大英综合教程3

U1 1.刚刚过去的夏季学期the preceding summer semester 2.即兴球赛the impromptu ball games 3.埋头学习get one’s heads down 4.课堂出勤率attendance at classes 5.急剧上升rise steeply 6.谁都不想……那也太丢人了No one wanted the humiliation of 7.同学们之间的竞争压力peer group pressure 8.熬夜熬出了眼袋wear the bags under one’s eyes 9.脸色苍白,睡眼惺忪pale, sleepy faces 10.在某人的心里at the back of one’s mind 11.心怀抱负、成绩拔尖的高材生the high flyers with the top grades 12.默默无闻的同学quieter, less impressive students 13.为自己下几个阶段的人生做好了规划have the next stages of one’s life mapped out 14.准备继续深造look to continue one’ studies 15.在20出头的时候in one's early twenties 16.追随...的人生足迹follow one's path through life 17.做好了遭到反对的心理brace oneself for some resistance to 18.加入一个暂时报酬高的行业go into a career which pays well just at the moment 19.远处大海的景色the sight of the sea beyond 20.沿海水域没什么风浪no surf on the coastal waters 21.懒得从里面爬出来can't be bothered to crawl out 22.挤满了brim with 23.一只压着一只,堆得老高piled high on top of each other 24.对…感到不耐烦了get bored with 25.放弃了漫长的逃亡之战give up one’s lengthy struggle to escape 26.被…拽下来be pulled back 27.没有什么比……更能明人生的无常和生命的脆弱了。 Nothing underlines the uncertainty and absolute frailty of humanity like… 28.早逝the untimely exit of sb. 29.情节the meat of the story 30.心仪的工作mind’s-eye dream-job 31.一张期票 a promissory note 32.(由于客观或主观条件)无法做某事be not in a position to do sth. 33.自助餐馆里 a buffet restaurant 34.一个茶杯碟大小的碗 a bowl the size of a saucer 35.分配给我们的时间是有限的Our allotted time is finite. 36.永远都在邮寄的路上be permanently in the post 37.像桥墩那样站着stand looking like a spanner 38.做什么无济于事。No…will change the inevitable. 39.半路去迎接天意meet providence halfway 40.给你的生活增添所有你能得到的财富fill your life with the riches on offer 41.在眼前回放flash before your eyes 42.最终将成为end up as 43.叫得上名字put a name to sb. U3 1. 为了便于for the sake of 2. 把整个过程分成几个组成部分break/split sth. up into its component parts 3. 纯粹的愉悦感the sheer pleasure 4. 沉浸在···中bathe in 5. 一种无需思考的美妙心境 a kind of brainless but attractive state of mind 6. 一种强大而原始的力量 a potent and primitive force 7.占据你过多的兴趣空间usurp a disproportionate share of your interest 8.进入到一个颇具争议的领域tread on controversial ground 9.这种不妥协的态度可能源于这样的一个事实 intransigent attitude of sb's may be due to the fact that 10.让某人走到另一个极端···lead one to the other extreme of doing sth. 11.无法保证··There is no guarantee that… 12.提升对···的理解increase sb’s awareness of 13.跟上···的思路follow the line of sb's thought 14.并不需要付出多少脑力take no mental effort 15.也许用···来作类比,能使···更加明白易懂 Perhaps an analogy with… will make… clearer. 16.与···相类似be analogous to 17.身穿异国服饰wear an exotic costume 18.侧身回眸,望着peer over one's shoulder straight out at 19.画面的背景一片漆黑be set against a dark and unspecified background 20.焦点focal point 21.女人普遍特征general attributes of womanhood 22.室内家居domestic interiors 23.改信天主教convert to Catholicism 24在传统意义上in a conventional sense 25.背离事实distort the truth 26.无法解释的背景资料的缺失unexplainable lack of background information 27.一丝神秘的微笑an enigmatic smile 28.履行自己的职责go about one's duties 29.让某人走入···的世界engage sb. in one's world 30.视觉才能和艺术潜质visual talent and artistic promise 31.为···而感到高兴revel in 32.磨颜料、调颜色grind paints and develop the colors 33.矜持庄重strict modesty 34.偿还债务settle the debt 35.引发某些问题provoke some questions 36.穿耳洞pierce sb.'s earlobe 37.一部备受推崇的小说 a thoroughly rewarding novel 38.一部制作精良的影片 a well-composed film U4 1.一脸的茫然和沮丧look blank and dispirited 2.外出工作be off to work 3.能够理解come to grips with 4.令人大惑不解be utterly mystifying to 5.很可能的是···it is a safe bet that… 6.在普通的日常工作中in the common everyday job 7.费用非常高prohibitively expensive 8.好追根究底的孩子inquisitive children 9.变得破旧wear out 10.一天中任何一个时间里at any given moment during the day 11.在空白处作批注jot notes in the margins 12.打听···在哪儿ascertain the whereabouts of 13.用红笔愤怒地打个记号make an angry red mark 14.一式五份重新打印be reproduced in quintuplicate 15.好好想想mull over 16.我不知道it beats me 17.我们所谓的激动人心的时代our supposedly exciting times 18.