{
  "title": "Do it yourself",
  "title_zh": "自己动手",
  "body": {
    "type": "narrative",
    "paragraphs": [
      {
        "en": "So great is our passion for doing things for ourselves, that we are becoming increasingly less dependent on specialized labour.",
        "zh": "现在我们自己动手做事的热情很高，结果对于专业工人的依赖越来越少了。"
      },
      {
        "en": "No one can plead ignorance of a subject any longer, for there are countless do-it-yourself publications.",
        "zh": "由于出版了不计其数的教人自己动手做事的书报杂志，没有人再能说对某事一无所知。"
      },
      {
        "en": "Armed with the right tools and materials, newlyweds gaily embark on the task of decorating their own homes.",
        "zh": "新婚夫妇找来合适的工具和材料，喜气洋洋地开始布置新房。"
      },
      {
        "en": "Men, particularly, spend hours of their leisure time installing their own fireplaces, laying out their own gardens; building garages and making furniture.",
        "zh": "特别是男人，常利用空闲时间安装壁炉、布置花园、建造车库、制作家具。"
      },
      {
        "en": "Some really keen enthusiasts go so far as to build their own computers.",
        "zh": "有些热衷于自己动手的人甚至自己组装电脑。"
      },
      {
        "en": "Shops cater for the do-it-yourself craze not only by running special advisory services for novices, but by offering consumers bits and pieces which they can assemble at home.",
        "zh": "为了满足自己动手势的需要，商店不仅为初学者提供专门的咨询服务，而且为顾客准备了各种零件，供他们买回家去安装。"
      },
      {
        "en": "Such things provide an excellent outlet for pent up creative energy, but unfortunately not all of us are born handymen.",
        "zh": "这些东西为人们潜在的创造力提供了一个绝妙的用武之地。但不幸的是，我们并非人人都是能工巧匠。"
      },
      {
        "en": "Some wives tend to believe that their husbands are infinitely resourceful and can fix anything.",
        "zh": "妻子常常认为她们的丈夫无比聪明能干。"
      },
      {
        "en": "Even men who can hardly drive a nail in straight are supposed to be born electricians, carpenters, plumbers and mechanics.",
        "zh": "甚至那些连一枚钉子都钉不直的男人都被认为是天生的电工、木匠、水管工和机械师。"
      },
      {
        "en": "When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety, pipes get clogged, or vacuum cleaners fail to operate, some women assume that their husbands will somehow put things right.",
        "zh": "每当电灯保险丝烧断、家具榫头松动、管道堵塞、吸尘器不动时，有些妻子认为丈夫总有办法。"
      },
      {
        "en": "The worst thing about the do-it-yourself game is that sometimes even men live under the delusion that they can do anything, even when they have repeatedly been proved wrong. It is a question of pride as much as anything else.",
        "zh": "自己动手的例子中最糟糕的是，有时甚至是男人尽管接连失败却还误以为自己什么都行，原因就是要面子。"
      },
      {
        "en": "Last spring my wife suggested that I call in a man to look at our lawn mower.",
        "zh": "今年春天，妻子让我请人检查一下我家的割草机。"
      },
      {
        "en": "It had broken down the previous summer, and though I promised to repair it, I had never got round to it.",
        "zh": "那台割草机去年夏天就环了，尽管我答应修，但一直没抽出时间。"
      },
      {
        "en": "I would not hear of the suggestion and said that I would fix it myself.",
        "zh": "我不愿听妻子的建议，说我自己会修。"
      },
      {
        "en": "One Saturday afternoon, I hauled the machine into the garden and had a close look at it.",
        "zh": "一个星期六的下午，我把割草机拉到了花园里，仔细检查了一番。"
      },
      {
        "en": "As far as I could see, it needed only a minor adjustment: a turn of a screw here, a little tightening up there, a drop of oil and it would be as good as new.",
        "zh": "在我看来，只需稍加调整即可。这儿紧紧螺丝，那儿固定一下，再加几滴油，就会像新的一样了。"
      },
      {
        "en": "Inevitably the repair job was not quite so simple.",
        "zh": "事实上，修理工作远不是那么简单。"
      },
      {
        "en": "The mower firmly refused to mow, so I decided to dismantle it.",
        "zh": "修完后割草机还是纹丝不动。于是，我决定把它拆开。"
      },
      {
        "en": "The garden was soon littered with chunks of metal which had once made up a lawn mower.",
        "zh": "一会儿工夫，割草机便被拆成一个个金属零件，乱七八糟地堆在花园里。"
      },
      {
        "en": "But I was extremely pleased with myself. I had traced the cause of the trouble.",
        "zh": "但我却非常高兴，因为我找到了毛病所在。"
      },
      {
        "en": "One of the links in the chain that drives the wheels had snapped.",
        "zh": "驱动轮子的链条断了一节。"
      },
      {
        "en": "After buying a new chain I was faced with the insurmountable task of putting the confusing jigsaw puzzle together again.",
        "zh": "我买来一根新链条后，面临的就是如何把这些令人眼花缭乱的拼板重新组装起来。"
      },
      {
