高级英语第三版2张汉熙主编.docx

1、高级英语第三版2张汉熙主编-CAL-FENGHAI.-(YICAI)-Company One1 -CAL-本页仅作为文档封面，使用请直接删除高级英语第三版2,张汉熙主编(总12页) Unit 2 Marrakech 1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. The burying-ground is just a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a desert

2、ed and abandoned construction site. 2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like animals. 3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the n

3、ameless mounds of the graveyard. They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they are dead. 4. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed. Sitting wi

4、th his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making. 5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out w

5、ildly excited. 6. every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury. Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford. 7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. However, a white -skinned European is alw

6、ays quite noticeable. 8. In a tropical landscape ones eye takes in everything except the human beings. If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings. 9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas. No one would think of

7、organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas. 10. for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil. Life is very hard for ninety percent of the people. With hard backbreaking toil they can pro

8、duce a little food on the poor soil 11She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden. She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community, that she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal 12. People with brown skins are next door to

9、 invisible. People with brown skins are almost invisible 13Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies 14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction How

10、much longer before they turn their guns around and attack the colonialist rulers 15Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind. Every white man, had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mindUnit31. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebear

11、s fought is still at issue around the globe. Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many countries aroun

12、d the world. 2. This much we pledgeand more. 2. This much we promise to do and we promise to do more. 3. 3. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings. 4. our last best

13、hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace The UN is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace. 5. to enlarge the area in which its writ may run. We pledge to help the United Natio

14、ns enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force. 6. before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now releas

15、e, wipe out mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident. 7. yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankinds final war. Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power

16、which restrains each group from launching mankinds final war. 8. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, So let us start once again and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness. 9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of scienc

17、e instead of its terrors. Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do. 10. each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. Americans of every generation have been called upon

18、 to prove their loyalty to their country . 11. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, Let history finally judge whether we have done our task welt or not, but our sure reward will be a good con-science for we

19、will have worked sincerely and to the best of our ability. Let us lead the country we love , knowing our sure reward will be a good conscience and history will finally judge whether we have done our task well or not. Unit51.The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the mi

20、ddle aged. At the very mention of this post-war period, middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly. 2.The rejection of Victorian gentility was, in any case, inevitable. In any case, an American could not avoid casting aside its middle-class respectability and affected refinement. 3. The wa

21、r acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure, The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure. 4it was tempted, in America at least, to escape its responsibilities and retreat behind an air of naughty alcoholic sophistication

22、 In America at least, the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily. 5.Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit, The young people found greater pleasure in

23、 their drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful added a sense of adventure. 6our young men began to enlist under foreign flags. Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war. 7they “wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up”. The yo

24、ung people wanted to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the whole war ended. 8.they had outgrown towns and families These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families. 9the returning veteran also had to facethe hypocritical do-goodism of Prohi

25、bition, The returning veteran also had to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people. 10. Something in the tension-ridden youth of America had to “give” Something in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down. 11it was only natur

26、al that hopeful young writers, their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and “Puritanical” gentility, should flock to the traditional artistic center It was only natural that hopeful young writers whose minds and writings were filled with violent anger against war, Babbitry, and Puritani

27、cal gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic centre. 12. Each town had its ”fast” set which prided itself on its unconventionality, Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives.Unit8 1. .below t

28、he noisy arguments , the abuse and the quarrels , there is a reservoir of instinctive fellow-feeling. The English people may hotly argue and abuse and quarrel with each other , but there still exists a lot of natural sympathetic feelings for each other in their hearts. 2. .at heart they would like t

29、o take a whip to the whole idle troublesome mob of them. What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip all the workers whom they regard as lazy and troublesome. 3. .there are not many of these men , either on the board or the shop floor. There are not many snarling shop stewards in t

30、he workshop,nor are there many cruel wealthy employers on the board of directors. 4. It demands bigness ,and they are suspicious of bigness. The contemporary world demands that everything should be done on a big scale and the English do not trust bigness. 5. Against this , at least superficially ,En

31、glishness seems a poor shadowy show. At least on the surface ,when Englishness is put against the power and success of Admass , Englishness seems to put up a rather poor performance. 6. .while Englishness is not hostile to change,it is deeply suspicious of change for changes sake. Englishness is not

32、 against change, but it believes that changing just for changes sake and not other useful purposes is very wrong and harmful. 7. To put cars and motorways before houses seems to Englishness a communal imbecility. To regard cars and motorways as more important than houses seems to Englishness a public stupidity. 8. I must add that while Englishness can still fight on ,Admass could be winn