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Intensive Reading 吉林大学远程教育学院 |
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| Comparison:except;
except for; besides; except that except: (prep.) not including;but not 除了…之外；但…不包括在内 1.Nobody is late except me. 除我之外无人迟到。 2.He gets up early every day except Sunday. 除星期日外他每天都早起。 except for: (used when what is excluded is different from what is included) 除了..外（用以说明除外者异于包括在内者）；只是 1.Your essay is good except for the spelling. 你的文章不错，只是字母拼写有误。 2.The dress is very beautiful except its color. 这裙子很漂亮，只是颜色不合适。 besides: (1)(adv.)moreover;also 再者；加之；而且 1.I don’t like that dress ;besides, it’s too expensive. 我不喜欢那件衣服；而且，它太贵。 2.It is too late to go for a walk now;besides,it begins to rain. 现在出去散步太晚了；再者，天又开始下雨了。 (2) (prep.)in addition to ;as well as 除了…之外（还有） 1.I have three hats besides this. 除了这顶之外，我还有三顶别的帽子。 2.He had no time to go there ;besides,he was ill. 他没有时间去那；除此之外，他又又病了。 except that: apart from the fact that 除去…一点之外 1.She knew nothing about him except that he was a teacher. 除知道他是个老师外，她对他一无所知。 2.He is nearly a perfect man except that he lacks resolution. 除了缺乏毅力这一点之外，他是个近乎完美的人。 |
 These
are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive in the shelves |
| Meaning:Metaphor is used here.
Highet compares books to a group of people full of ideas and thoughts… 这些并不是一摞摞没有生命的纸张，而是活跃在书架间的丰富知识。 |
| mind: (n.)(person with )mental ability 有才智的人；心智 |
| 1.No two minds think alike.
没有两个人的思想完全相同。 2.He has a very good mind. 他极有才智。 常用短语： to one’s mind: according to my way of thinking 依…看来 1.To my mind, this is just a nonsense. 在我看来，这简直就是胡闹。 2.To his mind, no one is right except him. 在他看来，除了他之外谁都不对。 to make up one’s mind:to come to a decision 决定；决心 1.I’ve made up my mind to be a doctor. 我已下定决心当医生。 2.He haven’t made up his mind about what he’ll do. 他还没决定要做什么。 |
| From
each of them goes out its own voice,as inaudible as the streams of
sound conveyed by electric waves beyond the range of our hearing,
and just as the touch of a button on our stereo will fill the room
with music, so by opening one of these volumes, one can call into
range a voice far distant in time and space and hear it speaking,
mind to mind, heart to heart. |
| Meaning: Here it is obvious
that Highet believes books presented in the library are just like
the best minds full of ideas and thoughts and it is worthwhile for
the readers to explore , to discover or even discuss with them. And
such kind of communication is highly spiritual rather than physical.
每层书架都发出其自身的声音，又如电波传递的声音，我们无法听到。这声音超出了我们的听觉。它像打开的电唱机，音乐回响在整个房间里。因此，当你打开一摞书籍，你好像听到遥远的时空传来的话语，聆听着它的讲述，进行着思想交流，促膝谈心。 |
| convey: |
| (v.) (1)to take,carry
运输；运送 1.This train only conveys goods.这列火车只用来运货。 2.Pipes convey hot water to every household. 水管将热水输送到每家每户。 (2)to make known ideas,views,feelings etc to another person 传达（意思、见解、感情等） 1. .This picture will convey to you some idea of that scenery. 这幅画可将那处风景的美丽向你传达一二。 2. Words fail to convey my meaning. 言语不能表达我的意思。 (3)(legal) to give full legal rights (in land or property) (法律)(将土地或产业经合法手续)让与；转让 1.The land is conveyed to his brother. 此地已让与他的兄弟。 2.The old man conveyed his house to his docile daughter. 老人把房子让与其孝顺的女儿。 |
| He
knew his state as thoroughly as a surgeon knows the human body.
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| Meaning:The cowboy knew his
state very well. Simile is used here, "as... as 他像一位外科医生熟知人体结构一样熟悉他的州。 |
