文档介绍：该【高级英语课文详解 】是由【ielbcztwz24384】上传分享，文档一共【43】页，该文档可以免费在线阅读，需要了解更多关于【高级英语课文详解 】的内容，可以使用淘豆网的站内搜索功能，选择自己适合的文档，以下文字是截取该文章内的部分文字，如需要获得完整电子版，请下载此文档到您的设备，方便您编辑和打印。Mark Twain suggested that an ingredient was missing in the America ambition when he said : what a robust pepole ,what a nation of thinkers we might be , lf we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges .
翻译：马克吐温觉得，美国式的抱负中缺少一个成分。他说：如果我们能偶然的彻底放松一下，使我们的棱角保持锋利，那么我们的民族将会是一个多么富有朝气，多么善于思考的民族啊。
ingredient 成分，原料， 因素，要素
eg: our skin cream contains only natural
ingredients .
我们的护肤霜只包含天然成分。
occasionally [əˈkeɪʒən(ə)li]
adv. 偶尔，间或；“occasional”的派生
eg: We occasionally meet for a drink after work. 我们下班后偶尔相聚小酌。
robust adj 1 强健的，强壮的
eg: she was almost 90, but still very robust
她将近90岁了，但身体仍然十分强健。
结实的，耐用的，坚固的
(体制或结构)强劲的，富有活力的
robust economic growth 强劲的经济增长
坚定的，信心十足的
noun：robustness
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lay ourselves on the shelf: relax, rest or stay away from all this crazy struggle for success
edge [ɛdʒ] ；优势（悬崖、峭壁的）边缘，端；锋利，尖锐 …上加边界；使渐进；给（刀刃）磨边，使锋利；修整 ，侧身移动
noun: 锋利，尖锐
eg: a knife with a sharp edge 刀刃锋利
renew our edges: keep our edges sharp
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renew vt. 重新开始；使更新；使恢复；补充
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vi. 重申，重复强调；重新开始
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vt :renew your health 恢复你的健康
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vi :There was renewed fighting yesterday. 昨天战斗重新打响了。
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Personal tragedy haunted his entire life , in the deaths of loved ones:his father dying of pneumonia when Sam was 12；his brother Herry , killed by a steamboat explosion ,the death of his son , Langon , at 19 mouths . 译文：可悲的是马克吐温的一生却笼罩在悲剧和不幸的阴影中，他的亲人相继离他而去;他12岁时，父亲便因肺炎而去世；他的兄弟亨利在一次蒸汽船爆炸事故中丧生，他的儿子朗顿才十九个月就夭折了。
haunt verb 萦绕在心头，缠绕：长期困扰
eg :The stigma of being a bankrupt is likely to haunt him for the rest of his life. 破产的耻辱可能会让他余生不得安宁。
Vi 尤指鬼魂重回或常去
eg :His ghost is said to haunt some of the rooms, banging a toy drum. 据说他的鬼魂经常敲着玩具鼓出没在其中的一些房间里。
noun :〈方〉鬼或其它超自然物体；常去的地方
The college library is a favorite haunt. 大学图书馆是人们喜欢的地方。
haunted adj. 闹鬼的；受到折磨的；令人烦恼的 haunt”的过去式和过去分词
adj （表情）焦虑的，忧心忡忡的
eg: She looked so haunted, I almost didn't recognize her. 她愁容满面，我差点儿没认出她来。
pneumonia [nʊˈmonjə,njʊ-]
n. [医]肺炎；急性肺炎
eg :She nearly died of pneumonia. 她差点儿死于肺炎。
explosion [ɪkˈsploʒən] n. 爆炸，炸裂；爆发；扩张，激增；（感情，尤指愤怒的）突然
eg: After the second explosion, all of London's main train and subway stations were shut down. 第二次爆炸后，伦敦所有的主要火车站和地铁站都关闭了。
N-count 可数名词 爆炸声;轰然巨响
There was an explosion of music. 突然爆发出一阵震耳欲聋的音乐声.
His eldest daughter , Susy , died of spinal meningitis , succumbed to a heart attack in Florence,and youngest daughter , Jean, an epileptic, drowned
in an upstairs bathtub .
译文：他的大女儿苏茜死于脊膜炎；他的妻子在佛罗伦萨死于心脏病；他最小的女儿简患有癫痫，发病时溺死在楼上的浴缸里。