新视野大学英语综合教程2.docx
1 虽然体育运动的形式多种多样,但它们有一个共同之处:所有的运动都是为了增强人们的体质。(despite; have in common) Despite the different forms of sports, they have one thing in common: All of them are to strengthen peoples health.2 四年一次的奥运会对促进各国间的友谊起着重要作用。(play a role; promote) The Olympic Games, which take place every four years, play an important role in promoting friendship between different countries.3 两国间的文化交流在中断了两年后,于去年重新开始。(exchange; resume) After having stopped for two years, cultural exchanges between the two countries resumed last year.4 体育锻炼是很重要,但它代替不了健康的饮食。(substitute for)Physical exercise is important, but it is no substitute for healthy diet. 5 在中国,只要说到国球,人们自然会想到乒乓球。(whenever; speak of) Whenever people speak of the national ball in China, people will think of table tennis.1 新闻工作者的职责是提供真实准确的报道,因为公众有权知道事实的真相。(accurately; be entitled to do)The responsibility of a journalist is to provide news accurately, because the public are entitled to know about the truth.2 中国日报是中国唯一的全国性英文日报,日发行量达40余万份。(using phrases in apposition 使用同位语)China Daily, the only national English-language newspaper in China, has a circulation of over 400,000 copies daily.3.经济发展不能以牺牲环境为代价,否则后患无穷。(at the expense of)Economic development must not be achieved at the expense of environment, otherwise it will bring endless trouble. 4 这名记者拒绝透露她的消息来源,以免带来不必要的麻烦。(disclose; for fear of doing sth)The journalist refused to disclose the source of her information, for fear of bringing unnecessary trouble. 5 他因发表有关人权的错误报道而受到指控。(be charged with) He was charged with publishing false reports on human rights. 1 我们应立即采取行动反对非法捕猎。(take action against)We should take immediate action against illegal hunting.2 虽然政府已颁布法律保护濒危动物,但是一些濒危动物仍然遭到捕杀。(while; endangered)While the government has enacted laws to protect endangered animals, some of them are still being hunted and killed. 3 成立该组织的目的不仅仅是要保护动物权益,还要推广野生动物保护知识。(not just to but also to )The organization is established not just to protect animal rights, but also to make knowledge of wild animal protection known. 4 即使在今天,很多药物研究还都是在动物身上进行的。(test on)Even today, much medical research is still tested on animals.5 他冒着被蛇咬的危险在森林里生活了数月,收集了大量的第一手资料。(run the risk of; first-hand)He lived in the forest for several months, running the risk of being bitten by snakes, and collected a lot of first-hand data. 换同义词 Substitute for fundamental1 There is no thing you can choose instead of sport; it is one of the most basic needs of a human being. 没有任何东西可以代替运动选择;它是一个人类最基本的需要。 feature 2 .From ancient times, an important aspect of education systems has been that they intellectual development encouraged physical development as well as development of the mind. 从远古时代,教育系统的一个重要方面是他们鼓励体育发展以及思维的发展。3 Success as a hunter depended on two things: physical fitness and the tools ability to work well and produce good results. efficiency 作为一个成功的猎人取决于两件事情:体能和工具的工作能力和产生好的结果。 awarding 4 In todays Olympics, giving the best sportsman or woman a gold medal, while the ritual band plays the national anthem of their country, has become a formal ceremony But in the historical games, which follows every event. But in the games in the past, the prizes were all given on the last day. 在今天的奥运会,给最好的运动员或女人一枚金牌,当乐队演奏自己国家的国歌,已成为一个正式的仪式是每一件事。但在过去的比赛,奖品均在最后一天。 dilemmas 1 The passage gives examples of the situations involving difficult decisions journalists are sometimes faced with.通过提供涉及困难的决定,记者有时面临的情况的例子。