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现代大学英语第二册unit5课后答案解析

现代大学英语第二册unit5课后答案解析
现代大学英语第二册unit5课后答案解析

Unit 5 一

Into English

1.mold their thinking

2.restrain one’s impulse

3.spread butter

4.set the stage

5.contaminate the environment

6.undergo great suffering

7.spray paint

8.still the noise

9.modify the tone

10.work unknown harm

11.sink a well

12.acquire power

13.desert one’s friends

14.settle the dispute

15.delight the eye

16.invade that country

Into Chinese

1.邪恶的咒语

2.焦黄枯萎的草木

3.严峻的现实

4.空气污染

5.致命的武器

6.人工合成的材料

7.有创造力的大脑

8.品牌名

9.化学战争

10.事先调查

11.生死搏斗

12.外来物种

13.自然保护区

14.农业的精耕细作

二A

1.a piece of news/information

2.a piece of paper; a slip of paper; a paper/newspaper

3.a piece of advice

4.a song; a piece of music

5.a stone/rock/pebble

6.a piece of wood; a log; a board; a plank

7.a sweet/candy

8.a piece of meat

9.a loaf of bread; a piece of bread

10.three colas; two black teas; four coffees

11.a job; an occupation; a trade; a position

12.a means; a way; a tool/an instrument

13.a piece of cloth; a piece of clothing; a coat/jacket;

a suit

14.a piece /patch/parcel of land

15.a piece of furniture; a sofa

16.a piece of string

17.a lot of fish/cattle and

sheep/deer/insects/evidence/

garbage/chemicals/pollution/pollutants/grass//weeds /enemies

/enemy soldiers.

B

1.shoes/gloves

2.water/wine

3.teacups/books

4.keys/bananas/flowers

5.beer/milk

6.tea/coffee

7.cigarettes/wolves

8.rice/salt/sand

9.grass

10.birds/sheep

11.stones/melons

12.film

13.bees

14.stones/money

15.stars/students

16.cattle

ABADC BABAB

1. Building a house is no joking matter. You must check

carefully at every step.

2. His troops successfully checked the advance of the

enemy whose original intention was to make a

surprise attack.

3. I really wanted to refute his arguments, but I

checked myself because I thought it was not the right occasion.

4. Rachel Carson is famous for devoting all her life

to the cause of environmental protection.

5. In some ways, we are still ignorant of the potential

harm of these dams and reservoirs. They might cause irrevocable changes in the environment.

6. These must be a set of checks and balances so that

no important policy concerning national interests can be made by one person without the knowledge of the people.

7. To compete successfully we have to adjust to new

conditions. These colorful garments, for example, are specially designed. They are intended for the youth market.

8. We teachers cannot be excused for our lack of concern

for students’ health.

9. He said that he would rather die than be confined

to bed all his life and isolated from the outside world.

10. A mass protest swept the country and he was caught

in a crossfire from both the right and left. 五.

1. exchanged ; change ; exchanged, changed ; exchange,

exchange

2. except ; Besides ; beside ; except

3. used to, is used to ; am used to ; used to

4. shaking ; shivering/trembling ;

shook/shuddered/trembled/shivered ;

shaking/trembling/shuddering

六.

1. spell:一段时间;bill:账单

2. bill:法案;score:取得胜利

3. bill:纸币

4.closed:保守的

5. close:不通风的;desert:抛弃

6.closed:相近的;score:得分

7.close:仔细的;bill:海报

8.direct:直接的;score:宿怨

9.direct:导演;score:许多

10.direct:针对…发表评论;desert:沙漠

Grammar

1.as a substitute for a predicative that has already been mentioned or implied to avoid repetition

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/b79406336.html,ed before an adjective, meaning “very”

3.pre-determined in a noun phrase

4.adjective as predicative used in the

structure “such + that-clause”to denote

result

5.as substitute for what has already been

mentioned to avoid repetition

6.idiom, meaning “like”

7.adjective used in the structure “such+noun

phrase+as +to-infinitive”to denote result

8.in the “so…mat”structure

9.in the “so…that”structure

10.introducing an adverbial clause of result

(二)

