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Unit 6 Mrriage

Text A The Legacy

1 'For Sissy Miller.' Gilbert Clandon, taking up the pearl brooch that lay among a litter of rings and brooches on a little table in his wife's drawing-room, read the inscription: 'For Sissy Miller, with my love.'

2 It was like Angela to have remembered even Sissy Miller, her secretary. Yet how strange it was, Gilbert Clandon thought once more, that she had left everything in such order — a little gift of some sort for every one of her friends. It was as if she had foreseen her death. Yet she had been in perfect health when she left the house that morning, six weeks ago; when she stepped off the kerb in Piccadilly and the car had killed her.

3 He was waiting for Sissy Miller. He had asked her to come; he owed her, he felt, after all the years she had been with them, this token of consideration. Yes, he went on, as he sat there waiting, it was strange that Angela had left everything in such order. Every friend had been left some little token of her affection. Every ring, every necklace, every little Chinese box —she had a passion for little boxes —had a name on it. To him, of course, she had left nothing in particular, unless it were her diary. Fifteen little volumes, bound in green leather, stood behind him on her writing table. Ever since they were married, she had kept a diary. Some of their very few — he could not call them quarrels, say tiffs — had been about that diary. When he came in and found her writing, she always shut it or put her hand over it. 'No, no, no,' he could hear her say, 'After I'm dead —perhaps.' So she had left it him, as her legacy. It was the only thing they had not shared when she was alive. But he had always taken it for granted that she would outlive him. If only she had stopped one moment, and had thought what she was doing, she would be alive now. But she had stepped straight off the kerb, the driver of the car had said at the inquest. She had given him no chance to pull up...Here the sound of voices in the hall interrupted him.

4 'Miss Miller, Sir,' said the maid.

5 She came in. She was terribly distressed, and no wonder. Angela had been much more to her than an employer. She had been a friend. To himself, he thought, as he pushed a chair for her and asked her to sit down, she was scarcely distinguishable from any other woman of her kind. There were thousands of Sissy Millers — drab little women in black carrying attaché cases. But Angela, with her genius for sympathy, had discovered all sorts of qualities in Sissy Miller. She was the soul of discretion, so silent, so trustworthy, one could tell her anything, and so on.

6 Miss Miller could not speak at first. She sat there dabbing her eyes with her pocket

handkerchief. Then she made an effort.

7 'Pardon me, Mr Clandon,' she said.

8 He murmured. Of course he understood. It was only natural. He could guess what his wife had meant to her.

9 'I've been so happy here,' she said, looking round. Her eyes rested on the writing table behind him. It was here they had worked — she and Angela. For Angela had her share of the duties that fall to the lot of the wife of a prominent politician, she had been the greatest help to him in his career. He had often seen her and Sissy sitting at that table —Sissy at the typewriter, taking down letters from her dictation. No doubt Miss Miller was thinking of that, too. Now all he had to do was to give her the brooch his wife had left her.

A rather incongruous gift it seemed. It might have been better to have left her a sum of money. Or even the typewriter. But there it was — 'For Sissy Miller, with my love.' And, taking the brooch, he gave it her with the little speech that he had prepared. He knew, he said, that she would value it. His wife had often worn it... And she replied, as she took it, almost as if she too had prepared a speech, that it would always be a treasured possession. ... She had, he supposed, other clothes upon which a pearl brooch would not look quite so incongruous. She was wearing the little black coat and skirt that seemed the uniform of her profession. Then he remembered — she was in mourning, of course. She too had had her tragedy — a brother, to whom she was devoted, had died only a week or two before Angela. In some accident, was it? He could remember only Angela telling him; Angela, with her genius for sympathy, had been terribly upset. Meanwhile Sissy Miller had risen. She was putting on her gloves. Evidently she felt that she ought not to intrude. But he could not let her go without saying something about her future. And so he added, as he pressed her hand. 'Remember, Miss Miller, if there's any way in which I can help you, it will be a pleasure....' Then he opened the door. For a moment, on the threshold, as if a sudden thought had struck her, she stopped.

10 'Mr Clandon,' she said, looking straight at him for the first time, and for the first time he was struck by the expression, sympathetic yet searching, in her eyes. 'If at any time,' she was saying, 'there's anything I can do to help you, remember, I shall feel it, for your wife's sake, a pleasure....'

11 With that she was gone. Her words and the look that went with them were unexpected. It was almost as if she believed, or hoped, that he would have need of her. A curious, perhaps a fantastic idea occurred to him as he returned to his chair. Could it be, that during all those years when he had scarcely noticed her, she, as the novelists say, had entertained a passion for him? He caught his own reflection in the glass as he passed. He

was over fifty; but he could not help admitting that he was still, as the looking-glass showed him, a very distinguished-looking man.

12 'Poor Sissy Miller!' he said, half laughing. How he would have liked to share that joke with his wife! He turned instinctively to her diary. 'Gilbert, ' he read, opening it at random, 'looked so wonderful....' It was as if she had answered his question. Of course, she seemed to say, you're very attractive to women. Of course Sissy Miller felt that too. He read on. 'How proud I am to be his wife!' And he had always been very proud to be her husband. How often when they dined out somewhere he had looked at her across the table and said to himself. She is the loveliest woman here! He read on. That first year he had been standing for Parliament . They had toured his constituency. 'When Gilbert sat down the applause was terrific. The whole audience rose and sang: "For he's a jolly good fellow." I was quite overcome.' He remembered that, too. She had been sitting on the platform beside him. He could still see the glance she cast at him, and how she had tears in her eyes. He read on rapidly, filling in scene after scene from her scrappy fragments. 'Dined at the House of Commons.... To an evening party at the Lovegroves. Did I realize my responsibility, Lady L. asked me, as Gilbert's wife?' Then as the years passed —he took another volume from the writing table — he had become more and more absorbed in his work. And she, of course, was more often alone. It had been a great grief to her, apparently, that they had had no children. 'How I wish,' one entry read, 'that Gilbert had a son!' Oddly enough he had never much regretted that himself. Life had been so full, so rich as it was. That year he had been given a minor post in the government. A minor post only, but her comment was: 'I am quite certain now that he will be Prime Minister!' Well, if things had gone differently, it might have been so. He paused here to speculate upon what might have been. Politics was a gamble, he reflected; but the game wasn't over yet. Not at fifty. He cast his eyes rapidly over more pages, full of the little trifles, the insignificant, happy, daily trifles that had made up her life.

