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2. 上下文及动词性名词 When Delia reached home her excitement gave way a little to prudence and reason. 德娜到家时就不那么兴奋了，开始变得理智和谨慎起来。 Janes kindly and gentle nature could not but revolt[反叛，反感] at her sisters callous[heartless or insensitive] behavior. 珍妮生性温和善良，对她妹妹这种冷酷无情的行为，实在看不顺眼。 Her husbands murder shook her faith not only in the legal system, but in people as well. 她丈夫遭人杀害，不仅动摇了她对法制的信念，而且使她对人也不那么信任了。 All employees must have a complete understanding of and dedication to the aims of the company. 凡本公司之雇员均须彻底理解公司之宗旨并为之献身。 Classic democracy stems from the French revolution and represents achievement of power by the bourgeoisie [bu??wɑ:zi] after their oppression during feudalism and absolutism. 古典民主产生于法国大革命，以资产阶级摆脱封建和专制压迫后取得政权为标志。 Memory, as time goes on, is a selective thing. Somehow the presidential candidates forget all the agony—the demeaning【低三下四的，降低身份的,有辱人格的】scramble 【an unceremonious and disorganized struggle】 for money, the vicious charges of their opponents , the unfeeling and often frivolous【轻佻的,妄动的,琐碎的，不严肃的】criticism of the press, and the endless plane and bus rides, the stumbling into bed and wondering how they can get through it all again next day. 时间一久，记忆便只保留筛选过后的东西了。总统候选人不知怎地把一切痛苦的事情全忘了——卑躬屈膝争取资金，对手恶毒的指责，报界毫不留情且常常是很不严肃的批评，乘飞机和汽车长途跋涉无休无止，累得一头栽倒床上都不知道第二天能否还熬得过去，所有这一切全忘了。 Passage 2 Kitchen We spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen, and this suits me very well. I have always thought of the kitchen as the heart and hub of the home. In my early days, in the Black Country①, the kitchen meant something quite different from what it means now, in most modern suburban homes. It was a room for living in, not just a machine for cooking in. Other rooms were for “company” a social gathering of guests or companions, and although having company was always jolly and exciting, it was also rather artificial, and our most “real” and most intense（frequent,substantial） family life was lived in the kitchen. That was where we had all our rows（if two people have a row, they have a no