第一部分：Dialogues /monologues:
1、You can tell they lived during the Depression.
這個(gè)句子中"tell"是斷定的意思，常常把它的意思與(告知、告訴)聯(lián)系在一起，腦子便轉(zhuǎn)不過(guò)彎來(lái)。
翻譯為： 你可以斷定他們生活在那時(shí)的大蕭條期。
2、He reallv knows how to bring a person out.
"bring a person out."是“鼓勵(lì)一個(gè)人的”的意思。
翻譯為：他非常善于鼓勵(lì)別人/使別人振作起來(lái)。
例：to bring sb...out
意思為：to make someone feel more comfident, happy, and friendly /使某人更加自信、開(kāi)朗
3、he looks like his fun to be with.
翻譯為：他看起來(lái)是個(gè)很有意思的人?；颍退谝黄饝?yīng)該會(huì)很有意思。
4、since we're going to recruit some staff so that we can get our new school going in time。
這里的since, 和so that 是基于...原因的意思.根據(jù)意思我將其譯成: 屆時(shí)...將...以便...
翻譯為：屆時(shí)我們將聘請(qǐng)一些工作人員以便使我們的新學(xué)校及時(shí)開(kāi)學(xué).
5、Would you address character description for the commercial and industrial arts staff?
翻譯為：你能夠給商業(yè)與工藝美術(shù)的職員講講特征描述嗎?
arts跟前面的commercial and indutrial連在一起看，而非與后面的staff:(the commercial and industrial arts) staff.
6、There are a number of other positions to consider.
"A number of" 換成 "a lot of" 或者是”a great many”行不行，為什么?
可以換成a lot of或a great many of,因?yàn)閜osition是可數(shù)名詞。如果這里是不可數(shù)名詞，則只能用a number of代替而不能用a great many.修飾可數(shù)/不可數(shù)都行：a number of/a lot of,只能修飾可數(shù)：a great many of(與many性質(zhì)一樣)
7、Would you mind letting me take a look in your briefcase?
將"letting me"換成 "let me" 行不行，為什么?
不行，mind是動(dòng)詞，后面不能直接跟動(dòng)詞原形，一般接名詞(或動(dòng)名詞),這里的letting是let的動(dòng)名詞形式。
8、I’m afraid I certainly do mind, if it’s all the same to you.
“Do mind”與” all the same”什么意思?
do mind: 在英語(yǔ)中強(qiáng)調(diào)動(dòng)詞，用助動(dòng)詞do(各種時(shí)態(tài))+動(dòng)詞原形。
all the same: 完全一樣，用于強(qiáng)調(diào)。
如：Although you didn't complete it in time, I appreciate you all the same.
盡管你沒(méi)有及時(shí)完成，我還是一樣很感激你。
9、One day the life free from the harsh decrees of state-sponsored racial repression. (種族壓迫)
在這句話中，state-sponsored 翻譯成什么意思?
state-sponsored:國(guó)家發(fā)起的。用于修飾racial repression(種族壓迫),是復(fù)合形容詞，復(fù)合形容詞的相結(jié)合。
10、The state in which she was born had laws in place waiting to characterize her as unwelcome.
翻譯為：在她出生的洲有專門(mén)針對(duì)象她那一類人并將他們列為不受歡迎人士的法律。
11、Present was the usual mix that had so often accumulated into a burden too heavy for a single-parent household like the one Oprah Winfrey grew up in.
翻譯為：目前，這種平常的稅收會(huì)不斷地壓迫在家庭的身上,就象Winfrey 這樣的例子。
12、One day the life free from the harsh decrees of state-sponsored racial repression.
整句話的意思是：有一天，生活可以從洲政府慫恿的殘酷種族壓迫中解放。 第二部分：Phrases and Sentence:
1、 I don't ever want to have the effect on a person that this person had on me, where i was just blown away by disappointment. It took a few years to get over it.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“ever”的意思。
翻譯為：我甚至從未想過(guò)要給“給我留下印象的人”留下印象，在這一點(diǎn)上我感到十分失望。我用了許多年才克服這個(gè)毛病。
ever,在否定句中起加強(qiáng)語(yǔ)氣的作用，not ever從未。
2、One thing I do is work with Make-A-wish. If an ill child’s one wish to see a celebrity and he picks me, then I make time to see him. But I have to be very careful with these kids, because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself up for loss.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是” because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself up for loss.”的意思。
翻譯為：我做的一件事就是帶著許愿做事。如果一個(gè)病了的孩子的愿望是想看一個(gè)名瓦并且他選擇的是我，然后我抽出時(shí)間去看望他。但是我必須非常小心的跟這些孩子相處，因?yàn)槿绻闾缿?，你?huì)感到不舍。
because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself up for loss.因?yàn)槿绻闾缿?，你?huì)感到不舍。
其中attch是：使喜愛(ài)，使依戀：因情感因素，如愛(ài)戴或忠誠(chéng)使聯(lián)結(jié)。
set oneself up for loss是引起自己處于受損失或失去的狀態(tài)。
3、Thank you for giving me the inspiration to stick around, at age 50, you have to feel you’re contributing to something.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“ you have to feel you’re contributing to something.”
