大学英语三课文翻译
Unit 1 A Brush with the Law 法律小冲突
A young man finds that strolling along the streets without an obvious purpose can lead to trouble with the law. One misunderstanding leads to another until eventually he must appear in court for trial……
一个年轻人发现，在街上漫无目的的闲逛也会带来涉及法律上的麻烦。一种误解导致另一种误解，直到最终他必须在法庭上接受审判…….
I have only once been in trouble with the law. The whole process of being arrested and taken to c ourt was a rather unpleasant experience at the time, but it makes a good story now. What makes it rather disturbing was the arbitrary circumstances both of my arrest and my subsequent fate in c ourt.
我平生只有一次陷入与法律的冲突。被捕与被带上法庭的整个经过在当时是一种令人极不愉快的经历，但现在这却成为一个好故事的素材。尤其令人恼怒的是我被捕及随后在法庭上受审期间的种种武断情形。
It happened in February about twelve years ago. I had left school a couple of months before that and was not due to go to university until the following October. I was still living at home at the ti me.
事情发生在十二年前的二月，那是我中学毕业已经几个月了，但是要等到十月份才能上大学，所以当时我仍在家中。
One morning I was in Richmond, a suburb of London near where I lived. I was looking for a tempo rary job so that I could save up some money to go travelling. As it was a fine day and I was in no h urry, I was taking my time, looking in shop windows, strolling in the park, and sometimes just stop ping and looking around me. It must have been this obvious aimlessness that led to my downfall. 一天上午，我来到离我住地不远的伦敦郊区的里士满，那是我正在找一份临时的工作，一边攒些钱去旅游。由于天体晴朗，有没有什么急事，我便悠然自得的看看窗店橱窗，逛逛公园，有时干脆停下来四处观望。一定是这种显然无所事事的样子使我倒了霉。
It was about half past eleven when it happened. I was just walking out of the local library, having unsuccessfully sought employment there, when I saw a man walking across the road with the obv ious intention of talking to me. I thought he was going to ask me the time. Instead, he said he was a police officer and he was arresting me. At first I thought it was some kind of joke. But then anot her policeman appeared, this time in uniform, and I was left in no doubt.
事情发生在十一点半左右，当我在当地图书馆谋之未成，刚从那里出来，就看见一个人从马路对面走过来，显然是想跟我说话。我愿意为他是要问我时间。想不到他说他是警察，要逮捕我。开始我还以为这是个玩笑。但紧接着又来了一个穿着警服的警察，这下我无可置疑了。'But what for?' I asked.
"Wandering with intent to commit an arrestable offence,' he said. 'What offence?' I asked. 'Theft,' he said. 'Theft of what?' I asked.
'Milk bottles,' he said, and with a perfectly straight face too! 'Oh,' I said.
“为什么抓我？”我问。
“四处游荡，有作案嫌疑，”他说。“做什么案？”我又问。“偷东西，”他说。“偷什么”我追问。
“牛奶瓶”他说，表情极端严肃。“噢，”
It turned out there had been a lot of petty thefts in the area, particularly that of stealing milk bott les from doorsteps.
事情是这样的，这一带经常发生小偷小摸的案件，尤其是从门前台阶上偷走牛奶瓶。
Then I made my big mistake. At the time I was nineteen, had long untidy hair, and regarded mysel f as part of the sixties' 'youth countercultrue. As a result, I want to appear cool and unconcerned with the incident, so I said, 'How long have you been following me?' in the most casual and conve rsation tone I could manage. I thus appeared to them to be quite familiar with this sort of situatio n, and it confirmed them in their belief that I was a thoroughly disreputable character.
接着，我犯了个大错误，那是我才十九岁，留着一头乱蓬蓬的长发，自以为是六十年代“青年反主流文化”的一员。因此，我想对此表现出一副冷漠，满不在乎的态度，于是用一种很随便的无所谓的腔调说：“你们跟我多久了？”这样一来，我在他们眼里，我是惯于此种情形的，这又使他们确信我是一个彻头彻尾的坏蛋。
A few minutes later a police car arrived. 几分钟后来了一辆警车。
'Get in the back," they said. 'Put your hands on the back of the front seat and don't move them.' They got in on either side of me. I wasn't funny anymore.
“坐到后面去，”他们说：“把手放在椅背上，不许乱动。”他俩分别坐在我的左右，这下可不是闹着玩的了。
At the police station they questioned me for several hours. I continued to try to look worldly and au fait with the situation. When they asked me what I had been doing, I told them I'd been lookin g for a job. 'Aha,' I could see them thinking, 'unemployed'.
在警察局，他们审问了我好几个小时。我继续装着老于世故，对此种事习以为常的样子。当他们问我一直在干什么事时，我告诉他们我在找工作。“啊哈”，这下我可看到他们在想，“无业游民”。
Eventually, I was officially charged and told to report to Richmond Magistrates' Court the followin g Monday. Then they let me go.
最后，我被正式指控，并得到通知下周一到里士满地方法院受审。他们这才让我走。
I wanted to conduct my own defence in court, but as soon as my father found out what had happ ened, he hired a very good solicitor. We went along that Monday armed with all kinds of witnesse s, including my English teacher from school as a character witness. But he was never called on to give evidence. My 'trial' didn't get that far. The magistrate dismissed the case after fifteen minute s. I was free. The poor police had never stood a chance. The solicitor even succeeded in getting co sts awarded against the police.
我本想在法庭上自我辩护，但是父亲一弄清事情原委后，就为我请了一位很不错的律师。就在那个星期一，我们带着各种证人出庭了，这其中包括我的中学英语教师作为我的平行见证人。但法庭没有传唤他作证。对我的“审判”并没有进行到那一步，才开庭十五分钟，法官就驳回了此案。我被无罪释放。可怜的警察毫无胜诉的机会。我的律师甚至成功的使警察承担了诉讼费。
And so I do not have a criminal record. But what was most shocking at the time was the things m y release from the charge so clearly depended on. I had the 'right' accent, respectable middle-clas s parents in court, reliable witnesses, and I could obviously afford a very good solicitor. Given the obscure nature of the charge, I feel sure that if I had come from a different background, and had r eally been unemployed, there is every chance that I would have been found guilty. While asking f or costs to be awarded, my solicitor's case quite obviously revolved around the fact that I had a 'b rilliant academic record'.
这样，我没有留下任何犯罪记录。但当时，最令人震惊的是我被无罪释放所明显依赖的证据：我有标准的口音，有受人尊重的中产阶级父母来到法庭，有可靠的证人，还有，很明显我请得起很好的律师。想到这次指控的含混不清的特点，我敢断定，我如果出生在一个不同背景的家庭，并真失了业，则完全可能被判为有罪。当我的律师要求赔偿诉讼费时，他的辩词很显然的紧紧围绕着我“学习成绩优异”这一事实。
Meanwhile, just outside the courtroom, one of the policemen who had arrested me was gloomily complaining to my mother that another youngster had been turned against the police. 'You could have been a bit more helpful when we arrested you,' he said to me reproachfully.
与此同时，在法庭外面，曾逮捕我的警察中的一个沮丧的想我的母亲抱怨说，又有一个小伙子要与警察做对了。他以责备的口气对我说：“我们抓你的时候，你本可以帮帮忙的。”What did the mean? Presumably that I should have looked outraged and said something like, 'Loo k here, do you know who you're talking to? I am a highly successful student with a brilliant acade mic record. How dare you arrest me!' Then they, presumably, would have apologized, perhaps ev en taken off their caps, and let me on my way.
他这话是什么意思？也许是说我因该做出大发雷霆的样子，并说：“喂，你们知道是在和谁说话么？我是品学兼优的高材生。你们怎么敢抓我？”那样的话，他们也许会向我道歉，可能还会脱帽致意，让我扬长而去。
Unit 2 Fruitful Questions 获益匪浅的问题
The other night at the dinner table, my three kids--ages 9,6 and 4--took time out from their food fight to teach me about paradigm shifts, and limitations of linear thinking and how to refocus parameters.
