Translation (Chinese to English ) Unit 1 等我赶到顶楼会议室时，他们已经离开了。（by the time） (By the time I got to the meeting room on the top floor, they had already left.) 这一节目迎合大众的许多不同的兴趣和品味。(cater) (This programme caters for many different types of interest and taste among the public.) 这首老歌使人想起了过去那些美好的日子。(bring back) (The old song has brought back memories of those good old days.) 他们比预期提前一个星期完成了这项工程。(expect) (They finished the project one week earlier than they had expected to.) 最后陪审团终于确信，这个中年男子与这件谋杀案无关。(convincing) (At last the jury was convinced that the middle-aged man had nothing to do with the murder.) 这是我第三次到上海来，我发现了上海已呈现出一副新的面貌。(… the third time…) (This is the third time I have been in Shanghai, and I’ve noticed that Shanghai has taken on a new look.) unit 2 7. ——你知道哪个队赢了那场足球比赛吗？(use a nominal clause) ——我一点都不知道。你可以去问问小李。他是球队队员。(idea) (—Do you know which team won the football match? —I have no idea. You may ask Xiao Li. He is a member of the team./ He is on the team.) 8. 说这部电影样样都好或是一无是处，都是不太合适的。(either…or…) (It is not proper to regard this film either as totally good or as completely bad.) 9. 我在想是否应该把这次考试不及格的事告诉父母。(wonder) (I wonder if I should tell my parents that I failed in the examination.) 10. 当然，他是表现得很差，但毕竟他只有六岁。(after all) (Of course, he behaved dreadfully, but after all, he is only six years old.) 11. 一看见老板，他就全身发抖，好象见到了鬼一样。(as if) (The moment he saw his boss, he trembled as if he had seen a ghost.) 我认为即使我们每一分钱都节省下来，我们也买不起这幢房子。(afford) (I don’t think we can afford the house, even if we save every penny we have.) unit 3 有没有可能说服他戒烟呢？(possible) ( Is it possible to persuade him to give up smoking?) 如果你来电话时我不在，请给我的秘书留个口信。(available) (If I am not available when you call me, please leave a message with my secretary.) 这本书几乎涉及了关于语言教学的所有重要论题。(cover) (This book covers nearly all the important topics on language teaching.) 从我们已收集的信息来判断，这家公司极可能在下星期宣布破产(declare bankruptcy)。(judge from) (Judging from the information we have gathered, this company is very likely to declare bankruptcy in the following week.) 她把一生都献给了无家可归的孩子。(devote) (She devoted her whole life to homeless children.) 只有高级官员才能接触到这些机密档案。(access) (Only high-ranking officials have access to these confidential files.) unit 4 19. —我是否一定得参加秋季运动会?(have to) —不是一定得去, 但我想最好还是参加。(had better) (—Do I have to take part in the Autumn Sports Meet? —No, you don’. But I think you’d better take part in it.) 如果我在大学里努力学习，那么四年后我将能够自如地使用英语.(be able to) ( If I study hard in college, I’ll be able to use English freely in four years.) 左邻右舍每一个人都在试图帮助这个可怜的小女孩，只是方式不同而已。(in different ways) (Everyone in the neighbourhood is trying to give their help to the poor little girl, but in different ways.) 会议主席提议休会(adjourn)一星期，这样每一个人都能有更多的时间，为讨论作好充分的准备。(suggest) (The chairman of the meeting suggested adjourning the meeting for a week so that everyone could have some more time to get fully prepared for the discussion.) 他不得不将所有的证券(securities)兑换成现钞来还债。(convert) (He had to convert all his securities to cash to pay his debt.) 重要的是你做了什么，而不是你说了什么。(count) (It is what you did, not what you said, that counts.) unit 5 要分辨人工养殖的(cultured)珍珠和自然的(genuine)珍珠需要敏锐的眼力。(distinguish) (It took a sharp eye to distinguish cultured pearls from genuine pearls.) 对于一个在战争中经历了这么多苦难的人来说，这件事真是小事一桩。(go through) (To a man who has gone through so many hardships during the war, this was really a small matter.) 那是我第一次与雇主发生这么大的纠葛。(trouble) (That was the first time I had had serious trouble with an employer.) 那个新来的人问做在他身边的那个中年男子是否很熟悉这个地方。(if) (The newcomer asked the middle-aged man sitting next to him if he knew the place very well.) 这次调查中发现的新证据对他相当不利。(emerge) (The new evidence which emerged from this investigation was quite unfavorable to him.) 如果必要的话，他会努力劝说父亲卖了这幢房子以抵债。(Should …) (Should it be necessary, he would try to persuade his father to sell this house to pay the debt.) unit 6 这个年轻人的粗心使他陷入了严重的麻烦之中。(involve) (This young man’s carelessness involved him in serious trouble.) 据我所知，这么可怕的事情从未在我们镇上发生过。(as far as) (As far as I know, such a terrible thing has never happened in our town before.) 他为人随和，兴趣广泛，这使他结交了许多朋友。