21世纪大学英语读写教程2 reading aloud 课文及翻译

1、Very hesitantly I selected a tube of bluepaint, and with infinite precaution made amarkaboutasbigasabeanonthesnow-whitefield. At that moment I heard the sound ofa motorcar in the drive and threw down mybrushinapanic.IwasevenmorealarmedwhenI saw who stepped from the car: the wife ofSirJohnLavery,thec

2、elebratedpainterwholived nearby.“我迟疑不决地选了一管蓝色颜料，然后小心翼翼地在雪白的底子上的画上蚕 答案只是参考，请大家努力自学惊恐地丢下我的慌失措。 来者正是住在附近的著名画家约翰莱佛利爵士的妻子。1Painting! she declared. What fun. ButwhatareyouwaitingforLetmehavethebrushthebigone.Sheplungedintothepaintsand before I knew it, she had swept severalfierce strokes and slashes of bl

3、ue on theabsolutely terrified canvas. Anyone couldseeitcouldnothitback.Ihesitatednomore.I seized the largest brush and fell upon mywretchedvictimwithwildfury.Ihaveneverfelt any fear of a canvas 呢!她大声说道。多么有趣。可你还在等什么呢把画 笔给我-大的那支。蘸起颜料，还没等我缓过神来，她已经挥笔泼墨在惊恐不已的画布上画下了有力的几道蓝色。谁都看得出画布无法回击。我不再迟疑。我抓起那支最大的画笔，迅猛异

4、常地向我可怜的牺2布。”ThisbeliefinhardworkisthefirstofthreemainfactorscontributingtoAsianstudentsoutstanding performance. It springs fromAsianscommonheritageofConfucianism,thephilosophy of the 5th-century-BC Chinesesage whose teachings have had a profoundinfluence on Chinese society. One ofConfuciuss primary

5、teachings is thatthrough effort, people can perfectthemselves.这种对于勤奋的信念是促成亚洲学生成绩突出3我已不再怀疑我最终会完成学业 所以很坦然地抓住了这次机会 ”她说。time and effort to think of 以存在都是因为曾经有人花费时间和精力去思考它。And thinking does require time and effort.Itsacommonmisconceptionthatifapersonis gifted or bright or talented,wonderful ideas will flash spontaneouslyintohismind.Unfortunately,theintellectdoesnt work this way. Even Einstein had tostudy and think for months before he couldformulatehistheoryofrelativity.Thoseofus who are less intelligent find it astruggletoconceiveevenamoderatelygoodidea, let alone