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几个在线词典的地址： http://www.iselong.com/online/Dictionary.htm
                                 http://www.bilinge.com/WinDic/
.                               http://www.m-w.com/home.htm     Merriam-Webster's 韦氏字典

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都是来源于真题的。参考长难句结构分析最新经典100句（胡敏）--本网站上有下

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[ 本帖最后由 ericazeng 于 2006-8-4 17:55 编辑 ]

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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.

[参考译文]如果（新闻界）真的注意到了问题的关键，它就应该进一步开放其多样化项目，这个项目现在还只单纯考虑招收不同种族和性别的员工，进一步寻找那些世界观、价值观、教育水平和社会阶层大相径庭的各种记者。

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。

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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.

[参考译文]换句话说，在媒介机构的编辑部文化中存在着--套约定俗成的写作模式，为新闻报道提供了主干框架以及现成的叙述结构。若没有这些，新闻内容就会一团混乱，让人摸不着头脑。


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

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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.

[参考译文]它把对疼痛的治疗不足和盲目积极使用"有可能延长死亡时间甚至让死亡过程蒙羞的无效并且强迫性的医疗手段"视为生命临终医护的两个等待解决的问题。

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

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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.

[参考译文]在另一个层面上，很多医疗界的人承认，关于医生帮助自杀的讨论部分由于病人的绝望情绪而如火上浇油般的越来越激烈，病人的绝望是因为对于他们来说，现代医学延长了死亡的身体痛苦。


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.

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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."

[参考译文]Nancy Dubler，Montehore医疗中心的主任，认为这一原则将会保护这样一些医生，他们到目前为止还强烈坚持他们不能够给病人足量的镇痛剂来控制他们的疼痛，如果这么做会加速他们的死亡的话。

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.

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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.

[参考译文]尽管它裁决并没有宪法权利来支持医生帮助下的自杀行为，最高法院实际上支持了被称为"双重效果"的医疗原则；这个已有几个世纪历史的道德原则认为：一个可能会产生两种效果（能得到好的效果和能预见到有害的效果）的行为是被允许的，如果行为的实施者想要的只是好的效果的话。


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

海阔天空

版主这么辛苦的，怎么没人支持啊？
顶一下，也给版主加把劲

ericazeng

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

[参考译文]不因油价上涨而寝食不安的另外一个原因是，这次不像70年代的那些次上涨，它并不是在普遍的商品价格暴涨和全球需求过旺的背景之下发生的。

commodity：商品

这个最适合写作用，要背诵

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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.

[参考译文]OECD在其最近的《经济瞭望》中估计，如果石油价格与1998年的每桶13美元相比在一年中平均为每22美元，这也只会给富裕的经济体的石油进口账单上增加GDP的0．25％到0．5％。

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