雅思100个经典句子（包涵了7000个雅思词汇）

　　1.Typical of the grasslanddwellers of thecontinent is the Americanantelope, or pronghorn.

　　1.美洲羚羊，或称叉角羚(糜鹿)，是该大陆典型的草原动物。

　　2. Of the millions who saw Haley’scomet in 1986, how many people will live long enough to see it return in the twenty-firstcentury.

　　2. 1986年看见哈雷慧星的千百万人当中，有多少人能够长寿到足以目睹它在二十一世纪的回归呢?

　　3.Anthropologists have discovered that fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise areuniversally reflected infacial expressions.

　　3.人类学家们已经发现，恐惧，快乐，悲伤和惊奇都会行之于色，这在全人类是共通的。

　　4. Because of itsirritating effect on humans, the use of phenol as a generalantiseptic has been largelydiscontinued.

　　4.由于苯酚(石碳酸)对人体带有刺激性作用，它基本上已不再被当作常用的防腐剂了。

　　5. In group/order to remain inexistence, a profit-making organization must,in the long run, produce somethingconsumers consider useful or desirable.

　　5.任何盈利组织若要生存，最终都必须生产出消费者可用或需要的产品。

　　6. The greater the population there is in alocality, the greater the need there is for water, transportation, anddisposal of refuse.

　　6.一个地方的人口越多，其对水，交通和垃圾处理的需求就会越大。

　　7. It is more difficult to write simply, directly, and effectively than to employflowery butvague expressions that onlyobscure one’s meaning.

　　7.简明，直接，有力的写作难于花哨，含混而意义模糊的表达。

　　8. With modern offices becoming moremechanized, designers are attempting topersonalize them with warmer, lesssevere interiors.

　　8.随着现代办公室的日益自动化，设计师们正试图利用较为温暖而不太严肃的内部装饰来使其具有亲切感。

　　9. The difference betweenlibel andslander is that libel is printed while slander is spoken.

　　9.诽谤和流言的区别在于前者是书面的，而后者是口头的。

　　10. Theknee is thejoints where thethigh bone meets the large bone of the lower leg.

　　10.膝盖是大腿骨和小腿胫的连接处。

　　11. Acids arechemical compounds that, in watersolution, have a sharp taste, acorrosive action on metals, and the ability to turn certain blue vegetabledyes red.

11.酸是一种化合物，它在溶于水时具有强烈的气味和对金属的腐蚀性，并且能够使某些蓝色植物染料变红。

　　12. Billie Holiday’sreputation as a great jazz-blues singerrests on her ability to give emotional depth to her songs.

　　12. Billie Holiday’s作为一个爵士布鲁斯乐(爵士蓝调)杰出歌手的名声建立在能够赋予歌曲感情深度的能力。

　　13.Essentially, a theory is anabstract,symbolic representation of what is conceived to be reality.

　　13.理论在本质上是对认识了的现实的一种抽象和符号化的表达。

　　14. Long before childrenare able to speak or understand a language, theycommunicate through facial expressions and by making noises.

　　14.儿童在能说或能听懂语言之前，很久就会通过面部表情和靠发出噪声来与人交流了。

15.Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now growabundantly in areas where once nothing but cacti and sagebrush could live.

　　15.受当代灌溉(技术设施)之赐，农作物在原来只有仙人掌和荞属科植物才能生存的地方旺盛的生长。cacti (名词cactus的复数形式). Sagebrush:山艾(美国西北荒漠产的一种灰绿色灌木)

　　16. The development of mechanical timepiecesspurred the search for moreaccurate sundials with which toregulate them.

　　16.机械计时器的发展促使人们寻求更精确的日晷gui，以便校准机械计时器。

　　17. Anthropology is a sciencein that anthropologists use arigorous set of methods and techniques todocument observations that can be checked by others.

　　17.人类学是一门科学，因为人类学家采用一整套强有力的方法和技术来记录观测结果，而这样记录下来的观测结果是供他人核查的。

　　18.Fungi are important in the process ofdecay, which returnsingredients to the soil,enhances soilfertility, anddecomposes animal debris.

