新视角研究生英语读说写1课文翻译以及课后习题答案(10)

12、The states could hardly be higher. Our society’s conspicuous failure to sustain norms of fatherhood reveals a failure of collective memory and a collapse of moral imagination. It undermines families, neglects children, causes or aggravates our worst social problems and makes individual adult happiness, both female and male, harder to achieve.父道沦丧所带来的危险非常之在。我们的社会不能维系身为人父的准则这个明显的失败，反映了集体记忆的失败和道德想象力的崩溃。它使家庭遭到破坏，孩子受到忽视，还造成或恶化了最严重的社会问题，并且让个体成年人的幸福—包括男性和女性—更加难以实现。

13、Ultimately, this failure reflects nothing less than a culture gone awry, unable to establish the boundaries and erect the signposts that can harmonize individual happiness with collective well-being. In short, it reflects aculture that fails to “enculture” individual men and women , mothers and fathers.最终这一失败反映了一种扭曲的文化，这种文化不能确立自己的边界并树立起调和个人幸福与集体幸福的路标。简而言之，它反映的是一种不能适应特殊的男人、女人和为人父母者所处社会的文化。

14、In personal terms, the main result of this failure is the spread of a mefirst egotism hostile to all except the most puerile understandings of personal happiness. In social terms, the results are a decline in children’s well-being and a rise in male viloence, especially against women. The most significant result is our society’s steady fragmentation into atomized individuals, isolated from one another and estranged from the aspirations and realities of common membership in a family, a community, a nation bound by mutual commitment and shared memory.从个人的角度来说，这一失败的主要后果是自我优先的自我中心主义的蔓延，除了对个人幸福的最天真的理解之外，对一切都怀有敌意。从社会的角度来说，其后果是儿童生活质量的下降和男性暴力的攀升，尤其是针对女性的暴力。最为显著的后果是我们的社会不断地分裂为单个的个体。这些个体彼此隔离，并同通过相互承担义务和共享的记忆联系在一起的家庭、社会和国家中的一般成员的抱负与现实疏远起来。

15、Many voices today, including many expert voices, urge us to accept the decline of fatherhood with equanimity. Be realistic, they tell us. Divorce and out-of –wedlock childbearing are here to stay. Growing numbers of children will not have fathers. Nothing can be done to reverse the trend itself. The only solution is to remedy some of its consequeces: More help for poor children. More sympathy for single mothers. Better divorce. More child-support payments. More prisons. More programs aimed at substituting for fathers.今天很多人，包括许多专家，敦促我们平静地接受父道的沦丧这一事实。现实点吧，他们说。离婚和婚外产子仍将继续发生。越来越多的孩子们将没有父亲。没什么能扭转这一趋势本身。唯一的办法是对某些后果采取补救：对贫困儿童提供更多的援助，对单身母亲给予更多的同性。更好地处理离婚，支付更多的儿童扶养费。设立更多的限制。实施更多旨在取代父亲的方案。

16、Yet what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature always have guided us in the opposite direction. Passivity in the face of crisis is inconsistent with the American tradition. Managing decline never has been the hallmark of American expertise. In the inevitable and valuable tension between conditions and aspirations-between the social “is” and the moral “ought”-our birthright as Americans always has been our confidence that we can change for the better.”然而，亚伯拉罕?林肯称之为我们天性中美好的一面的东西总是指引着我们朝向相反的方向。在危机面前消极被动不符合美国的传统。维持下降的趋势从来不是美国专家的特点。在现实与希望—社会的“存在”与道德的“责任”—之间不可避免而又有价值的张力之下，身为美国人我们始终自信我们能变得更好。

17、Does every child need a father? Our current answer hovers between “not necessarily”and “no.” But we need not make

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permanent the lowering of our standards. We can change our minds. We can change our minds without passing new laws, spending more tax dollars or empaneling more expert commissions. Once we change our philosophy, we might well decide to pass laws, create programs or commission research. But the first and most important thing to change is not policies, but ideas.每个小孩都需要一个父亲吗？我们目前的答案介于“不一定”与“不”之间。但我们不必持久地降低标准。我们可以改变观念。不必通过新的法律、花费纳税人更多的钱或成立更多的专家委员会，我们就能改变观念。人生观一旦改变，我们极有可能做了决定，通过更多法律，设置更多的项目，进行更多的研究。但是最基本也是最重要的，不是改变政策，而是改变观念。

18、Our essential goal must be the rediscovery of the fatherhood idea: For every child, a legally and morally responsible man.我们的最根本目标必须是父道观念的重新发现：对每个儿童而言，应该有一个法律上、道德上负责任的男性。

19、If my goal could be distilled into one sentence, it would be this: Because our society is lurching in the opposite direciton, I see the Good Family Man. As the principal casualty of today’s weakening foucus on fatherhood. Yet I can not imagine a good society without him.如果把我的目标提炼成一句话，那就是：一个好的社会颂扬把家庭放在首位的男性典范。由于我们的社会正步履蹒跚地走向相反的方向，我把“居家好男人”看作是今天弱化父道的主要受害者。然而，我不能想像，没有这样的好男人会有一个美好社会。

八、Europeans Just Want to Have Fun

1、Walking across Boulevard St. Michel in Paris, on the night before Bastille Day I bumped into an old friend-an American who has lived in the city for 25 years-who told me he was taking up the tango. When I asked him why, he suggested I take a stroll along the Left Bank of the Seine, opposite Ile St. Louis and so of course I did.法国革命纪念日前夜当我穿越巴黎圣米歇尔大街时，遇见了一位在巴黎生活了25年的美国老朋友。他告诉我，他迷上了探戈。当我问他为何如此时，他建议我沿着圣路易岛对面的塞纳河左岸走一遭。当然，我照办了。

2、It was one big party. A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater. Nearby a multiethnic group was doing the meringue. Hundreds of others were tucking into …… 此处隐藏：5100字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……