Unit1

1. 他对他的研究如此专心致志，从来没有过很快就要退休的念头。He is so devoted to his research that it never occurs to him that he will soon have to retire. 2. 很多人都曾说过，如果没有有效的制约，我们都有滥用权力的倾向。Many people have observed that, without effective checks, we all have a tendency to abuse our power. 3. 有些国家拒绝卷入这一争端，而且他们对外国的干涉非常反感。Some countries refuse to get involved in this dispute and they resent any foreign interference.

4. 控制沙城暴需要大量的工作和资金。The control of sandstorm will involve a lot of work and money.

5. 你们用这些技术的时候，必须考虑到当地的条件。You must take the local conditions into consideration when you apply these technologies.

6. 所有的申请者都必须填好这些表格，然后邮寄50美元的报名费。All applicants will have to fill out these forms and mail in an application fee of 50 dollars 7. 他根据对孩子们行为的观察得出结论：学习是一种自然的乐趣。Based on his (careful) observation of children’s behavior, he came to the conclusion that learning is a natural pleasure.

8. 在一个多民族的国家里，各民族之间的和谐需要小心处理。In a country of many nationalities, ethnic harmony requires very careful handling.

9. 政府决定严惩所有涉案的腐败官员。The government is determined to punish all the corrupt officials involved.

10. 考试作弊并不经常发生，但一旦发生，学校会采取严厉的态度。Cheating at exams does not occur very often. But when it does, the school takes a very tough position.

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Unit3

1. 他们都伸长脖子想看个究竟，就好像被一根无形的绳子牵着。They all stretched their necks to see what was happening, as if pulled by an invisible string.

2. 我们下车去伸伸胳膊和腿。我们前面是一片美丽的开阔地。We got out of the car to stretch a little. In front of us there was a beautiful stretch of open land.

3. 他们连续谈判了好几个小时，但是仍然没有解决他们之间的分歧。They talked for hours at a stretch, but they still failed to settle their differences.

4. 尽管有温暖的天气、新鲜的空气和美味佳肴，她的健康仍然没有恢复。For all the warm weather, fresh air and nice food, her health still did not recover.

5. 他瞟了那辆车一眼就知道它没法修了。他望望前面，只见一眼望不到头的沙漠，荒无人烟。他知道他陷入困境了。One glance at the car and he knew that it was beyond repair. Looking ahead, he found the desert stretching as far as the eye could see without a soul in sight. He knew he was in a terrible fix.

6. 武松奋力举起哨棒向老虎打去。但是哨棒“啪”的一声断了，而老虎毫发未伤。他

一急打到附近树上去了。Wu song swung his stick with all his strength. But the stick snapped and the tiger was unharmed. In his panic, he had hit the tree nearby.

7. 我非常喜欢你在俄罗斯拍的那些照片，尤其是那张上面有个马车夫坐在黑海边，膝盖上放着一块布，布上放着他晚餐的照片。I am terribly fond of the pictures you snapped in Russia, especially the one showing a coachman sitting by the Black Sea with his supper in a cloth on his knees.

8. ——“这事您不能就此罢休。”我向他请求道。——“这不关你事。”他厉声说道。 “You can’t just let it go at that.” I pleaded with him. “It’s none of your business.” he snapped.

9. 他“啪”地一下合上了公文包，站起来说：“那就这么定了。”He snapped his briefcase to, stood up and said, “Then that’s all settled.”

10. 海啸来的时候，他正站在小山上的家门口，离码头大概只有一百米远。He was standing in front of his house on a hill, only about 100 meters away from the wharf when the tsunami came.

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1. 只有这样我们对他的这种古怪行为才能给予合理的解释。Only in this way can we account for his odd behavior.

2. 她自称具有一种特异功能，用手一摸就能治病。She claims to have a magic power----the power to cure diseases by the touch of her hand.

3. 他任命了五个人处理这个案件。他们组成了一个强有力的班子。几天内，他们就发现嫌烦拥有成卷的他无法说明来源的欧元、美元和大量贵重物品。He appointed five people to deal with/handle the case. They formed a strong team. Within (a few)days, they have found out that the suspect possessed rolls of euros, US dollars and large quantities of valuables the source of which he could not account for.

