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UNIT 31. Most Americans would have a difficult time telling you, specifically, what the values are that Americans live by. They have never given the matter much thought.2. Even if Americans had considered this question, they would probably, in the end, decide not to answer in terms of a definitive list of values. The reason for this decision is itself one very American value —their belief that every individual is so unique that the same list of values could never be applied to all, or even most, of their fellow citizens.3. Although Americans may think of themselves as being more varied and unpredictable than they actually are, it is significant that they think they are. Americans tend to think they have been only slightly influenced by family, church or schools. In the end, each believes, “I personally chose which values I want to live my own life by.”4. The different behaviors of a people or a culture make sense only when seen through the basic beliefs, assumptions and values of that particular group. When you encounter an action, or hear a statement in the United States that surprises you, try to see it as an expression of one or more of the values listed here.5. Before proceeding to the list itself, we should also point out that Americans see all of these values as very positive ones. They are not aware, for example, that the people in many Third World countries view some of these values as negative or threatening.In fact, all of these American values are judged by many of the world’s citizens as negative and undesirable. Therefore, it is not enough simply to familiarize yourself with these values. You must also, so far as possible, consider them without the negative or derogatory connotation that they might have for you, based on your own experience and cultural identity.Personal Control over the Environment6. Americans no longer believe in the power of Fate, and they have come to look at people who do as being backward, primitive, or hopelessly naive. To be called “fatalistic” is one of the worst criticisms one can receive in the American context; to an American, it means one is superstitious and lazy, unwilling to take any initiative in bringing about improvement.7. In the United States, people consider it normal and right that Man should control Nature, rather than the other way around. More specifically, people believe every single individual should have control over whatever in the environment might potentially affect him or her. 1.大多数美国人在谈起其赖以生存的价值观时会感到力不从心。

大学体验英语综合教程3课后翻译答案课文翻译(免费版)

大学体验英语综合教程3课后翻译答案课文翻译(免费版)Unit2 爱因斯坦的指南针小爱因斯坦是个安静的孩子。

爱因斯坦夫妇赫尔曼和波琳认为他“或许太安静了”。

爱因斯坦到三岁时才开始说话。

父母差点就误认为他是反应迟钝，但有一个明显的事实打消了他们的疑虑，因为他真的开口说话时，说出的话便异乎寻常。

两岁时，母亲波琳许诺给他一个惊喜。

小爱因斯坦非常高兴，以为妈妈会带给他一件有趣的新玩具。

但当妈妈把刚出生的妹妹玛嘉抱到他面前时，小爱因斯坦只是以疑虑的眼光盯着她，最后说道，“车轮在哪儿？”爱因斯坦五岁的时候有一次卧病在床，父亲赫尔曼送给他一个新玩意。

正是这个小玩意启动了他的智力。

那是小爱因斯坦第一次见到指南针。

他躺在床上摇晃摆弄着这个稀奇的东西，认为自己能将指针糊弄到指向另一个方向。

但是无论他怎样摆弄，指针却总是会回到原来指北的位置。

“真奇妙”，他想。

引导指南针的无形力量使爱因斯坦认识到，我们肉眼看到的只是世界的一部分，事物背后还有“某种东西，某种深藏着的东西。

” 爱因斯坦就这样踏上了他穷其一生的探索之路。

“我没有特殊的天份，”他常常说，“我只是有强烈的好奇心。

”爱因斯坦不仅仅只是有好奇心。

他的耐心和毅力使他做起事情来能比大多数人都更能持久。

其他孩子用纸牌搭楼房，搭到四层高时房子就会摇摇晃晃地坍塌下来。

而玛嘉却惊奇地看着她哥哥爱因斯坦能有条不紊地搭起14层纸牌高楼。

后来爱因斯坦说道，“这不是因为我有多聪明，而是因为我能坚持得更久。

”阿尔伯特爱因斯坦的思维发展得益于他有机会与成人进行智力交流。

他的叔叔是工程师，经常到爱因斯坦家里来，于是爱因斯坦就有机会参与他们的讨论。

爱因斯坦的思想还受到一位医科学生的启迪。

此人每星期都来爱因斯坦家一次，与爱因斯坦一家共进晚餐，一起谈天说地。

爱因斯坦12岁的时候发现了一系列他认为是“神圣”的观念。

那是一本有关欧几里德平面几何的小册子。

原来人可以证明那些不易明显看出的角度和线段的定理。

大学体验英语第三单元练习答案和课文翻译

Unit3 passage A 课后答案Content AwarenessRead and think2 Answer the following questions with the information you got from the passage．1 By checking out the large array of clubs and societies．2 By browsing through a brand-new edition of the comprehensive guide to all things at Oxford or the Oxford Directory issued in Freshers’Week．3 NO．Some totally immerse themselves in a club。

others prefer to take a more eclectic approach while still others completely ignore University societies and just hang out with mates in college．4 Those with more ambition than others，to promote their careers．5 Yes，but not so many as to be a distraction or just to build a resume．Read and complete3 Complete the following statements with the information you got from the passage．1 C2 A3 B4 B5 DLanguage FocusRead and complete4 Fill in the blanks with the words given below．Change the form where necessary．1 tends2 culture3 applied4 bored5 secure6 highly7 negative8 behavior9 avoid 1 0 ignored5 Complete the following sentences with phrases or expressions from the passage-Change theform where necessary．1 hang out2 checkout3 giving out4 threw herself into5 immersed myself in6 Complete each of the following sentences with the proper form of the word in the brackets-1 ambitious2 United3 dramatist4 volunteer5 flourishingRead and translate7 Translate the following sentences into English．1 Something is wrong with the piano，but I can’t put my finger on what it is．2 Apart from being too large，the trousers don’t match my jacket，either．3 I love pop music，for whatever reasons．4 He has great interest in foreign cultures，often browsing through piles of books to look for any useful information．5 Opinions on whether we should start a new society vary a great deal．Read and simulate1 Whether you want to go on a picnic or go shopping tomorrow，the first thing you should do is finish your reading assignments this evening．2 You may prefer to search for information via the Internet，being a member of the GOODBOOK club or something and reading online whichever of the books seems interesting．3 Schoolwork on weekdays iS often tiring and it is necessary for US to relax on weekends．4 When newcomers start their campus life which is supposed to be romantic, disappointment is almost inevitable．5 With all these facilities，there is really something for everyone to enjoy．Unit3 passageA 课文翻译俱乐部和社团聚会、喝酒、吃饭——哦，还有工作——都让时光流逝，但你内心深处确有一些很想追寻的东西，却无法实现。

大学创新英语综合教程1Unit3课文翻译及翻译练习答案

大学创新英语综合教程 1 Unit 3课文翻译及翻译练习答案Passage 1阅读的乐趣我们会从图书世界里收获什么成果？书籍对于全人类，犹如记忆对于每个人。

书籍涵盖了我们人类的历史，记录了我们的发现，也积累了我们世世代代的知识和经验。

书籍为我们描绘了自然界的奇观和美景,书籍帮助我们摆脱了困境，在悲哀和困苦中给我们以安慰，在我们烦闷的时刻带来欢乐，给我们的脑海装进各种观念，使我们的脑海充满了美妙欢乐的思想，从而使我们能提升自我，超越自我。

东方有个这样的故事：从前有两个人，一个国王和一个乞丐。

国王每天夜里都会梦到自己成了一个乞丐；而乞丐每天夜里都会梦到自己成了一个王子，住进了王宫。

我不知道国王是否如愿以偿真正成了乞丐。

想象有时比现实更加生动逼真。

然而，不管怎么样，我们读书时，不仅可以成为国王（如果我们真这样想），住进王宫里。

而且更为奇妙的是，我们可以神驰群山，或畅游海滨。

我们也可遍访世上最美丽的地方，而无须经受任何劳顿，也没有什么不方便，更无须花费分文。

著名演员麦考利·卡尔金集财富、名望、地位和权势于一身，然而他在自传中告诉我们,他生活中最幸福的时刻还是在读书时。

在给一个小女孩的回信中，他写道，“感谢你那封有趣的来信，我很乐意让我的小女孩高兴快乐，而让我最开心的事莫过于看到她喜欢读书，因为当她到了我现在这个年纪，她会发现书籍比任何蛋糕、玩具、戏剧和风景都要好。

