2012考研英语基础班-语法和长难句精讲(郭崇兴).docVIP

2012考研英语基础班--语法及长难句精讲班（郭崇兴） 视频+讲义下载地址/file/aqbh6e91# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 　【参考译文】很明显，智力包含的不只是一次测试所得的分数。而聪明意味着什么？有多少智力可以界定？我们能够从神经学、遗传学、计算机科学以及其他领域了解多少智力？ 　　☆ If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months. If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced. 　　【参考译文】如果你查看一下参加2006年世界杯赛的所有足球运动员的出生证，你极有可能会发现一个引人注意的怪事：优秀的足球运动员大多是在年头出生，而不是在年尾出生。如果你再查看一下为世界杯和职业联赛输送人才的欧洲各国的国家青年队，你会发现这种奇怪的现象更加明显。 　　 What might account for this strange phenomenon? Here are a few guesses：a）certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills；b）winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity，which increases soccer staminas；c）soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime，at the annual peak of soccer mania；d）none of the above. 　　【参考译文】怎样解释这一奇怪的现象？有几个猜想：1. 某些星相赋予超强的足球技能。2. 冬天的婴儿大多摄氧量更高，可以增加足球体能。3. 狂爱足球的父母更有可能在春天怀孕，这一段时间是足球狂热的高峰。4. 以上选项都不正确。 　　☆ Icebergs are among natures most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one.A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being –somewhere-in faraway, line frigid waters, amid thunderous noise and splashing turbulence, which in most cases no one hears or sees. They exist only a short time and then slowly waste away just as unnoticed. 　　【参考译文】冰山是大自然最壮观的创造之一，但大多数人却从未看到过冰山。一种朦胧神秘的气氛笼罩着它们。冰山形成于久远的、寒冷的水体中，而且伴随着雷声轰鸣般的嘈杂和水花汹涌的风暴，但却无人耳闻目睹。冰山仅存在短短的一段时间就慢慢地悄无声息地融化掉。 　　Objects of sheerest beauty，they have been called.Appearing in an endless variety of shapes, they may be dazzlingly white, or they may be glassy blue, green, or purple, tinted faintly or in darker hues. They are graceful, stately, inspiring--in calm, sunlit sea