购物中心英文-爱护公共卫生

Unit 1
1) Our youngest, a world- class charmer, did little to develop his intellectual
talents but always got by. Until Mrs. Stiffer.我的小儿子是个世界级的万人迷。学习
不怎么动脑筋却总是能蒙混过关。直 到遇到了史蒂夫老师。
2）No one seems to stop to think that—no matter what environments they come
from—most kids don’t put school first on their list unless they perceive something
is at stak e.似乎没有人停下来想想看，无论孩子们来自何种环境，他们当中大多数若不是发
现情况到了危急关头 ，才不会把功课当做头等大事。
3）Of average intelligence or above ,they eventually quit school, concluding they
were too dumb to finish.这些学生智力水平至少也算中等，但最终都退学了，他们总结说
自己太笨。
4）Young people generally don’t have the maturity to value education in the same
way my adult students value it.年轻人往往不够成熟，不会像我的成人学生们那么重视
教育。
5）It is an expression of confidence by both teachers and parents that the
students have the ability to learn the material presented to them.
这表明老师和家长们都对学生有信心，相信他们能够学好发给他们的学习材料。
6）This means no more doing Scott’s assignments for him because he might fail.
No more passing Jodi because she’s such a nice kid.
这意味着再也不要担心因为斯科特 不及格而替他做作业，再也不要因为朱迪是个乖孩子就放
他过关。
Unit 21) I had always dreamed of being proposed to in a Parisian café, under
dazzling stars, like one in a Van Gogh, knockoff that hangs in my studio
apartment. Instead, my boyfriend asked me to marry him while I was Windexing
the bathroom m irror.我一直有这样的梦想，在星光灿烂的晚上，在一家巴黎咖啡馆就像梵
高所画的“一夜的咖啡 馆”，我的工作室墙上就有一幅此画的翻本。然后我男朋友却在我用“稳
得新”擦洗卫生间镜子的时候叫 我嫁给他。
2）But the more time and effort I put in, the more the universe tried to thwart me.
The Greek band from Los Angels that I wanted wasn’t available. The stitching I
had requested for my cathedral veil was all wrong. My ivory silk gown was being
quarantined somewhere in Singap ore.但是我投入的时间和精力越多，万事就越和我过
不去，没有请到我想要的洛杉矶希腊乐队，我到 教堂时戴的面纱的针线活也很糟，不是我原
来要的，我订的象牙丝绸也被隔离在新加坡的某个地方。
3）I realized that a Big Day without my mother would be no day at all. Not having
my dad, who passed away three years before, to walk me down the aisle was
painful, but the thought of not having Mom there was unbearable.我认识到没有妈
妈的大喜日子不 可思议，爸爸已经在三年前去世了，不可能牵着我的手到教堂圣坛完婚，这
已经让我觉得很痛苦，但是一 想到妈妈那天也不能到教堂就让我觉得无法忍受。
4）Our baby sister, who’d been looking after Mom since Dad’s death, was gripped
by fear as the familiar sights and smells were eerily reminiscent of his final days.
After consulting with doctors, we learned that stomach surgery was Mom’s only
option. We took the first opening.小女自父亲去世以来，一直照顾着母亲，这时恐惧占
据了她的心 ，此情此景不由得想起父亲临终的日子。咨询医生后，我们得知胃部手术是妈妈
唯一的选择。医院一有床 位，我们就住进去了。
5）What’s more, caring for my mom made me realize how consummately she had
card for all of us. I’ll never forget when I went to see her in the intensive-care unit,

