新視野大學(xué)英語(yǔ)讀寫教程(第二版)第一冊(cè)u(píng)nit6_passage翻譯

1、新視野大學(xué)英語(yǔ)讀寫教程(第二版)第一冊(cè)u(píng)nit6_passage翻譯【Unit6_passage_ a.】Saturday, April 7Steve and I hauled trash for four solid hours continuously, except for about five minutes when we stopped to talk. My shoulder hurt wickedly each time I put another full barrel on it, and my legs occasionally trembled as I was hea

2、ding to the street, but the rest of me said, Go, trashman, go.I could not have imagined there would be joy in this. Dump. Lift. Walk. Lift. Walk. The hours flew by. Saturday meant most adults were at home on the route. So were school-age children. I thought this might mean more exchanges as I made t

3、he rounds today. Many people were outdoors working in their gardens or greenhouses. Most looked approachable enough. There wasnt time for lengthy talks but enough to exchange greetings that go with civilized ways. I was shocked to find that this wasnt the case.I said hello in quite a few yards befor

4、e the message registered that this wasnt normally done. Occasionally, I got a direct reply from someone who looked me in the eye, smiled, and asked, How are you? or Isnt this a nice day? I felt human then.But most often the response was either nothing at all, or a surprised stare because I had spoke

5、n. One woman in a housecoat was startled as I came around the corner of her house. At the sound of my greeting, she gathered her housecoat tightly about her and retreated quickly indoors. I heard the lock click. Another woman had a huge, peculiar animal in her yard.I asked what it was. She stared at

6、 me. I thought she was deaf and spoke louder. She seemed frightened as she turned coldly away. Steve raged spontaneously about these things on the long ride to the dump.The way most people look at you, youd think a trashman was a monster. Say hello and they stare at you in surprise. They dont realiz

7、e were human.One lady put ashes in her trashcan. I said we couldnt take them. She said, Who are you to say what goes? Youre nothing but a trashman. I told her, Listen, lady, Ive got an IQ of 137, and I graduated near the top of my high school class. I do this for the money, not because its the only

8、work I can do.I want to tell them, Look, I am as clean as you are, but it wouldnt help. I dont tell anyone Im a garbageman. I say Im a truck driver. My family knows, but my wifes folks dont.If someone comes right out and asks, Do you drive for a garbage company? I say yes. I believe were doing a ser

9、vice people need, like being a police officer or a fire fighter. Im not ashamed of it, but I dont go around boasting about it either.A friend of my wife yelled at her kids one day when they ran out to meet a trash truck. Stay away from those trashmen. Theyre dirty.I was angry with her. Theyre as goo

10、d as we are, I told her. You seem to have a lot of sympathy for them, she said.Yes, I do. But I never told her why.I had originally planned to stay at this employment for only two days but now Im going to continue. The exercise is great; the lifting gets easier with every load, even if my shoulder m

11、uscles are sore. I become faster and neater each day. Im outdoors in clean air. And, contrary to what people think, I dont get dirty on the job. I have decided, too, to keep saying hello in peoples yards. It doesnt do any harm, and it still feels right. Frankly, Im proud. Im doing an essential task.

12、 I left this country a little cleaner than I found it this morning. Not many people can say that each night. John Gardner wrote that a society, which praises its philosophers and looks down on its plumbers, is in for trouble. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water, he warns. He might hav

13、e gone a step further and called for respect for both our economists and our trashmen; otherwise, theyll both leave garbage behind.4月7日，星期六我和史蒂夫已拖運(yùn)垃圾整整四個(gè)小時(shí)了，中間只停下來(lái)說(shuō)了約五分鐘的話。每次我將滿滿的一桶垃圾扛上肩，肩膀就痛得厲害，有時(shí)候扛著垃圾朝街上走，腿都打顫，可我心里卻對(duì)自己說(shuō)：“挺住，垃圾工，要挺住?！蔽以揪蜎](méi)有想過(guò)這工作會(huì)有什么快樂(lè)可言。倒、扛、走、扛、走。時(shí)間過(guò)得飛快。星期六意味著一路上大多數(shù)成年人會(huì)呆在家里。上學(xué)的孩子也一

