新视野大学英语读写教程【第三版】第二册课文原文与翻译.pdf

Unit 1 Text A An impressive English lesson 一堂难忘的英语课 1 If I am the only parent who still corrects his childs English, then perhaps my son is right. To him, I am a tedious oddity: a father he is obliged to listen to and a man absorbed in the rules of grammar, which my son seems allergic to. 如果我是唯一一个还在纠正小孩英语的家长，那么我儿子也许是对的。对他而言，我是一个乏味的怪物：一个他不得 不听其教诲的父亲，一个还沉湎于语法规则的人，对此我儿子似乎颇为反感。 2 I think I got serious about this only recently when I ran into one of my former students, fresh from an excursion to Europe. How was it? I asked, full of earnest anticipation. 我觉得我是在最近偶遇我以前的一位学生时，才开始对这个问题认真起来的。这个学生刚从欧洲旅游回来。我满怀着 诚挚期待问她： “欧洲之行如何？ ” 3 She nodded three or four times, searched the heavens for the right words, and then exclaimed, It was, like, whoa! 她点了三四下头，绞尽脑汁，苦苦寻找恰当的词语，然后惊呼： “真是，哇！ ” 4 And that was it. The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture were captured in a condensed non-statement. My students whoa! was exceeded only by my head-shaking distress. 没了。所有希腊文明和罗马建筑的辉煌居然囊括于一个浓缩的、不完整的语句之中！我的学生以 “哇！ ”来表示她的惊 叹，我只能以摇头表达比之更强烈的忧虑。 5 There are many different stories about the downturn in the proper use of English. Surely students should be able to distinguish between their/there/theyre or the distinctive difference between complimentary and complementary. They unfairly bear the bulk of the criticism for these knowledge deficits because there is a sense that they should know better. 关于正确使用英语能力下降的问题，有许多不同的故事。学生的确本应该能够区分诸如 their/there/they 之间的不同，’re 或区别 complimentary 跟 complementary 之间显而易见的差异。由于这些知识缺陷，他们承受着大部分不该承受的批评 和指责，因为舆论认为他们应该学得更好。 6 Students are not dumb, but they are being misled everywhere they look and listen. For