2023年现代大学英语精读5课文翻译详解.docx

现代大学英语精读5课文翻译详解 篇一：现代大学英语精读5课后解释与翻译Lesson 10 In our memory, the pre-September 11 world was peaceful, happy and safe (although it was the case) and we will talk about those days with a feeling of deep respect and love which can only be found in talking about dead people. 2. In order to win the war, we might have to give up some of the basic values and liberties we treasure most. This might be the cost we have to pay. 3. They are planning to carry out the plan of expanding the power of law enforcement agencies at home and of striking at the “axis of evil〞 abroad so as to extend American domination into areas originally beyond American reach, such as Central Asia. Hence, the colonization of the future. 4. … which takes for granted that people think in a simple and uniform way while actually the feelings, thoughts and views of the American people are as varied as America itself. 5. The terrorist attacks put us at the bottom of the hierarchy of human needs, trying hard to re-establish our confidence in physical safety, the lowest type of safety. 6. We are used to thinking that Western democracies practice rule of law and individual rights and freedom are protected by law. Violation of individual rights and suppression of dissenting voices can only be found in repressive regimes. 7. People began to put less emphasis on the pursuit of wealth and possession of worldly goods. And the other two dangerous symptoms that went with materialism, that is physical separation from other and irrational behavior as a result of impulse, also became less serious. Materialism, together with the accompanying symptoms of separation and compulsion, had been the cause of the ruin of community in this country. 8. … at a time when it is highly important for Americans to look into ourselves and ask ourselves why “they hate us〞, this concept directs our attention and thinking away from such analysis. 9. … history records many crimes committed by human beings which are so horrible that they defy description. 10.In spite of the fact that these images are horrible images, images of large-scale atrocity, we still take care to keep alive these images. 因此纽约扬基体育场上空的空域关闭，禁止飞机通过。在体育场的屋顶上，部属了一排阻击手。 2. 副总统的保卫人员匆匆地把他从一个地点转移至另外一个地点，就像他那难以对付的死敌奥斯玛。本。拉登可能在世界的另一端从一个山洞转移到另一个山洞一样。 3. 带着惆怅的心情，我们目送思念的小筏载着911前的世界，在一种复古的暗淡色彩中漂流而去。 4. 为了寻找抚慰，整个国家都用国旗裹妆起来，就像一个小孩披上超人的斗篷，扮演无敌英雄。 5. 没有什么地点看不到星条旗。 6．但我们中许多人是用这些个人权力来定义个人平安和民族性的。 7． 每次，危机大概都确信会产生一种新的形式，使这种暴行永远不会再发生 ―――然而暴行又一次发生了。 8． “组成这个国家的人民有多强大，这个国家就多强大；人们希望国家如何开展，国家就会如何开展，〞詹姆斯。鲍德温写道。“我们使我们居住的世界成了这个模样，我们有必要重造这个世界。〞 9． 他和飞机上的其他乘客并没有受卑劣的恐惧心理所左右而不敢行动―――这确实是勇气的真正含义。 10． 当这架注定要摔下来的飞机还在高空飞行时，恰恰就在这短暂的时间里，美国的民主理想升华至顶峰。两者结合在一起真是一种可怕的挖苦。 篇二：现代大学英语精读5 课后答案 Lesson 1 Vocabulary 1. Manhood: the state of being human 2. White lie: harmless or trivial lie，esp．one told in order to avoid hurting sb． 3. black sheep：person regarded as a disgrace or a failure by other members of his family or group 4. To upset: to defeat 5. Affirmation: stating sth．as truth firmly and forcefully 6. To strain: to make the greatest possible effort 7. Off base: mistaken 8. (a) want (of) : lack of 9. Ringing cry: rallying call Paragraph 1. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy. It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people. 2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination. 3. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation. The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when a negro is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free. 4. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. Power in its best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power. 5. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents. At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was). 6. …the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber. A person was poor because he was lazy and not h