13 He took up another volume and opened it at random. 'What a coward I am! I let the chance slip again. But it seemed selfish to bother him about my own affairs, when he has so much to think about. And we so seldom have an evening alone.' What was the meaning of that? Oh here was the explanation — it referred to her work in the East End. 'I plucked up courage and talked to Gilbert at last. He was so kind, so good. He made no objection.' He remembered that conversation. She had told him that she felt so idle, so useless. She wished to have some work of her own. She wanted to do something — she had blushed so prettily, he remembered, as she said it sitting in that very chair — to help others. So every Wednesday she went to Whitechapel. He remembered how he hated the clothes she wore

on those occasions. But she had taken it very seriously it seemed. The diary was full of references like this: 'Saw Mrs Jones.... She has ten children.... Husband lost his arm in an accident. ... Did my best to find a job for Lily.' He skipped on. His own name occurred less frequently. His interest slackened. Some of the entries conveyed nothing to him. For example: 'Had a heated argument about socialism with B. M.' Who was B. M.? He could not fill in the initials; some woman, he supposed, that she had met on one of her committees. 'B. M. made a violent attack upon the upper classes... . I walked back after the meeting with B. M. and tried to convince him. But he is so narrow-minded.' So B. M. was a man —no doubt one of those 'intellectuals' as they call themselves, who are so violent, as Angela said, and so narrow-minded. She had invited him to come and see her apparently. 'B. M. came to dinner. He shook hands with Minnie!' That note of exclamation gave another twist to his mental picture. B. M., it seemed, wasn't used to parlour-maids: he had shaken hands with Minnie. Presumably he was one of those tame workingmen who air their views in ladies' drawing-rooms. Gilbert knew the type, and had no liking for this particular specimen, whoever B. M. might be. Here he was again. 'Went with B. M. to the Tower of London.... He said revolution is bound to come. ... He said we live in a Fool's paradise.' That was just the kind of thing B. M. would say — Gilbert could hear him. He could also see him quite distinctly — a stubby little man, with a rough beard, red tie, dressed as they always did in tweeds, who had never done an honest day's work in his life. Surely Angela had the sense to see through him? He read on. 'B. M. said some very disagreeable things about. ...' The name was carefully scratched out. 'I would not listen to any more abuse of. ...' Again the name was obliterated. Could it have been his own name? Was that why Angela covered the page so quickly when he came in? The thought added to his growing dislike of B. M. He had had the impertinence to discuss him in this very room. Why had Angela never told him? It was very unlike her to conceal anything; she had been the soul of candour. He turned the pages, picking out every reference to B. M. 'B. M. told me the story of his childhood. His mother went out charring.... When I think of it, I can hardly bear to go on living in such luxury.... Three guineas for one hat! ' If only she had discussed the matter with him, instead of puzzling her poor little head about questions that were much too difficult for her to understand! He had lent her books. Karl Marx. 'The Coming Revolution.' The initials B. M., B. M., B. M., recurred repeatedly. But why never the full name? He read on. 'B. M. came unexpectedly after dinner. Luckily, I was alone.' That was only a year ago. 'Luckily' — why luckily? —'I was alone.' Where had he been that night? He checked the date in his engagement book. It had been the night of the Mansion House dinner. And B. M. and

Angela had spent the evening alone! He tried to recall that evening. Was she waiting up for him when he came back? Had the room looked just as usual? Were there glasses on the table? Were the chairs drawn close together? He could remember nothing — nothing whatever. It became more and more inexplicable to him — the whole situation: his wife receiving an unknown man alone. Perhaps the next volume would explain. Hastily he reached for the last of the diaries — the one she had left unfinished when she died. There on the very first page was that cursed fellow again. 'Dined alone with B. M.... He became very agitated. He said it was time we understood each other.... I tried to make him listen. But he would not. He threatened that if I did not...' the rest of the page was scored over. He could not make out a single word; but there could be only one interpretation: the scoundrel had asked her to become his mistress. Alone in his room! The blood rushed to Gilbert Clandon's face. He turned the pages rapidly. What had been her answer? Initials had ceased. It was simply 'he' now. 'He came again. I told him I could not come to any decision.... I implored him to leave me.' He had forced himself upon her in this very house? But why hadn't she told him? How could she have hesitated for an instant? Then: 'I wrote him a letter.' Then pages were left blank. Then there was this: 'No answer to my letter.' Then more blank pages: and then this: 'He has done what he threatened.' After that — what came after that? He turned page after page. All were blank. But there, on the very day before her death, was this entry: 'Have I the courage to do it too?' That was the end.

14 Gilbert Clandon let the book slide to the floor. He could see her in front of him. She was standing on the kerb in Piccadilly. Her eyes stared; her fists were clenched. Here came the car...

15 He could not bear it. He must know the truth. He strode to the telephone.

16 'Miss Miller!' There was silence. Then he heard someone moving in the room.

17 'Sissy Miller speaking' — her voice at last answered him.

18 'Who,' he thundered, 'is B. M.?'

19 He could hear the cheap clock ticking on her mantelpiece: then a long drawn sigh. Then at last she said:

20 'He was my brother.'

21 He was her brother; her brother who had killed himself.

22 'Is there,' he heard Sissy Miller asking, 'anything that I can explain?'

23 'Nothing!' he cried. 'Nothing!'

24 He had received his legacy. She had told him the truth. She had stepped off the kerb to rejoin her lover. She had stepped off the kerb to escape from him.

遗赠物

弗吉妮娅·伍尔芙

“给西瑟·米勒。”吉尔伯特·克兰登拿起放在太太客厅小桌子上那一堆戒指和胸针中的那枚珍珠胸针，念着上面的字：“给西瑟·米勒，谨致爱意。”

她连自己的秘书西瑟·米勒都记在心里，安吉拉就是这样的人。可多奇怪，吉尔伯特·克兰登又一次想着，她居然把一切都安排得那么井然有序——每一位朋友都有一件小小的礼物。似乎她预见到了自己的死。可是，六个星期前，她在那天上午离家时身体很好, 正当她走下皮卡迪利大街的人行道时，一辆汽车把她撞死。

他在等西瑟·米勒。他请她来的。他觉得她与他们夫妇俩相处了那么多年，自己应当以这种方式表示关心。真的，他坐在那儿等着，心里还在想，安吉拉把一切安排得这么井然有序，是很奇怪。每个朋友都得到一份代表她的情谊的小小礼物。每一枚戒指，每一串项链，每一个小巧的中国盒——她对小巧的盒子情有独钟——都有个名字附在上面。当然，她没给他留下什么特别的物品，除非是她的那些日记。15本小本子，用绿色皮面装帧，全都摆放在他身后的书桌上。婚后她就开始记日记了。两人偶有的——称不上争吵，只能说是别扭——都是为了这些日记。每当他走进房间看到她在写，她总是合上本子，或用手按着。“不，不行，不行，”他会听到她说，“也许，等我死后吧。”就这样，她把日记作为遗物留给了他。这是她生前夫妇俩惟一不曾共同拥有的东西。不过他一直认为自己一定会先走。只要她停顿片刻，想一想自己在干什么，此刻她就依然在这世上。可她径直走下人行道，在接受调查时那位驾车者这么说。她令他措手不及……就在这时，大厅里的说话声打断了他的思绪。

