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创造奇迹的话语“也许等我活到100岁的时候，我会习惯于別人对我做的每件事所釆取的理所当然的态度，” 一位年轻的家庭主妇向她的邻居吐露内心的秘密。

“如果比尔偶尔能对我说儿句好听的话，他会使我的生活更加幸福。

”我们中很少有人1识到我们是络么需更豉励，意识至||我们必须时常感受赞扬的温暖，占则就会失去我们的自信。

我们所有的人都需耍那种被人需耍以及被人仰慕的感觉。

但是除非我们听到别g的赞誉之词，不然我们如何能够知道我们是被他人尊重的朋友或同事呢？任何想改善与他人关系的人仅需表达一种赞同的理• I 解就可以了。

表达这种理解并使他人感到H己的重娈性和价值的方式归结如下：经常在别人身上寻找你可羡慕和赞赏的东西并告知对方。

，我们每个人都有H己的一幅心理图像，一种白我形”,象。

为了获得比较满意的生活，这一H我形象必须是我们能够接受的、能够喜欢的。

当我们对h我形象感到鬥豪时，我们会感到H信并会白由地展示白我。

我们的表现处丁•最佳状态。

而当我们对白我形象感到羞愧时，我们就会设法隐藏它而不是表达它。

我们会变得不友好，难以相处。

诸弋八I“•.敢、、，r f- 一个被唤虚白尊的人的身上会出现奇迹。

他会突然间•更喜欢他人，他会更为善良，与周由的人更容易合作。

•歡:y 1赞扬是上光剂，有助丁•保持他的鬥我形彖明亮闪光。

" 丿=■但这与你赞扬別人有何关系呢？关系多多。

你有能力■让奇迹在另外一个人身上出现。

当你増强他自尊心的时候，你会使他喜欢你.想和你合作。

切斯特菲尔徳爵士向他的儿子提出这样一条不同寻常的建议，耍他效仿徳尼韦奴瓦公爵，“你会发现他是让人们先喜欢他们自己进而才喜欢上他的。

”赞扬的影响确实是巨大的。

一位新牧师戏称教堂为“冰箱”以此来反对批评他的教众对陌生人的冷漠。

相反，他开始欢迎來自讲坛的來访者并吿诉他的教众他们有多么友好。

之后，他提出了他想耍的，能够给人们快乐生活的有好声誉的教会的构想，使教众变得和缓。

他说，“赞扬能使冷情的成员变成热情的人。

大学英语泛读教程第四册全文翻译

Unit 1Text天才与工匠许多人羡慕作家们的精彩小说，但却很少有人知道作家们是如何辛勤笔耕才使一篇小说问世的。

以下的短文将讨论小说的酝酿过程，以及作家是如何将这小说雕琢成一件精致完美的艺术品。

1.有一次，我在暮色中来到小树林边一棵鲜花盛开的小桃树前。

我久久站在那里凝视着，直到最后一道光线消逝。

我看不到那树原先的模样，看不见曾穿透果核，能崩碎你的牙齿的力量，也看不到那使它与橡树和绿草相区别的原则。

显现在我面前的，是一种深邃而神秘的魅力。

2. 当读者读到一部杰出的小说时，他也会这样如痴如狂，欲将小说字字句句刻骨铭心，不提出任何问题。

3.但即使是个初学写作者也知道，除那将小说带到世上的文字之外，还有更多的构成小说生命的因素，小说的生命并不始于写作，而始于内心深处的构思。

4. 要创作出有独创性的作品，并不要求懂得创造的功能。

多少世纪以来的艺术、哲学及科学创造都出自人们的头脑，而创造者也许从未想到去关注创造的内在过程。

然而，在我看来，对创造工作一定程度的了解，至少会使我们通过知道两个事实，增长我们处理正在出现的故事的智慧。

5. 首先，天赋不是掌握了技艺的艺术家独有的特性，而是人脑的创造性功能。

不仅所有对技艺的掌握都含有天赋，而且每个人都具有天赋，无论他的天赋发展是何等不充分。

对技艺的掌握是天赋的显现，是经过培养的，发展了的和受过训练的天赋。

你的天赋在最原始的层面上起作用。

它的任务就是创造。

它是你的故事的创造者。

6. 第二，将你的小说带进世界的文字是艺术家的工作，它就和一个泥瓦匠的工作一样，有意识、谨慎而实实在在。

天赋正如理解力、记忆力和想象力一样是我们的精神禀赋中的天然部分，而技艺却不是。