前所未有的、让人眼花缭乱的变化unprecedented, dazzling change 19.让我们有这种论调的正是缘自······It is … that leads us into this kind of talk. 20.狂妄自大arrogant insistence on our own importance 21.有一个很好的例子可以用来证明There is a good case that … 22.多民族、多文化、跨国界的实体 a multi-ethnic, multicultural, transnational entity 23.更应该指出······It makes more sense to point out … 24.吹嘘boast of 25.美丽的郊野景色和高耸的摩天大楼physical landscape of suburbs and skyscrapers 26.在一个伟大的技术革新的时代in an age of great technological innovation 27.尽管for all + n. phrase 28.上映一部电影release a film 29.我不知道听过······多少遍I don't know how often I have met with the statements that … 30.泛美航空Pan-Am flights 31.消除了距离abolish distance 32.巨大的变化sweeping transformations U7 1.在公休日on bank holidays 2.坏事成三Bad things always happens in threes. 3.经得起任何科学试验的检验stand the scrutiny of any scientific study 4.稍稍有些不好marginally bad 5.糟糕透顶extremely bad 6.在一定范围内on a spectrum 7.持续的提醒者 a constant reminder 8.困扰在脑海里stick in the front of the mind 9.两个月的跨度two month timescale 10.延长时间跨度extend the timescale 11.正式最初的预言confirm the original prophecy 12.坏事扎堆Bad events cluster together. 13.心情抑郁suffer depression 14.降低身体的抵抗力lower the body's defences 15.使人容易生病make sb. vulnerable to illness 16.使人反应不像以前灵敏make sb. less alert and responsive 17.翻来翻去的麻烦事 a chore of flicking backwards and forwards 18.全国地形测量局的地图an ordnance survey 19.阴影区域in the shaded area 20.尴尬的位置in an awkward position 21.诅咒自己倒霉curse your misfortune 22.允许邻近的页码有重复allow overlaps between adjacent map pages 23.选择性记忆selective memory 24.掷钱币toss a coin 25.在一会儿的时间理强迫自己费力和承受压力 a moment of exertion and stress 26.这是一个困扰我的问题This is a question that haunts me. 27.深深地根植于deeply embedded 28.人类的基因谱the human genome 29.有着更久远的进化根源with far more evolutionary roots than 30.放声歌唱find one's voice 31.一有机会at the first opportunity 32.专门用于处理音乐specialized for processing music 33.读乐谱的基本知识the rudiments of reading music 34.极度疲乏的经历 a grueling experience 35.投射到屏幕上projected on screen 36.敲脚趾tap the toe 37.加工图片process images 38.从···中减去subtract…from… 39.将所有涉及的大脑活动拍下来give snapshots of the mental activity involved 40.缺乏自信lacking in confidence 41.获得幸福感的一种方式 a means for achieving wellbeing 42.社会交往social bonding 43.有几次on a few occasions 44.刹那间感情的交融fleeting feelings of emotional intimacy 45.显著的变化significant changes 46.相当的困难remarkably difficult 47.举重若轻地处理simultaneously and unconsciously manage sth 48.对···感到疑惑be mystified as to 49.人类进化出这样一种神奇的能力Humans have evolved such an amazing ability U8 1.听了他的一面之词on his own reckoning 2.生意非常红火do a busy trade 3.一群男士clusters of men 4.你生命中的那个女人the woman in your life 5.懒洋洋地躺在床上lounge in bed 6.脸涨得通红scarlet with fury 7.偷偷地溜出去sneak away 8.打折on offer 9.睡得像松鼠那么沉sleep like squirrels 10.遇上了几个朋友meet up with friends 11.喝得酩酊大醉drink oneself into a stupor 12.偶数数量的花even numbers of flowers 13.脸沉了下来one's face falls 14.天南海北地闲聊着gossip 15.没有露出多少感激之情without much evidence of gratitude 16.把手臂分别搭在她们俩的肩上drape an arm around each of them 17.陷入了一种迷狂be caught in a trance 18.全球性的节日global festival 19.在本质上和精神上in nature and spirit 20.影响与日俱增the increasing influence 21.不管是好是坏for good or bad 22.经历变化undergo more changes 23.一个真正的地球村 a truly global village 24.终极手段the last uniting factor 25.一些异常事物some of its anomalies 26.承载着相同的意义carries the same meaning 27.一顿盛宴或是便饭 a feast or a humble meal 28.小酌几杯with a few drinks 29.释放情感vent one’s feelings 30.从日常生活的尔虞我诈中摆脱出来 a break from the everyday skulduggery 31.日常俗事the mundane affairs of their daily lives 32.是另外一回事儿了be a different matter 33.无动于衷be left untouched 34.不是西方所独有的not the sole preserve of the West 35.免于颓废free of decadence 36.那些唯西方马首是瞻的人those who are blinded by everything Western 37.对于······一样怡然自得feel at one with 38.失去风采lose one’s charm 39.敲响警钟sound the alarm bells 40.保护我们的文化conserve our culture 41.对······视而不见、充耳不闻shut one’s eyes and ears to