“米勒小姐来了，先生，”女仆说。

她走了进来。她极为悲伤，这也难怪。安吉拉不仅仅是她的雇主。还是她的朋友。在他自己看来，他一边暗自想着，一边为她拉过一张椅子，请她坐下，她和所有像她这种身份的人几乎没有什么区别。有成千上万个西瑟?米勒——毫无情趣的小妇人，身穿缁衣，手提公文包。可天生会同情人的安吉拉在西瑟?米勒身上发现了种种优良品质。她十分谨慎，守口如瓶，值得信任，你什么话都可以对她说，等等。

米勒小姐开始时说不出话来。她坐在那儿用手帕轻拭眼睛。接着她定了定神。

“请原谅，克兰登先生，”她说。

他含糊应了一声。他当然明白。这太自然了。他想像得出妻子对她意味着什么。

“我在这里一向非常愉快，”她说着，环顾四周。她的目光落在他身后的书桌上。她俩就是在这里工作的——她和安吉拉。因为安吉拉肩负着政要夫人应该承担的各种责任，在他的政治生涯中她给了他极大的帮助。他经常看见她和西瑟坐在这张书桌旁——西瑟把她口授的信件用打字机打出。不用说，米勒小姐也在想这些往事。现在他所要做的就是把太太留给她的胸针交给她。这件礼物似乎不太合适。还不如给她一笔钱呢。即便那台打字机也更合适些。可是礼物早已安排好了——“给西瑟?米勒，谨致爱意。”他拿着胸针，交给她时讲了几

句事先想好的话。他深知，他说，她会珍惜这枚胸针。他夫人生前经常佩戴它……她接过胸针时回答说，简直也像事先准备过似的，它永远是件珍爱之物……他猜想她有别的跟这枚珍珠胸针更相配的衣服。她身上穿着黑衣黑裙，像是她那种职业的人穿的制服。他随即想起，她是穿着丧服，没错。她自己也遇到了伤心事——她一向爱着的一位兄弟，在安吉拉之前的一两个星期去世了。好像是什么意外？他只记得安吉拉跟自己说过；天生会同情人的安吉拉为此非常难过。他这么想着时西瑟?米勒已经站了起来。她正在戴手套。显然她觉得自己不该打扰。可是，他不能对她的将来不表示一下关心就让她走。于是他一边说，一边紧紧握着她的手。“请记住，米勒小姐，若需帮助尽管开口，本人定当效劳……”说着，他打开门。刹那间，她似乎突然想到了什么，在门口停了下来。

“克兰登先生，”她说，目光第一次直视着他，他第一次为她的眼神暗暗吃惊，既流露出同情又十分锐利。“如果什么时候，”她说道，“有什么事我能帮上忙，请记住，为了夫人，我会很高兴为您效劳……”

说完她走了。她的话，还有说话时的神态真是出乎意料。就好像她以为，或者希望，自己会需要她。他坐回到椅子里时，产生了一个离奇的，甚或是荒唐的念头。会不会，那么多年来，虽然自己很少注意过她，她却像那些小说家写的那样对自己暗生情愫？他走过镜子时瞄了一眼镜子中的自己。他已经年过半百，可他不得不承认，自己依旧仪表堂堂，就像刚才镜子里看到的那样。

“可怜的西瑟?米勒!”他说着，微微一笑。他多想能把这件趣事讲给太太听!他下意识地取过她的日记。“吉尔伯特，”他信手翻开来读道，“看上去真英俊……”简直就像是她回答了自己的问题。没错，她仿佛在说，你让女人着迷。当然，西瑟?米勒也有同感。他接着读下去。“成为他的太太我感到太荣幸了!”而他也一向以做她的丈夫为荣。多少次，两人外出就餐，他望着对座的她，暗自说。这儿数她最楚楚动人。他接着读。婚后第一年他竞选议员。两人一起在选区访问。“吉尔伯特坐下时，掌声雷动。听众全体起立，高唱着：…他是个大好人。?我感动万分。”他也记起了这事。她和自己并肩坐在台上。他仍记得她向自己投来的目光，记得她两眼噙着泪水。他快速读下去，她那些零乱的片断一幕幕涌入他的脑海。“在下议院就餐……前往洛夫格罗夫府参加晚会。作为吉尔伯特的太太，洛夫格罗夫夫人问我，我可曾意识到身负的责任？”光阴一年年逝去——他从书桌上取过另一本日记簿——他越来越专注于工作。而她，独处的时间自然也越来越多。他俩没孩子，显然她对此深感悲伤。“我多希望，”有一天的日记里写着，“吉尔伯特有个儿子!”奇怪的是，他本人从不怎么以此为憾事。生活那么丰富，那么充实，的确如此。那年派给了他一个无足轻重的政府中的职务。一个小职位而已，可她的评论竟然是：“现在我相信他会当上首相!”嗯，如果情况朝另外的方向发展，或许果真如此了。他略略停顿，思忖着事情的进展或许会如何不同。政治就是一场赌博，他想；可这游戏还没完呢。年方五十还有机会。他目光飞快地掠过一页又一页日记，都是些琐碎小事，那些构成她生活的无关紧要的快乐琐事。

