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Lesson 41 illusion(title) 幻想，错觉 Even he still lives under the illusion that country life is some how superior to own life. 就边他也仍然存有幻觉，好像乡村生活就是比城市生活优越。 This time his illusion was quite gone. 这一次了彻底不抱幻想了。 I suppose its about time you cast away your illusions. 我想该是你丢掉幻想的时候了。 pastoral 田园的 This idyllic pasoral scene is only part of the picture. 但这种田园诗般的乡村风光只不是一个侧面而已 This is a collection of pastoral poems. 这是一本田园诗集。 breed 培育，教养 City born and city bred,I have always regarded the country as something you look at through a train window,or something you occasionally visit during the holiday. 我生在城市，长在城市，总觉得农村只个平时隔着火车窗户看看，放假时偶尔去玩玩的地方。 He had much difficulty in breeding tropical plants in his garden. 他费了很大的劲在花园里培育热带植物。 Whats bred in the bone will come out in the flesh. （谚语）本性总要表现出来。 rapture 欣喜 Most of my friends live in the city,yet they always go into raptures at the mere mention of the country. 我大多数朋友都住在城市，可只要一提起乡村，巴就会眉飞色舞。 I have read The Story of the Stone a thousand times,every time with new raptures. 《石头记》我读了一千遍了，读一遍，欢喜一遍。 The young folks were in raptures. 年轻人个个欣喜若狂。 extol 赞美，颂扬 though they extol the virtues of the peaceful life,only one of them has ever gone to live in the country and be was back in town within six months. 尽管他们交口称赞乡村生活的种种优点，但只有一个当真去农村住过，而且不到六个月就回来了。 It is the humor of many people to extol the virtues of their forefathers. 很多人天生喜欢夸祖宗的美德。 superior 优越的 In devotion woman is sublimely superior to man. 女人远比男人有奉献精神。 cockcrow 鸡叫 Nothing can be compared,he maintains,with the first cockcrow ,the twitteing of birds at dawn,the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures. 他坚持认为，乡村的晨景——雄鸡初唱，鸟儿啼啭，旭日东升照彻树木和原野——是无伦比的。 He mistook the cockcrow for birdsong. 他把鸡啼错当成鸟鸣了。 The alarm sounds like the cockcrow. 这个闹钟的闹铃像鸡叫。 twitter （鸟）吱吱叫，嘁嘁喳喳叫 The birds were hopping and twitterign among the bushes. 小鸟在树丛中跳来跳去，叽叽喳喳。 glint 闪烁 The tall Gothic windows glinted in the sinking sun. 高大的哥特式窗户在夕阳的照耀下闪闪发光。 Leos syes gl