rv英语期末考试文段翻译重点

大学英语综合教程

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期末考试文

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There are two things I have alway

s wanted to do -- write and live

on a farm. Today I'm doing both. I am not in E. B. White's class as a writer or in my neighbors' league as a farmer,

but I'm getting by

. And after y

ears of frustration with city and suburban living, my wife Sandy and I have finally

found contentment here in the country

.

有两件事是我一直想做的――写作与务农。如今我同时做着这 两件事。作为作家，我和

E

·

B

·怀特

不属同一等级，作为农场主，我和乡邻也不是同一类人，不过我 应付得还行。在城市以及郊区历经多年的

怅惘失望之后，我和妻子桑迪终于在这里的乡村 寻觅到心灵的满足。

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It's a self- reliant sort of life. We grow nearl

y all of our fruits and vegetables. Our hens keep us in eggs, with

several dozen left over to sell each week. Our bees provide us with honey

, and we cut enough wood to just about

make it through the heating season.

这是一种自力更生的生活。我们食用的果蔬几乎都是自己种的。自家饲养的鸡提供鸡蛋，每星 期还

能剩余几十个出售。自家养殖的蜜蜂提供蜂蜜，我们还自己动手砍柴，足可供过冬取 暖之用。

Unit2

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I had traveled here to Henson's last home

-- now a historic site that Carter formerly directed

-- to learn

more about a man who was, in many way

s, an African

-American Moses. After winning his own freedom from

slavery

, Henson secretly helped hundreds of other slaves to escape north to Canada

-- and liberty

. Many settled

here in Dresden with him.

我远道 前来亨森最后的居所――如今已成为卡特曾管理过的一处历史遗迹――是为了更多地了解此

人，他在许多方面堪称黑人摩西。亨森自己摆脱了黑奴身份获得自由之后，便秘密帮助其他许多黑奴逃奔

北方去加拿大――逃奔自由之地。许多人和他一起在得雷斯顿这一带定居了下来。

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Yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me. Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of

courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and

safe houses

that

they

used

to liberate slaves from

the

American South. Between

1820 and

1860, as many

as

100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.

但此地只是我所承担的繁重使命的一处停留地。乔赛亚·亨森只是一长串无所畏惧的男女名单 中的

一个名字，这些人共同创建了这条“地下铁路”

，一条由逃 亡线路和可靠的人家组成的用以解放美国南方黑

奴的秘密网络。在

1820

年至

1860

年期间，多达 十万名黑奴经由此路走向自由。

Unit3

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In the house where I grew up, it was our custom to leave the front door on the latch at night. I don't know

if that was a local term or if it is universal;

carried keys; the last one in for the evening would close up, and that was it.

小时候在家里，我们的前门总是夜不落锁。我不知道这是当地的一种说法还是大家都这么说；

不落

锁

的意思是掩上门，但不锁住。我们谁都不带钥匙；晚上最后一个回家的人把门关上，这就行了。

2

Those day

s are

over. In

rural areas as well as in

cities,

doors do not stay unlocked, even

for part of an

evening.

那样的日子已经一去不复返了。在乡下，在城里，门不再关着 不锁上，哪怕是傍晚一段时间也不例

外。

3

Suburbs and

country areas are, in

many

ways, even

more

vulnerable

than well-patroled urban streets.

Statistics show the crime rate rising more dramatically in those allegedly tranquil areas than in cities. At any rate,