新视角研究生英语读说写1课文翻译以及课后习题答案(12)

Unit two

[A] 1. 尽管已历经无数失败，凯瑟琳仍然相信她能把儿子培养成为世界冠军。

Although she has gone through numerous failures, Katherine still believes that she could make a world champion of her son.

2. 这个培训项目其实不算糟糕，但如果它的课程再实用一点就更好了。

This training program is not really a bad experience. But I would have liked it better if the courses had been a bit more practical.

3. 你应该没这么笨，竟然会打开一个可疑的附件。

You should have known better than to open a suspicious attachment.

4. 他不幸在一次意外的交通事故中丧生，留下尚未做完的实验。

Unfortunately he died from a sudden traffic accident, leaving the experiment half-done.

5. 那个街角的食品市场能改建成花园，岂不是更好吗？

Wouldn’t it be better if the food market on the street corner could be turned into a garden?

6. 尽管我竭力想讨好每一个人，但说话却好像总是不合时宜。

Much as I am eager to please everyone, I seem never be able to speak out the right thing at the right time.

7. 这个小玩意儿是送给老年人的好礼物，它能精确地跟踪血压。

This little gadget makes a good present for the elderly， for it can keep accurate track of one’s blood pressure.

8. 简总是在为下一项成就而努力，从来没有时间坐下来欣赏自己已经取得的成绩。

Jane is always working so hard to achieve the next thing and she never has time to sit back and pat herself on the back about the things that she has already done.

9. 汤姆审时度势，决定缩小企业规模，后来证明这是明智之举。

Tom sized up the situation, and decided to downsize his business, which turned out to be a wise decision.

10. 我们学校仅仅维持现状是不够的，它应该加速发展，力争成为中国最好的大学之一。

[B] It is not enough for our university to resign itself to the status quo; it should speed up its development, and make itself one of the

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best universities in China. Onward and upward was the course she set. Small progress was no excuse for feeling satisfied with yourself. People who stopped to pat themselves on the back didn’t last long. Even if you got to the top, you’d better not take it easy. “The bigger they come, the harder they fall” was one of her favorite maxims. (Para.21)

进取、进取、再进取，这是母亲给我设定的方向。小小的进步是不足以自我满足的。那些因成功而沾沾自喜停下来欣赏自己的人是不会持久的。即使你已经到达顶峰，你也最好不要放松。“爬得越高，摔得越痛”是母亲的至理名言。

It wasn’t the gin that was shouting. It was my mother. The gin only gave me the courage to announce to them that yes, by God, I had always believed in success, had always believed that without hard work and self-discipline you could never amount to anything, and didn’t deserve to. (Para.32)

其实不是杜松子酒在吼，是我的母亲在吼。酒只是借给了我勇气向他们宣布那个想法。是的，上帝可以作证，我一直相信成功，一直相信如果没有辛勤的劳动和严格的自律，一个人不可能有任何成就，也不配有成就。

Unit three

[A] 1. 当一个人处于“经历中的沙漠”——一段感到毫无出路、甚至毫无希望的时期，最重要的是不要让自己陷入荒漠之中无法自拔。

When someone is in “desert of experience”— a period of feeling barren of options, even hope, the most important thing is not to allow himself to be stranded in the desert.

2. 经济来源耗尽，还有一大家人需要供养，吉米起初想逃避，但最终靠着顽强的勇气和乐观的性格挺了过来。

With financial resources exhausted and the pressure of a big family to support, Jimmy wanted to escape at first but finally his courage and good humor saw him through.

3. 有人认为在人生的任何阶段开始一种新的生涯都为时不晚。

Someone believes that it is never too late to embark on a new career in any period of life.

4. 在经历重大打击之后，明智的做法是勇敢面对挑战，而不是逃避。

What makes sense is to face the challenge rather than run away from the troubles after suffering a significant loss.

5. 玛丽靠她在餐馆工作的微薄收入，几乎无法维持生活。

With the small income from her restaurant job, Mary could barely make ends meet.

6. 人们逐渐明白了失败并不是可怕的东西，而是人生的宝贵经历。

It dawns on people that failure is nothing to be afraid of. But it is a precious experience in life.

7. 在毕业典礼上，校长预祝同学们在事业上不断取得进步。

The president wishes every student to forge ahead on the career ladder at the commencement ceremony.

8. 科学家们正在对吸烟者和抑郁者进行研究，试图解决这些复杂的生理和心理问题。

Scientists are studying smokers and the people with depression in an attempt to sort out their complicated physical and psychological problems.

9. 大多数家长不是竭力防止失败就是竭力不让孩子们知道他们已经失败。

Most parents work hard at either preventing failure or shielding their children from the knowledge that they have failed.

10. 每个人都不可能十全十美。 因此，对自己宽容些。

No one can be perfect, so be easy on oneself.

[B] 1. Defining who is great depends on how one measures success.

对伟人的定义取决于人们如何衡量成功。

2. “There’s a tendency to think that they are endowed with something super-normal” he explained. “But what comes out of the research is that there are great people who have no amazing intellectual processes.”

“人们往往认为他们具备一些超常非凡的东西，”他解释道。“但研究表明，有的伟人并没有惊人的智力。”

3. Greatness is built on tremendous amounts of study, practice and devotion.

伟人的伟大建立在大量的学习、实践及其献身精神的基础之上。

4. Thrust into office when his country’s morale was at the lowest, Churchill rose brilliantly to lead the British people.

丘吉尔在全国上下士气最为低落的时候被推上台，并出色地领导了英国人民。

5. In a speech following the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940, he inspired the nation when he said, “We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end ... We shall never surrender.”

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