Lesson 7 Everyday use
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1.She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.
She thinks that her sister has a firm control of her life and that she can always have anything she wants, and life is extremely generous to her.
2.My fat keeps me hot in zero weather.
Because I am very fat, I feel hot even in freezing weather.
3. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.  The popular TV talk show star, Johnny Carson, who is famous for his witty and glib tongue, has to try hard if he wants to catch up with me.
4. It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them.  When I talked to them, I'm always ready to leave as quickly as pos
sible, and turn my head away from them in order to avoid them as much as possible because of nervousness.
5.She would always look anyone in the eye.
She would always look at somebody directly and steadily, not feeling embarrassed or ashamed.
6.She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know.
She imposed on us lots of falsities and a lot of knowledge that was totally useless to us.
7. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by.
She is not bright just as she is neither good-looking nor rich.
8. Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with Maggie's hand. Meanwhile Asalamalakim is trying to shake hands with Maggie in a fancy and elaborate way.
9. Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches.
In fact, I could have traced it back before the Civil War through the family , branches.
10. He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting a Model A car.
He just stood there with a grin on his face and looked at me as if inspecting 1 something old and out-of-date.
11. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head. Now and then he and Dee communicated through eye contact in a secretive way.
12. "1 can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts."
I don't need the quilts to remind me of Grandma Dee. She lives in my memory all the time
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1)一场大火把贫民区三百多座房子夷为平地。
A big fire burned to the ground more than 300 homes in the slum neighborhood.
2)只要你为人正直，不怕失去什么，那你对任何人都不会畏惧。
If you are upright and not afraid of losing anything, you will be able to look anyone in the eye.
3)这件衬衫与裙子的颜和式样都不相配。
This blouse doesn't match the color or the style of the skirt.
4)咱们一边喝咖啡一边谈这件事吧。
Let's talk about the matter over a cup of coffee.
5)他无法想象为什么人们反对他的看法。
He couldn't imagine why people were opposed to his suggestions.
6)这位官员在下汽车时碰到两个。
Stepping off from the car, the official was confronted by two terrorists.
7)只要我们坚持这些原则，我们就会成功。
As long as we stick to these principles, we will surely be successful.
8)这个消息使她大为震惊，但她很快就镇定了下来。
She was shocked at the news, but before long she recomposed herself. 9）这段典故的来源很难查到。
It is very difficult to trace this quotation to its source.
Lesson8  Three cups of tea
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1、“what is one winter more?”再等一个冬天又何妨？
What dose it matter if we have to go without a school for another winter?
2、sher Takhi,who called Korphe’s widely dispersed faithful to prayer five times a day without the benefit of amplification, filled the small room with his booming voice.sher Takhi不用扩音设备召唤Korphe居住十分分散的教徒每天祷告五次，他那浑厚的嗓音充盈着这个小房间。
Sher Takhi had a booming voice, and without the advantage of amplification it filled the small room. He
called Korphe’s believers, who were widely scattered working on their respective jobs , to pray five times a day.
3、As the moon rose over korphe K2 , they danced around the fire and taught Mortenson verses from the great Himalayan epic of Gesar, beloved across much of the roof of the world, and introduced him to their inexhaustible supply of Balti folk songs.当月亮升起映照着korphe K2时，他们围绕篝火跳舞，教摩顿森世界屋脊上大部分地区喜爱的《格萨尔传》中一些诗歌并向他
介绍巴尔蒂人十分丰富的民间歌曲。
At this time, the moon went up high in the sky above Korphe K2. The villagers danced around the fire and taught Mortenson lines from the Himalayan Epic of Gesar, beloved across most parts of  the Himalayas which is the highest part of the world ,and introduced him to a tradition of Balti folk songs so rich that it could never be finished or used up.
4、The fact that it wasn`t written down didn’t make it any less real.虽然他没有用文字记录下来，这并不意味着他不那么真实。
The Balti didn’t have a written history, but that fact didn’t mean that its rich history didn’t exist.
5、He`d had too much trouble getting one school off the ground to think on Hoerni’s scale.
he had had so much trouble getting the plan of building one school started successfully. And he had to concentrate on completing this one and had no time or energy to think on the large scale of building more schools envisioned by Hoerni.
6、The old man led the former climber uphill for an hour, on legs still strong enough to humble the much younger man.