翻譯為：謝謝你給我關(guān)于等待的啟示，在50歲時(shí)，你必須感到你正在做貢獻(xiàn)。
" you have to fell you’re contributing to something"這句話的意思就是：在50歲時(shí)，你必須感到你正在對(duì)某些事情做貢獻(xiàn)。
4、We stayed at the Ritz-Carlton and just had a blast. Or I’ll give everybody a ride in the Ultra light-it’s a flying kite.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“ride”在這里怎么翻譯。
翻譯為：我們待在Ritz-Carlton并開(kāi)了個(gè)狂歡會(huì)。否則我會(huì)給每個(gè)人乘坐一下“超輕型”---一個(gè)飛行的風(fēng)箏。
ride就是乘坐。
5、“One day I’ll have my own barbecue.” In other words, every generation gets to improve on the dreams of the last generation.
翻譯為：“有朝一日，我將擁有自己的烤肉(比喻:實(shí)現(xiàn)自己的夢(mèng)想)。換句話說(shuō)，每代人必須在他上代人的夢(mèng)想上有所提高。
6、But it came with a price because when he was drinking, we had jobs and money. When he quit, we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.”這句話的真正含義。
翻譯為：但是這有一定的代價(jià)：因?yàn)楫?dāng)他飲酒的時(shí)候，我們有工作和工錢(qián)。當(dāng)他戒酒了，我們就只有借酒消愁窮困潦倒了。
we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor：其中的trade sth. for sth.以...和...交易,以酗酒和窮困潦倒交易。
7、It got so bad that he either quit or got fired.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“so……that”在此句中的意義。
翻譯為：一般so...that是如此...以至于...的意思，這里上下句不是因果關(guān)系: 變得糟糕的是，他既沒(méi)有辭職也沒(méi)有被解雇。后半句that he either quit or got fired是so bad的補(bǔ)充狀語(yǔ)從句，補(bǔ)充說(shuō)明so bad的細(xì)節(jié)，不要太拘泥語(yǔ)法結(jié)構(gòu)，更應(yīng)該注重的是：1.英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)序特征，2.英語(yǔ)國(guó)家的人的邏輯思維特征。
8、He was a tool pusher essentially, sold drill bits to oil-drilling companies.
翻譯為：他其實(shí)是一個(gè)工具推銷者，賣鉆頭給開(kāi)采石油的公司。
9、I never think that I ‘m doing eight-minute cures on television. But I think that 50 percent of the solution to any problem lies in defining it first. I can be an emotional compass that points them down the path.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“cures”與“l(fā)ies in”的意思，另外 “point……down”是詞組嗎?
翻譯為：我從未想過(guò)我在用電視做一個(gè)8分鐘的治療。但是我認(rèn)為任何問(wèn)題50%的解決方法在于先界定它。我可能是沿著路徑指向它們的情感羅盤(pán)(指南針)。
cure：名詞，治療。point和后面的down可以認(rèn)為沒(méi)有關(guān)系，這里不是詞組，down這里的意思是“沿著”，相當(dāng)于along。down the path是介賓結(jié)構(gòu)詞組，在句中作points them的補(bǔ)充狀語(yǔ)。
建議：不要從語(yǔ)法分析著手來(lái)學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)，因?yàn)檫@樣效果很差。是提高閱讀量，讓一切語(yǔ)法變?yōu)槔硭?dāng)然的事情，讓記憶單詞成為閱讀時(shí)的副產(chǎn)品。
練習(xí)：
If a computer were to design the perfect U.N. Secretary-General, he or she would look sonething like this: African born; European and American educated, with decades of service in the U.N. system; married to a European; and possessing a quiet charisma and calm authority as chaos arises. Phrases and Sentence:
1、 She soon called my attention to the fact that she couldn’t work full time and keep house, too.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：call attention to(喚起注意)、keep house(當(dāng)家)
2、 I guess I just took it for granted that a wife was supposed to take care of her kids and husband.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：take it for granted：(視為當(dāng)然)、be supposed to：(應(yīng)該、被期望)
3、 You’ve got to get to know them.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：have got to do：(必須做……)、get to：(在這里作“開(kāi)始”的意思)
4、 But maybe I’d better take that back and give her a hand.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：take bake：(在這里作“取消”的意思)、give Sb. A hand(抽出空或騰出手幫助某人)
5、 They put me in mood for Italian food.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：put in mind：(使記起、提醒)
6、 I’ve put aside some money that I earned by doing some extra mechanical work.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：put aside：(儲(chǔ)存、備用)
7、 I was putting a machine together today.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：put together：(把……加起來(lái)、裝配)
8、 I am putting forth a lot of effect to make this tablecloth.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：put forth：(生出、作出)
9、 Do you want me to put my needlework away?
