The Art of Listening 教案 翻译与理解,上下文.docVIP

＜第五课教案 课文讲解 赏析 理解与翻译 补充材料 ：上下文 The Art of Listening＜ Martin Armstrong There are few people, I imagine , except those who are already good lecturers of orators?( orator: person who makes speeches, esp. a good speaker), to whom speaking on the wireless comes naturally. 除了老练、出色的院校讲师或演说家，我料想极少有人能在无线电播音机前自自然然地讲话。 Like acting, it is an art which must be patiently acquired. 如同表演，这是一门须耐心磨练才能获得的艺术。 Many lively, self-confident folk don’t believe this. Nonsence! says one. Youve simply to be your own natural self, forget the studio and. the microphone and talk as you would talk to a group of friends. 许多活跃、自信的人不相信此事。“胡扯!”有人如是说：“你只须像平常一样自然，不去管那演播室和麦克风，就如同对一群朋友说话那样就行了。” There is a simply cure for this flattering conviction?( conviction: firm or assured belief), namely to treat him to the humiliating experience of a recording of himself. 治疗此类夸夸其谈，有一种简单的办法，那就是让他经历一下给他自己录音的难堪。 The cure begins even before he hears the recording, for at his first encounter with the microphone he discovers that it is far from easy to talk to a group of friends who only too evidently are not there. 甚至在他听到录音之前，疗法就奏效了——当他刚一接触到麦克风，他就发现对显然不在眼前的一群朋友讲话绝非易事。 Worse still, he himself is his only audience and it is unnatural and unnerving(unnerving: causing to lose courage) to hear yourself loudly and emphatically or, still worse, rather feebly talking to yourself. 更不如意的是，他本人便是他自己的唯一听众，听到自己大声地，加重语气地或者软弱无力地(后者更糟)说话，不仅使人感到不自然，而且使人丧失勇气。 And when it comes to listening to the recording, one and only one of his unpleasant discoveries is that his broadcast voice is not the voice he knows as his own. 到听录音时，他只有一个令人大为不悦的发现，那就是自己的录音并不是自己所熟知的自己的声音。 Broadcasting, he finds, is not natural behaviour. 他这才意识到播音并不是自然行为。 The same is true of listening to broadcast speech——the voices of absent speakers who singly or severally talk to us or to each other. 听广播讲话，即听不在眼前的说话人单独讲演或多人对话时， 情形也是如此。 In these brief observations I shall discuss only what is classfied by the B. B. C. as the spoken word^-. to include broadcasts of a dr