大学高级英语上册翻译
大学高级英语教材原文翻译
大学高级英语教材原文翻译本文旨在对大学高级英语教材中的原文进行翻译,以帮助学习者更好地理解和掌握所学知识。
以下是对部分课文的翻译。
Unit 1: Cultural DifferencesText 1:Culture is defined as the learned, shared attitudes, values, and behaviors that characterize a society or a social group. It includes various aspects such as language, customs, rituals, and arts.Text 2:Cross-cultural communication refers to the exchange of information between individuals from different cultural backgrounds. It requires the understanding and respect of cultural differences, as well as the ability to adapt and communicate effectively.Unit 2: GlobalizationText 1:Globalization refers to the increasing interconnectedness and interdependence of countries through the exchange of goods, services, information, and ideas. It has led to the integration of economies and cultures on a global scale.Text 2:The advantages of globalization include increased economic growth, improved standards of living, and access to a wider range of goods and services. However, it also brings challenges such as income inequality and cultural homogenization.Unit 3: Environmental IssuesText 1:Environmental issues are concerns that arise from the impact of human activities on the natural world. They include pollution, deforestation, climate change, and loss of biodiversity.Text 2:Sustainable development aims to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It involves the responsible use of resources and the protection of the environment.Unit 4: Technology and SocietyText 1:Technology plays a crucial role in shaping society and influencing various aspects of our lives. It has revolutionized communication, transportation, and the way we obtain and share information.Text 2:The ethical implications of technological advancements need to be carefully considered. Issues such as privacy, security, and the impact onemployment need to be addressed to ensure that technology benefits society as a whole.以上是部分大学高级英语教材中的课文翻译,希望能够对学习者加深理解和掌握有所帮助。
大学高级英语第一册张汉熙版第四课原文加翻译EverydayUseforyourgrandmama
Everyday Use for your grandmamaAlice WalkerI will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yester day afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A Pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other's face. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a cark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tear s in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks or chides are tacky flowers.In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can killand clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open tire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill be-fore nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pan-cake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Car – son has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one toot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, though. She would always look anyone in the eye. Hesitation was no part of her nature."How do I look, Mama?" Maggie says, showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse for me to know she's there, almost hidden by the door."Come out into the yard," I say.Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him? That is the way my Maggie walks. She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground.Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure. She's a woman now, though sometimes I forget. How long ago was it that the other house burned? Ten, twelve years? Sometimes I can still hear the flames and feel Maggie's arms sticking to me, her hair smoking and her dress falling off her in little black papery flakes. Her eyes seemed stretched open, blazed open by the flames reflect-ed in them. And Dee. I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look at concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house tall in toward the red-hot brick chimney. Why don't you do a dance around the ashes? I'd wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.I used to think she hated Maggie, too. But that was before we raised the money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school. She used to read to us without pity, forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me. She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. Her eyelids would not flicker for minutes at a time. Often I fought off the temptation to shake her. At sixteen she had a style of her own' and knew what style was.I never had an education myself. After second grade the school was closed down. Don't ask me why. in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now. Sometimes Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-naturedly but can't see well. She knows she is not bright. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by. She will marry John Thomas (who has mossy teeth in an earnest face) and then I'll be free to sit here and I guess just sing church songs to myself. Although I never was a good singer. Never could carry a tune. I was always better at a man's job. 1 used to love to milk till I was hooked in the side in '49. Cows are soothing and slow and don't bother you, unless you try to milk them the wrong way.I have deliberately turned my back on the house. It is three rooms, just like the one that burned, except the roof is tin: they don't make shingle roofs any more. There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutter s up on the outside. This house is in a pasture, too, like the other one. No doubt when Dee sees it she will want to tear it down. She wrote me once that no matter where we "choose" to live, she will manage to come see us. But she will never bring her friends. Maggie and I thought about this and Maggie asked me, Mama, when did Dee ever have anyfriends?"She had a few. Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on washday after school. Nervous girls who never laughed. Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. She read to them.When she was courting Jimmy T she didn't have much time to pay to us, but turned all her faultfinding power on him. He flew to marry a cheap city girl from a family of ignorant flashy people. She hardly had time to recompose herself.When she comes I will meet -- but there they are!Maggie attempts to make a dash for the house, in her shuffling way, but I stay her with my hand. "Come back here," I say. And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe.It is hard to see them clearly through the strong sun. But even the first glimpse of leg out of the car tells me it is Dee. Her feet were always neat-looking, as it God himself had shaped them with a certain style. From the other side of the car comes a short, stocky man. Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. I hear Maggie suck in her breath. "Uhnnnh," is what it sounds like. Like when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your toot on the road. "Uhnnnh."Dee next. A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yel-lows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun. I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out. Earrings gold, too, and hanging down to her shoulders. Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arm up to shake the folds of the dress out of her armpits. The dress is loose and flows, and as she walks closer, I like it. I hear Maggie go "Uhnnnh" again. It is her sister's hair. It stands straight up like the wool on a sheep. It is black as night and around the edges are two long pigtails that rope about like small lizards disappearing behind her ears."Wa-su-zo-Tean-o!" she says, coming on in that gliding way the dress makes hermove. The short stocky fellow with the hair to his navel is all grinning and he follows up with "Asalamalakim, my mother and sister!" He moves to hug Maggie but she falls back, right up against the back of my chair. I feel her trembling there and when I look up I see the perspiration falling off her chin."Don't get up," says Dee. Since I am stout it takes something of a push. You can see me trying to move a second or two before I make it. She turns, showing white heels through her sandals, and goes back to the car. Out she peeks next with a Polaroid. She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me. She never takes a shot without making sure the house is included. When a cow comes nibbling around the edge of the yard she snaps it and me and Maggie and the house. Then she puts the Polaroid in the back seat of the car, and comes up and kisses me on the forehead.Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with Maggie's hand. Maggie's hand is as limp as a fish, and probably as cold, despite the sweat, and she keeps trying to pull it back. It looks like Asalamalakim wants to shake hands but wants to do it fancy. Or maybe he don't know how people shake hands. Anyhow, he soon gives up on Maggie."Well," I say. "Dee.""No, Mama," she says. "Not 'Dee', Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo!""What happened to 'Dee'?" I wanted to know."She's dead," Wangero said. "I couldn't bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me.""You know as well as me you was named after your aunt Dicle," I said. Dicie is my sister. She named Dee. We called her "Big Dee" after Dee was born."But who was she named after?" asked Wangero."I guess after Grandma Dee," I said."And who was she named after?" asked Wangero."Her mother," I said, and saw Wangero was getting tired. "That's about as far back as I can trace it," I said.Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil Warthrough the branches."Well," said Asalamalakim, "there you are.""Uhnnnh," I heard Maggie say."There I was not," I said, before 'Dicie' cropped up in our family, so why should I try to trace it that far back?"He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting a Model A car. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head."How do you pronounce this name?" I asked."You don't have to call me by it if you don't want to," said Wangero."Why shouldn't I?" I asked. "If that's what you want us to call you, we'll call you. ""I know it might sound awkward at first," said Wangero."I'll get used to it," I said. "Ream it out again."Well, soon we got the name out of the way. Asalamalakim had a name twice as long and three times as hard. After I tripped over it two or three times he told me to just call him Hakim-a-barber. I wanted to ask him was he a barber, but I didn't really think he was, so I don't ask."You must belong to those beet-cattle peoples down the road," I said. They said "Asalamalakirn" when they met you too, but they didn't Shake hands. Always too busy feeding the cattle, fixing the fences, putting up salt-lick shelters, throwing down hay. When the white folks poisoned some of the herd the men stayed up all night with rifles in their hands. I walked a mile and a half just to see the sight.Hakim-a-barber said, "I accept some of their doctrines, but farming and raising cattle is not my style." (They didn't tell me, and I didn't ask, whether Wangero (Dee) had really gone and married him.)We sat down to eat and right away he said he didn't eat collards and pork was unclean. Wangero, though, went on through the chitlins and corn bread, the greens and every-thing else. She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes. Everything delighted her. Even the fact that we still used the benches her daddy made for the table when we couldn't afford to buy chairs."Oh, Mama!" she cried. Then turned to Hakim-a-barber. "I never knew how lovely these benches are. You can feel the rump prints," she said, running her hands underneath her and along the bench. Then she gave a sigh and her hand closed over Grandma Dee's butter dish. "That's it!" she said. "I knew there was something I wanted to ask you if I could have." She jumped up from the table and went over in the corner where the churn stood, the milk in it clabber by now. She looked at the churn and looked at it."This churn top is what I need," she said. "Didn't Uncle Buddy whittle it out of a tree you all used to have?""Yes," I said."Uh huh, " she said happily. "And I want the dasher,too.""Uncle Buddy whittle that, too?" asked the barber.Dee (Wangero) looked up at me."Aunt Dee's first husband whittled the dash," said Maggie so low you almost couldn't hear her. "His name was Henry, but they called him Stash.""Maggie's brain is like an elephants," Wanglero said, laughing. "I can use the churn top as a center piece for the alcove table,”she said, sliding a plate over the churn, "and I'll think of something artistic to do with the dasher."When she finished wrapping the dasher the handle stuck out. I took it for a moment in my hands. You didn't even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood. In fact, there were a lot of small sinks; you could see where thumbs and fingers had sunk into the wood. It was beautiful light yellow wood, from a tree that grew in the yard where Big Dee and Stash had lived.After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and started rifling through it. Maggie hung back in the kitchen over the dishpan. Out came Wangero with two quilts. They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them. One was in the Lone Star pattern. The other was Walk Around the Mountain. In both of them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and more years ago. Bit sand pieces of GrandpaJarrell's Paisley shirts. And one teeny faded blue piece, about the size of a penny matchbox, that was from Great Grandpa Ezra's uniform that he wore in the Civil War."Mama," Wangero said sweet as a bird. "Can I have these old quilts?"I heard something fall in the kitchen, and a minute later the kitchen door slammed."Why don't you take one or two of the others?” 1 asked. "These old things was just done by me and Big Dee from some tops your grandma pieced before she died.""No," said Wangero. "I don't want those. They are stitched around the borders by machine.""That'll make them last better," I said."That's not the point," said Wanglero. "These are all pieces of dresses Grandma used to wear. She did all this stitching by hand. Imagine!" She held the quilts securely in her arms, stroking them."Some of the pieces, like those lavender ones, come from old clothes her mother handed down to her,” I said, moving up to touch the quilts. Dee (Wangero) moved back just enough so that I couldn't reach the quilts. They already belonged to her. "Imagine!" she breathed again, clutching them closely to her bosom."The truth is," I said, "I promised to give them quilts to Maggie, for when she marries John Thomas."She gasped like a bee had stung her."Maggie can't appreciate these quilts!" she said. "She'd probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use.""I reckon she would," I said. "God knows I been savage ’em for long enough with nobody using 'em. I hope she will! ” I didn't want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told me they were old-fashioned, out of style."But they're priceless!" she was saying now, furiously, for she has a temper. "Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags. Less than that!" "She can always make some more,” I said. "Maggie knows how to quilt. "Dee (Wangero) looked at me with hatred. "You just will not understand. The point is these quilts, these quilts!""Well," I said,, stumped. "What would you do with them?""Hang them," she said. As it that was the only thing you could do with quilts.Maggie by now was standing in the door. I could almost hear the sound her feet made as they scraped over each other."She can have them, Mama,” she said like somebody used to neve r winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. "I can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts."I looked at her hard. She had filled her bottom lip with checkerberry snuff and it gave her face a kind of dopey, hangdog look. It was Grandma Dee and Big Dee who taught her how to quilt herself. She stood there with her scarred hands hidden in the folds of her skirt. She looked at her sister with something like fear but she wasn't mad at her. This was Maggie's portion. This was the way she knew God to work.When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet. Just like when I'm in church and the spirit of God touches me and I get happy and shout. I did something I never had done before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on into the room, snatched the quilts out of Miss Wangero's hands and dumped them into Maggie's lap. Maggie just sat there on my bed with her mouth open."Take one or two of the others," I said to Dee.But she turned without a word and went out to Hakim-a-barber."You just don't understand," she said, as Maggie and I came out to the car."What don't I under stand?" I wanted to know."Your heritage," she said. And then she turned to Maggie, kissed her, and said, "You ought to try to make some-thing of yourself, too, Maggie. It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it."She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and her chin.Maggie smiled; maybe at the sunglasses. But a real mile, not scared. After we watched the car dust settle I asked Maggie to bring me a dip of snuff. And then the two of us sat there just enjoying, until it was time to go in the house and go to bed.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTES1) Alice Walker: born 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, America and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Her books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland ( 1970 ), Meridian ( 1976 ), The Color Purple(1982), etc.2)"made it": to become a success, to succeed, either in specific endeavor or in general3) Johnny Carson: a man who runs a late night talk show4)hooked: injured by the horn of the cow being milked5) Jimmy T: 'T' is the initial of the surname of the boy Dee was courting.6)"Wa-su-zo-Tean-o!": phonetic rendering of an African dialect salutation7) "Asalamalakim": phonetic rendering of a Muslim greeting8) Polaroid: a camera that produces instant pictures9) the Civil War: the war between the North and the South in the U. S.(1861-1865)10) branches: branches or divisions of a family descending from a common ancestor11) Ream it out again: "Ream" is perhaps an African dialect word meaning: "unfold, display". Hence the phrase may mean "repeat" or "say it once again"12) pork was unclean: Muslims are forbidden by their religion to eat pork because it is considered to be unclean.13) Chitlins: also chitlings or chitterlings, the small intestines of pigs, used for food, a common dish in Afro-American households14) rump prints: depressions in the benches made by constant sitting15) sink: depressions in the wood of the handle left by the thumbs and fingers第四课外婆的日用家当艾丽斯•沃克尔“我会慢慢习惯的,”我说,“你给我再念一遍吧。
高级英语第一册第三版课后翻译 Paraphrase
1. We’re 23 feet above sea level.2. The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.3. We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.4. Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out.5. Everybody goes out through the back door and runs to the cars!6. The electrical systems in the car (the battery for the starter) had been put out by water.7. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.8. Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely9. Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and finally stopped.10. Janis displayed the fear caused by the hurricane rather late. 1.每架飞机起飞之前必须经过严格的检查。
高级英语第一册课文翻译及词汇
