}  The old lady was glad to be back at the block of flats where she lived. Her shopping had tired her and her basket had grown heavier with every step of the way home. In the life her thoughts were on lunch and a good rest; but when she got out at her own floor, both were forgotten in her sudden discovery that her front door was open.

}  Home.  adv.
Have a safe trip home!
回家一路平安！
Let’s drive home!

   我们开车回家吧。

they wonder whether they will ever catch that last train home. (lesson 41)

   41课这里出现的home 也是同样用法，是作adv. 副词

}  She was thinking that she must reprimand her home help the next morning for such a monstrous piece of negligence, when she remembered that she had gone shopping after the home help had left and she knew that she had turned both keys in their locks, She walked slowly into the hall and at once noticed that all the room doors were open, yet following her regular practice she had shut them before going out.

}  going out /dating

   going out口语里边是约会，相当于dating
How Iong have you been going out?
你们俩约会多长时间了？
I’m going out with a girl my friends all really like.

   我正在跟一个女孩子约会，我的朋友都喜欢她。

}  Looking into the drawing room, she saw a scene of confusion over by her writing desk. It was as clear as daylight then that burglars had forced an entry during her absence. Her first impulse was to go round all the rooms looking for the thieves, but then she decided that at her age it might be more prudent to have someone with her, so she went to fetch the porter from his basement.

}  as clear as daylight :

   clear 得像daylight 一样
W:Do you have any idea what this notice is all about?
M:I’m as in the dark as you are.

   这里的回答是指“I don’t know, either ”我也不知道

}  Her first impulse …:

   在23课我讲过 impulse,在这里的意思是他的本能第一反应
Acting on a sudden impulse,…(lesson23)

}  By this time her legs were beginning to tremble, so she sat down and accepted a cup of very strong tea, while he telephoned the police. Then, her composure regained, she was ready to set off with the porter’s assistance to search for any intruders who might still be lurking in her flat.

}  Ready to go:

   比如说你订了一部电脑，店里给你打电话说货到了，可以来取了，这个用法就是 ready to go，指好了。
All right! Everybody ready to go to the movies?
大家准备好去看电影了吗？
I am so not ready to be a father.
我实在没有准备好当一个父亲。在美国口语里边so 用得很多，它就是如此的意思。
That’s so not what that is.
那实在不是what that is
It’s so not a big deal.

    根本就不是a big deal；不是什么大问题这样的意思

}  They went through the rooms, being careful to touch nothing, as they did not want to hinder the police in their search for fingerprints. The chaos was inconceivable. She had lived in the flat for thirty years and was a veritable magpie at hoarding; and it seemed as though everything she possessed had been tossed out and turned over and over. At least sorting out the things she should have discarded years ago was now being made easier for her.

}  tossed :
Last night I tossed and turned in bed, too exhausted to sleep.

   昨天晚上我在床上翻来覆去，太累了，睡不着。

}  Then a police inspector arrived with a constable and she told them of her discovery of the ransacked flat. The inspector began to look for fingerprints, while the constable checked that the front door locks had not been forced, thereby proving that the burglars had either used skeleton keys or entered over the balcony. There was no trace of fingerprints, but the inspector found a dirty red bundle that contained jewellery which the old lady said was not hers. So their entry into this flat was apparently not the burglars’ first job that day and they must have been disturbed.

}  That is a boy‘s apartment, it’s dirty and it smells.
这是男生的房子，比较乱而且有味道。这里的dirty是不卫生的意思
Dirty talk/movies/words/book/dreams

   男女之间说的比较刺激的话/A 片；黄色电影/脏话/黄色书/春梦

   这里的dirty 就不是它原本的意思了

}  The inspector then asked the old lady to try to check what was missing by the next day and advised her not to stay alone in the flat for a few nights. The old lady thought he was a fussy creature, but since the porter agreed with him, she rang up her daughter and asked for her help in what she described as a little spot of bother.