他又取过一本，信手翻开。“我真是个懦夫!我又让机会溜走了。可是，他有那么多事要

考虑，而我却用自己的事去打搅他，而且我俩很少有机会单独在一起度过一个夜晚，这未免太自私了。”这话是什么意思？哦这里有说明——指的是她在伦敦东区的工作。“我鼓起勇气，终于跟吉尔伯特谈了。他真好，太好了。他一点也不反对。”他记起了那次谈话。她跟他说她觉得无所事事，像个废物。她希望能做点事。她想做些什么——她涨红着脸，那么可爱，他回想起来了，她说话时就坐在那张椅子里——去帮助别人。于是，她每星期三去怀特查普尔。他回想起来，自己是多么讨厌她去那儿时的穿戴。可看来她还真把这当一回事。日记里提到的全是这类事：“见到琼斯太太……她有十个孩子……丈夫在事故中失去了一条手臂……尽我的努力给莉莉找了个工作。”他快速浏览着。自己的名字出现得少了。他的兴趣也不大了。有些记载他读了觉得莫名其妙。比如：“与 B.M.就社会主义展开了激烈争论。”谁是B.M.？他光看首字母猜不出来；是某位女士，他猜想，是她在某个委员会里认识的。“B.M.对上层社会大加抨击……会后我和B.M.一起步行回来，我想说服他。可他思想褊狭。”就是说B.M.是个男的——肯定就是自称“知识分子”的那类人，言词非常激烈，就像安吉拉说的那样，而且思想十分褊狭。显然是她邀请他来访。“B.M.前来赴宴。他竟然与明妮握手!”这句话的惊叹语气使他对此人的印象更糟了。B.M.可能没见识过客厅女仆：他竟然与明妮握了手。大概他是那种听使唤的工人，在夫人小姐的起居室里发表自己的看法。吉尔伯特见识过那种人，且不论这位B.M.究竟是何许人，他对这人全无好感。又写到这人。“和B.M.一起去伦敦塔……他说革命必将来临……他说我们陶醉在虚无缥缈的乐境之中。”这是 B.M.常说的那种话——吉尔伯特完全料得到。他还能清楚地看到他的样子——一个矮矮胖胖的小男人，胡子拉茬，系着红色领带，穿着他们这种人天天穿的粗花呢衣服，一辈子从没干过一天正经活儿。安吉拉总该有头脑看穿这种人吧？他往下读。“B.M.说了些很难听的话，是有关……”名字被小心翼翼地划掉了。“我再也不想听这些对……的诋毁之词了。”名字又被划掉了。会不会是他自己的名字？会不会就为这个安吉拉在他进来时急急忙忙地把本子遮住？这一想法越发加深了他对B.M.的厌恶。他如此放肆，竟然就在这个房间里议论起他来了。可安吉拉怎么从没跟自己说起呢？她才不会对他隐瞒什么呢；她是直率诚恳的化身。他一页页翻着，找出提及B.M.的文句。“B.M.跟我讲了他童年的事。他母亲到别人家里干杂活……想到这一点，我真不愿继续过如此奢侈的生活……一顶帽子就花去三几尼!”她只要跟自己谈谈这事就好了，用不着让她那可怜的小脑袋为这种她理解不了的事而烦恼嘛!他借书给她看。卡尔?马克思。《即将来临的革命》。B.M.，B.M.，B.M.的缩写一再重复出现。可为什么不用全名呢？他往下读。“晚餐后B.M.未经邀请自己来了。幸好我一人在家。”那不过是一年前的事。“幸好”——为什么幸好？——“我一人在家。”自己那天晚上去哪里了？他查了查约会簿里的日期。那个晚上是去市长官邸赴宴。B.M.和安吉拉那天晚上单独在一起!他试图回忆那晚的情形。他回家时她有没有在等他？屋子里看上去跟平时一样吗？桌上有没有杯子？椅子有没有靠在一起？他什么也回想不起来——一点都想不起来了。这事变得越来越莫名其妙——整个事件：太太独自一人接待一个陌生男子。也许下一本日记能解释一切。他急急抓过最后一本日记簿——她生前没记完的那本。第一页赫然在目的又是那该死的家伙。“一

个人与B.M.进餐……他非常激动。他说咱俩该相互理解了……我想让他听我说。可他不听。他威胁说要是我不……”这一页其余的文字全都被涂抹掉了。他一个字也无法辨认；可只有一个解释：那个混蛋要她做他的情人。两人单独在他的房间!热血涌上了吉尔伯特?克兰登的脸。他快速地一页页翻过去。她怎么回答的呢？首字母不见了。现在干脆只说“他”了。“他又来了。我告诉他我做不了决定。我恳求他离开我。”他就在这所房子里迫她就范？可是为什么她不跟自己说呢？她用得着片刻犹豫吗？下面：“我给他写了一封信。”后面几页都是空白。接着有这么一句话：“没有回信。”后面又是空白，接着是：“他把威胁付之行动了。”那以后——那以后怎么了？他一页一页地翻着。都是空白。可是，就在她出事的前一天，写着这么一句：“我有勇气也这么做吗？”日记终止了。

吉尔伯特?克兰登听任日记本滑落到地上。他能看到她在他眼前。她站在皮卡迪利大街的人行道上。她凝视着前方，紧握着双拳。车开过来了……

他无法再忍受了。他必须了解真相。他大步走到电话机旁。

“米勒小姐!”没有声音。接着他听见房间里有人在走动。

“我是西瑟?米勒”——总算听到她来接电话了。

“到底谁，”他吼道，“是B.M.？”

他听得见她壁炉架上那座廉价钟的滴答声，接着是一声长长的叹息。最后她回答说：“他是我兄弟。”

那是她兄弟，她那自杀的兄弟。

“有什么，”他听到西瑟?米勒在说，“要我解释的吗？”

“没有!”他喊道。“没有!”

他得到了属于自己的遗赠。她把真相告诉了他。她走下人行道与情人重新团聚。她走下人行道从自己身边逃逸。

Text B Why Marriages Fail

Anne Roiphe

1 These days so many marriages end in divorce that our most sacred vows no longer ring with truth. “Happily ever after” and “Till death do us part” are expressions that seem on the way to becoming obsolete. Why has it become so hard for couples to stay together? What goes wrong? What has happened to us that close to one-half of all marriages are destined for the divorce courts? How could we have created a society in which 4

2 percent of out children will grow up in single-parent homes? Even though each broken marriage is unique, we can still find the common perils, the common causes for marital despair. Each marriage has crisis points and each marriage tests endurance, the

capacity for both intimacy and change. Outside pressures such as job loss, illness, infertility, trouble with a child, care of aging parents and all the other plagues of life hit marriage the way hurricanes blast our shores. Some marriages survive these storms and others don?t. Marriages fail, however, not simply because of the outside weather but because the inner climate becomes too hot or too cold, too turbulent or too stupefying.

2 When we look at how we choose our partners and what expectations exist at the tender beginnings of romance, some of the reasons for disaster become quite clear. We all select with unconscious accuracy a mate who will recreate with us the emotional patterns of our first homes. Dr. Carl A. Whitaker, a marital therapist and emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, explains, “From early childhood on, each of us carried models for marriage, femininity, masculinity, motherhood, fatherhood and all the other family roles.” Each of us falls in love with a mate who has qualities of our parents, who will help us rediscover both the psychological happiness and miseries of our past lives. We may think we have found a man unlike Dad, but then he turns to drink or drugs, or loses his job over and over again or sits silently in front of the TV just the way Dad did.

