一、试译下列各句,注意根据right在句中的词类来确定它的词义:
1.it is not right for children to sit up late.
2.The plane was right above our heads.
3.In the negative, right and left, and black and white are reversed.
4.She tried her best to right her husband from the charge of robbery.
二、试译下列各句,注意根据上下文及搭配关系来确定斜体词的词义:
(1) account for:
1. He is ill; that accouts for his absence.
2. In this battle he accounted for five of the enemy.
3. I want you to account for every cent you spent.
(2) make up:
1. If the stove isn’t made up, it will go out.
2. There isn’t any girl called Clementine. He’s just made her up.
3. Half the roads in the region are still to be made up.
4. Society is made up of people with widely differing abilities.
5. It took Laurence Oliver more than an hour to make up for the part of “Othello”.
6. They made up a bed on the sofa for the unexpected visitor.
7. We have to drive fast to make up the hour we lost in Boston.
(3) figure:
1. The foreign trade has risen to unprecedented figures.
2. Dr. Eliot was one of the most revered figures in the world of learning.
3. On the desk there was a bronze figure of Plato.
4. He saw dim figures moving towards him.
5. June was good at figure skating.
三、试译下列各句,注意根据上下文及逻辑关系对斜体词做进一步引申:
1. There was no provocation for such an angry letter.
2. Fatty’s Restaurant had become an institution in his life in the last seven years.
3. The trunk was big and awkward and loaded with books. But his case was a different proposition.
4. The wedding, which Heyward still remembered with pride was attended by a Who’s Who of Boston Society.
5. The invention of machinery had brought into the world a new era -- the Industrial Age. Money had become King.
四、试译下列各句,注意根据上下文来确定斜体词的褒贬:
1. It was mid-August and the subject for discussion was the future of Rommel(隆美尔) and his Africa Corps.
2. They predicted the youth would have a bright future.
3. John was an aggressive salesman who did his job quite well.
4. Hitler pursued an aggressive policy after he seized power.
5. Hans was too obviously flattering the gentleman by saying he was the most courageous man he had ever seen.
6. Mr. Brown felt greatly flattered when he received the invitation to deliver a lecture.