21世纪大学英语第四册课后翻译

Unit 1

1. 美国人往往以从事的工作来对人们进行划分。家庭和教育背景这些特点被认为是不太重要的。

Americans tend to define people by the jobs they have/do. Such characteristics as their family and educational backgrounds are considered less important.

2. 他决不妥协的个性是他再也无法容忍它的雇主，并最终递交了辞职书的原因。

His uncompromising personality explains why he could no longer put up with his employer and eventually submitted his resignation.

3. 如果你真想学好英语，你就必须投入大量的时间和精力，否则你就不会有任何进步。对于其他课程也可以这么说。

If you really want to learn English well, you must put in a lot of time and energy, or you’ll go nowhere. The same can be said of other subjects.

4. 有些演员的名声靠的是他们天生的美貌，但是达斯汀?霍夫曼（Dustin Hoffman）尽管身材矮小（short stature）, 还是出类拔萃，而使他与众不同的正是他精湛的演技。

Some actors’ fame is built on their innate beauty, but despite his short stature, Dustin Hoffman rose above and it is his excellent acting that sets him apart.

5. 他负责管理之后，我们发现他与前任（predecessor）有明显的不同：他有干劲和激情，想出了很多新点子，并把工作重点放在如何鼓舞我们的士气上。

After he took charge, we discovered that there were striking differences between him and his predecessor. He had the drive and passion, came up with many new ideas, and focused his work on how to raise our morale.

6. 当邓小平宣布中国改革开放政策的时候，他被永远载入史册。尽管障碍重重，他以不懈的努力为我国的现代化作出了永久性的贡献。

Deng Xiaoping made history when he declared China’s reform and opening-up policy. Despite tremendou s obstacles, he made lasting contributions to our country’s modernization with his unrelenting efforts.

7. 为什么有人拥有天才级智商却被智商平平但很刻苦的人丢在后面？承认除了智商外，还有很多别的因素与一个认得成就有着很大的关系。

Why could someone with a genius IQ be left behind by a hardworking person with an average IQ? It has to be acknowledged that besides one’s IQ, many other factors have much to do with one’s achievements.

8. 这位教师真了不起，她能在教东西之前调动学生的积极性。这并不是因为她有天赋，而是因为她只想着在课堂上吸引他们的注意力。

This teacher is really remarkable in motivating her students before she can teach them something. It’s not that she is talented, it’s that she is obsessed with drawing their attention in class

Unit 2

1. 他瞪眼看着约翰，对他拒绝合作感到恼怒。

He glared at John and was sore at his denial of cooperation.

2. 约翰真诚的讲话表达了他对那些在他处于困境时给过他慷慨帮助的人们感激之情。John’s si ncere speech shows his gratitude to the people who rendered him generous help when he was in difficulty.

3. 他可说是一个集邮家。他曾经积蓄了两年去买一张珍邮这件事便是证明。

He is something of a stamp collector. The fact that once he saved up for two years to buy a rare stamp is roof of it.

4. 这些玫瑰的美丽怎么评价也不过分。它们以各种方式吸引住了所有的游客。

The beauty of these roses could not be overstated. They took/caught all the visitors’s fancy in one way or another.

5. 起先，他理所当然地认为该地区应当多造一些公路。然而仔细计算费用后，他在作出最后决定前有不得不重新考虑了。

At first he took it for granted that they should build more highways in this area. Then a careful calculation of the expenditure compelled him to think twice before he made the final decision. 6. 每次收到我的礼物，不管多少，我的朋友比尔决不忘记表示感激。

Each time he receives a gift from me, no matter how small, my friend Bill never fail to acknowledge it.

7. 那位新闻记者决定找到那位老夫妇心中提及的年轻人。那封信赞赏了年轻人为使他们的生活条件更为惬意而付出的努力。

The journalist has decided to trace the young man referred to in the old couple’s letter, which is a tribute to the young man’s effort at making their living more agreea ble.

