大学英语精读第一册 第三版

Mrs. Smith complained to me that she often found it simply impossible tocommunicate with her 16-year-old daughter

2、 我坚信，阅读简写的英文小说是扩大我们词汇量的一种轻松愉快的方法。

I firmly believe that reading simplified English novels is an easy andenjoyable way of enlarging our vocabulary

3、 我认为我们在保护环境不受污染方面还做得不够。

I don’t think we’re doing enough to protect our environment from pollution4、 除了每周写作文外，我们的英语老师还给我们布置了八本书在暑假里阅读。

In addition to from writing compositions on a weekly basis, our Englishteacher assigned us eight books to read during the summer vacation

5、 我们从可靠的消息来源获悉下学期一位以英语为母语的人将要教我们英语口语。

We have learned from reliable sources that a native English speaker is goingto teach us spoken English next term

6、 经常看英语电影不仅会提高你的听力，而且还会帮助你培养说的技能。

Seeing English movies on a regular basis will not only improve your ear, butwill also help you build your speaking skills

7、 如果你们对这些学习策略有什么问题，请随便问我，我将更详细的进行讲解。

If you have any questions about these learning strategies, please feel free toask me. And I’ll explain them in greater detail

8、 那个加拿大女孩善于抓住机会讲汉语，这就是她为什么三年不到

就熟练地掌握了汉语口语的原因。

The Canadian girl is good at seizing every opportunity to speak Chinese.That’s why she has gained a good command of spoken Chinese in less thanthree years

9、 幸好附近有家医院，我们立刻把他送到了那里。

Fortunately there was a hospital nearby and we took him there at once10、胜利登上乔治岛后，船长向指挥部发了一份无线电报。

After succeeding in landing on George Island, the captain sent a radiomessage to the headquarters

11、他决心继续他的试验，不过这一次他将用另一种方法来做。He is determined to continue his trial, but this time he will do another way12、她在读这部小说时、不禁想起了她在农村度过的那五年。

When she read the novel, she couldn't help thinking of the five years she hadspent in the countryside

13、玛丽觉得单靠自己的力量执行她的计划是困难的。Mary thought it difficult to carry out her plan all by herself

14、我们认为他不能在一刻钟内走完那段举例，但他却成功地做到了这一点。

We didn't think he could cover the distance in a quarter of an hour, but hesucceeded in doing it

15、甚至在他的医生告诉他患有肺癌之后，奇切斯特仍不肯放弃环球航行的宿愿。

Even after his doctor told him he had lung cancer, Chichester would not giveup his old dream of sailing round the world

16、我正忙着做一种新的捕鼠装置时，马克走来拖着我出去看花展了。I was busy making a new device for catching rats when Mark came and

dragged me out to a flower show

17、那位知名演员似乎很乐意在剧中扮演一个次要角色。That famous actor seemed content to play a minor part in the play18、国庆节要到了，咋们把寝室彻底打扫一下把。

National Day is round the corner. Let's give our bedroom a thorough clean19、她非常勉强地同意让一位年轻医生为她做手术。

She agreed, very reluctantly, to be operated on by a young doctor

20、他们已经安排好我们明天去游览长城，我相信我们在那儿一定会玩的很开心。

They have arranged for us to visit the Great Wall tomorrow. I'm sure we'llhave a good time there

21、老人读完信后失望之极，竟用颤抖的手指把它撕得粉碎。

After reading the letter the old man was so disappointed that he tore it intolittle bits with trembling fingers

22、老两口为他们的孙子感到骄傲，因为他在第28届奥运会上获得了两枚金牌和一枚铜牌。

The old couple were proud of their grandson, who won two gold medals anda bronze at the 28th Olympic Games

23、即使他的祖母不能来参加他的生日宴会，她也会寄给他一件可爱的礼物。对这一点汤姆深信不疑。

Even if his grandmother could not come to his birthday party, she would sendhim a lovely present. Tom was sure of that

24、昨天是玛丽二十岁生日。她父亲寄给她一双鞋子，她母亲为她买了一盒巧克力，而她男朋友则带给她一束红玫瑰。

It was Mary's twentieth birthday yesterday. Her father sent her a pair ofboots. Her mother bought her a box of chocolates. And her boyfriend brought

her a bunch of roses

25、接受这份工作就得经常在周末上班，但约翰并不在意。

To take this job would involve working on weekends frequently, but Johndidn't mind

26、众所周知，肺癌至少不分地是由于吸烟过多而引起的。

It is well known that lung cancer is caused at least in part by smoking toomuch

27、我祖父母说，发明电视的那个人曾住在他们那个地段。

My grandparents said that the man who invented television had once lived intheir neighborhood

