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Unit 1

The record if eruptions subsequent to the one that occurred in A.D. are somewhat confused. It appears, however, that among the more violent were those of 203 and 427, during which fine ash was carried as far as Constantionple, as well as one in 512. There seems to be reasonable agreement that there were large outbreaks also in 685, 993, 1036, 1139, and 1500. Following this, there was an interval of relative quiescence during which time the mountain was again overgrown with vegetation. Then in 1111, there was a tremendous eruption. This ushered in the modern period of moderately continuous eruption, highlighted by unusually strong ones in 1749, 1872, and 1906.

The large eruption of 1906 has been fully described in a special monograph by Frank A. Perret, American volcanologist. The morning of April 4, he relates, began with the emergence of a massive white cloud of gas and steam into which there were shot great quantities of dark ash probably derived from demolition of the upper part of the cone. Residents of Naples, seven miles away, carried umbrellas to protect themselves from the volcanic sand. By midnight lava was issuing rapidly from a new fissure on the south side of the cone as a low level. At 8 AM. On April 6 ,a new vent opened on the southeastern side of the cone only 1,800 feet above sea level. From this came a tremendous flood of very fluid lava which fountained at the vent and flowed rapidly down into Boscotrecase. According to Perret the volcano hummed and trembled like a gigantic boiler under an overload of steam pressure. There was notable increase in earthquake activity and in the number of explosions in the crater. Electrical discharges were prominent in the ash clouds. The outstanding characteristic of this phase the eruption were the explosive force and the quantity of highly lava. Another phase began with the emission of steam blasts of compressed gases which rushed up for many hours carrying relatively small quantities of ash and forming a gigantic cauliflower cloud seven miles in height. This was a vast continuous emission of gas like a huge locomotive boiler blowing off. Beginning on April 8, the eruption passed into the “dark ash “ phase. Throughout this, gas clouds were so charged with volcanic debris as to be solid black. At each outback Naples and the surrounding country were covered by a pall of darkness.

Unit 2

Just how can you, a new college student, successfully carry out the ancient art of procrastination and thus carry on that noble tradition of not handing in assignment on time? The first and probably most effective means of procrastination in relation to writing an assignment is the inability to decide on a decent topic. Frequently, this occurs when you are faced with a deadline, but you put off all thoughts of the dreaded assignment until the night before it is due. This leads to the next step: never do the assignment the day that it is assigned. Wait until tomorrow, or the weekend, when you will have plenty of time to write. Another point related to the previous one is never put the assignment higher on the totem pole of activities than , say, cleaning out the garage or changing the oil in your car. In other words, if there is something ese

to do besides writing , do it! It is infinitely more desirable to “play now, write later” than to do the opposite. Also, never be misled by those radicals who insist on doing assignments far before the deadline; it is they who will try to pressure you into the sinful temptation of being ready ahead of time with a completed assignment. So, in closing this easy “How to” lesson on procrastination, the main point can be summed up: “I’ll do it later.” If you use this as a guideline for later efforts not to do assignments, you can be assured of the satisfaction of sweating it out while the

irresponsible student seated next to you glumly ponder the task of handing his paper in on time-a fate fit for neither man, nor beast, nor typical student.

Unit 4

Most casual visitors to zoos are convinced, as they stroll from cage to cage, that the antics of the inmates are no more than an obliging performance put on solely for their entertainment. Unfortunately for our consciences, however, this sanguine view of the contented, playful, caged animal could in many cases be hardly farther from the truth. Recent research at London Zoo has amply demonstrated that many caged animals are in fact facing a survival problem as severe as that of their cousins in the wild-a struggle to survive, simply, against the monotony of their environment. Well fed, well housed, well cared for, and protected from its natural enemies, the zoo animal in its super-Welfare State existence is bored, sometimes literally to death.

The extraordinary and subtle lengths to which some animals go to overcome this problem, and the surprising behaviour patterns which arise as a result, were vividly described by Dr Desmond Morris (Curator of Mammals, London Zoo) at a conference on `The biology of survival' held in the rooms of the Zoological Society. As he and other speakers pointed out, the problem of surviving in a monotonous and restricted environment is not confined to the animal cage. Apart from the obvious examples of human prisoners or the astronaut, the number of situations in which human beings have to face boredom and confinement for long stretches is growing rather than decreasing. More to the point, many of the ways in which animals respond to these conditions have striking analogies in many forms of obsessional or neurotic behaviour in humans: the psychiatrist could well learn from the apes.

Unit 5

Scientists have taught a parrot English. So what? This time, it seems, the bird not only says the words but also understands them. Alex, an African grey parrot residing at America's Purdue University in Indiana, has a vocabulary of about 40 words with which he identifies, requests and sometimes refuses more than 50 toys. He seems to manipulate words as abstract symbols in other words, to use a primitive form of language.

In many birds, communication takes the form of simple, stereotyped signals. Some birds, like parrots, are capable of learning huge repertoires of phrases by mimicking each other or other species. But, until now, there has been no evidence that any bird could make the big leap to associating one sound exclusively with one object or quality.

