💬 新概念英语第四册
共 1204 条英汉对照例句 · 第 7 页
Lesson 11 How to grow old
I should wish to die while still at work,
我希望工作到死为止，
Lesson 11 How to grow old
knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do,
明白了有人会继续我的未竟事业，
Lesson 11 How to grow old
and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.
想到能做的事都做了，也就坦然了。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
When anyone opens a current account at a bank,
任何人在银行开一个活期账户，
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time,
就等于把钱借给了银行。这笔钱他可以随时提取，
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
either in cash or by drawing a cheque in favour of another person.
提取的方式可以是取现金，也可以是开一张以他人为收款人的支票。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
Primarily, the banker-customer relationship is that of debtor and creditor----
银行与储户的关系主要是债务人和债权人的关系。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
who is which depending on whether the customer's account is in credit or is overdrawn.
究竟谁是债务人谁是债权人，要看储户的账户是有结余还是透支。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
But, in addition to that basically simple concept,
除了这一基本的简单的概念外，
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
the bank and its customer owe a large number of obligations to one another.
银行和储户彼此还需承担大量义务。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
Many of these obligations can give rise to problems and complications but a bank customer,
其中许多义务往往引起问题和纠纷。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
unlike, say, a buyer of goods, cannot complain that the law is loaded against him.
但是储户不能像货物的买主那样来抱怨法律对自己不利。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
The bank must obey its customer's instructions, and not those of anyone else.
银行必须遵照储户的嘱托办事，不能听从其他人的指令。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
When, for example, a customer first opens an account,
比如，储户首次在银行开户时，
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
he instructs the bank to debit his account only in respect of cheques drawn by himself.
嘱咐银行他的存款只能凭他本人签字的支票来提取。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
He gives the bank specimens of his signature,
他把自己签名的样本交给银行，
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
and there is a very firm rule that the bank has no right or authority to pay out a customer's money on a cheque on which its customer's signature has been forged.
银行没有任何权利或理由把储户的钱让伪造储户签名的支票取走。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
It makes no difference that the forgery may have been a very skilful one:
即使伪造得很巧妙，也不能付款，
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
the bank must recognize its customer's signature.
因为银行有责任辩认出其储户的签名。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
For this reason there is no risk to the customer in the practice,
因此，这种做法对储户毫无风险。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
adopted by banks, of printing the customer's name on his cheques.
某些银行已采用把储户姓名印在支票上的作法。
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
If this facilitates forgery, it is the bank which will lose, not the customer.
如果因这种作法出现了伪造的话，受损失的将不是储户，而是银行。
Lesson 13 The search for oil
The deepest holes of all are made for oil, and they go down to as much as 25,000 feet.
在所有洞穴中，为寻找石油所钻的洞是最深的，这些洞可深达25，000英尺。
Lesson 13 The search for oil
But we do not need to send men down to get the oil out, as we must with other mineral deposits.
但是，我们不必像开采其他矿藏那样，把人送到地下去把石油取出。
Lesson 13 The search for oil
The holes are only borings, less than a foot in diameter.
这些洞只不过是一些钻孔，直径不到1英尺。
Lesson 13 The search for oil
My particular experience is largely in oil,
我是专门搞石油的，
Lesson 13 The search for oil
and the search for oil has done more to improve deep drilling than any other mining activity.
寻找石油比其他任何采矿业对改进深孔钻探作的贡献都要大。
Lesson 13 The search for oil
When it has been decided where we are going to drill, we put up at the surface an oil derrick.
当确定钻孔地点后，我们就在那里竖起一个井架。
Lesson 13 The search for oil
It has to be tall because it is like a giant block and tackle,
井架必须很高，因为它像一个巨型滑轮组。
Lesson 13 The search for oil
and we have to lower into the ground and haul out of the ground great lengths of drill pipe which are rotated by an engine at the top and are fitted with a cutting bit at the bottom.
我们必须把很长的钻杆一节节地钻入地下，然后再从地下拉出来。钻杆顶部安装的发动机带动钻杆旋转，它的底部装有钻头。