Unit5词汇及翻译

Unit 5

since we will sell it soon.

既然我们马上要卖掉这个公寓了，我不认为需要再把它装修。

a heart trouble.

他作出了坚定的决心放弃吸烟和饮酒当他发现他心脏有问题。

3. To reduce the risks of railway(铁

路

为了减少铁路事故的风险，每年我们维护铁路的花费都超过1000万人民币。

4. My parents lived a frugal(节俭

的

购买) things on impulse(冲动).

我的父母一生都过着简朴的生活。对于一样事物只要仍然可以用他们都不会丢弃。对于其他的东西，他们从来不会冲动购买。

进一步的) cut in the rate of corporate(公司) tax(税).

政府已经拒绝批准进一步的削减公司税率。

on a fixed term(固定期限) of five years.

琳达是一个职业女性，她丈夫在国外工作。他们不能亲自抚养他们刚出生的儿子，而要去聘请一个保姆并且固定任用五年。

7. My apartment was badly furnished(布

置

我的公寓被装修的很差，因为工人们没有剥掉在墙上的原漆就开始画画了。

essentials(要素) in term of(在…方

面) equipment , we decided to donate a million yuan so that they could i mprove their teaching facilities(设施).

当我们了解到当地的大学只有最基本的长期设备时，我们决定捐出一万元使他们能够改善他们的教学设施。

Jones purchased(购

买

琼斯用1200美元买了一辆二手车，这的确是个优惠的价格，但我好奇它能使用多久。

10. It is always good to read some English novels in spare time, if you can

版本) which are also available in the local bookstore.

在业余时间读些英文小说是好的，如果你不能读懂原著，你可以在当地的书店买简化的版本读。

said to the girl“

you some of my chocolate for some of your ice cream. ”

Sam对女孩说“我想用我的巧克力换一些你的冰激凌。”

12. Since you’re decided to simplify(简

化) your life and have moved into a smaller house,you are going to have

随身物品).

自从你决定要过一个简单的生活，搬到一个小的房子里去，你将要有能力将你的家具和东西的尺寸减小

13. Representatives(代

表

场合) before the peace treaty(条

约) was signed to end the border conflicts(冲突).

这两个国家的代表在和平条约签署结束边境冲突之前在许多场合一起工作过。

14. When the factory closed,the machinery(机

械

当工厂关闭时，机器以一小部分其真实价值出售。

others are already asleep.

当别人已经睡着时，我认为在宿舍里大声播放音乐是错误的。

question set by the teacher was so difficult that the pupils(学生) did

老师所问的问题很难，学生们不知道如何解决它。

在手工制作比赛中孩子们忙碌的轧制, 明式联橱, 切割纸张。

sister is very economical(经济

的

我姐姐是个很节俭的人，她认为省钱是很正常的事情，她总是记录下她花钱的行踪

parents failed to show up at the commencement(毕业典

礼延迟) for 8 hours.

我的父母没有出现在我的毕业典礼上，证明出他们的飞机延误了8小时

3.

Eric是个很害羞的男孩，以至于在进行身体体检的时候拒绝脱下他的

内衣物

政

治) when he was at secondary school; no wonder he become a Congress man(国会议员) at the age of 35.

约翰在中学的时候开始对政治感兴趣，他35岁的时候成为一名众议员也不足为奇。

5.

他们将会让我们使用他们的实验室，作为回报，我们会跟他们分享我们的调查结果

is a man of his word.

他的举动跟他说他自己在过去的几个月里要做的行为一致，他是个信守诺言的人

很多

的) forms before he could get the award.

冠军被要求填写大量的表格在他得奖之前。

oking.

这个年轻的夫妻总是出去外面吃，他们两个都不喜欢在家煮饭

so many twists(曲

折

他的生活经过了那么多挫折，他学会不再回忆过去而感动遗憾

10.

for the sake of(为了) his health.

