餐馆里几乎坐满了人。屋里一片低沉的嗡嗡谈话声。人们一边忙着用餐一边在相互交谈着。
突然，靠近餐馆中央的一张餐桌上传来了一声尖叫：“真该死，西尔维亚......”
那个男子人正在高声喊叫。他脸涨得通红，朝着坐在他对面的妇女喊叫了大约十五秒钟。在这家拥挤的餐馆中，这十五秒钟好像有一个小时之久。屋里所有别的谈话都停止了，人人都看着那个男子。他一定意识到了这一点，因为就像他突然开始高声喊叫一样，他突然又压低了嗓门，用我们其余人都听不见的声音结束了他想说的什么话。
正是因为这种事几乎从未发生过，因此才令人吃惊。没有什么法律禁止这种感情的发作，而且由于我们现代社会的种种压力，你几乎可以预料到会经常碰到这样的事，然而你并没有经常碰到。实际上，当我回想这件事时，我发现这是我有生以来第一次亲眼见到这种情绪的表露。我以前在餐馆用餐时还从未看到过有人这样声嘶力竭地喊叫。
当你在和其他人一起用餐时，你不会提高嗓门；这只是我们遵循的许多不成文规定的一个例子。如果你考虑一下，你就会看到，比起在法律书上要找就可以找到的那些法规来，这些不成文的规定对我们生活的支配很可能更绝对。那些支配我们的习俗构成了一个文明社会。没有这些习俗就会出现混乱，然而，为什么---甚至在我们这个正在解体的社会中---我们还遵守这些习俗，却根本不清楚。
有多少次你深夜在红灯前停下车来? 各个方向你都看得清，周围没有别人---没有汽车前灯，没有警察巡逻车慢悠悠地尾随着你。你很疲惫，而且急着赶路。但你还是等着红灯转绿。这样做是为了安全吗? 不是，你明知即使你开过去，也不会发生事故。是为了不遭到拘捕吗? 不是，当时只有你一个人；没有人来抓你。但是，你还是坐在车里等着。
在一些重大的体育赛事中，常常有90,000乃至100,000人坐在看台上。运动场上只有二十多名运动员---或许更少。现场没有足够的保安人员来阻止所有的观众离开座位走进运动场。但这样的事情从未发生过。不管比赛多么激动人心，观众都坐在座位上，运动员们在他们的场地上很安全。这道无形的屏障一直是有效的。
在餐馆和咖啡店里，人们都会付帐。这是再简单不过的概念。然而吃完饭不付帐便走开也是非常容易的。特别是在现在经济困难时期，难道你不认为这会成为一种常见的欺骗方式吗? 但为什么这种事并不常有呢? 因为主动还钱只不过是人类行为又一条不成文的规定。人们不会高声尖叫，也不会不付帐就走出餐厅。
我认识一个人，他在停车计时器前泊车时，即使前面那个人没有用完停车时间，他也总往计时器里投币。他认为这样做是理所当然的。他说他这样做并非仅仅是为了延长剩余的停车时间---尽管计时器上还剩下足够的时间让他在那
里办完要办的事情，他付的是他自己的费用。他认为自己的停车时间理应由自己付钱，前面那个人付的只是他的停车费。
我们一致遵守的这类规定数不胜数，因此只有当极个别的人违反了它们时我们才会想起它们。在餐馆里，当那个男子发出“真该死，西尔维亚......”的一声尖
叫后，有半个小时，其他就餐者中弥漫着一种迟疑不决的气氛。他们不能确定在看到刚才那一幕后，是什么东西使他们感到不安；但是他们知道，这样的行为违背了人们行为规范中某些非常基本的东西。这些使他们感到不安---而这种不安本身就是个好兆头，表明情况大抵还不错。
UNIT8 TEXT B 红绿灯--没有思想的机器戴维·舍恩布龙法国人的“理智主义”存在于社会的各个阶层。咖啡馆侍者、出租车司机这些所谓的法国“小人物”是世界上最令人兴奋的健谈者，虽然他们也常常惹人恼怒。他们中间最异想天开别出心裁的是出租车司机。我故意挑起跟他们的争论--这很容易办到--看看他们接着会说什么。在出租车上进行的成百次争论中，有一次争论一直令我至今难忘，我觉得它具有独特的、妙不可言的法国味。它决不会发生在别的国家，也许除了纽约的布鲁克林区，因为那儿有一种人，虽说在外貌上不一定但在精神上却与法国人相似。
那是在巴黎的一个午夜，我们沿着凯道赛驶向我住的那条大街。当我们来到亚历山大三世桥时，出租车放慢了速度，因为前面亮着红灯。然后，车并未停下，而是猛一加速稳稳地穿过了红灯。到了阿尔马桥又故伎重演。在我付钱给司机时，我问他为什么连闯两个红灯。
“你应该自己感到羞愧，像你这样的老司机也会违章，那样玩命。”我不满地说道。
他看着我，很是惊讶。“自己感到羞愧? 嗨，我还为自己感到骄傲呢。我是个正派、诚实的公民，也不想玩命。"我正欲分辩，他打断了我。"不，你先别有意见，你听我说。我做了什么呢? 闯了个红灯。那么，你是否费心想过红灯是什么，它意味着什么?”
