2009年6月英语四级听力备战-听写训练(10)

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To make two long stories short, Mr.Ballou _ me a cent for cutting his grass that year or the next, but for fifteen years I taught _ at Dartmouth College.Summer reading was not the innocent entertainment I had_, not a light-hearted, instantly forgettable escape in a _ (though I have since enjoyed many of those, too).A book, if it arrives before you at the right moment, in the proper season, at an interval¹ in the daily business of things, will change the course of _ .

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答案：

1. never paid

2.anthropology²

3.assumed it to be

4. hammock

5.all that follows

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译文:长话短说,无论当年还是次年,Ballou先生分文未付我替他割草的工钱,但我在 Dartmouth大学教了十五年的人类学.盛夏的阅读并不是我原认为的仅仅是借以消磨时光的娱乐,也不是躺在吊床上无忧无虑、打开书就什么都忘记的一种消遣(虽然自从那个夏天以来我曾经多次以这种方式自娱自乐).一本书,如果在恰当的时候,恰当的季节,在日常事物的间歇中出现在你的面前,就会改变你此后的人生道路.

innocent:无罪的,清白的

例:He is innoent of the crime.他是无罪的.

do the innocent装糊涂

be innocent of a crime 无罪

assume: (1)假定,设想;(2)采用,占有

用法:

(1) assume接名词、不定式和that 从句.

(2)assuming at... 表示假定...的含义,引导条件状语从句.

1 interval   

n.间隔，间距；幕间休息，中场休息

参考例句：

• The interval between the two trees measures 40 feet.这两棵树的间隔是40英尺。
• There was a long interval before he anwsered the telephone.隔了好久他才回了电话。

2 anthropology   

n.人类学

参考例句：

• I believe he has started reading up anthropology.我相信他已开始深入研究人类学。
• Social anthropology is centrally concerned with the diversity of culture.社会人类学主要关于文化多样性。