1．她正一動不動地躺在地板上。（She is lying motionless on the floor.）
2．她氣得直跺腳。（She was stamping with fury.）
3．幕間更換了布景。（The scenes are changed during the intervals.）
4．這段婚外情導(dǎo)致了他們的離婚。（This out-of-marriage love affair set the scene for their divorce.）
5．記憶力不夠用時，他有筆記可以救急。（When memory fails, he has his notes to come to his rescue.）
6．看來離婚后她日子過得還不錯。（She seems to have survived the divorce pretty well.）
7．坐落在長江三角洲的上海是中國最大也是最具活力的城市，她正在國家經(jīng)濟(jì)生活中起著主導(dǎo)的作用。（Situated in the Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai, China’s biggest and the most dynamic city, is playing a leading role in the country’s economic life.）
8．工作中出了點狀況，因此我今晚要晚點回家。Something has cropped up at work, so I’ll be late home tonight.
9．這么晚了，公交車班次稀少，間隔拉長。（At this late hour the buses are few and far between.）
10．這篇文章有幾處神來之筆，但可惜難得出現(xiàn)。（This article has moments of inspiration, but these are far between.）
11．他既非激進(jìn)派，亦非保守分子，而是多少介乎兩者之間。（Neither a radical nor a conservative, he is somewhere in between.）
12．我們?nèi)匀贿�有一大堆的問題等待解決。（We still have a load of problems waiting to be solved.）
13．這本書盡是些//盡是一派胡言亂語。（This book is a load of rubbish//nonsense.）
14．我聽到他們已經(jīng)安全到達(dá)心里才如釋重負(fù)。（When I learned they’d arrived safely, it was a great load off my mind.）
15．今天的節(jié)目到此結(jié)束，謝謝您的收聽。明天同一時間不要忘了打開您的收音機(jī)。（And this ends our programs for today. Thanks for being with us. Don’t forget to tune in at the same time tomorrow.）
16．請繼續(xù)收聽來自華盛頓的最新消息。（Stay tuned to this channel for the latest news from Washington.）
17．當(dāng)我得知兒子沒錢買東西吃時，一種深深的內(nèi)疚感由然而生。（I was taken by a sharp sense of guilt when I learned that my son did not have money to buy something to eat.）
18．這些被披露出來的事情可能會令政府極度難堪。（These revelations could prove to be highly embarrassing for the government.）
19．槍上的指紋頗有說服力地證明就是她的。（The fingerprints on the gun prove conclusively to be hers.）
20．我認(rèn)為我有權(quán)利知道為什么那份工作不給我。（I think I’m entitled to know why I wasn’t given the job.）
21．我在埋頭寫作，可鄰居家的音響著實把我給煩死了。（I was trying to concentrate on my writing, but my neighbor’s stereo really got on my nerves.）
22．作為同聲傳譯員，我的工作要求我具備注意力高度集中的本領(lǐng)。（My work as a simultaneous interpreter requires strong powers of concentration.）
23．意識到這不是一條普通的魚，漁民于是千方百計不讓它受到絲毫損傷。（Realizing that this was no ordinary fish, the fisherman made every effort not to damage it in any way.）
24．我突然非常想告訴老板我對他的看法。（I had a sudden urge to tell the boss what I thought of him.）
25．我們盛情地//殷勤地招待我們的客人，極力勸酒、忙不迭地敬煙。（We received our guests with the utmost hospitality, pressing drinks upon them and urging cigarettes.）
26．當(dāng)她把失敗完全歸咎于我的時候我再也忍無可忍了。（It was more than I could bear when she blamed all the failure on me.）
27．我們對此無能為力，因此只好苦笑著忍了下來。（There’s nothing we can do about it, so we’ll just have to grin and bear it.）
28．我實在聽不下去了，便離開了房間。（I couldn’t bear to listen any longer, so I left the room.）
29．那后果簡直不堪設(shè)想。（The consequences simply don’t bear thinking about.）
30．雖然他們待她很不好，但她對他們并沒有懷恨在心。（Although they treated her badly, she doesn’t bear a grudge against them.）
31．應(yīng)該承認(rèn)，她那件事情做得很不好，但你應(yīng)該記住，她當(dāng)時生病了。（Admittedly, she didn’t make a very good job of it, but you should bear in mind that she was ill at the time.）
