全新版大学英语(第版)综合教程四_Unit 5 A Friend in Need 参考译文.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 全新版大学英语(第二版)综合教程_第四册_Unit 5 Never Judge by Appearances——A Friend in Need A Friend in Need （by Somerset Maugham） For thirty years now I have been studying my fellowmen. I do not know very much about them. I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right. I think they must have small insight or great vanity. For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me. 我阅人至今已经有三十年之久。我不大了解他们。人家对我说他们对一个人的初次印象一准不会错的时候，我耸耸肩。我认为他们必然眼力颇浅，或者自负过高。就我来说，我发现自己认得越久的人，他们越使我迷惑不解。 //我最老的朋友们，恰恰是我可以说一点也不了解的人。 These reflections have occurred to me because I read in this mornings paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died at Kobe. He was a merchant and he had been in business in Japan for many years. I knew him very little, but he interested me because once he gave me a great surprise. Unless I had heard the story from his own lips, I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action. It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type. Here if ever was a man all of a piece. He was a tiny little fellow, not much more than five feet four in height, and very slender, with white hair, a red face much wrinkled, and blue eyes. I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him. He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station. 我产生这些想法是因为看到今天早晨报纸上登载爱德华·海德·勃吞在神户逝世的消息。他是一个商人，在日本经营多年。我跟他交情很浅，可是有一次他使我大吃一惊，才对他感到兴趣。要不是听他亲口说的，我怎么也不会相信他竟然做出这种事情。不论是外貌，是举动，他都使人想起一种定了型的人物，这就使人更为震惊。如果有那么一个前后一贯的人，他就是了。他身材矮小，高不过五英尺四多一点，细瘦文弱，一头白发，一脸皱纹，气色红润，眼睛湛蓝。我认识他的时候估计他是六十岁光景。穿得总是整洁素净，正适合他的年龄和地位。 Though his offices were in Kobe, Burton often came down to Yokohama. I happened on one occasion to be spending a few days there, waiting for a ship, and I was introduced to him at the British Club. We played bridge together. He played a good game and a generous one. He did not talk very much, either then or later when we were having drinks, but what he said was