}  Fussy/picky :

   挑剔
I am not fussy about foods.
我不挑食。
I am not  afraid to sell our products to people who are picky.

   我愿意把产品卖给百般挑剔的人们。

}  I stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map. I had expected to be near my objective by now, but everything still seemed alien to me. I was only five when my father had taken me abroad, and that was eighteen years ago.

}  Near：
We are nearly there!
这是我坐公车时，问旁边的老外快到了没，他就这样回答我。
Without you guys, we have not been anywhere near where we are !
没有你们，我们远远没有现在。这是表示感谢的一句话。

}  Look at yourself.you went to law school,you never took the bar.you went to business school, I can’t  get you anywhere near the office. You studied languages, you don’t speak. Instruments you don’t play, you have a series of girlfriends you never see more than twice, do you not see a partern here?

   你读法律，没见你参加过考试；你读商学院，在办公室我从没看到过你；学语言没见你说过；学乐器没见你玩过；你有很多女朋友却没见你跟她们约会超过两次。你没见到自己的生活都成什么样子了吗？

     这是电影里的一段对白。

}  When my mother had died after a tragic accident, he did not quickly recover from the shock and loneliness. Everything around him was full of her presence, continually reopening the wound. So he decided to emigrate. In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, so that he gradually ceased to grieve. He did not marry again and I was brought up without a woman’s care; but I lacked for nothing, for he was both father and mother to me.

}  Emigrate：Immigrate / Migrate
Migrating mambo server
Migrating from Golive to Dreamweaver

}  brought up:
You brought it up!

    你先提起来的；这个话题是你先挑起来的。

}  He always meant to go back on day, but not to stay. His roots and mine bad become too firmly embedded in the new land. But he wanted to see the old folk again and to visit my mother’s grave.

}  meant：
Maybe that is what it was meant to be!

   可能注定就是这样子。
We were meant to be together!

    我们注定要在一起。

}  Root:
root folder ( 根目录 )

}  Embedded:

   镶嵌
Html & php  谁嵌入谁更好一些？

}  He became mortally ill a few months before we had planned to go and, when he knew that he was dying, he made me promise to go on my own.I hired a car the day after landing and bought a comprehensive book of maps, which I found most helpful on the cross-country journey, but which I did not think I should need on the last stage.

}  Comprehensive

   全面的，系统的
including all or everything/ covering or involving much

}  From 1 to 10 (inclusive)

}  listening comprehension

}  comprehend/arrest

   逮捕

}  It was not that I actually remembered anything at all. But my father had described over and over again what we should see at every milestone, after leaving the nearest town, so that I was positive I should recognize it as familiar territory. Well, I had been wrong, for I was now lost.

}  Milestone/cornerstone:

   里程碑/奠基石
over the past few year,your equilibrium has become the cornerstone of modern economics.
过去几年，你的equilibrium 理论已经成为现代经济学的基石。这是电影《美丽心灵》里，纳什拿诺贝尔奖时，主持跟他说的一句话。

}  I looked at the map and then at the millimeter. I had come ten miles since leaving the town, and at this point, according to my father, I should be looking at farms and cottages in a valley, with the spire of the church of our village showing in the far distance. I could see no valley, no farms, no cottages and no church spire — only a lake. I decided that I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere.

}  Turning: Turning signal

   车的转向灯，信号

}  So I drove back to the town and began to retrace the route, taking frequent glances at the map. I landed up at the same corner. The curious thing was that the lake was not marked on the map. I felt as if I had stumbled into a nightmare country, as you sometimes do in dreams. And, as in a nightmare, there was nobody in sight to help me.

}  Route: router→两种发音

   router路由器

}  taking frequent glances at the map 分词伴随

}  Fortunately to me, as I was wondering what to do next, there appeared on the horizon a man on horseback, riding in my direction. I waited till he came near, then I asked him the way to our old village. He said that there was now no village. I thought he must have misunderstood me, so I repeated its name. This time he pointed to the lake. The village no longer existed because it had been submerged, and all the valley too. The lake was not a natural one, but a man-made reservoir.