医生建议他戒掉抽烟，完全放弃有助于健康。

翻译

1) 她是一位很能干的家庭主妇，但喜欢冲动购物，厨房的橱柜里总是塞满了乱七八糟、最终只会被丢弃的东西。

She is a very capable housewife but she likes to purchase things on impulse. Her kitchen cabinets are always full of clutter that will eventually be discarded.

2) 大学生应该有决心过节俭生活，不要和别人比阔气和追求时尚；要知道：只有注意存小钱，才会累积出大钱。

University students should have the resolve to live a frugal lifestyle and

should not try to keep up with the Joneses or follow trends and fads. They should know that only when you mind the pennies will the dollars take care of themselves.

3) 这对夫妻都是大公司的高层管理人员，忙得没有时间做饭，一星期至少有五天在外面吃。

The couple are high-ranking executives of big companies. They eat out at least five days a week due to the lack of time for home cooking.

4) 这两处签名十分相似，即使是有经验的专家恐怕也难辨别出它们之间的差别。

The two signatures appear all of a piece. Even experienced experts may find it difficult to identify any difference between them.

5) 杂志的编辑把附在文后的图片都删掉了，因为该文的长度只能限制在两页之内。

The editor of the journal cut out all the pictures attached to the article because the length of the article was restricted to only two pages.

6) 作为常务委员会成员，近三年来他一直在处理失业和交通问题。As a member of the standing committee, he has been tackling unemployment and traffic problems during the past three years.

7) 老人生前立下遗嘱，要把全部的积蓄作为奖学金献给我们学校，他的决定得到了子女们的认可。

The old man made a will before his death, giving away all his savings to our school as scholarships, a decision sanctioned by his children.

8) 那个医生向他的病人保证，只要他连续服用这种药三个月，一日三次，他的病就彻底好了。

The doctor assured his patient that if he took the medicine three times a day for three months without interruption, he would recover from the illness for good.

9) 回顾过去的经历时，我才意识到四年的大学生活是我一生中最无忧无虑的时刻。

Only when I looked back on my past experiences did I realize that my four-year period at university was the most care-free time in my life. 10) 要想在技术创新方面超过别人，我们必须时刻掌握科学技术领域所有的新思想和新发展。

If we want to excel others in technological innovation, we must keep track of all the new ideas and developments in the field of science and technology.

Unit 8 Section A Animals or children?—A scientist's choice 动物还是孩子？——一位科学家的选择 1 I am the enemy! I am one of those cursed, cruel physician scientists involved in animal research. These rumors sting, for I have never thought of myself as an evil person. I became a children's doctor because of my love for children and my supreme desire to keep them healthy. During medical school and residency, I saw many children die of cancer and bloodshed from injury — circumstances against which medicine has made great progress but still has a long way to go. More importantly, I also saw children healthy thanks to advances in medical science such as infant breathing support, powerful new medicines and surgical techniques and the entire field of organ transplantation. My desire to tip the scales in favor of healthy, happy children drew me to medical research. 1 我就是那个敌人！我就是那些被人诅咒的、残忍的、搞动物实验的医生科学家之一。这些谣言刺痛了我，因为我从来没想到自己是一个邪恶的人。我成为一位儿科医生，因为我爱孩子，也因为我的最大愿望是让他们保持健康。在医学院学习和住院医生实习时，我看到了许多儿童死于癌症和受伤流血——虽然对此医学正取得很大进步，但远非完善。更重要的是，我还看到孩子们能保持健康得益于医学的进步，如婴儿呼吸支持器，功效强大的新药物和外科手术技术及整个器官移植领域的发展。我希望孩子们健康快乐，这促使我从事医学研究。 2 My accusers have twisted the truth into a fable and cast me as the devil. They claim that I have no moral compass, that I torture innocent animals for the sole purpose of career advancement, and that my experiments have no relevance to medicine. Meanwhile, an uncaring public barely watches, convinced that the issue has no significance, and publicity-conscious senators and politicians increasingly give way to the lobbying of animal rights activists. 2 控诉我的人把真相歪曲成一则神话，并把我描写成恶魔。他们声称我没有道德界限，我折磨那些无辜动物的唯一目的就是为了自己的职业升迁，而我的实验根本与医药毫不相关。与此同时，无动于衷的公众几乎不闻不问，相信这个议题毫无意义，而具有宣传意识的参议员和政治家们却对动物权利活动家的游说不断作出让步。 3We,in medical research,have also been unbelievably uncaring.We have allowed the most extr eme animal rights protesters to creep in and frame the issue as one of"animal fraud"and hatred. We have persisted in our belief that a knowledgeable public would consent to the importance of animal research for public health.Perhaps we have been mistaken in not responding to the emoti onal tone of the argument.Perhaps we should have responded to those sad slogans and posters of animals by waving equally sad posters of children dying of cancer or external wounds. 3我们这些从事医学研究的人也显得令人难以置信的冷漠。我们允许最极端的动物权利活动家渐渐侵入，任凭他们把此类研究诬陷为“动物欺诈”和对动物的仇恨。我们一直坚信，有知识的公众会赞同动物研究对公众健康的重要性。也许我们的错误是没有对这场争论的感性基调作出反应。也许我们早应该挥动着儿童死于癌症或外伤的同样令人伤心的海报，来回应那些关于动物受害的伤感标语及海报。 4In the animal rights forum,much is made of the volume of pain these animals experience in the name of medical science.Activists deny that we are trying to help and say it is evidence of our ev il and cruel nature.A more reasonable argument,however,can be advanced in our defense.Life i

