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4. ... and through many triumphs and failures I came to know more about myself: I had experienced many successes and many failures. It was through these successes and failures that I got to know myself better. 历经多次的成功与失败使我对自己有了更多的了解。 e to: to learn to, to grow to 熟知，了解，学会，开始 . He had e to like the city better after living there for three years. 住了三年后，他更加喜欢那座城市了。 I have e to realize how important it is to learn to use a puter. 我逐渐意识到学会用电脑是多么重要。 Unit 1 College Life 22 : to have as a part or result 涉及，牵涉 Examples: Taking the job would involve living abroad. 做这项工作就得住在国外。 Listening to radio programs is a good pastime, because it involves the listener39。 s imagination. 听广播节目是一种很好的消遣，因为它可以激发听众的想像力。 Unit 1 College Life 23 Reading B: Para 36 Para 3 As I walk down the familiar routes on campus, I find myself doing a lot of soulsearching and reminiscing. I find myself wanting to start all over again and recapture the fun and excitement of my college days. I have been panicking at the idea of graduating. I have been going to school for as long as I can remember, and I feel like there is so much more that I want to learn, but instead I have to graduate. The world is enormous and the possibilities are endless. For the past four years I have been surrounded with a safety . The student status has been a somewhat forting feeling, giving me an escape from the realities of the world outside. Unit 1 College Life 24 6. As I walk down the familiar routes on campus, I find myself doing a lot of soulsearching and reminiscing. As I walk on the familiar campus road, I find myself thinking about the passed days I spent at the college. 走在校园熟悉的路上，不知不觉中就陷入了深深的反思和对往昔的回忆中。 soulsearching: a deep examination of one39。 s mind and conscience 反思 Example: After many hours of soulsearching, he decided to admit his guilt. 反思了好多小时后，他决定承认自己的罪行。 Unit 1 College Life 25 reminisce: to talk or think about past experiences, esp. pleasant ones 回忆 Example: The two friends were reminiscing about their youth. 两位朋友在一起回忆起他们的青年时代。 find oneself: discover 发现 Example: He finds himself not understanding why everybody was laughing. 他不明白为什么人人都在笑。 Unit 1 College Life 26 7. recapture: to capture again。 to get into one„s power again； cause to be experienced again 重新获得；再现，使再次经历、体验或产生（往日的情感等） Examples: The police recaptured the escaped prisoner. 警察再次抓获了那个逃犯。 During the party with some young people, the parents found themselves recapturing the joys of their youth. 和青年人开晚会，父母重温了他们年轻时的欢乐。 Unit 1 College Life 27 8. I have been panicking at the idea of graduating: When thinking about my ing graduation, I can„t help feeling quite uneasy. 一想到毕业心里就一阵阵恐慌。 at the idea of: at the thought of 一想起 …就 . Having never lived away from her parents, Jane began to panic at the idea of living on campus on her own. 珍妮从没离开过父母，她一想到要独自住在校园就开始发慌。 Smiles broadened my mother39。 s face. She just couldn39。 t help it at the idea of the family reunion. 一想到全家人能欢聚一堂，母亲就笑逐颜开。 Unit 1 College Life 28 9. The world is enormous and the possibilities are endless: The world is so big and who knows what will happen (after graduation). 世界如此之大，可能发生的事情太多太多。 We can see from the sentence that the author is reluctant to leave school with which he is familiar and at which he feels safe. Unit 1 College Life 29 Para 4 With less than two weeks left of school, I39。 m getting a queasy feeling deep down every time I think about the fact that I39。 m going to be graduating. For as long as I can remember, I have been a student. I feel like I39。 m living in denial about graduating. Every time I get asked about what I39。 m going to do after college I feel like screaming at the top of my lungs. I don39。 t know what I want to do with the rest of my life. It39。 s too difficult to even contemplate the idea that soon I will be waking up in the mornings and not have a class to which I should be going. Unit 1 College Life 30 10. I am getting a queasy feeling deep down every time I think about the fact that I39。 m going to be graduating: I am getting an uneasy feeling whenever I think about the fact that I39。 m about to graduate. 每每想到就要毕业，我就打心眼儿里感到不安。 Every time is used here to introduce an adverbial clause of time. Apart from every time noun phrases like the moment, next time et。