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Language in use

in such a way / fashion that …

1 Rewrite the sentences using in such a way / fashion that …

1 Because of the way this office is built, it is difficult to avoid wasting energy on heating.

This office is built in such a way that it is difficult to avoid wasting energy on heating.

2 Due to the way in which the instructions were written, I couldn’t understand how to assemble the

product.

The instructions were written in such a fashion that I couldn’t understand how to assemble the product.

3 Because of the way in which they welcomed me, I immediately felt at home in the new office. They welcomed me in such a way that I immediately felt at home in the new office.

4 Due to the way in which problems are dealt with, it is unlikely that the top managers ever get to know

about them.

The problems are dealt with in such a fashion that it is unlikely that the top managers ever get to know

about them.

5 Because of the way in which I was taught English, I will probably never forget it.

I was taught English in such a way that I will probably never forget it.

word formation: in-, un-, dis-

2 Look at the sentences from the passage Work in corporate America and answer the question.

What do the prefixes in-, un- and dis- have in common?

They are all negative prefixes meaning not.

3 Replace the underlined words with the word in brackets and the appropriate prefix. You may need to

make other changes.

1 I’m afraid Matthew has turned out to be no good at his job. (competent)

I’m afraid Matthew has turned out to be inco mpetent at his job.

2 I don’t have the same opinion as you. I think he’s doing fine. (agree)

I disagree with you. I think he’s doing fine.

3 If you click here, you can cancel the last change you made to the document. (do)

If you click here, you can undo the last change you made to the document.

4 How many people are without a job in this town? (employed)

How many people are unemployed in this town?

5 I didn’t know that you had introduced all these new rules. (aware)

I was unaware that you had introduced all these new rules.

6 Obviously, it wasn’t our intention not to obey the orders. (obey)

Obviously, it wasn’t our intention to disobey the orders.

7 I’ve had a look at the report and I think it is not complete. (complete)

I’ve had a look at the report and I t hink it is incomplete.

8 I don’t know my colleagues very well, but I don’t have any bad feelings towards them. (like)

I don’t know my colleagues very well, but I don’t dislike them.

9 I’m afraid that software is not compatible with our system. (compatible)

I’m afraid that software is incompatible with our system.

for all + noun phrase

4 Rewrite the sentences using for all + noun phrase.

1 Although we are concerned about the environment, there is little that we can do to protect it. For all our concern about the environment, there is little that we can do to protect it.

2 He has a lot of knowledge about the world of finance, but he doesn’t seem to know how to invest money

wisely.

For all his knowledge about the world of finance, he doesn’t seem to know how to invest money wisely.

3 Although she said a lot of kind words, I don’t think she really appreciated just how much time we had

spent on this project.

For all her kind words, I don’t think she really appreciated just how much time we had spent on this project.

4 He has hundreds of bright ideas about developing new products, but he never seems able to put them

down on paper.

For all his bright ideas about developing new products, he never seems able to put them down on paper.

5 I do have a lot of doubts about this new software, but I recognize that it is quite innovative.

For all my doubts about this new software, I recognize that it is quite innovative.

as + adj. …as

5 Rewrite the sentences using as + adj. …as.

1 I am confused about how to apply for the job. Similarly, they are confused about who can apply.

I am as confused about how to apply for the job as they are about who can apply.

2 My wife and I were worried about staying longer than we were supposed to. Similarly, our hosts were

worried that we might not have enjoyed the meal.

My wife and I were as worried about staying longer as our hosts were that we might not have enjoyed

the meal.

3 Our generation knows little about cassette recorders and record players. Similarly our parents know

little about iPods and MP3 players.

Our generation knows as little about cassette recorders and record players as our parents know about

iPods and MP3 players.

4 We are curious about what he does for a living. Similarly, he is curious about what our company does.

We are as curious about what he does for a living as he is about what our company does.

5 I have very little idea about how to shoe a horse. Similarly, he doesn’t have much idea about how to

repair a motorbike.

I have as little idea about how to shoe a horse as he has about how to repair a motorbike. collocations

6 Read the explanations of the words. Answer the questions.

1 margin This word usually means the space at the side of a page where you don’t write anything.

(a) Do you have a habit of jotting notes in the margin when reading books?

Yes, I do. But other people just take notes on a separate piece of paper because they don’t want to spoil the book.

(b) If you win an election by a narrow margin, how big is the victory?

The victory is not big; it is just a narrow or close victory.

(c) What sort of problems are faced by people who live on the margins of society?

They may face social and economic problems because they have fewer opportunities and may find it difficult to join the mainstream society.

(d) If the margin of error in a calculation is very small, what are the chances that the calculation is wrong?

The chances are small and any errors are likely to be very small.

2 ignorance This word usually means lack of knowledge or facts about something.

(a) If an answer that you give betrays your ignorance, how do you feel?

You feel embarrassed because your answer has shown people your ignorance and most people do not like to show this in public.

