新概念英语第三册

ary available for you.



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