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大学英语精读4

1) thoughtful

2) might as well/may as well/could as well

3) draw your attention to

4) marvelous

5) settle for

6) done with

7) Competitive competitive

8) pains/pained

9) bonus

10) shrink

11) delivery

12) overheard

13) sour

14) for rent

15) stack

16) reproduce

1) inquired

2) informed

3) awful

4) settle for

5) trash

6) claimed

7) Normally

8) a piece of cake

9) be done with

10) enable

11) am entitled

12) quite a while

1) ask for

2) was set up/has been set up

3) pulled up

4) gives off

5) was held up

6) keep up

7) ran over

8) made up

9) be left out

10) cut off

1) It pained Jenny to learn of Jim's refusal to help her with the translation.

2) The extra work to be assigned to you will greatly cut into your spare time.

3) We'd been at the job for hours, but we hardly made a dent in it.

4) You have no business saying those nasty things about Dick.

5) We might as well listen to the radio program since there isn't anything interesting on television.

1) standee

2) payee

3) grantee

4) addressee

5) a person who is absent

6) a person who is being trained

7) a divorced person

8) a person who is appointed

1) output

2) breakdown

3) setup

4) Takeoff

5) drawbacks

6) breakthrough

7) cutback

8) takeover

1) paper, store, shop, case, cream

2) making, keeping, bathing, conditioning, walking

3) market, way, stop, board/smith, ground

4) pill, water, material, point, machine

5) pour, look/put/come, come,

6) out, back/up, through/down/out

1) a dozen years

2) dozens of times

3) two dozen passengers

4) dozens of phone calls

5) three dozen boxes

6) a dozen bottles/a dozen bottles of wine

1) a great deal of pain "has been caused by evils which have never happened"

2) the elderly lady Miss Morris quarrelled with was none other than her future mother-in-law

3) this essay is well-written except for a few grammatical mistakes

4) I just caught the train in time

5) You can't eat your cake and have it too

1) You ought to know better than to go swimming straight after a meal.

2) Uncle Rob should have known better than to trust that treacherous son of his.

3) Sally is old enough to know better than to spend all her money on fancy goods.

4) Miss Miller certainly knows better than to explore the desert all alone.

5) His college sons should have known better than to try to get the best out of their employees by threatening them with bodily harm.

6) You ought to know better than to go out in this freezing weather in those thin clothes. You'll get frozen.

1) delivery

2) a piece of cake

3) inquire

4) pulling up

6) deadline

7) marvelous

8) enable

9) cut into

10) settle for

11) settled our accounts

12) minimum

13) known better than

1) advertisement/ad

2) read

3) No

4) like

5) words

7) which

8) sizes

9) sitting

10) water

11) bottle

12) one

13) started

14) passed

15) run/pass

16) into

17) coming

18) if

19) quit

20) hour

21) wrote

翻译

1) 我们接到通知，财政部长将于次日接见我们。

We were informed that the Minister of Finance was to give us an audience /receive us the next day.

2) 我觉得很奇怪，他似乎不记得自己的生日。

I thought it odd that he didn't seem to remember his own birthday.

3) 学期论文最迟应在下星期二交来，可是至今大部分学生却几无进展。

Next Tuesday is the deadline for handing in the term papers, but most students have hardly made a dent in the work so far.

4) 看到学生人数不断减少，校长心里很难受。(pain)

It pained the headmaster to find the number of students shrinking.

5) 在那个国家一般用现金付账，但支票变得普遍起来了，不久会代替现金作为人们结账的一种方式。

Cash is commonly used in paying bills in that country, but checks are becoming more popular and will, in a short while, replace cash as a way for people to settle their accounts.

6) 该公司声称，这条河流的污染不是它造成的。

The company claims that it is not responsible for the pollution in the river.

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1) bull

2) horse

3) dog

4) dog

5) tiger

6) tiger

7) lioness

8) goose

9) fowl

10) cock

11) duck

1) practical

2) scarcity

3) external

4) raise

5) rise

6) waste

7) deficiency

8) minimum

9) draw

10) insufficient

11) reduce

12) freeze

1) fundamental

2) deposited

3) in the form of

4) in good condition/in condition

5) currencies

6) resources

7) lowering

8) conceived

9) Rhythm

10) reserve

11) romantic

12) productivity

13) dependent

14) internal

1) mature

2) reserve

3) deposit/deposit enough money

4) currency

5) ample

6) fundamental

7) given birth to

8) somewhat

9) an excess

10) expended

11) safeguard

12) conceive

1) drew on/draws on

2) depend on

3) slowing down

4) put on

5) turn down

1) The country is trying to be/become less dependent on foreign aid.

2) It amused us to see the actor's beard fall off.

3) The rhythm of life is made up of

a cycle of birth, youth, maturity, and death.

4) Conservation of our mineral resources is highly important because they can never be replenished.

5) Parking spaces in this city are scarce on Saturdays.

1) man-eating

2) earth-shaking

3) body-building

4) labor-saving

5) fact-finding

6) record-breaking

7) tone-setting

8) paper-cutting

1) biochemistry: the science that deals with the chemical processes of living animals and plants; biological chemistry

2) biocide: any substance poisonous to life

3) bioconversion: the conversion of biological waste, garbage, and plant material into energy, fertilizer, and other useful products

4) biophysics: the branch of biology which applies the laws of physics to explain the phenomena of biology

5) ecoactivity: any project or undertaking to combat pollution or improve the quality of the environment

6) ecocatastrophe: a large-scale or world-wide disaster resulting from uncontrolled use of pollutants

7) ecocide: the destruction of the earth's environment or ecology through the uncontrolled use of pollutants

8) ecospecies: a group of organisms only somewhat fertile with organisms of related groups, usually considered equivalent to a species

1) All children in that country are

2) all her life/her whole life

3) Whole Indian tribes in the region were killed off.

4) the whole staff/all the staff

5) all the time/the whole time

6) this whole business/all this business

1) in the case of Tom: he was ill.

2) A case in point is Dujiangyan, which was built about 2000 years ago.

3) in the case of my two college sons, they try to live on their parents as long as possible.

4) A case in point is the successful launching of space shuttles.