8. 虽然他厌烦了那些每天上门来吹嘘起产品的推销员，但他克制着没有将他们推之门外。Though he was fed up with the salesman who knocked at his door and boasted about their products every day, he refrained from slamming the door in their face.

Unit 3

1. 汤姆因一问题而心神不宁但又一筹莫展，直到他学会以不同的策略把它解决才不心烦。Tom was hung up on the problem but could do nothing about it until he learnt to solve it with different tactics.

2. 横向思维帮助他提出了原来似乎走进死胡同的新理论。

Lateral thinking has helped him to advance his new theory which seemed to have reached a dead end.

3. 我们最新的建设计划的框架已获得地方政府的批准。它是否会按时实施对这座沿海城市的发展具有极为重大的意义。

The framework of our latest construction plan has been affirmed by the local government. Whether it will be carried out on time is of the utmost significance to the development of the coastal city.

4. 在设法寻找一个解决问题的办法的过程中，爱德华在思想上陷入了僵局，但后来他改变了观察角度，以一种完全意想不到的方式解决了问题。

While trying to find a solution to the problem, Edward reached an impasse in his thinking, but later he changed his point of view and solved the problem in an entirely unexpected fashion.

5. 许多人认为计算机机房将最终取代图书馆，想吸收新知识的学生最终将在计算机机房里学习一切。

Many people believe that computer labs will eventually take over from the libraries and students who want to take in new knowledge will end up learning everything in the computer lab.

6. 昨天他的汽车几乎是迎头撞上了一辆卡车。如果他继续这样随便开车，我确信他最后一定会被送进医院的急诊室。

His car crashed into a truck almost head-on yesterday. If he does not stop driving so carelessly, I am sure he will wind up in the emergency room of a hospital.

7. 这幅画的结构设计有一个缺点。你为什么不擦掉那几条垂线，把它简化一点呢？

There is a flaw in the design of the structure of the painting. Why don’t you erase the vertical lines and simplify it a little bit?

8. 约翰本该在很久以前就把烟戒掉了。毕竟健康对每个人来说都是最重要的。

John should have given up smoking a long time ago. After all, health is of the utmost importance to everybody.

Unit 4

1. 学校应避免仅按学生考试成绩来判别孰优孰劣并以此对待他们。相反，好的教育体制应使每一位学生都能达到良好的水准，成为全面发展的人。

Schools should avoid deciding who are superior only in terms of the students’ exam results and treating them accordingly. Instead, a good educational system should enable every student to measure up to good standards as well-rounded people.

2. 大学生课后有问题时，往往在办公时间之外不容易找到老师。这是由于教师繁忙的学术研究，而不是他们对学生漠不关心。

As often as not, when college students have questions after class, their teachers are not readily available except during office hours. This is due to teachers’ bu sy academic research, rather than their indifference to the students.

3. 这个班级由40名学生组成，他们中大部分按英语水平过去常被归在中等之列。但由于这位老师从不在言辞中表露出不耐烦，学生们对他的教学方法产生了积极的反应，从而没有辜负他的期望。

This class consists of forty students, most of whom used to be labeled average in terms of English level. But as this teacher has never shown any verbal impatience, the students have reacted positively to his teaching methods and lived up to his expectations.

4. 在美国，教书变得越来越难了，部分原因是学生越来越多样的种族背景以及需要另外培训才能掌握的更为复杂的教学技术。

Teaching is becoming increasingly demanding in the the United States, due in part to the diversity of students racial background and the complexity of educational technologies that require additional training.

5. 英国人经常被归类为保守型，显然这一归类带有成见。实际上，英国在民族特性方面与其他欧洲国家相比并没有太大的差异。他们有礼貌，爱整洁，讲秩序，充满自信

The English are, as often as not, labeled conservative. Obviously this label is prejudiced. In reality, Britain is not very different from other European countries in terms of national characteristics. They are polite, neat, orderly and confident.