A man may choose a woman who doesn?t like kids just like his mother or who gambles away the family savings just like his mother. Or he may choose a slender wife who seems unlike his obese mother but then turns out to have other addictions that destroy their mutual happiness.

3 A man and a woman bring to their marriage bed a blended concoction of conscious and unconscious memories of their parents? lives together. The human way is to compulsively repeat and recreate the patterns of the past. Sigmund Freud so well described the unhappy design that many of us get trapped in: the unmet needs of childhood, the angry feelings left over from frustrations of long ago, the limits of trust and the recurrence of old fears. Once an individual senses this entrapment, there may follow a yearning to escape, and the result could be a broken, splintered marriage.

4 Of course people can overcome the habits and attitudes that developed in childhood. We all have hidden strengths and amazing capacities for growth and creative change. Change, however, requires work—observing your part in a rotten pattern, bringing difficulties out into the open—and work runs counter to the basic myth of marriage: “When I wed this person all my problems w ill be over. I will have achieved success and I will become the center of life for this other person and this person will be my center, and we will mean everything to each other forever.” This myth, which every marriage relies on, is soon exposed. The coming of children, the pulls and tugs of their demands on affection

and time, place a considerable strain on that basic myth of meaning everything to each other, or merging together and solving all of life?s problems.

5 Concern and tension about money take each partner away from the other. Obligations to demanding parents or still-depended-upon parents create further strain. Couples today must also deal with all the cultural changes brought on in recent years by the women?s movement and the sexual revolution. The altering of roles and the shifting of responsibilities have been extremely trying[ trying: difficult or annoying; hard to deal with] for many marriages.

6 These and other realities of life erode the visions of marital bliss the way sandstorms eat at rock and the ocean nibbles away at the dunes. Those euphoric, grand feelings that accompany romantic love are really self-delusions, self-hypnotic dreams that enable us to forge a relationship. Real life, failure at work, disappointments, exhaustion, bad smells, bad colds and hard times all puncture the dream and leave us stranded with our mate, with our childhood patterns pushing us this way and that, with our unfulfilled expectations.

7 The struggle to survive in marriage requires adaptability, flexibility, genuine love and kindness and an imagination strong enough to feel what the other is feeling. Many marriages fall apart because either partner cannot imagine what the other wants or cannot communicate what he or she needs or feels. Anger builds until it erupts into a volcanic burst that buries the marriage in ash.

8 It is not hard to see, therefore, how essential communication is for a good marriage.

A man and a woman must be able to tell each other how they feel and why they feel the way they do; otherwise they will impose on each other roles and actions that lead to further unhappiness. In some cases, the communication patterns of childhood—of not talking, of talking too much, of not listening, of distrust and anger, or withdrawal—spill into the marriage and prevent a healthy exchange of thoughts and feelings. The answer is to set up new patterns of communication and intimacy.

9 At the same time, however, we must see each other as individuals. “To achieve a balance between separateness and closeness is one of the major psychological tasks of all human beings at every stage of life,” says Dr. Stuart Bartle, a psychiatrist at the New York University Medical Center.

10 If we sense from our mate a need for too much intimacy, we tend to push him or her away, fearing that we may lose our identities in the merging of marriage. One partner may suffocate the other partner in a childlike dependency.

11 A good marriage means growing as a couple but also growing as individuals. This isn?t easy. Richard gives up his inte rest in carpentry because his wife, Helen, is jealous of the time he spends away from her. Karen quits her choir group because her husband dislikes the friends she makes there. Each pair clings to each other and are angry with each other as life closes in on them. This kind of marital balance is easily thrown as one or the other pulls away and divorce follows.

12 Sometimes people pretend that a new partner will solve the old problems. Most often extramarital sex destroys a marriage because it allows an artificial split between the good and the bad—the good is projected on the new partner and the bad is dumped on the head of the old. Dishonesty, hiding and cheating create walls between men and women. Infidelity is just a symptom of trouble. It is a symbolic complaint, a weapon of revenge, as well as an unraveler of closeness. Infidelity is often that proverbial last straw that sinks the camel to the ground.

13 All right—marriage has always been difficult. Why then are we seeing so many divorces at this time? Yes, our modern social fabric is thin, and yes, the permissiveness of society has created unrealistic expectations and thrown the family into chaos. But divorce is so common because people today are unwilling to exercise the self-discipline that marriage requires. They expect easy joy, like the entertainment on TV, the thrill of a good party.

14 Marriage takes some kind of sacrifice, not dreadful self-sacrifice of the soul, but some level of compromise. Some of one?s fantasies, some of one?s legitimate desires have to be given up for the value of the marriage itself. “While all marital partners feel shackled at times it is they who really choose to make the marital ties into confining chains or supporting bonds,” says Dr. Whitaker. Marriage requires sexual, financial and emotional discipline. A man and a woman cannot follow every impulse, cannot allow themselves to stop growing or changing.

15 Divorce is not an evil act. Sometimes it provides salvation for people who have grown hopelessly apart or were frozen in patterns of pain or mutual unhappiness. Divorce can be, despite its initial devastation, like the first cut of the surgeon?s knife, a step toward new health and a good life. On the other hand, if the partners can stay past the breaking up of the romantic myths into the development of real love and intimacy, they have achieved a work as amazing as the greatest cathedrals of the world. Marriages that do not fail but improve, that persist despite imperfections, are not only rare these days but offer a wondrous shelter in which the face of our mutual humanity can safely show itself.

婚姻何以失败

安妮·罗艾菲

如今，以离婚告终的婚姻如此之多，我们最神圣的誓约听上去都不再真实了。“婚后永远幸福”和“直到死神将我们分开”这类话语似乎快过时了。夫妻长相守何以变得如此困难？哪儿出了问题？我们到底怎么了，竟然有差不多半数的婚姻注定要为离婚走进法庭？有42%的儿童将在单亲家庭中长大，我们怎么把社会弄成这样了呢？虽然破裂的婚姻各有其独特的情况，但我们还是能找到致使婚姻无法维持下去的共同因素、共同原因。凡婚姻都有其危机时刻，都要经受对持久力的考验，经受对既能亲密相处又善应对变化这种能力的考验。外部压力，如失业、疾病、不育、抚育孩子、赡养年迈的父母，以及生活中其他种种烦恼，都会如飓风横扫海岸那样对婚姻带来打击。有些婚姻经受住了这些风暴，有些则不然。但婚姻失败并不是简单地由外部天气造成的，而是由于内部气候变得过热或过冷，变得过于狂暴或过于麻木造成的。

