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听前提示
一、每期提供10个单词，每个单词都会有2-3个例句，方便理解记忆。
二、每个单词和句子都会重复5遍，其中第2遍为慢速，有助于识别。
三、本材料的整体难度较低，可以用来听力磨耳朵和单词查漏补缺。
Day 46
451.
Communication
n.表达，交流，交际；信息；通讯
Television is the modern medium of communication.
电视是现代通信媒介。
What are the barriers to effective communication?
有效沟通的障碍是什么？
Gesture is another way of communication.
手势是另一种沟通方式。
452.
Community
n.社区，社会；群体；归属感
That will benefit the community.
这将使社区受益。
Do you take part in any community activities?
你参加任何社区活动吗？
The students volunteered for community service.
学生们自愿参加社区服务。
453.
Company
n.公司；陪伴，同伴
That company dominates the market with over 50% market share.
该公司以超过50%的市场份额在市场上占据主导地位。
She works for a small company.
她在一家小公司工作。
Two thirds of the employees of this company are engineers.
该公司三分之二的员工是工程师。
454.
Compare
v.比较，对比 n.比较
Don't compare your children with others.
不要把你的孩子和别人比较。
He's a giant compared to you.
和你相比，他是个巨人。
Our problems are nothing compared to theirs.
我们的问题跟他们的比起来算不了什么。
455.
Comparison
n.比较，对照；相提并论，相比；比喻，比拟
Let's put them side by side for comparison.
让我们把它们并排进行比较。
The glasses are small in comparison with the old ones.
与旧眼镜相比，这个眼镜很小。
456.
Compete
v.竞争，对抗；争夺；参加比赛
Many students compete to get into the best universities.
许多学生竞争进入最好的大学。
We must compete with the local stores in price.
我们必须在价格上与当地商店展开竞争。
I never wanted to compete with you.
我从来不想和你竞争。
457.
Competition
n.竞争；比赛，竞赛；竞争者，对手
He dropped out of the competition.
他退出了比赛。
Are you worried about the competition?
你担心比赛吗？
458.
Competitive
adj.竞争的；好竞争的，好胜的；有竞争力的
The company offers competitive wages and good benefits.
该公司提供有竞争力的工资和良好的福利。
We offer loans at competitive rates.
我们以具有竞争力的利率提供贷款。
They sell high quality products at very competitive prices.
他们以极具竞争力的价格出售高质量的产品。
459.
Complain
v.诉说（病痛）；悲叹，悲鸣；抱怨，投诉
He does nothing but complain.
他除了抱怨之外什么也没做。
That customer came back to complain again.
那个买家又回来抱怨了。
Shift workers commonly complain of not getting enough sleep.
轮班工人通常抱怨睡眠不足。
460.
Complaint
n.抱怨，投诉；抱怨的问题；疾病
As far as I'm concerned, I have no complaint.
就我而言，我没什么可抱怨的。
There have been a lot of complaints about your behavior.
有许多人对你的行为表示不满。
I'm sick of listening to your complaints.
我听腻了你的抱怨。

词汇提示
1.bastions 堡垒
2.sanctuary 避难所
3.tyranny 暴政
原文
Margaret Thatcher: 'Against European Unity' (1)
Nor is the European idea the property of any group or institution.
We British are as much heirs to the legacy of European culture as any other nation.
Our links to the rest of Europe, the continent of Europe, have been the dominant factor in our history.
For 300 years we were part of the Roman Empire and our maps still trace the straight lines of the roads the Romans built.
Our ancestors - Celts, Saxons and Danes - came from the continent.
Our nation was - in that favorite Community word - 'restructured' under Norman and Angevin rule in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
This year we celebrate the three-hundredth anniversary of the Glorious Revolution in which the British crown passed to Prince William of Orange and Queen Mary.
Visit the great churches and cathedrals of Britain, read our literature and listen to our language: all bear witness to the cultural riches which we have drawn from Europe - and other Europeans from us.
We in Britain are rightly proud of the way in which, since Magna Carta in 1215, we have pioneered and developed representative institutions to stand as bastions of freedom.
And proud too of the way in which for centuries Britain was a home for people from the rest of Europe who sought sanctuary from tyranny.
But we know that without the European legacy of political ideas we could not have achieved as much as we did.
From classical and medieval thought we have borrowed that concept of the rule of law which marks out a civilized society from barbarism.
And on that idea of Christendom -for long synonymous with Europe - with its recognition of the unique and spiritual nature of the individual, we still base our belief in personal liberty and other human rights.