能看、能听、有知觉、具嗅觉、会说话的智能汽车？还能自动驾驶？这听起来或许像是在做梦，但计算机革命正致力于把这一切变为现实。 智能汽车 1 Even the automobile industry, which has remained largely unchanged for the last seventy years, is about to feel the effects of the computer revolution. 即便是过去70年间基本上没有多少变化的汽车工业，也将感受到计算机革命的影响。 2 The automobile industry ranks as among the most lucrative and powerful industries of the twentieth century. There are presently 500 million cars on earth, or one car for every ten people. Sales of the automobile industry stand at about a trillion dollars, making it the world's biggest manufacturing industry. 汽车工业是20世纪最赚钱、最有影响力的产业之一。目前世界上有5亿辆车，或者说每10人就有1辆车。汽车工业的销售额达一万亿美元左右，从而成为世界上最大的制造业。 3 The car, and the roads it travels on, will be revolutionized in the twenty-first century. The key to tomorrow's "smart cars" will be sensors. "We'll see vehicles and roads that see and hear and feel and smell and talk and act," predicts Bill Spreitzer, technical director of General Motors Corporation's ITS program, which is designing the smart car and road of the future. 汽车及其行驶的道路，将在21世纪发生重大变革。未来“智能汽车”的关键在于传感器。“我们会见到能看、能听、有知觉、具嗅觉、会说话并能采取行动的车辆与道路，”正在设计未来智能汽车和智能道路的通用汽车公司ITS项目的技术主任比尔?斯普雷扎预言道。 4 Approximately 40,000 people are killed each year in the United States in traffic accidents. The number of people that are killed or badly injured in car accidents is so vast that we don't even bother to mention them in the newspapers anymore. Fully half of these fatalities come from drunk drivers, and many others from carelessness. A smart car could eliminate most of these car accidents. It can sense if a driver is drunk

