Lesson 4 Seeing hands
第四課 能看東西的手
by ERIC DE MAUNY
from The Listener
4-1. Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls.
【譯文】
俄羅斯近報導(dǎo)了幾個事例，說有人能用手指看書和辨認(rèn)顏色，甚至雙眼能透過厚實(shí)的門和墻看到東西。
【講解】
of people who can…walls作定語修飾cases，這部分較長，所以被移到謂語部分后，這樣句子就不會頭重腳輕。句中的of意為“關(guān)于”。
【單詞和短語】
detect：察覺，發(fā)覺（to notice or discover something, especially something that is not easy to see, hear etc.）。
4-2. One case concerns an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls.
【譯文】
有一例涉及11歲學(xué)生維拉•彼托洛娃，她視力正常，但她還能用皮膚的不同部位辨認(rèn)東西，甚至看穿堅(jiān)實(shí)的墻壁。
【講解】
and through solid walls與with different parts of her skin并列作狀語，修飾perceive。
【單詞和短語】
normal的反義詞為abnormal。
perceive：感覺，感知（to notice, see, or recognize something）。
4-3. This ability was first noticed by her father.
【譯文】
她父親首先發(fā)現(xiàn)她具備這一能力。
【講解】
this ability指上句中perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls。
4-4. One day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe.
【譯文】
一天，維拉進(jìn)入父親的辦公室，碰巧把雙手放在一個鎖著的保險柜的門上。
【單詞和短語】
happened to do something：碰巧做某事（if you happen to do something, you do it by chance），
例如：
I happened to look in that direction and caught him in the act of doing it.
我碰巧朝那個方向看，正好目睹他在做那事。
safe:保險柜（a strong metal box or cupboard with special locks where you keep money and valuable things）。
4-5. Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, and even described the way they were done up in bundles.
【譯文】
她突然問父親為什么把這么多的舊報紙鎖在柜子里，她甚至還描述了捆扎報紙的方式。
【講解】
locked away there作kept的賓語補(bǔ)足語。lock sth. away意為“把某物鎖起來”。there指locked safe。they were done up in bundles作定語修飾way，意為“報紙是怎樣捆著的”。they指newspaper。
【單詞和短語】
do up：捆，包（to fasten something，or to be fastened in a particular way）。
第四課 能看東西的手
by ERIC DE MAUNY
from The Listener
4-1. Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls.
【譯文】
俄羅斯近報導(dǎo)了幾個事例，說有人能用手指看書和辨認(rèn)顏色，甚至雙眼能透過厚實(shí)的門和墻看到東西。
【講解】
of people who can…walls作定語修飾cases，這部分較長，所以被移到謂語部分后，這樣句子就不會頭重腳輕。句中的of意為“關(guān)于”。
【單詞和短語】
detect：察覺，發(fā)覺（to notice or discover something, especially something that is not easy to see, hear etc.）。
4-2. One case concerns an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls.
【譯文】
有一例涉及11歲學(xué)生維拉•彼托洛娃，她視力正常，但她還能用皮膚的不同部位辨認(rèn)東西，甚至看穿堅(jiān)實(shí)的墻壁。
【講解】
and through solid walls與with different parts of her skin并列作狀語，修飾perceive。
【單詞和短語】
normal的反義詞為abnormal。
perceive：感覺，感知（to notice, see, or recognize something）。
4-3. This ability was first noticed by her father.
【譯文】
她父親首先發(fā)現(xiàn)她具備這一能力。
【講解】
this ability指上句中perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls。
4-4. One day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe.
【譯文】
一天，維拉進(jìn)入父親的辦公室，碰巧把雙手放在一個鎖著的保險柜的門上。
【單詞和短語】
happened to do something：碰巧做某事（if you happen to do something, you do it by chance），
例如：
I happened to look in that direction and caught him in the act of doing it.
我碰巧朝那個方向看，正好目睹他在做那事。
safe:保險柜（a strong metal box or cupboard with special locks where you keep money and valuable things）。
4-5. Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, and even described the way they were done up in bundles.
【譯文】
她突然問父親為什么把這么多的舊報紙鎖在柜子里，她甚至還描述了捆扎報紙的方式。
【講解】
locked away there作kept的賓語補(bǔ)足語。lock sth. away意為“把某物鎖起來”。there指locked safe。they were done up in bundles作定語修飾way，意為“報紙是怎樣捆著的”。they指newspaper。
【單詞和短語】
do up：捆，包（to fasten something，or to be fastened in a particular way）。