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听前提示

一、三遍英文，一遍中文，再一遍英文。

二、从听懂的词入手，理解句子含义。

三、根据中英文意思，听不懂的多听几遍。

词汇提示

1.astrology 占星术

2.windmill 风车

原文

31.

She told him that she believed in astrology.

她告诉他说，自己相信占星术。

32.

An old man was resting in the shade of the tree.

一个老人在树荫下休息。

33.

You have to study hard to catch up with your class.

你必须用功读书赶上同学。

34.

The firm went under due to lack of capital.

公司由于缺乏资金倒闭了。

35.

As more paper money came into use, the value fell.

当更多的纸币投入使用，纸币就贬值了。

36.

I had never seen a windmill until visited the Netherlands.

在我去荷兰之前，我从没见过风车。

37.

I worked in a post office during the summer vacation.

暑假期间，我在邮局工作。

38.

Do you have any idea who would do this?

你觉得这事儿是谁干的?

39.

I had no choice but to accept the offer.

除了接受报价，我别无选择。

40.

English is a very important language in today's world.

英语是当今世界上一种非常重要的语言。

词汇提示

1.phrasing 措辞

2.omit 删减

3.prose 白话

4.flawless 完美无瑕

5.ceasing 中止

6.procedures 程序

7.apparent 明显的

8.discernment 洞察力

9.prayer 祈祷

原文

It Could Be a Whole Lot Better

As I was sitting in the reading room at the library, a man got up and left commenting, it could be a whole lot better.

I wasn't sure whether he was referring to the reading room, the world he was reading about, or something else.

I replied without thinking, “that's always true and always false”.

What I meant was that it was always possible to make little changes to improve things, but it isn't clear ahead of time that these changes will make a big overall improvement in a library in the world, or in anything else.

Years ago, literary critics used to examine great writers very closely to find bad phrasing or ungrammatical sentences.

They look at a play by Shakespeare and identify lines that they didn't think were very good.

Sometimes they would suggest that these lines were added by another writer, or that Shakespeare had written this part quickly without much consideration.

Sometimes they would omit or improve on the lines.

It is doubtful that any of Shakespeare's plays were actually improved by these critics.

An entire play needs high points and low points, poetry and prose.

The whole thing is greater than its individual parts, and changing a couple of these parts may not improve the whole thing.

It is the same in many other areas-music, athletics, scholarship, and probably everyday living.

It's not always the singer or musician who is flawless that we admire most.

Sometimes it is the person whose performance is not perfect, but who puts a special energy, feeling or enthusiasm into their work that we admire.

It is true that little things can sometimes add up to a big difference.

Changing a bad habit can make a difference in your life and in the lives of the people around you.

Giving up smoking, for example, or ceasing to criticize a family member, can make an important difference.

Sometimes, however, we are only looking at the symptoms of a larger problem.

For example, nearly everyone would agree that giving up smoking is a good idea.

But if our smoking is related to emotional problems or stress in our lives, then giving up smoking may make us feel even worse.

It may be necessary to deal with the root problem.

It can happen too, that being always on the lookout for ways to improve things may become a problem in itself.

“Perfectionism” means never being satisfied with things as they are, especially if we're always criticizing people around us for not being good enough.

This can become a bad thing.

A popular saying in North America is, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

This is a warning to people who feel that their role or position involves making continuous changes in policies, procedures, products or personnel.

Sometimes the drive for change can be more of a personality problem than a genuine concern to make things better.

Real problems are often clearly apparent.

Problems like world hunger, personality conflicts, policies that don't work, poor levels of service, bad manners and all kinds of troubles are hard to ignore.

They are also difficult to resolve.

Perhaps that's one reason why some people identify things as problems which are of concern to hardly anyone except themselves.

Yes, we can make the world and the reading room better, but we can also make them worse.

It takes a lot of discernments and usually some experience, to know how to make a particular thing better.

There are so many things that could use improvement that it is difficult to know where to start.

This too requires some thought, not to mention prayer and study.

We can start by asking whether the thing we see is a problem is also a problem for other people.

If it isn't, then maybe our energy and attention might be better employed elsewhere.