它必须通过实践才能学到，并要通过实践才能掌握。

如果要使在我们内心深处浮现的故事跃然纸上，光彩照人，那么，每个故事都须有感染力极强的优雅文笔。

只有健全的技艺才能使我们做到这一点。

7.一个故事是如何酝酿成的呢？据说，我们从一生中的前二十年，或许前五年起就开始写作。

新编大学英语四泛读课文翻译

After—class reading 课文翻译(Book 4)Unit 1致命诱惑1英国离奇谋杀案小说的女皇，毫无疑问是阿加莎·克里斯蒂。

虽然作者本人在20多年前就去世了，但她创作的78部侦探小说还是非常畅销。

它们已经被译成了100多种语言，销量超过了20亿册。

2阿加莎的小说无论是在英国还是在其他国家，都如此受人喜爱并不难理解。

她的每本书都构思精巧。

她创造的人物一眼就能辨认出，情节的发展非常规范、准确、流畅。

但最重要的是，她所有的故事都给读者一个谜团。

3克里斯蒂的作品几乎都是以谋杀开场，迫使读者提出这样一个问题：“是谁干的?”，而最后总是水落石出。

读者的乐趣就在于根据故事里隐含的线索顺藤摸瓜，试图在作者揭开谜底之前找到正确答案。

这种模式吸引了人类最强烈的本能——好奇心——而人们对这种模式欢迎的程度没有任何减弱的迹象。

4很多离奇的案子都是由克里斯蒂笔下某个常常出场的侦探破解，例如那个非常自信的比利时人埃居尔·波洛探长，或者是那个显然没有恶意的小老太太马普尔小姐。

她同时也为她的故事创造了一个特有的背景，这一背景，如同她创作的一些人物一样为人们所熟知。

那是处于两次世界大战之间的英国，那儿的小村庄里社区关系紧密，生活安静，或者是城里的阔佬们在乡下的豪宅里度周末。

5这个世界有着严格的社会等级制度。

乡下宅子的主人，很可能是贵族成员，占据着社会的顶层，然后是那些职业阶层：医生、律师和商人。

处于底层的则是一般民众，在书中通常作为仆从、厨师和园丁出场。

当谋杀案发生时，需要调查的嫌疑人不在少数。

6阿加莎-克里斯蒂的世界不是一个完全真实的世界，这就是她的作品还没有过时的原因之一。

这是一个安定、循规蹈矩的世界，然后谋杀案打乱了人们的正常生活。

必须侦破案件，抓住杀人犯，恢复宁静的生活。

7在阿加莎·克里斯蒂一生的大部分时问里，英国的杀人犯都被处以死刑。

因此，她作品中的谋杀案一旦破获，找出了杀人犯，那么他或者她的末日也就到了。

泛读4翻译

4.黑人中产阶级的负担作为黑人中产阶级的一员，我备受煎熬。

一方面，白人轻拍着我的脑袋（认为我不过是幸运罢了），另一方面，黑人抽打着我的脸（憎恨或嫉妒我所取得的成功）。

这里有一项令很多人至今感到吃惊的发现：一旦获得了同等的机会从事白领的文书工作，黑人和所有人一样地渴望着生活中相同的事物。

这些包括了人们常说的梦想的豪宅，两辆汽车，良好的教育，以及孩子们能够在迪斯尼乐园度假。

事实上，相较于其他美国人而言，我们恐怕更渴望获得这一切，因为大多数黑人已经太久无法享受到这些了。

同时，在我们的“故土”，通常被人们称为贫民窟的地方，仍有相当多的黑人同胞。

他们当中观念陈旧的好战分子无休止地咒骂我们黑人中产阶级，说我们“忘了本”。

我们被指责抛弃了革命，背叛了民族，变成了“奥利奥”——外表是黑的，内心却已被白人同化。

事实是我们不曾忘本，我们也不敢忘本。

我们只不过是奋斗在不同的阵线，并不是厌倦了战争。

或许，我们可能更加痛心，因为我们知道黑人世界和白人世界其实可以融合在一起，成为一个更美好的世界。

只要那些毒品贩子仍然毫不犹豫地利用儿时的友情来找我的麻烦，我就不可能忘本。

当我怀着恐惧回到以前住过的地方，钱包被人抢走时，我不会忘本;当我享用商务午餐却发现服务员是一位老同学时，我也不会忘本。

我回忆起一位从前和我一起玩洋娃娃的女孩，她现在依靠政府救济款抚养五个子女;还有一个住在教堂里的男孩，现在因谋杀罪而入狱;儿时的密友则服食了过量毒品，尸体被发现于我们曾一起玩捉迷藏的小巷里。

