高考As their world expanded, she said, children compared themselves to others online in a way that was "hugely damaging in terms of their self-identity, in terms of their confidence, but also in terms of their ability to develop themselves".

她说，随着世界的扩大，孩子们在网上与他人进行比较的方式“在自我认同、自信和自我发展能力方面都具有巨大的破坏性”。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级The ability to sleep in one chunk (整块时间) overnight goes down as we age but the amount of sleep we need to function well does not change," Dr Drummond told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Diego

一块睡的能力(整块时间) 夜间睡眠随着年龄的增长而减少，但我们需要的睡眠量并没有改变，”Drummond博士在圣地亚哥举行的美国科学进步协会会议上说

2011年6月阅读原文

四级As a result, they will help improve your ability to think.

因此，它们将有助于提高你的思考能力。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walk ability and transit oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successfu

报告说，美国的城市化将继续是影响工业的最重要的问题，因为全国的城市模仿步行能力和以交通为导向的发展，使得像纽约和旧金山这样的城市成为成功者。

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

认知衰退是指随着年龄的增长，学习新技能或回忆单词、姓名和面孔的能力的丧失。

2016年6月听力原文

六级At the moment candidates are selected on a fairly narrow set of criteria such as prior academic and career performance, and analytical and problem solving abilities.

目前，选择候选人的标准相当狭窄，比如之前的学术和职业表现，以及分析和解决问题的能力。

2011年6月阅读原文

六级But, for most people, lying gets limited as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.

但是，对大多数人来说，随着我们道德感和自我调节能力的发展，撒谎变得有限。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级However, they're more cautious about sharing information with nonmembers, as the organization guards against others developing the ability to hiJack and take control of their satellites.

然而，他们在与非成员共享信息时更为谨慎，因为该组织防范其他人发展劫持和控制其卫星的能力。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Studies have found obesity is associated with impairments in cognitive functioning, as assessed by a range of learning and memory tests, such as the ability to remember a list of words presented some minutes or hours earlier.

研究发现，肥胖与认知功能受损有关，这是通过一系列学习和记忆测试评估的，例如记忆几分钟或几小时前出现的单词列表的能力。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级Yet like many college teachers around the U.S., the faculty remain doubtful that their work as educators can be measured by a "learning outcome" such as a graduate's ability to investigate and reason.

然而，和美国许多大学教师一样，教师们仍然怀疑他们作为教育工作者的工作是否可以用“学习成果”来衡量，比如毕业生的调查和推理能力。

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

考研A more practical goal is to try, to the best of your ability, to be as tolerant and composed as you can when faced with trying situations involving your children.

一个更实际的目标是，在面对涉及孩子的艰难处境时，尽你最大的能力，尽量做到宽容和沉着。

2020年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

考研Even as we humans count on forests to soak up a good share of the carbon dioxide we produce, we are threatening their ability to do so.

即使我们人类指望森林吸收我们产生的大量二氧化碳，我们也在威胁他们这样做的能力。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考As the smallest child of his family, Alex is always longing for the time when he should be able to be independent.

作为家中最小的孩子，亚历克斯总是渴望自己能够独立的时间。

2015年高考英语陕西卷 单项填空 原文

高考She was able to transfer her new wisdom to other parts of her life as well.

她也能将她的新智慧转移到生活的其他方面。

2015年高考英语福建卷 完形填空 原文

四级Furthermore, students will be able to purchase sections of the text instead of buying the whole thing, with individual chapters costing as little as $

此外，学生将能够购买课文的各个部分，而不是购买整个内容，每个章节的成本仅为$

2013年6月阅读原文

四级He stood out in three ways－as a technologist, as a corporate （公司的）leader and as somebody who was able to make people love what had previously been impersonal, functional gadgets.

他在三个方面脱颖而出——作为一名技术专家，作为一名公司(公司的）作为一个领导者，他能够让人们喜欢上以前不受人欢迎的功能性小玩意。

2012年12月阅读原文

四级"As what happened with tobacco, this will require a cultural shift, but that can happen," says Nguyen. "In the same way physicians used to smoke, and then stopped smoking and were able to talk to patients about it,I think physicians can have a bigger voic

Nguyen说：“正如烟草所发生的那样，这需要文化的转变，但这是可以实现的。”就像医生过去吸烟，然后戒烟，并能和病人谈论它一样，我认为医生可以有更大的voic

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级If a team manager exemplifies such qualities, then the team as a whole would be better able to realize their potential and achieve their objectives.