如果我们来看一下自己如何挑选配偶，看一下在爱情最初的甜蜜阶段有着怎样的期待，婚姻触礁的一些原因便显而易见了。无意中我们都精确地选中了能和我们一起重建我们第一个家庭的情感模式的伴侣。婚姻心理治疗专家、威斯康星大学精神病学荣誉教授卡尔·A·威塔科尔解释说：“从幼年起，我们每一个人心里就对婚姻、女子气质、男子气质、为人母、为人父，以及其他各种家庭角色有了自己的样板。”我们每一个人都爱上具有自己父母气质的伴侣，能帮助我们在心理上重温以往生活中的欢乐与苦难的伴侣。我们或许会以为自己找的男人与爸爸不同，可是到头来，就像爸爸那样，他酗酒，或者吸毒，或者一次又一次失业，或者就像爸爸那样一言不发地坐在电视机前。男人或许会选择一个像自己母亲一样不喜欢孩子的女人，一个像自己母亲一样把家里的钱全都赌光的女人。或者他会选择一个苗条的妻子，与体态臃肿的母亲看上去似乎不一样，可结果发现那女子有其他的嗜好，这就毁了双方的幸福。

男女双方都把意识到的和未意识到的对父母共同生活的混杂记忆带上婚床。人类总会不由自主地去重复并再现过去的生活模式。西格蒙德·弗洛伊德入木三分地描述了我们许多人所陷入的自设的不幸罗网：童年时期未能满足的欲望，多年前的挫折留下的愤怒情绪，信任受到限制以及旧日恐惧的重现。一个人一旦意识到自己陷入这样的困境，就可能渴望逃脱，其结果可能是婚姻破裂、分崩离析。

当然，人们能够改变童年时期养成的习惯和形成的看法。我们都有潜在的活力，都有令人惊叹的能力使自己得以成长和创造性地变化。然而，变化需要有所行动——观察自己在糟糕的模式中的作用，公开遇到的难处——而行动却有悖于关于婚姻的神话：“我与此人结了婚，我所有的烦恼就会烟消云散。到了那时我算是获得成功了，我将成为此人生活的中心，此人也将成为我生活的中心，我们将永远视对方为自己生活的全部。”这一维系所有婚姻的神话不久就被打破。孩子降生了，需要有人爱、需要有人花时间照料，这些拖累在相当程度

上打击了那个说什么视对方为自己生活之全部，或者说什么夫妇融为一体解决生活中所有问题的神话。

对金钱的关心以及由金钱造成的紧张关系使夫妻产生隔阂。对苛求的父母或仍需赡养的父母应尽的责任进一步加剧了紧张关系。如今，夫妻双方还必须应对近几年来妇女解放运动和性革命所带来的各种文化变革。角色的改变、责任的变更对相当一部分婚姻都是极其严峻的考验。

就像沙尘暴侵蚀岩石、海浪蚕食沙丘，这一切以及生活中其他现实问题逐渐毁灭对幸福婚姻的幻想。那些伴随着浪漫爱情而来的欣喜若狂的美妙感觉实际上都是自我欺骗、自我催眠的梦幻，而这种自欺、这种梦幻使我们得以去缔结良缘。现实生活、工作中的失败、失望、劳累、体臭、重感冒以及艰难时世都会打破幻想，使我们与配偶间的关系陷入困境，使我们面对以这种或那种方式左右我们的儿时行为方式时毫无办法，使我们面对无法实现的种种期望时一筹莫展。

维系婚姻的努力要求有适应能力、灵活性、真挚的爱和亲切和善，还要有足够强的想象力，去感受对方的感情。许多婚姻破裂是因为男女双方都不能想像对方需要什么，也不会表达自己的需要和感情。于是怒气越积越多，最后如火山一样爆发出来，其灰烬终将婚姻埋葬。

所以，不难看出，婚姻要美满，交流是多么重要。不管是丈夫还是妻子，必须能告诉对方他/她的感受，以及他/她为什么会有这种感受。不然的话，他们就会把导致进一步不幸的角色和行为强加给对方。有时候，儿时的交流模式——不讲话、讲得太多、不听对方讲话、不信任、生气、与对方相处时的冷漠等——会注入婚姻关系，阻止健康的思想和感情交流。解决的办法是建立新的交流和亲近模式。

然而与此同时，我们必须把对方看作是独立的个人。“在亲与疏之间取得平衡是所有人在人生的每一个阶段都要遇到的主要心理任务之一，”纽约大学医学中心的精神病学家斯图尔特·巴特尔博士如是说。

如果我们意识到配偶要求过多的亲密，我们往往会将他/她推开，担心自己会在融为一体的婚姻中失去自身独立性。夫妻一方孩子般地依赖对方会使对方感到透不过气来。

理想的婚姻意味着不但夫妻情感与日俱增，而且各自要作为独立的个人同时发展。这不是件容易事。理查德放弃了对木工活的兴趣，因为妻子海伦对他撇下自己心生嫉妒。凯伦不去歌唱队了，因为她丈夫不喜欢她在歌唱队里的那些朋友。每对夫妻都朝朝暮暮守在一起，当他们感受到生活的压力时，彼此就生对方的气。当夫妻中任何一个不打算继续厮守时，这种婚姻平衡就很容易被打破，紧接着便是离婚。

有时人们自以为找个新伴侣就能解决老问题。婚外性关系常常破坏婚姻，因为它使好与坏人为地分裂开来——好的记在新人名下，坏的倒在旧人头上。不诚实、隐瞒、欺骗等行为在夫妻之间筑起屏障。不忠乃婚姻出现问题的症状。不忠象征抗议，是复仇的武器，也是拆散亲密关系的工具。不忠行为常常成为谚语中所说的把骆驼压垮的那最后一根稻草。

确实——婚姻从来就很难处理。那为什么偏偏如今会发生如此之多的离婚呢？没错，我们现代的社会结构相当薄弱；没错，社会的宽容放任使人们产生了不切实际的期望，使家庭陷入混乱。但离婚如此普遍是因为今天的人们不愿意运用婚姻所需的自我约束力。他们希望不花力气就能过上悠闲愉快的日子，就像看电视节目那么快乐，就像参加精彩的晚会那么兴奋。

婚姻需要某种牺牲，不是那种可怕的刻骨铭心的自我牺牲，而是某种程度上的妥协。为了婚姻，一个人不得不放弃某些幻想、某些合理的欲望。“每对夫妻都会有时感到婚姻的束缚，但恰恰正是他们自己决定把男婚女嫁变成束缚人的羁绊或相互扶持的纽带的，”威塔科尔博士说。婚姻需要夫妻双方在性、经济、情感等方面自律。夫妻都不能一味凭冲动行事，不能听任自己停滞不前或不思改变。

