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Lesson40

【课文】

First listen and then answer the following question.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

What false impression does an ocean wave convey to the observer?

Waves are the children of the struggle between ocean and atmosphere, the ongoing signatures of infinity. Rays from the sun excite and energize the atmosphere of the earth, awakening it to flow, to movement, to rhythm, to life. The wind then speaks the message of the sun to the sea and the sea transmits it on through waves -- an ancient, exquisite, powerful message.

These ocean waves are among the earth”s most complicated natural phenomena. The basic features include a crest (the highest point of the wave), a trough (the lowest point), a height (the vertical distance from the trough

to the crest), a wave length (the horizontal distance between two wave crests), and a period (which is the time it takes a wave crest to travel one wave length).

Although an ocean wave gives the impression of a wall of water moving in your direction, in actuality waves move through the water leaving the water about where it was. If the water was moving with the wave, the ocean and everything on it would be racing in to the shore with obviously catastrophic results.

An ocean wave passing through deep water causes a particle on the surface to move in a roughly circular orbit, drawing the particle first towards the advancing wave, then up into the wave, then forward with it and then -- as the wave leaves the particles behind -- back to its starting point again.

From both maturity to death, a wave is subject to the same laws as any other “living” thing. For a time it assumes a miraculous individuality that, in the end, is reabsorbed into the great ocean of life.

The undulating waves of the open sea are generated by three natural causes: wind, earth movements or tremors, and the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun. Once waves have been generated, gravity is the force that drives them in a continual attempt to restore the ocean surface to a flat plain.

from World Magazine (BBC Enterprises)

【New words and expressions 生词和短语】

signature n. 签名，标记

infinity n. 无穷

ray n. 光线

energize v. 给与...能量

rhythm n. 节奏

transmit v. 传送

exquisite adj. 高雅的

phenomena n. 现象

crest n. 浪峰

trough n. 波谷

vertical adj. 垂直的

horizontal adj. 水平的

actuality n. 现实

catastrophic adj. 大灾难的

particle n. 微粒

maturity n. 成熟

undulate v. 波动，形成波浪

tremor n. 震颤

gravitational adj. 地心吸力的【课文注释】

1.transmit vt.

①传达

例句：Gypsies frequently transmit recipes orally within the family.

吉普赛人经常以口头形式把秘方世代相传。

②传送

例句：I will transmit the money by special messenger.

我将专门派人送这笔钱。

③传染

例句：The tension soon transmitted itself to all the members of the crowd.

这种紧张情绪很快感染了人群中所有的人。

④代代相传

例句：Parents transmit some of their characteristics to their children.

父母把某些特性遗传给子女。

【词义辨析】

点击查看大图send, deliver, dispatch, forward, ship, transmit这些动词均含“送出，发送，传送”之意。

send: 普通最常用词，含义广。指把人或物由一地送往另一地，而不涉及事物的内容或送的方式。

deliver: 指把信件、包裹等物寄发出去或交到某地，或直接交与某人，着重发送这一行为。

dispatch: 指为特殊目的而发送或派遣，强调紧急或快速。

forward: 指经过其他人或手段把东西转送给某人，(电子邮件)转发。

ship: 把通过水运、陆运或空运等方式运送东西。现常指商业上的运货，或将

物品托运。

transmit: 指将文件、消息等的内容或类似的东西发至某地或传达给他人。

2.exquisite adj.

①精挑细选的

例句：The hostess had exquisite taste in clothes.

女主人对衣著十分讲究。

②精致的

例句：The girl came up with a set of exquisite stamps.

那姑娘拿出一套精美的邮票。

③细腻的

例句：She has an exquisite ear for music.

她对音乐有细腻的听觉。

④强烈的

例句：I couldn”t sleep fo r exquisite pain.

我因剧痛而不能入睡。

3.vertical adj. 垂直的, 纵向的, 顶点的

例句：The northern face of the mountain is almost vertical.