第五单元Section A 1a 1.我想我要与凯伦和安一起去参加聚会。 d.如果你那样做，你将会玩得很愉快。 2.我想我要穿着牛仔裤去参加聚会。 a.如果你那样做，老师们不会让你进去。 3.我想我要乘公共汽车去参加聚会。 b.如果你那样做，你会迟到的. 4.我想我要待在家里. C.如果你那样做，你会后悔的。 1C A: 我想我打算呆在家里。 B: 如果你那样做，你会感到很遗憾的 2a 准备考试 帮我组织它 太早 做一些食物 周六下午 玩聚会游戏 2b 1.如果他们今天举行聚会，将会发生什么事？ 半数的学生将不会来。 2. 如果他们明天举行聚会，将会发生什么事？ 学生们将会提前离开去准备考试。3.如果他们在聚会上看录像，将会发生什么事？ 一些学生将会变得无聊。 4.马克打算组织什么活动？ 马克打算组织一个聚会游戏。 5.安德里亚打算做什么？ 安德里亚打算做一些食物。 2C A: 哦，举行聚会的最佳时间是在什么时候? B: 我们今天举行吧。 A: 如果我们今天举行聚会的话，一半的学生将不会来Grammar Focus 1.我想我将骑车去。 如果你那样做，你会迟到的。 2.我想我打算呆在家里。 如果你那样做，你会后悔的。 3a 岁末聚会/年终聚会 我想要你们记住关于学校聚会的纪律。 不要穿牛仔裤。 如果你穿的话，我们不会让你进去的。 不要把食物带进聚会上。 如果你带的话，老师们会将它拿走的。不 要把其他学校的朋友带来。 如果那样的话，老师们会要求他们离开。

聚会期间不要离开体育馆。 如果那样的话，老师们会给你们的父母打电话。在聚会上不要乱跑乱叫。 如果那样的话，你将不得不离开。 请带上你的身份证。 如果你没有身份证的话，你就不能参加聚会。 凯伦：你将要参加学校的聚会吗？ 迈克：是的我将要去。我将要穿上我的新牛仔裤。凯伦：你不能那样做。 迈克：如果我那样做会发生什么事呢？ 凯伦：如果你穿的话，老师们不会让你进去的。 你应当穿上你那条很棒的长裤。 迈克：这是个很好的注意。 3b A：我将去参加学校的聚会。 B：我也是。我们带些零食去吧。 A：哦，我们不能那样做。 B：真的吗?为什么不能呢？ A：如果我们们带零食，老师们会把它拿走。 4 A：如果你去参观老人院，你将怎么做？ B：如果我去那家老人院，我会带一些花去的。 Section B 2a 高兴 环游世界 上大学 赚许多钱 出名 接受教育 学费 2b 1. 如果你加入雄狮队，你将会成为一名伟大的足球运动员。 2. 如果你成为雄狮队的一员，你将会周游世界。 3. 并且如果你确实很勤奋，你将会出名。 4. 如果你成为一名职业足球运动员，你将永远上不了大学。 5. 但如果我现在不这样做，我将永远做不了。 2C A：我认为你应该上大学。 B：但是如果我上大学，我就永远不能成为一名很棒的足球运动员了。 3a 如果我成为一名运动员，我会高兴吗? 对很多年轻人来说，成为一名职业运动员似乎像是一份梦想的工作。 如果你成为一名职业运动员，你将可以(通过)做一些你喜欢的事来谋生。如果你成名了，全世界的人们都会知道你。 很多运动员捐钱给学校和一些慈善机构，并且做许多工作来帮助人们。这是一个很多人没有的好的机会。 然而，职业运动员也有很多问题。 如果你出名了，人们会一直关注着你并且到处跟着你。