翻译

本来可以更好的

当我坐在图书馆的阅览室里时，一个男人站起来离开，评论说，它本可以更好得多。
我不确定他指的是阅览室，他所读到的世界，还是别的什么。
我不假思索地回答说:“这句话总是对的，也总是错的。”
我的意思是，做一些小的改变来改善事情总是可能的，但这些改变是否会对世界上的图书馆或其他任何东西产生巨大的整体改善，在此之前是不清楚的。
多年前，文学评论家曾经非常仔细地检查伟大的作家，以发现糟糕的措辞或不合语法的句子。
他们看着莎士比亚的戏剧，找出他们认为不太好的台词。
有时他们会说，这些台词是另一个作家加的，或者莎士比亚没有仔细考虑就很快写下了这部分。
有时他们会省略或改进这些句子。
这些评论家是否真的改进了莎士比亚的戏剧，这是值得怀疑的。
整部戏需要高潮和低谷，需要诗歌和散文。
整体大于其个别部分，改变其中几个部分可能不会改善整体。
在许多其他领域——音乐、体育、学术，也许还有日常生活——也是如此。
我们最钦佩的并不总是完美无瑕的歌手或音乐家。
有时，我们钦佩的是那些表现不完美，但在工作中倾注了特殊精力、感情或热情的人。
的确，有时候一些小事情积少成多，就会产生很大的不同。
改掉一个坏习惯会对你的生活和你周围人的生活产生影响。
例如，戒烟，或停止批评家庭成员，都能起到重要的作用。
然而，有时我们只是看到了一个更大问题的症状。
例如，几乎每个人都会同意戒烟是一个好主意。
但如果吸烟与我们生活中的情绪问题或压力有关，那么戒烟可能会让我们感觉更糟。
也许有必要从根本上解决问题。
它也可能发生，总是在寻找改善事物的方法本身可能成为一个问题。
“完美主义”意味着永远不满足于事物的现状，尤其是如果我们总是批评周围的人不够好。
这可能会变成一件坏事。
在北美有一句流行的谚语:“如果它没坏，就不要修它。”
这是对那些觉得自己的角色或职位需要不断改变政策、程序、产品或人员的人的警告。
有时，改变的动力更多的是一种性格问题，而不是真正想让事情变得更好。
真正的问题往往是显而易见的。
世界饥饿、性格冲突、政策不力、服务水平低下、不礼貌以及各种各样的麻烦都是很难忽视的。
这些问题也很难解决。
也许这就是为什么有些人认为除了他们自己之外几乎没有人关心的问题的原因之一。
是的，我们可以让世界和阅览室变得更好，但我们也可以让它们变得更糟。
这需要很多的洞察力，通常还需要一些经验，才能知道如何把一件事情做得更好。
有太多的事情需要改进，以至于很难知道从哪里开始。
这也需要一些思考，更不用说祈祷和学习了。
我们可以先问自己，我们看到的问题对其他人来说是否也是问题。
如果不是，那么也许我们的精力和注意力可以更好地用于其他地方。

Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

原文

CHAPTER THREE: Huck and Jim travel south

For some days, everything went along quietly, but we were getting bored.

We wanted to know what was happening in town and so I decided to go and find out.

Jim said, 'Why don't you wear the old dress and the hat that we found in the house? People won't know you, then. They'll think you're a girl.'

And so I did.

Just after it was dark, I got into the canoe and went up the river to the bottom of the town.

There, I left the canoe and went on foot.

Before long, I came to a little house which was always empty.

Now there was a light on, and when I looked through the window, I saw a woman of about forty.

She was a stranger and that was good because she didn't know me.

So I knocked on the door.

'I must remember that I'm a girl,' I said to myself.

The woman opened the door. 'Come in,' she said.

She looked at me with her little bright eyes.

'What's your name?' she asked.

'Sarah Williams,' I replied. 'I'm going to see my uncle, on the other side of town. My mother's ill, you see, and she needs help.'

'Well, you can't go there by yourself now. It's too dark. My husband will be home in about an hour. Wait for him and he'll walk with you.'

