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发布时间：2023-11-04 06:54:09
第一单元（A Kind of Sermon）
1、 It is probably easier for teachers than for students to appreciate the reasons why learning English seems to become increasingly difficult once the basic structures and patterns of the language have been understood. 也许老师比学生更容易理解，为什么学生在掌握了英语基本结构和句型后英语学习反而变得越来越困难了。
2、 It may not seem much consolation to point out that the teacher, too, becomes frustrated when his efforts appear to produce less obvious results. 学生们并不感到多少安慰，在知道老师在其努力所产生的效果似乎不及一开始明显也会灰心丧气。
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He sees them struggling because the language they thought they knew now appears to consist of a bewildering variety of idioms, clichéd and accepted phrases with different meanings in different contexts. 他看到学生们在艰难地努力着，因为他们以前认为已经认识的语言现在似乎充满了令人头昏眼花的成语，陈旧用语以及在不同上下文中有不同含义的惯用词组。
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Defining the problem is easier than providing the solution. One can suggest that students should spend two or three years in an English-speaking country, which amounts to washing one's hands of them. Few students have the time or the money to do that. It is often said that wide reading is the time or the money to do that. It is often said that wide reading is the best alternative course of action but even here it is necessary to make some kind of selection. It is no use telling students to go to the library and pick up the first book they come across. My own advice to them would be: "read what you can understand without having to look up words in a dictionary (but not what you can understand at a glance; read what interests you; read what you have time for (magazines and newspapers rather than novels unless you can read the whole novel in a week or so; read the English written today, not 200 years ago; read as much as you can and try to remember the way it was written rather than individual words that puzzled you." And instead of "read", I could just as well say "listen to." 界定问题易于找出答案。你可建议学生去讲英语的国家住两三年，这等于撒手不管他们。没有几个学生陪得起时间花得起钱。常言道：广泛阅读是最佳替代办法，但读书也应有所选择。让学生走进图书馆随便拿起他们遇到的第一本书就读，这是无用的。我会这样劝他们；读无需查字典就懂的书（但并非过眼即懂的书），读你感兴趣的书； 读时间允许的书（杂志和报纸，而不是长篇小说，除非你能在一周左右读完它）；读现在写的文章，而不是二百年前的文章；读得尽量多一些，并尽量记住写作方法，而不要拘泥于令你困惑的个别单词。并且，代之以读文章，你应该听文章。 1 No haphazard hit-or-miss methods will do. 随意安排的、漫无目的计划是不起作用的。
2 It has long since been satisfactorily established that a high executive does not have a large vocabulary merely because of the opportunities of his
position. 长期以来人们就有呈个想当然的看法：高级行政管理人员不会有很大的词汇量，因为处不那个位置上，
3 A command of English will not only improve the. processes of your mind. It will give you assurance; build your self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. 掌握英语不仅可以改进偿的思维方式，它还给你信心，令你自信，带给你鲜明的个性，使你更受欢迎。
4 Words are explosive. Phrases are packed with TNT.A simple word can destroy a friendship, land a large order. 单词是具有破坏性的。词组中则充斥着火药。一个简简单单的词可以摧垮一份友谊，可以使 一大批订货泡汤。
5 There are entertaining verbal calisthenics here, colorful facts about language, and many excursions among the words that keep our speech the rich, flexible, lively means of communication that it is. 书中编排有游戏型的动词健美操，介绍了形形色色的语言客观存在，还谈到了词语间的游离现象，正是它们丰富了我们的言语，使之富于变化，并形成了现在这样一个富有生气的交际工具。
第二单元（The Fifth Freedom）
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The second opportunity we can give our boys and girls is the right to failure. "Freedom is not only a privilege, it is a test," writes De Nouy. What kind of a test is it, what kind of freedom where no one can fail? The day is past when the United States can afford to give high school diplomas to all who sit through four years of instruction, regardless of whether any visible results can be discerned. We live in a narrowed world where we must be alert, awake to realism; and realism demands a standard which either must be met or result in failure. These are hard words, but they are brutally true. If we deprive our children of the right to fail we deprive them of their knowledge of the world as it is. 我们可以给我们的男孩女孩们的第二个机会乃是有权失败。 “自由不仅仅是一种特权，而且也是一种考验，”德·纽伊写道。一个不允许失败的考验是一种什么样的考验呢？这种自由又将是什么自由呢：美国能为每一位来听上四年高中课程的学生,发张高中文凭。但不管是否学到东西，这个时代已一去不复返了。我们生活在一个变得越来越小的世界里，我们必须知晓现实主义，并对其保持警觉；而现实主义所要求的标准应是一种要么必须达到，要么达不到的标准。这种说法过于严酷，但也句句是实。如果剥夺了我们的孩子失败的权力，也就是剥夺了他们认识真实世界的权力。 1 我认为向他求助是不现实的。事实上，他自己也需要帮助。
I don't thank it's realistic to turn to him for help.As a matter of fact,he himself is in need of help. 2 越来越多的人正在意识到与空气污染作斗争的迫切需要。
More and more people are being awakend to the urgent need of combating with air