Unit 5 THE FEAST: 18,000 BC公元前一万八千年的一次盛宴 Worried about the preparations for her feast, Lala quickly turned for home with her collection of nuts, melons and other fruit. 拉拉担心她这次盛宴的准备工作，所以赶紧把坚果、甜瓜和其他水果收集起来就快步回家了。It was the custom of family groups to separate and then gather again at different sites for reunions as they followed the animal herds across the grasslands. 由于在草原上放牧，家族成员先分散开，然后在不同的地方相聚，这是他们的一个习俗。 A wrinkle appeared on her forehead. 她的额头出现了一道皱纹。 If only it could be just like last year! 要是能像去年那样就好了！ At that time she had been so happy when Dahu chose her as the future mother of his children. 当大胡选拉拉作未来孩子的母亲时，她觉得很高兴。 He was the best toolmaker in the group and it was a great honour for her to be chosen. 他是这个家族中最好的工匠，被他选中对拉拉来说是莫大的荣幸。 She remembered the blood pulsing through her veins. 她记得那时热血澎湃。 She had felt so proud as the group shouted loudly to applaud his choice. 当族人为他的选择欢呼鼓掌的时候，拉拉觉得非常自豪。 If only she had looked ahead and planned better this year! 她今年要是早有预见，计划得更好些就好了！ Then she wouldn't have been feeling so worried now. 那么她就不会这么担心了。 Having heard wolves howling in the forest, Lala accelerated her walk up the path to the caves fearing that there might be wild beasts lying in wait for her. 听见狼群在森林里嚎叫，拉拉加快了回洞穴的步伐，担心会有野兽在等着她。 She had no man with his spear to protect her.她身边没有男人拿着矛来保护她。 She had almost reached her destination when a delicious smell arrested her progress and she stopped. 快到目的地的时候，一阵香气扑鼻，她不往前走了，停了下来。 So the men had brought home the meat for the feast! 因此那个男人把肉带回了家用来设宴！ The smell of cooking meat filled the air surrounding her, and her senses became dizzy with hunger.肉的香味笼罩着她，使她因饥饿而头昏眼花。 She could see her mother and the older children preparing the deer and pig meat over the fire. 她看到母亲和大一些的孩子在烧烤鹿肉和猪肉， Her aunts were making clothes with animal skins. 她姨妈在用兽皮做衣服。 Abruptly she sat down, only to be scooped up by her laughing, shouting sister, Luna. 突然间她坐了下去，但又被她那又笑又叫的妹妹卢娜一把搂了起来， Lala smiled with relief. 拉拉宽慰地笑了， It was good to have her family around her. 跟家人在一起实在是太好啦！ Just then a tall man came up behind her.就在这时候，她身后出来了一位高个子男人。 He had a large, square face, with strongly pronounced eyebrows and cheekbones. 他有一张宽大的方脸，眉毛很重，颧骨突出， Over his shoulder he carried several fish and some pieces of wood under his arm 肩上扛着几条大鱼，腋下夹着一些木头。 Lala smiled and handed some stone scrapers over to Dahu, who smiled and went outside the cave to begin his task. 拉拉对大胡微笑着，递给他一些石头做的刮子。大胡也笑着，走出洞外，开始工作。

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A fable for tomorrow (Rachel Carson) There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings. 从前在美国中心有一个小镇，那里的万物看上去都与其四周的环境融洽相处。小镇的四周是像棋盘交错的生意盎然的农庄，还有一块块的田地和一座座遍布山坡的果园。春天来了，白色的鲜花云彩般地漂浮在田野上；秋天到了，橡树、枫树和桦树色彩斑斓，在一片松树林间火焰般地燃烧与跳跃。小山上狐狸吠叫，田野间小鹿静静地跃过，所有的一切都在秋天清晨的薄雾中半隐半现。 Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler's eye through much of the year. Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow. The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them. Others came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns. 在路的两旁，一年中许多时候，月桂树、荚莲、桤木、蕨类植物和各样的野花都能让过往的行人赏心悦目。即使是冬天，路边的景色依旧是美不胜收，那里无数的小鸟来觅取浆果莓和露在雪地上的枯枝上的种子。事实上，这乡村正是由于鸟类的数量和种类之繁多而出名的。在候鸟群潮涌而来的春秋季节，人们从大老远的地方慕名前来欣赏。还有的人来这里的小溪垂钓。清冽的溪水从山中流出，溪水中有许多鳟鱼藏身的背阴的水潭。所以，从许多年前开始，第一批居住者就在这里盖房挖井，搭起了自己的谷仓。 Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death. The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. In the town the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearing among their patients. There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours. 后来，一种奇怪的摧毁力悄然袭击了这个地区，所有的一切都开始变了。某种邪恶的符咒笼罩了这个社区：神秘的疾病攻击了鸡群，牛、羊也纷纷病死，到处都有一层死亡的阴影。农夫们谈论

