综合英语(一)全册课文&翻译

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Lesson One

The Time Message

Elwood N. Chapman

Learning Guide

新的学习任务开始之际，千头万绪，最重要的是安排好时间，做时间的主人。本文作者提出了7点具体建议，或许对你有所启迪。

1Time is tricky. It is difficult to control and easy to waste. When you look ahead, you think you have more time than you need. For example, at the beginning of a semester, you may feel that you have plenty of time on your hands. But toward the end of the term you may suddenly find that time is running out. You don't have enough time to cover all your duties, so you get worried. What is the answer？Control！

时间很难对付，既难控制又易浪费。当你向前看时，觉得有用不完的时间。比如说，学期伊始，你可能会觉得有大量的时间，可到期末时，突然发现时间就要用完了，已没有足够的时间去做应做的一切了，于是，你就很担心。解决问题的方法是什么？那就是控制！

2Time is dangerous. If you don't control it, it will control you. If you don't make it work for you, it will work against you. So you must become the master of time, not its servant. As a first-year college student, time management will be your number one problem.

时间很危险。如果你控制不住它，它就要控制你；如果你不能让它服务于你，它便与你作对。因此，你必须成为时间的主人，而不是奴隶。作为刚入校的大学生，妥善安排时间是头等大事。

3Time is valuable. Wasting time is a bad habit. It is like a drug. The more time you waste,the easier it is to go on wasting time. If you seriously wish to get the most out of college, you must put the time message into practice.

时间很宝贵，浪费时间是一种坏习惯，这就像毒品。你越浪费时间，就越容易浪费下去。如果你确实想充分利用上大学的机会，你就会应该把利用时间的要旨付诸实践。

Message 1. Control time from the beginning.

4Time is today, not tomorrow or next week. Start your plan at the beginning of the term.

要旨一，从一开始就控制好时间。

抓住时间就是抓住今天，而不是把事情推倒明天或下周，学期伊始便开始实施你的

计划。

Message 2. Get the notebook habit.

5Go and buy a notebook today. Use it to plan your study time each day. Once a weekly study plan is prepared, follow the same pattern every week with small changes. Sunday is a good day to make the plan for the following week.

要旨二，养成用笔记本的习惯。

今天就去买一本笔记本，用它计划每天的时间。一旦一周的学习计划定下来，每周都按同一个模式去做或稍加改动。周日是制定下周计划的好时间。

Message 3. Be realistic.

6Often you know from experience how long it takes you to write a short essay, to study for a quiz, or to review for a final exam.

When you plan time for these things, be realistic. Allow for unexpected things. Otherwise your entire plan may be upset.

要旨三，要现实。

由经验可知道写一篇文章要花多少时间，做一个测试或为期末考试复习需要多长时间。为此制定计划时，要现实些，要留有余地，以防预料之外的事情发生，否则你的整个计划有可能被打乱。

Message 4. Plan at least one hour for each hour in class.

7How much study time you plan for each classroom hour depends on four things: (1) your ability, (2) the difficulty of the class, (3) the grades you hope to achieve, and (4) how well you use your study time. One thing, however, is certain: you should plan at least one hour of study for each classroom hour. In many cases, two or three hours will be required.

要旨四，至少要在课下为每一课时准备一小时。

你为每节课安排多少学习时间，取决于四个因素：⑴你的能力，⑵课的难易程度，⑶你希望达到的水平，⑷你学习的效率。不过，有一点是肯定的：你应该为每课时至少在课下计划学习一小时。在很多情况下，可能需要两三个小时。

Message 5. Keep your plan flexible.

8It is important that you re-plan your time on a weekly basis so that you can make certain changes when necessary. For example, before mid-term or final exams, you will want to give more time to reviewing. A good plan must be a little flexible so that special projects can be done well.

要旨五，让计划有适度的灵活性。

每周重新安排时间很重要，这样才能在必要时进行调整。例如，在期中或期末考试前，你想花更多的时间复习，一个好的计划必须较灵活，以便于其他活动也能做好。

Message 6. Study for some time each class day.

9Some solid work each day is better than many study hours one day and nothing the next. When you work out your schedule, try to include at least two study hours each day. This will not only keep the study habit alive but also keep you up to date on your class assignments.

要旨六，有课的日子每天都要抽出时间学习。

每天都踏踏实实地学习一会儿，比一天学习很长时间，第二天什么也不学要好。作计划时，每天至少要计划学习两小时。这样不仅能保持良好的学习习惯，而且还能帮你跟上课堂进度。

Message 7. Free on Saturday -- study on Sunday.

10It is good to stop all study activities for one full day. Many students choose Saturdayfor sports or social activities. Sunday, on the other hand, seems to be the best study dayfor many students. It is a good day to catch up on back reading and other assignments.

要旨七，周六休息――周日学习。

最好能有一整天停止学习。很多学生选择周六进行体育活动或社会活动，那么，周日便成了很多学生学习的好时间。周日用来补上拖欠的阅读任务和其他作业的好时机。

Lesson Two

Hans Christian Andersen's Own Fairy Tale (I)

Donald and Louise Peattie

Learning Guide

也许你不是出生于名门望族或书香门第，也许你生来并不聪慧，但只要你刻苦努力、坚持不懈、发挥自己的专长，在适合你的领域一定会成功。闻名遐尔的丹麦作家安徒生的故事——这只从鸭圈里飞出来的天鹅本身的经历可能会对你有所启发。

1Once upon a time there was a poor boy who lived in Denmark.His father, a shoemaker, had died, and his mother had married again.

很久很久以前，在丹麦住着一个穷孩子，他父亲是个鞋匠。父亲去世后，母亲就改嫁了。

2One day the boy went to ask a favor of the Prince of Denmark.When the Prince asked him what he wanted, the boy said, “I want to write plays in poetry and to act at the Royal Theater.” The Prince looked at the boy, at his big hands and feet, at his big nose and large serious eyes, and gave a sensible answer. “It is one thing to act in plays, another to write them. I tell you this for your own good; learn a useful trade like shoemaking.”

一天，这个男孩请求丹麦王子帮帮他。丹麦王子问他想要什么，男孩说：“我想写诗体剧本并且在皇家剧院上演。”王子看看他，看看他的大手大脚和大鼻子，还有孩子认真严肃的眼睛，给了他一个明智的回答：“演戏是一回事，写剧本又是另一回事。为了你好，我告诉你，去学一门有用的手艺，比如做鞋。”

3So the boy, who was not sensible at all, went home. There he took what little money he had, said good-bye to his mother and his stepfather and started out to seek his fortune. He was sure that some day the name Hans Christian Andersen would be known all over Denmark.

然后，这个毫不明智的孩子回到了家，从家里拿了点儿钱，告别了母亲和继父，出去闯世界了。他相信将来有一天，他的名字安徒生会闻名丹麦的。

4To believe such a story one would have to believe in fairy tales! Hans Christian knew many such tales. He had heard some of them from his father, who had worked hard at his trade, but liked to read better than to make shoes. In the evenings, he had read aloud fromThe Arabian Nights. His wife understood very little of the book, but the boy, pretending to sleep, understood every word.

安徒生的故事像童话里的故事一样不现实。汉斯知道很多童话故事。他从父亲那里听说过一些故事。父亲做鞋非常辛苦，不过他更喜欢读书。晚上，他总是大声朗读《一千零一夜》，他的妻子几乎听不懂，而假装睡觉的汉斯却一字不落。

5By day, Hans Christian went to a house where old women worked as weavers. There he listened to the tales that the women told as they worked at their weaving. In those days, there were almost as many tales in Denmark as there were people to tell them.

白天，汉斯常去一间编织作坊，有一些老太太在那儿织布，听她们边织边讲故事，那时，丹麦的童话多得就像讲故事的丹麦人一样。

6Among the tales told in the town of Odense, where Andersen was born in 1805, was one about a fairy who brought death to those who danced with her. To this tale, Hans Christian later added a story from his own life.

