💬 新概念英语第四册

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

the bottle, the box, and the jar are almost always granted them.

结果就是把瓶药、盒药、罐药开给看病的人而完事大吉。

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

Nor is it only the ignorant and ill-educated person who has such faith in the bottle of medicine.

并不只是那些无知和没受过良好教育的人才迷信药瓶子。

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

It is recounted of Thomas Carly1e that when he heard of the illness of his friend,

他听说朋友病了，

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

Henry Taylor, he went offimmediately to visit him,

亨利·泰勒，就立刻跑去看他，

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs.Carlyle's.

衣袋里装上了一瓶他妻子不舒服时吃剩下的药。

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

Carlyle was entirely ignorant of what the bottle in his pocket contained,

卡莱尔不知道药瓶子里装的是什么药，

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

of the nature of the illness from which his friend was suffering,

不知道他的朋友得的是什么病，

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

and of what had previously been wrong with his wife,

也不知道他妻子以前得的是什么病，

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

but a medicine that had worked so well in one form of illness would surely be of equal benefit in another,

只知道一种药对一种病有好处，肯定对另一种病也会有好处。

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

and comforted by the thought of the help he was bringing to his friend,

想到能对朋友有所帮助，他感到欣慰，

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

he hastened to Henry Taylor's house.

于是急急忙忙来到了亨利·泰勒的家里。

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

History does not relate whether his friend accepted his medical help, but in all probability he did.

他的朋友是否接受了他的药物治疗，历史没有记载，但很可能是接受了。

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

The great advantage of taking medicine is that it makes no demands on the taker beyond that of putting up for a moment with a disgusting taste,

对服药人别无其他要求，除了暂时忍受一下令人作呕的味道外，

Lesson 28 Patients and doctors

and that is what all patients demand of their doctors----to be cured at no inconvenience to themselves.

病要治好，但不要太麻烦。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

Many strange new means of transport have been developed in our century,

本世纪已研制出许多新奇的交通工具，

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

the strangest of them being perhaps the hovercraft.

其中最新奇的要数气垫船了。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

In 1953, a former electronics engineer in his fifties, Christopher Cockerell,who had turned to boat-building on the Norfolk Broads,

在1953年，有一位50多岁名叫克里斯托弗·科克雷尔的原电子工程师，改行在诺福克郡的湖泊地区从事造船业，

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

suggested an idea on which he had been working for many years to the British Government and industrial circles.

他向英国政府和工业界提出了他研究多年的一项计划。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

It was the idea of supporting a craft on a 'pad',or cushion, of low-pressure air, ringed with a curtain of higher pressure air.

用一个气垫来支撑船体，低压空或软垫，软垫周围用高压空气环绕。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

Ever since, people have had difficulty in deciding whether the craft should be ranged among ships,

自那以后，人们很难决定是否应该将这种运载工具列为轮船、

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

planes, or land vehicles----for it is something in between a boat and an aircraft.

飞机，或是陆上交通工具，因为它是介于船和飞机之间。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

As a shipbuilder, Cockerell was trying to find a solution to the problem of the wave resistance which wastes a good deal of a surface ship's power and limits its speed.

作为一个船舶技帅，科克雷尔在寻找解决波浪阻力的方法，因为波浪阻力浪费掉了船在水面行驶的大量动力，从而限制了船的速度。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

His answer was to lift the vessel out of the water by making it ride on a cushion of air,

他的解决办法是把船体提离水面，让船在一个气垫上行驶，

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

no more than one or twofeet thick.

气垫只有一两英尺厚。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

This is done by a great number of ring-shaped air jets on the bottom of the craft.

船底装上大量环状喷气嘴以实现这一目的。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

It 'flies', therefore, but it cannot fly higher---

这样，船就能飞了，但飞不高。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

its action depends on the surface, water or ground, over which it rides.

它的飞行取决于它所悬浮的水面或地面。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

The first tests on the Solent in 1959 caused a sensation.

在1959年，在苏伦特海峡进行的首次试航引起了轰动。

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

The hovercraft travelled first over the water, then mounted the beach,

气垫船先是在水面上行驶，后又登上海岸，

Lesson 29 The hovercraft

climbed up the dunes, and sat down on a road.

爬上沙丘，最后停在路上。