高级英语第一册课文翻译及词汇词汇(Vocabulary)Bazaar (n.) : (in Oriental countries)a market or street of shops and stalls(东方国家的)市场,集市----------------------------------------------------------------------------------cavern (n.) : a cave,esp.a large cave洞穴,山洞(尤指大洞穴,大山洞)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------shadowy (adj.) : dim;indistinct模糊的;朦胧的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: cornflowerblue" color=white>harmonious (adj.) : having musical tones combined to give a pleasing effect;consonant(音调)和谐的,悦耳的/harmoniously adv.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------throng (n.) :a great number of people gathered together;crowd人群;群集----------------------------------------------------------------------------------conceivable (adj.) : that can be conceived,imagined 可想象的,想得到的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------din (n.) : a loud,continuous noise喧闹声,嘈杂声----------------------------------------------------------------------------------would-be ( adj.) : intended to be预期成为……的;将要成为……的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------muted (adj.) : (of a sound)made softer than is usual(声音)减弱的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------vaulted ( adj.) : having the form of a vault;arched穹窿形的;拱形的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------sepulchral(n.) : a cave,esp.a large cave洞穴,山洞(尤指大洞穴,大山洞)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------shadowy (adj.) : suggestive of the grave or burial;dismal;gloomy坟墓般的;阴森森的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------guild ( n.) : any association for mutual aid and the promotion of common interests互助会;协会----------------------------------------------------------------------------------trestle (n.) :a frame consising of a horizontal beam fastened to two pairs of spreading legs,used to support planks to form a table,platform,etc.支架;脚手台架;搁凳----------------------------------------------------------------------------------impinge (v.) : strike,hit,or dash;have an effect撞击,冲击,冲撞;对……具有影响----------------------------------------------------------------------------------fairyland (n.) : the imaginary land where the fairies live;a lovely enchanting place仙境;奇境----------------------------------------------------------------------------------burnish ( v.) : make or become shiny by rubbing;polish擦亮;磨光;抛光----------------------------------------------------------------------------------brazier ( n.) : a metal pan,bowl,etc.,to hold burning coals or charcoal,as for warming a room or grilling food火盆;火钵----------------------------------------------------------------------------------dim ( v.) :make or grow unclear(使)变暗淡;(使)变模糊----------------------------------------------------------------------------------rhythmic /rhythmical ( adj.) :having rhythm有韵律的;有节奏的/rhythmically adv----------------------------------------------------------------------------------bellows ( n.) :(sing.&p1.)a device that produces a stream of air through a narrow tube when its sides are pressed together(used for blowing fires,etc.)(单复同)风箱----------------------------------------------------------------------------------intricate ( adj.) :complex;hard to follow or understand because full of puzzling parts,details,or relationships;full of elaborate detail错综复杂的;精心制作的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------exotic ( adj.) :strange or different in a way that is striking or fascinating奇异的;异常迷人的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------sumptuous ( adj.) :involving great expense;costly lavish豪华的;奢侈的;昂贵的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------maze ( n.) :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------( n.) :a confusing,intricate network of winding pathways 迷津;迷宫;曲径----------------------------------------------------------------------------------honeycomb ( v.) :fill with holes like a honeycomb使成蜂窝状----------------------------------------------------------------------------------mosque ( n.) :a Moslem temple or place of worship清真寺;伊斯兰教堂----------------------------------------------------------------------------------caravanserai /caravansery ( n.) :in the Orient.a kind of inn with a large central court,where caravans stop for the night东方商队(或旅行队)的客店----------------------------------------------------------------------------------disdainful ( n.) :feeling or expressing disdain;scornful and aloof;proud轻视的,轻蔑的;傲慢的/disdainfully adv.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------bale ( n.) :a large bundle大包,大捆----------------------------------------------------------------------------------linseed ( n.) :the seed of flax亚麻籽----------------------------------------------------------------------------------somber ( adj.) :dark and gloomy or dull阴沉的;昏暗的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------pulp ( n.) :a soft,moist,formless mass that sticks together浆----------------------------------------------------------------------------------ramshackle ( adj.) :1ikely to fall to pieces;shaky要倒塌似的,摇摇欲坠的.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------dwarf ( v.) :make small or insignificant;make seem small in comparison使矮小;使无足轻重;使(相形之下)显得渺小;使相形见绌----------------------------------------------------------------------------------vat ( n.) :a large tank,tub,or cask for holding liquids大缸;大桶----------------------------------------------------------------------------------nimble ( adj.) :moving or acting quickly and lightly灵活的;敏捷的/nimbly adv.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------girder ( n.) :a large beam,usually horizontal,of timber or steel.for supporting the joists of a floor,the framework of a building.the superstructure of a bridge,etc•大梁----------------------------------------------------------------------------------trickle ( n.) :a slow,small flow细流;涓流----------------------------------------------------------------------------------ooze ( v.) :flow or leak out slowly,as through very small holes 渗出;慢慢地流----------------------------------------------------------------------------------runnel ( n.) :runnel a small stream;little brook or rivulet;a small channel or watercourse小溪;小沟;小槽----------------------------------------------------------------------------------glisten (v.) :shine or sparkle with reflected light, as a wet or polished surface;flash(湿的表面或光滑面)反光;闪耀,闪光----------------------------------------------------------------------------------taut ( adj.) :tightly stretched,as a rope(绳子等)拉紧的,绷紧的----------------------------------------------------------------------------------短语(Expressions)thread one’s way: move through carefully or slowly,changing direc- tion frequenfly as moving 小心,缓慢地挤过(不断地改变方向)例:Slowly she threaded her way back through the moving mass of people.她慢慢挤过熙熙攘攘的人群往回走。
高级英语第一册课后翻译
Lesson1X.1)一条蜿蜒的小路淹没在树荫深处A zig-zag path loses itself in the shadowy distance of the woods.2)集市上有许多小摊子,出售的货物应有尽有At the bazaar there are many stalls where goods of every conceivable kind are sold.3) 我真不知道到底是什么事让他如此生气。
I really don't know what it is that has made him so angry.4)新出土的铜花瓶造型优美,刻有精细、复杂的传统图案。
The newly unearthed bronze vase is pleasing in form and engraved with delicate and intricate traditional designs.5)在山的那边是一望无际的大草原。
Beyond the mountains there is a vast grassland that extends as far as the eye can see.6)他们决定买那座带有汽车房的房子。
They decided to buy that house with a garage attached.7)教师们坚持对学生严格要求。
The teachers make a point of being strict with the students.8)这个小女孩非常喜欢他的父亲。
This little girl is very much attached to her father.9)为实现四个现代化,我们认为有必要学习外国的先进科学技术。
To achieve the four modernization, we make a point of learning from the advanced science and technology of other countries.10)黄昏临近时,天渐渐地暗下来了。
高级英语第一册课文翻译_unit1
高级英语第一册课文翻译_unit1中东的集市1.中东的集市仿佛把你带回到了几百年、甚至几千年前的时代。
此时此刻显现在我脑海中的这个中东集市,入口处是一座哥特式拱门,门上的砖石年代久远。
穿过耀眼、灼热的大型露天广场进入集市,仿佛走入了一个凉爽、幽暗的洞穴。
集市蜿蜒伸展,一眼望不到尽头,最后消失在远处的阴影里。
赶集的人们络绎不绝地进出市场,挂着铃铛的小毛驴穿行于熙熙攘攘的人群中,边走边发出和谐悦耳的叮当声。
集市的路面约有十二英尺宽,但每隔几码远就会因为设在路边的小货摊的挤占而变窄;那儿出售的货物各种各样,应有尽有。
你一走进市场,就可以听到摊贩们的叫卖声,赶毛驴的小伙计和脚夫们大着嗓门叫人让道的吆喝声,还有那些想买东西的人们与摊主讨价还价的争吵声。
各种各样的噪声此伏彼起,不绝于耳,简直叫人头晕。
2.随后,当你走人集市的深处,人口处的喧闹声渐渐消失,眼前便是清静的布市了。
这里的泥土地面,被无数双脚板踩踏得硬邦邦的,人走在上面几乎听不到脚步声了,而拱形的泥砖屋顶和墙壁也难得产生什么回音效果。
布店的店主们一个个都是轻声细语、慢条斯理的样子;买布的顾客们在这种沉闷压抑的气氛感染下,自然而然地也学着店主们的样子,低声细语地说话。
3.中东集市的特点之一是经销同类商品的店家,不是分散在集市各处以避免相互间的竞争,而是都集中在一块儿,这样既便于让买主知道上哪儿找他们,同时他们自己也可以紧密地联合起来,结成同盟,以便共同反对迫害和不公正待遇。
例如,在布市上,所有卖衣料、窗帘布、椅套布等的商贩都把货摊一个接一个地排设在马路两边,每一个店铺门面前都摆有一张陈列商品的搁板桌和一些存放货物的货架。
讨价还价是人们习以为常的事。
头戴面纱的妇女们迈着悠闲的步子从一个店铺逛到另一个店铺,一边挑选一边问价;在她们缩小选择范围并开始正儿八经杀价之前,往往总要先同店主谈论几句,探探价底。
4.对于顾客来说,不到最后一刻绝不能让店主猜到她心里究竟中意哪样东西、想买哪样东西,因为这是个关乎面子的事情。
高级英语第一册课后翻译答案及出处
Hiroshima1.礼堂里一个人都没有,会议一定是延期了:There is not a soul in the hall. The meeting must have been put off2.那本书看上去活像个盒子:That book looks very much like a box3.四川话和湖北话很相似,有时难以区别:Sichuan dialect sounds much the same as Hubei dialect. It is sometimes difficult to tell one from the other.(所差无几,课文Line14)4.一看见纪念碑就想起了在战斗中死去的好友:The very sight of the monument reminds me of my good friend who was killed in the battle.(一看见,课文Line23)5.他陷入沉思之中,没有理会同伴们在谈些什么:He was so deep in thought that he was oblivious of what his friends were talking about.(不注意的,忘我的,课文Line17)6.他干得事情与她毫无关系:She had little to do with anything he did(与...无关,课文Line8)7.他睡不着觉,女儿的病使他心事重重:A.She couldn’t fall asleep as her daughter’s illness was very much on her mind.B.Sleep never comes to her due to the fact that her daughter’s illness was haunting on her mind. (心事重重,课文Line7)8.这件事情长期以来一直使我放心不下:I have had the matter on my mind for a long time.9.他喜欢这些聚会,喜欢与年轻人交往并就各种问题发表意见:He loves such gatherings at which he rubs shoulders with young people and exchanging opinions with them on various subjects.(交往,交流,擦肩而过,课文Line15)10.大家在几分钟后才领悟到他话中的含义:It was only after a few minutes that his words sank in(领悟,沉思,课文Line83)11.土壤散发着青草的香味:The soil smells of fresh grass.(散发着...的气味,课文Line111,这个词组并不是“闻起来像...”的意思,请注意)12.我可以占用你几分钟时间么?:Could you spare me a few minutes?13.你能匀出一张票给我么?:Could you spare me a ticket?(匀出,分出,赦免,熬过,课文Line123)14.那个灰头发的上了年级的人是铜匠:That elderly greyhaired man is a coppersmith by trade.(课文Line117)Speech on Hitler’s invasion of U.S.S.R.1.这对城市和农村一样适用:This is true of the rural area as well as the urban area.(一样,适用于,课文Line29)2.他指望他们给予支持:He was counting on their support.6.他们别无选择,只好依靠他的努力了:They can do nothing, except for counting on his help (指望,寄希望于,课文Line26)3.我记不得他是怎么说的,但我肯定他讲话的大意是那样的:I don’t remember his exact words, but I’m sure he did say something to that effect.(大致内容是...,课文Line38)4.丘吉尔说,告诉斯大林,英国只有一个愿望,打败希特勒:Churchill was saying :”Tell Stalin,We, Britain, have only one aim and one single purpose.That is to overwhelm Hitler.”7.客人们对受到的热情接待感到过意不去:The guests were overwhelmed by (the warm reception)(hospitalized)8.他们用出其不意的进攻击败了敌人:They overwhelme d the enemy by a surprise attack.(击败,击垮,热情洋溢,课文Line108)9.他们的困难就是我们的困难,正如我们把他们的胜利当作自己的胜利一样:Their difficulty is our difficulty just as we view their victory as our own victory.(正如同...一样,课文Line115)10.很清楚,德国法西斯企图使那个地区的人们屈服于他们的统治:It is clear that German fascists were trying to subjugate the people in that region.(征服,屈服于...,课文Line113)Mark Twain1.对贫困的担心使他忧虑重重:He was obsessed with fear of poverty.(忧心忡忡,课文Line9)2.洞庭湖盛产鱼虾:DongTing Lake teems with fish and shrimps.(盛产,充满,课文Line36)3.汤姆的聪明丝毫不亚于班级上第一名的学生:Tom was every bit as intelligent as the top one in his class.(与...相当,丝毫不亚于...,课文Line5)This university to this country is every bit as prestigious as Oxford in Britain.这所学校之于这个国家(的地位)就相当于牛津大学之于英国(一般)。
