💬 新概念英语第四册
共 1204 条英汉对照例句 · 第 29 页
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awakening it to flow, to movement, to rhythm, to life.
阳光使空气开始流动，产生节奏，获得生命。
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The wind then speaks the message of the sun to the sea and the sea transmits it on through waves.
然后，风把太阳的信息带给了大海，然后，风把太阳的信息带给了大海。
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an ancient, exquisite, powerful message.
一个源远流长、高雅而有力的信息。
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These ocean waves are among the earth's most complicated natural phenomena,
这些海浪属于地球上最复杂的自然现象。
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The basic features include a crest (the highest point of the wave),
它们的基本特征包括浪峰（波浪的最高点）
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a trough (the lowest point), a height (the vertical distance from the trough to the crest),
波谷（最低点）、浪高（从波谷到浪峰的垂直距离）
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a wave length (the horizontal distance between two wave crests),
波长（两个浪峰间的水平距离）
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and a period (which is the time it takes a wave crest to travel one wave length).
和周期（浪峰走过一个波长所需的时间）。
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Although an ocean wave gives the impression of a wall of water moving in your direction,
虽然，海浪给人的印象是一堵由水组成的墙向你压过来，
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in actuality waves move through the water leaving the water about where it was.
而实际上，浪从水中移过，而水则留在原处。
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If the water was moving with the wave,
如果水和浪一起移动的话，
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the ocean and everything on it would be racing in to the shore with obviously catastrophic results.
那么大海和海里所有的东西就会向岸边疾涌而来，带来明显的灾难性后果。
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An ocean wave passing through deep water causes a particle on the surface to move in a roughly circular orbit,
穿过深水的海浪使水面上的一个微粒按照一种近乎圆形的轨道移动，
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drawing the particle first towards the advancing wave,
先把微粒拉向前移的海浪，
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then up into the wave, then forward with it and then
然后推上波浪，随着波浪移动，然后
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as the wave leaves the particles behind back to its starting point again.
当波浪把微粒留在身后时又回到出发点。
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From both maturity to death, a wave is subject to the same laws as any other'living'thing.
从成熟到消亡，波浪和其他任何活动中"的东西一样，都受制于共同的法则。
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For a time it assumes a miraculous individuality that,
一度它获得非凡的个性，
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in the end, is reabsorbed into the great ocean of life.
但最终又被重新融进生命的大洋。
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The undulating waves of the open sea are generated by three natural causes:
海浪是由三个自然因素形成的：
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wind, earth movements or tremors, and the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun.
风、地球的运动或震颤和月亮、太阳的引力。
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Once waves have been generated,
一旦波浪形成，
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gravity is the force that drives them in a continual attempt to restore the ocean surface to a flat plain.
地球引力是持续不断企图使海面复原为平面的力量。
Lesson 41 Training elephants
Two main techniques have been used for training elephants,
驯象有两种主要的方法，
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which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle.
我们分别称之为强硬法和温柔法。
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The former method simply consists of setting an elephant to work and beating him until he does what is expected of him.
强硬法就是驱使象去干活，把它打到顺从为止。
Lesson 41 Training elephants
Apart from any moral considerations this is a stupid method of training,
且不说道义问题，这本身就是一种愚蠢的训练方法，
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for it produces a resentful animal who at a later stage may well turn man-killer.
因为这种方法训练会使动物反感，在以后某个时期可能会变成伤人的动物。
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The gentle method requires more patience in the early stages, but produces a cheerful,
温柔法要求在最初阶段保持较大的耐心，但这种方法可以训练出性情愉快、
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good-tempered elephant who will give many years of loyal service.
脾气温顺、能忠实为人服务多年的大象。