“当然想过啦，”我答道，“红灯是个停车信号，意味着另一个方向车辆在行驶。”
“答对了一半，”那司机说，“但不完全。红灯只是个自动的停车信号，并不意味着有交叉车流。一路上你看到有交叉车流吗？当然没有。我在红灯前减慢了车速，左右都仔细地看过了。这个时候街上别的车一辆也没有。那么，你说我该怎么办? 难道就因为一台没有思想的自动机器每40秒钟转红一次，我就该像头哑巴牲口一样停下来吗?不，先生，”他一边大声吼叫，一边用硕大的拳头砸着车门，“我是人，不是机器。我有眼睛，有脑子，有判断力，这都是上帝给我的，要是把它们拱手相让，听任机器的摆布，那简直是违背天意的罪孽。你说我该自己感到羞愧? 我要是让那些闪烁的灯来代替我思考，我才会自己感到羞愧呢！晚安，先生。”
这种做法到底是坏还是好? 老实说，我也不那么有把握了。如果你长期受到法国人这种独特的理性思维的影响，你就会受到腐蚀。闯红灯是错的，这一点我以前从未怀疑过。但在巴黎生活了十几年后，我发觉自己传统的那些盎格鲁-撒克逊标准有些动摇了。我仍然认为闯红灯不对，不过，在夜深之时，经过仔细查看确信没有交叉车流时，也许可以除外。毕竟，我是人，不是机器。
Unit 1 1.Thanks to the modern technology, the film about that ancient battle gives the audience the illusion of being on the battlefield themselves. 2.That ancient city was devastated by the fire, but fortunately the stone tablet survived. 3.The videotape and the story by the women filled them with sympathy for the child who had become an orphan in the earthquake. 4.in that earthquake, we heard many stories of teachers who had refused to leave their students behind and laid down their lives. 5.the construction of the Yu Yuan Garden began in 1558, but it was not completed until 1578 because building went off and on for lack of money. 6.in 1980, when I met up with her,, she had just returned from abroad with a master's degree. 7.It was my first visit to New York, but I managed to find my way to the little firm. 8.It is hard to make it to the top in the movie industry, but as a director Xie Jin did it. Unit 2
Unit 8 Section A Animals or children?—A scientist's choice 动物还是孩子？——一位科学家的选择 1 I am the enemy! I am one of those cursed, cruel physician scientists involved in animal research. These rumors sting, for I have never thought of myself as an evil person. I became a children's doctor because of my love for children and my supreme desire to keep them healthy. During medical school and residency, I saw many children die of cancer and bloodshed from injury — circumstances against which medicine has made great progress but still has a long way to go. More importantly, I also saw children healthy thanks to advances in medical science such as infant breathing support, powerful new medicines and surgical techniques and the entire field of organ transplantation. My desire to tip the scales in favor of healthy, happy children drew me to medical research. 1 我就是那个敌人！我就是那些被人诅咒的、残忍的、搞动物实验的医生科学家之一。这些谣言刺痛了我，因为我从来没想到自己是一个邪恶的人。我成为一位儿科医生，因为我爱孩子，也因为我的最大愿望是让他们保持健康。在医学院学习和住院医生实习时，我看到了许多儿童死于癌症和受伤流血——虽然对此医学正取得很大进步，但远非完善。更重要的是，我还看到孩子们能保持健康得益于医学的进步，如婴儿呼吸支持器，功效强大的新药物和外科手术技术及整个器官移植领域的发展。我希望孩子们健康快乐，这促使我从事医学研究。 2 My accusers have twisted the truth into a fable and cast me as the devil. They claim that I have no moral compass, that I torture innocent animals for the sole purpose of career advancement, and that my experiments have no relevance to medicine. Meanwhile, an uncaring public barely watches, convinced that the issue has no significance, and publicity-conscious senators and politicians increasingly give way to the lobbying of animal rights activists. 