[mediocre  adj. of medium quality, regular, ordinary, neither good nor bad; low-grade, poor]

The film's plot is predictable and the acting is mediocre.

Parents don't want their children going to mediocre schools.

[med=middle,表示”中间”   
mediocre a 平庸的,中等的(med+iocre石山=中间的山=不是高山=平庸的) ]
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The office is full of a happy atmosphere.

办公室里充满了欢乐的气氛。


There is an atmosphere of peace and calm in the country, quite different from the atmosphere of a big city.

在乡间有一种和平宁静的气氛，和大城市的气氛截然不同。


The peoples are in a festal atmosphere.

各族人民都沉浸在节日的气氛之中。

[These are all words for the general sense or feeling that you have in a particular place or situation:

atmosphere • climate • mood • tone • spirit • aura • feeling • feel • flavour]

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[FEEL 8: a general feeling among a group of people]

atmosphere [singular/uncountable noun] the general feeling among the people in a place, or the feeling you get from being in a particular place:

  ▪ The atmosphere in the meeting was tense.
  ▪ The new owners have tried to give the restaurant a more family-friendly atmosphere.

atmosphere of
  ▪ We’re trying to create an atmosphere of trust between management and staff.

heated atmosphere
when people in a place have very strong and often angry feelings
   ▪ the heated atmosphere of the House of Commons

mood  [singular noun] the way a group of people feels about something at a particular time:
▪ Pessimism replaced the mood of democratic optimism that existed before World War I.
▪ Mondovi provoked severe unrest, contributing to the rebellious mood of the entire region.

the political/religious etc mood
▪ Labor leaders figured that given the political mood of the time, Truman was the best candidate.

the general/public/popular/national mood
one felt by most people in a country or region
▪ In keeping with the general mood of the time, these novels tended to sentimentalize the past.

ambience   [singular/uncountable noun] the feeling you get from a particular place, because of the way it looks, sounds, smells etc, and because of the way people treat you when you are there:

▪ The restaurant’s ambience makes you feel you’re sitting down to dinner in the dining room of an old friend.
▪ Winnetka has that small-town ambience of tree-lined streets and a one-street shopping district that you can’t find in suburbia.
▪ Ambience is as important to a business’s success as the product you sell.

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The boy pretended to study hard in his mother's presence.

当着妈妈的面，小男孩假装努力学习。


He continues to possess the presence, mental as well as physical, of the young man

他在精神和身体上继续保持年轻人的气质

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The game was all but over by the time we arrived.


All but one of the passengers were killed in the accident.

除了一个乘客外，其他人都在这起事故中丧生。


He is the chairman of the committee in all but the name.

除了没挂名以外，实际上他就是委员会的主席。

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It may be many years before the new company can gain a secure foothold in the market.

也许要经过若干年这家新公司才能在市场上取得稳固的立足点。

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The company faces tough competition.

这家公司面临着艰难的竞争。

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I am burdened with an excess of public attention.

公众的过度关注使我感到不堪重负。

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Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

衡量成功的最佳标准是你用你的天赋走了多远。


Don't set yourself up as your talent.

不要侍才而居。

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Porridge is good for digestion.

粥有益于消化

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I believe everything has its own orbital. It should move only on it.

我相信世间万物都有自己的轨迹，它只可在自己的轨迹上运动。

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I scanned the newspaper when I was waiting for the bus.

等公共汽车的时候，我匆匆浏览了一下报纸。

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She seemed to take pleasure in our suffering.

她似乎对我们的痛苦幸灾乐祸。


He finds great pleasure in reading.

他从读书中得到很大乐趣。

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Once indulged in the fictitious world, people can barely concentrate on real life.

一旦沉迷于这种虚幻世界，人们很难关注现实生活。

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We should hunt a new efficient way to solve this problem.

我们需要搜寻更有效的方式去解决这一问题

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I'm hunting a most useful vocabulary book to promote my English.

我正在搜寻一本很好用的词汇书来提高我的英语水平。

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to squirrel away some money for the future

存些钱以备不时之需

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Her simple style is deceptive: what she has to say is very profound.

别以为她的工作方法简单, 她说出话来是很有分量的.


