时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力广播—Listening


英语课

Most people complain of fortune, few of nature; and the kinder they think the latter has been to them, the more they murmur 1 at what they call the injustice 2 of the former.


Why have not I the riches, the rank, the power, of such and such, is the common expostulation with fortune; but why have not I the merit, the talents, the wit, or the beauty, of such and such others, is a reproach rarely or never made to nature.The truth is, that nature, seldom profuse 3, and seldom niggardly 4, has distributed her gifts more equally than she is generally supposed to have done. Education and situation make the great difference. Culture improves, and occasions elicit 5, natural talents I make no doubt but that there are potentially, if I may use that pedantic 6 word, many Bacons, Lockes, Newtons, Caesars, Cromwells, and Mariboroughs at the ploughtail behind counters, and, perhaps, even among the nobility; but the soil must be cultivated, and the season favourable 7, for the fruit to have all its spirit and flavour.
If sometimes our common parent has been a little partial, and not kept the scales quite even; if one preponderates 8 too much, we throw into the lighter 9 a due counterpoise of vanity, which never fails to set all right. Hence it happens, that hardly any one man would, without reverse, and in every particular, change with any other.
Though all are thus satisfied with the dispensations of nature, how few listen to her voice! How to follow her as a guide! In vain she points out to us the plain and direct way to truth, vanity, fancy, affection, and fashion assume her shape and wind us through fairy-ground to folly 10 and error.

 


n.低语,低声的怨言;v.低语,低声而言
  • They paid the extra taxes without a murmur.他们毫无怨言地交了附加税。
  • There was a low murmur of conversation in the hall.大厅里有窃窃私语声。
n.非正义,不公正,不公平,侵犯(别人的)权利
  • They complained of injustice in the way they had been treated.他们抱怨受到不公平的对待。
  • All his life he has been struggling against injustice.他一生都在与不公正现象作斗争。
adj.很多的,大量的,极其丰富的
  • The hostess is profuse in her hospitality.女主人招待得十分周到。
  • There was a profuse crop of hair impending over the top of his face.一大绺头发垂在他额头上。
adj.吝啬的,很少的
  • Forced by hunger,he worked for the most niggardly pay.为饥饿所迫,他为极少的工资而工作。
  • He is niggardly with his money.他对钱很吝啬。
v.引出,抽出,引起
  • It was designed to elicit the best thinking within the government. 机构的设置是为了在政府内部集思广益。
  • Don't try to elicit business secrets from me. I won't tell you anything. 你休想从我这里套问出我们的商业机密, 我什么都不会告诉你的。
adj.卖弄学问的;迂腐的
  • He is learned,but neither stuffy nor pedantic.他很博学,但既不妄自尊大也不卖弄学问。
  • Reading in a pedantic way may turn you into a bookworm or a bookcase,and has long been opposed.读死书会变成书呆子,甚至于成为书橱,早有人反对过了。
adj.赞成的,称赞的,有利的,良好的,顺利的
  • The company will lend you money on very favourable terms.这家公司将以非常优惠的条件借钱给你。
  • We found that most people are favourable to the idea.我们发现大多数人同意这个意见。
v.超过,胜过( preponderate的第三人称单数 )
  • This reason preponderates over all others. 这个理由较所有其他理由重要。 来自辞典例句
n.打火机,点火器;驳船;v.用驳船运送;light的比较级
  • The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色,色调明朗了一些。
  • The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。
n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话
  • Learn wisdom by the folly of others.从别人的愚蠢行动中学到智慧。
  • Events proved the folly of such calculations.事情的进展证明了这种估计是愚蠢的。
学英语单词
a-v shunt
active extreme pressure lubricant
advisory specialist group
amount of motion
angiomyoliopma
backshifting
bagger elevator
Bamber.
battery terminal positive
biscribed
bottom-hole regulator
BSIHE
carbon sand
chalkography
channel-section glass
choriambic
clerical collars
climb to power
climbing effect
cold-core high
conditional emotional reaction
constant price series
cost of equipment
course of production
critical section routine
current carrying shaft
cwc
darrel
defuzing
deka-ampere
Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts
dunglang (doglang)
edly
electric plane
extrusion packing
federal housing administrations
ferronatrite
fiaiches
fine tolerance
full load operation
gawdam
general export insurance
genus hydras
give to the public
hazardous waste
heat-transfer behavior
heterotarsus carinula
high-achieving
HIP sintering
hualiens
hydraulic supply
I should think
industrial toxicology
international flashing light signalling
international map of world on million scale
interplanetary dust
ionic-heated cathode tube
isolated danger beacon
join-irreducible
Kamikuishiki
kreizler
Lenhartz diet
lighting vehicle
lymphoglandular cyst
masochisms
maxi min criterion
Nifedin
old school ties
one head arc welding machine
oxygen blasting
personal shoppers
personate
photorefractive keratectomies
phthisicus odor
positive mark polarity
primary mirror
R-NET
Rayleigh group velocity
role-handicap
roll formed shape
roquefeuil
safe guard
sector light
single-row radial thrust ball bearing
social graces
specialized dictionary
splenty
Stara Novalja
stationary strategy
strip loin
Summist
sunkissed
tariff of abomination
tark bikes
toeout on turns
Torenia fournieri
trapezohedral
unluckier
vapour-pressure osmometry
Vianin
weigold
Young's modulus in tension