2021年1月23日发(作者：cristian)

Unit 1
1)

Our
youngest,
a
world-class
charmer
,
did
little
to
develop
his
intellectual
talents but always got by. Until Mrs. Stiffer
.
我的小儿子是个世界级的万人迷。学习
不怎 么动脑筋却总是能蒙混过关。直到遇到了史蒂夫老师。

2
）
No one seems to stop to think that
—
no matter what environments they come
from
—
most kids don
’
t put school first on their list unless they perceive something
is at stake.
似乎没有人停下来想想看，无论孩子们来自何种环境，他们当中大多数若不是发
现情况到了危急关头， 才不会把功课当做头等大事。

3
）
Of average intelligence or above ,they eventually quit school, concluding they
were too dumb to finis h.
这些学生智力水平至少也算中等，但最终都退学了，他们总结说
自己太笨。

4
）
Young people generally don
’
t have the maturity to value education in the same
way my adult students value it.
年轻人往往不够成熟，不会像我的成人学生们那么重视
教育。

5
）
It
is
an
expression
of
confidence
by
both
teachers
and
parents
that
the
students have the ability to learn the material presented to them.
这表明老师和家长们都对学生有信心，相信他们能够学好发给他们的学习材料。

6
）
This means no more doing Scott
’
s assignments for him because he might fail.
No more passing Jodi because she
’
s such a nice kid.
这意味着再也不要担心因为斯科特 不及格而替他做作业，再也不要因为朱迪是个乖孩子就放
他过关。

Unit 21) I had always dreamed of being proposed to in a
Parisian café
, under
dazzling
stars,
like
one
in
a
Van
Gogh,
knockoff
that
hangs
in
my
studio
apartment. Instead, my boyfriend asked me to marry him while I was Windexing
the bathroom mirror
.
我一直有这样的梦 想，在星光灿烂的晚上，在一家巴黎咖啡馆就像梵
高所画的
“一夜的咖啡馆”
，
我的工作室墙上就有一幅此画的翻本。
然后我男朋友却在我用
“稳
得新”擦洗卫生间 镜子的时候叫我嫁给他。

2
）
But the more time and effort I put in, the more the universe tried to thwart me.
The Greek band from Los Angels that I wanted
wasn’t
available. The stitching I
had requested for my cathedral veil was all wrong. My ivory silk gown was being
quarantined somewhere in Singapore.
但是我投入的时 间和精力越多，万事就越和我过
不去，没有请到我想要的洛杉矶希腊乐队，我到教堂时戴的面纱的针线活 也很糟，不是我原
来要的，我订的象牙丝绸也被隔离在新加坡的某个地方。

3
）
I realized that a Big Day without my mother would be no day at all. Not having
my dad, who passed away three years before, to walk me down the aisle was
painful, but the thought of not having Mom there was unbearable.
我认识到没有妈
妈的大喜日子不可思议，爸爸已经在三年前去世了，不可能牵着我的手到教堂圣坛完婚，这
已经 让我觉得很痛苦，但是一想到妈妈那天也不能到教堂就让我觉得无法忍受。

4
）
Our baby
sister
, who’d
been looking after Mom since Dad
’
s death, was gripped
by fear as the familiar sights and smells were eerily reminiscent of his final days.
After consulting with doctors, we learned that stomach surgery was Mom
’
s only
option. We took the first opening.
小女自父亲去世以来，一直照顾着母亲，这时 恐惧占
据了她的心，此情此景不由得想起父亲临终的日子。咨询医生后，我们得知胃部手术是妈妈
唯一的选择。医院一有床位，我们就住进去了。

5
）
What
’
s more, caring for my mom made me realize how consummately she had
card for all of
us. I’ll
never forget when I went to see her in the intensive-care unit,

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just a few hours after her surgery. She was stung out with a myriad of plastic
tubes
protruding
from
her
arms,
nose,
and
mouth.
”
Liz,
make
sure
you
eat
something
,”
she said in a strained, raspy voice.
此时，照顾母亲也让我认识到她当年照
料我们是多么地尽心，我永远 也不会忘记她，她刚刚动完手术几个小时，我到重症监护室去
看他，她躺在那里，手臂、鼻孔和嘴巴里插 满了那么多的塑料管，她却吃力沙哑地对我说道：
“利兹，一定要吃点东西。
”

6
）
I
’
ve forgotten what kind of stitching is in my veil. But when I remove it from
my face. I
’
ll be staring at the two people I love beyond all reason: my soon-to-be
husband and the woman who showed me what
’
s really important.
我已经忘记面纱
上的刺 绣，但是当我揭开面纱的时候，我肯定会脉脉地注视着我最爱的两个人，我的未婚夫
和让我懂得人生要义 的那个女人——我的母亲。

Unit 31) In sequential testimony, each one stated that he did not believe tobacco
was a health risk and that his company had taken no steps to manipulate the
levels of nicotine in its cigarettes.
每位总裁举起右手，郑重宣誓要对从事的业 务实话实
说。在随后的证词中，每个人都陈述自己不相信烟草会给健康带来风险，而且自己的公司从未采取措施来操纵香烟中尼古丁的含量。

2)Dr
. Brandt ...amply demonstrates that Big Tobacco understood many of the
health risks of their products long before the 1964 surgeon general’s report
.
布兰特博士用充足的证据证明，
早在
1964
年的卫生局长报告发表前，各大烟草巨头就已了解
了自家产品对健康造成的诸多风险。

3) Early in the 20th century, opposition to cigarettes took a moral rather than a
health-conscious
tone,
especially
for
women
who
wanted
to
smoke,
although
even then many doctors were concerned that smoking was a health risk.
20
世纪初期，对香烟的抵制带着道德的口吻，而不是出于对 健康的关注。对想抽烟的女性更
是如此。不过即使在当时，许多医生对已经关注到吸烟会给健康造成风险 。

4) And their marketing memorandums document advertising campaigns aimed
at youngsters to hook whole new generations of smokers.
在他们的营销备忘录中，
记录了他们针对青少年发动的广告运动，
旨在诱惑一代代的新烟民。

5)Instead, these experts focused primarily on a small group of skeptics of the
dangers of cigarettes during the 1950s, many of whom had or would eventually
have ties to the tobacco industry.
相反，这些专家主要关注的是
20
世纪
50
年代的一小
撮对香烟危害的怀疑论者，他们中的大部分人要么当时就与烟草 业相勾结，要么最终也会同
烟草业勾结起来。

6)
Last
August,
she
concluded
that
the
tobacco
industry
had
engaged
in
a
40-
year conspiracy to defraud smokers about tobacco’s health danger
.

去年八月，她总结道：烟草业策划了一场长达
40
年的阴谋，向烟民隐瞒烟草对健康的威海。
她的观点中引用了布兰特博士的证词达
100
多次。

Unit 4

1) E-mail. Can
’t live with it, can’t live without it.

电子邮件啊，我们不能靠它生活但离了它也不行。

2)
But it didn’t take very long before they discovered that the most important
thing was the ability to send mail around ,which they had not anticipate at all.
然而，不就他们便发现其最重要的作用是散发邮件，这一点他们根本没有料想到。

3)Indeed
，
I finally knew for sure that the digital world was viscerally potent
when
I
found
myself
in
the
middle
if
a
bitter
fight
with
my
mother
—
on
e-mail .Again ,new medium, old story.
其实，我最终确切地知道数字世界的力量不可小觑，是在我发现我与母亲通过电子邮件争吵

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