And then she began to tell me about all her troubles.

I was getting bored with all this until she said something about Pop and my murder.

'Who did it?' I asked.

'Well,' she replied, 'some people say old Finn did it himself; other people think it was a slave who ran away that night. His name was Jim. They'll give three hundred dollars to anybody who finds him - and they'll give two hundred dollars for old Finn. He got drunk and left town with two strangers. A lot of people think he killed his boy and he's going to come back one day, and get all Huck Finn's money.'

'And what about the slave?' I asked.

'Oh, they'll soon catch him. People want the three hundred dollars. I think he's on Jackson's Island, you know. I've seen smoke there. My husband's gone to get two of his friends and they're going over there with a gun later tonight.'

When I heard this, my hands began to shake.

The woman looked at me strangely, but then she smiled and said kindly, 'What did you say your name was?'

'M-Mary Williams.'

'Oh,' she said, 'I thought it was Sarah.'

'Er... well, yes, itis. Sarah Mary Williams. Some people call me Sarah and some people call me Mary, you see.'

'Oh, do they?' She smiled again. 'Come on, now what's your real name? Bill? Bob? I know you're not really a girl.'

So then I had to tell her another story, with a different name, and I said I was running away.

She said she wouldn't tell anybody, and gave me some food before I left.

I hurried back to the island and Jim.

'Quick, Jim!' I cried, waking him up. 'They're coming to get us!'

We got out the raft as fast as we could, put all our things on it, tied the canoe on behind, and moved off down the river.

When it began to get light, we hid.

When it was dark again, we travelled on.

On the fifth night we passed St Louis, and we decided to go on down to Cairo in Illinois, sell the raft there and get a boat to Ohio.

There are no slaves in Ohio.

We slept for most of that day and we began our journey again when it was dark.

After some time, we saw lights on the Illinois side of the river and Jim got very excited.

He thought it was Cairo.

Jim got the canoe ready and I went off in it to take a look at those lights.

But it wasn't Cairo.

After that, we went on down the river.

It was very dark that night and it wasn't easy to see where we were going.

Suddenly, a big steamboat came at us very fast, and the next minute it was right over us.

Jim and I jumped off the raft into the water.

The boat hit the raft and went on up the river.

When I came up out of the water, I couldn't see Jim anywhere.

I called out his name again and again, but there was no answer.

'He's dead!' I thought.

Slowly, I swam to the side of the river and got out. I saw that I was near a big old wooden house.

Suddenly a lot of very angry dogs jumped out at me.

They made a terrible noise and someone called from the house, 'Who's there?'

'George Jackson,' I answered quickly.' I've fallen off a river boat.'

Well, the people who lived in that house were very kind, and they took me in and gave me some new clothes and a good meal.

I told them that my family were all dead, so they said I could stay with them as long as I wanted.

It was a beautiful house, and the food was good there, so I stayed.

A few days later, one of the slaves in the house came to me and said, 'come with me together. '

We went down to some trees by the river.

'In there, ' he said, and went away.

On the ground, I found a man asleep.

It was Jim.

I was really pleased to see him.

When the steamboat hit the raft, Jim told me the raft didn't break up.

Jim swam after it and caught it.

Then he began to look for me.

We decided to leave at once.

It's all right living in a house for a little while, but you feel more free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

提示

一、每期五个句子，均是从四六级听力真题中选取的长难句。

二、每个句子念三遍女声，一遍男声，再一遍女声。

三、如果觉得语速过快，可以在播放器上调慢语速，多听几遍。

词汇提示

1.precious metal 贵金属

原文

166.

Both of the dogs had been sent to the wrong destinations, on connecting flights from Denver, with Buddy mistakenly being sent to Japan instead.

这两条狗都是在丹佛转机时被送往了错误的目的地，而巴迪被错误地送到了日本。（此句有读音错误）

167.

So, if any of you have some free time during the weekend, please come join us at ReBicycle and make a difference in someone's life.

所以，如果你们中的任何人在周末有空闲时间，请加入我们ReBicycle, 为别人的生活做出改变。

168.

