為學英語的朋友準備的.

呵呵，新概念英语，我高中已经学完了。
我老爸让我拿着当故事看的，呵呵。

很多课文我现在还能背出来。
其实，一般学生，学到 NC3 就足够了。
不过， FIRST THINGS FIRST 确实是一本很好的启蒙书。

Lesson1 Finding fossil man
We can read of things that happened 5000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write. The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas---legends handed down from one generation of storytellers to another. These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did. Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from. The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2000 years ago.
But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are forgotten. So archaeologists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first ‘modern men’ came from.
Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, especially flint, because this is easier to shape than other kinds. They may also have used wood and skins, but these have rotted away. Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.

對呀,我想起來了,你不是說你的令尊會幾門外語嗎?

translate it?

不是吧,我還負責翻譯???!!!

我是问你是不是要把它翻译出来?那怎么学呢?

生詞注釋:
fossil man 化石人
recount 敘述
saga 英雄故事
legend 傳說,傳奇
migration 遷移,移居
anthropologist 人類學家
archaeologist 考古學家
ancestor 祖先
Polynesian 波利尼西亞的
Indonesia 印度尼西亞
flint 燧石
rot 爛掉

詞組注釋:
read of 讀到,意義同read about
the first people 原始人

我們從書籍中可以讀到5000年前近東發生的事情,那裡的人最早學會了寫字.但直到現在,世界上仍然有些地方,人們還不會書寫.他們保存歷史的唯一辦法是將歷史當作傳說講述,由講述人一代接一代地將史實描述為傳奇故事口傳下來.這些傳說是很有用的,因為它們能告訴我們以往人們遷居的情況.但是,沒有人能把他們當時做的事情記載下來.人類學家過去不清楚如今生活在太平洋諸島上的波利尼西亞人的祖先來自何方,當地人的傳說卻告訴了人們:其中有一部分是約在2000年前從印度尼西亞遷來的.
--------------第一段

但是,和我們相似的原始人生活的年代太久遠了,因此,有關他們的傳說即使有如今也失傳了.於是,考古學家們既缺乏歷史記載,又無口頭傳說來幫助他們弄清最早的"現代人"是從哪裡來的.
--------------第二段
然而,幸運的是,遠古人用石頭製作了工具,特別是用燧石,因為燧石較之其他石頭更易成形.他們也可能用過木頭和獸皮,但這些東西早已腐爛殆盡.石頭是不會腐爛的.因此,儘管製造這些工具的人的骨頭早已蕩然無存,但遠古時代的石頭工具卻保存了下來.
---------------完

不错不错,刚刚点了一会菜你就翻译完了!哈哈!
我点了,长沙一罐香,萝卜干炒腊肉,酸菜粉丝还有平锅酱香茄子!
呵呵,还不错吧

呵呵，看到这些课文真是怀念啊。
不过NC4的作用似乎主要是加强词汇量的。
NC2中的语法比较丰富，NC3是对NC2的强化。
NC1则是用于启蒙的。

我老爸会5门外语，当然，英语是最强的，日语次之，然后就是德语、法语、俄语。

我是比不上啊。英语还是二吊子呢。

domi,我吃完了,不過還是想吃.

goldeagle,什麼時候把你老爸的經驗分享一下呀.

domi,have you finished your lunch?

yeah, i'm coming.

so sleepy,i have waken up now!

domi,give some suggestion.

i'm listening to the SE NEWS now!
it says two japanese citizens killed in an attack, ou yeah!

On Friday,I have known this news.They deserved it!

not tow citizens but two politicians

there will be more japanese soldiers lie on Iraq.

but the reporter says two citizens?

not exactly,japanese is deceiving the whole world,in order to earn more sympathy.

it seems innocent,but Japanese is the real devil!

domi,i'm listening to the Zhang Xueyou's songs,how fascinating!

i'm now doing the endless translation.
you are so enviable!

i can help you,if you trust me!:)

i'm professional!

so many translation ,i must depend on myself! i'm a independent girl:)
but thank you all the same!
glad to communicate with you when have a chance!

Do you want a bit more grass?

One afternoon,a wealthy lawyer is riding in the back of his limousine(豪華轎車)when he sees two men eating grass by the roadside.

He orders the driver to stop and gets out to investigate.
"Why are you eating grass?"he asks one man.
"We don't have any money for food,"the poor man replies.
"OK,come along with me then."
"But sir,I have a wife with two children,"comes the reply.
"Bring them along!And you,come with us too!"he says to the other man.
"But sir,I have a wife with six children!"the second man answers.
"Bring them as well!"
They all squeeze(擠,壓) into the car,which is no easy task,even for a car as large as the limo(豪華轎車).
Once they're on their way,one of the poor men says,"Sir,you are too kind.Thank you for taking all of us with you."
The lawyer replies,"No problem,the grass around my house is about one metre deep!"

domi,have a rest then.let's have a chat.

domi,you finished translating,didn't you?

just half time

what!if i were you,i would have died.

i am dying:)

I 才 was pity 呢！

faint!

.