安徒生1805年生于奥得斯镇。那儿流传的故事中，有一个关于小精灵把死亡带给与她跳舞的人的故事，汉斯后来把自己生活中的一段经历加进了这个故事。

7Once, when his father was still alive, a young lady ordered a pair of red shoes. When she refused to pay for them, unhappiness filled the poor shoemaker's house. From that small tragedy and the story of the dancing fairy, the shoemaker's son years later wrote the story that millions of people now know as The Red Shoes. The genius of Andersen is that he put so much of everyday life into the wonder of his fairy tales.

他父亲在世时，一位年轻女士订购了一双红鞋，当她拒付鞋钱时，可怜的鞋匠一家笼罩在不幸之中。多年以后，这个鞋匠的儿

子把那个小悲剧和跳舞的小精灵写成了一个众人皆知的故事《红舞鞋》。安徒生的天才就在于他把那么多的日常生活溶进他那些奇妙的童话中。

8When Hans Christian's mother was a little girl, she was sent out on the streets to beg. She did not want to beg, so she sat out of sight under one of the city bridges. She warmed her cold feet in her hands, for she had no shoes. She was afraid to go home. Years later, her son, in his pity for her and his anger at the world, wrote the angry story She's No Good and the famous tale The Little Match Girl.

安徒生的母亲在小的时候，曾被迫到街上去乞讨，她不愿意乞讨，就躲开人们，坐在城市里的一座桥下。由于没有鞋穿，她用双手去暖冰凉的脚，不敢回家。多年以后，他的儿子，怀着对她的同情和对那个世界的愤怒，写出了童话《她是个废物》和著名的《卖火柴的小女孩》。

9Through his genius, he changed every early experience, even his father's death, into a fairy tale. One cold day the boy had stood looking at the white patterns formed on the window by the frost. His father showed him a white, 'woman-like figure among the frost patterns. “That is the Snow Queen,” said the shoemaker. “Soon she will be coming for me.”A few months later he was dead. And years later, Andersen turned that sad experience into a fairy tale, The Snow Queen.

他用自己的天才把早期的经历，甚至父亲的去世都写成了童话。一个寒冷的日子，他一直站在那儿看着霜在窗户上形成的白色图案，他的父亲让他看其中一个白色的人形状的图案，“这是白雪王后，”鞋匠说，“很快她就会来找我。”几个月后，父亲去世了。多年以后，安徒生把这段伤心的经历写成了一篇童话《白雪公主》。

10After the Prince told him to learn a trade, Hans Christian went to Copenhagen. He was just fourteen years old at the time.

在王子叫他去学门手艺后，汉斯去了哥本哈根，当时他只有14岁。

11When he arrived in the city, he went to see as many important people as he could find — dancers, writers and theater people of Copenhagen. But none of them lent a helping hand to the boy with the big hands, the big feet and the big nose. Finally, he had just seven pennies left.

安徒生到那儿后，去找了他能见到的所有重要人物——哥本哈根的舞蹈演员，作家和剧院的人员没有一个肯帮这个大手大脚大鼻子的男孩儿一把，最后，他只剩下七便士。

12The boy had a beautiful high, clear voice. One day a music teacher heard him singing and decided to help him. He collected money from his friends and gave it to the boy so that he could buy food and clothing while he studied singing.

安徒生有一副高亢嘹亮的歌喉。一天，一位音乐老师听了他唱歌，决定帮他一把。他从朋友那儿凑了些钱给了安徒生，让他在学唱歌期间买些衣物和食品。

13Hans Christian was happier than he had ever been in his life. But soon his boy's voice broke. The beautiful high voice was gone forever.

当时，汉斯过的比以前任何时候都幸福，但由于变声，永远失去了那副高亢的歌喉。

14The boy soon found new friends who admired his genius. There was even a princess who gave him a little money from time to time for food and clothes. But Hans Christian bought little food and no clothes. Instead, he bought books and went to the theater.

安徒生很快就找到了羡慕他的天才的新朋友，其中甚至还有一位公主，时不时地给他点儿钱让他买食品和衣物，但汉斯只买很

少的食物，从不买衣服，而是把钱花在了买书和看戏上。

Lesson Three

Hans Christian Andersen's Own Fairy Tale (Ⅱ)

Donald and Louise Peattie

Learning Guide

这只鸭圈里飞出的天鹅所讲的故事老少皆宜，虽然故事使用的是孩子们能听懂的语言、孩子们喜闻乐见的情节，但却又包含生活真谛、寓意深长。功成名就的“丑小鸭”一如既往，保持着他那平常、善良的心态，对权贵不卑不亢，对以往没有善待他的人不计前嫌。他把爱献给上帝，献给人类。

1In Copenhagen, Hans Christian lived in an attic in an old house, where he had a good view of the city. But there was one big fact that he could not see right under his own nose. The plays and poetry that he wrote were not very good.

在哥本哈根，汉斯住在一座旧房子的阁楼上，从那里他可以看到城市的全貌。但在眼前的一个明显的事实他却没看见——他自己写的剧本和诗歌都不太好。

2Hans Christian made friends with a few kind people. Among them was Jonas Collin of the Royal Theater. This kind man collected funds from friends to send the young writer to school. Hans felt most at ease with children. He ate his dinner in turn at the homes of six friends. In each home the children begged him for stories.

汉斯·安徒生结交了几个善良的朋友。其中有皇家剧院的乔纳斯?科林。这位好心人从朋友凑钱供汉斯上学。和孩子们在一起时汉斯感到最轻松，最惬意。他轮流在六个朋友家吃饭，每家的孩子都求他讲故事。

3Hans told a tale so vividly that you could see and hear toy soldiers marching and toy horses galloping. And he could make the most wonderful papercuts. These are kept today in the Andersen Museum, which is in the house where he was born in Odense.

汉斯的故事讲得极其生动，使人仿佛能看到和听到玩具士兵们在列队行进，玩具马在飞奔。他的剪纸也非常棒，至今，那些剪纸还保留在欧登塞，他出生时的那座房子里，即现在的安徒生博物馆。

4Andersen remained single all his life. The good Collin family —three generations of them— became all the family he was ever to have. They all loved him, but they advised him not to write any more poetry and plays, and to try to get a government job. They talked as he later made the animals talk in his stories: "I tell you this for your own good," said the Hen to theUgly Duckling, “you should learn to lay eggs like me.” In The Ugly Duckling Hans Christiantold the story of his own life.

安徒生一直独身，善良的科林一家——前后共三代人——是汉斯一生中唯有的亲人，他们都喜欢他，但建议他不要再写剧本和诗歌，而是尽力在政府部门找份工作。后来，他在故事中把他们所说的话通过动物说了出来：“我告诉你，为了你好，”母鸡对丑小鸭说，“你应该学会像我一样下蛋。”在《丑小鸭》中，汉斯讲述了他自己的故事。

5When his first book of fairy tales was published in 1835, Andersen didn't think it would be successful, but children read the stories and wanted more. So, encouraged by their interest, he began what we know today as his great work. For 37 years, a new book of Andersen's fairy tales came out each Christmas. The books were full of everyday truth, of wonder, of sad beauty, of humor. Children and their parents had never read such tales before.

1835年，当他的第一本童话出版时，安徒生认为他不会成功，但孩子们读了这些故事后，想要读更多这样的童话。孩子们的兴趣鼓励了他，他开始了我们现在知道的伟大创作。37年来，每个圣诞节，安徒生都出版一本新童话集，书里处处体现了生活真谛，生命的奇迹，给人以带着忧伤的美感，充满了幽默，孩子们和他们的父母从未读过这样的童话。

6Andersen's tales are a poet's way of telling us the truth about ourselves. He looked deeply into the heart of things. Even in a child's toy lost in the street, he could see some story with the light of gold in it. All of us laugh at the humor of The Emperor's New Clothes, but we remember the story every time men pretend to be something that they are not.

安徒生的童话以诗人的方式向我们展示了人类自己的真实面貌。他深入探索事物的本质，即使是丢弃在马路上的小玩具，他也

能从中发现具有金子般闪光点的故事素材。《皇帝的新装》里的滑稽场面使我们哈哈大笑。每当我们看到有人装模做样，我们就自然而然地想起了这个故事。

7Although he was now famous, he was more kind-hearted than ever. One day on the street he met a man who had once treated him badly. The old and unhappy man said that he was sorry for what he had done. Andersen forgave the man and comforted him. The Prince who had told Andersen to learn a useful trade was now the King. He invited the writer to his palace and told him that he might ask for any favor. Andersen replied simply,"But I don't need anything at all."

