pitfall 意外的挫折和困难/ F2 X) O0 F' _
pit boss 赌场老板
0 H& ]! E7 L5 ^3 l# n( F8 m( ~. GI venture to buy some stocks( vi.) joint venture 合资企业! r1 Y. [3 x& _5 l$ k# S; u! _
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.+ F0 j7 s+ A0 o) ^4 y9 _9 i
I'm bogged/troubled/plunged/sunk.
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- \& H% a4 _2 i1 IThis is a skeptical age, but(1+3) although(2+3)(2个连词并列,至少出现3个
! [* I1 s& ] Q; y+ k动词) our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently
- E' d9 z- Y! d0 e6 `4 Hbelieved has weakened, our confidence in the curative properties=effects
/ U* D! B3 a' I2 k& [. l/ X+ I8 F: {治疗特点of the bottle of medicine remains the same as theirs(指代confidence).
# B# F2 H0 q. o6 p2 c! [ This modern faith in medicines(all kinds of medicine) is proved by the fact
4 B5 p: |( I$ g3 l: _1 t; pthat the annual drug bill of the Health Services卫生部 is mounting to astronomical
- X+ x! [) \$ z0 Rfigures天文数字 and shows no signs (at present插入语) of ceasing to rise(=stopping
5 b) Q8 M. q7 Y+ L/ Q% xrising, cease +to do or doing is the same ). The majority of the patients
. ^4 Y: G* [, o1 B4 P3 zattending就诊(I am attending the hospital 看病) the medical out-patients - o$ k& ^& A3 A& T) u8 [/ y
departments门诊 of our hospitals feel that they have not received adequate
1 P0 I1 v' d5 X3 z# Z$ `7 l. t$ Qtreatment unless they are able to carry home with them some tangible remedy ! h7 j9 R7 H, E: m" ]+ ?, U N
in the shape of (=in the form of )a bottle of medicine, a box of pills, or 8 e, o5 N: Y% h6 a8 a% X, }9 ?" |
a small jar of ointment, and the doctor in charge of the department主任医
8 P5 s4 x9 v9 q5 x' i6 a+ i生 is only too(有ONLY就不是too 的否定结构) ready to provide them with these ! R. |/ z% p# @0 Q* h
requirements. There is no quicker(no+比较级= 最高级) method of disposing
( A8 D; s' W, e; I1 I' [of patients 打发病人than by giving them what they are asking for, and since
% y8 ~" ~1 L& ?; o4 Vmost medical men医护人员 in the Health Services are overworked and have little s: Y c* p# x/ J7 V5 k
time for offering time-consuming (费力energy-comuming,money-consuming 浪费
& i( C- l5 r) {$ ~ _钱)and little-appreciated advice on such subjects内容 as diet,(=body-building健- b; L: [$ f* R" ?& V; s
身) right living,(=regular life) and the need for abandoning(=kick off/quit)
! y D8 I, w# \) ^# a# kbad habits, etc., the bottle, the box, and the jar are almost always granted
* A3 D, G3 M S1 N8 o7 Gthem. Nor引出例证 is it only the ignorant and ill-educated person who has
- w( q; T( r6 j1 hsuch faith in the bottle of medicine, especially if it be(省略了should,
$ |/ H+ K" c4 b K3 [! D虚拟) wrapped in white paper and sealed with a dab of red sealing-wax by 1 _% U1 W7 S+ @ E7 @# w
a clever chemist药剂师. It is recounted of Thomas Carlyle苏格兰历史学家,* u* R: P6 |' g; j1 T+ D1 V
散文家( 要加人要用of) that when he heard of听说,(了解到read of /know of/learn
% ]1 a' ^8 Z5 m; A% C7 p) Pof) the illness of his friend, Henry Taylor, he went off immediately to 1 K; [+ D+ y6 z P( {4 l1 z4 t
visit him, carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of
# m/ S5 j9 o% v! _( T2 c8 \medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs Carlyle's. (....of * s2 A. Q$ C( B+ S$ |: a
sb's 这种结构强调唯一性)Carlyle was entirely ignorant of what the bottle
1 j2 w0 z, @+ h! u( `3 Q% `2 Jin his pocket contained, of the nature of the illness from which his friend + R' r6 }- q2 B3 Q( N ~
was suffering,(得病) and of what had previously been wrong with his wife,
1 N0 J8 D1 z. T( g7 L" Ebut a medicine that had worked so well in one form of illness would surely ) J4 K( `" |* o, }& }' b
be of equal benefit (be of 具有=be benefical)in another, and comforted by ! [% {) e9 J: s5 r
the thought of the help he was bringing to his friend, he hastened to Henry
9 _# N, C' Q/ m; K- zTaylor's house. History does not relate whether his friend accepted his