Too often the history of Europe is described as a series of interminable wars and quarrels.
Yet from our perspective today surely what strikes us most is our common experience.
For instance, the story of how Europeans explored and colonized and - yes, without apology - civilized much of the world is an extraordinary tale of talent, skill and courage.
We British have in a special way contributed to Europe.
Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power.
We have fought and we have died for her freedom.
Only miles from here in Belgium lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.
Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice.
It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last war that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation.
翻译
玛格丽特·撒切尔:“反对欧洲统一”(1)欧洲理念也不是任何团体或机构的财产。我们英国人和其他国家一样，都是欧洲文化遗产的继承者。我们与欧洲其他国家、欧洲大陆的联系，一直是我们历史上的主导因素。300年来，我们一直是罗马帝国的一部分，我们的地图上仍然可以看到罗马人修建的直线道路。我们的祖先——凯尔特人、撒克逊人和丹麦人——来自欧洲大陆。我们的国家——用那个最受欢迎的共同体词汇来说——在11世纪和12世纪诺曼和安吉文的统治下“重建”了。今年，我们庆祝光荣革命300周年，在这场革命中，英国王位传给了奥兰治的威廉王子和玛丽女王。参观英国的伟大教堂和大教堂，阅读我们的文学作品，聆听我们的语言:所有这些都见证了我们从欧洲汲取的文化财富，以及其他欧洲人从我们这里汲取的文化财富。自1215年签订《大宪章》以来，我们英国人开创并发展了代表自由的机构，我们理应为此感到自豪。几个世纪以来，英国一直是欧洲其他地区寻求暴政

Tales From The Thousand And One Nights
词汇提示
1.Arabian 阿拉伯的
2.mistrustful 不信任
3.betrayed 背叛
4.brutality 暴行
5.compassionate 有同情心
6.Hunchback 驼背的人
7.choked 噎住
8.wrapped 包起来
9.sheet 床单
10.tripped 绊倒
11.alley 小巷
12.broker 掮客
13.confession 坦白
14.revealed 揭露
原文
Story 1: Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights is a collection of stories, and it is also known as One Thousand and One Nights.
The King is mistrustful because he was betrayed by his previous wife.
She had an affair with a kitchen servant.
After this, the King started to sleep with one girl every night and then killed them.
To stop this brutality, the Wazir's daughter volunteered herself to marry him.
She became Queen Scheherazade.
She told King Shah Shahryar a story every night.
These elaborate stories never ended the same night.
To stay alive, she finished the story the next night and started a new story.
The King was entertained and didn't kill her.
After 3 years, she ran out of stories, but they were married for 3 years and they had had children so The King didn't kill her.
Story2: In the Name of Allah the Compassionating the Compassionate
Once long ago, there were two royal brothers, Shahryar and Shah Zaman.
They ruled over separate lands.
Shahryar ruled India/Indo-China and Shah Zaman ruled Samarkand.
They were very close brothers, but couldn't rule together because of certain laws.
After being apart for 20 years, Shahryar sent a quest to his brother Shah Zaman to come and see each other.
Before leaving to visit his brother, Shah Shahryar found out that his wife was cheating on him with the cook.
He was very upset.
He could not eat or sleep.
King Shahryar ordered his queen to be killed, and swore to marry a young girl each night.
After sleeping with them, he killed them the next morning.
He wanted to make sure there was no chance for the new wife to be unfaithful.
He said, "There never was and never will be a faithful woman!"
Story 3: The Hunchback's Tale
Along time ago, in a city in China, a tailor and his wife invited a hunchback to their home for dinner.
They wanted to be entertained.
While the hunchback was eating and joking, he choked on a sharp fishbone.
The two wrapped the dead man up in a sheet and took him to a doctor in the middle of the night.
They did not want anyone to see them, so they left the hunchback at the doctor's house and ran away.
The doctor was eager to see his patient, and he tripped over the body.
The body of the hunchback fell down the stairs.
Believing he killed the patient, the doctor put the dead body in his neighbor's yard.
The neighbor thought he was a thief and beat him.
He thought that he killed him.
The neighbor took the body to an alley where he was beaten again.
In this way, the hunchback's body was passed around until the King's broker was found with the dead body.
Just as the broker was about to be executed, confessions came one by one from all the assumed murderers.
He was never dead at all.
The King questioned everyone involved.
It was revealed that the fishbone was removed from his throat by the barber, andthe hunchback was fine.
The King laughed and enjoyed hearing about the crazy events.