The Virtues of Growing Older （长大变老有好处） Our society worships youth. Advertisements convince us to buy Grecian Formula and Oil of Olay so we can hide the gray in our hair and smooth the lines on our face. Television shows feature attractive young stars with firm bodies, perfect complexions, and thick manes of hair. Middle-aged folks work out in gyms and jog down the street, trying to delay the effects of age. 我们所处的社会崇尚年轻。连篇累牍的广告劝我们买希腊配方的洗发水和玉兰油，这样的话，白发无处可寻，面部的皱纹也能被抚平。电视节目上尽是体魄强健，肤色无暇，头发浓密的年轻明星。而中年人则在体育馆里锻炼，在马路上慢跑，尽量不让岁月过早地留下痕迹。 Wouldn't any person over thirty gladly sign with the devil just to be young again? Isn't aging an experience to be dreaded? Perhaps it is unAmerican to say so, but I believe the answer is "No." Being young is often pleasant, but being older has distinct advantages. 不是所有三十出头的人都会为了重获青春而心甘情愿地与魔鬼订立合约吗？长大变老难道不可怕吗？说它不可怕可能不是美国人的回答，但我却认为长大变老不可怕。青春年少令人愉悦，但长大变老也有明显的好处。 When young, you are apt to be obsessed with your appearance. When my brother Dave and I were teens, we worked feverishly to perfect the bodies we had. Dave lifted weights, took megadoses of vitamins, and drank a half-dozen milk shakes a day in order to turn his wiry adolescent frame into some muscular ideal. And as a teenager, I dieted constantly. No matter what I weighed, though, I was never satisfied with the way I looked. My legs were too heavy, my shoulders too broad, my waist too big. When Dave and I were young, we begged and pleaded for the "right" clothes. If our parents didn't get them for us, we felt our world would fall apart. How could we go to school wearing loose-fitting blazers when everyone else would be wearing smartly tailored leather jackets? We could be considered freaks. I often wonder how my parents, and parents in general, manage to tolerate their children during the adolescent years. Now, however, Dave and I are beyond such adolescent agonies. My rounded figure seems fine, and don't deny myself a slice of pecan pie if I feel in the mood. Dave still works out, but he has actually become fond of his tall, lanky frame. The two of us enjoy wearing fashionable clothes, but we are no longer slaves to style. And women, I'm embarrassed to admit, even more than men, have always seemed to be at the mercy of fashion. Now my clothes ---- and my brother's ---- are attractive yet easy to wear. We no longer feel anxious about what others will think. As long as we feel good about how we look, we are happy.

伊莱亚斯的故事 我叫伊莱亚斯。我是南非一个穷苦的黑人工人。第一次见到纳尔逊曼德拉的时候，是我一生中非常艰难的时期。当时我才12岁。那是在1952年，曼德拉是我寻求建议的黑人律师。他为黑人提供法律问题上的指导。他对此从不吝惜自己的时间，在这一点上我很感激他。 我需要他的帮助是因为我只受到很少的教育。我六岁开始上学。学校离家有3英里远，我仅仅在那里读了两年。我不得不辍学，因为我的家庭无法支付学费和交通费。我既不会读，也不会写。几经周折，我才在一家金矿找到工作。可是那个时候你想要住在约翰内斯堡就非得要有身份证不可。非常遗憾的是我没有这个证件，因为我不是在那里出生的，我很担心我会不会失业。 有纳尔逊曼德拉帮助的日子是我一生中最快乐的时光。他告诉我要在约翰内斯堡站住脚，应当如何获取证件。我对自己的未来更充满了信心。我永远不会忘记曼德拉多么善良。当他组织了非国大青年联盟时， 我立即加入了这个组织。他说:“过去30年来所出现的许多法律剥夺了我们的权利，阻挡了我们的进步，一直到今天我们还处在几乎什么权利都没有的阶段。”他说的是真话。当时黑人不能选举或选择他们的领导人。他们不能做自己想做的工作。他们在城里的住宅区都是由白人决定的。他们被打发去居住的城镇之外的地方是南非最贫穷的地区。在那儿没有人能够种庄稼。事实上就像纳尔逊曼德拉所说的： “……我们被置于这样一个境地：我们要么被迫接受低人一等的现实，要么跟政府斗争。我们选择向法律进攻。首先我们以和平的方式来打破法律法规，而当这种方式也得不到允许时……只有到这个时候，我们才决定用暴力反抗暴力。”事实上，我并不喜欢暴力……但在1963年的时候，我帮助他炸毁了一些政府大楼。那是很危险的事情，因为如果我被抓住了，可能要做几年牢。但是我乐于帮忙，因为我知道，这有助于实现我们黑人和白人平等的梦想

