新標準大學英語3 unit2-superman原文+譯文.docVIP

SUPERMAN超 人1. The year the war began I was in the fifth grade at the Annie F. Warren Grammar School in Winthrop, and that was the winter I won the prize for drawing the best Civil Defense signs. That was also the winter of Paula Browns new snowsuit, and even now, 13 years later, I can recall the changing colors of those days, clear and definite as a pattern seen through a kaleidoscope. 戰(zhàn)爭爆發(fā)的那一年，我在溫斯羅普的安妮F.沃倫文法學校讀五年級，那年冬天我獲得了民防圖標設計賽冠軍。也就是在那個冬天，波拉布朗買了新的防雪服，即便是13年后的今天，我仍然能清晰地記起那些精彩紛呈的日子，它們歷歷在目，猶如萬花筒里看到的圖案那樣色彩斑斕。2. I lived on the bay side of town, on Johnson Avenue, opposite the Logan Airport, and before I went to bed each night, I used to kneel by the west window of my room and look over the lights of Boston that blazed and blinked far off across the darkening water. The sunset flaunted its pink flag above the airport, and the sound of waves was lost in the perpetual droning of the planes. I marveled at the moving beacons on the runway and watched, until it grew completely dark, the flashing red and green lights that rose and set in the sky like shooting stars. The airport was my Mecca, my Jerusalem. All night I dreamed of flying.我的家位于城里靠海灣的一側(cè)，在洛根機場對面的約翰遜大道上。每天晚上睡覺前，我都會跪在臥室朝西的窗戶旁，眺望黑幽幽的海水那邊波士頓城明亮閃爍的燈光。夕陽將粉色的余暉灑在機場上空，浪濤的聲音永遠淹沒在一架架飛機永無休止的嗡嗡聲中。我驚奇地望著跑道上的移動信標，看著那些閃爍的紅燈、綠燈像流星般升起、降落，直到機場變得一片漆黑為止。機場就是我的麥加，我的耶路撒冷。我整夜都在做夢，夢見自己在空中飛行。3.Those were the days of my technicolor dreams. Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of the day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go. My flying dreams were believable as a landscape by Dali, so real that I would awake with a sudden shock, a breathless sense of having tumbled like Icarus from the sky and caught myself on the soft bed just in time. These nightly adventures in space began when Superman started invading my dreams and teaching me how to fly. He used to come roaring by in his shining blue suit with his cape whistling in the wind, looking remarkably like my Uncle Frank who was living with mother and me. In the magic whirling of his cape I could hear the wings of a hundred seagulls, the motors of a thousand planes.那正是我夢想斑斕的歲月。媽媽認為我需要大量的睡眠，所以我每天上床睡覺時一點兒都不覺得累。那是一天中最美好的時光，我可以躺下，在昏暗的暮色中慢慢進入夢鄉(xiāng)，腦子里制造出許多奇異的夢來。我的飛行夢像達利的風景畫那么真實可信，以致于自己常常會在一陣驚嚇中醒來，好像伊卡羅斯那樣從天空中摔下來，雖然發(fā)現(xiàn)自己剛好掉到軟軟的床上，但也被嚇得喘不過氣來。當超人開始侵入我的夢鄉(xiāng)，并教給我飛行的技巧之后，我每夜的太空冒險便開始了。超人身著耀眼的藍色衣服，肩披隨風颼颼作響的斗篷，經(jīng)常從我身邊呼嘯而過。他長得太像我的舅舅弗蘭克了，舅舅那會兒正跟媽媽和我住在一起。超人的斗篷神奇地旋轉(zhuǎn)時，我好像能聽見上百只海鷗的振翅聲，上千架飛機的馬達轟鳴聲。4. I was not the only worshipper of Superman in our block. David Stirling, a pale, bookish boy who lived down the street, shared my love for the sheer poetry of flight. Before supper every night, we listened to Superman together on the radio, and during the day we made up our own adventures on the way to school.我不是這個街區(qū)里唯一的超人崇拜者，在街另一頭，那個臉色蒼白、有點書呆子氣的男孩兒戴維斯特令和我一樣，熱愛飛行的純粹的詩意。每天晚飯前，我們一起收聽電臺的超人故事，白天在上學的路上，我們自己設計出各種各樣的冒險活動。5. The Annie F. Warren Grammar School was a red-brick building, set back from the main highway on a black tar street, surrounded by barren gravel playgrounds. Out by the parking lot David and I found the perfect alcove for our Superman dramas. The dingy back entrance to the school was deep-set in a long passageway which was an excellent place for surprise captures and sudden rescues.安妮F.沃倫文法學校是一座紅磚樓，座落在遠離主干道的一條黑色柏油街道上，學校四周是光禿禿的鋪著碎石的操場。戴維和我發(fā)現(xiàn)學校外面停車場附近有一個角落，那里是我們玩超人游戲的絕佳場所。那條長長的過道通向?qū)W校又黑又臟的后門，非常適合玩意外抓捕和快速解救的游戲。 6.During recess, David and I came into our own. We ignored the boys playing baseball on the gravel court and the girls giggling at dodge-ball in the dell. Our Superman games made us outlaws, yet gave us a sense of windy superiority. We even found a stand-in for a villain in Sheldon Fein, the sallow mammas boy on our block who was left out of the boys games because he cried whenever anybody tagged him and always managed to fall down and skin his fat knees.課間休息時，我和戴維可以大展身手了。我們對在碎石操場上打棒球的男孩兒們視而不見，也不搭理那些在小山谷里一邊玩躲球游戲一邊咯咯傻笑的女孩兒們。超人游戲讓我們變得像兩個逃犯似的，但也給了我們一種虛幻的優(yōu)越感，我們甚至找謝爾登費恩來充當惡棍。他是街區(qū)里一個臉色蒼白、膽小怕事的孩子，沒有男孩兒愿意和他玩，因為一有人追他他就哭，而且老是自己摔倒在地，擦傷他那胖胖的膝蓋。 7. At first, we had to prompt Sheldon in his part, but after a while he became an expert on inventing tortures and even carried them out in private, beyond the game. He used to pull the wings from flies and the legs off grasshoppers, and keep the broken insects captive in a jar hidden under his bed where he could take them out in secret and watch them struggling. David and I never played with Sheldon except at recess. After school we left him to his mamma and his bonbons and his helpless insects.一開始我們還得教謝爾登怎么扮演他的角色，可沒過多久他就變成了一位發(fā)明虐刑的專家，甚至私下里悄悄實施他的刑罰。他常常扯下蒼蠅的翅膀，揪掉蚱蜢的腿，并把這些殘廢了的昆蟲囚禁在瓶子里，藏到床底下，這樣他就可以偷偷把它們拿出來，看著它們痛苦掙扎的樣子。戴維和我只在課間休息的時候和謝爾登玩，放學后我們就讓他回家跟他的媽媽、棒棒糖以及那些無助的昆蟲為伴。8. At the time my Uncle Frank was living with us while waiting to be drafted, and I was sure that he bore an extraordinary resemblance to Superman incognito. David couldnt see the likeness as clearly as I did, but he admitted that Un