1. drag讨厌
What a drag! There’s nothing to do here!
真是讨厌!这里没什么可干的!
2. a drop in the bucket沧海一粟
The amount of money Mr. Howell spent on a new Rolls-Royce was just a drop in the bucket compared to his annual salary.
豪威尔先生卖一辆辛劳斯莱斯汽车的钱和他的年薪相比不过是沧海一粟。
3. drop dead去死
Suzy told Mike, “Drop dead!” when he kept teasing her about her weight.
麦克不停的取笑苏齐的体重时,苏齐说:“你去死吧!”
4. down and out穷困潦倒
Sarah was down and out after losing her job and her apartment.
萨拉丢掉工作和房子后变得穷困潦倒。
5. all that jazz诸如此类
He only cares about basketball, TV, girls, and all that jazz.
他只关心篮球、电视、女孩这一类事情。
美国口语俚语(24)
November 16th, 2011
ghostlei 美国口语俚语(23)
November 13th, 2011
ghostlei 1. kick around讨论;多考虑一下
Let’s kick around a few more proposals before we come to a final decision.
我们最后决定之前多考虑几个方案吧。
2. junkie吸毒者
The junkie stole money in order to buy more drugs.
这名吸毒者为了买更多的毒品而偷钱。
3. put away大吃大喝
I’ve never seen anybody put away so much food and still look so thin.
我从未见过这么能吃的人还这么瘦。
4. put a move on挑逗
He tried to put the moves on her, but she turned him down.
他想要挑逗她,但她拒绝了他。
5. put one’s ass on the line两肋插刀,不惜一切
I put my ass on the line for you. I know you’ll do the same for me someday.
我为你两肋插刀,我知道有朝一日你也会为我这么做。
美国口语俚语(22)
November 10th, 2011
ghostlei 1. beats me我不知道
Beats me. We haven’t learned that.
我不知道。我们还没学过那个。
2. beat it走开
Beat it! I’m busy right now.
走开!我现在正忙着。
3. beat a dead horse白费口舌,白费力气
I’ve already made up my mind. There’s no sense beating a dead horse.
我已经下了决心,不要再白费口舌了。
4. John Hancock签名
Put your John Hancock right here.
请在这里签名。
5. keep it under raps保密
Don’t tell anyone about the party. Let’s just keep it under eraps.
不要吧晚会的事告诉任何人。这件事情不要泄漏出去。
美国口语俚语(21)
November 7th, 2011
ghostlei 1. hunky-dory没问题
Everything here is hunky-dory. Don’t worry.
别担心,这里一切都没问题。
2. I kid you not我不骗你
I kid you not. I saw this woman talking to her hand.
我不骗你。我看见这个女人跟她的手说话。
3. pop one’s cork大发脾气
I’ve never seen Teresa pop her cork before. I always thought she was a very laid-back person.
我从来没见过Teresa发脾气。我原来一直以为她是个好好小姐。
4. poke one’s nose into something多管闲事
Gladys is always poking her nose into other people’s business. I don’t see how she has time to take care of her own affairs.
格拉迪斯总是爱管闲事,我不知道她怎么会有时间处理她自己的事。
5. pull a fast one欺骗
He tried to pull a fast one on us, but we caught on before he got away with it.
他想要欺骗我们,但在他阴谋得逞之前我们就知道了。
阅读难点关键句(中英对照) 九
November 4th, 2011
ghostlei 162. The quick adoption of the scheme may have indicated less about the state lawmaker’s respect for working people than about a fear of risking their anger.
163. In the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. This is perhaps the first generation of American youngsters who have never been close by during the birth of a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member.
164. We found out that patients who had been dealt with openly and frankly were better able to cope with the approach of death and finally to reach a true stage of acceptance prior to death.
165. The statuses we assume often vary with the people we encounter, and change through life.
166. This means that we fit out actions to those of other people based on a constant mental process of appraisal and interpretation.
167. I would keep putting my dream to the test-even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure.
168. Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words…”
169. This self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds made to them by other people.”
170. Psychologists take opposing views of how external rewards, from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity.
171. But it’s easy to kill creativity by giving rewards for poor performance or creating too much anticipation for rewards.
172. The fridge’s effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant.
173. It may then take us a long time to render it intelligent by loading in the right software or by altering the architecture but that too will happen.