我们献上一篇《时代》杂志编辑们撰写的文章，以此开始审视全球气候变暖问题。文章收集了取自美国和世界各地的证据，说明气候变化正在给我们带来的影响。文章接着探讨了若这一趋势继续发展下去会产生的一些有害后果，以及气候变化的速度会急剧加快的可能性。 《时代》杂志编辑 1你认为自己对全球气候变暖持怀疑态度？也许你并非住在墨西哥湾沿岸的佛罗里达州，也非住在阿拉斯加州的希什玛瑞夫。居住在那些地区的人们普遍相信全球气候在变暖。2004年佛罗里达遭受四次威力无比的飓风袭击，一年后卡特里娜飓风淹没了新奥尔良并重创密西西比州的沿海地区。许多科学家认为,过去几个飓风季节的特大威力应归咎于全球气候变暖。大风暴增加了墨西哥湾暖流的热量，那些纬度地区正在逐年变暖。 2 小镇希什玛瑞夫（人口600）是一个坐落在狭长形堰洲岛上说纽皮亚克语的爱斯基摩人村庄，位于安克雷奇以北625英里处。当《时代》杂志记者玛戈特·罗斯福于2004年走访该村庄时，她发现它正"融入海洋"。它已失去100-300英尺海岸线——其中一半是自1997以来消失的。海滩下面的永久冻土正在解冻，海洋里的冰正在变薄，使居民越来越容易受到强风暴的侵袭。一所房屋倒塌了，另有十八所房屋连同小镇上大型燃料储存罐只得搬到高一点的地方。巨大的海浪冲走了学校的操场，毁坏了价值100,000美元的船只、猎具和晒鱼架。"太可怕了，"该村的官员露西·恩尼英格沃克告诉罗斯福。"每年我们都万分担心下次风暴会把我们卷走。" 3 由于每年海洋结冰期延迟了，希什玛瑞夫过去通常在十月开始的冰下捕鱼季节现在十二月才开始。浆果采摘从七月开始，而不是原来的八月。最让纽皮亚克人苦恼的是薄冰使捕髯海豹变得很困难，而髯海豹是他们日常吃的主食, 也是他们文化中的一种主要元素。 4 发生什么情况了？由于工厂和汽车烧石油和煤气而部分地导致的全球气候变暖，不仅使墨西哥湾遭受创伤，而且殃及极地，与雪、永久冻土和冰关联的复杂的气象变化过程加大了气候变暖给极地带来的影响。发表在2004年《科学》杂志上的一项研究发现,如今南极西部地区的冰川变薄的速度是20世纪90年代的两倍。在过去三十年间，阿拉斯加的年平均气温上升了华氏4度至5度，而世界范围上升的平均幅度不到华氏1度。 5 因此，阿拉斯加的冰川在融化；虫子在吞噬着大片森林；融解的冻土使得道路、管道和家园下沉。北冰洋里的冰加速度地缩小了5%至10%。"希什玛瑞夫像煤矿里的金丝雀——成了预示别处将要发生什么的风向标，"阿拉斯加大学北极研究合作学院主任冈特·韦勒说道。"大量证据表明人类已经改变了气候。" 6 从迈阿密到希什玛瑞夫，以及这两地之间的许多地方，人们都说气候看起来不再正常了。但客观地说，本来就没有正常气候这回事。正如美国中西部农民常说的，"如果你不喜欢这天气，只需等五分钟。"很少有正常季节。有些年份冬季的降雪量和夏季的热浪打破了平均水平，而另一些年份则低于平均水平。面对这些自然波动，想看出气候总的变化，很难。例如，一年甚至连续三年异乎寻常地炎热并不一定意味着总的趋势出现了显著的变化。 7 然而，地球上的气候确实不断变化。在冰期地球连续好几万年都冻住，暖热期则把热带地区大大推进到现在的温带。但是，考虑到每年都有的正常变化，能显示这种可能在酝酿中的变动的唯一可靠信号，只能是世界范围内气温的长期变化情况。