        "en": "I was not surprised to find that the machine still refused to work after I had reassembled it, for the simple reason that I was left with several curiously shaped bits of metal which did not seem to fit anywhere.",
        "zh": "等我装完后，那台割草机仍然一动不动，对此我倒并不感到吃惊。原因很简单，因为还剩下几个形状奇特的零件似乎哪里也装不上去。"
      },
      {
        "en": "I gave up in despair.",
        "zh": "我无可奈何，只好罢休。"
      },
      {
        "en": "The weeks passed and the grass grew.",
        "zh": "几个星期过去了，草长了起来。"
      },
      {
        "en": "When my wife nagged me to do something about it, I told her that either I would have to buy a new mower or let the grass grow.",
        "zh": "妻子喋喋不休地让我想点办法。我告诉她，要么买一台新割草机，要么让草长下去。"
      },
      {
        "en": "Needless to say our house is now surrounded by a jungle.",
        "zh": "不用说，我家现在已被丛林包围。"
      },
      {
        "en": "Buried somewhere in deep grass there is a rusting lawn mower which I have promised to repair one day.",
        "zh": "深草丛中的某个地方有一台正在生锈的割草机，那就是我曾答应某日要修理的割草机。"
      }
    ]
  },
  "subtitles": [
    {
      "timestamp": null,
      "en": "[ti:Do It Yourself]",
      "zh": "自己动手"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": null,
      "en": "Lesson 46",
      "zh": "第四十六课"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "00:02.61",
      "en": "Do it yourself",
      "zh": "自己动手"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "00:09.29",
      "en": "Did the writer repair his lawn mower in the end? Why/Why not?",
      "zh": "这位作者最终修好了他的割草机吗？为什么修好了或者为什么没有修好呢？"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "00:16.95",
      "en": "So great is our passion for doing things for ourselves,",
      "zh": "现在我们自己动手做事的热情很高，"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "00:21.40",
      "en": "that we are becoming increasingly less dependent on specialized labour.",
      "zh": "结果对于专业工人的依赖越来越少了。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "00:27.22",
      "en": "No one can plead ignorance of a subject any longer, for there are countless do-it-yourself publications.",
      "zh": "由于出版了不计其数的教人自己动手做事的书报杂志，没有人再能说对某事一无所知。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "00:35.22",
      "en": "Armed with the right tools and materials, newlyweds gaily embark on the task of decorating their own homes.",
      "zh": "新婚夫妇找来合适的工具和材料，喜气洋洋地开始布置新房。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "00:43.70",
      "en": "Men, particularly, spend hours of their leisure time installing their own fireplaces,",
      "zh": "特别是男人，常利用空闲时间安装壁炉"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "00:50.59",
      "en": "laying out their own gardens; building garages and making furniture.",
      "zh": "布置花园、建造车库、制作家具。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "00:56.23",
      "en": "Some really keen enthusiasts go so far as to build their own computers.",
      "zh": "有些热衷于自己动手的人甚至自己组装电脑。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "01:02.48",
      "en": "Shops cater for the do-it-yourself craze not only by running special advisory services for novices,",
      "zh": "为了满足自己动手势的需要，商店不仅为初学者提供专门的咨询服务，"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "01:10.21",
      "en": "but by offering consumers bits and pieces which they can assemble at home.",
      "zh": "而且为顾客准备了各种零件，供他们买回家去安装。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "01:15.74",
      "en": "Such things provide an excellent outlet for pent up creative energy, but unfortunately not all of us are born handymen.",
      "zh": "这些东西为人们潜在的创造力提供了一个绝妙的用武之地。但不幸的是，我们并非人人都是能工巧匠。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "01:26.47",
      "en": "Some wives tend to believe that their husbands are infinitely resourceful and can fix anything.",
      "zh": "妻子常常认为她们的丈夫无比聪明能干。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "01:33.94",
      "en": "Even men who can hardly drive a nail in straight are supposed to be born electricians, carpenters, plumbers and mechanics.",
      "zh": "甚至那些连一枚钉子都钉不直的男人都被认为是天生的电工、木匠、水管工和机械师。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "01:43.52",
      "en": "When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety, pipes get clogged, or vacuum cleaners fail to operate,",
      "zh": "每当电灯保险丝烧断、家具榫头松动、管道堵塞、吸尘器不动时，"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "01:51.83",
      "en": "some women assume that their husbands will somehow put things right.",
