大学英语精读第一册翻译答案1-8
英语xx Unit.1
史密斯太太对我抱怨说，他经常发现与自己十六岁的女儿简直无法沟通Mrs.Smith complained to me that she often found it simply impossibleto communicate with her 16-year-old daughter
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 easyand enjoyable way of enlarging our vocabulary
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 frompollution 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/Apart from writing compositions on a weekly basis,ourEnglish teacher assigned us eight books to read during the summervacation
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’ve learned from reliable sources that a native English speakeris going to teach us spoken English next term/semester
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 yourear ,but will also help you build your speaking skills
如果你们对这些学习策略有什么问题，请随便问我。我将更详细地进行讲解If you have any questions about these learning strategies,pleasefeelfree to ask me,And I’ll explain them in greater detail那个加拿大女孩善于抓住每个机会讲汉语。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
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is good at seizing everyopportunity to speak Chinese.That’s why she has gained a good commandof spoken Chinese in less than three years
Unit.2
幸好附近有家医院，我们立刻把他送到了哪里
Fortunately there was a hospital nearby and we took him there atonce 胜利登上乔治岛(George Island)后，船长向指挥部(the headquarters)发了一 份无线电报After succeeding in landing on George Island,the captainsent a radio message to the headquarters by radio
他决心继续它的实验，不过这一次他将用另一种方法来做
He is determined to continue his experiment but this time he’ll doit another way 她在读这部小说时，不禁想起了他在农村度过的那五年
When she read the novel,she couldn’t help thinking of the fiveyears she had spent in the countryside
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我们认为他不能再一刻钟内走完那段距离，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 anhour,but he succeeded
in doing it
甚至在他的医生告诉他患有肺癌后，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 wouldnot give up his
old dream of sailing round the world
我正忙着做一种新的捕鼠(rast)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 anddragged me to a flower show
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Unit.3
那位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 play国庆节要到了，咱们把寝室彻底(thorough)打扫一下吧
National Day is round the corner. Let’s give our bedroom a thoroughclean 他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他们已安排好让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’re arranged for us to visit the Great Wall tomorrow. I’m surewe’ll have a
good time there.
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 hetore it into little bitswith trembling fingers
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(bronze)牌
The old couple were proud of their grandson, who got two gold medalsand a bronze
at the 28th Olympic Games
即使他的祖母不能来参加她的生日宴会，她也会寄给他一件可爱的礼物。对这一点汤姆深信不疑1
Even if his grandmother couldn’t come to his birthday party,shewould send him a lovely present. Tom was sure of that
昨天是玛丽的二十岁生日。她父亲寄给她一双靴子，她母亲为她买了一盒巧克力。而她的男朋友则带给她一束红玫瑰
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It was Mary’s twentieth birthday yesterday. Her father sent her apair of boots. Her motherbought her a box of
choclates . And her boyfriend brought her a bunch of rosesUnit.4
接受这份工作就得经常在周末上班，但约翰并不在意。(involve)To take this job would involve working on weekends frequently, butJohn didn’t
mind
众所周知，肺癌至少部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 bysmoking too much 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 oncelived in their neighborhood
我提议咱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玩会。
I propose that we go to find Prof. Smith in his coffee right afterthe meeting and invite him to our English evening
她因为那病开过两次刀，身体十分虚弱，几乎站不起来
Having been operated on twice for the disease, she was so weakenedthat she could barely stand up
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，以致没有足够的时间学习了
Educators think that the generation growing up with television spendso much of their time in front of the TV that they do not have enoughtime to study
我真希望你能拿出一个比这更好的解决办法(solution)来
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I do hope thay you can come up with a better solution than this one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 afterexamining it carefully, we found that it was indeed a masterpiece
Unit.5
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 to readhere and there at random
我随信附上这篇故事的几张插图
I enclosed some illustrations with this letter for the story那幢古老的建筑物四周有一圈高墙
That ancient building was enclosed by a high wall
格林大夫忙着研制一种治艾滋病(AIDS)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了
Dr. Green is busy working on a cure for AIDS,but he’ll be able tofit in twenty patients or so on monday morning from next month
他讲了个故事来说明为什么在详细查看其条款(provisions)之前绝不要在任何合同上签字
He told a story to illustrate why you should never sign any contractbefore you have examined its provisions in detail
他们老是对她说她有数学天才，她感到很不好意思
She was very embarrassed when they kept telling her that she had agenius for maths
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大学英语精读第一册翻译答案1-8
