Unit1 现代大学英语精读2.pptVIP

[If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift (to your humanity) some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein,] you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy. 如果你急着去赚钱，或是对自己的无知甚为得意，从而把亚里士多德,乔叟或爱因斯坦的思想— 这个提高你的品德修养的礼物拒之门外，那么你既不是一个发展到成熟阶段的人，也不是一个民主社会有用的成员。 If you are too much in a hurry: If you are too anxious to make money (or if you are) too arrogantly proud of your own limitations: (or if you are) too ignorant to see your limitations accept as a gift … Einstein: to accept some of the thinking of … Einstein as something that will help cultivate in you the quality of being a human too…to Object complement object I speak, I’m sure, for the faculty of the liberal arts college and for the faculties of the specialized schools as well, … My remarks apply to … and the same is true of … liberal arts: subjects of study that develop students’ general knowledge and ability to think, rather than their technical skills 大学文科 liberal arts college: （大学里的）文学院 the specialized schools: departments of a university that teach particular subject or skill, e.g. medical /law school, the school of dentistry … when I say that a university has no real existence and no real purpose except as it succeeds in putting you in touch, both as specialists and as humans, with those human minds your human mind needs to include. 要是一所大学不能使你们学生，无论作为专门人才还是普通人，去接触那些你们头脑应该有的那些大师们的思想，那么，这所大学就没有真正的办学宗旨，也就没有存在的必要了。（我说的这番话既适用于……） The faculty, by its very existence, says implicitly: “We have been aided by many people, and by many books, in our attempt( to make ourselves some sort of storehouse of human experience).” The existence of the faculty of the liberal arts college itself says in an implied way: “In our effort to make our faculty a place where our students can experience a variety of life they don’t have time to live themselves, we get a lot of help from many people and books, present and past …” Wh