第一篇：全新版大學英語4課文背誦翻譯及句子翻譯

第一單元

In 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, led his Grand Army into Russia.He was prepared for the fierce resistance of the Russian people defending their homeland.He was prepared for the long march across Russian soil to Moscow, the capital city.But he was not prepared for the devastating enemy that met him in Moscow--the raw, bitter, bleak Russian winter.1812年，法國皇帝拿破侖波拿巴率大軍入侵俄羅斯。他準備好俄羅斯人民會為保衛祖國而奮勇抵抗。他準備好在俄羅斯廣袤的國土上要經過長途跋涉才能進軍首都莫斯科。但他沒有料到在莫斯科他會遭遇勁敵—俄羅斯陰冷凄苦的寒冬。

In 1941, Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, launched an attack against the Soviet Union, as Russia then was called.Hitler's military might was unequaled.His war machine had mowed down resistance in most of Europe.Hitler expected a short campaign but, like Napoleon before him, was taught a painful lesson.The Russian winter again came to the aid of the Soviet soldiers.1941年，納粹德國元首阿道夫?希特勒進攻當時被稱作蘇聯的俄羅斯。希特勒的軍事實力堪稱無敵。他的戰爭機器掃除了歐洲絕大部分地區的抵抗。希特勒希望速戰速決，但是，就像在他之前的拿破侖一樣，他得到的是痛苦的教訓。仍是俄羅斯的冬天助了蘇維埃士兵一臂之力。Unit1 1.Mr.Doherty and his family are currently engaged in getting the autumn harvest in on the farm.多爾蒂先生和他的家人目前正在農場忙于秋收。

2.We must not underestimate the enemy.They are equipped with the most sophisticated weapons.我們不能低估敵人，他們裝備了最先進的武器

3.Having been cut of a job/Not having had a job for 3months, Phil is getting increasingly desperate.菲兒已經三個月沒有找到工作了，正在變得越來越絕望

4.Sam, as the project manager, is decisive, efficient, and accurate in his judgment.作為項目經理，山姆辦事果斷，工作效率高，且判斷準確。

5.Since the chemical plant was identified as the source of solution, the village neighborhood committee decided to close it down at the cost of 100 jobs.既然證實了這家化公場是污染源，村委會決定將其關閉，為此損失了一百個工作單位。Unit2

Two of the most frustrating things about driving a car are getting lost and getting stuck in traffic.While the computer revolution is unlikely to curethese problems, it will have a positive impact.Sensors in your car tuned to radio signals from orbiting satellites can locate your car precisely at any moment and warn ofraffic jams.We already have twenty-four Navstar satellites orbiting the earth, making up what is called the Global Positioning System.They make it possible to determine your location on the earth to within about a hundred feet.At any given time, there are several GPS satellites orbiting overhead at a distance of about 11,000 miles.Each satellite contains four “atomic clocks,” which vibrateat a precise frequency, according to the laws of the quantum theory.開車最頭疼的兩大麻煩是迷路和交通堵塞。雖然計算機革命不可能徹底解決這兩個問題，但卻會帶來積極的影響。你汽車上與繞軌道運行的衛星發出的無線電信號調諧的傳感器能隨時精確地確定你汽車的方位，并告知交通阻塞情況。我們已經有24顆環繞地球運行的導航衛星，組成了人們所說的全球衛星定位系統。通過這些衛星我們有可能以小于100英尺的誤差確定你在地球上的方位。在任何一個特定時間，總有若干顆全球定位系統的衛星在11000英里的高空繞地球運行。每顆衛星都裝有4個“原子鐘”，它們根據量子理論法則，以精確的頻率振動

As a satellite passes overhead, it sends out a radio signal that can be detectedby a receiver in a car's computer.The car's computer can then calculatehow far the satellite is by measuring how long it took for the signal to arrive.Since the speed of light is well known, any delay in receiving the satellite's signal can be converted into a distance.衛星從高空經過時發出能被汽車上計算機里的接收器辨認的無線電信號。汽車上的計算機就會根據信號傳來所花的時間計算出衛星有多遠。由于光速為人熟知，接收衛星信號時的任何時間遲緩都能折算出距離的遠近。

Unit2 1)There was an unusual quietness in the air, except for the sound of artillery in the distance.空氣中有一種不同尋常的寂靜，只有遠處響著的大炮的聲音

2)The expansion of urban areas in some African countries has been causing a significant fall in living standards and an increase in social problem.在某些非洲國家城市的擴展已經引起生活水平相當大的下降和社會問題的增多

3)The research shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are closely correlated with global temperatures.研究表明大氣中的二氧化碳的含量與全球溫度密切有關

4)The frequency of the bus service has been improved from 15 to 12 minutes recently 最近公共汽車的車輛行駛頻率已有改善，從15分鐘縮到12分鐘一班

5)The diver stood on the edge of the diving board, poised to jump at the signal from the coach.那位跳水運動員立在跳水板邊緣，只等教練發出信號便會立刻跳下

Unit3

When a recent college graduate came into my office not too long ago looking for a sales job, I asked him what he had done to prepare for the interview.He said he'd read something about us somewhere.不久前一個新近畢業的大學生到我辦公室謀求一份銷售工作。我問他為這次面試做過哪些準備。他說他在什么地方看到過有關本公司的一些情況。

Had he called anyone at Mackay Envelope Corporation to find out more about us? No.Had he called our suppliers? Our customers? No.他有沒有給麥凱信封公司的人打過電話，好了解更多有關我們的情況？沒打過。他有沒有給我們的供應廠商打過電話？還有我們的客戶？都沒有。

Had he checked with his university to see if there were any graduates working at Mackay whom he could interview? Had he asked any friends to grill him in a mock interview? Did he go to the library to find newspaper clippingson us? 他可曾在就讀的大學里查問過有沒有校友在本公司就職，以便向他們了解一些情況?他可曾請朋友向他提問，對他進行模擬面試？可曾去圖書館查找過有關本公司的剪報？

Did he write a letter beforehand to tell us about himself, what he was doing to prepare for the interview and why he'd be right forthe job? Was he planning to follow upthe interview with another letter indicatinghis eagerness to join us? Would the letter be in our hands within 24 hours of the meeting, possibly even hand-delivered?

他事先有沒有寫封信來介紹自己，告訴我們自己為這次面試在做哪些準備，自己何以能勝任此項工作？面試之后他是否打算再寫一封信，表明自己加盟本公司的誠意？這封信會不會在面試后的24小時之內送到我們手上，也許甚至是親自送來？

The answer to every question was the same: no.That left me with only one other question: How well prepared would this person be if he were to call on a prospectivecustomer for us? I already knew the answer.他對上述每一個問題的回答全都一樣：沒有。這樣我就只剩一個問題要問了：如果此人代表本公司去見可能成為我們客戶的人，他準備工作會做得怎樣？答案不言自明。Unit3 1)Despite the inadequate length of the airstrip in this emergency landing, the veteran pilot managed to stop the plane after taxiing for only a short while.盡管在此次緊急迫降中，飛機跑道不夠長，但經驗老道的飛行員還是讓飛機滑行了很短一段時間后就停了下來。

2)Grilled by the reporters, the movie star eventually blurted(out)that she had undergone two plastic surgeries.在記者的反復追問下，該影星還是說漏了嘴，承認自己做了兩次整容手術 3)We have the technology and our partner has the capital.Working together, we’ll have the future in our hands.我們有技術，我們合伙人有資金。一起干，我們就掌握了未來。

4)4)If I had known beforehand that you would bring so many friends home, I would have made better preparations.You see, I have barely enough food and drinks for a snack.要是我事先知道你帶這么多朋友回家，我會好好準備的，你看，我現在的食品和飲料連小吃一頓都不打夠。

5)People gave generously upon learning that new school rooms with stronger structures were to be built in the earthquake-stricken area.當人們得知地震災區將要建結構更牢固的校舍時，紛紛慷慨解囊