(b) Do you think that ignorance of the law can ever be an excuse for breaking it?

It’s a human excuse because it means that you didn’t know the law on that point, but it is not a legal

excuse.

(c) Do you know of any decisions that have been taken but which were based on ignorance? Yes. In the early days of the stock market in China, some people bought shares in the belief that all shares would make money quickly, but later they lost money when the shares lost value. They bought

the shares in ignorance about how the market works and they had little idea of the risks.

3 sheer This word is usually used for emphasizing the amount or degree of something.

(a) If somebody tells you that your company is sheer delight, how would you feel?

I would feel complimented because that’s a nice thing to say to anyone.

(b) If you were overcome by sheer weight of numbers, was it the quality or quantity of the opposition

that defeated you?

It would have been the quantity of the opposition, eg the large number of opponents.

(c) Do you think it is easy to climb a sheer cliff face?

Not at all, because that kind of cliff is nearly vertical and it is very difficult to climb without training.

7 Translate the paragraphs into Chinese.

1 Even grown men who do market research have trouble visualizing what a public relations man does with his day, and it is a safe bet that the average systems analyst is as baffled about what a space salesman does at the shop as the average space salesman is about the tools needed to analyze a system.

即使是那些从事市场研究工作的成年人也难很想象公关部的人每天都在做些什么。一名普通的系统分析师肯定不知道空间推销员在店里都干些什么，就好像空间推销员对分析系统的工具也一窍不通一样。

2 So run the clichés, anyway. But it is only our obsession with novelty, ignorance of deeper historical patterns and arrogant insistence on our own importance that leads us into this kind of talk. Hoping to prove our superiority over the generations that preceded us, we boast that we live in a period of unprecedented change. Yet there is a good case that we do not, in fact, live in very interesting times at all.

不管怎么说，这就是那耳熟能详的套话。可是，让我们有这种论调的正是缘自我们对新奇事物的过度迷恋，对深层次历史模式的无知，以及我们的狂妄自大。为了证明相比于先辈们的优越性，我们夸耀说自己生活在一个前所未有的变革期。但是，有一个很好的例子可以用来证明，实际上我们并没有生活在多么有趣的时代。

8 Translate the paragraphs into English.

1 我们根本就看不懂他们的计划书，因为他们的观点不太容易把握。这很可能是因为我们双方对于另一方的思维方式都感到同样的困惑。我认为应该安排一次面谈，让大家消除误会，扫除沟通的障碍。(make of; come to grips with; it’s a safe bet that; as baffled … as)

We couldn’t make of their proposal at all, because it was no easy job for us to come to grips with their perspective. It was a safe bet that we were as much baffled about their way of thinking as they were about ours. I think we need to arrange a meeting to clear up misunderstandings and to remove communication barriers.

2 从与他共事二十多年的一位同事所写的传记中不难得出这样的结论：他所代表的绝对是该国二战之后的精英阶层，他们在宗教和政治方面的观念较为保守。(nothing if not; in the wake of; in terms of)

From a biography written by one of his former colleagues who had worked with him for more than two decades, it is not difficult to conclude that what he represented was nothing if not the elite class of the country in the wake of World War II, who were rather conservative in terms of religious and political views.