      "zh": "有些妻子认为丈夫总有办法。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "01:56.51",
      "en": "The worst thing about the do-it-yourself game is that sometimes even men live under the delusion that they can do anything,",
      "zh": "自己动手的例子中最糟糕的是，有时甚至是男人"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "02:05.20",
      "en": "even when they have repeatedly been proved wrong.",
      "zh": "尽管接连失败却还误以为自己什么都行，"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "02:09.05",
      "en": "It is a question of pride as much as anything else.",
      "zh": "原因就是要面子。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "02:13.10",
      "en": "Last spring my wife suggested that I call in a man to look at our lawn mower.",
      "zh": "今年春天，妻子让我请人检查一下我家的割草机。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "02:19.30",
      "en": "It had broken down the previous summer, and though I promised to repair it, I had never got round to it.",
      "zh": "那台割草机去年夏天就环了，尽管我答应修，但一直没抽出时间。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "02:27.78",
      "en": "I would not hear of the suggestion and said that I would fix it myself.",
      "zh": "我不愿听妻子的建议，说我自己会修。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "02:33.70",
      "en": "One Saturday afternoon, I hauled the machine into the garden and had a close look at it.",
      "zh": "一个星期六的下午，我把割草机拉到了花园里，仔细检查了一番。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "02:40.45",
      "en": "As far as I could see, it needed only a minor adjustment:",
      "zh": "在我看来，只需稍加调整即可。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "02:45.27",
      "en": "a turn of a screw here, a little tightening up there, a drop of oil and it would be as good as new.",
      "zh": "这儿紧紧螺丝，那儿固定一下，再加几滴油，就会像新的一样了。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "02:53.88",
      "en": "Inevitably the repair job was not quite so simple.",
      "zh": "事实上，修理工作远不是那么简单。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "02:59.04",
      "en": "The mower firmly refused to mow, so I decided to dismantle it.",
      "zh": "修完后割草机还是纹丝不动。于是，我决定把它拆开。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "03:05.22",
      "en": "The garden was soon littered with chunks of metal which had once made up a lawn mower.",
      "zh": "一会儿工夫，割草机便被拆成一个个金属零件，乱七八糟地堆在花园里。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "03:12.99",
      "en": "But I was extremely pleased with myself. I had traced the cause of the trouble.",
      "zh": "但我却非常高兴，因为我找到了毛病所在。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "03:18.61",
      "en": "One of the links in the chain that drives the wheels had snapped.",
      "zh": "驱动轮子的链条断了一节。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "03:23.64",
      "en": "After buying a new chain I was faced with the insurmountable task of putting the confusing jigsaw puzzle together again.",
      "zh": "我买来一根新链条后，面临的就是如何把这些令人眼花缭乱的拼板重新组装起来。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "03:34.70",
      "en": "I was not surprised to find that the machine still refused to work after I had reassembled it,",
      "zh": "等我装完后，那台割草机仍然一动不动，对此我倒并不感到吃惊。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "03:42.35",
      "en": "for the simple reason that I was left with several curiously shaped bits of metal which did not seem to fit anywhere.",
      "zh": "原因很简单，因为还剩下几个形状奇特的零件似乎哪里也装不上去。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "03:52.44",
      "en": "I gave up in despair.",
      "zh": "我无可奈何，只好罢休。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "03:55.01",
      "en": "The weeks passed and the grass grew.",
      "zh": "几个星期过去了，草长了起来。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "03:58.12",
      "en": "When my wife nagged me to do something about it,",
      "zh": "妻子喋喋不休地让我想点办法。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "04:01.52",
      "en": "I told her that either I would have to buy a new mower or let the grass grow.",
      "zh": "我告诉她，要么买一台新割草机，要么让草长下去。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "04:06.91",
      "en": "Needless to say our house is now surrounded by a jungle.",
      "zh": "不用说，我家现在已被丛林包围。"
    },
    {
      "timestamp": "04:11.75",
      "en": "Buried somewhere in deep grass there is a rusting lawn mower which I have promised to repair one day.",
      "zh": "深草丛中的某个地方有一台正在生锈的割草机，那就是我曾答应某日要修理的割草机。"
    }
  ],
  "book": 3,
  "lesson": 46
}