174. As the intelligence of robots increase to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers.
175. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.
176. Later, people tried to lift a building off its foundation, and insert rubber and steel between the building and its foundation to reduce the impact of ground vibrations.
177. If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach, their children may grow confused and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.
178. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.
179. “In Japan, a most competitive society with stronger discipline than ours.” Says Isaac Stern. “children are ready to test their limits every day in many fields, including music.”
180. What does the phrase ‘learning to use a computer’ mean? It sounds like ‘learning to drive a car’; that is , it sounds as if there is some set of definite skills that, once acquired, enable one to use a computer.
第九部分(161-180句译文)
161、社会主义者强烈要求结束“薪水奴隶制”,而无政府主义者高唱“炸药”的价值,像Samuel和McGuire这样的中间道路者显得相对温和。
162、“劳动日”很快被采纳,更大程度上表明国家法律制定者害怕激起工人阶级的愤怒,并非体现对工人阶级的尊重。
163、在过去,孩子们对出生和死亡非常熟悉,是他们生活的一部分。现在的孩子也许是从未目睹婴儿的降生和亲人的死亡的第一代美国人。
164、我们发现那些被公开坦诚地对待的病人在对待死亡的临近和接受死亡的问题上处理得更好。
165、我们采取的身份是随着接触的人的不同而改变,且一生都在变化。
166、这意味着我们在不断判断和解释别人的行为的心理过程中进行自己的行为。
167、我要不断地将梦想付诸实际的测试—尽管这意味着不确定和对失败的恐惧。
168、一切尝试对多话的小孩的发展追踪从他们说的第一句话开始……
169、这种自我模仿使他们故意模仿别人对他们说话的声音。
170、外部奖励,从热情洋溢的话语表扬到冷冰冰的现金,如何影响一个人的动机和创造力,对这一点,心理学家们采取完全不同的观点。
171、但是如果对绩效差的业绩也进行奖励或者让人们对奖励有太多的预期,是很容易抹杀创造性的。
172、冰箱对环境的影响是显而易见的,而它对促进人们幸福的贡献却是微不足道的。
173、装载正确的软件来使它智能化可能要花费我们很长的时间,或者也可以改变它的结构,但同样的情况也会发生。
174、由于机器人的智能增长到了人脑的程度,加上通过规模经济降低了生产成本,我们可以使用它们来拓展前沿。
175、在将来,通过新一代人创造的财富和科技,建设一座可以容纳千百万人的人造大型太空站也是可以的。
176、后来,人们试着把建筑物从其基地上撑起来,在建筑物和地基间灌入橡胶和钢铁以减少地表震动的影响。
177、如果他们对于自己吹捧的东西不认真对待也不去执行的话,他们的孩子将在糊里糊涂中长大,并且当他们对自己进行一些思考的时候,他们会在情感上有不安全感并认为他们遭受了某种程度的欺骗。
178、因为所有这些原因,要进行有效读报的话,既要得到你需要的信息又不浪费时间,需要选择和应用良好的阅读技能和自我了解。
179、“在日本,是一个比我们更有纪律性和竞争性的社会。”Isaac Stern说。“孩子们每天都准备在各个领域内冲刺极限,包括音乐。”
180、“学习使用计算机”这个短语是什么意思呢?听起来像是“学习驾驶汽车”也就是说,好象里面有一套确定的技能,一旦获得,就会使用计算机了
阅读难点关键句(中英对照) 八
November 1st, 2011
ghostlei 142. People can be relatively rich only if others are relatively poor, and since power is concentrated in the hands of the rich, public policies will continue to reflect their interests rather than those of the poor.
143. Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways.
144. In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, Notions of male superiority are hard to maintain.
145. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by co-operation rather than by the “battle of the sexes.”
146. The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family, needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.
147. Besides serving the indefinite needs of its native speakers, English is a language in which some of important works in science, technology, and other fields are being produced, and not always by native speakers.
148. And someone with a history of doing more rather than less will go into old age more cognitively sound than someone who has not had an active mind.
149. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward.
150. Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious signs, yet some of their worst enemies slowly approach them unnoticed.
151. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage ––a person may feel perfectly well, but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged, and this will not be discovered until the birth of deformed (畸形) children or even grandchildren.
152. In the end , only 7 out of 19 regular Cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all for trails. The diet-Cola drinkers did a little worse – only 7 of 27 identified all four sample correctly.