　　18.真菌在腐化过程中十分重要，而腐化过程将化学物质回馈于土壤，提高其肥力，并分解动物粪便。

　　19. When it is struck, atuning fork produces an almost pure tone,retaining itspitch over a long period of time.

　　19.音叉被敲击时，产生几乎纯质的音调，其音量经久不衰。

　　20. Although pecans are mostplentiful in the southeastern part of the United States, they are found as far north as Ohio and Illinois.

　　20.虽然美洲山核桃树最集中于美国的东南部但是在北至俄亥俄州及伊利诺州也能看见它们。

21.Eliminating problems bytransferring the blame to others is often calledscape-goating.

　　21.用怪罪别人的办法来解决问题通常被称为寻找替罪羊。

　　22. The chief foods eaten in any countrydepend largely on what grows best in itsclimate andsoil.

　　22.一个国家的主要食物是什么，大体取决于什么作物在其天气和土壤条件下生长得最好。

　　23. Over a very large number of trials, theprobability of an event’s occurringis equal to the probability that it will notoccur.

　　23.在大量的实验中，某一事件发生的几率等于它不发生的几率。

　　24. Most substancecontract when they freeze so that the density of a substance’ssolid is higher than the density of itsliquid.

　　24.大多数物质遇冷收缩，所以他们的密度在固态时高于液态。

　　25. Themechanism by whichbrain cells store memories is not clearly understood.

　　25.大脑细胞储存记忆的机理并不为人明白。

26. By the middle of the twentieth century,painters and sculptors in the United States had begun toexert a great worldwide influence over art.

26.到了二十一世纪中叶，美国画家和雕塑家开始在世界范围内对艺术产生重大影响。

27. In the eastern part of New Jerseylies the city of Elizabeth, a major shipping andmanufacturing center.

27.伊丽莎白市，一个重要的航运和制造业中心，坐落于新泽西州的东部。

28. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman medical doctor in the United States,founded the New York Infirmary, aninstitution that has always had a completely female medical staff.

28. Elizabeth Blackwell，美国第一个女医生，创建了员工一直为女性纽约诊所。

29. Alexander Graham Bell once told his family that he would ratherbe remembered as a teacher of the deaf than as theinventor of the telephone.

29. Alexander Graham Bell曾告诉家人，他更愿意让后人记住他是聋子的老师，而非电话的发明者。

30. Because itsleaves remain green long after being picked,rosemary became associated with the idea of remembrance.

30.采摘下的迷迭香树叶常绿不衰，因此人们把迷迭香树与怀念联系在一起。

31. Although apparently rigid, bonesexhibita degree ofelasticity that enables theskeleton towithstand considerableimpact.

31.骨头看起来是脆硬的，但它也有一定的弹性，使得骨骼能够承受相当的打击。

32. That xenon could not formchemical compounds was once believed by scientists.

32.科学家曾相信：氙气是不能形成化合物的。

33. Research into thedynamicsof stormsis directed toward improving the ability topredict these events and thus tominimize damage andavoid loss of life.　     

33.对风暴动力学的研究是为了提高风暴预测从而减少损失，避免人员伤亡。

34. Theelimination of inflation would ensure that the amount of money used in repaying aloan wouldhave the same value as the amount of money borrowed.      

34.消除通货膨胀应确保还贷的钱应与所贷款的价值相同。

35. Futurism, an early twentieth-century movement in art,rejected all traditions and attempted toglorify contemporary life by emphasizing the machine and motion.

35.未来主义，二十世纪早期的一个艺术思潮。拒绝一切传统，试图通过强调机械和动态来美化当代生活。

36. One of the wildest and mostinaccessible parts of the United States is the Everglades where wildlife isabundant and largely protected.

36. Everglades是美国境内最为荒凉和人迹罕至的地区之一，此处有大量的野生动物而且大多受(法律)保护。

37. Lucretia Mott’s influence was so significant that she has beencredited by someauthorities as theoriginator offeminism in the United States.

37. Lucretia Mott’s的影响巨大，所以一些权威部门认定她为美国女权运动的创始人。

38. The activities of theinternational marketing researcher are frequently much broader than those of thedomestic marketer.

38.国际市场研究者的活动范围常常较国内市场研究者广阔。

39. The continental divide refers to animaginary line in the North American Rockies that divides the waters flowing into theAtlantic Ocean from those flowing into thePacific.

39.大陆分水岭是指北美洛矶山脉上的一道想象线，该线把大西洋流域和太平洋流域区分开来。

40. Studies of thegravity field of the Earth indicate that itscrust andmantle yield when unusual weight is placed on them.

40.对地球引力的研究表明，在不寻常的负荷之下地壳和地幔会发生位移。

41. Theannual worth of Utah’s manufacturing is greater than that of itsmining andfarmingcombined.

41.尤他州制造业的年产值大于其工业和农业的总和。

42. The wallflower is so called because its weakstems often grow on walls and alongstony cliffs for support.

42.墙花之所以叫墙花，是因为其脆弱的枝干经常要靠墙壁或顺石崖生长，以便有所依附。

43. It is the interaction between people, rather than the events that occur in their lives, that is themain focus of socialpsychology.

43.社会心理学的主要焦点是人与人之间的交往，而不是他们各自生活中的事件。

44. No social crusade aroused Elizabeth Williams’enthusiasm more than theexpansion ofeducational facilities forimmigrants to the United States.

44.给美国的新移民增加教育设施比任何社会运动都更多的激发了Elizabeth Williams的热情。

45. Quails typically have short rounded wings that enable them tospring into full flight instantly whendisturbed in theirhiding places.

45.典型的鹌鹑都长有短而圆的翅膀，凭此他们可以在受惊时一跃而起，飞离它们的躲藏地。

46.According to anthropologists, the earliest ancestors of humans that stood uprightresembled chimpanzees facially, with sloping foreheads andprotruding brows.

46.根据人类学家的说法，直立行走的人的鼻祖面部轮廓与黑猩猩相似，额头后倾，眉毛突出。

47.Not until 1866was the fully successfultransatlantic cable finally laid.

47.直到1866年第一条横跨大西洋的电缆才完全成功的架通。

48. In his writing, John Crowe Ransomdescribes what he considers thespiritual barrenness of societybrought about by science and technology.

48. John Crowe Ransom在他的著作中描述了他认为是由科学技术给社会带来的精神贫困。

49. Children with parents whoseguidance is firm,consistent, andrational are inclined to possess high levels ofself-confidence.

49.父母的教导如果坚定，始终如一和理性，孩子就有可能充满自信。

50. The ancient Hopewell people of North America probablycultivated corn and other crops, but hunting and gatheringwere stillof critical importance in their economy.

50.北美远古的Hopewell人很可能种植了玉米和其他农作物，但打猎和采集对他们的经济贸易仍是至关重要的。

51. Using many symbolsmakes it possible to puta large amount of information on a single map.

51.使用多种多样的符号可以在一张地图里放进大量的信息。

52.Anarchism is a term describinga cluster of doctrines and attitudes whoseprincipal unitingfeature is the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary.

52.无政府主义这个词描述的是一堆理论和态度，它们的主要共同点在于相信政府是有害的，没有必要的。

53. Probably no manhadmore effect on the daily lives of most people in the Untied Statesthan did Henry Ford apioneer inautomobile production.

53.恐怕没有谁对大多数美国人的日常生活影响能超过汽车生产的先驱亨利.福特。

54. The use of well-chosen nonsense words makes possible the testing of many basichypotheses in the field of language learning.

54.使用精心挑选的无意义词汇，可以检验语言学科里许多基本的假定。

55. The history of painting isafascinatingchain of events that probablybegan with the very first pictures ever made.

55.优化历史是由一连串的迷人事件组成，其源头大概可以上溯到最早的图画。

56.Perfectly matched pearls,strung intoa necklace, bring a far higher price than the same pearls soldindividually.

