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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

Blackbeard's Treasure by Jenny Dolly
词汇提示
1.Highness 殿下
原文
Chapter X: Blackbeard's Peace
Blackbeard dropped the knife to the ground.
"Look!The knife. It moved by itself."
"It's the curse of the treasure. It's a message from Blackbeard."
No one could see the ghost except for Queen Alliana.
She had her great-grandmother's eyes, and those eyes would always be able to see him.
She walked towards him, away from the other men, who were preparing to take the pirates to the Queen Anne as prisoners.
"When you return to this island, you always bring unhappiness to a woman's heart.First, it was my great-grandmother's, and now it is mine. Have you thought of this in all those years while watching that treasure?"
"How could I forget? I can never die and be peaceful. I always remember what I didby looking at that treasure."
"But you can do something good now. You can keep others from touching it and making the same mistake you did."
"How?I can't keep people from coming onto my ship and taking my treasure."
"You could if you wanted. If there was never any treasure, you would have lived happily with Queen Hanzani. Now, you still have the treasure and you are still unhappy."
"But that is what I was told to do, watch the treasure to pay for my mistake."
"Have you ever thought of what it is that will end this punishment and let you die in peace?"
Blackbeard had no answer.
He was quiet.
Captain Scott came to say goodbye to Queen Alliana.
"Your Highness, we are ready to leave your island. I'm sorry for the trouble we brought with us, but I want to thank you for giving us what we need to sail again."
"Remember Captain, you must find the ship you got the treasure from and put it back. It's the only way to keep peace on these islands."
"We will try."
"I think you will succeed. And remember the story I told you about that treasure.Taking what is not yours can never bring you or the ones you love any happiness."
Captain Scott and the others rowed back to the Queen Anne, and soon it was sailing again through the Bermuda Triangle.
Blackbeard was standing at the ship's side.
He was looking across the wide, blue sea, thinking of everything Queen Allianas aidto him before he left Rum Island.
He was always saying the same thing to himself: "If there was never any treasure, I would be happy now."
Suddenly,Blackbeard's old empty ship appeared sailing along the shining blue sea.
The man in the crow's nest shouted to the Captain, and he put his telescope to his eye.
"Stubbs,sail straight for that ship. We're going back on board."
Blackbeard was walking nervously back and forth as the men put the treasure chest into a small row boat.
He sat on top of it when they were ready to leave and row towards the empty ship.
Captain Scott told the men to leave the chest where they found it.
Before the sailors left, Captain Scott looked around the old pirate ship.
"And this is what you get for wanting all the riches of the world."
Blackbeard was standing next to him listening.
It was the last thing that was said on that ship.
The Queen Anne began to sail away when one of the sailors shouted "Look!"
Everyone turned to see Blackbeard's chest rising in the air over the sea.
They thought it was moving by itself, but it was Blackbeard moving it.
He threw the chest into the sea, ending the curse he had to live with.
The sailors of the Queen Anne saw the shining gold on top of the water for one last moment,then it sank into the sea below.
When the chest had disappeared into the water, Blackbeard's ship began to break apart and sank into the sea.
The sailors' eyes all grew wide as they saw the ghost of a pirate in a long blue coat, with a black beard and a red scarf around his head, fly up into the clouds of the sky.
"Captain,what in the world was that?" "
It was the ghost of Blackbeard.
It seems that he has finally found his peace."
The end of " Blackbeard's Treasure"by Jenny Dolly

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 11
A: It is so nice to see you again.
很高兴再次见到你。
B:Yes, it was lovely bumping into each other in the shop.
是的，在商店里偶遇真是太好了。
A:How about going out for dinner tonight?
今晚出去吃饭怎么样？
B:Sorry, I have an appointment tonight. But thanks anyway.
对不起，我今晚有约了。但还是谢谢你。
Conversation 12
A:What would you like for dessert, fruit or ice cream?
你想吃什么甜点，水果还是冰淇淋?
B:Can we not have both?
不能两个都要吗？
A: If we do, there won't be dessert tomorrow.
那样的话，明天就没有甜点了。
B:Then it will be fruit today and ice cream tomorrow, thanks.
那就今天是水果，明天是冰淇淋，谢谢。
Conversation 13
A:It's very warm for winter today.
今天的天气相对冬天来说很暖和了。
B:How about going to the park?
我们去公园怎么样?
A: I agree. Let's go to the park.
我同意。一起去公园吧。
B:I'll get ready. Give me a few minutes.
我很快凖备好。稍等我几分钟。
Conversation 14
A: I hear you've been ill.
我听说你病了。
B:Well, I had the flu for a couple of weeks, but I'm fine now.
嗯，我感冒了几周，现在已经好了。
A:You are looking far better than I thought you'd be.
你看起来比我想象的要好得多。
B: My doctor prescribed a course of vitamins and minerals and it helped a great deal.
医生给我开了一个疗程的维生素和矿物质，效果很好。
Conversation 15
A:Excuse me, will this bus go to the airport?
打扰一下，请问这趟车去机场吗?
B:No, you need to take the bus that will come in half an hour.
不去，你需要搭乘另外一辆公交车，它将在半小时内到。
A:How long does it take from here to the airport by bus?
从这里搭公交车到机场需要多长时间？
B:About 40 minutes.
大概40分钟。