新概念英语第三册模仿翻译第11课：Notguilty无罪.docx

新概念英语第三册模仿翻译第 11 课： Not guilty无

罪

Lesson 11 Not guilty无罪

Customs Officers are quite tolerant these days, but they

can still stop you when you are going through the Green

Channel and have nothing to declare. Even really honest

people are often made to feel guilty. The hardened

professional smuggler, on the other hand, is never troubled

by such feelings, even if he has five hundred gold watches

hidden in his suitcase. When I returned from abroad recently,

a particularly officious young Customs Officer clearly

regarded me as a smuggler.

'Have you anything to declare?' he asked, looking me

in the eye.

'No', I answered confidently.

'Would you mind unlocking this suitcase please?'

'Not at all,' I answered.

The Officer went through the case with great care. All

the thing I had packed so carefully were soon in a dreadful

mess. I felt sure I would never be able to close the case

again. Suddenly, I saw the Officer's face light up. He had

spotted a tiny bottle at the bottom of my case and he

pounced on it with delight.

'Perfume, eh?' he asked sarcastically. 'You should

have declared that. Perfume is not exempt from import duty.'

'But it isn't perfume,' I said. 'It's hair gel.' Then I

added with a smile, 'It's a strange mixture I make myself.' As I expected, he did not believe me.

'Try it!' I said encouragingly.

The officer unscrewed the cap and put the bottle to his nostrils. He was greeted by an unpleasant smell which convinced him that I was telling the truth. A few minutes later, I was able to hurry away with precious chalk marks on my baggage.1.They can still stop you when you are going through the Green Channel and have nothing to declare.

have nothing to do想到have nothing to do with

翻：

你要明白我与此事一点儿关系也没有。

2.On the other hand, is never troubled by such feelings, even if he has five hundred gold watches hidden in his suitcase.

even if引步状从句

翻：

即使你不再需要老朋友，也不要怠慢他。

3.A particularly officious young Customs Officer clearly regarded me as a smuggler.

regard as??

翻：

他被公城里的医生。

4.Suddenly, I saw the Officer's face light up.

light up的用法

请翻译：

一个突如其来的形象或警句突然把意境照亮。

5.He was greeted by an unpleasant smell which

convinced him that I was telling the truth.

convince 的用法

请翻译：

只有采取“一揽子解决”的办法，才有可能各自说服自己的人民。

1.You've get to understand that I have nothing to do with it.

2.Don't neglect old friends, even if you no longer

need them.

3.He is regarded as the best doctor in town.

4.Suddenly a surprising image or epigram will light

up the scene.

5.But if the two sides AGREE to the ``package solution'',

they should be able to convince their people.

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11 Look at that hairdresser. He’s very busy. 12 Look at that housewife. She’s very lazy.

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Lesson1 We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas--legends handed down from one generation of story-tellers to another. These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from. The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago. But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten. So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first 'modern men' came from.

新概念英语第三册课文及详解第2课

Lesson 2 Thirteen equals one 十三等于一 Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired. The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has been silent ever since. One night, however, our vicar woke up with a start: the clock was striking the hours! Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one o'clock, but the bell struck thirteen times before it stopped. Armed with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower to see what was going on. In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer. 'Whatever are you doing up here Bill ?' asked the vicar in surprise. ' I'm trying to repair the bell,' answered Bill.' I've been coming up here night after night for weeks now. You see, I was hoping to give you a surprise.' 'You certainly did give me a surprise!' said the vicar. 'You've probably woken up everyone in the village as well. Still, I'm glad the bell is working again.' 'That's the trouble, vicar,' answered Bill. 'It's working all right, but I'm afraid that at one o'clock it will strike thirteen times and there's nothing I can do about it.' 'We'll get used to that, Bill,' said the vicar. 'Thirteen is not as good as one, but it's better than nothing. Now let's go downstairs and have a cup of tea.' Language points Attention: The points here are not covered by the mp3. It is better for you to listen to the mp3 first and try to take notes on your own. 1, Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired.