新发展研究生英语一 翻译及词汇

Unit 1 1.对一些人来说,婚姻是爱情的坟墓;而对另一些人来说,婚姻是拯救那些过着孤独单调 生活的人的好办法。(salvation) For some, marriage is the grave of love, while for others, marriage is an effective salvation for those who lead a solitary life. 2.此次会议肩负着重大的历史责任,必然将对该组织的发展产生深远影响。(be destined to do sth.) Blessed with a great historical responsibility, the Conference is destined to have far-reaching impact on the development of the organization. 3.所有这些都寄寓着人们对美好生活的向往,因此得以代代相传。(yearning) All of these show people’s yearning for a better life, so they have been carried forward generation after generation. 4.总统警告说,如果国会现在通过这一法案,那么他一直努力维护的脆弱的和平进程可能 就会破裂。(fall apart) If Congress approved the bill now, the president warned, the fragile peace process that he is trying to keep could fall apart. 5.夫妻之间必须能够容忍彼此性格上的一些瑕疵,否则的话他们的婚姻很可能会以离婚而 告终。(imperfection) The couple must be tolerant of the little imperfections in each other’s character, otherwise their marriage may end up in divorce. Vocabulary 1.During the Gulf War, the Chinese Embassy helped Taiwanese labour service personnel stranded in Kuwait pull out of dangerous places safety. 2.While conventional wisdom holds that conflicts in a relationship slowly erode the bonds that hold partners together, couples who are happy in the long term turn out to have plenty of conflicts, too. 3.G. Wilson Knight,emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds, has had a long and prolific career as a critic. 4.She let her joyous eyes rest upon him without speaking, as upon some wondrous thing she had created out of chaos. 5.She drew him towards her with all her might, seeking to know him in the depths of his heart, with a(an)yearning to lose herself in him. 6.Many Americans have misunderstandings about China, believing it’s a closed country and that the people’s thinking is shackled. 7.Government loans have been the salvation of several shaky business companies. 8.Her teeth having all dropped out, Granny Li could only nibble away at her food. 9.If you aim at imperfection, there are some chances of your getting it; whereas if you aim at perfection, there is none. 10.Some of his peers were convinced that the early stages of the illness manifested themselves in graduate school, but the full-blown symptoms did not erupt until he was 30. Unit 2 1.因为对文化和艺术的热爱,让我们通过提高中文水平来利用我们的文化遗产吧。 (capitalize) Let’s capitalize on our heritage by raising the level of proficiency in the usage of the Chinese language for the love of the culture and art. 2.这项研究表明神经系统好比一部电话交换机。(be likened to) The study shows that the nervous system can be likened to a telephone exchange. 3.当管理人员在市场上寻找到突破口后,公司就应该随即投入其他资源。(in one’s wake) After executives probe for gaps in the market, the companies should pull other resources in their wake. 4.一位合格的执行总裁应该了解各种经济政策以及资源的最优配置。(allocation) A qualified CEO should understand various economic policies as well as optimal allocation of resources. 5.有轨电车在华盛顿消失后,爸爸又驾驶了几年公共汽车并于1973年退休(demise) My father drove buses for several years after the demise of the streetcar in Washington and retired in 1973. Vocabulary 1.Internationally, the world economic situation can be described as“ups and downs, complicated and volatile”. 2.Problems of urbanization are widely noted and studied, not only because of their absolute magnitude but also because of their visibility. 3.In the competitive market, we must always be prepared for every contingency in order to survive every difficulty and crisis. 4.Younger buyers and others who have been on the leading edge of trends continue to prefer Japanese cars in disproportionate numbers. 5.The technology of modern mass communication results from the confluence of many types of inventions and discoveries. 6.The achievements of civilized man although very great and remarkable, are nevertheless very far from sufficient to eclipse the works of man as a barbarian. 7.There is an interesting and unexplained anomaly in tamarack from the northern localities in the west central part of Canada. 8.Top athletes scrutinize both success and failure with their coach to extract lessons from them,but they are never distracted from longer-term goals. 9.The development of marine resource and the protection of the marine environment should be planned and implemented simultaneously. 10.They ran to a safe place during a lull in the storm and stayed there for the whole night. Unit 3 1.