如果团队管理者能够举例说明这些品质，那么整个团队将能够更好地发挥他们的潜力并实现他们的目标。

2015年12月听力原文

六级This form of "self- governance" is possible within long-standing amateur organizations that, over time, arc able to build a sense of responsibility to community members, as well as society in general.

这种形式的“自治”在长期存在的业余组织中是可能的，随着时间的推移，这些组织能够建立对社区成员以及整个社会的责任感。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级within their compact bodies these minute satellites are able to house sensors and communications receivers/ transmitters that enable operators to study Earth from space, as well as space around Earth.

这些微型卫星在其紧凑的机身内能够容纳传感器和通信接收器/发射器，使运营商能够从太空以及地球周围的太空研究地球。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研However， Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind， and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone， in reality we are continually faced with a question： “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that？ ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire， Allen concluded ： “ We do not attract what we want， but what we are.

然而，艾伦认为，潜意识产生的行动与意识产生的行动一样多，虽然我们可能能够通过意识维持控制幻觉，但实际上我们不断面临一个问题：“为什么我不能让自己做这件事或实现那件事？”因为欲望和意志会受到艾伦总结道：“我们吸引的不是我们想要的，而是我们自己。”。

2011年考研翻译原文

考研But as adults we also have the luxury of being able to control our own diaries and it's important that we schedule in time to enjoy the thing we love.

但作为成年人，我们也有能力控制自己的日记的奢侈，重要的是我们要及时安排时间来享受我们喜欢的东西。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Some might see the proposal as a boo by prize for the fact that Britain is no longer be able to apply for the much more prestigious title of European capital of culture, a sough-after award bagged by Glasgow in 1990 and liverpool in 2008.

有些人可能会把这项提议看作是一个不折不扣的奖励，因为英国已经无法再申请更具声望的“欧洲文化之都”称号，这一称号是1990年格拉斯哥和2008年利物浦分别获得的。

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.

随着经济复苏，对有抱负的领导人来说，机会将比比皆是。

2011年考研阅读原文

高考Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

美国人每人每年只吃大约15磅的鱼，但我们在餐馆里吃的鱼是在家里的两倍。

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders.

作为孩子，我们很少考虑这些教育奇迹。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考As I sat in my own personal heaven, I started thinking about having more.

当我坐在自己的天堂里时，我开始考虑拥有更多。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读表达 原文

高考As shown here, Lainey can become excited about reading when presented with literature on topics that interest her, and when the people around her model involvement in the reading process.

如图所示，当莱尼看到有关她感兴趣的主题的文学作品时，当她周围的人参与到阅读过程中时，她会对阅读感到兴奋。

2016年高考英语四川卷 完形填空 原文

高考At first Robert wouldn't let his daughter go diving, but eventually he gave in as she was so confidence about her skills.

起初罗伯特不让他的女儿去潜水，但最终他让步了，因为她对自己的技术如此自信。

2018年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

高考At space camp, trainees can earn their space exploration badge as they build and fire model rockets, learn about space tasks and try simulated (模拟) flying to space with the crew from all over the world.

在太空营，学员可以在建造和发射火箭模型、学习太空任务和尝试模拟太空时获得太空探索徽章(模拟) 与来自世界各地的机组人员一起飞往太空。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles about 515 kilometers long was seen near cincinnati.

直到1870年，当它们的数量已经变少时，在辛辛那提附近发现了一只宽1英里、长320英里、长约515公里的羊群。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in seattle, I used tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students.

五年前，当我在西雅图的一所学校教艺术时，我在学期开始时用tinkertoys作为测试来了解我的学生。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考For hill, it is impossible not to talk about China as the leading player when discussing fashion.

对希尔来说，在讨论时尚时，不可能不谈论中国是领先者。

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Hearing these stories, I'm skeptical about the place — other destinations are described as "purer" natural experiences.

听到这些故事，我对这个地方持怀疑态度——其他目的地被描述为“更纯粹”的自然体验。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

四级The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.

希腊人提出的古代哲学的好处在于，他们倾向于以一种我们往往看不到今天生活的方式，把生活看得清晰而完整。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.

康涅狄格大学健康中心的研究人员向居民们询问了他们的生活质量、情绪健康和社会交往以及设施的质量问题。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Long queues, delayed flights and over - crowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.

在英国，排长队、航班延误和机场人满为患几乎成了人们谈论的话题，就像传统上抱怨天气一样。

2016年6月听力原文

四级Informing students about the brain as a learning machine is a good strategy to enhance their motivation for learning.

