}  Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs in civilized society. Without it, nothing could ever be brought to a conclusion; everything would be in a state of chaos. Only in a sparsely-populated rural community is it possible to disregard it.In ordinary living, there can be some tolerance of unpunctuality. The intellectual, who is working on some abstruse problem, has everything coordinated and organized for the matter in hand. He is therefore forgiven if late for a dinner party.

}  sparsely-populated:

    人口分布稀疏
densely-populated

    人口分布密集；这两个是一对反义词。

}  Intellectual:
intellectual property right

    知识产权
(Copyright /Patents /Trademarks etc.)
这些都是只是产权的范畴

}  Coordinator

    协调人。国外有个这样的职务

}  But people are often reproached for unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine. It is hard for energetic, quick-minded people to waste time, so they are often tempted to finish a job before setting out to keep an appointment.

}  Appointment:
I have an appointment.
我有一个约会（比如看医生之类约好的东西）
I have a date.
Date 是指男女之间的约会。
I have a previous engagement.
我以前跟人约好了时间，相当于I had an appointment差不多。
I sort of have plans tonight.

   这是拒绝别人的话，有人约你，你可以这样说“我晚上已经有计划了。

}  If no accidents occur on the way, like punctured tires, diversions of traffic, sudden descent of fog, they will be on time. They are often more industrious, useful citizens than those who are never late. The over-punctual can be as much a trial to others as the unpunctual. The guest who arrives half an hour too soon is the greatest nuisance. Some friends of my family had this irritating habit. The only thing to do was ask them to come half an hour later than the other guests. Then they arrived just when we wanted them.

}  descent/decent
a decent job

   一份体面的工作
are you decent?

   比如别人正在里面换衣服，你不确定他是否换好，你可以敲敲门问这句话，意思是你已经换好衣服了吗；已经体面了吗；可以见人了吗，是很客气的一句话。

}  Sort order ( office access )

    排序，像Office 软件有一个 office access，它是对数据的排序，如——
descending order  (A B C … X Y Z)
ascending order  (Z Y X … C B A)

    是一个简单的数据库
 

}  If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortably early than even a fraction of a minted too late. Although being early may mean wasting a little time, this will be less than if you miss the train and have to wait an hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration of arriving at the very moment when the train is drawing out of the station and being unable to get on it.

}  wasting :
we are just wasting each other’s time.
我觉得我们是在相互浪费时间。
Do you think I’m just wasting my life with this acting thing?

   你觉得我做表演这个事业是不是在浪费时间呢？说这句话的时候可能是心情比较沮丧的时候。比如说你是做表演的，但是一直当不了大明星，那可能就会问朋友这样的话。

}  An even harder situation is to be on the platform in good time for a train and still to see it go off without you. Such an experience befell a certain young girl the first time she was traveling alone.

}  this isn‘t the first time somebody’s said something to me about this.
这已经不是第一次有人这样跟我说了。
do you realise this is the first time in my life I’m doing something I actually care about ?

   你知不知道这是我生命中做的第一件我非常在意的事情？

}  She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due, since her parents had impressed upon her that it would be unforgivable to miss it and cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeys to meet her. She gave her luggage to a porter and showed him her ticket. To her horror he said that she was two hours too soon. She felt in her handbag for the piece of paper on which her father had written down all the details of the journey and gave it to the porter.

}  Out reports are due next Friday

    due 到期
(next Friday is the due date for our reports)
(next Friday is the deadline for our reports)
括号里的这两句话意思一样，都是指我们下周五要交这份报告。
There is a fine if the reserved library books are even one hour overdue.
这些书即使迟还了一个小时也要交罚款。Overdue 过期；fine 罚款
when is the baby due?

    孩子生么时候生？

}  He agreed that a train did come into the station at the time on the paper and that it did stop, but only to take on mail, not passengers. The girl asked to see a timetable, feeling sure that her father could not have made such a mistake.

}  timetable / schedule
时间表。用得更广的是schedule
course timetable 

   在国外上课时，会给你一个小册子，上面写着一些course,几点上课，上多长时间等，这个就是course timetable.
Fall/Winter 2007/2008.
Spring/Summer 2008
国外的学期一年分为两段。一个是fall/winter, 它是指9月到来年4月；剩下的5月到9月是spring/summer, 这个时期你可以上也可以选择不上。主要的学习时期是9月到4月。
something’s coming up expectedly, We‘re gonna have to reschedule!
有些事情发生了，估计我们要重新订一个时间表。
Itinerary: travel plan

   旅游时订的时间表

}  The porter went to fetch one and arrive back with the station master, who produced it with a flourish and pointed out a microscopic ‘o’ beside the time of the arrival of the train at his station; this little ‘o’ indicated that the train only stopped for mail. Just as that moment the train came into the station. The girl, tears streaming down her face, begged to be allowed to slip into the guard’s van. But the station master was adamant: rules could not be broken and she had to watch that train disappear towards her destination while she was left behind.

}  Master
a master’s degree.

    研究生文凭
Wedding master of ceremonies

    主持婚礼的神父
be master of your fate

    做你命运的主人

}  Van

}  I feel so left out.

    left out 不合群，落后了。比如说大家都选了一门课学习，你没有。时间长了，大家在一起谈论这东西时，你就接不上话了，这时候可能就有这种感觉“I feel so left out.”

}  People tend to amass possessions, sometimes without being aware of doing so. Indeed they can have a delightful surprise when they find something useful which they did not know they owned. Those who never have to move house become indiscriminate collectors of what can only be described as clutter.

}  Surprise:
What a nice surprise! What are you doing here?

