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Unit ThreeWalls and BarriersEugene Raskin 6．flair: ingenuity and vitality, natural ability to do sth. well天资,天分 7．invulnerability: freedom from harm or attack 8．composition: arrangement into proper proportion or relation and especially into artistic form 9．illusory: deceptive 10．preclude: make impossible Notes 1.You won’t catch me putting my money in there:在这个句子中，catch意为“偶然（或突然）撞见；发觉”，常用搭配是catch sb. doing sth. ,如You won’t catch me doing that again! 我可不会再干那事了！ 文中这句话表明作者父亲对透明银行持否定态度。 2. but I suspect—I more than suspect, I am convinced—that his negative response…his concept of the nature of money:作者在这句话中表明了自己的观点。破折号之间的部分表明作者的观点持有方式：不仅是怀疑，甚至是相信。句子主干包括一个宾语从句，在该从句中用到句型not so much…as…,前后连接的两个比较对象是用to引导的介词短语，翻译时译作“与其说…，不如说…”比较恰当。 3. Consequently, to attract the custom of a sensible man,…that money would be safe inside:副词consequently意为“因而，所以”，常用于因果关系连接。在该句中，有两个目的状语，都是由to引导的，一个是to attract the custom of a sensible man,其中custom意为“惠顾”；另一个是to affirm the fact, however untrue, that money would be safe inside,其中however untrue作插入语，修饰fact,表示“然而这个事实不是真实的”； that money would…是the fact的同位语从句。barred windows表示“栅栏窗户”。 4. It is in no way surprising, in view of this change in attitude, that we are witnessing the disappearance of the heavy-walled bank:在该句中，it作形式主语，that引导的从句才是句子真正的主语， surprising是句中的表语，介词短语in no way用作副词，修饰表语surprising,其意为“一点也不，决不”，又如Teaching in school can in no way be separated from practice. 学校教学决不能脱离实际。 in view of意为“鉴于，考虑到；由于”。 5. It is in the understanding of architecting as a medium for…departs from classical aesthetics:这句运用了强调句型It is …that…,强调了状语部分，指出新的建筑评论与古典美学的不同之处，即新的建筑评论将建筑视为人类表达态度、偏见、禁忌和理想的手段。depart from相当于be different from,意为“与…不同”。 6. The greater the fear, the heavier the wall, until… being the ultimate fear:该句运用了“the+比较级…, the+比较级…”结构，前后句子相呼应，相当于汉语“越…越…，愈…愈…”的意思，句子常常以省略形式出现，在口语和谚语中尤其如此；被省略的成分可能是谓语，也可能同时是主语和谓语，如The sooner we perform the operation, the greater is the hope of saving the hand. 手术动得越早，越有希望保住手 。More haste, less speed. 欲速则不达 。该句中定语从句that are prac