公共英语三级学习笔记Unit2People

　　Phrases and Sentence:

　　1、 I do n't ever want to have the effect on a person that this person had on me, where I was just blown away by disappointment. It took a few years to get over it.

　　PS：请高手重点解析ever的意思。

　　==我甚至从未想过要给给我留下印象的人留下印象，在这一点上我感到十分失望。我用了许多年才克服这个毛病。

　　ever,在否定句中起加强语气的作用，not ever从未。

　　2、One thing I do is work with Make-A-wish. If an ill child's one wish to see a celebrity and he picks me, then I make time to see him. But I have to be very careful with these kids, because if you get too attached, you're just setting yourself up for loss.

　　PS：请高手重点解析 because if you get too attached, you're just setting yourself up for loss.

　　的意思。

　　==我做的一件事就是带着许愿做事。如果一个病了的孩子的愿望是想看一个名人并且他选择的是我，然后我抽出时间去看望他。但是我必须非常小心的跟这些孩子相处，因为如果你太依恋，你会感到不舍。

　　because if you get too attached, you're just setting yourself up for loss.因为如果你太依恋，你会感到不舍。

　　其中attch是：使喜爱，使依恋：因情感因素，如爱戴或忠诚使联结。

　　set oneself up for loss是引起自己处于受损失或失去的状态。

　　3、Thank you for giving me the inspiration to stick around, at age 50, you have to feel you're contributing to something.

　　PS：请高手重点解析 you have to feel you're contributing to something.

　　==谢谢你给我关于等待的启示，在50岁时，你必须感到你正在做贡献。

　　you have to fell you're contributing to something这句话的意思就是：在50岁时，你必须感到你正在对某些事情做贡献。

　　4、We stayed at the Ritz-Carlton and just had a blast. Or I'll give everybody a ride in the Ultra light-it's a flying kite.

　　PS：请高手重点解析ride在这里怎么翻译。

　　==我们待在Ritz-Carlton并开了个狂欢会。否则我会给每个人乘坐一下超轻型－－－一个飞行的风筝。

　　ride就是乘坐。

　　5、One day I'll have my own barbecue. In other words, every generation gets to improve on the dreams of the last generation.

　　PS：请高手重点解析这段话的真正含义。

　　==有朝一日，我将拥有自己的烤肉(比喻:实现自己的梦想)。换句话说，每代人必须在他上代人的梦想上有所提高。 6、But it came with a price because when he was drinking, we had jobs and money. When he quit, we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.

　　PS：请高手重点解析we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor.这句话的真正含义。

　　==但是这有一定的代价：因为当他饮酒的时候，我们有工作和工钱。当他戒酒了，我们就只有借酒消愁穷困潦倒了。

　　we traded alcoholism for being dirt-poor：其中的trade sth. for sth.以...和...交易,以酗酒和穷困潦倒交易。

　　7、It got so bad that he either quit or got fired.

　　PS：请高手重点解析sothat在此句中的意义。

　　==一般so...that是如此...以至于...的意思，这里上下句不是因果关系: 变得糟糕的是，他既没有辞职也没有被解雇。后半句that he either quit or got fired是so bad的补充状语从句，补充说明so bad的细节，不要太拘泥语法结构，更应该注重的是：1.英语语序特征，2.英语国家的人的逻辑思维特征。

　　8、He was a tool pusher essentially, sold drill bits to oil-drilling companies.

　　PS：翻译这句话。

　　==他其实就是一个工具推销者，卖钻头给开采石油的公司。

　　9、I never think that I m doing eight-minute cures on television. But I think that 50 percent of the solution to any problem lies in defining it first. I can be an emotional compass that points them down the path.

　　PS：请高手重点解析cures与lies in的意思，另外 pointdown是词组吗？

　　==我从未想过我在用电视做一个8分钟的治疗。但是我认为任何问题50％的解决方法在于先界定它。我可能是沿着路径指向它们的情感罗盘(指南针)。

　　cure：名词，治疗。point和后面的down可以认为没有关系，这里不是词组，down这里的意思是沿着，相当于along。down the path是介宾结构词组，在句中作points them的补充状语。

　　建议：

　　不要从语法分析着手来学习英语，因为这样效果很差。最好是提高阅读量，让一切语法变为理所当然的事情，让记忆单词成为阅读时的副产品。

　　Passage：

　　If a computer were to design the perfect U.N. Secretary-General, he or she would look something like this: African born; European and American educated, with decades of service in the U.N. system; married to a European; and possessing a quiet charisma and calm authority as chaos arises.

　　That the U.N. in 1996 found such a person to restore its sense of direction and purpose was a near miracle. But out of the U.N.'s failures in Bosnia , Somalia and Rwanda came Kopi Annan, the career international civil servant who had participated in these disasters yet somehow survived and learned from them.

　　Today Annan is in the middle of his second term. His task is not finished, and the U.N. is still far from what it should be. But Annan has tested the limits of the job, accumulating more authority-one cannot use the word power, given the constraints the U.N. system places on him-than any of his predecessors.

　　His complex relationship with the U.S. government is little understood. When Annan takes positions in public that are displeasing to the bush administration, it unleashes its attack dogs. Yet when administration officials found their policies in Iraq floundering, they asked the U.N. for help. Some observers told Annan that he should responsibility was to the cause of stabilizing Iraq . He began to work toward the decisive date of June 30, when the u.s. will hand over control to Iraqi authorities and an uncertain situation will prevail determined by factors way beyond his, or anyone else's, ability to control. But it is Annan's destiny to be handed the very worst problems after they have been unsuccessfully addressed by others. Anyone who knows him knows he wades into such problems with his usual blend of courage, self-control, modesty and optimism.

　　Translation Reference：

　　如果让电脑来设计一个完美的联合国秘书长，他/她应该是这样的：出生在非洲；在欧洲和美国接受教育；在联合国工作十年以上；配偶是欧洲人；出现混乱局面时能保持冷静、富有领导魅力的权威人士。

　　1996年联合国找到了这样一个人来恢复它的方向感和目的性，这简直就是个奇迹。联合国在波斯尼亚、索马里和卢旺达的行动失败后，科菲.安南却脱颖而出。身为国际公务员的他对参与了这一系列的空难性行动，幸存下来，并且从中学到很多东西。

　　现在，安南的第二任期已过一半。然而，他的任务还没有圆满完成，联合国离其理想状态还很远。但安南已经体验到了他这份工作的局限性因为联合国体制对他的限制，他不能利用言语力量，然而他却比他的前任们积累了更多的权威性。

　　他与美国政府的复杂关系鲜为人知，当安南在公众面前的表现不能取悦布什政府的时候，美国就会攻击他。反过来，当美国政府官员发现他们的政策在伊拉克举步维艰的时候，他们却向联合国寻求帮助。有些观察家建议安南不要帮助美国摆脱困境，但是安南明白，自己最大责任是促成伊拉克局势的稳定。他开始朝6月30号这个决定性的日子努力，美国将会在这天向伊拉克政府移交政权，这将千万动荡局面。不管是安南还是其他任何人，在伊拉克问题上的成功与否都不会取决于他个人的控制能力。但是，安南注定要处理这些棘手的问题，而这些问题是由别人的失败造成的。所有熟悉安南的人都知道他将带着他一贯的勇气、自我控制能力、谦恭和乐观来介入这一难题。