The aircraft was carrying 265 million pounds worth of gold and diamonds when the door flew open- sending the precious metal back to earth.

这架飞机装载着价值2.65亿英镑的黄金和钻石，飞行期间机舱门突然打开，贵重的金属散落在了陆地上。

169.

Now, researchers at New Mexico State University preserving this discovery, which was identified as an ancient elephant-like animal.

现在，新墨西哥州立大学的研究人员保存了这个动物化石，该动物化石被鉴定为一种类似于古代大象的动物。

170.

He wants to provide a bridge for people to connect in an area that has been divided by class and wealth, by providing affordable breakfast.

他希望通过提供经济实惠的早餐，为人们在按阶级和财富划分的地区建立联系提供一座桥梁。

听前提示

一、三遍英文，一遍中文，再一遍英文。

二、从听懂的词入手，理解句子含义。

三、根据中英文意思，听不懂的多听几遍。

原文

21.

Have you ever seen such a beautiful sunset?

你看过这么美的夕阳吗？

22.

Several cottages have been isolated by the flood water.

好几间小屋被洪水孤立起来了。

23.

Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.

得寸进尺。

24.

I can't tell you how to pronounce the word.

我不知道怎么告诉你这个词的发音。

25.

I did not expect it to be that big.

我没想到它有那么大。

26.

The offer is too good to be turned down.

这提议好得令人难以拒绝。

27.

We must learn to live in harmony with nature.

我们必须学会与自然和谐共处。

28.

He sleeps during the day and works at night.

他白天睡觉，晚上工作。

29.

The bus is full. You'll have to wait for the next one.

这班公车客满了。你必须等下一班。

30.

While you're young, you should read a lot.

当你年轻的时候，你应该多读点儿书。

词汇提示

1.barometer 气压计

2.practical 实用的

3.reassemble 重新组装

4.frisky 灵活

5.durable 耐用

原文

Henry Ford

Some inventions are based on simple ideas or principles.

Barometers are based on the idea that air has weight and pushes down on objects.

A barometer measures this air pressure.

Evangelista Terricelli invented barometers in Italy in 1643.

Other inventions have taken longer to develop.

The automobile has thousands of parts, and it took a long time to make a really useful car.

Henry Ford was one of the first people to make a reliable automobile.

In 1765, James Watt invented the steam engine.

Within a few years, a Frenchman, Nicolas Cugnot, had built a steam-powered vehicle

These steam carriages were used in England in the 1800s.

But they were big and slow.

They looked like a train without the tracks.

Most people preferred to travel by train.

In Germany during the 1870s and 1880s, Nikolaus Otto and Gottlieb Daimler developed the internal combustion engine.

This ran by burning gasoline.

Another German, Karl Benz, built a gasoline powered car.

Around the world, there were many inventors trying to build a car that would be better than the one before.

Some people thought that electric cars would become common.

In the 1890s, everal inventors working in the United States developed a gasoline powered car that was practical for daily use.

Henry Ford was born on a farm in Michigan in 1863.

As a boy, he loved to take clocks and watches apart and reassemble them.

Eventually, he went to work for the Detroit Edison Company.

In his spare time, he worked on a “horseless carriage”, as the early cars were called.

In 1896, he completed a car that ran smoothly.

He later sold it and made another one.

Since early cars were made by hand, they were usually quite expensive.

Not only that, but when they broke down, there were no repair shops to take them to.

One had to know how to repair a car oneself.

Henry Ford tried to make cars which would be affordable and which would not break down very easily.

His Ford Motor Company was formed in 1903 in Detroit, Michigan.

Since many parts had to be brought together to make a car，Ford developed the assembly line.

On the line, each worker would do one specific job.

When the car reached the end of the assembly line, it was finished.

In this way, many cars could be made in a single day.

The result was that Ford was able to bring the price of cars down.

Ford's “Model T” car was advertised as being as frisky as a jack rabbit and more durable than a mule.

Since it cost hundreds, rather than thousands of dollars, many ordinary families were now able to buy a car.

Once many people had cars, their habits began to change.

People didn't have to live next to the factories or offices that they worked in.

