新标准大学英语第四册综合教程课后翻译—Translation

大一时就开始辅修经济学 year as an English major, I took
了。无疑，我是班里最用 economics as my minor. By all
功的学生。我竭尽全力想 odds, I was the most
同时达到两个不同专业的 hardworking student in my class.
Try as I might to stay cheerful, 无论我怎么想保持心情
all I ever get is hassle,
愉快，可麻烦事总是接踵
sometimes with people
而来：有时是跟人发生矛
(especially boys, god, when
盾(尤其是跟男孩子，天哪！
了英语学习。
math that I neglected my
第二学期，《英国文 English major.
学》及《宏观经济学》两 门课不及格给我敲响了警 种，这可是我一生中第一 次考试不及格，这大大打 击了我的自信心。
Failing English Literature and Macro-economics in the second semester sounded the alarm for me. This was the first time I did not pass a course in my life, which had greatly sapped my confidence.
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我认为，选修第二专业 If you ask me, taking a second
并不合适每一位本科生。 major isn’t good for every
我大学本科主修英语专业， undergraduate. In my freshman
要求，但还是有不及格的 But try as I might to meet the
时候。
requirements of the two
different subjects, I still couldn’t
do well enough to pass all the
exams.
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Although I was not a man who would easily bow to fate, as the summer break came to a close, I decided to give up economics for fear that I would fail in both subjects. Now that I had only one subject to attend to, everything seemed to be on the right track again.
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虽然我不是一个容易向命 运低头的人，在暑假结束 的时候，我还是决定放弃 经济学，以免两个专业都 难以完成。当我只需修一 个专业的时候，一切似乎 又回到了正轨。
hard we choose to work, 想得到的——许多东西归根结
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how much we consume or 底都跟钱有关。
how much we save.
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For some people, it’s
对有些人来说，他们想要的就是
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Given that the study of 因为经济学需要良好的数 economics required a good 学基础，我不得不花大量 command of mathematics, I 时间钻研数学，因而忽略 had to spend so much time on
working 80-hour weeks to 一周工作80小时来支付第三套房
finance a third home
的房款和乡村俱乐部的会员费；
and country club
而对另一些人来说，他们想缩短
membership; for others, it 上班时间，花更多的时间陪伴家
means cutting back on 人。
专家们说，夫妻共同做出 这些选择是维护婚姻资产 及婚姻关系的最重要的方 法之一。
当然，如果夫妻双方一开 始就在钱的问题上看法相 似，或者至少能够在钱的 问题上相互妥协，那么事 情就好办多了。
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If you ask me, real life is not all it’s cracked up to be. Twelve years at school and three years at university, teachers banging on about opportunities in the big wide world beyond our sheltered life as students, and what do I find?
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the landlord wants the rent, gas, water, electricity and my mobile bills keep coming in, and all that’s before I’ve had anything to eat. And then some bright spark calls me out of the blue, asking if I’m interested in buying a pension. And this rate, I won’t even last till the end of the year, let alone till I’m 60.
为了活跃校园生活，大学 To enliven campus life, the 愿意划拨一部分资金来资 university is always willing to carve
助学生社团活动，但由于 out some money for activities
今年学校的预算大幅减少，organized by student clubs and
顿商学院的商业及公共政
Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, 策助理教授贝齐·史蒂文森
who researches the economics 如是说，他研究婚姻和离
of marriage and divorce. “A lot 婚经济学。
of the choices we make in how
we want to live our lives involve
how we spend our money.”
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Making those choices as a team is one of the most important ways to preserve your marital assets, and your union, experts say. But it’s that much easier when you already share similar outlooks on money matters –or when you can, at the very least, find some middle ground.
how we want to live our lives,” 码，而生活方式的许多选
said Betsey Stevenson, assistant 择则与如何花钱密切相
professor of business and public 关。”宾夕法尼亚大学沃
policy at the University of
房东催我交房租、燃气费、 水费、电费，手机账单也 不断地寄来。所有这些还 没算上吃饭的钱。更可气 的是，不知从哪里冒出一 个自作聪明的家伙我打电 话，问我要不要买养老金。 照这样下去，我甚至都支 撑不到年底，更别提活到 60岁领养老金了。
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税务局要收个人所得税，
deduct income tax, the bank 银行经理要我偿清学生贷款，
manager wants repayments
on my student loan,
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Today, while most of us marry for romantic reasons, 如今，尽管我们大多数人是因
marriage at its core is still a 相爱而结婚，婚姻从根本上讲
When it comes to the effects of 谈及目前经济萧条所 the current economic downturn, 带来的影响，学生活动的 the decrease of student activities
减少就是一个很好的例证。is a good case in point.
依我看，现实生活并 没有人们想象的那么美 好。我们上了12年的中、 小学，又上了3年大学， 这期间老师们一直在没 完没了地谈论在备受呵 护的学生生活之外的那 个广阔天地里的各种机 会，可我遇到的又是什 么呢？
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office hours to spend
more time with the family.
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“A lot of the debates people have about money are code for
“关于钱的许多争论是 提示我们想如何生活的密
financial union. So much 仍然是金钱上的结合。
of what we want – or don’t want – out of life boils down to dollars and cents, whether it’s how
不管是工作的努力程度，还是 决定消费多少或储蓄多少，我 们生活中想要得到的——或不
will they grow up?), but mostly 他们什么时候才能长大？)，
with money. It’s just so
但通常是为钱发愁。这个
expensive out here! Everyone 地方什么东西都很贵！人
wants a slice off you. The
人都想从我身上赚点钱：