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* Unit 1 The Dinner Party 宴会 ? ?????? ??I. 内容主题 本文叙述了一个发生在印度的故事。在某殖民官和他的夫人所举行的晚宴上， 一位年轻的女士同一位少校之间展开了男人是否比女人更加勇敢的激烈争论。作者没有直接地回答这个问题，而是通过对殖民官夫人在现场出现眼镜蛇时的一举一动的表现，以一种令人感到意外的方式解决了这场争论。 II. Sentence Translation and explanation 1.?That magazine story, and the person who wrote it, I have never been able to track down. 登在杂志上的那篇故事以及写那篇故事的人，我一直未 能找到。 1) 本句是倒装句,正常语句为“I have never been able to track down that magazine story and the person who wrote it.”? 2) track down：追查, 寻找 e.g. a) They have tracked down the facts they need for two months. 他们寻找他们所需要的事实有两个月了。 Translation b) 他们在图书馆里花了两个星期寻找参考资料。 They spent two weeks tracking down reference information. 2. They are seated with their guests – officers and their wives, and a visiting American naturalist – in their spacious dining room, which has a bare marble floor, open rafters and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda. 他们家宽敞的餐厅里，室内大理石地板上没有地毯，屋顶明 椽裸露；宽大的玻璃门外便是阳台；跟他们一起就坐的客人 有军官和他们的夫人，另外还有一位来访的美国博物学家。 ???1)?seat： vt. = have seat for , 让…… 坐下 e.g. a) The hall can seat 5000 people. 这个大厅能坐5000人。 b) She was seated in the armchair. c.f. sit vi. She was sitting in the armchair. 2) bare not covered 空的, 光秃秃的; no more than, mere仅仅 e.g. a) After years of efforts, those originally bare hills are now covered with trees. 经过几年的努力，那些原来光秃秃的山上现在都长满了树木。 b) In the heat of the sun, the children played on the beach bare to the waist. 在炎日的太阳下面孩子们光着上身在海滩上玩耍。 Translation c) 你还是在没有装饰的墙上贴上几幅画为好。 You may just as well put some pictures on the bare wall. d) 你赤脚到处乱跑会割去的。 You will cut yourself if you run around in bare feet. 3. A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at- the- sight- of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they haven’t.