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Lesson one
1.
Virtue is, indeed must be, self-
centered.(para4)
正确的行动是,确实也必须是以自我为中心的。
By right action, we mean it
must help promote personal interest.
2.
The
essentials
are
familiar:
the
poverty
of
the
poor
was
the
fault
of
the
poor.
And
it
was
because it was
product of their excessive
fecundity…..
(para5)
他的基本观点为人
熟知:穷人的贫穷是他们咎由自取,贫穷是热门过度生育的结果
The poverty of the poor was caused by
their having too many children.
3.
Poverty
being
caused
in
the
bed
meant
that
the
rich
were
not
responsible
for
either
its
creation or its amelioration. (para6) <
/p>
贫穷源于过度生育意味着富人不应该为产生贫穷和解决贫穷承担责任
The
rich
were
not
to
blame
for
the
existence
of
poverty
so
they
should
not
be
asked
to
undertake the task of solving the
problem.
4.
It is merely the working
out of a law of nature and a law of God(para8)
这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用。
It
is
only
the
result
or
effect
of
the
law
of
the
survival
of
the
fittest
applied
to
nature
or
to
human society.
5.
It
declined in popularity, and reference to it
acquired a condemnatory tone.(para9)
然而
在
20
世纪,人们认为社会学中的达尔文进化论有点过于残酷,
遭到了普遍的质疑,人
们提及它都带有谴责的口吻。
People began to reject Social Darwinism
because it seemed to glorify brutal force and
oppose
treasured values of sympathy,
love and friendship. Therefore, when it was
mentioned, it was
usually the target of
criticism.
6.
In
recent years, however, it has become clear that
the search for a way of getting the poor off
our conscience was not at an end; it
was only suspended.(para11)
然而,
< br>最近几年,
很显然我们又在试图寻求不为穷人的存在而内疚的办法.
这种尝试并没有
结束,
而只是曾经中断过一段时间。
The
desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for
the poor had not been abandoned; it had
only been put off.
7.
In fact, we
have in the United States an extraordinarily good
public service one made up of
talented
and
dedicated
people
who
are
overwhelmingly
honest
and
only
rarely
given
to
overpaying for monkey wrenches,
flashlights, coffee makers, and toilet
seats(para13)
实际上,
美国有非常优秀的公共
服务队伍一支由富有才于和敬业精神的人组成的队伍,
他们
非常
诚实,
以致像出高价购实活动扳手、
手电筒、
< br>咖啡壶以及马桶坐圈以获取回扣的情况及
为罕见
Government officials, on the whole, are
good; it is very rare that some would pay high
prices
for office equipment to get
kickbacks.
8.
This is perhaps our most highly
influential piece of fiction. (para15)
这种说法也许是我
们最有影响的一个虚构故事。
It
is a very popular story and has been accepted by
many but it is not true.
9.
Belief can be the servant of truth---
but even more of convenience.(para16)
信念可以是真理的仆人,但更多的情况下只是一时之需。
Belief can be useful in the search for
truth. But more often than not it is accepted
because it is
convenient and self-
serving.
10.
George Gilder, a greatly favored figure
of the recent past, who tells to much applause
that the
poor must have the cruel spur
of their own suffering to ensure effort.(para20)
11.
最近深受欢迎的乔治吉尔德在
众人的支持声中宣称穷人应该承受一定的痛苦,
才
能受到
激励而努力改变现状;
George Gilder advances the view that
only when the poor suffer from great misery will
they be
stimulated to make great
efforts to change the situation; in other words,
suffering is necessary
to force the
poor to work hard.
Lesson two
these marks of wild country called to
my father like the legendary siren song.
可是正是这些特征,像希腊神话里海妖那动听的歌声一样,诱惑着爸爸。
Though the
place was not pleasant and disagreeable to other
people, they were the very things
that
fascinated
my
father---its
unexplored,
uncultivated
natural
state,and
the
attractions were irresistible to my
father,just like the legendary siren song to
sailors.
2.
us if
it did.
