新编大学实用英语教程第4册Unit 6 Vocabulary

Unit 6

1.generosity

n.

1. 宽宏大量，宽大，大度；豪爽

2. 慷慨，大方，不吝啬

3. 宽宏大量(或慷慨)的行为

4. 丰饶，丰富，大量，充足

5. [古语]出身高贵

generous a. 慷慨大方

2.discriminate

vi.

1. (根据种族、阶级、类别、性别、肤色等而非实际优点)区别对待，有差别地对待；表示偏爱，特别优待；表示偏见，歧视，虐待(常与against 或in favour of 连用):

The president discriminates in favour of his relatives.

总裁优待他的亲戚。

The new policy discriminates against foreigners.

新政策歧视外国人。

2. 辨别，区别，识别，鉴别，注意到或看出(事物间的)差别(常与among，between或from连用)：

You must learn to discriminate between things.

你必须学会区别事物。

I can discriminate right from wrong.

我能辨别是非。

3. 有识别力，有鉴别力：

He is able to discriminate good book from bad.

他具有区分优秀图书与低劣图书的能力。

4. 有差别，有区别

vt.

1. 构成差别；使有区别：

This is a mark that discriminates the original from the copy. 这是一个使原作与复制品有区别的标志。

2. 辨别，区别：

The musician can discriminate minute variations in tone.

乐师能辨别声调的各种细微变化。

She can't discriminate right from wrong.

她不能辨别是非。

3.crave

vt.

1. 渴望，迫切希望：

The thirsty man craved water.

这个口渴的人迫切希望得到水喝。

2. 要求；需要：

The wound craved attention.

伤口需要护理。

3. 恳求，请求：

He craved the teacher's pardon.

他恳求老师原谅他。

vi.

1. 渴望得到，热望(常与for，after连用)：

The tired old man craved for rest.

疲倦的老人渴望得到休息。

2. 恳求，请求(常与for 连用)：

He knelt before the king and craved for mercy.

他跪在国王面前乞求宽恕。

4.propaganda

n.

1. (为某种目的有计划地)散布的消息或思想；宣传；宣传行动；宣传方法；传道；散布

2. 宣传机构；宣传组织

3. 宣传资料；宣传的思想(或主张)；传播的消息(或谣言等)

4. [P-] 【天主教】传道总会，负责国外传教的委员会，布教学校(College of Propaganda)

5.taboo

n.

1. (社会习俗或传统习惯方面的)禁忌；忌讳

It’s a taboo to call someone names.

2. 【宗教】戒律

3. 禁止交际；避讳，避忌

It’s a taboo to eat with left hand in Arabian countries.

4. 【语言学】禁忌语

vt.

1. 禁止；禁用；忌讳：

The subject was tabooed.

这个话题禁止讨论。

2. 将…列为禁忌

6.palate n.上腭，味觉

7.liquidate vt.清除，杀掉，清算

liquid n.液体，a.清澈的

liquor n.酒精，溶液

8.ally

vt.

1. [ally oneself]使联姻；使(国家)结盟；使联合；使结合(to，with) [一般用于被动语态]：

He allied himself with (或to) the other members of the committee who supported his ideas.

他与委员会里支持他观点的其他成员联合起来。

2. 与…(在起源或性质上)关联，(在血统、组织等方面)使发生关联；使同源(to，with) [通常用于被动语态]：

The English language is allied to the German language.

英语和德语属于同一语系。

3. 使发生联系(to，with) [常用被动语态]：

The two companies are closely allied with each other.

这两家公司彼此联系紧密。

vi.

结盟；联合；成为同盟(或联姻)：

to ally against our common enemy

联合起来对付我们共同的敌人

9.capture

vt.

1. 捕，捕获，俘获：

They captured more than ten thousand prisoners and large quantities of arms in that campaign.

他们在那次战役中俘获了一万多战俘和大量武器。

2. 夺取，占领；攻陷：

They captured this city from the enemy last week.

他们上周从敌人手里夺取了这个城市。

It's easier to capture the fortress from within.

堡垒更容易从内部攻破。

3. 夺取，赢得(锦标、奖品等)：

Our table tennis team captured three gold medals at the games.

我们的乒乓球队在比赛中赢得了三块金牌。

5. 引起(注意)；迷住；(用绘画、照片等)留存：

Her beauty captured him instantly.

她的美貌立刻迷住了他。

He captured his daughter's smile in this photograph.