英语吵架109句



1. Stop complaining! 别发牢骚！
2. You make me sick! 你真让我恶心！
3. What’s wrong with you? 你怎么回事？
4. You shouldn’t have done that! 你真不应该那样做!
5. You’re a jerk! 你是个废物/混球！
6. Don’t talk to me like that! 别那样和我说话!
7. Who do you think you are? 你以为你是谁？
8. What’s your problem? 你怎么回事啊？
9. I hate you! 我讨厌你！
10. I don’t want to see your face! 我不愿再见到你！
11. You’re crazy! 你疯了!
12. Are you insane/crazy/out of your mind? 你疯了吗？（美国人绝对常用！）
13. Don’t bother me. 别烦我。
14. Knock it off. 少来这一套。
15. Get out of my face. 从我面前消失！
16. Leave me alone. 走开。
17. Get lost.滚开！
18. Take a hike! 哪儿凉快哪儿歇着去吧。
19. You piss me off. 你气死我了。
20. It’s none of your business. 关你屁事！
21. What’s the meaning of this? 这是什么意思？
22. How dare you! 你敢！
23. Cut it out. 省省吧。
24. You stupid jerk! 你这蠢猪！
25. You have a lot of nerve. 脸皮真厚。
26. I’m fed up. 我厌倦了。
27. I can’t take it anymore. 我受不了了！（李阳老师常用）
28. I’ve had enough of your garbage. 我听腻了你的废话。
29. Shut up! 闭嘴！
30. What do you want? 你想怎么样？
31. Do you know what time it is? 你知道现在都几点吗？
32. What were you thinking? 你脑子进水啊？
33. How can you say that? 你怎么可以这样说？
34. Who says? 谁说的？
35. That’s what you think! 那才是你脑子里想的！
36. Don’t look at me like that. 别那样看着我。
37. What did you say? 你说什么？
38. You are out of your mind. 你脑子有毛病！
39. You make me so mad.你气死我了啦。
40. Drop dead. 去死吧！
41. **** off. 滚蛋。
42. Don’t give me your ****. 别跟我胡扯。
43. Don’t give me your excuses/ No more excuses. 别找借口。
44. You’re a pain in the ass. 你这讨厌鬼。
45. You’re an asshole. 你这缺德鬼。
46. You bastard! 你这杂种！
47. Get over yourself. 别自以为是。
48. You’re nothing to me. 你对我什么都不是。
49. It’s not my fault. 不是我的错。
50. You look guilty. 你看上去心虚


51. I can’t help it. 我没办法。
52. That’s your problem. 那是你的问题。
53. I don’t want to hear it. 我不想听！
54. Get off my back. 少跟我罗嗦。
55. Give me a break. 饶了我吧。
56. Who do you think you’re talking to? 你以为你在跟谁说话？
57. Look at this mess! 看看这烂摊子！
58. You’re so careless. 你真粗心。
59. Why on earth didn’t you tell me the truth? 你到底为什么不跟我说实话？
60. I’m about to explode! 我肺都快要气炸了！
61. What a stupid idiot! 真是白痴一个！
62. I’m not going to put up with this! 我再也受不了啦！
63. I never want to see your face again! 我再也不要见到你！
64. That’s terrible. 真糟糕！
65. Just look at what you’ve done! 看看你都做了些什么！
66. I wish I had never met you. 我真后悔这辈子遇到你！
67. You’re a disgrace. 你真丢人！
68. I’ll never forgive you! 我永远都不会饶恕你！
69. Don’t nag me! 别在我面前唠叨！
70. I’m sick of it. 我都腻了。
71. You’re such a bitch! 你这个婊子!
72. Stop screwing/ fooling/ messing around! 别鬼混了！
73. Mind your own business! 管好你自己的事！
74. You’re just a good for nothing bum! 你真是一个废物！/ 你一无是处！
75. You’ve gone too far! 你太过分了！
76. I loathe you! 我讨厌你！
77. I detest you! 我恨你！
78. Get the hell out of here! 滚开!
79. Don’t be that way! 别那样！
80. Can’t you do anything right? 成事不足，败事有余。
81. You’re impossible. 你真不可救药。
82. Don’t touch me! 别碰我！
83. Get away from me! 离我远一点儿！
84. Get out of my life. 我不愿再见到你。/ 从我的生活中消失吧。
85. You’re a joke! 你真是一个小丑！
86. Don’t give me your attitude. 别跟我摆架子。
87. You’ll be sorry. 你会后悔的。
88. We’re through. 我们完了！
89. Look at the mess you’ve made! 你搞得一团糟！
90. You’ve ruined everything. 全都让你搞砸了。
91. I can’t believe your never. 你好大的胆子！
92. You’re away too far. 你太过分了。
93. I can’t take you any more! 我再也受不了你啦！
94. I’m telling you for the last time! 我最后再告诉你一次！
95. I could kill you! 我宰了你！
96. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard! 那是我听到的最愚蠢的事！(比尔·盖茨常用)
97. I can’t believe a word you say. 我才不信你呢!
98. You never tell the truth！ 你从来就不说实话！
99. Don’t push me ! 别逼我！
100. Enough is enough! 够了够了！
101. Don’t waste my time anymore. 别再浪费我的时间了！
102. Don’t make so much noise. I’m working. 别吵，我在干活。
103. It’s unfair. 太不公平了。
104. I’m very disappointed. 真让我失望。
105. Don’t panic! 别怕!
106. What do you think you are doing? 你知道你在做什么吗？
107. Don’t you dare come back again! 你敢再回来！
108. You asked for it. 你自找的。
109. Nonsense! 鬼话！


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. . . 人生上半场 24 年，拒人 3 次，被拒 2 次，目前 3：2 领先......