这一切怎能令我忘本!我的生活充满了不和谐。

刚刚精神饱满地从巴黎度假归来，很可能一星期后，我就会坐上长途车行驶在熟悉的路上，去南方腹地的穷乡僻壤参加我那老迈的叔父的葬礼。

叔父是个文盲，他生活的圈子方圆不过50英里。

有时，当我拿着公文包在车站等车去上班时，我会碰到我姑母和其他一些清洁女工从车上下来去给我的邻居清扫地板。

但我从未因此感到羞愧。

黑人的进步已远远超出我们最大的期望;我们从没有抱很大希望，因此这进步委实让我们吃惊。

新视野大学英语读写四册book4课文和译文

1ALove and logic: The story of a fallacy爱情与逻辑：谬误的故事1 I had my first date with Polly after I made the trade with my roommate Rob. That year every guy on campus had a leather jacket, and Rob couldn't stand the idea of being the only football player who didn't, so he made a pact that he'd give me his girl in exchange for my jacket. He wasn't the brightest guy. Polly wasn't too shrewd, either.1 在我和室友罗伯的交易成功之后，我和波莉有了第一次约会。

那一年校园里每个人都有件皮夹克，而罗伯是校足球队员中唯一一个没有皮夹克的，他一想到这个就受不了，于是他和我达成了一项协议，用他的女友换取我的夹克。

他可不那么聪明，而他的女友波莉也不太精明。

2 But she was pretty, well-off, didn't dye her hair strange colors or wear too much makeup. She had the right background to be the girlfriend of a dogged, brilliant lawyer. If I could show the elite law firms I applied to that I had a radiant, well-spokencounterpart by my side, I just might edge past the competition.2 但她漂亮而且富有，也没有把头发染成奇怪的颜色或是化很浓的妆。

大学英语泛读教程第四册全文翻译

Unit 1Text天才与工匠许多人羡慕作‎家们的精彩小‎说，但却很少有人‎知道作家们是‎如何辛勤笔耕‎才使一篇小说‎问世的。

以下的短文将‎讨论小说的酝‎酿过程，以及作家是如‎何将这小说雕‎琢成一件精致‎完美的艺术品‎。

1.有一次，我在暮色中来‎到小树林边一‎棵鲜花盛开的‎小桃树前。

我久久站在那‎里凝视着，直到最后一道‎光线消逝。

我看不到那树‎原先的模样，看不见曾穿透‎果核，能崩碎你的牙‎齿的力量，也看不到那使‎它与橡树和绿‎草相区别的原‎则。

显现在我面前‎的，是一种深邃而‎神秘的魅力。

2. 当读者读到一‎部杰出的小说‎时，他也会这样如‎痴如狂，欲将小说字字‎句句刻骨铭心‎，不提出任何问‎题。

3.但即使是个初‎学写作者也知‎道，除那将小说带‎到世上的文字‎之外，还有更多的构‎成小说生命的‎因素，小说的生命并‎不始于写作，而始于内心深‎处的构思。

4. 要创作出有独‎创性的作品，并不要求懂得‎创造的功能。

多少世纪以来‎的艺术、哲学及科学创‎造都出自人们‎的头脑，而创造者也许‎从未想到去关‎注创造的内在‎过程。

然而，在我看来，对创造工作一‎定程度的了解‎，至少会使我们‎通过知道两个‎事实，增长我们处理‎正在出现的故‎事的智慧。

5. 首先，天赋不是掌握‎了技艺的艺术‎家独有的特性‎，而是人脑的创‎造性功能。

不仅所有对技‎艺的掌握都含‎有天赋，而且每个人都‎具有天赋，无论他的天赋‎发展是何等不‎充分。

对技艺的掌握‎是天赋的显现‎，是经过培养的，发展了的和受‎过训练的天赋‎。

你的天赋在最‎原始的层面上‎起作用。

它的任务就是‎创造。

它是你的故事‎的创造者。

6. 第二，将你的小说带‎进世界的文字‎是艺术家的工‎作，它就和一个泥‎瓦匠的工作一‎样，有意识、谨慎而实实在‎在。

天赋正如理解‎力、记忆力和想象‎力一样是我们‎的精神禀赋中‎的天然部分，而技艺却不是‎。

它必须通过实‎践才能学到，并要通过实践‎才能掌握。

如果要使在我‎们内心深处浮‎现的故事跃然‎纸上，光彩照人，那么，每个故事都须‎有感染力极强‎的优雅文笔。

新视野大学英语第三版读写教程Book4Unit2原文及翻译

新视野大学英语第三版读写教程Book4Unit2原文及翻译新视野大学英语（第三版）读写教程 Book 4 Unit 2 原文及翻译在我们上学期间，大家对知识点应该都不陌生吧？知识点有时候特指教科书上或考试的知识。

