PART 1 Sentences
It has seemed to me that there is no greater human happiness than two things, freedom from sickness in the body, and freedom from worries in the mind.
There's nothing more valuable in this world than a healthy body and a carefree mind. Ironically, one usually can't realize how fortunate they are for owning them until they lose one or both of them. As a saying has it, when you are young, you exchange health for wealth, and when you are old, you exchange wealth for health. This is an inexorable law from whose consequences few people can escape. But still, there's something we can do to ameliorate the consequences. As the new year rolled around, I've made a resolution to work out more and become more self-disciplined on diets.
實(shí)用句型：
1. Though he had had a run of good luck in the nine years o￡ the Empress Dowager's regency, he had constantly moved about and had always spent his salary.
當(dāng)表達(dá)某人在某一段時(shí)間內(nèi)RP持續(xù)很高或很低肥哎，可以用 sb has a run of good luck/ bad luck辽俗。這里也可以用這樣的表達(dá): he had been on a winning streak
2. But it was a pleasant journey through beautiful country, over hills and dales, exciting rapids, and tall mountain ridges, and he enjoyed them to the full.
表達(dá)做某事做到了極致 to the full/ to the fullest: in the best or most complete way?
live life to the full 一切考究，只為更極致的生活篡诽！
3. It was far from a bad place in which to live.
下次想表達(dá) not... at all的時(shí)候可以考慮替換成 far from...?
PART 2 Expressions
1. This "slander of the deceased emperor" was now the stock phrase used against all the Yuanyu officials.
stock phrase/ excuse/ question/ remark etc: 陳詞濫調(diào) an excuse etc that people often say or ise, especially when they cannot think of anything
類似表達(dá): cliché; trite phrase
For much of 2008, a stock phrase in the press statement agreed each month by the European Central Bank's rate-setters was "the euro area does not suffer from major imbalances."
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2. Su Tungpo's greatest discovery upon arrival at this district was that there was no wine monopoly and that every family brewed its own wine.
brew: [bru:] (v.) 釀酒; 泡（咖啡崖飘；茶）
Every beer on the menu was brewed locally.
freshly brewed coffee
be brewing: if sth unpleasant is brewing, it will happen soon
There's trouble brewing in the office.
本章中出現(xiàn)了好幾個(gè)與酒相關(guān)的術(shù)語(yǔ)，例如： ferment [f??ment] 發(fā)酵
This was rice wine taken before it was fully fermented and contained very little alcohol.
3. I feel better in my own body, and when drinkers get tipsy, I feel happier in my own spirit.
tipsy: slightly drunk 微醺 ?? （n.）tipsiness
I came home a little tipsy.
之前學(xué)過(guò)一個(gè)drowsy: 微困
4. It turned out that Cheng himself was most desirous of patching up the quarrel and winning the friendship of his distinguished relative.
patch sb/ sth up: 1. to end an argument because you want to stay friendly with them
He went back to patch things up with his wife.
2. to repair a hole in sth by putting a piece of sth else over it
We'll have to patch up the hole in the roof.
3. to give quick and basic medical treatment to sb who is hurt
We patched up the wounded as best as we could.
5. Shorn of his power and persona non grata with the ruling regime, Su Tungpo had outgrown his young ambition to make his "emperor the best," or to change the destiny of an empire.
shorn是shear的過(guò)去分詞形式 (shear -- sheared -- sheared/ shorn)
be shorn of sth: to have sth valuable or important taken away from you
Though shorn of some of its power, the party remains in control.
persona non grata 不受歡迎的人杈女，是一個(gè)外交上的概念
Under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a receiving state may "at any time and without having to explain its decision" declare any member of a diplomatic staff persona non grata. A person so declared is considered unacceptable and is usually recalled to his or her home nation. If not recalled, the receiving state "may refuse to recognize the person concerned as a member of the mission".
