《新编英语教程》第-3-册的课文

《新编英语教程》（修订版）第三册

Unit 1[见教材P1]

My First Job

我的第一份工作

Robert Best

罗伯特.贝斯特

①While I was waiting to enter university, I saw

②Being very short of money and

wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing that

my chances of landing the job were slim.

①那年，我考上了大学，还没有入校时，在本地一家报纸上看到一所学校发布广告，招聘一名教师。②这所学校位于伦敦郊区，距离我住的地方大约[有]十英里。③当时因为急需用钱，又想做些有意义的事情，于是我就提出了申请。④但是同时，我又担心，既没有学位又没有教学经验，所以获得这个职位的可能性非常小。

①However, three days later a letter arrived, summoning me to Croydon for an interview. ②It proved an awkward journey: a train to Croydon station;a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile. ③As a result I arrived on a hot June morning too depressed to feel nervous.

①然而，三天以后来信了，通知我到Croydon参加面试。②路很不好走，先坐火车到Croydon车站，再坐十分钟的公交车，最后步行至少0.25英里才到达目的地。③那可是六月天的上午，天气很热，我非常沮丧，也非常紧张，简直都崩溃了。

①and

②The front garden was a gravel square;

four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, where they struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main road.

①学校是一幢维多利亚时代的红砖建筑，有山墙，有很大的垂直拉窗，闪闪发光，让人感觉单调乏味。②房前是一个由砾石铺成的广场，四柱常绿灌木分立四角。③学校附近有一条繁忙的公路，所以有很多灰尘和废气，这四柱灌木在灰尘和废气的“折磨”下奄奄一息。

①It was clearly the headmaster himself that opened the door.②He was short and rotund. ③He had a sandy-coloured moustache, a freckled forehead and hardly any hair. ④He was wearing a tweed suit — one felt somehow he had always worn it —and across his ample stomach was looped a silver watch-chain.

①开门的显然是校长。②他身材矮胖，留着沙黄色的胡子，额头上有斑点，几乎没有头发。③他穿着一件粗花呢外套，让人觉得他总是穿这件衣服；肥硕的肚子上耷拉着一条银色的表链。

①as a colonel

might look at a private whose bootlaces were undone. ②“Ah yes,” he

grunted. “You’d better come inside.”③

; the cream-printed walls had gone a dingy margarine colour, except where they were scarred with ink marks; it was

all silent. ④

dining room. ⑤On the mantelpiece there was a salt cellar and pepper-pot.⑥“You’d better sit down,”he said, and proceeded to ask me a number of questions:what subjects had I taken in my General School Certificate; how old was I; what games did I play;then fixing me suddenly with his bloodshot eyes, he asked me whether I thought games were a vital part of a boy’s education. ⑦I mumbled something about not attaching too much importance to them. ⑧He grunted. ⑨I had said the wrong thing. ⑩The headmaster and I obviously had singularly little in common.

①他很不屑地看着我，显得很意外，就好像一位上校在打量一名没有系鞋带的列兵。②他嘟嘟囔囔地说：“嗯，你进来吧！”③走廊里

狭窄阴暗，散发着发霉白菜的味道，很难闻；原本洁白的墙面已变成了暗淡的奶油色，上边还有几处墨水渍；一切都非常安静。④从地毯上的面包屑看来，书房也是他的餐厅，壁炉上放着一个盐罐和一个胡椒粉罐。⑤他说：“坐吧”，然后问了我几个问题：考普通学校证书时都学过哪些课程；我多大了；我都做过哪些体育运动。⑥然后，他突然瞪着我，眼睛里带着血丝。⑦他问我，运动在男孩子的受教育过程中是不是非常重要，我含含糊糊地说不要太重视。⑧他嘟嘟囔囔着，不知道说了些什么。⑨但是，我意识到我说错话了，很显然我和这位校长之间几乎没有相同观点。

one class of twenty-four boys,

②I should have to teach all subjects except art, which he taught himself. ③Football and cricket were played in the Park, a mile away on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.

①校长说，学校只有一个班，有二十四个男生，年龄从七岁到十三岁不等。②我要教除了艺术之外的所有课程，艺术课由他本人教。

③足球课和板球课安排在周三下午和周六下午，上课地点是一英里外的公园。

①The teaching set-up appalled me. ②I should have to split the class up into three groups and teach them in turn at three different levels;

and—two subjects at which I had been completely incompetent at school.③Worse perhaps was the idea of Saturday afternoon cricket.④It was not so much having to tramp a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a crocodile of small boys that I minded, but the fact that most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time.

①学校的教学安排让我很郁闷。②我得把全班学生分成三组，而后按三个不同层次依次给他们讲课。③想到要教代数和几何，我就很痛苦，这是我在学校最不擅长的两门课。④更糟糕的也许是周六下午的板球课。⑤让我不能忍受的还不是带着一群孩子，沿着脏兮兮的Croydon大街，步行一英里去上课，而是这个时间我大多数朋友都在很惬意地享受悠闲。