1. The radio has a?two-year?guarantee. 這臺收音機的保質(zhì)期是兩年。

2. Giant bottles of coke crammed in beside?twenty-pound?bags of potatoes and

“Special offer” drums of bleach.

幾大瓶可樂與幾袋重達 20 磅的土豆，還有幾桶特價漂白劑堆在一起。

3. a?million-dollar?house. 一座價值百萬美元的房子。

4. a?100-seater?bus. 一百座的公共汽車。

5. a?1000 –seat?restaurant.可容納 1000 人就餐的餐館。

6. There will be a?500-seat?auditorium. 有 500 坐席的禮堂。

7. a?one-guinea?sonnet. 值一英鎊的詩。

8. Then I asked for a?three-penny?loaf. 然后我要了一個價值三便士的面包。

9. We're also strong in athletics, women's hurdle, women's trampoline, where

we've got?two-time?Olympic medalist Karen Cokurn.

我們在田徑項目上也有很強的實力，比如女子跨欄，在女子蹦床這個項目上我們

有兩屆奧運會獎牌得主卡倫.科克本。

10.?Three-time?Olympic shooting medalist Renata Mauer hopes to qualify for Beijing

after failing to medal in Athens.

3 次獲得奧運會射擊獎牌的雷納塔.莫爾在雅典奧運會上未能獲得獎牌，她希望

自己能夠取得北京奧運會的參賽資格。

11. At that time both the?11-a-side?field handball played in Europe and a new 7-a-

side indoor version preferred by the Scandinavians had equal popularity.

那時歐洲盛行的 11 人制室外手球和斯堪的納維亞人喜愛的一種新的 7 人制室內(nèi)

手球同樣普及。

12. The USSR won the gold medals in both the?11-team?men's and 6-team women's

competition.

前蘇聯(lián)在 11 支隊伍參賽的男子手球比賽和 6 支隊伍參賽的女子手球比賽兩項賽事

上都獲得了金牌。

13. A game consists of two 30-minute halves with?a 10-minute?half-time break.

每場比賽分上下兩個半場，各 30 分鐘，中間有 10 分鐘休息時間。

14. When the city of Yokohama recently doubled the number of garbage categories

to ten, it handed residents?a 27-page?booklet on how to sort their trash.

橫濱市最近將垃圾分類的數(shù)目擴充一倍達到 10 類時，它給居民們分發(fā)了一本

關(guān)于如何將他們的垃圾分類的 27 頁小冊子。

15. Italy's male and female fencers now have?a two-Olympiad?stranglehold on the

sport after edging past rivals Russia and France respectively.

在分別以微弱優(yōu)勢擊敗競爭對手俄羅斯和法國之后，現(xiàn)在意大利男女擊劍運動員

背負著兩屆奧運會的冠軍的沉重壓力。

16. playing animated?four-wheel?version of themselves (on the assumption that a

man is what he drives).

把自己當成動畫中的四輪賽車（假定人車一體）。

17. He created a?thirty-acre?lake. 他建成了一個占地 30 英畝的湖。

18. Dr. Jamshid Ghajar, her doctor at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, as it

was known in 1996, told reporters that she had?a 10 percent?chance of survival.

她的主治醫(yī)生、紐約醫(yī)院康奈爾醫(yī)療中心（1996 年時的名稱）的賈姆希德.加雅

博士告訴記者，她只有 10%的生還機會。

19. You have?a 50-50 chance?of survival. 你有 50%存活的可能性。

20. B＆Q the largest home-improvement retailer in Europe, has seen?a 50 percent

increase?since 1996 in the number of women buying power tools.

百安居是歐洲最大的家居裝飾零售商，自 1996 年以來在該店購買電動工具的

女性人數(shù)已經(jīng)上升了 50%。

21. The destination-wedding industry has quickly seized on the trend. Teresa Belcher,

president of the travel-planning firm Honeymoon Islands，says she has seen?a

25percent increase?since 2001 in couples who choose to get married at resorts with

their children and various other relatives in tow.

從事旅行結(jié)婚行業(yè)的人士已迅速抓住了這種趨勢?！懊墼聧u”旅行策劃公司的總經(jīng)

理特雷莎.貝爾徹說，她已經(jīng)看到，自 2001 年以來，選擇攜帶孩子并邀請其他親友

到旅游勝地舉辦婚禮的夫婦增加了 25%。

22.?Two-year community colleges are still an educational bargain.

兩年制社區(qū)大學教育仍然很劃算。

23. Dashkova took?a two-year leave?of absence but remained the academy's titular

director until after Catherine's death, in 1976.

達什柯娃便告了兩年假，但仍掛名為科學院院長。

24. two-week preparation class. 為期兩周的預(yù)備班

25. the third-person narrator. 第三人稱敘述者。

26. During the early?13-day?flight where the shuttle docked with the International

Space Station and traveled 5.3 million miles, Mike and fellow crew member Piers

Selllers made three spacewalks that lasted about 21 hours.

在近 13 天的航行中，發(fā)現(xiàn)號航天飛機與國際空間站對接，共航行 530 萬英里，

邁克和他的機組同事皮爾斯.塞勒斯進行了 3 次太空行走，共持續(xù)約 21 個小時。

27. The following day, I took?a two-hour drive?along the coast to Galle.

第二天，我沿著海岸駕車兩小時來到加勒。

28. our four-bedroom apartment. 我們的公寓有四個房間。

29. three-mam commission. 三人委員會。

詞 匯 積 累

1.?genius?n 天才，天賦；精神

a. I haven't had one second of genius in my entire life. it's really the difference

between perseverance in my case and genius.

一生中都沒有一秒靈光乍現(xiàn)的時刻，這就是我這樣的勤奮和天才之間的差距。

b. genius of observation and deduction. 善長的觀察推理能力。

2.?geography?n 地理；地形

The two were separated by geography again for some months.

他們倆再次分開了幾個月。

3.?gesture?n 姿態(tài)；手勢

a. Does that strike you as a big gesture or a little gesture?

你們認為這是大動作還是小動作？

b. It's a gesture of goodwill. 友好之舉。

4.?ghost?n 鬼，幽靈

a. a ghost town.鬼城。

b. see a ghost. 見鬼了。

5.?gift?n 禮物；天賦；贈品

gift shop. 禮品店。