真要是有人拥戴我成为世上最显赫的国王，拥有宫殿花园、珍肴美餐、佳酿华辇、龙袍华衮，以及奴仆成群，但其拥立条件却是不让我读书，我则决不愿去做国王。

我宁愿做一个穷人，蜗居阁楼斗室，与众多书籍为伴，也不愿成为一个不爱读书的国王。

”事实上，书籍为我们构建了一个像是施了魔法的完整的思想宫殿。

简·保罗·理查曾说,从诗人的角度看景色，比坐在宝座上看视野更开阔。

从某种意义上说，书籍给我们的形象比真的现实的东西更生动，正如影像往往比真实的风景更美丽。

大学体验英语第三单元练习答案和课文翻译

Unit3 passage A课后答案Content AwarenessRead and think2 Answer the following questions with the information you got from the passage．1By checking out the large array of clubs and societies ．2By browsing through a brand-new edition of the comprehensive guide to all things at Oxford or the OxfordDirectory issued in Freshers’ Week．3NO ． Some totally immerse themselves in a club 。

others prefer to take a more eclectic approach while still others completely ignore University societies and just hang out with mates in college．4Those with more ambition than others ， to promote their careers ．5Yes，but not so many as to be a distraction or just to build a resume ．Read and complete3Complete the following statements with the information you got from the passage．1 C2 A3 B4 B5 DLanguage FocusRead and complete4Fill in the blanks with the words given below． Change the form where necessary．1 tends2 culture3 applied4 bored5 secure6 highly7 negative8 behavior9 avoid 1 0 ignored5Complete the following sentences with phrases or expressions from the passage-Change theform where necessary．1 hang out2 checkout3 giving out4 threw herself into5 immersed myself in6Complete each of the following sentences with the proper form of the word in the brackets-1 ambitious2 United3 dramatist4 volunteer5 flourishingRead and translate7Translate the following sentences into English．1Something is wrong with the piano， but I can’ t put my finger on what it is．2Apart from being too large ，the trousers don’ t match my jacket ， either．3I love pop music ， for whatever reasons．4He has great interest in foreign cultures， often browsing through piles of books to look for any useful information ．5Opinions on whether we should start a new society vary a great deal ．Read and simulate1Whether you want to go on a picnic or go shopping tomorrow ， the first thing you should do is finish your reading assignments this evening ．2You may prefer to search for information via the Internet ，being a member of the GOODBOOK club or something and reading online whichever of the books seems interesting ．3Schoolwork on weekdays iS often tiring and it is necessary for US to relax on weekends ．4When newcomers start their campus life which is supposed to be romantic, disappointment is almost inevitable ．5With all these facilities ， there is really something for everyone to enjoy． Unit3 passageA 课文翻译俱乐部和社团聚会、喝酒、吃饭——哦，还有工作——都让时光流逝，但你内心深处确有一些很想追寻的东西，却无法实现。

