综合教程2

 Unit 1 We’ve Been Hit

 Mayblum would be one of thousands cast into

an extraordinary purgatory that morning.

On that morning, thousands of people in the

WTC were thrown all of a sudden, into a

condition of extremely terrible suffering that

morning, Mayblum was one of them.

 The rumbles of the collapsing tower next door

seemed to sap the heavyset man of his last gasp

of energy.

It seemed that the tremendous sound of the

collapse of the south tower destroyed the man’s

hope of climbing down the remaining stairs,

thus took away his remaining energy.

 In flames － burning .

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 A matter of geography － a situation that was

depended on one’s location .

 Off and on － in an intermittent manner / not

happening continuously or regularly .

 Give you a hand － help you

 So far , so good － things are satisfactory up

to this point

 Scoff at

 In a dilemma as to whether to marry Paul

 Overcome by the heat and collapsed into the

nearest chair

 A sheer pandemonium in the dance hall

 Lay a reassuring hand on Steven’s arm

 An echoing rumble

 Meet up with

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 Unit 2 The Virtues of Growing Older

 And women, I’m embarrassed to admit , even

more than men, have always seemed to be at

the mercy of fashion.

I’m embarrassed to admit that women

are less capable than men of resisting to

temptation of fashion.

 It means trying on new selves by taking up with

different crowds.

It means that you make friends with different

(in order) to find a new identity for yourself.

 I no longer blame my parents for my every

personality quirk or keep a running score of

everything they did wrong raising me.

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I no longer constantly remind myself of all the

wrong thing my parents did in the process of

raising me.

 Hold out

 Be apt to － be likely to

 Fall apart －break up

 In general － as a while

 At the mercy of － completely controlled by

 No wonder － not surprising

 A way to delay the aging process

 Feverishly he set to work

 A facade of honesty

 Be confronted with

 Chair a meeting

 On the premise that

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 Sb. be proved guilty

 Dread doing sth.

 Resent sb. doing

 Automatically

 Await of bid <等待决标>/be awaiting a

decision

 Unit 3 My Stroke of Luck

 But that took some doing on my part too.

take some doing = to be hard work

on one’s part = on the part of sb

But I also made some effort to change myself .

 …which hasn’t always been easy, given that I’m

sometimes an actor wrapped up in his ego.

Because sometimes I’m too proud of myself as

an actor.

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 Tie the knot = get married

 Given that = because

 Then and there = without any delay

 In the midst of = when

 Set … apart = distingwish

 We were totally wrapped in ourselves and lost

touch with a lot of friends.

 A sudden shock could be fatal to anyone with a

delicate heart condition.

 Be fluent with

 Undergo a profound change

 Stretch out in her favorite armchair

 State pensions are financed by the contribution

of those still at work.

 Unforeseeable consequences

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 Neighborhood

 Unit 4 Cultural Encounters

 We live in an age of easy access to the rest of

the world.

The age we are living in provides us with

convenient ways to reach any part of the world.

 Everyone, it seems, provided, of course, they

can afford to do so, need never be out of touch.

It seems that everyone is able to keep getting in

touch with anyone else /can never be fail to

reach ] if he (or she) can afford to.

 …lies at the heart of society…

Forms the core of society

 This is an essential skill in today’s hybrid world.

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This is a basic skill in today’s world where

different cultures interact.

 Millions of people are discovering how to bridge

cultures.

Lots of people are finding ways to get rid of

cultural differences/interrelate different cultures.

 Provided = as long as/if

 Need never be out of touch = can never fail to

be reached

 Regardless of whether … = no matter whether

…

 Overlook at one’s peril = fail to notice at great

risk

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 Hover somewhere in and around all those words

= may be described by these words to varying

degrees

 Hit the problem of untranslatability head-on =

were directing confronted with the problem that

something in one language cannot be rendered

into another

 An important stepping stone towards …

 At one’s peril

 Serve the needs of the poor and the disabled

 Marvel at the mentality of people

 Potatoes, broccoli, cabbages are the staple

winter vegetables in the northern part of the

country.

