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 highschool 亨利的最近一部小说和他女儿的第一本书都与三个月前出版，令他们惊讶的是，后者已经售出一百多万册Henry’s latest novel and his daughter’sfirst book were both published three months ago. To their astonishment, thelatter has already sold over a million copies
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据报道，那条铁路曾因洪水而停止修建(hold up)
It was reported that the building of the railway had been held up bya flood 罢工结果，资方接受了工人的要求
The strike resulted in the management’s accepting the workers’demands 煤矿工人们决定为争取更好的工作条件举行罢工
Workers of the coalmine decided to go on strike for better workingconditions 我很想买这本英文词典，遗憾的是我身上带的钱不够
I want to buy the English dictionary very much. Unforunately, Idon.t have enough money on me
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 theessay before I send it to Mr. Hobbs
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 objectives in threeyears 一个科学家要跟上本领域的新发展，你认为必须做些什么,
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What do you think a scientist must do if he wants to keep up withthe latest development in his field
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 believes that if excellent workers get frequent payincreases and promotions, they will have greater incentive to work
Unit.7
萨姆买不起他极想要的那种照相机，因为那相机太贵了
Sam could not afford (to buy) the camera he longed for because itwas too expensive
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 offoccasionally to have a cup of tea
他是个富人家的儿子，不过看上去已经家道中落了
He is the son of a wealthy family,but he seems to have come down inthe world 他常利用她缺乏生意头脑(business sense)而欺骗她
He often took advantage of her lack of business sense to cheat her.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 eveningthis Saturday
看外表他一点也不像是个八十多岁的老人
He does not seem to be an old man in his eighties, considering hisappearance 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 ofhim, and I suspect they never will
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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.After making observations for a week I found this was indeed the case
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我很幸运，在我年轻的时候就学会了许多不同的技能
I am lucky to have acquired a wide range of skills when I was young这些画价值在五千万美元左右，绝不能直接暴露在阳光之下
Therse drawings, which are worth something like 50 million dollars,must not be exposed to direct sunlight
我儿子写出他第一首诗的时候，我就知道他有天赋
I knew my son got talent when he composed his first poem由于流感(the flu)在社区传播，她用暖和的冬衣将自己裹起来，以防传染上这种疾病
As the flu was spreading in the community, she wrapped herself inwarm winter clothing to avoid catching the disease
被告(defendant)否认他曾经向政府官员付钱以获得合同
The defendant denied that he had ever made any payment to thegovernment official to get a contact
我吃惊地看到，当他妻子泄露了一个家庭秘密的时候，他帼了她一记耳光I was startled to see he slapped his wife in the face when sherevealed a family secret
他说他掌握了一个关于战争的秘密文件，这使每一个在坐的人都大为吃惊。接着他啪的一声打开公文包(briefcase)便开始读起来
He astonished everyone present by saying that he possessed a secretpaper about the war. He then snapped his briefcase and began to read it
当他渐渐获得了信心的时候，他的语调变得自然了，说起话来也就自然脱口而出了
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As he gradually acquired confidence, his tone became natural and hiswords came out spontaneously
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大学英语精读第一册翻译答案1-8