14、樣。我心里琢磨，這可能意味著我挨家挨戶收垃圾時(shí)可以和人們多搭上幾句話了。很多人在花園里或花房里干活兒。多數(shù)人看上去是可以說(shuō)說(shuō)話的。雖沒(méi)有工夫聊很久，但問(wèn)候幾句以示禮貌還是有時(shí)間的。但我吃驚地發(fā)現(xiàn)并不是這么回事。直到我在幾家院子里問(wèn)候了幾次以后，才意識(shí)到這么做是不常見的。偶爾，有人也會(huì)看著我，微笑一下，對(duì)我說(shuō)一聲“你好”，或者“今天天氣真好”。這時(shí)，我還是感到有人情味兒?？啥鄶?shù)情況下，人們的反應(yīng)要么是不理我，要么是因?yàn)槲疫@個(gè)垃圾工竟然也和他們說(shuō)話而驚訝地盯著我看。一個(gè)身著家常便服的婦女見我繞過(guò)她家的拐角，臉上露出驚訝之色。聽到我向她打招呼，她就趕緊用衣服把自己嚴(yán)嚴(yán)實(shí)實(shí)地遮了起來(lái)，并匆忙退回屋里。

15、我還聽到咔嗒一聲門被鎖上了。另一個(gè)婦女，院子里養(yǎng)了一只巨大古怪的動(dòng)物。我問(wèn)她那是什么動(dòng)物，她兩眼盯著我。我以為她耳背，所以提高了聲音。她好像給嚇著了似的，冷冷地轉(zhuǎn)身走了。這兒離垃圾場(chǎng)有很長(zhǎng)一段路，在駕車去垃圾場(chǎng)的路上，史蒂夫氣憤地?cái)⒄f(shuō)著這些事情?！皬亩鄶?shù)人看你的那種眼光，就知道在他們眼里垃圾工是怪物。如果你對(duì)他們問(wèn)聲好，他們就驚奇地看著你。他們根本沒(méi)想到我們也是人。”“有個(gè)女人往垃圾箱里倒煙灰。我說(shuō)，我們這樣沒(méi)法裝運(yùn)。她說(shuō)，我倒什么你管得著嗎，你算什么東西? 你不過(guò)是個(gè)垃圾工罷了。我說(shuō)，聽著，太太，我的智商是137，高中畢業(yè)時(shí)是班上的尖子生。我干這活是為了掙錢，不是因?yàn)槲抑荒芨蛇@個(gè)?！薄拔艺嫦?/p>

16、對(duì)他們說(shuō)，你瞧瞧，我跟你們一樣干凈?？蛇@沒(méi)用。我從不對(duì)任何人說(shuō)我是垃圾工。我說(shuō)我是卡車司機(jī)。我家里人知道，可我妻子的家人不知道。如果有人正好碰到，問(wèn)你是給垃圾公司開車嗎?我就說(shuō)是。我相信我們做的事是人們所需要的，就像當(dāng)警察或者消防隊(duì)員一樣。我并不為此而感到見不得人，可我也不會(huì)到處去吹噓自己的工作?！薄坝幸惶?，我妻子的一個(gè)朋友見到她孩子從家里跑出來(lái)看垃圾車，她就大聲叫嚷起來(lái)，離那些垃圾工遠(yuǎn)點(diǎn)，他們身上臟。我很生她的氣。我說(shuō)，那些垃圾工和我們一樣干凈。你好像很同情他們似的，她說(shuō)。是的，我是很同情他們?？晌覐臎](méi)有告訴她這是為什么。”這活兒我原先只打算干兩天，可現(xiàn)在我要干下去。這可鍛煉人呢，雖然肩部肌