In view of such profound impact of building the dam,they seemed to be hesitant.

考虑到修建大坝的深远影响，他们似乎犹豫了


Their implications are profound and may well lead to a more stable world.

它们的影响是深远的，并很有可能带来一个更稳定的世界。

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By creating breakthroughs in agriculture and disease-fighting, the manipulation of DNA should lead to profound improvements in human health.

通过在农业与疾病防治方面的突破，对DNA的控制应能大幅度改善人类健康状况。

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These conditions no longer obtain.

这些条件已不复存在了。

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Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.
“每个人在历史上都有只属于他自己的一刻”

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A fair amount of schadenfreude greeted the release last week of a study showing that the kids of parents who pay for college return their families’ largesse by achieving lower grades.

[schadenfreude n. Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. 幸灾乐祸

from German.  Schaden [damage损坏] Freude [joy]   ]

[largesse:  慷慨援助；施舍]
  

The study, conducted by University of California at Merced professor Laura Hamilton and published in the American Sociological Review, offered those of us who worked our way through college — or took out burdensome student loans — a rare opportunity to gloat.

[gloat: vi. To feel or express great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction 洋洋自得，幸灾乐祸
           n.  A feeling of great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction. 自我满足，得意扬扬，幸灾乐祸]

But our self-congratulation is mistaken, or at least beside the point.



Hamilton’s work, and that of other researchers, demonstrates that we should all be concerned about the state of higher education in the U.S. today and that college students enjoying a four-year paid vacation courtesy of their parents are merely a symptom of a larger problem.

[courtesy:  Polite behavior 谦恭有礼; 殷勤; 好意，纵容; 恩惠，好心 ]



The authors examined the results of tests taken at the beginning, middle and end of students’ undergraduate careers and concluded that 45% of students “did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning” during their first two years of college, while 36% failed to demonstrate improved learning across all four years.

In particular, Arum and Roksa found, college students were not developing the critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other higher-level skills that are necessary to thrive in today’s knowledge-based economy and to lead our nation in a time of complex challenges and dynamic change.


Arum and Roksa placed the blame for students’ lack of learning on a watered-down college curriculum and lax undergraduate work ethic.


Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, the authors reported that students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and that many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.


Students who take more challenging classes and spend more time studying do learn more. But the priorities of many undergrads are with extracurricular clubs and activities, fraternities and sororities, practicing and playing sports, and partying and socializing — and let’s not forget sleeping.


The results are clear, wrote Arum and Roksa: “Educational practices associated with academic rigor improved student performance, while collegiate experiences associated with social engagement did not.”


These students need to build skills and knowledge during college if they are to use their degrees as a stepping-stone to middle-class mobility. But more-privileged students must not waste this opportunity either.

As recent graduates can attest, the job market isn’t kind to candidates who can’t demonstrate genuine competence, along with a well-honed willingness to work hard. Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities.


College graduates will still fare better than those with only a high school education, of course.


But a university degree unaccompanied by a gain in knowledge or skills is an empty achievement indeed.


For students (parentally funded or not) who have been coasting through college — and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more goodies and charging higher tuition — the party may soon be over.

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It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

  为原则而战易，坚持原则难。

                        施尼茨勒
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You need maneuver actually, rather than theoretically or systematically reams of paper work.

你需要实际操作,而不是大量系统地理论地纸上工作

{ream
1. A quantity of paper, formerly 480 sheets, now 500 sheets or, in a printer's ream, 516 sheets.
令：纸张的一种计数单位，以前以480张为一令，现在以500张为一令，而印刷中的一令为516张
2. Often reams A very large amount:常作 reams 大量：极其多的量：
reams of work to do.  大量的工作要做
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Equality between men and women in our society is still only theoretical.

It is theoretically possible for him to overrule their decision, but highly unlikely. {overrule  v.  驳回, 支配, 否决}

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Follow the pathway and uncover the sweet sun rise that await you.

追寻理想之路，美好的未来在等候你。

Working your way up through a company is a difficult pathway.

Diplomacy will smooth your pathway to success.

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Her passion is to uncover these atrocities and let general society know about what does happen in our worlds.

她的激情在于揭露这些暴行，让全社会知道在我们的世界发生了什么。


The investigation uncovered evidence of a large-scale illegal trade in wild birds.


