大学英语教程3课后答案解析

Vocubulary

Unit 1

1.At first she threatened to dismiss us all,

but later she relented终于答应.

2.If you can’t have children of your own,why not consider

adoption收养?

3.She sensed something wrong by intuition直觉力.

4.She went to Cambridge on a scholarship but dropped退

学out a year later.

5.I fail to see what women find so fascinating极有吸引

力的about him.

Unit 2

1.The problem had been alluded暗示 to briefly in earlier

discussions.

2.The government is considering an incentive 鼓励

for drivers to replace old, polluting vehicles with new ones.

3.Sara is in disbelief 不信任that son, of whom the whole

family was so proud for being a Canadian Border officer, faces six charges including gunrunning.

4.The grim news continues to roll滚滚而来 in about the

German economy as the data is being released.

5.With an estimated median household income of $172,945,

this Dallas suburb is the most affluent富裕的neighborhood in the country, mostly due to real estate growth.

Unit 4

1.One of them sipped from a glass of water, looking wary

but not cowed 胆小的.

2.His cheeks glistened闪耀 with tears as he was told

about his mother’s death.

3.Just dismiss 抛开 those thoughts from your mind——they

are crazy and not worth thinking about.

4.He snipped剪断 the string and untied the parcel.

5.If you were to exert 尽力 your influence they might

change their decision.

Unit 5

1.We’re not sure whether we still want to proceed 进一

步 with the sale.

2.His personality个性 comes through in his writing.

3.His conservative保守的views made him unpopular.

4.It gave me a big thrill兴奋 to meet my favorite author

in person.

5.The smoke from cooking betrayed 背叛the presence of the

enemy.

6.She was fumbling笨手笨脚的 around in the dark looking

for the light switch.

Translation

Unit 1

1.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months,

but then stayed around as a drop-in for 18 months or so before I really quit.

译：我在里德学院读了半年就退学了，然后作为一个旁听生在那呆了大约18个月，然后才真正离开学校。

2.My biological mother was a young, unwed college

graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.

译：我的生母是一个年轻未婚的研究生，因此她决定把我送给别人收养。

3.It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it

was one of the best decisions I ever made.

译：这在当时看来非常可怕，但现在回头看看，那是我做过最棒的决定。

4.And much of what I stumbled into by following my

curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

译：我无意间依照好奇心和直觉做事，大多事后证明是非常值得的。

5.None of this had even a hope of any practical

application inmy life.

译：这一切在我生活中是否使用，我不抱希望。

6.Each time I saw that straw hat (每当我看到那顶草帽)，

it reminded me of the tour I had made years before.

7.This is the most wonerful time that I have ever had(我

度过的最美好的时光).

8.I’m honored to ttend the closing ceremony of the

conference(我很荣幸能参加大会闭幕式)and give you a speech.

9.Bill Clinton has helped to get the two American

journalists released and he seems to have a hope of making peace(又希望调解)between NorthKorea and the US.

10.One friend of mine has decided to quit his

well-paid but demanding position(辞去那份工资高但要求也高的工作)recently.

Unit 2

1.However, if that weren’t a popular notion, millions

of dollars wouldn’t roll in every time there was a lottery somewhere.

译：然而，这种想法非常普通，否则每次彩票抽奖也就不会有数以百万计的美元滚滚而来。

2.It took him five years to diligently create business

and generate that large sum of money.

译：他花了五年的时间，努力工作，并开办了一家公司，终于赚足了一大笔钱。

3.With great disbelief, he stared at his invenstment

of valuable gems, now turned to stones, and wondered what it all meant.

译：约翰眼睁睁的看着自己投资买来的宝石变成了石头，他难以置信，百思不得其解。

4.The inscripition read,“If one achieves this quest,

they will have transformed their mind by the use of their faith and will from then on have the power to overcome in all things and nothing will be impossible to them.”

译：这些文字是：凡历此功成者，必脱胎换骨，身心俱新，无坚不摧，无所不能。

5.Once known as the paris of Middle East(曾经拥有中

东巴黎的美誉), this seaside city fell into chaos during Lebanon’s prolonged civil war.

6.A meeting was held for the purpose of appointing a

new manager(是为了任命一位新经理).

7.She was selected for an interview with a PWC director.

Thisopportunity is too good to pass up(好得让人无法拒绝).

8.More than 150people were looking for the body of a

24-year-old hiker said to have been killed(据说已经遇害), a day after authorities charged a man with kidnapping her.

9.It is unclear(仍然不清楚)what was behind the Federal

Reserve’s surprise decision on Wendesday to buy up to $300 billon in Treasuries.

Unit 4

1.Then the doctor turns suddenly and lets him have a

left hook under the heart.

译：医生突然转过身，并且向他心脏下面打了一记左勾拳。

2.But if, on the hand, the doctor has spent the night

before at a little gathering of medical friends, he is very apt to forbid the patient to touch alcohol in any shape, and to dismiss the subject with great severity.

译：不过另一方面，医生前一晚参加了医生朋友的聚会，就禁止病人去触碰任何形式的酒精，并且严厉地拒绝谈论这个话题。

3.Then he looks the patient up and down,with the

scissors in his hand, and if he sees any likely part of him he clips it off and wraps it up.

译：他上下打量了病人，手里拿着剪刀，只要看到任何疑似有问题的地方，便从病人身上剪下来并包起来。

4.Now this, oddly enough,is the very thing that fills

the patient up with that sense of personal importance which is worth paying for.

译：奇怪的是，这种做法让病人觉得自己很受重视，所以值得为此花钱。

5.After hours of questioning, the suspect confessed at

last(嫌犯终于招供了).

6.The old car is apt to(很容易) break down.

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/4514732792.html,ing someone else’s name is not in and of itself

a crime(本身并不是犯罪)unless there is an intention

to commit a fraud.

8.By a small margin, Americans are more pleased than

disappointed(对……不感到失望，而是感到高兴) with Obama’s being elected as President.

9.The family are filling with a sense of peace and

satisfaction(充满了平静和满足) knowing that their innocent son arrested yesterday is to be released soon.

Unit 5

1.If you ask the fast runner to set the pace, then

majority of them will be left behind(他们中的大多数人都将落后).

2.My brother did not want to be tied to a steady job(被

稳定的工作所束缚).

3.They set off in search of the lost child(寻找失踪

的孩子).

4.Accidents due to driving at high speed(因高速驾驶

而造成的交通事故) were very common that month. 5.He was charged with murder(他被指控杀人) but found

innocent later.

1.Finally, without further ado, Lindsey was handcuffed

and charged with the robberies having taken place in Portland.

译：最后，没有再费什么时间，琳赛就被戴上手铐，罪名是在波特兰有抢劫罪。

2.She was escorted to the jail nearby for booking. 译：随后琳赛被押送到附近的监狱，等候起诉。

3.Lindsey went to court and the jury found her guilty

of all the robberies, and she was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

译：在法庭上，陪审团认为琳赛在所有那些抢劫案中的罪名成立，于是她被判了十五年的监禁。

4.The police were happy to have sovled this case and

to have the right twin in prison, but sister that should have been in prison was neither Lindsey nor Sara.

译：警方因为抓获了双胞胎中犯罪的那个，并结了案感到非常欣慰。但事实上应该坐牢的那个人既不是琳赛也不是萨拉。

5.Their mom had given birth to triplets and the woman

the police had tried to put behind bars was in fact another sister, Cindy.

译：她们的母亲当时生了三胞胎，应该被警方抓进监狱的是其中另外一个孩子：辛迪。

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