自考“綜合英語（一）”下冊詳解（1）

    1.Many years ago trying to help people with every kind of trouble left me with one sure conviction …多年以前，幫助人們解決各種各樣問題的過程使我深信，……

    Trying to help people with every kind of trouble caused me to believe one thing firmly…

    help *****.with… 幫助某人做 ……

    Could you help me with the cooking？ 你能幫我做飯嗎？

    trust/faith/belief/conviction

    trust信任，信賴 某人時，你便是依靠于他。 Pupils put their trust in their teachers.小學生們都信賴他們的老師。

    faith 信任，信念，表示對某人或某時非常信任，而這卻可能是無法提供證據的。I have faith in this medicine.我相信這種藥。

    belief相信，信念，信仰，指雖然沒有確切的證據，但還是認為某事物是真實的，從而在思想上予以接受，該詞使用范圍很廣，可涉及到觀點、理論、哲學、宗教信仰甚至等。 He has a strong belief in Buddhism.他深信佛教。

    conviction 深信，確信；信念，是指一種強烈的信念。He joined the Communist Party on the basis of his conviction that communism will prevail through the world.他加入******是基于他堅信共產主義將在全世界勝利。

    2.in case after case the difficulty could have been overcome—or might never have arisen- 在一個個事例中，如果人們相互以禮相待，問題完全可能會得到解決，或許根本不會出現。

    sth after sth 用來表示某事頻繁發生

    Year after year the Government refused to provide more funds for education.一年又一年，政府拒絕給教育增加投資。

    sth after sth 用來表示某事頻繁發生

    Year after year the Government refused to provide more funds for education.一年又一年，政府拒絕給教育增加投資。

    Case after case I found some young people from broken families addicted themselves to drugs.在一個個事例中，我發現一些來自破裂家庭的年輕人吸毒。

    3.Courtesy，politeness，good manners——call it what you will，the supply never seems to equal the demand.禮貌也好，客氣，或文明舉止也好，無論你稱它什么，其供應總是小于需求。

    Whether you call it courtesy，or politeness，or good manner，people's need for it always far greater than they show.（people practice less courtesy than they should.）

    equal：v.與……相等

    be equal to：adj.與……平等，與……相等

    Your achievements are equal to his.你取得和他一樣的成就。

    I am not equal to the position.我不能勝任這個職位。

    He equals me in strength but not in intelligence.他和我的力氣一樣大，但他的智力不如我。

    4.It's not so much what my hu******************and says，“ a tearful wife confides，”as the way he says it…。一位淚流滿面的妻子向我透露說，“（使我傷心的）倒不是我丈夫說的那些話，而是他說話的態度，……

    A wife in tears told me，“What made me so sad was not what he said，but the rude way he said it…”

    not so much…as… 不是 …… 而是 ……

    He works hard not so much to impress his boss as to give his ability into full play.他努力工作，不是為了給他的上司留下好印象，而是為了能夠充分發揮他的才能。

    Good manner depends not so much on how we look at ourselves as on how we look