新视野大学英语第四册第三版课文及翻译.docxVIP

Unit 8 A turning point of my life 我人生的转折点 I wasnt yet 30 years old and was working as a firefighter in New York City, in a firehouse completely swamped with calls. In the rare moments when we werent busy, I would make calls on our cordless phone handset or rush to our office to read Captain Grays subscription of the Sunday New York Times. Late one afternoon when I finally read the Book Review section, my blood began to boil. An article stated a thesis I took to be an offensive insult: William Butler Yeats, the Nobel Prize-winning light of the Irish Literary Renaissance, had risen above his Ir