He said to everyone there, "Did you ever hear a more wonderful story thanthat of my Hunchback?"
翻译
故事一:天方夜谭《天方夜谭》是一部故事集，也被称为《一千零一夜》。国王不信任他的前妻，因为他被她背叛了。她和一个厨房佣人有染。从那以后，国王开始每天晚上和一个女孩睡觉，然后杀了她们。为了制止这种暴行，瓦齐尔的女儿自愿嫁给他。她成了舍赫拉扎德王后。她每天晚上给国王沙·沙赫拉尔讲一个故事。这些精巧的故事不会在同一个晚上结束。为了活下去，她在第二天晚上结束了这个故事，并且开始了一个新的故事。国王很高兴，没有杀她。三年后，她的故事说完了，但他们结婚三年了

听前提示
一、一段对话为四句，将分成两句为一小节。
二、每小节两遍英文，最后一遍英文一边中文。
三、根据中英文意思，听不懂的可以多听几遍。
原文
Conversation 16
A:How is your new colleague?
你的新同事怎么样？
B:I'm getting used to it.
我已经习惯了。
A:Are the people at your company nice to you?
你公司的人对你好吗？
B:Yes, they are all very nice to me.
是的，他们对我都很好。
Conversation 17
A:I'm on a diet.
我在减肥。
B:Why? You're not fat at all.
为什么？你一点也不胖。
A: I just like to stay in shape.
我只是想保持体形。
B:That is a very healthy mentality.
这是一种非常健康的心态。
Conversation 18
A: I know that you can play the piano very well.
我知道你钢琴弹得很好。
B:Oh, yes. I have played the piano since I was four.
哦，是的。我从四岁起就开始弹钢琴了。
A:That makes you very skilled.
所以你现在弹得很熟练。
B:Thank you. I'm constantly trying to improve.
谢谢！不过，我也一直在努力改进。
Conversation 19
A:Mike, I really appreciate your help.
迈克，非常感谢你的帮助。
B: No problem.
不客气。
A:Having friends like you makes life worth living.
有你这样的朋友，生活变得更有意义。
B:That's what friends are for, you'd do the same for me.
这就是朋友应该做的，你也会为我做同样的事。
Conversation 20
A:What time do you think it is? Go to sleep.
现在几点了？去睡觉。
B: I know the time, I'm still reading.
我知道时间，我还在看书。
A:You have to get up early, you need to rest.
你得早起，你需要休息。
B:I'll finish this chapter then go to bed.
我看完这一章就去睡觉。

听前提示
一、每期提供10个单词，每个单词都会有2-3个例句，方便理解记忆。
二、每个单词和句子都会重复5遍，其中第2遍为慢速，有助于识别。
三、本材料的整体难度较低，可以用来听力磨耳朵和单词查漏补缺。
Day 45
441.
Comfortable
adj.令人舒适的；感到舒服的，安逸的；自在的；
Please make yourself comfortable.
请不要拘束。
She didn't feel comfortable with my friend.
她对我的朋友感觉不舒服。
This sofa can easily be converted into a very comfortable double bed for guests.
这张沙发可以很容易地转换成一张非常舒适的双人床，供客人使用。
442.
Command
v.命令，下令；统率，指挥；n.命令，指示
Who gave the command?
谁下达了命令？
My mother commands my presence at the party.
我母亲命令我出席聚会。
He commanded me to leave the room immediately.
他命令我立即离开房间。
443.
Comment
n.评论，意见；批评，指责v.评论，发表意见
Do you have any comment, Mr. President?
主席先生，你有什么意见吗？
That comment is completely off topic.
该评论完全不在话题范围内。
His comment was concise and to the point.
他的评论简明扼要，直截了当。
444.
Commission
n.考察团，委员会；佣金，回扣；犯罪；委托，命令
How much is the commission?
佣金是多少？
We charge a commission of 5%.
我们收取5%的佣金。
445.
Commit
v.犯（罪、错）；承诺，承担义务；郑重承诺；订婚，
Try it before you commit to a purchase.
在承诺购买之前先尝试一下。
They commit a serious crime.
他们犯了严重的罪行。
446.
Commitment
n.忠诚，献身；承诺，保证；奉献，投入；决心
I cannot make such a commitment at the moment.
我现在无法做出这样的承诺。
Are you ready to make a long-term commitment?
你准备好做出长期承诺了吗？
One thing that won't change is our commitment to our customers.
有一件事不会改变，那就是我们对客户的承诺。
447.
