安徽大学英语3期末翻译复习.docVIP

Unit 1 Children especially are hungry for reassurance, and the want of kindly appreciation in childhood can endanger the growth of character. A young mother told the Reverend A. W. Beaven of a heart-aching incident: “My little daughter often misbehaves and I have to rebuke her. But one day she had been especially good, hadn’t done a single thing that called for reprimand. That night, after I tucked her in bed and started downstairs, I heard her sobbing. Turning back, I found her head hidden in the pillow. Between sobs she asked, ‘Haven’t I been a pretty good girl today?’ 孩子们尤其渴望鼓励。童年时如果得不到善意的赞赏，将会危及性格的发展。一位年轻妈妈向A·W·比文牧师讲述了一件让人伤心的事：“我的小女儿常常不听话，我不得不批评她。但是有一天，她特别乖，没有做一件会挨批评的事。当天晚上，我给她盖好被子、准备下楼时，听见她在抽泣。我走回去，发现她把头埋在枕头里。她一边呜咽一边问：‘难道我今天还不够乖吗？’” “That question,” said the mother, “went through me like a knife. I had been quick to correct her when she did wrong, but when she had tried to behave I had not noticed it. I had put her to bed without one word of appreciation.” “那个问题，” 那位妈妈说，“像把刀一样刺痛了我。当她做错事时，我总是急于纠正，可是当她努力表现得好些时，我却没有注意。我哄她睡觉时连一句称赞的话都没有。” Unit 2 For many of us the word “creativity” has a wall around it, and we are on the outside. We protest that we have no gift, and that creativity is for geniuses. 对于我们很多人来说，“创造性”一词的周围有一堵墙，我们却在墙外边。我们会申辩说，我们没有那份天赋，创造性非天才们莫属。 But creativity is not the special gift of a favored few, a burst of light you’ve either got or you haven’t. One of the most creative people I ever knew was an old woman who lived on a remote sheep ranch in California. A Chilean she had married an American sea captain at sixteen, moved to his country and learned his language. On that lonely, fog-swept coast she made a home, a life, an empire both spiritual and commercial. She bought and sold land, delivered babies, and cooked for thirty men at shearing time. She bore five children, and taught them to read and write and ride and to be as much at home in the ocean as a seal. It made your blood sing to watch her, at ninety, climb the hill behind her h