Although Haji Ali was old , his legs were still strong enough to leave the younger man far behind and thus feel ashamed.
7、The air had the fresh-scrubbed clarity that only comes with altitude. The air was so clear as if it had been just scrubbed. You can have such clear air only when you get to a certain high atltitude.
8、“You have to understand, in these villages, a ram is like a firstborn child,prize cow, and family per all rolled into one,”Mortenson explains. In these village, a ram was very much valued ,meaning something extremely precious like a firstborn child, a prize cow and a family pet combined.
Translation
1)当他被人从河里救出来时，几乎半死不活了。
when he was saved from the river, he was more dead than alive.
2)在我上一次访问这个村子时，那里还没有学校。现在一所小学已经屹立在山顶上。
In my previous visit, there was no school, but now one stands on the top of a mountain.
3)他恢复了知觉，睁开眼睛，想努力搞清楚发生了什么事，为什么他躺在那里。As he came to himself, he opened his eyes, trying to figure out what had happened and why he was lying there.
4)展览会上最吸引观众的是新奇的电子产品。
At the exhibition there were many novel electronic products that attracted the attention of visitors.
5)温室里的许多奇花异草引起了大家争先拍照。
People were keen on taking pictures of the many exotic flowers and plants in the green house.
6)这位作家出生于一个大家庭，他的家谱可以追溯到十五年前。
This writer came from a large, prominent family whose genealogy(家谱; 系谱学) stretches back fifteen generations.
7)当地少数民族在杀牲口前，先要举行一番宗教仪式，请求上苍允许他们杀生。Before killing an animal, the indigenous(土生土长的)ethnic(种族的)people usually hold rituals to request permission from their God.
8)村民们贫穷的事实并非说明他们就愚昧无知。
The fact that the villagers are poor doesn‘t mean they are ignorant or stupid.
9)志愿者们的共同努力使得项目开展起来了。
10)The volunteers made concerted(合拍调的; 协力一致的)efforts and got the project off the ground.
10)登山者感到头晕，几乎站立不住，一是由于过度疲劳，也是因为太饥饿了。、The climber felt so dizzy that he could hardly stand up, as much from over exhaustion (疲惫，衰竭)as from starvation
Lesson 9 “A More Perfect Union” (Part I)
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1.他把网上的流传当成一个笑话，不予理睬。
He dismissed the story circulating on the Internet as a joke.
2.马克•吐温的《竞选州长》是一片著名的短篇故事。
Mark Twain’s “Running for Governor” is a famous short story.
3.对于遭受灾难的人们，我们应该毫无保留地帮助他们。
We should reach out without reservation to those who suffer from disasters.
4.考虑到他们没有经验，他们的工作成绩还是相当不错的。
Given their lack of experience, their work should be considered as  quite good.
5.她是在华裔人占主导地位的社区里长大的。
She grew up in a community where the inhabitants were predominantly of Chinese origin.
6.心情不好不能成为你对同事粗暴的理由。
Being in a bad mod cannot justify your rude behavoir toward your colleagues.
7.警方把这件事视作“误解”而草草了事。
The police dismissed the incident as a case of misunderstanding.
Paraphrase
1. The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished.she最新歌曲
the Constitution was finally adopted by the Constitutional Co nvention and signed the document. But the the slave issue w as not solved, the process of forming    a more perfect unio n did not end
2. But it also comes from my own story.
My personal background and my success story, rising from rag s to riches, also teaches me the importance of unity.
3. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its part that out of many, we are truly one.
Through my experience in the United States, I am deeply roo ted with the idea that America is not    a total of addling everything together but is the product of fusion, of sharing the same creed.
4. Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity.
In spite of all predictions that I would fail in the campaign, we gained momentum in the first year of the campaign, which showed that the American people were eager to unity and change.
5. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country.
People were encouraged to judge me in terms of race and color, raising the question of whether the United State would fare better with a black president. However, we won great victories even in some states which are more conservative and more racially biased.
6. We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the South Carolina primary.
The week before the Democrats were to select delegates to t he national convention in South Carolina, racial tension which seemed insubstantial in the past became more frequent and more intens
e.
7. On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap.
At one end of the wide range of opinion, there are people who say that I decided to run for presidency only because of the desires of native liberals in achieving racial harmony without making a great effort and I wanted to prove that black and white should have equal