佳句集锦（第三、四、五句求解句出现）

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/2 ... .html?th&emc=th
and a scarcity of higher education opportunities is frequently cited as a potential hurdle to economic progress.

It also reflects the need for India to close its gaping demand for higher education.

India’s public universities are often woefully underfinanced and strike-prone.（求解）

They addressed them politely with a series of “yes, sirs.”

Vocabulary: scarcity cite >test the water< accredited appetite envision subsidize

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/us/28risk.html?th&emc=th
he told the rapt audience, aiming to achieve a surging rush as his brain was starved and then replenished with blood just before the point of unconsciousness.

Suffocation, which includes hanging, overtook gunshot in 1997 as the No. 1 way 10- to 19- year olds take their own lives, according to the centers.

Conventional wisdom said adolescents often flirted with the edges of danger because they felt invulnerable.

Vocabulary: overtake dismiss

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/3 ... =th&oref=slogin
She said the most important thing was for owners to keep a close watch on pets for the first signs of renal failure, which include decreased appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy and increased thirst.

Vocabulary: vigilant renal appetite diarrhea lethargy

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/3 ... .html?th&emc=th
Putting aside the possibility that they are avoiding me, some are so on the go that they barely have time to tell me they do not have time to talk.

I sometimes feel as if I am the odd one out.

Although those who are overworked and overwhelmed complain ceaselessly, it is often with an undertone of boastfulness;

Many people I know, who might be able to enjoy some downtime because their children are in school and they do not have paying jobs, pile errands on top of volunteering on top of working out on top of, well, you name it.:mad

“You can feel like a tin can surrounded by a circle of a hundred powerful magnets,” he writes. “Many people are excessively busy because they allow themselves to respond to every magnet: tracking too much data, processing too much information, answering to too many people, taking on too many tasks — all in the sense that this is the way they must live in order to keep up and stay in control. But it’s the magnets that have the control.”

One way to wrestle back control is to take a hard look at our priorities,

she made the decision to bring work home so she wouldn’t race to her office, then rush to the airport, then hightail it back to her job.

Vocabulary: >on the go< undertone downtime wrestle


[ 本帖最后由 lintelle 于 2007-3-31 22:25 编辑 ]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/0 ... =th&oref=slogin
He tried to become a music mogul by starting his own label, Beat Club, which didn’t take off.

It’s no exaggeration to compare him to James Brown, another rhythm fanatic who found new possibilities in old grooves.

“I’m a real producer and you just the piano man,” Timbaland sneers, and those two words, “real producer,” suggest a whole constellation of claims and paradoxes.

Throughout, the common lyrical theme was frustration: Timbaland complained that he wasn’t being given his due.

Vocabulary: stardom

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http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen/canalysis.html
By shooting Lennie, George spares his friend the merciless death that would be delivered by Curley’s lynch mob, but he also puts to rest his own dream of a perfect, fraternal world.

Of course, life on the ranch—especially Candy’s dog, once an impressive sheep herder but now toothless, foul-smelling, and brittle with age—supports Candy’s fears.

In such a world, Candy’s dog serves as a harsh reminder of the fate that awaits anyone who outlives his usefulness.

He deems the few acres of land they describe worthy of his hard-earned life’s savings, which testifies to his desperate need to believe in a world kinder than the one in which he lives.

However, it also reinforces the novel’s grim worldview.

Vocabulary: gruff exterior >put to rest<wearisome

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/0 ... .html?th&emc=th
With stunning swiftness China’s surging ranks of classical musicians have found a home in Western concert halls, conservatories and opera houses, jolting a musical tradition born in the courts and churches of Europe.

The phenomenon, which has been building for at least a decade, has gathered steam in the last few years, injecting new vitality into the American classical music scene after historic influxes of …

But many Western musicians and educators interviewed cited similar qualities in Chinese virtuosos: passion and refinement, expressiveness and brilliance.

Along with Lang Lang and another highly praised Chinese pianist, Yundi Li, also 24, a new crop of stars in their teens or barely out of them are on the way up.

Chinese musicians have now joined them in force and are winning high-profile positions.

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?）

It is in the elite Western conservatories that the presence of Chinese is perhaps most significant for the future.

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~)

“One goes where the talent is,”

“There’s bound to be friction.”

But the will to overcome such difficulties among many families of musical Chinese children points at what the future may hold for classical music.