“我怕天就要黑了,”
我解释到,心里想天真的黑了,会有什么样更大的灾难降
临到我们头上。
As a little girl,I
believed my father's words,and was genuinely
afraid of the possible disaster--if
we
didn't hurry up,the day would catch us and
terrible things might happen.
3....from time to time he was
halfheartedly sought for trial, though few crimes
seemed to lead
directly to his door.
警察们时不时地例行公事,
试图逮捕他,
但似
乎找不出他违法的具体证据。
In
this
place,though
the
police
wound
make
some
effort
without
real
earnest
to
investigate
Watson and bring
him to court,there seemed to be little concrete
evidence to prove that he was
responsible for certain illegal
activities.
stranglehold
Watson had over this section of Florida was not
dissimilar to the unscrupulous
activities of certain lawmen, other
legal crooks, and even governors that our state
was to suffer
through
its
p>
history.
沃森在佛罗里达州这一地区的恶霸行为与我们在后
来所遭受的某些执法
者、法律骗子,甚至一些地方官员们的无耻行径毫无二致。
The control Watson
had over this part of Florida was much similar to
the dishonest or illegal
activities
of
the
law-
enforcing
officials
and
governors
which
Florida
witnessed
in
the
20th
century.
5.
There was the little shack, not the most gracious
of living quarters, and there was a murderer
for our nearest and only neighbor,
about thirty miles away.
小岛上有一个简陋的木屋,算不
上
很好的居住场所,唯一的近邻就是住在
30
< br>英里外的杀人犯沃森。
Before the family built their own
house,they lived in a shabby cabin at Gopher
Key,close to the
merciless Watson.
Richard in his gluttony
never sat at a table more sumptuous than ours was
three times a
day...
即使是讲究美食的
国王理查德也不可能像我们一样一日三餐吃着如此丰盛的野味。
We
had
abundant
food
on
the
island,and
even
the
meals
enjoyed
by
King
Richard,who
was
famous for his love of food,couldn't
possibly compare with ours.
e the unrelenting heat, we were happy
to be let off from our hours of school indoors,
sessions which our mother kept every
day, rain or shine.
尽管烈日当头,
我们
却很高兴不用在屋
里上课;平时每天的这个时候,无论晴天还是下雨,妈妈都要给我们上
课。
Although it
was very hot outside in the sun,we were happy to
be dismissed from my mother's
sessions
indoors.
We
would
have
to
read
and
write
with
her
every
day
no
matter
what
the
weather was like.
Unit 3
1.
Even droughts, floods and heat waves
may become unwitting acts of man. (para2)
甚至干旱、洪水、热电波等都可能是人类的无心之过
What people do may unintentionally
cause droughts, floods and heat waves.
2.
But this
image, now repeatedly thrust before us in
photographs, posters, and advertisements,
is misleading.(para4)
但这种曾无数
次展现在我们面前的照片海报和广告上的景象都是误导
The
Earth
we
see
in
photos,posters,and
ads,
which
appears
so
beautiful,
is
not
the
true
reflection of the world we live in.
3.
The
technosphere has become sufficiently large and
intense to alter the natural processes that
govern the ecosphere.(para5)
如此庞大和强烈的技术圈已经改变了控制生态圈的自然进程
Human activities have taken place over
such large areas and with such intensity that they
have
already caused disastrous effects
on ecology.
4. ...which could establish
itself only because it fitted properly into the
preexisting system.(para6)
但正因为鱼能适应这一业已存在的系统,它才得以立足。
The fish could play its role because it
became a necessary link with the processes
preceding it
and the processes
following it in the ecological system.
5.
Defined
so
narrowly,
it
is
no
surprise
that
cars
have
properties
that
are
hostile
to
their
environment.(para8)
p>
若只为迎合买者和生产商汽车具有不利于环境的性能也就不足为奇了。
When cars are produced to serve such
narrow purposes, it is not surprising that some of
their
characteristic qualities are
harmful to the environment.
rose, but
not in proportion to the rate of fertilizer
application...(para9)
产量提高了,却与肥料投入量不成正比
The farmers applied more and more
chemical fertilizer, but production did not
increase at the
same rate.
