21世纪大学英语读写教程3第三单元课文中英对照.doc

21世纪大学英语读写教程复习资料 Unit3 1. 孩子的世界清纯、新鲜、美丽，充满了惊喜与激动。不幸的是，对于我们大多数人来说，那种目光清晰的视觉----那种对于美的和令人敬畏的东西的真正直觉----在我们成年之前就模糊了甚至消失了。倘若我能影响那些据认为能主宰所有孩童命运的天使们，我便会请求他们赠送给世界上每个孩子一种永不磨灭、持续终生的惊喜之感。 A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that, for most of us, that clear-eyed vision ?that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring ?is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with angels who are supposed to preside over all children, I would ask that their gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. 2. 如果孩子们没有从天使们那里得到这样的礼物，而又要保持他们与生俱来的新奇之感的话，他们至少需要有一个能分享这种新奇感的成人陪伴他们，同他们一起重新发现这个世界的欢乐、激动和神秘。父母们一方面面对着孩子热切敏锐的头脑，另一方面面对着一个错综复杂的物质的自然界，所以经常会感到力不从心。他们自暴自弃地感叹道，“我怎么可能教我的孩子有关大自然的知识呢----嗨，我连两种不同的鸟都分不清楚！” If children are to keep alive their natural sense of wonder without any such gift from the angels, they need the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with the child the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Parents often feel inadequate when confronted on the one hand with the eager, sensitive mind of a child and on the a mood of self-defeat, they exclaim, “How can I possibly teach my child about nature ?why, I doni’t even know one bird from another!” 3. 我真诚地相信，对于孩子们来说，对于想要指导他们的父母们来说，感受比知道要重要得多。如果事实是以后能长出知识与智慧的种子，那么情感和感官印象则是种子必须赖以生长的沃土。幼儿时期就是培育土壤的时候。一旦情感被激起----一种对美的感受，对新的和未知事物的激动，一种同情、怜悯、敬慕或爱恋的感觉----我们就会渴望了解引起我们情感反应的事物。一旦找到，这种知识就比纯粹的信息具有持久得多的意义。为孩子们的求知欲铺平道路比向他们灌输一堆他们不准备吸收的事实更为重要。 I sincerely believe that for children, and for parents seeking to guide them, it is not half so important to know as it is to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotion and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time aroused ?a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a fee