掌握知识点是我们提高成绩的关键！以下是店铺收集整理的新视野大学英语（第三版）读写教程 Book 4 Unit 2 原文及翻译知识点，欢迎大家借鉴与参考，希望对大家有所帮助。

课文 A令人困惑的对美的追求1. 如果你是一位男士，肯定在某个时候会有女士问你她看起来怎么样。

2. 对于如何应对这个问题，你一定得小心。

最好的对策就是给一个诚实但又谨慎的回答，然后借口有急事马上脱身。

相信我，这是最简单的方法。

对于她的这一问题，无论你事先练习多少次，都不会找到正确答案。

3. 其原因是，男性和女性对外表的看法截然不同。

大多数男性对自己外表的评价在七年级时就形成了，而且终生不变。

有些男性认为自己有不可抗拒的魅力，即使随着年龄的增长，他们头发掉光了，脸上布满皱纹，他们仍然拒绝改变这种看法。

4. 我相信，大多数男性都不会对自己的相貌感到过分自傲。

如果他们偶尔想到自己外表的话，他们愿意认为自己样貌中等。

长相普通不会使他们有任何烦恼，因为普通就已经是很好了。

男性不是特别注重自己的外貌，也不会从美学的角度去审视自己。

他们的打扮方式主要就是刮刮胡子，就像打理自家草坪一样。

对于一位男性来说，如果能花四分钟刮刮胡子，结束之后再把粘到头发上的剃须膏擦净，又没有出血太厉害，他就觉得自己已经尽心尽力了。

5. 女性可不是这样看待自己的。

如果非要我猜测大多数女性对自己的相貌是如何评价的话，那肯定是：“还不够好。

” 一位女士，无论她看起来多么吸引人，她对自己的看法总是由于受美容业的影响而蒙着一层阴影。

要她认为：“我很漂亮” 是一件难事。

她把身体上的极小的不完美之处加以放大，并且幻想这些缺点十分明显，以至于全世界的人都会注意到并且嘲笑她。

Book 4 课文翻译及写作练习

Book 4 课文翻译及写作练习Unit 1 women of great achievement1.Jane Goodall 是英国著名科学家。

2.年轻时她一直想研究动物。

3.她花了多年的时间来观察记录大猩猩的日常活动。

4.她发现它们是肉食动物。

5.她也发现它们彼此之间的交流方式。

6.她认为动物应该生活在野生世界，而不是用来娱乐或做广告。

7.人类要理解和尊重动物的生活，并且要保护它们，让它们能安全生活。

8.1977年，她设立了一个野生动物研究保护中心。

Jane Goodall is a famous British scientist, who always wanted to study animals when she was a young girl. She spent years observing and recording the chimp daily activities, discovering that they hunt and eat meat and how they communicate with each other. Jane Goodall believes that animals should be left in the wild rather than used for entertainments. She thinks that human beings should not only understand and respect the life of the animals but protect them to make them live safely. In 1977, she established a center of wildlife research and protection.Unit 2 work the land1. 袁隆平是我国著名的科学家之一。

英语泛读教程4__课文翻译

第一单元第一篇"Good words cost nothing, but are worth much,"said Thomas Fuller,the 17th century British scholar.“良言不费分文,但价值甚大,”托马斯说丰满,17th世纪英国学者。

They serve to give encouragement and smooth away differences and misunderstandings, as this article explains.他们服役给予鼓励和克服差异和误解,因为这篇文章解释了。

"Maybe when I'm a hundred,I'll get used to having everything I do taken for granted,"a young homemaker confided to her neighbor.“也许当我一百岁时,我就会习惯吃我做的一切视为理所当然,”一个年轻的家庭主妇被任命她的邻居。

"If Bill would compliment me once in a while, he'd make my life much happier."“如果法案恭维我,偶尔也好,他会使我的生活更幸福。

”Few of us realize how much we need encouragement.我们很少有人意识到我们是多么需要鼓励的。

Yet we must bask in the warmth of approval now and then or lose our self-confidence.但是我们仍然必须沐浴在温暖的批准,否则现在失去自己的自信。

