26. a smacking family 打罵孩子的家庭

27. logging companies 伐木公司

28. a wooden folding chair 一張木制折疊椅

29. firing squad 行刑隊

30. Some predict that the world will face a wave of “aging recession”.

有人預(yù)測，世界將面臨“因老齡化而衰退”浪潮。

31. get a dueling scar 留下決斗傷疤

32. To have a better understanding of adolescent children, modern parents are

advised to learn some educational psychology.

要想更好地了解青春期的孩子，建議現(xiàn)代家長學(xué)習(xí)一些教育心理學(xué)。

33. An understanding of the prerequisites to preparing a language course includes a

grasp of certain theoretical issues.

34. a formal understanding 一份正式備忘錄

35. He and his father walk back to the inn where they are staying. He writes down this

four-to-five minutes composition note for note in just one sitting.

他和父親回到了他們住宿的旅館后，他逐個音符地寫下了這首長達 4 至 5 分鐘的作品，并

且是一氣呵成。

36. In the unfolding of the novel, that there is a mystery here to be told, and then we

get the telling of that mystery.

隨著小說情節(jié)的發(fā)展，將要講述一個神秘的故事，然后我們就讀到了這個神秘的故事。

37. Indeed, the bringing together and initial cutting up and organizing of the

materials is about 90% of the actual preparation.

事實上，匯總、初步的刪減及材料的組織大約占了實際準(zhǔn)備工作的 90％。

38. Being grateful meant assuming that you were in charge of children and laundry

and running out of toilet paper.

感激就意味著你要負(fù)責(zé)照顧孩子，洗衣，要注意洗手間里的衛(wèi)生紙用完了。

39. Setting up a new course implies a skillful blending of what is already known about

language teaching and learning with the new elements that a group of learners

inevitably bring to the classroom.

拓展學(xué)習(xí)：It is a blend of theory and practice.