21世纪大学英语读写教程2 reading aloud 课文及翻译

1、 5/521世纪大学英语读写教程2 reading aloud 课文及翻译 Very hesitantly I selected a tube of blue paint, and with infinite precaution made a mark about as big as a bean on the snow-white field. At that moment I heard the sound of a motorcar in the drive and threw down my brush in a panic. I was even more alarmed when

2、 I saw who stepped from the car: the wife of Sir John Lavery, the celebrated painter who lived 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 豆般大小的一笔。就在这时，我听到车道上传来一辆汽车的声音，于是一份耕耘，一份收获答案只是参考，请大家努力自学惊恐地丢下我的画笔。当我看清是谁从汽车里走出来时，更是惊慌失措。来者正是住在附近的著名画家约翰?莱佛利爵士的妻子。 Painting! she declared. What fun. But what are you

3、waiting for? Let me have the brush the big one. She plunged into the paints and before I knew it, she had swept several fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely terrified canvas. Anyone could see it could not hit back. I hesitated no more. I seized the largest brush and fell upon my wret

4、ched victim with wild fury. I have never felt any fear of a canvas since. 在画画呢!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。她猛地用笔蘸起颜料，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，迅猛异常地向我可怜的牺牲品扑了过去。自那以后，我再也不曾害怕过画布。” This belief in hard work is the first of three main factors contributing to Asi

5、an students outstanding performance. It springs from Asians common heritage of Confucianism, the philosophy of the 5th-century-BC Chinese sage whose teachings have had a profound influence on Chinese society. One of Confuciuss primary teachings is that through effort, people can perfect themselves.

6、这种对于勤奋的信念是促成亚洲学生成绩突出 的三大要素中的第一个。它来源于亚洲人共同的儒教5世纪那位中国圣人的哲学 完善自我。 Confucianism provides another important ingredient in the Asians success as well. In Confucian philosophy, the family plays a central role an orientation that leads people to work for the honor of the family, not just for themselves. One

7、 can never repay ones parents, and theres a sense of obligation or even guilt that is as strong a force among Asians as Protestant philosophy is in the West. 儒教也为亚洲人的成功提供了另一个要素。在孔 这 种定向 不仅仅是为了他们自己。一个人永远无法报答他 的强大力量。 The first cultural translator I ever met was an installation engineer, George by name

8、, who worked for an American company where I was the director of international operations. The company had just started a joint venture with a Japanese firm, and the American management needed someone to train the Japanese employees in its unique technology. Georges solid understanding of the equipm

9、ent, its installation and use made him the best-qualified employee for the job, so everyone was happy when George accepted a two-year contract for temporary transfer to Japan. 我遇到的第一位文化翻译是一位设备安装工程 任的美国公司里工作。这家公司刚同一家日本 有人在它的独特技术方面培训日本雇员。乔治对设备及其安装和使用的透彻了解使他成为最能 所以当乔治接受了暂时 From the start, George was we

10、ll accepted by all the Japanese employees. Japanese managers often distrust anyone sent to represent US owners, but George was so naturally nonassertive that no one could see him as a threat to their careers. So they felt comfortable asking his advice on a wide range of matters, including the odd be

11、havior of their partners across the ocean. Engineers throughout the company appreciated Georges expertise and his friendly and capable help, and they got into the habit of turning to him whenever they had a problem any problem. And the secretaries in the office were eager to help this nice bachelor

12、learn Japanese. 日方经理通常不信任任何被派去代表美方业主 自己职业的一种威胁。所以他们喜欢就广泛的各 作伙伴的古怪行为。公司上下的工程师们都珍视 他们已养成了一有问题 帮忙的习惯。办公室里的秘书们都热衷于帮助这个讨人喜欢的单身汉学习日语。 Failure is never pleasant. It hurts adults and children alike. But it can make a positive contribution to your life once you learn to use it. Step one is to ask, Why did I

13、fail? Resist the natural impulse to blame someone else. Ask yourself what you did wrong, how you can improve. If someone else can help, dont be shy about inquiring. 失败从来就不是什么令人愉快的事情。它让成年 利用 ?”要抵制责怪别 询问。 Success, which encourages repetition of old behavior, is not nearly as good a teacher as failure.

14、 You can learn from a disastrous party how to give a good one, from an ill-chosen first house what to look for in a second. Even a failure that seems total can prompt fresh thinking, a change of direction. 败这个老师来得好。你可以从一次极糟的晚会中 从第一次不当 的选房中学到下次选房时要注意些什么。即使一 向的改变。 Balancing work and school was difficu

15、lt. I was staying up late studying, and going to work early every morning. I was having a hard time concentrating in class, and a hard time on the job because I was so tired, she says. But she ended up with two As in her first semester anyway. 要做到工作学习两不误很困难。“我要一直熬夜 A。 Priscilla decided to pursue an

16、archaeology major, and in the summer of 1992, she got her first opportunity to really test out her interest in the subject. The archaeological field school of Washington State University was sponsoring a summer research project at a site alongside the Snake River in Washington. Priscilla threw herse

17、lf into the work, and the project supervisors were impressed. At the end of the summer, one of the professors offered her a job. He said,We just got a contract for a project in North Dakota. We want to hire you if youre willing to take a semester off from school. The offer was a diversion from Prisc

18、illas pursuit of her BA. But by then I no longer doubted that I would ultimately finish school, so I felt comfortable grabbing this opportunity, she says. 并在1992年夏天获得了检验自己对这一学科兴趣的第一个机会。华盛顿州立大学的野外考古中心正在发起一个 目管理人留下了深刻印象。夏季结束时有一 拿到北达科他州一个项目的合同。如果你愿意 离了普丽西拉要获得学士学位的追求。“但那时 地抓住了这次机 He has been proclaimed

19、the finest mind alive, the greatest genius of the late 20th century, and Einsteins heir. Known to millions, far and wide, for his book A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking is a star scientist in more ways than one. His gift for revealing the mysteries of the universe in a style that non-scientis

20、ts can enjoy made Hawking an instant celebrity and his book a bestseller in both Britain and America. It has earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for spending 184 weeks in The Sunday Times top-ten lists, and has sold more than five million copies worldwide virtually unheard-of success for

21、a science book. 20世纪后 因时间简史一书而闻名遐迩为众人所知的斯蒂芬?霍金是一个多重意义上的明星科学家。霍金擅长于用一种非科学工乐于接受的文体 使他的书在英国和美国都成了畅销书。该书因在星期日泰晤士报十大畅销书名单上持续了184500多万册而在吉尼斯世界纪录大全上赢得了一席之地对一 How did all this happen? How has a man who is almost completely paralysed and unable to speak except through a computer overcome these incredible obs

22、tacles and achieved far more than most people ever dream of? 这一切是如何发生的呢？一个几乎全身瘫痪通 过电脑说话的人只能是如何克服这些令人难以 获得了远远超过大多数人所梦想过 But thinking is far different from laziness. Thinking is one of the most productive activities a human being can undertake. Every beautiful and useful thing we have created exists bec