All of us need to feel needed and admired.我们都需要去感觉需要和赞赏。

大学英语精读4-课文-中英文对照

Text Book 4Unit 1TextTwo college-age boys, unaware that making money usually involves hard work, are tempted by an advertisement that promises them an easy way to earn a lot of money. The boys soon learn that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. 一个大学男孩，不清楚赚钱需要付出艰苦的劳动，被一份许诺轻松赚大钱的广告吸引了。

男孩们很快就明白，如果事情看起来好得不像真的，那多半确实不是真的。

BIG BUCKS THE EASY WAY轻轻松松赚大钱John G. Hubbell"You ought to look into this," I suggested to our two college-age sons. "It might be a way to avoid the indignity of having to ask for money all the time." I handed them some magazines in a plastic bag someone had hung on our doorknob. “你们该看看这个，”我向我们的两个读大学的儿子建议道。

“你们若想避免因为老是向人讨钱而有失尊严的话，这兴许是一种办法。

”我将挂在我们门把手上的、装在一个塑料袋里的几本杂志拿给他们。

A message printed on the bag offered leisurely, lucrative work ("Big Bucks the Easy Way!") of delivering more such bags. 塑料袋上印着一条信息说，需要招聘人投递这样的袋子，这活儿既轻松又赚钱。

大学英语精读第三版第四册课文及课文翻译

大学英语精读第三版第四册课文及课文翻译Unit 1TextTwo college-age boys, unaware that making money usually involves hard work, are tempted by an advertisement that promises them an easy way to earn a lot of money. The boys soon learn that if something seems to good to be true, it probably is.BIG BUCKS THE EASY W AYJohn G. Hubbell"You ought to look into this," I suggested to our two college-age sons. "It might be a way to avoid the indignity of having to ask for money all the time." I handed them some magazines in a plastic bag someone bad hung on our doorknob. A message printed on the bag offered leisurely, lucrative work ("Big Bucks the Easy Way!") of delivering more such bags."I don't mind the indignity," the older one answered."I can live with it," his brother agreed."But it pains me," I said，"to find that you both have been panhandling so long that it no longer embarrasses you."The boys said they would look into the magazine-delivery thing. Pleased, I left town on a business trip. By midnight I was comfortably settled in a hotel room far from home. The phone rang. It was my wife. She wanted to know how my day had gone."Great!" I enthused. "How was your day?" I inquired."Super!" She snapped. "Just super! And it's only getting started. Another truck just pulled up out front.""Another truck?""The third one this evening. The first delivered four thousand Montgomery Wards. The second brought four thousand Sears, Roebucks. I don't know what this one has, but I'm sure it will be four thousand of something. Since you are responsible, I thought you might like to know what's happening.What I was being blamed for, it turned out, was a newspaper strike which made it necessary to hand-deliver the advertising inserts that normally are included with the Sunday paper. The company had promised our boys $600 for delivering these inserts to 4,000 houses by Sunday morning."Piece of cake!" our older college son had shouted." Six hundred bucks!" His brother had echoed, "And we can do the job in two hours!""Both the Sears and Ward ads are four newspaper-size pages," my wife informed me. "There are thirty-two thousand pages of advertising on our porch. Even as we speak, two big guys are carrying armloads of paper up the walk. What do we do about all this?""Just tell the boys to get busy," I instructed. "They're college men. They'll do what they have to do."At noon the following day I returned to the hotel and found an urgent message to telephone my wife. Her voice was unnaturally high and quavering. There had been several more truckloads of ad inserts. "They're for department stores, dime stores, drugstores, grocery stores, auto stores and so on. Some are whole magazine sections. We have hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of pages of advertising here! They are crammed wall-to-wall all through the house in stacks taller than your oldest son. There's only enough room for people to walk in, take one each of the eleveninserts, roll