6. 有些年轻人在成长过程中有着要求独立的强烈愿望。他们宁可通过自己的努力来渡过生活中的困难，也不愿意带着负罪感求助于他们的父母。

Some young people grow up with a strong desire for independence. They would rather try hard themselves to go through life than turn to their parents for help with a sense of guilt.

7. 你的朋友对你非常真诚，你也应该同样以诚相待，决不应该欺骗他，或者带着讽刺的口吻谈论他的挫折

Your friend treats you sincerely, so you should respond accordingly and mustn’t deceive him or talk about his setbacks with irony.

8. 邻居们恼火的原因是他们发出的噪音，但是由于他们一再保证夜间停工，从而得以完成这套公寓的装潢

The neighbor’s irritation/a nnoyance was due to the noise they made. However, because of their reassurances that they would stop working at night, they went through with the decoration of this apartment.

Unit 5

1. 正如你可以想象到的，阅读为我打开了一个新的天地并永远改变了我的人生道路。

As you can imagine, reading has opened a new world to me and changed forever the course of my life.

2. 他从童年起就对书籍表现出一种非常强烈的兴趣。他对书籍如此迷恋，以致从不让一天过去而不进行一些阅读。

He had demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books since childhood. So fascinated with books was he that he never let a day pass without doing some reading.

3. 他每次乘地铁上下班身边都有一本想读的书。他就这样在过去三年中读了一百本书。Every time he takes the subway to and from work, he was with him a book that he wants to read. That is the way he has read nearly a hundred books in the past three years.

4. 他读中学时常在自己的房间里读书至深夜。每次听到母亲走进的脚步声，他便关掉灯假装睡着。而母亲一走过去，他便打开灯，重又读起来。

When he was in high school, he used to read deep/far into the night in his own room. Each time he heard the approaching footsteps of his mother, he would turn off the light and feigned sleep. But as soon as his mother passed, he would turn on the light and begin reading again.

5. 几乎没有什么关于中国的东西是他不感到好奇的。为了满足自己的好奇心他已决定亲自到那里去尽量多看一些。

There is hardly anything about China he’s not curious about. And to satisfy his curiosity he had decided to go there in person.

6. 我不知道是什么使得你的儿子羡慕那位流行歌手并试图事事模仿他。你还是问问他本人好了。

I don’t know / I have little / no idea what made your son feel envy of that pop singer and try to emulate him in everything. You might as well ask him in person.

7. 他从图书馆一借到那本书就在走廊的灯光下飞快地把它翻了一遍。

As soon as he checked out the book from the library, he thumbed through its pages by the corridor light.

8. 我认为没有哪个人在农村学到的比我更多。实际上，农村的三年使我比进某个大学学习得更深入细致。

I don’t think anybody ever learned more in the countryside than I did. In fact, the three years in the countryside enabled me to study far intensively than I would have if had attended some college. Unit 6

1. 他生来就有残疾，但他从不沮丧，也从未屈服于任何困难。

He was disabled form birth but he never felt frustrated nor did he give in to any difficulty.

2. 汤姆一直坚决要求提升。当这样的机会出现时，他立即抓住了。

Tom had been holding out for the promotion. When such an opportunity showed up he grabbed it at once.

3. 他对所有的标准化考试都不信任并认为应该由某种更好的东西来取代它们。

He distrusts all standardized tests and believes that there should be something better to substitute for them.

4. 我的论点是我们应当马上对这些又争议的问题逐个进行调查。

My thesis is that we should carry out a survey of these controversial issues one by one right now.

5. 贝蒂勤劳而又可靠。她从不在困难面前退缩。总之，她是我们都为之感到骄傲的那种学生。

Betty is diligent and dependable. She never shies away from any difficulties. In short she is the kind of student that we are all proud of.

6. 把汽油箱放在你的房子里是不明智的，因为它极易燃烧，并且可能在几分钟内就将你辛辛苦苦挣来的财产付之一炬。

It is ill-advised to keep the gas tank in your home for it ignites easily and may burn up your hard-earned fortune in a few minutes.