不久前的一个晚上在餐桌旁，我的三个孩子--年龄分别为9岁、6岁和4岁--暂时停止争抢食物，腾出时间教我认识什么是范式变换、什么是线性思考的局限以及如何重新看待相关的各种因素。
Here’s how it happened: We were playing our own oral version of the Sesame Street game, “What Doesn’t Belong?,”where kids look at three pictures and choose the one that doesn’t fit. I said, “OK, what doesn’t belong, an orange, a tomato or a strawberry?”
事情是这样的：当时我们在玩自己那套只动嘴的“哪个不是同一类？”的芝麻街游戏。本来玩这游戏时，孩子们要看三张画并挑出那张不属同一类的画。我说：“来吧，哪个不是同一类，桔子，西红柿，还是草莓？”
The oldest didn’t take more than a second to deliver his smug answer: “Tomato because the other two are fruits.”I agreed that this was the right answer despite the fact that some purists insist a tomato is a fruit. To those of us forced as kids to eat them in salads, tomatoes will always be vegetables. I was about to think up another set of three when my 4-year-old said, “The right answer is strawberry because the other two are round and a strawberry isn’t.”How could I argue with that?
老大很快就说出了自以为非常得意的答案：“西红柿，因为其他两种是水果。”我承认这是正确答案，尽管有些纯粹主义者坚决认为西红柿是一种水果。对我们这些从小就被迫吃拌在色拉里的西红柿的人来说，西红柿永远是蔬菜。我正准备再出一道三种东西为一组的题目时，我4岁的孩子说：“正确答案是草莓，因为另外两种是圆的，草莓却不圆。”我怎么
能驳
斥这种论点呢？
Then my 6-year-old said, “It’s the orange because the other two are red.”Not to be outdone by his younger siblings, the 9-year-old said, “It could also be the orange because the other two grow on vines.”
接着，我6岁的孩子说：“不属同一类的是桔子，因为另外两种是红色的。”9岁的孩子不想让弟妹占上风，说道：“不是同一类的也可以是桔子，因为其他两种长在藤上。”
The middle one took this as a direct challenge. “It could be the strawberry because it’s the only one you put on ice cream.”
老二把这看作对他发出的挑战。“可以是草莓，因为只有草莓会放在冰淇淋上。”Something was definitely happening here. It was messier than a food fight and much more important than whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. My kids were doing what Copernicus did when he placed the sun at the center of the universe, readjusting the centuries-old paradigm of an Earth-centered system. They were doing what Reuben Mattus did when he renamed his Bronx ice cream H?agen-Dazs and raised the price without changing the product. They were doing what Edward Jenner did when he discovered a vaccination for smallpox by abandoning his quest for a cure.
毫无疑问，这里正发生着什么事儿。这事儿比争抢食物还乱，比西红柿是水果还是蔬菜重要得多。哥白尼把太阳视为宇宙中心，重新调整了地心说这一长达数世纪的范式，我的孩子们正做着哥白尼当年做的事。鲁宾·马修斯把他的布朗克斯冰淇淋改名为哈根达斯，在不改变产品的情况下提高了价格，我的孩子们正做着鲁宾·马修斯做过的事。爱德华·詹纳放弃了寻找治疗天花的特效药，从而发现了能预防这一疾病的疫苗，我的孩子们正做着爱德华·詹纳做过的事。
Instead of studying people who were sick with smallpox, he began to study people who were exposed to it but never got sick. He found that they’d all contracted a similar but milder disease, cow pox, which vaccinated them against the deadly smallpox.
他不去研究得了天花的患者，而去研究接触天花却从未染上此病的人。他发现他们都患了一种类似天花但比较轻微的疾病：牛痘；牛痘使他们得以防止染上致命的天花。
They were refocusing the parameters. They were redefining the problems.
他们在重新看待相关的各种因素。他们在重新认识他们的问题。
They were reframing the questions. In short, they were doing what every scientist who’s ever made an important discovery throughout history has done, according to Thomas Kuhn, in his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: They were shifting old paradigms.
他们在重新表述他们的问题。总之，据托马斯·库恩在他的《科学革命的结构》一书中所言，他们正做着历史上有过重大发现的科学家都曾做过的事：他们在改变旧的范式。
But if this had been a workbook exercise in school, every kid who didn’t circle tomato would have been marked wrong. Every kid who framed the question differently than
“Which is not a fruit?” would have been wrong. Maybe that explains why so many of the world’s most brilliant scientists and inventors were failures in school, the most notable being Albert Eins tein, who was perhaps this century’s most potent paradigm-shifter.
但假若我们的游戏是学校里做在作业本上的练习，那么没有把西红柿圈出来的孩子全都会被批为答错。凡是没有把问题解读为“哪个不是水果”的孩子都是错的。也许这种情形说明了为什么世界上最杰出的科学家和发明家中有那么多的人读书时是不及格的学生。其中最引人
注目的是阿尔贝特·爱因斯坦，他也许是本世纪最有影响的范式改变者。
This is not meant to be a critique of schools. Lord knows, that’s easy enough to do. This is, instead, a reminder that there are real limits to the value of informati on. I bring this up because we seem to be at a point in the evolution of our society where everyo ne is clamoring for more technology, for instant access to ever-growing bodies of information.
这样说，并不是想对学校评头品足。天知道，发一通议论太容易了。这样说，不过是想提醒大家信息的价值实在是有限的。我提出这一点，是因为我们的社会似乎发展到了这样一个阶段，人人都大声要求得到更多的技术，大声要求即刻享用不断增多的信息。
Students must be online. Your home must be digitally connected to the World Wide Web. Busine sses must be able to download volumes of data instantaneously. But unless we shift our paradigm s and refocus our parameters, the super information highway will lead us nowhere.
学生们必须联机。你们家必须用数码与环球信息网连通。企业必须能即时下载大量资料。但是，除非我们改变范式、重新看待相关的各种因素，否则，信息高速公路就不会给我们带来什么结果。
We are not now, nor have we recently been suffering from a lack of information. Think how much more information we have than Copernicus had four centuries ago. And he didn’t do anything less Earth-shattering (pun intended) than completely change the way the universe was viewed. He didn’t do it by uncovering more information--he did it by looking differently at information everyone else already had looked at.Edward Jenner didn’t invent preventive medicine by accumulating information; he did it by reframing the question.