}  I’m wondering if…

　wonder 犯嘀咕，纳闷；老外在上课提问的时候，通常会说“I was wondering…”
I’m wondering if you like it.
我在想你是不是会喜欢。
I wonder if you could lend me some money.

    我在想你能不能借我点钱。

}  pointed :

    这三个句子，语气不一样，意思就变了
Don‘t you point your finger at me!
不要用手指着我。
Don’t you dare hang up on me!
你敢挂我电话？！
Don’t you follow me!  

     你不要跟着我。

}  The river which forms the eastern boundary of our farm has always played an important part in our lives. Without it we could not make a living. There is only enough spring water to supply the needs of the houses, so we have to pump from the river for farm use. We tell the river all our secrets. We know instinctively, just as beekeepers with their bees, that misfortune might overtake us if the important events of our lives were not related to it.

}  Make a living：

    过生活；谋生。下面几句话都是问别人是做什么的，干哪一行的。
What do you do for the living？
What do you do?
What’s your occupation?
What business are you in?
What’s your job?

}  We have special river birthday parties in the summer. Sometimes we go upstream to a favorite backwater, sometimes we have our party at the boathouse, which a predecessor of ours at the farm built in the meadow hard by the deepest pool for swimming and diving. In a heat wave we choose a midnight birthday party and that is the most exciting of all.

}  Built-in:

   内置的，有的电脑有内置麦克风/摄像头
built-in microphone/camera
external USB DVD burner

   外接的光驱刻录机；external 外置的，外接的

}  After a long period of rain the river may overflow its banks. This is a rare occurrence as our climate seldom goes to extremes. We are lucky in that only the lower fields, which make up a very small proportion of our farm, are effected by flooding, but other farms are less favorably sited, and flooding can sometimes spell disaster for their owners. We welcome the seasons by the riverside, crowning the youngest girl with flowers in the spring, holding a summer festival on Midsummer Eve, giving thanks for the harvest in the autumn, and throwing a holy wreath into the current in the winter.

}  Lucky:
Lucky you!

   你真幸运!这是别人比较幸运的时候，你夸他的话。
You’re so lucky!       
You’re in luck!

    你要走运了或在走运当中。
You’re really fortunate!
fortunate 我个人感觉比lucky 幸运的程度要深。

}  并列四个分词伴随

    红色字体部分

   One bad winter we watched the river creep up the lower meadows. All the cattle had been moved into stalls and we stood to lose little. We were, however, worried about our nearest neighbors, whose farm was low lying and who were newcomers to the district. As the floods had put the telephone out of order, we could not find out how they were managing. From an attic window we could get a sweeping view of the river where their land joined ours, and at the most critical juncture we took turns in watching that point. The first sign of disaster was a dead sheep floating down. Next came a horse, swimming bravely, but we were afraid that the strength of the current would prevent its landing anywhere before it became exhausted. Suddenly a raft appeared, looking rather like Noah’s ark, carrying the whole family, a few hens, the dogs, a cat, and a bird in a cage.

   Juncture:
In junction with
Together with

    这两个组合意思一样，当作介词用

}  We realized that they must have become unduly frightened by the rising flood, for their house, which had sound foundations, would have stood stoutly even if it had been almost submerged. The men of our family waded down through our flooded meadows with boathooks, in the hope of being able to grapple a corner of the raft and pull it out of the current towards our bank. We still think it a miracle that they we able to do so.

}  Miracle：

   奇迹，不可能发生的
Magician

   魔术师

}  Recent developments in astronomy have made it possible to detect planets in our own Milky Way and in other galaxies. This is a major achievement because, in relative terms, planets are very small and old not emit light. Finding planets is proving hard enough, but finding life on them will prove infinitely more difficult.