them together, slip a rubber band around them and slide them into a plastic bag. We have enough plastic bags to supply every takeout restaurant in America!" Her voice kept rising, as if working its way out of the range of the human ear. "All this must be delivered by seven o'clock Sunday morning.""Well, you had better get those guys banding and sliding as fast as they can, and I'll talk to you later. Got a lunch date.When I returned, there was another urgent call from my wife."Did you have a nice lunch?" she asked sweetly. I had had a marvelous steak, but knew better by now than to say so."Awful," I reported. "Some sort of sour fish. Eel, I think.""Good. Your college sons have hired their younger brothers and sisters and a couple of neighborhood children to help for five dollars each. Assembly lines have been set up. In the language of diplomacy, there is 'movement.'""That's encouraging.""No, it's not," she corrected. "It's very discouraging. They're been as it for hours. Plastic bags have been filled and piled to the ceiling, but all this hasn't made a dent, not a dent, in the situation! It's almost as if the inserts keep reproducing themselves!""Another thing," she continued. "Your college sons must learn that one does not get the best out of employees by threatening them with bodily harm.Obtaining an audience with son NO. 1, I snarled, "I'll kill you if threaten one of those kids again! Idiot! You should be offering a bonus of a dollar every hour to the worker who fills the most bags."But that would cut into our profit," he suggested."There won't be any profit unless those kids enable you to make all the deliveries on time. If they don't, you two will have to remove all that paper by yourselves. And there will be no eating or sleeping until it is removed."There was a short, thoughtful silence. Then he said, "Dad, you have just worked a profound change in my personality.""Do it!""Yes, sir!"By the following evening, there was much for my wife to report. The bonus program had worked until someone demanded to see the color of cash. Then some activist on the work force claimed that the workers had no business settling for $5 and a few competitive bonuses while the bossed collected hundreds of dollars each. The organizer had declared that all the workers were entitled to $5 per hour! They would not work another minute until the bosses agreed.The strike lasted less than two hours. In mediation, the parties agreed on $2 per hour. Gradually, the huge stacks began to shrink.As it turned out, the job was completed three hours before Sunday's 7 a.m. deadline. By the time I arrived home, the boys had already settled their accounts: $150 in labor costs, $40 for gasoline, and a like amountfor gifts—boxes of candy for saintly neighbors who had volunteered station wagons and help in delivery and dozen roses for their mother. This left them with $185 each — about two-thirds the minimum wage for the 91 hours they worked. Still, it was "enough", as one of them put it, to enable them to "avoid indignity" for quite a while.All went well for some weeks. Then one Saturday morning my attention was drawn to the odd goings-on of our two youngest sons. They kept carrying carton after carton from various corners of the house out the front door to curbside. I assumed their mother had enlisted them to remove junk for a trash pickup. Then I overheard them discussing finances."Geez, we're going to make a lot of money!""We're going to be rich!"Investigation revealed that they were offering " for sale or rent" our entire library."No! No!" I cried. "You can't sell our books!""Geez, Dad, we thought you were done with them!""You're never 'done' with books," I tried to explain."Sure you are. You read them, and you're done with them. That's it. Then you might as well make a little money from them. We wanted to avoid the indignity of having to ask you for……"一个大学男孩，不清楚赚钱需要付出艰苦的劳动，被一份许诺轻松赚大钱的广告吸引了。

