全新版英语综合教程第二版Unit3

P70Ⅱ

1）正如科学家所预言的那样，全球污染成了人类面临的最严重的问题之一。（global）

1) As is predicted by scientists, global pollution has become one of the most serious problems humans are faced with.2）谋求这些职位的竞争很激烈——今年的求职者（applicant）是去年的五倍。（competition）

2) Competition for these jobs is very tough –we have five times as many applicants this year as we did last year/ there are five times as many applicants this year as there were last year.

3）正如事实表明的那样，教育大纲应当符合国家的经济发展计划。（fit into）

3) As the facts show, educational programs need to fit into the national plan for economical development.

4）这辆汽车太费油（burn too much gas），而且价钱几乎是我想付的两倍。（mprepver）

4) The car burns too much gas, and moreover, the price is almost twice as much as I intend to pay.

5）要了解一起重大的国际事件，我们首先需要考虑其历史与政治背景。（background）

5) To understand a great international event, we, first of all, need to consider the historical and political

background to it.

P71

很多想象我们的先辈们（forefathers）没有现代技术带来的那么多方便（conveniences），那日子是怎么过的。It is hard to imagine how our forefathers could do without so many conveniences that modern

technology has brought about.

那个时候只有一小部分人享受一些舒适条件（comforts）。大部分人连饭都吃不饱，更不要说（not to speak of）接受教育的特权了。

Back then only a small proportion of the population enjoyed the comforts of life. The majority didn’t even have sufficient food, not to speak of/ let alone the privilege of being educated.

然而，许多人责怪现代技术，说它带来了许多问题。他们想减慢进步的速度。但是谁也不能阻止时代的前进。However, many people blame modern technology for creating so many problems. They want to slow down the rate of progress. But who also can't stop to go forward.

P75 Translation

1.The scientific method，as many of us learned in school，is a gradual process that begins with a purpose or a problem or question to be answered.

科学的方法,因为很多人在学校里学,是一个循序渐进的过程,始于一个目的或一个问题或应该回答的问题。

2.Other researchers will try to repeat the experiment,and the more often it works,the better the chance that the result is sound.

其他研究人员将尝试重复试验,次数越多,就更大机会理解它的工作原理。

P76

As President Clinton said that day,the possibility that life

exited on Mars billions of years ago was potentially one of the great discoveries of our time.

就像克林顿总统那天所说的,数十亿年前生命退出火星我们的可能性可能是当代一个伟大的发现。

Some concluded that the "evidence of life" was mostly contamination from Antarctic ice or that there was nothing organic at all in the rock.

有些人认为“生命的证据”，主要是来自南极的冰的污染物或者是岩石中不存在有机物

P76 Language Practice 2

1)It is still too early to predict the of the outcome

presidential race.

2)Organic farmers in the Uninted States only 5%-yield15% less than the mainstream farmers.

3)My father was by overwork.step by step wore down

4)You will need to seek advice if you want to professional

win this case.

5)A new law has been to regulate the financial proposed

market.

Somehow 6) I knew he would tell me the thruth.

7)My father gave the of his collection of antiques evaluation

to the city museum.

8)Finding a cure for AIDS is one of the greatest to challengemedical scientists.

9)The young writer's latest novel was published

a month ago,and has already sold over half a million copies.

10)It is reported that a new drug has been developed which is

victims likely to help save the lives of heart-attack .

11)Companies are required to mostly financial conclude

statements to the board.

comparewith 12)If you Joe other children of

his own age,he's not very tall.

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