基英综合教程2英译英

Unit1：

1.Mayblum would be one of thousands cast into an extraordinary purgatory that morning.

On that morning thousands of people in the WTC 2.The rumbles of the collapsing tower next door seemed to sap the heavyset man of his last gasps of energy.

Unit2：

1. And women,I ‘m embarrassed to admit ,even more than men ,have always seemed to be at the mercy of fashion.

2. It means trying on selves by taking up with different crowds.

Unit3:

1. But that took some doing on my part too.

2. …which hasn’t always been easy, given that I’m sometimes an actor wrapped up in his ego.

Unit5:

1. Here hobbled a bitterly disillusioned crippled, a man who held on to his sanity and his wife and his home and his job because of 14 miserable steps…

2. In the next few frozen seconds the shame and horror of that moment penetrated and I was sick with an intensity I had never felt before.

Unit6:

1. While that might not provide much to help them cope with their loss, it will make the children feel like their fathers make a difference.

2. A saying I once heard strikes a painful note in my head, ‘Even one war is too many.’

Unit7:

1. To lose, to fail, to go broke— these are deadly sins in a world where prosperity in the present is seen as a sure of salvation in the future.

2. It is important to recognize that human beings, despite

differences in class and educational labeling, are fundamentally hewn from the same material and knit together by common bonds of fear and joy, suffering and achievement. Warfare, sickness, disasters of life.

Unit8:

1. With the possible exception of another world war，a giant asteroid，or an incurable plague，global warming may be the

single largest threat to our planet.

2. As far as human health is concerned，those hit hardest will probably be residents of poorer countries that do not have funds to fend against changes in climate.

Unit9:

1. Jonathan swift seemed to think so when he attacked the idea of happiness as ‘the possession of being well一deceived，’…

2. The active discipline of heightening one’s perception of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high. Unit10:

1. They draw no distinctions and recognize no classes: they are merely American.

2. For two years he was a lowly peddler, hauling some 180 pounds of sundries door一to一door to eke out a marginal living.