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Lesson one

1.

Virtue is, indeed must be, self- centered.(para4)

正确的行动是，确实也必须是以自我为中心的。

By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.

2.

The essentials are familiar: the poverty of the poor was the fault of the poor. And it

was because it was product of their excessive fecundity…..

(para5)

他的基本观点为人 熟知：穷人的贫穷是他们咎由自取，贫穷是热门过度生育的

结果

The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.

3.

Poverty being caused in the bed meant that the rich were not responsible for either

its creation or its amelioration. (para6)

贫穷源于过度生育意味着富人 不应该为产生贫穷和解决贫穷承担责任

The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked

to undertake the task of solving the problem.

4.

It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God(para8)

这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用。

It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature

or to human society.

5.

It declined in popularity, and reference to it acquired a condemnatory tone.(para9)

然而在

20

世纪，人们认为社会学中的达尔文进化论有点过于残酷，遭到了普遍

的质疑，人们提及它都带有谴责的口吻。

People began to reject Social Darwinism because it seemed to glorify brutal force

and oppose treasured values of sympathy, love and friendship. Therefore, when it

was mentioned, it was usually the target of criticism.

6.

In recent years, however, it has become clear that the search for a way of getting

the poor off our conscience was not at an end; it was only suspended.(para11)

然而，最近几年，很显然我们又在试图寻求不为穷人的存在而内疚的办法．这

种尝试并没 有结束，

而只是曾经中断过一段时间。

The desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not been

abandoned; it had only been put off.

7.

In fact, we have in the United States an extraordinarily good public service one

made up of talented and dedicated people who are overwhelmingly honest and only

rarely given to overpaying for monkey wrenches, flashlights, coffee makers, and toilet

seats(para13)

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实际上，美国有 非常优秀的公共服务队伍一支由富有才于和敬业精神的人组成

的队伍，他们非常诚实，以 致像出高价购实活动扳手、手电筒、咖啡壶以及马

桶坐圈以获取回扣的情况及为罕见

Government officials, on the whole, are good; it is very rare that some would pay

high prices for office equipment to get kickbacks.

8.

This is perhaps our most highly influential piece of fiction. (para15)

这种说法也许是我

们最有影响的一个虚构故事。

It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true.

9.

Belief can be the servant of truth--- but even more of convenience.(para16)

信念可以是真理的仆人，但更多的情况下只是一时之需。

Belief can be useful in the search for truth. But more often than not it is accepted

because it is convenient and self- serving.

10.

George Gilder, a greatly favored figure of the recent past, who tells to much

applause that the poor must have the cruel spur of their own suffering to ensure

effort.(para20)

11.

最近深受欢迎的乔治吉尔德在 众人的支持声中宣称穷人应该承受一定的痛

苦，才

能受到激励而努力改变现状；

George Gilder advances the view that only when the poor suffer from great misery

will they be stimulated to make great efforts to change the situation; in other words,

suffering is necessary to force the poor to work hard.

Lesson two

these marks of wild country called to my father like the legendary siren song.

可是正是这些特征，像希腊神话里海妖那动听的歌声一样，诱惑着爸爸。

Though the place was not pleasant and disagreeable to other people, they were the

very things that fascinated my father ---its unexplored, uncultivated natural state,

and the challenge. The attractions were irresistible to my father, just like the

legendary siren song to sailors.

2.

might befall us if it did.

“我怕天就要黑了，”

我解 释到，心里想天真的黑了，会有

什么样更大的灾难降临到我们头上。

As a little girl, I believed my father's words, and was genuinely afraid of the

possible disaster--if we didn't hurry up, the day would catch us and terrible things

might happen.

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3....from time to time he was halfheartedly sought for trial, though few crimes seemed

to lead directly to his door.

警察们时不时地例行公事，试图逮捕他，但似乎找不

出他违法的具体证 据。

In this place, though the police wound make some effort without real earnest to

investigate Watson and bring him to court, there seemed to be little concrete

evidence to prove that he was responsible for certain illegal activities.

stranglehold Watson had over this section of Florida was not dissimilar to the

unscrupulous activities of certain lawmen, other legal crooks, and even governors that

our state was to suffer through its history.

沃森在佛罗里达州这一地区的恶霸行为

与我们在后来所遭受的某些执法者、法律骗子，甚至一些地方官员们的无耻行

径毫无二 致。

The control Watson had over this part of Florida was much similar to the dishonest

or illegal activities of the law-enforcing officials and governors which Florida

witnessed in the 20th century.

5. There was the little shack, not the most gracious of living quarters, and there was a

murderer for our nearest and only neighbor, about thirty miles away.

小岛上有 一个

简陋的木屋，算不上很好的居住场所，唯一的近邻就是住在

30

英里外的杀人犯

沃森。

Before the family built their own house, they lived in a shabby cabin at Gopher Key,

close to the merciless Watson.