大学高级英语课文翻译
第一课救赎 ----兰斯顿.休斯在我快13岁那年,我的灵魂得到了拯救,然而并不是真正意义上的救赎。
事情是这样的。
那时我的阿姨里德所在的教堂正在举行一场盛大的宗教复兴晚会。
数个星期以来每个夜晚,人们在那里讲道,唱诵,祈祷。
连一些罪孽深重的人都获得了耶稣的救赎,教堂的成员一下子增多了。
就在复兴晚会结束之前,他们为孩子们举行了一次特殊的集会——把小羊羔带回羊圈。
里德阿姨数日之前就开始和我提这件事。
那天晚上,我和其他还没有得到主宽恕的小忏悔者们被送去坐在教堂前排,那是为祷告的人安排的座椅。
我的阿姨告诉我说:“当你看到耶稣的时候,你看见一道光,然后感觉心里似乎有什么发生。
从此以后耶稣就进入了你的生命,他将与你同在。
你能够看见、听到、感受到他和你的灵魂融为一体。
”我相信里德阿姨说的,许多老人都这么说,似乎她们都应该知道。
尽管教堂里面拥挤而闷热,我依然静静地坐在那里,等待耶稣的到来。
布道师祷告,富有节奏,非常精彩。
呻吟、喊叫、寂寞的呼喊,还有地狱中令人恐怖的画面。
然后他唱了一首赞美诗。
诗中描述了99只羊都安逸的待在圈里,唯有一个被冷落在外的情形。
唱完后他说道:“难道你不来吗?不来到耶稣身旁吗?小羊羔们,难道你们不来吗?”他向坐在祷告席上的小忏悔者们打开了双臂,小女孩们开始哭了,她们中有一些很快跳了起来,跑了过去。
我们大多数仍然坐在那里。
许多长辈过来跪在我们的身边开始祷告。
老妇人的脸像煤炭一样黑,头上扎着辫子,老爷爷的手因长年的工作而粗糙皲裂。
他们吟唱着“点燃微弱的灯,让可怜的灵魂得到救赎”的诗歌。
整个教堂里到处都是祈祷者的歌声。
最后其他所有小忏悔者们都去了圣坛上,得到了救赎,除了一个男孩和依然静静地坐着等侯的我。
那个男孩是一个守夜人的儿子,名字叫威斯特里。
在我们的周围尽是祈祷的修女执事。
教堂里异常闷热,天色也越来越暗了。
最后威斯特里小声对我说:“去他妈的上帝。
我再也坐不住了,我们站起来吧,就可以得到救赎了。
”于是他就站了起来,也因此得到了救赎。
高级英语第一册课文翻译Lesson5
课文翻译第五课关于希特勒入侵苏联的讲话温斯顿•邱吉尔________________________________________二十二日星期天早晨,我一醒来便接到了希特勒入侵苏联的消息。
这就使原先意料中的事变成了无可怀疑的事实。
我完全清楚我们对此应该承担何种义务,采取何种政策。
我也完全清楚该如何就此事发表声明。
尚待完成的只不过是将这一切形成文字而已。
于是,我吩咐有关部门立即发表通告,我将于当晚九点钟发表广播讲话。
不一会儿,匆匆从伦敦赶到的迪尔将军走进我的卧室,为我带来了详细情报。
德国人已大规模入侵苏联,苏联空军部队有很大一部分飞机都没来得及起飞便遭到德军的突袭。
德军目前似乎正以凌厉的攻势极为迅猛地向前推进。
这位皇家军队总参谋长报告完毕后又补了一句,“我估计他们将会大批地被包围。
” 一整天我都在写讲稿,根本没有时间去找战时内阁进行磋商,也没有必要这样做。
我知道我们大家在这个问题上的立场是完全一致的。
艾登先生、比弗布鲁克勋爵,还有斯塔福德•克里普斯爵士——他是十号离开莫斯科回国的——那天也同我在一起。
那个周末值班的是我的私人秘书科维尔先生。
由他执笔记述的下面这段关于那个星期天里切克尔斯首相官邸发生的情况的文字,也许值得一提:“六月二十一日,星期六。
晚饭前我来到切克尔斯首相官邸。
怀南特夫妇、艾登夫妇和爱德华•布里奇斯等几位均在那儿。
晚饭席上,邱吉尔先生说,德国人人侵苏联已是必然无疑的了。
他认为希特勒是想指望博取英美两国的资本家和右冀势力的同情和支持。
不过,希特勒的如意算盘打错了。
我们英国将会全力以赴援助苏联。
维南特表示美国也会采取同样的态度。
晚饭后,当我同邱吉尔先生在槌球场上散步时,他又一次谈到了这一话题。
我当时问他,对于他这个头号反共大将来说,这种态度是否意味着改变自己的政治立场。
…绝非如此。
我现在的目标只有一个,即消灭希特勒。
这使我的生活单纯多了。
假使希特勒入侵地狱,我至少会在下议院替魔鬼说几句好话的。
《高级英语》上册课后翻译
1. What he did is always inconsistent with what he said, so on one will take him into confidence.2. The preface to Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English was written by Randolph Quirk.3. In his article he paid tribute to China’s great achiev ements.4. Justice prevailed; the guilty man who had killed her father was punished.5. He is a famous director, but he is always simply dressed, amiable and easy of approach, never using pretentious language in his talk.6. The food is only so-so in that restaurant; the one redeeming feature is its fine service.7. Jack said he felt drawn to this singer.8. Though a bedridden invalid, she remains optimistic about life.9. We should go ahead defying all difficulties.10. When he heard the news, the smile faded from his face.11. Mary intended to expand her article into a book.12. The plane fully loaded with cargo and passengers took off on time.13. They are facing unprecedented difficulties, and it is our indispensable duty to help them.14. He and Jack in the same class for three years, and he took Jack into his confidence, tellinghim everything concerning his affairs.Lesson 91.He was born in a peasant family and grew up in an environment of poverty.2.Don’t worry. The insurance company will remunerate you for your loss.3.When people asked me why I would go to study abroad, I was hard put to answer thequestion.4.Three people were cruelly killed last night, and the police are trying to ascertain the factsabout the murder.5.Ten years ago Jack made a meager 500 dollars a month.6.Tom thought it profitable to be in the second-hand car business. Sometimes he bought an oldcar for 200 dollars, but with a turn of the wrist he could sell it for 400 dollars.7.The police officer Hunter was on leave, but as soon as he was given the urgent task, hepitched in without the least hesitation.8.After the death of Mr Johnson, his wife became the company’s president both in name and inreality.9.His son has a poor physique and is prone to illness.10.The ruffian dropped his gun and ran down the street, with two policemen in hot pursuit.11.He gave in to our persuasion and acquiesced in Bill’s suggestion.12.Mr Brown decided to endow the university where he had studied for four years.13.Insufficiently trained workers are prone to turn out rejects.14.She was hard put to find a solution to the domestic financial crisis.1)The traditional feast has gone out of fashion, giving way to seafood, and special night snacksare in fashion now.2)Although steamed mandarin fish was on the menu, I was told it was not available that day.3)He had to decline the offer, for the terms seemed unacceptable to his corporation.4)The local people spared no expense to renovate Yi Garden and Da Long Temple, which areof historical and cultural value and are great attractions to tourists.5)I remember the party was held in that hotel. The ballroom then was certainly not luxurious bytoday’s standards.6)Like other guests, she dipped the freshly boiled shrimp into the sauce before she put it in hermouth, and she found it very tasty.7)Many Americans like Chinese cuisine, and Sichuan-style cooking in particular.8)In recent years in Shanghai and other large cities, the typical Chinese breakfast of porridge orgruel has been supplanted by bread and milk which is more nutritious and time-saving.9)In summer when she gets home from office, leather shoes are cast aside in favor of slippers.10)Vacuum packing is adopted so as to keep the food free of bacteria.11)She wears shorts, rather than skirts, for shorts are in fashion now, but years ago well-bredyoung ladies were mostly seen in dresses.12)Generally speaking, the defeated general should be removed form his post, but I hope Mr.Lee will be an exception to the practice. Give him another chance. That is my idea.13)Now writers may choose from a wide variety of topics, many of which were taboos in thoseyears.14)Restraint in her manner became more marked as conversation went on.15)Before work the girls rolled up their sleeves to keep them free of soot and dirt.16)The old lady watched with amazement as the youngster wolfed down whole plates of food inno time.17) In my grandfather’s day, people in his village never went to the butcher for meat. They killedtheir own pigs for the Spring Festival. As a rule the hog was bound tight and placed on a thick board and the slaughtering was down in view of village people, mainly young men and boys.My father thought the scene distasteful and was never a spectator to it.。
高级英语第一册第三版课后翻译
Unit1 Paraphrase:1. We’re 23 feet above sea level.2. The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.3. We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.4. Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out.5. Everybody goes out through the back door and runs to the cars!6. The electrical systems in the car (the battery for the starter) had been put out by water.7. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.8. Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely9. Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and finally stopped.10. Janis displayed the fear caused by the hurricane rather late.1.每架飞机起飞之前必须经过严格的检查。
(完整word版)高级英语第一册第三版课后翻译+Paraphrase.doc
Unit1 Paraphrase:1.We ’ re 23 feet above sea level.2.The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.3.We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.4.Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, sothe lights also went out.5.Everybody goes out through the back door and runs to the cars!6.The electrical systems in the car (the battery for the starter) had been put out by water.7.As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.8.Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely9.Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice graduallygrew dimmer and finally stopped.10.Janis displayed the fear caused by the hurricane rather late.1.每架飞机起飞之前必须经过严格的检查。
大学高级英语第一册张汉熙版第四课原文加翻译Everyday_Use_for_your_grandmama
Everyday Use for your grandmamaAlice WalkerI will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yester day afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A Pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other's face. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a cark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into abright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tear s in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks or chides are tacky flowers.In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open tire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill be-fore nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pan-cake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Car – son has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one toot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, though. She would always look anyone in the eye. Hesitation was no part of her nature."How do I look, Mama?" Maggie says, showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse for me to know she's there, almost hidden by the door."Come out into the yard," I say.Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him? That is the way my Maggie walks. She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground.Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure. She's a woman now, though sometimes I forget. How long ago was it that the other house burned? Ten, twelve years? Sometimes I can still hear the flames and feel Maggie's arms sticking to me, her hair smoking and her dress falling off her in little black papery flakes. Her eyes seemed stretched open, blazed open by the flames reflect-ed in them. And Dee. I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look at concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house tall in toward the red-hot brick chimney. Why don't you do a dance around the ashes? I'd wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.I used to think she hated Maggie, too. But that was before we raised the money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school. She used to read to us without pity, forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation fromhigh school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me. She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. Her eyelids would not flicker for minutes at a time. Often I fought off the temptation to shake her. At sixteen she had a style of her own' and knew what style was.I never had an education myself. After second grade the school was closed down. Don't ask me why. in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now. Sometimes Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-naturedly but can't see well. She knows she is not bright. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by. She will marry John Thomas (who has mossy teeth in an earnest face) and then I'll be free to sit here and I guess just sing church songs to myself. Although I never was a good singer. Never could carry a tune. I was always better at a man's job. 1 used to love to milk till I was hooked in the side in '49. Cows are soothing and slow and don't bother you, unless you try to milk them the wrong way.I have deliberately turned my back on the house. It is three rooms, just like the one that burned, except the roof is tin: they don't make shingle roofs any more. There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutter s up on the outside. This house is in a pasture, too, like the other one. No doubt when Dee sees it she will want to tear it down. She wrote me once that no matter where we "choose" to live, she will manage to come see us. But she will never bring her friends. Maggie and I thought about this and Maggie asked me, Mama, when did Dee ever have any friends?"She had a few. Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on washday after school.Nervous girls who never laughed. Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. She read to them.When she was courting Jimmy T she didn't have much time to pay to us, but turned all her faultfinding power on him. He flew to marry a cheap city girl from a family of ignorant flashy people. She hardly had time to recompose herself.When she comes I will meet -- but there they are!Maggie attempts to make a dash for the house, in her shuffling way, but I stay her with my hand. "Come back here," I say. And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe.It is hard to see them clearly through the strong sun. But even the first glimpse of leg out of the car tells me it is Dee. Her feet were always neat-looking, as it God himself had shaped them with a certain style. From the other side of the car comes a short, stocky man. Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. I hear Maggie suck in her breath. "Uhnnnh," is what it sounds like. Like when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your toot on the road. "Uhnnnh."Dee next. A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yel-lows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun. I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out. Earrings gold, too, and hanging down to her shoulders. Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arm up to shake the folds of the dress out of her armpits. The dress is loose and flows, and as she walks closer, I like it. I hear Maggie go "Uhnnnh" again. It is her sister'shair. It stands straight up like the wool on a sheep. It is black as night and around the edges are two long pigtails that rope about like small lizards disappearing behind her ears."Wa-su-zo-Tean-o!" she says, coming on in that gliding way the dress makes her move. The short stocky fellow with the hair to his navel is all grinning and he follows up with "Asalamalakim, my mother and sister!" He moves to hug Maggie but she falls back, right up against the back of my chair. I feel her trembling there and when I look up I see the perspiration falling off her chin."Don't get up," says Dee. Since I am stout it takes something of a push. You can see me trying to move a second or two before I make it. She turns, showing white heels through her sandals, and goes back to the car. Out she peeks next with a Polaroid. She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me. She never takes a shot without making sure the house is included. When a cow comes nibbling around the edge of the yard she snaps it and me and Maggie and the house. Then she puts the Polaroid in the back seat of the car, and comes up and kisses me on the forehead.Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with Maggie's hand. Maggie's hand is as limp as a fish, and probably as cold, despite the sweat, and she keeps trying to pull it back. It looks like Asalamalakim wants to shake hands but wants to do it fancy. Or maybe he don't know how people shake hands. Anyhow, he soon gives up on Maggie."Well," I say. "Dee.""No, Mama," she says. "Not 'Dee', Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo!""What happened to 'Dee'?" I wanted to know."She's dead," Wangero said. "I couldn't bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me.""You know as well as me you was named after your aunt Dicle," I said. Dicie is my sister. She named Dee. We called her "Big Dee" after Dee was born."But who was she named after?" asked Wangero."I guess after Grandma Dee," I said."And who was she named after?" asked Wangero."Her mother," I said, and saw Wangero was getting tired. "That's about as far back as I can trace it," I said.Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches."Well," said Asalamalakim, "there you are.""Uhnnnh," I heard Maggie say."There I was not," I said, before 'Dicie' cropped up in our family, so why should I try to trace it that far back?"He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting a Model A car. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head."How do you pronounce this name?" I asked."You don't have to call me by it if you don't want to," said Wangero."Why shouldn't I?" I asked. "If that's what you want us to call you, we'll call you. ""I know it might sound awkward at first," said Wangero."I'll get used to it," I said. "Ream it out again."Well, soon we got the name out of the way. Asalamalakim had a name twice as long and three times as hard. After I tripped over it two or three times he told me to just call him Hakim-a-barber. I wanted to ask him was he a barber, but I didn't really think he was, so I don't ask."You must belong to those beet-cattle peoples down the road," I said. They said "Asalamalakirn" when they met you too, but they didn't Shake hands. Always too busy feeding the cattle, fixing the fences, putting up salt-lick shelters, throwing down hay. When the white folks poisoned some of the herd the men stayed up all night with rifles in their hands. I walked a mile and a half just to see the sight.Hakim-a-barber said, "I accept some of their doctrines, but farming and raising cattle is not my style." (They didn't tell me, and I didn't ask, whether Wangero (Dee) had really gone and married him.)We sat down to eat and right away he said he didn't eat collards and pork was unclean. Wangero, though, went on through the chitlins and corn bread, the greens and every-thing else. She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes. Everything delighted her. Even the fact that we still used the benches her daddy made for the table when we couldn't afford to buy chairs."Oh, Mama!" she cried. Then turned to Hakim-a-barber. "I never knew how lovely these benches are. You can feel the rump prints," she said, running her hands underneath her and along the bench. Then she gave a sigh and her hand closed overGrandma Dee's butter dish. "That's it!" she said. "I knew there was something I wanted to ask you if I could have." She jumped up from the table and went over in the corner where the churn stood, the milk in it clabber by now. She looked at the churn and looked at it."This churn top is what I need," she said. "Didn't Uncle Buddy whittle it out of a tree you all used to have?""Yes," I said."Uh huh, " she said happily. "And I want the dasher,too.""Uncle Buddy whittle that, too?" asked the barber.Dee (Wangero) looked up at me."Aunt Dee's first husband whittled the dash," said Maggie so low you almost couldn't hear her. "His name was Henry, but they called him Stash.""Maggie's brain is like an elephants," Wanglero said, laughing. "I can use the churn top as a center piece for the alcove table,”she said, sliding a plate over the churn, "and I'll think of something artistic to do with the dasher."When she finished wrapping the dasher the handle stuck out. I took it for a moment in my hands. You didn't even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood. In fact, there were a lot of small sinks; you could see where thumbs and fingers had sunk into the wood. It was beautiful light yellow wood, from a tree that grew in the yard where Big Dee and Stash had lived.After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and startedrifling through it. Maggie hung back in the kitchen over the dishpan. Out came Wangero with two quilts. They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them. One was in the Lone Star pattern. The other was Walk Around the Mountain. In both of them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and more years ago. Bit sand pieces of Grandpa Jarrell's Paisley shirts. And one teeny faded blue piece, about the size of a penny matchbox, that was from Great Grandpa Ezra's uniform that he wore in the Civil War."Mama," Wangero said sweet as a bird. "Can I have these old quilts?"I heard something fall in the kitchen, and a minute later the kitchen door slammed."Why don't you take one or two of the others?” 