这座山向北的一面几乎是垂直的。

【词义辨析】

点击查看大图vertical, perpendicular, upright, erect, plumb 这些形容词均有“垂直的、竖式的”之意。

vertical: 指与平面、水平线或基线成直角或几乎成直角向上延伸至顶点的物

体。也可指呈直线上升或下降的。

perpendicular: 指与水平线形成90度的线或面，或朝垂直方面延伸的，尤指向下的急剧运动。

upright: 普通用词，指竖立、笔直而不是倾斜、倒塌的。

erect: 指笔直挺拔，而非倾斜、佝偻、弯曲或倒塌的。

plumb: 建筑上用词，凭锤球评判某物是否完全垂直。

4.the horizontal distance between two wave crests 两个波峰间的水平距离

5.which is the time it takes a wave crest to travel one wave length 波峰走过一个波长所需的时间

6.give the impression of 给人以......印象

例句：He gives the impression of not caring a damn.

他给人的印象是满不在乎。

7.in actuality 事实上

例句：This “big company” in actu ality is only a small shop.

这家“大公司”实际上只是一个小店。

They talk about detente, but in actuality they are engaged in intense rivalry.

他们嘴里讲缓和，骨子里却进行激烈的争夺。

8.catastrophic adj. 灾难的, 灾难性的

例句：The contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic.

患上严重疾病很可能会是一场经济灾难。

On this issue, the consequences of inaction could be catastrophic. 在这个问题上，不采取行动将会带来灾难性的后果。

9.back to its starting point again 又返回出发点

10.be subject to 受...支配，服从于，遭受

例句：The offer isn”t subject to prior sale.

本报盘以货物未售出为条件。

Peasants used to be subject to the local landowner.

农民过去受地主的压迫。

11.undulate v.波动，形成波浪

例句：Fields of wheat are undulating in the breeze.

在微风中起伏着一片麦浪。

We soon see a field of wheat undulate in the breeze.

我们很快看到一片在微风中起伏的麦田。

12. generate vt. 产生，发生，引起

例句：We can”t generate enough power for the entire city.

我们不能为整个城市产生足够的能量。

We need someone to generate new ideas.

我们需要有人出新主意。

This hatred was generated by racial prejudice.

这种仇恨是由种族偏见引起的。

Water power can be used to generate electricity.

水力可以用来发电。

【参考译文】

海浪是大海和空气相斗的产物，无限的一种不间断的标志。太阳光刺激了地球的大气层，并给予它能量;阳光使空气开始流动，产生节奏，获得生命。然后，风把太阳的信息带给了大海，海洋用波浪的形式传递这个信息——一个源远流长、高雅而有力的信息。

这些海浪属于地球上最复杂的自然现象。它们的基本特征包括浪峰(波浪的最高点)、波谷(最低点)、浪高(从波谷到浪峰的垂直距离)、波长(两个浪峰间的水平距离)和周期(海峰走过一个波长所需的时间)。虽然，海浪给人的印象是一堵由水组成的墙向你压过来，而实际上，浪从水中移过，而水则留在原处。如果水和浪一起移动的话，那么大海和海里所有的东西就会向岸边疾涌过来，带来明显的灾难性后果。

穿过深水的海浪使水面上的一个微粒按照一种近乎圆形的轨道移动，先把微粒拉向前移动的海浪，然后推上波浪，随着波浪移动，然后 -- 当波浪把微粒留在身后时 -- 又回到出发点。

从成熟到消亡，波浪和其他任何“活动中”的东西一样，都受制于共同的法则。一度它获得非凡的个性，但最终又被重新融进生命的大洋。

公海上起伏的波浪是由3个自然因素构成的：风、地球的运动或震颤和月亮、太阳的引力。一旦波浪形成，地球引力是持续不断企图使海面复原为平面的力量。Lesson41

【课文】

First listen and then answer the following question.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

At what point does the training of a captive wild elephant begin?

Two main techniques have been used for training elephants, which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle. The former method simply consists of setting an elephant to work and beating him until he does what is expected of him. Apart from any moral considerations this is a stupid method of training, for it produces a resentful animal who at a later stage may well turn man-killer. The gentle method requires more patience in the early stages, but produces a cheerful, good-tempered elephant who will give many years of loyal service.

