Unit 1 A New School Year --- What for?
1.… I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. (Para. 1)
… I had just completed my graduate studies and began teaching at the University of Kansas City.
2.I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Science. (Para. 2)
I could have told him that he was now not getting training for a job in a technical school but doing a
B.Sc. at a university.
预算赤字
3.That is to say, he had not entered a technical training school but a university and in universities students enroll for both training and education. (Para. 2)
Here the word education is used in a broad sense, which involves not only the process of acquiring knowledge and developing skills, but also that of improving the mind.
门槛人口
4.You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesn‟t jump the fence, or that your client doesn‟t go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence. (Para. 5) You have to take responsibility for the work you do. If you‟re a pharmacist, you should make sure that aspirin is not mixed with poisonous chemicals. As an engi neer, you shouldn‟t get things out of control. If you become a lawyer, you should make sure an innocent person is not sentenced to death because you lack adequate legal knowledge and skill to defend your client.
农业经济与管理5.Along with everything else, they will probably be what puts food on your table, supports your wife, and rears your children.
In addition to all other things these professions offer, they provide you with a living so that you can support a family—wife and children.
6.They will be your income, and may it always suffice. (Para. 5)
I hope that your income will always be enough.
7.“I hope you make a lot of it, ” I told him, “because you‟re going to be badly stuck for something to do when you‟re not signing checks.” (Para. 8)
If you don‟t have any goal in life apart from making money to satisfy your desire for material riches, go ahead and make a lot of it.
8.If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a de veloped human nor a useful citizen of a democracy. (Para. 12)
If you are too anxious to make money, too ignorant to see your limitations, then you couldn‟t regard those great people‟s minds as a gift to your humanity, and thus you can‟t be a developed human.
Unit 2 Say Yes
1. Unlike most men he knew, he really pitched in on the housework. (1)
他和他认识的大多数男人不同，他真的努力帮忙做家务。
2. “They don’t come from the same culture. Why, they even have their own language. That’s okay with me, I like hearing them talk. But it‟s different. …”(8)
I have no objection to that, l like hearing them talk. But marriage is different.
这对我倒没什么。我喜欢听他们说话。但结婚就不一样了。
3. “Yes, different,”he snapped, angry with her for resorting to this trick of repeating his words so that they sounded hypocritical. (18)
He said quickly and angrily: "Yes, difference." He was angry because she adopted this metho d of repeating his words in order to make them seem unreal.
“是的，就是不同。”他高声说。他生气了，因为她总是用这种学舌的方法来使他的话听起来很虚伪。4. He’d acted out of concern for her, he thought that it would be a nice gesture on her part not to start up that conversation again, as he was tired of it. (18)
out of: because of
灿都The man had shown concern for his wife, and he hoped that his wife would show her concern in return by not continuing this unpleasant conversation because he had got tired of it.
他是出于对她的关心才这样做的。他希望她那方面也可以做出一个友好的姿态作会回应，不要再一次开始谈论那个话题，因为他已经厌倦那个话题了。
5.There was no possible way of arguing with the fact that she would not be herself if she were black. (28) It was impossible for her to argue with the fact that she would not be herself if she were black.
如果她是黑人，她就不是她自己了，这一点是无可争辩的。
6. He knew that she was too angry to be actually reading it, but she didn't snap through the pages the way he would have done. (45)
He knew that she was not able to read because she was so angry. But she didn't turn the pages quickly and uneasily as he would have done if it was him being so angry.
他知道她正在气头上，不可能读进去，但她却又不像他在这种情况下那样迅速地翻弄书页。 7. While he was at it, he decided, he might as well mop the floor. (47)
Since he was doing the housework, he thought he might also mop the floor.
在他做家务的时候，他决定了，干脆把地板也给拖干净算了。
8. When he was done the kitchen looked new, the way it looked when they were first shown the house.
(42)
When he had finished cleaning，the kitchen looked new, the way how it looked when they were first shown the house.
9.His heart pounded the way it had on their first night together, the way it still did when he woke at a noise in the darkness and waited to hear it again–the sound of someone moving through the house, a stranger.(52)
The man was both excited and nervous on their first night together, and now he felt the same. Because after the argument his wife seemed to become a stranger to him. He felt that he didn't really know her after so many years' living together.
他的心咚咚地跳了起来，就像他们一起度过的第一个夜晚一样。也像有一次他在黑暗中被一个声音惊醒，带着怦怦乱跳的心等着再一次听到它时一样—某个人走过房间的声音，那是一个陌生人。
Unit 4 The Man in the Water
1. As disasters go, this one was terrible, but not unique, certainly not among the worst U.S. air crashes on record. (para.1)
Air crashes usually involve a heavy loss of lives. Compared with other air crashes, this one was not the worst.
就灾难而言，此次灾难虽然十分可怕，但并非独一无二，显然也不是美国空难记录当中最严重的一次。2. Washington, the city of form and rules, turned chaotic by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. (para.1) Washington, which is a tiny, clean and order city , became a terrible confusion, because of a sudden strong really cold wind and a sharp, loud and forceful strike of the plane and the bridge, stressing what met the ear.