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just a few hours after her surgery. She was stung out with a myriad of plastic
tubes protruding from her arms, nose, and mouth. ”Liz, make sure you eat
something,”she said in a strained, raspy voice .此时，照顾母亲也让我认识到她当年照
料我们是多么地尽心，我永远也不会忘记她，她刚刚动完手术几 个小时，我到重症监护室去
看他，她躺在那里，手臂、鼻孔和嘴巴里插满了那么多的塑料管，她却吃力沙 哑地对我说道：
“利兹，一定要吃点东西。”
6）I’ve forgotten what kind of stitching is in my veil. But when I remove it from
my face. I’ll be staring at the two people I love beyond all reason: my soon-to-be
husband and the woman who showed me what’s really important.我已经忘记面纱
上的刺绣，但是当我揭开面纱的时候，我肯定会脉 脉地注视着我最爱的两个人，我的未婚夫
和让我懂得人生要义的那个女人——我的母亲。
Unit 31) In sequential testimony, each one stated that he did not believe tobacco
was a health risk and that his company had taken no steps to manipulate the
levels of nicotine in its cigarettes.每位总裁举起右手，郑重宣誓要对从事的业务实话实
说。在随后的证词 中，每个人都陈述自己不相信烟草会给健康带来风险，而且自己的公司从
未采取措施来操纵香烟中尼古丁 的含量。
2)Dr. Brandt ...amply demonstrates that Big Tobacco understood many of the
health risks of their products long before the 1964 surgeon general’s report.
布兰特博士用充足的证据证明，早在1964 年的卫生局长报告发表前，各大烟草巨头就已了解
了自家产品对健康造成的诸多风险。
3) Early in the 20th century, opposition to cigarettes took a moral rather than a
health- conscious tone, especially for women who wanted to smoke, although
even then many doctors were concerned that smoking was a health risk.
20世纪 初期，对香烟的抵制带着道德的口吻，而不是出于对健康的关注。对想抽烟的女性更
是如此。不过即使在 当时，许多医生对已经关注到吸烟会给健康造成风险。
4) And their marketing memorandums document advertising campaigns aimed
at youngsters to hook whole new generations of smokers.
在他们的营销备忘录中，记录了他们针对青少年发动的广告运动，旨在诱惑一代代的新烟民。
5)Instead, these experts focused primarily on a small group of skeptics of the
dangers of cigarettes during the 1950s, many of whom had or would eventually
have ties to the tobacco indu stry.相反，这些专家主要关注的是20世纪50年代的一小
撮对香烟危害的怀疑论者，他们中的大 部分人要么当时就与烟草业相勾结，要么最终也会同
烟草业勾结起来。
6) Last August, she concluded that the tobacco industry had engaged in a
40-year conspiracy to defraud smokers about tobacco’s health danger.
去年八月，她总 结道：烟草业策划了一场长达40年的阴谋，向烟民隐瞒烟草对健康的威海。
她的观点中引用了布兰特博 士的证词达100多次。
Unit 4 1) E-mail. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it.
电子邮件啊，我们不能靠它生活但离了它也不行。
2)But it didn’t take very long before they discovered that the most important
thing was the ability to send mail around ,which they had not anticipate at all.
然而，不就他们便发现其最重要的作用是散发邮件，这一点他们根本没有料想到。
3)Indeed ，I finally knew for sure that the digital world was viscerally potent
when I found myself in the middle if a bitter fight with my mother —on
e-mail .Again ,new medium, old story.
其实，我最终确切地知道数字世界的力量不可小觑，是在我发现我与母亲通过电子邮件争吵

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不休的时候，又一次，新的工具演绎老的故事。
4) She grasped, long before the Internet became a household world, how online
communication offered new possibilities for transcending physical limitations,
how as simple a thing as email could bring us closer to those whom we love.
早在因特网家喻户晓之前，我母亲认为如果家庭成员都有CompuServe账户，我母亲就领会到在线交流如何能为超越身体局限提供新的可能，像电子邮件这么简单的东西如何能把我们
和我们所 爱之人拉的更近。
5) With increasing frequency, this collaboration is occurring across company lines,
and often without even the spur of commercial incentives.
随着合作日趋频繁，合作本身已超越公司的界限，而且常常不受商业利诱的趋势。
Unit 51）
It is hard to escape the fact that in developed societies, despite progress, innovation and
prosperity, there is something not quite right
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人们很难摆脱这样的一种事实：在发达的社会，尽管社会进步，改革日 新月异，物质富足，
却总觉得有些事情不大对劲。
2）Politicians, obsessed with inputs and outputs, targets and controls, are
flummoxed by immeasurable concepts such as the value people place on
spending time with them families.
政治家们满脑子的 投入与产出，目标与调控，而对于诸如人们有多看重与家人共度时光之类
的，无法用数字测量的概念，他 们往往感到困惑不已。
3）Anther reason is that electoral cycles lend themselves to a culture of
short- termism, with a need for immediate, quantifiable measurements and
results.另一与之相关的原因是：一轮轮的竞选让他们置 于急功近利的氛围，期待立竿见影，
量化的测量手段与结果。
4）Today we need to be just as revolutionary to put us back on track to social
prosperity: to respond to that yearning for happiness.
今天，为了重新回到社会繁荣富强的轨道上，我们 需要如同当时一样彻底改变思想，即：积
极地响应对幸福的追求。
5）Setting the right framework means creating incentives and removing barriers
to remodel the context within which the whole of society makes choices. < br>制定适当的规章制度意味着创设激励机制并消除障碍来重构整个社会体系，这样社会的各个
层面都 能彼此做出适当选择。
6）Given our advances in terms of political freedom, economic enterprise and
cultural ingenuity, life could, and should, be more satisfying.
既然我们政治上已经更加自由、经济更加繁荣、文化更加百花齐放 ，那么我们的生活能够并
且应当更令人满意。
Unit 6
1）In today’s global economy, firms and countries no longer specialize in the production of
goods alone but increasingly in the finer tasks that make up the manufacturing, commercial and
financial processes, bringing about lower costs, better quality and more choices for consumers.
在现今的全球经济下，公司和国家不再专营商品生产，而是越来越专注于精细的 任务。这些
任务贯穿制造、销售和财务各过程，并实现降低成本、提高质量和为消费者提供更多选择的< br>目的。
2）Globalization is providing the world with not only greater economic
opportunities but also a remarkable resilience to events that in the past would
have proven highly disruptive.全 球化提供给我们这个世界的不只是更多经济发展的契
机，还大大增强了我们的抵抗力，可以轻松应对在过 去颇有颠覆力量的事件。
3）Just as with any other economic or social phenomenon, globalization faces

