1、英语考研 长难句44训练导学班 语法精品课堂 疑点Warm tips：本部分译文和注释可以在夏老师网站（）或博客下载(01) (10-R-1) We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was consi
2、dered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared. (49 words)(02) (10-R-1) “So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote, “that I am tempted to define journalism as a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to w
3、riters who are.” (43 words)(03) (10-R-3) For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected, must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on; and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial
4、influential. (48 words)(04) (09-R-3) Progress in both areas is undoubtedly necessary for the social, political, and intellectual development of these and all other societies; however, the conventional view that education should be one of the very highest priorities for promoting rapid economic devel
5、opment in poor countries is wrong. (46 words)(05) (09-R-4) Sexual confusion, economic frustrations, and religious hope all came together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father that the first line he saw would总第37页settle his fate, and read the magical words: “Come out from amo
6、ng them, touch no unclean thing, and I will be your God and you shall be my people.” (58 words)(06) (0-TR) Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure fami
7、ly perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc. (45 words)(07) (09-TR) Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the wor
8、lds work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output. (41 words)(08) (08-R-2) Other models exist that are hybrids of these three, such as delayed open-access, where journals allow only subscribers to read a paper for the first six months, before making it freely availabl
9、e to everyone who wishes to see it. (40 words)(09) (07-R-1) If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than
10、 in the later months. (47 words)(10) (07-R-3) From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financial responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shift of financial risk onto their
11、 already overburdened shoulders. (41 words)(11) (07-R-4) Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them especially in America the sort of nasty headlines that ine
12、vitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: data insecurity. (48 words) 总第38页(12) (07-R-4) Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the bosss
13、agenda in businesses of every variety. (41 words)(13) (07-R-4) Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest executive that trust, that most valuable of economic assets, is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore and that few things are more likely to destroy trust than a company letting sensi
14、tive personal data get into the wrong hands. (47 words)(14) (07-R-4) Meanwhile, the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accounts in America, disclosed on June 17th, overshadowed a hugely important decision a day earlier by Americas Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that puts corporat
15、e America on notice that regulators will act if firms fail to provide adequate data security. (49 words)(15) (06-R-1) Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around the world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet “some Americans fear that immigrants living
16、within the United States remain somehow immune to the nations assimilative power.” (40 words)(16) (05-R-2) Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we didnt know for sure? That the evidence was inconclusive, the science uncertai
17、n? That the antismoking lobby was out to destroy our way of life and the government should stay out of the way? (53 words)(17) (05-R-2) A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s, neurologist
18、s had switched to thinking of them as just “mental noise” the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that goes on during sleep. (47 words)总第39页(18) (03-R-2) Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-
19、known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment. (42 words)(19) (03-R-3) If railroads charged all customers the same average rate, they argue, shippers who have the option of switching to trucks
20、or other forms of transportation would do so, leaving remaining customers to shoulder the cost of keeping up the line. (40 words)(20) (03-TR) Therefore, it is important to study humans in all their richness and diversity in a calm and systematic manner, with the hope that the knowledge resulting fro
21、m such studies can lead humans to a more harmonious way of living with themselves and with all other life forms on this planet Earth. (51 words)(21) (02-R-2) But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing
22、on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. (42 words)(22) (02-R-4) 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 mora
23、l 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. (57 words)(23) (02-R-4) Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors
24、who “until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient medication to control their pain if that might hasten death.” (40 words)(24) (02-R-4) The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain manag
25、ement therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for总第40页hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life. (45 words)(25) (02-TR) As the interaction between organism and environment has come to be understood, however, effects once assigned to st
26、ates of mind, feelings, and traits are beginning to be traced to accessible conditions, and a technology of behavior may therefore become available. (40 words)(26) (01-R-1) Thus, in the nineteenth century, local geological studies represented worthwhile research in their own right but, in the twenti
27、eth century, local studies have increasingly become acceptable to professionals only if they incorporate, and reflect on, the wider geological picture. (40 words)(27) (01-R-4) I believe that the most important forces behind the massive M & A wave are the same that underlie the globalization process:
28、 falling transportation and communication cost, lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations capable of meeting customers demands. (44 words)(28) (01-R-5) I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship
29、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. (49 words)(29) (01-R-5) While in America the trend started as a reaction to the e
30、conomic 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 downshifts of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives. (52 words)(30) (01-R-5) For the wome
31、n of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the 80s, downshifting in the mid-90s is not so much a search for the mythical good life growing总第41页 your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one as a personal recognition of your limitations. (47 words)(31) (00-R-3) When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion, it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at, for, however farfetched and unreasonable their principle may seem today, it is possible that in years to come they may be regarded as normal. (46 words)(32) (00-R-3) But it
