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、我认为，选修第二专业并不合适每一位本科生。我大学本科主修英语
专业，大一时就开始辅修经济学了。无疑，我是
班里最用功的学生。我竭尽全力想同时达
到两个不同专业的要求，但还是有不及格的时候。因为经济学需要良好的数学
基础，我不
得不花大量时间钻研数学，因而忽略了英语学习。
If
you
ask
me,
taking
a
second
major
isn’t
good
for
every
undergraduate.
In
my
freshman
year
as
an
English
major, I took economics as my minor. By all odds,
I was the most hardworking student in my
class. But try as I might to meet the
requirements of the two different subjects, I
still couldn’t do well
enough
to
pass
all
the
that
the
study
of
economics
required
a
good
command
of
mathematics, I had to
spend so much time on math that I neglected my
English major.
2
、第二学期，《英国文学》及《宏观经济学》两门课不及格给我敲响了警种，这可是我
一生中第一次考试不及格，这大
大打击了我的自信心。虽然我不是一个容易向命运低头的
人，在暑假结束的时候，我还是决定放弃经济学，以免两个专
业都难以完成。当我只需修
一个专业的时候，一切似乎又回到了正轨。
(
if you
ask me; odds; try as … might; sap
one’s
confidence; given that; bow to fate; come to a
close; for fear that; now that)
Failing English Literature
and Macro-economics in the second semester sounded
the alarm for me. This
was the first
time I did not pass a course in my life, which had
greatly sapped my gh I
was not a man
who would easily bow to fate, as the summer break
came to a close, I decided to give up
economics
for
fear
that
I
would
fail
in
both
subjects.
Now
that
I
had
only
one
subject
to
attend
to,
everything seemed to be
on the right track again.
3
、张磊是在毕业工作后才开始意识到读书的乐趣的。
反思自己的
大学教育时，
他感慨不已：
他的一些同学都沉浸于从图
书馆或书店找到的各种有趣的书籍，
而他却只读了一些教科书，
其中连一本真正能让他爱不释手、
值得一读的书都没有。
他可以说是被剥夺了通过书了解作家奇妙世界的特权。
It was not until after he
had graduated from university and started to work
that Zhang Lei became aware
of
the
pleasure
of
reading.
Reflecting
on
his
undergraduate
studies,
he
lamented
that
he,
unlike
his
classmates
who
had
immersed
themselves
in
various
interesting books
they
were
able
to
lay
hands
on
from the library or
bookshop, had only read textbooks, none of which
was really worthwhile, or could be
read
in
one
sitting.
He
was
deprived
of
the
privilege
of
gaining
access
to
the
writers’
fantastic
worlds
through the windows their books have
opened, so to speak.
4
、如今，他嗜书如命，废寝忘食，好像要把大学期间没机会读的好书全都
读一遍。到目前为止他已经利用业余时间读了
几百本小说、传记和游记。他意识到书不仅
能向他展示一个充满希望的前景，帮他消除现实生活中的压力和疲劳，而且
能够帮他澄清
一些误解，找到生活的真谛。
(reflect on; in one
sitting; lay hands on; immerse in; worthwhile;
privilege; withstand; vista)
Now he has
become an avid and omnivorous reader. It is as if
he wants to make up for those marvelous
books
he
hadn’t
had
a
chance
to
read
in
his
university
days.
By
now,
in
his
spare
time,
he
has
read
several hundreds of
books, including novels, biographies and travel
notes. He realizes that books can not
only reveal to him the vista of a
hopeful future and help him withstand stresses and
strains, they can also
help him clear
up some misconceptions and discover the true
meaning of the life.
5
、一个人的穿着似乎能影响他的行为方式。
譬如，
在校内要穿校服是中小学生所必须严格遵守的规矩之一。
倘若在学生
着装整齐划一和行为的统一规范之间不存在一种象征性关联的话，校服便不可能如此盛行。
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What you wear seems to dictate the
kind of person you are supposed to be. Take
primary school and high
school students
for example. One of the hard and fast rules they
have to observe is that they must
wear
uniforms
at
school.
There
is
no
doubt
that
school
uniforms
would
not
have
achieved
their
currency
without a symbolic
correlation between the uniformity of clothes and
the students’ conformity to some
common
code of conduct.
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、然而，多年的学校生活让学生在内心里对随处可见的校服产生了抵触情绪，校服毕竟压制了个性的表达。为 了弥补这
种损失，学生常常会在周末穿流行的休闲装。直到上了大学，他们才会享受真正
的着装自由，而服装上的无序与大学培
养创造力、鼓励自由表达思想及展露才华密切相关
。可惜这样的好景不会太长，经过一段相对短暂的自由之后，他们在
毕业工作之后将再次
经历着装规范的压力。
(hard
and
fast;
there
is
no
doubt
that;
currency;
correlation;
backlash; ubiquitous; compensate for;
anarchy; obtain; revive) .
However,
after
years
of
school
life,
there
is
always
a
backlash
secretly
nursed
in
the
students’
mind
against the ubiquitous
uniform which suppresses the expression of
individuality. To compensate for this
loss, students try to hunt for more
casual and popular clothes and wear them on
weekends. It is not until
they start
university, however, that they can really enjoy
the freedom of dress, an anarchy associated with
the cultivation of creativity and the
encouragement of the free expression of ideas and
talents. But this
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