华盛顿，这个整齐美丽、井然有序的城市，在一阵寒冬突降的强风中以及金属与金属的一记猛烈碰撞中骤然大乱。 3. And there was the aesthetic clash as well—blue-and-green Air Florida, the name of a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks of ice in a black river. (para.1)
When the air crash occurred, it was not just a crash (a loud sound made by two objects) of metal against the bridge, but also a clash between colors: the blue-green color of the plane and the gray and black color of the ice and river.
还有那颇富美学意义的视觉冲突——一架蓝绿相间的佛罗里达航机，一架名称有“空中花园”之意的航机，在黝深的河水中、灰的巨大冰块间沉没。
4. Last Wednesday the elements, indifferent as ever, brought down Flight 90. And on that same afternoon human nature—groping and struggling—rose to the occasion. (Para. 2)
Last Wednesday, the bad weather, unconcerned about the consequences it might bring about as always, made Flight 90 fall down. On that same afternoon, human nature, groping for the flotation rings
and struggling in the icy water, came to prove its greatness displayed in an unexpected tragedy.
上周三，恶劣的天气如往常一样无情，把第90次航班从空中拽落下来。而在同一个下午，人性——摸索着，挣扎着——在灾难中挺身而出。
6. “In a mass casualty, you‟ll find people like him. But I‟ve never seen one with that commitment.” (para.4)
原罪感We can always find heroic people like him in a mass casualty because although not everyone is a hero, there‟s bound to be a fair representation of heroes in a big crowd.
“在一场伤亡众多的灾难中，你总能到类似他这样的人，” 温莎说。“但是，我从没见过像他那么有献身精神的人。”
7. For a while he was Everyman, and thus proof (as if one needed it) that no one is ordinary. (Para. 4)
在相当长一段时间里，他就是一个无处不在的平凡的人，而这证明了（仿佛人们还需要证明似的）世上没有任何一个人是普通的。 8. For at some moment in the water he must have realized that he would not live if he continued to hand over the rope and ring to others. He had to know it, no matter how slow the effect of the cold. (para.6) Obviously, it requires much more courage to face sure death, knowing that you have a choice (keep one of the rings for yourself), than to face the possibility of death by, for example, a stray bullet in battle. The man in the story did not act on impulse. He did not pass on his rings to others with a total unawareness of the consequences.
At some point he must have known that he was freezing to death and would go under at any moment. But he still gave the chance for survival to the next person.
要知道在水中的某一时刻，他一定意识到了，如果他继续把绳子和救生圈递给别人，他就无法生还了。他必定会认识到这一点，不管寒冷对他的作用如何缓慢。
9. He was there, in the essential, classic circumstance. (Para. 7)
What happened that day was a typical situation in which nature and man fought against each other. And when nature begins to show its power, we always find man fighting back. He is always there. We can always expect to find such a hero.
在那最关键、最典型的场合中，他出现在那里。
10. … the one making no distinctions of good and evil, acting on no principles, offering no lifelines; the other acting wholly on distinctions, principles and, perhaps, on faith. (Para. 7)
Nature has no moral standards. It works on no human principles. It cares nothing about the individual life of man.
Man, on the other hand, has his moral standards of what is right and wrong. He must behave according to the moral principles and beliefs.
一个善恶不分，不讲道义原则，不提供任何救生索；而另一个的行动则完全是善恶分明、讲究原则，并很可能源于自身的信仰。 11. In reality, we believe the opposite, and it takes the act of the man in the water to remind us of our true feelings in this matter. (Para. 8)
Actually, the death of the man did not mean that human beings had lost the battle. In a moral sense, man had won because man‟s courage to defy death was also a tremendous power. Therefore, what happened to this man in the water should fill us with pride rather than sadness.
可事实上，我们却有着恰恰相反的信念，而水中那个人的举动正可以提醒我们在这个问题上的真实感受。
13. “Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature,” said Emerson.
“世上万物都蕴含着自然界的全部力量，” 爱默生说。
By “the powers of nature”, Emerson did not just mean such powers as coming from co al, oil, water, wind, etc. He probably also meant the power unique to human beings: the power to love, change, and create.
14. The man in the water set himself against an immovable, impersonal enemy; he fought it with kindness; and he held it to a standoff. He was the best we can do. (Para. 9)
The man in the water made himself start to fight with nature, which is indifferent and cannot be persuaded to change its attitude towards man. He used kindness as his weapon, and he held the fight to a situation in which neither side in the battle can gain an advantage. He was the best model for us to follow.
水中的那个人主动迎战一个冷漠的、无动于衷的敌人，他用善良为武器与之斗争，并将它逼和。他代表着我们所能达到的最佳境界。
Unit 5 Quick Fix Society
能源开发1.For four hours, our only real amusement consisted of counting exit signs and wondering what it would feel like to hold still again. (Para. 1)
The 4-hour drive on fast roads was tedious; the only fun we had was to count the exit signs we were passing and to figure out how we‟d feel if we stopped again.
2. Getting there certainly didn‟t seem like half the fun; in fact, getting there wasn‟t any fun at all. (Par
a. 1)
We had expected that our ride to West Virginia would be fun, and that half of the fun we‟d get from the trip would come from it. But we were wrong. It wasn‟t fu n at all.
3. The two days it took us to make the return trip were filled with new experiences. (Para. 2)
It took us two days to make the return trip. During the two days, there were full of new experiences that we were not able to gain in a fast way.
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