2 控诉我的人把真相歪曲成一则神话，并把我描写成恶魔。他们声称我没有道德界限，我折磨那些无辜动物的唯一目的就是为了自己的职业升迁，而我的实验根本与医药毫不相关。与此同时，无动于衷的公众几乎不闻不问，相信这个议题毫无意义，而具有宣传意识的参议员和政治家们却对动物权利活动家的游说不断作出让步。 3We,in medical research,have also been unbelievably uncaring.We have allowed the most extr eme animal rights protesters to creep in and frame the issue as one of"animal fraud"and hatred. We have persisted in our belief that a knowledgeable public would consent to the importance of animal research for public health.Perhaps we have been mistaken in not responding to the emoti onal tone of the argument.Perhaps we should have responded to those sad slogans and posters of animals by waving equally sad posters of children dying of cancer or external wounds. 3我们这些从事医学研究的人也显得令人难以置信的冷漠。我们允许最极端的动物权利活动家渐渐侵入，任凭他们把此类研究诬陷为“动物欺诈”和对动物的仇恨。我们一直坚信，有知识的公众会赞同动物研究对公众健康的重要性。也许我们的错误是没有对这场争论的感性基调作出反应。也许我们早应该挥动着儿童死于癌症或外伤的同样令人伤心的海报，来回应那些关于动物受害的伤感标语及海报。 4In the animal rights forum,much is made of the volume of pain these animals experience in the name of medical science.Activists deny that we are trying to help and say it is evidence of our ev il and cruel nature.A more reasonable argument,however,can be advanced in our defense.Life i
Unit 1 课文翻译及课后练习翻译参考答案 课文翻译： Unit1 从能力到责任 当代的大学生对他们在社会中所扮演的角色的认识模糊不清。他们致力于寻求在他们看来似乎是最现实的东西：追求安全保障，追逐物质财富的积累。年轻人努力想使自己成人成才、有所作为，但他们也承认自己的迷茫：在这个变幻莫测的时代，他们该信仰什么?大学生一直在寻找真我的所在，寻找生活的意义。一如芸芸众生的我们，他们也感到纠结——一方面，他们崇尚奉献于人的理想主义，而另一方面，他们又经不住自身利益的诱惑，陷入利己主义的世界里欲罢不能。 最终，本科教育的质量将由毕业生参与社会与公民活动的主动性来衡量。雷霍德·尼布尔曾经写道：“一个人只有奉献社会，才能了解自我。一个人如果一味地以自我为中心（或直译：一个人如果不能找到自我以外的中心），他将会失去自我。”理想化的本科教育应该反映在超越自我中。在这一个残酷的、竞争激烈的社会，人们期望大学生能具备正直、文明，甚至富有同情心的人格品质，这是否已是一种奢望?人们期望大学的人文教育会有助于培养学生的人际交往能力，如今是否仍然适合（或直译：希望大学的人文教育能使大学生在与他人的人际交往中具备人文情怀，这是否合适）? 毫无疑问，大学生应该履行公民的义务。这迫切需要美国教育有助于弥合公共政策与公众理解程度之间的极具危险性、正日益加深的鸿沟。建设性思考政府议程问题所必备的知识似乎越来越无法掌握。所以很多人认为想通过公众的参与来解决复杂的公共问题已不再可能行得通。他们问，如果一些非专业人士甚至不懂专业术语，怎么可能让他们去讨论重大的政策选择问题? 核能的利用应该扩大还是削弱?水资源能保证充足的供应吗?怎样控制军备竞赛?大气污染的安全标准是多少?甚至连人类的起源与灭绝这样近乎玄乎的问题也会被列入政治议事日程。 公民们带着类似的困惑讨论“星球大战”问题，试图搞懂那些关于“威慑”与“反威慑”等高科技的专业术语。像地方的区域规划，学校种族隔离制的废除，排水系统的问题，公共交通的治理，以及相互竞争中的有线电视公司对许可证的申请等这些曾经看起来只是一些地方性事务的事情，现在也需要专家来解决。这些专家讨论专门术语，常常不是阐明问题，反而使问题变得让人迷惑不解。然而，公共生活的复杂性，要求更多、而非更少的信息资料；需要更积极、而非更消极的公众参与。 对于那些关心“民治”政府的人，公众理解程度的每况愈下是无法接受的。当今世界，人类生存问题吉凶未卜、危在旦夕，无知是不可取的。由视野有限的专家完全控制政策制定，这也是不可容忍的。作为公民，我们如果不能找到更好的方法教育自己，如果不能提出难题，并得到满意的答案，那么我们会冒险做一些关键性的决定，不是基于我们所了解的知识，而是基于对一两个所谓专家的盲目信任。 我们的民主社会需要一批受过良好教育(well-informed)、关心他人(caring)的人士。他们能作为公民，本着服务大众的精神，团结一致，相互学习，参与到民主建设之中。 我们需要关心公众事务的人，他们能参与调查，知道如何提出合适的问题，了解公民政策制定的程序，并能够对那些影响深远的问题做出有根据的、敏锐的判断。诚然，没有哪个社会机构能独立培养我们所需的领导人才，但我们深信，如果“民治政府”要有生命力的话，大学相对于其他机构来说，更有责任去培养我们国家所急需的开明领导人。 为了完成这个迫切的使命，所需的视野不仅要着眼国内，还必须放眼世界。当代大学生必须还了解其它国家的民族与文化。人类的势力范围已涉及到太空，一切变得都很明了，我们都是同一个星球的守护者。在过去的半个世纪中，我们的地球变得越来越拥挤，相互依赖