无论是现在还是最近，我们都不缺信息。试想我们拥有的信息比四百年前的哥白尼多了多少。但他作出了足以震撼地球的（权作双关语）惊人之举，完全改变了人们对宇宙的看法。他作出此举不是靠发现更多的信息，而是靠用不同的眼光来看大家都看到过的信息。爱德华·詹纳不是靠积累信息发明预防药物，而是靠重新表述问题。
What we need as we begin to downshift onto the information highway is not more information b ut new ways of looking at it. We need to discover, as my kids did, that there is more than one righ t answer, there is more than one right question and there is more than one way to look at a body of information. We need to remember that when you have only a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail
当我们开始驶入信息高速公路时，我们所需要的不是更多的信息，而是看信息的新方法。我们应该像我的孩子所做的那样，去发现有一个以上的正确答案、有一个以上正确的问题、有一个以上看一堆信息的方法。我们应该记住：当你只有一把锤子时，你往往把每个问题都看作钉子。
Unit3 Three:Why I Teach我为什么当老师
Why I Teach
Peter G. Beidler
Why do you teach? My friend asked the question when I told him that I didn't want to be considered for an administrative position. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a "step up" toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power. 你为什么要教书呢？当我告诉一位朋友我不想谋求行政职务时，他便向我提出这一问题。所有美国人受的教育是长大成人后应该追求金钱和权力，而我却偏偏不选择明明是朝这个目标
“迈进”的工作，他们对此感到迷惑不解。
Certainly I don't teach because teaching is easy for me. Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living: mechanic, carpenter, writer. For me, teaching is a red-eye, sweaty-palm, sinking-stomach profession. Red-eye, because I never feel ready to teach no matter how late I stay up preparing. Sweaty-palm, because I'm always nervous before I enter the classroom, sure that I will be found out for the fool that I am. Sinking-stomach, because I leave the classroom an hour later convinced that I was even more boring than usual. 当然，我之所以教书并不是因为我觉得教书轻松。我做过各种各样的工作借以谋生：机修工、木工、作家，教书可是其中最难的一行。对我来说，教书是个会令人熬红眼睛、掌心出汗、精神沮丧的职业。说熬红眼睛,这是因为我晚上不管备课到多晚,总觉得准备得还不充分。说掌心出汗，是因为我跨进教室之前总是非常紧张，自信学生一定会发觉我其实是个傻瓜笨蛋。说精神沮丧，这是因为我1小时后走出教室时，确信这堂课上得比平常还要平淡无味。
Nor do I teach because I think I know answers, or because I have knowledge I feel compelled to share. Sometimes I am amazed that my students actually take notes on what I say in class! 我之所以教书，也不是因为我认为自己能够解答问题，或者因为我有满腹学问，非与别人分享不可。有时我感到很吃惊，学生竟真的把我课上讲的东西做了笔记！
Why, then, do I teach? 这样说来，我为什么还要教书呢？
I teach because I like the pace of the academic calendar. June, July, and August offer an opportunity for reflection, research and writing. 我教书，是因为我喜爱校历的步调。6月、7月和8月提供了一个供思考、研究和创作的机会。
I teach because teaching is a profession built on change. When the material is the same, I change —— and, more important, my students change. 我教书，是因为教学是建立在“变化”这一基础上的职业。教材还是原来的教材，但我自身却变了——更重要的是，我的学生变了。
I teach because I like the freedom to make my own mistakes, to learn my own lessons, to stimulate myself and my students. As a teacher, I'm my own boss. If I want my freshmen to learn to write by creating their own textbook, who is to say I can't? Such courses may be huge failures, but we can all learn from failures. 我教书，是因为我喜欢有让自己犯错误的自由，有自己吸取教训的自由，有激励自己和激励学生的自由。作为教师，我可以自行做主。如果我想要求一年级的学生通过自行编写课本的办法来学习写作，谁能说我不可以那样做呢？这样的课程也许会彻底失败，但我们都可以从失败的尝试中获得教益。
I teach because I like to ask questions that students must struggle to answer. The world is full of right answers to bad questions. While teaching, I sometimes find good questions. 我教书，是因为我喜欢学生提出必须绞尽脑汁才能回答的问题。我们这个世界有无穷无尽的正确答案来对付拙劣的问题。何况我在教学过程有时也会想到一些出色的问题。
I teach because I enjoy finding ways of getting myself and my students out of the ivory tower and into the real world. I once taught a course called "Self-Reliance in a Technological Society." My 15 students read Emerson, Thoreau, and Huxley. They kept diaries. They wrote term papers. 我教书，是因为我喜欢想方设法使自己和我的学生从象牙塔里走出来，进入现实世界。我曾经开过一门叫做“在工业技术社会里如何自力更生”的课程。我教的15位学生读了爱默生、梭罗和赫胥黎的作品，记了日记，还写了学期论文。
But we also set up a corporation, borrowed money, purchased a run-down house and practiced self-reliance by renovating it. At the end of the semester, we would the house, repaid our loan, paid or taxes, and distributed the profits among the group. 但除此之外，我们还办起一个公司，借钱买下一所破旧的房屋，通过整修翻新这一建筑物，我们就自力更生对这一课题进行了一
次实践活动。学期结束时我们把房子卖掉，还清贷款，缴了税，余下的收益分给了参加实践的学生。
So teaching gives me pace, and variety, and challenge, and the opportunity to keep on learning. I have left out, however, the most important reasons why I teach. 所以说，教学使我的工作进程有了规律，使我的生活变得丰富多彩，教学向我提出了挑战，也给了我不断学习的机会。不过，我漏下了我要教书的最重要的几个原因。
One is Vicky. My first doctoral student, Vicky was an energetic student who labored at her dissertation on a little-known 14th century poet. She wrote articles and sent them off to learned journals. She did it all herself, with an occasional nudge from me. But I was there when she finished her dissertation, learned that her articles were accepted, got a job and won a fellowship to Harvard working on a book developing ideas she'd first had as my student. 其中一个原因与维基有关。维基是我的第一个博士生。她精力旺盛，孜孜不倦地撰写她那篇论述14世纪一位不知名诗人的学术论文。她写了一些文章寄给学术刊物。这一切都由她独立完成，我偶尔从旁略加指点。我亲眼看到了她完成论文，看到她得知自己的文章被采用，亲眼目睹她找到了工作并获得了在哈佛大学当研究员的职位，并著书论述她在做我学生时萌发的思想。Another reason is George, who started as an engineering student, then switched to English because he decided he liked people better than things. 再一个原因与乔治有关。他开始学的是工程学，后来他深信自己爱人胜过爱物，所以改学英语。
There is Jeanne, who left college, but was brought back by her classmates because they wanted her to see the end of the self-reliance house project. I was here when she came back. I was there when she told me that she later became interested in the urban poor and went on to become a civil rights lawyer. 还有珍妮。她中途辍学，但是她的同学把她拉了回来，因为他们想让她看自力更生整修旧房这一项目的结果。我亲眼看到她回来了。我亲耳听到她对我说，她后来对城市贫民产生了兴趣，继而成了捍卫分民权的律师。
There is Jacqui, a cleaning woman who knows more by intuition than most of us learn by analysis. Jacqui has decided to finish high school and go to college. 还要谈一谈清洁女工杰基。她凭直觉了解的事情比我们多数人通过分析弄清的东西还要多。杰基已经决定读完中学，然后还要上大学。
These are the real reasons I teach, these people who grow and change in front of me. Being a teacher is being present at the creation, when the clay begins to breathe. 还要谈一谈清洁女工杰基。她凭直觉了解的事情比我们多数人通过分析弄清的东西还要多。杰基已经决定读完中学，然后还要上大学。
A "promotion" out of teaching would give me money and power. But I have money. I get paid to do what I enjoy: reading, talking with people, and asking question like, "What is the point of being rich?" 不再教书，获得“提升”，也许会给我带来金钱和权力。可是我现在也有钱。我拿了薪金去做自己乐意做的事：读书、交谈、提问，妣如问：“做个富翁有什么意思呢？”And I have power. I have the power to nudge, to fan sparks, to suggest books, to point out a pathway. What other power matters? 不再教书，获得“提升”，也许会给我带来金钱和权力。可是我现在也有钱。我拿了薪金去做自己乐意做的事：读书、交谈、提问，妣如问：“做个富翁有什么意思呢？”
But teaching offers something besides money and power: it offers love. Not only the love of learning and of books and ideas, but also the love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teacher's life and begins to breathe. Perhaps love is the wrong word: magic might be better. 但教书还会带来金钱和权力以外的东西：那就是爱。不仅是爱学习、爱书本、爱思
想，而且还有老师对出类拔萃的学生的爱。这样的学生走进了老师的生活，他们自己也开始成长了。爱这个字也许用得不恰当：说是方魔力可能更合适些。
I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with them. 我教书，是因为与开始成长的学生朝夕相处，我有时感到自己也和他们一起开始成长了。
Unit 5 The Day Mother Cried
Coming home from school that dark winter's day so long ago, I was filled with anticipation. I had a new issue of my favorite sports magazine tucked under my arm, and the house to myself. Dad w as at work, my sister was away, and Mother wouldn't be home from her new job for an hour. I bo unded up the steps, burst into the living room and flipped on a light.