高级英语第一册Unit 3 文章结构+课文讲解+课文翻译+课后练习+答案

Unit 3 Ships in the DesertShips in the DesertShips in the DesertAL Gore--------------------------------------------------------------------------------I was standing in the sun on the hot steel deck of a fishing ship capable of processing a fifty-ton catch on a good day. But it wasn' t a good day. We were anchored in what used to be the most productive fishing site in all of central Asia, but as I looked out over the bow , the prospects of a good catch looked bleak. Where there should have been gentle blue-green waves lapping against the side of the ship, there was nothing but hot dry sand – as far as I could see in all directions. The other ships of the fleet were also at rest in the sand, scattered in the dunes that stretched all the way to the horizon . Ten year s ago the Aral was the fourth-largest inland sea in the world, comparable to the largest of North America's Great Lakes. Now it is disappearing because the water that used to feed it has been diverted in anill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton In the user t. The new shoreline was almost forty kilometers across the sand from where the fishing fleet was now permanently docked. Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Muynak the people were still canning fish – brought not from the Aral Sea but shipped by rail through Siberia from the Pacific Ocean, more than a thousand miles away.My search for the underlying causes of the environmental crisis has led me to travel around the world to examine and study many of these images of destruction. At the very bottom of the earth, high in the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, with the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in the sky, I stood in the unbelievable coldness and talked with a scientist in the late tall of 1988 about the tunnel he was digging through time. Slipping his parka back to reveal a badly burned face that was cracked and peeling, he pointed to the annual layers of ice in a core sample dug from the glacier on which we were standing. He moved his finger back in time to the ice of two decades ago. "Here's where the U. S Congress passed the Clean Air Act, ” he said. At the bottom of the world, two continents away from Washington, D. C., even a small reduction in one country's emissions had changed the amount of pollution found in the remotest end least accessible place on earth.But the most significant change thus far in the earth' s atmosphere is the one that began with the industrial r evolution early in the last century and has picked up speed ever since. Industry meant coal, and later oil, and we began to burn lots of it – bringing rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) , with its ability to trap more heat in the atmosphere and slowly warm the earth. Fewer than a hundred yards from the South Pole, upwind from the ice runway where the ski plane lands and keeps its engines running to prevent the metal parts from freeze-locking together, scientists monitor the air sever al times ever y day to chart the course of that inexorable change. During my visit, I watched one scientist draw the results of that day'smeasurements, pushing the end of a steep line still higher on the graph. He told me how easy it is – there at the end of the earth – to see that this enormous change in the global atmosphere is still picking up speed.Two and a half years later I slept under the midnight sun at the other end of our planet, in a small tent pitched on a twelve-toot-thick slab of ice floating in the frigid Arctic Ocean. After a hearty breakfast, my companions and I traveled by snowmobiles a few miles farther north to a rendezvous point where the ice was thinner – only three and a half feet thick – and a nuclear submarine hovered in the water below. After it crashed through the ice, took on its new passengers, and resubmerged, I talked with scientists who were trying to measure more accurately the thickness of the polar ice cap, which many believe is thinning as a re-suit of global warming. I had just negotiated an agreement between ice scientists and the U. S. Navy to secure the re-lease of previously top secret data from submarine sonar tracks, data that could help them learn what is happening to the north polar cap. Now, I wanted to see the pole it-self, and some eight hours after we met the submarine, we were crashing through that ice, surfacing, and then I was standing in an eerily beautiful snowcape, windswept and sparkling white, with the horizon defined by little hummocks, or "pressure ridges " of ice that are pushed up like tiny mountain ranges when separate sheets collide. But here too, CD, levels are rising just as rapidly, and ultimately temperature will rise with them – indeed, global warming is expected to push temperatures up much more rapidly in the polar regions than in the rest of the world. As the polar air warms, the ice her e will thin; and since the polar cap plays such a crucial role in the world's weather system, the consequences of a thinning cap could be disastrous.Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise. Six months after I returned from the North Pole, a team of scientists reported dramatic changes in the pattern of ice distribution in the Arctic, and a second team reported a still controversialclaim (which a variety of data now suggest) that, over all, the north polar cap has thinned by 2 per cent in just the last decade. Moreover, scientists established several years ago that in many land areas north of the Arctic Circle, the spring snowmelt now comes earlier every year, and deep in the tundra below, the temperature e of the earth is steadily rising.As it happens, some of the most disturbing images of environmental destruction can be found exactly halfway between the North and South poles – precisely at the equator in Brazil – where billowing clouds of smoke regularly black-en the sky above the immense but now threatened Amazon rain forest. Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef; as I learned when I went there in early 1989, the fires are set earlier and earlier in the dry season now, with more than one Tennessee's worth of rain forest being slashed and burned each year. According to our guide, the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in all of North America – which means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard.But one doesn't have to travel around the world to wit-ness humankind's assault on the earth. Images that signal the distress of our global environment arenow commonly seen almost anywhere. On some nights, in high northern latitudes, the sky itself offers another ghostly image that signals the loss of ecological balance now in progress. If the sky is clear after sunset -- and it you are watching from a place where pollution hasn't blotted out the night sky altogether -- you can sometimes see a strange kind of cloud high in the sky. This "noctilucent cloud" occasionally appears when the earth is first cloaked in the evening dark-ness; shimmering above us with a translucent whiteness, these clouds seem quite unnatural. And they should: noctilucent clouds have begun to appear more often because of a huge buildup of methane gas in the atmosphere. (Also called natural gas, methane is released from landfills , from coal mines and rice paddies, from billions of termites that swarm through the freshly cut forestland, from the burning of biomass and from a variety of other human activities. ) Even though noctilucent clouds were sometimes seen in the past., all this extra methane carries more water vapor into the upper atmosphere, where it condenses at much higher altitudes to form more clouds that the sun's rays still strike long after sunset has brought the beginning of night to the surface far beneath them.What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky? Simple wonder or the mix of emotions we feel at the zoo? Perhaps we should feel awe for our own power: just as men "ear tusks from elephants’ heads in such quantity as to threaten the beast with extinction, we are ripping matter from its place in the earth in such volume as to upset the balance between daylight and darkness. In the process, we are once again adding to the threat of global warming, be-cause methane has been one of the fastest-growing green-house gases, and is third only to carbon dioxide and water vapor in total volume, changing the chemistry of the upper atmosphere. But, without even considering that threat, shouldn't it startle us that we have now put these clouds in the evening sky which glisten with a spectral light? Or have our eyes adjusted so completely to the bright lights of civilization that we can't see these clouds for what they are – a physical manifestation of the violent collision between human civilization and the earth?Even though it is sometimes hard to see their meaning, we have by now all witnessed surprising experiences that signal the damage from our assault on the environment --whether it's the new frequency of days when the temperature exceeds 100 degrees, the new speed with which the -un burns our skin, or the new constancy of public debate over what to do with growing mountains of waste. But our response to these signals is puzzling. Why haven't we launched a massive effort to save our environment? To come at the question another way' Why do some images startle us into immediate action and focus our attention or ways to respond effectively? And why do other images, though sometimes equally dramatic, produce instead a Kin. of paralysis, focusing our attention not on ways to respond but rather on some convenient, less painful distraction?Still, there are so many distressing images of environ-mental destruction that sometimes it seems impossible to know how to absorb or comprehend them. Before considering the threats themselves, it may be helpful to classify them and thus begin to organize our thoughts and feelings so that we may be able to respondappropriately.A useful system comes from the military, which frequently places a conflict in one of three different categories, according to the theater in which it takes place. There are "local" skirmishes, "regional" battles, and "strategic" conflicts. This third category is reserved for struggles that can threaten a nation's survival and must be under stood in a global context. Environmental threats can be considered in the same way. For example, most instances of water pollution, air pollution, and illegal waste dumping are essentially local in nature. Problems like acid rain, the contamination ofunder-ground aquifers, and large oil spills are fundamentally regional. In both of these categories, there may be so many similar instances of particular local and regional problems occurring simultaneously all over the world that the patter n appears to be global, but the problems themselves are still not truly strategic because the operation of- the global environment is not affected and the survival of civilization is not at stake.However, a new class of environmental problems does affect the global ecological system, and these threats are fundamentally strategic. The 600 percent increase in the amount of chlorine in the atmosphere during the last forty years has taken place not just in those countries producing the chlorofluorocarbons responsible but in the air above every country, above Antarctica, above the North Pole and the Pacific Ocean – all the way from the surface of the earth to the top of the sky. The increased levels of chlorine disrupt the global process by which the earth regulates the amount of ultraviolet radiation from the sun that is allowed through the atmosphere to the surface; and it we let chlorine levels continue to increase, the radiation levels will al-so increase – to the point that all animal and plant life will face a new threat to their survival.Global warming is also a strategic threat. The concentration of carbon dioxide and other heat-absorbing molecules has increased by almost 25 per cent since World War II, posing a worldwide threat to the earth's ability to regulate the amount of heat from the sun retained in the atmosphere. This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium that determines the pattern of winds, rainfall, surface temperatures, ocean currents, and sea level. These in turn determine the distribution of vegetative and animal life on land and sea and have a great effect on the location and pattern of human societies.In other words, the entire relationship between humankind and the earth has been transformed because our civilization is suddenly capable of affecting the entire global environment, not just a particular area. All of us know that human civilization has usually had a large impact on the environment; to mention just one example, there is evidence that even in prehistoric times, vast areas were sometimes intentionally burned by people in their search for food. And in our own time we have reshaped a large part of the earth's surface with concrete in our cities and carefully tended rice paddies, pastures, wheat fields, and other croplands in the countryside. But these changes, while sometimes appearing to be pervasive , have, until recently, been relatively trivial factors in the global ecological sys-tem. Indeed, until our lifetime, it was always safe to assume that nothing we did or could do would haveany lasting effect on the global environment. But it is precisely that assumption which must now be discarded so that we can think strategically about our new relationship to the environment.Human civilization is now the dominant cause of change in the global environment. Yet we resist this truth and find it hard to imagine that our effect on the earth must now be measured by the same yardstick used to calculate the strength of the moon's pull on the oceans or the force of the wind against the mountains. And it we are now capable of changing something so basic as the relationship between the earth and the sun, surely we must acknowledge a new responsibility to use that power wisely and with appropriate restraint. So far, however, We seem oblivious of the fragility of the earth's natural systems.This century has witnessed dramatic changes in two key factors that define the physical reality of our relation-ship to the earth: a sudden and startling surge in human population, with the addition of one China's worth of people every ten years, and a sudden acceleration of the scientific and technological revolution, which has allowed an almost unimaginable magnification of our power to affect the world around us by burning, cutting, digging, moving, and trans-forming the physical matter that makes up the earth. The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context. From the emergence of modern humans 200 000 years ago until Julius Caesar's time, fewer than 250 million people walked on the face of the earth. When Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World 1500 years later, there were approximately 500 million people on earth. By the time Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the number had doubled again, to 1 billion. By midway through this century, at the end of World War II, the number had risen to just above 2 billion people. In other words, from the beginning of humanity's appearance on earth to 1945, it took more than ten thousand generations to reach a world population of 2 billion people. Now, in the course of one human lifetime -- mine -- the world population will increase from 2 to more than 9 million, and it is already more than halfway there.Like the population explosion, the scientific and technological revolution began to pick up speed slowly during the eighteenth century. And this ongoing revolution has also suddenly accelerated exponentially. For example, it is now an axiom in many fields of science that more new and important discoveries have taken place in the last ten years that. in the entire previous history of science. While no single discover y has had the kind of effect on our relationship to the earth that unclear weapons have had on our relationship to warfare, it is nevertheless true that taken together, they have completely transformed our cumulative ability to exploit the earth for sustenance -- making the consequences, of unrestrained exploitation every bit as unthinkable as the consequences of unrestrained nuclear war.Now that our relationship to the earth has changed so utterly, we have to see that change and understand its implications. Our challenge is to recognize that the startling images of environmental destruction now occurring all over the world have much more in common than their ability to shock and awaken us. They aresymptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and more serious than any we have ever faced. Global warming, ozone depletion, the loss of living species, deforestation -- they all have a common cause: the new relationship between human civilization and the earth's natural balance. There are actually two aspects to this challenge. The first is to realize that our power to harm the earth can in-deed have global and even permanent effects. The second is to realize that the only way to understand our new role as a co-architect of nature is to see ourselves as part of a complex system that does not operate according to the same simple rules of cause and effect we are used to. The problem is not our effect on the environment so much as our relationship with the environment. As a result, any solution to the problem will require a careful assessment of that relationship as well as the complex interrelationship among factors within civilization and between them and the major natural components of the earth's ecological system.There is only one precedent for this kind of challenge to our thinking, and again it is military. The invention of nuclear weapons and the subsequent development by the Unit-ed States and the Soviet Union of many thousands of strategic nuclear weapons forced a slow and painful recognition that the new power thus acquired forever changed not only the relationship between the two superpowers but also the relationship of humankind to the institution at war-fare itself. The consequences of all-out war between nations armed with nuclear weapons suddenly included the possibility of the destruction of both nations – completely and simultaneously. That sobering realization led to a careful reassessment of every aspect of our mutual relationship to the prospect of such a war. As early as 1946 one strategist concluded that strategic bombing with missiles "may well tear away the veil of illusion that has so long obscured the reality of the change in warfare – from a fight to a process of destruction.”Nevertheless, during the earlier stages of the nuclear arms race, each of the superpower s assumed that its actions would have a simple and direct effect on the thinking of the other. For decades, each new advance in weaponry was deployed by one side for the purpose of inspiring fear in the other. But each such deployment led to an effort by the other to leapfrog the first one with a more advanced deployment of its own. Slowly, it has become apparent that the problem of the nuclear arms r ace is not primarily caused by technology. It is complicated by technology, true; but it arises out of the relationship between the superpowers and is based on an obsolete understanding of what war is all about.The eventual solution to the arms race will be found, not in a new deployment by one side or the other of some ultimate weapon or in a decision by either side to disarm unilaterally , but ratter in new understandings and in a mutual transformation of the relationship itself. This transformation will involve changes in the technology of weaponry and the denial of nuclear technology to rogue states. But the key changes will be in the way we think about the institution of war far e and about the relationship between states.The strategic nature of the threat now posed by human civilization to the global environment and the strategic nature of the threat to human civilization now posedby changes in the global environment present us with a similar set of challenges and false hopes. Some argue that a new ultimate technology, whether nuclear power or genetic engineering, will solve the problem. Others hold that only a drastic reduction of our reliance on technology can improve the conditions of life -- a simplistic notion at best. But the real solution will be found in reinventing and finally healing the relationship between civilization and the earth. This can only be accomplished by undertaking a careful reassessment of all the factors that led to the relatively recent dramatic change in the relationship. The transformation of the way we relate to the earth will of course involve new technologies, but the key changes will involve new ways of thinking about the relationship itself.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTESI) Al Gore: born in 1948 in Washington D. C., U. S. Senator (1984-1992) from the State of Tennessee,and U. S. Vice-President ( l 992-) under President Bill Clinton. He is the author of the book Earth in the Balance from which this piece is taken. 2) Aral Sea: inland sea and the world’s fourth largest lake, c. 26 000 sqmiles, SW Kazakhstan and NW Uzbekhstan, E of the Caspian Sea3) Great Lakes: group of five freshwater lakes, Central North America, between the United States and Canada, largest body of fresh water in the world. From west to east, they are Lake Superior,Lake Michigan,Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.4) Trans-Antarctic Mountains: mountain chain stretching across Antarctica from Victoria I and to Coats I and; separating the E Antarctic and W Antarctic subcontinents5) Clean Air Act: one of the oldest environmental laws of the U. S., as well as the most far-reaching, the costliest, and the most controversial. It was passed in 1970.6) Washington D. C.: capital of the United States. D. C. (District of Columbia).is added to distinguish it from the State of Washington and 3 other cities in the U. S bearing the sonic name.7) freeze-locking: the metal parts are frozen solid and unable to move freely8)midnight sun: phenomenon in which the sun remains visible in the sky for 24 hours or longer, occurring only in the polar regions9)global warming; The earth is getting warmer. The temperature of the earth's atmosphere and its surface is steadily rising.10) Submarine sonar tracks: the term sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging. It is used for communication between submerged submarines or between a submarine and a surface vessel, for locating mines and underwater hazards to navigation, and also as a fathometer, or depth finder.11) greenhouse (effect): process whereby heat is trapped at the surface of the earth by the atmosphere. An increase of man-made pollutants in the atmosphere will lead to a long-term warming of the earth's climate.12) Julius Caesar: (102? B. C -- 44 B. C:. ), Roman statesman and general13) Christopher Columbus: ( 1451-1506), discoverer of America, born Genoa, Italy14) Thomas Jefferson: (17-13-1826 ), 3d President of the UnitedStates(1801-1809), author of the Declaration of Independence.15) Declaration of Independence: full and formal declaration adopted July 4,1776, by representatives of the thirteen colonies in North America announcing the separation of those colonies from Great Britain and making them into the United States16)Ozone depletion: A layer of ozone in the stratosphere prevents most ultraviolet and other high-energy radiation, which is harmful to life, from penetrating to the earth's surface.Some.environmental, scientists fear that certain man-made pollutants, e.g. nitric oxide, CFCs(Chlorofluorocarbons), etc., may interfere with the delicate balance of reactions that maintains the ozone’ s concentration, possibly leading to a drastic depletion of stratospheric ozone. This is now happening in the stratosphere above the polarShips in the Desert 课文讲解/Detailed StudyShips in the Desert--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Detailed Study1. Ships in the Desert [image-7]: Ships anchored in the desert. This is aneye-catching title and it gives an image that people hardly see. When readers read the title, they can’t help wondering why and how.Paragraph 1. typical example of environmental destruction[image-7]2. capable of processing a fifty-ton catch on a good day: having the ability of cleaning and preparing for marketing or canning fifty-tons of fish on a productive day.catch: the amount of something caught; in the sentence it refers to the amount of fish caught e.g. The boat brought back a big catch of fish.3. but as I looked out over the bow, the prospects of a good catch looked bleak:a good catch did not look promising / hopeful.This is obviously an understatement because with sand all around there was no chance of catching fish, to say nothing of catching a lot of fish.bow[audio-1] : the front part of a shipant. sterncompare: bow[audio-2]: v. & n. to bend the upper part of the body forward, as away of showing respect, admitting defeat, etc.bow [audio-3]: n. a weapon for shooting arrowa long thin piece of wood with a tight string fastened along it, used for playing musical instruments that have stringsa knot formed by doubling a string or cord into two curved pieces, and used for decoration in the hair, in tying shoes, etcbleak: a) If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.e.g. His future looked bleak.bleak prospect; the bleakness of the post war yearsb) If a place is bleak, it looks cold, bare, and unattractivee.g. the bleak coastlinec) When the weather is bleak, it is cold, dull, and unpleasante.g. the bleak wintersd) If someone looks or sounds bleak, they seem depressed, hopeless, or unfriendlye.g. his bleak featuresbleakly adv.e.g. He stared bleakly ahead.“What,” he asked bleakly, “are these?”4. waves lapping against the side of the ship: waves touching the side of the ship gently and makes a soft sound lap can also be used as a noun.e.g. Your lap is the flat area formed by your thighs when you are sitting down. Her youngest child was asleep in her lap.He placed the baby on the woman’s lap.In a race, when you say that a competitor has completed a lap when he or she has gone round the course race.5. as far as I could see in all direction: that extended as far as the eye could see;6. that stretched all the way to the horizon: that extended to the far off place where the sky meet the earth7. comparable: something that is comparable to something else is a) as good as/ as big as/ as important as the other thing; b) similar to the other thinge.g. This dinner is comparable to the best French cooking.Our house is not comparable with yours. Ours is just a small hut while yours is a palace.8. Now it is disappearing because the water that used to feed it has been diverted in an ill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton in the dessert: Now it is becoming smaller and smaller because the water that used to flow into the sea has been turned away to irrigate the land created in the desert to grow cotton. The。

