自考“综合英语（一）”下册详解（2）

    at other people.良好的举止不取决于我们如何看待自己，而是如何看待别人。

    5.Such complaints are not limited to people who sit in my study：这种抱怨不仅是那些坐到我书房里和我谈心的人才有

    be limited to/limit sth to：把限制在 …… 之内

    Your composition is limited to 200 words.你的作文字数限制在 200 字内。

    We must limit the expense to 100 yuan.我们必须把开支限制在 100 元内。

    6.Human being everywhere hunger for courtesy.世界上的人们渴望受到礼遇

    hunger for sth：have a strong desire for sth.渴望得到 ……

    People in the war-torn areas hunger for peace.遭受战争破坏地区的人民渴望和平。

    I hunger fo r true love，but I find it hard to get.我渴望真爱，但我发现真爱很难得到。

    7.Good manners，“ said Ralph Waldo Emerson，” are the happy way of doing things.爱默生说：礼貌是愉快行事的方式。

    Good manners are the suitable/ appropriate way of doing things

    happy：（of words，ideas，behaviour，etc.）

    well suited to the situation；pleasing happy choice of words恰当的选词

    happy combination of colours 色彩搭配恰当

    8.And the reverse is equally true.Bad manners can ruin a day——or wreck a friendship.反之一样，（不讲礼貌是不愉快地办事），不文明的举止可以破坏一天的心境，或许还会毁掉友情。

    Bad manners bring about entirely different results.（Bad manners are the unhappy way of doing things.） You will feel unhappy if you are treated impolitely.Bad manner can ruin a friendship.

    the reverse （of sth.）：the things that is the contrary or opposite to what happens/applies 相反的情况

    She did the reverse o f what I told her.我告诉她怎么做，但她却做得与我告诉她的相反。

    9……courtesy is often nothing more than a highly developed sense of fair play.强烈的公平意识当然是一个要素，文明举止往往只不过是高层次的公平意识。

    Courtesy in its highly developed form is often just equal treatment for both or all sides involved.

    nothing more than：only；hardly different from 只不过是 ……，不是别的而是 ………

    To their disappointment，what they discovered was nothing more than cheap stones.使他们大为失望，他们所发现的东西只不过是一些没有什么价值的石头。

    fair play：（ in the text） equal treatment for both or all sides involved 公平、公正地行事

    10.……I'll put up with yours the rest of the way.剩下的路，还是让我跟在你的后面吃尘土吧。

    The rest of the way I'll endure the dust caused by your car.

    put up with：忍受

    I left the party without telling the host，for I couldn't put up with these snobbish people.我没有告诉主人就离开了晚会，我无法忍受那些势利小人。

    If I were you，I should not put up with her arrogance.如果我是你，我是无法忍受她的狂妄。