}      Customs Officers are quite tolerant these days, but they can still stop you when you are going through the Green Channel and have nothing to declare. Even really honest people are often made to feel guilty.

}      Declare:
declaration
词性不同，发音不同
philosophy/philosophical
catastrophe/catastrophic

   类似这样的词，词性不同，发音不同，一定要多注意积累，这样才能说得比较好，发音比较好听。

}      Guilty:

    有罪的
innocent

    无辜的

}      The hardened professional smuggler, on the other hand, is never troubled by such feelings, even if he has five hundred gold watches hidden in his suitcase. When I returned from abroad recently, a particularly officious young Customs Officer clearly regarded me as a smuggler.

}      Professional/amateur
 专业的      业余的

}      Trouble:
M:Would you like a copy of this article?
W:Thanks,if it‘s not too much trouble.
M: 要不要给你拷贝一下这篇文章？

  W: 可以，如果不是很麻烦的话。

I didn‘t mean to cause you so much trouble.
我实在不是故意给你到来那么多麻烦；或者说我实在不知道会给你带来这么多麻烦。是比较客气的一句话。

}      suitcase :

     手提的公文包
I’d like a larger suitcase than this one.
我想要一个比这大点的公文包。
I just arrived, but my suitcases were put on a later plane.
我已经到了，但是我的公文包在下一班飞机上。

}        ‘Have you anything to declare?’ he asked, looking me in the eye.
  ‘No’, I answered confidently.
   Would you mind unlocking this suitcase please?‘
  ‘Not at all,’ I answered.

}      Looking me in the eye:

   look 后面不总是要跟at, 也可以不跟at。它后面跟词的时候，主要是像这样的用法：looking me in the eye ，就是中文常说的“看着我的眼睛”。
You look me in the eye and tell me, without blinking, that you‘re not breaking up with her. No blinking.
你看着我的眼睛，告诉我你没有说谎。look 后面不但可以跟词，还可以跟从句，如下：

}      Look at them, look how happy they are.

   看看他们，看看把他们高兴得。

}       The Officer went through the case with great care. All the things I had packed so carefully were soon in a dreadful mess. I felt sure I would never be able to close the case again. Suddenly, I saw the Officer’s face light up. He had spotted a tiny bottle at the bottom of my case and he pounced on it with delight.

}       Mess:
Excuse all this mess.

   这句话可以在别人去你家作客的时候说，就是指特别乱，请你原谅。
Excuse my appearance.
衣冠整洁是一种礼貌，有时候你没穿整齐而有人来了，这时候你就可以说这句话。

}      Messy/disorganized 

}                ‘Perfume, eh?’ he asked sarcastically. ‘You should have declared that. Perfume is not exempt from import duty.‘
 ‘But it isn’t perfume,’ I said. ‘It’s hair gel.’ Then I added with a smile, ‘It’s a strange mixture I make myself.’
    As I expected, he did not believe me.
  ‘Try it!’ I said encouragingly.

}      Sarcastic:
→joke around all the time
经常开玩笑，无论你说什么他都老不正经，很难serious.

}      Try it:
I’ll have a try at it.
I’ll try.
I’ll take a shot at it.
I’ll give it a shot.

  这几句话都是同一个意思，表示我会试一下。

}        The officer unscrewed the cap and put the bottle to his nostrils. He was greeted by an unpleasant smell which convinced him that I was telling the truth. A few minutes later, I was able to hurry away with precious chalk marks on my baggage.

}      Convince:

   说服
That‘s not the way to convince you.
 那样是说服不了你的。
That would be a lot more convincing.

    那样的话就更加有说服力了。

}      The great ship, Titanic, sailed for New York from Southampton on  April 10th, 1912. She was carrying 1,316 passengers and crew of 891. Even by modern standards, the 46,000 ton Titanic was a colossal ship. At that time, however, she was not only the largest ship that had ever been built, but was regarded as unsinkable, for she had sixteen watertight compartments. Even if two of these were flooded, she would still be able to float. The tragic sinking of this great liner will always be remembered, for she went down on her first voyage with heavy loss of life.