   What are you doing here?并不是字面语。比如你并没有想到会在一个地方碰到一个人，这时候说这句话，就是指“你怎么在这里”，是没有想到的，有点吃惊。

}  They leave unwanted objects in drawers, cupboards and attics for years, in the belief that they may one day need just those very things. As they grow old, people also accumulate belongings for two other reasons, lack of physical and mental energy, both of which are essential in turning out and throwing away, and sentiment.

}  Wanted:
W: Since when do you read the Sunday Times?
M: Since I discovered its big help-wanted section.
W: 你从什么时候开始看 the Sunday Times?

    M: 自从我发现它有一个big help-wanted 。

}  Since when did you start smoking cigars?
你从什么时候开始抽雪茄？
Since when do you care who I‘m going out with?
你从什么时候开始介意我跟谁约会了？
A:Since when do you watch the news?
B:Since they hired a very hot weather girl.

    A: 你从什么时候开始看新闻了？

    B: 自从我看到报到天气的那个女孩特别漂亮。

     since 可以直接放在when 前面来问自从……

}  They leave unwanted objects in drawers, cupboards and attics for years, in the belief that they may one day need just those very things. As they grow old, people also accumulate belongings for two other reasons, lack of physical and mental energy, both of which are essential in turning out and throwing away, and sentiment.

}  Wanted:
W: Since when do you read the Sunday Times?
M: Since I discovered its big help-wanted section.
W: 你从什么时候开始看 the Sunday Times?

    M: 自从我发现它有一个big help-wanted 。

}  Since when did you start smoking cigars?
你从什么时候开始抽雪茄？
Since when do you care who I‘m going out with?
你从什么时候开始介意我跟谁约会了？
A:Since when do you watch the news?
B:Since they hired a very hot weather girl.

    A: 你从什么时候开始看新闻了？

    B: 自从我看到报到天气的那个女孩特别漂亮。

     since 可以直接放在when 前面来问自从……

}  Things owned for a long time are full of associations with the past, perhaps with relatives who are dead, and so they gradually acquire a value beyond their true worth.

}  (For/over the past couple days) , people have  been avoiding me.
过去几天，大家都躲着我。avoid 这里是躲的意思。
You can‘t be mad (about the past) .
过去了的事情，你就不要再生气了。
I have loved her (in the past) .
我爱过她。
I opened the door (to the past) .
这里 the past 前面用的哦是to, 因为前面是 the door
That’s a blast (from the past).

}  Some things are collected deliberately in the home in an attempt to avoid waste. Among these I would list string and brown paper, kept by thrifty people when a parcel has been opened, to save buying these two requisites. Collecting small items can easily become a mania.

}  requisites :
A:Is John registered for biochemistry next semester?
B:I’m not sure. As far as I know, he hasn’t taken all the prerequisites yet.

   A: John 是不是已经选了下学期的生物化学了？

   B: 我不能确定，据我所知，他那些 prerequisites 还没选呢。

   requisites 前面加上pre 变成了另外一个词。在国外选课的时候，有的课你要先学了其他的课才能选，这个其他的课就是prerequisites。那么例句里B说的话言外之意就是John还没有选下学期的生物化学。

}  I know someone who always cuts sketches out from newspapers of model clothes that she would like to buy if she had the money. As she is not rich, the chances that she will ever be able to afford such purchases are remote; but she is never sufficiently strong-minded to be able to stop the practice. It is a harmless habit, but it litters up her desk to such an extent that every time she opens it, loose bits of paper fall out in every direction.

}  Chance:
There is a good chance they are going to get married this month.
很有可能他们这个月要结婚。
I think there is a good chance that they will get married before we do.
我认为很可能他们结婚会赶在我们前面。
The way you eat. You have a fat chance of losing any weight.

    你这个吃法，很难减肥。Fat chance 跟减肥无关，只是本身就是这个说法，指几率不大；good chance 很大的可能性。

}  Collecting as a serious hobby is quite different and has many advantages. It provides relaxation for leisure hours, as just looking at one’s treasures is always a joy. One does not have to go outside for amusement, since the collection is housed at home. Whatever it consists of, stamps, records, first editions of books, china, glass, antique furniture, pictures, model cars, stuffed birds, toy animals, there is always something to do in connection with it, from finding the right place for the latest addition, to verifying facts in reference books. This hobby educates one not only in the chosen subject, but also in general matters which have some bearing on it.

}  Verify  两次印象

    跨国的现金和支票拿到银行存，不是当时就能拿出来，它需要一段时间去确保，验证这个钱。当时银行告诉我，这个词叫做verify; 另外一个是在网上付款的时候，国外很多公司都会给你打电话来确认你就是持卡人，这个确认用的也是verify。

}  There are also other benefits. One wants to meet like-minded collectors, to get advice, to compare notes, to exchange articles, to show off the latest find. So one’s circle of friends grows. Soon the hobby leads to travel, perhaps to a meeting in another town, possibly a trip abroad in search of a rare specimen, for collectors are not confined to any one country.

}  like-minded :

   在本课是指志同道合，有共同的想法。注意一下这种组词的用法。
I’m getting more and more absent-minded each day.
我记性越来越不好了。
She is never sufficiently strong-minded

to be able to stop the practice.(lesson59)quick-minded

people to waste time. (lesson60)
 

}  Over the years, one may well become an authority on one’s hobby and will very probably be asked to give informal talks to little gatherings and then, if successful, to larger audiences. In this way self-confidence grows, first from mastering a subject, then from being able to talk about it. Collecting, by occupying spare time so constructively, makes a person contented, with no time for boredom.

}  Audience:
in the audience

   在观众席里面
in front of the audience

   在舞台上

The actors received a standing ovation for their performance.

    这里的 standing ovation 是指起立鼓掌。

}  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。