高英lesson 10 练习(2)

4. A money lender serves you in the present tense, lends you money in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjuncitve and ruins you in the future.

5. Therefore it is better to be a guest of the law, which, though conducted by rules, does not meddle unduly with a gentleman’s private affairs.

6. A motorcar went past the window. Ugly great lumbering thing, making all that racket. But there it was, the country rattling to the dogs.

7. His eyes came out of his head like a prawn’s and once more his moustache foamed up against his break-water of a nose.

8. The crowd hissed the speaker when he said taxies should be increased.

9. Large factories in China wish to be given a free hand in the right to hire and fire.

10. Two of the largest and most powerful nations of the world have since 1950 lived in insolated ignorance of one another and mutual fear and hate.

11. She was dressed in a maid’s cap, a pinafore, and in a bright smile.

12. If we try to implement these harebrained ideas(That English should be replaced by Hindi and the 15 recognized state languages), India will become a Tower of Babel. 13. At length with love and wine at once oppressed The vanquished victor sunk upon her breast.

14. During last year’s Central Park bicycle Race, five of the racers were attacked and had their bikes stolen while the race was in progress. This is something of a handicap in a bicycle race.

15. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.

16. Let us have faith that right makes might and dare to do our duty as we understand it. 17. He has the microwave smile that warms another person without heat.

18. All that week at lake it rained: sometimes it was big, shlow, single drops, making countless pockmarks on the surface of the water. Sometimes it was driving sheets of rain, racking across the beach in graceful waves. Sometimes it was a straight-down Niagara torrent so thick it blotted out everything but itself.

19. One of the greatest pleasures in life is simply to be treated as an individual. To speak and be heard; to ask and be helped.

20. On seeing him, the miserable creature fell upon his shoulder, sobbing and crying, and pointing to the fountain, where some women were stooping over the motionless bundle and moving gently about it.

21. “We would like very much to have you for dinner,” as the canibal said to the captured missionary.

22. What! Carelessly playing billiards when your father is dying? It’s fiddling while Rome is burning.

23.It is the concise portaint of an entire nation, high and low, old and young, male and female, lay and clerical, learned and ignorant, land and sea, town and coutnry, but without extremes.

24.There is also poverty, convincingly etcedin the statistics, and etched too, in the lives of people like Hortensia Cabrera, mother of 14, widow.

“Money,” she says, “is kind of tight. But I manage.”

25. Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.. 26. She is an ageing opera singer who has retired from the stage to teach. 27.A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. 28. What would houses and horses be to me without him.

29. Indeed, there are moments today-amid out-law litter, tax cheating, illicit noise and motorized

anarchy-when it seems as though the scoffow represents the wave of the future.

30. On one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

31. Some persons can be everywhere at home; others can sit musingly at home and can be everywhere.

32. Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

33. He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

34. A drop of ink may make a million think.

35. Liquor talks mighty loud when it get loose from the jug.

36. It is a pity that there is more ignorance than knowledge in the country.

37. The man who cannot be trusted to society what a bit of rotten timber is to a house. 38. Fasting comes after feasting.

39. The dock can accommodate the largest vessel.

40.His designs were strictly honourable, that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

41. A policeman said to a criminal, “You reckon your Dodge would help you up to all these dodges again.”.

42. It is much better to have a patched jacket than to have a patched character.

43.We find ourselves rich in good, but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling raucous discord on earth.

44. He is so mean, he won’t let his little baby have more than one measle at a time. 45. Red Star over Hong Kong. (-----Time, Jyly 14, 1997.) 46. And as he pluck’s the cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar followed.

47. The drunken driver drove bang into the store window. 48. From saving comes having.

49. He is preparing a paper on World Population for our next meeting.

50. Looking at Ruth Abbot, her husband, and Danny Ryon, he had the feeling that he had known them for a time that could not be measured in terms of minutes, our hours, or days or years, for those were standards that did not apply.

51.The most important lesson of all is that political wil matters even more than military skill.

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