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(2008-08-15 20:09:27)
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  每天读China Daily,把不认识的单词和表达,把自己用错
了的语法和单词等一一记录于此,坚持不懈,定能助我英文写作
功力大增。

2008.8.14

18.  Ye Zhenghe, 58, who has been suffering from liver
cancer for the past 15 years, said.

19.  Beijing has done "a truly stupendous job" and
Vancouver, host city of the 2010 Winter Olympics and
Paralympics, will try to replicate its success.
(stupendous:  惊人的, 了不起的-- Something that is
stupendous is surprisingly impressive or large;
surprisingly large or impressive [= magnificent]: a
stupendous achievement

20.  The city will have three media centers and the
Games will attract some 10,000 accredited 3,000
non-accredited journalists, he said.
(纳闷accredited后为何不用逗号或者and连接。Accredited
journalist特派记者  non-accredited journalists 非注册记
者)

21.  Despite winning the ISSF World Shooting
Championships in 2002 and 2006, however, he has been
unable to overcome the Olympic jitters sufficiently to
win a gold.  (Jitter---nervousness)

22.  He immediately established a good rapport with
his coach, Zhu Riping, who knew the boy would become a
star.  (rapport !!  好词 LDOCE: friendly agreement and
understanding between people; Collins: If two people or
groups have a rapport, they have a good relationship in
which they are able to understand each other's ideas or
feelings very well. Rapport的发音古怪,t不发音,美音好听)

23.  Zhang was initially expected to train as a
ping-pong player, but the coach thought he was too old,
so he went in for weightlifting instead. (train这里不需
要用被动式, train to do something――>She's training
to be a doctor.

24.  But it seemed that might be the peak of his
Olympic career, because after being upgraded to the 62
kg category he had a severe back injury, exacerbated by
a medical mishap, which caused his collapse and near
death. (exacerbate, mishap 后者读音问题―――sh分开发,s
- h-->mis---hap,重读音节在第一音节!)

2008.8.15

23.    Zhang was initially expected to train as a
ping-pong player, but the coach thought he was too old,
so he went in for weightlifting instead. (train这里不需
要用被动式, train to do something――>She's training
to be a doctor.

24.    But it seemed that might be the peak of his
Olympic career, because after being upgraded to the 62
kg category he had a severe back injury, exacerbated by
a medical mishap, which caused his collapse and near
death. (exacerbate, mishap 后者读音问题―――sh分开发,s
- h-->mis---hap)

25.    So long as you have life, you can achieve
anything. 这句话是奥运张湘翔曾经训练受伤,接受治疗时又出
了医疗事故(mishap),差点送命。他说的这句话令我颇受鼓舞!
奥运精神(higher, faster, stronger)最近令我心潮澎湃,斗
志昂扬!

26.    Defending champions and medal hopefuls alike
came to grief in the early stages of the competition at
the Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium. (hopeful
---可以作名词;reigning champion+defending champion卫冕
冠军)

27.    八分之一决赛,四分之一决赛、半决赛、决赛――>
eighth-final, quarterfinal, semi-final, final;
preliminary match 预赛

28.    drained 累垮了 ---"There isn't better incentive
for me than  hearing fans cheer me up in my dialect,"
said the 25-year-old Zheng yesterday after she came back
to beat Spain's Nuria Llagostera Vives.  "There were
some moments that I felt extremely drained, not only
physically but mentally because the match against Szavay
was exhausting.

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