Going for Sunday drives or traveling to tourist sites became a common thing.

In 1905, a car drove across the United States and back again.

In 1912, a car went across Canada from coast to coast.

Soon, there was public pressure for good roads so that cars could travel anywhere in North America.

Henry Ford was not the only inventor of the modern car.

However, he was able to make a car that everyone could use and afford.

翻译

亨利•福特

有些发明是基于简单的想法或原理。

气压计的原理是空气有重量，可以压住物体。

气压计测量空气压力。

伊万杰利斯塔·特瑞切利于1643年在意大利发明了气压计。

其他发明的发展则需要更长的时间。

汽车有成千上万个零件，要制造一辆真正有用的汽车需要很长时间。

亨利·福特是最早制造可靠汽车的人之一。

1765年，詹姆斯·瓦特发明了蒸汽机。

几年之内，法国人尼古拉斯·库诺(Nicolas Cugnot)造出了一辆蒸汽动力汽车

这些蒸汽马车在19世纪的英国使用。

但是他们又大又慢。

他们看起来就像一列没有轨道的火车。

大多数人喜欢乘火车旅行。

在19世纪70年代和80年代的德国，尼古拉·奥托和戈特利布·戴姆勒发明了内燃机。

这是靠燃烧汽油驱动的。

另一位德国人卡尔·本茨制造了一辆汽油动力汽车。

在世界各地，有许多发明家试图制造一辆比以前更好的汽车。

一些人认为电动汽车将变得普遍。

19世纪90年代，几个在美国工作的发明家发明了一种日常使用的汽油动力汽车。

亨利·福特1863年出生于密歇根州的一个农场。

小时候，他喜欢把钟表拆开再重新组装。

最终，他去了底特律爱迪生公司工作。

在他的业余时间，他在一辆“无马马车”上工作，早期的汽车被称为“无马马车”。

1896年，他完成了一辆行驶平稳的汽车。

后来他卖掉了它，又做了一个。

由于早期的汽车是手工制造的，所以通常都很昂贵。

不仅如此，当汽车坏了的时候，没有维修厂可以送它们去。

一个人必须知道如何自己修理汽车。

亨利·福特试图制造价格低廉、不易损坏的汽车。

他的福特汽车公司于1903年在密歇根州的底特律成立。

由于制造一辆汽车需要将许多零件组装在一起，福特发明了装配线。

在这条线上，每个工人只做一项特定的工作。

当汽车到达装配线的末端时，它就完工了。

用这种方法，一天就能生产出许多汽车。

其结果是福特能够降低汽车的价格。

福特的“T型车”在广告中被宣传为像杰克兔一样活泼，比骡子更耐用。

由于它的价格是数百美元，而不是数千美元，许多普通家庭现在能够买得起一辆汽车。

一旦许多人拥有了汽车，他们的习惯就开始改变。

人们不必住在他们工作的工厂或办公室旁边。

周日自驾或去旅游景点成为了一件很常见的事情。

1905年，一辆汽车横穿美国并返回。

1912年，一辆汽车横跨加拿大，从东海岸到西海岸。

很快，公众开始要求修建良好的道路，这样汽车就可以在北美的任何地方行驶。

亨利·福特不是现代汽车的唯一发明者。

然而，他能够制造一辆每个人都能使用和负担得起的汽车。

Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain

词汇提示

1.canoe 独木舟

2.sack 麻袋

3.raft 木筏

原文

CHAPTER TWO: Huck escapes and finds a friend

Mostly it was a lazy, comfortable kind of life, but after about two months Pop began to hit me too much with his stick.

He often went away into town too, and then he always locked me in the hut.

Once he was away for three days and I thought I was never going to get out again.

When he came back that time, he was drunk and angry.

He wanted my money, but Judge Thatcher wouldn't give it to him.

The judge wanted to send me to live with the widow again, Pop told me.

I wasn't very pleased about that.

I didn't want to go back there.

So I decided to escape and go down the river and live in the woods somewhere.

When Pop was out, I began to cut a hole in the wooden wall of the hut.

In a few days, when the hole was bigger, I could take the wood out, escape through the hole, and put the wood back.