56.相互般配的珍珠，串成一条项链，就能卖到比单独售出好得多的价钱。

57. During the eighteenth century, Little Turtle was chief of the Miami tribe whoseterritory becamewhat is now Indiana and Ohio.

57.十八世纪时，“小乌龟”是迈阿密部落的酋长，该部落的地盘就是今天的印第安那州和俄亥俄州。

58. Among almost seven hundredspecies of bamboo, some are fully grown atless than a foot high, while others can grow three feet in twenty-four hours.

58.在竹子的近七百个品种中，有的全长成还不到一英尺，有的却能在二十四小时内长出三英尺。

59. Before starting on a sea voyage,prudent navigators learn the sea charts, study the sailing directions, and memorize lighthouse locations toprepare themselves for any conditions they mightencounter.

59.谨慎的航海员在出航前，会研究航向，记录的灯塔的位置，以便对各种可能出现的情况做到有备无患。

60. Of all theeconomically important plants, palms have beenthe least studied.

60.在所有的经济作物中，棕榈树得到的研究最少。

61. Buyers and sellers shouldbe aware of new developments in technologyin that it can and doesaffect marketing activities.

61.购买者和销售者都应该留意技术的新发展，原因很简单，因为技术能够并且已经影响着营销活动。

62. Theapplication of electronic controls made possible by themicroprocessor andcomputer storage havemultiplied the uses of the modern typewriter.

62.电脑储存和由于电子微处理机得以实现的电控运用成倍的增加了现代打字机的功能。

63. The human skeletonconsists of more than two hundred bonesbound together by tough andrelatively inelastic connective tissues calledligaments.

63.人类骨骼有二百多块骨头组成，这些骨头是由坚韧而相对缺乏弹性的，被称为韧带的结蒂组连在一起。

64. Thepigmentation of a pearlis influenced by the type ofoyster in which it develops and by the depth, temperature, and the saltcontent of the water in which the oyster lives.

64.珍珠的色泽受到作为其母体牡蛎种类及牡蛎生活水域的深度，温度和含盐度的制约。

65. Althoughmockingbirds superblymimic the songs and calls of many birds, they cannonetheless be quicklyidentified as mockingbirds by certainaural clues.

65.尽管模仿鸟学很多种鸟的鸣叫声惟妙惟肖，但人类还是能够依其声音上的线索很快识别它们。

66.Not only can walking fish live out of water,but they can also travel short distances over land.

66.鲇鱼不仅可以离开水存活，还可以在岸上短距离移动。

67. Scientists do not know whydinosaurs became extinct, but some theoriespostulate that changers in geography, climate, and sea levelswere responsible.

67.科学家不知道恐龙为何绝种了，但是一些理论推断是地理，气候和海平面的变化造成的。

68. The science ofhorticulture, in which the primary concerns aremaximum yield andsuperior quality,utilizes informationderived from other sciences.

68.主要目的在于丰产和质优的农艺学利用了其他科学的知识。

69. Snowaids farmers by keeping heart in the lower ground levels,thereby saving the seedsfrom freezing.

69.雪对农民是一种帮助，因为它保持地层土壤的温度，使种子不致冻死。

70. Even though the precise qualities of hero in literary words mayvary over time, the basicexemplary function of the hero seems toremain constant.

70.历代文学作品中的英雄本色虽各有千秋，但其昭世功力却是恒古不变的。

71. People inprehistoric times created paints bygrinding materials such as plants and clayinto power and then adding water.

71.史前的人们制造颜料是将植物和泥土等原料磨成粉末，然后加水。

72. Often very annoying weeds, goldenrods crowd out less hardy plants andact as hosts to manyinsect pests.

72.黄菊花通常令人生厌，它挤走不那么顽强的植物，并找来很多害虫。

73. Starting around 7000 B.C., and for the next four thousand years, much of theNorthern Hemisphere experiencedtemperatures warmer thanat present.

