全新版大学英语第二版I-close-文章及翻译.doc

1、Unit I closeDear Aunt Pat,Today my English teacher chose essay to read to the class.I had tried to make it funny-and it worked! Everybody laughed. Even prim Mr.Fleagle had to struggle to hold back a smile.Afterwards losts of people offered me their congratulations.I was more surprised than anybody.

2、As you konw ,I used to find our English exercises rather tedious ,but this time when I scaned the list of essay title one caught my eye.It was “The Art of Eating Spaghetti.”Do you recall that night in Belleville when you made us all spaghetti? It remains vivid to me .Especically all the good-hunored

3、 arguments we had about the proper way to eat it.So thats what I wrote about. Ive had the isea off and on for some time now that one day I might take up writing .If I can turn out more work like that perhaps I really will be able to make a career of it.亲爱的姑妈，今天我的英语老师选择的作文读给全班同学。我曾试图使它有趣，它的工作！大家都笑了。甚

4、至古板弗利格尔先生不得不拼命忍住笑。后来很多人向我表示祝贺。我比任何人更惊讶。你知道，我发现我们的英语练习很乏味，但这一次当我搜索文章标题的列表吸引了我的注意。这是“吃意大利细面条的艺术。“你还记得那晚在贝尔维尔当你让我们面条？它仍然是生动的我。特别好- hunored 争论我们有要吃它的正确方式。那是我写的。我有办法，有一段时间了，有一天我会从事写作。如果我能把更多的工作，也许我真的能够做出一番事业的。Unit II Close Poor old Ed. It made me all chaked up when I heard the news about his death. He me

5、ant an anful lot to me. We had known each other practicall all oue lives,ever since we grew up in the same neighborhood. I should have writen to him before,but Im not much good at correspondence .All my available time is taken up driving the cab. Im on the go all day,drining from one destinotion to

6、another.we used to get together, but its been a long time since our last reunion. Mostly we just kept in touch with the occasional card.Id been meaning to write a proper letter for a long time,but kept postone it.Then last week I finally got round to it,only to get the bad news just as I was om my w

7、ay to the mail box. Whoever says you should never put off till tomorrow what you can do today is absolutely right. 可怜的老版，它让我所有 chaked 当我听到他去世的消息。他对我意味着很多个anful。我们知道对方的实际所有的一生，自从我们在同一个社区长大的。我应该写他，但是我不太擅长的信件。我所有的时间都开着车。我整天都忙忙碌碌的，并从一个到的。用destinotion 聚在一起，但这是我们最后的团聚后很长一段时间。我们只是在偶尔卡触摸。我已经很长一段时间写一个适当的信的含义

8、，但是一直延迟它。然后我上周终于到它，只有得到坏消息我刚 OM 我的信箱。谁说你不应该推迟到明天你今天能做的事情绝对是正确的。UnitIII Do you have the right attitude towards science? Hawking suggests that many people are highly distrustful of it. This might change if the public were better informed.But how can we bring this about? It is evident that schools are

9、important, especially if science is taught in an interesting manner. But science is changing at such a fast rate that what we learn in school is no longer sufficient to last a lifetime. What can we use to put across news of the latest ideas and developments? Popular science books can help, but the p

10、roportion of the population that read them is not very large. Hence we need to rely on television,for only television can ensure the message reaches a sufficiently large audience.你对科学有正确的态度？霍金提出，许多人都非常不信任它。这可能在公众更好地了解变化。但我们如何实现这个？很明显，学校是重要的，特别是如果科学教以有趣的方式。但科学是以这么快的速度，我们在学校里学到的东西是不足以持续一生的改变。我们用什么东西可以

11、放在新闻的最新理念和发展？科普书籍可以帮助，但人口的比例看，是不是很大。因此，我们需要依靠电视，只有电视可以确保消息到达一个足够大的观众。Unit IV Few people in Italy thought that Tony Trivisonno would be able to create such a good life for himself. The friend he had sponsored to join him was certainly amazed when he saw the farm.Yet righe from the start Trivisonno sh

12、owed a determination to get on.When Crawford turned him away, he assumed Trivisonno would not come back.But he did. Later,when Crawford gave him a job in his factory, he worked bard and showed he had the capacity to take on shilled work. With Crawfords help he managed to get a loan for a house on th

13、e basis of character alone,no down payment needed. Next he went hunting for a farm for sale.When he found one, he was able to send for his family and his dreams were ready to come ture.在意大利很少有人认为托尼能够为自己创造一个良好的生活。他曾赞助参加他朋友很惊讶当他看到农场。但人从一开始就表现出奋发向上的决心。克劳福德拒绝他时，他以为不回来。但他没有。后来，当克劳福德给他在他的工厂里工作，他工作努力，表明他已经采取的技术性工作的能力。克劳福德的帮助他设法对角色本身基础的房子得到贷款，无需首付。然后他去了一个农场出售打猎。当他发现，他能够把他的家庭和他的梦想是可以成真的。