同济大学工程硕士英语课文翻译_Unit1-Unit_6.doc

Usain Bolt: How Far and Fast We Go?Unit1 Parental discretion By dennis hevesi When the letter came saying that Pamela Stafford,after all her part-time study at night,had been accepted at the age of 34 as a full-time student by the University of California at Berkeley,her two teenage sons leaped into the air,slapped palms in a high-five and shouted,”we did it!we did it!” Pamela Stafford 一直参加晚上的业余学习班，她34岁时收到了伯克利的加利福利亚大学录取通知书，她的两个儿子高兴的跳了起来，拍着她的肩膀叫道：“我们成功了！我们成功了！” “I’m not sure they included me,”she said. “我不确定他们包括我”，她说。 Several months ago,when Gary Hatfield,also 34,and a sophomore at the Ohio State University,in Columbus,was telling his son,Seth,11,why he was spending so much time studying,”he patted me on the shoulder and said,’Dad,I understand.You want to finish school,’”Mr.Hatfield recalled,adding,”Blessed is the child’s forgiving nature.” 几个月前，同样是34岁的Gary Hatfield，在俄亥俄州立大学读大二，对他11岁的儿子Seth讲为什么他花这么多时间学习，“他轻拍我肩膀说道，爸爸，我明白，你想完成学业，” Hatfield 先生回忆道，并说，“祝福是孩子原谅的本性”。 In hundreds of homes throughout the nation,as the rolls of those signing up for continuing education courses grow,getting mom or pop off to school has often wrought a kind of joyous havoc on family life and forced the sort of realignment of expectations that would warm the hearts of diehard feminists. 在全国的几百个家庭里，随着签约继续教育课程的增多，许多母亲或突然离校的人经常对家庭生活发生高兴的浩劫，并推动那些期待温暖顽固的女权主义者的心的人重新组合。 A Switch of family roles Dads or children are doing the shopping,the cooking,the cleaning,the laundry.Teenagers have become the family chauffeur,or at least make sure the car is available when a parent has to get to class.Schedules have been turned on end.Children have even adopted parental roles-nagging when homework hasn’t been done. 家庭里父母和孩子的角色转换包括购物、做饭、打扫卫生和洗衣服。年轻人成了家庭司机，或至少确保父母上课时车子没问题。这时间表变成了持续的。孩子甚至已经适应了父母的角色—家务没做完时就抱怨。 Mr.Hatfield,an English major, wants to teach high school or college English.”I’ll sometimes get jabbed if I make a spelling or grammatical mistake,”he said.”Seth will say,Hey,English teacher. Hatfield 先生是一个英语专业的