注意的詞語(yǔ)：put away：(在這里作“放棄、處理掉”的意思)
此要注意一下五個(gè)以“put”打頭的短語(yǔ)與詞組的用法
10、I was going by the store near your house ..
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go by：(順便走訪)
11、Your black purse and shoes go nicely with that dress.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go with：(伴隨、與……相配)
12、He always goes beyond my expectations.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go beyond：(超出)
13、The kids can’t go along with you.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go along with：(一起去、附和)
14、Your offer goes to prove that you’re a wonderful mother-in-law.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：offer：(在這里作為“提意”的意思)、go to：(愿意為定位、轉(zhuǎn)到的意思，在這里引申為?)
15、You know I get sick every single time the temperature goes below 68°.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go below：(下降)
此要注意一下五個(gè)以“go”打頭的短語(yǔ)與詞組的用法
16、I could really go for a good comedy.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go for：(在這里作為“主張”的意思)
17、we can barely make ends meet.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：ends meet：指收支平衡
18、Every thing I say goes in one ear and out the other.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：goes in one ear and out the other.：(一個(gè)耳朵進(jìn)，一個(gè)耳朵出。指聽(tīng)不進(jìn)去的意思)
19、I’ve been keeping track of our phone bills.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：keep track of：(明了、一目了然的意思)
20、I’ll have to call them and have them straighten it out.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：straighten out：(改正、更正)
練習(xí):
On the day the World Trade Center fell, the Empire state Building once again became the tallest building in New York City. In the months that followed, six of its commercial tenants ran off. They did not want to be in the tallest anything, anywhere, anymore. At a time when U.S. Vice president Dick Cheney was still being shuttled around to undisclosed locations, skyscrapers suddenly seemed like the most disclosed locations. For a while, it looked as though the tall building, at least in the U.S., might be one more casualty of war.
Three years later, despite fears of terrorist attacks, big is beautiful again. On July 4, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided at the World Trade Center site. New skyscraper projects are under way once more elsewhere in the city and around the U.S. Meanwhile, outside the states, where the taste for tall buildings never really faded, the skyscraper has also been poking its head up in very different ways, and not just for reasons having to do with security. Since the 1990s, tall buildings have been reshaped by a number of global architecture stars whose vision is finally beginning to penetrate the more conservation American market.
Some of the best examples of that rethinking now fill two large galleries of the Museum of Modern Art’s temporary outpost in Queens, New York. Using 25 spectacular architectural models (some of more than 4 m high), “Tall buildings”, a show that runs at MOMA through Sept.27, looks at the ways in which the skyscraper has eyolyed the early 1990s, at least in the hands of its most gifted practitioners, the kind who are proposing-and even producing, but usually in other nations-buildings that don’t resemble the dull boxes that crowd most American downtowns. Phrases and Sentences:
1、He is famous for vigorously opposing the use of chemicals to kill pets.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是 vigorously opposing 并翻譯這句話。
注意的詞語(yǔ)：vigorously opposing積極反對(duì)
翻譯為：他因?yàn)榉e極反對(duì)用化學(xué)品殺寵物而出名。
2、What would you recommend for a tenth-grader?
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是tenth-grader到底是十年級(jí)的學(xué)生，還是十歲的小孩?
tenth-grade是“十年級(jí)”，所以tenth-grader當(dāng)然是“十年紀(jì)的學(xué)生”了。十歲的小孩是：teenager
3、They used Singapore as a microcosm for examining a regionwide tropical biodiversity crisis,
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是and compiled population data from the past two centuries.
翻譯為：他們用新加坡作為檢查熱帶地區(qū)的區(qū)域性的生活差異危機(jī)一個(gè)縮影，并用過(guò)去兩個(gè)世紀(jì)(的歷史)來(lái)編纂人口數(shù)據(jù)。
其中biodiversity是由前綴bio-和diversity組合而成的，意思是生命的差異性。
4、Animals that call the forest home have suffered enormously.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是"call"在這句話的意思。
call稱為，當(dāng)作。
翻譯為：以森林為家的動(dòng)物們受到了巨大的災(zāi)難。
5、American and Europe will pool research into hydrogen-powered fuel cells.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是"pool"在這句話的意思。
pool集中投入，pool的名詞意思是“池塘”，動(dòng)詞本義是“匯合成塘”的意思，這里用的是比喻義，想象一下不難理解的。
翻譯為：美國(guó)和歐洲將集中注資到氫燃料電池的研究中。
6、It shows the United States is out to make peace with eco-friendly Europe.
