新视野大学英语第二册课文原文

1、 Unit 1Time-Conscious AmericansAmericans believe no one stands still. If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind. This attitude results in a nation of people committed to researching, experimenting and exploring. Time is one of the two elements that Americans save carefully, the other being

2、 labor. 美国人认为没有人能停止不前。 如果你不求进取，你就会落伍。这种态度造就了一个投身于研究、实验和探索的民族。时间是美国人注意节约的两个要素之一，另一要素是劳力。 "We are slaves to nothing but the clock," it has been said. Time is treated as if it were something almost real. We budget it, save it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we

3、also charge for it. It is a precious resource. Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime. Once the sands have run out of a person's hourglass, they cannot be replaced. We want every minute to count. 人们一直说：“只有时间才能支配我们。”人们似乎把时间当作一个差不多是实实在在的东西来对待。 我们安排时间、节约时间、浪费时间

4、、挤抢时间、消磨时间、缩减时间、对时间的利用作出解释；我们还要因付出时间而收取费用。 时间是一种宝贵的资源，许多人都深感人生的短暂。 时光一去不复返。 我们应当让每一分钟都过得有意义。 A foreigner's first impression of the US is likely to be that everyone is in a rushoften under pressure. City people always appear to be hurrying to get where they are going, restless

5、ly seeking attention in a store, or elbowing others as they try to complete their shopping. Racing through daytime meals is part of the pace of life in this country. Working time is considered precious. Others in public eating-places are waiting for you to finish so they, too, can be served and get

6、back to work within the time allowed. You also find drivers will be abrupt and people will push past you. You will miss smiles, brief conversations, and small exchanges with strangers. Don't take it personally. This is because people value time highly, and they resent someone else "wasting&

7、quot; it beyond a certain appropriate point. 外国人对美国的第一印象很可能是：每个人都匆匆忙忙常常处于压力之下。 城里人看上去总是在匆匆地赶往他们要去的地方，在商店里他们焦躁不安地指望店员能马上来为他们服务，或者为了赶快买完东西，用肘来推搡他人。 白天吃饭时人们也都匆匆忙忙，这部分地反映出这个国家的生活节奏。人们认为工作时间是宝贵的。在公共用餐场所，人们都等着别人尽快吃完，以便他们也能及时用餐， 你还会发现司机开车很鲁莽，人们推搡着在你身边过去。 你会怀念微笑、简短的交谈以及与陌生人的随意闲聊。 不要

8、觉得这是针对你个人的， 这是因为人们都非常珍惜时间，而且也不喜欢他人“浪费”时间到不恰当的地步。 Many new arrivals in the States will miss the opening exchanges of a business call, for example. They will miss the ritual interaction that goes with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee that may be a convention in their own country. They may mi

9、ss leisurely business chats in a restaurant or coffee house. Normally, Americans do not assess their visitors in such relaxed surroundings over extended small talk; much less do they take them out for dinner, or around on the golf course while they develop a sense of trust. Since we generally assess

10、 and probe professionally rather than socially, we start talking business very quickly. Time is, therefore, always ticking in our inner ear. 许多刚到美国的人会怀念诸如商务拜访等场合开始时的寒暄。 他们也会怀念那种一边喝茶或喝咖啡一边进行的礼节性交流，这也许是他们自己国家的一种习俗。 他们也许还会怀念在饭店或咖啡馆里谈生意时的那种轻松悠闲的交谈。 一般说来，美国人是不会在如此轻松的环境里通过长时间的闲聊来评价他们的客人的，更不

11、用说会在增进相互间信任的过程中带他们出去吃饭，或带他们去打高尔夫球。 既然我们通常是通过工作而不是社交来评估和了解他人，我们就开门见山地谈正事。 因此，时间老是在我们心中滴滴答答地响着。 Consequently, we work hard at the task of saving time. We produce a steady flow of labor-saving devices; we communicate rapidly through faxes, phone calls or emails rather than through person

12、al contacts, which though pleasant, take longerespecially given our traffic-filled streets. We, therefore, save most personal visiting for after-work hours or for social weekend gatherings. 因此，我们千方百计地节约时间。 我们发明了一系列节省劳力的装置； 我们通过发传真、打电话或发电子邮件与他人迅速地进行交流，而不是通过直接接触。虽然面对面接触令人愉快，但却要花更多的时间，尤其是在马路上

13、交通拥挤的时候。因此，我们把大多数个人拜访安排在下班以后的时间里或周末的社交聚会上。 To us the impersonality of electronic communication has little or no relation to the significance of the matter at hand. In some countries no major business is conducted without eye contact, requiring face-to-face conversation. In America, too, a final