.

Lesson 2 Spare that spider

Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the least harm to us or our belongings.

Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them. One can tell the difference almost at a glance, for a spider always has eight legs and an insect never more than six.

How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf? One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England, and he estimated that there were more than 2250000 in one acre; that is something like 6000000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch. Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is possible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country.

beast 野獸
census 統計數字
acre 英畝
content 滿足的

you may wonder 插入語
almost at a glance 幾乎一眼

全文翻譯:

第一段:
你可能覺得奇怪,蜘蛛怎麼會是我們的朋友呢?因為它們能消滅那麼多的昆蟲,其中包括一些人類的大敵.要不是人類受一些食蟲動物的保護,昆蟲就會使我們無法在地球上生活下去,昆蟲會吞食我們的全部庄稼,殺死我們的成群的牛羊.我們要十分感謝那些吃昆蟲的鳥和獸,然而把它們所殺死的昆蟲全部加在一起也只相當於蜘蛛所消滅的一小部分.此外,蜘蛛不同於其他食蟲動物,它們絲毫不危害我們和我們的財物.

第二段:
許多人認為蜘蛛是昆蟲,但它們不是昆蟲,甚至與昆蟲毫無關係.人們幾乎一眼就能看出二者的差異,因為蜘蛛都是8條腿,而昆蟲的腿從不超過6條.

第三段:
有多少蜘蛛在為我們效力呢?一位研究蜘蛛的權威對英國南部一塊草坪上的蜘蛛作了一次調查.他估計每英畝草坪裡有225万多只蜘蛛.這就是說,在一個足球廠上約有600万只不同種類的蜘蛛.蜘蛛至少有半年忙於吃昆蟲.它們一年中消滅了多少昆蟲,我們簡直無法猜測,它們是吃不飽的動物,不滿意一日三餐.據估計,在英國蜘蛛一年里所消滅的昆蟲的重量超過了這個國家人口的總重量.

吃饭后回来学:)

right here waiting for you

oceans apart,day after day,and i slowly go insane......

have a noon sleep first ~O~ so sleepy.see you later.

~O~

i don't like living in the past:)
everything has gone, a new day is greeting to me

^O^,get up now! Uncomfortable,the chair is so small.

When I open my eyes,a new day is coming!To a programmer,a new day is a new programme,a new day is a new circle.But the only difference is:since we cannot jump out of the circle,we have the opportunity to let the circle run for another way.

Computer is down.Learn English now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A stateless proxy will forward it, a stateful proxy might
respond to it and generate some CANCEL requests of its own, and a UAS
will respond to it. See Section 16.10 for proxy treatment of CANCEL.

A UAS first processes the CANCEL request according to the general UAS
processing described in Section 8.2. However, since CANCEL requests
are hop-by-hop and cannot be resubmitted, they cannot be challenged
by the server in order to get proper credentials in an Authorization
header field. Note also that CANCEL requests do not contain a
Require header field.

what means?

translation materials :)
i'm sleepy now. it due to lack of sleeping

ok

一個無狀態的代理將會轉發這個請求,那麼有狀態的代理可能會對這個請求做出反映並且產生它自己的一些"Cancel"請求,還有UAS也會對這個請求做出反映.詳見"Cancel"的代理處理的16.10部分.
第一段完

domi,能不能趕上你的水平啊:)

下班了,回家看看再说,呵呵!

UAS首先根據在8.2部分中所描述的產生UAS的過程來處理"Cancel"請求.

明天接著翻譯,不要告訴我答案!!!:)

However, since CANCEL requests
are hop-by-hop and cannot be resubmitted, they cannot be challenged
by the server in order to get proper credentials in an Authorization
header field. Note also that CANCEL requests do not contain a
Require header field.


作個記號

没有标准答案啊，我也是在翻译！这是国外的资料！

Lesson3 Matterhorn man

Modern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which will give them good sport, and the more difficult it is, the more highly it is regarded. In the pioneering days, however, this was not the case at all. The early climbers were looking for the easiest way to the top, because the summit was the prize they sought, especially if it had never been attained before. It is true that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equipped in a manner which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement. They had a single aim, a solitary goal—the top!

It is hard for us to realize nowadays how difficult it was for the pioneers. Except for one or two places such as Zermatt and Chamonix, which had rapidly become popular, Alpine villages tended to be impoverished settlements cut off from civilization by the high mountains. Such inns as there were generally dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine. Often a valley boasted no inn at all, and climbers found shelter wherever they could—sometimes with the local priest (who was usually as poor as his parishioners), sometimes with shepherds or cheese-makers. Invariably the background was the same: dirt and poverty, and very uncomfortable. For men accustomed to eating seven-course dinners and sleeping between fine linen sheets at home, the change to the Alps must have been very hard indeed.