Alex can. Dr Irene Pepperberg, his trainer, exploited the natural curiosity of the parrot to teach him to use the names of different toys. The trainer and an assistant play with the toys and ask each other questions about them. To join in, the parrot has to compete for the trainer's attention. The results have been spectacular. Alex rapidly learned to ask for certain objects, identifying them by words for shape, colour and material (e.g. three-cornered green paper, or five-cornered yellow wood). He is asked to repeat words until he gets them right and is then rewarded by being given the object to play with. Dr Pepperberg believes it is important that the bird is not rewarded with food, because that would make him think of words as ways of getting treats rather than as symbols for objects.

Twice a week, Alex is tested and he normally gets about 80 % of the objects right. The mistakes

are usually small omissions (for instance, he forgets to name the colour of an object) rather than specific errors. To discover if he really is able to grasp concepts like colour and shape, he is shown entirely novel combinations. When first shown a blue piece of leather he said "blue hide" even though the blue objects he had previously seen were all keys or made of wood. This suggests that he is aware that words are building blocks that can be used in different combinations.

Still, a vocabulary of adjectives and nouns hardly amounts to mastery of a language. The scientists have been looking for evidence that Alex understands more complicated ideas. One unexpected breakthrough was when he learned to say "no". He picked this up from the conversations between the trainer and her assistant and seems to understand at least one meaning of the word rejection (for instance, when Dr Pepperberg tries to play with him and he does not feel like it). He can also count to five when asked how many objects are being shown.

Unit 6

Adam Smith, writing in the 1770s, was the first person to see the importance of the division of labour and to explain part of its advantages. He gives as an example the process by which pins were made in England.

"One man draws out the wire, another strengthens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top to prepare it to receive the head. To make the head requires two or three distinct operations. To put it on is a separate operation, to polish the pins is another. And the important business of making pins is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. "

Ten men, Smith said, in this way, turned out twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4,800 pins apiece. But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labour, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty pins in a day and perhaps not even one.

There can be no doubt that division of labour is an efficient way of organising work. Fewer people can make more pins. Adam Smith saw this but he also took it for granted that division of labour is in itself responsible for economic growth and development and that it accounts for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still. But division of labour adds nothing new; it only enables people to produce more of what they already have.

Unit 7

UNIT 7

Until recently, women in advertisements wore one of these things-anapron, a glamorous dress or a frown. Although thar is now changing, many women still feel angry enough to deface offending advertisements with stickers protesting, “This ad degrades women.” Why does this sort of advertising exist? How can advertisers and ad agencies produce, sometimes after months of research, advertising that offends the consumer?

The Advertising Standards Authority(the body which deals with complaints about print media)is carrying out research into how women feel about the way they are portrayed in advertisements. Its conclusions are likely to be what the advertising industry already knows; although women are often irritated by the way they are seen in ads, few feel strongly enough to complain.

Yet according to Emma Bennett, executive creative director of a London advertising agency,

women are not infuriated by stereotypes and sexist advertising. “It tends to wash over them:

they are not militant or angry-they just find it annoying or tiresome. They reluctantly accept

outdated stereotypes, but heave a sigh of relief when an advertisement really gets it right.”

She says that it is not advertising’s use of the housewife’s role that bothers women, but the way in which it is handled. “Researchers have often asked the wrong questions. The most

important thing is the advertisement’s tone of voice. Women hate being patronized , flattered or

given desperately down-to-earth commonsense advice.”

In the end, the responsibility for good advertising must be shared between the advertiser, the advertising agency and the consumer. Advertising does not set trends but it reflects them. It

is up to the consumer to tell advertisers where they fail, and until people on the receiving end

take the business seriously and make their feelings known, the process of change will remain

laboriously slow.

Unit 8

W e all know the situation----a good friend recommends you a restaurant and you are looking forward to a nice quiet dinner, but the meal turns out to be less peaceful than expected as you are joined, in sound, by a number of uninvited guests---- James Last, the Beatles, Mireille Mathieu, Mozart ---- depending on the landlord’s fancy. You can count yourself lucky if you happen to like what you hear coming over the loudspeakers. But what about the customers who cannot stand James Last or simply want peace and quiet? There is nothing they can do. Radio sets at home can be switched off, but not restaurant loudspeakers. Customers simply become the captive audience of sounds they do not want. Some wine bars in Austria, the home of café music, make a charge known as Schrammelmusik (music cover), which everyone has to pay. But the word is quite misleading ---- payment of the music toll gives no cover ---- quite the opposite.

M usic has become omnipresent. The selection in restaurants may still be a matter of chance, though it generally reflects nothing more than the doubtful taste of piped-music suppliers. However, in other areas music has long been a means of stepping up profits. An entire branch of industry thrives on this, assembling music by the most sophisticated methods with the customer in mind ---- department store music to produce a demonstrable increase in turnover; office music to improve the working atmosphere; airport and hotel music with its soothing effect; even cowshed music with its impact on milk production.