One morning, Pop sent me down to the river to catch some fish for breakfast.

To my surprise, there was a canoe in the water and there was no one in it.

Immediately, I jumped into the river and brought the canoe to the side.

It was lucky that Pop didn't see me, and I decided to hide the canoe under some trees and use it when I escaped.

When I escaped that afternoon, Pop locked me in and went off to town.

He won't be back to night, I thought.

So I began to work hard at my hole, soon I could get out through it.

And I carried food and drink and Pop's gun down to the canoe.

Then I put back the wood to hide the hole, took the gun and went into the woods.

There I shot a wild pig and took it back to the hut with me.

Next, I broke down the door with an axe.

I carried the pig into the hut and put some of its blood on the ground.

Then I put some big stones in a sack and pulled it along behind me to the river.

Last of all, I put some blood and some of my hair on the axe.

I left the axe in a corner of the hut and I took the pig down to the river.

'They won't know it's only a pig in the river,' I said to myself. 'They'll think it's me.'

Then I took the canoe and went down the river to Jackson's Island.
By then it was nearly dark, so I hid the canoe under some trees and went to sleep.

It was after eight o'clock when I woke up the next day and the sun was high in the sky.

I was warm and comfortable and I didn't want to get up.

Suddenly, I heard a noise up the river.

Carefully, I looked through the trees, and I saw a boat full of people.

There was Pop, Judge Thatcher, Tom Sawyer and his Aunt Polly and his brother Sid, and lots of others.

They were looking for my body in the river.

I watched them, but they didn't see me, and in the end they went away.

I knew that nobody was going to come and look for me again.

I found a good place under the trees to sleep and to put my things.

Then I caught a fish and cooked it over a fire.

I lived like that for three days, and then I decided to have a look round the island.

So I went into the woods.

'This is my island,' I thought. 'I'm the only person on it.'

Suddenly, just in front of me, I saw a fire, and it was still smoking.

There was somebody on my island!

I didn't wait.

I turned and went straight back.

But I couldn't sleep.

After a time, I said to myself, 'I can't live like this. I must find out who it is.'

Silently, I moved along the river in my canoe, under the darkness of the trees.

And then I stopped through the trees.

I could see the light of a fire.

Afraid, I left my canoe and went nearer.

There was a man lying by the fire.

Suddenly, he sat up, and I saw that it was Jim, Ms. Watson's slave.

I was really happy to see him.

'Hello, Jim,' I cried, and I jumped out from behind the tree.

Jim fell to his knees.

'Please don't hurt me,' He cried, 'I've always been good to dead people. '

'It's all right, Jim. I'm not dead,' I said.

'But why are you here on the island?' I asked.

'Well, Huck,' he began.

'Old Miss Watson wanted to sell me. A man came into town and told Miss Watson that he'd buy me for eight hundred dollars. She couldn't say no, so I ran away. I ran down to the river to hide, but everybody in the town was there. They said you were dead, Huck. I had to wait all day to get away. When it was dark, I got on to a big boat and hid. When we came near this island, I jumped into the water and swam here.'

Jim finished his story and then we both carried all our things into a cave and hid the canoe under some trees.

We were just in time because then the rains came.

It rained for days, and the river got higher and higher.

All kinds of things came down the river, and one night there was a little wooden house, Iying half on its side.

We got the canoe out and went to take a look.

Through the window we could see a bed, two old chairs and some old clothes.

There was something lying in the comer and we thought it looked like a man.

Jim went in to see, but he said, 'He's dead. Someone shot him in the back. Don't look at his face, Huck. It's terrible!'

I didn't want to see the dead man's face, so I didn't look.

We just took the old clothes and a few other things, and went back to our cave on the island.

Another night, when we were out looking for things on the river, we found a raft.

It was made of good, strong wood, and was about four meters by five meters.

This could be useful, I said to Jim.

So we pulled it back to the island behind the canoe and tied it up under the trees.

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二、每个句子念三遍女声，一遍男声，再一遍女声。

三、如果觉得语速过快，可以在播放器上调慢语速，多听几遍。

词汇提示

1.combing 梳理

2.gravity 重力

原文

161.