14、 agreement will normally be signed in person. However, people are meeting increasingly on television screens, conducting "teleconferences" to settle problems not only in this country but alsoby satelliteinternationally. 就我们而言，电子交流的缺乏人情味与我们手头上事情的重要性之间很少有或完全没有关系。在有些国家，如果没有目光接触，就做不成大生意，这需要面对面

15、的交谈。 在美国，最后协议通常也需要本人签字。然而现在人们越来越多地在电视屏幕上见面，开远程会议不仅能解决本国的问题，而且还能通过卫星解决国际问题。 The US is definitely a telephone country. Almost everyone uses the telephone to conduct business, to chat with friends, to make or break social appointments, to say "Thank you", to shop and to obtain all k

16、inds of information. Telephones save the feet and endless amounts of time. This is due partly to the fact that the telephone service is superb here, whereas the postal service is less efficient. 美国无疑是一个电话王国。几乎每个人都在用电话做生意、与朋友聊天、安排或取消社交约会、表达谢意、购物和获得各种信息。 电话不但能免去走路之劳，而且还能节约大量时间。其部分原因在于这样一个事实：美国的电话

17、服务是一流的，而邮政服务的效率则差一些。 Some new arrivals will come from cultures where it is considered impolite to work too quickly. Unless a certain amount of time is allowed to elapse, it seems in their eyes as if the task being considered were insignificant, not worthy of proper respect. Assignments are, con

18、sequently, given added weight by the passage of time. In the US, however, it is taken as a sign of skillfulness or being competent to solve a problem, or fulfill a job successfully, with speed. Usually, the more important a task is, the more capital, energy, and attention will be poured into it in o

19、rder to "get it moving". 有些初来美国的人来自文化背景不同的其他国家，在他们的国家，人们认为工作太快是一种失礼。在他们看来，如果不花一定时间来处理某件事的话，那么这件事就好像是无足轻重的，不值得给予适当的重视。 因此，人们觉得用的时间长会增加所做事情的重要性。 但在美国，能迅速而又成功地解决问题或完成工作则被视为是有水平、有能力的标志。通常情况下，工作越重要，投入的资金、精力和注意力就越多，其目的是“使工作开展起来”。Unit 2Learning the Olympic Standard for LoveNikolai Petro

20、vich Anikin was not half as intimidating as I had imagined he would be. No, this surely was not the ex-Soviet coach my father had shipped me out to meet. But Nikolai he was, Petrovich and all. He invited me inside and sat down on the couch, patting the blanket next to him to get me to sit next to hi

21、m. I was so nervous in his presence. "You are young," he began in his Russian-style English. "If you like to try for Olympic Games, I guess you will be able to do this. Nagano Olympics too soon for you, but for 2002 in Salt Lake City, you could be ready." "Yes, why not?"

22、; he replied to the shocked look on my face. I was a promising amateur skier, but by no means the top skier in the country. "Of course, there will be many hard training sessions, and you will cry, but you will improve." To be sure, there were countless training sessions full of pain and mo

23、re than a few tears, but in the five years that followed I could always count on being encouraged by Nikolai's amusing stories and sense of humor. "My friends, they go in the movies, they go in the dance, they go out with girls," he would start. "But I," he would continue, lo

24、wering his voice, "I am practice, practice, practice in the stadium. And by the next year, I had cut 1-1/2 minutes off my time in the 15-kilometer race! "My friends asked me, 'Nikolai, how did you do it?' And I replied, 'You go in the movies, you go in the dance, you go out wit

25、h girls, but I am practice, practice, practice.' Here the story usually ended, but on one occasion, which we later learned was his 25th wedding anniversary, he stood proudly in a worn woolen sweater and smiled and whispered, "And I tell you, I am 26 years old before I ever kiss a girl! She

26、was the woman I later marry." Romantic and otherwise, Nikolai knew love. His consistent good humor, quiet gratitude, perceptivity, and sincerity set an Olympic standard for love that I continue to reach for, even though my skiing days are over. Still, he never babied me. One February day I had

27、a massive headache and felt quite fatigued. I came upon him in a clearing, and after approximately 15 minutes of striding into the cold breeze over the white powder to catch him, I fussed, "Oh, Nikolai, I feel like I am going to die." "When you are a hundred years old, everybody dies,

28、" he said, indifferent to my pain. "But now," he continued firmly. "Now must be ski, ski, ski." And, on skis, I did what he said. On other matters, though, I was rebellious. Once, he packed 10 of us into a Finnish bachelor's tiny home for a low-budget ski camp. We awoke

