【正文】 quicklyParagraph 1. Your imagination es to life, and this, you think,is where Creation was begun.The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.2. But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never understood the grim,unrelenting advance of the . Cavalry.The Kiowas often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the . Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.3. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years.Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for She was born eight or ten years after the event.4. It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age.They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new culture, which led to the treatest moment of their history.5. They acquired horses, and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground.Now they got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on football, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus pletely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.6. From one point of view, their migration was the fruits of an old prophecy, for indeed they emerged from a sunless world.In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log,for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains.7. The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness.Their stature was measured by the distance they could see. Yet, because of the dense forests, they could not see very far, and they could hardly stand straight.8. Clusters of trees and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away and wonder to build upon the mind.The earth unfolds and the limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating landscape makes one see far and broadens one39。ormilitary9. To consummate: to8. To engender: tolongatointoriveroldinmetaphorically．eetsiron7. Still, I am nothing if not persistent. (Para. 79)我要是意志不堅定，我就不是我了。prosperousParagraph 1. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. (Para. 5)Engaging in activities or interests that are popular for a short time, I suppose, shows a plete lack of sensible judgment. 2. One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress on his face that I immediately diagnosed appendicitis. (Para. 6)One afternoon I saw Petey lying on his bed looking very much miserable and depressed, and I at once discovered that he was suffering from appendicitis. 3. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. (Para. 20)My brain, which was like a precision instrument, quickly started working at high speed. 4. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason. (Para. 23)Of course, she was beautiful and attractive enough to arouse the desires and passions of men, but I certainly would never have my senses dominated by my feelings or emotions. I wanted to have Polly as my wife for a cleverly considered, thoroughly unemotional reason.5. She was not yet of pinup proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack. (Para. 25)She was not yet fully developed like those attractive pinup girls, but I felt sure that, given time, she would fill up and bee just as glamorous. 6. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction. (Para. 27)Actually, she went in the opposite direction — she was rather stupid.7. If you were out of the picture, the field would be open. (Para. 34)If you’re no longer having a romantic relationship with her, others would be free to pete for her love. 8. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning. (Para. 50)Back and forth he kept turning his head round, and each time he did so, his desire grew stronger and his resolution became weaker. 9. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey. (Para. 61)The task of teaching Polly to think appeared to be so difficult and demanding that I, for a while, even thought of giving the girl back to Petey. 10. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. (Para. 115) This is indeed too much for any human being to bear. Translation: A. Phrases1. the acme of mindlessness (Para. 5) 愚蠢到了極點2. a horrified whisper (Para. 46) 驚愕地失聲叫出來3. a torn man (Para. 50) 一個不知所措、左右為難的人4. to set his jaw resolutely (Para. 50) 挺著下巴，表示堅定不移5. to qualify the generalization (Para. 73) 對某種一般的陳述進(jìn)行限定6. a logicproof head (Para. 97) (這女孩兒的)腦袋是邏輯進(jìn)不去的；(這女孩兒的)對邏輯一竅不通7. to knit her creamy brow in concentration (Para. 118) (她)緊鎖眉頭，聚精會神（進(jìn)行思考)8. a glimmer of intelligence (Para. 118) 一絲智慧的閃光9. to make a logician out of Polly (Para. 124) 把波莉培養(yǎng)成邏輯學(xué)家10. an immense effort of will (Para. 153) 強大的意志力B. Sentences1. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, j unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dream39。13.anlay)approvalslang) good,currentthefrom (Here3.anMonth of Sundays: (colloq) she has still many ghosts to fight, many prejudices to overe.從內(nèi)心精神方面看，情況頗為不同。onlylooktoact。)currentorreputation。Reputable: intheater,The Cosmopolitan, plunging necklines and all, is read by 260,000 Chinese women every month. (Para. 20)每個月, 有26萬中國女性在閱讀(美國的)《時尚》雜志, 里面有那些開領(lǐng)低胸服裝的畫頁