新概念第三册课文及翻译(Lesson46~48)

新概念第三册课文及翻译（Lesson46~48）

新概念第三册课文及翻译（Lesson46）

【课文】

So great is our passion for doing things for ourselves, that we are becoming increasingIy less dependent on

specialized labour. No one can plead ignorance of a subject any longer, for there are countless do-it-yourself publications. Armed with the right tools and materials, newlyweds gaily embark on the task of decorating their own homes. Men, particularly, spend hours of their leisure time installing their own fireplaces, laying out their own gardens; building garages and making furniture. Some really keen enthusiasts go so far as to build their own computers. Shops cater for the do-it-yourself craze not only by running

special advisory services for novices, but by offering consumers bits and pieces which they can assemble at home. Such things provide an excellent outlet for pent up creative energy, but unfortunately not all of us are born handymen.

Some wives tend to believe that their husbands are

infinitely resourceful and can fix anything. Even men who can hardly drive a nail in straight are supposed to be born electricians, carpenters, plumbers and mechanics. When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety, pipes get clogged, or vacuum cleaners fail to operate, some women assume that their husbands will somehow put things right. The worst thing about the do-it-yourself game is that sometimes even men live under the delusion that they can do anything, even when they have

repeatedly been proved wrong. It is a question of pride as much as anything else.

Last spring my wife suggested that I call in a man to look at our lawn mower. It had broken down the previous summer, and though I promised to repair it, I had never got round to it. I would not hear of the suggestion and said that I would fix it myself. One Saturday afternoon, I hauled the machine into the garden and had a close look at it. As far as I could see, it only needed a minor adjustment： a turn of a screw here, a little tightening up there, a drop of oil and

it would be as good as new. Inevitably the repair job was not quite so simple. The mower firmly refused to mow, so I decided to dismantle it. The garden was soon littered with chunks of metal which had once made up a lawn mower. But I was extremely pleased with myself. I had traced the cause of the trouble. One of the links in the chain that drives the wheels had snapped. After buying a new chain I was faced with the insurmountable task of putting the confusing jigsaw puzzle together again. I was not surprised to find that the machine still refused to work after I had reassembled it, for the simple reason that I was left with several curiously shaped bits of metal which did not seem to fit anywhere. I gave up in despair. The weeks passed and the grass grew. When my wife nagged me to do something about it, I told her that either I would have to buy a new mower or let the grass grow. Needless to say our house is now surrounded by a jungle. Buried somewhere in deep grass there is a rusting lawn-mower which I have promised to repair one day.

【课文翻译】

现在我们自己动手做事的热情很高，结果对于专业工人的依赖越

来越少了。因为出版了不计其数的教人自己动手做事的书报杂志，没

有人再能说对某事一无所知。新婚夫妇找来合适的工具和材料，喜气

洋洋地开始布置新房。特别是男人，常利用空闲时间安装壁炉、布置

花园、建造车库、制作家具。有些热衷于自己动手的人甚至自己组装

电脑。为了满足自己动手热的需要，商店不但为初学者提供专门的咨

询服务，而且为顾客准备了各种零件，供他们买回家去安装。这些东

西为人们潜在的创造力提供了一个绝妙的用武之地。但不幸的是，我

们并非人人都是能工巧匠。

妻子常常认为她们的丈夫无比聪明能干。甚至那些连一枚钉子都

钉不直的男人都被认为是天生的电工、木匠、水管工和机械师。每当

电灯保险丝烧断、家具榫头松动、管道堵塞、吸尘器不动时，有些妻

子认为丈夫总有办法。自己动手的例子中最糟糕的是，有时甚至是男

人即使接连失败却还误以为自己什么都行，原因就是要面子。

今年春天，妻子让我请人检查一下我家的割草机。那台割草机去

年夏天就坏了，即使我答应修，但一直没抽出时间，我不愿听妻子的

建议，说我自己会修。一个星期六的下午，我把割草机拉到了花园里，仔细检查了一番。在我看来，只需稍加调整即可。这儿紧紧螺丝，那

儿固定一下，再加几滴油，就会像新的一样了。事实上，修理工作远

不是那么简单。修完后割草机还是纹丝不动。于是，我决定把它拆开。一会儿工夫，割草机便被拆成一个个金属零件，乱七八糟地堆在花园里。但我却非常高兴，因为我找到了毛病所在。驱动轮子的链条断了

一节。我买来一根新链条后，面临的就是如何把这些令人眼花缭乱的

拼板重新组装起来。等我装完后，那台割草机仍然一动不动，对此我

倒并不感到吃惊。原因很简单，因为还剩下几个形状奇特的零件似乎

哪里也装不上去。我无可奈何，只好罢休。几个星期过去了，草长了

起来。妻子喋喋不休让我想点办法。我告诉她，要么买一台新割草机，要么让草长下去。不用说，我家现在已被丛林包围。深草丛中的某个

地方有一台正在生锈的割草机，那就是我曾答应某日要修理的割草机。

新概念第三册课文及翻译（Lesson47）

【课文】

Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, over industrialized planet. When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish： dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produce less of it. We keep trying all four methods, but the sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us.

Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of

polluting our planet. The need to produce ever-increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution. Industrialized farming methods produce cheap meat products： beef, pork and chicken. The use of pesticides and fertilizers produces cheap grain and vegetables. The price we pay for cheap food may be already too high： Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in cattle, salmonella in chicken and eggs, and wisteria in dairy products. And if you think you'll abandon meat and become a vegetarian, you have the choice of very expensive organically-grown vegetables or a steady diet of pesticides every time you think you're eating fresh salads and vegetables, or just having an innocent glass of water!

However, there is an even more insidious kind of

pollution that particularly affects urban areas and invades our daily lives, and that is noise. Burglar alarms going off at any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle. Car alarms constantly scream at us in the street and are a source of profound irritation. A recent survey of the effects of noise

revealed (surprisingly?) that dogs barking incessantly in the night rated the highest form of noise pollution on a scale ranging from 1 to 7. The survey revealed a large number of sources of noise that we really dislike. Lawn mowers whining

on a summer's day, late-night parties in apartment blocks, noisy neighbors, vehicles of all kinds, especially large container trucks thundering through quiet village, planes and helicopters flying overhead, large radios carried round in public places and played at maximum volume. New technology

has also made its own contribution to noise. A lot of people object to mobile phones, especially when they are used in public places like restaurants or on public transport. Loud conversations on mobile phones invade our thoughts or

interrupt the pleasure of meeting friends for a quiet chat. The noise pollution survey revealed a rather spurring and possibly amusing old fashioned source of noise. It turned out to be snoring! Men were found to be the worst offenders. It was revealed that 20% of men in their mid-thirties snore.

This figure rises to a staggering 60% of men in their sixties. Against these figures, it was found that only 5% of women snore regularly, while the rest are constantly woken or kept awake by their trumpeting partners. Whatever the source of noise, one thing is certain： silence, it seems, has become a golden memory.

【课文翻译】

污染就是我们为这个人口过密，过度工业化的星球所付出的代价。当我们开始考虑垃圾问题时，我们只有4种对付垃圾的方法：倾倒、

焚烧、把垃圾变成再生材料或试图少产生一些垃圾。我们一直在试这4种方式，但是，我们在世界范围内仅产生的垃圾的量就有把我们覆盖

的危险。

不过，垃圾仅仅我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面。日益增长

的对廉价食物的需求导致了另一种形式的污染。工业化的农作方式生

产出廉价的肉类制品——牛肉、猪肉和鸡肉。使用杀虫剂和化肥生产

出廉价的谷物和蔬菜。为了廉价食物我们付出代价已经太高了：牛肉

中的疯牛病，鸡肉和鸡蛋中的沙门氏菌，奶制品中的利斯特杆菌。如

果你想放弃肉类而变成一位素食者，那么你能够两者择一：或是选用

价格昂贵、有机培植的蔬菜，或是当你认为在享用新鲜色拉和新鲜蔬

菜或饮用一杯无害的水的时候，实际上每次都持续吃进杀虫剂。

但是，还有一种更加隐蔽有害的污染，它专门影响城镇地区，侵

袭我们的日常生活，那就是噪音。防盗警报器在白天和黑夜的任何时

候都会响起来，它的作用仅仅骚扰过路行人，而实际上却协助窃贼入

室行窃。在街上，汽车的防盗警报持续对我们吼叫，这是人们极度烦

燥的一个原因，最近一个相关噪音的作用的调查(令人吃惊地)指出，

夜间连续持续的狗叫声，在一个从1级至7级刻度表上应列为最严重

的噪间污染。这个调查揭示了我们所不喜欢的大量的噪间的来源：夏

天呜呜作响的割草机，公寓楼里深夜聚会的喧哗声，大声吵闹的邻居，各式各样的车辆，特别是穿越寂静的村庄的集装箱卡车，从头顶飞过

的飞机和直升机，被带到公共场所、音量开到的大功率收音机。新技

术也为噪音作了它的贡献。很多人都反对移动式电话，特别是在如饭店，公共交通车等公共场所使用移动电话。用移动电话大声交谈干扰

我们的思路，破坏我们和朋友在一起轻声聊天所得到的乐趣。这个相

关噪音的污染调查还揭示了一种出人意外而同时可能会引人意外而同

时可能会引人发笑的老式噪音源。它竟然是鼾声。人类是这方面的罪

魁祸首。调查指出，20%的35岁左右的男人打鼾;而到 60岁这个年龄段，这个数字上升到令人惊愕的60%。与这些数字相比，只有5% 的女

性经常打鼾;而其余则经常被与她们同睡、像吹号似地打着呼噜的男人

吵醒或弄得睡不着。不管噪声来自何方，有一点是肯定的：看来寂静

已变成一种珍贵的回忆。

新概念第三册课文及翻译（Lesson48）

【课文】

In this much-travelled world, there are still thousands of places which are inaccessible to tourists. We always assume that villagers in remote places are friendly and hospitable. But people who are cut off not only from foreign tourists, but even from their own countrymen can be hostile to travellers. Visits to really remote villages are seldom enjoyable -- as my wife and I discovered during a tour through the Balkans.

