💬 新概念英语第三册
共 1411 条英汉对照例句 · 第 17 页
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
During a radio programme, a company of biscuit manufacturers once asked listeners to bake biscuits and send them to their factory.
有一次，在电台播放的节目里，一个生产饼干的公司请听众烘制饼干送到他们的工厂去。
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
They offered to pay $10 a pound for the biggest biscuit baked by a listener.
他们愿意以每磅10美元的价钱买下由听众烘制的最大的饼干。
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
The response to this competition was tremendous.
这次竞赛在听众中引起极其热烈的反响。
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
Before long, biscuits of all shapes and sizes began arriving at the factory.
不久，形状各异，大小不一的饼干陆续送到工厂。
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
One lady brought in a biscuit on a wheelbarrow.
一位女士用手推车运来一个饼干，
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
It weighed nearly 500 pounds.
重达500磅左右。
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
A little later, a man came along with a biscuit which occupied the whole boot of his car.
相隔不一会儿，一个男子也带来一个大饼干，那个饼干把汽车的行李箱挤得满满的。
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
All the biscuits that were sent were carefully weighed.
凡送来的饼干都仔细地称量。
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
The largest was 713 pounds.
最重的一个达713磅，
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
It seemed certain that this would win the prize.
看来这个饼干获奖无疑了。
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
But just before the competition closed,
但就在竞赛截止时间将到之际，
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
a lorry arrived at the factory with a truly colossal biscuit which weighed 2,400 pounds.
一辆卡车驶进了工厂，运来了一个特大无比、重达2，400磅的饼干。
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
It had been baked by a college student who had used over 1,000 pounds of flour, 800 pounds of sugar, 200 pounds of fat, and 400 pounds of various other ingredients.
它是由一个大学生烘制的，用去1，000多磅的面粉、800磅食糖、200磅动物脂肪及400磅其他各种原料。
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
It was so heavy that a crane had to be used to remove it from the lorry.
饼干份量太重了，用了一台起重机才把它从卡车上卸下。
Lesson 26 Wanted a large biscuit tin
The manufacturers had to pay more money than they had anticipated, or they bought the biscuit from the student for $24,000.
饼干公司不得不付出比他们预计多得多的钱，因为为买下那学生烘制的饼干他们支付了24，000美元。
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
It has been said that everyone lives by selling something.
据说每个人都靠出售某种东西来维持生活。
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
In the light of this statement, teachers live by selling knowledge,
根据这种说法，教师靠卖知识为生，哲学家靠卖智慧为生，
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
philosophers by selling wisdom and priests by selling spiritual comfort.
牧师靠卖精神安慰为生。
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
Though it may be possible to measure the value of material good in terms of money,
虽然物质产品的价值可以用金钱来衡量，
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
it is extremely difficult to estimate the true value of the services which people perform for us.
但要估算别人为我们为所提供的服务的价值却是极其困难的。
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
There are times when we would willingly give everything we possess to save our lives,
有时，我们为了挽救生命，愿意付出我们所占有的一切。
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
yet we might grudge paying a surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely this service.
但就在外科大夫给我们提供了这种服务后，我们却可能为所支付的昂贵的费用而抱怨。
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
The conditions of society are such that skills have to be paid for in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop.
社会上的情况就是如此，技术是必须付钱去买的，就像在商店里要花钱买商品一样。
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
Everyone has something to sell.
人人都有东西可以出售。
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
Tramps seem to be the only exception to this general rule.
在这条普遍的规律前面，
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
Beggars almost sell themselves as human being to arouse the pity of passers-by.
好像只有流浪汉是个例外，乞丐出售的几乎是他本人，以引起过路人的怜悯。
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
But real tramps are not beggars.
但真正的流浪并不是乞丐。
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
They have nothing to sell and require nothing from others.
他们既不出售任何东西，也不需要从别人那儿得到任何东西，
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
In seeking independence, they do not sacrifice their human dignity.
在追求独立自由的同时，他们并不牺牲为人的尊严。
Lesson 27 Nothing to sell and nothing to buy
A tramp may ask you for money, but he will never ask you to feel sorry for him.
游浪汉可能会向你讨钱，但他从来不要你可怜他。