課文翻譯大學(xué)體驗(yàn)英語(yǔ)三

1、Unit 7 Drug AbusePassage A Agony from EcstasyI hear a lot of people talking about Ecstasy, calling it a fun, harmless drug. All I can think is, "if they only knew." I grew up in a small, rural town in Pennsylvania. It's one of those places where everyone knows your name,

2、 what you did, what you ate and so on. I was a straight-A student and one of the popular kids, liked by all the different crowds. Drugs never played a part in my life. They were never a question - I was too involved and focused on other things. I always dreamed of moving to New York City to study ac

3、ting and pursue a career in theater. My dream came true when my mom brought me to the city to attend acting school. As you can imagine, it was quite a change from home. I was exposed to new people, new ideas and a completely new way of life - a way of life that exposed me to drugs. Most of the peopl

4、e that I met in the acting school had already been doing drugs for years. I felt that by using drugs, I would become a part of their world and it would deepen my friendships with them to new levels. I tried pot, even a little cocaine, but it was Ecstasy that changed my life forever. I remember the f

5、eeling I had the first time I did Ecstasy: complete and utter bliss. I could feel the pulse of the universe. It was as if I had unlocked some sort of secret world; it was as if I'd found heaven. And I wondered how anything that made you feel so good could possibly be bad. As time went by, things

6、 changed. I graduated, and began to use drugs, especially Ecstasy, more frequently. As I did, I actually started to look down on those who did not. I surrounded myself only with those who did. I had gone from a girl who never used drugs to a woman who couldn't imagine life without them. In five

7、months, I went from a person living somewhat responsibly while pursuing my dream to a person who didn't care about a thing - and the higher I got, the deeper I sank into a dark, lonely place. When I did sleep, I had nightmares and the shakes. I had pasty skin, a throbbing head and the beginnings

8、 of paranoia, but I ignored it all, thinking it was normal until the night I thought I was dying. On this night, I was sitting on the couch with my friends, watching a movie and feeling normal when suddenly, I felt as if I needed to jump out of my skin. Racing thoughts, horrible images and illusions

9、 crept through my mind. I thought I was seeing the devil, and I repeatedly asked my friends if I was dead. On top of all this, I felt as if I was having a heart attack. Somehow, I managed to pick up the telephone and call my mom in the middle of the night, telling her to come get me. She did, pullin

10、g me out of my apartment the next morning. I didn't know who I was or where I was as my mom drove me back to my family's hospital in Pennsylvania. I spent most of the drive curled up in the back seat while my younger sister tried to keep me calm. I spent the next 14 days in the hospital in a

11、 state of extreme confusion. This is what Ecstasy gave me - but it didn't stop there. My doctors performed a scan of my brain. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the results. The scan showed several dark marks on the image of my brain, and my doctors told me those were areas - areas that

12、carry out memory functions - where the activity of my brain had been changed in some way. Since I saw that scan, my life has been an uphill crawl. I hear people say Ecstasy is a harmless, happy drug. There's nothing happy about the way that "harmless" drug chipped away at my life. Ecst

13、asy took my strength, my motivation, my dreams, my friends, my apartment, my money and most of all, my sanity. I worry about my future and my health every day. I have many mountains ahead of me, but I plan to keep climbing because I'm one of the lucky ones. I've been given a second chance, a

14、nd that's not something that everyone gets. 搖頭丸苦海無(wú)崖我聽(tīng)到許多人談?wù)摀u頭丸，說(shuō)它是一種奇妙無(wú)害的麻醉品。對(duì)此，我只能暗自感嘆，"要是他們知道就好了。" 我是在賓夕法尼亞的一個(gè)鄉(xiāng)間小鎮(zhèn)長(zhǎng)大的。在那個(gè)地方，你叫什么名字，你是干什么的，你吃的是什么，以及諸如此類(lèi)的事兒別人都了如指掌。那時(shí)，我是一個(gè)門(mén)門(mén)皆?xún)?yōu)的好學(xué)生，是大家公認(rèn)的一個(gè)乖孩子，人人都喜歡我。毒品與我的生活中根本不沾邊，從來(lái)也沒(méi)去想過(guò)-我別的事情還忙不過(guò)來(lái)咧。 我一直夢(mèng)想到紐約市去學(xué)表演，然后從事舞臺(tái)表演生涯。后來(lái)，我媽帶我到那座城市去上表演藝術(shù)學(xué)校，實(shí)現(xiàn)了我的夢(mèng)

