(完整word版)现代大学英语精读5课后翻译

现代大学英语精读

5

课后翻译

Lesson 1 Where Do We Go from Here

1.

A white lie is better than a black lie,

一个无关紧要的谎言总比一个善意的谎言要好。

2.

To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood.

为了挫败各种蓄意培植的低人一等的心态，

黑人必须直起腰来宣布自己高贵的人格。

3.

…

with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self- abnegation

…

黑人必须以 一种竭尽全力自尊自重的精神，大胆抛弃自我克制的枷锁。

4.

What

is

needed

is

a

realization

that

power

without

love

is

reckless

and

abusive,

and

love

without

power

is

sentimental and anemic.

必须懂得没有爱的权力是毫无节制、易被滥用的，

而没有权力的爱则是多愁善感、脆弱无力的。

5.

It

is

precisely

this

collision

of

immoral

power

with

powerless

morality

which

constitutes

the

major

crisis

of

our

times.

正是这种邪恶 的权力和没有权势的道义的冲突构成了我们时代的主要危机。

6.

Now, early in this century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of

initiative and responsibility.

< br>在本世纪之初，这种建议会受到嘲笑和谴责，认为它对主动性和责任感起到负面作用。

7.

The

fact

is

that

the

work

which

improves

the

condition

of

mankind,

the

work

which

extends

knowledge

and

increases power and enriches literature and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living.

事实上，

人们从事 改善人类处境的工作，从事传播知识、增强实力、丰富文学财富以及升华思想的工作并不是

为了谋生。

8.

…

it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here on earth.

……

.

它能够花费几十亿美元帮助上帝的孩子自立于这个世界。

9.

Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the violent minority had the sympathy and

support of the nonresistant majority.

除非主张暴力的少数人得到大多数人 的同情和支持，

不和他们对抗，

否则，

暴力革命很少或者说几乎没有成功的。

10.

Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

我们要懂得道义的苍穹长又长，它终将落向正义。

Lesson 2 Two Kinds

1.

Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz.

我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花，

而是给我弄成一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。

2.

She checked to see if that might be one way t

o pronounce “Helsinki” before showing me the answer.

在她告诉我答案前，

她对了对手中的杂志，看看赫尔辛基是否能这样发音。

3.

She seemed entranced by the music, a frenzied little piano piece with a mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages

and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts.

她似乎被这音乐吸引住了。这钢琴曲不长，

< br>但有点狂乱，有着迷人的特点，乐曲一开始时快节奏的，接着是欢

快跳动的节拍， 然后又回到嬉戏的部分。

4.

If she had as much talent as she had temper, she would be famous now.

如果她的才气和她的脾气一样大，她早就出名了。

5.

The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch the rose on the carpet with a pointed foot,

sweep to the side, bend left leg, look up, and smile.

我最喜欢练习的部分 是花哨的谢幕行礼的动作：先出右脚，脚尖点在地毯的玫瑰图案上，身子侧摆，左腿弯曲，

抬头，微笑。

6.

A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldn’t stop playing,

as though my hands

were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track.

一股凉气从头顶开始，

然后一点点传到全身。

但我却不能停 止演奏，双手好像着了魔似的。我不停地想，我的

手指会调整好，就像火车会被扳倒正确 的轨道上。

7.

…

and her face went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as if

she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless.

她的 脸部失去了表情，嘴巴紧闭，双臂无力地垂下。她退出了房间，神色惊异，好像一小片枯黄的树叶被风吹走

了，那样的单薄、脆弱、毫无生气。

8.

And for the first time, or so it seemed, I noticed the piece on the right-

hand side, It was called “Perfectly Contented”

I tried to play this one as well. It had a lighter melody but with the same flowing rhythm and turned out to be quite

easy. “Pleading Child” was shorter but slower; “Perfectly Contented” wa

s longer but faster. And after I had played

them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

我第一次，

或好像感觉是第一次，注 意到右边的乐曲。它的名称是“心满意足”

。我也试着弹这首曲子。它的曲

调比较轻松，但节奏同样流畅，不是很难。

“祈求的孩子”较短、较慢，

而“心满意足”更长、更快一些。

在

我弹了几遍后，我意识到，原来这两个曲子是同一首歌的两个组成 部分。

Lesson 3 Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change

1.

Today we are in the throes of a worldwide reformation of cultures, a tectonic shift of habits and dreams called, in

the curious vocabulary of social scientists,

“

globaliz ation

”

.

今天我们正经历着一 种世界范围文化剧变的阵痛，

这是一种习俗与追求的结构性变化，

用社会科学家奇特的

称呼就叫“全球化”

。

< br>

2.

Whatever their backgrounds or agendas, these critics are convinced that Western

—

often equated with American

—

influences will flatten every cultural crease, producing, as one observer terms it, one big

“

McWorld

”