虽然他出名了，可是他比以前更善良了。一天，他在街上遇到了一个曾虐待过他的人，这位伤心的老人说他懊悔过去所做的一切，安徒生原谅了他并安慰他。那位曾叫安徒生去学一门手艺的王子此时已是国王了。他邀请安徒生进宫，说他可以要求任何恩惠，安徒生直率地说：“可我什么都不需要。”

8He was already loved all over the world. The awkward figure and kind ugly face had become so famous that his friends, the children, recognized him wherever he was. His books were translated into many different languages and read all over the world. He was received at the royal courts of Europe and admired by many kings.

他得到了全世界的爱，他那笨拙的体型，他那张慈祥但是难看的脸已经深深印在他的朋友和孩子们的脑海里，不管他在哪里，孩子们一下子就能把他认出来。他的书被译成了许多种语言，全世界的人都能读到他的故事，他受到欧洲各宫廷的款待，得到许多君主的青睐。

9The greatest writers of the day, from Dickens to Victor Hugo, looked upon him as one of themselves. Among them, he at last learned happily that "it doesn't matter if you are born in a duck-yard, as long as you come from a swan's egg."

和安徒生同时代最伟大的作家，从狄更斯到雨果，都把他看成是他们队伍中的一员，在他们中间，他终于高兴地得知“即使你出生在鸭圈里也无所谓，只要你是一只天鹅”。

10Happiest of all was the day he returned to the "duck-yard," nearly 50 years after he had left it. All Odense took part in the great celebration for the shoemaker's son who was now the prince of fairy tales. A great dinner was held in his honor. That night, hundreds of people came to his window and called to him.What was then in his full heart — that gentle heart that had been lonely for so long—was best expressed in his own words: "To God and man, my thanks, my love."

离别了近50年之后回到他“鸭圈”的那天是他一生中最高兴的一天，所有的欧登塞人都参加了为这个鞋匠的儿子——而今的童话

王子举行的庆祝会，人们为他举行了盛大宴会。当夜，几百个乡亲在他窗下呼喊着他的名字。“感谢上帝，感谢大家，”“热爱上帝，热爱大家”。他自己的这句话最准确地表达了那一时刻他内心的激情。这激情发自于他那颗善良的心——一颗孤独了很久得不到理解的心。

Lesson Four

This Life

Sidney Poitier

Learning Guide

看过《猜一猜谁来吃晚饭》或《在炎热的夏夜里》的人一定会对美国著名黑人演员悉尼·波蒂埃的演技赞叹不已。可是你是否知道他在试图进入演艺圈时，曾被导演轰下舞台，因为他连台词都不会念——不认识的字太多。他又是怎样迈开第一步的呢？且听他娓娓道来。

1It is the first time I have ever been on a stage—I don't even know what a stage looks like—but I'm up there now and I open this "script," but I don't know what it is. The director tells me to read the part of “John.” Everywhere I see "John" I must read everything under that.

这是我第一次登上舞台——以前我根本不知道舞台是什么样子——不过现在我就站在舞台上，打开了“剧本”，可我不知道这是什么，导演叫我读“约翰”的台词，只要看到“约翰”这个名字，我就把他下面的句子念出来。

2Then I see him sitting in a front seat staring at me with the strangest look. He says, "Get off that stage." I say, "What do you mean?" He says, "Just come on down off that stage and stop wasting my time. You're no actor. You don't even know how to read."

当时我看见导演坐在前排，用一种极其惊异的目光盯着我。他说：“从台上下来吧。”我说：“你是什么意思？”他说，“从台上下来，别再浪费我的时间了。你根本不会演戏。你甚至连读都不会。”

3I leave and walk off down 135th Street saying to myself, "You can hardly read. You can't be an actor and you' re not able to read." I begin to think about what he' s said to me. Now I know I can't read too well. Here I am, eighteen years of age, and if I live to be eighty, for the next sixty-two years I'm going to be a dishwasher. I'm not going to be able to make people notice me.

我离开那儿，沿着135号大街，一边走一边对自己说：“你几乎都不会读，你当不成演员，你不会读。”我开始思考他说的话，我知道我读的不好，我，今年18岁，如果能活到80岁的话，那余下的62年我只能作个洗碗工，我不能引起别人关注。

4During the next six months, I spent as much time as possible reading. One of the restaurants I worked in during that period was in Astoria, Long Island. The work was hard and heavy, but we would have most of the dishes cleared away by 11:00 or 11: 15 p.m. It was my custom to sit out near the kitchen door and read the newspaper.

接下来的六个月里，我尽可能地多花时间去读书。当时我在长岛的亚斯托利亚的一个餐馆打工，工作很苦很累，我们总是在晚上11点或11：15分之前洗完所有的碗碟。我有个习惯，就是坐在厨房门外看报纸。

5At the waiters' table there was an old Jewish man who used to watch me trying to read that paper.I asked him one night what a word meant, and he told me. I thanked him and went back to my paper.He went on watching me for a few seconds and then said, “Do you run across a lot of words you don't understand?” I said, "A lot — because I'm just beginning to learn to read well,"and he said,"I'll sit with you here and work with you for a while."

在服务员中，有一位犹太老人，他常常看着我费劲地读报纸。一天晚上我问他一个词什么意思，他告诉了我。道了谢后又继续读报，他看了我几秒后，问道："你碰到许多不懂的词吗？"我说："很多，因为我才开始学读书。"他说："我坐在这儿和你一起读一会儿吧。"

6So at about eleven every night when he sat down for his meal, I would come out of the kitchen and sit down next to him and read articles from the front page of the paper. When I ran into a word I didn't know (and I didn't know half of the article, because any word longer than a couple of syllables gave me trouble) be explained the meaning of the word and gave me the pronunciation Then he' d send me back to the sentence so I could understand the word in context.

此后，每天晚上大约11点，他坐下来吃饭时，我就从厨房里出来，挨着他坐下，从报纸的头版开始读，我遇到不认识的词时（文章中有一半的词我都不认识，因为凡是遇到几个音节的词，我就念不出来。）他就给我解释词义，告诉我单词的发音，然后，

再让我回到那个句子中，让我根据上下文掌握这个词的意思。

7Then I would take the paper away with me, armed now with the meaning of those words, and reread and reread the article so that the meaning of those words would get locked into my memory. Every evening we did that.

然后，我就把报纸带走。有了对这些词的理解，我就一遍又一遍地读那篇文章，这样那些词义就会牢牢地记在脑子里了。我们每天晚上都这样做。

8I stayed there at that job for about five or six weeks and I learned from him a way to study, and then I went off to other jobs. I have never been able to thank him properly because I never knew then what an enormous contribution he was making to my life. He was wonderful, and a little bit of him is in everything I do.

我在那家餐馆干了约五、六周，从那里学会了学习的方法。后来我去干了别的工作，我一直未能很好地感谢他，因为当时根本没有意识到他对我一生会起到这么大的作用，他很了不起，在我所有的事情中都多多少少有他的影响。

9After that, I always looked for the meaning of words, and when I ran into words I couldn't pronounce and didn't understand, I would work on them until I began to understand. I would keep going over and over the sentence they were in, and after a while I would begin to get an idea of what the word meant just by repeating the sentence. That became a habit, as did all the other things he left me with.

自那以后，我总是查找词义，每当我遇到不会读的词、不理解的词，我总是动脑筋、想办法，直到弄懂为止。我总是一遍又一遍地读那个词所在的句子，不断地重复那个句子，直到理解那个词的意思。这成了一种习惯，正如他教给我做的每件事都成了习惯。

Lesson Five

Night Watch

Roy Popkin

Learning Guide

市场经济的潮水极大地冲击着人与人之间的关系。人们似乎认为亲情薄如蝉翼，陌生人之间还能有什么爱心与关怀。可是一位海军陆战队队员的行为恰好说明关心他人之人大有人在。请看他是怎样做的。

1The story began on a downtown Brooklyn street corner. An elderly man had collapsed while crossing the street, and an ambulance rushed him to Kings County Hospital. There, when he came to now and again, the man repeatedly called for his son.