Committee
n.委员会
He's the chairman of the committee.
他是委员会的主席。
The committee adopted the proposal.
委员会通过了该提案。
Are you on the committee?
你在委员会里吗？
448.
Common
adj.共同的；常见的，普遍的，一般的；普通的，平凡的
This sort of problem is quite common.
这种问题很常见。
Here are some common mistakes when booking a flight.
以下是预订航班时的一些常见错误。
Divorce is becoming more common nowadays.
如今，离婚变得越来越普遍。
449.
Commonly
adv.通常，大多数人地
She commonly arrives home late after work.
她通常下班后回家很晚。
Shift workers commonly complain of not getting enough sleep.
轮班工人通常抱怨睡眠不足。
450.
Communicate
v.传递信息，通讯；传达，传递；传染；传输
Pilots communicate with the airport by radio.
飞行员通过无线电与机场通信。
It's important to communicate effectively with others.
与他人进行有效的沟通非常重要。
We communicate with each other by telephone every day.
我们每天都通过电话互相沟通。

词汇提示
1.lurking 潜藏
2.plague 困扰
3.toll 伤亡人数
原文
Diana,Princess Of Wales: 'A Modern Tragedy And Its Consequences' (3)
There are said to be around 110 million mines lurking somewhere in the world - and over a third of them are to be found in Africa!
Angola is probably more heavily mined than anywhere else, because the war went on for such a long time, and it invaded so much of the country.
So that country is going to be infested with mines, and will suffer many more victims.
Even if the world decided tomorrow to ban these weapons, this terrible legacy of mines already in the earth would continue to plague the poor nations of the Globe.
"The evil that men do, lives after them."
And so, it seems to me, there rests a certain obligation upon the rest of us.
One of my objectives in visiting Angola was to forward the cause of those, like the Red Cross, striving in the name of humanity to secure an international ban on these weapons.
Since them, we are glad to see, some real progress has been made.
There are signs of a change of heart- at least in some parts of the world.
For that we should be cautiously grateful.
If an international ban on mines can be secured it means, looking far ahead, that the world may be a safer place for this generation's grandchildren.
But for this generation in much of the developing world, there will be no relief,no relaxation.
The toll of deaths and injuries caused by mines already there, will continue.
This tracing and lifting of mines, as I saw in Angola, is a desperately slow business.
So in my mind a central question remains.
Should we not do more to quicken the de-miners' work, to help the injured back to some sort of life, to further our own contribution to aid and development?
The country is enriched by the work done by its overseas agencies and non -governmental organizations who work to help people in Africa and Asia to improve the quality of their lives.
Yet mines cast a constant shadow over so much of this work.
Resettlement of refugees is made more hazardous.
Good land is put out of bounds.
Recovery from war is delayed.
Aid workers themselves are put at risk.
I would like to see more done for those living in this "no man's land" which lies between the wrongs of yesterday and the urgent needs of today.
I think we owe it.
I also think it would be of benefit to us, as well as to them.
The more expeditiously we can end this plague on earth caused by the landmine, the more readily can we set about the constructive tasks to which so many give their hand in the cause of humanity.
翻译
威尔士王妃戴安娜:“一场现代悲剧及其后果”(3)
据说大约有1.1亿枚地雷潜伏在世界的某个地方，其中超过三分之一在非洲!
安哥拉的地雷可能比其他任何地方都要多，因为战争持续了很长时间，它入侵了这个国家的大部分地区。
因此，那个国家将被地雷所侵扰，并将遭受更多的受害者。
即使世界明天决定禁止这些武器，地球上已经存在的地雷的可怕遗产将继续折磨着地球上的贫穷国家。
“人所做的恶，死后仍会存在。”
因此，在我看来，我们其余的人都负有某种义务。
我访问安哥拉的目标之一是推动像红十字会那样以人类的名义努力争取在国际上禁止这些武器的人的事业。
我们高兴地看到，自那时以来，已经取得了一些真正的进展。
至少在世界上的一些地区，有迹象表明人们的态度发生了改变。
为此，我们应该谨慎地心存感激。
如果能够确保国际禁止地雷，这意味着，展望未来，对于我们这一代的子孙来说，世界可能是一个更安全的地方。
但对于大多数发展中国家的这一代人来说，他们不会得到缓解，也不会放松。
已经存在的地雷造成的伤亡人数将继续增加。
正如我在安哥拉看到的那样，追踪和清除地雷是一项极其缓慢的工作。
所以在我的脑海