1 asked. "These old things was just done by me and Big Dee from some tops your grandma pieced before she died.""No," said Wangero. "I don't want those. They are stitched around the borders by machine.""That'll make them last better," I said."That's not the point," said Wanglero. "These are all pieces of dresses Grandma used to wear. She did all this stitching by hand. Imagine!" She held the quilts securely in her arms, stroking them."Some of the pieces, like those lavender ones, come from old clothes her mother handed down to her,” I said, moving up to touch the quilts. Dee (Wangero) moved back just enough so that I couldn't reach the quilts. They already belonged to her. "Imagine!" she breathed again, clutching them closely to her bosom."The truth is," I said, "I promised to give them quilts to Maggie, for when she marriesJohn Thomas."She gasped like a bee had stung her."Maggie can't appreciate these quilts!" she said. "She'd probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use.""I reckon she would," I said. "God knows I been savage ’em for long enough with nobody using 'em. I hope she will! ” I didn't want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told me they were old-fashioned, out of style."But they're priceless!" she was saying now, furiously, for she has a temper. "Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags. Less than that!" "She can always make some more,” I said. "Maggie knows how to quilt. "Dee (Wangero) looked at me with hatred. "You just will not understand. The point is these quilts, these quilts!""Well," I said,, stumped. "What would you do with them?""Hang them," she said. As it that was the only thing you could do with quilts.Maggie by now was standing in the door. I could almost hear the sound her feet made as they scraped over each other."She can have them, Mama,” she said like somebody used to neve r winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. "I can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts."I looked at her hard. She had filled her bottom lip with checkerberry snuff and it gave her face a kind of dopey, hangdog look. It was Grandma Dee and Big Dee whotaught her how to quilt herself. She stood there with her scarred hands hidden in the folds of her skirt. She looked at her sister with something like fear but she wasn't mad at her. This was Maggie's portion. This was the way she knew God to work.When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet. Just like when I'm in church and the spirit of God touches me and I get happy and shout. I did something I never had done before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on into the room, snatched the quilts out of Miss Wangero's hands and dumped them into Maggie's lap. Maggie just sat there on my bed with her mouth open."Take one or two of the others," I said to Dee.But she turned without a word and went out to Hakim-a-barber."You just don't understand," she said, as Maggie and I came out to the car."What don't I under stand?" I wanted to know."Your heritage," she said. And then she turned to Maggie, kissed her, and said, "You ought to try to make some-thing of yourself, too, Maggie. It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it."She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and her chin.Maggie smiled; maybe at the sunglasses. But a real mile, not scared. After we watched the car dust settle I asked Maggie to bring me a dip of snuff. And then the two of us sat there just enjoying, until it was time to go in the house and go to bed.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTES1) Alice Walker: born 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, America and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Her books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland ( 1970 ), Meridian ( 1976 ), The Color Purple(1982), etc.2)"made it": to become a success, to succeed, either in specific endeavor or in general3) Johnny Carson: a man who runs a late night talk show4)hooked: injured by the horn of the cow being milked5) Jimmy T: 'T' is the initial of the surname of the boy Dee was courting.6)"Wa-su-zo-Tean-o!": phonetic rendering of an African dialect salutation7) "Asalamalakim": phonetic rendering of a Muslim greeting8) Polaroid: a camera that produces instant pictures9) the Civil War: the war between the North and the South in the U. S.(1861-1865)10) branches: branches or divisions of a family descending from a common ancestor11) Ream it out again: "Ream" is perhaps an African dialect word meaning: "unfold, display". Hence the phrase may mean "repeat" or "say it once again"12) pork was unclean: Muslims are forbidden by their religion to eat pork because it is considered to be unclean.13) Chitlins: also chitlings or chitterlings, the small intestines of pigs, used for food, a common dish in Afro-American households14) rump prints: depressions in the benches made by constant sitting15) sink: depressions in the wood of the handle left by the thumbs and fingers第四课外婆的日用家当艾丽斯•沃克尔“我会慢慢习惯的,”我说,“你给我再念一遍吧。
高级英语上册翻译部分1-6课
Lesson01 (page26)1.我不能想象他到了这般年纪怎么会想攻读研究生的。
I can’t imagine what prompted him to pursue a graduate program at his age.2.他六点钟就出发了,比他通常上班早了一小时。
He set out at six, an hour ahead of his usual time for going to office.3.我看得出吉米急着告诉我他面试的情况,他笑着说:当我走到写字台旁边,那位经理抬起头来打量了我一番,问了我几个问题,便说了声“OK”。
I could see Jimmy was eager to tell me about the interview. Laughingly, he said,” When I walked to the desk, themanager looked up, took stock of me, then asked me a few questions and said ‘OK’.”4.将军实际上被软禁在家,他以国画书法为寄托,在水墨中找到了平静和安慰。
Virtually under house arrest, the general took refuge in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy and found peace and solace in ink and water.5.由于上海到北京的火车17:25开车,我只得乘出租车。
我上了火车,找到铺位后不久火车就开动了。
As the Shanghai-Beijing train was due to leave at 17:25, I had to take a taxi .Shortly after I boarded the train and found my berth, it started to move.6.格林太太像泰勒太太一样,靠微博的养老金过着孤独的生活,日复一日,关闭在一间阴郁狭小的房间里,她非常渴望能有人和她在一起。
高级英语一课文翻译
高级英语一课文翻译高级英语一课文翻译高级英语是高等教育自学考试英语专业高级阶段(本科)的精读课,属于必考课程。
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我为什么写作Lesson 12: Why I Write从很小的时候,大概五、六岁,我知道长大以后将成为一个作家。
From a very early age,perhaps the age of five or six,I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer.从15到24岁的这段时间里,我试图打消这个念头,可总觉得这样做是在戕害我的天性,认为我迟早会坐下来伏案著书。
Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to adandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.三个孩子中,我是老二。
老大和老三与我相隔五岁。
8岁以前,我很少见到我爸爸。
由于这个以及其他一些缘故,我的性格有些孤僻。
我的举止言谈逐渐变得很不讨人喜欢,这使我在上学期间几乎没有什么朋友。
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight- For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays.我像一般孤僻的孩子一样,喜欢凭空编造各种故事,和想像的人谈话。
高英上册英译汉
Lesson11.此时此刻显现在我脑海中的这个中东集市,其入口处是一座古老的砖石结构的哥特式拱门。
你首先要穿过一个赤日耀眼、灼热逼人的大型露天广场,然后走进一个凉爽、幽暗的洞穴。
这市场一直向前延伸,一眼望不到尽头,消失在远处的阴影里。
2.对于顾客来说,至关重要的一点是,不到最后一刻是不能让店主猜到她心里究竟中意哪样东西、想买哪样东西的。
3.而在卖主那一方来说,他必须竭尽全力地声称,他开出的价钱使他根本无利可图,而他之所以愿意这样做完全是出于他本人对顾客的敬重。
4.屋内有三个大石磙,每个石磙上都有一根粗木杆从中心穿过,作为磙轴,磙轴的一端与一根立柱相连,使石磙可以绕立柱作旋转运动,另一端则套在一头蒙着眼罩的骆驼身上,通过骆驼不停地绕圈子走动来带动石磙旋转。
5.相形之下,油坊里的骆驼和石磙便显得矮小起来。
这套装置是由一个人操作的。
他先将亚麻籽浆铲入一只大石缸里,继而动作利索地爬上令人头晕目眩的高处系牢缆索,然后全身使劲压在一根用树干做成的粗大的横梁上,带动缆索的滑轮装置运转。
古木大梁压得嘎吱作响,缆索开始绷紧,接着便见一滴滴的油沿着一条石槽流入一只废旧汽油桶里。
随着大梁越压越低,缆索越绷越紧,大梁的嘎吱声,石磙的辘辘声,以及骆驼不时发出的咕噜咕噜的呼吸声和叹息声响成一片,榨出的油也很快地由涓滴细流变成了一股晶莹发亮、奔腾不止的洪流。
Lesson21.其次,则是因为我当时心情沉重,喉咙哽噎,忧思万缕,几乎顾不上去管那日本铁路官员说些什么。
踏上这块土地,呼吸着广岛的空气,对我来说这行动本身已是一套令人激动的经历,其意义远远超过我以往所进行的任何一次旅行或采访活动。
难道我不就是在犯罪现场吗?2.出人意料的是,刚到广岛车站时袭扰着我的那种异样的忧伤情绪竟在这时重新袭上心头,我的心情又难受起来,因为我又一次意识到自己置身于曾遭受第一颗原子弹轰击的现场。
这儿曾有成千上万的生命顷刻之间即遭毁灭,还有成千上万的人在痛苦的煎熬中慢慢死去。
高级英语第一册 课文翻译及修辞
二课广岛——日本“最有活力”的城市(节选)雅各?丹瓦“广岛到了!大家请下车!”当世界上最快的高速列车减速驶进广岛车站并渐渐停稳时,那位身着日本火车站站长制服的男人口中喊出的一定是这样的话。
我其实并没有听懂他在说些什么,一是因为他是用日语喊的,其次,则是因为我当时心情沉重,喉咙哽噎,忧思万缕,几乎顾不上去管那日本铁路官员说些什么。
踏上这块土地,呼吸着广岛的空气,对我来说这行动本身已是一套令人激动的经历,其意义远远超过我以往所进行的任何一次旅行或采访活动。
难道我不就是在犯罪现场吗?这儿的日本人看来倒没有我这样的忧伤情绪。
从车站外的人行道上看去,这儿的一切似乎都与日本其他城市没什么两样。
身着和嘏的小姑娘和上了年纪的太太与西装打扮的少年和妇女摩肩接豫;神情严肃的男人们对周围的人群似乎视而不见,只顾着相互交淡,并不停地点头弯腰,互致问候:“多么阿里伽多戈扎伊马嘶。
”还有人在使用杂货铺和烟草店门前挂着的小巧的红色电话通话。
“嗨!嗨!”出租汽车司机一看见旅客,就砰地打开车门,这样打着招呼。
“嗨”,或者某个发音近似“嗨”的什么词,意思是“对”或“是”。
“能送我到市政厅吗?”司机对着后视镜冲我一笑,又连声“嗨!”“嗨!”出租车穿过广岛市区狭窄的街巷全速奔驰,我们的身子随着司机手中方向盘的一次次急转而前俯后仰,东倒西歪。
与此同时,这座曾惨遭劫难的城市的高楼大厦则一座座地从我们身边飞掠而过。
正当我开始觉得路程太长时,汽车嘎地一声停了下来,司机下车去向警察问路。
就像东京的情形一样,广岛的出租车司机对他们所在的城市往往不太熟悉,但因为怕在外国人面前丢脸,却又从不肯承认这一点。
无论乘客指定的目的地在哪里,他们都毫不犹豫地应承下来,根本不考虑自己要花多长时间才能找到目的地。
这段小插曲后来终于结束了,我也就不知不觉地突然来到了宏伟的市政厅大楼前。
当我出示了市长应我的采访要求而发送的请柬后,市政厅接待人员向我深深地鞠了一躬,然后声调悠扬地长叹了一口气。
大学高级英语第一册张汉熙版第四课原文加翻译EverydayUseforyourgrandmama