故事开始于布鲁克林商业区一条街的拐角处。一位老人在过马路时突然晕倒在地，一辆救护车把他赶紧送往金司县医院。在医院里他不时地苏醒过来，不断呼唤他的儿子。

2From a worn letter found in his pocket, an emergency-room nurse learned that his son was a Marine stationed in North Carolina. It seemed there were no other relatives.

从他口袋里找到一封磨破了的信上，急诊室的护士得知他儿子是驻扎在北卡罗来那州海军陆战队的一名战士。看样子这位老人没有别的亲人。

3Someone at the hospital called the Red Cross office in Brooklyn, and a request for the boy to rush to Brooklyn was sent to the Red Cross director of the North Carolina Marine Corps camp. Because time was short — the patient was dying — the Red Cross man and officer set out in a jeep. They found the young man wading through some marshes in a military exercise. He was rushed to the airport in time to catch the one plane that might enable him to reach his dying father.

有人给红十字会布鲁克林办事处打了个电话，要求北卡罗来那海军陆战队营区红十字会主任让那位战士立即赶到布鲁克林。由于时间很紧——病人快要死了——红十字会的人和官员乘一辆吉普车动身了。他们找到那年轻人时他正在一片沼泽地涉水进行军事演习。他被火速送往机场，及时赶上了一趟班机，只有这趟班机或许还能让他见到病危的父亲。

4It was mid-evening when the young Marine walked into the entrance lobby of Kings County Hospital. A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.

当这位年轻的士兵走进金司县医院入门大厅时已是午夜时分了。护士带着这个疲惫而又焦急的军人到了病床边。

5“Your son is here,” she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened. The medicine he had been given because of the pain from his heart attack made his eyes weak and he only dimly saw the young man in Marine Corps uniform standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his strong fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement. The nurse brought a chair, so the Marine could sit by the bed.

她对老人说道：“您儿子来了。”她不得不把这几个词重复了好几遍后，病人的眼睛才睁开。给他治心绞痛的镇静药使他昏昏入睡，他只能模模糊糊地看到那穿着海军陆战队军装的年轻人站在氧气罩外。他伸出手，那士兵用他那强劲有力的手把老人无力的手紧紧握住，把爱和鼓励传递给老人。护士拿来一把椅子，让这位士兵能够坐在床边。

6Nights are long in hospitals, but all through the night the young Marine sat there in the dimly-lit ward, holding the old man's hand and offering words of hope and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine rest for a while. He refused.

医院的夜晚是漫长的，但是这位年轻的海军陆战队员整夜都坐在光线昏暗的病房里，握着老人的手，说几句充满希望和力量的话。护士不时建议士兵休息一下，他都拒绝了。

7Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was there, but he paid no attention to her and the night noises of the hospital —the clanking of an oxygen tank, the laughter of night-staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans and snores of other patients. Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son through most of the night．

每当护士走进病房，他都在那儿，但他根本没注意到她，也没有注意到医院里夜间各种声音：氧气瓶的铿锵声、夜间值班人员打招呼的笑声、其他病人的叫声、呻吟声及鼾声。她不时听到他轻声细语地说句话，那快死的人什么也没说，只是大半夜一直紧紧握住他儿子的手。

8It was nearly dawn when the patient died．The Marine placed on the bed the lifeless hand he had been holding，and went to tell the nurse．While she did what she had to do，he smoked a cigarette—his first since he got to the hospital.

黎明前夕病人去世了。士兵把他一直握住的那只手毫无生气的放到床上前去通知护士。当她做着那些例行事务时，他抽了一根烟——这是他来医院后的第一只烟。

9Finally，she returned to the nurse's station，where he was waiting．She started to offer words of sympathy，but the Marine interrupted her．“Who was that man?”he asked．

10"He was your father，"she answered，startled．

11"No，he wasn't，"the Marine replied．"I never saw him before in my life．"

12"Why didn't you say something when I took you to him?" the nurse asked．"I knew immediately there'd been a mistake，but

I also knew he needed his son，and his son just wasn't here．When I realized he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son，I guessed he really needed me．So I stayed．"

最后，她回到护士站，他正等在那里。她刚要开口说几句同情的话，但却被那士兵打断了，问道：“那个人是谁？”

“他是你的父亲呀。”她答道，吃了一惊。

“不，他不是。我从前从未见过他。”他说。

“我把你带到那儿时你为什么不说？”护士问。

“我当时就明白一定是搞错了，但我也不明白他需要他的儿子，而他的儿子又正好不在。当我意识到他病得已经弄不清我是不是他的儿子时，我想他真的需要我。于是我留下了。”

14With that，the Marine turned and left the hospital. Two days later a message came in from the North Carolina Marine Corps base informing the Brooklyn Red Cross that the real son was on his way to Brooklyn for his father's funeral．It turned out there had been two Marines with the same name and similar numbers in the camp．Someone in the personnel office had pulled out the wrong record．

说完，那士兵转身离开了医院。两天后布鲁克林红十字会接到北卡罗来那海军陆战队基地的通知，说老人真正的儿子已经出发来布鲁克林参加其父亲的葬礼。原来在同一营地有两位同名、番号近似的海军陆战队战士，人事部的人抽错了记录。

15But the wrong Marine had become the right son at the right time．And he proved，in a very human way，that there are people who care what happens to their fellow men．

但在关键的时刻，这个弄错了的士兵很好地扮演了儿子的角色，而且他以极富人情味的方式，证实了关心自己同胞的人还是大有人在的。

Lesson Six

How Dictionaries Are Made

S. I. Hayakawa

Learning Guide

从我们上小学起，词典就成了我们学习中不可缺少的朋友。可是，词典是怎样编写出来的?是先由学者、专家们给每个词写出定义，然后搜集例句加以说明吗?词典是人人应当尊重的权威吗?什么样的词典是好词典?在这篇课文里一位著名语义学家回答了上述问题，他的见解对于语言学习有一定的指导意义。

1It is widely believed that every word has a correct meaning, that we learn these meanings mainly from teachers and grammars, and that dictionaries and grammar books are the highest authority in matters of meaning and usage. Few people ask by what authority the writers of dictionaries and grammars say what they say. I once got into an argument with an English woman over the pronunciation of a word and offered to look it up in the dictionary. The English woman said firmly, “What for? I am English I was born and brought up in England. The way I speak is English.” Such confidence about one's own language is not uncommon among the English. In the United States, however, anyone who is willing to quarrel with the dictionary is regarded as out of his mind.

人们普遍认为每一个词都有一个正确的意思，我们主要是从老师那里和语法书中学到词的意思，而且词典和语法学是界定词义及用法的最高权威。几乎没有人质问过词典和语法书的编写者凭什么规定我们说话的条条框框。一次，我和一位英国女士就一个词的发音而争论起来，我主动提出去查一查词典。那位英国女士坚定地说：“为什么查词典？我就是英国人，这里生这里长，我说的就是英语。”这种对自己语言的自信在英国人当中并非罕见，而在美国谁要是说词典错了就被认为是神经病。

2Let us see how dictionaries are made and how the editors arrive at definitions(arrive at). What follows applies only to those

dictionary offices where firsthand research goes on — not those in which editors simply copy existing dictionaries. The task of writing a dictionary begins with reading huge amounts of the literature of the period or subject that the dictionary is to cover. As the editors read, they copy on cards every unusual use of a common word, a large number of common words in their ordinary uses, and also the sentences in which each of these words appears.

让我们看一看词典是如何编写出来的，还有编写者是如何给词下定义的吧。以下谈到的仅适用于通过研究原始资料编写词典的机构，不适用于那些编写人员只是抄录现成词典的机构。编写词典首先要阅读大量有关时期的文学作品或与论题有关的文献。编写者们一边读，一边在卡片上抄录下普通词的特殊用法，还有大量常用词的一般用法以及出现这些词的句子。

3That is to say, the context of each word is collected, along with the word itself. For a really big job of dictionary writing, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, millions of such cards are collected, and the task of editing occupies decades. As the cards are collected, they are arranged in alphabetical order. When the sorting is completed, there will be for each word anywhere from two or three to several hundred sentences, each on its card, which illustrate the meaning and use of the word.

