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第八课练习 green inexperienced (The author is taking up a new job he had never done before. 2) dreadful very, great (terrible 老师的理解) (The failure works with great advantage because it catches us unaware.) 3) damn bring about the failure, ruin (Sloth, or more accurately, Acedia, will cause your failure in this life.) 4) leaping to the conclusion making a hasty conclusion (If you feel nothing deeply, then you may come to the conclusion that nothing is really important. ) 5) putting a chilly finger on the weak spot pointing out the weaknesses mercilessly (If they take a sly pleasure in the failure of others, they tend to point out the weaknesses of anything that attract their friends in order to get that kind of pleasure.) 6) died to joy became insensitive to joy (From the content of this paragraph, it can be seen that because of their gloomy mentality, some people have no sympathy for others pain （这句话老师的理解是他们自己的痛苦感受麻木了)and have never tasted the joy of life.) 7) take pains make great efforts (Those who adopt the negative attitude （老师的理解是positive attitude）toward life must be working hard to maintain sensitivity ) 8) charge instruct or urge authoritatively, command (What he has said here is just an urge for the students to take pains not to lose their capacity to feel.) 9) are committed to having given all ones loyalty to a certain aim (If you are doing something wholeheartedly that you dont like, you may grow to hate it 10) positively absolutely (You will surely hate it if you have to do something that you dont like.) 11) the parties husband and wife (The two parties of a marriage must refer to husband and wife.) 12) sham something fake (Its in contrast to real.) Suggested Versions of Translation Exercise 1．它不是突然发生的，毫无戏剧性可言，因此它就有了一个极大的优势；它悄悄地一点一点地吞噬我们的心灵，一旦被它完全控制，我们甚至很难看出是什么在折磨着我们。 2．当然，与这些人相反的并不是那种做事凭一时的热情、感情用事、或是盲目痴迷一切新鲜事物的人。 3．我们都很清楚，感情太多思考太少的人会陷入怎样的困境，然而我却更同情那成千上万的另一类人，他们以一种令人窒息的、营养不良的（老师理解“缺乏思想来源和养料的”）方式苦思冥想却什么也感