上海交大版应用型大学英语综合教程第3册 unit 3课文翻译与答案

And you," she turned to George, "you are making your 非安家吗？不打算回英国了？”
home in this country? You do not intend to return to
5 听说乔治已经在我们农场附近买
England just yet?"
Cape Town became a British colony in 1806. European settlement expanded during the
1820s as the Boers (Original Dutch, Flemish, German and French Settlers.) and the British Settlers claimed land in the north and east of the country. Within the country, anti-British policies among white South Africans focused on independence. South Africa achieved its political independence in 1961 when it was declared a republic. In 1994 South Africa held its first democratic election. Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) came to power, and the country rejoined the Commonwealth of Nations.

大学英语精读第3册_课文及课后答案

UNIT 1课文翻译一位青年男子发现,漫无目的的逛街也会惹官司。

误会一场接一场，直到最终他必须出庭受审……法律小冲突我平生就一次陷入法律困境。

当时被捕并被传上法院的全过程是件相当不愉快的经历，但现在可用此编个好故事。

让人非常烦恼的是我被抓和接着在法庭的命运中那些主观武断的情景。

此事大约发生在十二年前的二月份。

那里我已中学毕业了几个月，并要等到该年十月份才能上大学。

那段时间，我仍住在家中。

一天早晨，我去了里士满，那是离我的地址不远的伦敦郊区。

我正在找一份临时工作以便攒点钱去旅行。

由于天气晴朗，且无急事，我便悠闲自得地看看商店橱窗，逛逛公园，甚至有时只是呆站着到处观望。

很可能是这种明显的无所事事的样子导致了我的不幸。

事情发生的时间是大约十一点半。

我正从地方图书馆走出来，本想在那里找一份工作而一无所获。

此时看到一位男士从街对面走来，显然打算和我讲话。

我猜想他是向我问时间。

然而，他说他是警官并要逮捕我。

起初，我想这是在开玩笑，但接着又来了一位警察，并穿着警服。

我便深信不疑了。

“但为什么呢？”我问。

“到处遛达，有作案嫌疑。

”他说。

“作什么案？”我问。

“偷窃，”他说。

“偷什么？”我问。

“牛奶瓶，”他说，还做出非常严肃的样子！“噢，”我说。

事情的缘由是那一带有许多小窃贼，特别是有从门前台阶上盗奶瓶的小偷。

接着，我犯了一个大错误。

那时我正十九岁，头发长而蓬乱，并把自己当作六十年代“逆文化年轻人”的一员。

因此，我装着一副冷漠的毫不在乎的样子。

所以我说“你们跟踪我多久啦？”说话的腔调尽量装出无所谓有样子，就象随便谈话一样。

于是在他们看来我是十分熟悉此类事情，这使他们更加坚信我彻头彻尾是个名声不好的人。

几分钟后，一辆警车来了。

“坐到后排去，”他们说：“把手放在前排椅背上，不要挪动。

”他俩坐在我的两边。

这倒不是开玩笑的。

在警察局他们审问了我几个小时。

我继续尽力做出深谙世故并对此事习以为常的样子。

当他们问我一直在干什么时，我告诉他们我一直在找工作。

全新版大学英语UNIT-3课文翻译及课后答案

全新版大学英语UNIT-3课文翻译及课后答案UNIT 3Text AMaia Szalavitz, formerly a television producer, now spends her time as a writer. In this essay she explores digital reality and its consequences. Along the way, she compares the digital world to the "real" world, acknowledging the attractions of the electronic dimension.迈亚·塞拉维茨曾是电视制片人，目前从事写作。

她在本文中探索了数字化世界及其后果。

与此同时，她将数字化世界与真实世界做了比较，承认电子空间自有其魅力。

A Virtual LifeMaia SzalavitzAfter too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock. My boyfriend's Liverpool accent suddenly becomes impossible to interpret after his easily understood words on screen; a secretary's clipped tone seems more rejecting than I'd imagined it would be. Time itself becomes fluid — hours become minutes, or seconds stretch into days. Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two ordinary days.虚拟世界的生活迈亚·塞拉维茨在网上呆了太久，听到电话铃声也会吓一大跳。

新视野大学英语第三版第三册Unit3课文+翻译

奥黛丽赫本——人间天使1 Audrey Hepburn thrilled audiences with starring roles in noteworthy films like Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sabrina, Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady, War and Peace, and Always.奥黛丽赫本在《蒂凡尼的早餐》、《龙凤配》、《罗马假日》、《窈窕淑女》、《战争与和平》和《直到永远》等出色电影中主演的许多角色让观众为之陶醉。

2 Despite her success in the film domain, the roles she most preferred portraying were not in movies. She was an exemplary mother to her two sons and a UNICEF (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) Ambassador of Goodwill serving victims in war-torn countries.尽管在电影界获得成功,但她最愿意塑造的角色却并不在影片中,而是做两个儿子的模范母亲和联合国儿童基金会亲善大使,为饱受战争蹂躏的人们服务。

