第二十二节 数词加名词

1. The radio has a two-year guarantee. 这台收音机的保质期是两年。

2. Giant bottles of coke crammed in beside twenty-pound bags of potatoes and

“Special offer” drums of bleach.

几大瓶可乐与几袋重达 20 磅的土豆，还有几桶特价漂白剂堆在一起。

3. a million-dollar house. 一座价值百万美元的房子。

4. a 100-seater bus. 一百座的公共汽车。

5. a 1000 –seat restaurant.可容纳 1000 人就餐的餐馆。

6. There will be a 500-seat auditorium. 有 500 坐席的礼堂。

7. a one-guinea sonnet. 值一英镑的诗。

8. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf. 然后我要了一个价值三便士的面包。

9. We're also strong in athletics, women's hurdle, women's trampoline, where

we've got two-time Olympic medalist Karen Cokurn.

我们在田径项目上也有很强的实力，比如女子跨栏，在女子蹦床这个项目上我们

有两届奥运会奖牌得主卡伦.科克本。

10. Three-time Olympic shooting medalist Renata Mauer hopes to qualify for Beijing

after failing to medal in Athens.

3 次获得奥运会射击奖牌的雷纳塔.莫尔在雅典奥运会上未能获得奖牌，她希望

自己能够取得北京奥运会的参赛资格。

11. At that time both the 11-a-side field handball played in Europe and a new 7-a-

side indoor version preferred by the Scandinavians had equal popularity.

那时欧洲盛行的 11 人制室外手球和斯堪的纳维亚人喜爱的一种新的 7 人制室内

手球同样普及。

12. The USSR won the gold medals in both the 11-team men's and 6-team women's

competition.

前苏联在 11 支队伍参赛的男子手球比赛和 6 支队伍参赛的女子手球比赛两项赛事

上都获得了金牌。

13. A game consists of two 30-minute halves with a 10-minute half-time break.

每场比赛分上下两个半场，各 30 分钟，中间有 10 分钟休息时间。

14. When the city of Yokohama recently doubled the number of garbage categories

to ten, it handed residents a 27-page booklet on how to sort their trash.

横滨市最近将垃圾分类的数目扩充一倍达到 10 类时，它给居民们分发了一本

关于如何将他们的垃圾分类的 27 页小册子。

15. Italy's male and female fencers now have a two-Olympiad stranglehold on the

sport after edging past rivals Russia and France respectively.

在分别以微弱优势击败竞争对手俄罗斯和法国之后，现在意大利男女击剑运动员

背负着两届奥运会的冠军的沉重压力。

16. playing animated four-wheel version of themselves (on the assumption that a

man is what he drives).

把自己当成动画中的四轮赛车（假定人车一体）。

17. He created a thirty-acre lake. 他建成了一个占地 30 英亩的湖。

18. Dr. Jamshid Ghajar, her doctor at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, as it

was known in 1996, told reporters that she had a 10 percent chance of survival.

她的主治医生、纽约医院康奈尔医疗中心（1996 年时的名称）的贾姆希德.加雅

博士告诉记者，她只有 10%的生还机会。

19. You have a 50-50 chance of survival. 你有 50%存活的可能性。

20. B＆Q the largest home-improvement retailer in Europe, has seen a 50 percent

increase since 1996 in the number of women buying power tools.

百安居是欧洲最大的家居装饰零售商，自 1996 年以来在该店购买电动工具的

女性人数已经上升了 50%。

21. The destination-wedding industry has quickly seized on the trend. Teresa Belcher,

president of the travel-planning firm Honeymoon Islands，says she has seen a

25percent increase since 2001 in couples who choose to get married at resorts with

their children and various other relatives in tow.

从事旅行结婚行业的人士已迅速抓住了这种趋势。“蜜月岛”旅行策划公司的总经

理特雷莎.贝尔彻说，她已经看到，自 2001 年以来，选择携带孩子并邀请其他亲友

到旅游胜地举办婚礼的夫妇增加了 25%。

22. Two-year community colleges are still an educational bargain.

两年制社区大学教育仍然很划算。

23. Dashkova took a two-year leave of absence but remained the academy's titular

director until after Catherine's death, in 1976.

达什柯娃便告了两年假，但仍挂名为科学院院长。

24. two-week preparation class. 为期两周的预备班

25. the third-person narrator. 第三人称叙述者。

26. During the early 13-day flight where the shuttle docked with the International

Space Station and traveled 5.3 million miles, Mike and fellow crew member Piers

Selllers made three spacewalks that lasted about 21 hours.

在近 13 天的航行中，发现号航天飞机与国际空间站对接，共航行 530 万英里，

迈克和他的机组同事皮尔斯.塞勒斯进行了 3 次太空行走，共持续约 21 个小时。

27. The following day, I took a two-hour drive along the coast to Galle.

第二天，我沿着海岸驾车两小时来到加勒。

28. our four-bedroom apartment. 我们的公寓有四个房间。

29. three-mam commission. 三人委员会。

词 汇 积 累

1. genius n 天才，天赋；精神

a. I haven't had one second of genius in my entire life. it's really the difference

between perseverance in my case and genius.

一生中都没有一秒灵光乍现的时刻，这就是我这样的勤奋和天才之间的差距。

b. genius of observation and deduction. 善长的观察推理能力。

2. geography n 地理；地形

The two were separated by geography again for some months.

他们俩再次分开了几个月。

3. gesture n 姿态；手势

a. Does that strike you as a big gesture or a little gesture?

你们认为这是大动作还是小动作？

b. It's a gesture of goodwill. 友好之举。

4. ghost n 鬼，幽灵

a. a ghost town.鬼城。

b. see a ghost. 见鬼了。

5. gift n 礼物；天赋；赠品

gift shop. 礼品店。