1. “You do what you can, and I think a lot of us are still searching for what to do with

what we have,” says basketball star Kevin Garnett, the?highest-paid?player in the

NBA, who has committed to funding the construction of three to four houses amonth

for Katrina victims over the next two years.

籃球巨星凱文·加內(nèi)特，這位 NBA 薪酬最高的球員這樣說到“盡你所能吧，我認為我

們中許多人都在思考如何盡自己的微薄之力?！彼兄Z在未來兩年內(nèi)為卡特里娜颶風(fēng)

受害者提供資助建設(shè)三到四處房屋。

2. highly-paid manager. 高薪經(jīng)理。

3. highly developed sense of smell. 高度靈敏的嗅覺。

4. highly and elaborately rhetorically ornamented passages. 帶有精美修辭的段落。

5. That it was not only the public at large（一般來說） that was in ignorance of

everything concerning her; the inner circles of statesmen and officials and?high-born

ladies were equally in the dark. When she suddenly emerged from this deep

obscurity, the impression that she first created was immediate and profound.

一般來說，不只是公眾對她的事一無所知，就連圈內(nèi)的政客、官員們及一些出身

高貴的太太們也同樣蒙在鼓里。當(dāng)她突然之間從默默無聞中冒了出來，首先造成的

影響是直接的和深遠的。

6. The high-flown language bespoke not a shade of increased American commitment.

講話的調(diào)子很高，但并不證明美國人的許諾有一點點增加。

詞 匯 積 累

1.?fancy?n 幻想；想象力；愛好

She was a fairy princess who had taken a fancy to a little boy, clothed him, petted

him, turned him from a duckling into a swan.

她是一個仙女公主，看上一個小男孩，供他衣服，寵愛他，使他從一個丑小鴨變

為天鵝。

2.?farm?n 農(nóng)場；農(nóng)家；畜牧場

farm machinery. 農(nóng)業(yè)機械。

3.?fashion?n 時尚；時裝；樣式；時髦人物

a. out of fashion/ outdated. 過時的。

b. in fashion. 合于時尚，流行。

c. fashion world. 時尚界。

4.?fate?n 命運

a. No matter how young or old, they could not escape the fate of being raped.

無論年邁婦女或年幼少女都逃不過被強奸的命運。

b. ill fated marriage. 倒霉的婚姻。

c. There is an ideology perhaps that people are in charge of their own fate.

有一種思想認為人主宰自己的命運。

d. It must be a fate. 真是緣分。

f. They had accepted their failure, but they couldn't accept their fate.

他們雖然接受了失敗，但他們沒有認命。

5.?faucet?n 旋塞；插口. 水龍頭

Turn on the faucet. 打開水龍頭。