call现代大学英语第二版精读2 unit 1 课文翻译

Let me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as a teacher. It was January of 1940 and I was

fresh out of

刚刚做完

graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. Part

of the student body was a beanpole with hair on top who came into my class, sat down, folded his

arms,

and

looked

at

me

as

if

to

say

right,

teach

me

something.

Two

weeks

later

we

started

Hamlet. Three weeks later he came into my office with his hands on his hips.

here to be a pharmacist. Why do I have to read this stuff

he pointed to mine which was lying on the desk.

给你们讲讲 我刚当老师时候的一次失败经历吧。那是

1940

年的

1

月，我从研究生院

毕业不久，

在堪萨斯城大学开始第一学期的教学工作。

一个瘦高 ，

长得就像顶上有毛的豆角架一

样的男学生走进我的课堂，坐下 ，双臂交叉放在胸前，看着我，好像在说：

“

好吧，教我一些东

西。

”

两周后我们开始学习《哈姆雷特 》

。三周后他双手叉腰走进我的办公室，

“

看，

”

他说，

“

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来这是学习当药剂师的。我为什么必须读这个

”

由于没有随身带着自己的书，他就指着桌子上放

着的我的那本。

New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. I could have pointed

out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of

his

course

meant

to

reach

for

a

scroll

that

read

Bachelor

of

Science.

It

would

not

read:

Qualified

Pill-Grinding

Technician.

It

would

certify

that

he

had

specialized

in

专攻

pharmacy,

but

it

would

further certify that he had

been exposed to

揭露

some of the ideas mankind has generated within its

history. That is to say, he had not entered a technical training school but a university and in universities

students

enroll for

参加

both training and education.

虽然我是位新老师，我本来可以告诉这个家伙许多事情的。我本来可以指出，他考

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入的不是制药技工培训学校而是大学，而且他在毕业时，应该得到一张写有理学学士而不是

“

合

格的磨药工

”

的学位证书。这证书会证明他专修过药剂学，但它还能进一步证明他曾经接触过一< /p>

些人类发展史上产生的思想。

换句话说，

他上的不是技能培训学校而是大学，

在大学里学生既要

得到培训 又要接受教育。

I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't going to be around long enough for it

to matter.

我本来可以把这些话都告诉他，但是很 明显，他不会待很长时间，说了也没用。

Nevertheless, I was young and I had a high sense of duty and I tried to

put it this way

表达

:

rest of your life,

average out to

平均下来

about twenty-four hours.

They will be a little shorter when you are in love, and a little longer when you are out of love, but the

average will tend to hold. For eight of these hours, more or less, you will be asleep.