9 If you can do without the few pastoral pleasures of the country, you will find the city can provide you with the best that life can offer.

背诵句型

do without =  go without  没有...也行

10 There is so much variety that you never have to make do with second best.

背诵句型

never have to ==need not ==don't have to

make do with 凑合者用

11 Some of my acquaintances in the country come up to town once or twice a year to visit the theatre as a special treat.

come up : up 用于:由乡下到城镇,由南到北

12 As the play draws to its close

draw to its close = near its end 临近结束／尾声新概念英语培训班

13 The cit dweller never experiences anxieties of this sort.

背诵句型

We can keep ourselves free from the anxieties of this sort which afflict the country dweller.

14 Country people run wild when they go shopping in the city and stagger home loaded with as many of the exotic items as they can carry.

背诵句型

run wild 发疯

15 Nor is the city without its moments of beauty.

nor ... without 双重否定

The city has got its own beauty.