32．經(jīng)歷了一星期對瘟疫的驚慌之后，現(xiàn)在人們的生活恢復(fù)正常了。（People’s lives are now back to normal after one week’s panic of the epidemic.）
33．我吃了三碗米飯，喝了四碗湯后才恢復(fù)了精力。（I didn’t resume my energy until I had three bowls of rice and four bowls of soup.）
34．把起飛和著陸的時間計算在內(nèi)，飛到北京耗時近一小時。（Counted from takeoff to touchdown, it takes about 1 hour to fly to Beijing.）
35．我們平穩(wěn)地起飛了。（We had a smooth takeoff.）
36．要看到一次經(jīng)濟(jì)的騰飛，西部省份需要出臺更多優(yōu)惠政策來吸引國際和國內(nèi)投資。（To see an economic takeoff, western provinces need to stage more favorable policies to attract both international and domestic investments. ）
37．轟鳴過后，車啟動了，然后漸漸加速。（After a lot of noises, the car got started and gradually gained speed.）
38．當(dāng)我們在夏日炎熱的太陽下焦急地等待時，一個戴眼鏡的年輕人終于千呼萬喚使出來，告訴我們跟著他進(jìn)辦公樓。（While we were waiting anxiously in the hot summer sun, a young man wearing glasses finally made his presence and told us to follow him into the office building.）
39．有人打電話告訴警方說在一條河上漂浮著一具無頭女尸。（Someone called to tell the police that a headless female body had been found floating on a river.）
40．在各個出口都安置了便衣警察。（Plain-clothes policemen have been planted at all the exits.）
41．這種宣傳早已在他們的腦海中播下了仇恨的種子。（The propaganda had planted the seeds of hatred in their minds.）
42．這些毒品不是我的，一定是有人將其栽贓于我！（These drugs aren’t mine—they must have been planted on me!）
43．他一屁股坐到了壁爐旁的一把椅子上。（He planted himself in a chair by the fireplace.）
44．我們需要搶時間把這項工作做完。（We need to work against time to get the job done.）
45．作為教育家，他超前于他所處的那個時代。（As an educator, he was before his time.）
46．我感到自己的思想落后于時代了。（I feel my mind is behind the times.）
47．我討厭老是發(fā)牢騷的人。（I have no time for people who always complain.）
48．當(dāng)他們把消息告訴她時，她表現(xiàn)出極大的自制力。（She showed great self-control when they told her the news.）
49．在車展上，有最新的幾個款式展出。（At the Car Exhibition, several of the latest models were on display.）
50．她三下五除二，很快就把地板上的斑點給搞掉了。（Acting quickly, she soon removed the stain from the floor.）
51．他們對我們的計劃一無所知。（They were completely in the dark about our plans. ）
52．這筆交易是在暗地里達(dá)成的。（The transaction was made in the dark.）
53．他希望對自己的身份保密。（He wanted his identity kept dark.）
54．裹著一條紅色的圍巾，手里提著一個籃子，她急匆匆地進(jìn)了房間，上氣不接下氣的。（Covered in a red scarf and with a basket in one hand, she rushed into the room, quite out of breath.）
55．整條南京路一片燈火通明、五彩繽紛。（The whole length of Nanjing Road is a blaze of light and color.）
56．太陽直射下來，熱浪叫人透不過氣來。（The sun is blazing down and the heat waves are oppressive.）
57．他們的臉上充滿了急切的期待。（Their faces are blazing with eagerness.）
58．各家日報都在頭版把那條消息以大字通欄標(biāo)題刊登了出去。（The news was blazed in great headlines across the tops of the daily papers.）
59．我們需要一位有經(jīng)驗的人來整頓我們公司。（We need an experienced man to pull our company together. ）
60．政客們往往在退出政界后轉(zhuǎn)而去搞錢，把任上放出的人情債一一收回來。（Politicians often retire to money, cashing in on favors done while they were in office.）
61．她是個有潔癖的人。（She is a fanatic for cleanliness.）
Context-based study
Passage 1:
Originally named after the Roman goddess of love, the planet Venus also used to be known as the morning star and the evening star because it shines so brightly that it is visible on Earth even when the Sun is only partially visible in the morning and the evening.
