外刊精读周计划 5.17 Week 2 神词神句

神句

1.All the money would have been worthless if legions of craftsmen hadn’t been willing to dedicate their skills and often their lives to making this not just another building, but a monument to human achievement.

如果成批的工匠们没有为此倾尽全力甚至付出生命，或是把这座人类成就的里程碑仅仅当做普通建筑来建造的话，所有投资也就付诸东流了。

2.Certainly no other creature could conceive and create something of such sublime beauty. Case closed? Hardly.

毫无疑问，再没有其他生物能构思并创造出如此庄重的美丽。这就完了？并不。

3.Some of the workers may well have been veterans of the First Crusade, an expedition to “save” the Holy Land from the infidel Muslims that was part religious frenzy, part military adventure, and part social fad.

一些工人可能也是十字军第一次东征的老兵。这场意图从穆斯林异教徒手中“拯救”圣地的远行，三分是来自宗教的愤怒，三分是军事冒险，剩下的是集体性的狂热。

4.We like to think that our erratic behaviour isa thing of the past, that we’ve outgrown the excesses of the Crusades. But nothing could be further from truth.

我们以为自己不会再重复十字军东征这样的错误了，那完全是自欺欺人。

神词组

1.Remarkable phenomenon

惊为天人

2.Scores of musicians/ an army of people

诸多音乐家/一大群人

3.How far we human have comein such a short time

我们人类在极短的时间内取得了这么大的成就

4.Thesight of …. Is almost enough tomake a believer of even

the most skeptical.

看到…的第一眼，即使是最质疑宗教的人也会成为信徒。

5.Medieval equivalent of the modern effort

在中世纪的成就相当于如今

6.Reshape our destiny

重塑了我们的命运

7.Set goals/pursue goals

设立目标/努力实现目标

8.Be ashamed of …

为…感到惭愧

9.Fall for ….

为…倾倒

10.Alternate between…

在…之间转换

11.Wrestle with sth

与…抗争

12.Get off the ground

开展，开始

13.Contradictory drives

相互矛盾的动力