28、我提议咋们会后马上去办公室找史密斯教授，邀请他参加我们的英语晚会。

I propose that we go to find Prof. Smith in his office right after the meetingand invite him to our English evening

29、她因为那病开过两次刀，身体十分虚弱，几乎站不起来了。

Having been operated on twice for the disease, she was so weakened that shecould barely stand up

30、教育家们认为，伴随着电视机长大的一代人，在电视机前花的时间太多，以至没有足够的时间学习了。

Educators think that the generation growing up with television spend so muchof their time in front of the TV that they do not have enough time to study31、我真希望你能拿出一个比这更好的解决办法来。

I do hope that you can come up with a better solution than this one

32、乍一看，这幅画并不好，但经过仔细观察，我们才发现它的确是一副杰作。

At first glance the picture didn't look very good, but after examining it

carefully, we found that it was indeed a masterpiece

33、简从书架上拿了一本杂志，开始东一页西一页地随便翻阅。

Jane picked up a magazine from the bookshelf and started reading here andthere at random

34、我随信附上这篇故事的几张插图。

With this letter I enclose some illustrations for the story35、那幢古老的建筑物四周有一圈高墙。The ancient building was enclosed by a high wall

36、格林大夫忙着研制一种治疗艾滋病的药物，但从下月起他就能安排时间在星期一上午看二十个左右的病人。

Dr. Green is busy working on a cure for AIDS, but from next month on he'llbe able to fit in twenty patients or so on Monday morning

37、他讲了个故事来说明为什么在详细查看其条款之前决不要在任何合同上签字。

He told a story to illustrate why you should never sign any contract beforeyou have examined its provisions in detail

38、他们老是对她说她有数学天才，她感到很不好意思。

She was embarrassed when they kept telling her she had a genius formathematics

39、天知道我们那个傻小子什么时候能中学毕业。

God knows when that dumb kid of ours is going to graduate from high school40、亨利的最近一部小说和他女儿的第一本书都于三个月前出版，令他们惊讶的是，后者已经售出了一百多万册。

Henry's latest novel and his daughter's first book were both published threemonths ago, and to their astonishment, the latter has already sold over amillion copies

41、据报道，那条铁路曾因洪水而停止修建。

It was reported that the building of the railway had been held up by a flood42、罢工结果，资方接受了工人的要求。

The strike resulted in the management's accepting the workers' demands43、煤矿工人们决定为争取更好的工作条件而举行罢工。

The coalminers decided to go on strike for better working conditions44、我很想买这本英文词典，遗憾的是我身上带的钱不够。

I'd like very much to buy the English dictionary. Unfortunately, I haven't gotenough money on me

45、我想先和你讨论一下这篇文章的英译稿，然后再把它寄给霍布斯先生。

I'd like to talk over with you about the English translation of the article beforesending it to Mr. Hobbs

46、那位外国专家希望在三年内达到所有的目标。

The foreign expert hopes to achieve all his aims in three years

47、一个科学家要是跟上本领域的新发展，你认为必须做些什么？

What do you think a scientist must do in order to keep up with the latestdevelopments in his field?

48、作者认为，如果优秀工人经常得到加薪和提拔，他们就会有更大的生产积极性。

The author thinks that if excellent workers get frequent pay increases andpromotions, they will have greater incentive to produce

49、萨姆买不起他极想要的那种相机，因为那相机太贵了。

Sam could not afford (to buy) the camera he longed for because it was tooexpensive

50、整个上午他都在忙于写那篇故事，只是偶尔停下来喝杯茶。

He was busy writing the story all the morning, only breaking off occasionallyto have some tea.

51、他是个富人家的儿子，不过看上去已经家境衰落了。

He is the son of a wealthy family, but he seems to have come down in theworld

52、他常利用她缺乏生意头脑而欺骗她。

He often took advantage of her lack of business sense to cheat her

53、王教授，请您赏光来参加我们星期六的英语晚会好吗？

Prof. Wang, would you do us a favor by coming to our English evening thisSaturday?

、看外表他一点不像是个八十多岁的老人。

He does not seem to be an old man in his eighties, considering his appearance55、他们肯定没打算把他培养成一名工程师，我猜想他们永远也不会这样做。

Undoubtedly they do not have the intention of making an engineer of him,and I suspect they never will

56、我怀疑这家工厂什么质量控制也没有，经过一周的观察，我发现情况果真如此。

I suspected there was no quality control whatsoever in the factory. Aftermaking observations for a week I found this was indeed the case