EXERCISES 15
Ⅰ. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:
1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr get by observing Laura without her knowing it? What compliment does he pay her?
2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty? Was he always like that?
3) What effect does the moon and the cool water of the swimming pool have on him?
4) What kind of coastline does he like? Why?
5) Who is in charge of the lighthouse? Does he like his job?
6) Why does Edmund Carr like islands?
7) Why does he say: "God, is there no escape from suffering and sin? "
8) What is the 'green flash'?
Ⅱ. Paraphrase:
1) The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs
2) Or maybe Laura's unwitting influence has called it out.
3) Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane.
4) And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colours of sunsets!
5) I want my fill of beauty before I go.
6) Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.
7) there is a touch of rough poetry about him
8) I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence
appreciates9) I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonel's otherwise not very interesting mind.
10) This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.
Ⅲ.Translate the following into Chinese:
1) What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high alti tudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura's character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for
the discovery of the venturesome.
2) In all this serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little
flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves, 'the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, ' and doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does happen from time to time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range , lonely, unblemished, re mote. Does one like islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me suck a queer sensation to reflect that that island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral) and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me.
IV. Look up the dictionary for the following loan words. Try to find out from what languages they are borrowed and then put them into Chinese.
Model: creme de menthe-- (法) 薄荷酒
1) ad hoe 2) blitzkrieg
3) skoal 4) charg6 d'affairs
5) concerto 6) coup d'dtat
7) d6eor 8) detente
9) hors d oeurves 10) intermezzo
11) kimono 12) kowtow
13) kulak 14) macho
15) smorgasbord 16) status quo
17) fiesta 18) rajah
19) emir 20)eureka
Ⅴ.Make sentences with the following words using the parts of speech indicated in the brackets:
1) fill (v. n. ) 6) range (n. v. )
2) ripple (n. v. ) 7) beach (n. v. )
3) marble (n. v. ) 8) catch (v. n. )
4 ) pile (n. v. ) 9) hump (n. v. )
5) touch (v. n. ) 10) obscure (adj. v. )
Ⅵ.pick out from the text all the words and phrases describing colours.
Ⅶ.Replace t he italicized words with simple, everyday words or expressions"
1) and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner ( )
2) prefacing his remarks by 'Of course it's not for me to suggest to you' ( )
3) I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane. ( )
4) I once flattered myself that I was an adult man. ( )
5) or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach ( )
6) So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground ( )
7) Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent gleam of a lighthouse on a solitary promontory. ( )
8) which he imparts from time to time without insistence ( )
9) and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand ( )
10) We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill ( ) ( )
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