1.such a windbag

2.so hard

3.such that

4.so

5.so fast that

6.so familiar

7.no such

8.such that

9.such away as

10.so few tickets

1.given time

2.It is not our contention that

3.Considering their age

4.It is no accident their age

5.Considering the difficult circumstances

6.Given the opportunity

7.It is no accident that

8.Considering the drought in spring and flood in summer

9.It is not our contention that

10.It’s probably no accident that

四翻译

我们应该时不时静下来,倾听一下大自然有什么话要对我们说,而不是总将自己的意愿强加于它。如果当初我们这么做了,我深信我们将会以新的角度看待自己狂热的生活。我们甚至会看清这个社会的愚蠢和疯狂,这个世界有一半的人将忙于毁灭另外一半的人,忙着把我们整个星球变成一堆放射性的尘埃。。。

我多想我能够站在你们面前对你们说,我这一代人对人与自然的关系有所建树并赋予价值;我们曾见过我们居住的地球的壮丽、优美以及威力,并从她那里学到智慧和谦卑。不幸的是,我无颜这么说,因为正是我们这一代人生产出了致命的破坏物质。

然而时间像溪水向前流淌,人类也随其奔向未来。你们这一代人必须与环境和解;你们这一代必须面对种种现实,而不是躲在物质的避风港里,无视现实。你们的责任重大,然而这又是一个光荣的责任。你们将踏入的那个世界将面临人类前所未有的挑战,它将考验人类的成熟程度,及其对自身而非大自然的认知程度。(节选自蕾切尔卡尔森于1962年6月12日在加利福尼亚州克莱尔蒙特市的斯克利普斯学院毕业的典礼上的讲话)

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现代大学英语第二版精读2 unit 1 课文翻译

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现代大学英语精读5课后翻译习题答案

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现代大学英语第二版精读2unit 10 课文翻译

1.Not very far from Naples, a strange city sleeps under the hot Italian sun. It is the city of Pompei i, and there is no other city quite like it in all the world. Nothing lives in Pompeii except crickets a nd beetles and lizards, yet every year thousands of people travel from distant countries to visit it. 1. 在离那不勒斯不远的地方,一座奇特的小城寂静的沉睡在意大利炙热的骄阳之下。那就是庞培城。全世界再没有任何一个城市和庞培城相像。在庞培城中,除了蟋蟀、甲虫和蜥蜴之外,别无其他生物,然而每年都有成千上万的人从不同国度不远万里前来参观。 2.Pompeii is a dead city. No one has lived there for nearly two thousand years----not since the su mmer of the year A.D. 79, to be exact. 2.庞培是一座死城。确切的说自从公元79年的那个夏天开始,两千年来没有人在这里生活过。 3.Until that year Pompeii was a prosperous city of 25,000 people. Nearby was the Bay of Naples, an arm of the blue Mediterranean. Rich men came down from wealthy Rome to build seaside vill as. Farmlands surrounded Pompeii. Rising behind the city was the 4000-foot Mount Vesuvius, a gr ass-covered slope where the shepherds of Pompeii took their goats to graze. Pompeii was a busy city and a happy one. 3.直到那年夏天庞培成还是一座拥有25000人的繁荣城市,离那不远就是蓝色地中海之臂的那不勒斯湾。一些有钱人从富有的罗马城来到这里建造海边别墅。庞培城的周围有农田环绕。在这座城市的背后矗立着4000英尺高的维苏威火山。绿草覆盖的山坡上,牧羊人赶着他们的羊群在吃草。庞培城是一座繁忙而又充满幸福感的城市。 4.It died suddenly, in a terrible rain of fire and ash. The tragedy struck on the 24th of August, A.D. 79. Mount Vesuvius, which had slept quietly for centuries, erupted with savage violence. Tons of hot ash fell on Pompeii, hiding it from sight. For three days the sun did not break through the clou ds of volcanic ash that filled the sky. And when the eruption ended, Pompeii was buried deep. A c ity had perished. 4.可是,在一阵可怕的火与灰的袭击中,这座城市灭亡了。这个悲剧发生在公元79年的8月24日。维苏威火山。这座沉睡了几世纪的山脉,突然剧烈的爆发了。数以吨计滚烫的火山灰落到了庞培城遮住了人们的视线。3天以来阳光都无法穿过被火山灰充斥的云层。当喷发结束的时候,庞培城被深深的掩埋了。这座城市也就消失了。 5. Centuries passed, Pompeii was forgotten. Then, seventeen hundred years later, it was discover ed again. Beneath the protecting shroud of ash, the city lay intact. Everything was as it had been t he day Vesuvius erupted. There were still loaves of bread in the ovens of the bakeries. In the wine shops, the wine jars were in place, and on one counter could be seen a stain where a customer h ad thrown down his glass and fled. 5.几个世纪过去了,庞培城几乎被遗忘了。不过,1700年后,人们又重新发现了它。在火山灰的保护下,这座城市完好无损的躺在那里。一切都是维苏威火山喷发那天的样子。面包店烤箱里依然有尚未出炉的面包,在卖红酒的店里,酒坛子依然放在原处,在柜台前,人们扔下酒杯逃命的痕迹清晰可见。 6. To go to Pompeii today is to take a trip backward in time. The old city comes to life all around y ou. You can almost hear the clatter of horses’ hoofs on the narrow streets, the cries of children a nd the laughter of the shopkeepers. The sky is cloudlessly blue, with the summer sun high in the s ky. The grassy slopes of great Vesuvius rise to the heavens behind the city, and sunlight shimmers on the waters of the bay a thousand yards from the city walls. Ships from every nation are in port and strange languages can be heard in the streets. 6.今天,去庞培可以称得上是一次体验时光倒流的旅行,古老的城市在你的周围仿佛又重新充满了活力。你几乎能听到狭窄街道上的马蹄声,孩子们的哭闹声和店主们的笑声。蔚蓝的