A fable for tomorrow (Rachel Carson) There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings. 从前在美国中心有一个小镇，那里的万物看上去都与其四周的环境融洽相处。小镇的四周是像棋盘交错的生意盎然的农庄，还有一块块的田地和一座座遍布山坡的果园。春天来了，白色的鲜花云彩般地漂浮在田野上；秋天到了，橡树、枫树和桦树色彩斑斓，在一片松树林间火焰般地燃烧与跳跃。小山上狐狸吠叫，田野间小鹿静静地跃过，所有的一切都在秋天清晨的薄雾中半隐半现。 Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler's eye through much of the year. Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow. The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them. Others came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns. 在路的两旁，一年中许多时候，月桂树、荚莲、桤木、蕨类植物和各样的野花都能让过往的行人赏心悦目。即使是冬天，路边的景色依旧是美不胜收，那里无数的小鸟来觅取浆果莓和露在雪地上的枯枝上的种子。事实上，这乡村正是由于鸟类的数量和种类之繁多而出名的。在候鸟群潮涌而来的春秋季节，人们从大老远的地方慕名前来欣赏。还有的人来这里的小溪垂钓。清冽的溪水从山中流出，溪水中有许多鳟鱼藏身的背阴的水潭。所以，从许多年前开始，第一批居住者就在这里盖房挖井，搭起了自己的谷仓。 Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death. The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. In the town the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearing among their patients. There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours. 后来，一种奇怪的摧毁力悄然袭击了这个地区，所有的一切都开始变了。某种邪恶的符咒笼罩了这个社区：神秘的疾病攻击了鸡群，牛、羊也纷纷病死，到处都有一层死亡的阴影。农夫们谈论着家中的许多疾病；镇上的医生也越来越因病人中出现的新的病症而感到迷惑。在成人和孩子中发生了好几起突发的不明其由的死亡，那些孩子在玩耍中突然病倒，几小时后就死去了。 There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example - where had they gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh 这里是一派奇怪的寂静。就说鸟儿们吧---它们都去哪儿了？许多人说起鸟儿的时候都充满了迷惑与不安。他们后院的饲养站已经没有鸟儿光顾了。随处能见到的几只鸟都奄奄一息。他们猛烈地颤抖，却飞不起来。这是一个无声的春天。曾经是震动着画眉鸟、猫鸟、鸽子、樫鸟、欧鹪和许多鸟儿的黎明合唱声的清晨如今却寂然无声。田野间、树林中和沼泽地里也是一片寂静。 On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs - the litters were small and the young survived only a few days. The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be no fruit. 在农庄，母鸡下蛋却孵不出小鸡。农夫们抱怨无法养猪，因为刚生下的猪崽太小了，小猪也只能活几天的功夫。苹果树开花了，可是没有蜜蜂在花丛中嗡嗡地采蜜，没有蜜蜂的授粉，也就没有任何果子。 The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. These, too, were silent, deserted by all living things. Even the streams were now lifeless. Anglers no longer visited them,