17、肉酸痛，可我扛垃圾桶越扛越得心應(yīng)手了。我越干越快，越干越利索。在室外干活還可以呼吸新鮮空氣，而且完全不像人們認(rèn)為的那樣，我干的活兒其實(shí)很干凈。我還決定繼續(xù)在人家的院子里向人們說(shuō)“你好”。這不會(huì)有什么壞處，而且感覺(jué)依舊不錯(cuò)。說(shuō)實(shí)話，我感到驕傲，我在做一項(xiàng)必不可少的工作。每晚工作結(jié)束時(shí)，我發(fā)現(xiàn)這個(gè)國(guó)家比早上更干凈了。并不是許多人每晚都能這樣說(shuō)的。約翰加德納曾寫道，一個(gè)只贊揚(yáng)哲學(xué)家而蔑視管道工的社會(huì)必定會(huì)出現(xiàn)麻煩。他警告說(shuō)：“這個(gè)社會(huì)的管道和理論都會(huì)出問(wèn)題。”他也許應(yīng)該進(jìn)一步要求人們既尊重經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家又尊重垃圾工；不然的話，他們都會(huì)在身后留下垃圾?！綰nit6_passage_ b】He worked

18、himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 A.M. Sunday morning.The article about his death didnt say that, of course. It said he died of a heart attack, but every one of his friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. He was a perfect Type A, addicted to working, they said to each other and s

19、hook their headsand thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived. This man, Phil, who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 A.M. Sunday morningon his day offwas at work. He had devoted the last eighteen years of his life to that work. He was fifty-one years old and a vice

20、-president.More precisely, he was one of six vice-presidents, and one of three that might conceivablyif the president died or retired soon enoughhave been promoted to the top spot.Phil could not afford a rest. He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when h

21、is own company had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He did not divide his time with outside interests, unless, of course, you consider his monthly game of golf. To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk.He was, of course, overweight and had high blo

22、od pressure.On Saturdays, Phil wore a sports jacket to the office instead of a suit because it was the weekend. He had a lot of people working under him, maybe sixty, and most of them liked and admired him most of the time. Three of them will be seriously considered for his job. The article ignored

23、this information. But it did list his survivors quite accurately.He is survived by his wife, Helen, forty-eight years old, a good woman of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering. She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his w

24、ork years ago when the children were small. A company friend said, I know how much you will miss him.And she answered, I already have. Missing him all these years, she had given up a part of herself, which had cared too much for the man. She would be well taken care of. His dearly beloved eldest of

25、the dearly beloved children is a hard-working executive in a manufacturing firm down South. The day before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood talking to people and trying to get to know his father better. The neighbors were embarrassed, and pretended to know him better than they did. His s

26、econd child is a girl, who is twenty-four and newly married. She lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had very little to say to each other. The youngest child is twenty, a boy, a high-school graduate and like a lot of

27、his friends, he is content to do enough odd jobs to stay in grass and food. His fathers work did not suit him. Still, he was the one who tried to reach his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. He was his fathers favorite.Over the last two years, Phil stayed up nights worr

28、ying about the boy. The boy once said, My father and I only board here. At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased had meant so much to the company and would be missed and hard to replace. The widow couldnt bear to lo

29、ok him in the eye. She was afraid he would read her bitterness and, after all, she would need him to straighten out their financesthe stock options and all that. Phil was overweight, always wound up and worked too hard. If he wasnt at the office, he was worried about it. He was a natural choice for

30、a heart attack. You could have picked him out in a minute from a line-up. So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 A.M. Sunday morning, no one was really surprised. By 5:00 P.M. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun, discreetly of course, with care and ta

31、ste, to make inquiries about his replacementone of three men. He asked around, Whos been working the hardest?星期天凌晨三點(diǎn)整，他終于把自己累死了。當(dāng)然，訃告并沒(méi)有這么說(shuō)，只說(shuō)他死于心臟病。但是他的朋友和熟人很快就明白了是怎么回事。他是個(gè)典型的A型人，工作成癮。相互間他們這么說(shuō)，搖著頭，并且沉思五或十分鐘，反思他們的生活方式。此君叫菲爾，星期天凌晨三點(diǎn)整，把自己累死了。那天是他的休息日，可他卻在工作。他把自己生命中的最后18年獻(xiàn)給了那項(xiàng)工作。他51歲，是公司的一位副總裁。更確切地說(shuō)，他是六位副總裁之