(variety) (He is easy-going and has a variety of interests, which has enabled him to make a lot of friends.) 这个汤是女主人的拿手菜（speciality），是用番茄、肉和豌豆做成的。(consist of ) (This soup, which is the hostess’s speciality, consists of tomatoes, meat and peas.) 早在九世纪时，印刷术就已被中国人所了解。 (Printing was known to the Chinese as early as the 9th century.) 你的判断应建立在你的观察所见之上，而不是你的道听途说。 (You should base your judgment on your own observation rather than on gossip.) unit 7 他骑车花了两个小时才到达那个新建的博物馆。(take) (It took him two hours to get to the newly-built museum by bike.) 这个女孩对她的新娃娃如此着迷，她日日夜夜都抱着她。(obsess) (The girl was so obsessed with her new doll that she held it day and night.) 他这么粗心，竟然没告诉我们什么时候去机场接他。(when+ infinitive phrase) (He was so careless that he didn’t even tell us when to meet him at the airport.) 看见火车轰隆隆地向他开去，他即刻做出的反应就是要跳离铁轨，但他的双脚却不听使唤。(refuse) (When he saw the train roaring towards him, hiss immediate response was to jump off the rail, but his legs refused to move.) 他那么聪明，而且又用功，毫无疑问，他将来会成功的。(doubt) (He is so clever and he works so hard. No doubt he will be successful in the future.) 当着两个证人的面，他在遗嘱上签上了自己的名字。(presence) (He signed his name on his will in the presence of two witness.) Unit 8 警察想知道那个刚才给她打电话的男人是不是他们正在搜寻的嫌疑犯(suspect)。(use two relative clauses) (The police wanted to find out whether the man who telephoned her just now was the suspect they were after.) 上海的交通问题相当严重，世界上的其它大城市也都这样。(true of) (Traffic in Shanghai is quite a serious problem. The same is true of other big cities in the world.) 今年我们有这么多的工作要做，我们不得不取消假期了。(do without) (We have so much work to do this year that we’ll have to do without a holiday.) 他不给学生一个发言的机会。(deny) (He denied his students a chance to speak.) 日语和汉语的语法在许多方面是不同的。(differ) (Chinese grammar differs from Japanese grammar in many aspects.) 有些学生在设法消磨时间，而另一些学生却总是觉得时间紧迫。(while) (Some students are trying to kill time while others feel pressed for time.) unit 9 如果这个伟大的作曲家现在还活着，他必将会创作出更多美妙的作品。(conditional sentence) （If the great composer were still alive, he would surely compose many more wonderful works.） 如果你在这座城市里迷了路，你最好向警察求助。(conditional sentence) (If you lose your way in the city, you’d better ask the police for help.) 他过于自信了。事实上，他还没有他所自认为的一半那样能干。(as… as) (He is overconfident. Actually he is not half as capable as he thinks of himself.) 作为外国人，他无法与当地人进行交流。(no way) (Being a foreigner, he had no way of communicating with the local people.) 使用新的教学方法后，教师们发现学生在课堂上更积极(motivated)主动了。(with the use of) (With the use of the new teaching method, teachers have found that students have become more motivated and active in class.) 他真够幸运，能够及时赶到车站，坐上了回家的末班车。(adjective + enough) (He was lucky enough to get to the bus stop on time to catch the last bus home.) unit 10 对不起，我今晚不能来。我将去机场接一位来自加拿大的教授。(use future progressive tense) ( I’m sorry I can’t come tonight. I’ll be meeting a professor from Canada at the airport.) 到下星期六，他将已经完成了他的工作回国了。(by) (By next Saturday he will have finished his work and returned to his own country.) 她已经三个多月没有收到儿子的来信了，她非常担心他的安全。(concern) (Since she hasn’t received any letter from her son for over three months, she is deeply concerned about his safety.) 我们都认为他是这一地段最风趣幽默的人。(think of) (We all thing of him as the most interesting and humorous person in the neighbourhood.) 她的演唱极大地促进了晚会的成功。(contribute to) (Her singing contributed greatly to the success of the party.) unit 11 每个人都很清楚，他不愿意让那个新来的人与他和用他的办公室。(It…that…) (It was plain to everyone that he was unwilling to share his office with the newcomer.) 当我们有客人时，那间多余赌东道房间就显得非常有用了。(prove) (The extra room proved very useful when we had visitors.) 女主人非常的细心周到，我们一到，她就提供给我们一切所需物品。(provide) (The hostess was so considerate that we were provided with everything we needed the moment we arrived.) 这个小男孩通过嫌疑犯(suspect)脸上的伤疤而将他从人群中认了出来。(identify) (The boy identified the suspect among the crowd by the scar on his face.) 正如他的朋友们一致公认的，史密斯先生特别仁慈慷慨。(as) (Mr. Smith is unusually kind and generous, as all his friends agree.) 没有人能确切地说出世界是何时开始存在的。(existence) (No one can tell for sure when the world came into existence.) unit 12 你听说了吗？星期五下午将举行一场辩论。