离婚并非邪恶的行动。有时离婚能解救那些已经没有希望重归于好的夫妻，解救那些深深陷入凄楚痛苦之中的夫妻。如同外科医生动的第一刀，离婚最初固然带有破坏性，但那可能就是走向健康走向美好生活的必要一步。从另一方面来说，如果夫妻双方能共同度过那些爱情神话破灭的危机，进而培养真正的爱情与发展亲密关系，他们就完成了一项与世界上最宏伟的大教堂一样神奇的伟业。没有破裂而是改善了的婚姻，不尽完美却长久维持着的婚姻，如今不仅弥足珍贵，而且构筑成一个绝妙的庇护所，在其间夫妻双方可以安全地展示共同的人性。

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Unit 1 Growing Up Ⅱ. Translation 1.那是个正规宴会，我照妈妈对我讲的那样穿着礼服去了。（formal） As it was a formal dinner party, I wore formal dress, as Mother told me to. 2.他的女朋友劝他趁抽烟的坏习惯尚未根深蒂固之前把它改掉。（take hold） His girlfriend advised him to get out of/get rid of his bad habit of smoking before it took hold. 3.他们预料到下几个月电的需求量很大，决定增加生产。（anticipate） Anticipating that the demand for electricity will be high during the next few months, they have decided to increase its production. 4.据说比尔因一再违反公司的安全规章而被解雇。（violate） It is said that Bill has been fired for continually violating the company’s safety rules. / Bill is said to have been fired for continually violating the company’s safety rules. 5.据报道地方政府已采取适当措施避免严重缺水（water shortage）的可能性。 （avoid, severe） It is reported that the government has taken proper measures to avoid the possibility of a severe water shortage. /The local government is reported to have taken proper measures to avoid the possibility of a severe water shortage. 苏珊（Susan）因车祸失去了双腿。有一段时间，她真不知如何面对自己再也不能行走的事实。 一天，苏珊在浏览杂志时，被一个真实故事吸引住了。那个故事生动地描写了一个残疾（disabled）姑娘是如何成为一位作家的。苏珊读后深受鼓舞，开始相信她最终会成为一个有用的人生活下去。 Inspire vivid scan face up with finally Susan lost her legs because of / in a car accident. For a time, she didn’t know how to face up to the fact that she would never (be able to) walk again. One day, while scanning (through) some magazines, a true story caught her eye /she was attracted by a true story. It gave a vivid description of how a disabled girl became a writer. Greatly inspired, Susan began to feel that she, too, would finally be bale to lead a useful life. Unit 2 Friendship II. Translation 1)半个小时过去了，但末班车还没来。我们只好走路回家。（go by） Half an hour had gone by, but the last bus hadn’t come yet. We had to walk home.

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英语 大学英语综合教程2 翻译

一The rumor of the divorce was nothing but a means of hype for his new movie 离婚 他孤注一掷，用父母留给他的所有钱来开一家工厂。 He took a gamble on starting a factory with all the mone y his parents had left him. After winning the important game they hoisted their captain to their shoulders in shouting triumph.（赢得那场重要的比赛后） 4) 在全球化热潮中，我们要提防不同文化的冲突 In the rush to go for globalization, we should watch out for collision of cultures. 在这种情况下In the circumstances it was not surprising that there was trouble. 6) 这婴儿非常健康。The baby is the very picture of health. 7) 人们已经意识到儿童接触有关暴力和色情电视节目的危害。 People have realized the dangers of exposing children to vio lence and sex on TV. 8) 我们始终考虑到我们是在为谁制作这部影片。(have in mind) We always had in mind for whom we were making the film.三单元 2他在中学教书，但也兼职些翻译来取外快。 He teaches in a middle school, but he does some translation work o n the side to bring extra money 3自信是件好事，但自信与自员是有区别的 it's good to be confident (about yourself), but there is a differen ce between confidence and conceit 4．只有坚持到底的人才会成功。半运而度的人永远也无法实现梦想。 Only those who stick it out can achieve success Those who give up halfway will never realize their dreams 5一个真正的英雄有勇气，有高尚的目标，而且乐于奉献 A true hero possesses/has courage, a noble purpose and a willingness to make sacrifices 6任何人只要章起这本小说读了第一段，敦会发现很难把它放下。 Anyone who picked up this novel and reads the first paragraph will be hard pressed to put it down 7从某中意义上说，生活就像游冰。如果总是扶任池边，就也学不会。 In a sense, life is like swimming. if you keep holding on to the sides of the pool, you will never learn 3一个民族的前在很大程度上取决于其数育与培训的质量 The future of a nation depends in a large measure upon the quality of education and training 二 1只有那些有过类似经历的人，オ能够完全理解这一点。 Only those who have lived through a similar experience can fully ap preciate this. 3我更特别感谢每一个在这些年来以不同方式做出了贡献的人 i'd like to express my special thanks to everyone who has contribut ed over the years in one way or another

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第一单元 课程开始之际，就如何使学习英语的任务更容易提出一些建议似乎正当其实。 学习英语的几种策略 学习英语决非易事。它需要刻苦和长期努力。 虽然不经过持续的刻苦努力便不能期望精通英语，然而还是有各种有用的学习策略可以用来使这一任务变得容易一些。以下便是其中的几种： 1．不要以完全相同的方式对待所有的生词。你可曾因为简直无法记住所学的所有生词而抱怨自己的记忆力太差其实，责任并不在你的记忆力。如果你一下子把太多的生词塞进头脑，必定有一些生词会被挤出来。你需要做的是根据生词日常使用的频率以不同的方式对待它们。积极词汇需要经常练习，有用的词汇必须牢记，而在日常情况下不常出现的词只需见到时认识即可。你会发现把注意力集中于积极有用的词上是扩大词汇量最有效的途径。 2．密切注意地道的表达方式。你可曾纳闷过，为什么我们说“我对英语感兴趣”是“I’m interested in English”，而说“我精于法语”则是“I’m good at French”你可曾问过自己，为什么以英语为母语的人说“获悉消息或密秘”是“learn the news or secret”,而“获悉某人的成功或到来”却是“learn of someone’s success or arrival”这些都是惯用法的例子。在学习英语时，你不仅必须注意词义，还必须注意以英语为母语的人在日常生活中如何使用它。 3．每天听英语。经常听英语不仅会提高你的听力，而且有助你培养说的技能。除了专为课程准备的语言磁带外，你还可以听英语广播，看英语电视和英语电影。第一次听录好音的英语对话或语段，你也许不能听懂很多。先试着听懂大意，然后在反复地听。你会发现每次重复都会听懂更多的东西。

