英語六級備考之邊閱讀邊記單詞第7期

　　German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic talent, but his legacy includes many of todays social insurance programs. During the middle of the 19th century, Germany, along with other European nations, experienced an unprecedented rash of workplace deaths and accidents as a result of growing industrialization. Motivated in part by Christian compassion for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to undercut the support of the socialist labor movement, Chancellor Bismarck created the worlds first workers compensation law in 1884.

　　military a.軍事的;軍用的

　　unprecedented a.無先例的,空前的

　　motivate vt.給...動機;刺激;激發

　　impulse n.沖動

　　compensation n.賠償金;補償金

　　請翻譯下列4個句子

　　1.There used to be a military base in the region.

　　2.Airlines around the world,spurred by growing passenger volume and the need to replace hundreds of aging 1960s-era jets,have embarked on an unprecedented shopping rush.

　　3. I used to act out of blind impulse when I was young.

　　4.My job is hard, but it has its compensation.

　　答案：

　　1.這地區過去有個軍事基地。

　　2.迫于乘客流量不斷增加，又加上各航空公司有必要對已日顯陳舊的60年代噴氣客機進行更換，世界各個航空公司掀起了一股前所未有的購機熱潮。

　　3.我年輕時常憑盲目的沖動行事。

　　4.我的工作雖苦,但也有所補償。

　　German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic talent, but his legacy includes many of todays social insurance programs. During the middle of the 19th century, Germany, along with other European nations, experienced an unprecedented rash of workplace deaths and accidents as a result of growing industrialization. Motivated in part by Christian compassion for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to undercut the support of the socialist labor movement, Chancellor Bismarck created the worlds first workers compensation law in 1884.

　　military a.軍事的;軍用的

　　unprecedented a.無先例的,空前的

　　motivate vt.給...動機;刺激;激發

　　impulse n.沖動

　　compensation n.賠償金;補償金

　　請翻譯下列4個句子

　　1.There used to be a military base in the region.

　　2.Airlines around the world,spurred by growing passenger volume and the need to replace hundreds of aging 1960s-era jets,have embarked on an unprecedented shopping rush.

　　3. I used to act out of blind impulse when I was young.

　　4.My job is hard, but it has its compensation.

　　答案：

　　1.這地區過去有個軍事基地。

　　2.迫于乘客流量不斷增加，又加上各航空公司有必要對已日顯陳舊的60年代噴氣客機進行更換，世界各個航空公司掀起了一股前所未有的購機熱潮。

　　3.我年輕時常憑盲目的沖動行事。

　　4.我的工作雖苦,但也有所補償。