Unit 12 Text A 课文及译文 Feeling Free 感受自由 ①I woke up feeling cranky. I didn't want to do housework, though the laundry was piling up. I didn't want to read the work I brought home from the office. I didn't want to do anything that resembled responsible behavior. It was that kind of day. 一醒来我的心情就很糟糕。我不想做家务，尽管要洗的衣服已经堆积如山。我也不想理会那些我从办公室带回家的工作。我不想做任何负责任的事。这就是那样的一天。 ②As I drank my morning tea, I thought I felt a headache coming on. Yes, there it was, a dull throb just behind my eyes. Maybe I should go back to bed until it subsided. As I put the dishes in the sink, it seemed that my muscles were beginning to ache. Or was the ache in my joints? That could mean I was coming down with the flu. （承上启下句）Everyone I knew had the flu this year. Why should I be the one to escape it? I absolutely should be in bed. 当我喝早茶的时候，我就感到阵阵头痛袭来。是的，就是，一阵隐隐约约的疼痛充斥着我的眼睛。或许，我应该继续睡觉直到疼痛消失。当我把盘子丢进水槽里的时候，我的肌肉好像也开始隐隐作痛。或许是我的关节在痛?那是不是我
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A fable for tomorrow (Rachel Carson) There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings. 从前在美国中心有一个小镇，那里的万物看上去都与其四周的环境融洽相处。小镇的四周是像棋盘交错的生意盎然的农庄，还有一块块的田地和一座座遍布山坡的果园。春天来了，白色的鲜花云彩般地漂浮在田野上；秋天到了，橡树、枫树和桦树色彩斑斓，在一片松树林间火焰般地燃烧与跳跃。小山上狐狸吠叫，田野间小鹿静静地跃过，所有的一切都在秋天清晨的薄雾中半隐半现。 Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler's eye through much of the year. Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow. The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them. Others came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns. 在路的两旁，一年中许多时候，月桂树、荚莲、桤木、蕨类植物和各样的野花都能让过往的行人赏心悦目。即使是冬天，路边的景色依旧是美不胜收，那里无数的小鸟来觅取浆果莓和露在雪地上的枯枝上的种子。事实上，这乡村正是由于鸟类的数量和种类之繁多而出名的。在候鸟群潮涌而来的春秋季节，人们从大老远的地方慕名前来欣赏。还有的人来这里的小溪垂钓。清冽的溪水从山中流出，溪水中有许多鳟鱼藏身的背阴的水潭。所以，从许多年前开始，第一批居住者就在这里盖房挖井，搭起了自己的谷仓。 Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death. The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. In the town the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearing among their patients. There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours. 后来，一种奇怪的摧毁力悄然袭击了这个地区，所有的一切都开始变了。某种邪恶的符咒笼罩了这个社区：神秘的疾病攻击了鸡群，牛、羊也纷纷病死，到处都有一层死亡的阴影。农夫们谈论
必修一 Unit1 Anne’s Best Friend Do you want a friend whom you could tell everything to, like your deepest feelings and thoughts? Or are you afraid that your friend would laugh at you, or would not understand what you are going through? Anne Frank wanted the first kind, so she made her diary her best friend. Anne lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands during World War Ⅱ. Her family was Jewish so nearly twenty-five months before they were discovered. During that time the only true friend was her diary. She said, ”I don’t want to set down a series