自考“綜合英語(二)”下冊詳解(1)

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1.Many years ago trying to help people with every kind of trouble left me with one sure conviction …多年以前,幫助人們解決各種各樣問題的過程使我深信,……
    Trying to help people with every kind of trouble caused me to believe one thing firmly…
    help *****.with… 幫助某人做 ……
    Could you help me with the cooking? 你能幫我做飯嗎?
    trust/faith/belief/conviction
    trust信任,信賴 某人時(shí),你便是依靠于他。 Pupils put their trust in their teachers.小學(xué)生們都信賴他們的老師。
    faith 信任,信念,表示對某人或某時(shí)非常信任,而這卻可能是無法提供證據(jù)的。I have faith in this medicine.我相信這種藥。
    belief相信,信念,信仰,指雖然沒有確切的證據(jù),但還是認(rèn)為某事物是真實(shí)的,從而在思想上予以接受,該詞使用范圍很廣,可涉及到觀點(diǎn)、理論、哲學(xué)、宗教信仰甚至等。 He has a strong belief in Buddhism.他深信佛教。
    conviction 深信,確信;信念,是指一種強(qiáng)烈的信念。He joined the Communist Party on the basis of his conviction that communism will prevail through the world.他加入******是基于他堅(jiān)信共產(chǎn)主義將在全世界勝利。
    2.in case after case the difficulty could have been overcome—or might never have arisen- 在一個(gè)個(gè)事例中,如果人們相互以禮相待,問題完全可能會(huì)得到解決,或許根本不會(huì)出現(xiàn)。
    sth after sth 用來表示某事頻繁發(fā)生
    Year after year the Government refused to provide more funds for education.一年又一年,政府拒絕給教育增加投資。
    sth after sth 用來表示某事頻繁發(fā)生
    Year after year the Government refused to provide more funds for education.一年又一年,政府拒絕給教育增加投資。
    Case after case I found some young people from broken families addicted themselves to drugs.在一個(gè)個(gè)事例中,我發(fā)現(xiàn)一些來自破裂家庭的年輕人吸毒。
    3.Courtesy,politeness,good manners——call it what you will,the supply never seems to equal the demand.禮貌也好,客氣,或文明舉止也好,無論你稱它什么,其供應(yīng)總是小于需求。
    Whether you call it courtesy,or politeness,or good manner,people's need for it always far greater than they show.(people practice less courtesy than they should.)
    equal:v.與……相等
    be equal to:adj.與……平等,與……相等
    Your achievements are equal to his.你取得和他一樣的成就。
    I am not equal to the position.我不能勝任這個(gè)職位。
    He equals me in strength but not in intelligence.他和我的力氣一樣大,但他的智力不如我。
    4.It's not so much what my hu******************and says,“ a tearful wife confides,”as the way he says it…。一位淚流滿面的妻子向我透露說,“(使我傷心的)倒不是我丈夫說的那些話,而是他說話的態(tài)度,……
    A wife in tears told me,“What made me so sad was not what he said,but the rude way he said it…”
    not so much…as… 不是 …… 而是 ……
    He works hard not so much to impress his boss as to give his ability into full play.他努力工作,不是為了給他的上司留下好印象,而是為了能夠充分發(fā)揮他的才能。
    Good manner depends not so much on how we look at ourselves as on how we look at other people.良好的舉止不取決于我們?nèi)绾慰创约海侨绾慰创齽e人。
    5.Such complaints are not limited to people who sit in my study:這種抱怨不僅是那些坐到我書房里和我談心的人才有
    be limited to/limit sth to:把限制在 …… 之內(nèi)
    Your composition is limited to 200 words.你的作文字?jǐn)?shù)限制在 200 字內(nèi)。
    We must limit the expense to 100 yuan.我們必須把開支限制在 100 元內(nèi)。
    6.Human being everywhere hunger for courtesy.世界上的人們渴望受到禮遇
    hunger for sth:have a strong desire for sth.渴望得到 ……
    People in the war-torn areas hunger for peace.遭受戰(zhàn)爭破壞地區(qū)的人民渴望和平。
    I hunger fo r true love,but I find it hard to get.我渴望真愛,但我發(fā)現(xiàn)真愛很難得到。
    7.Good manners,“ said Ralph Waldo Emerson,” are the happy way of doing things.愛默生說:禮貌是愉快行事的方式。
    Good manners are the suitable/ appropriate way of doing things
    happy:(of words,ideas,behaviour,etc.)
    well suited to the situation;pleasing happy choice of words恰當(dāng)?shù)倪x詞
    happy combination of colours 色彩搭配恰當(dāng)
    8.And the reverse is equally true.Bad manners can ruin a day——or wreck a friendship.反之一樣,(不講禮貌是不愉快地辦事),不文明的舉止可以破壞一天的心境,或許還會(huì)毀掉友情。
    Bad manners bring about entirely different results.(Bad manners are the unhappy way of doing things.) You will feel unhappy if you are treated impolitely.Bad manner can ruin a friendship.
    the reverse (of sth.):the things that is the contrary or opposite to what happens/applies 相反的情況
    She did the reverse o f what I told her.我告訴她怎么做,但她卻做得與我告訴她的相反。
    9……courtesy is often nothing more than a highly developed sense of fair play.強(qiáng)烈的公平意識(shí)當(dāng)然是一個(gè)要素,文明舉止往往只不過是高層次的公平意識(shí)。
    Courtesy in its highly developed form is often just equal treatment for both or all sides involved.
    nothing more than:only;hardly different from 只不過是 ……,不是別的而是 ………
    To their disappointment,what they discovered was nothing more than cheap stones.使他們大為失望,他們所發(fā)現(xiàn)的東西只不過是一些沒有什么價(jià)值的石頭。
    fair play:( in the text) equal treatment for both or all sides involved 公平、公正地行事
    10.……I'll put up with yours the rest of the way.剩下的路,還是讓我跟在你的后面吃塵土吧。
    The rest of the way I'll endure the dust caused by your car.
    put up with:忍受
    I left the party without telling the host,for I couldn't put up with these snobbish people.我沒有告訴主人就離開了晚會(huì),我無法忍受那些勢利小人。
    If I were you,I should not put up with her arrogance.如果我是你,我是無法忍受她的狂妄。