Passage Thirty-three (Importance of a Computer)As citizens of advanced but vulnerable economies, we must either relentlessly increase the quality of o...
17.a rat-race 激烈的竞争18.shrug off 对耸肩表示不19.屑一理，20.轻视，21.摆脱22.spotless 无污点的，23.纯洁的24.shed 摆脱，25.抛弃26.annihilate 歼灭27.bequeath 赠送，28.把传给后代29.sanity 头脑清醒健全...
Passage Thirty-two (The Young Generation)Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation ...
难句译注1.Thus Europe was divided in every which way, the southern and eastern two-thirds still Catholic, the northern and western one-third what was comi...
Passage Thirty-one (The Causes of European Separation in 16th Century)For a thousand years and more, the people of Europe had fought about many things...
19.talc 滑石20.lampblack 灯黑，21.灯烟22.acacia 阿拉伯树胶，23.金合欢胶24.dragons blood 龙血树脂，25.麒麟血26.sparingly 少量的，27.节约的28.novice 新手，29.初学者30.cellulose tape 纤维带，31.指...
Passage Thirty (Fingerprints)The search for latent prints is done in a systematic and intelligent manner. Investigators develop techniques to locate t...
Vocabulary1.conscientious 认真的，2.真心实意的3.maniac 疯狂的，4.疯子5.preposterous 反常的，6.荒谬的7.quibble 狡辩，8.摸棱两可难句译注1. the inferiority complex 自卑情绪，指一种由自悲感引起的复杂心理状态，...
Passage Twenty- nine (Men Are Carrying on a Sex-fight)This is supposed to be an enlightened age, but you wouldn’t think of if you could heat wha...
Vocabulary1. Arrhenius equation 阿雷尼厄斯方程式2. Arrhennius (Svante August) 1859——1927 瑞典理化学家。1903年获诺贝尔化 学奖3. quantum-mechanical effect 量子机械效应4....