英语精读第三册课后翻译

安徽科技学院英语翻译

Unit1 \

And so I do not have a criminal record. But what was most shocking at the time was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on. I had the 'right' accent, respectable middle-class 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 really been unemployed, there is every chance that I would have been found guilty. While asking for costs to be awarded, my solicitor's case quite obviously revolved around the fact that I had a 'brilliant 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。

Unit 2

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。

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。

Unit 3

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.

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?"

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?

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.

I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with them.

这些在我眼前成长，变化的人就是我当教师的真正原因。当一名教师意味着亲眼看见泥人开始呼吸这一创造性的成果。

“提升”了，不在教书了，也许会给我带来金钱和权利。但是我有钱，我拿了工资去做我喜欢做的事情：读书，与人交谈，提出诸如“富有的意义何在?”之类的问题。

我也有权利，我有权给与启示，激发才能，有权开出书目，为人指点迷津。还有比这更重大的权利么？

而教书还可也带来金钱和权利以外的东西，这就是爱。不仅是爱学习，爱读书，爱思想，而且还有老师对走人自己生活，并开始脱引而出的学生的爱。“爱”这个字用在这里也学并不恰当，“魔力”可能更贴切些。

我教书，是因为与开始获得新生的学生在一起，我有时觉得也与他们一起获得了新生。

Unit 4

我从太阳光下走进去，打开一扇破烂的屏门，走进了阴暗的棚子，棚子里蜷缩在轮椅上的是一个87磅重的躯体。

她的四肢扭了一扭。她的头转了一转。我们无法拥抱，甚至也无法握手。她只能张大眼睛看我，向我微笑。

可她那微笑里充满了光芒！它穿透了由破烂的木地板、旧躺椅和结满蜘蛛网的窗户围起来的黑暗空间。

我不忍心看别的任何东西，所以我的眼睛只盯住她那微笑，它是那么清晰，那么自信，它甚至令我的多数怀疑一扫而光。但我还是要问，这就是莎拉·莫里斯吗？

Unit 5

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 to understand.

"I guess we al have to fail sometime," Mother said quietly. I could sense her pain and the tension of holding back the strong emotions that were interrupted by my arrival. Suddenly, something inside me turned. I reached out and put my arms around her.

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 moment, 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 sought comfort in her arms

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.

“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。

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。

Unit6

"Why don't you try to sleep? I'll make you up for the medicine."

"I'd rather stay awake."

After a while he said to me, "You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you."

"It doesn't bother me."

"No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you."

I though 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 sleet 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 varnished with ice, I took the young Irish setter for a 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.

We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank with overhanging brush and I killed two as they went out of sight over the top of the blank. 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 poised 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 on another day.

At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room.

"You can't come in," he said. "You mustn't get what I have."

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.

I took his temperature.

"What is it?"

"Something like a hundred," I said. It was one hundred and two and four tenths.

"It was a hundred and two," he said.

"Who said so?"

"The doctor."

"Your temperature is all right," I said. "It's nothing to worry about."

"I don't worry," he said, "but I can't keep from thinking."

"Don't think," I said. "Just take it easy."

"I'm taking it easy," he said and looked straight ahead, He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.

"Take this with water."

"Do you think it will do any good?"

"Of course it will."

“你为什么不睡呢？吃药时我会叫醒你的”

“我宁可醒着。”

过了一会，他对我说，“爸，如果这样打搅你，你不必和我在一起。”

“这不打搅我”

“不是，我是说如果这将打搅你，你不比待着。”

我想或许他有点神志不清，11点钟给他服过开出的药后，我出去了一会。这是一个晴朗而寒冷的日子，地上覆盖着雨水结成的冰。看上去好像所有光秃秃的树，灌木丛，砍下的树枝，所有的草和空地都用冰漆过似地。我带着那条幼小的爱尔兰猎犬上了路，沿着一条结冰的小溪走着，但是站立行走在这玻璃般的路面上真不容易。红毛狗又是跃又是滑，我重重的摔倒了两次，一次还摔掉了枪，枪在冰面上滑出老远。

