英语复习Unit 1Translation1.背离传统需要很大的勇气（departure，enormous）1)It takes an enormous（巨大的）amount of courage to make a departure（背离）from the tradition.2.tom过去很腼腆，但这次却非常勇敢的能在大庭广众面前表演了。
（performance,bold）2) Tom used to be very shy, but this time he was bold (勇敢的)enough to give a performance（表演）in front of a large audience.3.很多教育家认为从小培养孩子的创新精神是很可取的（creative,desirable）3) Many educators think it desirable(可取的) to foster（培养）the creative spirit in the child at an early age.4.假设那幅画的确是名作，你觉得值得购买吗？（worthwhile）4) Assuming (that) this painting really is a masterpiece(名作), do you think it’s worthwhile to buy/ purchase it?5.如果这些在数据统计上是站的住脚的，那他将会帮助我们认识正在调查的问题（throw light on,investigate,valid）5) If the data is statistically(统计上的)valid（有效的）, it will throw light on（提供线索）the problem we are investigating（调查）.To improve our English, it is critical（关键的，严重的，极重要的）to do more reading, writing, listening and speaking. Besides, learning by heart as many well-written essays（随笔）as possible is also very important. Without an enormous （巨大的）store of good English writing in your head you cannot express yourself freely in English. It is also helpful to summarize（总结，概述）our experience as we go along, for in so doing（因为这样做）, we can figure out which way of learning is more effective and will produce the most desirable（可取的）result. As long as we keep working hard on it, we will in due course（到一定的时候，没过多久）accomplish the task of mastering English.Unit 2该公司否认其捐款有商业目的（deny，commercial）1)The company denied（否认）that its donations had a commercial（商业的）purpose.每当他生气的时候，他说话就有一点结巴（stammer）2)Whenever he was angry, he would begin to stammer （结巴）slightly（一点点的）.教育是我们家庭最看重的传统，这就是为什么父母从不带我到昂贵的饭店吃饭，却送我到最好的私立学校上学。
（Cherish）3)Education is the most cherished （看重的）tradition in our family. That’s why my parents never took me to dinner at expensive restaurants, but sent me to the best private school.手术康复不久后，他失业了，因此经历了人生的又一个困难阶段（shortly after，go through）4) Shortly after(不久后) he recovered from the surgery（手术室）, he lost his job and thus had to go through（经历）another difficult phase of his life.与我们的富裕邻居相比，我们的父母就相当穷了，但是他们总是努力满足我们最起码的需求。
（affluent,minimal）5) In contrast to our affluent(富裕的) neighbors, my parents are rather poor, but they have always tried hard to meet（满足）our minimal（最起码的）needs.With more and more donations coming in, our university will be much better off financially（财政上）next year. We will thus be able to focus on the most important task that we, educators, must take on（带上）: to encourage students to attain （得到）their scholarly（学术）/academic goals, to train them to be dependable and responsible individuals（个人）, to prepare them for the life ahead（为未来的生活）, and to guide them in their pursuit（追求）of spiritual（精神的）as well as material satisfaction（物质上的满足）.Unit 4研究表明，笑能给人带来许多身体上的好处。
（laughter）1)Research shows that laughter can bring a lot of health benefits.互联网连接速度慢真让人心烦（connection，annoy）2)A slow Internet connection speed is really annoying（烦人的）.法律规定，帮助他人自杀是犯罪。
（suicide,crime）3)As the law stands（规定）, helping someone commit suicide (自杀)is a crime.玛丽在她的报告中试图从一个完全不同的角度来解释这些数据。
（interpret,angle,data）4)In her report, Mary tries to interpret (解释)the data froma completely different angle（角度）.苏是一个很有天分的女孩，她那惊人的记忆力使他在同班同学中显得格外突出（of great talent,set apart）5) Sue is a girl of great talent(很有天分). Her amazing memory sets her apart from（使他突出）her classmates.Perhaps you envy（羡慕）me for being able to work from home on the computer. I agree that the Internet has made my job a lot easier. I can write, submit and edit（编辑）articles via（通过）email, chat with my colleagues on line and discuss work with my boss. With a click （点击）of the mouse, I can get all the data I need and keep up（保持）with the latest（最新的）news. But then, communicating through the Net can be frustrating（令人沮丧的）at times （有时）. The system may crash（崩溃）. Worse still（更糟糕的是）, without the emotional cues（只有）offace-to-face communication, the typed words sometimes seem difficult to interpret（解释）.最后一句话的意思：没有只有面对面才能产生的那种感情，机械的语言有时候也不能表达。
Unit 5是工人和主管人员的创造力和敬业精神将这个公司变成了一个盈利的企业。
（it is ...that,dedication）It is the creativity and dedication(敬业精神) of the workers and executives （主管人员）that turned the company into a profitable（盈利的）business.食品和医药的价格在过去三个月里急速增长（soar）The prices of food and medicine have soared （增长）in the past three months.我们打算重新粉刷这幢办公大楼的上面几层楼（upper）We plan to repaint the upper（上面的）floors of the office building.他的成功表明流行与艺术价值有时候是一致的（coincide）His success shows that popularity and artistic merit (价值)sometimes coincide（一致的）.我不愿看见我敬爱的祖母躺在医院的床上痛苦的呻吟（groan）I don’t want to see my beloved（敬爱的）grandmother lying in a hospital bed and groaning（呻吟）painfully（痛苦的）.Numerous(众多的) facts bear out（证实）the argument/statement/claim（说法）that in order to recover speedily（很快的）from negative emotion,you should allow yourself to cry.You needn’t/don’t have to be ashamed of crying（为哭泣而感到羞愧）.Anxiety and sorrow（悲伤）can flow out of （流出来）the body along with（随着）tears.Considering the case of/Take Donna,her son unfortunately died in a car accident.The intensity（强度）of the blow made her unable to cry.She said,”It was not until two weeks later that I began to cry.And then I felt as if a big stone had been lifted from my shoulders.It was the tears that brought me back to earth and helped me survive the crisis（危机）.”Unit 6他这人话不多，但要说玩电脑那他就太机灵了，同学们都不是他的对手。