Why does Venus shine so brightly? One reason is certainly because Venus is so close to Earth; it is, in fact, the closest planet to Earth. However, its proximity to Earth is not the only reason that Venus appears to shine so brightly. Another reason that Venus shines so brightly is that it is covered in thick white clouds that reflect sunlight off of them.
For quite some time, all that we have been able to see of Venus is the thick clouds that surround it, and little else was known of the planet itself. Dozens of space probes were sent to Venus in the last part of the twentieth century, and most of them were destroyed before they were able to send back information about Venus’s surface. One probe, however, did manage to transmit some messages before it, too, failed.
From this one partially successful probe, numerous amazing facts about Venus have been learned. The thick clouds that cover Venus, for example, are made of sulfuric acid rather than oxygen, and these thick clouds never part to let any sunshine in at all. Most amazingly, the temperature on Venus is extremely hot, somewhere around 900 degrees Fahrenheit.
Passage 2:
It was really surprising to scientists when they found out that Venus was so hot because the clouds around Venus reflect almost all the light from the Sun back into space. The small amount of sunlight that’s able to filter through the clouds doesn’t seem like anywhere near enough light to make the temperature on Venus so high. Instead, because it’s always so cloudy on the surface of Venus, the temperature should be rather cool.
You might think that the temperature on Venus is so hot because Venus is so close to the Sun, but this isn’t really a good explanation for the heat on Venus. The temperature on Venus is even hotter than the temperature on Mercury, which is closer than Venus to the Sun, so the proximity of Venus to the Sun doesn’t explain the high temperature on Venus
Scientists are still not certain why the temperature on Venus is so high, but one possible explanation is Venus’s carbon dioxide atmosphere. The very dense atmosphere on Venus is almost entirely carbon dioxide. This carbon dioxide may create a barrier that traps any heat that gets through beneath it and doesn’t let it escape.
Passage 3:
The library at Alexandria was said to have been a marvel, the greatest collection of scholarship in the ancient world. It was founded by Ptolemy I, the general that Alexander the Great installed as ruler of the city named after himself. It was Ptolemy’s son, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who had the vision of expanding the library to make it the largest collection imaginable.
Under Ptolemy II and those who followed, the library was expanded tremendously. Ptolemy II’s vision was to create a library with every Greek work ever written as well as with as many works from other parts of the Western world as could be gathered together. The number of volumen, or scrolls, in the library has been estimated at anywhere between 3000,000 and 700,000.
A huge number of people’s were employed in preparing scrolls for the library, inasmuch as each scroll to enter the library had to be copied by hand. Manuscripts were bought or borrowed or taken from all over the Western world to be copied and placed in the library (although it was rather common to copy an original manuscript and then return the copy to the owner and keep the original for the library). Ptolemy II often asked for manuscripts from foreign powers in return for traded goods, and manuscripts were often demanded from citizens to pay debts to the government. In addition, any time that manuscripts were found on trading ships in the port at Alexandria, the manuscripts were taken and copied and added to the library. It was in these ways that so many manuscripts were collected in the library at Alexandria.
Passage 4:
The great library of Alexandria no longer exists, but it’s not known for sure when the library was destroyed. There’s actually considerable debate among historians about who destroyed the library and when.
One culprit who has traditionally been accused of destroying the library at Alexandria is Julius Caesar. It’s true that Julius Caesar led an invasion of Alexandria in 48-47 B.C. and that, at that time, his forces set the fleet of ships sitting in the Alexandria harbor on fire. Some historians believe that this fire in the harbor that was set by Caesar’s forces, spread into the city of Alexandria and burned the library down, but this belief is no longer widely held today. The main reason that the theory that Julius Caesar destroyed the library at Alexandria isn’t widely believed is that there are numerous references to the library in works written long after Caesar’s death.
The conclusion that seems to be most accepted today is that the library at Alexandria existed, at least in part, until the late fourth century, centuries after the death of Julius Caesar, so it could not have been completely destroyed by Caesar. At that time, at the end of the fourth century, there was a large movement to destroy pagan temples and libraries. It seems likely that whatever remained of the library of Alexandria was destroyed at this time.
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