73.大约从公元前七千年开始，在四千年当中，北半球的温度比现在高。

74. When Henry Ford first soughtfinancial backing for making cars, the verynotion of farmers and clerks owning automobileswas considered ridiculous.

74.当亨利.福特最初为制造汽车寻求资金支持时，农民和一般职员也能拥有汽车的想法被认为是可笑的。

75. Though once quite large, the population of the bald eagle across North America hasdrastically declined in the past forty years.

75.北美秃头鹰的数量一度很多，但在近四十年中全北美的秃头鹰数量急剧下降。

76. The beaverchews down trees to get food and materialwith which to build its home.

76.水獭啃倒树木，以便取食物并获得造窝的材料。

77. Poodleswere once used as retrievers in duck hunting, but the American Kennel Club does not consider them sporting dogs because theyare now primarilykept as pets.

77.长卷毛狗曾被用作猎鸭时叼回猎物的猎犬，但是美国Kennel Club却不承认它们为猎犬，因为它们现在大多数作为宠物饲养。

78.As a result ofwhat is now know inphysics andchemistry, scientists have been able to make important discoveries inbiology andmedicine.

78.物理学和化学的一个成果是使得科学家们能在生物学和医学上获得重大发现。

79. The practice of making excellent filmsbased on ratherobscure novels has been going on so long in the United States as toconstitute a tradition.

79.根据默默无闻的小说制作优秀影片在美国由来已久，已经成为传统。

80. Since theconsumer considers the best fruit to be that which is the most attractive, thegrower must provide products that satisfy thediscerning eye.

80.因为顾客认为最好的水果应该看起来也是最漂亮的，所以种植者必须提供能满足挑剔眼光的产品。

81. Television the mostpervasive andpersuasive of modern technologies,marked by rapid change and growth, is moving intoa new era, an era of extraordinarysophistication andversatility, which promises toreshape our lives and our world.

81.电视，这项从迅速变化和成长为标志的最普及和最有影响力的现代技术，正在步入一个新时代，一个极为成熟和多样化的时代，这将重塑我们的生活和世界。

84. William Rainey Harper lured him to the new university of Chicago, where he remained officially for exactly a generation and where his students inadvanced composition found himterrifyingly frigid in the classroom butsympathetic and understanding in theirpersonal conferences.

84. William Rainey Harper来到了新成立的芝加哥大学。他在那里正式任职长达整整一代人的时间。他的高级作文课上的学生觉得他在课上古板得可怕，但私下交流却富有同情和理解。

85. The slothpays such little attention to its personal hygienethat greenalgae grow on itscoarse hair andcommunities of aparasitic moth live in the depths of its coat producingcaterpillars whichgraze on itsmoldy hair. Its muscles are such that it is quite incapable of moving at a speed of over a kilometer an hour even over the shortest distances and the swiftest movement it can make is asweep of its hooked arm.

85.树獭即不讲究卫生，以至于它粗糙的毛发上生出绿苔，成群的寄生蛾生长在它的皮毛深处，变成毛毛虫，并以它的脏毛为食。其肌肉不能让它哪怕在很短的距离以内以每小时一公里的速度移动。它能做的最敏捷的动作就是挥一挥它弯曲的胳膊。

86. Artificial flowersare used for scientific as well as fordecorative purposes. They are made from a variety of materials, such as wax and glass,so skillfullythat they canscarcely be distinguished from natural flowers.

86.人造花卉即可用于科学目的，也可用于装饰目的，它们可以用各种各样的材料制成，臂如蜡和玻璃；其制作如此精巧，几乎可以以假乱真。

87. Three years of research at anabandoned coal mine in Argonne, Illinois, have resulted infindings that scientists believe they can helpreclaim thousands ofmine disposal sites thatscar the coal-rich regions of the United States.

87.在伊利诺州Angonne市的一个废弃煤矿的三年研究取得了成果，科学家们相信这些成果可以帮助改造把美国产煤区弄得伤痕累累的数千个旧煤场。

88. When thepersuading and the planning for the western railroads had finally been completed, the reallychallenging task remained: the dangerous, sweaty, backbreaking, brawling business of actually building the lines.