也就是说，在收集单词的同时，还要收集每个词的语境。对于象《牛津英语大词典》这样的大型词典编写工作，要收集上百万这样的卡片，编写工作要花上几十年。卡片收集后按字母顺序排列，分类工作完成时，每个词都要有两三个到几百个句子，一句一张卡，句句说明该词的意思及用法。

4To define a word, then, the dictionary editor places before him all the cards illustrating that word; each of the cards represents an actual use of the word by a writer of some importance. He reads the cards carefully, throws away some, rereads the rest, and divides them up according to what he thinks are the several senses of the word. Finally, he writes his definitions, following the hard-and-fast rule that each definition must be based on what the sentences in front of him show about the meanings of the word. The editor cannot be influenced by what he thinks a given word ought to mean. He must work according to the cards, or not at all.

要下定义时，词典编辑把说明该词的所以卡片放在面前，每张卡片具体代表了某位有影响的作家使用该词的实际情况。他仔细阅读那些卡片，去掉一些，重读剩下的那些，然后按照他以为这个词具有的几种意思把卡片分成若干类。最后严格遵循一切释义必须根据在眼前的句子表现出来的意义来界定的这条不可改变的原则写下他的定义，不容许编辑以自己的主观看法去影响释义工作。他必须按这些卡片来写定义，否则就干脆别写。

5The writing of a dictionary, therefore, is not a task of setting up ruling statements about the “true meanings” of words, but a task of recording, to the best of one's ability, what various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past. The writer of a dictionary is a historian, not a lawgiver. If, for example, we had been writing a dictionary in 1890, or even as late as 1919, we could have said that the word “broadcast” means “to scatter” (seed, for example), but we could not have laid down that from 1919 on the most common meaning of the word should become “to send out programs by radio or television.” To regard the dictionary as an "authority," therefore, is to look upon the dictionary writer as being able to see into the future, which neither he nor anyone else can do. In choosing our words when we speak or write, we can be guided by the historical record provided for us by the dictionary, but we should not be bound by it, because new situations, new experiences, new inventions, new feelings are always making us give new uses to old words.

因此，编写词典的任务并不是给词规定出“确切定义”，而是尽最大努力记录下很久以前或是不久以前作者们认为各种词的含义。

一位词典作家是一位史学工作者而不是位法典拟订者。例如，假使我们是在1890年甚至晚到1919年编写一本词典的话，我们本来会把“broadcast”一词释义为“撒播（比如种子）”，但是我们决不会得出这样的结论：从1919年以后这个词最普遍的意思会变成“用无线电或电视传送节目”。因此，把词典看成“权威”就是认为词典的编写者人预见未来，而任何人都不可能做到的。在我们讲话或写作选词译句时，我们可以用词典提供的历史记载来指导我们，但不要受到他的束缚，因为新的形势、新的经历、新的发明，直至新的感受都使得我们不断赋予旧词新的用法。

Lesson Seven

Love of Life

Jack London

Learning Guide

20世纪科学技术的突飞猛进，极大地改善了人类的生活。现代人的生存能力越来越弱。可谁又能保证自己一生中不会遭遇灾难，不会面临生死存亡的关头？美国著名作家杰克·伦敦在其名篇《热爱生命》中告诉我们在极其恶劣的环境中怎样坚持下去，克服重重困难以求得生存。

1Two men walked slowly, one after the other, through the shallow water of a stream. All they could see were stones and earth. The stream ran cold over their feet. They had blanket packs on their backs. They had guns, but no bullets; matches, but no food.

两个人缓慢前行，一前一后，趟过一条浅浅的小河，他们看到的只有石子和土地。冷冷的河水从他们的脚上流过。他们背着用毯子打的背包，他们有枪，但没有子弹；有火柴，但没有食物。

2Suddenly the man who followed fel l over a stone. He hurt his foot badly and called:“Hey, Bill, I've hurt my foot.” Bill continued straight on without looking back.

忽然，后面的那个人被一块石子绊倒了。他的脚受了重伤，喊了起来：“嘿，比尔，我的脚扭伤了。”比尔头也没有回，继续前行。

3The man was alone in the empty land, but he was not lost. He knew the way to their camp, where he would find food and bullets. He struggled to his feet and limped on. Bill would be waiting for him there, and together they would go south to the Hudson Bay Company. He had not eaten for two days. Often he stopped to pick some small berries and put them into his mouth. The berries were tasteless, and did not satisfy, but he knew he must eat them.

这个人孤零零地在荒原之中，但他心里并没有发慌。他知道去营地的路，在那里他可以找到食物和子弹。他挣扎着站起来，一瘸一拐地往前挪动。比尔会在那里等着他，然后他们将一同南下到哈得逊海湾公司。他已有两天没吃东西了，他常常停下来去摘小莓果放到嘴里。那些莓果很难吃，而且也不解饿，但他知道自己必须吃掉它们。

4In the evening he built a fire and slept like a dead man. When he woke up, the man took out a small sack. It weighed fifteen pounds. He wasn't sure if he could carry it any longer. But he couldn't leave it behind. He had to take it with him. He put it back into his pack, rose to his feet and staggered on.

夜晚，他生了堆火，睡得很沉。醒来时，他从背包里掏出一个小袋子，重15磅。他没有把握还能不能继续带着这口袋，但他决不能把它扔下，他得带着它。他把袋子放回背包，站起来继续蹒跚前行。

5His foot hurt, but it was nothing compared with his hunger, which made him go on until darkness fell. His blanket was wet, but he knew only that he was hungry. Through his restless sleep he dreamed of banquets and of food. The man woke up cold and sick, and found himself lost. But the small sack was still with him. As he dragged himself along, the sack became heavier and heavier. The man opened the sack, which was full of small pieces of gold. He left half the gold on a rock.

他扭伤的脚很疼，但比起饥饿来说真算不了什么。饥饿驱使他往前，直至夜幕降临。他的毛毯湿了，但他只知道饿。他彻夜辗转梦见了宴会和食物。他醒来感到又冷又难受，还发觉自己已经迷失了方向。但小袋子还在身边。他拖着脚一步一步往前走，那袋子越来越沉。那个人打开袋子，里面满是小金块儿。他留下了一半在岩石下。

6Eleven days passed, days of rain and cold. One day he found the bones of a deer. There was no meat on them. The man broke the bones and he sucked and chewed on them like an animal. Would he, too, be bones tomorrow? And why not? This was life. Only life hurt. There was no hurt in death. To die was to sleep. Then why was he not ready to die? He, as a man, no longer

strove. It was the life in him, unwilling to die, that drove him on.

十一天过去了，天又下雨又寒冷。一天他发现了一具鹿骨，上面没有肉。他砸开骨头，象野兽一样吮吸着咀嚼着。明天他自己是不是也会只剩下一把骨头？完全可能。这就是生活。只有活着才会有痛苦，死了就没有了。死亡就是安眠。那么为什么他不准备去死呢？他，作为一个人，不再奋斗，是他那不愿束手待毙的生命力逼迫他向前走。

7One morning he woke up beside a river. Slowly he followed it with his eyes and saw it emptying into a shining sea(empty into)．When he saw a ship on the sea，he closed his eyes．He knew there could be no ship，no sea，in this land．A vision，he told himself．He heard a noise behind him，and turned around．A wolf，old and sick，was coming slowly toward him．This was real，he thought．The man turned back，but the sea and the ship were still there．He didn't understand．Had he been walking north，away from the camp，toward the sea? He stood up and started slowly toward the ship，knowing full well the sick wolf was following him．In the afternoon，he found some bones of a man．Beside the bones was a small sack of gold, like his own．So Bill had carried his gold to the end．He would carry Bill's gold to the ship．Ha—ha! He would have the last laugh on Bill．His laughing sounded like the low cry of an animal．The wolf cried back．The man stopped suddenly and turned away．How could he laugh about Bill's bones and take his gold?