Unit4 3.Although Browder and Mandl define their nationality differently, both see their identity as a matter of personal choice, not an accident of birth.And not incidentally, both are Davos Men, members of the international business élite who trek each year to the Swiss Alpine town for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, founded in 1971.This week, Browder and Mandl will join more than 2,200 executives, politicians, academics, journalists, writers and a handful ofHollywood stars for five days of networking, parties and endless earnest discussions about everything from post-election Iraq and HIV in Africa to the global supply of oil and the implications of nanotechnology.Yet this year, perhaps more than ever, a hot topic at Davos is Davos itself.Whatever their considerable differences, most Davos Men and Women share at least one belief: that globalization, the unimpeded flows of capital, labor and technology across national borders, is both welcome and unstoppable.They see the world increasingly as one vast,interconnected marketplace in which corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and services.雖然布勞德和曼德爾對各自的國籍界定不同，他們都將國籍視為個人選擇，而不是由出生地決定的。而且，他倆都是達沃斯人，這可不是巧合。達沃斯人指的是那些每年長途跋涉去瑞士阿爾卑斯山區小城達沃斯參加年度世界經濟論壇——該論壇始于1971年——的國際商業精英們。本周，布勞德和曼德爾將同其他2200余名企業高管、政界人士、學者、記者、作家和少數幾位好萊塢明星一起，參加為時五天的交際活動、宴會和沒完沒了的認真的討論。討論話題林林總總，從大選后的伊拉克和非洲的艾滋病病毒到全球的石油供應和納米技術的重大意義。然而今年，或許比以往更甚的是，達沃斯論壇的一個熱門話題就是達沃斯本身。盡管與會男女各不相同，但他們大多數有一個共同信念：全球化，亦即資本、勞動力和技術不受阻礙地跨國界流動，是值得歡迎和不可阻擋的。在他們看來，世界越來越像一個巨大的互相聯系的市場。在這個市場里，企業尋求采購、生產及銷售產品和服務的最佳地點。

三十年來，我一直研究我的人類同胞，但至今了解不多。每當有人跟我說他對一個人的第一次印象向來不錯的時候，我就聳聳肩。我想這種人不是無知，就是自大。拿我自己來說，我發現，認識一個人的時間越長，我就越感到困惑。UNIT 4 1.1)Due to his pessimistic outlook on the European economy, John has moved his assets from Europe to elsewhere.因為約翰不看好歐洲經濟，所以把資產轉移到歐洲以外的其他地方

2)Ilike hiring young people.They are earnest learners and committed to work.我喜歡雇傭年輕人，他們自愿學習，而且忠于職守

3)Unlike her girl friends who center their lives on their children, Mary cares more about her personal growth.瑪麗和她那些以自己孩子為中心的女友不同，更在個人成長

4)Why is it that a considerable number of colleagues are at odds with you? 有一大批同事和你意見不和，這是怎么回事？

5)The Chinese government has introduced a variety of policies to strengthen cooperation with developing countries 中國政府出臺了一系列政策以加強同發展中國家的合作

第五單元

For thirty years now I have been studying my fellowmen.I do not know very much about them.I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right.I think they must have small insight or great vanity.For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me.三十年來，我一直研究我的人類同胞，但至今了解不多。每當有人跟我說他對一個人的第一次印象向來不錯的時候，我就聳聳肩。我想這種人不是無知，就是自大。拿我自己來說，我發現，認識一個人的時間越長，我就越感到困惑。

These reflections have occurred to me because I read in this morning's paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died at Kobe.He was a merchant and he had been in business in Japan for many years.I knew him very little, but he interested me because once he gave me a great surprise.Unless I had heard the story from his own lips, I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action.It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.Here if ever was a man all of a piece.He was a tiny little fellow, not much more than five feet four in height, and very slender, with white hair, a red face much wrinkled, and blue eyes.I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him.He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.我產生這些想法，是因為我在今天早上的報紙上看到愛德華?海德?伯頓在神戶去世的消息。他是個商人，在日本經商多年。我跟他并不熟，但是對他挺有興趣，因為有一次他讓我大吃一驚。要不是聽他親口講述這個故事，我根本不會相信他能做出這種事來。這件事之所以特別令人驚訝，是因為無論是外表還是風度，他都讓人想到一種非常明確的類型。要說真有表里如一的人的話，那就是此公了。他個子很小，身高不過5英尺4英寸，身材纖細，白頭發、藍眼睛，紅紅的臉上布滿皺紋。我估計自己認識他時，他大約有60歲光景。他向來衣著整潔素雅，合乎他的年齡和身份。

Though his offices were in Kobe, Burton often came down to Yokohama.I happened on one occasion to be spending a few days there, waiting for a ship, and I was introduced to him at the British Club.We played bridge together.He played a good game and a generous one.He did not talk very much, either then or later when we were having drinks, but what he said was sensible.He had a quiet, dry humor.He seemed to be popular at the club and afterwards, when he had gone, they described him as one of the best.It happened that we were both staying at the Grand Hotel and next day he asked me to dine with him.I met his wife, fat, elderly, and smiling, and his two daughters.It was evidently a united and affectionate family.I think the chief thing that struck me about Burton was his kindliness.There was something very pleasing in his mild blue eyes.His voice was gentle;you could not imagine that he could possibly raise it in anger;his smile was benign.Here was a man who attracted you because you felt in him a real love for his fellows.At the same time he liked his game of cards and his cocktail, he could tell with point a good and spicy story, and in his youth he had been something of an athlete.He was a rich man and he had made every penny himself.I suppose one thing that made you like him was that he was so small and frail;he aroused your instincts of protection.You felt that he could not bear to hurt a fly.伯頓的辦事處設在神戶，但他常常到橫濱來。有一次，我正好因為等船，要在那里呆幾天，在英國俱樂部經人介紹與他相識。我們在一起玩橋牌。他打得不錯，牌風也好。無論在玩牌的時候，還是在后來一起喝酒的時候，他的話都不多，但說的話卻都合情合理。他挺幽默，但并不咋呼。他在俱樂部里似乎人緣不錯，后來，在他走了以后，人家都說他是個頂呱呱的人。事有湊巧，我們倆都住在格蘭德大酒店。第二天他請我吃飯。我見到了他的太太――一位肥肥胖胖、滿面笑容的半老婦人――和他的兩個女兒。這顯然是和睦恩愛的一家人。我想，伯頓當時給我印象最深的主要還是他這個人和善。他那雙溫和的藍眼睛有種令人愉快的神情。他說話的聲音輕柔；你無法想象他會提高嗓門大發雷霆；他的笑容和藹可親。這個人吸引你，是因為你從他身上感到他對別人的真正的愛。同時他也喜歡玩牌，喝雞尾酒，他能繪聲繪色地講個來勁兒的段子什么的，他年輕時多少還是個運動員呢。他是個闊佬，但他的每一個便士都是自己掙來的。我想，人們喜歡他還有一個原因，那就是他非常瘦小、脆弱，容易引起人們的惻隱之心。你覺得他甚至連只螞蟻都不忍傷害。Unit5 1)I have an instinct that Henry will seek to join the expedition, because he is something of an adventurer.我的直覺是亨利會設法參加這次探險，因為他有一點冒險家的氣質

2)He is capable of sticking to the task at hand, even if he is exposed to noises.即使置身于一個嘈雜的環境中，他依然堅持做手頭的工作

3)The trademark was registered in accordance with the laws hitherto in force.這個商標是依據迄今有效的法律注冊的

4)Oddly enough, many people volunteered to help organize the meeting, but only a few turned up。

奇怪的是許多人自愿幫助組織會議，但是只有少數幾個人到場

5)The teacher's affectionate words, along with his candid comments, changed the way Mike perceived the society and himself.老師那充滿關愛的話語，以及坦誠的評價改變了邁克對社會和他自己的看法。

第二篇：全新版大學英語3課文背誦段落部分及翻譯

Unit 1

I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do.It takes a couple of special qualities.One is a tolerance for solitude.Because we are so busy and on such a tight budget, we don't entertain much.During the growing season there is no time for socializing anyway.Jim and Emily are involved in school activities, but they too spend most of their time at home.我想，不是所有熱愛鄉村的人都會樂意過我們這種生活的。這種生活需要一些特殊的素質。其一是耐得住寂寞。由于我們如此忙碌，手頭又緊，我們很少請客。在作物生長季節，根本就沒工夫參加社交活動。吉米和埃米莉雖然參加學校的各種活動，但他倆大多數時間也呆在家里。

