September 16th, 2009 
ghostlei } Insurance companies are normally willing to insure anything. Insuring public or private property is a standard practice in most countries in the world. If, however, you were holding an open air garden party or a fete it would be equally possible to insure yourself in the event of bad weather.
} Insurance：
保险。北美的无论是医疗保险或是车的保险，整个保险制度都非常完善。有一次我和朋友开车出去，不小心和老外的车撞一下，大家都下车理论。这个老外说了这样的话——
L:Let’s not argue.
J:Why don’t we just exchange information and let our insurance companies take care of this?
撞了车，交给保险公司就行了，什么都不用管。
} Needless to say, the bigger the risk an insurance company takes, the higher the premium you will have to pay. It is not uncommon to hear that a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship. But the claim made by a local authority to recover the cost of salvaging a sunken pie dish must surely be unique. Admittedly it was an unusual pie dish, for it was eighteen feet long and six feet wide. It had been purchased by a local authority so that an enormous pie could be baked for an annual fair. The pie committee decided that the best way to transport the dish would be by canal, so they insured it for the trip.
} Common:
We have a lot in common.
我们有很多相同之处；有很多共同语言
They have nothing in common.
这个是反过来的意思：没有什么共同语言，没什么好说的
} Purchase: purchasing power
购买力
Authority: unauthorized use of your CC
unauthorized没有被授权使用。比如你拿着别人的信用卡，那么你就是没有被授权使用。
Annual: anniversary
anniversary 名词 ，周年纪念
} Shortly after it was launched, the pie committee went to a local inn to celebrate. At the same time, a number of teenagers climbed on to the dish and held a little party of their own. Dancing proved to be more than the dish could bear, for during the party it capsized and sank in seven feet of water.
} Celebrate：Celebrity
名人
The American society constantly reassures the public that if you are not a celebrity, you are nothing.
美国社会不断地给公众这种印象，如果你不是名人，你就什么都不是。这是有一次听CNN的时候记下来的。
Autograph/Signature
名人的签名/所有的签名
} The pie committee telephoned a local garage owner who arrived in a recovery truck to salvage the pie dish. Shivering in their wet clothes, the teenagers looked on while three men dived repeatedly into the water to locate the dish.
} The pie committee telephoned a local garage owner, the owner/who arrived in a recovery truck to salvage the pie dish.
如果把The pie committee telephoned a local garage owner who arrived in a recovery truck to salvage the pie dish. 这段话还原的话，就是以上的这段话，意思是一样。只是行文的需要，所以把开头的owner和结尾的owner 用who 来替代，显得不罗嗦。
} Garage：
修车厂，下面这个是和它发音比较像的词
garbage 区别发音
} They had little difficulty in finding it, but hauling it out of the water proved to be a serious problem. The sides of the dish were so smooth that it was almost impossible to attach hawsers and chains to the rim without damaging it.
} hauling it out of the water：动名词有无数个
这个是说把它从水里捞出来。但是不要死记住这句话，这是动名词的结构，动名词有无数个，主要是记住这样的结构。
} They had little difficulty in finding it：
=They found it without too much difficulty.
} Eventually chains were fixed to one end of the dish and a powerful winch was put into operation. The dish rose to the surface and was gently drawn towards the canal bank. For one agonizing moment, the dish was perched precariously on the bank of the canal, but it suddenly overbalanced and slid back into the water.
} Fix:
修，维修
Time will fix.
中文常说的时间长了就好了，时间长了就冲淡了，便是这个说法。
How time flies!
时间过得真快！
Time and tide wait for no man.
时间不等人
Time is the final equalizer.
时间会让大家最后变得平衡（因为都会死）
} Gently：
Be gentle!
温柔一点
Be nice!
好一点
Be cool!
酷一点
Be yourself, but not too much!
做好你自己就行了，但别太过分
这几个都是比较常见的。
} The men were now obliged to try once more. This time they fixed heavy metal clamps to both sides of the dish so that they could fasten the chains. The dish now had to be lifted vertically because one edge was resting against the side of the canal. The winch was again put into operation and one of the men started up the truck. Several minutes later, the dish was successfully hauled above the service of the water.
} Vertically：
垂直的
Horizontally
平行的
} Water streamed in torrents over its sides with such force that it set up a huge wave in the canal. There was a danger that the wave would rebound off the other side of the bank and send the dish plunging into the water again. By working at tremendous speed, the men managed to get the dish on to dry land before the wave returned.
} Torrents：
洪流
BT
Bit Torrent
↓ ↓
字节 滔滔不绝
BT就是我们常常说的下载，这个词形容得特别好，表示下载得很快。
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