lesson4

1.    Store awayvt. 收起来，储存，储备
I stored awasy all the winter clothes this morning.
今天上午我把所有冬天的衣服都收好了。
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You can never tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. 记忆犹如一个沿着海边行走的孩子。你永远无法知道它会拣起哪块小石头珍藏起来。
2.    commodity[kə'mɔditi]
The country is heavily dependent on its exports of agricultural commodities.
这个国家很大程度上依靠农产品的出口。
3.    Loan
n. 贷款，借出，债权人
v. 借，供应货款，借给
A loan of money would help me out of my predicament.
只需一笔贷款就能帮我摆脱困境。
How much interest do they charge on loans?
他们贷款收多少利息？
She offered me the loan of her car.
她提出把汽车借给我用。
She loaned her collection of paintings to the gallery.
她把自己收藏的画借给了美术馆。
4.    demolish
v. 毁，破坏，粉碎
Her article brilliantly demolishes his argument.
她的文章精辟地批驳了他的论点。
They have demolished the slum district.
贫民区已被拆除。
5.    If a farmer wishes to succeed, he must try to keep a wide gap between his consumption and his production. He must store a large quantity of grain instead of consuming all his grain immediately. He can continue to support himself and his family only if he produces a surplus. He must use this surplus in three ways: as seed for sowing , as an insurance against the unpredictable effects of bad weather and as a commodity which must sell in order to replace old agricultural implements and obtain chemical fertilizers to feed the soil. He must also need money to construt irragation channels and improve his farm in other ways.If no surplus is available, a farmer cannot be self-sufficient. He must either sell some of his property of seek extra funds in the form of loans.Naturally he will try to borrrow money at a low rate of interest, but loans of this kind are not frequently obtainable.
6.    only if
conj. 只有当(只是在 ... 的时候)