佳句集锦（第三、四、五句求解句出现）

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其实就是在网上做个剪贴版……尽管拿鸡蛋砸我吧。

文章的地址会贴在每帖的第一行。不过基本是从杂志网页截的，所以不保证长久后会不会失效。有兴趣就跟着看吧。

真是~这么漂亮的句子，什么时候自己才能写出来呢。
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有些句子脑袋想破了也不清楚是什么意思，于是决定在一楼作个集合中的集合。凡是我个人不理解，想向各位牛人求解的句子，都会在这层楼存档，并标明出现的楼层层数。如果有比较标准规范的解释出现，会和翻译人的ID一起更新在句子下面，作为对其支持的回报，我也会利用个人资源尽量给提供有效回应的同志做加分奖励。
已经得解的句子存档保留，也有为后人提供便利的希望。祝愿大家都能在这里获得所需，共同进步。

Apr 12, 2007 From #29, thanks to Larry
Back in 2001, when the actress Elizabeth Hurley announced that she was pregnant by Steve Bing, a Hollywood producer, only to have him question whether he was the baby’s father,(是不是应该用his啊？不明白什么意思~) the British tabloids pounced.

Apr 4, 2007 From #22
Their arrival is felt especially in Europe, but the rising star Xian Zhang, 33, was recently named associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic.（求解：What is “but” doing here? Aren’t these two parts of this sentence talking about the same phenomenon that Chinese conductors are bewared gradually in the recent years?）

Apr 4, 2007 From #22
The wellspring is China’s almost limitless pool of young musicians, a mounting number driven by increasing prosperity and nurtured by Chinese society’s desire to compete with the West. (求翻译。这句读着非常别扭啊~)

Mar 26, 2007 From #16
India’s public universities are often woefully underfinanced and strike-prone.
[quote]Mr. Butt to the rescue again!:loveliness:
India's pubilc universities are often traped with financial problems, THUS THE STUFF AND STUDENTS are more tended to strike.

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Mar 19, 2007 From #10
“The rest of us are getting jerked around, and jacked around,”
[quote] from #13 lintelle
about this sentance, I asked my teacher Mr. Butt, he said that it means "we'll never get what we want." we are jerked around, we are treated as jerks; we are jacked around, we are kicked around like football, we are ignored. Overall, it means no one is taking our opinion seriously, we'll never get what we want.

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From #2
Cultural tensions flare when he brings her home to meet his family, and the couple are expected to withhold any expressions of physical affection, according to Indian tradition.
[quote]这句本来求过解，后来因为自己想通了就把求解的字样擦掉了。但有位试着翻译过的同志希望把这句依然列上，应求而为之。
由于印度人的传统观念与美国人的意识格格不入，当他把她带回家与父母会面时，文化冲突显得格外激烈，特别是在这对恋人不得不在两老面前谨言慎行、减少暧昧动作这一点上。

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http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/ ... .html?th&emc=th

Her lush palette lends her films a throbbing physicality that invites you to step into the screen and embrace the sensuous here and now.

The longing for roots of these displaced middle-class Indians lends a soulful undertow to a film conspicuously lacking in melodrama.（就是这句给我发这个帖的念头啊~undertow. 这个单词记住了。）

......and the Gogol story becomes a totem in his life, a symbolic tie to his homeland and an omen of good luck.

As the boy grows up, his ambivalence about his temporary name, which he embraces, then rejects (his formal name is Nikhil), becomes a metaphor for his divided cultural identity.

Cultural tensions flare when he brings her home to meet his family, and the couple are expected to withhold any expressions of physical affection, according to Indian tradition.

Avoiding the cliché of pitting disobedient immigrant children in pitched battles against tradition-bound parents from the old country, the film assumes that blood ties are the strongest bonds holding together the social order.

But instead of disappearing, Ashoke and Ashima loom as dignified, stabilizing pillars of tolerance and devotion whom their son and his younger sister, Sonia (Sahira Nair), cherish, even as they reject the old ways.

vocabulary: architecture solidarity undertow loom

[ 本帖最后由 lintelle 于 2007-3-18 13:15 编辑 ]

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支持一个!

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/technology/15basics.html?em&ex=1174190400&en=9913a4480bfb4ce1&ei=5087%0A

T-Mobile charged him $5 a minute to roam in Tanzania. (a useful little tip~ :))

To protect against fraud, American cellphones are typically blocked from making calls when used abroad. Before traveling, call your provider and ask to have that restriction removed. (another tip~)

And if you take your American phone overseas, make sure that its battery charger is dual voltage; without one, all the effort to get your phone to work in other countries may go up in smoke the first time you plug it in.

vocabulary: heed roam fraud

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/1 ... =th&oref=slogin

The measure, which was delayed a year ago amid vocal opposition from resurgent socialist intellectuals and old-line, left-leaning members of the ruling Communist Party, is viewed by its supporters as building a new and more secure legal foundation for private entrepreneurs and the country’s urban middle-class home and car owners.

Despite a high level of interest among intellectuals and businessmen and the unexpected decision last year to withdraw the measure from the legislative agenda at the last minute, neither leader has spoken about the matter publicly.