3 As a young girl during the Nazi occupation of her native Holland, Audrey Hepburn was aware of the brutality, death, and destruction of war. She was hungry and malnourished, as her family was bankrupted as a result of the invasion. Audrey's father abandoned the family, and two of her uncles were taken captive and killed. Audrey was grabbed off the street by Nazis and placed in line to be sent to a work camp. When the guards glanced away she darted off, barely escaping, and huddled in a cold, foul basement full of rats.作为一名在纳粹占领下的祖国荷兰生活的小女孩,奥黛丽?赫本清楚战争所带来的野蛮、死亡和破坏。

新标准大学英语第二版综合教程2 Unit 3 A篇练习答案及课文翻译

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3 Do you understand foreign sports, such as football and tennis?
• Well, I know the sports, but I don’t know the rules and hardly watch them.
• Yes. I understand a bit. Football is a ball game in which two teams of 11 players, using any part of their bodies except their hands and arms, try to manoeuver the ball into the opposing team’s goal. Tennis is played on a court by two players (or four for doubles). Players on opposite sides of a net hit a ball over the net with a racket so that it lands on the other side of the court.
2. What are the differences between American football and soccer?
3. Watch the video clip and discuss the cruelty and wildness of sports.
Warming Up
American football is a ball game with complex rules and intricate strategies, played in a number of countries but mainly in the US. Each team has 11 players on the field at a time (out of 46 in a whole team who are divided into offence, defence and specialized teams) and each player has a specialized role or task for each specific play. Players carry the egg-shaped ball and pass or hand it backwards to others (a “running play”) or throw it forwards to teammates (a “passing play”). Opposing players may “tackle” a player running with ball (by pushing, grasping or pulling) or block other players.

外教社大学英语精读第三册unit3原文+翻译+课后翻译

外教社大学英语精读第三册unit3原文+翻译+课后翻译第一篇：外教社大学英语精读第三册unit3原文+翻译+课后翻译Unit3一、课文Every teacher probably asks himself time and again: Why am I a teacher? Do the rewards of teaching outweigh the trying moments? Answering these questions is not a simple task.Let's see what the author says.也许每位教师都一再问过自己：为什么选择教书作为自己的职业？教书得到的回报是否使老师的烦恼显得不值得多谈？回答这些问题并非易事。

让我们看看本文的作者说了些什么。

Why I TeachPeter G.BeidlerWhy do you teach? My friend asked the question when I told him that I didn't want to be considered for anposition.He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a “" toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.我为什么当教师彼得·G·贝德勒你为什么要教书呢? 当我告诉一位朋友我不想谋求行政职务时，他便向我提出这一问题。

所有美国人受的教育是长大成人后应该追求金钱和权力，而我却偏偏不要明明是朝这个目标“迈进”的工作，他为之大惑不解。

.Teaching is the most difficult of the various ways I have attempted to earn my living: , carpenter, writer.For me, teaching is a red-eye,-, sinking-stomach.Red-eye, because I never feel ready to teach no matter how late Ipreparing.Sweaty-palm, because I'm always nervous before I enter the classroom,.Sinking-stomach, because.当然，我之所以教书不是因为我觉得教书轻松。

