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新概念英语词汇随身听第三册(附字幕)[45-46]
[00:01.91]Lesson 45
[00:03.81]democratic
[00:05.43]民主的
[00:07.05]In democratic countries
[00:09.03]在民主的国家里,
[00:11.00]any efforts to restrict freedom of the press are rightly condemned.
[00:14.47]任何限制新闻自由的企图都理所当然地受到谴责。
[00:17.95]She can talk beautifully about democracy,
[00:20.82]她讲民主可以讲得天花乱坠,
[00:23.69]but does not know how to live a democratic life.
[00:26.36]可是却不知道怎么过民主生活。
[00:29.02]The company is run on democratic lines,
[00:31.45]公司推行民主管理的方法,
[00:33.88]and all the staff are involved in making decisions.
[00:36.47]所有的员工都参与决策。
[00:39.05]restrict
[00:40.48]限制
[00:41.90]Mrs.Dumpling.on diet,restricted herself to four apple pies every meal.
[00:45.87]汤圆太太在节食,限制自己每顿饭只吃四个苹果饼。
[00:49.84]The use of the drug is restricted.
[00:52.11]这种药的使用受到限制。
[00:54.39]abuse
[00:55.82]滥用
[00:57.26]However,this freedom can easily be abused.
[00:59.99]然而,这种自由容易被滥用。
[01:02.72]He abused his car by not changing the oil,and now it needs major repairs.
[01:06.85]他用车用得太狠,老不加油,现在车需要大修了。
[01:10.97]The committee abuses the power granted and gets rightfully dismissed.
[01:14.66]委员会滥用了赋予他们的权利,理所当然地被解散了。
[01:18.34]contention
[01:19.82]论点
[01:21.29]Acting on the contention that facts are sacred
[01:24.11]记者按事实至上的论点行事,
[01:26.94]reporters can cause untold suffering to individuals
[01:29.97]披露别人私生活的细节,
[01:33.00]pubilishing details about their private lives.
[01:35.63]往往给当事人造成很大的痛苦。
[01:38.27]He listed Spain,Mexico,Russia and France to support his contention.
[01:42.20]他又列举了西班牙、墨西哥、俄罗斯和法国支持他的论点。
[01:46.14]Direct tests on individual particles do not support these contentions.
[01:49.77]对单个粒子所做的直接试验并不支持这些论点。
[01:53.40]untold
[01:54.86]数不尽的,无限的
[01:56.32]In the Charter of the United Nations,
[01:58.44]在联合国宪法章中,
[02:00.56]the peoples express their determination
[02:03.13]各国人民表示
[02:05.70]to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war
[02:08.82]决心要使子孙后代
[02:11.94]which has brought untold sorrows to mankind.
[02:14.52]不再遭受曾给人类带来无穷痛苦的战祸
[02:17.09]They suffered untold terrors in the dark and huddled together for comfort.
[02:20.81]他们遭受着黑暗中难以言传的种种恐怖,挤在一堆互相壮胆。
[02:24.54]South Dakota
[02:26.17]南达科他州(美国)
[02:27.80]The family lived in Aberdean,a small town of 23000 inhabitants in South Dakota.
[02:32.42]这户人家住在南达科他州的一个人口为23000的小镇阿拜丁。
[02:37.05]perpetual
[02:38.52]永久的
[02:40.00]As the parents had five children,life was a perpetual struggle against poverty.
[02:43.88]家里已有了5个孩子,全家人常年在贫困中挣扎。
[02:47.76]The wind and the water were carrying on their perpetual quarrel.
[02:50.79]风和海水在进行它们那永无休止的争吵。
[02:53.82]She would be saved from burning only to be condemned to perpetual imprisonment.
[02:57.38]她被免于火刑,得到的是终身监禁的判决。
[03:00.95]obscurity
[03:02.62]默默无闻
[03:04.29]They would have continued to struggle against economic odds
[03:07.12]他们会继续过紧巴巴的日子,
[03:09.94]and would have lived in obscurity.
[03:11.97]默默无闻地活着。
[03:14.01]He moved to Argentina where he lived in obscurity.
[03:16.79]他移居阿根廷,无声无息地过活。
[03:19.58]The man was a genius but hindered by the obscurity of his condition.
[03:22.81]那个人是个天才,可是因为出身低微不能出头。
[03:26.05]quintuplet
[03:27.67]五胞台之一
[03:29.29]But they suddenly became the parents of quintuplets,
[03:32.02]但是他们突然成了五胞胎的父母,
[03:34.75]four girls and a boy,an event which radically changed their lives.
[03:38.49]四女一男,这件事彻底改变了他们的命运。
[03:42.22]Every one of the quintuplets are their darlings,
[03:44.89]五胞胎个个是他们的心肝宝贝,
[03:47.55]but the mother especially dotes on the youngest.
[03:49.92]不过作母亲的格外疼那个最小的。
[03:52.28]radically
[03:53.72]彻底地,完全地
[03:55.15]His intereference radically changed the situation.
[03:57.98]他的干预彻底改变了局势。
[04:00.80]I am radically against this plan.
[04:02.83]这坚决反对这个计划。
[04:04.87]exclusive
[04:06.35]独占的,独家的
[04:07.82]Newspapers and magazines
[04:09.74]报纸和杂志
[04:11.66]offered the family huge sums for the exclusive rights to publish stories and photographs.
[04:15.49]高价向他们购买文字,图片的独家报道权。
[04:19.32]The Times has been granted an exclusive interview.
[04:21.96]时报获得独家用采访权。
[04:24.59]They think it's their exclusive privilege.
[04:26.78]他们认为这是他们独家的特权。
[04:28.96]nursery
[04:30.43]育婴室,保育室
[04:31.91]While the five babies were still quietly sleeping in oxygen tents in a hospital nursery,
[04:35.74]五个婴儿在医院育婴房的氧气帐篷里安睡的时候,
[04:39.56]their parents were paying the price for fame.
[04:41.99]他们的父母已经在为出名付出代价了。
[04:44.42]She picked orange-colored curtains for the nursery and azure ones for the study.
[04:47.96]她为育婴房选了橙色的窗帘,为书房选了天蓝的。
[04:51.50]This is a well-known nursery rhyme.
[04:53.84]这是一支大家都很熟悉的童谣。
[04:56.18]commercialization
[04:58.10]商品化
[05:00.02]They had become the victims of commercialization,
[05:02.69]他们成了商品化的受害者,
[05:05.37]for their names had acquired a market value.
[05:07.80]因为他们的名字具有了市场价值。
[05:10.23]This used to be a quiet beach that few people knew about,
[05:13.26]这是曾经是一片寂静的海滩,很少有人知晓
[05:16.29]but now commercialization has changed it into a flowery rug of hotels.
[05:19.97]但是现在商品化把它变成了一块遍地旅店的花毯了。
[05:23.66]Hardly anyone can escape the influence of commercialization.
[05:26.84]几乎没有人能逃脱商品化的影响。
[05:30.03]commodity
[05:31.45]商品
[05:32.88]Instead of being five new family members,
[05:35.31]这些孩子立即成了商品
[05:37.74]these children had immediately become a commodity.
[05:40.57]而不是五个新的家庭成员。
[05:43.41]A bill of exchange is a commodity that is subject to rises and falls in value.
[05:46.97]债券是一种商品,也有市价涨落。
[05:50.54]The country is heavily dependent on its export of agricultural commodities.
[05:54.10]这个国家在很大程度上依赖农产品出口。