The other requirement is energy--a lot of it.The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices.Instead, you do the work yourself.The only machinery we own(not counting the lawn mower)is a little three-horsepower rotary cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw.另一項要求是體力――相當大的體力。小范圍里實現自給自足的途徑是抵制誘惑，不去購置拖拉機和其他昂貴的節省勞力的機械。相反，你要自己動手。我們僅有的機器（不包括割草機）是一臺3馬力的小型旋轉式耕耘機以及一架16英寸的鏈鋸。

How much longer we'll have enough energy to stay on here is anybody's guess--perhaps for quite a while, perhaps not.When the time comes, we'll leave with a feeling of sorrow but also with a sense of pride at what we've been able to accomplish.We should make a fair profit on the sale of the place, too.We've invested about $35,000 of our own money in it, and we could just about double that if we sold today.But this is not a good time to sell.Once economic conditions improve, however, demand for farms like ours should be strong again.沒人知道我們還能有精力在這里再呆多久--也許呆很長一陣子，也許不是。到走的時候，我們會愴然離去，但也會為自己所做的一切深感自豪。我們把農場出售也會賺相當大一筆錢。我們自己在農場投入了約35，000美金的資金，要是現在售出的話價格差不多可以翻一倍。不過現在不是出售的好時機。但是一旦經濟形勢好轉，對我們這種農場的需求又會增多。

We didn't move here primarily to earn money though.We came because we wanted to improve the quality of our lives.When I watch Emily collecting eggs in the evening, fishing with Jim on the river or enjoying an old-fashioned picnic in the orchard with the entire family, I know we've found just what we were looking for.但我們主要不是為了賺錢而移居至此的。我們來此居住是因為想提高生活質量。當我看著埃米莉傍晚去收雞蛋，跟吉米一起在河上釣魚，或和全家人一起在果園里享用老式的野餐，我知道，我們找到了自己一直在尋求的生活方式。

Unit 2

Yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me.Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South.Between 1820 and 1860, as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.但此地只是我所承擔的繁重使命的一處停留地。喬賽亞·亨森只是一長串無所畏懼的男女名單中的一個名字，這些人共同創建了這條“地下鐵路”，一條由逃亡線路和可靠的人家組成的用以解放美國南方黑奴的秘密網絡。在1820年至1860年期間，多達十萬名黑奴經由此路走向自由。

In October 2000, President Clinton authorized $16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the U.S.The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati.And it's about time.For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered, their exploits still largely unsung.I was intent on telling their stories.2000年10月，克林頓總統批準撥款1600萬美元建造全國“地下鐵路”自由中心，以此紀念美國歷史上第一次偉大的民權斗爭。中心計劃于2004年在辛辛那提州建成。真是該建立這樣一個中心的時候了。因為地下鐵路的英雄們依然默默無聞，他們的業績依然少人頌揚。我要講述他們的故事。

Unit 3

It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm.Many suburban families have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open.取而代之的是防盜鎖、防護鏈、電子報警系統，以及連接警署或私人保安公司的報警裝置。郊區的許多人家在露臺上安裝了玻璃滑門，內側有裝得很講究的鋼條，這樣就沒人能把門撬開。

It is not uncommon, in the most pleasant of homes, to see pasted on the windows small notices announcing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company.在最溫馨的居家，也常常看得到窗上貼著小小的告示，稱本宅由某家安全機構或某個保安公司負責監管。

The lock is the new symbol of America.Indeed, a recent public-service advertisement by a large insurance company featured not charts showing how much at risk we are, but a picture of a child's bicycle with the now-usual padlock attached to it.鎖成了美國的新的象征。的確，一家大保險公司最近的一則公益廣告沒有用圖表表明我們所處的危險有多大，而是用了一幅童車的圖片，車身上懸著如今無所不在的掛鎖。

The ad pointed out that, yes, it is the insurance companies that pay for stolen goods, but who is going to pay for what the new atmosphere of distrust and fear is doing to our way of life? Who is going to make the psychic payment for the transformation of America from the Land of the Free to the Land of the Lock?

廣告指出，沒錯，確是保險公司理賠失竊物品，但誰來賠償互不信任、擔心害怕這種新氛圍對我們的生活方式所造成的影響呢？誰來對美國從自由之國到鎖之國這一蛻變作出精神賠償呢？

For that is what has happened.We have become so used to defending ourselves against the new atmosphere of American life, so used to putting up barriers, that we have not had time to think about what it may mean.因為那就是現狀。我們已經變得如此習慣于保護自己不受美國生活新氛圍的影響，如此習慣于設置障礙，因而無暇考慮這一切意味著什么。

Unit 4

It was actually Bart Cameron's error and you'll have to understand about Bart Cameron.He's the sheriff at Twin Gulch, Idaho, and I'm his deputy.Bart Cameron is an impatient man and he gets most impatient when he has to work up his income tax.You see, besides being sheriff, he also owns and runs the general store, he's got some shares in a sheep ranch, he's got a kind of pension for being a disabled veteran(bad knee)and a few other things like that.Naturally, it makes his tax figures complicated.這實際上是巴特·卡默倫的錯，所以你得對巴特·卡默倫這人有所了解。他是愛達荷州特溫加爾奇的治安官，我是他的副手。巴特·卡默倫是個脾氣暴躁的人，到了他不得不整理個人應繳多少所得稅時更是容易光火。你想，他除了當治安官，還經營著一家雜貨鋪，并擁有一家牧羊場的股份，同時還享有殘疾退伍軍人（膝蓋受過傷）津貼，以及其他某些類似的津貼。這樣一來他的個人所得稅計算起來自然就變得復雜。

It wouldn't be so bad if he'd let a taxman work on the forms with him, but he insists on doing it himself and it makes him a bitter man.By April 14, he isn't approachable.要是他讓稅務人員幫他填表就不至于那么糟糕，可他非得要自己填，于是填得他牢騷滿腹。每年到了4月14日，他就變得難以接近。

So it's too bad the flying saucer landed on April 14, 1956.那個飛碟在1956年4月14日這一天登陸真是大錯特錯。

I saw it land.My chair was backed up against the wall in the sheriff's office, and I was looking at the stars through the windows and wondering if I ought to knock off and hit the sack or keep on listening to Cameron curse real steady as he went over his columns of figures for the hundred twenty-seventh time.我是看著它降落的。當時我的椅子背靠著治安官辦公室的墻，我正望著窗外的星星，琢磨著是不是該下班去睡覺，還是繼續聽卡默倫罵個不停，他正在第127次核對他在稅單上填寫的一欄欄數字。

It looked like a shooting star at first, but then the track of light broadened into two things that looked like rocket exhausts and the thing came down without a sound.一開始像是顆流星，可接著那軌跡越來越亮，變成兩個光點，就像是火箭噴出的氣流，那個東西一點沒出聲就著落了。

Two men got out.兩個人走了出來。

I couldn't say anything or do anything.I couldn't choke or point;I couldn't even bug my eyes.I just sat there.我沒法說話，也無法做事。喉部肌肉僵直，也沒法用手示意，甚至眼睛都沒法瞪大。我就那么呆坐著。

Cameron? He never looked up.卡默倫？他壓根兒就沒抬起過頭。

Unit 5

Always the college professor, my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too sentimental, so I knew how moved he was to write me that, after having helped educate many young people, he now felt that his best results included his own son.身為大學教授的爸爸向來特別留意不使用任何過于感情化的文字，因此，當他對我寫道，在教了許許多多的年輕人之后，他認為自己最優秀的學生當中也包括自己的兒子時，我知道他是多么地感動。

The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a “simple, old-fashioned principal” had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he had retired in self-doubt.“I heard more of what I had done wrong than what I did right,” he said, adding that my letter had brought him welcome reassurance that his career had been appreciated.納爾遜牧師寫道，他那平凡的傳統校長的歲月隨著學校里發生的如此迅猛的變化而結束，他懷著自我懷疑的心態退了休。“說我做得不對的遠遠多于說我做得對的，” 他寫道，接著說我的信給他帶來了振奮人心的信心：自己的校長生涯還是有其價值的。

A glance at Grandma's familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her “settin' down” some letter to relatives.Character by character, Grandma would slowly accomplish one word, then the next, so that a finished page would consume hours.I wept over the page representing my Grandma's recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me--whom she used to diaper!