Everyday Use for your grandmamaAlice WalkerI will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yester day afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A Pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other's face. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a cark and soft-seated limousine I am usheredinto a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tear s in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks or chides are tacky flowers.In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open tire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill be-fore nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pan-cake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Car – son has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one toot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, though. She would always look anyone in the eye. Hesitation was no part of her nature."How do I look, Mama?" Maggie says, showing just enough of her thin bodyenveloped in pink skirt and red blouse for me to know she's there, almost hidden by the door."Come out into the yard," I say.Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him? That is the way my Maggie walks. She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground.Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure. She's a woman now, though sometimes I forget. How long ago was it that the other house burned? Ten, twelve years? Sometimes I can still hear the flames and feel Maggie's arms sticking to me, her hair smoking and her dress falling off her in little black papery flakes. Her eyes seemed stretched open, blazed open by the flames reflect-ed in them. And Dee. I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look at concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house tall in toward the red-hot brick chimney. Why don't you do a dance around the ashes? I'd wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.I used to think she hated Maggie, too. But that was before we raised the money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school. She used to read to us without pity, forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river ofmake-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need toknow. Pressed us to her with the serious way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me. She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. Her eyelids would not flicker for minutes at a time. Often I fought off the temptation to shake her. At sixteen she had a style of her own' and knew what style was.I never had an education myself. After second grade the school was closed down. Don't ask me why. in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now. Sometimes Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-naturedly but can't see well. She knows she is not bright. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by. She will marry John Thomas (who has mossy teeth in an earnest face) and then I'll be free to sit here and I guess just sing church songs to myself. Although I never was a good singer. Never could carry a tune. I was always better at a man's job. 1 used to love to milk till I was hooked in the side in '49. Cows are soothing and slow and don't bother you, unless you try to milk them the wrong way.I have deliberately turned my back on the house. It is three rooms, just like the one that burned, except the roof is tin: they don't make shingle roofs any more. There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutter s up on the outside. This house is in a pasture, too, like the other one. No doubt when Dee seesit she will want to tear it down. She wrote me once that no matter where we "choose" to live, she will manage to come see us. But she will never bring her friends. Maggie and I thought about this and Maggie asked me, Mama, when did Dee ever have any friends?"She had a few. Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on washday after school. Nervous girls who never laughed. Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. She read to them.When she was courting Jimmy T she didn't have much time to pay to us, but turned all her faultfinding power on him. He flew to marry a cheap city girl from a family of ignorant flashy people. She hardly had time to recompose herself.When she comes I will meet -- but there they are!Maggie attempts to make a dash for the house, in her shuffling way, but I stay her with my hand. "Come back here," I say. And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe.It is hard to see them clearly through the strong sun. But even the first glimpse of leg out of the car tells me it is Dee. Her feet were always neat-looking, as it God himself had shaped them with a certain style. From the other side of the car comes a short, stocky man. Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. I hear Maggie suck in her breath. "Uhnnnh," is what it sounds like. Like when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your toot on the road. "Uhnnnh."Dee next. A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yel-lows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun. I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out. Earrings gold, too, and hanging down to her shoulders. Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arm up to shake the folds of the dress out of her armpits. The dress is loose and flows, and as she walks closer, I like it. I hear Maggie go "Uhnnnh" again. It is her sister's hair. It stands straight up like the wool on a sheep. It is black as night and around the edges are two long pigtails that rope about like small lizards disappearing behind her ears."Wa-su-zo-Tean-o!" she says, coming on in that gliding way the dress makes her move. The short stocky fellow with the hair to his navel is all grinning and he follows up with "Asalamalakim, my mother and sister!" He moves to hug Maggie but she falls back, right up against the back of my chair. I feel her trembling there and when I look up I see the perspiration falling off her chin."Don't get up," says Dee. Since I am stout it takes something of a push. You can see me trying to move a second or two before I make it. She turns, showing white heels through her sandals, and goes back to the car. Out she peeks next with a Polaroid. She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me. She never takes a shot without making sure the house is included. When a cow comes nibbling around the edge of the yard she snaps it and me and Maggie and the house. Then she puts the Polaroid in the back seat of the car, and comes up and kisses me onthe forehead.Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with Maggie's hand. Maggie's hand is as limp as a fish, and probably as cold, despite the sweat, and she keeps trying to pull it back. It looks like Asalamalakim wants to shake hands but wants to do it fancy. Or maybe he don't know how people shake hands. Anyhow, he soon gives up on Maggie."Well," I say. "Dee.""No, Mama," she says. "Not 'Dee', Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo!""What happened to 'Dee'?" I wanted to know."She's dead," Wangero said. "I couldn't bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me.""You know as well as me you was named after your aunt Dicle," I said. Dicie is my sister. She named Dee. We called her "Big Dee" after Dee was born."But who was she named after?" asked Wangero."I guess after Grandma Dee," I said."And who was she named after?" asked Wangero."Her mother," I said, and saw Wangero was getting tired. "That's about as far back as I can trace it," I said.Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches."Well," said Asalamalakim, "there you are.""Uhnnnh," I heard Maggie say."There I was not," I said, before 'Dicie' cropped up in our family, so why should I try to trace it that far back?"He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting a Model A car. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head."How do you pronounce this name?" I asked."You don't have to call me by it if you don't want to," said Wangero."Why shouldn't I?" I asked. "If that's what you want us to call you, we'll call you. ""I know it might sound awkward at first," said Wangero."I'll get used to it," I said. "Ream it out again."Well, soon we got the name out of the way. Asalamalakim had a name twice as long and three times as hard. After I tripped over it two or three times he told me to just call him Hakim-a-barber. I wanted to ask him was he a barber, but I didn't really think he was, so I don't ask."You must belong to those beet-cattle peoples down the road," I said. They said "Asalamalakirn" when they met you too, but they didn't Shake hands. Always too busy feeding the cattle, fixing the fences, putting up salt-lick shelters, throwing down hay. When the white folks poisoned some of the herd the men stayed up all night with rifles in their hands. I walked a mile and a half just to see the sight.Hakim-a-barber said, "I accept some of their doctrines, but farming and raising cattle is not my style." (They didn't tell me, and I didn't ask, whether Wangero (Dee) had really gone and married him.)We sat down to eat and right away he said he didn't eat collards and pork was unclean. Wangero, though, went on through the chitlins and corn bread, the greens and every-thing else. She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes. Everything delighted her. Even the fact that we still used the benches her daddy made for the table when we couldn't afford to buy chairs."Oh, Mama!" she cried. Then turned to Hakim-a-barber. "I never knew how lovely these benches are. You can feel the rump prints," she said, running her hands underneath her and along the bench. Then she gave a sigh and her hand closed over Grandma Dee's butter dish. "That's it!" she said. "I knew there was something I wanted to ask you if I could have." She jumped up from the table and went over in the corner where the churn stood, the milk in it clabber by now. She looked at the churn and looked at it."This churn top is what I need," she said. "Didn't Uncle Buddy whittle it out of a tree you all used to have?""Yes," I said."Uh huh, " she said happily. "And I want the dasher,too.""Uncle Buddy whittle that, too?" asked the barber.Dee (Wangero) looked up at me."Aunt Dee's first husband whittled the dash," said Maggie so low you almost couldn't hear her. "His name was Henry, but they called him Stash.""Maggie's brain is like an elephants," Wanglero said, laughing. "I can use the churn top as a center piece for the alcove table,”she said, sliding a plate over thechurn, "and I'll think of something artistic to do with the dasher."When she finished wrapping the dasher the handle stuck out. I took it for a moment in my hands. You didn't even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood. In fact, there were a lot of small sinks; you could see where thumbs and fingers had sunk into the wood. It was beautiful light yellow wood, from a tree that grew in the yard where Big Dee and Stash had lived.After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and started rifling through it. Maggie hung back in the kitchen over the dishpan. Out came Wangero with two quilts. They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them. One was in the Lone Star pattern. The other was Walk Around the Mountain. In both of them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and more years ago. Bit sand pieces of Grandpa Jarrell's Paisley shirts. And one teeny faded blue piece, about the size of a penny matchbox, that was from Great Grandpa Ezra's uniform that he wore in the Civil War."Mama," Wangero said sweet as a bird. "Can I have these old quilts?"I heard something fall in the kitchen, and a minute later the kitchen door slammed."Why don't you take one or two of the others?” 