7. 史密斯博士的讲座等于是说，很早就显示出高情商的孩子无论面对什么困难都会最终取得成功。

Doctor Smith’s lecture accounts to saying that a child who displays high EQ early on in life will succeed eventually in the face of all kinds of difficulties.

8. 由于在美国很多婚姻都以离婚告终，心理学家们建议所有家庭中的夫妻都应更经常地互相沟通，不要等到为时过晚时才来解决他们的问题。

Since many marriages end in divorce in the United States psychologists have suggested that couples in all families communicate with each other more often an solve their problems before it becomes too late.

【UNIT7】

1.随着长大，我渐渐接受了这一事实：我永远不会实现成为一名作家的梦想。

1.As I grew up, I made my peace with the fact that I would never fulfil

my dream of becoming a writer.

2.迈克尔想了两天还每天出字谜游戏里那个至关重要的词，最后之后失望地放弃。

2.Michael had got stuck trying to figure out the word essential to the

word puzzle for two days before he threw up his hands in frustration.

3.当这位歌手发现市面上有自己作品的盗版时，他十分震惊，发誓绝不放过那盗贼。

3.The singer was taken aback by the pirated editions of his songs on the

market, and he vowed not to let the thiefs off.

4.感谢您购买我们的锅炉。作为回报，我们将免费为您处理旧锅炉。

4.Thank you for purchasing our furnace. In return we will get rid of your old one for free.

5.苏珊和我互诉了别后的事情，从中我得知她已经出版了好几本儿童读物。

5.Susan and I filled each other in on what hadhappened after we parted, from which I learned that she had hadseveral children's books in print.

6.当连锁大书店的竞争逼的她的小书店歇业后，已届中年的莉莲不知道自己还能做些什么。

6.Her bookstore having been frozen out by a giant chain, the middleaged

Lillian was at a loss as to what else she could do.

7.你需要有人在旁不断督促才会完成这一任务。

7.You need somebody to urge you constantly to see the task through tocompletion.

8.因为害怕新建购物中心会破坏社区的宁静，许多居民反对这一计划。

8.For fear that a new shopping center would ruin the peace of thecommunity, many residents opposed the construction plan.

【UNIT8】

1.如果你对冗长的讲座不敢兴趣，那从头至尾把它听完实在是毫无意义的。

1.It is really pointless to sit through a tedious lecture if you do not take

any interest in it.

2.由于他在生态学领域的卓越地位，我们学校的学生都非常敬重他。

2.The students at our university all hold him in high esteem because of

his eminence in the field of ecology.

3.虽然他生称自己那本新小说跟她本人的生活无关，但它还是吸引了血多年轻读者。他们认为这部小说是他们粗略的看到了作者的童年。

3.Though he claims that his new novel has nothing to do with his own

life, it has caught the fancy of many young readers, who believe that

this novel has given them a glimpse of the author's childhood.

4.自从计算机技术迎来了人们所称的信息时代以来，有些作家已经不再用钢笔，因为他们现在能够用计算机来写一切东西了。

4.Since computer technology ushered in what is known as the

Information Age, some writers have done away with their pens, for they

can now write everything with their computers.

5.我们不得不羞愧而遗憾地承认，在我们中间有些人的确把自己看做是宇宙的中心，对公共事务毫不关心。

5.We have to admit, as much in sorrow as in shame, that there are some

people among us who do think of themselves as the center of the

universe and care very little about public affairs.

6.首先，我们应该取得该市人口的精确数据，如果退休人员的人数超过青少年的人数，我们就应该调整发展计划以满足这一大批人的需要。

6.First and foremost, we should get the precise data on the population

of the city. If retired people outnumber the teenagers, we should adjust

our development plan to the needs of this large group of people.