}  Relative/absolute
相对/绝对
absolute value
绝对值。数学上的
relative path : weekly/filename

   相对路径。譬如说你的电脑上有一个weekly，里边有一个filename，这个在别的电脑上可能找不到，它就是一个相对路径
absolute path : www.caopeng.org/html/nce3.htm

绝对路径。这个东西在别的电脑上也能找到

}  The first question to answer is whether a planet can actually support life. In our won solar system, for example, Venus is far too hot and Mars is far too cold to support life. Only the Earth provides ideal conditions, and even here it has taken more than four billion years for plant and animal life to evolve. Whether a planet can support life depends on the size and brightness of its star, that is its ’sun’. Imagine a star up to twenty times larger, brighter and hotter than our own sun. A planet would have to be a very long way from it to be capable of supporting life.

}  Evolution is scientific fact, like, like the air we breathe, like gravity.

   进化论是一个科学的事实，像我们呼吸的空气，地球的引力。evolve 是进化，演化；evolution 可以当进化论讲。

}  Alternatively, if the star were small, the life-supporting planet would have to have a close orbit round it and also provide the perfect conditions for life forms to develop. But how would we find such a planet? At present, there is no telescope in existence that is capable of detecting the presence of life. The development of such a telescope will be one of the great astronomical projects of the twenty-first century.

}  Perfect 望文生音
注意这个词的发音，不要望文声音

}  List of vista supported software

   可以在vista上面运行的软件的列表
windows  vista capable

   有些电脑上面贴着windows  vista capable 是指这部电脑的硬件可以运行vista

    本文中的life-supporting planet 是指这个星球的环境支持生命的存在

}  It is impossible to look for life on another planet using earth-based telescopes. Our own warm atmosphere and the heat generated by the telescope would make it impossible to detect objects as small as planets. Even a telescope in orbit round the earth, like the very successful Hubble telescope, would not be suitable because of the dust particles in our solar system.

}  A positive atmosphere
一个积极的氛围。atmosphere 有大气层的意思
What I do is create an atmosphere of support for the peopIe working with me.

   我要做的是给大家创造一个互相支持的工作氛围。

}  A telescope would have to be as far away as the planet Jupiter to look for life in outer space, because the dust becomes thinner the further we travel towards the outer edges of our own solar system. Once we detected a planet, we would have to find a way of blotting out the light from its star, so that we would be able to ’see’ the planet properly and analyze its atmosphere.

}   Venus  Jupiter  Mercury  Mars  Saturn

    这里是金木水火土五个星球。这样的词不见得一       定要回写，但是看见了要知道是什么意思，会读。

}  In the first instance, we would be looking for plant life, rather than ‘little green men’. The life forms most likely to develop on a planet would be bacteria. It is bacteria that have generated the oxygen we breathe on earth. For most of the earth’s history they have been the only form of life on our planet. As Earth-dwellers, we always cherish the hope that we will be visited by little green men and that we will be able to communicate with them. But this hope is always in the realms of science fiction.

}  M: Do you think Prefessor Smith will cancel class on account of the special conference?
W: Not likely.

   M: 你认为Professor Smith 会不会因为这个特别的会议不去上课呢？

   W: 可能性不大。

}  If we were able to discover lowly forms of life like bacteria on another planet, it would completely change our view of ourselves. As Daniel Goldin of NASA observed, ‘Finding life elsewhere would change everything. No human endeavor or thought would be unchanged by it.

}  you complete me, you made me happier than I ever thought I could be.
你完整了我，你让我比以前想象的这个时候更开心。这是甜言蜜语。complete 在这里的动词
That was a complete misunderstanding!
这完全是个误解。complete 作形容词。
You can call this number if you’re not completely satisfied.

   如果你不满意的话，可以打这个电话。completely 副词；这句话可以用在售后服务。

}  We have been brought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good. We continually wage war on them, for they contaminate our food, carry diseases, or devour our crops. They sting or bite without provocation; they fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights, or beat against our lighted windows. We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless one like moths. Reading about them increases our understanding without dispelling our fears. Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.