高级英语第一册Unit 3 文章结构+课文讲解+课文翻译+课后练习+答案

Unit 3 Ships in the DesertShips in the DesertShips in the DesertAL Gore--------------------------------------------------------------------------------I was standing in the sun on the hot steel deck of a fishing ship capable of processing a fifty-ton catch on a good day. But it wasn' t a good day. We were anchored in what used to be the most productive fishing site in all of central Asia, but as I looked out over the bow , the prospects of a good catch looked bleak. Where there should have been gentle blue-green waves lapping against the side of the ship, there was nothing but hot dry sand – as far as I could see in all directions. The other ships of the fleet were also at rest in the sand, scattered in the dunes that stretched all the way to the horizon . Ten year s ago the Aral was the fourth-largest inland sea in the world, comparable to the largest of North America's Great Lakes. Now it is disappearing because the water that used to feed it has been diverted in anill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton In the user t. The new shoreline was almost forty kilometers across the sand from where the fishing fleet was now permanently docked. Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Muynak the people were still canning fish – brought not from the Aral Sea but shipped by rail through Siberia from the Pacific Ocean, more than a thousand miles away.My search for the underlying causes of the environmental crisis has led me to travel around the world to examine and study many of these images of destruction. At the very bottom of the earth, high in the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, with the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in the sky, I stood in the unbelievable coldness and talked with a scientist in the late tall of 1988 about the tunnel he was digging through time. Slipping his parka back to reveal a badly burned face that was cracked and peeling, he pointed to the annual layers of ice in a core sample dug from the glacier on which we were standing. He moved his finger back in time to the ice of two decades ago. "Here's where the U. S Congress passed the Clean Air Act, ” he said. At the bottom of the world, two continents away from Washington, D. C., even a small reduction in one country's emissions had changed the amount of pollution found in the remotest end least accessible place on earth.But the most significant change thus far in the earth' s atmosphere is the one that began with the industrial r evolution early in the last century and has picked up speed ever since. Industry meant coal, and later oil, and we began to burn lots of it – bringing rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) , with its ability to trap more heat in the atmosphere and slowly warm the earth. Fewer than a hundred yards from the South Pole, upwind from the ice runway where the ski plane lands and keeps its engines running to prevent the metal parts from freeze-locking together, scientists monitor the air sever al times ever y day to chart the course of that inexorable change. During my visit, I watched one scientist draw the results of that day'smeasurements, pushing the end of a steep line still higher on the graph. He told me how easy it is – there at the end of the earth – to see that this enormous change in the global atmosphere is still picking up speed.Two and a half years later I slept under the midnight sun at the other end of our planet, in a small tent pitched on a twelve-toot-thick slab of ice floating in the frigid Arctic Ocean. After a hearty breakfast, my companions and I traveled by snowmobiles a few miles farther north to a rendezvous point where the ice was thinner – only three and a half feet thick – and a nuclear submarine hovered in the water below. After it crashed through the ice, took on its new passengers, and resubmerged, I talked with scientists who were trying to measure more accurately the thickness of the polar ice cap, which many believe is thinning as a re-suit of global warming. I had just negotiated an agreement between ice scientists and the U. S. Navy to secure the re-lease of previously top secret data from submarine sonar tracks, data that could help them learn what is happening to the north polar cap. Now, I wanted to see the pole it-self, and some eight hours after we met the submarine, we were crashing through that ice, surfacing, and then I was standing in an eerily beautiful snowcape, windswept and sparkling white, with the horizon defined by little hummocks, or "pressure ridges " of ice that are pushed up like tiny mountain ranges when separate sheets collide. But here too, CD, levels are rising just as rapidly, and ultimately temperature will rise with them – indeed, global warming is expected to push temperatures up much more rapidly in the polar regions than in the rest of the world. As the polar air warms, the ice her e will thin; and since the polar cap plays such a crucial role in the world's weather system, the consequences of a thinning cap could be disastrous.Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise. Six months after I returned from the North Pole, a team of scientists reported dramatic changes in the pattern of ice distribution in the Arctic, and a second team reported a still controversialclaim (which a variety of data now suggest) that, over all, the north polar cap has thinned by 2 per cent in just the last decade. Moreover, scientists established several years ago that in many land areas north of the Arctic Circle, the spring snowmelt now comes earlier every year, and deep in the tundra below, the temperature e of the earth is steadily rising.As it happens, some of the most disturbing images of environmental destruction can be found exactly halfway between the North and South poles – precisely at the equator in Brazil – where billowing clouds of smoke regularly black-en the sky above the immense but now threatened Amazon rain forest. Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef; as I learned when I went there in early 1989, the fires are set earlier and earlier in the dry season now, with more than one Tennessee's worth of rain forest being slashed and burned each year. According to our guide, the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in all of North America – which means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard.But one doesn't have to travel around the world to wit-ness humankind's assault on the earth. Images that signal the distress of our global environment arenow commonly seen almost anywhere. On some nights, in high northern latitudes, the sky itself offers another ghostly image that signals the loss of ecological balance now in progress. If the sky is clear after sunset -- and it you are watching from a place where pollution hasn't blotted out the night sky altogether -- you can sometimes see a strange kind of cloud high in the sky. This "noctilucent cloud" occasionally appears when the earth is first cloaked in the evening dark-ness; shimmering above us with a translucent whiteness, these clouds seem quite unnatural. And they should: noctilucent clouds have begun to appear more often because of a huge buildup of methane gas in the atmosphere. (Also called natural gas, methane is released from landfills , from coal mines and rice paddies, from billions of termites that swarm through the freshly cut forestland, from the burning of biomass and from a variety of other human activities. ) Even though noctilucent clouds were sometimes seen in the past., all this extra methane carries more water vapor into the upper atmosphere, where it condenses at much higher altitudes to form more clouds that the sun's rays still strike long after sunset has brought the beginning of night to the surface far beneath them.What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky? Simple wonder or the mix of emotions we feel at the zoo? Perhaps we should feel awe for our own power: just as men "ear tusks from elephants’ heads in such quantity as to threaten the beast with extinction, we are ripping matter from its place in the earth in such volume as to upset the balance between daylight and darkness. In the process, we are once again adding to the threat of global warming, be-cause methane has been one of the fastest-growing green-house gases, and is third only to carbon dioxide and water vapor in total volume, changing the chemistry of the upper atmosphere. But, without even considering that threat, shouldn't it startle us that we have now put these clouds in the evening sky which glisten with a spectral light? Or have our eyes adjusted so completely to the bright lights of civilization that we can't see these clouds for what they are – a physical manifestation of the violent collision between human civilization and the earth?Even though it is sometimes hard to see their meaning, we have by now all witnessed surprising experiences that signal the damage from our assault on the environment --whether it's the new frequency of days when the temperature exceeds 100 degrees, the new speed with which the -un burns our skin, or the new constancy of public debate over what to do with growing mountains of waste. But our response to these signals is puzzling. Why haven't we launched a massive effort to save our environment? To come at the question another way' Why do some images startle us into immediate action and focus our attention or ways to respond effectively? And why do other images, though sometimes equally dramatic, produce instead a Kin. of paralysis, focusing our attention not on ways to respond but rather on some convenient, less painful distraction?Still, there are so many distressing images of environ-mental destruction that sometimes it seems impossible to know how to absorb or comprehend them. Before considering the threats themselves, it may be helpful to classify them and thus begin to organize our thoughts and feelings so that we may be able to respondappropriately.A useful system comes from the military, which frequently places a conflict in one of three different categories, according to the theater in which it takes place. There are "local" skirmishes, "regional" battles, and "strategic" conflicts. This third category is reserved for struggles that can threaten a nation's survival and must be under stood in a global context. Environmental threats can be considered in the same way. For example, most instances of water pollution, air pollution, and illegal waste dumping are essentially local in nature. Problems like acid rain, the contamination ofunder-ground aquifers, and large oil spills are fundamentally regional. In both of these categories, there may be so many similar instances of particular local and regional problems occurring simultaneously all over the world that the patter n appears to be global, but the problems themselves are still not truly strategic because the operation of- the global environment is not affected and the survival of civilization is not at stake.However, a new class of environmental problems does affect the global ecological system, and these threats are fundamentally strategic. The 600 percent increase in the amount of chlorine in the atmosphere during the last forty years has taken place not just in those countries producing the chlorofluorocarbons responsible but in the air above every country, above Antarctica, above the North Pole and the Pacific Ocean – all the way from the surface of the earth to the top of the sky. The increased levels of chlorine disrupt the global process by which the earth regulates the amount of ultraviolet radiation from the sun that is allowed through the atmosphere to the surface; and it we let chlorine levels continue to increase, the radiation levels will al-so increase – to the point that all animal and plant life will face a new threat to their survival.Global warming is also a strategic threat. The concentration of carbon dioxide and other heat-absorbing molecules has increased by almost 25 per cent since World War II, posing a worldwide threat to the earth's ability to regulate the amount of heat from the sun retained in the atmosphere. This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium that determines the pattern of winds, rainfall, surface temperatures, ocean currents, and sea level. These in turn determine the distribution of vegetative and animal life on land and sea and have a great effect on the location and pattern of human societies.In other words, the entire relationship between humankind and the earth has been transformed because our civilization is suddenly capable of affecting the entire global environment, not just a particular area. All of us know that human civilization has usually had a large impact on the environment; to mention just one example, there is evidence that even in prehistoric times, vast areas were sometimes intentionally burned by people in their search for food. And in our own time we have reshaped a large part of the earth's surface with concrete in our cities and carefully tended rice paddies, pastures, wheat fields, and other croplands in the countryside. But these changes, while sometimes appearing to be pervasive , have, until recently, been relatively trivial factors in the global ecological sys-tem. Indeed, until our lifetime, it was always safe to assume that nothing we did or could do would haveany lasting effect on the global environment. But it is precisely that assumption which must now be discarded so that we can think strategically about our new relationship to the environment.Human civilization is now the dominant cause of change in the global environment. Yet we resist this truth and find it hard to imagine that our effect on the earth must now be measured by the same yardstick used to calculate the strength of the moon's pull on the oceans or the force of the wind against the mountains. And it we are now capable of changing something so basic as the relationship between the earth and the sun, surely we must acknowledge a new responsibility to use that power wisely and with appropriate restraint. So far, however, We seem oblivious of the fragility of the earth's natural systems.This century has witnessed dramatic changes in two key factors that define the physical reality of our relation-ship to the earth: a sudden and startling surge in human population, with the addition of one China's worth of people every ten years, and a sudden acceleration of the scientific and technological revolution, which has allowed an almost unimaginable magnification of our power to affect the world around us by burning, cutting, digging, moving, and trans-forming the physical matter that makes up the earth. The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context. From the emergence of modern humans 200 000 years ago until Julius Caesar's time, fewer than 250 million people walked on the face of the earth. When Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World 1500 years later, there were approximately 500 million people on earth. By the time Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the number had doubled again, to 1 billion. By midway through this century, at the end of World War II, the number had risen to just above 2 billion people. In other words, from the beginning of humanity's appearance on earth to 1945, it took more than ten thousand generations to reach a world population of 2 billion people. Now, in the course of one human lifetime -- mine -- the world population will increase from 2 to more than 9 million, and it is already more than halfway there.Like the population explosion, the scientific and technological revolution began to pick up speed slowly during the eighteenth century. And this ongoing revolution has also suddenly accelerated exponentially. For example, it is now an axiom in many fields of science that more new and important discoveries have taken place in the last ten years that. in the entire previous history of science. While no single discover y has had the kind of effect on our relationship to the earth that unclear weapons have had on our relationship to warfare, it is nevertheless true that taken together, they have completely transformed our cumulative ability to exploit the earth for sustenance -- making the consequences, of unrestrained exploitation every bit as unthinkable as the consequences of unrestrained nuclear war.Now that our relationship to the earth has changed so utterly, we have to see that change and understand its implications. Our challenge is to recognize that the startling images of environmental destruction now occurring all over the world have much more in common than their ability to shock and awaken us. They aresymptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and more serious than any we have ever faced. Global warming, ozone depletion, the loss of living species, deforestation -- they all have a common cause: the new relationship between human civilization and the earth's natural balance. There are actually two aspects to this challenge. The first is to realize that our power to harm the earth can in-deed have global and even permanent effects. The second is to realize that the only way to understand our new role as a co-architect of nature is to see ourselves as part of a complex system that does not operate according to the same simple rules of cause and effect we are used to. The problem is not our effect on the environment so much as our relationship with the environment. As a result, any solution to the problem will require a careful assessment of that relationship as well as the complex interrelationship among factors within civilization and between them and the major natural components of the earth's ecological system.There is only one precedent for this kind of challenge to our thinking, and again it is military. The invention of nuclear weapons and the subsequent development by the Unit-ed States and the Soviet Union of many thousands of strategic nuclear weapons forced a slow and painful recognition that the new power thus acquired forever changed not only the relationship between the two superpowers but also the relationship of humankind to the institution at war-fare itself. The consequences of all-out war between nations armed with nuclear weapons suddenly included the possibility of the destruction of both nations – completely and simultaneously. That sobering realization led to a careful reassessment of every aspect of our mutual relationship to the prospect of such a war. As early as 1946 one strategist concluded that strategic bombing with missiles "may well tear away the veil of illusion that has so long obscured the reality of the change in warfare – from a fight to a process of destruction.”Nevertheless, during the earlier stages of the nuclear arms race, each of the superpower s assumed that its actions would have a simple and direct effect on the thinking of the other. For decades, each new advance in weaponry was deployed by one side for the purpose of inspiring fear in the other. But each such deployment led to an effort by the other to leapfrog the first one with a more advanced deployment of its own. Slowly, it has become apparent that the problem of the nuclear arms r ace is not primarily caused by technology. It is complicated by technology, true; but it arises out of the relationship between the superpowers and is based on an obsolete understanding of what war is all about.The eventual solution to the arms race will be found, not in a new deployment by one side or the other of some ultimate weapon or in a decision by either side to disarm unilaterally , but ratter in new understandings and in a mutual transformation of the relationship itself. This transformation will involve changes in the technology of weaponry and the denial of nuclear technology to rogue states. But the key changes will be in the way we think about the institution of war far e and about the relationship between states.The strategic nature of the threat now posed by human civilization to the global environment and the strategic nature of the threat to human civilization now posedby changes in the global environment present us with a similar set of challenges and false hopes. Some argue that a new ultimate technology, whether nuclear power or genetic engineering, will solve the problem. Others hold that only a drastic reduction of our reliance on technology can improve the conditions of life -- a simplistic notion at best. But the real solution will be found in reinventing and finally healing the relationship between civilization and the earth. This can only be accomplished by undertaking a careful reassessment of all the factors that led to the relatively recent dramatic change in the relationship. The transformation of the way we relate to the earth will of course involve new technologies, but the key changes will involve new ways of thinking about the relationship itself.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------NOTESI) Al Gore: born in 1948 in Washington D. C., U. S. Senator (1984-1992) from the State of Tennessee,and U. S. Vice-President ( l 992-) under President Bill Clinton. He is the author of the book Earth in the Balance from which this piece is taken. 2) Aral Sea: inland sea and the world’s fourth largest lake, c. 26 000 sqmiles, SW Kazakhstan and NW Uzbekhstan, E of the Caspian Sea3) Great Lakes: group of five freshwater lakes, Central North America, between the United States and Canada, largest body of fresh water in the world. From west to east, they are Lake Superior,Lake Michigan,Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.4) Trans-Antarctic Mountains: mountain chain stretching across Antarctica from Victoria I and to Coats I and; separating the E Antarctic and W Antarctic subcontinents5) Clean Air Act: one of the oldest environmental laws of the U. S., as well as the most far-reaching, the costliest, and the most controversial. It was passed in 1970.6) Washington D. C.: capital of the United States. D. C. (District of Columbia).is added to distinguish it from the State of Washington and 3 other cities in the U. S bearing the sonic name.7) freeze-locking: the metal parts are frozen solid and unable to move freely8)midnight sun: phenomenon in which the sun remains visible in the sky for 24 hours or longer, occurring only in the polar regions9)global warming; The earth is getting warmer. The temperature of the earth's atmosphere and its surface is steadily rising.10) Submarine sonar tracks: the term sonar is an acronym for sound navigation ranging. It is used for communication between submerged submarines or between a submarine and a surface vessel, for locating mines and underwater hazards to navigation, and also as a fathometer, or depth finder.11) greenhouse (effect): process whereby heat is trapped at the surface of the earth by the atmosphere. An increase of man-made pollutants in the atmosphere will lead to a long-term warming of the earth's climate.12) Julius Caesar: (102? B. C -- 44 B. C:. ), Roman statesman and general13) Christopher Columbus: ( 1451-1506), discoverer of America, born Genoa, Italy14) Thomas Jefferson: (17-13-1826 ), 3d President of the UnitedStates(1801-1809), author of the Declaration of Independence.15) Declaration of Independence: full and formal declaration adopted July 4,1776, by representatives of the thirteen colonies in North America announcing the separation of those colonies from Great Britain and making them into the United States16)Ozone depletion: A layer of ozone in the stratosphere prevents most ultraviolet and other high-energy radiation, which is harmful to life, from penetrating to the earth's surface.Some.environmental, scientists fear that certain man-made pollutants, e.g. nitric oxide, CFCs(Chlorofluorocarbons), etc., may interfere with the delicate balance of reactions that maintains the ozone’ s concentration, possibly leading to a drastic depletion of stratospheric ozone. This is now happening in the stratosphere above the polarShips in the Desert 课文讲解/Detailed StudyShips in the Desert--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Detailed Study1. Ships in the Desert [image-7]: Ships anchored in the desert. This is aneye-catching title and it gives an image that people hardly see. When readers read the title, they can’t help wondering why and how.Paragraph 1. typical example of environmental destruction[image-7]2. capable of processing a fifty-ton catch on a good day: having the ability of cleaning and preparing for marketing or canning fifty-tons of fish on a productive day.catch: the amount of something caught; in the sentence it refers to the amount of fish caught e.g. The boat brought back a big catch of fish.3. but as I looked out over the bow, the prospects of a good catch looked bleak:a good catch did not look promising / hopeful.This is obviously an understatement because with sand all around there was no chance of catching fish, to say nothing of catching a lot of fish.bow[audio-1] : the front part of a shipant. sterncompare: bow[audio-2]: v. & n. to bend the upper part of the body forward, as away of showing respect, admitting defeat, etc.bow [audio-3]: n. a weapon for shooting arrowa long thin piece of wood with a tight string fastened along it, used for playing musical instruments that have stringsa knot formed by doubling a string or cord into two curved pieces, and used for decoration in the hair, in tying shoes, etcbleak: a) If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.e.g. His future looked bleak.bleak prospect; the bleakness of the post war yearsb) If a place is bleak, it looks cold, bare, and unattractivee.g. the bleak coastlinec) When the weather is bleak, it is cold, dull, and unpleasante.g. the bleak wintersd) If someone looks or sounds bleak, they seem depressed, hopeless, or unfriendlye.g. his bleak featuresbleakly adv.e.g. He stared bleakly ahead.“What,” he asked bleakly, “are these?”4. waves lapping against the side of the ship: waves touching the side of the ship gently and makes a soft sound lap can also be used as a noun.e.g. Your lap is the flat area formed by your thighs when you are sitting down. Her youngest child was asleep in her lap.He placed the baby on the woman’s lap.In a race, when you say that a competitor has completed a lap when he or she has gone round the course race.5. as far as I could see in all direction: that extended as far as the eye could see;6. that stretched all the way to the horizon: that extended to the far off place where the sky meet the earth7. comparable: something that is comparable to something else is a) as good as/ as big as/ as important as the other thing; b) similar to the other thinge.g. This dinner is comparable to the best French cooking.Our house is not comparable with yours. Ours is just a small hut while yours is a palace.8. Now it is disappearing because the water that used to feed it has been diverted in an ill-considered irrigation scheme to grow cotton in the dessert: Now it is becoming smaller and smaller because the water that used to flow into the sea has been turned away to irrigate the land created in the desert to grow cotton. The。

