大学英语精读方法

1) 史密斯太太对我抱怨说，她经常发现与自己十六岁的女儿简直无法沟通。 Mrs. Smith complained to me that she often found it simply impossible to communicate with her 16-year-old daughter. 2) 我坚信，阅读简写的 (simplified) 英文小说是扩大我们词汇量的一种轻松愉快的方法。 I firmly believe that reading simplified English novels is an easy and enjoyable way of enlarging our vocabulary. 3) 我认为我们在保护环境不受污染 (pollution) 方面还做得不够。 I don’t think we’re doing enough to protect our environment from pollution. 4) 除了每周写作文外，我们的英语老师还给我们布置了八本书在暑假里阅读。 In addition to/Apart from writing compositions on a weekly basis, our English teacher assigned us eight books to read during the summer vacation. 5) 我们从可靠的消息来源获悉下学期一位以英语为母语的人将要教我们英语口语。 We’ve learned from reliable sources that a native English speaker is going to teach us spoken English next term/semester. 6) 经常看英语电影不仅会提高你的听力，而且还会帮助你培养说的技能。 Seeing English movies on a regular basis will not only improve your ear, but will also help you build your speaking skills. 7) 如果你们对这些学习策略有什么问题，请随便问我。我将更详细地进行讲解。 If you have any questions about these learning strategies, please feel free to ask me. And I’ll explain them in greater detail. 8) 那个加拿大女孩善于抓住每个机会讲汉语。这就是她为什么三年不到就熟练地掌握了汉语口语的原因。 1) you can receive better grades if you want to. Yes, even students of average intelligence can be top students without additional work. 如果你想得到更好的成绩，你就能得到。 是的，即便是智力一般的学生无需多下工夫也能成为尖子生。 2) of course, studying shouldn’t occupy all of free time on the schedule. It’s important to set aside time for relation, hobbies, and entertainment as well. 当然，学习不应该占用时间表上的全部空 余时间。留出时间休息，搞一点业余爱好和娱乐也是很重要的。 3) skimming helps double your reading speed and improves your compression as well. 略读可以帮助你将阅读速度提高一倍，同 时也可以提高你的理解能力。 4) if you receive your notes and textbook regularly, the material will become more meaningful and you will remember it longer. 如果你定期复习你的笔记和课本，你就能 更深刻地领会这些材料的内容，你的记忆也会保持得更长久。 5) Improving your study habits will improve your grades. 改进你的学习习惯将会提高你的学习成绩。 1) 幸好附近有家医院，我们立刻把他送到了那里。 Fortunately there was a hospital nearby and we took him there at once. 2) 胜利登上乔治岛 (George Island) 后，船长向指挥部 (the headquarters) 发了一份无线电报。 After succeeding in landing on George Island, the captain sent a radio message to the headquarters. 3) 他决心继续他的实验，不过这一次他将用另一种方法来做。 He is determined to continue his experiment but this time he'll do it another way. 4) 她在读这部小说时，不禁想起了她在农村度过的那五年。 When she read the novel, she couldn't help thinking of the five years she had spent in the countryside. 5) 玛丽觉得单靠自己的力量执行她的计划是困难的。 Mary thought it difficult to carry out her plan all by herself. 6) 我们认为他不能在一刻钟内走完那段距离，但他却成功地做到了这一点。 We didn't think he could cover the distance in a quarter of an hour, but he succeeded in doing it. 7) 甚至在他的医生告诉他患有肺癌之后，奇切斯特仍不肯放弃环球航行的宿愿。 Even after his doctor told him he had lung cancer, Chichester would not give up his old dream of sailing round the world. 8) 我正忙着做一种新的捕鼠 (rats) 装置时，马克走来拖着我出去看花展了。 I was busy making a new device for catching rats when Mark came and dragged me out to a flower show. 1) a challenge and something of an adventure are welcome whether you are 20 or 58, and preparing to swim the channel is far better than working in a supermarket, especially when you have a choice. 不管你是20岁还是58岁，都喜欢接受挑 战，干些带有冒险意味的事儿；而为横渡英吉利海峡做准备，远比在超市打工有意义，尤其是当你有所选择的时候。 