of facts in a diary as most people do, but I want this diary itself to be my friend, and I shall call my friend Kitty.” Now read how she felt after being in the hiding place since July 1942. Thursday 15th June, 1944 Dear Kitty, I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be outdoors for so long that I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature. I can well remember that there was a time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds,
Unit 12 Life Is Full of t he Unexpected 生活中充满意外 In May 2001, I found a job in New York at the W orld Trade Center. On September 11, 在2001年五月，我在纽约世贸中心找到一份工作。在九月十一日 2001, I arrived at my building at around 8:30 . I was about to go up when I decided to get a 我到达我的办公楼大约在上午的八点半。我正要上楼时我决定先去买一杯coffee first. I went to my favorite coffee place e ven though it was two blocks east from my 咖啡。我去了我最喜欢的咖啡店，即使从东面出发，那里离我的办公室有两个街区。 office. As I was waiting in line with other office
workers, I heard a loud sound. Before I could 当我和其他的办公室工作人员一起排队等候时，我听到一声巨响。在我可以 join the others outside to see what was going on, the first plane had already hit my office 加入其他人到外面看发生什么事。第一架飞机已经撞上我的办公building. We stared in disbelief at the black smoke rising above the burning building. I felt 大楼我们难以置信的凝视着黑色的烟从燃烧着的大楼上升起。我感到幸运， lucky to be alive. 运为自己还活着。 Almost 10 years later, I woke up at 10:00 . on February 21,2011 and realized that my 将近年后，我在2011年二月21日早上十点钟醒来。才意识到我的
A fable for tomorrow (Rachel Carson) There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings. 从前在美国中心有一个小镇，那里的万物看上去都与其四周的环境融洽相处。小镇的四周是像棋盘交错的生意盎然的农庄，还有一块块的田地和一座座遍布山坡的果园。春天来了，白色的鲜花云彩般地漂浮在田野上；秋天到了，橡树、枫树和桦树色彩斑斓，在一片松树林间火焰般地燃烧与跳跃。小山上狐狸吠叫，田野间小鹿静静地跃过，所有的一切都在秋天清晨的薄雾中半隐半现。 Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler's eye through much of the year. Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow. The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them. Others came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns. 在路的两旁，一年中许多时候，月桂树、荚莲、桤木、蕨类植物和各样的野花都能让过往的行人赏心悦目。即使是冬天，路边的景色依旧是美不胜收，那里无数的小鸟来觅取浆果莓和露在雪地上的枯枝上的种子。事实上，这乡村正是由于鸟类的数量和种类之繁多而出名的。在候鸟群潮涌而来的春秋季节，人们从大老远的地方慕名前来欣赏。还有的人来这里的小溪垂钓。清冽的溪水从山中流出，溪水中有许多鳟鱼藏身的背阴的水潭。所以，从许多年前开始，第一批居住者就在这里盖房挖井，搭起了自己的谷仓。 Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death. The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. In the town the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearing among their patients. There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours. 后来，一种奇怪的摧毁力悄然袭击了这个地区，所有的一切都开始变了。某种邪恶的符咒笼罩了这个社区：神秘的疾病攻击了鸡群，牛、羊也纷纷病死，到处都有一层死亡的阴影。农夫们谈论着家中的许多疾病；镇上的医生也越来越因病人中出现的新的病症而感到迷惑。在成人和孩子中发生了好几起突发的不明其由的死亡，那些孩子在玩耍中突然病倒，几小时后就死去了。 There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example - where had they gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh 这里是一派奇怪的寂静。