88.当有关西部铁路的说服和规划工作终于完成后，真正艰难的任务还没有开始；即危险，吃力，需要伤筋动骨和喧闹的建造这些铁路的实际工作。

89. Weare extremelyconscious of the effect of thecredit crunch on our economy. We believe an effective way to relieve credit crunch is to mobilizeexisting liquidity in thebanking system.

89.我们非常明白信贷困难对经济的影响,并且相信有效的纾解方法是调动银行体系的现有流动资金。

90. The United States Constitutionrequires that President be anatural-born citizen, thirty-five years of age or older, who has lived in the United States fora minimum of fourteen years.

90.美国宪法要求总统是生于美国本土的公民，三十五岁以上，并且在美国居住了至少十四年。

91.Arid regions in the southwestern United States have become increasingly inviting playgrounds for the growing number ofrecreation seekers who own vehicles such as motorcycles or powered trail bikes andindulge in hill-climbing contestsor in caving new trails in the desert.

91.美国西部的不毛之地正成为玩耍的地方，对越来越多拥有摩托车或越野单车类车辆的，喜欢放纵于爬坡比赛或开辟新的沙漠通道的寻欢作乐者具有不断增长的吸引力。

92. Stone does notdecay, and so tools of long ago have remainedwhen even the bones of the man who made themhave disappeared without trace.

92.石头不会腐烂,因此,尽管连制造这些工具的人们的骨头都已经绝迹无存,但远古年代的这些石器还存留着。

93. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they woulddevour all our crops and kill ourflocks and herds,if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals.

93.昆虫就将会使我们无法在这个世界上居住；如果我们没有受到以昆虫为食的动物的保护，昆虫会吞噬我们所有的庄稼，会杀害我们饲养的牲畜。

94. It is true that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the mostperilous nature, equipped in a manner which would make a modern climbershudder at the thought, but they did notgo out of their way to court such excitement.

94.确实，他们在探险中遇到了极具威胁性的困难和危险，而他们的装备会让一个现代登山者想一想都会浑身颤栗。不过他们并不是刻意去追求刺激的。

95. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has aglorious future before him and old one has asplendidfuture behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.

95.老年人和青年人之间有一点差别:青年人有光辉灿烂的前程在等待着他,老年人的背后有着美好的过去:也许问题就在这儿。

96. Young people have an air of freedom, and they have not adreary commitment tomean ambitions or love comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have nodevotion to material things.

96.年轻人有一种奔放不羁的风度,他们不沉溺于可鄙的追名逐利和对舒适的迷恋。他们不是热衷于向上爬的人，他们不会对物质性的东西难舍难分。

97. I am alwaysamazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they wouldhave no inclination to meet on the battlefield.

97.每次我听说体育运动能够在国家间建立起友好感情，说世界各地的普通人只要能在足球场或板球场上相遇就会没有兴趣在战场上相遇的话，我都倍感诧异。

98. It is impossible to say simply for the fun and exercise: as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit willbe disgraced if you lose, the mostsavage combative instincts are around.

98.没有可能仅仅为了娱乐或锻炼而运动：一旦有了问题，一旦你觉得你输了你和你所属团体会有失体面时，你最野蛮的好斗本能就会被激发出来。

99. It has been found that certain batsemit squeaks and by receiving theechoes, they can locate andsteer clear of obstacles------or locate flying insects on which they feed. This echo-location in batsis oftencompared with radar, theprincipleof which is similar.

99.人们已经发现，某些蝙蝠发出尖叫声并靠接受回响来锁定和避免障碍物——或者找到它们赖以为生的昆虫。蝙蝠这种回响定位法常拿来和原理与之很相近似的雷达相比。

100. As the time and cost of making a clip drop to a few days and a few hundred dollars, engineers may soonbe free to let their imaginations soar withoutbeing penalized by expensive failure.

100.随着芯片制造时间和费用降低到了几天和几百美元，工程师们可能很快可以任他们的想象驰骋而不会被昂贵的失败所惩罚。