现代大学英语精读3 课后翻译答案

1. He is so devoted to his research that it never occurs to him that he will soon have to retire.

2. Many people have observed that without effective checks, we all have a tendency to abuse our power.

3. Some countries refuse to get involved in this dispute and they resent any foreign interference.

4. The control of sandstorms will involve a tremendous amount of work and money.

5. You have to take the local conditions into consideration when you apply these technologies.

6. All applicants will have to fill out these forms and mail in an application fee of 50 dollars.

7. Based on his careful observation of children’s behavior, he came to the conclusion that learning is a natural pleasure.

8. In a country of many nationalities, ethnic harmony requires very careful handling.

9. The government is determined to punish all the corrupt officials involved.

10. Cheating at/on exams does not occur very often. But when it does, the school takes a very tough position.

LESSON 4

1. Only in this way can we give a reasonable account of his strange behavior.

2. She claims to possess a magic power—the power to cure disease simply by the touch of her hand.

3. He appointed five people to handle the case. They formed a strong team. Within days they found in his possession rolls of euros, US dollars and large quantities of valuables the source of which the suspect could not account for.

4. In the story, the evil spirit often appears in the form of a pretty young lady.

5. He rolled up the painting, and said that he would not part with it for less than a million dollars.

6. Of all the qualified judges, I don’t know why she was appointed to the Supreme Court.

7. I don’t know enough to form an elaborate theory, but I’m sure that poverty alone cannot account for the increase of the crime rate.

8. A big stone suddenly rolled down the hill, so big that it smashed the truck to pieces.

9. I said we must roll up our sleeves and start working, but he just rolled his eyes philosophically and smiled.

10. In ancient times, our philosophers believed that a good king should be to the people as a good father is to his children—he must never treat them cruelly on any account.

1. A peasant woman found him lying unconscious in the grass. She carried him home, dressed his wound after a fashion, and hid him in the attic.

2. Had it not been for the shift of focus in our development policy from the coastal areas to the central and western regions, the lives of our national ethnic groups would not have improved so rapidly.

3. The defense lawyer claimed that the photo was completely out of focus and thus could not be used as evidence.

4. Visibility was exceedingly poor and no matter how I strained my eyes, I still couldn’t see far ahead. I decided that if I wanted to save my neck, it would be foolish to blunder on.

5. The mental strain was too much and she began to lose sleep and could not focus her attention on anything. Finally she had to go to see the doctor who claimed to be some sort of expert. The stupid man declared that her life was at sake and that she needed an immediate brain operation.

6. It was a close match. The final score was 98 to 96 in our favor. People were wild with joy because we had been defeated by their team so many times. For the first time we were able to settle an old score with them.

7. Both sides claimed to have scored a point in this confrontation. Neither side wanted to acknowledge defeat. But from the point of view of an outsider, actually neither side had scored. In this conflict, there was no winner.

8. The customer told the waitress that he would like to have some “concubines”—he meant to say cucumbers, but his vocabulary was limited. The waitress, however, seemed to know what he meant, for she asked, “Dressed or undressed?” (In English, “dress” can mean either “put on clothes” or “add some sauce to food for additional flavor”.)

LESSON 15

1. Import of that country’s beef was suspended because of the mad cow scare.

2. Robert was suspended from school for two weeks for drug abuse whereas Sam was expelled from selling drugs, which is a much more serious offence.

3. This is perhaps the longest and the most beautiful suspension bridge ever built. It is the envy of the world.

4. She was embarrassed when she received the award and averted her head so that people would not see her blush.

5. Many countries envy us for our success in averting a serious economic recession.

6. Michael Jordan is the envy of many black youngsters. He exhibited his talent very early in life. He is probably the greatest guard in the history of basketball.

7. Every summer, hundreds of thousands of people nationwide are sent to guard the riverbanks against floods.

8. The city of Xicheng was practically unguarded, and Zhuge Liang narrowly escaped being captured.

9. They took the Americans off guard by launching a sudden attack on a Sunday.

10. She is going to exhibit some of her most recent sculptures and when the exhibition is over, all the exhibits will be given to the National Art Gallery.

1. We owe too much to our new manager. Our company was heavily in debt when he took it over. We owed the bank more than 50 million.

2. I owe you an apology. I shouldn’t have acted the way I did the other day. I was a real fool.

3. Socrates, who was perhaps the most virtuous man of his time, was charged with corrupting youth. It bears out the truth that people are often blind to plain truth.

4. This otherwise popular man is now in a terrible fix. He has been accused of raping a black woman. He will be put on trial soon. If the verdict is guilty, he will have to serve a long prison term.

5. The Congress will vote on this new tax law next week. The Republicans are expected to vote against it. They seldom vote otherwise.

6. Kennedy was the first Catholic in US history to be voted into the White House. This was the clear evidence that people were more tolerant about their religious differences.

7. More and more people now favor the idea of making it a legal obligation for government officials to disclose their assets.

8. He knew that he would risk being isolated if he stuck to his view although he was entitled to it.

9. One of the issues that remain in question in the conflict between Israel and Palestine is the future of Jerusalem. There doesn’t seem to be any room for compromise.

10. It reminds me of how we all tired to “cook” steel in our backyard stoves in 1958. In hindsight we seemed to be completely out of our minds. Please remind me to tell you this story in our class tomorrow.

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