2 For example, should they tell police where they got the information which may the criminal lead to them finding someone who has committed a crime? 例如,他们应该告诉警方,他们有可能导致他们找到的人犯罪的信息? arrested 3 When someone is taken to the police station, the police believe they have committed a crime.当某人被带到了警察局,警察相信他们已经犯了罪。 an invasion 4 When covering a war story, such as one countrys army going into another country rebelsto take control of it, or the actions of a group of people trying to remove a government using force, should the journalist get personally involved?当覆盖一个战争的故事,如一个国家的军队进入另一个国家去控制它,或行动的一组人试图用武力解除政府,应记者亲自插手? are entitled 5 Most people would agree that famous people have the right to a private life that is separate from their public life. 大多数人都会同意,著名的人有私人生活,从他们的公共生活分开的权利。 reliable 6 We expect the news to be available quickly as well as able to be trusted. 我们预计新闻能够快速和可信赖的。 offend 7 Editors need to be careful not to publish photos that may make some people upset or angry. 编辑需要小心不要发布照片,可能会让一些人不高兴或生气。Sporting activities in both nations were often combined with dancing. Because of periods of bad weather, China was hit by rain and flooding. In order to relax stiff joints and muscles and to get rid of gloomy moods, people would dance vigorously. Military training in Sparta included dancing, and the ancient Olympic Games included dancing competitions. In the modern era, this form of movement and rhythm can be still seen in figure skating and gymnastics.在这两个国家,体育经常与舞蹈结合在一起。在天气恶劣的时候,中国会遭受雨水和洪流的袭击。人们会用剧烈的舞蹈来放松僵硬的关节和肌肉,以及消除抑郁的情绪。斯巴达的军事训练包含了舞蹈,古代奥运会也有舞蹈比赛项目。到了现代,人们还是能在花样滑冰和体操项目中看到这种富有动作与节奏的运动形式。A photographer in a war zone takes photos of an army officer executing rebel soldiers. Its possible that he might have been able to stop the officer shooting the prisoners. But he chose to honour his responsibilities towards his editor and the newspaper readers,(履行他对于主编和读者的责任)which was to report what was happening. Should he have got involved, or was he simply doing his job?一位摄影师拍摄了一组军官处决反叛士兵的照片。他本来是可能阻止那位军官射杀战俘的,但他选择了履行他对于主编和读者的责任,即报道所发生的一切。他应该把自己牵扯进去吗?还是完成他的本职工作就行了?But passing laws not just to protect animals but to give them legal representation is surely the most extreme position in the debate about animal rights. At the very least, the debate demonstrates a more moderate concern about the general welfare of animals in a civilized world. And what about the fish and the fisherman? The Zurich state lawyer lost his case in court, and on this rare occasion, the fisherman was the one that got away.不仅要通过法律保护动物,还要为它们提供法律代表,这当然是动物权利争论中最极端的立场。至少,这场争论表明了对文明世界中动物的总体福利问题的一种更合理的关注。那条鱼和那位钓鱼人结果怎么样了呢?苏黎世州的那位律师败诉了,虽然这种情况不常见,但这回那位钓鱼人成了逃脱者。When the first Olympic Games of the modern (1) _era _ were held in 1896 they (2) _resumed _ a tradition which was nearly 3,000 years old. Since then, every four years (3) _athletes _ from all over the world have come together hoping to win a gold medal in their sport. Over the years, the games have changed: The International Olympic Committee has (4) _got rid of _ some sports (such as rope climbing and live pigeon shooting), but introduced other more familiar ones, such as football and basketball. But many traditional events from the (5) _ancient _ Olympics remain (such as running, jumping, and throwing things). There have been (6) temporary _ interruptions (there were no games during the First and Second World Wars), but today the Olympic ideals seem stronger than ever, and the (7) _survival of the Olympic Games into the 21st century is an example of humanitys need for cultural (8) _exchange and peaceful cooperation在第一届现代奥运会举行了1896他们又恢复了传统,差不多3000岁了。