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The report ascribes the rise in childhood asthma to the increase in pollution

报告认为儿童哮喘病的增长是由污染加重造成的。


Never ascribe success to good luck but hardworking

不要将成功归功于运气，而是努力


Tough-mindedness is a quality commonly ascribed to top bosses.

意志顽强被普遍认为是高层领导人固有的品质。


The agency ascribed the temperature climb mainly to increased greenhouse gases emission ,the cyclical temperature fluctuation and less cool air generated from the Arctic.

机构把气温上升归因于温室气体排放上升，周期性的气温波动，来自北极的冷空气的减少

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Reading good books elevates your mind.

阅读好书使人思想高尚。


He managed to elevate himself to a station of some authority.

他设法将自己提升到有权势的地位


It turns out, however, that not every man who reached the pinnacle of American leadership was a gleaming example of self-awareness, empathy, impulse control and other qualities that mark an elevated EQ. (TIME, Oct.9, 1995, p.30)

然而，结果是，并非每个攀登到美国最高领导层的人都是具有自觉、有同理心， 能克制冲动及其他高情商特指的闪光典范。

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“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us” (Aldo Leopold).

“我们滥用土地，因为我们把它当作属于自己的商品” （阿尔多·利奥普特）。


The term is much abused lately: in its strictest sense, virtual reality means creating an artificial environment so convincing it can’t be distinguished from the real thing.

仿真一词近来常被滥用，若严格加以定义，仿真表示创造一个人工的环境，而其如此接近事实，令人真伪难辨。


Don't make yourself get used to abuse.

不要让自己习惯于恶习.


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puttered away the hours in the garden.

在花圈里把时间消磨掉


We spent the weekend puttering around (in) the house.

我们周末做一些琐碎的家务事.


I spent the afternoon pottering around the garden doing a few odd jobs.

I started puttering around outside, not knowing what I was doing...

I puttered around for a while, cleaning up the kitchen.



I'm quite happy just to putter about by myself here.

我就喜欢一个人在这儿东摸摸西弄弄。


Puttering man won't make a difference unless they get up to do something

懒散的人不会有什么出息，除非他们起来去做点什么

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The surplus supply leads to the dropping of price.

过剩的供给导致价格的下降。


It's an essay heavy with surplus phrasing.

这是篇废话连篇的散文。


The houses are being sold because they are surplus to requirements.

This diet guarantees to help you shed surplus fat.

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He immediately noticed the amenity of his new surroundings.

他立刻觉察到了新环境的宜人之处。


Gentleman need to keep amenity in any condition.

绅士在任何情况下的应保持礼仪


I thoroughly enjoyed the amenity of the clean mountain air in the summer.

在夏天，我完全发享受了清新山间空气的舒适


People who retired to the country often miss the amenities of a town.

退休到乡村的人们时常想念城市舒适的生活

Parks and a theater are just some of the town’s local amenities.

公园和戏院只是市镇娱乐设施的一部分。

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There's no logic in spending money on things you don't need.

把钱花在不需要的东西上是没有道理的。


His thinking goes against all logic.

他的思维完全不合逻辑.


He argues with learning and logic.

他的辩论既有学问又合理。


Miranda holds the belief that science and logic will unlock the mysteries of the plague.

米兰达坚信科学和逻辑学会解开这一瘟疫之谜。

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Thanks to modern irrigation,crops now grow abundantly where once nothing but cacti and sagebrush could live.

受当代灌溉(技术设施)之赐，农作物在原来只有仙人掌和荞属科植物才能生存的地方旺盛的生长。

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A bolt of lightning flashed across the horizon.

一道闪电划过地平线。

His first novel was a flash in the pan, and he hasn't written anything decent since.
他的第一部小说如昙花一现，此後他再没写出像样的东西。

Bad food trends take two forms. Some are flashes in the cast-iron pan; others have exhibited a little too much staying power.


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Here’s the thing about salumi, charcuterie and all the other forms of cured meats that we have come to know and love: they were always the province of experts. And there’s a reason they were the province of experts: they are hard to do well. Now every other restaurant has its own in-house cured-meat program, and the results are often nasty: leathery hams, moldy sausages, and industrial-strength lardo, just for starters.

