中國(guó)石油職稱英語(yǔ)考試2013新版教材(電子版)

1、1.The Value of Time 時(shí)間的價(jià)值 時(shí)間的價(jià)值1.“Time“ says the proverb “is money“. This means that every moment well-spentmay put some money into our pockets. If our time is usefully employed, it willeither produce some useful and imp

2、ortant piece of work which will fetch its pricein the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities soas to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. There can thusbe no doubt that

3、 time is convertible into money. Let those who think nothing ofwasting time remember this; let them remember that an hour misspent is equivalentto the loss of a banknote; and that an hour utilized is tantamount to so muc

4、h silveror gold; and then they will probably think twice before they give their consentto the loss of any part of their time.1.諺語(yǔ)說(shuō)：“時(shí)間就是金錢(qián)。 ”這句話的意思是，一時(shí)片刻只要用得有效， 都會(huì)讓我們的口袋增添一些錢(qián)。如果我們的時(shí)間使用得當(dāng)，就能生產(chǎn)出有用 的、重要的產(chǎn)品，在市場(chǎng)上賣(mài)得一定的價(jià)錢(qián)；就能充實(shí)經(jīng)

5、驗(yàn)，增長(zhǎng)才干，等 到適當(dāng)?shù)臅r(shí)機(jī)來(lái)臨時(shí)，我們就能掙得金錢(qián)。因此，毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)，時(shí)間可以轉(zhuǎn)化 為金錢(qián)。讓那些對(duì)浪費(fèi)時(shí)間滿不在乎的人記住這一點(diǎn)。讓他們記住，浪費(fèi)一小時(shí)等于損失一張鈔票，而利用一小時(shí)就等于得到若干金銀。這樣，他們想 浪費(fèi)時(shí)間時(shí)或許會(huì)三思而后行。2. Moreover, our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is thereforea form of suicide.

6、 We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains,no trouble, and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent toloss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the

7、daysand of the hours we live. A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited.Let us bear this in mind, and waste of time will appear to us in the light of acrime as culpable as suicide itself.2.再說(shuō)，我們的生命無(wú)非就是我

8、們活在人世的時(shí)間。因此，浪費(fèi)時(shí)間也 就是一種自殺。我們想到死，便驚恐不已，因而不惜一切努力、麻煩和費(fèi)用來(lái)保全我們的生命?？墒?，我們對(duì)于損失一個(gè)小時(shí)或者一天的時(shí)間卻往往漠不關(guān)心、無(wú)動(dòng)于衷，忘記了我們的生命原本就是我們生活的每一天、每一小時(shí)的總和。因此，浪費(fèi)一天或一小時(shí)也就是喪失一天或一小時(shí)的生命。讓我們記住這一點(diǎn)，這樣就會(huì)把浪費(fèi)時(shí)間看作一種罪過(guò)，跟自殺一樣應(yīng)該受 到懲罰。3. There is a third consideration

9、which will also tend to warn us against lossof time. Our life is a brief span measuring some sixty or seventy years in all,but nearly one half of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spentover our meals;

10、some over dressing and undressing; some in making journeys on landand voyages by sea; some in merry-making, either on our own account or for thesake of others; some in celebrating religious and social festivities; some i

11、nwatching over the sick-beds of our nearest and dearest relatives. Now if all theseyears were to be deducted from the term over which our life extends, we shall findabout fifteen or twenty years at our disposal for activ

12、e work. Whoever remembersthis can never willingly waste a single moment of his life. “It is astonishing“says Lord Chesterfield, “that anyone can squander away in absolute idleness onesingle moment of that portion of time

13、 which is allotted to us in this world. Know1.Let's face it-English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren'tinvented in E

14、ngland nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies whilesweetbreads,which aren't sweet,are meat.1.讓我們接受現(xiàn)實(shí)吧--英語(yǔ)是一種瘋狂的語(yǔ)言。茄子（eggplant，字面意為雞蛋植物）里并沒(méi)有雞蛋，漢堡包（hamburger，字面意為火腿夾餅）里也沒(méi)有火腿。同樣，菠蘿（pineapple，字面意為松樹(shù)蘋(píng)果）里既沒(méi)有松鼠也

15、沒(méi)有蘋(píng)果。松餅（English muffin，字面意為英式松餅）并不是英國(guó)人發(fā)明的，而炸薯?xiàng)l（French fries，字面意為法式油炸食品）也不是法國(guó)人的發(fā)明。 “甜肉” （sweetmeat）指的是蜜餞，而“甜面包”（sweetbread）不是甜的，它指的是牛雜碎。2.We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes,we find thatquicksand

16、can work slowly,boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither fromGuinea nor is it a pig. And why it is that writers write but fingers don'tfing,grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural

17、of tooth is teeth,whyisn't the plural of booth beeth? If you have one goose,two geese,why not onemoose,two meese,or one index,two indices?2.我們理所當(dāng)然地接受了英語(yǔ)的一切，但是如果我們分析一下英語(yǔ)中似是而非的情況，我們馬上就會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)“快的沙子” （quicksand，流沙，也指陷阱，困境）往往

18、走得很慢， “拳擊的圓圈” （boxing rings，拳擊場(chǎng)）是方的， “幾內(nèi)亞豬” （guinea pig，天竺鼠）既不是來(lái)自幾內(nèi)亞，也不是豬。還有，既然名詞作家（writers）去掉詞尾的 rs 就可以成為動(dòng)詞“寫(xiě)作(write） ” ，那為什么名詞“手指” （fingers） 、雜貨店（grocers） 、錘子（hammers）去掉 rs 就不能成為各自相應(yīng)的動(dòng)詞呢？如果牙齒的復(fù)數(shù)是 teeth，那為什么售貨亭的復(fù)數(shù)不是 bee

19、th？一只鵝我們用 goose，兩只鵝用 geese，那么，一只駝鹿用 moose（單復(fù)數(shù)同形） ，兩只駝鹿就應(yīng)該是 meese 了？為什么一條索引是 index，兩條索引卻成了 indices？3.Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend,or that youcan comb through the annals of history b

20、ut not a single annal? If you have a bunchof odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,what do you call it?3.如果你賠償時(shí)只能賠償復(fù)數(shù)不能賠償單數(shù)，這是不是很莫名其妙？你可以梳理歷史的編年史，為什么卻不能復(fù)習(xí)某一個(gè)單個(gè)的編年史？如果你有一堆麻煩，那么在你把其他的都解決了只剩下一個(gè)的時(shí)候該怎么說(shuō)呢？ 4.If teac

21、hers taught,why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eatsvegetables,what does a humanitarian eat?4.如果教師教學(xué)是 taught，那為什么傳教士不是 praught？如果素食主義者（vegetarian）吃蔬菜（vegetable） ，那人道主義者（humanitarian）吃什么？5.Sometimes I think

22、all the English speakers should be committed to an asylumfor the verbally insane. In what other language do people recite at a play andplay at a recital; ship by truck and send cargo by ship; have noses that run andfeet