1 asked. "Th ese old things was just done by me and Big Dee from some tops your grandma pieced before she died.""No," said Wangero. "I don't want those. They are stitched around the borders by machine.""That'll make them last better," I said."That's not the point," said Wanglero. "These are all pieces of dresses Grandma used to wear. She did all this stitching by hand. Imagine!" She held the quilts securely in her arms, stroking them."Some of the pieces, like those lavender ones, come from old clothes hermo ther handed down to her,” I said, moving up to touch the quilts. Dee (Wangero) moved back just enough so that I couldn't reach the quilts. They already belonged to her. "Imagine!" she breathed again, clutching them closely to her bosom."The truth is," I said, "I promised to give them quilts to Maggie, for when she marries John Thomas."She gasped like a bee had stung her."Maggie can't appreciate these quilts!" she said. "She'd probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use.""I reckon she would," I said. "God knows I been savage ’em for long enough with nobody using 'em. I hope she will! ” I didn't want to bring up how I had offered Dee (Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told me they were old-fashioned, out of style."But they're priceless!" she was saying now, furiously, for she has a temper. "Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags. Less than that!" "She can always make some more,” I said. "Maggie knows how to quilt. "Dee (Wangero) looked at me with hatred. "You just will not understand. The point is these quilts, these quilts!""Well," I said,, stumped. "What would you do with them?""Hang them," she said. As it that was the only thing you could do with quilts.Maggie by now was standing in the door. I could almost hear the sound her feet made as they scraped over each other."She can have them, Mama,” she said like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. "I can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts."I looked at her hard. She had filled her bottom lip with checkerberry snuff and it gave her face a kind of dopey, hangdog look. It was Grandma Dee and Big Dee who taught her how to quilt herself. She stood there with her scarred hands hidden in the folds of her skirt. She looked at her sister with something like fear but she wasn't mad at her. This was Maggie's portion. This was the way she knew God to work.When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet. Just like when I'm in church and the spirit of God touches me and I get happy and shout. I did something I never had done before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on into the room, snatched the quilts out of Miss Wangero's hands and dumped them into Maggie's lap. Maggie just sat there on my bed with her mouth open."Take one or two of the others," I said to Dee.But she turned without a word and went out to Hakim-a-barber."You just don't understand," she said, as Maggie and I came out to the car."What don't I under stand?" I wanted to know."Your heritage," she said. And then she turned to Maggie, kissed her, and said, "You ought to try to make some-thing of yourself, too, Maggie. It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it."She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and her chin.Maggie smiled; maybe at the sunglasses. But a real mile, not scared. After we watched the car dust settle I asked Maggie to bring me a dip of snuff. And then the two of us sat there just enjoying, until it was time to go in the house and go to bed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTES1) Alice Walker: born 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, America and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Her books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland ( 1970 ), Meridian ( 1976 ), The Color Purple(1982), etc.2)"made it": to become a success, to succeed, either in specific endeavor or in general3) Johnny Carson: a man who runs a late night talk show4)hooked: injured by the horn of the cow being milked5) Jimmy T: 'T' is the initial of the surname of the boy Dee was courting.6)"Wa-su-zo-Tean-o!": phonetic rendering of an African dialect salutation7) "Asalamalakim": phonetic rendering of a Muslim greeting8) Polaroid: a camera that produces instant pictures9) the Civil War: the war between the North and the South in the U. S.(1861-1865)10) branches: branches or divisions of a family descending from a common ancestor11) Ream it out again: "Ream" is perhaps an African dialect word meaning: "unfold, display". Hence the phrase may mean "repeat" or "say it once again"12) pork was unclean: Muslims are forbidden by their religion to eat pork because it is considered to be unclean.13) Chitlins: also chitlings or chitterlings, the small intestines of pigs, used for food,a common dish in Afro-American households14) rump prints: depressions in the benches made by constant sitting15) sink: depressions in the wood of the handle left by the thumbs and fingers 第四课外婆的日用家当艾丽斯•沃克尔“我会慢慢习惯的,”我说,“你给我再念一遍吧。
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[转] 体验英语课文翻译2011-11-18 12:42阅读(9)转载自有何不可下一篇:抗击惰性生活方式... |返回日志列表赞赞赞赞转载(596)分享评论复制地址更多1 构筑远景总裁寄语霍尼雷尔公司在欧洲、中东和非洲业务运营的远景已经清晰地传递给我们的股东、我们的客户、我们的雇员、我们的战略合作伙伴和我们的商界。
这些利益相关方之中不应有任何一方对我们未来远景规划的任何一方面有不确定的感觉。
另外,霍尼韦尔公司在欧洲、中东和非洲业务运营的远景规划必须完全支持我们的全球雄心,因为我们是霍尼韦尔有限公司不可缺少的和重要的一部分。
我们创造“欧洲雄心2000”这份规划的目标是要描绘一幅清晰透明的未来图景—“即将实现的蓝图”。
为此我们制订了实现这一目标的战略计划和支持这一战略的详细运营计划。
我们都为我们的“欧洲雄心2000”而感到激动和兴奋,因为它展示了我们强大的员工队伍、我们的关键合作伙伴、我们的领先技术和我们实现对客户的承诺的真实潜能。
我们都怀着可谓的心情盼望着实现这一巨大潜力时刻的到来。
“欧洲雄心2000”必须体现某些对我们的商业成功起着极其关键作用的概念:第一,我们需要把它与欧洲一体化的环境以及随之而来的不断激烈的竞争和行业整合直接联系在一起。
欧洲市场的统一创造了史无前例的公司合并和兼并的市场,其中那些专注于本国市场的小公司显得尤其脆弱;在许多情况下,这些公司不是出售自己就是与更加强大的跨国公司合并。
霍尼韦尔公司自1992年以来兼并了47家公司,从而直接受益于此;我们将继续致力于这一兼并活动。
不断增长的降价压力促使我们的客户兼并了47家公司,从而直接受益于此;我们将继续致力于这一兼并活动。
不断增长的降价压力促使我们的客户越来越多地向霍尼韦尔寻求提高运营效率和生产力的解决方案。
但降价压力同样使得我们需要对我们自己的成本结构进行细致的检查。
第二,我们的雄心计划必须基于超越我们的竞争对手。
我们的业绩目标不是基于我们的历史标准,甚至也不是基于今天的竞争标准。
我们制订的目标是要跨越式地超越竞争对手预计的未来业绩。
我们相信,如果在每一个价值增长点上的排名进入前25%或前50%,我们的综合业绩就将取得排名前25%的地位。
第三,我们的雄心计划必须强调不断增长的生产力和快速的反映能力。
这一概念是指,霍尼韦尔的业务就是销售提供生产力和效率的技术。
所以,在我们自己的业务运营中,我们需要作出榜样,展示出生产率和快速的反应能力。
这样,我们的客户就会相信我们能够向他们提供这些技术。
第四,我们的雄心计划必须强调员工的所有权---不仅仅是成为股东,而且是广义上的所有权。
我们每个人必须将我们的计划和所取得的成果放在心上。
我们都需要理解和分享我们作为一个公司所具有的巨大潜力以及这种潜力给我们带来的兴奋感,需要理解我们个人和团体的作用如何与我们的雄心计划紧密相连,并共同分享实现这一目标后所带来的收益。
当然,霍尼韦尔股份所有权计划是与这些主题相一致的,我们的目标是到2000年底让至少半数的欧洲、中东和非洲雇员拥有霍尼韦尔股份。
最后,追求卓越为我们公司的运营提供了框架。
始终如一地和彻底地使用欧洲质量惯例基金会模式及其评估标准,使霍尼韦尔欧洲、中东和非洲地区分部为整个霍尼韦尔有限公司作出贡献,成为最受钦佩的公司。
我们现在知道了什么是“即将实现的蓝图”。
我们希望发展壮大,我们也希望你们同我们一起发展。
我们希望取得一流的财务业绩,我们也希望你们同我们一起繁荣昌盛。
我们将把我们的雄心计划“放在心上”,我们也希望你们同我们一起“拥有”这一雄心。
2n The Joys of “Working” at HomenThe absolute greatest scam on the planet has to be telecommuting. When I first heard that some employers actually permit their workers to stay home all day and“commute”to the office over the Net, I chuckled with good-natured disbelief: No way.n 这世界上最大的诡计无疑是“远程办公”。
当我第一次听到有些雇主真的允许职员整天待在家里,通过网络“往返”办公室时,我带着善意,不相信地莞尔一笑:绝对有这种可能。
Then I became obsessed with the idea—not in a bad way, of course. Sure, I spent a few weekends following my editor around town so I could“bump into”him at the dry cleaner’s or genetic counselor’s clinic or deserted jogging trail. And yes, there was that time when I showed up at his desk with several sticks of dynamite strapped to my head.可自那以后,我却被这个想法迷住了――当然,不是往坏的方向想。
我确确实实花了几个星期跟踪我的编辑,逛遍了整个城镇,这样我就能在干洗店、遗传病顾问的门诊室或是在冷僻的慢跑者的小路上“冷不丁撞见”他了。
当然,最终我还头捆几枝炸药在他的办公桌前出现,(or)带着满脑子对工作的伟大创意n But those amusing little stunts were merely intended to show him the kind of guy I was—a total self-starter and a serious loner—in short, the perfect candidate upon whom to bestow the splendid privilege of telecommutation n 当然使用这些逗人发笑的小伎俩只是想告诉他我是什么样的人――一个不折不扣的做事主动的人,一个真正的离群索居者――简而言之,一个可以被赐予在家远程办公这一巨大恩惠的最佳人选。
n Shortly after the dynamite thing, but before I had to make good on the Fuji blimp threat, a computer equipped with a 28.8 modem and a cranky little piece of software known as a PPP connection (see below) summarily arrived at my home, along with a letter that looked suspiciously like a legal document.. I was a telecommuter at last!n 在这之后不久,就在我不得不使用富士胶片的广告飞艇进行恐吓之前,一台配有28.8速调制解调器和装有被称为PPP连接(点对点连接,一种电脑连网方式,同下)的奇异的小软件的电脑被匆忙的搬进我家,另外附有一封信件,看着令人怀疑是一份法律档案。
我终于是一个“在家工作者”了!n How to describe the soaring liberation I felt in those first days of“working”at home! Forget about the 9-to-5 rat race. I could work in the wee hours of the morning, or between matinees.) No longer did I have to wear uncomfortable, itchysuits and ties and shoes to the office.n 我简直无法描述在家“工作”的最初日子里,我所感到的那种犹如鸟儿在空中翱翔的自由。
去它的朝九晚五无休止的奔忙!(我可以在凌晨工作,也可以在别人休息时工作。
)我再也不用穿着不舒适的、令人发痒的西装、领带和鞋子去办公室了。
(I could work in the nude if I liked ) And goodbye to the filthy, always late andcriminally expensive Long Island Rail Road. (It takes me 30 seconds to wander, naked, from my bedroom to my“office”in the garage.Assuming the neighbours are safely in their own homes with the shadesdrawn.)n (如果我愿意,我可以光着身子工作)我也告别了肮脏的、总是晚点的、敲竹杠般昂贵的长岛铁路。
我只需花30秒钟,赤裸着从卧室漫步到位于车库的“办公室”n 想当然地认为邻居们都拉上了窗帘,安全地呆在家里。
)n Yes, indeed, I was a telecommuter at last. And life was grand. I cursed my laziness for hopping the gravy train so late in life after wasting so much moneyon ties and shoes.n 是的,我终于真正成为一个“在家上班族”了。
生活变得如此美好。
我诅咒我的懒惰,竟然在领带和鞋子上浪费那么多的钱之后才搭上了这个轻松赚大钱的便车,真是相见恨晚哪!n But what did I know? It turns out that telecommuting is not the golden goose some savants of the Digital Age claim it is. No, it is a cruel and doomed miragethat could send you back, begging for your old office job from a pitiless editor.If, that is, you fail to master the Four Little Dirty Secrets of Telecommuting: nn 但是我只知其一,不知其二。