2020新译林版高中英语选择性必修一unit3课文原文及翻译

Unit 3 The art of painting课文及译文First impressions第一印象3 June 六月3日Paris, France法国巴黎As a huge art fan, I knew exactly what I was looking forward to most about my trip to Paris:visiting the Musee d’Orsay. Housed in an old railway building, this world-famous art museum features some of the best-known paintings from the Impressionist movement of the 19th century.作为一个狂热的艺术家，我非常清楚自己此次巴黎之旅最期待的是什么-----参观奥赛博物馆。

这家世界闻名的艺术博物馆设在一座古老的铁路建筑里，以19世纪印象派运动时期一些最著名的画作为特色。

As I wandered through the Impressionist gallery, I appreciated masterpieces like The Ballet Class and The Card Players. Even though I had admired them hundreds of times on my computer screen, nothing could have prepared me for the wonder I felt when I finally laid eyes on the real thing.While it was hard to pick a favourite painting out of so many amazing works,the artists who made the deepest impression on me were two of the greatest Impressionist painters, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.漫步于印象派展馆，我欣赏着像《舞蹈课》和《玩纸牌者》这样的杰作。

Book-1-unit-3课文翻译及答案

新视界大学英语综合教程第三单元课文翻译及练习答案Active Reading对陌生人的同情我正要进公用电话亭，那小个男人走上前来，问我有没有火柴。

我说：“对不起，我不抽烟，没有火柴。

你还是问问别人吧。

”他看上去很失望，犹豫了一下，然后转身离开了。

我看着他慢慢地沿街走了，然后拿起电话簿，查找我要拨的号码。

我对公用电话亭不是很熟悉，所以，第一次打的时候，警告音都停了，我才意识到自己还没投币。

等到我终于打通了电话，对方却告诉我，我要找的人刚刚出去。

我本来是有要紧事告诉他的。

我忍不住低声骂一句，从电话亭里出来，正好和那小个男人打了个照面。

他看上去可怜得就像条丧家之犬。

他又一次摘了帽子，我发现他头顶光秃秃的。

一条细细的伤疤横贯他的一侧脸颊，像是决斗时留下的一样。

他很不自在地开了口：“对不起，又来麻烦您，但我可不可以跟您走一小段路？我得找个人说说自己的事，我非得求人帮忙不可啦。

”他的声音低沉得很不寻常，显得他既害羞，又自信，两种气质奇特地交织在一起。

我意识到他操着比较浓重的外国口音，不知道他来自哪个国家。

我告诉他，我20分钟之后得赶火车，但他可以和我一起走到车站。

他沉默了片刻，突然开口说：“我这样说您可能会很吃惊，但您可以借给我五英镑吗？我一点儿钱都没有了。

”我一辈子碰到的怪人很多，想朝我借钱的人也很多。

我基本上总能拒绝。

但是，也许是因为他是直截了当地求我吧，不知为什么，我觉得他可能急需用钱。

我回答说：“对不起，恐怕我不能借钱给你，因为我没有随身带很多钱的习惯。

你难道不觉得向警察求助最管用吗？他们可以告诉你哪儿有旅店，哪儿有可以帮得上忙的组织。

”他犹豫了一下，轻声地说：“我不敢找警察。

要是我去了，他们就会把我送回国，我怕的就是这个。

我实在没办法了。

”我问道：“你为什么到这儿来？你怎么来的？你肯定还是有点儿钱的。

”他回答道：“我本来是有的，但在宾馆房间被偷了，我不敢申诉。

至于我是怎么来的，我不能讲。

我无法忍受在那种政府体制下生活，本来是我自己的国家，我却活不下去了。

新视野大学英语三课后答案及课文翻译Unit3

Unit 3Section APre-reading activities一1C 2D 3E 4B 5ALanguage focusWord in use三1integral 2cherish 3afflicted 4noteworthy 5portray 6compliment 7domain 8anonymous 9conscientious 10perpetualWord building四Words learned New words formed-izeGeneral GeneralizeNormal NormalizePublic PublicizeMinimum MinimizeImmune ImmunizeMobile Mobilize-orInvest InvestorDictate DictatorConquer ConquerorInvestigate InvestigatorModerate ModeratorElevator Elevate五1normalize 2moderator 3immunized 4investors 5mobilize 6conqueror 7elevate 8publicizes 9investigator 10minimized 11generalize 12dictatorBanked cloze六1C 2I 3F 4L 5A 6H 7K 8N 9E 10BExpression in use七1embark on 2be deprived of 3turn down 4taken captive 5live on 6share in7was stricken by 8led by exampleTranslation莱奥纳多·达·芬奇是意大利文艺复兴时期最伟大的思想家之一，也许也是迄今最多才多艺的人。