One used bookstore received a month's worth of books in donations in a week when a man gave over 50 boxes of books from his home.

还有一家二手书店一周之内就收到了相当于该店一个月的图书捐赠，只因一名男子捐出了50多箱旧书。

162.

After combing through the security video outside a global's shop, Christine has now posted an image of a man suspected of stealing the dog.

克里斯蒂娜在查看了一家全球商店外的安全录像后，公布了一张疑似偷狗者的照片。

163.

They adapt remarkably well to their new environment and even using the lack of gravity to their advantage as they push themselves around the cage.

它们能很好地适应新环境，甚至利用失重的优势在笼子里推来推去。

164.

The dog owner's beloved 10-year-old dog named Buddy took an unexpected 16-hour flight to Tokyo following a mix-up by the airline.

由于航空公司的失误，宠物狗主人这条10岁的名叫巴迪的爱犬出人意料地乘坐了16个小时的飞机去了东京。（此句有几处读音错误）

165.

One worker said an angry customer had thrown a chicken at his head after complaining about how long she had waited to be served.

一名员工说，曾经有一名顾客抱怨自己等了太长时间才得到服务，随后，愤怒的她直接朝他的头扔了一块鸡肉。

听前提示

一、三遍英文，一遍中文，再一遍英文。

二、从听懂的词入手，理解句子含义。

三、根据中英文意思，听不懂的多听几遍。

原文

11.

A bookstore in that location wouldn’t make enough money to survive.

位于那个地点的书店无法赚到足够的钱生存下去。

12.

A beautiful woman was seated one row in front of me.

一个美丽的女人坐在我前面一排。

13.

I don't know what I'm going to do next.

我不知道下一步做什么。

14.

The bus stopped suddenly in the middle of the street.

公车突然在路中央停下来。

15.

Florence is the most beautiful city in Italy.

佛罗伦萨是意大利最美丽的城市。

16.

Tsunamis swept through rice fields and flooded the towns.

海啸席卷了稻田，淹没了城镇。

17.

The top of the mountain is covered in snow.

山顶被雪覆盖了。

18.

Give me a chance to make you proud of me.

给我一个机会，让你为我骄傲。

19.

Every time I read the Bible, I am deeply moved.

每次我读圣经都会被深深地感动。

20.

The child had no overcoat on although it was very cold.

尽管天气很冷，孩子却没有大衣穿。

词汇提示

1.pontoon 浮桥平台

2.fasten 系牢

3.platform 平台

4.tropics 热带

5.edible 可食用的

6.monarchy 君主制

7.wrapped 缠绕

8.mats 垫子

原文

Hawaii

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, far from any land.

There are the Hawaiian Islands.

These islands are the tops of a chain of volcanic mountains.

Two volcanoes on the island of Hawaii are still active.

There are five larger islands.

Kauai is to the west; Oahu, Molokai and Mauiare in the middle; and Hawaii is to the east.

There are three smaller islands.

Hawaii is the largest island of the group, but Oahu has the largest population.

The capital city, Honolulu, is on Oahu.

Since the Hawaiian Islands are so far from any land, one might wonder how people arrive there.

The answer is that the first Hawaiians were very good sailors.

They traveled thousands of miles from other islands in the Pacific in canoes.

To keep these canoes stable in the ocean, they attached an "outrigger," or pontoon, to the main canoe.

Sometimes they fasten two canoes together and put a wooden platform on top.

Then they could carry lots of people in supplies.

The first Hawaiians were Polynesians, and probably came from the Marguesas and Tahiti in the South Pacific.

They were a tall, good-looking people.

Their kings made rules about how their people should live, and priests and advisors called "kahunas" enforced these.

Today the phrase "the big kahuna" means someone who is, or thinks he is, very important.

Although Hawaii lies within the tropics, it has a very mild climate.

Sea breezes keep the weather from getting too hot even in the summer.

Many edible plants grow in abundance there.

So it was not difficult for the Hawaiians to live very comfortably without working hard.

Captain Cook was the first European to reach Hawaii in 1778.

