高级英语句子理解

Unit1

1.“Preparations were in the air around our house before school was even over.”Preparations were being made in our house even before school was closed for the summer vacation.

2.“In fact, my first trip to Washington was a mobile feast.”

Actually, my first trip to Washington was a wonderful or elaborate meal that we enjoyed in the chugging train.

3.not just for an overnight in some measly fleabag hote

not merely staying for one night in a small, lousy hotel

4.“Even the pavem ent on the streets was a shade lighter in color than back home.”

Even the footpath or sidewalk on the streets was slightly lighter in color than back home.

5.“We were a proper caravan, mother bright and father brown, the three of us girls step-standards in-between.”

We were just like a group of tourists traveling together across a desert, feeling hot and thirsty, mother in possession of a bright complexion, father a brown complexion, and the three of us girls looking neither bright nor brown, but in gradual shades from bright to brown.

6.“My father decreed yet another treat”

My father decided to give us another special treat,something that was unexpected and that was not always available.

7.Indoors, the soda fountain was dim and fan-cooled,deliciously relieving to my scorched eyes.

Inside the store, the soda fountain was glum and gloomy and cooled by electric fans, which agreeably relieved my eyes of the strong sunlight and heat outdoors.

8.Corded and crisp and pinafored, the five of us seated ourselves one by one at the counter

Still wearing our well-tied, smoothly-ironed outer garments, the five of us seated ourselves one by one on counter stools.

9.“My fury was not going to be acknowledged by a like fury.”

My anger was not going to be noticed or sympathized with by my family members who were similarly angry, though.

Unit2

1.“Despite the new coat of paint……stoically the same.” （para 1）

Although covered with a new coat of paint and enclosed with a high wire fence, the school I knew 10 years ago continues to be the same, showing no obvious changes with the passing time.

2.“No amount of kicking, screaming, or pleading could dissuade my mother, who was solidly determined to have us learn the language of our heritage.”

No matter how desperately my brother and I resisted going to the Chinese school, kicking, yelling, or repeatedly begging, we could not make our mother change her mind, because she was determined to get us to learn Chinese, our mother tongue, which had been passed down from generation to generation.

3.“Forcibly, she walked us the seven long, hilly blocks from our home to school, depositing our defiant tearful faces before the stern principal.”

From our home to school there are seven long groups of buildings bounded by streets on all sides and erected on hilly slopes. She forced us to walk past these blocks, leaving both of us in front of the grim and serious headmaster, our faces showing rebellious reluctance and wet with tears.

4.“The room smelled like Chinese medicine, an imported faraway mustiness.”The room gave off a smell very similar to that of Chinese medicine, a stale and damp smell drifting in from a faraway place.

5.“I favored crisp new scents.”

I preferred fresh smells that were characteristically pleasant.

6.“The language was a source of embarrassment.”

The language caused me to feel self-conscious or ashamed of my racial origin.

7.“my grandmother, could outshout the best street vendor. Her humor was raunchy, her Chinese rhythmless and patternless.

she was able to speak loudly, even more loudly than the loudest of the street vendors. She was coarse, and her Chinese was without any

8.It was not like the quiet, lilting romance of French or the gentle refinement of the American South. Chinese sounded pedestrian. Public. ”

Her Chinese was quite different from the elegant and romantic French or the graceful, cultured sounds of the American South. Chinese sounded very dull, incapable of arousing imagination or inspiration. It sounded average and commonplace, without any distinctive or noble characteristics.

9."My, doesn't she move her lips fast, " they would say, meaning that I'd be able to keep up with the world outside Chinatown.

"My goodness, doesn't she speak English fast?”they would say, meaning that I would be able to keep pace with the world outside Chinatown.

10.He was especially hard on my mother, criticizing her, often cruelly, for her pidgin speech -smatterings of Chinese scattered like chop suey in her conversation.

He treated my mother with severity, criticizing her, often mercilessly, for her speech containing elements of both Chinese and English -- words and expressions of Chinese dispersed like chop suey in her conversation.

11.When he tripped over his own tongue, he'd blame it on her: "See, Mom, it's all your fault. You set a bad example.”

When he committed a minor error in speech, he would find fault with her, "See, Mom, you're to blame for it. You so often make errors that my speech is affected."

12.I finally was granted a cultural porce. I was permitted to stop Chinese school.

After two years' endeavor to write with an ink pen and recite the Chinese words with endless meanings, I finally was allowed to stop. I was given permission not to go to Chinese school any more.

Unit 3

1.“It was in Burma, on a sodden morning of the rains.”

The story took place in Burma on a very wet morning during the rainy season.

2. “a row of sheds fronted with double bars”

a line of one-story buildings whose front was strengthened with both inner and outer bars.

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