时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:美国语文第五册


英语课

   A leading firm in commercial circles had long struggled against bankruptcy 1. 长期以来,商业圈里某家主要公司反对美国破产法。


  As it had large sums of money in California, it expected remittances 2 by a certain day, 当时,这家公司有大量资金在加利福尼亚,原本指望在某一指定日子向外汇款,
  and if they arrived, its credit, its honor, and its future prosperity would be preserved. 若款项按时汇出,它的信用名誉以及它未来发展机遇无疑将得以保障。
  But week after week elapsed without bringing the gold. 但是,一个又一个星期过去了,这笔款项仍未支付。
  At last came the fatal day on which the firm had bills maturing to large amounts. 最后,至为关键的日子眼看到来,这家公司数额很大的几张汇票即将到期。
  The steamer was telegraphed at daybreak; but it was found, on inquiry 3, that she brought no funds, and the house failed. 黎明时分,一份加急电报发给游轮,但经过咨询发现,游轮并未携带现金,所以款项未能及时支付;
  The next arrival brought nearly half a million to the insolvents 4, but it was too late; 游轮再次抵达时将差不多五十万资金付予资不抵债者,但,所有一切太迟了,
  they were ruined because their agent, in remitting 5, had been behind time. 这家证券交易所彻底破产了,因为他们的代理商未能及时汇款。
  A condemned 6 man was led, out for execution. 一位死刑犯即将被执行死刑,
  He had taken human life, but under circumstances of the greatest provocation 7, and public sympathy was active in his behalf. 考虑到在被动激怒情况下,他才犯下人命,所以,公众对他给予相当同情,
  Thousands had signed petitions for a reprieve 8; a favorable answer had been expected the night before,  数千人联名签名请愿对他实施缓期死刑,上峰死缓回复有待在死刑执行前一天晚上送达。
  and though it had not come, even the sheriff felt confident that it would yet arrive. 尽管批复未到,连执行司法官亦相信,缓刑已毋庸置疑。
  Thus the morning passed without the appearance of the messenger. 第二天早晨,批复仍未到达。

n.破产;无偿付能力
  • You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产,就必须节省开支。
  • His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
n.汇寄( remittance的名词复数 );汇款,汇款额
  • He sends regular remittances to his parents. 他定期汇款给他父母。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Remittances sometimes account for as much as 20% of GDP. 在这些国家中,此类汇款有时会占到GDP的20%之多。 来自互联网
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
n.无力偿还债务的人(insolvent的复数形式)
v.免除(债务),宽恕( remit的现在分词 );使某事缓和;寄回,传送
  • You should fill in the money order carefully before remitting money. 在办理汇款业务前,应准确填写汇款单。
  • Please wait for invoice detailing shipping costs before remitting your payment. 汇款前请为您的付款详细运费发票等。
n.激怒,刺激,挑拨,挑衅的事物,激怒的原因
  • He's got a fiery temper and flares up at the slightest provocation.他是火爆性子,一点就着。
  • They did not react to this provocation.他们对这一挑衅未作反应。
n.暂缓执行(死刑);v.缓期执行;给…带来缓解
  • He was saved from the gallows by a lastminute reprieve.最后一刻的缓刑令把他从绞架上解救了下来。
  • The railway line, due for closure, has been granted a six-month reprieve.本应停运的铁路线获准多运行6 个月。
学英语单词
active nest
ahead of the times
american association of farmers' institute worker
amnesties
amway
angular gap
annealable
apparelling
appentice
bendixsons
benthamites
bivalved
brake power
Breckenridge, Mount
bud dormancy
Caicara
call-back pay
cession number
charge-coupled frequency divider
common peripheral interface
complete sets of equipment
connections between factory and shops
customer experience
degree of reserve recovery
differential reinforcement
eigenberg
epigrammatising
establish sb in business
every silver lining has a cloud
field of lines behaviour
fiorentinoes
from above
function of motion
gas dome
gentlemanship
gorgerin
gradatories
granscarbamylation
graphical information
heating electrode
high impedance relay
Homestead Movement
honorand
horahs
indeficient
inoxidized
instimulation
isolated atom
Kuettner's ganglion
Kφng
lack of title
latrell
leader-figure
lenticelles
Lumpeto
maresca
medium heating furnace
multixtation seamer
municipal airport
neccessary
Nucleolites
ofre
only loadable
otocleisis
overbreakage
partridges
petroleum lubricant
Phetracha
polar reciprocal curve
pressure garment
prison-building
professional fee
pupil-teacher system
pure glutinous rice flour
rapid ceramic firing
reapir of partial atrio-ventricular canal
relational query
report tape
respiratory rhythmgenesis
reticulite
rift-sawed
round-the-clock emergency system
sal sedatirum
San Jose Oil Agreement
Sceaux
sectional roller
short-termisms
software systems
spherolite porphyry
steric sea level
theories-of-mind
tire load
tissue-specific gene knockout
took someone out
transfusive
transverse fold
twenty-high roll mill
type-tokens
venae auditivae internae
villainousnesses
yo mama