让学生了解大脑是一台学习机器，这是增强他们学习动机的一个好策略。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education, explains Kevin Werbach, a gamification expert who teaches at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

Kevin Werbach解释道：“游戏化是指了解什么使游戏具有吸引力，以及游戏设计师如何在游戏中创造出色的体验，并将这些经验应用到工作场所和教育等其他环境中。”，在美国宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院任教的游戏化专家。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级At the beginning of seventh grade, we assessed the students' mind-sets by asking them to agree or disagree with statements such as Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can't really change.

在七年级开始时，我们评估了学生的心态，让他们同意或不同意这样的说法，比如你的智力是你最基本的东西，你不能真正改变。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

作为一个以写饮食为生的人，我不能告诉你比尔·佩里的第一件事，也不能告诉你他卖的啤酒是否那么好。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine: unpleasant, but necessary and good for you.

成年人在谈论学习时往往把它当作一剂良药：不愉快，但却是必要的，而且对你有益。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级They asked, Was it as good as American beef? It was very exciting for me to be on Japanese TV, speaking in Japanese about how delicious the beef was.

他们问，它和美国牛肉一样好吗？能在日本电视上用日语讲述牛肉的美味，我感到非常兴奋。

2015年12月听力原文

六级Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.

大多数美国父母说，只要他们努力学习，他们就不关心孩子的成绩。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级In fact, you may have heard about the new superbugs, which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.

事实上，你可能听说过新的超级细菌，它们是由于过量使用抗生素而产生的抗抗生素细菌。

2017年6月听力原文

六级Today's teenagers admire their parents and welcome parental guidance about important matters such as career choice—though certainly not Mom and Dad's advice on matters of personal taste, such as music or fashion.

今天的青少年敬佩父母，欢迎父母在职业选择等重要问题上的指导，当然也不欢迎父母在音乐或时尚等个人品味问题上的建议。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

普通挪威人的境况比普通美国公民好，但对气候变化的贡献约为普通美国公民的一半。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

你知道，当人们问我关于补充剂的事时，我喜欢告诉他们的第一件事是，很多补充剂被宣传为治疗你的记忆，但你的记忆不需要治疗。

2016年6月听力原文

六级This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.

这可能是不对的，但不承认这一点的离校生有可能在上大学时做出错误的决定。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

消费者对公司提供的产品越来越厌倦：埃森哲对28个国家的28000名消费者进行的调查发现，消费者对技术的热情已不如从前。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and Mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers must adhere to.

斯泰西将带你一步一步地成为一名社会工作者，米尔将告诉你一旦你获得了社会工作学位，你可以选择的范围，以及社会工作者必须遵守的高标准责任。

2016年12月听力原文

六级No one should have to live with what a Texas mother described as constant stress, tension, even fear about money.

任何人都不应该生活在德克萨斯州一位母亲所说的持续的压力、紧张甚至对金钱的恐惧之中。

2016年12月听力原文

六级At worst, they’ll think the messages about soda are the same as the messages about water.

在最坏的情况下，他们会认为关于苏打水的信息和关于水的信息是一样的。

2016年12月听力原文

考研So it seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation.

因此，在与创造力和创新相同的背景下谈论习惯似乎是截然相反的。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news.

也有关于新领养——和新单身——母亲桑德拉·布洛克的故事，以及通常的“詹妮弗·安妮斯顿怀孕”新闻。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研As a discovery claim works it through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the community’s credible discovery.

当发现主张在社区中发挥作用时，关于所涉及的科学和技术的共享和相互竞争的信念之间的互动和对抗将个人的发现主张转变为社区可信的发现。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研Stemming climate change, for example, is as much about changing consumption patterns and promoting tax acceptance as it is about developing clean energy.

例如，遏制气候变化既关乎发展清洁能源，也关乎改变消费模式和促进税收接受。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研During the late 1990s，national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

在20世纪90年代末，国家在社会科学和人文科学方面的支出占所有研究和发展基金（包括政府、高等教育、非营利组织和企业）的比例从4%到25%不等；在大多数欧洲国家，这一比例约为15%。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.

与以往一样，过去掌握着未来的关键：我们现在已经确定了足够多的塑造地球和我们物种历史的长期模式，以便对我们后代将面临的情况做出基于证据的预测。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研Even the very phrase “jobseeker’s allowance” is about redefining the unemployed as a “jobseeker” who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.

即使是“求职者津贴”这个词也意味着将失业者重新定义为一个“求职者”，他或她没有通过缴纳国家保险金获得福利的基本权利。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研As much as some scientists may complain about the new awards, two things seem clear.