很久以前一个昏暗的冬日，我放学回家时从满了期望。我胳膊下夹着一期新的我喜欢的体育杂志，房子里将会是就我一个人。爸爸上班，妹妹不在家，妈妈找了份工作，一小时内不会回家。我蹦上台阶，冲进起居室，啪地开了灯。
I was shocked into stillness by what I saw. Mother, pulled into a tight ball with her face in her h ands, sat at the far end of the couch. She was crying. I had never seen her cry. I approached cauti ously and touched her shoulder. "Mother?" I said "What's happened?"
眼前的景象把我惊呆了：妈妈身子紧缩成一团，脸埋在手里，坐在沙发上的另一端。她在哭。我以前从没有见过她哭，我小心翼翼地走近些，拍拍她的肩膀。“妈？”我说：“怎么了？”She took a long breath and managed a weak smile. "It's nothing, really. Nothing important. Ju st than I'm going to lose this new job. I can't type fast enough."
她长舒一口气，挤出一丝笑容。“没什么，真的，没什么大不了的，只是我要失去这份新的工作，我打字不够快！
"But you've only been there three days," I said. "You'll catch on." I was repeating a line she ha d spoken to me a hundred times when I was having trouble learning or doing something importa nt to me.
“但你到那儿才三天，”我说，“你会跟上的。”我再重复妈妈对我说过上百次的一句话。每当我学习上或做一些对我很重要的事情遇到麻烦时，她就这样说。
"No." she said sadly. "I always said I could do anything I set my mind to, and I still think I can i n most things. But I can't do this."
“不行”她难过地说。“过去我总说我能做到我决心做到的一切事情，现在我仍然认为在多数事情上我能做到，但这次我不行。”
I felt helpless and out of place. At age 16 I still assumed Mother could do anything. Some yea rs before, when we sold our ranch and moved to town, Mother had decided to open a day nurser y. She had had no training, but that didn't stand in her way. She sent away for correspondence co urses in child care, did the lessons and in six months formally qualified herself for the task. It was n't long before she had a full enrollment and a waiting list. I accepted all this as a perfectly norma l instance of Mother's ability.
我无能力，不知所措。16岁的我还认为妈妈无所不能。几年前，我们卖掉牧场搬进城时妈妈决定开家日托所。她以前没有受过这方面的训练，但这没有难住她。她参加幼托所函授学习，做练习。六个月后正式获得了幼托所看护资格，不久托儿所就招生满额，而且还有孩子等着入托，我认为妈妈理所当然有能力做到这个。
But neither the nursery nor the motel my parents bought later had provided enough income to send my sister and me to college. In two years I would be ready for college. In three more my si ster would want to go. Time was running out, and Mother was frantic for ways to save money. It was clear that Dad could do no more than he was doing already——farming 80 acres in addition t o holding a fulltime job.
但是日托所和父母后来买的汽车旅馆都不能提供足够的钱供妹妹和我上大学。两年后我该上大学了，再过三年妹妹也要上学了。时间不多了，妈妈拼命想挣钱。很清楚，爸爸已经尽了最大努力---------出了一份全日工作外，还种着80英亩地。
A few months after we'd sold the motel, Mother arrived home with a use typewriter. It skippe d between certain letters and the keyboard was soft. At dinner that night I pronounced the machi ne a "piece of junk."
在卖掉汽车旅馆的几个月后，妈妈带了一台旧打字机回家，这台打字机有时要跳字，键盘也很松。那天晚饭时，我说这台机器就是“废品一件”
"That's all we can afford," mother said. "It's good enough to learn on." And from that day on, as s oon as the table was cleared and the dishes were done, Mother would disappear into her sewing room to practice. The slow tap, tap, tap went on some nights until midnight.
“我们只能买得起这个”妈妈说，“用着联系够了”从那天起，饭桌一收拾干净，碟子洗完，妈妈就钻进她的缝纫间练习，有几晚那缓慢的嗒，嗒，嗒的声音一直持续到午夜。
It was nearly Christmas when I heard Mother got a job at the radio station. I was not the least b it surprised, or impressed. But she was ecstatic.
就快圣诞了，我听到妈妈在广播站找到了份工作，我一点也不吃惊，也没怎么当回事。但她非常高兴。
Monday, after her first day at work, I could see that the excitement was gone. Mother looked ti red and drawn. I responded by ignoring her.
星期一，她第一天下班回来，我就发现她不再激动，她看上去很困，脸绷着，我没理会她。Tuesday, Dad made dinner and cleaned the kitchen. Mother stayed in her sewing room, practici ng. "Is Mother all right?" I asked Dad.
星期二，爸爸做了晚饭，收拾了厨房，妈妈呆在她的缝纫间练习。“妈妈没事吧？”我问爸爸。
"She's having a little trouble with her typing," he said. "She needs to practice. I think she'd appr eciate it if we all helped out a bit more."
“她打字遇到了些麻烦，”他说“她需要练习，我想如果我们多帮她一点，她会感激的。” "I already do a lot," I said, immediately on guard.
“我已经做了很多了，”我说，我立刻戒备了起来。
"I know you do," Dad said evenly. "And you may have to do more. You might just remember tha t she is working primarily so you can go to college."
“我知道，”爸爸平静地说：“但你可以做得更多。你可得记着她工作主要是为了你们能上大学。”
I honestly didn't care. I wished she would just forget the whole thing.
说实话，我并不在乎能不能上大学，我希望她能忘了这码事
My shock and embarrassment at finding Mother in tears on Wednesday was a perfect index of how little I understood the pressures on her. Sitting beside her on the couch, I began very slowly t o understand.
星期三，当我发现妈妈哭泣时的惊讶和窘迫，完全证明我多么不理解她所承受的压力。挨
着他坐在沙发上时，我开始慢慢的理解了
"I guess we al have to fail sometime," Mother said quietly. I could sense her pain and the tensio n of holding back the strong emotions that were interrupted by my arrival. Suddenly, something i nside me turned. I reached out and put my arms around her.
“我想我们有时都难免有失败，”妈妈静静的说，我能体会到她的痛苦，也能体会到她为了我的闯入打断的强烈情感的发泄所感到的紧张。突然，我的心被打动了，我伸出胳膊，搂住了她。
She broke then. She put her face against my shoulder and sobbed. I help her close and didn't try to talk. I knew I was doing what I should, what I could, and that it was enough. In that momen t, feeling Mother's back racked with emotion, I understood for the first time her vulnerability. She was still my mother, but she was something more: a person like me, capable of fear and hurt and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions when I had soug ht comfort in her arms.
妈妈再也控制不住了，她把脸枕在我的肩上，抽泣起来，我抱紧了她，不想说话。我知道我正做我应该做的，我能做的，这就够了。在那一刻，感觉到妈妈的北由于激动在颤抖，我第一次领会到她的脆弱，她还是我妈妈，但又不仅如此：她还是一个像我一样的人，会害怕，会受伤，会失败。我能感到她的痛苦，就像上千次我在她的怀里寻找安慰时他能感受到我一样。
A week later Mother took a job selling dry goods at half the salary the radio station had offere d. "It's a job I can do," she said simply. But the evening practice sessions on the old green typewri ter continued. I had a very different feeling now when I passed her door at night and heard her ta pping away. I knew there was something more going on in there than a woman learning to type. 一周后，妈妈找了份卖纺织品的工作，挣的钱只有广播站一半多。“这份工作我做的来，“她简单地说道，但夜晚在那台老旧的绿色打字机上的练习还在继续。现在，当我晚上走过她的房间，听到她打字的声音，我有一种完全不同的心情。我知道那儿不仅仅是一个女人在练习打字。
When I left for college two years later, Mother had an office job with better pay and more resp onsibility. I have to believe that in some strange way she learned as much fromher moment of defeat as I did, because several years later, when I had finished school and proudly accepted a job as a newspaper reporter, she had already been a journalist with our hometown paper for six months.