一看到外祖母那熟悉的筆跡，我頓時回想起往日站在她的白色搖椅旁看她給親戚寫信的情景。外祖母一個字母一個字母地慢慢拼出一個詞，接著是下一個詞，因此寫滿一頁要花上幾個小時。捧著外祖母最近花費不少工夫對我表達了充滿慈愛的謝意，我禁不住流淚――從前是她給我換尿布的呀。

Unit 6

Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them.He was past sixty and had a long white beard curling down over his chest.Despite looking the part, Behrman was a failure in art.For forty years he had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artists who could not pay the price of a professional.He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece.For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who mocked terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as guard dog to the two young artists in the studio above.老貝爾曼是住在兩人樓下底層的一個畫家。他已年過六旬，銀白色蜷曲的長髯披掛胸前。貝爾曼看上去挺像藝術家，但在藝術上卻沒有什么成就。40年來他一直想創作一幅傳世之作，卻始終沒能動手。他給那些請不起職業模特的青年畫家當模特掙點小錢。他沒節制地喝酒，談論著他那即將問世的不朽之作。要說其他方面，他是個好斗的小老頭，要是誰表現出一點軟弱，他便大肆嘲笑，并把自己看成是樓上畫室里兩位年輕藝術家的看護人。

Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of gin in his dimly lighted studio below.In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece.She told him of Johnsy's fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker.Old Behrman, with his red eyes plainly streaming, shouted his contempt for such foolish imaginings.蘇在樓下光線暗淡的畫室里找到了貝爾曼，他滿身酒味刺鼻。屋子一角的畫架上支著一張從未落過筆的畫布，在那兒擱了25年，等著一幅杰作的起筆。蘇把約翰西的怪念頭跟他說了，并說約翰西本身就像一片葉子又瘦又弱，她害怕要是她那本已脆弱的生存意志再軟下去的話，真的會凋零飄落。老貝爾曼雙眼通紅，顯然是淚漣漣的，他大聲叫嚷著說他蔑視這種傻念頭。

“What!” he cried.“Are there people in the world foolish enough to die because leafs drop off from a vine? I have never heard of such a thing.Why do you allow such silly ideas to come into that head of hers? God!This is not a place in which one so good as Miss Johnsy should lie sick.Some day I will paint a masterpiece, and we shall all go away.Yes.”

“什么！”他嚷道。“世界上竟然有這么愚蠢的人，因為樹葉從藤上掉落就要去死？我聽都沒聽說過這等事。你怎么讓這種傻念頭鉆到她那個怪腦袋里？天哪！這不是一個像約翰西小姐這樣的好姑娘躺倒生病的地方。有朝一日我要畫一幅巨作，那時候我們就離開這里。真的。”

第三篇：課文背誦及翻譯

I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do.It takes a couple of special qualities.One is a tolerance for solitude.Because we are so busy and on such a tight budget, we don't entertain much.During the growing season there is no time for socializing anyway.Jim and Emily are involved in school activities, but they too spend most of their time at home.我想，不是所有熱愛鄉村的人都會樂意過我們這種生活的。這種生活需要一些特殊的素質。其一是耐得住寂寞。由于我們如此忙碌，手頭又緊，我們很少請客。在作物生長季節，根本就沒工夫參加社交活動。吉米和埃米莉雖然參加學校的各種活動，但他倆大多數時間也呆在家里。

The other requirement is energy--a lot of it.The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices.Instead, you do the work yourself.The only machinery we own(not counting the lawn mower)is a little three-horsepower rotary cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw.另一項要求是體力――相當大的體力。小范圍里實現自給自足的途徑是抵制誘惑，不去購置拖拉機和其他昂貴的節省勞力的機械。相反，你要自己動手。我們僅有的機器（不包括割草機）是一臺3馬力的小型旋轉式耕耘機以及一架16英寸的鏈鋸。

Yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me.Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South.Between 1820 and 1860, as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.但此地只是我所承擔的繁重使命的一處停留地。喬賽亞·亨森只是一長串無所畏懼的男女名單中的一個名字，這些人共同創建了這條“地下鐵路”，一條由逃亡線路和可靠的人家組成的用以解放美國南方黑奴的秘密網絡。在1820年至1860年期間，多達十萬名黑奴經由此路走向自由。

In October 2000, President Clinton authorized $16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the U.S.The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati.And it's about time.For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered, their exploits still largely unsung.I was intent on telling their stories.2000年10月，克林頓總統批準撥款1600萬美元建造全國“地下鐵路”自由中心，以此紀念美國歷史上第一次偉大的民權斗爭。中心計劃于2004年在辛辛那提州建成。真是該建立這樣一個中心的時候了。因為地下鐵路的英雄們依然默默無聞，他們的業績依然少人頌揚。我要講述他們的故事。

It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm.Many suburban families have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open.取而代之的是防盜鎖、防護鏈、電子報警系統，以及連接警署或私人保安公司的報警裝置。郊區的許多人家在露臺上安裝了玻璃滑門，內側有裝得很講究的鋼條，這樣就沒人能把門撬開。

It is not uncommon, in the most pleasant of homes, to see pasted on the windows small notices announcing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company.在最溫馨的居家，也常常看得到窗上貼著小小的告示，稱本宅由某家安全機構或某個保安公司負責監管。

The lock is the new symbol of America.Indeed, a recent public-service advertisement by a large insurance company featured not charts showing how much at risk we are, but a picture of a child's bicycle with the now-usual padlock attached to it.鎖成了美國的新的象征。的確，一家大保險公司最近的一則公益廣告沒有用圖表表明我們所處的危險有多大，而是用了一幅童車的圖片，車身上懸著如今無所不在的掛鎖。

He had impressive powers of concentration.Einstein's sister, Maja, recalled “...even when there was a lot of noise, he could lie down on the sofa, pick up a pen and paper, precariously balance an inkwell on the backrest and engross himself in a problem so much that the background noise stimulated rather than disturbed him.” 他有令人印象深刻的專注力。愛因斯坦的妹妹，瑪雅，回憶說，“??即使有很大的噪音，他會躺在沙發上，拿起紙和筆，悠悠地平衡一個放在靠背墨水瓶使他自己全神貫注的沉浸在問題中就如同背景噪聲促進而不是打擾他。”

Einstein was clearly intelligent, but not outlandishly more so than his peers.“I have no special talents,” he claimed, “I am only passionately curious.” And again: “The contrast between the popular assessment of my powers...and the reality is simply grotesque.” Einstein credited his discoveries to imagination and pesky questioning more so than orthodox intelligence.愛因斯坦很聰明,但沒有比他的同行更特殊的地方。“我沒有特殊的才能.”他說:“我只是有強烈的好奇心。”又說:“關于我力量的流行評估?和現實的對比真是荒唐。”愛因斯坦將他的發現歸功于想象力和無止境的提問而不是傳統的智慧。

The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a “simple, old-fashioned principal” had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he had retired in self-doubt.“I heard more of what I had done wrong than what I did right,” he said, adding that my letter had brought him welcome reassurance that his career had been appreciated.納爾遜牧師寫道，他那平凡的傳統校長的歲月隨著學校里發生的如此迅猛的變化而結束，他懷著自我懷疑的心態退了休。“說我做得不對的遠遠多于說我做得對的，” 他寫道，接著說我的信給他帶來了振奮人心的信心：自己的校長生涯還是有其價值的。

A glance at Grandma's familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her “settin' down” some letter to relatives.Character by character, Grandma would slowly accomplish one word, then the next, so that a finished page would consume hours.I wept over the page representing my Grandma's recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me--whom she used to diaper!一看到外祖母那熟悉的筆跡，我頓時回想起往日站在她的白色搖椅旁看她給親戚寫信的情景。外祖母一個字母一個字母地慢慢拼出一個詞，接著是下一個詞，因此寫滿一頁要花上幾個小時。捧著外祖母最近花費不少工夫對我表達了充滿慈愛的謝意，我禁不住流淚――從前是她給我換尿布的呀。

Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them.He was past sixty and had a long white beard curling down over his chest.Despite looking the part, Behrman was a failure in art.For forty years he had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artists who could not pay the price of a professional.He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece.For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who mocked terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as guard dog to the two young artists in the studio above.老貝爾曼是住在兩人樓下底層的一個畫家。他已年過六旬，銀白色蜷曲的長髯披掛胸前。貝爾曼看上去挺像藝術家，但在藝術上卻沒有什么成就。40年來他一直想創作一幅傳世之作，卻始終沒能動手。他給那些請不起職業模特的青年畫家當模特掙點小錢。他沒節制地喝酒，談論著他那即將問世的不朽之作。要說其他方面，他是個好斗的小老頭，要是誰表現出一點軟弱，他便大肆嘲笑，并把自己看成是樓上畫室里兩位年輕藝術家的看護人。

Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of gin in his dimly lighted studio below.In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece.She told him of Johnsy's fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker.Old Behrman, with his red eyes plainly streaming, shouted his contempt for such foolish imaginings.蘇在樓下光線暗淡的畫室里找到了貝爾曼，他滿身酒味刺鼻。屋子一角的畫架上支著一張從未落過筆的畫布，在那兒擱了25年，等著一幅杰作的起筆。蘇把約翰西的怪念頭跟他說了，并說約翰西本身就像一片葉子又瘦又弱，她害怕要是她那本已脆弱的生存意志再軟下去的話，真的會凋零飄落。老貝爾曼雙眼通紅，顯然是淚漣漣的，他大聲叫嚷著說他蔑視這種傻念頭。

第四篇：全新版大學英語3課文要求背誦段落及翻譯范文

Unit one 12

I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do.It takes a couple of special qualities.One is a tolerance for solitude.Because we are so busy and on such a tight budget, we don't entertain much.During the growing season there is no time for socializing anyway.Jim and Emily are involved in school activities, but they too spend most of their time at home.我想，不是所有熱愛鄉村的人都會樂意過我們這種生活的。這種生活需要一些特殊的素質。其一是耐得住寂寞。由于我們如此忙碌，手頭又緊，我們很少請客。在作物生長季節，根本就沒工夫參加社交活動。吉米和埃米莉雖然參加學校的各種活動，但他倆大多數時間也呆在家里。

The other requirement is energy--a lot of it.The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices.Instead, you do the work yourself.The only machinery we own(not counting the lawn mower)is a little three-horsepower rotary cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw.另一項要求是體力――相當大的體力。小范圍里實現自給自足的途徑是抵制誘惑，不去購置拖拉機和其他昂貴的節省勞力的機械。相反，你要自己動手。我們僅有的機器（不包括割草機）是一臺3馬力的小型旋轉式耕耘機以及一架16英寸的鏈鋸。

How much longer we'll have enough energy to stay on here is anybody's guess--perhaps for quite a while, perhaps not.When the time comes, we'll leave with a feeling of sorrow but also with a sense of pride at what we've been able to accomplish.We should make a fair profit on the sale of the place, too.We've invested about $35,000 of our own money in it, and we could just about double that if we sold today.But this is not a good time to sell.Once economic conditions improve, however, demand for farms like ours should be strong again.We didn't move here primarily to earn money though.We came because we wanted to improve the quality of our lives.When I watch Emily collecting eggs in the evening, fishing with Jim on the river or enjoying an old-fashioned picnic in the orchard with the entire family, I know we've found just what we were looking for.但我們主要不是為了賺錢而移居至此的。我們來此居住是因為想提高生活質量。當我看著埃米莉傍晚去收雞蛋，跟吉米一起在河上釣魚，或和全家人一起在果園里享用老式的野餐，我知道，我們找到了自己一直在尋求的生活方式。

Unit two 4

Yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me.Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South.Between 1820 and 1860, as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.In October 2000, President Clinton authorized $16 million for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the U.S.The center is scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati.And it's about time.For the heroes of the Underground Railroad remain too little remembered, their exploits still largely unsung.I was intent on telling their stories.2000年10月，克林頓總統批準撥款1600萬美元建造全國“地下鐵路”自由中心，以此紀念美國歷史上第一次偉大的民權斗爭。中心計劃于2004年在辛辛那提州建成。真是該建立這樣一個中心的時候了。因為地下鐵路的英雄們依然默默無聞，他們的業績依然少人頌揚。我要講述他們的故事。

Unit three 4

It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm.Many suburban families have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open.取而代之的是防盜鎖、防護鏈、電子報警系統，以及連接警署或私人保安公司的報警裝置。郊區的許多人家在露臺上安裝了玻璃滑門，內側有裝得很講究的鋼條，這樣就沒人能把門撬開。

It is not uncommon, in the most pleasant of homes, to see pasted on the windows small notices announcing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company.在最溫馨的居家，也常常看得到窗上貼著小小的告示，稱本宅由某家安全機構或某個保安公司負責監管。

The lock is the new symbol of America.Indeed, a recent public-service advertisement by a large insurance company featured not charts showing how much at risk we are, but a picture of a child's bicycle with the now-usual padlock attached to it.The ad pointed out that, yes, it is the insurance companies that pay for stolen goods, but who is going to pay for what the new atmosphere of distrust and fear is doing to our way of life? Who is going to make the psychic payment for the transformation of America from the Land of the Free to the Land of the Lock?

For that is what has happened.We have become so used to defending ourselves against the new atmosphere of American life, so used to putting up barriers, that we have not had time to think about what it may mean.因為那就是現狀。我們已經變得如此習慣于保護自己不受美國生活新氛圍的影響，如此習慣于設置障礙，因而無暇考慮這一切意味著什么。

Unit four

It was actually Bart Cameron's error and you'll have to understand about Bart Cameron.He's the sheriff at Twin Gulch, Idaho, and I'm his deputy.Bart Cameron is an impatient man and he gets most impatient when he has to work up his income tax.You see, besides being sheriff, he also owns and runs the general store, he's got some shares in a sheep ranch, he's got a kind of pension for being a disabled veteran(bad knee)and a few other things like that.Naturally, it makes his tax figures complicated.這實際上是巴特·卡默倫的錯，所以你得對巴特·卡默倫這人有所了解。他是愛達荷州特溫加爾奇的治安官，我是他的副手。巴特·卡默倫是個脾氣暴躁的人，到了他不得不整理個人應繳多少所得稅時更是容易光火。你想，他除了當治安官，還經營著一家雜貨鋪，并擁有一家牧羊場的股份，同時還享有殘疾退伍軍人（膝蓋受過傷）津貼，以及其他某些類似的津貼。這樣一來他的個人所得稅計算起來自然就變得復雜。

It wouldn't be so bad if he'd let a taxman work on the forms with him, but he insists on doing it himself and it makes him a bitter man.By April 14, he isn't approachable.要是他讓稅務人員幫他填表就不至于那么糟糕，可他非得要自己填，于是填得他牢騷滿腹。每年到了4月14日，他就變得難以接近。

So it's too bad the flying saucer landed on April 14, 1956.那個飛碟在1956年4月14日這一天登陸真是大錯特錯。

I saw it land.My chair was backed up against the wall in the sheriff's office, and I was looking at the stars through the windows and wondering if I ought to knock off and hit the sack or keep on listening to Cameron curse real steady as he went over his columns of figures for the hundred twenty-seventh time.我是看著它降落的。當時我的椅子背靠著治安官辦公室的墻，我正望著窗外的星星，琢磨著是不是該下班去睡覺，還是繼續聽卡默倫罵個不停，他正在第127次核對他在稅單上填寫的一欄欄數字。

It looked like a shooting star at first, but then the track of light broadened into two things that looked like rocket exhausts and the thing came down without a sound.一開始像是顆流星，可接著那軌跡越來越亮，變成兩個光點，就像是火箭噴出的氣流，那個東西一點沒出聲就著落了。