大学英语综合教程1课后翻译

Unit 1 1.这个婴儿还不会爬，更不要说走了。 The baby can't even crawl yet,let alone walk! 2.威尔声称谋杀案发生时他正在与一群朋友吃饭，但是我认为他在说谎。 Will claimed he was dining with a group of friends at the time of the murder , but in my opinion he told a lie. 3.一定程度上阅读速度与阅读技巧密切相关；有了阅读技巧，你就可以更好地应对课外阅读了。 To a certain extent the speed of reading is colsely related to reading skills; and with reading skills you cam cope with outside calss reading better. 4.根据规则他俩都可以参加比赛。 Acccording to the regulation/rule, they both can play the game/participate in the game. 5.有些人想当然地认为日语中的没一个词在汉语中都有对应的词语。 Some people assume that there is a Chinese equivalent for every Japanese word. 6.我们已将所有的相关信息告知了警方。 We have passed all rlevant information on to the police. 7.关于那件事你问我再多的问题也没用，因为我是不会回答你的。 There is no use asking me any more questions about that matter because I won't answer. 8.事先没有仔细阅读合同就签了名是吉姆的错误。 It was a mistake on Jim's part to sign the contract without reading it carefully. 9.他们拒绝向我们提供所需要的全部信息。 They refused to provide us with all the information we need. 10.这起事故与三年前发生的一起事故极为相似。 This accident is very similar to the one that happened three years ago. 11.这部影片是根据莎士比亚的戏剧改编的。 The film is based on a play by Shakespeare. 12.如果你的英语和电脑技术都能掌握好，那么你在谋职时就一定比别人更有优势。 If you have a good command of English and computer skills, you will surely have an advantage over others in finding a job. Unit 2 1.很多老师不赞同这种做法。 Many teachers frowned on this practice. 2.当我想从草地上传过去的时候，有位老人在旁边怒视我。 An old man glared at me when I was trying to cut across the law. 3.当我提到我的父亲时，她的脸上露出了认出我的笑容。 When I mentioned my father, she showed a smile of recognition on her face. 4.我的大孩子比较听话，而小的那个非常倔。 我现在还常回想起小的孩子在中学毕业后是如何执意要出国读书的。

大学英语精读2课文翻译

Unit1 The Dinner Party 晚宴 那个美国人没有参加这场争论，他只是注视着在座的其他客人。在他这样观察时，他发现女主人的脸上显出一种奇异的表情。她两眼盯着正前方，脸部肌肉在微微抽搐。她向站在座椅后面的印度男仆做了个手势，对他耳语了几句。男仆两眼睁得大大的，迅速地离开了餐室。 在座的客人中除了那位美国人以外谁也没注意到这一幕，也没有看到那个男仆把一碗牛奶放在紧靠门边的走廊上。 那个美国人突然醒悟过来。在印度，碗中的牛奶只有一个意思——引蛇的诱饵。他意识到餐室里一定有条眼镜蛇。 Unit2 Lessons from Jefferson 杰斐逊的遗训 杰斐逊的勇气和理想主义是以知识为基础的。他懂得的东西也许比同时代的任何人都要多。在农业、考古学和医学方面他都是专家。在人们普遍采用农作物轮作和土壤保持的做法之前一个世纪，他就这样做了。他还发明了一种比当时任何一种都好的耕犁。他影响了整个美国的建筑业，他还不断地制造出各种机械装置，使日常生活中需要做的许多工作变得更加容易。 在杰斐逊的众多才能中，有一种是最主要的：他首先是一位优秀的、不知疲倦的作家。目前正在第一次出版的他的全集将超过五十卷。他作为一个作家的才能很快便被发现了，所以，当1776年在费城要撰写《独立宣言》的时刻来到时，这一任务便落在了他肩上。数以百万计的人们读到他写的下列词句都激动不已：“我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的：一切人生来就是平等的……” Unit3 My First Job 我的第一份工作 在我等着进大学期间，我在一份地方报纸上看到一则广告，说是在离我住处大约十英里的伦敦某郊区，有所学校要招聘一名教师。我因为手头很拮据，同时也想做点有用的事，于是便提出了申请，但在提出申请的同时我也担心，自己一无学位，二无教学经验，得到这份工作的可能性是微乎其微的。 然而，三天之后，却来了一封信，叫我到克罗伊登去面试。这一路去那儿原来还真麻烦：先乘火车到克罗伊顿车站，再乘十分钟的公共汽车，然后还要至少步行四分之一英里。结果，我在六月一个炎热的上午到了那儿，因为心情非常沮丧，竟不感到紧张了。 Unit4 The Professor and the Y o-Y o 教授与溜溜球 作为一个孩子，以后又作为一个成人，我一直对爱因斯坦的个性惊叹不已。他是我所认识的人中唯一能跟自己及周围世界达成妥协的人。他知道自己想要什么，而他想要的只是：在他作为一个人的能力范围之内理解宇宙的性质以及宇宙运行的逻辑和单纯。他知道有许多问题的答案超出了他智力所及的范围。但这并不使他感到灰心丧气。只要在能力许可的范围内取得最大的成功他就心满意足了。 在我们二十三年的友谊中，我从未见他表现出妒忌、虚荣、痛苦、愤怒、怨恨或个人野心。他好像对这些感情具有免疫能力似的。他毫无矫饰之心，虚荣之意。虽然他与世界上的许多要人通信，他用的却是有W水印字母的信笺，水印字母W——五分钱商店伍尔沃思的缩写。Unit5 The V illain in the Atmosphere 大气层中的恶棍 年复一年，海平面正在慢慢上升。它很可能继续上升，而在今后数百年间，会以更快的速度上升。在那些低洼的沿海地区（在这些地区居住着世界上很大一部分人口），海水会稳步向前推进，迫使人们向内陆退居。 最后，海水将会高出目前海平面两百英尺，一阵阵海浪将会拍打曼哈顿摩天大楼二十层楼的窗户。佛罗里达将会沉没在海浪之下，英伦三岛的大部分，人口稠密的尼罗河流域，还有中国、印度和俄罗斯的低洼地区也都将遭到同样的命运。 不仅许多城市将被淹没，而且世界上大部分盛产粮食的地区也将会失去。由于食品供应下降，到处都会出现饥荒，在这种压力下，社会结构有可能崩溃。 Unit6 The Making of a Surgeon 外科医师的成功之道 然而，在我做住院医生的最后一个月，睡眠已不再是个问题了。在有些情况下我仍然不能确定自己的决定是否正确，但我已学会把这看做一个外科医师经常会遇到的问题，一个永远也