研究生综合英语2 UNIT8-10.docVIP

Unit Eight Text The Art of Pleasing—A Letter of His Son Sentences 1. If you are pleased with the complaisance and attention of others to your humors, your tastes, or your weaknesses, depend upon it, the same complaisance and attention on your part to theirs will equally please them. (L8-L12) 如果别人对你的幽默、情趣或嗜好所给予的恭维和关注令你高兴，那么毫无疑问，你对他们的幽默、情趣或嗜好给予同样的恭维和关注也同样会令他们高兴。 2. The particular characters, the habits, the cant of one company may give merit to a word, or a gesture, which would have none at all if divested of those accidental circumstances. (L44-L47) 某个圈子中的人物、习惯和惯用语可能会看重某个词、某个手势，但离开了那些特定的场合，它们就可能变得毫无价值。 3. There are little attentions, likewise, which are infinitely engaging, and which sensibly affect that degree of pride and self-love, which is inseparable from human nature, as they are unquestionable proofs of the regard and consideration which we have for the persons to whom we pay them. (L119-L123) 于细微处见关怀，同样也是极其动人的，因为它毫无疑问证明了我们对被关怀者是关心和体谅的，这种关怀明显会影响一个人自尊、自恋的程度，这也是人之常情。 Further Reading Why I Am Afraid of You?—A Letter to His Father Sentences As usual, I was unable to think of any answer to your question, partly for the very reason that I am afraid of you, and partly because an explanation of the grounds for this fear would mean going into far more details than I could even approximately keep in mind while talking. (L. 2) 和往常一样，我无法想出回答您问题的答案，部分原因正式因为我怕您，部分原因则是因为要解释这份害怕我必须谈到太多细节，而这些细节我实在无法记得清楚。 And it is characteristic that even today you really only encourage me in anything when you yourself are involved in it, when what is at stake is your sense of self-importance (L. 64) 即使是现在，您也仍然只在和您自己有关的事情上鼓励我，只在事情涉及到您高傲的自身感觉时才鼓励我。 But then when we went out of the bathing hut before the people, I with you holding my hand, a little skeleton, unsteady, barefoot on the boards, frightened of the water, incapable of copying your swimming strokes, which you, with the best of intentions, but actually to my profound humiliation, always kept on showing me, then I was frantic with despe