English Sentences Collection for Sencond Language Learner

English Sentences Collection for Sencond Language Learner

I am collecting some English sentences for second language learner.
Chinese translation where pop up when you click the sentence

1. Gutman gives plantation owners little credit for these achievement.

Gutman 没有把这些成功归功于地主们 (GRE Reading)

2. He's always trying to ingratiate himself with the teacher.

他总是设法讨好老师 (Shanpei)

3. As my won studies have advanced, I have been increasingly impressed.

当我的研究取得进展时，我被惊艳到了 (Scientific American)

4. The country's population has dwindled to half of its former size.

这个国家的人口已经缩减到了从前的一半 (Shanbei)

5. His grandfather hired two itinerate farm workers.

他祖父雇佣了两名农场短工 (Shanbei)

6. Unhappily, some of frailties—our need for ever-increasing security among them—are presently maladaptive today.

不幸的是，这些弱点中的一些弱点——包括我们对不断增加的安全感的需求——目前不适应人类发展 (GRE Reading, Adapted)

7. He has showed xenophobic sentiment to bitterly oppose immigration policy.

他强烈反对移民政策, 表现出了排外情绪 (Shanbei)

8. Whether this resistance results (resistence the growth of harmful fungi) from exclusion of harmful fungi through competition for sites, from metabolic change involving antibiotic production, or from increased vigor is undetermined.

植物抵抗力的增加是来自地盘的争夺以抵抗有害真菌，来自抗菌素产生的变化，还是来自活力的增强，这到现在还未确定 (GRE Reading)
Wheter xxx results from xxx, from xxx, or from xxx is undetermined.

9. Mycorrhizal fungi have escaped widespread investigation until recently for two reasons.

根菌由于一下俩个原因而未被广泛研究 (GRE, Adapted)
Generaly, fungi can not escape from the research. So, it is an rhetorical style.
真菌是无法主动逃脱研究员的调查, 因此这里可以算一种拟人修饰.

10. The fungi cannot as yet be cultivated in the absence of living root.

这种真菌目前还不能在没有活根的情况下所培养(GRE Reading)
As yet, 目前为止

11. Your refusal to answer will be regarded as tantamount to an admission of guilt.

你拒绝回答将被视作等同于承认有罪(Shanbei)
1. regard as... 2. tantamount to...

12. Not even remotely, the additional input of thermal energy into the circulating refrigerant via the evaporator accounts for the difference in the energy equation.

一点也没有. 额外通过蒸发机而输入到循环流动制冷剂中的热量,就使得输入能量与输出能量不对等(输入大于输出)(GRE Reading)
accounts for... the difference in the energy equation.
注:全句的动词为accounts

13. Demand for new machine is outstripping supply.

新机器目前供不应求
outstripping supply

14. Even the requirement that biomaterials processed from these materials be nontoxic to host tissue can be meet by techniques derived from studying the reactions of tissue cultures to biomaterials or from short-term implants.

即使生物材料对宿主的无毒性也可以通过观察培养组织对生物材料的反应,或者短期移植的应激反应 的技术手段来实现(GRE Reading)
"A can be meet by B" mean by doing B, we could achive or aquire A.
可以通过做 A(a perpose, result, commodity, etc. ) 来实现/获得 B

15. Our fundamental understanding of how implant devices adhere to tissues remains woefully incomplete.

我们对于移植材料和(受体)组织是如何粘合的基础认识都是非常不完善的 (GRE Reading)
woefully 做程度副词 表示负状态的 "非常的"...

16. I used to be petrified of spiders when I was a kid.

我小时候只要看见蜘蛛就会被吓的僵硬(Shanbei)
Notice: be petrified of; be petrified by/with

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17. He drank copious amounts of beer.

他喝了大量的酒(Shanbei)

18. Jean Wagner's most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American poetry is his insistence that it be analyzed in a religious, as well as secular, frame of reference.

Jean Wagner在黑人诗歌方面最深远的贡献是他的主张: 这些诗歌应该拿宗教和世俗的的框架来参考(他们的价值) (GRE Reading)
endring contribution, long-lasting contribution...
his insistence, his idea, his perspective, his piontview, his standpoint...

