【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 roducers, artists, writers, economists, photographers, scientists, historians — a mixed bag of achievers. 17 I ask them to say a few words about how they got started. The students always assume that they started in their present profession and knew all along that it was what they wanted to do. But in fact, most of them got where they are by a circuitous route, after many side Language Points trips. The students are startled. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not preplanned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to lead them down some unforeseen trail. Language Points get through — manage to live through (a period of time during which something unpleasant is happening) . How do they ever get through Siberian winters? Translate 他們幫我渡過了那段辛酸的日子 。 Key They helped me to get through those miserable days. . 1) The design was not in itself bad. 2) The plan wasn’t illegal in itself, but it would lead to some doubtful practices. in itself — in its own nature。 intrinsically Translate 問題本身倒并不很重要 ， 但其長遠影響可能是重大的 。 Key The problem is unimportant in itself but its long term effects could be very serious. . 1) She tripped over a stone. 2) He tripped and fell, tearing a hole in his trousers. trip vi. — (~ over/up) knock one’s foot against something when walking and lose balance so that one falls or nearly falls Translate 她讓貓絆了一跤 。 Key She tripped over the cat and fell. . 1) We tried to put off the day of reckoning. 2) The day of reckoning has e for him. Translate 別看你現(xiàn)在逍遙 ， 將來會遭報應的 。 Key You’re enjoying yourself now, but a day of reckoning will e. day of reckoning — time when a person pays or when he is punished for things that he has done wrong Cf. reckon and calculate Both reckon and calculate mean “determine something mathematically”, but reckon usually connotes simpler mathematical process, especially such as can be carried on in one’s head or aided by the use of a counting device, while calculate is usually preferred when highly advanced, plex processes are followed with precision and care and when the result arrived at is not readily proven by measuring. . 1) Will Western industry ever catch up with Japanese innovations? 2) They haven’t caught up yet with the latest styles. Translate 他因病一學期未上課 ， 得努力趕上 （ 其他同學 ） 。 Key After missing a term through illness he had to work hard to catch up (with the others). catch up with — reach (and sometimes overtake) (sb. Who is ahead)。 (in petition, trade, standard, etc.) bee equal to . 1) Failing health often goes along with old age. 2) Increased unemployment has gone along with rising prices all over the world. go along with — be found together with Translate 事實證明 ， 成功總是和勤奮分不 開的 。 Key It is proved that success always goes with diligence. Paraphrase: Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Parental pressure takes place together with economic pressure. . 1) It couldn’t have happened except that it did. 2) She would have protested except that she was afraid. Translate 她 （ 對他 ） 什么都不記得 ， 只記得他的頭發(fā)是黑的 。 Key She remembered nothing (about him) except that his hair was black. except that — (used to introduce a statement which states or implies something contrary to the preceding one) only that, but that Paraphrase: The story is almost funny — except that it’s not. The story (about Linda and Barbara thinking that each is working harder and doing better than the other) sounds somewhat funny, but in fact it’s not funny. If you say something is only half of the story, or part of the story or not the whole story you mean that there are more details that need to be known in order to understand the situation. that’s only half of their story — That’s only part of the situation with the students. . 1) What he told us yesterday is only half the story。 there are more people concerned in this affair than he knows about. 2) These figures gave only part of the story. . 1) The fear of death obsessed her throughout her old age. 2) She was obsessed with the idea that she was going to die. Translate 她總覺得受人監(jiān)視而心神不寧 。 Key She was obsessed with the idea that she was being watched. obsess vt. — fill the mind of (sb.) continually and make thinking about anything else difficult Paraphrase: the values that are nurturing a generation so fearful of risk and so goalobsessed at an early age the social principles that are bringing up a generation so afraid of taking risks and so excessively concerned about their future career when so young . 1) Jane invited a mixed bag of people to her party. 2) The songs on this record are (quite) a mixed bag. a mixed bag — a thoroughly varied mixture (of people or things) . 1) When can we get started? 2) It’s time we got started on the washing up. get started — begin Brandford College at Yale Brandford College is one of the oldest of Yale university’s twelve residential colleges. It opened its doors in the start of the academic year in 1933. 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