我们从被垂着的树枝掩盖着的一个高高的土堤下惊起了一群鹌鹑。当它们从堤顶上飞出来时，我打死了两只，但大部分都飞散进了灌木丛里。要想惊起这些鹌鹑，得在被冰包裹着的树丛上跳上好几次。但还没等你在这又滑又有弹性的树丛上站稳，它们已经飞了出去，很难击中，我打中两只，五只飞掉了。回去的路上，我很高兴地发现离家不远有一群鹌鹑，改日可以再去猎取。

回到家，他们说孩子不让任何人进房间。

我上楼去看他，发现他还是我离开时的那个姿势，脸苍白，上颊烧得发红，仍象早上那样盯着床脚。

我量了量他的体温。

“几度”

“大约100度，”我说。102.4度。

“102吧，”他说。

“谁说的？”

“医生。”

“你的温度没什么，”我说“不必害怕”

“我不害怕，”他说，“但我忍不住要想。”

“别想了，”我说，“别紧张”

“我不紧张，”他说，直看着前方，虽然他有心事，但在努力克制着自己。

“把这水喝了”

“你觉得这会有用吗？”

“当然了。

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Unit8

Now picture yourself —— as vividly as possible ——the way you want to be. Remember to picture your desired goals as if you had already attained them. Go over all the details of this picture. See them clearly and sharply.

Impress them strongly on your memory. The resulting memory traces will supposedly start affecting your everyday life. They will help lead you to the attainment to your goals.

Of course daydreaming is no substitute for hard work. If it's athletic achievement you want, you also have to get lots of practice in your sport. You have to work hard to develop skills. If it's school success you're after, you can't neglect studying Daydreaming alone can't turn you into your heart's desire. But in combination with the more usual methods of self-development, it might make a critical difference. It could be the difference between becoming merely good at something and becoming a champion.

现在尽可能生动的按照你自己的愿望想想你自己。记住想象你想要达到的目标，就好像你已经达到了一样。把细节逐一细细想象一番。每一个细节都要看得清清楚楚。把它们牢牢的刻在你的记忆力里。据说这样形成的记忆痕迹会影响你的生活，还会帮你实现你的目标。

当然白日梦并不能代替艰苦的工作。如果你想想在运动上有所成就，呢还的进行大量的练习。你必须努力工作来提高技巧。如果你想在学业上取得成功，你就不能忽视学习。仅仅靠白日梦并不能把你心中的愿望变为现实。但如果与更为平常的自我提高的方法结合，他就可能会起关键性的作用。它可能会决定是仅仅擅长做某事，还是成为冠军。

Unit 9

尽管做了最大的努力，沙克特只能召集到60多名歌手。骨瘦如柴的他们聚集在小小的舞台上，艾喜曼身着纳粹的军装坐在最前排，犹太人目光直视他们，他们越唱越激昂。

愤怒之日到来之际，必将这个世界化为灰烬，，，审判到来之时颤栗吧——有仇必报。

演出结束，没有任何掌声。纳粹们起身默默离座。艾步曼临走时，有人听到他得意地说：“他们在给自己换歌呢”他们也不会知道犹太人再给他们唤歌呢.

Unit 10

It took only fifty-eight years, however, to go four times that fast, so that by 1938 men in airplanes were traveling at better than 400 mph. It took a mere twenty-year flick of time to double the limit again. And by the 1960's rocket plants approached speeds of 4,00 mph. and men in space capsules were circling the earth at 18,000 mph.

Whether we examine distances traveled, altitudes reached, or minerals mined, the same accelerative trend is obvious. The pattern, here and in a thousand other statistical series, is absolutely clear and unmistakable. Thousands of years go by, and then, in our won times, a sudden bursting of the limits, a fantastic spurt forward.

可是到后来，人类只用了五十八年的时间就把这一纪录提高了三倍。在1938年，人们乘坐飞机旅行时，其实苏已经超过了四百英里。然后，有仅仅只用了二十年的时间弹指一挥的时间，这个时速又再次翻了一番。到了二十世纪六十年代，火箭的速度已经接近每小时四千英里了，而人类乘坐宇宙飞船绕地球飞行，其时速达到了每小时一万八千英里。

无论我们考察旅行的距离，能达到的高度，还是考察矿产的开采，我们都可以发现这种加速的趋势。无论是本文，还是其它系列统计资料都明确无误地呈现出这种加速模式。几千年过去了，现在，在我们这个时代，突然，以往所有的极限完全彻底的被打破了，技术上出现了令人难以置信的大飞跃。