翻譯為：這表明美國(guó)將盡力與生態(tài)環(huán)境好的歐洲和平相處。
out這里是副詞，表示“致力于”。
7、Fuel cells create electricity by combining oxygen and hydrogen without broducing harmful emissions, and technical construction poses few basic challenges.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是"call"在這句話的意思。
翻譯為：燃料電池通過(guò)氧氣和氫氣反應(yīng)來(lái)發(fā)電而不發(fā)出有害物質(zhì)，并且在技術(shù)的組建上提出了很少的挑戰(zhàn)。
這里沒(méi)有call,只有cell,是電池的意思，名詞。pose challenge提出挑戰(zhàn)，就是指技術(shù)上的難關(guān)。
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是"over"在這句話的意思。
翻譯為：但是在如何不浪費(fèi)更多自然資源的情況下獲得氫氣這個(gè)問(wèn)題上，意見(jiàn)出現(xiàn)了分歧。
其中的over相當(dāng)于on,就是“關(guān)于”的意思。
9、That means making use of renewable resources for the task, say wind and solar resources.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是"say"在這句話的意思。
翻譯為：那意味著該任務(wù)是要利用可再生資源，比如風(fēng)能和太陽(yáng)能。
其中的say是副詞，比如，相當(dāng)于for example.
10、Whitman assured the public that the air was safe before testing was conclusive. In addition, all EPA statements were required to be screened by the White House.
翻譯為：惠特曼向公眾保證在測(cè)試下結(jié)論之前空氣是安全的。而且，所有的EPA(美國(guó)環(huán)保署)申明都要求經(jīng)過(guò)白宮的篩選。
注意的詞語(yǔ)：screen：動(dòng)詞，篩選/過(guò)濾。
11、But New York Sen.(senator,參議員。)Hillary Clinton is calling for an investigation, saying somebody surely leaned on the EPA to lie, which Whitman strongly denies.
翻譯為：但是紐約的科學(xué)家希拉里.克林頓要求調(diào)查此事，說(shuō)某些人明顯的偏向于EPA(美國(guó)環(huán)保署)而說(shuō)謊，對(duì)于這個(gè)，惠特曼堅(jiān)決否認(rèn)。
注意的詞語(yǔ)：call for:相當(dāng)于demand,require、lean on:偏向于。 Dialogues/monologues:
I am passionate about English, and the challenge of expressing English fluently and swimmingly withforeigners was the principal motivation.
1、...having been brought up in the countryside.
2、Those mighty winds pulled in a band of cloud and some patchy rain through the small hours, and into thefirst part of the morning.
翻譯為：那些強(qiáng)勁的大風(fēng)卷起一層云彩，還有些零星的小雨下了好一會(huì)，一直持續(xù)到清晨。
3、clearer skies and much light winds allowed temperatures to drop well into single figures resulting in a touch of grand frost in some rural areas.
翻譯為：清涼的天空和微風(fēng)讓溫度值降到了個(gè)位數(shù),使得很多鄉(xiāng)村地區(qū)出現(xiàn)了霜.
4、The early sunshine giving away to a bit more clouds.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：give away：讓步。
翻譯為：太陽(yáng)被一小片云層遮住了。
5、There was something of a drier interlude before an active weather system moved in from the west.
6、Some of the more exposed locations saw sustained winds of 40mph with gusts of 58mph.
練習(xí):
The Greenhouse effect and Global warming
The heart-trapping capacity of the atmosphere is popularly known as the “greenhouse effect”. Despite public controversy surrounding global warming, the natural greenhouse effect has been long established as fact in the scientific community.
Indeed, carbon dioxide, and other gases, the earth’s natural climate would be about 33℃ cooler than it is. Life would have evolved quite differently in such a climate.
Most scientists believe that the rapid expansion of agriculture and industrial activities over the last several hundred years have generated significant increases in carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. However, experts disagree about whether such changers have caused the increase of approximately 0.5℃ in the earth’s surface temperature that has been documented over the past century. Many scientists cite the fact that 1997 was the warmest year on record, following a decade in which 9 of the 11 hottest years of this century were reported, as strong, but circumstantial, evidence that human activities have altered the earth’s climate. Other experts, however, believe this temperature trend is a natural variation.
Also disputed is whether projectedworld population growth to more than 10 billion people by the year 2100 will result in a doubling or tripling of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. If such a buildup occurs, as many scientists predict, global surface temperatures could increase by anywhere from about one Celsius degree to about 4 Celsius degrees during the next century. The higher half of range involves temperature changes outside of those experienced by human civilizations since the end of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago. During the last ice age, average global temperatures were only about 5 Celsius degrees cooler than the present period.
A temperature increase of several degrees Celsius could result in a sea level rise ranging from about 10 cm to about 1 m. A sea level rise of about 0.5 m would be noticeable primarily in the most vulnerable, low-lying islands and coastal areas. Larger sea level rises would result in extensive flooding of lowland beaches, wetlands, and coastal settlements. Moreover, a higher sea level base would increases the risk of catastrophic storm surges in coastal areas, since flooding would likely extend island well beyond historic levels.
Warmer temperature could also intensify droughts in some regions, destabilize ecosystems, and cause the decline or extinction of some species. Since carbon dioxide enhances photosynthesis, some scientists have calculated that higher concentrations in the atmostphere would increase the productivity of crops and forests. But others have point out that carbon dioxide increase and a warming climate could encourage the spread of destructive pests, including weeds and disease-carrying insects.
1、You can tell they lived during the Depression.