29、the first morning to find Nikolai making breakfast and then made quick work with our spoons while sitting on makeshift chairs around a tiny card table. When we were finished, Nikolai stacked the sticky bowls in front of my sole female teammate and me, asserting, "Now, girls do dishes!" I t

30、hrew my napkin on the floor and swore at him, "Ask the damn boys! This is unfair." He never asked this of me again, nor did he take much notice of my outburst. He saved his passion for skiing. When coaching, he would sing out his instructions keeping rhythm with our stride: "Yes, yes,

31、 one-two-three, one-two-three." A dear lady friend of my grandfather, after viewing a copy of a video of me training with Nikolai, asked, "Does he also teach dance?" In training, I worked without rest to correct mistakes that Nikolai pointed out and I asked after each pass if it was b

32、etter. "Yes, it's OK. But the faster knee down, the better." "But is it fast enough?" I'd persist. Finally he would frown and say, "Billion times you make motionthen be perfect," reminding me in an I've-told-you-a-billion-times tone, "You must be patien

33、t." Nikolai's patience and my hard work earned me a fourth-place national ranking heading into the pre-Olympic season, but then I missed the cut for the 2002 Olympics. Last summer, I returned to visit Nikolai. He made me tea. and did the dishes! We talked while sitting on his couch. Missing

34、 the Olympic Team the previous year had made me pause and reflect on what I had gainednot the least of which was a quiet, indissoluble bond with a short man in a tropical shirt. Nikolai taught me to have the courage, heart, and discipline to persist, even if it takes a billion tries. He taught me to

35、 be thankful in advance for a century of life on earth, and to remind myself every day that despite the challenges at hand, "Now must be love, love, love."尼克莱·彼得罗维奇·安尼金一点都不像我想象的那么吓人。 不，他不可能是我父亲特地送我来见的那位前苏联教练。 可他的确是尼克莱·彼得罗维奇·安尼金本人。 他请我进门，在沙发上坐下，又拍了拍身边的垫子，让

36、我坐在他旁边。 在他面前，我真的很紧张。 “你还年轻，”他的英语带着俄语口音： “如果你愿意试着向奥林匹克运动会进军，我想你能行。 长野奥运会来不及参加了，但你可以准备参加2002年盐湖城奥运会。” “完全可以，不是吗？”看到我脸上惊愕的表情，他又说道。 我那时是一个很有前途的业余滑雪运动员，但在国内决不是顶尖选手。 “当然，你需要进行很多艰苦的训练，你会哭鼻子，但你一定会进步的。” 的确，后来我经历了无数痛苦的训练，还为此流了不少眼泪。但在后来的五年里，我总能从尼克莱讲的有趣故事和他的幽默感中得到鼓励。 

37、;他开始总是说：“我的朋友们常去看电影，去跳舞，去和女孩子约会，”然后他会压低嗓门接着说：“我就在运动场上训练、训练、再训练。 第二年，我的15公里滑雪比赛成绩缩短了1.5分钟。” “朋友们问我：尼克莱，你怎么做到的呢？我回答：你们去看电影、跳舞、和女孩子约会，而我一直在训练、训练、再训练。” 故事通常到这儿就结束了。但有一次后来我们知道那天是他结婚25周年纪念日他穿着一件旧的毛衣，很自豪地站着，微笑着轻声说道：“告诉你们，我可是在26岁那年才第一次亲吻女孩子。她后来就和我结了婚。” 不管他是不是懂得浪漫，尼克莱知道什么是爱。 他以一贯的幽默、

38、默默的感恩、敏锐的感觉和真诚的态度为爱设立了奥林匹克般的标准。即使在我结束了滑雪生涯之后，我仍一直努力去达到那个标准。 但他又从不娇惯我。 二月里的一天，我头很疼，感到十分疲倦。 我在一片空地上遇见了他，在寒风中的雪地里滑了大概十五分钟后，我赶上了他，有点小题大做地说：“嘿，尼克莱，我感觉我要死了。” “如果活到一百岁，人人都会死的，”他对我的痛苦无动于衷，态度坚决地接着说：“但你现在必须滑、滑、再滑。” 在滑雪板上，我照他说的去做。 但在其他事情上我会反抗他。 在一次经费并不宽裕的滑雪露营活动中，他让我们十个人挤在一个单身