The first essential in elephant training is to assign to the animal a single mahout who will be entirely responsible for the job. Elephants like to have one master just as dogs do, and are capable of a considerable degree of personal affection. There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer. Such extreme cases must probably be taken with a grain of salt, but they do underline the general principle that the relationship between elephant and mahout is the key to successful training.

The most economical age to capture an elephant for training is between fifteen and twenty years, for it is then almost ready to undertake heavy work and can begin to earn its keep straight away. But animals of this age

do not easily become subservient to man, and a very firm hand must be employed in the early stages. The captive elephant, still roped to a tree, plunges and screams every time a man approaches, and for several days will probably refuse all food through anger and fear. Sometimes a tame elephant is tethered nearby to give the wild one confidence, and in most cases the captive gradually quietens down and begins to accept its food. The next stage is to get the elephant to the training establishment, a ticklish business which is achieved with the aid of two tame elephants roped to the captive on either side.

When several elephants are being trained at one time, it is customary for the new arrival to be placed between the stalls of two captives whose training is already well advanced. It is then left completely undisturbed with plenty of food and water so that it can absorb the atmosphere of its new home and see that nothing particularly alarming is happening to its companions. When it is eating normally, its own training begins. The trainer stands in front of the elephant holding a long stick with a sharp metal point. Two assistants, mounted on tame elephants, control the captive from either side, while others rub their hands over his skin to the accompaniment of a monotonous and soothing chant. This is supposed to induce pleasurable sensations in the elephant, and its effects are reinforced by the use of endearing epithets. such as”ho! my son”, or “ho! my father”, or “my mother”, according to the age and sex of the captive. The elephant is not

immediately susceptible to such blandishments, however, and usually lashes fiercely with its trunk in all directions. These movements are controlled by the trainer with the metal-pointed stick, and the trunk eventually becomes so sore that the elephant curls it up and seldom afterwards uses it for offensive purposes.

RICHARD CARRINGTON Elephants

【New words and expressions 生词和短语】

technique n. 技术

tough adj. 强硬的

resentful adj. 忿恨不满的

assign v. 分配，指派

mahout n. 驯象人

calf n. 幼仔

pine v. 消瘦

underline v. 着重说明，强调

keep n. 生计

subservient adj. 屈从的

plunge v. 向前冲

tame adj. 养驯服了的

tether v. (用绳)拴

ticklish adj. 难对付的，棘手的

alarming adj. 引起惊恐的

accompaniment n. 伴奏

soothe v. 镇定

chant n. 单调的歌

reinforce v. 加强

endearing adj.惹人喜爱的

epithet n. 称呼

susceptible adj. 易受感动的

blandishment n. 奉承

lash v. 猛烈地甩

curl v. 使卷曲

【课文注释】

1.the tough 强硬法

the gentle 温柔法

2.resentful adj.愤懑不满的

例句：Some Americans are resentful, so they must find an opportunity to vent their anger.

一些美国人心中不满，就要找个机会来发泄。

3.pine to death 消瘦至死

pine v.

①消瘦，憔悴

例句：He pined away after his daughter died.

他的女儿死后，他逐渐变得憔悴了。

②渴望

例句：Alone,a lonely stranger in a foreign land,I pine for kinsfolk doubly on a holiday.

独在异乡为异客每逢佳节倍思亲

n.松树

4.by some unavoidable circumstance 由于某些不可避免的情况

5.deprive of 剥夺，使失去… (权利)

例句：If you don”t drive carefully, I shall be obliged to deprive you of your license.

如果您不谨慎驾驶，我将不得不没收您的执照。

Too many trees round a house deprive it of light and air.

房屋四周树木太多会使室内光线和空气都感不足。

6.with a grain of salt 有保留地

7.underline v.着重说明，强调

例句：Strikes by prison officers underline the need for reform in our gaols.

监狱工作人员罢工一事，突出地表明我们的监狱制度需要改革。

Those words are underlined in the English book.

那本英语书中有些单词下画着线进行强调。

8.subservient adj.屈从的

例句：People shall not be regarded as subservient to the economic system.

不应把人的因素看成是经济体制的附庸。

9.a very firm hand 一个强有力的人

10.quiet down

例句：He was very angry, but he has quieted down now.