這個(gè)句子中"tell"是斷定的意思，常常把它的意思與(告知、告訴)聯(lián)系在一起，腦子便轉(zhuǎn)不過(guò)彎來(lái)。
翻譯為： 你可以斷定他們生活在那時(shí)的大蕭條期。
2、He reallv knows how to bring a person out.
"bring a person out."是“鼓勵(lì)一個(gè)人的”的意思。
翻譯為：他非常善于鼓勵(lì)別人/使別人振作起來(lái)。
例：to bring sb...out
意思為：to make someone feel more comfident, happy, and friendly /使某人更加自信、開(kāi)朗
3、he looks like his fun to be with.
翻譯為：他看起來(lái)是個(gè)很有意思的人?；颍退谝黄饝?yīng)該會(huì)很有意思。
4、since we're going to recruit some staff so that we can get our new school going in time。
這里的since, 和so that 是基于...原因的意思.根據(jù)意思我將其譯成: 屆時(shí)...將...以便...
翻譯為：屆時(shí)我們將聘請(qǐng)一些工作人員以便使我們的新學(xué)校及時(shí)開(kāi)學(xué).
5、Would you address character description for the commercial and industrial arts staff?
翻譯為：你能夠給商業(yè)與工藝美術(shù)的職員講講特征描述嗎?
arts跟前面的commercial and indutrial連在一起看，而非與后面的staff:(the commercial and industrial arts) staff.
6、There are a number of other positions to consider.
"A number of" 換成 "a lot of" 或者是”a great many”行不行，為什么?
可以換成a lot of或a great many of,因?yàn)閜osition是可數(shù)名詞。如果這里是不可數(shù)名詞，則只能用a number of代替而不能用a great many.修飾可數(shù)/不可數(shù)都行：a number of/a lot of,只能修飾可數(shù)：a great many of(與many性質(zhì)一樣)
7、Would you mind letting me take a look in your briefcase?
將"letting me"換成 "let me" 行不行，為什么?
不行，mind是動(dòng)詞，后面不能直接跟動(dòng)詞原形，一般接名詞(或動(dòng)名詞),這里的letting是let的動(dòng)名詞形式。
8、I’m afraid I certainly do mind, if it’s all the same to you.
“Do mind”與” all the same”什么意思?
do mind: 在英語(yǔ)中強(qiáng)調(diào)動(dòng)詞，用助動(dòng)詞do(各種時(shí)態(tài))+動(dòng)詞原形。
all the same: 完全一樣，用于強(qiáng)調(diào)。
如：Although you didn't complete it in time, I appreciate you all the same.
盡管你沒(méi)有及時(shí)完成，我還是一樣很感激你。
9、One day the life free from the harsh decrees of state-sponsored racial repression. (種族壓迫)
在這句話中，state-sponsored 翻譯成什么意思?
state-sponsored:國(guó)家發(fā)起的。用于修飾racial repression(種族壓迫),是復(fù)合形容詞，復(fù)合形容詞的相結(jié)合。
10、The state in which she was born had laws in place waiting to characterize her as unwelcome.
翻譯為：在她出生的洲有專門(mén)針對(duì)象她那一類人并將他們列為不受歡迎人士的法律。
11、Present was the usual mix that had so often accumulated into a burden too heavy for a single-parent household like the one Oprah Winfrey grew up in.
翻譯為：目前，這種平常的稅收會(huì)不斷地壓迫在家庭的身上,就象Winfrey 這樣的例子。
12、One day the life free from the harsh decrees of state-sponsored racial repression.
整句話的意思是：有一天，生活可以從洲政府慫恿的殘酷種族壓迫中解放。 第二部分：Phrases and Sentence:
1、 I don't ever want to have the effect on a person that this person had on me, where i was just blown away by disappointment. It took a few years to get over it.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“ever”的意思。
翻譯為：我甚至從未想過(guò)要給“給我留下印象的人”留下印象，在這一點(diǎn)上我感到十分失望。我用了許多年才克服這個(gè)毛病。
ever,在否定句中起加強(qiáng)語(yǔ)氣的作用，not ever從未。
2、One thing I do is work with Make-A-wish. If an ill child’s one wish to see a celebrity and he picks me, then I make time to see him. But I have to be very careful with these kids, because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself up for loss.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是” because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself up for loss.”的意思。
翻譯為：我做的一件事就是帶著許愿做事。如果一個(gè)病了的孩子的愿望是想看一個(gè)名瓦并且他選擇的是我，然后我抽出時(shí)間去看望他。但是我必須非常小心的跟這些孩子相處，因?yàn)槿绻闾缿?，你?huì)感到不舍。
because if you get too attached, you’re just setting yourself up for loss.因?yàn)槿绻闾缿?，你?huì)感到不舍。
其中attch是：使喜愛(ài)，使依戀：因情感因素，如愛(ài)戴或忠誠(chéng)使聯(lián)結(jié)。
set oneself up for loss是引起自己處于受損失或失去的狀態(tài)。
3、Thank you for giving me the inspiration to stick around, at age 50, you have to feel you’re contributing to something.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“ you have to feel you’re contributing to something.”
