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Exercise Two The thirty-second day out of Bombay began inauspiciously. In the morning a sea smashed one of the galley doors. We dashed in through lots of steam and found the cook very wet and indignant with ship: “ She’s getting worse every day. She’s tying to drown me in front of my own stove!” He was very angry. We pacified him, and the carpenter, though washed away twice from there, managed to repair the door. Through that accident our dinners was not ready till late, but it didn’t matter in the end because Knowels, who went to fetch it, got knocked down by a sea and the dinner went over the side. The ship’s captain, looking more hard and thin-lipped than ever, would not notice that the ship, asked to do too much, appeared to lose heart altogether for the first time since we knew her. 译文1： 詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀在其经典小说《拓荒者》中，记述了主人公——一个地产开发商，带着表妹游览一座他正在建造的城市的情景。他绘声绘色地介绍了宽阔的街道，鳞次栉比的房屋，一个熙熙攘攘的大都市。但是他的表妹环顾四周，却深表困惑，她只看见了一片树林。她问：“你要给我看的美景和城市在哪里？”他很奇怪她居然没看见它们。“哪里？为什么？每一处”他回答道。尽管它们还没有实地建成，却已存在于他的脑海浬。对他而言，它们就像已经修建完成一样的真实具体。 库珀展现的是美国人一个鲜明的特点：前瞻性：他们有站在未来的有利位置来看现在的一切的能力；有能够摆脱过去的束缚而更加亲近将来的事情的自由。正如埃尔伯特·爱因斯坦曾经说过的那样：“对美国人来说，生活总是在变化不息，而从来不会于原地踏步。” 译文2： 离开孟买第32天在不祥中开始。一早，一个大浪摧毁了船上厨房的门。穿过弥漫的蒸汽，我们冲进厨房，发现厨师已成落鸡汤，他正在对船发火：“这船一天比一天糟糕了，简直把我淹死在我的炉子前！”他火冒三丈，我们劝慰了他。尽管两次被海浪冲开，木匠还是把门给修好了。经过那次事故，午餐很晚才做好，不过，早晚也无所谓了，因为去拿饭菜的Knowels被海浪击倒，饭菜全都越过船舷，掉入海中。船长，看上去比任何时候都更严厉，更抿紧双唇。他已经不会去在意，这艘为我们付出太多的船，自从我们认识她以来，似乎第一次彻底丧失了信心。 * * * We know that these friends are the friends whom we departed overnight. They know that we have not altered. Yet, on the surface, everything is different; and the tension is such that we only long for the guard to blow his whistle and put an end to the farce. On a cold gray morning of last week I duly turned up at Euston, to see off an old friend who was starting for America. Overnight, we had given him a farewell dinner, in which sadness was well mingled with festivity. Years probably would elapse before his return.. Some of us might never see him again. Not ignoring the shadow of the futur