Matterhorn 馬特霍恩峰(阿爾卑斯山峰之一,在意大利和瑞士邊境)
alpinist 登山運動員
pioneer v.開闢,倡導;n.先鋒,開闢者
summit 頂峰
attain 到達
perilous 危險的
shudder 不寒而慄
court 追求
solitary 唯一的
impoverish 使貧困
Alpine 阿爾卑斯山的
flea-ridden 布滿跳蚤的
coarse 粗劣的
boast 自誇
parishioner 教區居民
shepherd 牧羊人
linen 亞麻布床單
the Alps 阿爾卑斯山脈

in the pioneering days 在初創時期,這裡指登山運動的初創期
at the thought 一想到
go out of one's way 特地,不怕麻煩
cut off...from... 把...與...隔絕
such inns as there were 那里有的小客棧
the food simply local cheese 在food 後面省略了was

參考譯文:
馬特霍恩山區人

現代登山運動員總想找一條能夠給他們帶來運動樂趣的路線來攀登山峰.他們認為,道路愈艱險愈帶勁兒.然而,在登山運動的初期,全然不是這種情況.早期登山者所尋找的是通往山頂的最方便的途徑,因為頂峰--特別是前人未曾到過的頂峰--才是他們尋求的目標.確實,在探險中他們經常遇到驚心動魄的困難和危險,而他們裝備之簡陋足以使現代登山者一想起來就膽戰心驚.但是,他們並非故意尋求這種刺激,他們只有一個目的,唯一的目標--頂峰!

well done!
thank you ,keep doing it !

thank you,domi

我們今天很難想像昔日的登山先驅們是多麼艱苦.除了澤曼特和夏蒙尼等一兩個很快出了名的地方外,阿爾卑斯山山區的小村幾乎全是高山環抱,與世隔絕的窮鄉僻壤.那裡的小客棧一般都很骯髒,而且跳蚤猖獗.食物是當地的幹酪和通常存放了一年之久的麵包,人們就著劣質酒吞下這種食物.山谷里常常沒有小客棧,登山者只好隨遇而安.

有時同當地牧師(他通常和他的教民一樣窮)住在一起,有時同牧羊人或制乳酪的人住在一起.無論住在哪兒,情況都一樣:骯髒,貧窮,及其不舒適.對於過慣了一頓飯吃7道菜,睡亞麻細布床單的人來說,變換一下生活環境來到阿爾卑斯山山區,那一定是很艱難的.

先去吃飯,回來翻譯你的.

然而,由於”CANCEL”請求是跳轉的並且不可被重新提交,所以服務器若想打破他們的權限來在授權的頭域中獲得正當的進入許可是不可能的.還應該注意的就是,”CANCEL”請求不包含請求頭域.
(by the way, how to translate header field ?)

好了,我把你的也搞定了.

go to bed,sorry,go to chair(there is no bed here),first.
See you later.*O*

(by the way, how to translate header field ?)
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头字段

翻譯的還符合要求吧?:)

This evening,Chiese versus Japanese,go home early.
Kill all the Japanese!
Long live PRC!

然而，因为CANCEL请求是逐个跳段并且不能重新提交，因此它想获得在Authorization头字段中服务器的适当授权是不太可能的。还要注意的是,CANCEL请求同样也不包含Require头字段。

这是我翻译的,呵呵!

不錯,比我的強多了.

你没看上下文也翻译的这么好,厉害厉害!

過獎過獎,還是你厲害!
太崇拜你了

互相吹吧：）

domi確實是才女呀,佩服佩服

应该是豺女才对!
哎,你们上班累不累啊?我是都快爬下了!

hop by hop 是"軸跳協議"的意思,我師兄說的.

我們現在還不是很累,整天就是在學習,沒審麼產出,老闆的投入很大呀.

Lesson 4 Seeing hands

Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can read and detect colors with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls. One case concerns an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. This ability was first noticed by her father. One day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe. Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, and even described the way they were done up in bundles.

Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can read and detect colors with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls. One case concerns an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. This ability was first noticed by her father. One day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe. Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, and even described the way they were done up in bundles.

Vera’s curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she lives, and in April he was given a series of tests by a special commission of the Ministry of the Russian Federal Republic. During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and, stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child’s game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colors printed on it; and, in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot the outlines and colors of a picture hidden under a carpet. Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity. During all these tests Vera was blindfold; and, indeed, except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin. It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.

there is something wrong with this website.

solid 堅實的
safe 保險櫃
Ulyanovsk 烏里揚諾夫斯克
commission 委員會
opaque 不透明的
lotto 一種有編號的紙牌
slipper 拖鞋
blindfold 被蒙上眼睛的

lock something away 把...鎖藏起來
do up 捆,包
bring...to the notice of 引起某人注意

the 100th floor!

參考譯文:

能看見東西的手

俄羅斯最近報導了幾個事例,有人能用手指看書識字和辨認顏色,甚至能透過厚實的門和牆看到東西.其中有一例談到有一個名叫維拉.彼扥洛娃的11歲女學生.她的視力與常人一樣,但她還能用皮膚的不同部位辨認東西,甚至看穿堅實的牆壁.是她父親首先發現她這一功能的. 一天, 維拉走進父親的辦公室, 偶然把手放在一個鎖著的保險櫃的門上,她突然問父親為審麼把這麼多的舊報紙鎖在櫃子里,還說了報紙綑紮的情況.