{province:

A comprehensive area of knowledge, activity, or interest: 领域：知识、活动或兴趣包括的一个范围：
a topic falling within the province of ancient history. 一个属于古代历史领域的题目
}

A recent trend has been the use, or rather overuse, of artificial smoke as a flavoring agent or even as a theatrical effect. Often it comes from acrid camphor pans or, worse still, from a postmodern instrument called the Smoking Gun.


It would be great if chefs could get real smoke flavor from these expedients, but they can’t. Creating actual smoke flavor means burning actual wood, which requires the kind of dirty, dangerous equipment that few restaurant kitchens can handle.


So various technologies have come into play involving the placement of a wood chip next to an electrical element – basically the same method used by pot vaporizers, which have sometimes been drafted for it.


I realize this may seem like a peevish quibble, but it bothers me nonetheless, because it is frequently used in conjunction with equally unnatural modes of cooking like sous vide. You take a piece of pork or duck, cook it for 10 hours in a tepid bath and then try to impose a sham smoke flavor at the last minute with another equally ludicrous tool.

{peevish  ['pee·vish || 'pɪːvɪʃ] adj. angry, annoyed; irritable, grumpy}
{quibble  [quib·ble || 'kwɪbl]  n.  遁辞, 双关话, 谬论;牵强之词   v.  推托, 说模棱两可的话, 诡辩; 吹毛求疵}


This is one trend that contains its own punishment, though: the smoke these things produce tastes like a blend of old cigarette butts and stripper perfume.

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   Action is the antidote to despair.
               行动是绝望的解药。
                                           Joan Baez

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She was baptized when she was a month old and confirmed when she was thirteen.

她出生一个月时受洗礼，十三岁时行坚信礼。

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He criticized the repressive methods employed by the country's government.

他指责了这个国家政府采取的镇压手段。

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in the immediate future.
在不远的将来

Her arrest produced an immediate reaction from the press.

她被捕的事立刻在新闻界引起反应。

This work demands your immediate attention.

这件工作急需你立即处理。

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Trouillot disregarded the growing public clamor for her resignation.

民众要求特鲁约辞职的呼声越来越大，她却置之不理。

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence

人们走入人群，用沉默淹没内心的喧嚣



A clamor in the press for stopping killing whales

在报纸上对停止捕杀鲸鱼的呼吁


Even though clamoring in internet, police still define the man died in suicide

即使在网路上的呼吁，警察还是将死亡认定人自杀


The protesters clamor for immediate measures to protect local environment.

示威者要求对保护当地环境立即采取措施。


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The shot was clearly audible in the silence.

寂静中枪声听得很清楚。


His voice was barely audible above the noise of the machinery.

机器的噪声很大，他的声音几乎听不见。

Some insects have a very keen sense of hearing, although most do not hear sounds audible to the human ear.

一些昆虫有非常敏锐的听觉，尽管它们中的大多数听不到那些人类的耳朵可以听到的声响。


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We must make a real effort to ensure greater coordination between the different groups.

我们必须认真作出努力确保不同团体之间更紧密的配合。


And the efforts have been made more difficult by a lack of coordination between countries.

同时由于各国之间缺乏协调，工作将尤为艰难


to facilitate better coordination between departments


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It's impossible to legislate for every contingency.

为每一偶发事件都立法是不可能的.

The government have legislated for the drunk driver.

政府已经对酒后驾车立法了。

Governments can't legislate to make us happy, but many things they do affect our well-being.

政府无法通过立法来使我们快乐，但是他们做的许多事会影响到我们的心灵健康。


It has been proved necessary to legislate against unequal treatment of women's employment.

已经证明必须立法禁止在就业中对妇女的不平等待遇。

The attempt to legislate and regulate people into good behavior has spawned a compliance culture rather than an ethical culture.

制订法律以形成良好行为规范的努力，已造成一种合规文化而非道德文化。

[spawn  [spɔːn] n.  卵, 鱼卵;   v.  产卵; 大量生产; 产; 大量产生; 生育; 造成, 酿成]

[compliance  [kəm'plaɪəns]  n.  承诺, 屈从, 顺从]

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Two new roads are being built to increase accessibility to the town center.

