文档介绍：Unit 4
道歉的时机
Pa 1
Be liable to – be prone to易于,有…倾向
Any person not putting litter in this basket will be liable to a fine of $5 .
任何不把垃圾扔进这个筐内的人将处以罚款5美元。
Be liable for—be responsible for
You are liable for the mistake.
But as political systems have e more sophisticated, the idea that governments or churches are faultless has e increasingly difficult to defend.
但是随着政治体制变得愈加复杂,政府和教会是无懈可击的观点越来越难以立足。
Pa 2
Pa 3
In earnest—seriously, determined 认真地,严肃地
It soon began to snow in earnest.
I am sure he was in earnest when he said he wanted to marry her.
Since then, what started as trickle of apologies has turned into something of a flood.
自从那时起,以涓涓细流开始的道歉就成了滔滔洪水
What + 主语+谓语…所… What he said is true.
. president Bill Clinton
Medical experiment
Black American men
In 1930s
British Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Fail to help victims of the
Irish potato famine
French Catholic Bishops
(their predecessors)
The role (action) during
World War II.
Pa 4
have/has sth to do with
The illness has something to do with his early hard work.

Today’s ceremony marks 100 years of trade between our two countries.
今天的仪式是我们两国进行贸易100周年。
3. Look on …as: consider/regard/view…as
No one looks on him as friends as he is too selfish.
Also, the passing of time has erased much of the propaganda of the period.
时间的流逝抹去了很多当时宣传的色彩。
2. Turn a blind eye/deaf ear to …对…视而不见/充耳不闻
Most of the authorities turn a blind eye to the requirements of their subjects.
3. declassify—decode 解密,解码
Pa 5
–the period of killing and cruel treatment of Jews by Hitler and the Nazi party in the 1930s and 1940s.
二十世纪三四十年代希特勒及纳粹党对犹太人的屠杀(时期)。
2. Call for—require, need需要,要求
This is a problem that calls for immediate solution. 这是个迫切需要解决的问题。
3. Compensation 补偿,弥补
4. Compensate for /on
But amid the general goodwill, the few remaining survivors of cruelties like the Holocaust, and military occupation, called for their personal suffering to be admitted, and pensation to be paid.
但在这些普遍的良好愿望中,