Two men got out.兩個人走了出來。

I couldn't say anything or do anything.I couldn't choke or point;I couldn't even bug my eyes.I just sat there.我沒法說話，也無法做事。喉部肌肉僵直，也沒法用手示意，甚至眼睛都沒法瞪大。我就那么呆坐著。

Cameron? He never looked up.卡默倫？他壓根兒就沒抬起過頭。

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Always the college professor, my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too sentimental, so I knew how moved he was to write me that, after having helped educate many young people, he now felt that his best results included his own son.身為大學教授的爸爸向來特別留意不使用任何過于感情化的文字，因此，當他對我寫道，在教了許許多多的年輕人之后，他認為自己最優秀的學生當中也包括自己的兒子時，我知道他是多么地感動。

The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a “simple, old-fashioned principal” had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he had retired in self-doubt.“I heard more of what I had done wrong than what I did right,” he said, adding that my letter had brought him welcome reassurance that his career had been appreciated.納爾遜牧師寫道，他那平凡的傳統校長的歲月隨著學校里發生的如此迅猛的變化而結束，他懷著自我懷疑的心態退了休。“說我做得不對的遠遠多于說我做得對的，” 他寫道，接著說我的信給他帶來了振奮人心的信心：自己的校長生涯還是有其價值的。

A glance at Grandma's familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her “settin' down” some letter to relatives.Character by character, Grandma would slowly accomplish one word, then the next, so that a finished page would consume hours.I wept over the page representing my Grandma's recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me--whom she used to diaper!

一看到外祖母那熟悉的筆跡，我頓時回想起往日站在她的白色搖椅旁看她給親戚寫信的情景。外祖母一個字母一個字母地慢慢拼出一個詞，接著是下一個詞，因此寫滿一頁要花上幾個小時。捧著外祖母最近花費不少工夫對我表達了充滿慈愛的謝意，我禁不住流淚――從前是她給我換尿布的呀。

Unit six

Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them.He was past sixty and had a long white beard curling down over his chest.Despite looking the part, Behrman was a failure in art.For forty years he had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artists who could not pay the price of a professional.He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece.For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who mocked terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as guard dog to the two young artists in the studio above.老貝爾曼是住在兩人樓下底層的一個畫家。他已年過六旬，銀白色蜷曲的長髯披掛胸前。貝爾曼看上去挺像藝術家，但在藝術上卻沒有什么成就。40年來他一直想創作一幅傳世之作，卻始終沒能動手。他給那些請不起職業模特的青年畫家當模特掙點小錢。他沒節制地喝酒，談論著他那即將問世的不朽之作。要說其他方面，他是個好斗的小老頭，要是誰表現出一點軟弱，他便大肆嘲笑，并把自己看成是樓上畫室里兩位年輕藝術家的看護人。

Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of gin in his dimly lighted studio below.In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece.She told him of Johnsy's fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker.Old Behrman, with his red eyes plainly streaming, shouted his contempt for such foolish imaginings.蘇在樓下光線暗淡的畫室里找到了貝爾曼，他滿身酒味刺鼻。屋子一角的畫架上支著一張從未落過筆的畫布，在那兒擱了25年，等著一幅杰作的起筆。蘇把約翰西的怪念頭跟他說了，并說約翰西本身就像一片葉子又瘦又弱，她害怕要是她那本已脆弱的生存意志再軟下去的話，真的會凋零飄落。老貝爾曼雙眼通紅，顯然是淚漣漣的，他大聲叫嚷著說他蔑視這種傻念頭。

“What!” he cried.“Are there people in the world foolish enough to die because leafs drop off from a vine? I have never heard of such a thing.Why do you allow such silly ideas to come into that head of hers? God!This is not a place in which one so good as Miss Johnsy should lie sick.Some day I will paint a masterpiece, and we shall all go away.Yes.”

“什么！”他嚷道。“世界上竟然有這么愚蠢的人，因為樹葉從藤上掉落就要去死？我聽都沒聽說過這等事。你怎么讓這種傻念頭鉆到她那個怪腦袋里？天哪！這不是一個像約翰西小姐這樣的好姑娘躺倒生病的地方。有朝一日我要畫一幅巨作，那時候我們就離開這里。真的。”

Unit seven

Porter came to Portland when he was 13 after his father, a salesman, was transferred here.He attended a school for the disabled and then Lincoln High School, where he was placed in a class for slow kids.But he wasn't slow.波特13歲那年隨著當推銷員的父親工作調動來到波特蘭。他上了一個殘疾人學校，后來就讀林肯高級中學，在那兒他被編入慢班。

但他并不笨。

His mind was trapped in a body that didn't work.Speaking was difficult and took time.People were impatient and didn't listen.He felt different--was different--from the kids who rushed about in the halls and planned dances he would never attend.他由于身體不能正常運行而使腦子不能充分發揮其功能。他說話困難，而且慢。別人不耐煩，不聽他說。他覺得自己不同于――事實上也確實不同于――那些在過道里東奔西跑的孩子，那些孩子安排的舞會他永遠也不可能參加。

What could his future be? Porter wanted to do something and his mother was certain that he could rise above his limitations.With her encouragement, he applied for a job with the Fuller Brush Co.only to be turned down.He couldn't carry a product briefcase or walk a route, they said.他將來會是個什么樣子呢？波特想做些事，母親也相信他能沖破身體的局限。在她的鼓勵之下，他向福勒牙刷公司申請一份工作，結果卻遭到拒絕。他不能提樣品包，也不能跑一條推銷線路，他們說。

Porter knew he wanted to be a salesman.He began reading help wanted ads in the newspaper.When he saw one for Watkins, a company that sold household products door-to-door, his mother set up a meeting with a representative.The man said no, but Porter wouldn't listen.He just wanted a chance.The man gave in and offered Porter a section of the city that no salesman wanted.波特知道自己想當推銷員。他開始閱讀報紙上的招聘廣告。他看到沃特金斯，一家上門推銷家用物品的公司要人，他母親就跟其代理人安排會面。那人說不行，可波特不予理會。他就是需要一個機會。那人讓步了，把城里一個其他推銷員都不要的區域派給了他。

It took Porter four false starts before he found the courage to ring the first doorbell.The man who answered told him to go away, a pattern repeated throughout the day.波特一開始四次都沒敢敲門，第五次才鼓起勇氣按了第一戶人家的門鈴。開門的那人讓他走開，這種情形持續了一整天。

That night Porter read through company literature and discovered the products were guaranteed.He would sell that pledge.He just needed people to listen.If a customer turned him down, Porter kept coming back until they heard him.And he sold.當晚，波特仔細閱讀了公司的宣傳資料，發現產品都是保用的。他要把保用作為賣點。只要別人肯聽他說話就成。

要是客戶回絕波特，拒絕傾聽他的介紹，他就一再上門。就這樣他將產品賣了出去。

For several years he was Watkins' top retail salesman.Now he is the only one of the company's 44,000 salespeople who sells door-to-door.The bus stops in the Transit Mall, and Porter gets off.他連著幾年都是沃特金斯公司的最佳零售推銷員。如今他是該公司44000名推銷員中惟一一個上門推銷的人。

公共汽車在公交中轉購物中心站停下，波特下了車。

Unit 8 9

Cloning brings us face-to-face with what it means to be human and makes us confront both the privileges and limitations of life itself.It also forces us to question the powers of science.Is there, in fact, knowledge that we do not want? Are there paths we would rather not pursue?