15、想。你能想象得到，這與家里相比可是大不一樣。我接觸到了許多新朋友，新觀(guān)念，接觸到了一種全新的生活方式-這種生活方式也使我開(kāi)始接觸到了毒品。我在藝術(shù)學(xué)校遇到的那些人多數(shù)都已經(jīng)有多年的吸毒經(jīng)歷。當(dāng)時(shí)我覺(jué)得通過(guò)吸毒我可以真正融入他們那個(gè)世界，可以加深我與他們的友情。我試過(guò)大麻，甚至還試過(guò)一點(diǎn)可卡因，不過(guò)，永遠(yuǎn)改變了我的生活的是搖頭丸。 我還記得我第一次用搖頭丸時(shí)的感覺(jué)：渾身上下飄然若仙。我甚至感受到了宇宙的脈搏，宛如某種神奇世界的鐵鎖被我豁然開(kāi)啟，讓我頓入天界一般。我當(dāng)時(shí)心想，能夠讓人感到如此美妙的東西怎么可能不好呢？隨著時(shí)間的推移，情況發(fā)生了變化。我畢業(yè)后開(kāi)始越來(lái)越頻繁地吸用毒品，尤其是搖頭丸。我

16、自己吸毒并開(kāi)始看不起那些不吸毒的人。我成天與吸毒者為伍。我已經(jīng)從一個(gè)不沾毒品的女孩變成了一個(gè)沒(méi)有毒品就難以度日的女人。僅五個(gè)月的時(shí)間，我就從一個(gè)追求夢(mèng)想，對(duì)生活還有些責(zé)任感的人，變成了一個(gè)對(duì)一切都無(wú)所謂的庸人。而且，我走得越遠(yuǎn)，我越發(fā)陷于黑暗孤寂的深淵。我一旦入睡，便會(huì)噩夢(mèng)連連，顫抖不已。我膚色如灰，頭痛欲炸，精神也開(kāi)始錯(cuò)亂起來(lái)。對(duì)此我全然沒(méi)有理會(huì)，以為這一切都是正常的，直到有一天夜晚我覺(jué)得我就要死了。 那天夜晚，我正和幾個(gè)朋友坐在長(zhǎng)沙發(fā)上看電影，起初還感覺(jué)正常，可是突然我覺(jué)得仿佛想要從自己的軀殼里蹦出來(lái)似的，各種各樣的念頭、恐怖無(wú)比的景象和撲朔離迷的幻影在腦海里閃爍。當(dāng)時(shí)我覺(jué)得我撞見(jiàn)了魔鬼。

17、我不停地問(wèn)朋友們我是不是已經(jīng)死了。在發(fā)作的高峰，我感覺(jué)我仿佛象心臟病發(fā)作了一般。半夜時(shí)候，我總算拿起了電話(huà)，撥通了我媽媽的號(hào)碼，叫她趕緊來(lái)接我。第二天一早她來(lái)了，把我從公寓里拽了出來(lái)。在我媽開(kāi)車(chē)帶我回賓夕法尼亞州我們的家庭醫(yī)院的時(shí)候，我迷迷糊糊，忘了自己是誰(shuí)，也不知道自己身在何處。路上的大部分時(shí)間，我都卷曲著身子，倒在汽車(chē)的后座上，而我妹妹一直在盡力使我安靜下來(lái)。在一種極度的迷茫狀態(tài)之中，我在病房里度過(guò)了14天。這就是搖頭丸給我?guī)?lái)的結(jié)果還不止如此。醫(yī)生們給我的大腦作了一次掃描檢查。當(dāng)我看到檢查結(jié)果的時(shí)候，我簡(jiǎn)直不敢相信自己的眼睛。掃描顯示我的腦電圖上呈現(xiàn)好幾處黑斑。醫(yī)生們告訴我說(shuō)，這些黑斑出

18、現(xiàn)的區(qū)域正是大腦執(zhí)行記憶功能的區(qū)域，表明我的大腦活動(dòng)已經(jīng)產(chǎn)生了某種病變。自打我看到那張腦電圖之后，我的生活就如爬坡上坎似的變得艱難起來(lái)。我總是聽(tīng)到人們說(shuō)，搖頭丸是一種令人愉悅的無(wú)害麻醉品。然而當(dāng)這種”無(wú)害”之藥一點(diǎn)一點(diǎn)地侵蝕了我的生命的時(shí)候，哪里還有愉悅。搖頭丸奪走了我的體力，我的追求，我的夢(mèng)想，我的朋友，我的公寓，我的錢(qián)財(cái)，而最為重要的是，它奪走了我的心靈。我每天都在擔(dān)心自己的未來(lái)和健康。我的前面有許多高山險(xiǎn)阻。但是，我要不斷地翻越攀登，因?yàn)槲沂菫閿?shù)不多的幸運(yùn)兒之一。我得到了第二次機(jī)會(huì)，而這并不是人人都能得到的。Passage B Drug WarriorsBilly W