他刚才很生气，但现在已经平静下来了。

11.ticklish adj. 难对付的，易怒的，怕痒的

例句：A ticklish matter.

一件棘手的事

12.with the aid of 在……帮助下

13.customary adj. 习惯的，惯例的

例句：That”s his customary shortcoming.

那是他一个习惯的毛病。

It”s customary to give people gifts on their birthdays.

给人送生日礼物是惯常的事。

For once, she lost/dropped her customary reserve and became quite lively.

这次，她一反平素的沉默寡言，表现得很活跃。

【词义辨析】

usual, customary, habitual, conventional, regular 这些形容词均有“通常的，惯常的”之意。

usual: 普通用词，概念广泛。指经常发生或意料中的事，既可指自然发生的现象，也可指按个人习惯或惯例而做的事。

[b]customary: 指特定的个人或群体的平常习惯，或习俗性的行为。

habitual: 指按个人习惯反复发生的事情。侧重经常性、习惯性。

conventional: 语气强，指遵守已成习惯的事情，强调符合惯例，由人们普遍认可。

regular: 着重遵守约定俗成的规则。

14.This is supposed to 据说……

例句：This is supposed to be an off season for vegetables but you seem to have enough here.

按说现在是蔬菜的淡季，可是你们这里供应还不错。

15.susceptible adj.易受感动的

例句：Children are more susceptible than adults.

孩子比成人易受外界的影响。

He”s so susceptible that she easily gained his affection.

他易受感情影响，所以她很轻易就得到了他的爱。

【参考译文】

驯象有两种主要的方法，我们分别称之为强硬法和温柔法。强硬法就是驱使象去干活，把它打顺从为止。且不说道义问题，这本身就是一种愚蠢的训练方法，因为这种方法训练会使动物反感，在以后某个时期可能会变成伤人的动物。温柔法要求在最初阶段保持较大的耐心，但这种方法可以训练出性情愉快、脾气温顺，能忠实为人服务多年的大象。

驯象中至关重要的是指派一名专门的驯象员，全面负责这项工作。大象和狗一样，喜欢有一个专一的主人，而且会对主人产生相当深厚的私人感情。甚至有这样的故事：训练了一半的小象，由于不可避免的情况与他们的主人分离后，竟拒绝吃

食，消瘦至死。这种极端的事例虽不可全信，但强调了一项基本原则，象和驯象员之间的关系是驯象成功与否的关健。

捕捉15至20岁之间年龄的大象进行驯象最为经济。这个年龄的象差不多已能干重活，可以很快挣回饲养它的开支。但这个年龄的象不易驯服，因此开始阶段需要有一位强有力的老手。捕来拴在树上的大象，每当有人走近它时，就会向前猛冲并发出尖叫，甚至一连几天都由于愤怒和恐惧而拒绝进食。有时，把一头已驯服的象拴在旁边能给野象以信心。在大多数情况下，刚缚来的象会慢慢静下来，接着开始吃食。下一步就是把象带到训练场所，这是一件棘手的事，需要在它两侧拴上两头驯服的大象才能完成。

几只象同时训练时，通常是把新到的安置在两头训练得很好的大象的象厩中间，然后给它以充足的食物和水，一定不要惊扰它，以便让他能适应新居的气氛，并且看到自己的同伴身上没有发生让自己担惊受怕的事。当它进食正常了，训练就开始。驯练员手持一根有锋利金属尖头的长棒，站在象前。两位助手骑在驯服的象的背上，从两侧控制新捕的象，其他人唱着单调的歌声用手抚摸象的皮肤。据说这是为了使象产生愉快的感觉，为了加强这种效果，人们还按象的年龄性别，给以亲切的外号，如“嗬!我的孩子”、“嗬!我的爸爸”、“嗬!我的妈妈”。然而大象不会立刻被这些讨好的话感动，而往往是用鼻子朝各个方向猛烈地甩动。训练员要用有锋利金属尖的长棒控制它的这种举动，象鼻子最后疼得卷了起来，以后它就很少用鼻子去进攻了。

Lesson42

【课文】

First listen and then answer the following question.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

What does a pen have to do to record on paper the vibrations generated by an earthquake?