7.最令南希感到高兴的莫过于看到她七岁的儿子取得的飞速进步，他的演奏甚至会使许多专业钢琴家相形见绌。

7.Nothing pleases Nancy more than to see the rapid progress made by

her seven-year-old son, whose playing would put many a professional

8.我要表明的观点是，作为当代的大学生，我们必须极为尊重知识，尤其是尊重对知识的追求，并非常重视传统、社会的约束和连续性。

8.The point I want to make is that as modern university students, we

must hold knowledge in high esteem, especially its quest, and place

great value on tradition, social restraint and continuity.

大学英语精读第四册课文翻译

Unit 1 一个大学男孩，不清楚赚钱需要付出艰苦的劳动，被一份许诺轻松赚大钱的广告吸引了。男孩们很快就明白，如果事情看起来好得不像真的，那多半确实不是真的。 轻轻松松赚大钱 “你们该看看这个，”我向我们的两个读大学的儿子建议道。“你们若想避免因为老是向人讨钱而有失尊严的话，这兴许是一种办法。”我将挂在我们门把手上的、装在一个塑料袋里的几本杂志拿给他们。塑料袋上印着一条信息说，需要招聘人投递这样的袋子，这活儿既轻松又赚钱。（“轻轻松松赚大钱!”）“我不在乎失不失尊严，”大儿子回答说。 “我可以忍受，”他的弟弟附和道。 “看到你们俩伸手讨钱讨惯了一点也不感到尴尬的样子，真使我痛心，”我说。 孩子们说他们可以考虑考虑投递杂志的事。我听了很高兴，便离城出差去了。午夜时分，我已远离家门，在一家旅馆的房间里舒舒服服住了下来。电话铃响了，是妻子打来的。她想知道我这一天过得可好。 “好极了!”我兴高采烈地说。“你过得怎么样?”我问道。 “棒极了!”她大声挖苦道。“真棒!而且这还仅仅是个开始。又一辆卡车刚在门前停下。” “又一辆卡车?” “今晚第三辆了。第一辆运来了四千份蒙哥马利-沃德百货公司的广告；第二辆运来四千份西尔斯-罗伯克百货公司的广告。我不知道这一辆装的啥，但我肯定又是四千份什么的。既然这事是你促成的，我想你或许想了解事情的进展。” 我之所以受到指责，事情原来是这样：由于发生了一起报业工人罢工，通常夹在星期日报纸里的广告插页，必须派人直接投送出去。公司答应给我们的孩子六百美金，任务是将这些广告插页在星期天早晨之前投递到四千户人家去。 “不费吹灰之力!”我们上大学的大儿子嚷道。 “六百块!”他的弟弟应声道，“我们两个钟点就能干完!” “西尔斯和沃德的广告通常都是报纸那么大的四页，”妻子告诉我说，“现在我们门廊上堆着三万二千页广告。就在我们说话的当儿，两个大个子正各抱着一大捆广告走过来。这么多广告，我们可怎么办?” “你让孩子们快干，”我指示说。“他们都是大学生了。他们自己的事得由他们自己去做。” 第二天中午，我回到旅馆，看到一份紧急留言，要我马上给妻子回电话。她的声音高得很不自然，而且有些颤抖。家里又运到了好几卡车的广告插页。“有百货公司的，廉价商店的，杂货店的，食品店的，汽车行的，等等。有些像整本杂志那么厚。我们这里有数十万页，说不定是几百万页的广告!我们家整个房子从东墙到西墙，从南墙到北墙统统堆满了广告，一堆又一堆，比你大儿子还要高。现在只剩下一点点空间，刚够一个人走进去，从十一种插页中各取一份，卷在一起，套上橡皮筋，再塞进一只塑料袋内。我们的塑料袋足够供应全美所有的外卖餐厅!”她越讲声音越响，几乎震耳欲聋。“这么多的广告必须在星期日早晨七点以前统统送出去。”

21世纪大学英语读写教程第四册(翻译答案)

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