4. 在这个故事里，这个妖怪常常以美女的样子出现。In this tale, this evil spirit often appears in the form of a pretty young woman.

5. 他把画卷了起来，并说一百万美元以下绝对不卖。He rolled up the painting and said that he would never sell /part with it for less than 1 million US dollars. 6. 有那么多的合格法官，我不明白为什么她被任命到最高法院工作。Of all the qualified judges I don’t know why she was appointed to the supreme court.

7. 我对此知道得不多，不足以形成一大套理论。不过我肯定，仅仅是贫困还不能解释犯罪率上升。I don’t know enough to formulate/form an elaborate theory. But I’m sure that poverty alone can not account for the rise of crime rates.

8. 一块大石头突然从山上滚了下来。它是如此之大，一下子把一辆卡车砸得粉碎。A stone suddenly rolled down the hill, so big that it smashed the truck to pieces. 9. 我说我们得卷起袖子开始干活，但他就只是像哲学家一样转了转眼珠，笑了笑。I said that we must roll up our sleeves and start working, but he just rolled his eyes philosophically/like a philosopher and smiled.

10. 古时候，我们的哲学家们认为一个好的皇帝对他的百姓就应该像一个好父亲对他的孩子那样，在任何情况下都不可残酷地对待他们。In ancient times, our philosophers

believed that a good king should be to the people as a good father is to his children. He must never treat them cruelly on any account. Unit8

1.这完全是在浪费金钱和宝贵的土地资源。他们真是疯了，把这么肥沃的农田变成少数有钱人的高尔夫球场。

It’s an utter waste of money and precious land resources.They must be out of their minds to turn such fertile farmland into golf courts for a few rich people.

2.想要对核废料的安全性有百分之百的把握是根本不可能的。问题早晚都会发生。所以除非我们准备接受这不可避免的结果，否则我们不应该匆忙做决定。It’s utterly impossible to have complete safety with nuclear waste.Soon or later some problem will occur.So unless we are ready to accept the inevitable,we mustn’t rush to a decision.

3.整个会议过程中，她一直受到严厉的攻击。但她一句话也没说。她已经决定马上递交辞职报告。She was under severe attack throughout the meeting,but she didn’t occur a word.She had decided to hand in her resignation right away.

4.很多人出于虚荣心都被诱骗去追求那些漂亮的称号。我也有这个毛病。Many people are lured to go after fancy titles out of vanity,and I’m also guilty of this.

5.正如之前警告的那样，今年第一季度，他们的通货膨胀率还在继续上升。这等于他们的收入下降了。但凡事也有光明的一面，我们的消费也在上升。As we were warned in advance,the inflation rate in the firet quarter of this year was still on the rise.This amounted to a drop in people’s income.But every cloud has its silver lining.Consumption was also on the rise.

6.你记住，我们也许可以阻止年轻人说心里话，但我们永远无法做到让他们停止思考。Keep in mind that we may be able to prevent young people from speaking their mind,bu we can never succeed in making them stop thinking.

7.任何头脑正常的人都知道，自由和纪律，我们两者都需要。不是两者兼得，就是两者均失。因此不能无条件的让学生们为所欲为。Anybody in his right mind knows that we need both freedom and discipline.We either have both or neither.Therefore students cannot have their way unconditionally.

8.早在20世纪90年代的时候她就警告过这些国家，要是不消除经济泡沫，他们的经济就会面临硬着陆。She warned those countries in advance way back to 1990s that if they didn’t get rid of their economic bubbles,their economies would face a hard landing.

9.我心中想的就是在郊区买个房子，因为我讨厌大城市的污染问和喧闹。如果这么一来我无法每个星期天去王府井逛街了，我也不管了。What I have in mind is to buy a house in the suburbs as I loathe the heavy pollution as well as the hustle and bust of the big city.If because of this I can’t go shopping in Wangfujing every Sunday,that’s just too bad.

10.那里的很多人似乎对即将到来的选举都无所谓。目前他们就希望战争的乌云能早点消散，他们可以过上和平的生活。Many people there seem to be indifferent to the coming election.Right now they just hope the dark clouds of war will clear away so that they can live in peace.