段落翻译

Unit1

1.When a subject was accused of a crime of sufficient importance to interest the king,

public notice was given that on an appointed day the fate of an accused person would be decided in the king’s arena. (L. 3-5)

当臣民被指控犯罪，而其罪行足以令国王关注时, 就会发布公告，告知在某一指定的日期，被告的命运将在国王的竞技场上决定。

2.From the very moment that the decree had gone forth that her lover should decide his

fate in the arena, she had thought of nothing else.

自从要在竞技场上决定她情人命运的命令发出的那一刻起，他的心里再也没想过别的事。

3.It involves a study of the human heart which leads us through devious mazes of passion

out of which it is difficult to find our way.

它涉及到对人们内心世界的研究，这种研究必然要经历一个个迂回曲折的激情迷宫，从中我们很难找到出路。

4.The soul of the princess beat with a white heat beneath the combined fires of despair and

jealousy.

绝望和妒忌之火交织在一起，煎熬着公主的心。

5.The question of her decision is not to be lightly considered, and it is not for me to

presume to set myself up as the one person able to answer it.

她究竟做了什么样的决定，对这个问题的考虑是不能轻率的，我也不会想当然地把自己当作唯一能够回答问题的人。

第四单元友谊

6.The difficulty when strangers from two countries meet is not a lack of appreciation of

friendship, but expectations about what constitutes friendship and how it comes into being. (Line 6)

结交一个来自异国的陌生人，困难不在于双方不懂得友谊的重要，而在于对友谊的内涵以及建立友谊的期待不同。

7. A friend is someone who draws out your own best qualities, with whom you sparkle and

become more of whatever the friendship draws upon. Your political philosophy assumes more depth, appreciation of a play becomes sharper, taste in food or wine is accentuated, enjoyment of a sport is intensified. ( Line30)

朋友是这样的人：他会使你充分发挥你的最佳品质，跟他在一起你会生气勃勃，并能把加深相互间友谊的一切表现得更加出色。你的政治思想更加深邃，对戏剧的鉴赏力更加敏锐，品评美食美酒的能力更强，从运动中得到的乐趣更多。

8.Adolescents, boys and girls, form deeply sentimental attachments, walk and talk together

--- not so much to polish their wits as to share their hopes and fears and dreams, to form

a common front against the world of school and family and to join in a kind of mutual

discovery of each other’s and their own inner life.(Line48)

青少年之间，无论是男孩还是女孩，彼此间会形成一种感情上的依赖。他们同出同入，促膝谈心---与其说是为了激发彼此的聪明才智，不如说是为了倾述各自的希望、忧虑和憧憬，为了团结一致共同对付学校和家庭，为了了解对方的以及各自的内心世界。

9.And a break in an English friendship comes not necessarily as a result of some

irreconcilable differences of viewpoints or feelings but instead as a result of misjudgment, where one friend seriously misjudges how the other will think or feel or act, so that suddenly they are out of step. (Line82)

英国人友谊的中断不一定是因为观点上产生了不可调和的分歧或者感情上出现了无法弥补的裂痕，而是由于相互误解的结果。当一方对另一方的想法、感情或者行为产生了严重的误解时，他们就会突然失和。

Your political philosophy assumes more depth, appreciation of a play becomes sharper, taste in food or wine is accentuated, enjoyment of a sport is intensified.

你的政治哲理更加深邃，对戏剧的鉴赏力更加敏锐，鉴赏食物与葡萄酒的能力更强，从运动中得到的乐趣更多。

Between French friends, who have chosen each other because they have similar points of view, lively disagreement and sharpness of argument are the breath of life.

法国人之所以成为朋友是因为彼此观点相近，朋友间思维活跃的争论和敏锐的论点则是维持其友谊所必不可少的。

We view friendship more tentatively, subject to

changes in intensity as people move, change their

jobs, marry, or discover new interests.

相比之下，我们把友谊看作是暂时性的，其热情会随着人们搬迁、工作变动、结婚或兴趣的变化而变化.

English friendships are formed outside the family circle, but they are not, as in Germany, complementary to the family nor are they, as in France, separated from the family.

英国人的友谊是在家庭以外形成的。这种友谊既不像德国那样已经与家庭生活结合在一起，却也不像法国那样于家庭毫不相干。

Related to this is the sense each friend gives the other of being a special individual, on whatever grounds this recognition is based.

正因为是这样，每个朋友都使对方觉得他非同一般，不管这种认识的依据是什么。

These similarities make the bridge between societies possible, and the American’s characteristic openness to different styles of relationships makes it possible for him to find new friends abroad with whom he feels at home.

这些共同之处使得社会与社会之间的沟通成为可能，而美国人能够接受不同风格的友情，这一特点使他们能够在国外找到新朋友，并与之融洽相处。

第五单元happiness

In later centuries, some sages have suggested that happiness comes from living a virtuous life, and others, from indulging pleasures; some that it comes from knowing the truth, and others, from preserving illusions; some that it comes from restraint, and others, from getting rid of rage and misery.

在此后的几个世纪里，一些智者认为快乐源于高尚的人生，而另一些则认为快乐来

自尽情享受；一些智者认为快乐源于认知真理，而另一些则认为快乐来自一直存有的幻想；

一些智者认为快乐源于自律，而另一些则认为快乐在于摆脱愤怒和痛苦。

Social scientists have exploded some myths about who’s happy and who’s not by identifying predictors of happiness and life satisfaction. ( Line19)

社会科学家通过努力寻求什么与人生的快乐和满足有关，推翻了一些关于哪些人快乐、哪些人不快乐的错误观念。

When troubled, men more often become alcoholic, while women more often think deeply and get depressed or anxious.