39、汉住的芬兰式屋子里。 第一天我们醒来时发现尼克莱正在做早餐。然后我们坐在临时拼凑起来的椅子上，围着张小小的牌桌，用勺子很快地吃完早饭。 吃完后，尼克莱把摞起来的油腻腻的碗向我和我唯一的另一个女队友前一推，武断地说：“女孩子们，现在去洗碗吧！” 我把餐巾往地上一扔，向他骂道：“让该死的男孩子们去洗吧！这不公平！”他没再让我去洗碗，也没对我的大发脾气显得太在意。 他只在滑雪时才显露出强烈的情感。 训练的时候，他会岁着我们迈步的节奏大声发出指令：“对，就这样，一二三，一二三。” 我祖父的一个好朋友一位上了年纪的女士看了尼克莱带我训练的录像带

40、后问道：“他也教舞蹈吗？” 在训练时，我一刻不停地纠正着尼克莱指出的错误。每完成一个动作，我都会问他自己是否有了进步。 “是的，还行。但如果膝盖能屈得更快些就更好了。” “可我滑得够快了吗？”我坚持问他。 最后他会皱起眉头说：“你得无数次地重复，动作才能达到完美。”他提醒我“必须有耐心”，言语之间流露出“我已经告诉过你无数次了”的意思。 尼克莱的耐心和我的勤奋使我赢得了全国第四名的好成绩，并开始为奥运会季前赛做准备。但后来我没能被选拔去参加2002年奥运会。 去年夏天，我回去拜访尼克莱。 他给我沏了茶.还自己洗了碗！我们坐在

41、沙发上聊天。 怀念起前一年的奥林匹克队，我一时沉默，回想起自己曾经获得的一切很重要的一点就是我和这个穿着颇具热带风情衬衫、个子不高的男人之间形成了并不张扬但又牢不可摧的纽带。 尼克莱教会我即使需要无数次的努力，也要凭借勇气、热情和严格的纪律来坚持下去。 他还教会我为了能在这世界上生活一辈子而预先心存感激，并每天提醒自己：即便面临许多挑战，“现在心里有的必须是爱、爱、爱。”Unit 3 Marriage Across the Nations Gail and I imagine

42、d a quiet wedding. During our two years together we had experienced the usual ups and downs of a couple learning to know, understand, and respect each other. Bu

43、t through it all we had honestly confronted the weaknesses and strengths of each other's characters. Our racial and cultural differences enhanced our relationship and taug

44、ht us a great deal about tolerance, compromise, and being open with each other. Gail sometimes wondered why I and other blacks were so involved with the racial 

45、issue, and I was surprised that she seemed to forget the subtler forms of racial hatred in American society. Gail and I had no illusions about what the future&#

46、160;held for us as a married, mixed couple in America. The continual source of our strength was our mutual trust and respect. We wanted to avoid the mistake mad

47、e by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons, and only finding out ten, twenty, or thirty years later that they were incompatible, that they hardly took 

48、the time to know each other, that they overlooked serious personality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work out right.&#

49、160;That point was emphasized by the fact that Gail's parents, after thirty-five years of marriage, were going through a bitter and painful divorce, which had destroyed

50、60;Gail and for a time had a negative effect on our budding relationship. When Gail spread the news of our wedding plans to her family she met with some re

51、sistance. Her mother, Deborah, all along had been supportive of our relationship, and even joked about when we were going to get married so she could have grandchild

52、ren. Instead of congratulations upon hearing our news, Deborah counseled Gail to be really sure she was doing the right thing. "So it was all right for me 

53、to date him, but it's wrong for me to marry him. Is his color the problem, Mom?" Gail subsequently told me she had asked her mother. "To start wit

54、h I must admit that at first I harbored reservations about a mixed marriage, prejudices you might even call them. But when I met Mark I found him a charmin

55、g and intelligent young guy. Any mother would be proud to have him for a son-in-law. So, color has nothing to do with it. Yes, my friends talk. Some even&#

56、160;express shock at what you're doing. But they live in a different world. So you see, Mark's color is not the problem. My biggest worry is that you ma

57、y be marrying Mark for the same wrong reasons that I married your father. When we met I saw him as my beloved, intelligent, charming, and caring. It was al

58、l so new, all so exciting, and we both thought, on the surface at least, that ours was an ideal marriage with every indication that it would last forever. 

