出国留学首选一诺留学

　　词汇学习

　　1.assume v.假定，认为

　　Civilians assume, wrongly, that everything in themilitary runs smoothly.

　　老百姓以为军队中一切都运转正常，其实不然。

　　2.apparently adv.看来; 显然

　　She was taken to hospital, apparently amnesiac and shocked.

　　她被送往医院，好像是受了惊吓出现了失忆。

　　3.civilization n.文明，文化

　　Civilization is on the brink of apocalypse.

　　文明已濒临毁灭的边缘。

　　4.extend vt.& vi.延伸; 扩大

　　The new territory would extend over one-fifth of Canada's land mass.

　　这块新领土将会使加拿大陆地面积扩展1/5以上。

　　5.dullness n.枯燥无味; 沉闷

　　They enjoy anything that breaks the dullness of their routine life.

　　只要能打破他们日常刻板、沉闷的生活，任何事情他们都喜欢。

　　6.killjoy n.扫兴的人，煞风景

　　Don't be such a killjoy!

　　别那么扫兴!

　　7.dedicated adj.专注的，投入的; 献身的; 专用的

　　Virginia was still struggling to be a conscientious and dedicated mother.

　　弗吉尼娅还在尽力成为一位勤勤恳恳、全心奉献的母亲。

　　内容解析

　　1.I’ve always assumed that a week is made upof seven days because it’s based on the creationmyth of the book of Genesis which describesGod creating the world in that time.

　　made up of由…组成，由…构成

　　Food is made up of carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

　　食物由碳水化合物、蛋白质和脂肪构成。

　　2.But apparently the seven day week goes back much further to the ancient civilizationof Mesopotamia.

　　go back to追溯，回到

　　Let me just go back to the point I was making.

　　请允许我再回到我刚才所提的观点。

　　3.Plans to extend Sunday trading so that shops open for as long as any other day havejust ground to a halt in Parliament.

　　ground to a halt陷入停顿状态

　　The peace process has ground to a halt while Israel struggles to form a new government.

　　当以色列竭力组建新政府的时候，和平进程已经陷于停顿。

　　4.Christianity made Sunday its Sabbath, rather than Saturday, kept by the Jews, butthe new religion did adopt their Scriptures.

　　rather than而不是

　　The effect is soft and pretty rather than drop-dead sexy.

　　给人的印象是柔和俏丽而不是吸人眼球的性感。