一天清晨，他在一条河边醒来，他用目光慢慢地跟踪那条河，看到它流入闪闪发光的大海。当他看到海上有一条船时，他闭上了眼。他知道在这荒原上不可能有船，不可能有海。他对自己说这是幻觉。他听到后面有个声音，转过身，是一只狼，又老又病的狼，正慢慢向他走来。他想这是真的。那个人回到原处，但海和船还在。他不明白了。难道他一直在往北走，离营地愈来愈远，走到了大海了吗？他站起来开始慢慢向船挪去，心里十分清楚那只狼一直在跟着他。那天下午，他发现了一些人骨，在这些骨头旁边有一小袋金子，和他自己的很相象。这么说来比尔已经背着他的金子上了西天了。他可以背着比尔的金子上船了，哈哈！他是最后的胜利者，而不是比尔。他的笑声听起来好象野兽低吟的叫声。那只狼也叫了一声。突然那个人停下笑声转过脸去，他怎么能看到比尔的遗骨而幸灾乐祸呢？他怎么能拿走他的金子呢？

8The man was very sick，now．He crawled about，on hands and knees．He had lost everything—his blanket，his gun，and his gold．Only the wolf stayed with him hour after hour．At last he could go on no further．He fell．The wolf came close to him, but the man was ready．He got on top of the wolf and held its mouth closed．Then he bit it with his last strength．The wolf's blood streamed into his mouth．Only love of life gave him enough strength．He held the wolf with his teeth and killed it, then he fell on his back and slept．

现在那个人已经非常虚弱。他四肢伏地爬行，他已甩掉了所有东西——他的毛毯、他的枪、还有他的金子。他唯一没有甩掉的就是时时刻刻注视着他的那只狼。最后他终于一步也挪不动了。他倒下了。狼走近他，但他已准备好了。他骑到狼的背上，使劲把它的嘴掐住，然后他用尽最后的力气咬住了狼，狼血流到了他的嘴里。只有对生命的热爱才给了他足够的力量。他用牙咬住狼并把它杀了，然后仰面倒了下去，睡着了。

9The men on the ship saw a strange object lying on the beach．It was moving toward them—perhaps twenty feet an hour．The men went over to look and could hardly believe it was a man．

fatter with each day．Then one day they saw him put a lot of bread under his shirt．They examined his bed and found food under his blanket．The men understood．He would recover from it，they said．

三周后，当那个人好些了，他告诉他们自己的故事。但有件奇怪的事情——他似乎很担心船上没有足够的食物。人们还注意到他越来越胖。他们减少了给他的食物，但他仍旧每天长胖。于是有一天他们看到他把很多面包塞到衬衫下面。他们检查了他的床，又在他的毛毯下面发现了食物。那些人明白了。他们说，他会慢慢复元的。

Lesson Eight

A Fiddle and the Law

John J. Floherty

Learning Guide

美国联邦调查局某特工奉命缉拿一杀人犯归案。案犯与其父住在深山的小屋里。该特工到达时，案犯不在，其父满怀敌意，紧握枪杆。动武显然是下策，特工沉着冷静，处之泰然，像一个闲来串门的邻居，谈笑弄琴，不问公务，终于赢得信任，使得原本敌对的父亲次日带领其子前往自首。

1Special Agent X came to a cabin about two miles up the mountain. He had come to get Cal Richards, an armed and dangerous killer. Through a broken window, he saw a man with a beard watching him closely. Agent X drew a deep breath. He stepped up to the cabin door with a cheerful “Hello!”

某特工来到了山上大约两英里处的一间小屋。他是来缉拿卡尔?理查兹，一个危险的持枪杀人犯。从一扇破窗户望进去，他看到一个留着胡子的人正严密注视着他。某特工深深地吸了口气，抬腿迈进小木屋的门，轻快地说了声“你好！”

2Beside the fireplace, an old man sat silently. Still standing near the window was thebearded man — a gun in his hands.

3“Government man, aren't you?” said the man with the gun.

4“Yes,” replied the agent with a friendly smile. “You must be Pappy Richards.”

5“Sure. I'm Cal's pa. And you're not going to get him.” The gun pointed at the G-man.

在壁炉边，一位老人默默地站着。那个留着胡子的人仍然站在窗户附近，手里端着枪。

“你是联邦调查局的人吧？”拿着枪的人问。

“是的。”那特工友好地笑着回答。“你一定是帕皮·理查兹吧？”

“当然，我是卡尔的爸爸。你不会抓到他的。”枪指着联邦调查局的特工。

6Agent X looked around the cabin. “I've been assigned to do it,”he said. “But I can see he isn't here today. I guess I'll have to come again.” Then he caught sight of a violin hanging on the wall. “Who plays the fiddle?” he asked.

某特工环视了一下小屋。“我只是奉命行事，”他说，“不过我看得出今天他不在这儿。我想我还得再来一次。”接着他一眼就看到了一把小提琴挂在墙上。“谁拉小提琴？”他问。

7For a moment there was silence. Then the old man by the fire spoke up. “Pappy,” he said. “He's the best fiddler in these parts. You ought to hear him play Turkey in the Straw.” The G-man seemed deeply impressed. “You don't say! I play a little myself. Mind if I look at the violin?”

沉默了一会儿之后，壁炉边的老人大声说到：“是帕皮。他是这一片最棒的小提琴手。你真该听听他拉的…草丛中的火鸡?。”联邦调查局的人看上去好象有很深的印象。“真的呀？我自己也能拉点儿。我看看这把小提琴你介意吗？”

8As he crossed the room to the instrument, he knew that the gun was still aimed at him. He felt sweat on his forehead, but he took the violin from the wall as calmly as if he were a welcome visitor. He turned it carefully and wiped off the bow. Then he broke into the lively music of Turkey in the Straw. The old man began to beat time, tapping one foot on the dirt floor. But Pappy stood unmoved, gun in hand and eyes alert.

当他从房间走过去拿小提琴时，他知道那只枪仍然指着他。他感觉到额头上出汉了，但还是平静地把小提琴从墙上取下，就好象他是一个颇受欢迎的的客人。他小心地把小提琴翻转过来，取下琴弓，然后他突然拉起活泼的《草丛中的火鸡》。那位老人

开始一只脚在脏地板上打起了拍子。可是帕皮却无动于衷，他端着枪，目光机警。

9One tune after another Agent X played,occasionally glancing at Pappy. Suddenly the music changed, and from the strings came the sweet notes of an old folk song. The cabin was filled with glorious sound. Agent X was playing better than he had ever played in his life. Pappy Richards stood enchanted, the defiance in his eyes giving way to a look of wonder. The gun was now pointed toward the floor.When the final notes of the song died away, Pappy placed the gun in a corner.

某特工不断地拉着曲子，不时瞥一眼帕皮，突然音乐变了，琴弦上响起了一首古老的民歌，旋律优美。拉的比这辈子任何时候都好。帕皮·理查兹站在那里完全陶醉了，他目光中的抵触情绪已被惊讶的神色所代替。当这支歌的最后一个音符消失了的时候，帕皮把枪放到了角落里。

10“Well, stranger,” Pappy said, “that was first-class fiddling. Maybe you'll stay for dinner and play some more for us.”

11After they had eaten, the three men sat in the spring sunshine outside the cabin. They talked about fiddle tunes and the fiddlers that Pappy and the old man had known here in the mountains.

12They talked for an hour, and not once did anyone speak of the reason for the G-man's visit. Once more the bow danced across the strings; and so another hour passed quickly.Still not a word was said about Cal Richards. Finally the agent said, “Sorry I must be getting back to the vil lage.”

“陌生人”，帕皮说，“那是一流的演奏。或许你可以留下来吃饭，然后再给我们拉几曲。”

吃完饭，三个人坐在小木屋外春日的阳光下，他们聊着小提琴曲以及这山里帕皮和老人所知道的小提琴手们。

他们聊了一个小时，一次也没有提到联邦特工来这儿的目的。小提琴的弓再次在弦上飞舞起来。又一个小时很快过去了，关于卡尔?理查兹仍然只字未提。最后那特工说：“真抱歉，我该回村里去了。”

13Pappy's friend eyed him for a moment and said, “How about Cal? Y ou want him, don't you?” There was a touch of amusement in his voice.

14“Well, no,”said the G-man with a smile. “I don't want him. The government wants him,and you know how it is when the government wants a man. It may take days or months or years to get him, but they'll get him. And the longer it takes, the worse off he is. ”

15“Does the government always get the guy it wants?”

