【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 e evening except to go to the saloon, an old board building with swinging doors and a wooden side walk prohibition nor repeal had changed its business, its clientele, or the quality of its the course of an evening every male inhabitant of Loma over fifteen years old came at least once to the Buffalo Bar, had a drink, talked a while and went would be a game of the mildest kind of poker going Ratz, the husband of my landlady, would be playing solitaire, cheating pretty badly because he took a drink only when he got it ’ve seen him get out five minutes in a he won he piled the cards neatly, stood up and walked with great dignity to the Carl, the owner and bartender, with a glass half filled before he arrived, asked, “What’ll it be?”“Whisky,” said Timothy ：在洛曼小鎮(zhèn)，晚飯后除了去鎮(zhèn)上唯一的那家酒館便無事可做。酒館是一座老式的木制建筑，有一扇轉(zhuǎn)門，門前人行道上方有一塊木制雨篷。無論是政府的禁酒令還是后來廢除禁酒令的法令都未曾改變過它生意的興隆、顧客的數(shù)量，也未曾改變過它威士忌的質(zhì)量。每天晚飯后，鎮(zhèn)上十五歲以上的男子至少要光顧布法羅酒館一次，喝杯酒，聊聊天，然后回家。酒館里常有人玩撲克牌，不過其輸贏聊勝于無。我那位房東太太的丈夫蒂莫西?羅茲就經(jīng)常在那里玩單人紙牌游戲。他玩牌老愛作弊，因為他只在贏牌時才買上一杯酒喝。我曾見過他一口氣連贏五盤。贏牌后他便把紙牌整整齊齊地疊好，然后直起身，神氣十足地走向吧臺。酒館老板兼伙計胖子卡爾不等他走近吧臺便會端起已斟了半杯酒的酒杯問：“來杯什么酒？”“威士忌。”蒂莫西總是莊重地回答。練習(xí)： am a journalist, not a historian, and while this book is an effort to describe a moment in the past, it is less a work of history than of personal reminiscence and , it is an account of my own observations and experiences in wartime Washington, supplemented by material drawn from interviews and other have tried to create out of it all a portrait of the pain and struggle of a city and a government suddenly called upon to fight, and to lead other nations in fighting, the greatest war in history, but pathetically and sometimes hilariously unprepared to do ：我是新聞工作者，不是歷史學(xué)家，所以本書描寫的雖然是過往歲月中的一刻，卻稱不上是一部史學(xué)著作，而僅是個人的追思。書中所寫的主要是戰(zhàn)爭期間我本人在華盛頓的觀察和經(jīng)歷，輔以采訪等材料。我試圖刻畫一個城市和一個政府的痛苦與掙扎，這個城市和政府突然被要求參加戰(zhàn)爭，還要在戰(zhàn)爭中領(lǐng)導(dǎo)別的國家，參與的又是有史以來最偉大的戰(zhàn)爭，實在是有些措手不及，因此表現(xiàn)得很糟糕，有時甚至很可笑。 is bound to be somewhere close to the last reporting from that period based on firsthand after another, with unsettling rapidity, those in positions of power and responsibility during World War II are passing from the who agreed to recall and describe their experiences in the war years died before I could get to ：這幾乎肯定是以第一手資料寫成的、有關(guān)那個時期的最后一場報道。二戰(zhàn)中位高權(quán)重的人物一個接一個很快去世，實在令人不安。有幾位原本已經(jīng)答應(yīng)回憶并講述一下他們在二戰(zhàn)中的經(jīng)歷，可我還沒來得及拜訪，他們就離開了人世。 have not dealt here in any detail with the grand strategy of the war in Europe and the , I have tried to report mainly on what I saw and heard and learned in Washington during years now fading into a misty past, the wartime experience of a country twothirds of whose people are now too young to remember any of result is a sort of Our Town at war, the story of a city astonished and often confused to find itself at the center of a worldwide conflict without ever hearing a shot strange city, set up in the first place to be the center of government and, like government itself at that time, a city moving slowly and doing ：我在本書中沒有對歐洲及太平洋戰(zhàn)區(qū)中的宏大戰(zhàn)略做詳盡的描述。