Yet the conspicuous silence of Mr. Hu and Mr. Wen appears to be a form of tribute to the influence of current and former officials and leading scholars who argue that China’s economic policies have fueled corruption and enriched the elite at the expense of the poor and the environment.

vocabulary: buoy explicit pliant conspicuous compromise consensus petition assertion proponent

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/1 ... =th&oref=slogin

That may sound at odds with a bedrock notion of society promoted by presidents for decades.

And their payments will get higher, Mr. Zandi estimates, as low teaser rates used to lure them into the market adjust upward after a few years.

“I wish people could own more homes,” he said in an interview yesterday. “But I also wish I could eat and not gain weight.” (nice metaphor~)

vocabulary: bedrock refinance surge lure asset problematic

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/us/17divers.html?th&emc=th

the three men, all advanced certified divers, died trying what is known as a “penetration dive,” a risky exploration into the dark passages and compartments of a sunken vessel,

Even the most experienced diver can become disoriented trying to explore confined spaces like the inside of a ship,

vocabulary: certify maze surface(v.) ambient

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/1 ... =bu&oref=slogin

It is a brave author who embeds the rationale for writing his novel into the novel itself. (I like the vocabulary in this sentense, and I know a chinese author who is also brave~:o )

It is set at the turn of the current century, when the implosion of the dot-com economy is claiming collateral victims down the fluorescent-paneled halls of a Chicago advertising firm.

The layoffs come piecemeal, without warning and — in keeping with good, brutal, heinie-covering legal practice — with no rationale as to why any person was let go.

The assignment becomes more fraught, and suspicious, when a rumor begins to circulate that Lynn Mason, the employees’ reserved, arch supervisor, has breast cancer herself.

And the prophylactic amnesia that separates time on the clock from the set of waking hours we call “our lives”: “Half the time we couldn’t remember three hours ago. Our memory in that place was not unlike that of goldfish. Goldfish who took a trip every night in a small clear bag of water and then returned in the morning to their bowl.”

Even after moving on and rebuilding their lives, the employees who exit Ferris’s unnamed firm come to miss it, the drudgery, the infuriations, the hours spent with “this person or that who rankled and bugged and offended angels in heaven.”

vocabulary: embed rationale

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/us/19memphis.html?th&emc=th

Month after month, Memphis Light, Gas and Water allowed City Councilman Edmund Ford to forgo paying thousands of dollars in overdue bills without having his power cut.

Voters here indulge peccadilloes among their politicians, like the occasional indictment or child born out of wedlock.

“The rest of us are getting jerked around, and jacked around,”(求翻译)

The paper trail shows officials negotiating, cajoling and pleading with, and ultimately excusing Mr. Ford,

vocabulary: forgo indulge plead preferential unseat echo(v.)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/2 ... =th&oref=slogin

The ultimatum was delivered in Moscow last week by Igor S. Ivanov, the secretary of the Russian National Security Council, to Ali Hosseini Tash, Iran’s deputy chief nuclear negotiator, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because a confidential diplomatic exchange between two governments was involved. (interesting political trick~)

But clearly the Russians and the Iranians are getting on each other’s nerves. (get on one's nerves, to irritate, annoy, or provoke one)

In a flurry of public comments in the past month,

vocabulary: ultimatum envision flurry(v. flurr)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/2 ... .html?th&emc=th
Few Americans had ever thought of Japan as a source for puzzles until a little more than two years ago, when sudoku suddenly took the nation by storm, flooding airport gift shops, and even rivaling crosswords in popularity.

“These puzzles can spread across countries,” Mr. Gould said, “because there are no restrictions of language or culture to block them.”

Vocabulary: self-proclaimed wellspring oversight catchy

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“The rest of us are getting jerked around, and jacked around,”

about this sentance, I asked my teacher Mr. Butt (I just found out that he has a PhD~:) ), he said that it means "we'll never get what we want." we are jerked around, we are treated as jerks; we are jacked around, we are kicked around like football, we are ignored. Overall, it means no one is taking our opinion seriously, we'll never get what we want.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/2 ... =th&oref=slogin
While second careers are common in the West and are often embraced as a chance to satisfy long-held ambitions, for huge numbers of Chinese city dwellers like Mrs. Chen, a widow, eking out another decade or two of paid work is more a matter of survival. (eking out another decade or two of paid work, this sentence sounds really funny. Need to get used to it~)

In this sense, Mrs. Chen is anything but alone. (I think we can replace anything with everything here. Can anyone give me a confirmed answer about this opinion?)

By midcentury, according to United Nations projections, roughly 430 million people — about a third of the population — will be retirees. (This sentence is not graceful, the grammar use is not complicated, but oh-my-god! – Yep~ this is China~)

Most troubling to financial experts, the government has used payroll taxes paid by the current generation of workers, who in theory are paying into their individual retirement accounts, to pay pensions for the previous generation. :funk:

Vocabulary: eke(+out) China’ s one-child policy= population control policy(计划生育 in case some of you are wondering~) crisis loom(v.)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/2 ... .html?th&emc=th
Diamond mining in Sierra Leone is no longer the bloody affair made infamous by the nation’s decade-long civil war, in which diamonds played a starring role.

By law that person must be Sierra Leonean, but in practice the licensees are often fronts for foreign backers or migrants from the Middle East or other West African countries.

Vocabulary: grim front(v.)