維拉的特異功能引起了她家附近烏里揚諾夫斯克城一個科研單位的注意.4月里,俄羅斯衛生部的一個特別委員會對她進行了一系列的測試.在這些測試中,她能隔著不透明的屏幕讀報紙.更為奇怪的是,她把肘部在兒童玩的”羅托”紙牌上移動一下,便能說出印在紙牌上的數字和顏色.還有一次,她穿著長筒襪子和拖鞋,能用腳識別出藏在地毯下面的一幅畫的輪廓和顏色.

其他實驗表明,她的膝蓋和雙肩有類似的感覺能力,在所有這些實驗中,維拉的雙眼都是蒙著的.如果不蒙上雙眼她的皮膚就不再有識別物體的能力.這是千真万確的.同時還發現,儘管她能用手指識別東西,但她的手一旦弄濕,這種功能便會立即消失.

Chinese football team was lost yesterday evening,what a disgrace they gave us.Worse still,they were beaten by our enemy--the Japanese!
God damned!

Lesson 5 Youth

People are always talking about ‘the problem of youth’. If there is one—which I take leave to doubt—then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings—people just like their elders. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.

When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain—that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.

I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seem to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It’s as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill—mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary clichés about respect for elders—as if mere age were a reason for respect. I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.

domi,come on,where are you?

leave 允許
fundamentals 基本原理
glorious 光輝燦爛的
splendid 燦爛的
rub 難題
identity 身份
dreary 沉郁的
commitment 信奉
mean 吝嗇,小氣
social climber 追求更高社會地位的人,向上爬的人
devotion 熱愛
cosmic 宇宙的
suburban 見識不廣的,偏狹的
conceited 自高自大的
presumptuous 自以為是的,放肆的
fatuous 愚蠢的
cliche 陳詞濫調

take leave to doubt 擅自做,冒昧去做
get down to 認真處理,認真研究
that is where the rub is. There's the rub.=That's the problem. 這就是問題所在.
for one thing 首先
air of freedom 無拘無束
in some sense 在某種意義上
turn to...for... 為...而求助於...

參考譯文:
青年

人們總是在談論"青年問題".如果這個問題存在的話--請允許我對此持懷疑態度--那麼,這個問題是由老年人而不是青年人造成的.讓我們來認真研究一些基本事實:承認青年人和他們的長輩一樣也是人.老年人和青年人只有一個區別:青年人有光輝燦爛的前景,而老年人的輝煌已成為過去.問題的癥結恐怕就在這裡.

我十幾歲時,總感到自己年輕,有些事情拿不准--我是一所大學校里的一名新生,如果我當時真的被看成像一個問題那樣有趣,我會感到很得意的.因為這至少使我得到了某種承認,這正是年輕人所熱衷追求的.

我覺得年輕人令人振奮,無拘無束.他們既不追逐卑鄙的名利,也不貪圖生活的舒適.他們不熱衷於向上爬,也不一味追求物質享受.在我看來,所有這些使他們與生命和萬物之源聯繫在了一起.從某種意義上講,他們似乎是宇宙人,同我們這些凡夫俗子形成了強烈而鮮明的對照.每逢我遇到年輕人,腦子里就想到這些.年輕人也許狂妄自負,舉止無禮,傲慢放肆,愚昧無知,但我不會用應當尊重長者這一套陳詞濫調來為我自己辯護,似乎年長就是受人尊敬的理由.我認為我和他們是平等的.如果我認為他們錯了,我就以平等的身分和他們爭個明白.

Xenos,台湾来的？

mind your own affairs.

perhap now i have no time to learn it ,but i will read it after i go home:)

ok

《冬季到台北来看雨》

. . . ------ Xenos 翻唱

是冬季到杭州來看雨吧:)

Xenos 似乎没有女朋友：）

為審麼這麼說?

直觉：）

哈哈,我要回大陸,她不回來我有審麼辦法.

Lesson 6 The sporting spirit

I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Even if one didn’t know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general principles.

Nearly all the sports practised nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win. On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for the fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. At the international level, sport is frankly mimic warfare. But the significant things is not the behavior of the players but the attitude of the spectators: and, behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contents, and seriously believe—at any rate for short periods—that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue

how sleepy now!There will be a JAVA test this afternoon.
Too dreary!Too idle!

終於考完試了,累死了!完全是體力活

ok,go on learning English

goodwill 友好
cricket 板球
inclination 意願
contest 比賽
orgy 無節制
deduce 推斷
competitive 競爭性的
patriotism 地方觀念,愛國主義
disgrace 使丟臉
savage 野性的
combative 好斗的
mimic warfare 模擬戰爭
behaviour 行動,舉止
absurd 荒唐的

have no inclination to do 無意做...,不想做...
deduce...from...從...推斷出...
pick up 隨意挑選

當我聽人們說體育運動可創造國家之間的友誼,還說各國民眾若在足球場或板球場上交鋒,就不願在戰場上殘殺的時候,我總是驚愕不已.一個人即使不能從具體的事例(例如1936年的奧林匹克運動會)了解到國際運動比賽會導致瘋狂的仇恨,也可以從常理中推斷出結論.

現在開展的體育運動幾乎都是競爭性的.參加比賽就是為了取勝.如果不拼命去嬴,比賽就沒有審麼意義了.在鄉間的草坪上,當你隨意組成兩個隊,並且不涉及任何地方情緒時,那才有可能是單純為了娛樂和鍛鍊而進行比賽.

