[10:45.90]Lesson 30
[10:49.24]labourer
[10:50.76]劳动者
[10:52.27]Farm labourers said that they always wake up to find that work had been done overnight.
[10:56.29]雇工们说，常常一早起来发现有人在一夜之间把活儿干了。
[11:00.32]The farmer hired several day labourers.
[11:02.69]农场主雇佣了好几个日工。
[11:05.07]During the break several labourers got together and played poker.
[11:07.94]工间休息几个工人凑在一起打扑克。
[11:10.82]overnight
[11:12.44]一夜之间
[11:14.06]And suddenly,overnight,
[11:15.94]突然之间，一夜工夫，
[11:17.82]before he had time to realize what was happening,he rose to fame.
[11:20.99]他还来得及搞清楚怎么回事就成名了。
[11:24.17]First,high birthrates cannot be altered substantially overnight.
[11:27.25]首先，高出生率不可能在一夜之间就改变。
[11:30.33]hay
[11:31.72]干草
[11:33.10]Hay had been cut and cowsheds had been cleaned.
[11:35.72]干草已经割好了，牛棚也打扫干净了。
[11:38.35]The cows have plenty of hay to eat this winter.
[11:40.68]今年冬天奶牛有足够的干草吃。
[11:43.00]We must make hay while the sun shines.
[11:45.43]我们必须抓紧有利时机。
[11:47.86]corn
[11:49.14]谷物
[11:50.42]A farm worker,who stayed up all night,
[11:52.76]有一个彻夜未眠的雇工声称
[11:55.09]claimed to have seen a figure cutting corn in the moonlight.
[11:57.77]看见一个人影在月光下收割庄稼。
[12:00.45]A field of ripe corn is spreading before them.
[12:03.27]一片成熟的稻谷呈现在他们眼前。
[12:06.09]moonlight
[12:07.53]月光
[12:08.97]I would rather travel by moonlight.
[12:11.04]我宁可趁月光赶路。
[12:13.12]How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.
[12:15.64]月光多么甜蜜地睡在这个岸上。
[12:18.16]conscientious
[12:19.78]认真的，谨慎的
[12:21.40]In time,it became an accepted fact
[12:23.88]久而久之，大家都相信
[12:26.36]that the Cox brothers employed a conscientious ghost
[12:29.03]考克斯兄弟雇了个尽心尽责的鬼，
[12:31.69]that did most of their work for them.
[12:33.68]替他们把大部分的农活都干了。
[12:35.66]Everyone can see this is conscientious piece of work.
[12:38.34]谁都看得出，这件活儿是用心做的。
[12:41.02]During their years at college,these conscientious students are convinced
[12:44.49]这些兢兢业业的学生们始终认为自已还不够努力，
[12:47.97]that they are not working hard enough and will fail their finals,
[12:51.00]大考会不及格，
[12:54.03]yet end up by getting huge firsts.
[12:56.51]结果却捧回一堆一堆的第一名。
[12:58.99]suspect
[13:00.43]怀疑
[13:01.86]No one suspected that there might be someone else on the farm who had never been seen.
[13:05.89]谁也没想到农场里竟会有一个从未露面的人。
[13:09.91]It has long been suspected of being the source of many of the illnesses of man.
[13:13.24]长期以来人们怀疑这是人类许多疾病的传染源。
[13:16.57]They suspect him of giving false evidence.
[13:18.86]他们怀疑他作伪证。
[13:21.14]desert
[13:22.57]开小差
[13:23.99]As he hated army life,he decided to desert his regiment.
[13:27.16]他讨厌军旅生活，决定逃离所在的团队。
[13:30.34]They will not desert because if they do their families will be shot.
[13:33.62]他们不会开小差的，不然一家老大都要被枪毙。
[13:36.89]I have deserted from the army.
[13:39.02]我从军队开了小差。
[13:41.15]regiment
[13:42.52]团
[13:43.89]The two soldiers belonged to the same regiment.
[13:46.27]这两个士兵的一个团的。
[13:48.65]A regiment went by in the road and I watched them pass.
[13:51.68]一团人开过去了，我看着他们经过。
[13:54.71]action
[13:56.29]战斗
[13:57.87]His father told everybody that Eric had been killed in action.
[14:00.81]他的父亲告诉大家，埃里克在战斗中被打死了。
[14:03.75]On August 7,1942,the Allies began their first offensive action in the Pacific.
[14:08.18]1942年8月7日，盟军第一次在太平洋地区发动攻势。
[14:12.60]There will be lots of action around these parts.
[14:15.03]这些地区战事一定会很频繁。
[14:17.46]recluse
[14:18.83]隐士
[14:20.21]All these years,Eric had lived as a recluse.
[14:22.88]这些年来，埃里克一直过着隐居生活。
[14:25.56]A recluse is a person who lives alone away from the world and avoids other people.
[14:29.28]隐士就是一个离群索居的人。
[14:33.01]Tao Yuanming is the most famous and the admirable recluse in Chinese history.
[14:36.94]陶渊明是中国历史上最有名也是最值得钦佩的隐士。
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