19. The two, he argued, form a symbiotic union in which religious feelings are often applied to racial issues and racial problems are often projected onto a metaphysical plane.

他认为, 这两个手法被变成老人一个共生体: 用宗教的情感去述说种族问题, 把种族问题投射到形而上学的层面, (GRE Reading)
endring contribution, long-lasting contribution...
his insistence, his idea, his perspective, his piontview, his standpoint...

20. No matter what happens, he always has an air of detachment.

無論發生了什麼, 他都是一副事不關己的態度. (Shanbei)

21. Due to a slight technical hitch the meeting will be starting fifteen minutes later.

由於技術故障的原因,會議將會被推遲15min. (Shanbei)

22. She didn't want to take on a job that would entail a lot of travelling.

她不想找一個經常出差的工作. (Shanbei)

23. My interest in painting was purely perfunctory.

我對畫畫完全只有3分熱度.(我只是不得以才敷衍一下隨便畫畫) (Shanbei)

24. My time is too valuanle to waste on frivolous games.

我的時間非常寶貴,纔不能浪費在遊戲上. (Shanbei)

25. We're all impressed by her ebullient personality.

我們都被她元氣滿滿的性格給驚豔到了. (Shanbei)
ebullient: 充滿自信的, 熱情洋溢的,精力充沛的

26. The charming pastoral scenery attracted plenty of tourists.

迷人的田園風景吸引來了很多遊客. (Shanbei)
有了 PASTORAL, 再也不用寫the scenery of village 了

27. I balked at the prospect of spending over 12 hours on the train.

想到要在火車上呆12個多小時, 我猶豫了. (Shanbei)
Balk: hesitate. Balked at
the prospect of....

28. Sushi is a quintessential Japanesse cuisine.

壽司是一種典型的日料. (Shanbei)
Quintissential: typical, essentric
Cuisine:\ kwi-ˈzēn \, style of cooking.

29. Is English a compulsory subject?

英語是必修科目嘛？ (Shanbei)
Compulsory: 必修的，強制執行的
Compulsory Subject: 必修課

30. The loss of protein is an obvious feature during senescence.

蛋白質流失是衰老過程中的典型特徵。 (Shanbei)
Senescence aging 的最好替代辭

31. Having surfeited himself on ice cream, he skipped the dinner.

由於吃冰太多淇淋吃到噁心了，他不吃晚飯了。 (Shanbei)
Sufeit: 1, an overabundant supply; 2, disgust casued by excess

32. My friends keep badgering me to buy that washing machine.

我的朋友不斷的纏著讓我買洗衣機。 (Shanbei)
Bagering: 1,to harass or urge persistently; pester; nag.

33. The overall task looks forbidding, but the stakes are too high not to undertake.

整個任務看起來幾乎做不到，但是由于他的代價太高而(我們)不得不做到。 (GRE Reading)

34. The new drug has an adverse impact on human healt.

這個新藥有損健康(副作用) (Shanbei)
Adverse impact: side effect

35. The sun dissipated the mist.

陽光把霧驅散了。 (Shanbei)

36. It would be imprudent to put all your eggs in one basket.

把所有雞蛋放在一個籃子裏是不明智的. (Shanbei)
Imprudent:

37. The food spplies necessary to sustain the large vent communities, however, must be many times the ordinary fallout.

热泉口的生物群落所需的食物是正常掉落食物量的好几倍. (GRE Reading)
Ordinary order: The food must be many times the ordinary fallout supplies necessary to sustain the large vent communities.
Verb: Supplies

38. If such astonishing concentrations of bacteria were typical of vent outflow, then food within the vent would dwarf any contributions from advection.

如果如此大量的细菌是热泉的典型特征的话,那么漂流对热泉中总食物量的贡献几乎为零 (GRE Reading)
If...than; dwarf any contributions

39. No other communities on Earth are independent of photosythesis.

地球上没有除此外的群落可以独立于光合作用(营生). (GRE Reading)
independent of:

40. Why, then, was it Friedan who became the prophet of women's emancipation in the United States?

那麼爲什麼Friedan成了美國的婦女解放者先驅? (GRE Reading)
the prophet of women's emancipation: prophet 常用的意思是 on who foretells future events;
這裏的意思爲: an effective or leading spokesman for a cause, doctrine, or group. 先驅, 領頭人, 發言人.
因此這裏爲, 女性解放的先驅(領導者, 倡導者)

41. The country had entered the silent, fearful fortress of the anticommunist McCarthy years, and Beauvoir was suspected of Marxist sympathies.

