公共英语三级第二课独白 WORD 文档 翻译

The following monologue is about some cause of the generation gap.

以下独白介绍了代沟产生的一些原因

One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their owm life-styles.

代沟产生的一个重要原因就是年轻一代有机会去选择自己的生活方式。

In traditional societies,when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents,to marry people that their parents know and approve of ,and often to continue the family occupation.

在一些传统文化的社会里，当孩子们长大成人时，父母通常期待他们与自己住在一样的地方，与父母认识和许可的人结婚，而且经常是延续家族产业。

In our society,however,young people often travel great distances for their education,move out of the family home at early age,marry or live with people whom their parents have never met,and choose occupation different from those of their parents.

然而在我们的社会，年青的一代经常到很远的地方去上学，很小就离开家生活。和父母不认识的人结婚或住在一起，选择和父母很不一样的职业。

In our upwardly mobile society,parents often expect their chidren to do better than they did:to find better jobs,to make more money,and to do all the things that they were unable to do .

在这个人人都想往上爬的社会，父母常常期望孩子能比他们做得更好：有更好的工作，赚更多的钱，做所有他们没有做到的事情。

Often,however,the ambitions that parents have for their children are another cause of the division between them.

但是，这种父母对孩子的过多期望常常是导致两代隔阂的另一个原因。

Often,they discover that they have very little in common with each other.

他们常常发现彼此很少有共同点。

Finally,the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of the generation gap. 最后一个原因是社会变化的速度。

In a traditional culture,elderly people are valued for their wisdom,but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become obsolete overnight.

在传统文化里，年长者因为他们的智慧而受到尊敬，但在我们这个社会，一生所学的知识可能在一夜之间就过时了。

The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds,separated by different skills and abilities.

年青一代和年长一代似乎生活在两个完全不同的世界里。被不同的技能和能力所隔绝。

No doubt,the generation gap will continue to be a feature of American life for some time to come.

毫无疑问，代沟将在一段时间内继续成为美国社会的一大特点。