在这张照片中他拍摄到女儿的微笑。

综合英语(一)课文及翻译

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Unit 1 Personal Relationship In-Class Reading The Gift of Life 以生命相赠 1 炸弹落在了这个小村庄里。在可怕的越南战争期间，谁也不知道这些炸弹要轰炸什么目标，而它们却落在了一所由传教士办的小孤儿院内。 2 传教士和一两个孩子已经丧生，还有几个孩子受了伤，其中有一个小女孩，8岁左右，双腿被炸伤了。 3 几小时后，医疗救援小组到了。医疗小组由一名年轻的美国海军医生和一名同样年轻的海军护士组成。他们很快发现有个小女孩伤势严重。显然，如果不立即采取行动，她就会因失血过多和休克而死亡。 4 他们明白必须给小女孩输血，但是他们的医药用品很有限，没有血浆，因此需要匹配的血型。快速的血型测定显示两名美国人的血型都不合适。而几个没有受伤的孤儿却有匹配的血型。 5 医生会讲一点越南语，护士会讲一点法语，但只有中学的法语水平。孩子们不会说英语，只会说一点法语。医生和护士用少得可怜的一点共同语言，结合大量的手势，努力向这些受惊吓的孩子们解释说，除非他们能输一些血给自己的小伙伴，否则她将必死无疑。然后他们问孩子们是否有人愿意献血来救小女孩。 6 对医生和护士的请求，孩子们瞪大眼睛，一声不吭。此时小病人生命垂危。然而，只有这些受惊吓的孩子中有人自愿献血，他们才能够得到血。过了好一会儿，一只小手慢慢地举了起来，然后垂了下去，一会儿又举了起来。 7 “噢，谢谢，”护士用法语说。“你叫什么名字？” 8 “兴，”小男孩回答道。 9 兴很快被抱到一张床上，手臂用酒精消毒后，针就扎了进去。在整个过程中，兴僵直地躺着，没有出声。 10 过了一会儿，他发出了一声长长的抽泣，但立即用那只可以活动的手捂住了自己的脸。 11 “兴，疼吗？”医生问。 12 兴默默地摇了摇头，但一会儿忍不住又抽泣起来，并又一次试图掩饰自己的哭声。医生又问是不是插在手臂上的针弄疼了他，兴还是摇了摇头。 13 但现在，偶尔的抽泣变成了持续无声的哭泣。他紧紧地闭着眼睛，用拳头堵住嘴，想竭力忍住哭泣。 14 医疗小组此时非常担忧，因为针不会使他们的小输血者一直感到疼痛。一定是哪里出了问题。恰好这时，一名越南护士前来帮忙。看到小男孩在哭，她用越南话很快地问他原因。听了小男孩的回答后，又立即作了回答。护士一边说，一边俯身轻轻拍着小男孩的头，她的声音亲切柔和。 15 一会儿，小男孩不再哭了，他睁开眼睛，用质疑的目光看着越南护士。护士点了点头，小男孩的脸上马上露出了宽慰的神色。 16 越南护士抬起头平静地对两名美国人说: “他以为自己快死了。他误解了你们。以为你们要他献出所有的血，小女孩才能活下来。” 17 “那他为什么还愿意这么做呢?”海军护士问。 18 越南护士把这个问题向小男孩重复了一遍。小男孩简单地回答道: “她是我的朋友。” 19 他为了朋友甘愿献出自己的生命，没有比这更伟大的爱了。

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Unit 6 Risks Useful Information Risk is the probability of losing something of value. Since we value life above other things, the greatest risk for most people is the risk of death. Yet life itself, to the best of our knowledge, is ultimately limited. Th e key word here is “ultimately”. Since we hope to live a lot longer, we easily overlook the routine and long-range risks associated with being human, and concentrate instead on other sorts of risks. We rarely think about the chances of death, disability, or disaster, or try to predict the times of their occurrence. Walking across the street in many cities is more dangerous than riding an airplane across an ocean, but many people give no thought to the former and have great fear of the latter. People eagerly do dangerous things for recreation that they would rarely do at work, such as scaling a steep mountain or skiing rapidly down it. Young people are especially willing to take foolish chances for the sheer joy of doing so, or because they discount the probability of adverse outcomes. Yet they should probably be much more careful than their elders, since they have longer life expectancies remaining and thus have more at stake. Other things we value include health, safety, money, property, relationships and happiness. There are risks attached to the loss of any of these. Hypochondriacs exaggerate the risks of ill health or injury. Ironically the precautions taken to promote health and safety may add to a hypochondriac’s perception of the risks involved. A wise investor takes calculated risks with money, and tries to choose reasonable risks over unreasonable ones. A compulsive gambler, on the other hand, is so addicted to risk that there is little thought of the loss that inevitably follows from gambling indefinitely against the odds. So risk itself may at times be perceived as a reward. Optimists and pessimists have opposite attitudes toward risk. Extreme optimists always expect the best. Therefore they try to maximize gain. More cautious optimists may try to maximize the minimum gain. Extreme pessimists always expect the worst. Therefore they come to expect the maximum loss. More moderate pessimists may try to maximize the minimum loss. The science of cost-benefit analysis studies these and other strategies for managing risk. So does actuarial science (保险计算科学), with special emphasis on the risks of death, injury, or illness. One way to manage risk in ordinary life is through rational planning. By considering alternatives and balancing the greatest or most likely risks against the greatest or most likely rewards, we can often make better decisions and give greater consideration to long-term outcomes. By always having a contingency plan in case our main plan fails, we can usually avoid catastrophes. But planning takes effort, and we must balance this effort against the pleasure of doing things spontaneously because they are not very important or not very risky, and plan other things carefully because they are very important or very risky. Part One PREPARATION 1. Risks in Jobs 仅供学习与交流，如有侵权请联系网站删除谢谢1