此后,每四年,来自世界各地的运动员都聚集在一起,希望在他们的运动赢得一枚金牌。多年来,游戏已经发生了变化:国际奥委会已经摆脱了一些运动(如爬绳和活鸽子射击),但引入其他更熟悉的,如足球、篮球等。但从古代奥运会的许多传统的事件仍然(如跑步,跳跃,和扔东西)。有临时中断(有没有奥运会第一次和第二次世界大战期间),但今天的奥林匹克理想似乎比以往任何时候都更强大,而奥运会到第二十一世纪的生存是人类的文化交流和友好合作的需要的一个例子The New York Times has the reputation of being one of the worlds best papers. Where other papers may (1) exaggerate the facts, The New York Times has always sought to (2) inform readers through objective, (3) accurate reporting. But even The New York Times can make mistakes sometimes, as it did with one of its journalists, Jayson Blair. To use the words of The New York Times, over a period of several years Blair committed numerous “acts of journalistic (4) fraud ”. Instead of (5) chasing the news in the traditional way, he preferred to write his stories from his home in New York, using his computer to get up-to-date news and pictures from different sources. He copied the stories he found there, adding some more details at the (6) expense of the truth. On one (7) occasion , however, he went too far, describing a landscape which didnt exist. His editor began to suspect something was wrong, and set up a seven-person team whose job was to find information that showed Blair had invented his material. They examined everything Blair had written over four years, and found dozens of invented details, some quite (8) minor but others much more serious. Blair lost his job, of course; The New York Times, true to its (9) principles , put the story of the cheating journalist on its front page.在纽约时报已被世界上最好的论文的声誉。在其他文件可能会夸大事实,在纽约时报一直试图告诉读者通过客观,准确的报告。但即使是纽约时报可以偶尔犯错,因为它与它的一个记者,布莱尔。使用的纽约时报的话,过了一段几年布莱尔犯下无数的“行为新闻欺诈”。而在传统的方式追逐的新闻,他更愿意从他纽约的家中写自己的故事,用他的电脑从不同来源的最新新闻和图片。他模仿他发现那里的故事,在真理的费用增加了一些更多的细节。有一次,然而,他走得太远,描述一个景观不存在。他的编辑开始怀疑的东西是错误的,并建立了一七人的团队,他们的工作是找到的信息显示,布莱尔发明了自己的材料。他们检查了一切布莱尔写了超过四年,并发现了一些很小的细节很多发明,但其他更严重。布莱尔丢了工作,当然;的纽约时报,真实的原则,将在其头版欺骗记者的故事。It is difficult to (1) imagine the English countryside without them: horses, smartly dressed riders and a group of barking dogs, all chasing a small animal across the fields. This is the ancient sport of fox-hunting. But it is not the mark of a(n) (2) civilized country, according to animal rights movements. For years the animal rights activists (3) have accused the hunters of cruelty towards animals. The hunters many of them farmers replied with the (4) counter argument that killing of foxes is necessary to protect farm animals. Whats more, they said, no one can (5)demonstrate that fox-hunting is more cruel than any other way of keeping down the fox population. But, under pressure from the activists who said the hunters did not (6) represent the British public, in 2004 Parliament finally (7) voted to ban hunting in England and Wales. But fox hunters everywhere (8) contestedthe new law. They said that it is not clear, and they would continue to go hunting. And this is why it is still possible to see fox-hunting in the English countryside even though it is technically illegal.很难想象没有他们的英国农村的马,衣着时髦的骑手和一群狂吠的狗,都在追逐小动物穿过田野。这是狐狸打猎的古老的运动。但它不是一个文明国家的标记,根据动物权利运动。多年来,动物权利活动家指控残忍对待动物的猎人。猎人其中许多农民,杀死狐狸是必要的保护农场动物的反驳说。更重要的是,他们说,没有人能证明狐狸打猎是比任何其他方法保持了狐狸的人口更残忍。但是,从活动人士说,猎人并不代表英国公众的压力下,在2004个国会最终投票禁止在英格兰和威尔士的狩猎。但是狐狸猎人有争议的新法律。他们说,这是不明确的,他们会继续去打猎。这就是为什么它仍然可以看到狐狸打猎的英国农村即使它在技术上是非法的。