可是一旦涉及到榮譽問題,一旦你想到你和某一團體會因你輸了而丟臉時,那麼`最野蠻的爭鬥天性便會被激發起來.即使是僅僅參加過學校足球賽的人也有這種體會.在國際比賽中,體育簡直是一場模擬戰爭.

但是,要緊的還不是運動員的行為,而是觀眾的態度,以及觀眾身後各個國家的態度.面對著這些荒唐的比賽,參賽的各個國家會如痴如狂,甚至煞有介事地相信--至少在短期內如此--跑跑,跳跳,踢踢球是對一個民族品德素質的檢驗.

好了,這一周的工作完成了

go to play CS,now!Come on!
Just there waiting for you!:)

have a nice weekend!

have a chat tonight?i will wait for you.

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唉，英语可是我心中永远的痛啊！
谢谢Xenos哥，要向你学习哦

You are welcome,just learn it!And believe youself.

Wait a moment,I'll come back soon!

Lesson 7 Bats

Not all sounds made by animals serve as language, and we have only to turn to that extraordinary discovery of echo-location in bats to see a case in which the voice plays a strictly utilitarian role.

To get a full appreciation of what this means we must turn first to some recent human inventions. Everyone knows that if he shouts in the vicinity of a wall or a mountainside, an echo will come back. The further off this solid obstruction, the longer time will elapse for the return of the echo. A sound made by tapping on the hull of a ship will be reflected from the sea bottom, and by measuring the time interval between the taps and the receipt of the echoes, the depth of the sea at that point can be calculated. So was born the echo-sounding apparatus, now in general use in ships. Every solid object will reflect a sound, varying according to the size and nature of the object. A shoal of fish will do this. So it is a comparatively simple step from locating the sea bottom to locating a shoal of fish. With experience, and with improved apparatus, it is now possible not only to locate a shoal but to tell if it is herring, cod, or other well-known fish, by the pattern of its echo.

It has been found that certain bats emit squeaks and by receiving the echoes, they can locate and steer clear of obstacles—or locate flying insects on which they feed. This echo-location in bats is often compared with radar, the principle of which is similar.

bat 蝙蝠 interval 間隔
strictly 明確地 receipt 收到
utilitarian 實用地 apparatus 儀器
appreciation 理解 shoal 魚群
obstruction 障礙物 herring 鯡魚
elapse 消逝 cod 鱈魚
hull 船體 squeak 簡叫聲

serve as 作...之用
turn to 求助於
play a role in 在...方面起作用
in the vicinity of 在...的附近
in general use 普遍使用
steer clear of 避開

参考译文:
蝙蝠

动物发出的声音不都是用作语言交际.我们只要看一看蝙蝠回声定位这一极不寻常的发现,就可以探究一下声音在什么情况下有绝对的实用价值.

学一下。

要透彻理解这句话的意义,我们应先回顾一下人类最近的几项发明.大家都知道,在墙壁或山腰附近发出喊声,就会听到回声.固体障碍物越远,回声返回所用的时间就越长.敲打船体所发出的声音会从海底传回来,测出回声间隔的时间,便可算出该处海洋的深度.这样就产生了目前各种船舶上普遍应用的回声探测仪.

任何固体都反射声音,反射的声音因物体的大小和性质的不同而不同.鱼群也反射声音.从测定海深到测定鱼群,这一进展比较容易.根据经验和改进了的仪器,不仅能够确定鱼群的位置,而且可以根据鱼群回声的特点分辩出是鲱鱼,鳕鱼,还是人们所熟悉的其他鱼.

人们发现,某些蝙蝠能发出尖叫声,并能通过回声来确定并躲开障碍物,或找到她们赖以为生的昆虫.蝙蝠的这种回声定位常常可与雷达相比较,其原理是相似的.

Lesson 7 is over.

have a nice day!this is New Concept 4,see you tomorrow.

domi,why so distressed?let's share your misery,OK?

sorry, i don't know where to start

believe me!anywhere is OK?just like me in the Friday evening

i think i will be fine tomorrow!
thank you !

don't you need some rest at noon?
when do you start working?

1:00

Sometimes we are tellers,sometimes we are listeners.Being tellers,just confide what you want to share with;being listeners ,we should let the other side know we will be always there and we will be always in your side,anywhere anytime...just here waiting for you :)

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hehe,i come here checkin again.
Today's learning finished

一會繼續

where are you?d

Lesson 8 Trading standards

Chickens slaughtered in the United States, claim officials in Brussels, are not fit to grace European tables. No, say the Americans: our fowl are fine, we simply clean them in a different way. These days, it is differences in national regulations, far more than tariffs, that put sand in the wheels of trade between rich countries. It is not just farmers who are complaining. An electric razor that meets the European Union’s safety standards must be approved by American testers before it can be sold in the United States, and an American-made dialysis machine needs the EU’s okay before it hits the market in Europe.

As it happens, a razor that is safe in Europe is unlikely to electrocute Americans. So, ask businesses on both sides of the Atlantic, why have two lots of tests where on would do? Politicians agree, in principle, so America and the EU have been trying to reach a deal which would eliminate the need to double-test many products. They hope to finish in time for a trade summit between America and the EU on May 28th. Although negotiators are optimistic, the details are complex enough that they may be hare-pressed to get a deal at all.