克隆技術使我們直接面對做人的意義這個問題，使我們直接面對生命本身的特權與限制。克隆技術也迫使我們對科學的力量提出質疑。是不是有些知識我們真的不要去獲取？有一些路我們寧愿不去探尋？

The time is long past when we can speak of the purity of science, divorced from its consequences.If any needed reminding that the innocence of scientists was lost long ago, they need only recall the comments of J.Robert Oppenheimer, the genius who was a father of the atomic bomb and who was transformed in the process from a supremely confident man, ready to follow his scientific curiosity, to a humbled and troubled soul, wondering what science had let loose.我們奢談科學的純潔性，將科學與其后果分離的時代早已過去。如果有誰還需要提醒，科學家的純真早已喪失，他們只要回想一下J·羅伯特·奧本海默的話。奧本海默是一位天才，他是原子彈的締造者之一。他在追求科學的過程中，從一個極其自信、隨時準備跟著科學好奇心走的人，逐漸變成了一個謙恭困惑的人，他不知道科學放出了什么妖魔。

Before the bomb was made, Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.” After the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in a chilling speech delivered in 1947, he said: “The physicists have known sin;and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”

在原子彈造出之前，奧本海默說：“當你看到某個技術完美的東西時，你就毫不猶豫地去實現它。”原子彈投在廣島、長崎之后，他在1947年發表的一則令人毛骨悚然的演說中指出：“物理學家們已經嘗到過罪孽的滋味，這種滋味他們無法忘記。”

第五篇：全新版大學英語5(第二版)課文翻譯

Going for Broke

Matea Gold and David Ferrell 1 Rex Coile's life is a narrow box, so dark and confining he wonders how he got trapped inside, whether he'll ever get out.孤注一擲

馬泰婭·戈爾德 戴維·費雷爾

雷克斯·科勒好像生活在一個狹窄的箱子里，伸手不見五指，空間又狹小，他不知道自己是怎么陷進去的，也不知道自己還能不能走出來。He never goes to the movies, never sees concerts, never lies on a sunny beach, never travels on vacation, never spends Christmas with his family.Instead, Rex shares floor space in cheap motels with other compulsive gamblers, comforting himself with delusional dreams of jackpots that will magically wipe away three decades of wreckage.He has lost his marriage, his home, his Cadillac, his clothes, his diamond ring.Not least of all, in the card clubs of Southern California, he has lost his pride.他從不看電影，從不聽音樂會，從不躺在沙灘上曬太陽，從不在假日去旅游，從不和家人一起過圣誕節。相反，雷克斯在廉價汽車旅館和別的嗜賭成癖的賭徒一起住，幻想著贏大錢，好魔術般地把30年的晦氣厄運一掃而光。他失去了婚姻，失去了家，失去了卡迪拉克牌轎車，失去了衣物和鉆戒。尤其是，在南加州的紙牌俱樂部，他還失去了自尊心。Rex no longer feels sorry for himself, not after a 29-year losing streak that has left him scrounging for table scraps to feed his habit.Still, he agonizes over what he has become at 54 and what he might have been.雷克斯不再為自己哀嘆，他都輸了29年了，輸到了在賭桌上偷零錢以滿足自己嗜好的地步。盡管如此，他還是對自己54歲時的境況深感痛苦，對自己未能成就可能會成就的事業而深感痛苦。Articulate, intellectual, he talks about existential philosophy, the writings of Camus and Sartre.He was once aneditor at Random House.His mind is so jam packed with tidbits about movies, television, baseball and history that card room regulars call him “ Rex Trivia,” a name he cherishes for the remnant of self-respect it gives him.“There's a lot of Rexes around these card rooms,” he says in a whisper of resignation and sadness.他能說會道，善于思考，喜談存在主義哲學，談加繆和薩特的作品。他曾是蘭登出版社的編輯。他腦子里裝滿有關電影、電視、棒球和歷史的趣聞，因此那些紙牌室的常客都叫他“趣聞大王雷克斯”，他珍惜這個帶給自己些許自尊的名字。“這些紙牌室里有不少雷克斯，”他無奈而又悲傷地低聲說道。And their numbers are soaring as gambling explodes across America, from the mega-resorts of Las Vegas to the gaming parlors of Indian reservations, from the riverboats along the Mississippi to the corner mini-marts selling lottery tickets.With nearly every state in the union now sanctioning some form of legalized gambling to raise revenues, evidence is mounting that society is paying a steep price, one that some researchers say must be confronted, if not reversed.美國各地賭博盛行，從拉斯維加斯的特大型度假勝地，到印第安人居留地的小賭場，從密西西比河上的內河船，到街角處出售彩票的便利店，賭博隨處可見，因此賭徒人數正在劇增。由于全國幾乎每個州都批準某種合法化的賭博形式以增加稅收，越來越多的事實表明，整個社會正在付出巨大的代價，不少研究者指出，對此現象如果不能徹底改變，那就必須嚴肅面對。Never before have bettors blown so much money — a whopping $50.9 billion last year — five

times the amount lost in 1980.That's more than the public spent on movies, theme parks, recorded music and sporting events combined.A substantial share of those gambling losses — an estimated 30% to 40% — pours from the pockets and purses of chronic losers hooked on the adrenaline rush of risking their money, intoxicated by the fast action of gambling's incandescent world.賭徒以前從來不曾花費如此多的賭金—— 去年的賭輸金額高達509億美元，是1980年賭輸金額的5倍，高出公眾在電影、主題公園、唱片音樂以及運動項目等方面的消費總額。輸掉的賭金中有相當一部分—— 約占30%－40%—— 是從那些常輸的賭徒的錢包里掏出來的，賭博帶來的興奮令他們入迷，瞬息萬變的賭博世界令他們如癡如醉。Studies place the total number of compulsive gamblers at about 4.4 million, about equal to the nation's ranks of hard-core drug addicts.Another 11 million, known as problem gamblers, teeter on the verge.Since 1990, the number of Gamblers Anonymous groups nationwide has doubled from about 600 to more than 1,200.據研究，嗜賭成癮者的總數約有440萬，與美國毒癮大的癮君子的人數大致相同。另有1100萬所謂有問題的賭徒，已瀕臨深淵搖搖欲墜。自1990年以來，全國戒賭組織的總數翻了一番，從600個上升到1200多個。Compulsive gambling has been linked to child abuse, domestic violence, embezzlement, bogus insurance claims, bankruptcies, welfare fraud and a host of other social and criminal ills.The advent of Internet gambling could lure new legions into wagering beyond their means.嗜賭成癮總是與虐待兒童、家庭暴力、盜用錢款、偽造保險索賠、破產、福利救濟欺騙，以及其他許多社會問題與犯罪行為聯系在一起。網上賭博的出現會誘使更多的人無節制地狂賭。Every once in a while, a case is so egregious it makes headlines: A 10-day-old baby girl in South Carolina dies after being left for nearly seven hours in a hot car while her mother plays video poker.A suburban Chicago woman is so desperate for a bankroll to gamble that she allegedly suffocates her 7-week-old daughter 11 days after obtaining a $200,000 life-insurance policy on the baby.每過一段時間，總有一則令人震驚的案子成為頭條社會新聞：南卡羅來納州一名出生10天的女嬰被放在悶熱的汽車里幾乎達7個小時后死去，其間女嬰的母親在電腦上打撲克。芝加哥郊區一名婦女急于覓得賭資，據說，她在為她出生僅7周的女嬰購買了20萬美元的人壽保險后11天將其窒息致死。Science has begun to uncover clues to compulsive gambling — genetic predispositions that involve chemical receptors in the brain, the same pleasure pathways implicated in drug and alcohol addiction.But no amount of knowledge, no amount of enlightenment, makes the illness any less confounding, any less destructive.What the gamblers cannot understand about themselves is also well beyond the comprehension of family members, who struggle for normality in a world of deceit and madness.科學研究開始揭示形成嗜賭成癖惡習的線索—— 與大腦中的化學感受器有關的，即與嗜毒、嗜酒同一個快感途徑有關的遺傳特性。但無論對這一頑癥有多少了解有多少認識，人們對它的困惑一點也沒有減少，它的破壞性也一點也沒有減少。賭徒不明白自己的地方也正是家人所難以理解的地方，他們在一個充滿欺騙與瘋狂的世界中苦苦追求正常生活。Money starts vanishing: $500 here, $200 there, $800 a couple of weeks later.Where is it? The answers come back vague, nonsensical.It's in the desk at work.A friend borrowed it.It got spent on family dinners, car repairs, loans to in-laws.Exasperated spouses play the sleuth，combing through pockets, wallets, purses, searching the car.Sometimes the incriminating evidence turns up — a racing form, lottery scratchers, a map to an Indian casino.Once the secret is uncovered, spouses usually fight the problem alone, bleeding inside, because the stories are too humiliating to share.錢突然就不知去向：這里用了500美元，那兒花了200美元，兩三個星期之后又少了800美元。錢哪去了？回答很含糊，不知所云。在單位的辦公桌抽屜里。朋友借去了。家人聚餐花了，修車用了，借給姻親了。怒不可遏的配偶充當起偵探，把衣袋、皮夾子、錢包翻了個遍，還搜了汽車。有時犯罪證據會暴露—— 賽馬小報、刮刮樂、去一家印第安賭場的地圖。秘密一旦被揭穿，配偶通常都單獨面對問題，獨自承受心頭巨痛，因為這種事太丟人，沒法跟別人說。“Anybody who is living with a compulsive gambler is totally overwhelmed,” says Tom Tucker, president of the California Council on Problem Gambling.“They're steeped in anger, resentment, depression, confusion.None of their personal efforts will ever stop a person from their addiction.And they don't really see any hope because compulsive gambling in general is such an under-recognized illness.”