尽管一些科学家可能会抱怨新的奖项，但有两件事似乎很清楚。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed.

正如《自然》杂志此前指出的那样，人们对新旧科学奖的分配方式存在一些合理的担忧。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研Airborne technologies, such as different types of radar and photographic equipment carried by airplanes or spacecraft, allow archaeologists to learn about what lies beneath the ground without digging.

机载技术，如飞机或宇宙飞船携带的不同类型的雷达和摄影设备，使考古学家无需挖掘就能了解地下的东西。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研“We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,” says one researcher.

一位研究人员表示：“我们估计，要么消除童工等重大劳动权利问题，要么将企业捐赠增加20%左右，其罚款通常比贿赂外国官员的典型惩罚低40%。”。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研This type of integrity requires well-enforced laws in government transparency, such as records of official meetings, rules on lobbying, and information about each elected leader’s source of wealth.

这类廉洁要求政府透明度方面的法律得到严格执行，如官方会议记录、游说规则以及每位当选领导人的财富来源信息。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研"We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials," says one

“我们估计，要么消除大量劳工权利问题，如童工，要么将企业捐赠增加20%左右，结果导致罚款通常比贿赂外国官员的典型惩罚低40%，”一位官员表示

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研As a discovery claim works its way through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual's discovery claim into the community's credible discove

随着发现主张在社区中的传播，关于所涉及的科学和技术的共享和相互竞争的信念之间的互动和对抗将个人的发现主张转变为社区的可信发现

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研As Koziatek knows, there is learning in just about everything.

正如科齐亚特克所知，几乎每件事都有学习的机会。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendant will find themselv

正如经常发生的那样，过去掌握着未来的关键：我们现在已经确定了足够多的塑造地球和我们物种历史的长期模式，以便对我们的后代将如何找到自己做出基于证据的预测

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研British Land Art as shown in this well selected, but relatively modestly scaled exhibition wasn't about imposing on the landscape, more a kind of landscape-orientated light conceptual art created passing through.

在这次精心挑选但规模相对适中的展览中所展示的英国陆地艺术并不是为了给风景画增色，而是一种以风景为导向的光线概念艺术。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研During the late 1990s, national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate-varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, i

在20世纪90年代末，国家在社会科学和人文科学方面的支出占所有研究和发展基金（包括政府、高等教育、非营利组织和企业）的比例从4%到25%不等；在大多数欧洲国家，我

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Even the very phrase "jobseeker's allowance" is about redefining the unemployed as a "jobseeker" who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.

即使是“求职者津贴”这个词也意味着将失业者重新定义为一个“求职者”，他或她没有通过缴纳国家保险金获得福利的基本权利。

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考As one would expect, his writing is mostly clear and, to be fair, some chapters stand out above the rest.

正如人们所期待的，他的写作基本上是清晰的，公平地说，有些章节比其他章节更突出。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

高考It ran for just under seven kilometers and allowed people to avoid terrible crowds on the roads above as they travelled to and from word.

它运行了不到7公里，使人们在往返世界各地时能够避开上面道路上可怕的人群。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

四级As the water is pumped out, the vacant space left is compacted by the weight of the earth above.

当水被抽出来时，剩下的空地被上面的泥土的重量压实了。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination ( ' , 终极) of their classical education.

从16世纪末开始，年轻贵族们在巴黎、威尼斯、佛罗伦萨，尤其是罗马，作为他们的巅峰之地，成为一种时尚，终极) 他们的古典教育。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie ( ' , 环保主义者), but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.

正如你可能想象的那样，这句话并不是出自一种老套的拥抱树木的方式，即“拯救世界”，环保主义者), 但是来自戈登·布朗，一位以严谨、彻底和最重要的是谨慎著称的政治家。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Even today, says the legend, the girls can be seen above the towering rock as seven shining stars in the night sky.

传说中说，即使在今天，这些女孩仍然可以在高高的岩石上看到，就像夜空中七颗闪亮的星星。

2016年12月听力原文

六级However,while talking is largely subconscious and rapid, writing is deliberate and slow, Over time,writers took advantage of this and started crafting long-winded sentences such as this one:The whole engagement lasted above 12 hours, till the gradual retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and……" No one talks like that casually — or should

然而，尽管谈话主要是潜意识的，而且速度很快，写作却很缓慢，随着时间的推移，作家们利用这一点，开始构思像这样冗长的句子：整个约定持续了12个小时以上，直到波斯人逐渐撤退，变成了无序的逃跑，其中主要领导人举了一个可耻的例子，并且……“没有人会这样随便说话——或者应该这样

2014年6月阅读原文

六级As noted above, indifferent relationships may not always be the most helpful approach in resolving some of the issues that pop up at work.