Vocabulary: jolt vitality cite >in force< >elite conservatory< bonanza friction tremendous

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/0 ... =th&oref=slogin
It was at least the sixth chlorine bomb detonated in Anbar Province since late January and the most lethal, though it appears that most victims were killed by the explosion rather than the chlorine.

when children off from school usually play in the street and adults run errands and visit before going to the mosque at midday.

Vocabulary: lethal >set off<

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好题啊！尽力解答，先占个位置，回来找朋友帮你看看。:) 希望楼主时时更新，大家多多交流嘛！
India’s public universities are often woefully underfinanced and strike-prone.（求解）
遗憾的是，印度的公立大学时常资金短缺，并且有员工罢工的倾向。（自己翻译的.....）
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.
wellspring is mean reason or origin, i think origin better.   a pool of  备用人员  mounting  number  底数或者基数
群众基础在中国想要与西方国家竞争的教育环境下迅速成长起来， 这就是中国有近乎无穷的年轻音乐家后备力量的起因。 i already do my best....it is really tough to translate. hopefully, it can help u to figure out.



[ 本帖最后由 moondy74178945 于 2007-4-9 01:14 编辑 ]

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???没人顶吗？晕，不能让好贴沉下去啊。
大家可以把难句，好句，都放在这里求解或共享啊！
不要一个一个地开新帖了，对大家都有好处~:)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/1 ... .html?th&emc=th
This current show forms a coda to one lately at the Prado, where Mr. Struth insinuated a dozen or more, some nearly life-size, photographs among the paintings and sculptures.:(

It took some gall and guile.:mad

Come upon irregularly and unexpectedly, his pictures punctuated galleries of nearly unrelenting greatness.

Mr. Struth’s work partly entails obscuring (and thereby making us focus more on) these distinctions among the spaces in the paintings he photographs, the ones occupied by people looking at those paintings, and the ones we occupy, looking at the photographs.:confused:

Mr. Struth interjected a picture of an audience in Tokyo, seen in shadowy silhouette, admiring Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People,” on loan from the Louvre, inside its huge, antiseptic-white glass box. (On loan has an original meaning of “debit and credit”, it here means imitating, simulating.)

The expression … , is eternal. (Their looks are at once hopeful and wary.):funk:

And we, in turn, scour the scenes as we do the art: here is the smiling tour guide, leaning into a goggle-eyed scrum of visitors who lean oh so slightly away from the Velázquez, as if intimidated by its reputation.

“The moments of the past do not remain still,” as Proust wrote. “They retain in our memory the motion which drew them toward the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.”:)

Vocabulary: coda insinuate glimpse gulf >on loan< wary

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/1 ... =th&oref=slogin
Should it be slithery or scrunchy, glutinous or grilled?

And, no, it is not April 1.

Vocabulary:

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/movies/12bing.html?ref=movies

LOS ANGELES, April 11 — 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. They branded him “Bing Laden,” and The Daily Mail of London reported that he and his Los Angeles lawyer had hired the private eye Anthony Pellicano to dig up dirt to destroy Ms. Hurley’s reputation.

vocabulary: only to  没想到，竟然会  tabloids 小报 brand 打上烙印（这里是动词） pounce 突袭（我电子字典翻译的，但是这里应该是 抓住不放 大肆宣传的意思） reputation(这个不算新词了，只是想告诉大家这个词在口语中，可以理解为 对异性的吸引力或在学校的地位)

[ 本帖最后由 lintelle 于 2007-4-12 23:27 编辑 ]

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dirt有八卦的意思，dig up dirt就是挖花边新闻。Friends里也出现过dirt的这种用法。
第一句不像该用his，但我也弄不清这里怎么用的。
明天去帮你问老师，顺便三四求解句也一起解决了好了。
new york times 的艺术类文章语言最麻烦，准备托福考试期间不推荐阅读。
找单词时可以尽量注意找可以用在考试中的单词，每天少找几个，做成卡片，摘下来了，就要记住。阅读是提高使用单词语感的手法，但如果不加强下硬功夫的力道，是很难见成效的。祝楼上在t版既玩也学，玩得开心。:)

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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~)

i will try it.we can understand it,but it's difficult to express it in chinese.
在中国局限的小圈子里，受到日渐的繁荣和中国社会与西方竞争的愿望的鞭策，一群年轻音乐家们是（未来的）希望。:handshake