大学英语精读第四册课后翻译

大学英语精读第四册课后翻译UNIT11.我们接到通知，财政部长将于次日接见我们。

We were informed that the Minister of Finance was to give us an audience / receive us the next day.2.我觉得很奇怪，他似乎不记得自己的生日。

I thought it odd that he didn’t seem to remember his own birthday.3.学期论文最迟在下星期二交来，可是至今大部分学生却几无进展。

Next Tuesday is the deadline for handing in the term papers, but most students have hardly made a dent in the work so far.4.看到学生人数不断减少，校长心里很难受。

(pain)It pained the headmaster to find the number of students shrinking.5.在那个国家一般用现金付账，但支票变得普遍起来了，不久会代替现金作为人们结账的一种方式。

Cash is commonly used in paying bills in that country, but checks are becoming more popular and will, in a short while, replace cash as a way for people to settle their accounts.6.该公司声称，这条河流的污染不是它造成的。

The company claims that it is not responsible for the pollution in the river.UNIT21.比尔已是个成熟的小伙子，不再依赖父母替他做主。

英语泛读教程4unit-2-Three-Days-to-See课文和译文

Three Days to Seeby Helen KellerHelen Keller, blind and deaf from infancy, became a successful lecturer, author and educator with the help of her teacher. In the following essay, she discussed how people should value their ability to see.All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year; sometimes as short as twenty-four hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets? Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and yea rs to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry;” but most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories, the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration, and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.Now and then I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see. Recently I was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, and I asked her what she had observed. “Nothing in particular,” she replied. I might havebeen incredulous had I not been accustomed to such responses, for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note? I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine. In spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud, the first sign of awakening Nature after her winter's sleep. I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. I am delighted to have the cool water of a brook rush through my open fingers. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. To me the pageant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips. At times my heart cries out with longing to see all these things. If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight. Yet, those who have eyes apparently see little. The panorama of colour and action which fills the world is taken for granted. It is human, perhaps, to appreciate little that which we have and to long for that which we have not, but it is a great pity that in the world of light the gift of sight is used only as a mere convenience rather than as a means of adding fullness to life.If I were the president of a university I should establish a compulsory course in “How to Use Your Eyes”. The professor would try to show his pupils how they could add joy to their lives by really seeing what passes unnoticed before them. He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties.Suppose you set your mind to work on the problem of how you would use your own eyes if you had only three more days to see. If with the oncoming darkness of the third night you knew that the sun would never rise for you again, how would you spend those three precious intervening days? What would you most want to let your gaze rest upon?I, naturally, should want most to see the things which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. You, too, would want to let your eyes rest long on the things that have become dear to you so that you could take the memory of them with you into the night that loomed before you.I should want to see the people whose kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my life worth living. First I should like to gaze long upon the face of my dear teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, who came to me when I was a child and opened the outer world to me. I should want not merely to see the outline of her face, so that I could cherish it in my memory, but to study that face and find in it the living evidence of the sympathetic tenderness and patience with which she accomplished the difficult tasks of my education. I should like to see in her eyes that strength of character which has enabled her to stand firm in the face of difficulties, and that compassion for all humanity which she has revealed to me so often.I do not know what it is to see into the heart of a friend through that “window of the soul”, the eye. I can only “see” through my finger tips the outline of a face. I can detect laughter, sorrow, and many other obvious emotions. I know my friends from the feel of their faces. But I cannot really picture their personalities by touch. I know their personalities, of course, through other means, through the thoughts they express to me, through whatever of their actions are revealed to me. But I am denied that deeper understanding of them which I am sure would come through sight of them through watching their reactions to various expressed thoughts and circumstances, through noting the immediate and fleeting reactions of their eyes and countenance.Friends who are near to me I know well, because through the months and years they reveal themselves to me in all their phases; but of causal friends I have only an incomplete impression, an impression gained from a handclasp, from spoken words which I take from their lips with my finger tips, or which they tap into the palm of my hand.How much easier, how much more satisfying it is for you who can see to grasp quickly the essential qualities of another person by watching the subtleties of expression, the quiver of a muscle, the flutter of a hand. But does it ever occur to you to use your sight to see into the inner nature of a friend or acquaintance? Do not most of you seeing people grasp casually the outward features of a face and let it go at that?For instance, can you describe accurately the faces of five good friends? Some of you can, but many cannot. As an experiment, I have questioned husbands of long standing about the color of their wives' eyes, and often they express embarrassed confusion and admit that they do not know. And, incidentally, it is a chronic complaint of wives that their husbands do not notice new dresses, new hats, and changes in household arrangements. The eyes of seeing persons soon become accustomed to the routine of their surroundings, and they actually see only the startling and spectacular. But even in viewing the most spectacular sights the eyes are lazy. Court records reveal every day how inaccurately “eyewitnesses” see. A given event will be “seen” in several different ways by as many witnesses. Some see more than others, but few see everything that is within the range of their vision.Oh, the things that I should see if I had the power of sight for just three days!(1634 words)译文假如我有三天光明海伦·凯勒海伦·凯勒自幼就又盲又聋，在老师的帮助下成为一名成功的讲师、作家及教育家。

新编大学英语第三版Book 4 Unit 4 After Class reading中英对照

A Long March to Creativity 培养创造性——任重道远 Howard Gardner[1] The Jinling Hotel is a comfortable, modern hotel in the heart of Nanjing, a big city in eastern China. My wife Ellen, ouryear-and-a-half-old son, Benjamin, and I lived there for a month in the spring of 1987 while we were studying arts education in Chinesekindergartens and elementary schools. The keyto our room was attached to a large plasticblock with the room number printed on it.When leaving the hotel, a guest wasencouraged to turn in the key, either byhanding it to an attendant or by dropping itthrough a slot into a container. Because the keyslot was narrow and rectangular, the key and the block had to be inserted carefully so as to fit into the slot.金陵饭店是一座舒适、现代化的宾馆，位于中国东部大城市南京市的中心。

