大学英语（四）

• A message printed on the bag offered leisurely, lucrative work of delivering more such bags. leisurely 从容地，慢慢地；lucrative 有利的，挣钱的

• Plastic bags have been filled and piled to the ceiling, but all this hasn't made a dent, not a dent, in the situation. make a dent in 取得初步进展，减少一点

• Your college sons must learn that one does not get the best out of employees by threatening them with bodily harm.

• The streets and roads were swiftly blanketed.

• I sat in my little box on wheels and saw the houses beginning to light up at teatime, especially when members of various families came out for ice cream and fled back happily in the gathering darkness to their own particular oasis of warmth and light.

• And hence slows down their expenditure of energy.

• He simply swallows the theory because there's something about it that appeals to the 20th century mentality.

• I only know that they are round and they may well be flat disks. may well not be: very likely not to 完全不可能；may well be: very likely to 完全可能

• This is a credulous age and the burden of knowledge which we now have to carry is partly responsible. credulous 轻信的

• Even in the midst of the excitement of recovery and the terrible fright through which each soul had journeyed, the other firefighter recognized the holiness of the moment and apologized.

• The requirements of honesty often seem drafted by greater needs.

• Ours is a profession which traditionally has been guided by a precept that transcends the virtue of ordering the truth for truth's sake, and that is as far as possible do no harm. transcend 超越；precept 戒律格言

• You know, you have to read between the lines to get the most out of anything. 体会字里行间的言外之意

• He invariably reads with a pencil. invariably unchangeable; constantly

• And I was earning barely enough money to keep body and soul together.

• Work, therefore, is desirable, first and foremost, as a preventive of boredom.

• Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run.