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risks that could challenge its growth or worse, cause its reversal.
正如其他任 何经济或社会现象一样，全球化也面临着各种风险，这些风险可能阻碍其进一步
发展，更有甚者，可能造 成大逆转。
4）The strategies to tackle a new wave of globalization reversal are no mystery
they were learned through hard experience.
究其根本，是面对暴力冲突的软弱无能和面对经济困难的错误政策。
5）Another essential component is rules-based international cooperation,
particularly when it comes to containing or dissipating geopolitical threats to
global stability.另一重要方面是以规则为基础的国际合作，特别是在抑制或消除影 响全球稳
定的地理政治威胁方面。
Unit 7
1）Her handing of the plagiarism charges against her has arguably been worse
than the charges themselves 但她对剽窃指控的处理可能比指控本身更糟糕。
2）They give universities a chance to pay back some of their debt to the societies
that nurture them.他们也使大学得以回报社会对它们的滋养。
3）Academic have a habit of crawling along the frontiers of knowledge with a
magnifying glass. Blind to the wide vistas opening up before them, and often
reducing the most engaging subjects to tedious debates about methodology.
学者们总是手持放大镜沿着研究前沿匍匐 前行，而对前方的广阔天地熟视无睹，经常将最有
价值的课题演变为方法论的无味争吵。
4）The same medium machine that turned Mr. Ambrose and Ms. Goodwin into
superstars is now trashing their reputations.
媒体曾将安布罗斯和古德温推向事业顶峰，如今却正让他们名声扫地。
5）The fact that America’s bestseller lists features works written by academic
authorities amongst the ghost-written memoirs and celebrity suck-up jobs should
be cause for rejoicing. 由枪手代劳的自传和极尽谄媚之辞 的作品遍地都是，而美国畅销
书的排行榜更青睐名家们的专著。这一事实也足以让我们欣慰。
6）Stephen Ambrose was arguably America’s favorite historian ,a man who wrote
bestsellers faster than most people read them.
斯蒂芬•安布罗斯是美国非常得宠的历史学家。他创作畅销小说速度飞快，让读者目不暇接。
Unit 8
1）No human being could fail to be deeply moved by such a tribute as this.
这样的殊荣，没有人不为之动容。
2）they are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to
regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith to create hope when
hope become forlorn. 它们是你们力量的源泉，在即将灰心时鼓起勇气，在信心动摇时重
建信念，在几乎绝望时创造希望。
3）They give you a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination ,a vigor of
emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life ,a temperamental predominance
of courage over love of ease.它们赋予你坚强的意志，想象的品质，旺盛的情感，生命源
泉的 鲜活力：’在气质上果敢压过怯懦，渴望冒险胜于贪图安逸。
4）And 20years after ,on the other side of globe ,again those boiling suns of
relentless heat, those torrential rains of devastating storms the loneliness and
utter desolation of jungle trails the bitterness of long separation from those they

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loved and ch erished.20年后，在地球的另一端，历史又重演，炙热阳光下的无情暴晒，
肆虐风暴中的倾盆 大雨，渺无人烟的丛林中的羊肠小道，与爱人、亲人长期离别的痛楚；
5）Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government.
让平民百姓去辩论国家在施政过程中的功过是非。
6）My days of old have vanished ,tone and tint.生命的黄昏已经降临，昔日的光彩早
已消逝。



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