Soon, European and American ships visited there regularly.

The sailors also brought diseases formerly unknown.

By 1853, the population had dropped to 73000 from about 300000 when Cook visited in 1778.

Besides Europeans, people from China, Japan and the Philippines came to live there.

Soon, large plantations of sugar cane and pine apples developed.

As more and more land came under Western control, the native monarchy was undermined.

American plantation owners were able to arrange for United States control of the islands.

Today, the largest industry is tourism.

Since the climate is good all year round, visitors can come at any time.

When you arrive, a young Hawaiian woman will greet you.

She will put a beautiful flower necklace called a “lei” around your neck.

Hula dancers entertain tourists.

Hula dancers wear skirts made of long leaves.

Each dancer tells a story by moving their arms and hands in a certain way.

For meals, the Hawaiians like to dig a pit in the ground, place wood in the pit, and then set the wood on fire.

Food wrapped in leaves is then placed on the wood, and the pit is covered with leaves and mats.

A feast cooked this way is called a "luau."

These traditions nowadays are usually performed for tourists or on special holidays.

Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, and its people enjoy all the advantages of the modern world.

翻译

夏威夷

在太平洋中央，远离陆地。
这是夏威夷群岛。
这些岛屿是火山山脉的顶端。
夏威夷岛上的两座火山仍然活跃。
有五个较大的岛屿。
考艾岛在西面;中间是瓦胡岛、莫洛凯岛和毛亚雷岛;夏威夷在东面。
有三个较小的岛屿。
夏威夷是该群岛中最大的岛屿，但瓦胡岛的人口最多。
首府檀香山位于瓦胡岛。
由于夏威夷群岛离陆地如此之远，人们可能会想知道人们是如何到达那里的。
答案是最早的夏威夷人是非常好的水手。
他们乘独木舟从太平洋的其他岛屿跋涉数千英里来到这里。
为了使这些独木舟在海洋中保持稳定，他们在主独木舟上附加了一个“支腿”或浮筒。
有时他们把两只独木舟绑在一起，在上面放一个木平台。
这样他们就可以运载很多人。
最早的夏威夷人是波利尼西亚人，可能来自南太平洋的马格萨斯群岛和塔希提岛。
他们身材高大，相貌英俊。
他们的国王制定了人民应该如何生活的规则，被称为“kahunas”的祭司和顾问执行这些规则。
今天，“the big kahuna”这个短语指的是非常重要的人，或者自认为非常重要的人。
今天，the big kahuna这个短语指的是那些非常重要或自认为非常重要的人。
虽然夏威夷位于热带地区，但它的气候非常温和。
海风使天气即使在夏天也不会太热。
许多可食用的植物在那里大量生长。
所以对夏威夷人来说，不用努力工作就能过得很舒适并不难。
库克船长是1778年第一个到达夏威夷的欧洲人。
不久，欧洲和美国的船只定期访问那里。
水手们还带来了以前不知道的疾病。
到1853年，人口已经从库克1778年访问时的30万下降到7.3万。
除了欧洲人，来自中国、日本和菲律宾的人也来到这里生活。
很快，甘蔗和松苹果的大型种植园就发展起来了。
随着越来越多的土地被西方控制，当地的君主制被削弱了。
美国种植园主能够安排美国控制这些岛屿。
今天，最大的产业是旅游业。
由于气候一年四季都很好，游客可以随时来。
当你到达时，一个年轻的夏威夷女人会迎接你。
她会在你的脖子上戴上一条漂亮的花项链，叫做“花环”。
草裙舞演员招待游客。
跳草裙舞的人穿长叶子做的裙子。
每个舞者都以某种方式移动他们的手臂和手来讲述一个故事。
吃饭时，夏威夷人喜欢在地上挖一个坑，把木头放在坑里，然后把木头点着。
然后用树叶包裹的食物放在木头上，坑上盖上树叶和垫子。
以这种方式烹制的盛宴被称为“luau”。
这些传统如今通常是为游客或在特殊节日表演。
夏威夷是美国的第50个州，它的人民享受着现代世界的一切优势。