153. Taste is such a subjective matter that we don’t usually conduct preference tests for food.
154. It seems simple enough to distinguish between the organism and the surrounding environment and to separate forces acting on an organism into those that are internal and biological and those that are external and environmental.
155. But in actual practice this system breaks down in many ways, because the organism and the environment are constantly interacting so that the environment is modified by the orgainism and vice versa (反之亦然).
156. In the case of man, the difficulties with the environment concept are even more complicated because we have to deal with man as an animal and with man as a bearer(持有者) of culture.
157. If we look at man as an animal and try to analyze the environmental forces that are acting on the organism, we find that we have to deal with things like climate, soil, plants, and such like factors common to all biological situations; but we also find, always, very important environmental influences that we can only class as “cultural”, which modify the physical and biological factors.
158. We thus easily get into great difficulties from the necessity of viewing culture, at one moment, as a part of the man and, at another moment, as a part of the environment.
159. Unaware that their own ability has developed through the years, they assume the new generation of young people must be hopeless in this respect.
160 Since this concern about the decline and fall of the English language is not perceived as a generation phenomenon but rather as something new and peculiar to today’s young people, it natrually follows that today’s English teachers cannot be doing their jobs.
第八部分(141-160句译文)
141、尽管许多字典将有些词汇定义为“过时”或者说“只作口语用”,但许多人对某些词汇的用法不解时,当他们查完字典,却往往发现许多知名作家也在作品中正式使用。
142、人们只能是相对富裕,而另一些人就相对贫穷了。既然权力是集中在富人的手中,公共政策就将继续反应他们的利益而不是穷人的利益了。
143、社会变化在有多种人群汇集的社会里比仅有相似人群的社会里更容易发生。
144、如果一个家庭里面男女的角色不是明显地分开,家务事由双方分担的话,大男子主义就很难维持了。
145、在这样的家庭中长大的孩子们比他们的父母更容易参与到以合作为特征的社会中去,而不靠什么“性别之争”。
146、家庭就像是一个合作式的企业一样,很难制定统一的规则,因为每个家庭都需要自己的独特的解决问题的办法。
147、除了以英语为母语的人大量地使用英语外,很多重要的科学、技术文献也是由英语写成,而且作者不仅仅是以英语为母语的人。
148、比起那些头脑不活跃的人来说,年轻时喜欢尽量从事更多工作的人年老后更有认识力。
149、完美主义者倾向于为了一点小事花费比事情本身更大的代价去完成。
150、人类自然地对于那些有明显特征的疾病有深刻的印象,然而他们最可怕的敌人往往在未被人注意时慢慢接近他们。
151、问题是很难明确辐射的伤害—一个人可能感觉良好,但他(她)的性器官细胞可能受到损伤,而且有些直到生下畸形儿甚至是畸形孙儿才会被发现。
152、最后,只有7/19的传统可乐爱好者正确地辨别出了他们的品牌,而低糖可乐爱好者水平更差—只有7/27的人辩出了四种混合的品牌。
153、口味是个非常主观的问题,所以对于食物我们一般不进行偏好测试。
154、区分周围的环境或者有机物体,以及分辨作用于有机物的影响力是生物内部的还是来自于外部环境的,看起来非常简单。
155、但是在实际中这套系统在很多方面失败了,因为有机物和环境在不断相互作用,所以环境在不断被有机物修改,反过来也是一样。
156、对于人类来说,环境概念的问题更加复杂。因为我们不得不把人类当为动物,又不得不把人当为文化的持有者来对待。
157、如果我们将人类看作动物来尝试解释作用在有机物上的环境影响力的话,我们不得不处理像气候,土壤,植物和一些对于所有生物环境来说共同的因素,但我们也发现,“文化”的影响也非常重大,它可以改变物理和生物因素。
158、所以我们很容易在对待文化的问题上陷入困境,有时候,我们将其看作人类的一部分,有时候,又作为环境的一部分。
159、因为不了解这些你那里他们的能力已经进步了,他们认为在这个方面新一代的年轻人肯定没有希望了。
160、既然这种关于英语语言的衰退的担忧并不被看作一个一代人的现象,而是特指对于今天的年轻人的一种新现象,所以可以很自然地认为现在的英语老师工作做得不好。