两年后我离家上大学时，妈妈有了一份报酬更多，责任更大的工作。我不能不认为以某种奇特的方式，妈妈从她失败的那刻学到的东西和我一样多，因为几年后，当我上完学，自豪的接受了一份报纸的记者工作时，妈妈已经是我们镇报的记者6个月了。
The old green typewriter sits in my office now, unrepaired. It is a memento, but what it recalls for me is not quite what if recalled for Mother. When I'm having trouble with a story and think about giving up or when I start to feel sorry for myself and think things should be easier for me, I roll a piece of paper into that cranky old machine and type, word by painful word, just the way mother did. What I remember then is not her failure, but her courage, the courage to go ahead.
现在，那太没修的老掉牙的绿打字机就在我的办公室，她是一个纪念品，但它所唤起的记忆对我和对妈妈是不怎么一样的。当我写文章遇到困难想要放弃时，或者当我自怜自悯认为生活不应该为难我时，我就往那破旧的打字机里卷进一张纸，想妈妈当年一样，一字一字费力地打起来。这是我想到的不是她的失败，而是她的勇气，继续前进的勇气。
It's the best memento anyone ever gave me
这台打字机是我得到过的最好的纪念品。
Unit 6 A Day's Wait|一天的等待
He came into the room to shut the window while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering. His face was white and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.
他走进我们房间关窗户的时候，我们还没起床。我见他一幅病容，全身哆嗦，脸色苍白，步履艰难，好像每迈一步都会引起疼痛。
“What's the matter, Schatz?”“怎么啦，宝贝？”
“I've got a headache.”“我头痛。”
“You better go back to bed.”“你最好再回床上去躺一会儿。”
“No. I'm all right.”“不，我没事儿。”
“You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dressed.”“你先去躺一会儿，我穿好衣服就去看你。”But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.
可是当我下楼时，他已经穿好了衣服，坐在炉边。他才9岁啊，看上去病得很厉害，一幅招人可怜的样子。我用手摸摸他的额头，知道他发烧了。
“You go up to bed,”I said,“you're sick.”“你到楼上去躺着，”我说，“你病了。”
“I'm all right,”he said.“我没病，”他说。
When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature.医生来后，量了孩子的体温。
“What is it?”I asked him.“多少度？”我问医生。
“One hundred and two.”“102度。”
Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules2 with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another purgative3, the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza4 can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degree. This was a light epidemic5 of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia6.
下楼后，医生留下三种药，胶囊的颜色各不相同，并下了医嘱。第一种是退烧药，另一种是泻药，第三种能解酸。他解释说，流感细菌只生存于酸性环境中。他好像对流感很有研究，还说，不烧到104度就不用担心。这是轻度流感，只要不引起肺炎没有什么危险。
Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.
我回到房里记下了孩子的体温，还记下了各种药物的服用时间。
“Do you want me to read to you?”“要不要给你念点什么听啊？”
“All right. If you want to,”said the boy. His face was very white and there ware dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached7 from what was going on.
“好吧，你要是想念就念吧，”孩子说。他的脸色十分苍白，眼窝下方有黑晕。躺在床上一动也不动，看上去对身边发生的一切都没有兴致。
I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; but I could see he was not following what I was reading.
我给他念霍华德·派尔的《海盗故事》，但看得出他并没有听。
“How do you feel, Schatz?”I asked him.“你感觉怎么样，宝贝？”我问他。
“Just the same, so far,”he said.“到目前为止，还是老样子。”他说。
I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely.
我坐在床脚。干脆自顾自地读了起来，我得等时间一到再给他服另一种药。按理说，他该睡过去了。但是，当我抬起头时，却看到他两眼盯着床脚，神情异常。
“Why don't you try to sleep? I'll wake you up for the medicine.”
“你为什么不睡一会儿呢？到吃药的时候我会叫醒你的。”
“I'd rather stay awake.”“我宁愿醒着。”
After a while he said to me, “You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.”过了一会，他对我说：“你不必在这里陪我，爸爸，要是这事让你烦恼的话。”
“It doesn't bother me.”“没什么可烦恼的。”
“No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you.”
“不，我是说要是这事将会给你带来烦恼的话，你就不必在这里陪我。”
I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded, and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o' clock I went out for a while.It was a bright, cold day, the ground covered with a sleet8 that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the cut brush and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished9 with ice. I took the young Irish setter for a little walk up the road and along a frozen creek, but it was difficult to stand or walk on the glassy surface and the red dog slipped and slithered and I fell twice, hard, once dropping my gun and having it slide away over the ice.
我想，他大概有些神志不清了。我按规定十一点时给他服了药。随后，便出去了一会儿。那天天气很晴朗，也很寒冷，地面上覆盖的一层冻雨已经结成了冰。那光秃秃的落叶树木，那灌木丛，还有砍下的树枝，以及所有的草坪和空地都像涂了一层冰。我带着那条幼小的爱尔兰猎犬出去逛逛。我们走上公路，又沿着一条冰封的小溪往前走。但在那玻璃般光滑的冰面上，无论是站立还是行走，都很困难。红毛狗一路上连哧溜带滑，我自己也重重地摔倒了两次，其中一次连猎枪也摔掉了，在冰上滑出去老远。
We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank with overhanging brush and killed two as they went out of sight over the top of the bank. Some of the covey lit in trees, but most of them scattered into brush piles and it was necessary to jump on the ice-coated mounds of brush several times before they would flush. Coming out while you were poised13 unsteadily on the icy, springy brush they made difficult shooting and I killed two, missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many left to find another day. 高高的土堤上长着倒垂下来的灌木丛，我们从灌木丛下面哄起一群鹌鹑。就在它们快要越过堤岸飞离视野时我击落了两只。有几只鹌鹑落在了树上，但大部分飞散了，钻进了灌木丛。它们得在裹了一层冰的树冠上跳上几跳，才能起飞。你在这些又滑又颤的树丛上摇摇晃晃尚未立稳，它们却飞了出来，使你很难瞄准。但我还是击落了两只，另有五只没有击中。动身返回时，我心情很愉快，因为在离家不远的地方又发现了一群鹌鹑，猎获了两只，还剩下许多，改日可再来猎取。
At the house, they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room.
回到家里听说孩子不让任何人进他的房间。
“You can't come in,”he said. “You mustn't get what I have.”
“你们不能进来，”他说，“你们绝不能染上我这种病。”
I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.
我来到他身边，发现他还像我离开时那样躺着，脸色苍白，但脸颊上烧出了两朵红晕，眼睛依然一动不动地盯着床脚。
I took his temperature.我给他量了体温。
“What is it?”“多少度？”
“Something like a hundred,”I said. It was one hundred and two and four tenths.
“大约100度，”我说。实际上是102.4度。
“It was a hundred and two,”he said.“原先是102度，”他说。
“Who said so?”“谁说的？”
“The doctor.”“医生。
“Your temperature is all right,”I said. “It's nothing to worry about.”
“你的体温没啥问题，”我说，“根本不用担心。”
“I don't worry,”he said, “but I can't keep from thinking.”
“我倒不担心，”他说，“可我就是不能不想。”
“Don't think,”I said. “Just take it easy.”“不要想了，”我说。“放心好了。”
“I'm taking it easy,”he said and looked straightly ahead. He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.
“我倒没有什么不放心的，”他说着，眼睛直盯着前方。显然，他有什么心事，但却极力克制着不说。
“Take this with water.”“把这个用水吞下去。”
“Do you think it will do any good?”“你觉得有用吗？
“Of course will.”“当然有用。”
I sat down and opened the Pirate book and commenced to read but I could see he was not following, so I stopped.
我坐下来，又打开了《海盗故事》，开始念给他听。但看得出他没有听，于是，我就不念了。
“About what time do you think I'm going to die?”he asked.