An earthquake comes like a thief in the night, without warning. It was necessary, therefore, to invent instruments that neither slumbered nor slept. Some devices were quite simple. One, for instance, consisted of rods of various lengths and thicknesses which would stand up on end like ninepins. When a shock came, it shook the rigid table upon which these stood. If it were gentle, only the more unstable rods fell. If it were severe, they all fell. Thus the rods, by falling, and by the direction in which they fell, recorded for the slumbering scientist the strength of a shock that was too weak to waken him, and the direction from which it came.

But instruments far more deliecate than that were needed if any really serious advance was to be made. The ideal to be aimed at was to devise an instrument that could record with a pen on paper, the movements of the ground or of the table as the quake passed by. While I write my pen moves, but the paper keeps still. With practice, no doubt, I could in time learn to write by holding the pen still while the paper moved. That sounds a silly suggestion, but that was precisely the idea adopted in some of the early instruments (seismometers) for recording earthquake waves. But when table, penholder and paper are all moving, how is it possible to write legibly? The key to a solution of that problem lay in an everyday observation. Why

does a person standing in a bus or train tend to fall when a sudden start is made? It is because his feet move on , but his head stays still. A simple experiment will help us a little further. Tie a heavy weight at the end of a long piece of string. With the hand held high in the air, hold the string so that the weight nearly touches the ground. Now move the hand to and fro and around but not up and down. It will be found that the weight moves but slightly or not at all. Imagine a pen attached to the weight in such a way that its point rests upon a piece of paper on the floor. Imagine an earthquake shock shaking the floor, the paper, you and your hand. In the midst of all this movement, the weight and the pen would be still. But as the paper moved from side to side under the pen point, its movement would be recorded in ink upon its surface. It was upon this principle that the first instruments were made, but the paper was wrapped round a drum which rotated slowly. As long as all was still, the pen drew a straight line, but while the drum was being shaken, the line that the pen was drawing wriggled from side to side. The apparatus thus described, however, records only the horizontal component of the wave movement, which is, in fact, much more complicated. If we could actually see the path described by a particle, such as a sand grain in the rock, it would be more like that of a bluebottle path described by a particle, such as a sand grain in the rock, it would be more like that of a bluebottle buzzing round the room; it would be up and down, to and fro and from side to side. Instruments have been devised and can be so placed

that all three elements can be recorded in different graphs.

When the instrument is situated at more than 700 miles from the earthquake centre, the graphic record shows three waves arriving one after the other at short intervals. The first records the arrival of longitudinal vibrations. The second marks the arrival of transverse vibrations which travel more slowly and arrive several minutes after the first. These two have travelled through the earth. It was from the study of these that so much was learnt about the interior of the earth. The third, or main wave, is the slowest and has travelled round the earth through the surface rocks.

H.H,SWINNERTON The Earth beneath Us

【New words and expressions 生词和短语】

earthquake n. 地震

slumber v. 睡眠

ninepin n. 九柱戏中的木柱

rigid adj. 坚硬的

delicate adj. 灵感的

seismometer n. 地震仪

penholder n. 笔杆

legibly adv. 字迹清楚地

drum n. 鼓状物

wriggle v. 扭动

bluebottle n. 绿头苍蝇

graph n. 图表

graphic adj. 图示的

longitudinal adj. 纵向的

transverse adj. 横向的

【课文注释】

1.slumber v.睡眠

例句：She fell into restful slumber.

她进入宁静的安眠之中。

Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.

不要容你的眼睛睡觉，不要容你的眼皮打盹。

【词义辨析】

sleep, doze, nap, slumber 这些动词均含“睡”之意。

sleep : 普通用词，指一般的睡眠。可用作引申指长眠或静止不动。

doze : 多用于口语中，指轻微的小睡或处于半睡状态。

nap : 指白天的小睡。

slumber : 多指人安详地或长时间地睡。

2. stand up on end 竖立着

3.rigid adj.坚硬的;刻板的

例句：The tent has a rigid support.

帐篷有一个坚硬的支柱。

He”s very rigid in his ideas.

他的想法非常固执。

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