大学英语（二）

1. A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they haven't.

2. His first impulse is to jump back and warn the others, but he knows the commotion would frighten the cobra into striking.

Impulse n. sudden wish to do sth.

1. Out of the corner of his eye, he sees the cobra emerge and make for the bowl of milk.

Make for: move towards

1. There was still a noticeable bounce in her stride, but whatever springiness I had once possessed had long since left me.

Stride 大步；Springiness 轻快

1. He believed that it is better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood.

Magistrate 地方行政官；Discrimination the act of making or perceiving a difference

1. In fact, the admiration they have for him borders on worship.

Border: 接近，近似

1. He had infinite patience and tolerance for those who disagreed with him. 无限的

2. Four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, where they struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main road. 灌木

3. He looked at me with an air of surprised disapproval, as a colonel might look at a private whose bootlaces were undone.

Colonel 上校；Private soldier of the lowest rank

1. The narrow, sunless hall smelled unpleasantly of stale cabbage. not fresh

2. I was dismayed at the thought of teaching algebra and geometry. make discouraged or afraid

3. He won the Nobel Prize for his Photoelectric Theory, a series of equations that he considered relatively minor in importance, but he didn't have any curiosity in observing how his theory made TV possible.

4. He never could understand why he received his attention, why he was singled out as something special.

5. In the process they liberate oxygen, which is also necessary for all animal life. 释放，解救，解放

6. In all likelihood, it will continue to rise and do so at a greater rate in the course of the next hundred years. almost certainly

7. To blame are two factors.

8. These factories can make use of the properties of space—high and low temperatures, lots of good vacuum and no gravity. 真空

9. I'd sweated through my share of stab wounds of the belly, of punctured lungs, of compound fractures. 复合性骨折

10. I knew that when I was out in practice I would inevitably err at one time or another and operate on someone who didn't need surgery or sit on someone who did.

    Sit on: delay taking action on; do nothing about

11. He needs it to encourage him in trying moments when he's bothered by the doubts and uncertainties that are part of the practice of medicine.

    Trying: hard to endure or bear; very difficult

12. As a 50-something mother of grown children,

13. Back in the mid-1990s, when her own daughter was addicted to drugs and her young grandchildren faced foster care, Armstead got custody of the three boys and one girl.

    Foster 收养，领养；Custody the legal right to take care of a child

14. Armstead's insides were turning over, but she knew she couldn't show her fear.

15. Angela Dawson had waged her own battle against a different set of drug pushers—and lost.

    Wage: start and continue (a war or fight)

16. They prompted the city and local churches to step up efforts to redevelop abandoned houses. 促使，推动，激励

17. According to a recent poll, 民意测验

18. Proctors asked each student to produce an ID card with an attached photo. 监考人

19. The campus newspaper editorial said, "Like police arresting speeders, the intent is not to catch anyone but rather to catch enough to spread the word." 社论

20. There is some evidence that dishonesty may ebb and flow.（潮）退，低落，衰退

21. Distrust can be contagious. tending to spread easily from person to person

22. They understood instinctively that integrity means having a personal standard of morality and ethics that does not sell out to expediency and that is not relative to the situation at hand. Integrity is an inner standard for judging your behavior. Unfortunately, integrity is in short supply today—and getting scarcer.

    Integrity 正直；Expediency 方便，私利

23. Inevitably they will do everything they can to preserve this façade. 外观

24. A life of principle, of not succumbing to the seductive sirens of an easy morality, will take you forward into the 21st century without having to check your tracks in a rearview mirror.

    Succumb 屈从；Seductive 诱惑的；Siren 妖艳女人

25. I received a kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took. natural ability or skill

26. All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent. self-satisfied; pleased with oneself

27. and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles.

    Divine coming from God; sacred；Oracle 圣言，神谕

28. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. 木匠

29. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. complicated

30. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think, to use the "scientific method," and to explore the deep inner logic of the subject in a pedantic way.

    feed up with 厌烦；pedantic 学究式的

31. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellows the warm sunshine of praise.

    Only too: very

32. She's not much of a linguist, but she does know how to say one word—"beautiful"—in several languages.

    Not much of a: not very good

33. It's strange how chary we are about praising. careful; cautious

34. His mood seemed thunderous.