她居然一直屈从于一个思想如此卑劣、天性如此平庸的男人,实在令人费解。 (inexplicable) It was inexplicable that she had been subject to a man so mean in mind, so plain in character. 2.尽快实现两岸直航是广大台湾同胞尤其是商界人士的殷切期望。(yearn for) The masses of Taiwan compatriots, particularly Taiwan business people, eagerly yearn for the opening of direct air and shipping services as quickly as possible. 3.爱是一剂治疗心灵创伤的灵丹妙药。(panacea) Love is a panacea that cures spiritual wounds. 4.你认为有没有他因再次被人抛弃而发疯的可能性?(deranged) Do you think there is any likelihood of his becoming deranged if being deserted again? 5.台上那位著名的歌手耐心等待掌声平息后才开始歌唱。(die down) The famous singer on the stage waited patiently for the applause to die down before she began to sing. Vocabulary 1.I defy anyone to say that our Becky, who certain has some vices, has not been presented to the public in a perfectly genteel and inoffensive manner. 2.If you go on living at this extravagant rate, you’ll spend every penny you’ve got, and then you’ll be in the soup. 3.Get a life, a real life, not a(an)manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. 4.For some inexplicable reason, she chose that moment to break the news, which took everyone by surprise. 5.They are still not mentally prepared to carry out democracy, and are still probably enduring the throes brought by political and economic transition for a long time. 6.Our environment having been polluted so heavily, smog is a(an) quotidian occurrence in many major cities around the globe. 7.He said wryly,“There was also a period when lawyers were paid by the number of words they wrote.” 8.The early settlers wrote that the prairie grass was very was very beautiful, decorated with flowers in the spring, and so tall that a man on foot could not see over it. 9.Mr. Arthur Pendennis was a(an) impetuous young fellow; rather selfish and conceited, perhaps, but honest. 10.On the sidewalk, Soapy began to yell drunken gibberish at the top of his harsh voice, He danced, cried and wildly shouted. Unit 4 1.长期致力于农村教育水平的提高使他声名远扬。(bring…to the front) His devotion to the raise of rural education level for a long time has brought him to the front. 2.他既不想索取优越的社会地位,也不想炫耀他个人出众的内在力量。(superiority) He did not want to claim social superiority, nor would be claim intrinsic personal superiority. 3.当工会领袖们要求在通常的工资增加之外还应有带薪假日时,谈判遇到了阻碍。(snag) The negotiations struck a snag when the union leaders asked for paid holidays in addition to the usual wage increase. 4.这些英国殖民者都是自律很严的人,他们来到这里的目的是为了躲避宗教迫害。 (persecution) These English colonists were self-disciplined people who wanted to escape religious persecution. 5.公正的观察家不得不承认,缺乏正规教育看来并未给他造成障碍。(impartial) The impartial observer had to acknowledge that his lack of formal education did not seem to impede him in any way. Vocabulary 1.What with war and what with famine, the populace at large was caught between two fires. 2.In this way, more than 500 years ago. Prince William, Bush and Churchill are exactly blood relatives sharing the same ancestry. 3.He felt that he ought to rebuke the lady for presuming so to talk to a gentleman and a clergyman many years her senior. 4.The science of meteorology is concerned with what may be thought of as a vast, automatic air-conditioning system. 5.Practice has shown that China-Japan relations will go ahead steadily once this political foundation is maintained; otherwise the relations will be undermined, become stagnant or even retrogress. 6.They consider that the opinion given by the old lady is only some kind of superstition without scientific basis. 7.The measures proposed by the government shall apply to the activities of supervision over and examination of the costs of government-fixed prices within the administrative region of this province. 8.Before the minister had time to celebrate his victory over this last temptation, he was conscious of another impulse, more reactionary, and almost as horrible. 9.This new European model MBA differed from the U.S variant by being one year in duration. 10.They all sought the same goals: impartial government, fair taxation regulation of public service companies and expanded social services for the lower classes. Unit 5 1.也许你想躲避压力,想独自呆着,但调查表明有他人在,特别是有承受类似压力的人在 你身旁,你会更好地应付压力。(hole up) While you might want to hole up and be alone, research shows that people cope better with stress in the presence of others, especially others undergoing similar stress. 