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1) 一架从昆明起飞的小飞机,载着我们,飞越群山,把我们送到了景洪. A small plane from Kunming flew over the mountains and sent us to Jinghong. 2) Party officials worked long hours on meager food, in cold caves and by dim lamps.
党的干部住寒冷的窑洞，吃简陋的饮食，靠微弱的灯光，长时间地工作着。 3 风和日丽之时，佘山、金山、崇明岛隐隐可见。
On a fine day, you can even see …in the distance, though not very clearly. 4) In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of various colors and sizes.
门口堆着至少十二把各种颜色和尺寸的伞．
5) 我老公他看你下岗了，舍不得花钱，就自己跑到电影院买了两张票，今天晚上请我们两个人去看电影。
My husband has bought two film tickets for us tonight, because you’re laid off and have to cut your expenses.
(6) John can be relied on. He eats no fish and plays the game. 约翰为人可靠,他既忠诚又办事公道. (7) Wall Street is a dog-eat-dog place. 华尔街是个残酷的地方.
8）It is a position which if we endorse，it will really mean endorsing the rule of the jungle, that is, a world without law.
如果我们认可这种状况,那就真正意味着赞同弱肉强食的原则,也就是一个没有法制的世界。
9）Some fishing boats were becalmed just in front of us. Their shadows slept, or almost slept, upon the water, a gentle quivering along showing that it was not complete sleep, or if sleep,
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that it was sleep with dreams.
眼前不远，渔舟三五，凝滞不前，樯影斜映在水上，仿佛睡去，偶尔微见颤动，似又未尝熟睡，恍若惊梦。 第二章
1）I gave my youth to the sea and I came home and gave my wife my old age. 我把青春献给海洋，等我回到家里见到妻子的时候，已经是白发苍苍。
2）Smashing a mirror is no way to make an ugly person beautiful, nor is it a way to make social problems evaporate. 逃避并不能解决实际问题。
3）He wore dark glasses, thick jersey, and stopped up his ears with cotton wool. 他戴黑眼镜，穿厚毛衣，耳朵里面塞了棉花。
4)But his attack was always repulsed by a kick or a blow from a stick. 但是他每冲一次，不是让人一脚踢了回去，就是让人棍子打了回去。 5)Never get on or off the bus before it comes to a standstill. 车未停稳，请勿下车
6)I was all the more delighted when, as a result of the initiative of your Government, it proved possible to reinstate the visit so quickly.
由于贵国政府的提议，才得以这样愉快的重新进行这次访问，这使我感到特别高兴。 7)衡还创造了世界上第一台观测气象的仪器——候风仪anemograph 。他还制作了已经失传的指南车。这种车不管怎么转弯，车上的木制小人总是把手臂指向南方。
Zhang Heng also created the world's first meteorological instrument —— anemograph. He made a pointing-south cart with a wooden figure always pointing southward no matter what direction the cart was moving in. The cart has since been lost.
8)①Time is an equal opportunity employer. ②Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. ③Rich people can’t buy more hours. ④Scientists can’t invent
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new minutes. ⑤And you can’t save time to spend it on another day.
②每个人每天所拥有的小时数和分钟数完全相同，③富人不可能购买更多的小时，④科学家也不能发明新的分钟，⑤并且你还不能把时间留到另一天用，所以说，①时间是机会均等的雇主。
9)As it is too late for you to go home now, you had better stay overnight at this place. 现在回家太晚，你最好在这儿住一晚. 10)天长地久有时尽，此恨绵绵无绝期
The eternal universe sometimes comes to an end, but my unceasing complaint knows no limit. 11.Odd thought it sounds, cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary-particle physics, and many astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true.
