1、Unit1 1. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy. =It is no easy job to educate a people who have been over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other peopl
2、e. 2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against long night of physical slavery. =If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to
3、 take part in the struggle against racial discrimination. 3. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation. = The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro themsel
4、ves, only when a Negro is fully convinced that he/she is a man/woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off manacles of self-abnegation and become free. 4. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that sta
5、nds against love. = Power in its best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice its best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power. 5. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individuals a
6、bility and talents. =At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how wealthy he was. 6. The absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber. =A person was poor because he was lazy and not hardworking and lacked a sense of right an
7、d wrong. 7. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by animal necessity. =This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by salve-drivers or they need to work in order to be fed
8、 and clothed. 8. When the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated. =When the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has is done away with. 9. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the m
9、eaning of ultimate reality. =Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teaching of God, only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven. 10. Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. =Let us be di
10、ssatisfied until American no longer only takes about racial equality but is unwilling to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination. Translation 1. A white lie is better than a black lie.一个无关紧要的谎言总比一个恶意的谎言要好。 2. To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affi
11、rmation of his own Olympian manhood. 为了挫败各种蓄意培植的低人一等的心态，黑人必须直起腰来宣布自己高贵的人格。 3. with a spirit straining toward true self -esteem, the Negro must throw off the manacles of self-abnegation 黑人必须一种竭尽全力自尊自重的精神，大胆抛弃自我克制的枷锁。 4. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive,
12、and love without power is sentimental and anemic.必须懂得没有爱的权利是毫无节制的、易被滥用的，而没有权利的爱则是多愁善感、脆弱无力的。 6. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.正是这种邪恶的权利和没有权势的道义的冲突构成了我们时代的主要危机。 7. Now early in this century this proposal would h
13、ave been greeted with ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility. 在本世纪之初，这种建议会受到嘲笑和谴责，认为它对主动性和责任感其负面作用。 8. The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriched literature and elevates thou
14、ght, is not done to secure a living.事实上，人们从事改善人类出镜的工作，从事传播知识、增强实力、丰富文学财富以及升华思想的工作并不是为了谋生。 9. it can spend billions of dollars to put Go ds children on their own two feet right here on earth.它能够花费几十亿美元帮助上帝的孩子自立于这个世界。 10. Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the viol
15、ent minority had the sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority.除非主张暴力的少数人得到大多数人的同情与支持，不和他们对抗，否则，暴力革命很少或者说几乎没有成功的。 11. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but is bends towards justice. 我们要懂得道义的苍穹长又长，但它终将落向正义。 Unit2 1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different image
16、s, trying each one on for size. =I imagined myself being different types of prodigy, trying to find out which type would best suit me. 2. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of wonts. =Some new thoughts came to my mind, thoughts that I deliberately wanted to be
17、disobedient, or to be more exact, thoughts that I would say lots of “I wont ” to my mother 3. The girl had a sauciness of a Shirley Temple. =The girl was somewhat like Shirley Temple, a bit rude, but in an amusing way. 4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it
18、 also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. =While saying these, I was scared as if some very unpleasant, horrible things had got out of my chest; but at the same time, I felt a bit delighted for I was finally able to makethis awful part of me known to my mother. 5. And I cou
19、ld sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill out. =I could feel that her anger had reached the point where she was at the very verge of losing her self-control, I wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself. 6. The lid to the piano was
20、 closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams. =When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery and her dreams. Translation 1. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz.我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花，而是给我弄成一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷
21、毛。 2. She checked to see if that was possibly one way to pronounce “Helsinki” before showing me the answer.在她告诉我答案前，她检查了一下，看看“赫尔辛基”是否能这样发音。 3. She seemed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before i
22、t returned to the quick playful part. 它似乎被这音乐吸引住了。这简短却又有点狂乱的钢琴曲带着迷人的音色，乐曲一开始是快节奏的，接着是欢快跳动的节拍，然后又回到嬉戏的部分。 4. If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be famous now.如果她的才气和她的脾气一样大，她早就出名了。 5. The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch the rose on the car
23、pet with a pointed foot, sweep to the side, left leg bends, look up and smile. 我最喜欢练习的部分是花哨的谢幕行礼动作：先出右脚，脚尖点在地毯的玫瑰图案上，身子侧摆，左腿弯曲，抬头，微 笑。 6. A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldnt stop playing, as though my hands were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers would a
24、djust themselves back, 一股凉气从头顶开始，然后一点点传到全身。但我却不能停止演奏，双手好像着了魔似的。我不停地想，我的手指会调整好，就像火车会被扳到正 确的轨道上。 7. And her face went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless.她的脸部失去了表情，嘴巴紧闭，双臂无力地