59、I realized only later that I didn't know my beloved, your father, very well when we married." "But Mark and I have been together more than two years,&q

60、uot; Gail railed. "We've been through so much together. We've seen each other at our worst many times. I'm sure that time will only confirm what we 

61、feel deeply about each other." "You may be right. But I still think that waiting won't hurt. You're only twenty-five." Gail's father, David, whom I 

62、had not yet met personally, approached our decision with a father-knows-best attitude. He basically asked the same questions as Gail's mother: "Why the haste? Who is&

63、#160;this Mark? What's his citizenship status?" And when he learned of my problems with the Citizenship department, he immediately suspected that I was marrying his d

64、aughter in order to remain in the United States. "But Dad, that's harsh," Gail said. "Then why the rush? Buy time, buy time," he remarked repeatedly.&#

65、160;"Mark has had problems with citizenship before and has always taken care of them himself," Gail defended." In fact, he made it very clear when we were&

66、#160;discussing marriage that if I had any doubts about anything, I should not hesitate to cancel our plans." Her father proceeded to quote statistics showing that m

67、ixed couples had higher divorce rates than couples of the same race and gave examples of mixed couples he had counseled who were having marital difficulties. "Have&#

68、160;you thought about the hardships your children would go through?" he asked. "Dad, are you a racist?" "No, of course not. But you have to be realist

69、ic." "Maybe our children will have some problems, but whose children don't? But one thing they'll always have: our love and devotion." "That's idealistic

70、. People can be very cruel toward children from mixed marriages." "Dad, we'll worry about that when the time comes. If we had to resolve all doubt befo

71、re we acted, very little would ever get done." "Remember, it's never too late to change your mind." 我和盖尔计划举行一个不事张扬的婚礼。 在两年的相处中，我们的关系经历了起伏，这是一对情侣在学着相互了解、理解和尊重时常常出现的。 但在这整整两年间，我们坦诚地面对

72、彼此性格中的弱点和优点。 我们之间的种族及文化差异不但增强了我们的关系，还教会了我们要彼此宽容、谅解和开诚布公。 盖尔有时不明白为何我和其他黑人如此关注种族问题，而我感到吃惊的是，她好像忘记了美国社会中种族仇恨种种微妙的表现形式。 对于成为居住在美国、异族通婚的夫妻，我和盖尔对未来没有不切实际的幻想。 相互信任和尊重才是我们俩永不枯竭的力量源泉。 许多夫妻因为错误的理由结了婚，结果在10年、20年或30年后才发觉他们原来是合不来的。他们在婚前几乎没有花时间去互相了解，他们忽视了严重的性格差异，指望婚姻会自然而然地解决各种问题。我们希望避免重蹈覆

73、辙。 事实更说明了这一点：已经结婚35年的盖尔的父母正经历着一场充满怨恨、令人痛苦的婚变，这件事给盖尔带来了很大打击，并一度给我们正处于萌芽状态的关系造成了负面影响。 当盖尔把我们计划举办婚礼的消息告诉家人时，她遇到了一些阻力。 她的母亲德博拉过去一直赞成我们的关系，甚至还开过玩笑，问我们打算何时结婚，这样她就可以抱外孙了。 但这次听到我们要结婚的消息时，她没有向我们表示祝贺，反而劝盖尔想清楚自己的决定是否正确。 “这么说我跟他约会没错，但是如果我跟他结婚，就错了。 妈妈，是不是因为他的肤色？”盖尔后来告诉我她曾这样问她母亲。

74、0;“首先我必须承认，刚开始时我对异族通婚是有保留意见的，也许你甚至可以把这称为偏见。 但是当我见到马克时，我发现他是一个既讨人喜欢又聪明的年轻人。 任何一个母亲都会因为有这样一个女婿而感到脸上有光的。 所以，这事跟肤色没有关系。 是的，我的朋友们会说闲话。 有些朋友甚至对你所做的事表示震惊。 但他们的生活与我们的不同。 因此你要明白，马克的肤色不是问题。 我最大的担心是你也许跟我当初嫁给你爸爸一样，为了错误的原因而嫁给马克。 当年我和你爸爸相遇时，在我眼中，他可爱、 聪明、富有魅力又善解人意。 一切都是那么新鲜、那么令人兴奋。而且我们两人都认为，我们的婚姻是理想婚姻，至少表面上看是如此，而且一切迹象都表明我们的婚姻会天长地久。 直到后来我才明白，在我们结婚时，我并不十分理解我所爱的人你的爸爸。” “但是我和马克呆在一起已有两年多了，”盖尔抱怨道。 “我们俩一起经历了许许多多的事情。 我们彼此多次看到对方最糟糕的一面。 我可以肯定时间只能证明我们是彼此深情相爱的。” “你也许是对的。但我还是认为再等一等没坏处。你才25岁。” 盖尔的父亲戴维我还未见过他的面以知事莫若