全新版第一册unit1textawritingformyself课文及翻译

Unit1

Writing for Myself

为自己而写

1.

The idea of becoming a writer had come to me off and on since my childhood in

Belleville, but it wasn't until my third year in high school that the possibility

took

hold.

Until

then

I've

been

bored

by

everything

associated

with

English

courses.

I

found

English

grammar

dull

and

difficult.

I

hated

the

assignments

to

turn

out

long,

lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write.

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从孩提时代，

我还住在贝尔维尔时，

我的 脑子里就断断续续地转着当作家的念头，

但直等到

我高中三年级 ，

这一想法才有了实现的可能。

在这之前，

我对所有跟英文课沾边的事都感到

腻味。

我觉得英文语法枯 燥难懂。我痛恨那些长而乏味的段落写作，老师读着受累，我写着

痛苦。

2.

When our class was assigned to Mr. Fleagle for third-year English I anticipated

another

cheerless

year

in

that

most

tedious

of

subjects.

Mr.

Fleagle

had

a

reputation

among

students

for

dullness

and

inability

to

inspire.

He

was

said

to

be

very

formal,

rigid and hopelessly out of date. To me he looked to be sixty or seventy and

excessively wore

primly

severe

eyeglasses,

his

wavy

hair

was

primly

cut

and

primly

combed. He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of

his white shirts. He had a primly pointed jaw, a primly straight nose, and a prim

manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that he seemed a comic

antique.

弗利格尔先生接我 们的高三英文课时，

我就准备着在这门最最单调乏味的课上再熬上沉闷的

一年。

弗利格尔先生在学生中以其说话干巴和激励学生无术而出名。