}  to fear insects：怕着insects 长大的
本文中这句话有不定式的感觉。

}  did you just bite me?
你是不是咬我了？
don’t bite your nails!

    不要咬指甲

}  Web crawler /spider/robot

    网络爬虫，搜索引擎的网络爬虫。这个爬虫在网络上不停穿梭，到处拷贝别人的网页，然后带回自己的数据库。

}  No matter how much we like honey, or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess, we have a horror of being stung. Most of our fears are unreasonable, but they are impossible to erase. At the same time, however, insects are strangely fascinating. We enjoy reading about them, especially when we find that, like the praying mantis, they lead perfectly horrible lives.

}  Direction:
Can I get some directions?
Could you tell me how to get to Laurentian University?
Could you direct me to the Bank of China?
Could you show me the way to the nearest subway station?
这几种是问路时的说法。

}  We enjoy staring at them, entranced as they go about their business, unaware (we hope) of our presence. Who has not stood in awe at the sight of a spider pouncing on a fly, or a column of ants triumphantly bearing home an enormous dead beetle?

}  Sight:
It was love at the first sight.
那是一见钟情。
Beauty lies in the eye of beholder.

   情人眼里出西施。

}  Fly:

   Your fly is open/down.

    你的拉链没有拉上。Fly 可做拉链讲。

}  Last summer I spent days in the garden watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prize peach tree. The tree has grown against a warm wall on a sheltered side of the house. I am especially proud of it, not only because it has survived several severe winters, but because it occasionally produces luscious peaches. During the summer, I noticed that the leaves of the tree were beginning to wither. Clusters of tiny insects called aphids were to be found on the underside of the leaves. They were visited by a large colony of ants which obtained a sort of honey from them.

}  One of Mary’s prize possessions was a little white lamb which… (lesson 16)prize plants. (lesson 23)

When I noticed a huge number of snails taking a stroll on some of my

    prize 可以做珍贵讲，相当于presures

}  I immediately embarked on an experiment which, even though it failed to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated for twenty-four hours. I bound the base of the tree with sticky tape, making it impossible for the ants to reach the aphids. The tape was so sticky that they did not dare to cross it. For a long time. I watched them scurrying around the base of the tree in bewilderment. I even went out at midnight with a torch and noted with satisfaction (and surprise) that the ants were still swarming around the sticky tape without being able to do anything about it.

}  A – 80 to 100%   Exceptional performance
B  – 70 to 79%    Good performance
C  – 60 to 69%    Satisfactory performance
D  – 50 to 59%    Minimally competent  performance
F  – 0 to 49%       Failure

}  I got up early next morning hoping to find that the ants had given up in despair. Instead, I saw that they had discovered a new route. They were climbing up the wall of the house and then on to the leaves of the tree. I realized sadly that I had been completely defeated by their ingenuity. The ants had been quick to find an answer to my thoroughly unscientific methods!

}  I climbed, I don‘t know, like a billion stairs.

   我不知道爬了多少楼梯。

}  The Scandinavian countries are much admired all over the world for their enlightened social policies. Sweden has evolved an excellent system for protecting the individual citizen from highhanded or incompetent public officers. The system has worked so well, that it has been adopted in other countries too.

}  I reaIIy admire your whoIe studying attitude.
我真的很欣赏你学习的态度。admire 一般大家都认为它有两个意思，一是欣赏；二是佩服，其实把它当成欣赏的意思就行了，因为这两个意思并不冲突。你欣赏一个人，多少都有点佩服。
I’ve admired your work for years. You’ve done some really amazing stuff.

   要注意这里用的是完成时，但没有表达完成时的意思。完成时可以表达完成，持续的发生。像I’ve missed you跟I miss you 差不多；还有一个就是老外经常说的 I’ve missed you already 还没有分开就开始想你了。

}  The Swedes were the first to recognize that public officials like civil servants, police officers, health inspectors or tax-collectors can make mistakes or act over-zealously in the belief that they are serving the public.