“你认为我会什么时候死呢？”他问道。
“What?”“你说什么？”
“About how long will it be before I die?”“你看我还能活多久？”
“You aren't going to die. What's the matter with you?”“你不会死的。你怎么啦？”“Oh, yes, I am. I heard him say a hundred and two.”
“哦，我会死的。我听见他说102度了。”
“People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to talk.”
“人烧到102度是不会死的。你这是在说傻话呢。”
“I know they do. At school in France, the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two.”
“会的。在法国上学的时候，我就听说，烧到44度就不能活了。我已经到102度了。”He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning.
原来从上午9点钟起，他一整天都在等死啊。
“You poor Schatz,”I said. “It's like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car?”
“我可怜的宝贝，”我说，“这就像英里和公里的区别一样。知道吗？就像我们开车开了
70英里能折合成多少公里一样。”
“Oh,”he said.“噢，”他恍然大悟。
But his gaze14 at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack15 and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance.他那凝视床脚的目光渐渐放松了，心里的紧张状态也终于缓解了，第二天，他一点儿也打不起精神来，这还不说，为了一点点小事他还动不动就哭鼻子。
新编大学英语3读写译课文翻译
Unit 1 Personality 羞怯的痛苦 对许多人来说，羞怯是很多不愉快的起因。各种各样的人——矮的、高的、愚笨的、聪明的、年轻的、年老的、瘦的、胖的——都说自己是羞怯的。羞怯的人会焦虑不安，感到不自然；也就是说，他们过分地关注自己的外表和举止。脑海中不断盘旋着一些使自己不安的想法：我给人留下的是什么印象？他们喜欢我吗？我讲话是不是傻里傻气？我长得难看。我穿的衣服毫不引人注目。很显然这种不安的感觉会对人产生不利的影响。一个人的自我看法反映在自己的行为方式之中，而一个人的行为方式又影响他人的反应。通常，人们如何看待自己对他们生活的各个方面都会产生深刻的影响。例如，具有积极的自我价值观或很强自尊心的人往往表现出自信。而由于自信，他们不需要他人不断地称赞和鼓励，也能使自己感觉良好。自信者热情、自发地投入生活。他们不因别人认为他们“该”做什么而受到影响。有很强自尊心的人不会被批评所伤害；他们不会把批评看作是人身攻击。相反，他们认为批评是一种提醒他们改进的建议。相比之下，羞怯的人自尊心较弱，往往消极被动并且容易受他人影响。他们（是否）在做“该做的事情”需要得到别人的肯定。害羞的人对批评非常敏感；他们觉得批评正好证实了他们比别人差。他们也很难因别人的赞美而高兴，因为他们相信自己不值得称赞。羞怯的人也许会用这样的话来回答别人的赞美之辞：“你这么说只是为了让我感觉好一些。我知道这不是真的。”显然，尽管自我意识是一种健康的品质，过分的自我意识却是不利和有害的。能否彻底消除或者至少减轻羞怯感呢？幸运的是，人们能够通过坚持不懈的努力建立自信从而克服羞怯。由于胆怯和缺少自尊是密切相关的，因此正视自己的弱点和正视自己的优点一样重要。例如，大多数人希望每门功课都得A。如果仅仅因为在某些领域有困难，就把自己列为差生，这不恰如其分。人们对自己的期望必须现实。老是想那些不可能的事情会令自己觉得无能，甚至产生嫉妒。当我们嫉妒比自己成绩好的学生时，我们正在自我否定。如果你害羞，这里有些具体有效的步骤帮助你树立信心并克服羞怯感：１．认清自己的优缺点。每个人既有优点又有缺点。随着对自我的不断认同，羞怯感就会自然减弱。２．确定合理的目标。例如，在聚会时和一群陌生人在一起，你也许会怯场。不要以为你必须和每个人交谈。集中精力，仅和一两个人交谈，你会感到更自在些。３．内疚和羞耻感是消极的情感。不要把时间和精力浪费在这上头。假设你伤害了某人的感情，（光）感到羞愧是无济于事的。相反，应该承认你犯了个错误，并决心在将来更加善解人意。４．所有问题都有许多种解决办法。很少有完全正确或完全错误的意见。要敢于公开表达自己的观点。５．不要对自己做消极的评论。这是一种自我否定。千万别把自己描述为愚蠢的、丑陋的，或者一个失败者。注重自己积极的方面。６．接受批评时要缜密思考。不要把批评理解为人身攻击。例如，如果一位朋友抱怨你的烹饪技术，要把这当成对你的烹饪技术而不是对你本人的评价而接受下来。放心，你们还是好朋友，但你的烹饪技术也许确实有待改进。７．记住，每个人都会经历一些失败和挫折。要把它们作为增长见识的经历，从中受益。挫折往往会成为转机，随之而来的将是一段美妙绝伦的经历。例如，你可能被你所中意的大学拒之门外。然而，在你就读的大学里，你可能发现这里教育的某一特点比你料想的好得多。８．有些人会使你感到自己无能，不要和这种人交往。去设法改变他们对你的态度或者改变你对自己的态度，要不就脱离这种关系。伤害你的人并不关心你的最大利益。９．留出时间休息，享受自己的业余爱好，并且定期地重新审定自己的目标。为此所花费的时间有助于更好地了解你自己。１０．多在社交场合中锻炼。不要把自己同他人隔离开来。设法一次结识一位朋友；最终你将能够娴熟而自信地在众人中周旋。我们每个人都是独一无二、难能可贵的个体。我们自有吸引人的地方。我们对自己了解得越多，就越容易充分发挥自己的潜力。不要让羞怯成为阻碍我们拥有丰富和成功生活的绊脚石。 Unit3 Social Problems
大学英语Unit 1 课文翻译
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新视野大学英语3课文翻译
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大学英语教程3课文翻译
Unit 1 1. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. 我在里德学院读了6个月就退学了，但是作为旁听生又在那里待了18个月左右，然后才真正离开学校。 2.My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. 我的生母是个年轻未婚的研究生，因此她决定把我送给别人收养。 3.It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. 这在当时看来非常可怕，但现在回头看看，那是我做过的最棒的决定之一。 4.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. 我依照好奇心和直觉做事，大多事后证明是非常值得的。 5.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. 这一切在我的生活中是否有用，我不抱希望。 1.Every time I saw the straw hat(每当我看到那顶草帽), it reminded me of the tour I made years before 2.This is the most wonderful time that I have ever had(我度过的最美好的时光). 3.I’m honored to attend the closing ceremony of the conference(我很荣幸能参加大会闭幕式) and give you the speech. 4. Bill Clinton has helped to get the two American journalists released and he seems to have a hope of making peace(有希望调解) between North Korea and the US. 5. One friend of mine has decided to quit his/her well-paid but demanding position (辞去那份工资高但要求也高的工作) recently. Unit2 1. However, if that weren’t a popular notion, millions of dollars wouldn’t roll in every time there was a lottery somewhere. 然而，这种想法非常普遍，否则每次彩票抽奖也就不会有数以百万计的美元滚滚而来。 2 .It took him five years to diligently create a business and generate that large sum of money. 他花了5年时间，努力工作，并开办了一家公司，终于赚足了这么一大笔钱。 3.With great disbelief, he stared at his investment of valuable gems, now turned to stones, and wondered what it all meant. 约翰眼睁睁地看着自己投资买来的宝石变成了石头，他难以置信，百思不得其解。 4.The inscription read, “If one achieves this quest, they will have transformed their mind by the use of their faith and will from then on have the power to overcome in all things and nothing will be impossible to them.” 这些文字是：凡历此功成者，必脱胎换骨，身心俱新，无坚不摧，无所不能。 1. Once know as the Pairs of the Middle East(曾经拥有中东巴黎的美誉),this seaside city fell into chaos during Lebanon’s p rolonged civil war.
