新视角研究生英语读说写1课文翻译以及课后习题答案(8)

6、What they should say is “Don’t be afraid to fail!” Failure isn’t fatal. Countless people have had a bout with it and come out stronger as a result. Many have even come out famous. History is strewn with eminent dropouts, “loners”who followed their own trail, not worrying about its odd twists and turns because they had faith in their own sense of direction. To read their biographies is always exhilarating, not only because they beat the system, but because their system was better than the one that they beat.他们应该说不要害怕失败！失败并不致命。无数人曾失败过，也因此而变得更加强大。有些甚至成了名人。历史上充满了卓越的中途退出者以及沿着自己的道路前行的“孤独者”。他们不惧怕偶尔的波折，因为他们坚信自己的方向感。阅读他们的传记总是令人振奋，这不仅因为他们打破了旧体制，更因为他们创立的体制要优于他们打破的。

7、Luckily, such rebels still turn up often enough to prove that individualism, though badly threatened, is not extinct. Much has been written, for instance, about the fitful scholastic career of Thomas P. F.Hoving, New York’s former Parks Commissioner and now director of the leaving schools as if they were motels, often at the request of the management. Still, he must have learned something during those unorthodox years, for he dropped in again at the top of his profession.

幸运的是，类似的叛逆举动时常出现，这足以证明虽然个人主义受到严重威胁，但却没有销声匿迹。例如，人们经常提及托马斯P.F.洪维的独特学术生涯。他是前纽约公园委员，现任大都会艺术博特馆长。洪维是极期限典型的中途退出者。他出入学校好比进出汽车旅馆，当然这主要是应学校管理层的要求。然而在那些接受非正规教育的岁月里，他一定学到了一些东西。因为他以退为进，并且到达了事业的顶峰。

8、His case reminds me of another boyhood-that of Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the most popular literary hero of the postwar period. There is nothing accidental about the grip that this dropout continues to hold on the affections of an engaging shambles of our “goal-oriented society,”so gratified our secret belief that the “phonies”are in power and the good guys up the creek. Whether Holden has also reached the top of his chosen field today is one of those speculations that delight fanciers of good fiction. I speculate that he has. Holden Caulfield, incidentally, is now thirty-six.他的事迹让我想起了J.D塞林格《麦田守望者》中何顿?考尔菲德的少年时代。考尔菲曾是战后最受欢迎的文学英雄形象。这个中途退出者受到整整一代美国人的青睐绝非偶然。其他任保人，不管是真实存在的还是杜撰的，都没有给我们这个“目标明确的社会”造成如此迷人的混乱，也不曾如此满足我们某种隐蔽的思想，即“假冒者”当权，有能力者处于困境。现在何顿是否到达他所选择领域的巅峰就成了一个绝佳的幻想题材，许多好小说的追捧者都对此感兴趣。我想他已到达事业之巅。顺便提一句，何顿?考尔菲德现年36岁。

9、I’m not urging everyone to go out and fail just for the sheer therapy of it, or to quit college just to clddle some vague discontent. Obviously it’s better to succeed than to flop, and in general a long education is more helpful than a shorter one. (Thanks to my own education, for example, I can tell George Eliot from T. S. Eliot, I can handle the pluperfect tense in French, and I know that Caesar beat the Helvetii because he had enough frumentum.) I only mean that failure isn’t bad in itself, or success automatically good.我并不是要敦促大家由于失败具有疗效而去选择失败，或者仅仅因为一点不满就退学。很明显，成功优于失败。一般来说，接受长期教育要比短期教育更有帮助。（比如，由于我接受了教育才能分清乔治?艾略特，才能掌握法语中的过去完成时，才能清楚恺撒打败赫尔维蒂人是因为他有足够的玉米）。我只是说失败本身并不是好事，或者说成功并非必然是好事。

10、Fred Zinnemann, who has directed some of Hollywood’s most honored movies, was asked by a reporter, when A Man for All Seansons won every prize, about his previous film, Behold a Pale Horse, which was a box-office disaster. “I don’t feel any obligation to be successful,” Zinnemannn replied. “Success can be dangrous-you feel you know it all. I’ve learned a great deal from my failures.”A similar point was mad by Richard Brooks about his ambitious money loser, Lord Jim, Recalling the three years of his life that went into it, talking almost with elation about the troubles that befell his unit in Cambodia, Brooks told me that he learned more about his craff from this considerable failure than from his many earlier hits.弗雷德?金尼曼曾导演过多部好莱坞最受推崇的电影。在《四季之人》获得各种奖项之时，有记者问及他以前拍过的票房毒药《十面埋伏擒蛟龙》。金尼曼回答说，我没有感觉有任何责任非成功不可。成功或说是危险的—你会觉得你无所不知。我从自己的失败中学会了很多东西。曾对影片《吉姆大公》投入

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巨资却失败的理查德?布鲁克斯也有类似的观点。回想起为此片花费的3年时间，布鲁克斯几乎是兴高采烈地谈论着他位于柬埔寨的剧组所遭遇的困难。他告诉我，他从这次失败中学到的技能比他从早期限拍摄的成功之作中学得要多。

11、It’s a point, of course, that applies throught the arts. Writers, playwrights, painters and composers work in the expectation of periodic defeat, but they wouldn’t keep going back into the arena if they thought it was the end of world. It isn’t the end of the world. For an artist-and perhaps for anybody- it is the only way to grow.当然，这种观点贯穿于艺术始终。作家，剧作家，画家，作曲家预计到他们的工作台会出现周期性的失败。如果他们认为失败是世界末日的话，他们就不会重回他们的工作领域。失败并非世界末日。对艺术家—或者对任何人—来说，失败是成长的惟一途径。

12、Today’s younger generation seems to know that this is true, seems willing to take the risks in life that artists take in art. “Society,” needless to say, still has the upper hand-it sets the goals and condemns as a failure everybody who won’t play. But the dropouts and the hippies are not as afraid of failure as their parents and grandparents. This could mean, as their elders might say, that they are just plumb lazy, secure in the comforts of an affluent state, It could also mean, however, that they just don’t buy …… 此处隐藏：5171字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……