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Task 1 Yesterday morning Gretel went to the city of London. She wanted to see St Paul?s Cathedral. She was surprised to see so many Englishmen who booked alike. They were wearing dark suits and bowler hats. They were all carrying umbrellas and newspapers. When she returned home she asked Mr. Clark about these strange creatures. “They must be typical English gentlemen,” she said. “ I have often read about them and seen photographs of them. They all look as if they are wearing a uniform. Does the typical gentleman still exist?” Mr. Clark laughed. “I?ve never thought about it,”he answered. “It?s true that many of the men who work in the city of London still wear bowler hats and I suppose they are typical Englishmen. But look at this.” Mr. Clark picked up a magazine and pointed to a photo of a young man. “He?s just as typical, perhaps. it seems as if there is no such a thing as a …typica l? Englishman. Do you know the English saying …It takes all kinds to make a world?? That?s true of all countries—including England. “Oh, just like the poem …If All the Seas Were One Sea?,” Gretel began to hum happily. “If all the seas were one sea, what a great sea it would be! And if all the trees were one tree, what a great tree it would be1and if this tree were to fall in the sea, what a great splash there would be!” Task 2 John is British but has worked in Japan.Etsuko is a Japanese student from Osaka and she is studying in Britain. New they are comparing life in the two countries. John: I found that living in Japan, people were much busier. They seem to work the whole day. Etsuko:Yes, that?s right. We work from Monday through Saturday, even in summer. You know, summer in Japan is just horrible. It?s very very humid and hot, and you need to shower three times a day. John: So you find it cooler in England? Etsuko: Yes, that?s right. John: where I was living in Japan in the north, it was much colder than England, especially in winter, minus thirty degrees centigrade. Does the winter in Osaka last longer than the winter in England? Etsuko: No, I don?t think so. December, January, February, Marc h… John: Yes, it?s a bit shorter if anything. Etsuko: Ever since I came here., I noticed that the countryside in England is really beautiful. John: It?s much flatter than in Japan. Etsuko: Yes, Japan is a mountainous country and our cities are full of people. There are lots of people in a limited area. John: Yes, I found Japan much more mountainous than Britain, especially in the north. The mountains are much higher and much more rocky. I found it more beautiful than Britain. Etsuko: Yes, if you like mountains. John: Therefore the towns and villages tend to be more crowded.

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