就说鸟儿们吧---它们都去哪儿了？许多人说起鸟儿的时候都充满了迷惑与不安。他们后院的饲养站已经没有鸟儿光顾了。随处能见到的几只鸟都奄奄一息。他们猛烈地颤抖，却飞不起来。这是一个无声的春天。曾经是震动着画眉鸟、猫鸟、鸽子、樫鸟、欧鹪和许多鸟儿的黎明合唱声的清晨如今却寂然无声。田野间、树林中和沼泽地里也是一片寂静。 On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs - the litters were small and the young survived only a few days. The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be no fruit. 在农庄，母鸡下蛋却孵不出小鸡。农夫们抱怨无法养猪，因为刚生下的猪崽太小了，小猪也只能活几天的功夫。苹果树开花了，可是没有蜜蜂在花丛中嗡嗡地采蜜，没有蜜蜂的授粉，也就没有任何果子。 The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. These, too, were silent, deserted by all living things. Even the streams were now lifeless. Anglers no longer visited them,
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Unit 1 课文翻译 Section A 杰克：安妮，我有点紧张。我得读完一本书并在下周一做读书报告。 安妮：那听起来并不太糟糕嘛。 杰克：但是，我是一个书读得很慢的人。 安妮：开始可读得快些，获取大意。不要一个字一个字地读，要按意群读。 杰克：可有许多单词我不懂，我还得用字典。 安妮：尽力尝试从读单词的前后句子去猜测它的意思。你可能要比你想的要懂得多谢。 杰克：那听上去好难啊！ 安妮：嗯，得耐心点。这得慢慢来。每天读点你喜欢的东西，你会变得好一些。你读得越多，便会读得越快。 我是怎样学会学习英语的 去年，我并不喜欢上英语课，每一节课都像一场噩梦。老师说得太快，大多数时候我都听不懂。我又害怕问问题，因为我的发音不好。我就躲在课本后面，从来不说什么。 后来有一天我看到了一部名叫《玩具总动员》的英文电影。我爱上了这部令人兴奋和有趣的影片！所以我也开始看其他英文电影了。虽然我不明白那些角色所说的一切，但他们的肢体语言和脸上的表情能帮助我明白期中的意思。我还意识到我可以通过听关键词
来理解意思。通过听英文电影的对白，我的发音也进步了。我发现听有趣的东西是学习语言的诀窍。我还学会了像It’s a piece of cake .（这简直就是小菜一碟）和It serves you right ( 你活该) 这样有用的句子。最初我并不明白这些句子的意思，但是我想要弄明白整个故事，我便查了字典。 现在我真喜欢上我的英语课。我想要学更多生词和更多语法，这样我才能更好地理解英文电影。 Section B ,2b 你如何成为一名成功的学习者？ 每个人学习的能力与生俱来，但是你能否做好取决于你的学习习惯。研究表明，成功的学习者有一些共同的好习惯。 建立对所学内容的兴趣 研究显示，如果你对某件事情感兴趣，你的大脑便会更加活跃，同时你也更容易长时间集中精力。优秀学习者通常把他们所学的内容与一些有趣的东西结合起来。例如，如果他们需要学习英语，同时他们又喜欢音乐和体育，他们可以听英文歌曲或看英语的体育节目，这样他们不会感到乏味。 多加练习，并从失败中学习 好的学习者会思考他们擅长什么以及那些方面需要多加练习。记住：“要么用，要么丧失”即便有些东西你学的很好，除非你使用它，否则也会遗忘。”“熟能生巧。”好的学习者最自己的所学坚持练习，并且他们不怕犯错，亚历山大. 格雷勒姆。贝尔发明电话并
第十二课一个发现：做一个美国人意味着什么 詹姆斯·鲍德温 1．亨利·詹姆斯曾经说过，“身为一个美国人是一种复杂玄妙的命运。”而一位作家在欧洲做出的最重大的发现就是这种命运究竟复杂到何种程度。美国的历史，其远大志向，其不同凡响的辉煌成就，还有她那更加不同凡响的挫折失败，以及她在世界上的地位——不论是过去还是现在——都是那么深不可测而又无可更改地独一无二，以至于“美国”这个词至今仍是一个陌生的、几乎可以说是完全没有明确定义的、且具有极大争议性的专有名词。世界上似乎还没有人确切地知道这个词的含义，就连我们这些五颜六色、千千万万自称为美国人的人也不例外。 2．我当初离开美国是因为我曾怀疑自己能否经受住这儿的有色人种问题的狂风暴雨的冲击。(现在我仍然时不时地这样怀疑。)我想使自己不至于仅仅成为一个黑人，或是仅仅只成为一个黑人作家。我想寻求一种什么途径，来使自己的生活经历的特殊性把自己与他人联系起来而不是分离开来。(我同黑人之间也产生了隔阂，就像我同白人之间的隔阂一样严重，当一个黑人开始真正地相信白人对黑人的评价时，常常就会发生这样的情况。) 3．在我认为有必要去寻求一种能把我的生活经历同别的人——黑人和白人，作家和非作家——的生活经历联系起来的途径的过程中，我惊奇地发现：自己原来也同任何得克萨斯州士兵一样，是非常爱国的美国人。而且我发现，我在巴黎所认识的每一位美国作家都有我这种感受。他们都同我一样脱离了自己的本源，而且事实证明，这些美国白人的欧洲本源同我的非洲本源竟没有多少差别——他们在欧洲也像我一样感到不自在。 4．我是奴隶的后代，而他们是自由人的子孙，这种差异则无关紧要。因为我们在欧洲大地上相遇时，都在努力探求着各自的自我价值。当我们终于发现各自的自我价值之后，我们似乎都在感慨：这下可好啦，多少年来造成我们之间的隔阂的遗憾和痛苦之情，我们可再也不用死抱住不放了。 5．我们美国人彼此间的相互了解超过任何欧洲人所能达到的程度。这一点在本国不曾有人认识到，但一到欧洲，我们便认识得很清楚了。还有一点也显得很清楚：不论我们的祖先源于何处，也不管他们曾有过什么样的遭遇，我们美国黑人和白人都是欧洲造就出来的。这一事实就是我们的身分以及我们的遗传特征的组成部分。 6．在我认清这些之前，我在巴黎呆了两三年的时间。：待到认清这些之后，我就像许多前辈作家发现他的生活支柱全部被人拆掉了一样，遭受了一种精神崩溃的痛苦，不得不到瑞士的高山上去疗养。在那一片晶莹的雪山景色中，我以两张贝西·史密斯的唱片和一台打字机为工具，开始试图把自己孩提时代最初体验到的，多年来又一直想尽力忘却的生活经历再现出来。 7．是贝西·史密斯用她的音调和节拍帮我发掘出了当我还是个黑人小孩时本就使用过的说话口吻，使我重新忆起了小时闻、所见和所感。我已将这些深深藏在了心底。在美国，