1987年春天我和妻子埃伦及我们一岁半的儿子本杰明曾在那里住了一个月，当时我们在研究中国幼儿园和小学的艺术教育。

我们房间的钥匙系在一块大塑料牌上，牌上印有房间号。

英语专业泛读教程第四册课文翻译

英语专业泛读教程第四册课文翻译课文一天才与工匠许多人羡慕作家们的精彩小说，但却很少有人知道作家们是如何辛勤笔耕才使一篇小说问世的。

以下的短文将讨论小说的酝酿过程，以及作家是如何将这小说雕琢成一件精致完美的艺术品。

有一次，我在暮色中来到小树林边一棵鲜花盛开的小桃树前。

我久久站在那里凝视着，直到最后一道光线消逝。

我看不到那树原先的模样，看不见曾穿透果核，能崩碎你的牙齿的力量，也看不到那使它与橡树和绿草相区别的原则。

显现在我面前的，是一种深邃而神秘的魅力。

当读者读到一部杰出的小说时，他也会这样如痴如狂，欲将小说字字句句刻骨铭心，不提出任何问题。

但即使是个初学写作者也知道，除那将小说带到世上的文字之外，还有更多的构成小说生命的因素，小说的生命并不始于写作，而始于内心深处的构思。

要创作出有独创性的作品，并不要求懂得创造的功能。

多少世纪以来的艺术、哲学及科学创造都出自人们的头脑，而创造者也许从未想到去关注创造的内在过程。

然而，在我看来，对创造工作一定程度的了解，至少会使我们通过知道两个事实，增长我们处理正在出现的故事的智慧。

首先，天赋不是掌握了技艺的艺术家独有的特性，而是人脑的创造性功能。

不仅所有对技艺的掌握都含有天赋，而且每个人都具有天赋，无论他的天赋发展是何等不充分。

对技艺的掌握是天赋的显现，是经过培养的，发展了的和受过训练的天赋。

你的天赋在最原始的层面上起作用。

它的任务就是创造。

它是你的故事的创造者。

第二，将你的小说带进世界的文字是艺术家的工作，它就和一个泥瓦匠的工作一样，有意识、谨慎而实实在在。

天赋正如理解力、记忆力和想象力一样是我们的精神禀赋中的天然部分，而技艺却不是。

它必须通过实践才能学到，并要通过实践才能掌握。

如果要使在我们内心深处浮现的故事跃然纸上，光彩照人，那么，每个故事都须有感染力极强的优雅文笔。

只有健全的技艺才能使我们做到这一点。

一个故事是如何酝酿成的呢？据说，我们从一生中的前二十年，或许前五年起就开始写作。

Book4 译文 Unit 1 In

Book4 译文Unit 1 In-class reading听了一个有趣的故事会发笑、很开心，古今中外都一样。

这一现象或许同语言本身一样悠久。

那么，到底是什么东西会使一个故事或笑话让人感到滑稽可笑的呢？我是第一次辨识出幽默便喜欢上它的人，因此我曾试图跟学生议论和探讨幽默。

这些学生文化差异很大，有来自拉丁美洲的，也有来自中国的。

我还认真地思考过一些滑稽有趣的故事。

这么做完全是出于自己的喜好。

为什么听我讲完一个笑话后，班上有些学生会笑得前仰后合，而其他学生看上去就像刚听我读了天气预报一样呢？显然，有些人对幽默比别人更敏感。

而且，我们也发现有的人很善于讲笑话，而有的人要想说一点有趣的事却要费好大的劲。

我们都听人说过这样的话：“我喜欢笑话，但我讲不好，也总是记不住。

”有些人比别人更有幽默感，就像有些人更具有音乐、数学之类的才能一样。

一个真正风趣的人在任何场合都有笑话可讲，而且讲了一个笑话，就会从他记忆里引出一连串的笑话。

一个缺乏幽默感的人不可能成为一群人中最受欢迎的。

一个真正有幽默感的人不仅受人喜爱，而且在任何聚会上也往往是人们注意的焦点。

这么说是有道理的。

甚至有些动物也具有幽默感。

我岳母从前经常来我们家，并能住上很长一段时间。

通常她不喜欢狗，但却很喜欢布利茨恩——我们养过的一条拉布拉多母猎犬。

而且，她们的这种好感是相互的。

布利茨恩在很小的时候就常常戏弄外祖母。

当外祖母坐在起居室里她最喜欢的那张舒适的椅子上时，布利茨恩就故意把她卧室里的一只拖鞋叼到起居室，并在外祖母刚好够不到的地方蹦来跳去，一直逗得外祖母忍不住站起来去拿那只拖鞋。

外祖母从椅子上一起来，布利茨恩就迅速跳上那椅子，从它那闪亮的棕色眼睛里掠过一丝拉布拉多式的微笑，无疑是在说：“啊哈，你又上了我的当。

”典型的笑话或幽默故事由明显的三部分构成。

第一部分是铺垫（即背景），接下来是主干部分（即故事情节），随后便是妙语（即一个出人意料或令人惊讶的结尾）。