新視角研究生英語讀寫課文翻譯課后答案(編輯修改稿)

　

【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 as nothing, only stone walls of different heights on which to walk. Nothing, except for the winter when we lived at the edge of the park near the zoo.在哈蒙頓，我們擁有整整5英畝土地，其中很大一部分是再生灌木叢，里面點(diǎn)綴著藍(lán)莓。鄰居的意大利小孩會采摘藍(lán)莓的果實(shí)再賣給我們。在Lansdowne和Swartthmore我們有些植林地。但在費(fèi)城卻什么也沒有，只有高高矮矮的石頭墻，上面可以走路，其它什么都沒有了。不過冬天當(dāng)我們住在動物園附近公園邊上的時候是要除外的。1There were treasures on Mother’s dressing table, too — a Wedgwood pin dish, a little porcelain Mary and her lamb, the pale green, flowered top of a rose bowl that had broken, and Mother’s silverbacked b and brush and mirror. All these things held meaning for me. Each was — and still is — capable of evoking a rush of memories.母親的梳妝臺上擺放著一些珍藏的物品—一個韋奇伍德的放別針的小碟，一個小小的“瑪麗和她的小綿羊”的瓷器制品。一個里面鑲花但己破碎的淺綠色的玫瑰碗，以及母親那把鍍銀的梳子，刷子和鏡子。所有這些對我都深有含義，每件東西都曾經(jīng)并且仍然能夠勾起我串串回憶。1Taken altogether, the things that mattered a great deal to me when I was a child are very few when I pare them to the overloaded tables and overcrowded shelves through which children today have to thread their way. Only if they are very fortunate will they be able to weave together into memories the illassorted mass of gadgets, toys, and easily forgotten objects, objects without a past or a future, and piles of snapshots that will be replaced by new, brightly colored snapshots next year.現(xiàn)在的孩子書桌和書架上都堆滿了東西。和他們比起來，童年時對我有意義的東西加在一起也沒有幾件。但是只有當(dāng)他們非常幸運(yùn)的時候，他們記憶中才有可能出現(xiàn)那些雜亂無章的小玩意、玩具、容易被人遺忘的沒有過去和未來的東西和一疊疊第二年就會被更新更好看的照片所取代的照片。1The difficulty, it seems to me, is not — as so many older people claim— that in the past life was simple and there were fewer things, and so people were somehow better, as well as more frugal. It is, rather, that today’s children have to find new ways of anchoring the changing moments of their lives, and they have to try to do this with very little help from their elders, who grew up in an extraordinarily different world. How many of the young people who are rebelling against the tyranny of things, who want to strip their lives down to contents of a rucksack, can remember and name the things that lay on their mother’s dress table or can describe every toy and book they had as a child?我認(rèn)為問題的癥結(jié)并不是許多年紀(jì)大的人所認(rèn)為的那樣：認(rèn)為過去生活很簡單，物質(zhì)也不夠豐富，所以人們反而生活得比現(xiàn)在更好更簡樸。關(guān)鍵是現(xiàn)在的孩子不得不找到新的方式來適應(yīng)他們生活中變化的時刻，而且他們還不得不嘗試著在沒有得到家長多少幫助的情況下做到這點(diǎn)，因?yàn)榧议L們的成長環(huán)境和他們現(xiàn)在的環(huán)境大相徑庭。這些年輕人正在反抗著控制他們的專治。他們想把生活的內(nèi)容簡單到只需一個帆布背包就能容納。他們中有多少人能記得并說出他們母親梳妝臺上的東西，又有多少人能描繪孩提時所擁有的每一個玩具和每一本書呢？1It has been found that when desperate, unhappy youngsters are preparing to break away from a disordered, drugridden mune in which they have been living for months, they first gather together in one spot their few possessions and introduce a semblance of order among them. The need to define who you are by the place in which you live remains intact, even when that place is defined by a single object, like the small blue vase that used to mean home to one of my friends, the daughter of a widowed trained nurse who continually moved from one place to another. The Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert often build no walls when they camp in the desert. They simply hollow out a small space in the sand. But then they bend a slender sapling into an arch to make a doorway, an entrance to a dwelling as sacrosanct from invasion as the walled estates of the wealthy are or as Makati, in Manila, is, where watchmen guard the rich against the poor.