2011-10-30 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

6-5. On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for the fun and exercise: but as soon as a the question of prestige ari

2011-10-30 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

Lesson 6 The sporting spirit
第六课体育精神
by GEORGE ORWELL
from The sporting spirit
6-1. I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if

2011-10-29 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

5-8. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.
【译文】他们无拘无束，不枯燥地沉湎于卑鄙的名利和物质享受。
【单词和短语】
dreary：枯燥

2011-10-29 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

Lesson 5 Youth
第五课青年
by FIELDEN HUGHES
from Out of the Air, The Listener
5-1. People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.
【译文】人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。
5-2. If there i

2011-10-29 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

4-6. Vera's curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she lives, and in April she was given a series of tests by a special commi

2011-10-29 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

Lesson 4 Seeing hands
第四课 能看东西的手
by ERIC DE MAUNY
from The Listener
4-1. Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers

2011-10-28 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

3-8. Such inns as there were were generally dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine.
【译文】当地的那些小旅

2011-10-28 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

3-4. It is true that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equipped in a manner with would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but

2011-10-28 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

Lesson 3 Matterhorn man
第三课马特霍恩山区人
by WALTER UNSWORTH
from Matterhorn Man
3-1. Modern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which will give them good sport, and the more difficult

2011-10-28 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

2-9. One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in grass field in the south of England, and he estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre; that is something like 6,000,000 sp

2011-10-27 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

2-6. Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them.
【译文】蜘蛛不像许多人认为的那样属于昆虫，它们甚至与昆虫毫无关系。
【讲解】as many people think是插入语，意即“蜘

2011-10-27 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

Lesson 2 Spare that spider第二课 不要伤害蜘蛛by T. H. GILLESPLEfrom The Listener2-1. Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? 【译文】你可能会奇怪，蜘蛛怎是吾友？【讲解】you may wonder为插入

2011-10-27 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

Lesson 1 Finding fossil man
第一课发现化石人
by ROBIN PLACE
from Finding fossil man
1-1. We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write.

2011-10-27 所属栏目:新概念英语第四册自学导读

1-5. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from.
【译文】人类学家过去不清楚如今生活在太平洋诸岛的波利尼西亚各民族的远祖

2011-10-26 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册自学导读

Notes on the text课文注释1 Only in a sparsely-populated…is it possible…，这是一个倒装句，因为only放在句首。2 for the matter in hand，为手中的事。3 if late for a dinner party，在以if，when，though

2011-10-26 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册自学导读

Notes on the text课文注释1 with every step of the way home，这里介词 with引起的短语作状语，表示“随……（情况发生某种变化）”。2 her thoughts were on lunch and a good rest，她只想着午餐和好好休息。3

2011-10-26 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册自学导读

Notes on the text
课文注释1 in the belief that，这个介词短语在句子中作谓语动词 leave的状语。2 those very things，就是那些东西，very在这里起强调作用，可译作“正是那个（些）”，“正是所要的”。3 fo

2011-10-25 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册自学导读

Notes on the text
课文注释1 I had expected to be near my objective by now，我本以为这时已经接近目的地了。“expect的过去完成时+不定式的一般式”，表示过去想做而未做的事。2 become（be）absorbed in…，

2011-10-25 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册自学导读

Notes on the text
课文注释1 Without it we could not make a living．没有它我们就无法生存下去。without it 起非真实条件句的作用，makea living，谋生。2 hard by …，在……近旁。3 in a heat wave，在大热

2011-10-25 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册自学导读

Notes on the text
课文注释1 do more harm than good，害多益少。2 wage war on，对……开战。3 does nothing to prevent，不能阻止……。4 go about…，做……。5 stand in awe，肃然起敬。
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2011-10-25 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册自学导读

Notes on the text
课文注释1 Without it we could not make a living．没有它我们就无法生存下去。without it 起非真实条件句的作用，makea living，谋生。2 hard by …，在……近旁。3 in a heat wave，在大热

2011-10-24 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册自学导读

Notes on the text
课文注释1 in the interest of，符合……的利益。2 in the belief that…，自以为……。3 be qualified to do sth．，胜任做某事。4 be subject to…，受……的控制，应服从……。5 compla

2011-10-24 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册自学导读

Notes on the text
课文注释1 a delicate shade of green，淡绿色。2 If you were to ask，这里用was/were加动词不定式来表示过去预计发生并且发生了的事情。3 come into the possession of，占有，得到。4 cu

2011-10-24 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册自学导读

Notes on the text
课文注释1 dos and don'ts，要做的事和不要做的事。2 year in year out，年复一年。3 a thousand and one，许许多多。4 beyond attainment，做不到的、达不到的。5 carry out ，实行，照办

2011-10-24 所属栏目:新概念英语第三册自学导读

Notes on the text
课文注释1 in the mid 1970s，在20世纪70年代中叶。2 so-called，号称，所谓的。3 Mainframe computers were very large indeed…software. 在这句话中，现在分词短语occupying和employing以