整個國家陷入了沉默,恐慌的反共產主義的堡壘中 McCarthy 年代, 而 Beauvoir 被懷疑成了馬克思主義信仰者. (GRE Reading)

42. A good dictionary is indispensable for learning a foreign languiage.

一個好的詞典對於學一門外語來說, 是不可或缺的. (Shanbei)
indispensable: 不可或缺的

43. The educationist advocates analytical thinking, rather than rote learning.

這個教育家提倡用分析性的思維學些, 而不是死記硬背型的學習 (Shanbei)
rote learning

44. The growing emphasis on deterrence is bound to offer increasing scope for women to become involved in novel types of noncombat military assignments.

軍事威懾重要性的增強, 增加了 女性 在典型的非戰鬥方面的軍事任務 的用武之地 的範圍. (GRE)

45. Why then the two years that passed before he translated his private misgivings into public dissent.

爲什麼過了兩年, 他(馬丁路德金)才把他的個人懷疑(異議)轉化成了公衆異議? misgiving: A feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event.
dissent: To differ in opinion (GRE)

46. Members of the union's negotiating team insisted on several changes to the company's proposal before they would support it, making it clear that they would brook no compromise.

聯會的談判隊伍的人員堅持改變公司的幾個提議才能獲得他們的支持, 並且很清楚的表示沒有妥協的餘地.
brook no compromise: 忍受沒有的妥協 -- 無法忍受(自己)妥協;不可能做出妥協. (GRE)
相似表達: touch nothing! (什麼都別碰)

47. Films that critics have slumbered through rarely generate industry excitement, even though the critics' somnolent/lethargic reception may be less the fault of the movie than of its unfortunate time slot near a fatiguing film festival's conclusion.

Ummmmm, 我先多看幾遍.
(GRE 填空)

48. Even though women in U.S. would not gain right to vote until 1920, throughout the 19-century many feminist goals were gradually realized/achieved, especially the right of married women to control their own property.

19世紀, 女權主義開始慢慢的形成, 尤其是婚後女性的財產所有權, 儘管1920年, 美國才通過了女性投標選舉的權利
would not... until
(GRE 填空)

49. A new television documentary focuses on one of the prime minister's defining contradiction portraying her as a woman who cultivated an image of abstemiousness, but who liked to live grandly.

一個新的電視紀錄片專注於一個首相的矛盾, 並把她描繪成一個被培養成了一個有節制的人, 但是她卻想過非常grandly的生活
gradnly / abstemiousness 這裏做了一組反義詞. 但是我, 想不出, 太好的, 翻譯 - - 唉...
(GRE 填空)

50. So far, researchers have found no evidence of seasonal breading among vent-dewlling species that provide their offspring with yolk to sustain them or among vent-dwelling species found in areas of the ocean with not seasonal algae blooms.

哈哈哈, 反正我看懂了, 你們先自己想一下
(GRE Reading)

51. who's up, who's down and who's chiseling on the side.

誰得誰失,誰在背後操盤
(James Reston)

52. By sheer fluke, one of the shipowner's epmployees was in the city.

非常湊巧的是, 船主人的一個水手就在這個城
(Shanbei)

53. Of course, there is far more oil underground than can be recovered. It may be in a pool too small or too far from a potential market to justify the expense of drilling.

事實上，未被開採的油田遠比被開採的多。他們可能因量太少，或者太偏僻而使得開採成本高於投入(而未被開採)
(TOEFL Reading 4-3)

54. To indicate that supposed proof for Heyerdahl’s theory has an alternative explanation.

爲了表明，Heyerdahl的假說的論點有其他可選方案
(說明，Heyerdahl 的假說， 可能是錯誤的， 或可能性很低) (TOEFL Reading 5-2)

55. Nothing but fear from here on out..

From here on out: from this time forward (从此以后)

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