新编大学英语第四册第六单元重点词汇和句子.docVIP

In-class reading passage Key words and Phrases pose indefinitely partial accidentally otherwise accordingly assess run the risk of play the part of may/might just as well reduce... to Significant sentences 1. At some time or other, all of us have played the part of a hypochondriac, imagining that we have some terrible disease on the strength of very minor symptoms. 在说不定的某个时候，我们大家都曾充当过疑病症患者的角色，只凭一些轻微的症状便怀疑自己得了某种可怕的病。 2. But fear of disease is not our only fear, and neither is risk of disease the only risk we run. 然而，对疾病的恐惧并非我们唯一的恐惧。同样，患病的危险也并非我们唯一会遇上的危险。 3. And from these threats come questions that we must pose to ourselves: … 从而产生了好些问题，我们不得不问自己，······。 4. It is much more difficult when anxiety about other forms of risk is concerned, because with many risks, the situation is not as simple. 但当涉及到其它形式的风险时，事情就要困难得多，因为对许多风险来说，情况并不那么简单。 5. But what if you get hit from the side and end up trapped inside the vehicle, unable to escape because of a damaged seat belt mechanism? 倘若你的车侧面被撞，结果你被困在车里，又因安全带装置遭破坏而无法挣脱，那怎么办呢？ 6. There are risks, often potentially serious one, associated with every hobby we have, every job we take, and every food we eat－in other words, with every action. l. 29-31 有些风险，常常是潜在的重大风险，与我们的每个业余爱好、所做的每项工作、所吃的每种食物有关，换句话说，与所进行的任何活动有关。 7. The answer is that you are roughly twice as likely to die in a serious crash in a small car than in a large one. 答案是这样：在一起严重的车祸中，坐小车丧生的可能性是坐大车的两倍左右。 8. In the case just discussed, we would find the relative safety of car travel and coal mining by dividing the numbers of lives lost in each by the number of people participating in each. 在刚才讨论的例子中，我们可以用每一项活动中死亡的人数除以参与该活动的总人数，从而找出汽车旅行与采煤的相对安全性。 9. Once we understand that risk can never be totally eliminated from any situation and that, therefore, nothing is completely safe, we will then see that the issue is not one of avoiding risks altogether but rather one of managing risks in a sensible way. 一旦我们懂得在任何情况下都不能完全排除危险，因而任何事情都不是绝对安全的，我们就会明白问题不在于彻底避免危险而在于