Why? One difficulty is to construct the agreements. The Americans would happily reach one accord on standards for medical devices and then hammer out different pacts covering, say, electronic goods and drug manufacturing. The EU—following fine continental traditions—wants agreement on general principles, which could be applied to many types of products and perhaps extended to other countries.

Lesson 9 Royal espionage

Alfred the Great acted as his own spy, visiting Danish camps disguised a minstrel. In those days wandering minstrels were welcome everywhere. They were not fighting men, and their harp was their passport. Alfred had learned many of their ballads in his youth, and could vary his programme with acrobatic tricks and simple conjuring.

While Alfred’s little army slowly began to gather at Athelney, the king himself set out to penetrate the camp of Guthrum, the commander of the Danish invaders. These had settled down for the winter at Chippenham: thither Alfred went. He noticed at once that discipline was slack: the Danes had the self-confidence of conquerors, and their security precautions were casual. They lived well, on the proceeds of raids on neighbouring regions. There they collected women as well as food and drink, and a life of ease had made them soft.

Alfred stayed in the camp a week before he returned to Athelney. The force there assembled was trivial compared with the Danish horde. But Alfred had deduced that the Danes were no longer fit for prolonged battle: and that their commissariat had no organization, but depended on irregular raids.

So, faced with the Danish advance, Alfred did not risk open battle but harried the enemy. He was constantly on the move, drawing the Danes after him. His patrols halted the raiding parties: hunger assailed the Danish army. Now Alfred began a long series of skirmishes—and within a month the Danes had surrendered. The episode could reasonably serve as a unique epic of royal espionage!

i have created a simple animation with java,i shall improve my technique.
i believe i can fly,i believe i can touch the sky~~~~~

Out of the target to quote complete testing systems out of one company for our customers, the new range of products within Tira GmbH was born. So the know- how of Tira measuring- and testing technology was connected with an efficient concept of environmental testing technology and a complex product- range of climatic- and temperature- test- chambers was build. A range of climatic- and temperature test chambers as an efficient concept for the accomplishment of versatile testing tasks into the fields of research, development, manufacturing and quality assurance. To guarantee high- quality- products from Tira GmbH, our products pass an intensive quality- and technical control. Our new service network, with special service engineers, take care for your Tira test equipment.

對不起,我們臨時開了一個會議.馬上搞定!

我也刚刚听完讲座回来,呵呵

马上,对不起啊.

没有目的地为我们的客户提出一个完全的而超出公司界线 的测试系统,于是在Tira GmbH内部就产生了一系列新的产品.所以,懂得Tira如何去测试—并且与测试技术环境的高效观念和综合的(气候上的和室内温度上的)产品系列相关联的测试技术就被建立起来了.

---------一部分

对于研究,开发,生产和质量保证领域, 一系列气候上和室温的测试被作为综合测试任务完成的有效概念.

为了保证TiraGmbH产品的高质量,我们的产品通过了严密的质量和技术监控.我们有着特殊服务引擎的新的服务网络会为很好的维护你所购置的测试设备.

有错误,把会"为"很好中的"为"去掉.
搞定了

domi,are you there?My cellphone was out of charge,i will call you tonight.

learn it.

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future. Carver Mead, a pioneer in integrated circuits and a professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology, notes there are now workstations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh. As the time and cost of making a chip to a few days and a few hundred dollars, engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failures. Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office—spawning a new generation of garage start-ups and giving the U.S. a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast. ‘We’ve got more garages with smart people,’ Mead observes, ‘We really thrive on anarchy.’

And on Asians. Already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms. And Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California’s colleges. As the heads of next-generation start-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge tighter links with crucial Pacific Rim markets. For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph. D. from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan’s near lock on the memory-chip market. India-born N. Damodar Reddy’s tiny California company reopened an AT&T chip plant in Kansas City last spring with financing from the state of Missouri. Before it becomes a retirement village, Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business.

几天没来了，Xenos还是如此勤劳哦

我是學過了,自己溫習一遍,順便方便大家學習.

几天没来了，Xenos还是如此勤劳哦

不好意思，本来是要刷新，没想按错键又发了一次

還好有人學.很受鼓勵啊.

200th floor

呵呵，学无止境

继续继续,我的一个美女老乡也来支持你了,呵呵

又是一個漂亮的湘妹子?
榮幸榮幸!

Lesson 11 How to grow old?

Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it—so at least it seems to me—is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will be not unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

take a break!To be continue......

morning

Lesson 12 Banks and their customers

When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a cheque in favour of another person. Primarily, the banker-customer relationship is that of debtor and creditor—who is which depending on whether the customer’s account is in credit or is overdrawn. But, in addition to that basically simple concept, the bank and its customer owe a large number of obligations to one another. Many of these obligations can give rise to problems and complications but a bank customer, unlike, say, a buyer of goods, cannot complain that the law is loaded against him.

The bank must obey its customer’s instructions, and not those of anyone else. When, for example, a customer first opens an account, he instructs the bank to debit his account only in respect of cheques drawn by himself. He gives the bank specimens of his signature, and there is a very firm rule that the bank has no right or authority to pay out a customer’s money on a cheque on which its customer’s signature has been forged. It makes no difference that the forgery may have been a very skillful one: the bank must recognize its customer’s signature. For this reason there is no risk to the customer in the practice, adopted by banks, of printing the customer’s name on his cheques. If this facilitates forgery, it is the bank which will lose, not the customer.