大学英语第一册课文翻译
新编大学英语（第二版）第一册阅读文参考译文 Unit One 以生命相赠 1 炸弹落在了这个小村庄里。在可怕的越南战争期间，谁也不知道这些炸弹要轰炸什么目标，而他们却落在了一所有传教士们办的小孤儿院内。 2 传教士和一两个孩子已经丧生，还有几个孩子受了伤，其中有一个小女孩，8岁左右，她的双腿被炸伤。 3 几小时后，医疗救援小组到了。救援小组由一名年轻的美国海军医生和一名同样年轻的海军护士组成。他们很快发现有个小女孩伤势严重。如果不立即采取行动，显然她就会因失血过多和休克而死亡。 4 他们明白必须给小女孩输血，但是他们的医药用品很有限，没有血浆，因此需要相配血型的血。快速的血型测定显示两名美国人的血型都不合适，而几个没有受伤的孤儿却有相配的血型。 5 这位医生会讲一点越南语，忽视会讲一点法语，但只有中学的法语水平。孩子们不会说英语，只会说一点法语。医生和护士用少得可怜的一点共同语言，结合大量的手势，努力向这些受惊吓的孩子们解释说，除非他们能输一些血给自己的小伙伴，否则她将必死无疑。接着问他们是否有人愿意献血来救小女孩。 6 对医生和护士的请求，孩子们（只是）瞪大眼睛，一声不吭。此时小病人生命垂危。然而，只有这些受惊吓的孩子中有人自愿献血，他们才能够得到血。过了好一会儿，一只小手慢慢地举了起来，然后垂了下去，一会儿又举了起来。 7 “噢，谢谢，”护士用法语说。“你叫什么名字？” 8 “兴，”小男孩回答道。 9 兴很快被抱到一张床上，手臂用酒精消毒后，针就扎了进去。在整个过程中，兴僵直地躺着，没有出声。 10 过了一会儿，他发出了一声长长的抽泣，但立即用那只可以活动的手捂住了自己的脸。 11 “兴，疼吗？”医生问。 12 兴默默地摇了摇头，但一会儿忍不住又抽泣起来，并又一次试图掩饰自己的哭声。医生又问是不是插在手臂上的针弄疼了他，兴又摇了摇头。
全新版大学英语综合教程3课文原文及翻译6-8
unit 6 The Last Leaf When Johnsy fell seriously ill, she seemed to lose the will to hang on to life. The doctor held out little hope for her. Her friends seemed helpless. Was there nothing to be done? 约翰西病情严重，她似乎失去了活下去的意志。医生对她不抱什么希望。朋友们看来也爱莫能助。难道真 的就无可奈何了吗？ 1 At the top of a three-story brick building, Sue and Johnsy had their studio. "Johnsy" was familiar for Joanna. One was from Maine; the other from California. They had met at a cafe on Eighth Street and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so much in tune that the joint studio resulted. 在一幢三层砖楼的顶层，苏和约翰西辟了个画室。“约翰西”是乔安娜的昵称。她们一位来自缅因州，一 位来自加利福尼亚。两人相遇在第八大街的一个咖啡馆，发现各自在艺术品味、菊苣色拉，以及灯笼袖等方面趣 味相投，于是就有了这个两人画室。 2 That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the district, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Johnsy was among his victims. She lay, scarcely moving on her bed, looking through the small window at the blank side of the next brick house. 那是5月里的事。到了11月，一个医生称之为肺炎的阴森的隐形客闯入了这一地区，用它冰冷的手指东 碰西触。约翰西也为其所害。她病倒了，躺在床上几乎一动不动，只能隔着小窗望着隔壁砖房那单调沉闷的侧墙。 3 One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a bushy, gray eyebrow. 一天上午，忙碌的医生扬了扬灰白的浓眉，示意苏来到过道。 4 "She has one chance in ten," he said. "And that chance is for her to want to live. Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind? “她只有一成希望，”他说。“那还得看她自己是不是想活下去。你这位女朋友已经下决心不想好了。她有 什么心事吗？” 5 "She -- she wanted to paint the Bay of Naples some day," said Sue. “她――她想有一天能去画那不勒斯湾，”苏说。 6 "Paint? -- bosh! Has she anything on her mind worth thinking about twice -- a man, for instance?" “画画？――得了。她有没有别的事值得她留恋的――比如说，一个男人？” 7 "A man?" said Sue. "Is a man worth -- but, no, doctor; there is nothing of the kind." “男人？”苏说。“难道一个男人就值得――可是，她没有啊，大夫，没有这码子事。” 8 "Well," said the doctor. "I will do all that science can accomplish. But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines." After the doctor had gone Sue went into the workroom and cried. Then she marched into Johnsy's room with her drawing board, whistling a merry tune. “好吧，”大夫说。“我会尽一切努力，只要是科学能做到的。可是，但凡病人开始计算她出殡的行列里有 几辆马车的时候，我就要把医药的疗效减去一半。”大夫走后，苏去工作室哭了一场。随后她携着画板大步走进 约翰西的房间，口里吹着轻快的口哨。 9 Johnsy lay, scarcely making a movement under the bedclothes, with her face toward the window. She was looking out and counting -- counting backward. 约翰西躺在被子下几乎一动不动，脸朝着窗。她望着窗外，数着数――倒数着数！ 10 "Twelve," she said, and a little later "eleven"; and then "ten," and "nine"; and then "eight" and "seven," almost together. “12，”她数道，过了一会儿“11”，接着数“10”和“9”；再数“8”和“7”，几乎一口同时数下来。 11 Sue looked out of the window. What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old, old ivy vine climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath of autumn had blown away its leaves, leaving it almost bare. 苏朝窗外望去。外面有什么好数的呢？外面只看到一个空荡荡的沉闷的院子，还有20英尺开外那砖房的侧墙，上面什么也没有。一棵古老的常青藤爬到半墙高。萧瑟秋风吹落了枝叶，藤上几乎光秃秃的。
浙江省大学英语三级(CET-3)
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新视野大学英语3第三版课文翻译
新视野大学英语3第三版课文翻译 Unit 1 The Way to Success 课文A Never, ever give up! 永不言弃！ As a young boy, Britain's great Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, attended a public school called Harrow. He was not a good student, and had he not been from a famous family, he probably would have been removed from the school for deviating from the rules. Thankfully, he did finish at Harrow and his errors there did not preclude him from going on to the university. He eventually had a premier army career whereby he was later elected prime minister. He achieved fame for his wit, wisdom, civic duty, and abundant courage in his refusal to surrender during the miserable dark days of World War II. His amazing determination helped motivate his entire nation and was an inspiration worldwide. Toward the end of his period as prime minister, he was invited to address the patriotic young boys at his old school, Harrow. The headmaster said, "Young gentlemen, the greatest speaker of our time, will be here in a few days to address you, and you should obey whatever sound advice he may give you." The great day arrived. Sir Winston stood up, all five feet, five inches and 107 kilos of him, and gave this short, clear-cut speech: "Young men, never give up. Never give up! Never give up! Never, never, never, never!" 