We had spent several days in a small town and visited a number of old churches in the vicinity. These attracted many visitors, for they were not only of great architectural interest, but contained a large number of beautifully preserved frescoes as well. On the day before our departure, several bus loads of tourists descended on the town. This was more than we could bear, so we decided to spend our last day exploring the countryside. Taking a path which led out of the town, we crossed a few fields until we came to a dense wood. We expected the path to end abruptly, but we found that it traced its way through the trees. We tramped through the wood for over two hours until we arrived at a deep stream. We could see that the path continued on the other side, but we had no idea how we could get across the stream. Suddenly my wife spotted a boat moored to the bank. In it there was a boatman fast asleep. We gently woke him up and asked him to ferry us to the other side. Though he was reluctant to do so at first, we eventually persuaded him to take us.

The path led to a tiny village perched on the steep sides of a mountain. The place consisted of a straggling unmade

road which was lined on either side by small houses. Even under a clear blue sky, the village looked forbidding, as all the houses were built of grey mud bricks. The village seemed deserted, the only sign of life being an ugly-looking black goat on a short length of rope tied to a tree in a field nearby. Sitting down on a dilapidated wooden fence near the field, we opened a couple of tins of sardines and had a

picnic lunch. All at once, I noticed that my wife seemed to

be filled with alarm. Looking up I saw that we were

surrounded by children in rags who were looking at us

silently as we ate. We offered them food and spoke to them kindly, but they remained motionless. I concluded that they were simply shy of strangers. When we later walked down the main street of the village, we were followed by a silent procession of children. The village which had seemed deserted, immediately came to life. Faces appeared at windows. Men in shirt sleeves stood outside their houses and glared at us.

Old women in black shawls peered at us from doorways. The

most frightening thing of all was that not a sound could be heard. There was no doubt that we were unwelcome visitors. We needed no further warning. Turning back down the main street, we quickened our pace and made our way rapidly towards the stream where we hoped the boatman was waiting.

【课文翻译】

在这个旅游频繁的世界上，仍有成千上万个游人足迹未至的地方。人们总是以为偏僻的地方的村民们热情好客。但是，那些不但与外国

旅游者隔绝，而且与本国同胞隔绝的人们有可能对游客抱有敌意。到

真正偏僻的村庄去旅游并不是一件愉快的事情。我与妻子在一次周游

巴尔干半岛时对此深有体会。

我们在一座小镇上逗留了几天，参观了附近的很多古老的教堂。

这些教堂吸引大量游客，不但是因为建筑风格奇特，而且还有大量保

存完好的壁画。我们离开小镇的前一天，镇上来了几辆满载游客的公

共汽车。人多得使我们难以忍受，于是我们决定利用最后一天去乡间

一游。我们走上了一条出镇的小路，穿过几块农田，来到一片茂密的

树林。我们原以为小路会到此突然终止。没想到它到树林中继续向前

延伸。我们在树林中跋涉了两个多小时，到了一条深溪边。我们能够

看到小路在深溪对岸继续向前伸展，但却不知如何越过这道深溪。突然，妻子发现岸边泊着一条小船，船上有一船夫在呼呼大睡。我们轻

轻地把他唤醒，请他把我们摆渡过溪。一开始，他很不愿意，但经劝说，终于同意了。

顺着小路，我们来到一个座落在陡峭山坡上的小村庄。这儿有一

条未经修筑的弯弯曲曲的道路，路两边排列着一些矮小的农舍。农舍

全用灰色的土坯建成，所以，即使在晴朗的蓝天底下，村庄看上去也

会令人感到难以亲近。村里似乎无人居住，的生命迹象是附近田里一

只面目可憎的黑山羊，用一截短绳拴在一棵树上。我们在田边一堵东

倒西歪的篱笆墙上坐下来，打开几听沙丁鱼罐头，吃了一顿野外午餐。突然，我注意到妻子十分惊恐。我抬头一看，发现我们被一群衣衫褴

褛的小孩团团围住了，他们在默不作声地看着我们吃饭。我们给他们

东西吃，客客气气地同他们交谈，但他们却一动也不动。我认为这不

过是他们在陌生人面前表现出的害羞。后来，我们在村里的主要街道

上行走的时候，一队默不作声的孩子跟在我们后头。刚才还似乎空荡

荡的村庄一下子活跃了起来，窗口露出了一张张面孔，只穿着衬衣的

男人们站在屋子外面凶狠地盯着我们，披黑纱巾的老妇人站在门口偷

偷地瞅着我们。最令人害怕的是到处没有一点声音。毫无疑问，我们

的来访是不受欢迎的。我们不需要进一步的警告了。便掉转身子，沿

着那条主要街道加快步伐，快速地朝深溪边走去，希望船夫还在那儿

等着我们。