大學(xué)英語(上海外語教育出版社)第三版精讀第三冊Readingaloudandmemorizing(原文及翻譯)

1、大學(xué)英語（上海外語教育出版社）第三版精讀第三冊reading aloud and memorizing（科文及翻譯）1and so i do not have a criminal record. but what was most shocking at the time was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on. i had the right accent, respectable middle-class parents in court, reliable witnesses, and i cou

2、ld obviously afford a very good solicitor. given the obscure nature of the charge, i feel sure that if i had come from a different background, and had really been unemployed, there is every chance that i would have been found guilty. while asking for costs to be awarded, my solicitors case quite obv

3、iously revolved around the fact that i had a brilliant academic record.于是，我沒有留下犯罪記錄。但當(dāng)時(shí)，最令人震驚的是我被無罪釋放所明顯依賴的證據(jù)。我有標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的口音，有受人敬重的中產(chǎn)階級的父母來到法庭，有可靠的證人，還有，很明顯我請得起很好得律師。想到這次指控的含糊不清的特點(diǎn)，我敢肯定，如果我出生在一個(gè)不同背景的家庭，并真失業(yè)，則完全可能被判有罪。當(dāng)我的律師要求賠償訴訟費(fèi)時(shí)，他的辯詞很顯然地緊緊圍繞著我“學(xué)習(xí)成績優(yōu)異”這一事實(shí)2 something was definitely happening here. it was

4、messier than a food fight and much more important than whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. my kids were doing what copernicus did when he placed the sun at the center of the universe, readjusting the centuries-old paradigm of an earth-centered system. they were doing what reuben mattus did whe

5、n he renamed his bronx ice cream haagen-dazs and raised the price without changing the product. they were doing what edward jenner did when he discovered a vaccination for smallpox by abandoning his quest for a cure.instead of studying people who were sick with smallpox, he began to study people who

6、 were exposed to it but never got sick. he found that theyd all contracted a similar but milder disease, cow pox, which vaccinated them against the deadly smallpcx.在這里某些事情確實(shí)正在發(fā)生著。它比食品戰(zhàn)要更混亂，比西紅柿是水果還是蔬菜要重要得多。我的孩子們正在做的就像哥白尼過去所做的那樣，糾正了悠久的地球中心宇宙系統(tǒng)為太陽中心宇宙系統(tǒng)。他們正在做的事情就好像魯本-馬特斯曾經(jīng)做的那樣，重新命名他的布朗克斯冰淇淋為哈根達(dá)斯，并且并未對

7、產(chǎn)品做改動(dòng)的情況下提升了價(jià)格。他們做的事情就像是愛德華-詹納通過狂熱的追尋治療天花的方法而發(fā)現(xiàn)了牛痘。當(dāng)別人在研究那些得了天花的人們時(shí)，他開始研究那些暴露在外卻從沒有染病的人們。他發(fā)現(xiàn)他們都得過一種相似的但是溫和的小病，牛痘，正是由于牛痘使得他們逃過了致死的天花。3these are the real reasons i teach, these people who grow and change in front of me. being a teacher is being present at the creation, when the clay begins to breathe.

8、a promotion out of teaching would give me money and power. but i have money. i get paid to do what i enjoy: reading, talking with people, and asking question like, what is the point of being rich?and i have power. i have the power to nudge, to fan sparks, to suggest books, to point out a pathway. wh

9、at other power matters?but teaching offers something besides money and power: it offers love. not only the love of learning and of books and ideas, but also the love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teachers life and begins to breathe. perhaps love is the wrong word: magic

10、 might be better.i teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, i occasionally find myself catching my breath with them.這是我從事教育事業(yè)的真實(shí)原因，這些在我面前成長和改變的人。當(dāng)土壤開始呼吸的時(shí)候，作為一名老師就是在進(jìn)行創(chuàng)造。除教育之外的“提升”將給予我金錢和權(quán)力。但是我有金錢。我得到了我所享受的報(bào)酬:讀書，與人對話和問一下像“成為富有的點(diǎn)是什么”的問題。我還有權(quán)力。我有權(quán)力去啟迪，去激發(fā)才智，去提議書本，去指點(diǎn)迷津。其它權(quán)力要緊么?

11、但是教育也提供除了金錢和權(quán)力的其它東西:它提供愛。不單是學(xué)習(xí)、書本和思想的愛，也是作為一名老師感受到走進(jìn)老師生命里，然后開始呼吸的稀少學(xué)生的愛。也許愛是一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤的詞:魔術(shù)可能會(huì)適合一些。我教書是因?yàn)?，在一些開始呼吸的人的周圍，我偶爾發(fā)現(xiàn)自己抓住了與他們共同的呼吸。4 i walked out of the sunlight, opened a torn screen door and moved into the shadows, where an 87-pound figure was curled up in a wheelchair.her limbs twisted. her head

12、 rolled. we could not hug. we could not even shake hands. she could only stare at me and smile.but that smile! it cut through the gloom of the battered wooden floor, the torn couch and the cobwebbed windows.i could bear to look at nothing else, so i stared at that smile, and it was so clear, so cert

13、ain, it even cut through most of my doubts. but still, i wondered. this is sarah morris?我走出陽光，推開了破爛不堪的屏幕門，進(jìn)入陰暗的房間，一個(gè)87磅重的身影蜷縮在輪椅上。她的四肢扭曲。她的頭部歪斜.我們不能擁抱.我們甚至不能握手.她只能凝視著我微笑。但是那是微笑！它可以穿過黑暗，掩飾被擊打嚴(yán)重?fù)p壞的木地板、破爛的沙發(fā)、滿布蜘蛛網(wǎng)的窗戶。5my shock and embarrassment at finding mother in tears on wednesday was a perfect inde

14、x of how little i understood the pressures on her. sitting beside her on the couch, i began very slowly to understand.i guess we al have to fail sometime, mother said quietly. i could sense her pain and the tension of holding back the strong emotions that were interrupted by my arrival. suddenly, so

15、mething inside me turned. i reached out and put my arms around her.she broke then. she put her face against my shoulder and sobbed. i help her close and didnt try to talk. i knew i was doing what i should, what i could, and that it was enough. in that moment, feeling mothers back racked with emotion

16、, i understood for the first time her vulnerability. she was still my mother, but she was something more: a person like me, capable of fear and hurt and failure. i could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions when i had sought comfort in her arms.我在周三看到母親哭泣才讓我知道我對母親身上的的壓力知之

17、甚少,我對此十分震驚并且窘迫.跟母親坐在馬車上,我開始慢慢的明白了.我猜我們有時(shí)候都不得不失敗.母親安靜的說.我可以感受到他的傷痛和很強(qiáng)烈的情緒被我的到來打斷.突然,一些東西在我的心中出現(xiàn),我坐過去挽著我母親的胳膊.她很安靜的把他的臉靠在我的肩膀上.我抱著她并且沒有說話.我明白我要做我應(yīng)該做的并且就足夠了,在那一刻,我感受到母親的情感,我明白這是她第一次如此脆弱.她始終是我的母親,但是不僅如此：她像我一樣是個(gè)普通的人,同樣要承受傷痛和失敗.6why dont you try to sleep? ill make you up for the medicine.id rather stay aw

18、ake.after a while he said to me, you dont have to stay in here with me, papa, if it bothers you.it doesnt bother me.no, i mean you dont have to stay if its going to bother you.your temperature is all right, i said. its nothing to worry about.i dont worry, he said, but i cant keep from thinking.dont think, i said. just take it easy.im taking it easy, he said and looked straight ahead, he was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.take this with water.d