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第一单元
1
In
1812,
Napoleon
Bonaparte,
Emperor
of
the
French,
led
his
Grand
Army into Russia. He was prepared for the fierce
resistance of the
Russian people
defending their homeland. He was prepared for the
long
march
across
Russian
soil
to
Moscow,
the
capital
city.
But
he
was
not
prepared for the devastating enemy that
met him in Moscow -- the raw,
bitter,
bleak Russian winter.
1812
年，法国皇帝拿破仑·波拿
巴率大军入侵俄罗斯。他准
备好俄罗斯人民会为保卫祖国而奋勇抵抗。
< br>他准备好在俄罗斯广袤的
国土上要经过长途跋涉才能进军首都莫斯科。
但他没有料到在莫斯科
他会遭遇劲敌—俄罗斯阴冷凄苦的寒冬。
2
In
1941,
Adolf
Hitler,
leader
of
Nazi
Germany,
launched
an
attack
against
the
Soviet
Union,
as
Russia
then
was
called.
Hitler's
military
might
was
unequaled.
His
war
machine
had
mowed
down
resistance in most of Europe. Hitler
expected a short campaign but, like
Napoleon
before
him,
was
taught
a
painful
lesson.
The
Russian
winter
again came to the aid
of the Soviet soldiers.
1941
年，纳粹德国元首阿道夫·
希特勒进攻当时被称作苏联
的俄罗斯。
希特勒的军事实力堪称无
敌。
他的战争机器扫除了欧洲绝
大部分地区的抵抗。希特勒希望
速战速决，但是，就像在他之前的拿
破仑一样，
他得到的是痛苦
的教训。
仍是俄罗斯的冬天助了苏维埃士
兵一臂之力。
第二单元
7
Two of the most frustrating things
about driving a car are getting
lost
and getting stuck in traffic. While the computer
revolution is unlikely
to cure these
problems, it will have a positive impact. Sensors
in your car
tuned
to
radio
signals
from
orbiting
satellites
can
locate
your
car
precisely
at
any
moment
and
warn
of
traffic
jams.
We
already
have
twenty-four
Navstar
satellites
orbiting
the
earth,
making
up
what
is
called the Global Positioning System.
They make it possible to determine
your
location on the earth to within about a hundred
feet. At any given
time, there are
several GPS satellites orbiting overhead at a
distance of
about
11,000
miles.
Each
satellite
contains
four
clocks,
which
vibrate
at
a
precise
frequency,
according
to
the
laws
of
the
quantum
theory.
开车最头疼的两大麻烦是迷路和交
通堵塞。
虽然计算机革命不
可能彻底解决这两个问题，
但却会带来积极的影响。
你汽车上与绕轨
道运行
的卫星发出的无线电信号调谐的传感器能随时精确地确定你
汽车的方位，并告知交通阻塞
情况。我们已经有
24
颗环绕地球运行
的导航卫星，
组成了人们所说的全球卫星定位系统。
通过这些卫
星我
们有可能以小于
100
英尺的误差
确定你在地球上的方位。
在任何一个
特定时间，
总有若干颗全球定位系统的卫星在
11000
英里的高
空绕地
球运行。每颗卫星都装有
4
个“
原子钟”
，它们根据量子理论法则，
以精确的频率振动。
8
As a satellite passes
overhead, it sends out a radio signal that
can be detected by a receiver in a
car's computer. The car's computer can
then calculate how far the satellite is
by measuring how long it took for
the
signal to arrive. Since the speed of light is well
known, any delay in
receiving the
satellite's signal can be converted into a
distance.
卫星从高空经过时发出能被汽车上计算机里的接收器辨认的
无线电信
号。
汽车上的计算机就会根据信号传来所花的时间计算出卫
星有
多远。
由于光速为人熟知，
接收卫星信号时的任何时间迟缓都能
折算出距离的远近。
第三单元
2
When a recent college graduate came
into my office not too long
ago looking
for a sales job, I asked him what he had done to
prepare for
the interview. He said he'd
read something about us somewhere.
不久前一个新近毕业的大学生到我
办公室谋求一份销售工作。
我问他为这次面试做过哪些准备。
他
说他在什么地方看到过有关本公
司的一些情况。
3
Had
he
called
anyone
at
Mackay
Envelope
Corporation
to
find
out more
about us? No. Had he called our suppliers? Our
customers? No.
他有没有给麦凯信封公司的人打过电话，
好了解更多有关我们
的情况？没打过。
他有没有给我们的供应厂商打过电话？还有我们的<
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客户？都没有。
4
Had
he
checked
with
his
university
to
see
if
there
were
any
graduates working at Mackay whom he
could interview? Had he asked
any
friends to grill him in a mock interview? Did he
go to the library to
find newspaper
clippings on us?
他可曾在就读的大学里查问过有没有校友在本公司就职，
以便
向他们了解一些情况
?
他可曾请朋友向他提问，对他进行模拟面试？
可曾去图书馆查找过有关本公司的
剪报？
5
Did he write a letter
beforehand to tell us about himself, what
he was doing to prepare for the
interview and why he'd be right for the
job?
Was
he
planning
to
follow
up
the
interview
with
another
letter
indicating
his
eagerness
to
join
us?
Would
the
letter
be
in
our
hands
within
24
hours
of
the
meeting,
possibly
even
hand-delivered?
他事先有没有写封信来介绍自己，
告诉我们自己为这次面试在做哪些
准备，自己何以能胜任此项工作？面试之后他是否打算再写一封信，
表明自己加盟本公司的诚意？这封信会不会在面试后的
24
小时之内
送到我们手上，也许甚至是亲自送来？
6
The
answer
to
every
question
was
the
same:
no.
That
left
me
with only
one other question: How well prepared would this
person be if
he
were
to
call
on
a
prospective
customer
for
us?
I
already
knew
the
answer.
他对上述每一个问题的回答全都一
样：
没有。
这样我就只剩一
个问题要问
了：
如果此人代表本公司去见可能成为我们客户的人，
他
准备工作会做得怎样？答案不言自明。