Explain the following sentences in your own words, bringing out any implied meanings.

1. Pitted against these excellent reasons for my not going to the conference were two other that finally carried the day.

Answer: there are two reasons fro my going to the conference set against the reason that for my not going and they became decisive in my final decision.

2. He is, for me, one of those people whose writhing about their writing is more interesting than their writing itself.

Answer: According to my view, Spender belongs to the group those writings about their lives, experiences, that is whose autobiographies, are more interesting than their literary works.

3. Spender’s journal entry on his visit is fascinating both for what it says and for it does not say.

Answer: Spender’s record of his visit is interesting not only because of the things he mentions but also because of the things he does not say.

Translate the following into Chinese:

1: he rarely spoke, but when he did, it was always with extraordinary precision and often with devastating effect.

Answer: 他很少说话，但是一旦开口，他的话极为精确，而且常常具有压倒一切的威力。

2. At least my modern pieces shall be cheery/Like English bishops on the Quantum Theory.

Answer: 至少我的现代将大作妙趣横生，犹如英国主教涉足量子理论。

3. Spender also does not seem to have remarked on Oppenheimer’s eyes, which had a kind of wary luminescence. Siamese cats make a similar impression.

Answer: 彭思德也没有奥本海默的眼睛，他的眼睛里带有一种警觉而冷冷的目光。这种目光可以在暹罗猫身上找到。