BEC listen and translation exercise 7

Maybe I ought to subscribe to the Engineering Quarterly.
也许我应该订阅《工程学季刊》。
The performance is said to be excellent and with our student discount, the

tickets will be real cheap.据说表演很精彩，算上我们的学生优惠，门票真的会很便

宜。

Excuse me, but could you tell me where I can change American Dollars into

British Pounds?
打扰一下，请问我在哪里可以把美元兑换成英镑？

How do you like the way I've arranged the furniture in my living room?

你喜欢我家客厅家具的布置吗？

I'm convinced I'm the best candidate for the chairman of the Student Union.

我确信，我是学生会主席的最佳候选人。

When I go on a diet, I eat only fruit, and that takes off weight quickly.

The cafeteria provided many kinds of dishes for us today.

We have nurtured great minds like Thomas Jefferson and we are proud of our

name.

He says his way of teaching can help anyone learn how to read and write with

about thirty hours of study.
他说他的教学方式可以帮助任何人用三十小时左右学会阅读和写作。

In his teaching, he developed a system with this group of prisoners.

I ordered them last week, but something is holding them up.

He worked hard, yet he was not well paid, or well known.
He was two years old when his mother died.
More than fifty years ago, the United Nations declared that literacy is a

basic human right.

I'm afraid I can't show you the apartment at the moment, because the tenant

is still living in it.
恐怕现在我不能带你去看公寓，因为租客现在还住在里面。
My kids pick up the apples, and the branches are just too big for them to

drag.
我的孩子们捡起苹果，但是树枝太大了，他们拽不动。

A foreign airliner was attempting to land at night in a mountainous area of

Argentina and flew into a hill.
一架外国客机试图在夜里降落在阿根廷的山区，然后撞上了一座山。

It's quite clear for my visit. This is a full size, comprehensive

university.
我参观得很清楚。这是一座有完整规模的综合性大学。

Have you heard about the plane crash yesterday? It caused a hundred and

twenty deaths.
你听说昨天的飞机坠毁事故了吗？它造成了120人死亡。

It is said that he was found dead after days of heavy drinking.
据说他被发现连续酗酒多天后死亡。

That's a powerful lesson on how important it can be to accurately

communicate to each other.
这是极具感染力的一课，它讲述了相互间的精确交流是多么重要。

He was taken into the home of a wealthy business man named John Allen.
Though we didn't win the game, we were satisfied with our performance.

We've always gotten along fairly well, but I think you're out of line here.
我们一直相处得相当好，但我觉得这次你过分了。
Many countries depend on the efforts of people who offer their time to help

illiterate individuals.
很多国家依靠那些自己花时间帮助文盲识字的人的努力。

Many of them can now write to family members. They also can read newspapers

and magazines.

Since he couldn't pay off his gambling debt, he left university and began

working for magazines.
因为他没法还清赌债，他就从大学退学了，开始为杂志社工作。
Congratulations. You certainly did quite well and I must say you deserve

that grade.

So the pilots did descend to the wrong altitude then, thinking they were

following the air controllers instructions.

Sounds good, but we really can't rent an apartment without seeing it first.
听起来不错，但是我们真的不能还没看就租下这幢公寓。

More than 110 million school age children in the world do not attend school.

He was a good student, but he liked to drink alcohol and play card games for

money.

The trip was intended to bring to the world's attention the fact that AIDS

is not just an African disease.

I was calling about the apple tree that you were trimming yesterday.

You've eaten all the apples that fall in your yard and you've never

complained about that before.
你把所有落在你院子里的苹果都吃掉了，而你之前也没抱怨过那件事。

It's really a lovely place, with a big kitchen and a sunny window, for only

two hundred dollars a month.

I bought this telephone last week, and it works all right with out-going

calls, but it doesn't ring for the incoming ones.

At the college level, a study found that 85 percent of both male and female

first year students desired to change their body weight.
在大学中，一项研究发现，大一的男女学生中有85%渴望改变自己的体重。

You take the benefits of the apple tree, but refuse to deal with the bad side of it!

The problem for me was that there were no symptoms.

Not surprisingly, the highest-scoring students had well-educated parents or came from homes containing study-aids.

Tears are very good at washing this irritating stuff out.

Twins like Betty and Abby are rare. Only about 40 sets are born in the United States each year.
像贝蒂和艾比这样的双胞胎非常稀少。美国每年只有大约40对出生。

Research has revealed that about 40 percent of adult men and 55 percent of adult women are dissatisfied with their current body weight.

As an adult, you may consume over a ton of food per year and still not gain or lose a pound of body weight.

The piano and violin are girls' instruments. Drums and trumpets are for boys.
钢琴和小提琴是女孩演奏的乐器。鼓和小号则适合男孩。

They find that despite the best efforts of teachers these ideas have changed very little over the past decade.
他们发现尽管老师们已经竭尽全力，但是这些观念在过去十年里几乎没有改变。

Most people know what a hot dog is. It's a sausage in a roll.

My chemistry project is in trouble. My partner and I have totally different ideas about how to proceed.

The survey suggests that science and maths education is especially strong in the Far East.
调查显示，远东地区的科学与数学教育尤其发达。

The study also shows that boys generally did better than girls in science, but there was little difference between them in maths.

People travel because they want to broaden their horizons to learn about other people and other places.
人们旅行是因为想拓展视野，了解其他人和别处。