英語第三冊背誦部分譯文

1、Unit 1 Page 7I suspect not every one who loves the country would be happy living the way wedo .it takes a couple of special qualifies。one is a tolerance for solitu de because We are so busy and on such a tight budget，We dont entertain much。during the growing season there is no time for socializeing

2、anyway。Jim and Emily are involved in school activities，but they too spend most of their time at home。我認為，所有熱愛農村的人都不會愉快地過我們的生活。這種生活需要特殊的素質。一是忍受孤獨。我們這么忙，手續(xù)都滿了，我們很少請客。農作物生長季節(jié)根本沒有時間參加社交活動。吉米和艾米麗在學校參加過各種活動，但兩人大部分都在家。the other requirement is energy-a lot of it。the way to make self-sufficiency work on a sm

3、all scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and Other expeensive labor saving devices . insteadthe only machinery we not counting the lawn mower(own)is a little three-horse power rotary culltiviator and a 16-inch chain saw。how much longer we ll have enough energy to stay另一個要求是體力-相當大的體力。小規(guī)

4、模自給自足的方法是不購買拖拉機或其他昂貴的勞動節(jié)約機器，抵制誘惑。相反，你必須自己做。除了割草機外，我們唯一的機器是3馬力的小型旋轉耕耘機和16英寸鏈鋸。沒人知道我們還能在這里呆多久也許on here is anybody s guessperhaps for quite a while，perhaps not。when the time comes，We ll leave with a feeling of sorrow but also with a sense of pride at what We ve been able to accomlis .we should make a f

5、air profit on The sale of The place，too.webve invested about $35，000 of our own money in it，and we could just about dootbut this is not a good time to sell . once economic conditions呆了半天，恐怕不是。走的時候我們心情不好，離開了，但會為自己所做的一切感到自豪。如果我們賣掉農場，可能會賺到相當多的錢。我們自己在農場上投資了約35000美元，如果現(xiàn)在銷售，價格可能幾乎翻一番，但現(xiàn)在不是出售的好時機。但是如果經濟狀況好

6、轉，對我們這樣的農民來說Improve、however、demand for farms like ours should be strong again。wedidn t move here primarly to earn money though . we came because we wanted to improve the quality of our lives . when I watch Emily collecting eggs I N現(xiàn)場的需求還會更多。但是我們主要不是為了賺錢而搬到這里的。我們住在這里是為了提高生活質量。艾米麗傍晚收到雞蛋后，看到她和吉米一起在河里釣魚

7、，或和全家一起在果園里享受老式野餐，就知道她找到了我們一直在尋找的生活方式。Unit 2 Page 35yet this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me。Josiah Henson is but one name on A long list of courio lus men and women who together forg Ed the under grail road，A secret web of escape routes and safebetween 1820 and 1860，as many as 10

8、0，000 slave travel led the rail road to freedom。但是這里只是我肩負的繁重使命的停留地。喬賽亞亨德森只是一長串不知恐懼的男女，共同建造了這條“公共交通鐵路”，這是解放美國南部黑奴的秘密網絡。從1820年到1860年，10萬名奴隸通過這條路走向自由。In October 2000，President Clinton authorized $ 16 million for the national undersgroundrail road freedom center to honor this first greatand its about ti

9、me。for the heroes of the undergroundrail road remain too little remembered，their explooits still larly unung。I was intent on telling their stories。2000年10月，克林頓總統(tǒng)批準建立價值1600萬美元的“公共交通鐵路”自由中心，以紀念美國歷史上第一次偉大的民權斗爭。中心將于2004年在辛辛那提落成。真的是時候建立這樣的中心了。公共交通鐵路英雄們仍然默默無聞，他們的成就還很小。我想講他們的故事。Unit 3 Page 65it has been re

10、placed by dead-bolt locks，security chains，電子alarm systems and trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard fiins相反，有防盜鎖、防護鏈、電子警報系統(tǒng)、連接警察局或私人保安公司的警報裝置。郊區(qū)的很多人在露臺上安裝了玻璃滑門，內部安裝了非常講究的鐵棒，沒有人能打開門。It is not uncommon，in the most pleasant of homes，to see pasted on the windows small notices announc

11、ing that the premises are under surveillant在最幽靜的房子里也經?？吹酱皯羯腺N著小告示，據說本家由任何安全機關或任何保安公司負責監(jiān)督。The lock is the new symbol of America .indeed，A large insurance company featured showing how much at risk we are，but A picture of A childs bicycle with the now-usual padlock are鎖成為美國的新象征。實際上，一家大型保險公司最近的公益廣告沒有用圖表說

12、明我們有多危險，而是用了嬰兒車的照片，車身現(xiàn)在到處都掛著鎖。The ad pointed out that，yes，it is the insurance companies that pay for stolen goods，but who is going to pay for what the new atmosphere ofwho is going to make the psychic payment for the transformation of America from the land of the free to the land of the lock？廣告是對的。實

13、際上，保險公司提出了失竊的要求，但是誰會補償相互不信任，擔心這種新的氛圍會對我們的生活方式產生什么影響呢？誰來補償美國從自由國家轉變?yōu)殒i定國家的精神補償？For that is what has happened。we have become So used to defending ourselves against the new atmosphere of American life，So used to putting up barriers，that we have not had因為這是現(xiàn)狀。我們在美國生活的新氣氛中太習慣了保護自己，習慣了成為障礙的設定，無暇考慮這一切意味著什么。

14、Unit 5 Page 141Always the college professor，my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too sentimental，so I knew how moved he was to write me thas作為大學教授的爸爸特別注意完全不要使用過于感情化的文章，所以教了很多年輕人后，知道現(xiàn)在認為自己在最優(yōu)秀的學生中也包括自己的兒子的時候，有多感動。the reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a simple，Old-fashioned principal had ended with schools unde