翻譯為：謝謝你給我關(guān)于等待的啟示，在50歲時(shí)，你必須感到你正在做貢獻(xiàn)。
" you have to fell you’re contributing to something"這句話的意思就是：在50歲時(shí)，你必須感到你正在對(duì)某些事情做貢獻(xiàn)。
4、We stayed at the Ritz-Carlton and just had a blast. Or I’ll give everybody a ride in the Ultra light-it’s a flying kite.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“ride”在這里怎么翻譯。
翻譯為：我們待在Ritz-Carlton并開(kāi)了個(gè)狂歡會(huì)。否則我會(huì)給每個(gè)人乘坐一下“超輕型”---一個(gè)飛行的風(fēng)箏。
ride就是乘坐。
5、“One day I’ll have my own barbecue.” In other words, every generation gets to improve on the dreams of the last generation.
翻譯為：“有朝一日，我將擁有自己的烤肉(比喻:實(shí)現(xiàn)自己的夢(mèng)想)。換句話說(shuō)，每代人必須在他上代人的夢(mèng)想上有所提高。
6、But it came with a price because when he was drinking, we had jobs and money. When he quit, we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.”這句話的真正含義。
翻譯為：但是這有一定的代價(jià)：因?yàn)楫?dāng)他飲酒的時(shí)候，我們有工作和工錢(qián)。當(dāng)他戒酒了，我們就只有借酒消愁窮困潦倒了。
we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor：其中的trade sth. for sth.以...和...交易,以酗酒和窮困潦倒交易。
7、It got so bad that he either quit or got fired.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“so……that”在此句中的意義。
翻譯為：一般so...that是如此...以至于...的意思，這里上下句不是因果關(guān)系: 變得糟糕的是，他既沒(méi)有辭職也沒(méi)有被解雇。后半句that he either quit or got fired是so bad的補(bǔ)充狀語(yǔ)從句，補(bǔ)充說(shuō)明so bad的細(xì)節(jié)，不要太拘泥語(yǔ)法結(jié)構(gòu)，更應(yīng)該注重的是：1.英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)序特征，2.英語(yǔ)國(guó)家的人的邏輯思維特征。
8、He was a tool pusher essentially, sold drill bits to oil-drilling companies.
翻譯為：他其實(shí)是一個(gè)工具推銷者，賣鉆頭給開(kāi)采石油的公司。
9、I never think that I ‘m doing eight-minute cures on television. But I think that 50 percent of the solution to any problem lies in defining it first. I can be an emotional compass that points them down the path.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是“cures”與“l(fā)ies in”的意思，另外 “point……down”是詞組嗎?
翻譯為：我從未想過(guò)我在用電視做一個(gè)8分鐘的治療。但是我認(rèn)為任何問(wèn)題50%的解決方法在于先界定它。我可能是沿著路徑指向它們的情感羅盤(pán)(指南針)。
cure：名詞，治療。point和后面的down可以認(rèn)為沒(méi)有關(guān)系，這里不是詞組，down這里的意思是“沿著”，相當(dāng)于along。down the path是介賓結(jié)構(gòu)詞組，在句中作points them的補(bǔ)充狀語(yǔ)。
建議：不要從語(yǔ)法分析著手來(lái)學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)，因?yàn)檫@樣效果很差。是提高閱讀量，讓一切語(yǔ)法變?yōu)槔硭?dāng)然的事情，讓記憶單詞成為閱讀時(shí)的副產(chǎn)品。
練習(xí)：
If a computer were to design the perfect U.N. Secretary-General, he or she would look sonething like this: African born; European and American educated, with decades of service in the U.N. system; married to a European; and possessing a quiet charisma and calm authority as chaos arises. Phrases and Sentence:
1、 She soon called my attention to the fact that she couldn’t work full time and keep house, too.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：call attention to(喚起注意)、keep house(當(dāng)家)
2、 I guess I just took it for granted that a wife was supposed to take care of her kids and husband.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：take it for granted：(視為當(dāng)然)、be supposed to：(應(yīng)該、被期望)
3、 You’ve got to get to know them.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：have got to do：(必須做……)、get to：(在這里作“開(kāi)始”的意思)
4、 But maybe I’d better take that back and give her a hand.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：take bake：(在這里作“取消”的意思)、give Sb. A hand(抽出空或騰出手幫助某人)
5、 They put me in mood for Italian food.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：put in mind：(使記起、提醒)
6、 I’ve put aside some money that I earned by doing some extra mechanical work.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：put aside：(儲(chǔ)存、備用)
7、 I was putting a machine together today.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：put together：(把……加起來(lái)、裝配)
8、 I am putting forth a lot of effect to make this tablecloth.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：put forth：(生出、作出)
9、 Do you want me to put my needlework away?