相反，我主要報道了那些年我在華盛頓的所見所聞。這些往事已經(jīng)在人們的記憶中變得越來越模糊，對于那場戰(zhàn)爭，這個國家中有三分之二的人都太年輕，對它并無記憶。結(jié)果，本書描寫的就是一個以戰(zhàn)爭為背景的“我們的小鎮(zhèn)”，講的是一個城市在根本沒有聽到一聲槍響的情況下，就卷入了一場全球性沖突，因而變得很驚愕，常常也很困惑。這是一個不同尋常的城市，設(shè)立時主要是想將它建成政府的中心，因此這個城市便和當時的政府一樣，行動十分緩慢，所做相當有限。unit4【縮譯法】 舉例： came down on the field and the city: And Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his ：夜色四罩，城中之妻祈天保夫無恙，戰(zhàn)場上其夫撲臥，一彈穿心，死矣。 seated himself close to her。he gazed at her in silence, or told her stories of the days gone by, of her childhood and of the ：他坐在她身旁，靜靜地望著她，或者和她談?wù)勍?，她的童年和她在修道院的情景?liquid water is heated so that it bees ：液態(tài)水受熱而變成蒸汽。 one has told them about the British custom of lining up for a bus so that the first person who arrives at a bus stop is the first person to get on the ：誰也沒有跟他們說過，英國人有排隊候車、先到先上的習(xí)慣。 men occupied the same hospital were both seriously ：兩位重病患者住在同一間病房里。 experiment got is no sign of progress ：但是，她的實驗已陷入僵局，并且至今也沒取得任何進展。練習(xí)： the course of the same for war, a serious epidemic broke ：在戰(zhàn)爭的同一時期里，一場嚴重的傳染病爆發(fā)。 receptor is shaped in such a way that it can receive only a certain ：受體的構(gòu)造形狀使得它只能接受某一類型的信使。 structure of the steel and the resulting properties will depend on how hot the steel gets and how quickly or slowly it is ：鋼的結(jié)構(gòu)和性質(zhì)，視其加熱成度和冷卻快慢而定。 care of pence, and the pound will take care of ：積少成多或集腋成裘。unit 5【拆譯法】 shall be glad of your pany on ：如果你能陪他一塊兒去，他會很高興的。 had a sound feeling that idiom was the backbone of a language and she was all for the racy ：她感到習(xí)語是語言的支柱，因此特別主張用生動的短語，她的想法是完全正確的。3.“But we have a lot of small, very disruptive dayin and dayout problems on the factory floor,” one industrialist ：一位實業(yè)家說：“在工廠辦公樓里，我們面臨許多很小但破壞性卻很大的問題，它們?nèi)諒?fù)一日，無休無止地發(fā)生。” in spring and summer often e with intensity great enough to cause ：春夏兩季，雷雨交加，猛烈異常，往往會導(dǎo)致暴雨成災(zāi)。 the course of decay of the vegetable and animal matter in the soil, various acids and gases are formed which help to depose the rock particles and other pounds needed for the plant ：動植物在泥土里腐爛的過程中，形成各種酸和氣體。這些酸和氣體有助于分解巖石粒和其他化合物，以供植物作養(yǎng)料。 attention has been focused on the dilemma presented by the patient with chest pain who, on angiographic study, has normal coronary arteries and no other objective evidence of heart ：有一種胸痛病人，其冠狀動脈造影檢查正常，又無心臟病的其他客觀特征，其診斷上的困難引起了人們的極大重視。 development is in part a result of experimental studies indicating that favorable alterations in the determinants of myocardial oxygen consumption may reduce ischemic injury and that reduction after load may be associated with improved cardiac ：從某種程度上講，這方面的進展是實驗研究的結(jié)果。實驗結(jié)果表明，有效改善心肌耗氧量的決定因素可減輕局部損害，并且負荷的減輕也能改善心肌功能。 any spectacle, for instance, be more grimly whimsical than that of gunner