[00:01.84]Lesson 57
[00:03.68]alien
[00:05.15]陌生的
[00:06.61]I had expected to be near my objective by now
[00:09.29]我本想离目的地已经不远了，
[00:11.96]but everything still seemed alien to me.
[00:14.25]但周围的一切对我仍很陌生。
[00:16.54]He had not used his mother tongue for so long
[00:19.11]他好多年没有使用母语了
[00:21.68]that every word in the book seemed alien.
[00:24.02]书上的每个字看起来都是那么陌生。
[00:26.36]By noon he was far into the alien country.
[00:28.88]中午他已经深入了这个陌生的国度的腹地。
[00:31.40]emigrate
[00:33.14]移居（国外）
[00:34.87]So he decided to emigrate.
[00:36.95]于是他决定移居外国。
[00:39.03]Then he returned to the capital,
[00:41.00]接着他返回首都，
[00:42.97]and after a frightening delay of six Months,was permitted to emigrate.
[00:46.41]担心吊胆地经过了六个月的延迟，终于获得了移民许可。
[00:49.84]The lions emigrated to the western woods.
[00:52.27]狮群移居到西边的树林里。
[00:54.70]absorb
[00:56.16]全神贯注于
[00:57.63]In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us,
[01:00.94]在这个新的国家里，父亲一门心思地为我们两个开创机新生活
[01:04.26]so that he gradually ceased to grieve.
[01:06.53]慢慢地不伤心了。
[01:08.81]She was absorbed in thought.
[01:10.79]她陷入了沉思。
[01:12.78]Often he needs to be kicked out of his absorbed reading.
[01:15.56]他专心读书的时候，你经常午踢他一脚，才能把他从书里踢出来。
[01:18.34]embedded
[01:20.01]牢牢扎根的
[01:21.68]His roots and mine had become too firmly embedded in the new land.
[01:25.12]因为他跟我一样，已经把根深深地扎在了异国的土地上。
[01:28.56]He couldn't move the arrow;it was firmly embedded in the rock.
[01:31.64]那支箭牢牢地扎在岩石里，他怎么也拔不动。
[01:34.72]The doctrine of democracy and freedom has become embedded in the modern mind.
[01:38.25]民主和自由的信条已经深入现代人的思想中。
[01:41.77]mortally
[01:43.20]致命地
[01:44.62]He became mortally ill a few months before we had planned to go
[01:47.45]就在我们计划回国的前几个月，他突然身患绝症
[01:50.29]and,when he knew that he was dying,he made me to promise to go on my own.
[01:53.97]他知道自己不行了，硬要我答应他独自上路。
[01:57.66]The lieutenant fell to the ground,mortally wounded.
[02:00.48]中尉受了致命重伤倒在地上。
[02:03.30]The witch was mortally offended and  cursed the young man.
[02:06.24]女巫大怒，诅咒了年轻人。
[02:09.18]comprehensive
[02:10.85]广泛的，丰富的
[02:12.52]I hired a car after landing and bought a comprehensive bood of maps,
[02:15.95]我下飞机后租了一辆车，并买了一本详细尽的地图。
[02:19.39]which I found most helpful on the cross-country journey,
[02:22.01]地图在我行车穿越乡间时非常有用，
[02:24.64]but which I did not think I should need on the last stage.
[02:27.46]不过快到家了，我以为用不着了。
[02:30.28]There is no all-embracing comprehensive theory.
[02:33.36]没有包罗万象的理论。
[02:36.45]It is hoped that this book will prove to be a comprehensive source of information in this field.
[02:40.27]但愿本书能为这一领域的研究提供较全面的信息。
[02:44.10]milestone
[02:45.83]里程碑
[02:47.55]But my father had described over and over again
[02:50.28]但是我父亲一遍一遍地跟我讲过，
[02:53.01]what we should see at every milestone,after leaving the nearest town,
[02:56.39]过了离家最近的小镇后在每个路标处会看到些什么。
[02:59.77]so that I was positive I should recognize it as familiar territory.
[03:03.04]因此，我确信这段路对我来说是很熟悉的。
[03:06.31]I think this is a very important milestone in the relations between our two countries.
[03:10.08]我认为这是我们两国关系中一个十分重要的里程碑。
[03:13.85]The invention of the wheel was a milestone in human history.
[03:16.64]发明车轮是人类历史上的一个里程碑。
[03:19.42]territory
[03:20.86]领地，地区
[03:22.29]Much of the territory in Africa is desert.
[03:24.72]非洲的大部分地方是沙漠。
[03:27.15]Neither of us seeks the territory of the other.
[03:29.72]我们双方都不觊觎对方的领土。
[03:32.30]milometer
[03:33.93]程表
[03:35.56]I looked at the map and then at the milometer.
[03:37.99]我看了看地图，又看了看里程表。
[03:40.42]Somehow the taxi-driver kept glancing at the milometer.
[03:43.15]不知怎么回事，出租汽车司机不停地瞟一眼里程表。
[03:45.88]She never learned how to read a milometer,or any meter.
[03:48.91]不管是里程表，还是什么表，她从来就不会看。