Long sentences
1.This is no class war, but a war in which the whole British Empire and Commonwealth of
Nations is engaged, without distinction of race, creed, or party.(这不是一场阶级之间的战争,而是一场不分种族,不分信仰,不分党派,整个大英帝国及英联邦全体成员国无不参加的战争。
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2. 2. In 1970,he was placed under house arrest when he refused to use massive force in
suppressing worker riots on the seacoast.(1970年他因拒绝使用武力大规模镇压沿海城市的工人骚乱而被软禁。
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3.Human beings have distinguished themselves from other animals, and in doing so
ensured their survival, by the ability to observe and understand their environment and then either to adapt to that environment or to control and adapt it to their own needs.(人类把自己和其他动物区别开来,与此同时人类还具有观察和了解周围环境的能力。
他们要么适应环境,要么控制环境,或根据自身的需要改造环境,人类就这样一代代地生存下来。
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4.Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite,
for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. (青春气贯长虹,勇锐盖过怯弱,进取压倒苟安。
如此锐气,二十后生而有之,六旬男子则更多见。
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5.God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death.
Neither shall there be sorrow or dying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former world has passed away.
上帝擦去他们所有的眼泪.死亡不再有,也不再有悲伤和生死离别,不再有痛苦,因往事已矣。
Short Sentences
1.Boy will be boys! 本性难移
2.I can't help it! 情不自禁!
3.I have no choice! 我别无选择!
4.So far, so good. 过得去。
5.After you. 您先。
6.Time is money. 时间就是金钱。
Antithesis(对偶)
1.United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative
ventures.
2.Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
split asunder.
3. 2.If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are
rich.
4.For many are called, but little are chosen.
5. A world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.
6.Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.
Parallelism
1.Singing a song or writing a poem is joyous. (快乐的)
2.Studies serve for delight for ornament, and for ability.
(培根)读书足以怡情,足以博彩,足以长才。
3.Bob is a hard hitter ,a sure fielder and swift runner. 鲍勃是个
凶猛的击球手,可靠的外长员,神速的跑垒者。
4.But the houses were cold, closed, unfriendly… 然而那些房子却冷漠无情,门窗紧闭,
很不友好……
5..This is the man who has stirred three hundred million people to revolt ,who has
shaken the foundations of the British Empire , and who has introduced into human politics the strongest religious impetus of the last two thousand years. 这就是那个人,他曾经鼓动三亿人民起来造反,动摇大英帝国的根基,并把过去两千年最强大的宗教势力引进人类的政治活动。
Chiasmus and Antimetabole
❝Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
❝John F. Kennedy
❝Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
❝John F. Kennedy
❝You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
❝The Road
❝学而不思则罔,死而不学则殆。
❝《论语》
❝君使臣以礼,臣事君以忠。
❝《论语》。