新概念英语第三册
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inconvenience of living in the country
major : great / demanding
draw to its close = near its end 临近结束/尾声
Key sentence:
The city dweller never experiences anxieties of this sort.
We can keep ourselves free from the anxieties of this sort which afflict the country dweller.
Eating food with different tasts is also a pleasure.
run wild 发疯
Key sentence:
Country people run wild when they go shopping in the city and stagger home loaded with as many of the necessities of life as they can carry.
nor ... without 双重否定
The city has got its own beauty.
Don’t shed blood
deserted : enpty
all these things: all the pleasures of the city / all the advantages of living in the city
There are fewer advantages of the country than in the city.
There are more disadvantages of the country than those of the city.
extol the virtues
extol = praise highly
praise 比extol 的语义要弱得多
virtue 美德 = advantage
illusion 幻觉,错觉 = false idea
superior 比......有优势, ==better than
maintain == hold
glinting 闪烁 = glisten
tolera
te 忍受 == endure, bear, stand, put up with, suffer without complaining
beyond me == can not be understood by me
beyond my understanding