2) it is this challenge that attracts about 100 swimmers a year , who are willing to speng time ,effort and money trying it. 正是这一挑战，每年吸引了100名左右的 游泳爱好者，他们心甘情愿地投入时间、精力和财力，一试身手。 3) once I set up a goal, I won’t give it up easily 我一旦确定了目，便不会轻易放弃。 4) she was having a tough time with the rough and cold water , when her trainer shout to her from the boat that he throught she should give up and get out of water 由于海浪汹涌，海水冰凉，她游得很艰 苦。这时她的教练在船上向她大声喊叫，说他认为她应该知难而退，弃水上船。 1) 那位名演员似乎很乐意在剧中扮演一个次要角色。 That famous actor seemed content to play a minor part in the play. 2) 国庆节要到了，咱们把寝室彻底(thorough)打扫一下吧。 National Day is round the corner. Let's give our bedroom a thorough clean. 3) 她非常勉强地同意让一位年轻医生为她做手术。She agreed, very reluctantly, to be operated on by a young doctor. 4) 他们已安排好让我们明天去游览长城，我相信我们在那儿一定会玩得很开心。 They've arranged for us to visit the Great Wall tomorrow. I'm sure we'll have a good time there (we'll enjoy ourselves there). 5) 老人读完信后失望之极，竟用颤抖的手指把它撕得粉碎。 After reading the letter the old man was so disappointed that he tore it into little bits with trembling fingers. 6) 老两口为他们的孙子感到骄傲，因为他在第28届奥运会上获得了两枚金牌和一枚铜 (bronze) 牌。 The old couple were proud of their grandson, who won two gold medals and a bronze at the 28th Olympic Games. 7) 即使他的祖母不能来参加他的生日宴会，她也会寄给他一件可爱的礼物。对这一点汤姆深信不疑。 Even if his grandmother could not come to his birthday party, she would send him a lovely present. Tom was sure of that. 8) 昨天是玛丽的二十岁生日。她父亲寄给她一双靴子，她母亲为她买了一盒巧克力 (chocolates)，而她的男朋友则带给她一束红玫瑰。 It was Mary's twentieth birthday yesterday. Her father sent her a pair of boots. Her mother bought her a box of chocolates. And her boyfriend brought her a bunch of roses. 1) also, while all the people have the same emotions the course of these emotions are different 再者，虽然所有的人都有着相同的情感， 但这些情感的起因却不尽相同。 2)the six birthday has special name because when people reach this time in life, the attitudes of their family and their community change toward them. 六十一岁生日之所以有个特别的名称，是 因为当人们进入人生的这一阶段时，家庭和社会对他们的态度便有所变化。 3)if they are not healthy and strong enough to live alone they live in special homes for old people 如果他们的身体不够健壮，不能单独生 活，那他们便住进特设的养老院。 4) there are ypung people and there are old people in korea and in north America, but it may be better to be young in north America and old in korea. 朝鲜和北美都有年轻人和老年人，但年轻 时也许待在北美为好，老年时则待在朝鲜为好。 1) 接受这份工作就得经常在周末上班，但约翰并不在意。 To take this job would involve working on weekends frequently, but John didn't mind. 2) 众所周知，肺癌至少部分地是由于吸烟过多而引起的。 It is well known that lung cancer is caused at least in part by smoking too much. 3) 我祖父母说，发明电视的那个人曾住在他们那个地段。 My grandparents said that the man who invented television had once lived in their neighborhood. 4) 我提议咱们会后马上去办公室找史密斯教授，邀请他参加我们的英语晚会。 I propose that we go to find Prof. Smith in his office right after the meeting and invite him to ourEnglish evening. 5) 她因那病开过两次刀，身体十分虚弱，几乎站不起来。 Having been operated on twice for the disease, she was so weakened that she could barely stand up. 6) 教育家们认为，伴随着电视机长大的一代人，在电视机前花的时间太多，以致没有足够的时间学习了。 Educators think that the generation growing up with television spend so much of their time in front of the TV that they do not have enough time to study. 7) 我真希望你能拿出一个比这更好的解决办法 (solution) 来。 