19、hite was wearing a jacket with the word "POLICE" printed on the back, and jeans. His piece was a Glock, a nine-millimeter pistol - New Haven Police Department standard issue. Around him, White recognized state cops, special agents from the DEA, officers from the U.S. Marshal's office,

20、FBI special agents, and other police detectives like himself. There were anti-drug case agents from the ATF, and intelligence officers from the police departments of nearby cities. White looked around. These were his people, his soldiers, the ones who would be by his side on the front lines. This wa

21、s the New Haven Drug Gang Task Force, and Lieutenant Billy White was in charge of it. It was 3 a.m., and most of the men had been up since the morning before. But none of them would sleep that night either. They had a big day ahead of them. Hours earlier, White had been in his office, preparing warr

22、ants. Meanwhile, the New Haven Airport had quietly filled with federal agents, flying in from New York and Washington, DC. They had then gathered at the western corner of the city. The team's field headquarters that night would be an empty building on the very edge of town. The 300-man team of f

23、ederal agents, state police, and local police had gathered to discuss the next step in the war on drugs. White listened as his friend Kevin Kline, an FBI special agent and one of the original members of the task force, was speaking to the law enforcement army. Kline laid out the battle plan for the

24、morning's drug bust: the agents were to organize themselves into squads, forming arrest teams and back-up crews. The teams assigned to carry out raids received arrest packets containing the names, addresses, and photographs of each suspect, as well as search warrants issued by the federal court.

25、 At 5:30 a.m., the teams were to split up, each reporting to their designated sites to prepare for the final stage of the operation: making the arrests. As he listened, White asked himself the same question that everyone else in the room must have been thinking. Could the team pull off a successful

26、bust? Born and raised in New Haven, White still remembered a time when New Haven was considered a peaceful town. In 1960, only six murders, four rapes, and 16 robberies were reported. But soon, the drug gangs set up shop, and the turf wars began. With the gangs came gang violence: drive-by shootings

27、, innocent victims killed, murders in broad daylight. In 1990, there were 31 murders, 168 rapes, and 1 784 robberies. "Back then it was hell," White recalls. "I thought, 'What are we doing?'" At exactly 6 a.m., the task force executed a coordinated sweep, arresting 29 out

28、 of the 32 people on the list. The arrests in the New Haven area all proceeded without incident. Afterwards, FBI special agent Robert Grispino was struck by the cops' intense emotion. "It was quite a sight," he told reporters. "With some of the New Haven cops, there were tears in

29、their eyes." Billy White, of course, was among them. "We got some big fish, too, guys that handled multi, multi, multi kilos," says White. Of the 29 arrested, about 13 were Colombian citizens. The task force had successfully arrested many of the importers and distributors that had con

30、nections with source companies. "The core organization that they arrested here in New Haven had direct connections with Miami, San Juan, and Cali," says Grispino. Meanwhile, the entire Cali cartel leadership has been arrested by a Colombian police squad. Eight of the top nine Cali drug lor

31、ds have given themselves up to Colombian authorities or been killed in gunfights with police. Today, New Haven residents are once again venturing out into the streets. The neighborhoods feel safer. In fact, the task force's operations have proven to be so successful that they have attracted nati

32、onal attention. As for Billy White and his team, they continue to do what they have always done. "I think we can win the war on drugs," says White. "I'll probably be gone by then. But I think someday, we'll work our way out of a job, and there won't be any more gangs left

33、in this city."  緝毒斗士比利·懷特上身穿著一件背后印有”警察”字樣的夾克外衣，下身穿著一條牛仔褲。他攜帶的手槍是一支9毫米口徑的格勞克手槍這是紐黑文警察局的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)配置。在懷特周?chē)?，他看出有州警察，麻醉品管制局的特工，美?guó)地區(qū)警察局的警官，聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局特工以及其他一些跟他一樣的警探。在場(chǎng)的還有煙酒及火器管理局的反毒品調(diào)查人員以及附近幾座城市警局的情報(bào)官員。懷特四下環(huán)視了一番：這就是他的人，他的戰(zhàn)士們，那些將與他并肩戰(zhàn)斗在前線(xiàn)的人。這就是紐黑文打擊販毒集團(tuán)別動(dòng)隊(duì)，而帶隊(duì)的便是比利·懷特警官。此刻是凌晨3點(diǎn)時(shí)分，大多數(shù)警員從頭一天早上起床后一直干到現(xiàn)在。然而，他們今晚仍然誰(shuí)也別想合眼。今天他們將有重大的行動(dòng)。數(shù)小時(shí)以前，懷特就在辦公室里備好了逮捕證。與此同時(shí)，紐黑文機(jī)場(chǎng)也悄悄地集結(jié)了大批從紐約和華盛頓