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unit 6 The Last Leaf When Johnsy fell seriously ill, she seemed to lose the will to hang on to life. The doctor held out little hope for her. Her friends seemed helpless. Was there nothing to be done? 约翰西病情严重，她似乎失去了活下去的意志。医生对她不抱什么希望。朋友们看来也爱莫能助。难道真 的就无可奈何了吗？ 1 At the top of a three-story brick building, Sue and Johnsy had their studio. "Johnsy" was familiar for Joanna. One was from Maine; the other from California. They had met at a cafe on Eighth Street and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so much in tune that the joint studio resulted. 在一幢三层砖楼的顶层，苏和约翰西辟了个画室。“约翰西”是乔安娜的昵称。她们一位来自缅因州，一 位来自加利福尼亚。两人相遇在第八大街的一个咖啡馆，发现各自在艺术品味、菊苣色拉，以及灯笼袖等方面趣 味相投，于是就有了这个两人画室。 2 That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the district, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Johnsy was among his victims. She lay, scarcely moving on her bed, looking through the small window at the blank side of the next brick house. 那是5月里的事。到了11月，一个医生称之为肺炎的阴森的隐形客闯入了这一地区，用它冰冷的手指东 碰西触。约翰西也为其所害。她病倒了，躺在床上几乎一动不动，只能隔着小窗望着隔壁砖房那单调沉闷的侧墙。 3 One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a bushy, gray eyebrow. 一天上午，忙碌的医生扬了扬灰白的浓眉，示意苏来到过道。 4 "She has one chance in ten," he said. "And that chance is for her to want to live. Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind? “她只有一成希望，”他说。“那还得看她自己是不是想活下去。你这位女朋友已经下决心不想好了。她有 什么心事吗？” 5 "She -- she wanted to paint the Bay of Naples some day," said Sue. “她――她想有一天能去画那不勒斯湾，”苏说。 6 "Paint? -- bosh! Has she anything on her mind worth thinking about twice -- a man, for instance?" “画画？――得了。她有没有别的事值得她留恋的――比如说，一个男人？” 7 "A man?" said Sue. "Is a man worth -- but, no, doctor; there is nothing of the kind." “男人？”苏说。“难道一个男人就值得――可是，她没有啊，大夫，没有这码子事。” 8 "Well," said the doctor. "I will do all that science can accomplish. But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines." After the doctor had gone Sue went into the workroom and cried. Then she marched into Johnsy's room with her drawing board, whistling a merry tune. “好吧，”大夫说。“我会尽一切努力，只要是科学能做到的。可是，但凡病人开始计算她出殡的行列里有 几辆马车的时候，我就要把医药的疗效减去一半。”大夫走后，苏去工作室哭了一场。随后她携着画板大步走进 约翰西的房间，口里吹着轻快的口哨。 9 Johnsy lay, scarcely making a movement under the bedclothes, with her face toward the window. She was looking out and counting -- counting backward. 约翰西躺在被子下几乎一动不动，脸朝着窗。她望着窗外，数着数――倒数着数！ 10 "Twelve," she said, and a little later "eleven"; and then "ten," and "nine"; and then "eight" and "seven," almost together. “12，”她数道，过了一会儿“11”，接着数“10”和“9”；再数“8”和“7”，几乎一口同时数下来。 11 Sue looked out of the window. What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old, old ivy vine climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath of autumn had blown away its leaves, leaving it almost bare. 苏朝窗外望去。外面有什么好数的呢？外面只看到一个空荡荡的沉闷的院子，还有20英尺开外那砖房的侧墙，上面什么也没有。一棵古老的常青藤爬到半墙高。萧瑟秋风吹落了枝叶，藤上几乎光秃秃的。