(be going to) (Have you heard that a debate is going to be held on Friday afternoon?) 科学领域的发现常常被运用到工业生产上去。(apply) (Scientific discoveries are often applied to industrial production.) 我本来可能忘了那事，多亏他的提醒，这样省了我好多麻烦。(otherwise) (He reminded me of what I might otherwise have forgotten and thus saved me a lot of trouble.) 要参军的话必须符合一定的体格上的标准。(meet) (To join the army, one must meet certain physical standards.) 杰出的语言学家史密斯教授的讲座使学生们受益匪浅。(benefit) (Students benefited a lot from the lecture given by Professor Smith, an outstanding linguist) unit 13 每当他遇到经济困难时，他总是向父母求助。(run into) (Whenever he runs into financial difficulties, he turns to his parents for help.) 他不顾妻子的劝阻(dissuasion)，冲出家们与邻居争吵了起来。(Despite) (Despite his wife’s dissuasion, he dashed out of the house to quarrel with a neighbour.) 小孩子们应该花更多的时间在户外玩，而不是在室内看电视。(instead of) (Young children should spend more time playing outdoors instead of watching TV indoors.) 这份新工作使她能够定时地每月寄500元回家以养家糊口。(enable) (Her new job enabled her to send home regularly five hundred yuan a month to maintain the family.) 他宁愿听别人说话，而不愿自己多说。(would rather) (He would rather listen to others than talk himself.) unit 14 他们门口的狗是如此的凶猛，以至于没有人敢走近他们的屋子。(so…that) (The dog at their gate was so fierce that no one dared to go near their house.) 尽管他很年轻，他竟通晓七种语言。(as…as ) (Young as he is, he knows as many as seven languages.) 一些学生在教室里忙于准备考试，而另一些仍在操场上玩。(while) (Some students are busy preparing for the exam in the classroom, while others are still playing in the playground.) 这些措施对于解决交通问题是很有帮助的。(go a long way) (These measures go a long way towards solving the traffic problem. 我认为这项提议很可能在明天的会议上遭到否决(veto)。(likely) (I think it highly likely that this proposal will be vetoed at the meeting tomorrow.) unit 15 这一事故并不是在星期一下午三点发生的，而是在星期三下午四点。（ It…that…,but…） (It wasn’t at three on Monday afternoon that this accident happened, but at four on Wednesday afternoon.) 我们打算在本星期五把这项工作完成，除非有意料之外的事情发生。(unless) (We are going to finish the task this Friday unless something unexpected happens.) 如果我的讲话中有什么错误，请随时打断并纠正我。(put… right) (If there is anything wrong in my talk, please don’t hesitate to stop me and put me right) 除了折磨和威胁，他们再没有其它的办法让这名青年说出真相。(means) (They had no other means of getting the truth out of the young man but by torturing and threatening.) 他们试图找出这些问题的答案的努力白费了。(attempt) (They failed in their attempt to find the answers to these questions.) unit 16 由于缺钱，他们暂缓修理屋顶，尽管它漏得很厉害。(delay) (For lack of money, they delayed repairing the roof although it leaked badly.) 当然他今天早上对你是太严厉了，但是他毕竟是你的父亲呀。(after all) (Of course he was too severe on you this morning, but after all, he is your father.) 他老是上班迟到，结果他被解聘(lay off)了。(as a result) (He was always late for work, as a result, he was laid off.) 让我们再来谈谈刚才我说过的出生率问题。(go back to ) (Let’s go back to what I said just now about birth rate.) 把房间里塞满了太多的家具是不明智的。(to crowd) (It isn’t wise to crowd the room with too much furniture.) unit 17 上个月全家出去度假时，是由琳达来料理家务的。（ It…who） (It was Linda who kept house when the family were away on holiday last month.) 伦敦塔是世界上具有历史意义的建筑之一，明天将有一个关于它的讲座。(about which…) (The Tower of London, about which a lecture is going to be given tomorrow, is one of the world’s historic buildings.) 真可惜，今天风太大了，去写生不太合适。(too…for) (It’s a pity that the wind is too strong today for sketching.) 出席这个会议对你我都是很重要的。(as well as) (It is important for you as well as for me to be present at the meeting.) 尽管他与这件谋杀案毫不相关，他还是被警察逮捕了。(have… to do with) (Though he had nothing to do with the murder, he was arrested by the police.) unit 18 屋子着火那天晚上，他和他妻子恰巧外出了。(It happened…) (It happened that he was out with his wife the night when the house caught fire.) 最后证实了，那个官员确实从要求帮忙的人那里收了贿赂。(use “do” for emphasis) (It was proved at last that the official did take bribes from people who wanted favours in return. 直到看了你的信，我才逐渐意识到我冤枉了你。(It was not until…) (It was not until I had read your letter that I came to realize that I had done you wrong.) 如果你们当时采纳了他的建议，你们就能按时完成这项工程了。(if) (If you had followed his advice, you could have finished the project in time.) 如果他当时听了我的话，他现在就不会遇到这种麻烦了。(if) (If he had listened to me, he would not be in such trouble now.)