多视角研究生英语课后翻译Unit7-11(武汉理工大学用书)

Unit Seven Education and employment

Passage one

1.Fourteen years of higher education and a handful of Ivy League degrees, and there I was, stiff and stupid, struck dumb by my own dumbness.“Ivy retardation,”a friend of mine calls this.

1.我十四年的大学教育和在几所常春藤大学工作的经历使得我傻乎乎站在那里，笨拙不看，尴尬不已。有个朋友称这种现象为“常春藤错位”。

2. To consider that while some opportunities are being created, others are being canceled and that while some abilities are being developed, others are being crippled is, within this context, not only outrageous, but inconceivable.

2.但是再这个背景下，如果认为它创造了一些机会，却丧失了其他机会，培养了有些能力，却其消弱了其他能力，不仅是大逆不道的而且是不可思议的。

3. There is nothing wrong with taking pride in one’s intellect or knowledge. There is something wrong with the smugness and self-congratulation that elite schools connive at.

3.对自己的智慧或者只是感到自豪没有任何不对的地方，问题出现在名牌大学录取通知书进入家门的时刻起，是名牌大学所纵容的沾沾自喜和自我吹捧。

4.Not the most abject academic failure, not the most heinous act of plagiarism, not even threatening a fellow student with bodily harm—I’ve heard of all three—will get you expelled. 4.不管是最绝望的课程不及格，还是最可恶的抄袭劣行，甚至对其他同学的身体伤害的威胁等都不会被开除，这三种情况我都听说过。

5.Long before they got to college, they turned themselves into world-class hoop-jumpers and teacher-pleasers, getting A’s in every class no matter how boring they found the teacher or how pointless the subject, racking up eight or ten extracurricular activities no matter what else they wanted to do with their time.

5.在他们进入大学之前很久就已经把自己变成世界一流的俯首帖耳，讨好老师的小爬虫，在每门课上都得优秀成绩，不管他们觉得这个老师多么乏味，不管他觉得这门课多么没有意义。他们也尽力积累八到十个课外活动，不管多么想用这些时间做别的事情。

Passage two

1.Certainly many neurotic boomer parents-and their stressed-out ,resume-building teenagers—assume that it is always better to choose Harvard over Big State U. because of Harvard’s presumably superior educational environment, better alumni connections, and more lucrative on-campus recruiting opportunities.

对于那些在生育高峰期出生，已为人父母的人和他们焦虑不安，整日忙于增加阅历，以使简历内容更加丰富的十几岁的孩子来说，选择哈佛大学当然比重点州立大学更好。因为哈佛可能会有优越的教育环境，更好的校友圈子，以及更加诱人的校园招聘机会。

2.It’s true that big law firms, major teaching hospitals, and investment banks—heck, even the offices of FORTUNE—are stuffed with Ivy Leaguers. It’s also true that if you want a career at what passes for the American establishment—Sullivan&Cromwell, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs—a gilt-edged diploma is a distinct advantage.

事实上，大型法律公司，主要示教医院和投资银行，甚至是财富杂志的办公室，满是常春藤学生。这也是事实，如果你想在被当做美国经济基石的公司谋得一份职业，如苏利文＊克伦威尔律师事务所，麦肯锡，高盛等，那么一份镶金的学位证书无疑是一个独特的优势。

3.The advantages of Harvard, in other words, confer few benefits on the class slacker. Robert Zemsky. An education professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who believes a prestigious undergraduate degree does pay off, puts it this way: “It’s like the brass ring on a merry-go-round.