Richard in his gluttony never sat at a table more sumptuous than ours was

three times a day...

即使是讲究美食的 国王理查德也不可能像我们一样一日三餐吃

着如此丰盛的野味。

We had abundant food on the island, and even the meals enjoyed by King Richard,

who was famous for his love of food, couldn't possibly compare with ours.

e the unrelenting heat, we were happy to be let off from our hours of school

indoors, sessions which our mother kept every day, rain or shine.

尽管烈日当头，我

们却很高兴不用在屋里上课；平 时每天的这个时候，无论晴天还是下雨，妈妈

都要给我们上课。

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Although it was very hot outside in the sun, we were happy to be dismissed from my

mother's sessions indoors. We would have to read and write with her every day no

matter what the weather was like.

Unit 3

1.

Even droughts, floods and heat waves may become unwitting acts of man. (para2)

甚至干旱、洪水、热电波等都可能是人类的无心之过

What people do may unintentionally cause droughts, floods and heat waves.

2.

But this image, now repeatedly thrust before us in photographs, posters, and

advertisements, is misleading.(para4) < /p>

但这种曾无数次展现在我们面前的照片海报和广告上的景象都是误导

The Earth we see in photos, posters, and ads, which appears so beautiful, is not the

true reflection of the world we live in.

3.

The technosphere has become sufficiently large and intense to alter the natural

processes that govern the ecosphere.(para5)

如此庞大和强烈的技术圈已经改变了控制生态圈的自然进程

Human activities have taken place over such large areas and with such intensity

that they have already caused disastrous effects on ecology.

4. ...which could establish itself only because it fitted properly into the preexisting

system.(para6)

但正因为鱼能适应这一业已存在的系统，它才得以立足。

The fish could play its role because it became a necessary link with the processes

preceding it and the processes following it in the ecological system.

5.

Defined so narrowly, it is no surprise that cars have properties that are hostile to

their environment.(para8)

若只为迎合买者和生产商汽车具有不利于环 境的性能也就不足为奇了。

When cars are produced to serve such narrow purposes, it is not surprising that

some of their characteristic qualities are harmful to the environment.

rose, but not in proportion to the rate of fertilizer application...(para9)

产量提高了，却与肥料投入量不成正比

The farmers applied more and more chemical fertilizer, but production did not

increase at the same rate.

7....their waste is flushed into the sewer system altered in composition but not in

amount at treatment plant...(para11)

而它们的废物被冲送下水道，经处置后成分发生了改变但数量没有变化．

People, after digestion, excrete the waste which is flushed into the sewer system.

The sewage goes to a treatment plant which modifies it, but it is still waste after

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being processed. The waste does not reenter the life cycle but disturbs the natural

processes wherever it is dumped.

8. Left to their own devices, ecosystems are conservative...(para12)

若生态小环境保持其自身的方式，它们将几乎保持不变，进化速度十分锺慢。

If the ecosystems are not upset by outside intrusion, they will remain the same with

very little change

contrast to the ecosphere, the technosphere is composed of objects and materials

that reflect a rapid and relentless process of change and variation.(para13)

与生态圈相反，技术圈是由线性流程决定的

The characteristics of the objects and materials in the technosphere are rapid

change and great variety.

this is done only at the cost of understanding.(para18)

但这种做法却是以我们的理解为代价的

If we take sides in the war of the two worlds, we are doing so at the risk of failing

to have a clear understanding of the nature and cause of the war. Thus, we lose the

chance to really solve the grave environmental crisis.

Unit4

1.

How all my own territory would be altered, as if a landslide had gone through it

and skimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike.(para13)

我的 世界发生了天翻地覆的变化，就像发生了山崩，除了迈克的离去，其余

的

所有记忆都被冲掉了。

The impact of Mike's leaving on my life was beyond my imagination. I didn't

expect that Mike's leaving would have such a tremendous power that it would

change the meaning of my existence completely. All my thoughts were about loss of

Mike

2.

During that time of life that is supposed to be a reproductive daze, with the

woman's mind all swamped by maternal juices, we were still compelled to discuss

Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and

生命中的那段时光本应是忙于照着孩子，大脑处在一种产后带来的恍惚忙碌

中，可我们却讨论着西蒙·波娃、阿瑟·凯斯特勒以及《鸡尾酒会儿》

At that time we were young mothers, and we were supposed to lead a terribly busy

life full of confusion and bewilderment caused by giving birth to and raising babies.

And our minds were supposed to be fully occupied by how to feed the babies and

things like that. However, in the midst of all this we still felt the need to discuss

some of the important thinkers of our time like Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur

Koestler and T. & Eliot's sophisticated work

3.

...I would be frightened, not of any hostility but of a kind of nonexistence.(para25)

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