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新标准大学英语综合教程4第二版unit1-6课文翻译及

新标准大学英语综合教程4第二版unit1-6课文翻译及课后翻译

英语翻译 Unit one Nine to five passage1 大学毕业找工作的第一要义：别躺在沙发上做梦 今年夏天，超过65 万的大学生毕业离校，其中有许多人根本不知道怎么找工作。在当今金融危机的背景下，做父母的该如何激励他们？ 1 七月，你看着英俊的21岁的儿子穿上学士袍，戴上四方帽，骄傲地握着大学荣誉学位证书，拍毕业照。这时，记忆中每年支付几千英镑，好让儿子吃好、并能偶尔参加聚会的记忆开始消退。但现在，你又不得不再考虑钱的问题。 2 等到暑假快要结束，全国各地的学生正在为新学期做准备的时候，你却发现大学毕业的儿子还歪躺在沙发上看电视。除此之外，他只是偶尔发发短信，浏览社交网站Facebook，或者去酒吧喝酒。这位属于“千禧一代”的年轻人一夜之间变成了“抱怨一代”的成员。他能找到工作吗？ 3 这就是成千上万家庭所面临的状况：今年夏天，超过65万的大学生毕业，在当今金融危机的背景下，他们中的大多数人不知道自己下一步该做什么。父母只会唠叨，而儿女们则毫无缘由地变成了叛逆者。他们知道自己该找份工作，但却不知道如何去找。 4 来自米德尔塞克斯郡的杰克·古德温今年夏天从诺丁汉大学政治学系毕业，获得二级一等荣誉学士学位。他走进大学就业服务中心，但又径直走了出来，因为他看见很多人在那里排长队。跟他一起住的另外5个男孩子也都跟他一样，进去又出来了。找工作的压力不大，虽然他所认识的大多数女生都有更明确的计划。 5 他说：“我申请政治学研究工作，但被拒绝了。他们给的年薪是1.8万镑，交完房租后所剩无几，也就够买一罐豆子，可他们还要有工作经历或硕士学位的人。然后我又申请参加快速晋升人才培养计划，并通过了笔试。但在面试时，他们说我‘太冷漠’了，谈吐‘太像专家政治论者’。我觉得自己不可能那样，但我显然就是那样的。” 6 打那以后，他整个夏天都在“隐身”。他能够轻松地复述出电视剧《交通警察》中的若干片段。他白天看电视的时间太长，已经到了影响健康的地步。跟朋友谈起自己漫无目标的日子时，他才发现他们的处境和自己一样。其中一位朋友在父母的逼迫下去超市上货，其余的则都是朝九晚五地“无所事事”，晚上则去酒吧喝酒打发时间。要么，干脆就在酒吧工作？这样还可以挣些酒钱。“我不想在酒吧工作。我上的是综合学校，我拼命读书才考上了一所好大学。到了大学，我又埋头苦读，才取得一个好学位。可现在我却跟那些没上过大学的做无聊的酒吧侍应的朋友处在同一个水平线上。我觉得自己好像兜了一圈，又回到了原来的起点。” 7 他的母亲杰奎琳·古德温替他辩护。她坚持认为她的儿子已经尽力找工作了。但由于她自己中学毕业后一直都在工作，所以她和她的丈夫发现，建议儿子如何继续找工作是件很棘手的事情。她说：“我一直都不得不工作。而现在的年轻人很难做到这一点，因为如果你有了学位，学位就会为你提供新的机会，至少你自己会这么想。” 8 虽然目前她对儿子的态度还比较温和，但是她心里很清楚，去南美度三星期的假之后，他的休假就该结束了。他可能还得付房租，并分担家庭开支。 9 她说：“在某个时候孩子们总要长大成人。我们已经帮他交了大学的学费，

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Para1 An artist who seeks fame is like a dogchasing his own tail who, when he captures it, does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it.The cruelty of success is that it often leads those who seek such success to participate in their own destruction. 艺术家追求成名，如同狗自逐其尾，一旦追到手，除了继续追逐不知还能做些什么。成功之残酷正在于它常常让那些追逐成功者自寻毁灭。 "Don't quit your day job!" is advice frequently given by understandably pessimistic family members and friends to a budding artist who is trying hard to succeed. The conquest of fame is difficult at best, and many end up emotionally if not financially bankrupt. Still, impure motives such as the desire for worshipping fans and praise from peers may spur the artist on. The lure of drowning in fame's imperial glory is not easily resisted. 对一名正努力追求成功并刚刚崭露头角的艺术家，其亲朋常常会建议“正经的饭碗不能丢！”他们的担心不无道理。追求出人头地，最乐观地说也困难重重，许多人到最后即使不是穷困潦倒，也是几近精神崩溃。 Fame's spotlight can be hotter than a tropical jungle－a fraud is quickly exposed, and the pressure of so much attention is too much for most to endure.It takes you out of yourself: You must be what the public thinks you are, not what you really are or could be. The performer, like the politician, must often please his or her audiences by saying things he or she does not mean or fully believe. Curiously enough, it is those who fail that reap the greatest reward: freedom! They enjoy the freedom to express themselves in unique and original ways without fear of losing the support of fans. Failed artists may find comfort in knowing that many great artists never found fame until well after they had passed away or in knowing that they did not sell out. They may justify their failure by convincing themselves their genius is too sophisticated for contemporary audiences. Unit2 He was an immensely talented man, determined to a degree unusual even in the ranks of Hollywood stars. His huge fame gave him the freedom—and, more importantly, the money—to be his own master. He already had the urge to explore and extend a talent he discovered in himself as he went along. "It can't be me. Is that possible? How extraordinary," is how he greeted the first sight of himself as the Tramp on the screen. But that shock rousedhis imagination.Chaplin didn't have his jokes written into a script in advance; he was the kind of comic who used his physical senses to invent his art as he went along. Lifeless objects especially helped Chaplin make "contact" with himself as an artist. He turned them into other kinds of objects. Thus, a broken alarm clock in the movie The Pawnbroker became a "sick" patient undergoing surgery; boots were boiled in his film The Gold Rush and their soles eaten with salt and pepper like prime cuts of fish (the nails being removed like fish bones). This physical transformation, plus the skill with which he executed it again and again, is surely the secret of Chaplin's great comedy. He also had a deep need to be loved—and a corresponding fear of being betrayed. The two were hard to combine and sometimes—as in his early marriages—the collision between them resulted in disaster. Yet even this painfully-bought self-knowledge found its way into his comic creations. The Tramp never loses his faith in the flower girl who'll be waiting to walk into the sunset with him; while the other side of Chaplin makes Monsieur Verdoux, the French wife killer, into a symbol of hatred for women.