注意的詞語(yǔ)：put away：(在這里作“放棄、處理掉”的意思)
此要注意一下五個(gè)以“put”打頭的短語(yǔ)與詞組的用法
10、I was going by the store near your house ..
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go by：(順便走訪)
11、Your black purse and shoes go nicely with that dress.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go with：(伴隨、與……相配)
12、He always goes beyond my expectations.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go beyond：(超出)
13、The kids can’t go along with you.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go along with：(一起去、附和)
14、Your offer goes to prove that you’re a wonderful mother-in-law.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：offer：(在這里作為“提意”的意思)、go to：(愿意為定位、轉(zhuǎn)到的意思，在這里引申為?)
15、You know I get sick every single time the temperature goes below 68°.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go below：(下降)
此要注意一下五個(gè)以“go”打頭的短語(yǔ)與詞組的用法
16、I could really go for a good comedy.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：go for：(在這里作為“主張”的意思)
17、we can barely make ends meet.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：ends meet：指收支平衡
18、Every thing I say goes in one ear and out the other.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：goes in one ear and out the other.：(一個(gè)耳朵進(jìn)，一個(gè)耳朵出。指聽(tīng)不進(jìn)去的意思)
19、I’ve been keeping track of our phone bills.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：keep track of：(明了、一目了然的意思)
20、I’ll have to call them and have them straighten it out.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：straighten out：(改正、更正)
練習(xí):
On the day the World Trade Center fell, the Empire state Building once again became the tallest building in New York City. In the months that followed, six of its commercial tenants ran off. They did not want to be in the tallest anything, anywhere, anymore. At a time when U.S. Vice president Dick Cheney was still being shuttled around to undisclosed locations, skyscrapers suddenly seemed like the most disclosed locations. For a while, it looked as though the tall building, at least in the U.S., might be one more casualty of war.
Three years later, despite fears of terrorist attacks, big is beautiful again. On July 4, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided at the World Trade Center site. New skyscraper projects are under way once more elsewhere in the city and around the U.S. Meanwhile, outside the states, where the taste for tall buildings never really faded, the skyscraper has also been poking its head up in very different ways, and not just for reasons having to do with security. Since the 1990s, tall buildings have been reshaped by a number of global architecture stars whose vision is finally beginning to penetrate the more conservation American market.
Some of the best examples of that rethinking now fill two large galleries of the Museum of Modern Art’s temporary outpost in Queens, New York. Using 25 spectacular architectural models (some of more than 4 m high), “Tall buildings”, a show that runs at MOMA through Sept.27, looks at the ways in which the skyscraper has eyolyed the early 1990s, at least in the hands of its most gifted practitioners, the kind who are proposing-and even producing, but usually in other nations-buildings that don’t resemble the dull boxes that crowd most American downtowns. Phrases and Sentences:
1、He is famous for vigorously opposing the use of chemicals to kill pets.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是 vigorously opposing 并翻譯這句話。
注意的詞語(yǔ)：vigorously opposing積極反對(duì)
翻譯為：他因?yàn)榉e極反對(duì)用化學(xué)品殺寵物而出名。
2、What would you recommend for a tenth-grader?
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是tenth-grader到底是十年級(jí)的學(xué)生，還是十歲的小孩?
tenth-grade是“十年級(jí)”，所以tenth-grader當(dāng)然是“十年紀(jì)的學(xué)生”了。十歲的小孩是：teenager
3、They used Singapore as a microcosm for examining a regionwide tropical biodiversity crisis,
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是and compiled population data from the past two centuries.
翻譯為：他們用新加坡作為檢查熱帶地區(qū)的區(qū)域性的生活差異危機(jī)一個(gè)縮影，并用過(guò)去兩個(gè)世紀(jì)(的歷史)來(lái)編纂人口數(shù)據(jù)。
其中biodiversity是由前綴bio-和diversity組合而成的，意思是生命的差異性。
4、Animals that call the forest home have suffered enormously.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是"call"在這句話的意思。
call稱為，當(dāng)作。
翻譯為：以森林為家的動(dòng)物們受到了巨大的災(zāi)難。
5、American and Europe will pool research into hydrogen-powered fuel cells.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是"pool"在這句話的意思。
pool集中投入，pool的名詞意思是“池塘”，動(dòng)詞本義是“匯合成塘”的意思，這里用的是比喻義，想象一下不難理解的。
翻譯為：美國(guó)和歐洲將集中注資到氫燃料電池的研究中。
6、It shows the United States is out to make peace with eco-friendly Europe.
翻譯為：這表明美國(guó)將盡力與生態(tài)環(huán)境好的歐洲和平相處。
out這里是副詞，表示“致力于”。
7、Fuel cells create electricity by combining oxygen and hydrogen without broducing harmful emissions, and technical construction poses few basic challenges.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是"call"在這句話的意思。
翻譯為：燃料電池通過(guò)氧氣和氫氣反應(yīng)來(lái)發(fā)電而不發(fā)出有害物質(zhì)，并且在技術(shù)的組建上提出了很少的挑戰(zhàn)。
這里沒(méi)有call,只有cell,是電池的意思，名詞。pose challenge提出挑戰(zhàn)，就是指技術(shù)上的難關(guān)。
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是"over"在這句話的意思。
翻譯為：但是在如何不浪費(fèi)更多自然資源的情況下獲得氫氣這個(gè)問(wèn)題上，意見(jiàn)出現(xiàn)了分歧。
其中的over相當(dāng)于on,就是“關(guān)于”的意思。
9、That means making use of renewable resources for the task, say wind and solar resources.