他是画家、雕刻家、建筑家、数学家、工程师和发明家，因成就广泛而闻名。

大学体验英语综合教程4Unit3课文翻译及课后答案

Unit 3版权的十大神‎话1)如果没有版权‎标识，就不会受到版‎权保护。

这在过去是事‎实，但现在情况就‎有所不同了，几乎所有大国‎邮遵循伯尔尼‎版权协定，比如，在美国，自1989年‎4月1日后，几乎所有个人‎创作以及原创‎的作品，不管它是否有‎版权标识，都受到版权保‎护。

大家默认的是‎他人的作品已‎受到版权保护‎，不能随意复制‎，除非你能确信‎它不受版权保‎护：有些年代久远‎的作品如果没‎有标识，就不受到版权‎保护，但坦白地说如‎果这一点不能‎肯定，你就不应冒这‎个风险。

2)如果我没有为‎此收费，就不算侵权。

错。

你是否收费可‎能对法庭上判‎罚金的额度有‎所影响，但那只是在这‎一法律条文下‎量刑的主要区‎别。

即使你免费分‎发他人的作品‎，仍然是侵权。

而且如果危及‎到他人财产的‎商业价值，仍然会被罚以‎大额赔偿金。

个人的音乐拷‎贝是唯一的例‎外，不被列入侵权‎行为。

不过法庭上似‎乎有这种说法‎，个人拷贝不包‎括像纳帕斯特‎那样的大规模‎匿名复制行为‎。

如果该作品没‎有向业价值，侵权多是技术‎性的，不会受到起诉‎。

3)如果已被发送‎到世界性的新‎闻组网络系统‎(U senet‎)的材料，那就不受版权‎限制。

错。

现代社会里任‎何东西都要受‎到版权限制，除非所有者明‎确表示它不受‎版权限制。

要确定它是否‎受到版权限制‎，必须得要作者‎／所有者的书面‎证明：“我准予某某不‎受版权限制。

”4)我的帖子只是‎合理使用。

“合理使用”可以免除版权‎限制，它的设立使人‎们可以使用某‎些作品，而不必经过作‎者的同意，这些作品包括‎解说词、模仿诗文、新闻报道以及‎那些对受版权‎保护的著作的‎研究和宣传的‎作品。

这一规定非常‎重要，有了这一规定‎版权法就不会‎成为妨碍你自‎由地发表作品‎的绊脚石。

但涉及到故意‎侵权和损害具‎有商业价值的‎作品时就要慎‎重考虑了。

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新编大学英语Book2Unit3课后练习答案和课文翻译

Unit 3 Born to WinIn-Class Reading课内阅读参考译文生而成功一个人不可能事事由别人来教你，只能在别人的帮助下靠自己去发现。

——伽利略1 每个人生来都是独特的，与众不同的。

每个人都有能力以自己特有的方式去赢得成功。

每个正常人都能够看、听、触摸、品尝并且思考自己的事情。

每个人都有自己特有的潜在性――能力和局限性。

每个人都能凭自己的本事成为举足轻重、会思考、明事理、创造性成果颇多的人——一位成功的人。

2 “成功者”和“失败者”这两个词有多种意思。

当我们把一个人称作成功者时，我们所指的并不是那种通过优势战胜他人而获得成功的人。

而是一个无论是作为个体或是社会的成员他都能可靠、迅速地采取行动做出真诚回应的人。

失败者是一个不会采取行动作出真诚回应的人。

3 很少有人是绝对的成功者或失败者。

这（成败）只是一个程度的问题。

然而，当一个人一旦具有了成为成功者的能力时，（他）经常获得成功的可能性就会更大。

4 对成功者来说成就不是最重要的；最重要的是真诚。

真诚的人知道自己的独特之处，也赞赏他人的这一特点。

5 成功者是不怕独立思考并运用自己知识的。

他能把客观事实与主观意见区分开来，而且不会装作能解决一切问题。

他倾听他人、评价他们说的话，却能得出自己的结论。

6 成功者能灵活变通。

（他）遇事不会采用已有的、刻板的方式行事。

他能根据形势的需要改变自己的计划。

成功者热爱生活。

他乐于工作、喜爱游玩、享受美食、欣赏他人和自然带来的乐趣。

他心安理得地欣喜自己的成就。

他（也）毫无妒忌地欣赏他人的成绩。

7 成功者关心天下、关爱世人。

他贴近社会上普遍存在的问题。

他努力提高生活质量。

即使面对国内和国际上的难题，他也不会认为自己是无能为力的。

他做一切力所能及的事，使世界变得更美好。

8 即使人们生来注定会成功，但也是生来就要完全依赖于周围环境的。

成功者顺利地完成从依赖到独立的转变。

失败者则没有做到这一点。

在这一过程的某个时候失败者开始回避独立。

Unit-3-Social-Problems新编大学英语第二版第三册课文翻译

Unit-3-Social-Problems新编大学英语第二版第三册课文翻译Unit 3 Social ProblemsLatchkey Children—Knock, Knock, IsAnybody Home?In the United States the cost of living has been steadily rising for the past few decades. Food prices, clothing costs, housing expenses, and tuition fees are constantly getting higher and higher. Partly because of financial need, and partly because of career choices for personal fulfillment, mothers have been leaving the traditional role of full-time homemaker. Increasingly they have been taking salaried jobs outside the home.Making such a significant role change affects the entire family, especially the children. Some consequences are obvious. For example, dinnertime is at a later hour. The emotional impact, on the other hand,can be more subtle. Mothers leave home in the morning, feeling guilty because they will not be home when their children return from school. They suppress their guilt since they believe that their work will benefit everyone in the long run. The income will enable the family to save for college tuition, take an extended vacation, buy a new car, and so on.The emotional impact on the children can be significant. It is quite common for children to feel hurt and resentful. After all, they are alone several hours, and they feel that their mothers should "be there" for them. They might need assistance with their homework or want to share the day's activities. All too often, however, the mothers arrive home exhausted and face the immediate task of preparing dinner. Their priority is making theencouraged them to be self-confident. Latchkey girls, by observing how their mothers coped with the demands of a family and a job, learned the role model of a working mother. Some children stated that they used their unsupervised free time to perfect their athletic skills, such as playing basketball. Others read books or practiced a musical instrument. These children looked upon their free time after school as an opportunity for personal development. It led to positive, productive, and valuable experiences.Conversely, many latchkey children expressed much bitterness, resentment, and anger for being made to live in this fashion. Many claimed that too much responsibility was placed on them at an early age; it was an overwhelming burden. They were little people whoreally wanted to be protected, encouraged, and cared for through attention from their mothers. Coming home to an empty house was disappointing, lonely, and often frightening. They felt abandoned by their mothers. After all, it seemed to them that most other children had "normal" families whose mothers were "around," whereas their own mothers were never home. Many children turned on the television for the whole afternoon day after day, in order to diminish feelings of isolation; furthermore, the voices were comforting. Frequently, they would doze off.Because of either economic necessity or strong determination for personal fulfillment, or both, the phenomenon of latchkey children is widespread in our society. Whatever thereason, it is a compelling situation with which families must cope. The question to ask is not whether or not mothers should work full-time. Given the reality of the situation, the question to ask is: how can an optimum plan be worked out to deal effectively with the situation.It is advisable for all members of the family to express their feelings and concerns about the inevitable change candidly. These remarks should be discussed fully. Many factors must be taken into consideration: the children's personality and maturity, the amount of time the children will be alone, the safety of the neighborhood, accessibility of help in case of an emergency. Of supreme importance is the quality of the relationship between parents and children. It is most important that the children be secure in the knowledge that they are loved. Feeling lovedprovides invaluable emotional strength to cope successfully with almost any difficulty that arises in life.挂钥匙的孩子——笃、笃，家里有人吗？在过去的几十年中，美国的生活费用一直在持续增长。

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