德“和约”上签字，反帝反封建斗争取得了初步胜利。
Under the pressure of a nationwide patriotic struggle against imperialism， the Northern Warlord government had to release those arrested students， remove the 3 traitors from their posts and refuse to sign on the Peace Treaty with Germany. The struggle against imperialism and feudalism has achieved a foundemental victory.
24. 五四运动是一次彻底的不妥协的反帝反封建的革命运动， 它促成了中国工人运动同马克思主义的结合， 在思想上和干部上为中国共产党的成立作了准备， 是中国新民主主义革命的开端。
May 4th Movement is a revolutionary movement with a thorough and uncompromising opposition to imperialism and feudalism. It prompted the combination of Chinese workers‘ movement and Marxism and， both in ideology and in the matter cadres， paved the way for the founding of Chinese Communist Party. It was the beginning of the Chinese New Democratic Revolution.
25. Scarcely less important than machinery in the agricultural revolution was science. In 1862， the Morrill Land-Grant College Act allotted public land to each state for the establishment of agricultural and industrial colleges.
在农业革命中与机械几乎同等重要的是科学。1862年，根据“莫里尔公地兴法案”， 国会把公用地分配给各州，以便建立农业和工业学院。
26. the revolution in agriculture——paralleling that in manufacturing after the war involved a shift from hand labor to machine farming， and from subsistence to commercial agriculture.
农业的革命——和战后制造业的革命并驾齐驱——使手工业劳动变为机械耕作，从维持生计的农业变成为商业化的农业。
UNIT 3 GEOGRAPHY
1. All this suggested ancient harmonies.
这一切使人感到古代的和谐气氛。
2. The devastating floods and droughts that imposed a recurrent tax of suffering on the fellahin no longer occur.
过去给农民带来灾难的水旱灾害，现在也不再发生了。
3. About six years ago it became an island. Day by day the sea is eating the land——the dam has stopped the sediment of the Nile from replenishing the shoreline.
大约六年前， 那地方变成了一个小岛。海水一天天冲刷陆地——水坝已经使得尼罗河的泥沙无法沉积下来加固海岸了。
4. 旧的教学法只管三件事，识汉字， 读汉字读物， 写汉字作文。 冰心在<北京晚报>发表过一篇文章：“漫谈赏花和玩猫”。