Xenos
2003-12-02 11:03
“ 對呀,我想起來了,你不是說你的令尊會幾門外語嗎? ”

“你的”二字多余，请注意。

好,下次改正.-_-!

Lesson 13 The search for oil

The deepest holes of all are made for oil, and they go to down to as much as 25000 feet. But we do not need to send men down to get the oil out, as we must with other mineral deposits. The holes are only borings, less than a foot in diameter. My particular experience is largely in oil, and the search for oil has done more to improve deep drilling than any other mining activity. When it has been decided where we are going to drill, we put up at the surface an oil derrick. It has to be tall because it is like a giant block and tackle, and we have to lower into the ground and haul out of the ground great lengths of drill pipe which are rotated by an engine at the top and are fitted with a cutting bit at the bottom.

The geologist needs to know what rocks the drill has reached, so every so often a sample is obtained with a coring bit. It cuts a clean cylinder of rock, from which can be seen the strata the drill has been cutting through. Once we get down to the oil, it usually flows to the surface because great pressure, either from gas or water, is pushing it. This pressure must be under control, and we control it by means of the mud which we circulate down the drill pipe. We endeavour to avoid the old, romantic idea of a gusher, which wastes oil and gas. We want it to stay down the hole until we can lead it off in a controlled manner.

樓主真有空啊

there will be a halt for some time for some reason.farewell!

to be continue......

to Xenos
呵呵，提议你去建一个学英语的论坛，看来有这方面需求的朋友很多！

随便学学，随便学学，学不好，瞎学：）

好久沒有學習英語了:(

The foreign ties that bind the NBA
In the past ten years,America's National Basketball Association (NBA) has grown increasingly dependent on the rest of the world to supply players.
When Michael Jordan and Larry Bird won gold in Barcelona in 1992,the Americans were praised for teaching the world how to play basketball.
This season,however,20 percent of NBA rosters will be filled by non-Americans.
NBA commissioner David Stern happily embraces the trend.On a visit to Paris in October,Stern outlined his vision for the future which is likely to see Europe hosting NBA games by 2010.

While Europe is the top priority,Asia and Mexico are other regions on the NBA's agenda.
Last week,the Los Angeles Clippers and Seattle SuperSonics showcased the NBA in two official league games in Japan,the sixth time regular-season fixtures have been played in the country.
The NBA is now planning to take China by storm.
"Our experience in China has been that it is going to be explosive in its growth,"said Stern."The strategy in China is television.We've made 14 deals in China with local and national networks on cable and satellite."

to be continued......

Yao Ming has paved the way for an NBA marketing blitz in China.The NBA,which is broadcast in more than 200 countries in 42 languages,will put that to the test in October 2004 when the Houston Rockets play two pre-season games against the Sacramento Kings in Beijing and Shanghai.
The NBA knows that it needs a global market to compensate for tough times on home soil.
"It does not matter where the players come from,all the NBA teams now know that they have to scout internationally,"said Terry Lyons,the NBA's vice-president of international public relations."It has increased the level of competiton here".

As Frenchman Tony Parker and Argentine Emanuel Ginobili showed in winning championship rings with the San Antonio Spurs last season, many people can earn the respect of their American peers.
Others, such as the Houston Rockets' Chinese centre Yao Ming--number one draft pick in 2002--and the Detroit Pistons'18-year-old Serb Darko Milicic--number two overall in this year's draft--are icons-in-waiting.
It is the ultimate revolution--the rest of the world teaching the US how to play basketball.

看不懂，唉……
^_^

妹妹看不懂就要多做功課哦^_^

approaching the end of the year,wish everything goes well!

Miss everyone around you and the gone in the heaven,we are all the god's kids.

新的一年了,英語還是要學的.

Poor and hungry in the world's richest country

THEY start handing out the free food at 9:00am,but the queue starts forming hours earlier.By dawn,there is a line of cars stretching for about one kilometre.This is the closest thing to a traffic jam that the small city of Logan,Ohio,and many other places in the United States,has--a traffic jam driven by poverty and hunger.

不是很懂。呵呵，顺便贴翻译吧。^_^

Outside,the US is regarded as the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world,but back home it is being eaten away from the inside by persistent and rising poverty.
About 3 million Americans have lost their jobs since George W.Bush took office in January 2001 and have yet to find new work in a largely jobless economic recovery.There is not much left to keep them from falling further.
Last year alone,another 1.7 million Americans slipped below the poverty line.

妹妹自己翻譯!

That brought the total to 34.6 million,or one in eight of the population.More than 13 million of them are children.
In fact,the US has the worst child poverty rate and the worst life expectancy of all the world's industralized countries.And the conditions of its poor are worsening.
Two years ago,about 31 million Americans were considered"food insecure"(they did not know where their next meal was coming from).Of those,more than 9 million were said by the Agriculture Department to be experiencing real hunger.

And that was before the recession really began to hit.
Partial surveys sugget the problem has got considerably worse since then.In 25 major cities,the need for emergency food rose an average of 19 percent last year.

---over

I find it.:)

so toilsome :)

serve for people!^_^

受刺激了。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。

这么老的帖子又翻出来了,还想学英语啊.

Everything has gone, a new day is greeting to me!