第1单元●Translation1 Today you will emerge from the nurturing confines of academia to face the real world.今天你们将离开培育你们的学术环境,直面真实的世界。
2 Now that you’re leaving school, you can finally go about getting an education.你们即将离开学校,终于可以开始接受教育了。
3 Try finding a conservative professor—it’s easier to spot a yeti. Challenge the orthodox views of political correctness and you’ll get labeled some pretty nasty things.想找到一位保守的教授,那比要找到一个雪人还难。
若想挑战一些有关政治正确性的正统观点,那你将污名缠身。
4 If you don’t believe me, try asking the people who went broke chasing the theory that dotcoms were a certain path to riches. Reality intervened.如果你不相信我的话,那不妨去问一问那些因奉信网络公司是通往财富之路这5 Welcome, then, to the unsentimental world we all live in. It’s not so bad once you’ve left your pipe dreams at the door.因此,欢迎你来到我们生活的这个理性的世界。
一旦你把那些白日梦拒之门外,你就会发现这个世界并不是太糟。
第2单元●Translation1 Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something one “falls into” if one is lucky?爱是一种艺术吗?如果是,它就需要靠知识和努力来争取。
或者爱是一种愉快的感受,能否体验到它是机率的问题,如果一个人运气好就能够“坠入爱河”?2 Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of “being loved,”rather than that of “loving,”of one’s capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.大多数人认为爱这个问题主要是被爱,而不是主动去爱,或者主动去爱的能力。
因此,他们的问题便是如何被爱,怎样变得招人爱。
3 A second premise behind the attitude that there is nothing to be learned about love is the assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an “object,” not the problem of a “faculty.”关于爱没有什么可学,这一想法背后的第二个前提是一个假设,此假设认为爱的问题是对象的问题,而不是能力的问题。
4 I am out for a bargain; the object should be desirable from the standpoint of its social value, and at the same time should want me, considering my overt and hidden assets and potentialities.我来做一笔交易:爱的对象从他的社会价值来看应该是理想的,与此同时他也应该出于对我显性的和隐性的资质和潜力的考虑而接纳我。
5 The two persons become well acquainted; their intimacy loses more and more its miraculous character, until their antagonism, their disappointments, their mutual boredom kill whatever is left of the initial excitement.两个人变得很熟悉了,他们的亲密感越来越多地失去了神秘色彩,直到他们的对抗、失望和彼此的厌倦抹杀了最初兴奋感消逝后残留下来的点滴东西。
6 This attitude — that nothing is easier than to love — has continued to be the prevalent idea about love in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.爱是再简单不过的事,这一观点至今仍然十分盛行,尽管有大量证据与此相悖。
第3单元Translation1 He put his Times down carefully on his lap and turned his fine, lean face toward the man, smiling the shy, apologetic smile he might have offered a student in pointing out an error in his thinking.莫顿把《纽约时报杂志》小心地放在腿上,转过那张精致而清瘦的脸对着那人,脸上带着腼腆、歉意的微笑,像在指点学生的错误一般对那男人讲道理。
2 His insolent voice was edged with menace.他那傲慢的话音里透着威胁。
3 At once Larry came to life; his face lost its rapt expression and he began to kick and cry.拉里顿时回过神来;他脸上没了那呆愣的表情,开始又哭又闹。
4 Yet beneath it there was a layer of something else, something heavy and inescapable. She sensed that it was more than just an unpleasant incident, more than defeat of reason by force.但她内心深处有种感觉,既沉重又无法回避。
她感觉这不仅仅是一次不愉快的遭遇,也不仅仅是理性败于武力。
5 She felt as if all three of them were tracking mud along the street.她感觉就像他们三人边走边留下了一路的泥脚印6 “If you can’t discipline this child, I will,” Morton snapped, making a move toward the boy.“如果你管不了这孩子,我来管,”莫顿一边愤愤地说,一边向着儿子迈了一步。
第4单元Translation1 I always believed that my parents had a good marriage, but just before I, the youngest of four children, turned sixteen, my belief was sorely tested.我一直深信我父母的婚姻很美满,但是当我——四个孩子中最小的一个——快满十六岁的时候,我的这种想法受到了严峻的考验。
2 I told him that I was praying for him and wanted him to know that, no matter what, Jesus and I loved him.我告诉他我正在为他祈祷,而且希望他知道,无论发生什么,上帝和我都会爱他。
3 Early the next morning, as my dad left our house; I sneaked out to the car and slipped my letter into one of his bags.第二天清晨,我趁父亲走出房子的时候,偷偷溜到小汽车里,把这封信放进他其中的一个背包里。
4 In the last sixteen years of my parent’s marriage, I and all those who knew my mom and dad witnessed one of the truly “great” marriages.在父母亲婚姻的最后16年里,所有认识我父母亲的人以及我,都见证了这段真正美满的婚姻5 When Mom and Dad received the news from the doctor that his heart was deteriorating rapidly, they took it hand in hand, side by side, all the way.当父母亲从医生那里得知父亲的心脏正在快速衰竭的时候,他们始终手牵手,肩并肩地一起面对疾病。
6 I remember a promise that was made many years ago between a young man and his bride on their wedding day, and I remember the unspoken promise that was made between a father and his daughter.我记得许多年前一名年轻男子与他的新娘在结婚那天许下的誓言,我记得一个父亲和他女儿之间无言的承诺。
第5单元●Translation1 It had its own problems in that I was ridiculed for my accent and was demeaned as someone who spoke in a funny way.这件事有其自身的问题,原因是别人嘲笑我的口音并贬损我讲话很滑稽。