7. while away the time 消磨/打发时间
8. shrewdness 机敏,敏锐,犀利
9. far-fetched 牵强附会,不自然
10. fathom 看穿/透,推测,探索
11. infallible 一贯正确
12. uninitiated 对某事无知的
13. Euclid 欧几里德(古希腊数学家)
14. necromancer 巫师
难句译注
1. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has difficulty in laying his hand upon it.
【结构简析】主从句结构,主句A fool 后跟lumber的定从that he comes across。从句so that 中有一knowledge的定从which; or链接前后两个分词crowded out 与jumbled up;但第一个so that 从句又是后面so that 的主句。
【参考译文】蠢人把他碰到的每种木材(制家具)都拿进来。这样,可能对他有用的知识都被挤出去;最好的情况下,也是和其他种种事情混在一起,所以他就很难抓住知识。
2. Its somewhat ambitious title was The Book of Life, and it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic examination of all that came in his way.
【结构简析】并列句,连词and后的句中有宾从how much 。
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