第三版大学英语精读第三册第1、5、6单元翻译.docVIP

Unit 1 A young man finds that strolling along the streets without an obvious purpose can lead to trouble 一个年轻人发现，在街上漫无目的的闲逛也会带来涉及法律上的麻烦。一种误解导致另一种 with the law. One misunderstanding leads to another until eventually he ends up in court ……误解， 直到最终他必须在法庭上接受审判 A Brush with the Law法律小冲突 I have only once been in trouble with the law. The whole process of being arrested and taken 我平生只有一次陷入与法律的冲突,. 被捕与被带上法庭的整个经过在当时是一种令人极不愉快的经历， to court was a rather unpleasant experience at the time, but it makes a good story now.What 但现在这却成为一个好故事的素材。 makes it rather disturbing was the arbitrary circumstances both of my arrest and my subsequent fate in court. 3 尤其令人恼怒的是我被捕及随后在法庭上受审期间的种种武断情形。 It happened in February about twelve years ago. I had left school a couple of months before that and was not 事情发生在十二年前的二月， 那是我中学毕业已经几个月了，但是要等到十月份才能 due to go to university until the following October. I was still living at home at the time.3 上大学， 所以当时我仍在家中。 One morning I was in Richmond, a suburb of London near where I lived. I was looking for a temporary job so 一天上午，我来到离我住地不远的伦敦郊区的里士满， 那是我正在找一份临时的工作，一 that I could save up some money to go travelling. As it was a fine day and I was in no hurry, I was taking my 边攒些钱去旅游。 由于天体晴朗，又没有什么急事， 我便悠然自得的time, looking in shop windows, strolling in the park, and sometimes just stopping and looking around me. It 看看窗店橱窗， 逛逛公园， 有时干脆停下来四处观望。 must have been this obvious aimlessness that led to my downfall. 一定是这种显然无所事事的样子使我倒了霉 It was about half past eleven when it happened. I was just walking out of the local library, having 事情发生在十一点半左右， 当我在当地图书馆谋职未成， unsuccessfully sought employment there, when I saw a man walking across the road with the obvious 刚从那里出来，就看见一个人从马路对面走过来，显然是想跟我说话。 intention of talking to me. I thought he was going to ask me the time. Instead, he said he was a police 我愿意为他是要问我时间。