【正文】 he words and their explanations in the box. Choose a word to plete each of the sentences below and explain its meaning. Change the form if necessary.(P14) provinces b. woke a. haunt b. trouble a. weathers d. wake b. coined c. trouble b. Reading Focus – Vocabulary in Action ? Key 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 weather c. province c. coin a. value a. haunts a. has promised a. trouble c. coin b. Reading Focus – Vocabulary in Action promise d. values c. refrain b. valued e. Task 2 1. The ___________ atmosphere of the inn allows guests to feel totally at home. 2. Technological advances might ___________ lead to even more job losses. Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate phrase from the box. Change the form if necessary. (P15) tranquil ultimately adversity ordeal anticipate drastic suicidal preoccupy legacy nostalgia retrospect tranquil deprivation aspire aftermath cancel out ultimately Reading Focus – Vocabulary in Action 3. In the _____________ of the shootings, there were calls for tighter controls on gun ownership. 4. Her kindness and generosity _____________ her occasional flashes of temper. 5. He was beginning to wonder if he would survive the _____________ . 6. Foreign food aid has led to a _____________ reduction in the numbers of people dying of starvation. aftermath cancel out ordeal drastic Reading Focus – Vocabulary in Action adversity ordeal anticipate drastic suicidal preoccupy legacy nostalgia retrospect tranquil deprivation aspire aftermath cancel out ultimately 7. Perhaps her most important ____________ was her program of educational reform. 8. There were food shortages and other ____________ during the Civil War. 9. The new economic policies could prove ____________ for the party. 10. The building will be pleted around six months earlier than ____________ . legacy deprivations suicidal anticipated Reading Focus – Vocabulary in Action adversity ordeal anticipate drastic suicidal preoccupy legacy nostalgia retrospect tranquil deprivation aspire aftermath cancel out ultimately 11. The experience was enough to keep him ___________ for some time. 12. The road to happiness is paved with ___________ . 13. She ___________ to nothing no less than the chairmanship of the pany. 14. He might be influenced by ___________ for the surroundings of his happy youth. 15. In ___________ , I wish that I had thought about alternative courses of action. preoccupied adversities aspires nostalgia Reading Focus – Vocabulary in Action adversity ordeal anticipate drastic suicidal preoccupy legacy nostalgia retrospect tranquil deprivation aspire aftermath cancel out ultimately retrospect Task 3 Complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese in brackets into English. Try to use the expressions you have learned from the text. () 1. Watching your baby being born is ___________________________ (極其令人興奮的經(jīng)歷 ). 2. There is __________________________ (內(nèi)置儲藏空間 ) in all bedrooms. 3. This handout focuses on ___________________________ (自我保護措施 ) under difficult climatic conditions. a mindblowing experience builtin storage space selfprotection measures Reading Focus – Vocabulary in Action 4. I‘m sure we could offer you some __________________________ (短期的工作 ). 5. So, how is it that we all, or at least many of us, have such a ________________________ (歪曲的、否定的自我觀念 )? 6. Helen Hunt stars as a character undergoing _____________________ (改變了生活的事件 ) in Then She Found Me. 7. She has written a book that is beautiful because of the honesty and the raw emotion that is portrayed in______________________ (無所不包的細節(jié) ). 8. Having a decent job contributes to _____________________ (一個好的自我形象 ). shortterm employment distorted and negative selfperception lifechanging events Reading Focus – Vocabulary in Action allenpassing details a good selfimage Practical Translation 語篇 （ discourse）是在交際功能上相對完整和獨立的一個語言片斷。銜接手段（ cohesive device）是一種謀篇手段，是生成語篇的重要條件之一，也是譯者在翻譯過程中首先要考慮的問題，因為它直接關系到譯文的質(zhì)量。 語篇層次的翻譯 ——銜接 從語篇層面上說，英漢兩種語言在形合（ hypotaxis）和意合（ parataxis）方面的差異。因此，英語中長句多。因此，漢語中短句多，短句間的邏輯關系靠意義來表達，語法處于次要地位。 1) I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity— an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the grey wall, and the silent tarn—a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leadenhued. (Edgar Allan Poe: ―The Fall of the House of Usher‖) 譯文： 我如此沉湎于自己的想象，以至于我實實在在地認為那宅院及其周圍懸浮著一種它們所特有的空氣。那是一種神秘而致命的霧靄，陰晦，凝滯，朦朧，沉濁如鉛。 坡的小說名篇 《 厄舍府之倒塌 》 。這個 “ 形合 ” 長句主要采用各種語法手段（如并列句、狀語從句、同位語從句、定語從句）以及詞匯手段（如詞匯 atmosphere 的重復）等來表示其結構關系，并進行有機的銜接。因此在正確理解原文內(nèi)容、弄清原文內(nèi)在結構的基礎上，用三個分句來處理這個長句。三個分句