這個(gè)句子中重點(diǎn)解析的是"say"在這句話的意思。
翻譯為：那意味著該任務(wù)是要利用可再生資源，比如風(fēng)能和太陽(yáng)能。
其中的say是副詞，比如，相當(dāng)于for example.
10、Whitman assured the public that the air was safe before testing was conclusive. In addition, all EPA statements were required to be screened by the White House.
翻譯為：惠特曼向公眾保證在測(cè)試下結(jié)論之前空氣是安全的。而且，所有的EPA(美國(guó)環(huán)保署)申明都要求經(jīng)過(guò)白宮的篩選。
注意的詞語(yǔ)：screen：動(dòng)詞，篩選/過(guò)濾。
11、But New York Sen.(senator,參議員。)Hillary Clinton is calling for an investigation, saying somebody surely leaned on the EPA to lie, which Whitman strongly denies.
翻譯為：但是紐約的科學(xué)家希拉里.克林頓要求調(diào)查此事，說(shuō)某些人明顯的偏向于EPA(美國(guó)環(huán)保署)而說(shuō)謊，對(duì)于這個(gè)，惠特曼堅(jiān)決否認(rèn)。
注意的詞語(yǔ)：call for:相當(dāng)于demand,require、lean on:偏向于。 Dialogues/monologues:
I am passionate about English, and the challenge of expressing English fluently and swimmingly withforeigners was the principal motivation.
1、...having been brought up in the countryside.
2、Those mighty winds pulled in a band of cloud and some patchy rain through the small hours, and into thefirst part of the morning.
翻譯為：那些強(qiáng)勁的大風(fēng)卷起一層云彩，還有些零星的小雨下了好一會(huì)，一直持續(xù)到清晨。
3、clearer skies and much light winds allowed temperatures to drop well into single figures resulting in a touch of grand frost in some rural areas.
翻譯為：清涼的天空和微風(fēng)讓溫度值降到了個(gè)位數(shù),使得很多鄉(xiāng)村地區(qū)出現(xiàn)了霜.
4、The early sunshine giving away to a bit more clouds.
注意的詞語(yǔ)：give away：讓步。
翻譯為：太陽(yáng)被一小片云層遮住了。
5、There was something of a drier interlude before an active weather system moved in from the west.
6、Some of the more exposed locations saw sustained winds of 40mph with gusts of 58mph.
練習(xí):
The Greenhouse effect and Global warming
The heart-trapping capacity of the atmosphere is popularly known as the “greenhouse effect”. Despite public controversy surrounding global warming, the natural greenhouse effect has been long established as fact in the scientific community.
Indeed, carbon dioxide, and other gases, the earth’s natural climate would be about 33℃ cooler than it is. Life would have evolved quite differently in such a climate.
Most scientists believe that the rapid expansion of agriculture and industrial activities over the last several hundred years have generated significant increases in carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. However, experts disagree about whether such changers have caused the increase of approximately 0.5℃ in the earth’s surface temperature that has been documented over the past century. Many scientists cite the fact that 1997 was the warmest year on record, following a decade in which 9 of the 11 hottest years of this century were reported, as strong, but circumstantial, evidence that human activities have altered the earth’s climate. Other experts, however, believe this temperature trend is a natural variation.
Also disputed is whether projectedworld population growth to more than 10 billion people by the year 2100 will result in a doubling or tripling of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. If such a buildup occurs, as many scientists predict, global surface temperatures could increase by anywhere from about one Celsius degree to about 4 Celsius degrees during the next century. The higher half of range involves temperature changes outside of those experienced by human civilizations since the end of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago. During the last ice age, average global temperatures were only about 5 Celsius degrees cooler than the present period.
A temperature increase of several degrees Celsius could result in a sea level rise ranging from about 10 cm to about 1 m. A sea level rise of about 0.5 m would be noticeable primarily in the most vulnerable, low-lying islands and coastal areas. Larger sea level rises would result in extensive flooding of lowland beaches, wetlands, and coastal settlements. Moreover, a higher sea level base would increases the risk of catastrophic storm surges in coastal areas, since flooding would likely extend island well beyond historic levels.
Warmer temperature could also intensify droughts in some regions, destabilize ecosystems, and cause the decline or extinction of some species. Since carbon dioxide enhances photosynthesis, some scientists have calculated that higher concentrations in the atmostphere would increase the productivity of crops and forests. But others have point out that carbon dioxide increase and a warming climate could encourage the spread of destructive pests, including weeds and disease-carrying insects.