[ 本帖最后由 ericazeng 于 2006-8-4 17:55 编辑 ]作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-4 17:56
1. If it did, it would open up its diversity program, now focused narrowly on race and gender, and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook, values, education, and class.
gender：n. 性。The male and female genders are equal.男性和女性是平等的。 outlook：观点,见解,展望,前景。a pleasant outlook over the valley山谷景色优美
An American university president once commented that Einstein has created a new outlook, a new view of the universe. 一位美国大学校长曾经评论说爱因斯坦创立了一种新的观点，即一种新的宇宙观。
the outlook looks black for many companies
对许多公司来说前景大为不妙。 open up：打开(开发,展现,开始,揭露) open up a box.
Now we've got a foot in the door, we are hoping to open up a big market in China.现在我们已打开门路，我们希望在中国开辟一个广阔的市场。
The book will open up to readers new vistas on economic thinking 这本书将为读者展现经济思想的新远景。作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-4 17:57
2、In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing new.
backbone： n. 脊椎,志气1. These men are the backbone of the country.这些人是国家的中坚力量（国家的栋梁）。 story line ：n. 故事情节 1. It would be even more successful if the story lines were filled out.如果事故的描述能更丰满一些，那将更为成功。 newsroom：a place (as an office) where news is prepared for publication or broadcast。编辑部 ready-made：a. 现成的 narrative：n. 叙述,故事a. 叙述的,叙事的作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-4 17:57
3. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of "ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying" as the twin problems of end--of--life care.
identify sth as sth :make it possible to recognize who (what) sb(sth )is 确认或者证明某人或者某物 undertreatment：处理不足 aggressive：more severe，intensive（集中的） or comprehensive（全面的） than usual especially in dosage or extent dishonor：loss of honor or reputation v. 玷辱,使...蒙羞 problems：questions to be answered or solved(待解决和答复）的问题作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-4 17:59
4. On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted—suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.
fuel：比喻火上浇油。Inflation fuelled by big wage increases.因工资猛涨如火上浇油的通货膨胀
community：1、社区，团体，集体，社会。work for the good of community为集体利益服务 community service社会服务工作。
2、a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society。 学术界the academic community medical community：医学界
agony：n. (极度的)痛苦 He was in an agony of remorse=He suffered agonies of remorse.他饱受悔恨的煎熬. 作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-4 17:59
5. Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death."
mediation 调停,调解,仲裁,这里为镇痛剂 contend：主张，争论,辩论。I would contend that unemployment is our most serious social evil.
我认为失业是我们社会最为严重的弊病. 作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-4 18:00
6. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of "double effect", a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects--a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen--is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.
rule：v. 裁定、裁决、统治 constitutional：宪法的，法律的They have made the constitutional reform.他们已经做了宪法的修改。 physician：n. 内科医生 作者: 海阔天空 时间: 2006-8-4 19:39
版主这么辛苦的，怎么没人支持啊？
顶一下，也给版主加把劲作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-5 12:17
7. One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand
这个最适合写作用，要背诵作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-5 12:18
8. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25---0.5% of GDP.
estimate：估计There's only a marginal difference between the two estimates.这两种估计差别很小 bill: n. 帐单, 钞票, 票据, 清单, 议案, 法案, 广告
vt. 用海报宣传, 把...列成表, 给...开帐单作者: 林の声音 时间: 2006-8-5 12:25
有些难句 没有上下文对照确实难解释啊！！作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-6 12:01
9. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd.
winding：迂回曲折的，蜿蜒的。a winding path 弯弯曲曲的小路 disregard：n. 忽视v. 忽视,不顾
1. He disregarded his doctor's advice. 他无视医生的劝告。
2. Disregarding all the difficulties, we arrived here in time.尽管有那么多困难，我们仍然及时地到达了这儿。作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-7 12:53
If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it' 11 be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman' s notorious bad taste in ties.
in a position：在适当的位置 passing :=superficial 表面的,肤浅的,仓促的，随意，草率的。a passing acquaintance a passing resemblance(相像) inedible：a. 不适于食用的,不能吃的 notorious：臭名昭彰、声名狼藉作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-8 13:08
For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the' 80s,down-shifting in the mid' 90s is not so much a search for the mythical good lift-growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one-as a personal recognition of your limitations.
juggle：handle or deal with usually several things(as obligations) at one time so as to satisfy competing requirements 例子：juggle the responsibilities of family life and full-time job（平衡处理好家庭生活和工作） shift：n. 变化, v. 改变作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-9 12:45
While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline-after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late ' 80s-and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class down shifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.
redundancy裁员 downsizing缩小规模 thrift 节约,节俭 Thrift is the basement of richness. 节约是富裕的基础。
对比关系：in America------ in Britain作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-10 16:53
I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of "juggling your life", and making the alternative move into "downshifting brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status.
after：in pursuit of or in search of 追赶,寻求。 the police are after him追捕
she is after(=she wants) a job in publishing 找一份出版业的工作。 run after the chief追捕 editorship：编辑(校订)。
Bill assumed he was next in line for the editorship. He got a real slap in the face when they appointed an outsider.
比尔认为接下来会让他当编辑的；但当他们让一名外来人员担任该职时，比尔感到自己确实遭到了冷落。 resignation n. 辞职作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-11 18:34
A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming "I wanted to spend more time with my family."
lateral：a. 侧面的,旁边的 prompt: v. 激励,鼓动, 促使His evasive reply prompted me to ask him another question.他的含糊其词的答复促使我提出又一个问题。 disgraced: v. 耻辱,使...失体面 profile:侧面，轮廓，对公众暴露的程度，keep a low profile保持低姿态。作者: jianbin01 时间: 2006-8-11 19:38
好东西..谢谢分享作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-12 22:08
I believe that the most important forces behind the massive M&M wave are the same that underlie the globalization process: falling transportation and communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers andenlarged markets that require enlarged operations capable of meeting customers' demands.
这个句子背诵适合写作。作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-13 11:59
Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low--level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head--scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want.
mostly : ad. 大概,大部份,主要 The men at the party were mostly fairly young. 参加聚会的男子大都非常年轻。 factual a. 事实的,真实的 Intruded opinion into a factual report. 将个人意见硬塞在真实的报道中 head--scratching令人挠头的作者: ericazeng 时间: 2006-8-14 15:41
A rather similar process of differentiation has led to professional geologists coming together nationally within one or two specific societies, whereas the amateurs have tended either to remain in local societies or to come together nationally in a different way.