如上所述，在解决工作中出现的一些问题时，冷漠的关系可能并不总是最有帮助的方法。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级As Vaclav Smil points out, "All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that

正如瓦茨拉夫·斯米尔（Vaclav Smil）所指出的，“上述所有预测、计划和预期都失败得如此惨烈，因为它们的作者和发起人认为，他们希望实现的转型将不同于以往所有的能源转型，而且

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice,Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination (终极) of their classical education.

从十六世纪末开始，年轻贵族们在巴黎、威尼斯、佛罗伦萨，尤其是罗马，作为他们的巅峰之地，成为一种时尚(终极) 他们的古典教育。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Even the children who had above average self-control as pre-schoolers could have benefited from more self-control training.

甚至那些在学龄前阶段自控能力高于平均水平的孩子也可以从更多的自控能力训练中获益。

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie 环保主义者, but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.

正如你可能想象的那样，这句话并不是出自一种老套的拥抱树木的方式，即拯救世界环保主义者, 但是来自戈登·布朗，一位以严谨、彻底和最重要的是谨慎著称的政治家。

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研When public opinion is particularly polarised, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above “mere” politics and “embody” a spirit of national unity.

当公众舆论特别两极分化时，就像佛朗哥政权结束后那样，君主可以超越“纯粹”的政治，“体现”民族团结的精神。

2015年考研阅读原文

考研When public opinion is particularly polarized, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above "mere" politics and "embody" a spirit of national unity.

当公众舆论特别两极分化时，就像佛朗哥政权结束后那样，君主可以超越“纯粹”的政治，“体现”民族团结精神。

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研The music is abrupt and seemingly disconnected, as in the last piano sonata.

音乐是突然的，似乎是断断续续的，就像最后一首钢琴奏鸣曲一样。

2014年考研翻译原文

四级In the absence of societal pressures to maintain pair-bonds, O'Sullivan suggests that romantic love has increasingly come to be seen as the factor that should determine who we stay with and for how long.

在没有维持夫妻关系的社会压力的情况下，O'Sullivan认为，浪漫的爱情越来越被视为决定我们与谁相处以及相处多久的因素。

2013年6月阅读原文

考研We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

我们还没有土地伦理，但我们至少已经接近承认鸟类应该作为一种固有权利继续存在的程度，不管我们是否拥有经济优势。

2010年考研翻译原文

考研This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International ,shield thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.

shield认为，同样的道德目标缺失伤害了新闻国际（News International）等公司，这使得它更有可能迷失方向，就像广泛存在的非法电话窃听一样。

2015年考研阅读原文

考研This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, she thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.

她认为，同样的道德目的缺失也伤害了新闻国际（News International）等公司，使其更有可能迷失方向，就像广泛存在的非法电话窃听一样。

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级We do our absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal.

我们尽全力写一篇文章，尽可能接近理想。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级We do our absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal.

我们尽全力写一篇文章，尽可能接近理想。

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

考研France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for women.

以全球时尚创新者而自豪的法国已经决定，其时尚产业已经失去了为女性定义形体美的绝对权利。

2016年考研阅读原文

六级When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

当这些水用于农业灌溉时，农民有可能吸收致病细菌，生吃和未洗农产品的消费者也是如此。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研Helping forests flourish as valuable "carbon sinks" long into the future may require reducing their capacity to absorb carbon now.

帮助森林在未来长期繁荣成为有价值的“碳汇”可能需要降低它们吸收碳的能力。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.

这项研究对2000多名年龄在18岁至60岁之间的健康成年人进行了跟踪调查。研究发现，某些心理功能，包括抽象推理、思维速度和解谜等，早在27岁时就开始变得迟钝。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

正如您从标题和摘要中所看到的，今天讲座的目的是更详细地探讨中小企业面临的问题，这些问题至少部分是由于必须适应技术的快速发展。

2016年12月听力原文

六级The purpose of today's lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

正如您从标题和摘要中所看到的，今天讲座的目的是更详细地探讨中小企业面临的问题，这些问题至少部分是由于必须适应技术的快速发展。

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研Indeed, there is something a little absurd in the state getting involved in the planning of such a fundamentally "grassroots", concept as community sports associations.

事实上，国家参与社区体育协会这一基本“草根”概念的规划有点荒谬。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