“與嗜賭成癮者一起生活的人都會陷入絕望，”加利福尼亞問題賭博委員會主任湯姆·塔克說。“他們沉浸在憤怒、怨恨、沮喪、困惑之中。他們怎么苦心規勸也無法使浪子回頭。他們真的看不到絲毫希望，因為人們通常并不真正懂得嗜賭成癮的嚴重性。” One Los Angeles woman, whose husband's gambling was tearing at her sanity, says she slept with her fists so tightly clenched that her nails sliced into her palms.She had fantasies of death — first her own, thinking he'd feel sorry for her and stop gambling.Later, she harbored thoughts of turning her rage on her husband.She imagined getting a gun, hiding in the closet and blasting him out of her life.一個洛杉磯婦女，由于丈夫嗜賭成癮，自己幾乎神經崩潰。她說自己晚上睡覺時雙手緊緊握成拳頭，指甲把手掌都掐破了。她常常想到死—— 起初是想自己去死，覺得他會為自己傷心，會戒賭。后來，她又想到把怒氣轉到丈夫身上。她設想自己弄到一支槍，藏在壁櫥里，一槍把他從自己的生活中掃出去。“The hurt was so bad I think I would have pulled the trigger,” she says.“There were times the pain was so much I thought being in jail, or being in the electric chair, would be less than this.”

“那種傷害太痛苦了，我想自己真的會扣動扳機，”她說。“有時真的痛苦不堪，覺得哪怕坐牢、上電椅，也不至于那么痛苦。” With drug or alcohol abusers, there is the hope of sobering up, an accomplishment in itself, no matter what problems may have accompanied their addictions.Compulsive gamblers often see no way to purge their urges when suffocating debts suggest only one answer: a hot streak(suicide?).David Phillips, a UC San Diego sociology professor, studied death records from 1982 to 1988 — before legalized gambling exploded across America — and found that people in Vegas, Atlantic City and other gambling meccas showed significantly higher suicide rates than people in non-gambling cities.吸毒者或酗酒者尚有清醒起來的希望，不管他們的毒癮、酒癮造成了什么麻煩，會清醒起來本身就是一項成就。嗜賭成癖的賭徒高筑的債臺意味著只有一條出路：贏大獎(或自殺？)。這時，他們往往無法戒除賭癮。加利福尼亞大學圣地亞哥分校社會學教授戴維·菲利普斯研究了1982－1988年間—— 合法賭博在美國蔓延之前—— 的死亡檔案，發現拉斯維加斯、大西洋城和其他賭城的居民的自殺率明顯高于沒有賭場的城市的居民。Rex Trivia is not about to kill himself, but like most compulsive gamblers, he occasionally thinks

about it.Looking at him, it's hard to imagine he once had a promising future as a smart young New York book editor.His pale eyes are expressionless, his hair yellowish and brittle.In his fifties, his health is failing: emphysema, three lung collapses, a bad aorta, rotting teeth.趣聞大王雷克斯尚未打算自殺，但和眾多嗜賭成癮的賭徒一樣，偶爾他會閃過這個念頭。望著他，難以相信他曾經是一位前途無量、年輕聰穎的紐約書籍編輯。他那灰色的雙眸呆滯無神，淡黃的頭發顯得枯萎。才50多歲，健康狀況已經每況愈下：肺氣腫、3次肺萎陷、主動脈有問題，牙齒也損壞了。His plunge has been so dizzying that at one point he agreed to aid another desperate gambler in a run of bank robberies — nine in all, throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties.When the FBI busted him in 1980, he had $50,000 in cash in a dresser drawer and $100,000 in traveler's checks in his refrigerator's vegetable crisper.Rex, who ended up doing a short stint in prison, hasn't seen that kind of money since.他一直狂賭，結果走投無路，竟然答應協助另一個因絕望而不顧一切的賭徒實施銀行搶劫—— 在洛杉磯和桔縣共搶了9家銀行。1980年聯邦調查局逮捕他時，他五斗櫥抽屜里有50,000美元現金，還有100,000美元的旅行支票藏在冰箱的蔬菜保鮮格內。結果雷克斯在監獄服了一段時間刑，從此再也沒見到過那么多的錢了。At 11 P.M.on a Tuesday night, with a bankroll of $55 — all he has — he is at a poker table in Gardena.With quick, nervous hands he stacks and unstacks his $1 chips.The stack dwindles.Down $30, he talks about leaving, getting some sleep.Midnight comes and goes.Rex starts winning.Three aces.Four threes.Chips pile up — $60, $70.“A shame to go when the cards are falling my way.” He checks the time: “I'll go at 2.Win, lose or draw.”

一個星期二晚上11點，他揣著55美元——這是他的全部家產—— 坐在了加德納的一張牌桌前。他兩手緊張地把那些1美元的籌碼迅速地堆起又弄散。籌碼漸漸少了。到剩下30美元時，他說要走了，去睡一會兒。午夜稍縱即逝。雷克斯開始贏了。三張A牌，四張3點。籌碼多起來了—— 60美元，70美元。“我牌運那么好，怎么能走。”他看了看時間：“到2點就走，不管是輸是贏還是平。” Fate, kismet, luck — the cards keep falling.At 2 A.M., Rex is up $97.He stands, leaves his chips on the table and goes out for a smoke.In the darkness at the edge of the parking lot, he loiters with other regulars, debating with himself whether to grab a bus and quit.命運，天命加牌運—— 一 路順勢。到了凌晨2點，雷克斯贏了97美元。他站起身，把籌碼留在桌上，出去抽煙。他在停車場邊上黑暗的地方與別的常客閑站著，心里盤算著要不要坐公共汽車回去算了。“I should go back in there and cash in and get out of here,” he says.“That's what I should do.”

“我該進去把籌碼兌換成現金就離開這兒，”他說。“我該這么做。” A long pause.Crushing out his cigarette, Rex turns and heads back inside.He has made his decision.一陣長長的沉默。雷克斯摁滅煙蒂，轉身走了進去。他作出了決定。

“A few more hands.”

“再玩幾副。” 1.addiction n.癡；入迷；嗜好

e.g.I have an addiction to mystery stories 5.go for broke

(infml)risk everything in one determined attempt at sth.孤注一擲

e.g.The cyclist went for broke at the end of the race 7.compulsive a.(of people)forced to do sth.by an obsession 強迫性的，上了癮的e.g.Compulsive gambling is on the increase.gamble away 賭下去

The men have been gambling away all night.那些人賭了整整一夜。賭博輸掉錢

He has gambled away half his fortune.他賭博輸掉了他一半的財產。8.gambler n.person who gambles 賭博者

e.g.A compulsive gambler is someone who cannot stop risking and usually losing their money in the hope of winning a lot more money.9.wager D.J.[?we?d??] K.K.[?wed??] n.賭注,用錢打賭

venture a small wager 下了一小筆賭注

A wager is a fool’s argument.傻瓜一爭論就打賭。

vt.& vi.在(某物)上賭錢,打賭

I am ready to wager a package of cigarettes that he will come.我敢打賭一盒香煙,他一定來。vt.保證,擔保 hazardous [?h?z?d?s]

adj.危險的,冒險的,憑運氣的 a hazardous invest-ment 一項冒險的投資 handbookinger n.賭馬