人們已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)，當(dāng)絕望的不幸少年打算擺脫他們曾經(jīng)生活過數(shù)月的毫無秩序、充斥著毒品的社區(qū)時，他們通常會先把他們有限的財(cái)產(chǎn)聚集到某個地方并按順序擺放起來。人們需要靠自己生活的地方來定義自己的身份的做法沒有改變，即使那個地方只是用一件物品定義的。就比如我的一個朋友——她的母親是一位經(jīng)過專門訓(xùn)練的護(hù)，寡居但是需要經(jīng)常搬家——一個小小的藍(lán)色花瓶對她的含義就是家。卡拉哈里沙漠里的居民在沙漠中露營時通常是不建圍墻的。他們僅僅是在沙漠中挖出一塊小空間，然后把一棵小樹彎曲起來做成拱形當(dāng)作入口。這個入口是神圣不可侵犯的，就好比有錢人用墻圍起來的地產(chǎn)或者是在馬尼拉的馬卡提，有保安人員為富人提防窮人一樣。1Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you e back again and again. The really poignant parting is the parting that may be forever. It is this sense that every sailing may be a point of no return that haunts the peoples of the Pacific islands. On the very day I arrived in Samoa, people began to ask, “When will you leave?” When I replied, “In a year,” they sighed, “Alas, talofai” — our love to you — with the sadness of a thousand partings in their voices. 我領(lǐng)悟到一點(diǎn)：家可以是在任何地方，家也是你一次次回來的地方。真正讓人難過的分別是那種有可能的永遠(yuǎn)的分別。正是這種感覺一直困擾著南太平洋島上的人們。對他們來說，每一次出海都可能不再回來。在我到達(dá)薩摩亞群島的當(dāng)天，人們就開始問我：“你何時離開？”當(dāng)我告訴他們：“一年后”，他們就會嘆息道：“唉，talofai”，（意思是送上我們的愛），聲音帶著似乎告別無數(shù)次才會有的悲傷。因?yàn)樽≡谶@些群島的居民都曾是航海者，他們出發(fā)時只是為了一次短途航行，但大風(fēng)卻把他們的小船吹離了航線數(shù)百英里。然而即使是一艘打魚船出海，它都有可能撞上危險(xiǎn)的暗礁而使人溺水身亡，因此最短的航行都可能意味著永別。1I have seen something similar on the seacoast of Portugal, where every year for four hundred years fishermen set out in their frail boats for the fishing banks across the treacherous Atlantic and no one could tell when — or whether —they would return. Portugal is still a widow’s walk. The old women, dressed in black, still seem to be looking out to sea for the men who disappeared into the distance and an unknown fate.同樣的情形我在葡萄牙的海岸邊也見過。400年來，那里的漁民們駕著他們不堪一擊的小船穿越變化莫測的大西洋去淺水漁場。但是沒有人知道他們什么時候或者說能否回來。現(xiàn)在葡萄牙仍然像是望臺。身著黑衣的老婦們似乎仍在遠(yuǎn)眺著大海，搜尋她們消失在遠(yuǎn)方的丈夫，揣測他們未知的命運(yùn)。1In all my years of field work, each place where I have lived has bee home. Each small object I have brought with me, each arrangement on a shelf of tin cans holding beads or salt for trade or crayons for the children to draw with bees the mark of home. When it is dismantled on the last morning — a morning that is marked by the greed of those who have little and hope for a share of whatever is left behind, as well as by the grief of feeling that someone is leaving forever — on that morning, I weep. I, too, know that this departure, unlike my forays from home as a child, is likely to be forever.在我多年實(shí)地考察的工作生涯中。我所生活過的每個地方都是家。我所帶的每一樣小東西，架子上的每一件擺設(shè)裝著用來換東西的一珠子或鹽的各種錫罐。或是孩子們用來畫畫的蠟筆都成了家的印記。最終有個早晨，我的這個家消失了。那個早晨留下了窮人的貪婪的魴，他們希望分享你留下的任何東西。那個早晨也留下了悲傷的印記。因?yàn)樗麄兏械接腥思磳⒂肋h(yuǎn)離別在那個早晨，我哭了，而且我知道。這次離別，和我兒時一次次離家探險(xiǎn)有所不同，它可能是永遠(yuǎn)的。Unit 3 Martha Grace LowThe most famous endangered species on earth were the dinosaurs. They died out in one of five great extinctions that have occured in the millions of years since life began on this planet periods in wh