英语精读4_课文_中英文对照.docx

Unit 1 BIG BUCKS THE EASY WAY轻轻松松赚大钱You ought to look into this, I suggested to our two college-age sons. It might be a way to avoid the indignity of having to ask for money all the time. I handed them some magazines in a plastic bag someone had hung on our doorknob.“你们该看看这个，”我向我们的两个读大学的儿子建议道。“你们若想避免因为老是向人讨钱而有失尊严的话，这兴许是一种办法。”我将挂在我们门把手上的、装在一个塑料袋里的几本杂志拿给他们。A message printed on the bag offered leisurely, lucrative work (Big Bucks the Easy Way!) of delivering more such bags.塑料袋上印着一条信息说，需要招聘人投递这样的袋子，这活儿既轻松又赚钱。(“轻轻松松赚大钱!”)I dont mind the indignity, the older one answered.“我不在乎失不失尊严，”大儿子回答说。I can live with it, his brother agreed.“我可以忍受，”他的弟弟附和道。But it pains me, I said，to find that you both have been panhandling so long that it no longer embarrasses you.“看到你们俩伸手讨钱讨惯了一点也不感到尴尬的样子，真使我痛心，”我说。The boys said they would look into the magazine-delivery thing. Pleased, I left town on a business trip. By midnight I was comfortably settled in a hotel room far from home. The phone rang. It was my wife. She wanted to know how my day had gone.孩子们说他们可以考虑考虑投递杂志的事。我听了很高兴，便离城出差去了。午夜时分，我已远离家门，在一家旅馆的房间里舒舒服服住了下来。电话铃响了，是妻子打来的。她想知道我这一天过得可好。Great! I enthused. How was your day? I inquired.“好极了!”我兴高采烈地说。“你过得怎么样”我问道。Super! She snapped. Just super! And its only getting started. Another truck just pulled up out front.“棒极了!”她大声挖苦道。“真棒!而且这还仅仅是个开始。又一辆卡车刚在门前停下。”Another truck?“又一辆卡车”?The third one this evening. The first delivered four thousand Montgomery Wards. The second brought four thousand Sears, Roebucks. I dont know what this one has, but Im sure it will be four thousand of something. Since you are responsible, I thought you might like to know whats happening.“今晚第三辆了。第一辆运来了四千份蒙哥马利-沃德百货公司的广告；第二辆运来四千份西尔斯-罗伯克百货公司的广告。我不知道这一辆装的啥，但我肯定又是四千份什么的。既然这事是你促成的，我想你或许想了解事情的进展。”What I was being blamed for, it turned out, was a newspaper strike which made it necessary to hand-deliver the advertising inserts that normally are included with the Sunday paper. The company had promised our boys $600 for delivering the