英国的伟大首相温斯顿·丘吉尔爵士，小时候在哈罗公学上学。当时他可不是个好学生，要不是出身名门，他可能早就因为违反纪律被开除了。谢天谢地，他总算从哈罗毕业了，在那里犯下的错误并没影响到他上大学。后来，他凭着军旅生涯中的杰出表现当选为英国首相。他的才思、智慧、公民责任感以及在二战痛苦而黑暗的时期拒绝投降的无畏勇气，为他赢得了美名。他非凡的决心，不仅激励了整个民族，还鼓舞了全世界。 在他首相任期即将结束时，他应邀前往母校哈罗公学，为满怀报国之志的同学们作演讲。校长说：“年轻的先生们，当代最伟大的演说家过几天就会来为你们演讲，他提出的任何中肯的建议，你们都要听从。”那个激动人心的日子终于到了。温斯顿爵士站了起来——他只有5 英尺5 英寸高，体重却有107 公斤。他作了言简意赅的讲话：“年轻人，要永不放弃。永不放弃！永不放弃！永不，永不，永不，永不！” Personal history, educational opportunity, individual dilemmas - none of these can inhibit a strong spirit committed to success. No task is too hard. No amount of preparation is too long or too difficult. Take the example of two of the most scholarly scientists of our age, Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison. Both faced immense obstacles and extreme criticism. Both were called "slow to learn" and written off as idiots by their teachers. Thomas Edison ran away from school because his teacher whipped him repeatedly for asking too many questions. Einstein didn't speak fluently until he was almost nine years old and was such a poor student that some thought he was unable to learn. Yet both boys' parents believed in them. They worked intensely each day with their sons, and the boys learned to never bypass the long hours of hard work that they needed to succeed. In the end, both Einstein and Edison overcame their childhood persecution and went on to achieve magnificent discoveries that benefit the entire world today. Consider also the heroic example of Abraham Lincoln, who faced substantial hardships,
大学英语课文翻译及习题答案
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Unit 1 1. A very curious boy, Tom, is interested not only in whats but also in whys and hows. 汤姆是个非常好奇的男孩，他不仅对“是什么”感兴趣，而且也对“为什么”和“怎么会”感兴趣。 2. Happiness, according to Prof. Smith, is the ability to make the most of what you have. 据史密斯教授说，幸福就是你能充分利用你所有的一切。 3. You’d better keep the book where your 15-year-old son can’t get his hands on. 你最好把这本书放在你15岁的儿子找不到的地方。 4. The story was very funny and Bill kept laughing while reading it. 这故事非常滑稽，比尔一边读一边不停地笑。 5. High-achieving students do not necessarily put in more time at their studies than their lower-scoring classmates. 成绩优秀的学生未必比他们得分较低的同学在学习上花费更多的时间。 6. How did you manage to persuade these students to take the speed-reading course 你是怎样设法说服这些学生修读快速阅读课的 7. Working hard is important, but knowing how to make the most of one's abilities counts for much more. 用功是重要的，但知道如何充分利用自己的才能更重要得多。 8. She asked her students to think for themselves rather than telling them what to think. 她要求学生独立思考，而不是告诉他们该思考什么。 Unit 2 1. Referring to the differences between American English and British English, he said, “The United States and Britain are, after all, two different countries.” 在谈及美国英语和英国英语的差别时，他说：“美国和英国毕竟是两个不同的国家。” 2. Prof. Smith encourages his students to think for themselves. “I am just as happy,” he often says, “even if you challenge me or completely disagree with me.” 史密斯教授鼓励他的学生独立思考。他常说：“即使你们对我提出质疑或者完全不同意我的看法，我也同样高兴。” 3. We called on him to take part in our conversation about pop music, but as soon as he joined in, he introduced a new topic and referred to the NBA finals of the previous week. 我们请他参加我们关于流行音乐的谈话，但他一参加进来就引入一个新的话题，谈起了上周的NBA决赛。 4. The driver is responsible for this accident. His car knocked down a tree and a man on his bike. 司机应对这次事故负责。他的车撞倒了一棵树和一个骑车的人。
大学英语三级重修翻译答案
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全新版大学英语综合教程3课文翻译
AppendⅡ Chinese Translations of Texts A (Units 1-8) 参考译文 目录： 第一单元生活方式的改变 (2) 第二单元民权英雄 (5) 第三单元安全问题 (8) 第四单元外星人 (10) 第五单元如何欢庆节日 (14) 第六单元人情味 (18) 第七单元谋生 (21)
第八单元克隆技术 (27) 第一单元生活方式的改变 课文A 在美国，不少人对乡村生活怀有浪漫的情感。许多居住在城镇的人梦想着自己办个农场，梦想着靠土地为生。很少有人真去把梦想变为现实。或许这也没有什么不好，因为，正如吉姆·多尔蒂当初开始其写作和农场经营双重生涯时所体验到的那样，农耕生活远非轻松自在。但他写道，自己并不后悔，对自己做出的改变生活方式的决定仍热情不减。 多尔蒂先生创建自己的理想生活 售姆·多尔蒂有两件事是我一直想做的——写作与务农。如今我同时做着这两件事。作为作家，我和E·B·怀特不属同一等级，作为农场主，我和乡邻也不是同一类人，不过我应付得还行。在城市以及郊区历经多年的怅惘失望之后，我和妻子桑迪终于在这里的乡村寻觅到心灵的满足。 这是一种自力更生的生活。我们食用的果蔬几乎都是自己种的。自家饲养的鸡提供鸡蛋，每星期还能剩余几十个出售。自家养殖的蜜蜂提供蜂蜜，我们还自己动手砍柴，足可供过冬取暖之用。 这也是一种令人满足的生活。夏日里我们在河上荡舟，在林子里野餐，骑着自行车长时间漫游。冬日里我们滑雪溜冰。我们为落日的余辉而激动。我们爱闻大地回暖的气息，爱听
牛群哞叫。我们守着看鹰儿飞过上空，看玉米田间鹿群嬉跃。 但如此美妙的生活有时会变得相当艰苦。就在三个月前，气温降到华氏零下30度，我们辛苦劳作了整整两天，用一个雪橇沿着河边拖运木柴。再过三个月，气温会升到95度，我们就要给玉米松土，在草莓地除草，还要宰杀家禽。前一阵子我和桑迪不得不翻修后屋顶。过些时候，四个孩子中的两个小的，16岁的吉米和13岁的埃米莉，会帮着我一起把拖了很久没修的室外厕所修葺一下，那是专为室外干活修建的。这个月晚些时候，我们要给果树喷洒药水，要油漆谷仓，要给菜园播种，要赶在新的小鸡运到之前清扫鸡舍。 在这些活计之间，我每周要抽空花五、六十个小时，不是打字撰文，就是为作为自由撰稿人投给报刊的文章进行采访。桑迪则有她自己繁忙的工作日程。除了日常的家务，她还照管菜园和蜂房，烘烤面包，将食品装罐、冷藏，开车送孩子学音乐，和他们一起练习，自己还要上风琴课，为我做些研究工作并打字，自己有时也写写文章，还要侍弄花圃、堆摞木柴、运送鸡蛋。正如老话说的那样，在这种情形之下，坏人不得闲——贤德之人也歇不了。 我们谁也不会忘记第一年的冬天。从12月一直到3月底，我们都被深达5英尺的积雪困着。暴风雪肆虐，一场接着一场，积雪厚厚地覆盖着屋子和谷仓，而室内，我们用自己砍伐的木柴烧火取暖，吃着自家种植的苹果，温馨快乐每一分钟。 开春后，有过两次泛滥。一次是河水外溢，我们不少田地被淹了几个星期。接着一次是生长季节到了，一波又一波的农产品潮涌而来，弄得我们应接不暇。我们的冰箱里塞满了樱桃、蓝莓、草莓、芦笋、豌豆、青豆和玉米。接着我们存放食品罐的架子上、柜橱里也开始堆满一罐罐的腌渍食品，有番茄汁、葡萄汁、李子、果酱和果冻。最后，地窖里遍地是大堆大堆的土豆、葫芦、南瓜，谷仓里也储满了苹果和梨。真是太美妙了。 第二年我们种了更多的作物，差不多就靠着从自家树林砍伐的木柴以及仅仅100加仑的燃油过了冬。其时，我开始认真考虑起辞了职去从事自由撰稿的事来。时机选得实在太差。当时，两个大的女儿肖恩和埃米正在费用很高的常青藤学校上学，而我们只有几千美金的银行存款。但我们一再回到一个老问题上来：真的会有更好的时机吗?答案无疑是否定的。于是，带着老板的祝福，口袋里揣着作为累积津贴的半年薪水，我走了。