宇宙膨胀说虽然听似奇特，但它是基本粒子物理学中一些公认理论在科学上看来可信的推论，许多天体物理学家七、八年来一直认为这一学说是正确的。
12)Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out. 婚姻好比鸟笼，外面的鸟儿想进进不去，里面的鸟儿想出出不来。 13)All the people want to be successful in life and work. Success is one of the primary motivating factors of human society. But we must not say, it is our basic biological need, although it can bring a person position or wealth he needs. In the pursuit of success, we should have a right attitude toward failure – no fear for it is the best policy – as a Chinese old saying says, ―failure is the mother of success.‖
14)每个人都想在生活和工作中取得成功。成功是人类社会主要的动力之一。尽管成功能给人带来所需的地位和财富，但是我们不能说成功是我们的基本生物需求。在追求成功的过程中，我们应该用正确的态度看待失败---最好的办法是不惧怕失败，正如一句中国
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古训所说：―失败是成功之母。
15)Even though everyone has different concepts about what constitutes being successful, almost all individuals experience the constant pressure to succeed. While most people would still consider an important position or great wealth as a sign of success, others are realizing that the term embraces many more elements. To me, success means the achievement of one’s goals. It includes a feeling of accomplishment, a willingness to overcome fear in attempting something new, and a sense of self-improvement in reaching the goal..
每个人对什么是成功有不同的观点，但几乎所有的人都经历过为取得成功所承受的长期压力。虽然多数人仍然把身居要职和腰缠万贯看成是成功的标志，但也有人认识到成功包含着更多的东西。对我而言，成功就是实现了自己的目标，它包括尝试新事物的成就感和克服恐惧的积极性以及在实现目标的过程中的自我完善。
16)You need to fight for your point of view (句首重心)/ when something that is counter to your values or threatens a project the organization supports.
当所发生的事情与你的价值观完全相反或者对你的机构所支持的项目有威胁时，你需要为你的观点而战。（句尾重心）
17)There is no agreement （句首重心）/ whether methodology refers to the concepts peculiar to historical work in general or to the research techniques appropriate to the various branches of historical inquiry . 方法论是指一般的历史研究中特有的概念，还是指历史研究中适用各个具体领域的研究方法，人们对此意见不一。（句尾重心）
18)知己知彼，百战不殆。 Know the enemy and know yourself, and you can win a hundred battles.
19) Conquer the desires，or they will conquer you． 你不战胜欲望，欲望就会战胜你。 20)It is sometimes the fate of a poet to succeed, only when he has one foot in the grave.
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有时候一名诗人命中注定只有在一只脚踏进坟墓的时候才会成功。
21)Found throughout Central and South America, the sloth hangs from trees by its long rubbery limbs, sleeping fifteen hours a day and moving infrequently.
树懒产于中南美洲各地，它靠长而有弹性的四肢挂在树上，每天睡15个小时，很少移动。 22)It applies equally to traditional historians who view history as only the external and internal criticism of sources, and to social science historians, who equate their activity with specific techniques。
它同样适用于将历史仅仅看作是对历史材料来源的内部的和外部的批评的传统历史学家，和把历史研究活动等同于具体研究方法的社会科学历史学家。
23)Today it seems perfectly natural for us to shake hands when we greet someone or say goodbye. 现在, 我们在见面或告别时握握手(叙事)似乎是很自然的了。
24）There is a tourist attraction①called the Badaling Great Wall②which you can reach③in about two hours④by going northwest⑤by tourist bus ⑥ from downtown Beijing ⑦.
从北京市区⑦坐旅游车⑥向西北走⑤大约两小时左右④可以到达③一个叫八达岭长城的②旅游胜地①。
25）The memories a favorite old song recalls can be so clear that hearing it almost like watching a movie of your life and times. 一首你最爱的老歌所唤起的记忆可以非常清晰, 听这样一首歌几乎就像看一部描写你的生活和时代的电影。
26）We know that a cat, whose eyes can take in many more rays than our eyes, can see clearly in the night. 我们知道,因为猫的眼睛所摄入的光线比人眼多,所以猫在夜间看物体很清楚.
27）There was something original, independent, and heroic about the plan that pleased all of them.
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