16“No, not always. Sometimes he dies.”

帕皮的朋友盯了他一会儿说：“那卡尔呢？你要抓他不是吗？”声音里有点儿调侃的味道。

“噢，不”联邦特工笑着说，“我不想抓他，是政府要抓他。你知道政府要抓人是怎么一回事吧。也许抓到他需要几天、几个月、或几年，不过他们还是要抓他。抓他花的时间越长，他的处境也就越坏。”

“政府总是能抓到它要抓的人吗？”

“不，不总是，有时那个人会死的。”

17Pappy, sitting on a nearby log, was deep in thought. “See here, stranger,” he interrupted suddenly. “I like the way you talk and I like the way you fiddle. I guess you're a decent guy.” He paused as if it were hard to go on. Then, he said in a thick voice, “I — well, I'll have a talk with Cal. I think he might give himself up tomorrow. You be at the sheriff's office at noon !”

帕皮坐在旁边的木柴上，陷入了沉思。“唉，陌生人”他突然打断了他们的话，“我喜欢你这么说话，我也喜欢你拉的琴。我想你是个正派人。”他停了片刻，似乎下面的话很难说出口。然后他声音沙哑地说到：“我——恩，我会和卡尔谈谈。我想他明天会去自首。中午你就在县司法长官办公室等着吧。”

18“Noon tomorrow!” said the agent, wondering if he looked as surprised as he felt. “So long until then.” After he left, he wiped his sweating forehead and sighed with relief．

“明天中午见！”那特工说。他感到惊讶，不知他是不是脸上也露出同样的表情。“那时再见。”离开后，他擦了擦冒汗的额头，

如释重负地吁了口气。

第二天，当村里的大钟敲了两下，宣告午时的时候，大街上一个留着胡子的人朝着

县司法办公室走来。和他一起来的是一个小伙子，一看他那样子就知道他躲藏了多日。

那联邦调查局的特工正在等候着。

“陌生人”，帕皮说，“这是卡儿，我的儿子。”

Lesson Nine

Happiness

Branko Bugarski

Learning Guide

人人追求幸福，可什么是幸福呢？本文作者认为幸福不是目的，不是终点，而是一个过程，是以积极的工作为他人的幸福做出贡献，从而感到自身的价值的过程。

1Many people think that when they become rich and successful, happiness will naturally follow. Let me tell you that certainly nothing is further from the truth. The world is full of very rich people who are as miserable as hell. We have all read stories about movie stars committing suicide or dying from drugs. Quite clearly, money is not the answer to all problems.

许多人都认为当他们变得富有和成功时，幸福自然会随之而来。我要告诉你们实际情况远非如此。世界上到处是那些富人，他们就像生活在地狱一样痛苦。我们都读到过许多关于电影明星自杀或吸毒身亡的报道。很显然金钱并非是解决一切问题的唯一方法。

2Wealth achieved through dishonest means does not bring happiness. Lottery winnings do not bring happiness. Wealth left by parents does not bring happiness. In fact, money alone is almost worthless. If you have both self-esteem and money, however, you are well on the way to happiness. What is missing in both self-esteem and money is productive work and a real contribution towards the happiness of others. The secret to happiness lies in the contribution towards the happiness of others. You can fool others but you can never fool yourself. If you obtain wealth through luck or dishonest means，you will know you did not earn it．If you have taken advantage of or hurt others to earn your wealth，you will not be happy．You will not like yourself．You will not feel you are capable．

用欺骗的手段得到的财富不能带来幸福。赢彩券不能带来幸福。父母留下的财富也不能带来幸福。事实上，如果只有金钱，而其他一无所有，金钱也是毫无价值的。如果你同时具有自尊和金钱，那么你已经踏上了通往幸福的大道。自尊心和金钱本身所欠缺的是富有创造性的工作以及为他人的幸福所做的实实在在的贡献。幸福的秘诀就在你为别人的幸福所做的贡献之中。你可以欺骗别人，但你绝对欺骗不了自己。如果你靠运气或欺骗的手段获得了财富，你会知道你一无所获。如果你是利用或伤害别人来得到财富，你就不会感到幸福。你不会喜欢自己，你也不会认为自己很能干。

3There are many highly-paid managers and entertainers who do not like themselves．Outwardly，they seem successful，but deep down they are miserable．They know they are contributing very little of real value and all the time they live in fear of being exposed as cheats．They know they are not earning their wealth．They know they are cheating the company，the government or society．But they can't fool themselves．

许多被高薪聘请的经理和艺人们都不喜欢他们自己。表面上看他们很成功，但他们内心深处却十分痛苦。他们很清楚自己并没有做出真正有价值的贡献。他们总是提心吊胆，惟恐别人揭穿他们骗子的面孔。他们知道自己并没有得到财富。他们知道自己

在欺骗公司，政府和社会。但他们却欺骗不了自己。

4Long-term happiness is based on honesty，productive work，contribution, and self-esteem．Happiness is not an end；it is a process. It is a continuous process of honest，productive work which makes a real contribution to others and makes you feel like a worthwhile person．As Dr．Wayne wrote，“There is no way to happiness．Happiness is the way．”There is no use saying“Some day when I achieve these goals，when I get this car，build this house and have this business...then I will be really happy．”Life just does not work that way．If you wait for certain things to happen and depend on external circumstances of life to make you happy，you will always feel unfulfilled．There will always be something missing．

长久的幸福是建立在诚实，创造性的工作，贡献和自尊的基础之上的。幸福不是结果，而是过程。幸福是在不断地用正当的，创造性的劳动为他人做贡献的过程中，让你觉得自己是个有价值的人。正如韦恩博士所说：“没有通往幸福的路。幸福本身就是路。”不要整天说：“有一天，当我实现了我的目标，有了车，有了房子，有了自己的生意……那时我就会真正幸福了。”生活中这是行不通的。如果你等待外界发生变化，如果你依赖生活中的外界力量来使你感到幸福，那你永远不会有成就感。你的生活总会有所欠缺。

5Long-term happiness is a process of moving towards worthwhile goals and contributing towards the welfare and happiness of others. It does not mean that you should give away all your wealth. It means continuously creating values for others through your own honest,productive work. It means doing what you love and loving what you do. It means achieving your goals and then challenging yourself to bigger and better things. It means always striving for more, learning and growing. Doing nothing means death. Activity means life. Find your purpose, set some goals, do what you love, love what you do, work honestly and productively and contribute real values to the others. In the long term, that's what it's all about.

长久的幸福是一个过程——渐渐达到有价值的目标，致力于为别人谋福利和幸福的过程。这并不是说你要将自己所有的财富都赠送给别人。而是意味着通过你的诚实和富有创造性的劳动不断地为别人创造价值。意味着做你自己喜欢的事并喜欢你自己做的事。意味着你要实现自己的目标，然后向自己挑战做更重大，更美好的事情。意味着你要始终力求更多，不断学习和成长。什么事情都不做就意味着死亡。生命在于运动。明确自己的目的，确定一些目标，做你所热爱的事情，爱你所做的事情，诚实而有创造性地工作，向别人奉献真正的价值。从长远来讲，幸福就是如此。

6Inh sh t ort terme, you can start practising being happy right now without any obvious reason. How will you know how to be happy if you don' t try it? It is the same as acting and feeling rich. Don' t wait for another 10 years to start feeling rich, successful and happy.Start practising n ow. You know that they say “practice makes perfect.”Pretend that you are rich and you will become rich. Pretend and act as if you were happy and you will be happy.Pretend and act as if you were miserable and... Well, forget about this last one. You have been practising that one for far too long.