2.在爱情遭到拒绝时,我们大脑中制造多巴胺的活动会减弱,我们因此而感到沮丧。(scale down) When our love is rejected, our brain will scale sown their activity of making dopamine. Consequently, we feel depressed. 3.总统可以要求人民在这场使美国四分五裂的种族矛盾中寻求和解,但和解只能来自人民 的内心。(reconciliation) The President can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans, but reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people. 4.这些人在精神病院里平均度过了八年的恐怖时光,遭受了巨大的精神创伤。(trauma) These people spent an average of eight years of terror in mental hospital, sustaining tremendous mental trauma. 5.该解释涉及商业、政治和历史,而且在许多方面可以成为研究这三个因素怎样相互纠结、 并在亚洲产生不利后果的案例。(intertwine) The explanation involves business, politics and history, and is in many respects a case study of how these three factors can intertwine with unhealthy consequences in Asia. Vocabulary 1.She enjoyed the sweets of courtship in their romantic love before getting married to her sweetheart. 2.She cried so bitterly and looked so forlorn and heartbroken and ashamed as she told her sad story. 3.Though Alicia has decided not to be nervous before the meeting, she becomes more and more nervous as the evening wears on. 4.That I have been able to attend a grand meeting such as this one fills my mind with myriad thoughts and ideas. 5.Stubbornly, we wait for someone else to reach out to us—believing this is the only way we can forgive or rekindle a friendship or family relationship. 6.As the little boy grew up, he had become obsessed with his personal cleanness so much so that it almost annoyed everyone. 7.As a matter of principle they had to sever relations with Taiwan if they wanted to establish diplomatic relations with Beijing. 8.The price charged for the product must be high enough to give the company a profit, but low enough to entice the consumer to buy. 9.He said things that would have been better unsaid, he had read too many books, and he frequently showed up at the Chestnut Tree Café, a(an)haunt of painters and musicians. 10.Though normally mild-mannered, she would explode into a rage or burst into tears, shout throw chairs, or storm out of the room when she was offended. Unit 6 1.让外国游客理解与当地人沟通时可能涉及到的文化因素是很困难的。(get across) It is very hard to get across the cultural factors in their communications with local people to foreign visitors. 2.以往工业经济时代的管理模式注定会逐渐被新型的数字化集成管理所代替。(be doomed to) The method of management in the past time of industry economy is doomed to be substituted by new digital integration. 3.雄心勃勃的教练不会愚蠢到在损害其学校学生利益的情况下沉溺于运动。(indulge in) Ambitious coaches cannot be so foolish as to indulge in sports at the expense of their school students. 4.有时,人们彼此沟通不畅是由于缺乏恰当的面部表情和手势。(fall short of) Sometimes people can’t communicate successfully with each other just becau se they fall short of utilizing appropriate facial expressions and gestures. 5.本保证不适用于事故或使用不当对机器所造成的损坏。(hold good for) The warranty does not hold good for any damage to the machine caused by accident or improper use. Vocabulary 1.Although planets give off no light of their own, they reflect the light from the sun and look like stars at night. 2.The menu for each group was also roomy enough to include all its related functions. The need to go to additional levels of menus was made almost superfluous. 3.In other words, we may not know how to work a saw, and we may even be frustrated by our inability to manipulate it effectively, but we will never be fooled by it. 4.Most intriguing is underwater walking in which, wearing an oxygen helmet, you meander along the ocean bed among coral and shoals of striped fish. 5.As she began to embrace her heritage, she was able to argue against those who condemned the Confucian tradition as submissive. 6.He is always annoyingly garrulous and sharp-tongued towards everyone, so how could anyone be happy? 7.Lifting his eyes to the dizzy altitude of the cliff’s summit, the officer saw an astonishing sight. 8.Although mockingbirds superbly mimic the songs and calls of many birds, they can nonetheless be quickly identified as mockingbirds by certain aural clues. 9.Insects that are searching for host planets may be activated by olfactory stimuli, and as a result, they will show directed movements toward the odor source. 10.Edgar Allan Poe announced that “we have at length arrived at that epoch when our literature may and must stand on its own merits or fall through its own defects”. .