T hese various forms of music, however different in function, have one thing in common ---- the way in which they are produced. The ancient, venerable concepts of composition and arrangement are naturally ruled out from the start. All musical extremes are deliberately debarred. The music issuing from department store loudspeakers must have a steady volume and avoid sudden effects, notes that are too high or too low and the human voice. With one exception ---- during the Christmas rush children’s choirs may be heard encouraging sales by singing ‘Silent Night’, ‘Jingle Bells’ and so on.

aAccount unaccountable

Advise inadvisable

Approach unapproachable

Attend unattended Become unbecoming Compose discomposed Contemplate contemplation Continent transcontinental Cover uncovered

Desire desirable

Doubt undoubtedly Entreat entreaties

Extinct extinction

Fatigue indefatigable Favor unfavorably

Feel feelingly

Fiction fictitious

Forest deforestation

Frail frailties

Imply implication

Justify justifiable

Live enliven

Magnify magnifying Mature immaturity Memory memorable Memory memorize

Merge submerged Mischief mischievous Mistake unmistakable Mouth mouthfuls Necessity necessary

Obey disobedience

Orient disorientation Pardon unpardonably Peer peerage

Persuade persuasion Picture pictorial

Picture picturesque

Plant transplanting Please unpleasantness Predominate predominantly Preference preferential Prevail prevailing

Quiet unquiet

Regret regrettably

Rely unreliable

Remedy irremediable

Repeat repeatedly Replace replacements Secret secrecy

Sense sensitive

Shrink shrinkage

Sick sickening Surmount insurmountable Terrible terrorism Thought thoughtlessly Title subtitles

Tolerate tolerant Tremble tremulous

Trust distrust

Truth untruthfully Understand understanding Utter unutterable

高英第2课课文

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高级英语课文翻译

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高英课后翻译

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1. scramble:The diary, whose copyright status was uncertain, became the object of a publishing scramble. 这本日记虽然不版权归属尚不确定,但已成了出版社炙手可热的争抢对象。 hectic: Things have been so hectic here his week, we hope they’ll simmer down after the holidays. 这个礼拜事情闹得沸反盈天,但愿假期过后情况会平静下来。 norm: Nowadays air-conditioned buses for tourists have become the norm. 如今游客作的客车都有空调,这已成为一种惯例。 dwindle: The ongoing investigation dwindled and died, finding no evidence that laws had been violated. 所作的调查没有发现任何人违法的证据,最后不了了之。 want for: She was kind enough to see that we wanted for nothing. 她很热心,尽量使我们什么都不缺。fraught: The field of corpus linguistics is fraught with unsolved questions. 语料库语言学领域有着许多尚未解决的问题。 let up: slow down The doctor has been working for fifty hours without letting up. 那医生已连续工作了50个小时没有休息。 disorient: He seems disoriented since he left the army, and doesn’t know what to do next. 自从退役以来,他似乎茫无头绪,不知下一步该做些什么。 carve out: He carved out a name/ place for himself in the engineering business. 他在工程技术领域干出了名气(争得了一席之地)。 burn out: Stop working and have a rest, or you’ll burn out. 停下来歇歇吧,不然要累垮的。 act out: psychiatry. to express unconsciously (a repressed impulse or experience ) in overt behaviour In the enclosed life of this small village, many passions are brought to the surface and acted out. 在这个与世隔绝的小村庄里,人们的七情六欲溢于言表,又表现得淋漓尽致。 dispense: The Red Cross dispensed food and clothing to the flood victims. 红十字会向水灾难民分发食品和衣物。 Druggists must dispense medicines with the greatest care. 药剂师配药必须一丝不苟。 2 modify: Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed. 人类的行为可以作一定程度的改变,但人类的本性是不可变的。 provided: I’ll forgive her for her mistake provided that she apologizes to me. 只要她向我道歉,我就原谅她的过失。 atrophy: Skills atrophy from lack of practice. 技艺不练就荒疏。 diminish: Familiarity with the routine did not diminish his horror of living in prison. 尽管他对铁窗生活的一套常规耳熟能详,但也没有减轻身陷囹圄的恐惧感。 at heart: He seems friendly, but he is just a ruthless businessman at heart. 他看上去面善,但骨子里却是一个心狠手辣的商人。 precarious: The national leadership in the country was in precarious hands. 该国国家的领导权掌握在一些危险分子的手里。 predicate: The publicity predicated the novel’s success. 这部小说的成功取决于推广宣传。 embark: Our paper is embarking on a nation-wide campaign for increased circulation. 我们的报纸正在全国掀起一个扩大发行量的运动。 Mary embarked on her marriage with many hopes and fears. 玛丽怀着许多希望和忧虑开始了婚姻生活。actuality: A trip to the moon is now an actuality. 登月旅行现在已成为事实。 endow: Nature endowed her with beauty and wit. 她天生才貌双全。

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