雅思课外读物--Books are more powerful than medicine

Whenever I read Pride and Prejudice, I admire Elizabeth Bennet for her wit, but part of me loves silly Lydia Bennet all the more. She has all the fun — flirting with officers, dancing non-stop, eloping. We are supposed to disapprove of her, certainly for running off with Wickham and thereby nearly ruining her family, but I can’t help but think lucky Lydia ends up with rather a good deal.

Or, less frivolously(轻佻地), there is Thomas Cromwell. The staggering success(巨大的成功) of Wolf Hall showed how much those of us more used to supermarket aisles than the corridors of power relished (喜欢，欣赏)the chance to enter the consciousness of this arch politician. (《狼厅》的巨大成功表明，我们这些更熟悉超市通道，而不是权力走廊的人，是多么希望有机会走进这位大政治人物的意识中去。)We were all hooked on the intrigue, the twists and manipulations — even murder — that Cromwell managed with such Machiavellian aplomb (冷静).(我们都沉迷在克伦威尔用马基雅维利般的冷静来实施的那些诡计，那些突转和操纵，乃至杀戮之中。)

We revel(陶醉) in the danger of books. They can inspire all manner of sins and their power is far too great to be diminished to neat prescriptions and tidy remedies. Underestimate them at your peril. (我们容易沉醉在书籍的危险之中。书籍能诱发千般堕落，其毒性之巨大，非一般处方和补药能减弱。低估它们，你会为其所害。)

Vocabulary

deluge 洪水

salvation 拯救

treacherous 阴险狡诈的

laud 赞美;赞颂

lethal 致命的

ailment 疾病;不适

mania 疯狂(行为)

contagious 传染的

noxious 有害的

anarchist 无政府主义的(者)

latent 潜在的;暗含的

mundane 世俗的

allure 诱惑

frivolously 轻佻的;不严肃的

staggering success 巨大的成功

relish 喜欢;欣赏

aplomb 冷静

revel in... 陶醉于......

words in use

Apart from engendering widespread ecological disorders, pesticides have contributed to the emergence of a new breed ofchemical-resistant, highly lethal super bugs.(剑8T4P2)

参考译文：除了造成大规模的生态失调，杀虫剂还催生了一种具有抗药性的新型超级致命病菌。

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