}  Lending friends money is always a mistake.
借给朋友钱不是什么好事情。
You must be mistaken. mistake, I should‘ve told you sooner.
如果这里用 it was my fault(过错，错失)，意思就会有点变了。
It was a simple mistake. It could happen to anyone.

It was my

   你犯的这个错误，很多人都有可能犯。这是开导人，安慰人的一句话。

}  As long ago as 1809, the Swedish Parliament introduced a scheme to safeguard the interest of the individual. A parliamentary committee representing all political parties appoints a person who is suitably qualified to investigate private grievances against the State. The official title of the person is ‘Justiteombudsman’, but the Swedescommonly refer to him as the ‘J.O.’ or ‘Ombudsman’. The Ombudsman is not subject to political pressure.

}  Be subject to

   be subject to 这里to后面的内容，就是在……的笼罩之下，威力之下
What online sales are subject to sales tax?
什么东西在线销售需要销售费？
Fees in this catalog are subject to change without prior notice

   在这个表格里边的费用有可能不提前通知。prior notice 提前通知

}  He investigates complaints large and small that come to him from all levels of society. As complaints must be made in writing, the Ombudsman receives an average of 1,200 letters a year. He has eight lawyer assistants to help him and examines every single letter in detail.

}  you gotta admit that our relationship is ah, is hitting a new level now.
你不得不承认我们的关系现在又进一步。
I want our love to grow before we move on to the next level.
我希望我们的爱能跟上我们关系的发展。
根本就不是一个 level

}  There is nothing secretive about the Ombudsman’s work for his correspondence is open to public inspection. If a citizen’s complaint is justified, the Ombudsman will act on his behalf. The action he takes varies according to the nature of the complaint. He may gently reprimand an official or even suggest to parliament that a law be altered. The following case is a typical example of the Ombudsman’s work.

}  On behalf of
On behalf of everyone, I salute you.
我代表大家向你致敬。
I‘m calling on behalf of Jacky, and is Kelly in today?
我是代表Jacky 打电话，Kelly 在吗？

}  A foreigner living in a Swedish village wrote to the Ombudsman complaining that he had been ill-treated by the police, simply because he was a foreigner. The Ombudsman immediately wrote to the Chief of Police in the district asking him to send a record of the case. There was nothing in the record to show that the foreigner’s complaint was justified and the Chief of Police strongly denied the accusation.

}  simply because :

   同样的意思在口语里边用的更多的是just because
Just because you don’t understand something, doesn’t make it wrong.
你不懂，不理解，但不能说那是错的。
Just because you guys had a fight, it does not justify her sleeping with someone.
不能仅仅因为你们吵了一架，你就和别人睡觉，这是不正当的。

}  It was impossible for the Ombudsman to take action, but when he received a similar complaint from another foreigner in the same village, he immediately sent one of his lawyers to investigate the matter. The lawyer ascertained that a policeman had indeed dealt roughly with foreigners on several occasions. The fact that the policeman was prejudiced against foreigners could not be recorded in the official files. It was only possible for the Ombudsman to find this out by sending one of his representatives to check the facts.

}  nothing is impossible
anything is possible
同样的意思。有一次我看一个广告，意思一样，但是表达得比较洋气——

}  Impossible is nothing

}  The policeman in question was severely reprimanded and was informed that if any further complaints were lodged against him, he would be prosecuted. The Ombudsman’s prompt action at once put an end to an unpleasant practice which might have gone unnoticed.

}  Prosecute/sue

   这两个是同义词
I’ll sue you.
I am gonna take you to count.
you’ll be hearing from my lawyer.
这几个是同样的意思，表示“我会告你的”“咱们法庭见”
(pending) charges
charges 定罪；pending charges 是指正在调查你，又发现了新的罪名，但是还没找到证据.
Convicted/proved or declared guilty

    被证明，被法官判有罪
the current situation is that no matter what, you’ll be convicted.
现在的情况是，不管怎么样，你都会被判有罪。