从短期来看，你不需要任何理由就可以从现在尝试体验幸福。不尝试怎么知道怎样才会幸福？这与假装富有去体会富有是一样的。不要再等另一个10年才开始感觉富有，成功和幸福。从现在开始实践。你知道人们常说“熟能生巧”这个成语。你认为自己富有，就会真的富有。你认为自己幸福，并这样去做，就真的会感到幸福。你认为自己痛苦并这样去做……哎，还是别装痛苦吧。那件事你做的时间已经太长，成习惯了。

Lesson Ten

The Joker (Ⅰ)

Jake Allsop

Learning Guide

在亨利．格朗德的葬礼上，人们谈笑风生，争相讲述死者的逸闻趣事，品评他那笑话连翩的一生。他这一除了会讲笑话，爱开玩笑之外，好像是一事无成，与他四位成就斐然的兄长相比真不像是格朗德家族的成员。继而人们回忆起有他身世的逸事。似乎没有人感到一丝的悲伤，葬礼就在这种欢快的气氛中进行着……

1It was a very happy funeral, a great success. Even the sun shone that day for the late Henry Ground. Lying in his coffin, he was probably enjoying himself, too. Once more, and for the last time on this earth, he was the centre of attention. Yes, it was a very jolly affair. People laughed and told each other jokes. Relatives who had not spoken for years smiled at each other and promised to stay in touch. And, of course, everyone had a favourite story to tell about Henry.

这是一个欢乐的葬礼，而且很成功。那天就连太阳也为已故的亨利?格朗德张开了笑脸。他躺在棺材里，或许和别人一样快乐。他再一次，也是在人间最后一次成为人们注意的中心。的确，这是一件非常愉快的事情。人们笑着，彼此间讲着笑话。那些已经许多年不说话的亲戚们相互微笑，并说好要保持联系。当然，关于亨利每个人都有件津津乐道的事情可谈。

2“Do you remember the time he dressed up as a gypsy and went from door to door telling people's fortunes? He actually made 6 pounds in an afternoon!”

“你还记得那次他化装成吉普赛人挨家挨户给人算命吗？一个下午他竟然挣了6英镑！”

3“I was once having dinner with him in an expensive restaurant. When the wine-waiter brought the wine, he poured a drop into Henry's glass and waited with a proud expression on his face, as if to say …Taste it, you peasant. It's clear that you know nothing about wine. ' So Henry, instead of tasting it, the way any normal person would do, dipped his thumb and forefinger into the wine. Then he put his hand to his ear and rolled his forefinger and thumb together as if he were listening to the quality of the wine! Then he nodded to the wine-waiter seriously, as if to say …Yes, that's fine. You may serve it. ' You should have seen the wine-waiter' s face! and how Henry managed to keep a straight face, I'll never know!”

“一次我和他在一家价格昂贵的饭店正吃着饭，负责倒酒的侍者送来了酒，他往亨利的杯子里倒了一点儿酒，然后面带傲慢的神色等在一边，好像是要说：…会品酒吗？你这个乡巴佬！很显然你根本不懂酒。?于是，亨利并没有像常人那样去品酒，而是用大拇指和食指在酒中浸了一下。接着，他把手放到耳边，将大拇指和食指搓起来，好像是在听酒的质量。然后，他严肃地向侍者点点头，好像在说…行，这酒不错，你可以倒了。?你该瞧瞧侍者的脸！亨利怎么还能一本正经地板着脸孔，我永远也弄不明白。”

4“Did you hear about the practical joke he played when he was a student, the one with the road-menders? Some workmen were digging a hole in the road. First, Henry phoned the police and told them that some students were digging a hole in the road, and that he didn't think it was a very funny thing to do. Then he went to the workmen and told them that some students had dressed up as policemen and were coming to tell them to stop digging the hole! Well, you can imagine what happened!”

“你听说过他还是学生时做的恶作剧吗？就是捉弄修路工人的那个恶作剧。几个修路工人正在马路上挖一个坑。亨利先给警察打电话，说几个学生正在路上挖坑，他觉得这可不是闹着玩的事。然后他又来到那些工人那里，告诉他们一群学生化装成警察，马上要来叫他们停止挖坑！哈，你能想像出后来发生了什么事情！”

5“Yes, old Henry loved to pull people's legs. Once, when he was invited to an exhibition of some abstract modern painter's latest work, he managed somehow to get in the day before and turn all the paintings upside down. The exhibition ran for four days before anyone noticed !”

“对，老亨利喜欢捉弄人。一次，他被邀请去参观某位现代抽象派画家的最新作品展览，而前一天他就设法进入展览馆，把所有的作品都倒了过来。画展进行了4天后才有人发现。”

6“His father, poor man, could never understand why Henry did such crazy things.”

7“It's hard to believe that Henry was a Ground when you think how different he was from hisbrothers.”

“他的父亲，可怜的人，永远也不会明白为什么亨利爱做这些疯狂的事情。”

“要是考虑到他和他的几个哥哥是那么不一样，真是难以相信他会是格朗德家族的一员。”

8Yes, it was difficult to believe that he was a Ground. He was born into an unimportant but well-to-do family. He was the youngest of five sons. The Grounds were a handsome lot: blue-eyed, fair-haired, clever and ambitious. The four older boys all made a success of their lives. They married beautiful girls of good family, and produced children as fair and handsome and clever as themselves. The eldest became a clergyman; the second ended up as the headmaster of a famous public school; the third went into business and became rich; the fourth followed in his father's footsteps and became a lawyer. That is why everybody was amazed when the youngest Ground, Henry, turned out to be a lazy good-for-nothing.

确实，很难相信他会是格朗德家族的一员。他出身于社会地位不高但相当富有的家庭。是兄弟五人中最小的一个。格朗德一家长得都很帅：蓝色的眼睛，金色的头发，聪明且有抱负。他的四个哥哥都发展得很顺利。他们都和富裕人家的女孩结了婚，生下了和他们一样白肤金发、漂亮聪明的孩子。大哥成为一位牧师：二哥最后成了一所著名私立学校的校长：三哥做生意而且变得很富有：四哥继承了父亲的事业成了一名律师。这就是为什么人们感到惊讶，格朗德家最小的儿子竟变成一个游手好闲，一无所成的人。

9Unlike his brothers, he had brown eyes and dark hair, but he was every bit as handsome and charming, which made him quite a lady-killer. And, although he never married, there is no doubt at all that Henry Ground loved women. He also loved eating, drinking, laughing, talking and a thousand other activities which don't make money or improve the human life. One of his favourite pastimes was doing nothing. His idea of an energetic afternoon when the sun was shining was to sit under a tree, with a pretty girl by his side, and all the time in the world to talk of this and that, to count the blades of grass.

与他的哥哥们不同，亨利长着棕色眼睛和黑色头发，但他却同他的哥哥们一样帅，一样迷人，这使他成为相当讨女人喜欢的人。尽管他从未结婚，但有一点毫无疑问，亨利爱女人。他还喜欢吃，喝酒，大笑，聊天以及做成千种其他的既不赚钱也不能改善人类生活的事情。他最喜欢的一种消遣就是什么都不做。他认为天晴时最好的度过下午时光的办法就是坐在树下，身边有位漂亮姑娘，还有用不完的时间来侃这谈那，或是数数草的叶片。

10What a worthless fellow! Some people whispered that his real father was not the present Mr. Ground at all, but a wild gypsy who had come one day to the house and had swept Mrs. Ground off her feet with his dancing black eyes and his wicked immoral ways. It was a good story, interesting and romantic, but surely untrue. One thing was sure: you couldn't help liking Henry Ground and his talent for making you laugh. Henry Ground was, above all else, a joker.

他是个多么没用的人啊！一些人悄悄说他真正的父亲根本不是现在的格朗德先生，而是一个放荡的吉普赛男人。一天，这个吉普赛男人来到他家，用他那流光四溢的黑眼睛和下流的手段勾引了格朗德太太。这是一个很好的故事，有趣且浪漫，但当然不是真的。有一点是肯定的，那就是你不得不承认你喜欢亨利·格朗德，喜欢他那逗人发笑的本领。亨利·格朗德首先是个玩笑大王。

Lesson Eleven

The Joker (Ⅱ)

Jake Allsop

Learning Guide

亨利的12位最要好的朋友应邀听取其兄宣读遗嘱。原来他留下了一笔可观的财产，他要求这12位朋友每人讲一个故事，声称谁讲出最引人发故事，遗产就归谁。于是这12位绅士淑女开始了一场角逐，他们各显神通，讲出了一个比一个一般的离奇而令人捧腹大笑的故事，却又对他人的故事憋住不笑出声来，最后他们终于忍耐不住而放声大笑，在笑声中明白的故人通过玩笑给他们上了