}      ship that had ever been built :

   这种用法在美国口语中非常常见，见一下两个例子：
This is the most romantic disease I‘ve ever had.
 这是我得过的最浪漫的病。
You’re the most beautiful bride I’ve ever seen.

    你是我见过的最美丽的新娘。

}      Four days after setting out, while the Titanic was sailing across the icy water of the North Atlantic, a huge iceberg was suddenly spotted by a lookout. After the alarm had been given, the great ship turned sharply to avoid a direct collision.The Titanic turned just in time, narrowly missing the immense wall of ice which rose over 100 feet out of the water beside her. Suddenly, there was a slight trembling sound from below, and the captain went down to see what had happened.

}      from below:  (介词+副词连用)

   注意一下这个词，这个词很多时候都念做/blэu/,也可以念成

    /bil эu / ，但是我见得多的都是念做/blэu/。from below 是介词+副词的连用。
It appears from nowhere!
它不知道从哪里出现的。
I saw them from outside.
我在外面看到他们。
Someone in here?

    有人在吗？这几句话后面都是介词+副词。

}      The noise had been so faint that no one thought that the ship had been damaged. Below, the captain realized to his horror that the Titanic was sinking rapidly, for five of her sixteen watertight compartments had already been flooded! The order to abandon ship was given and hundreds of people plunged into the icy water. As there were not enough lifeboats for everybody, 1,500 lives were lost.

}      Faint:

   faint 是指微弱。我给出的这句话是托福听力上的原句。意思是说有的物体太微弱了，仅仅用望远镜才能看到他们。
Objects that are too faint to be seen by just looking through a telescope.

}                Cats never fail to fascinate human beings. They can be friendly and affectionate towards humans, but they lead mysterious lives of their own as well. They never become submissive like dogs and horses. As a result, humans have learned to respect feline independence. Most cats remain suspicious of humans all their lives. One of the things that fascinates us most about cats is the popular belief that they have nine lives. Apparently, there is a good deal of truth in this idea. A cat’s ability to survive falls is based on fact.
 

}                humans :
Animals dressed as humans.

   扮成人的动物。human 这个词在第本课重复出现过，和human-being 是同一个意思。    

Cats never fail to fascinate human beings.
(lesson 9)

You’re a horrible human being, and bad things should happen to you.

    你是一个坏人，坏事应该发生在你身上。

}                Recently the New York Animal Medical Center made a study of 132 cats over a period of five months. All these cats had one experience in common: they had fallen off high buildings, yet only eight of them died from shock or injuries.

}                Period:

   period 有句号的意思。我举的这两个例子就是由句号引进来的。
Will you stop complaining? We can’t afford a luxury car. Period!
你能不能不要再发牢骚了？我买不起好车，不要再说了。
How many times do I have to tell you? I don’t love you and I don’t want to marry you. Period!

   我要跟你说多少遍？我不爱你，我不会跟你结婚，不要多讲了！

}                Of course, New York is the ideal place for such an interesting study, because there is no shortage of tall buildings. There are plenty of high-rise windowsills to fall from! One cat, Sabrina, fell 32 storys, yet only suffered from a broken tooth. ‘Cats behave like well-trained paratroopers.’ a doctor said.

}                to fall from :

   这里我找了几个以介词结尾的句子，这样的句子中国人很少说，老外常这样说。
There‘s something that we really need to talk about.
 句尾的 talk about, about指什么？就是指something。
There’s nothing to worry about.
 句尾的worry about 什么？Worry about nothing.
You are the person I was meant to spend the rest of my life with.

   句尾 with 谁？With the person,you.

}                It seems that the further cats fall, the less they are likely to injure themselves. In a long drop, they reach speeds of 60 miles an hour and more. At high speeds, falling cats have time to relax. They stretch out their legs like flying squirrels. This increases their air-resistance and reduces the shock of impact when they hit the ground.

}                falling :
falling confetti:

   庆祝或典礼时撒的彩色的

   纸屑就是falling confetti。

   很好听的一个词。