日期：2008-01-29 中国人一般来说英语阅读的能力很强，但是还是有一些基本的问题经常困扰大家。下面是一些相应的解决办法。 1．问: 我可以以很快的速度阅读报纸，但读过之后都弄不清文章的大意。 答: 我们很少逐词地精读报刊上的文章，因为它与我们的生活无大碍。我们通常采取浏览的方式... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 难句译注 1. The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photographs fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a practical art. [结构... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 Passage Ten (Photography and Art) The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photographs fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 Passage Ten (Photography and Art) The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photographs fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 8. surmise 猜度，臆测 9. doctrine 教义 10. plausible 貌似合理/公平的 11. courtier 朝臣 12. devious 绕来绕去的，迂回曲折的 13. Sacrament 圣礼，圣事/餐 14. secular 修道院外的，世俗的 15. the society of Jesus 天主教的耶酥会 16. Douai 杜埃（法国地名） 17... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 Passage Nine (The Continuity of the Religious Struggle in Britain) Though England was on the whole prosperous and hopeful, though by comparison with her neighbors she enjoyed internal peace, she could not evade the fact that the world of which she fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 15. burlesque 诙谐或游戏诗文的，讽刺或滑稽的 16. Nativity 基督的诞生 17. epilogue 收场白 18. deference 敬意，尊重 19. atavistic 返祖的，隔代遗传的 20. slide back to 滑回，这里指返回 21. raison detre 存在的理由 22. all the same 即便如此 23. paradoxica... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 Passage Eight (Wakefield Masters Realism) Moreover, insofar as any interpretation of its author can be made from the five or six plays attributed to him, the Wake field Master is uniformly considered to be a man of sharp contemporary observation. He... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 8. batteries 一连串，一系列 9. sage 圣人；聪明的（人-） 10. seer 先知 11. newfangled 新型的（贬义） 12. high-falutin 夸大的，夸张的 13. deplorable 悲惨的，杂乱的 14. batting average 平均成功率（原指击球平均得分数） 15. ascertainable 可以确定的/确切的... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 Passage Seven (Forecasting of Statistics) Nearly two thousand years have passed since a census decreed by Caesar Augustus become part of the greatest story ever told. Many things have changed in the intervening years. The hotel industry worries more... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 10. culminate 达到顶点 11. lapse 时间的推移/消逝 12. apprehend 领悟，理解 13. instill （慢慢地）滴注，灌输 14. drench 浸泡，使湿透 15. posterity 子孙后代 16. look to 指望，注意 难句译注 1. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 Passage Six (The Present Is the Most Important) Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such thing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 Vocabulary 1. repress 压制，2. 镇压，3. 约束 4. patriarchy 族长制，5. 家长制 6. chaste 贞洁的，7. 高雅的 8. hierarchy 等级制 9. monarch 君主，10. 最高统治 11. image 象征，12. 反映 13. overtly 公开的，14. 明显的 15. outpour 倾泻 16. sermon 布道，17.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-29 Passage Five (Womens Positions in the 17th Century) Social circumstances in Early Modern England mostly served to repress womens voices. Patriarchal culture and institutions constructed them as chaste, silent, obedient, and subordinate. At the begin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-12 18. fracture 断裂，19. 折断 20. taint 污点，21. 败坏，22. 感染 23. dissent 不同24. 意，25. 异议 26. provisionally 暂时的，27. 临时的 28. aplomb 镇静，29. 沉着 30. restraint 抑制，31. 克制，32. 谨慎 难句译注 1. stand down 退出竞争/竞选，辞职，推出法... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-12 Passage Four (It Is Bush) On the 36th day after they had voted, Americans finally learned Wednesday who would be their next president: Governor George W. Bush of Texas. Vice President Al Gore, his last realistic avenue for legal challenge closed by... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-12 22. doctrine 教义，23. 学说，24. 讲义 25. correlative 相互关联的 26. antithesis 对立面，27. 对偶（修辞学中），28. 对句 29. coordinate 同30. 等的，31. 并列的 32. subsist 生存，33. 维持生活 34. attribute 特征，35. 属性 36. connote 意味着，37. 含蓄（指... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-12 Passage Three (Method of Scientific Inquiry) Why the inductive and mathematical sciences, after their first rapid development at the culmination of Greek civilization, advanced so slowly for two thousand years-and why in the following two hundred ye... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-12 23. highlight 强调 24. persecution 迫害 25. catch on 了解，26. 风行=to become popular 27. pogrom 大屠杀，28. 集体迫害 29. commissioner 委员，30. 调查团团员 31. quota 定量，32. 配额，33. 限额 34. snag （尖利突出物，35. 抽丝）潜在的困难 36. heterogene... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-12 Passage Two (Europes Gypsies, Are They a Nation?) The striving of countries in Central Europe to enter the European Union may offer an unprecedented chance to the continents Gypsies (or Roman) to be recognized as a nation, albeit one without a defin... 阅读全文>>