Unit 8 My Forever Valentine The traditional holidays in our house when I was a child were spent timing elaborate meals around football games. My father tried to make pleasant chitchat and eat as much as he could during half time. At Christmas he found time to have a cup or two of holiday beer and do his holly shaped bow tie. But he didn't truly shine until Valentine's Day. I don't know whether it was because work at the office slowed during February or because the football season was over. But Valentine's Day was the time my father chose to show his love for the special people in his life. Over the years I fondly thought of him as my "Valentine Man." My first recollection of the magic he could bring to Valentine's Day came when I was six. For several days I had been cutting out valentines for my classmates. Each of us was to decorate a "mailbox" and put it on our desk for others to give us cards. That box and its contents ushered in a succession of bittersweet memories of my entrance into a world of popularity contests marked by the number of cards received, the teasing about boyfriends/girlfriends and the tender care I gave to the card from the cutest boy in class. That morning at the breakfast table I found a card and a gift-wrapped package at my chair. The card was signed "Love, Dad," and the gift was a ring with a small piece of red glass to represent my birthstone, a ruby. There is little difference between red glass and rubies to a child of six, and I remember wearing that ring with a pride that all the cards in the world could not surpass. As I grew older, the gifts gave way to heart shaped boxes filled with my favorite chocolates and always included a special card signed "Love, Dad." In those years my thank-yous became more of a perfunctory response. The cards seemed less important, and I took for granted the valentine that would always be there. Long past the days of having a "mailbox" on my desk, I had placed my hopes and dreams in receiving cards and gifts from "significant others," and "Love, Dad" just didn't seem quite enough. If my father knew then that he had been replaced, he never let it show. If he sensed any disappointment over valentines that didn't arrive for me, he just tried that much harder to create a positive atmosphere, giving me an extra hug and doing what he could to make my day a little brighter. My mailbox eventually had a rural address, and the job of hand delivering candy and cards was relegated to the . Postal Service. Never in ten years was my father's package late nor was it on the Valentine's Day eight years ago when I reached into the mailbox to find a card addressed to me in my mother's handwriting.