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 An intention of facilitating the teaching of self-protection among the young

 The newly released software is believed to be

able to make electronic mail and video

messaging more powerful on the Internet.

 It can be said that the Internet is a hybrid

system of art and technology.

 Unit 5 Fourteen Steps

 Here hobbled a bitterly disillusioned cripple, a

man who held on to his sanity and his wife and

his home and his job because of 14 miserable

steps…

Here walks lamely a sad cripple with little hope

for his future, and everything he owned at that

time, his sanity, his wife, his home and his job

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depended on his painful effort to climb these 14

steps.

 In the next few frozen seconds the shame and

horror of that moment penetrated and I was

sick with an intensity I had never felt before.

In the next seconds I was filled with such shame

and horror that I was speechless and unable to

move. I had never been so sick about what I

had done before.

 A slowly progressive disease = a disease that

gradually became more and more serious

 With the aid of = with the help of

 Peer at = look very carefully and hard at

 Be all set = be ready, be prepared

 Indifference to = not caring about

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 Tilt

 Lead up to

 Hold on to

 Care for

 Be inclined to

 Make a living

 Follow one’s example

 Golding’s novel is to a degree experimental in

style

 Unit 6 The Diary of The Unknown Soldier

 While that might not provide much to help them

cope with their loss, it will make the children

feel like their fathers make a difference.

Although my stories about their fathers’ death

could not relieve their pain, they would enable

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the children to realize the extraordinary

significance of their fathers’ contribution.

 A saying I once heard strikes a painful note in

my head, “Even one war is too many.”

I suddenly recalled a saying I once heard which

makes me very painful, “Even one war is too

many.”

 No more than = only

 Strike a painful note in my head = makes me

feel very painful

 More blood has been shed = more people have

been injured or killed

 Word has it that = it is said that

 With an air of = appearing full of/ seeming to

have

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 Several people shouted at the chairman;

feelings were running high.

 Tucked the children up in bed

 The building is regularly inspected by a fire-safety officer.

 Taken precautions

 Sally announced with an air of finality

 Appeal to his adventurous spirit

 He raced back towards the forest with the

enraged dogs at his heel.

 I hadn’t rehearsed it properly and I panicked,

stepping onto the stage.

 Unit 7 Letter to a B Student

 To lose, to fail, to go under, to go broke — these

are deadly sins in a world where prosperity in

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the present is seen as a sure sign of salvation in

the future.

Being unsuccessful in one’s life and career and

financially disadvantaged is regarded as

shameful or even sinful, because in this world

people tend to think that only those who are

successful now can be saved from evil in the

future.

 I’m certain that nothing I can say will remove

that feeling of disappointment, particularly in a

climate where grades determine eligibility for

graduate school and special program.

 It is important to recognize that human beings,

despite differences in class and educational

labeling, are fundamentally hewn from the same

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material and knit together by common bonds of

fear and joy, suffering and achievement.

Warfare, sickness, disasters public and private

－ these are the larger coordinates of life.

Although they differ in their class status and

educational background, human beings are

essentially the same. First of all, they are

biologically speaking constructed in the same

way; and then, they all share the feelings of fear

and joy and also the common experience of

suffering and achieving. This commonality has

bound them together. All of them will regard

wars, disease, and disasters, both public and

private as unfortunate big events in their

lifetime.

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 Essence = most important part

 Deadly sins = sins leading to damnation

 Misleading = make sb. think or act wrongly

 Conventional tasks = traditionally required of

students

 In short supply = far from enough

 Define an extrovert personality

 Leave out the sentences that are irrelevant to

the thesis

 Correspond to the descriptions

 Every semester he flunked at least two

courses

 Carnegie considered that the distribution of

wealth for the benefit of society must never

be in the form of free charity but rather must

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be as a support to the community’s

responsibility for its own people.

 Make a point of

 Be apt to

 Some of us had to eat beef noodles as there

was not enough chicken rice to go round.

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