英语3翻译+15选10

英语

第一单元

When I think of people in this world who have really made a difference, I think of my parents. They were truly saints among ordinary people.

I was one of the ten children my parents adopted. They rescued（挽救） each of us from a life of poverty（贫穷） and loneliness（孤独）. They were hardly able to restrain（克制） themselves from bringing home more children to care for. If they had had the resources（资源） they certainly would have.

Most people do not realize how much they appreciated （感激） someone until they pass away（大多数人都不知道他们有多么感激一个人，直到那个人去世）. My sisters and brothers and I did not want this to happen before we uttered（说） the words \（我的妹妹和弟弟和我都不想在我们对父母说谢谢你之前让这件事

发生）.

Although we have all grown up and scattered（散落） about the country, we got back together to thank our parents. My brother Tom undertook（从事，承担） the task of organizing the event. Every Friday night, Mom and Dad

have had the ham dinner special at the same restaurant for the last twenty years. That is where we waited without their knowing. When we first caught a glimpse

（瞥一眼） of them coming across the street, we all hid

underneath（在?之下） a big table. When they entered, we leapt（跳出来） out and shouted, \you, Mom and Dad.\My brother Tom presented （提供）them with a card

（办法,手段,妙计） and we all hugged（拥抱）. My Dad

pretended（假装） that he had known we were under the table all along.

1.无论你是多么富有经验的演说家，无论你做了多么充分的准备，你都很难在这样嘈杂招待会上发表演讲（no matter how）

No matter how experienced a speaker you are, and how well you have prepared your speech, you will have difficulty making a speech at such a noisy reception.

2.就像吉米妹妹的朋友都关心吉米一样，吉米也关心他们(just as )

Just as all his sister’s friends cared about him, Jimmy cared about them.

3.汽车的生产商在新车的几处都印有汽车识别号码，以便帮助找回被盗车辆

Car manufacturers stamp a vehicle identification

number at several places on new cars to help track down stolen vehicles.

4.老师回来时你敢告我状的话，我就不再和你说话了

If you daretell on me when the teacher gets back I won’t say a word to you any more.

5.有些老年人愿意独自过日子，但大多数老人选择和儿女一起生活

Some elderly people prefer to live on their own while the great majority choose to live with their children.

6.现在需要面对的事情是：如何筹集创建公司所需的资金

Here is something that needs to be reckoned with: how to get the necessary finances to establish the company. 第三单元

While many private schools are focusing more on values（重视）, public schools are moving toward testing standards. The national government demands（需要） academic（学术上的） success and tests are taken as a key measurement（量度； 份量，尺寸；） for a school's performance（表现）. Schools with low test scores face penalties（惩罚） such as a reduction（减少） in money to run（经营） their schools. And, even individual teachers are being graded on（分级） how they're preparing their students for these tests.\

We have concentrated（集中的，全神贯注的） too much on teaching the kids how to take these tests,\（评论） one elementary school teacher（初中老师）. \should be providing a more comprehensive（综合的，全面的） curriculum （课程） to these kids. We should be cultivating（改善，培养） leadership and curiosity（领导能力和好奇心）. Unfortunately, there is never time.\One school principal remarked（重要的评论）,\true that it would be beneficial（有益的） to our kids if they were getting better scores on the

subjects being tested. The trouble is that in poorer areas of the city like ours, kids start school less equipped（被装备） to perform（工作）well. We have many obstacles（障碍）to overcome（战胜，压倒） before we can teach them basic subjects. All schools are not alike（同样地） , so they shouldn't be tested that way.\The goal is to improve performance in schools that are not providing（提 供） their students with tools for success,\（承认）, however, that he is having a hard time convincing faculty（说服全体教职员工） and teachers this plan will work.