面临烦恼时，男人更喜欢借酒消愁，而女人则更容易陷于沉思，变得忧郁或焦虑

４Depending on our outlooks and recent experiences, our happiness fluctuates around our happiness set point, which disposes some people to be ever cheerful and others gloomy. (line 79)

在人生观和近期经历的影响下，我们的快乐程度会围绕一个固有值上下浮动．这个固有的快乐值使一些人笑口常开，而使另一些人愁肠百结．

Although a bad marriage may be more depressing to a woman than to a man, the myth that single women report greater happiness than married women can be ignored. ( Line101)

尽管一个失败的婚姻可能使女性比男性更沮丧，但认为单身女性比已婚女性更快乐的说法是完全站不住脚的。

Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ( Line106)

正如现实所显示的，外部事物对快乐的影响比大多数人认为的要小得多。

Heroes

This unifying force of the hero, something so commonplace in our past, is something sorely lacking in today’s society. （Para. 6）

英雄的这种凝聚力，在过去是那么普遍，而在今天的社会里却极度缺乏。

Polls have shown that now people have a hard time finding anyone they admire, let alone find heroic. （Para. 6）

民意测验的结果表明，现在人们很难找到一个能让他们钦佩的人，更不用说找到英雄人物了。

Few people are allowed to survive as heroes in the church and worthy people are picked apart and scrutinized by the media until their heroic pedestal comes crashing to the ground. （Para. 6）

教会中，没有几个人可以作为英雄幸存下来，而且媒体对那些值得尊敬的人评头论足，横加挑剔，不使他们名誉扫地决不罢休。

Even in this age of independence, a good role model may be hard to come by, and should not be let go.

即使在这个崇尚独立自主的时代，楷模仍然难得，所以我们不应该忽视他们。

第二单元

I am sitting in a local restaurant offering takeout homestyle meals, surrounded by exhausted but happy shoppers, families out for Friday night dinner, and students taking a break from college exams. (L1-3)

我坐在邻近的一家供应家常口味外卖的餐馆里。餐馆里顾客满堂，有疲惫而快乐的购物者、周末晚上外出就餐的家庭以及考试间隙出来小憩的大学生们。

Well-known local homeless man—very untidy but clean—comes in, places an order, pays for it, then sits quietly waiting for his dinner. (L5-10 )

一个大家都熟悉的本地流浪汉---穿着虽不整齐却很干净---走了进来，点了餐，付了钱，接着坐下来静静地等他的外卖。

Had I taken a poll of the room, though, I bet everyone there would have considered themselves as having more manners than a person who lives on the streets. (L24-26)

尽管这样，如果我当时在屋子里的人中做一下民意测验的话，我敢保证那儿的每个人都会认为自己要比街上的流浪汉更懂礼貌。

Maybe it sounds cliché, but my parents would have killed me had I done some of the things I endure from today’s youth.(L37-38)

尽管这听起来也许老生常谈，要是我做了某些我容忍今天的年轻人所做的那些事的话，那非把我父母气死不可

Manners are a tool to remind us of others around us. Our actions affect each other; there is always give and take . However , if youth today are any indication, we are truly destined to become a society of people who think only themselves. ( L34-36) 礼貌是一种工具，它提醒我们周围还有别人存在。我们的行为会相互影响，我们应该彼此谦让。但是，如果今天的年轻人能够预示什么的话，那就是我们注定要形成一个人人为己的社会

6. Small, friendly human interactions help ease the everyday stress of having to hurry, trying to squeeze onto a crowded thoroughfare, standing in one more line to deal with a clerk of some kind, or calling a customer service representative for the third time

about a mistake on a bill

人们之间细微但友好的交往有助于减轻日常

生活中的压力，比如说，我们不得不赶时间，不得不想方设法挤入拥挤的大道，还得一次次排队去跟某位办事员打交道，或为账单上的一个差错要一再打客户服务电话等等。

these embarrassing moments didn’t harm m e; rather, they caused me to become aware that there are others inhabiting this world besides myself and my actions affected them.

相反,它们使我认识到，除了我以外，还有别的人生活在这个世界上，而且我的行为影响了他们。

I don’t blame the children, however. They emulate what they see. And what th ey are seeing is a society focused solely on acquisition- be it the dream house or another drink in a restaurant or a space on a crowded freeway – without ever stopping to thank the source. (L 56-59)

然而我并不责怪孩子们。他们仿效所看到的一切。而他们亲眼目睹的是一个只关注所得的社会---无论是得到一栋理想的房子，还是在餐馆里再要一杯饮料，还是在拥挤的高速公路上占有一车之位---人们从不停下来向给与的人致谢。

I said nothing , knowing that a show of displeasure would have labeled me oversensitive rather than him rude. (L65-66)

我沉默不语，心里明白如果我表现出不快，那么人们会认为是我过于敏感而不是他失礼。

请同学们体会a show of displeasure的译法！这里翻译时依然要把虚拟语气中省略掉的“if”加上

Unit6 行为

Indeed, she expresses such anguish at the anguish of mankind that attention quickly shifts from the moral issues she is expounding to how very, very, very deeply she cares about them

确实，她对人类的疾苦如此痛心疾首，以至于大家的注意力迅速地从她阐述的道德问题转向了她本人，她是如何非常非常非常深切地关注这类问题。

And yes, they are often adorable and charming and amusing, but only until around

the age of six

不错，他们往往都很可爱、迷人、有趣---只不过那是他们大约六岁以前的事了。

If a stranger happened to stop me on the street and all he wanted to know was the time or directions, I tried to detain him long enough to enlighten him with the news that the person to whom he was speaking was a Real Live Published Poet

如果碰巧有人在街上叫住我，即使他只想问问时间或问问路，我也会尽量多留他一会儿，好让他知道，正在和他说话的人是个不折不扣，已有大作发表，还未作古的诗人。