The accessibility of her plays (= the fact that they can be understood) means that she is able to reach a wide audience.

...growing public concern about the cost, quality and accessibility of health care.

…公众对医疗保健的费用、质量与可及性的日益关注。


It will never be a accessibility for us to reach the flower on the cliff.

我们没有可能采到悬崖上的那朵花。

Seminar topics are chosen for their accessibility to a general audience.

研讨会的课题是相对于普通群众可接受的。


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She was a fixture in New York's nightclubs...

她是纽约夜总会的常客。

The price of the house included many existing fixtures and fittings that were not to our taste.

房价包括不合我们心意的许多固定装置和附 加设备.


Professor Gravity now seems to have become an unwanted fixture in the college.

格雷维蒂教授现在好像成了学院里的累赘.


In America, this kind of computers have become a fixture in offices.

这种电子计算机现在已成为美国各地办公室里的必备之物。（固定物）


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Most couples, however fossilized their relationship, have some interests in common.

对大多数的夫妇而言，无论他们的关系多么僵化，都有一些共同利益。

Needs change while policies fossilize.

需要发生改变，但是政策僵化不变。

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He had a tendency to shrink up whenever attention was focused on him.

当别人注意他时，他就会退缩一旁。


The stream has shrunk to a mere trickle.

那条溪流已干涸到只有细微的流水了。

He shrank from touching it as if it had been something too sacred for poor common people to handle

他碰都不敢碰一下它，好像这东西太神圣了以至于贫穷的普通人不能拿到。



Globalization is shrinking the world.

全球化正在使世界变小。

The world has shrunk as a global village

世界已缩小成一个地球村

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He deliberately misled us about the nature of their relationship.

关于他们究竟是什么关系，他故意给我们留下错误印象。

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In the years immediately preceding the outbreak of war in1939, Hitler succeeded in annexing various parts of Europe to Germany without firing a shot.

在1939年大战爆发的前几年，希特勒没开一抢而成功地把欧洲许多地区并吞为德国领土。

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He constantly strayed from the main point of his talk.

他不断偏离他的话题。

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Mr. Kern is a clean liver.

克恩先生是个生活上洁身自好的人。

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Honesty recommends any person.

任何一个人都欢迎诚实的品质

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He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.

他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。

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Time is a versatile performer.

时间是个多才多艺的表演者。

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Accounting and banking have changed dramatically in the light of recent developments in computers.

由于当今电子计算机的飞速发展，会计和银行业发生了急剧的变化。

The story begins dramatically but the plot peters out before the end.

这故事有些虎头蛇尾.

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Interest in the subject has increased phenomenally.

人们对此事的兴趣激增.

The global environment is getting worse and worse phenomenally.

迹象表明，地球环境正在恶化。

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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.    [from:  Dune by Frank Herbert]

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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.   
                 [Arundhati Roy: The author of 'The God of Small Things'.]

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Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

    Margaret Atwood

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"Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to  work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself  and that you will — through work — bump into other possibilities and  kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were  just sitting around looking for a great ‘art ida.’ And the belief that  process, in a sense, is liberating and that you don’t have to reinvent  the wheel every day. Today, you know what you’ll do, you could be doing  what you were doing yesterday, and tomorrow you are gonna do what you  did today, and at least for a certain period of time you can just  work. If you hang in there, you will get somewhere."
   Photorealist Chuck Close on inspiration...

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At the same time, shoppers are becoming highly receptive to new technology.

同时, 顾客开始变得更乐于接受新技术.

He grew eloquent under her receptive gaze.

遇到了她这种乐于接受的目光使他变得口若悬河起来.


She was always receptive to new ideas.

她总是乐于接受新的观点。

He is a receptive person who is open for reasonable suggestions.

他是个接受能力强的人，他总是能接纳合理的建议。

He was extraordinarily receptive and responsive.

他出奇地颖悟敏感。


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He seemed to have a rather clinical view of the breakup of his marriage.

他似乎是相当冷静地看待自己的婚姻破裂。


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And you'd be amazed how far Andy could stretch it.