I do hope that you can come up with a better solution than this one. 8) 乍一看，这幅画并不好，但经过仔细观察，我们才发现它的确是一幅杰作 (masterpiece)。 At first glance the picture didn't look very good, but after examining it carefully, we found that it was indeed a masterpiece. 1)she said she was never going back to school and that life without television wasn’t worth living.她说她决不再去学校了，还说生活中没有 电视机活着不值得。 2)what is good, I suppose, is that many people are concerned about tv’s influence and that we have power to change what we don’t like. 我认为好就好在很多人都很关心电视的影 响，而且对我们不喜欢的东西也有能力加以改变。 3) electricity they think, would make things too easy and spoil their way of life他们认为电这玩意儿会使很多事情变得太 容易，并会破坏他们的生活方式。 4) maybe they would be more interested in studying home and watching tv也许他们更乐于守在家里看电视。 1) 简从书架上拿了一本杂志，开始东一页西一页地随便翻阅。 Jane picked up a magazine from the bookshelf and started reading here and there at random. 2) 我随信附上这篇故事的几张插图。 With this letter I enclose some illustrations for the story. 3) 那幢古老的建筑物四周有一圈高墙。 The ancient building was enclosed by a high wall. 4) 格林大夫忙着研制一种治艾滋病 (AIDS) 的药物，但从下月起他就能安排时间在星期一上午看二十个左右的病人了。 Dr. Green is busy working on a cure for AIDS, but from next month on he'll be able to fit in twenty patients or so on Monday morning. 5) 他讲了个故事来说明为什么在详细查看其条款 (provisions) 之前决不要在任何合同上签字。 He told a story to illustrate why you should never sign any contract before you have examined its provisions in detail. 6) 他们老是对她说她有数学天才，她感到很不好意思。 She was embarrassed when they kept telling her she had a genius for mathe7) 天知道我们那个傻小子什么时候能中学毕业。 God knows when that dumb kid of ours is going to graduate from high school. 8) 亨利的最近一部小说和他女儿的第一本书都于三个月前出版，令他们惊讶的是，后者已经售出一百多万册。 Henry's latest novel and his daughter's first book were both published three months ago, and to their astonishment, the latter has already sold over a million copies. 1) you soon become engrossed in some book or other ,and usually it is only much later that ypu realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment –without buying a book ,of course 你很快就很专心地看起某本书来了，而通 常直到很久以后你才意识到你在那里消磨的时间太多了，必须赶紧离开去赴某个已忘记的约会——当然是一本书也没买。 2) this opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life I think . the main attraction of bookshop这种逃避日常生活现实的机会，我想，乃 是书店主要的吸引人之处。 3) in a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing .then , and only then, are his services necessary.在书店里，店员应该一直呆在不为人注意 的地方，直到你已经浏览完以后才出来。这时候，而且只有这时候，他的服务才是需要的。 4) you have to be careful not to be attracted by variety of books in a bookshop .it is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ,say , ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of latest best selling novel and perhaps a book about brass-rubbing- something which had only vaguely interested you up till then.你必须小心，不要被书店里各种各样的书 所吸引。很容易发生的事是，走进书店去找一本比如关于古钱币的书，结果出来时却买了一部最新的畅销小说，也许还有——本关于拓印的书——而你本来对其并不怎么感兴趣。 5）one day , however, he has dismayed to find the book missing from its usual place and was about to leave when he noticed the owner of the shop beckoning to him . expecting to be told off , he went towards him . to his surprise ,the owner pointed to the book , which was tuck away in a corner然而有一天，他却失望地发现，这本书在 他通常摆放的地方不见了。正当他要离开时，却注意到书店主正在示意他过去。他向店主走去，心里猜测着要被人家责备一番了。使他惊奇的是，店主却指了指那本书，原来它被藏在了一个角落里。