7....their
waste
is
flushed
into
the
sewer
system
altered
in
composition
but
not
in
amount
at
treatment
plant...(para11)
而它们的废物被冲送下水道,经处置后成分发生了
改变但数量没有变化.
People, after
digestion, excrete the waste which is flushed into
the sewer sewage
goes
to
a
treatment
plant
which
modifies
it,
but
it
is
still
waste
after
being
processed.
The
waste does not reenter the life cycle
but disturbs the natural processes wherever it is
dumped.
8. Left to their own devices,
ecosystems are conservative...(para12)
若生态小环境保持其自身的方式,它们将几乎保持不变,进化速度十分锺慢。
If the ecosystems are not
upset by outside intrusion, they will remain the
same with very little
change
contrast
to
the
ecosphere,
the
technosphere
is
composed
of
objects
and
materials
that
reflect a rapid and relentless process
of change and variation.(para13)
与生态圈相反,技术圈是由线性流程决定的
The characteristics of the objects and
materials in the technosphere are rapidchange and
great
variety.
this is done
only at the cost of understanding.(para18)
但这种做法却是以我们的理解为代价的
If we take sides in the war
of the two worlds, we are doing so at the risk of
failing to have a
clear understanding
of the nature and cause of the war. Thus, we lose
the chance to really solve
the grave
environmental crisis.
Unit4
1.
How all my own
territory would be altered, as if a landslide had
gone through it and skimmed
off all
meaning except loss of Mike.(para13)
我的
世界发生了天翻地覆的变化,就像发生了山崩,除了迈克的离去,其余
的所有记忆都
被冲掉了。
The
impact
of
Mike's
leaving
on
my
life
was
beyond
my
imagination.
I
didn't
expect
thatMike's leaving would have such a
tremendous power that it would change the meaning
of
myexistence completely. All my
thoughts were about loss of Mike
2.
During that
time of life that is supposed to be a reproductive
daze, with the woman's mind all
swamped
by maternal juices, we were still compelled to
discuss Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur
Koestler and
生命中的那段时光本应是忙于照着
孩子,
大脑处在一种产后带来的恍惚忙碌中,
可我们却讨
论着西蒙·波娃、阿瑟·凯斯特勒以及《鸡尾酒会儿》
At that time we were young mothers, and
we were supposed to lead a terribly busy life
fullof
confusion and bewilderment
caused by giving birth to and raising babies. And
our mindswere
supposed to be fully
occupied by how to feed the babies and things like
that. However, in the
midst of all this
we still felt the need to discuss some of the
important thinkers of ourtime like
Simone
de
Beauvoir
and
Arthur
Koestler
and
T.
&
Eliot's
sophisticated
work
Party
3.
...I would be
frightened, not of any hostility but of a kind of
nonexistence.(para25)
这时我会感
觉到害怕不是因为人们之间的不友好,而是因为我感到自己不复存在。
< br>
I would be frightened,
and my fear was not caused by my neighbors'
visibly hostile andviolent
way
of
lifts
but
by
a
kind
of
formless
and
hidden
emptiness
and
meaninglessness
ofhuman
existence.
What happened around me was
totally irrelevant to me, and I felt veryisolated
and
alienated.
4. She did not ask me---was it delicacy
or disapproval? ---about my new life.(para29)
她没有询问我的新生活,或是缘于不便提起,或是出于对我的新生活的不赞同
She did not ask me about my new
life, either out of subtle consideration for my
feeling about
this sensitive subject or
out of disapproval of my new life style.
5.
It would be a
sleazy thing to do, in the house of his
friends.(para49)
在他朋友
的家里,那的确是很不应该做的事。
It would be a morally low thing, an
indecent thing to commit infidelity in the house
of afriend.
6.
I knew now that he was a person who had
hit rock bottom.(para88)
我现在知道,他是世上最不幸的人
.
I knew that he was a person who had experienced
the worst in life, the hardest experience
aperson might have to endure.
7.
He and wife
knew that together and it bound them, as something
like that would either break
you apart
or bind you, for life.(para88)
他和妻子共同体验
了这一切。
这把他们绑在了一起,
就像有些事在生活中要么
p>
把你们拆散,
要么使你们终生在一起