25、下垂。她退出了房间，神色惊异，好像一片枯黄的树叶被风吹走了，那样的单薄、脆弱、毫无生气。 8. And for the first time, or so it seemed, I noticed the piece on the right-hand side. It was called“ Perfectly Contented”. I tried to play this one as well. It had a lighter melody but the same flowing rhythm and turned out to be quite easy. “Pleading C
26、hild” was shorter but slower; “Perfectly Content” was longer, but faster. And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.我第一次，或好像感觉是第一次，注意到右手边的一支乐曲。它的名字是心满意足。我也试着弹这首曲子。它的曲调比较轻松，但节奏同样流畅，不是很难。祈求的孩子较短、较慢，而心满意足更长、更快一些。在我将这两支曲子都弹了几遍后，我意识到，原来这两个曲子是同一首歌的两个组成部分。 U
27、nit3 1. Yet globalizationis a reality, not a choice. =Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is already a matter of life which you will encounter and have to respond to every day. 2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties. =Political groups with broad
28、support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign“ cultural assault“. 3. Where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the upper hand. =In China, the two trends of closed-door and open-door policies have long been strug
29、gling for dominance 4. Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers that work. =The Chinese people should continue to live a backward life while we live comfortably with all modern conveniences 5. Westernizationis a phenomenon shot wit h inconsistence and pop
30、ulated by bedfellows. =Westernization is a concept full of self-contradiction and held by people of very different backgrounds or views 6. You dont have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye. =In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you dont need to be fashionable yourself,
31、 all you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant 7. Hewas up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones. =He was moving around, playing a game through the Internet, with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke
32、 down time zone limit. 8. In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising $100,000. =The Gucci store didnt expect the first two weeks of its opening in shanghai business could be so good. 9. Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through
33、 the wilds of global culture. =From the very beginning I know I need some theory as guideline to help me in my study of global culture as globalization, to guide me through such a great variety of cultural phenomena. 10. The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal. =The way
34、of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the strong desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by all. Translation 1. Today we are in the throes of a worldwide reformation of cultures, a tectonic shift of habits and dreams called, in the curious vocabulary of social sci
35、entists, “globalization”.今天我们正经历着一种世界范围文化剧变的阵痛，一种习俗与追求的结构性变化，用社会科学家奇特的词汇来称呼这种变化，就叫“全球化”。 2. Whatever their backgrounds or agendas, these critics are convinced that Western often equated with American influences will flatten every cultural crease, producing, as one observer terms it, one big “McWorld
36、”.不管他们的背景和纲领如何，这些对全球化持反对态度的人深信西方的影响 往往等同于美国的影响 会把所有文化上的差异一一压平，就像一位观察家所说的，最终产生一个麦当劳世界，一个充斥美国货和美国价值观的世界。 3. But I also discovered that cultures are as resourceful, resilient, and unpredictable as the people who compose them.不过我也发现文化就 如同构成文化的民族一样，善于随机应变，富有弹性而且不可预测。 4. Its really hard to be original the
37、se days, so the easiest way to come up with new stuff is to mix things that already exist.现今原创极为困难。因此，最容易的办法就是把现存的东西组合在一起，拿出一个新玩意儿来。 5. The Cosmopolitan, plunging necklines and all, is read by 260,000 Chinese women every month.26 万中国妇女每个月都在阅读时尚杂志，那些开领低胸的画页及其他内容。 6. The lights went out, and for a mom
38、ent the only sound in the darkness was the whirring of an expensive camera on auto-rewind. 灯光熄灭，有一阵子，黑暗中唯一的声音就是一部价格昂贵 的照相机自动倒卷时发出的声音。 7. They received a lot from local cultures, but they also kept their own identity.他们从当地文化吸收了不少东西，但仍然保持了自己的本色。 8. Linking humanitys natural impulse, its common destiny
39、。相互联系是人类自有的欲望，是其共同的命运。 9. They are the powerful cords of the heart.这种连接靠的是强有力的心灵的纽带 Unit4 1. Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, are not needed by a writer. =If you want to be musician or a painter, you must own a piano or hire models, and you have to visit or even l
40、ive in cultural centers like Paris, Vienna and Berlin. And also you have to be taught by masters and mistresses. However, if you want to be a writer, you dont need all this. 2. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing. Those conventional attitudes would have taken away the most important p
41、art of my writing, the essence of my writing 3. Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her. =Thus, whenever I felt the influence of the Victorian attitudes on my writing, I fought back with all my power. 4. For thou
42、gh men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in these respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women. =It was a sensible thing for men to give themselves great freedom to talk about the body and their passions, but if women wan
43、t to have the same freedom, men condemn such freedom in women. And I dont believe that they realize how severely they condemn such freedom in women, nor do I believe that they can control their extremely severe condemnation of such freedom in women 5. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, be
44、fore a woman can sit down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against. =It will take a long time for women to rid themselves of false values and attitudes and to overcome the obstacle to telling the truth about their body passions 6. Even when the path is nomin
45、ally openwhen there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant there are many phantoms and obstacles, as I believe, looming in her way. =Even when the path is open to women in name only, when they have the freedom to choose to be a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, inwardly there are still false ideas and obstacles impeding a womans progress. 7. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. =You have gained a position or certain freedom in a society which has been up to now dominated by men.