你想像不到他的能耐

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Most children have such a high ideal of their parents ,unless the parents themselves have been unsatisfactory,that it can hardly hope to a realistic evaluation.

除非父母自身不能令人满意，大多数孩子对父母的估价过高，以致这种估价很难指望经受住现实的考验。

Even if your intention was good,an incorrect method also makes some people unsatisfactory

即时你的用意是好的，方式不当却仍会使一些人不满意


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The infinite distances of space are too great for the human mind to comprehend.

太空的无垠距离遥远得让人类的大脑无法理解。

The park comprehends all the land on the other side of the river.

这个公园包括河对岸的所有土地。


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The person who originated this type of approach for doing research deserves our praise.

开创这种研究方法的人应该受到我们的赞扬

All theories originate from practice and in turn serve practice

任何理论都来源于实践，反过来为实践服务。


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a position of prestige in diplomatic circles

在外交界具有重要的一席之地

They were always very diplomatic with awkward clients.

他们与难缠的客户打交道一向很有策略.

You must be more diplomatic in handling the situation.

你在处理这一情况时, 必须圆滑。

Try to be diplomatic when you refuse her invitation,so as not to cause bad feeling.

谢绝她的邀请时要有技巧，以免造成恶感。

It took all her tact and diplomacy to persuade him not to resign.


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The doctors were zealous in their efforts to ensure the survival of premature babies.

医生们在努力保证早产婴儿成活方面热情很高。

Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment, not only about survival.

生活不只是存活，它是一串串快乐的时光。


Hopes are fading for the survival of the missing climbers.

失踪的登山者幸存的希望越来越渺茫。

Our survival environment is fearful

我们的生存环境令人堪忧

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Having a health recipe is better for losing weight than bearing hunger.

对于减肥来说健康的食谱比忍受饥饿更好。

The recipe for success is hard working.

成功的秘诀是努力工作。


He thinks the one recipe for success lies in hard work.

他认为成功的唯一诀窍在于勤奋。

To keep happiness is the recipe for longevity.

保持快乐的心情是长寿的秘诀。

His plans are a recipe for (ie are likely to lead to) disaster.

他的计画後患无穷.

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Hypotheses are imaginative and inspirational in character,and are adventures of the mind.

臆测让人充满想象并给人以灵感，它是思想的奇遇。

Recent scientific progress means that ever more imaginative scenarios have begun to look feasible.

进来的科学进展表明愈来愈多想象中的场景已变得可行。

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It terrified me to contemplate the consequence of your action.

想到你行动的后果，我就感到害怕。

He oversighted the important factor,and in consequence he failed the mission

他疏忽了最重要的因素，导致了他的任务失败


The consequences of the Human Genome Project go far beyond a narrow focus on disease.

人类基因工程的重要意义远远不止于治愈疾病。


While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance

“当一个作家还活着时，我们是以他最差的作品来评断他的影响力”


I don't kown her well enough to form an estimate of her abilities.

我对她太不了解，无法对她的能力做出判断

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She was content to step down after four years as chief executive.

她在担任了四年主管之后甘愿让位

He is content to lounge around watching old movies and listening to classical music.

满足于无所事事的看电影和听音乐

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However,as the evidence began to accumulate,experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate,for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.

可是，随着证据越来越多，动物园里的专家们感到有必要进行一番调查，因为凡是声称见到过美洲狮的人们所描述的情况竟是出奇地相似。

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Children are expected to learn to deal with complicated situation in this program.

孩子们被期待在此项目中学习处理复杂事件。

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An investigation shows that the female workers tend to have a favorable attitude toward retirement.

一项调查显示，妇女欢迎退休。
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Unfortunately the restaurant he recommended fell far short of our expectations.

遗憾的是他推荐的餐厅与我们心目中的相去甚远.

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一直很喜欢倒装句这一句式，特把见到的倒装句收藏在此。

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With the loss of personal freedom also came the loss of standing in the community.

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With improved transport and greater output from factories camemore extensive trade, and the world became simultaneously a smaller but busier place.

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Noteworthy is the fact that he has talent for music.

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Not only could Smith identify rock strata by the fossils they contained, he could also see a pattern emerging：certain fossils always appear in more ancient sediments, while others begin to be seen as the strata become more recent.

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