现代大学英语第二版精读2unit1课文翻译.pdf

Let me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as a teacher. It was January of 1940 and I was fresh out of 刚刚做完 graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. Part of the student body was a beanpole with hair on top who came into my class, sat down, folded his arms, and looked at me as if to say All right, teach me something. Two weeks later we started Hamlet. Three weeks later he came into my office with his hands on his hips. Look, he said, I came here to be a pharmacist. Why do I have to read this stuff And not having a book of his own to point to, he pointed to mine which was lying on the desk. 给你们讲讲我刚当老师时候的一次失败经历吧。那是 1940 年的 1 月，我从研究生院 毕业不久， 在堪萨斯城大学开始第一学期的教学工作。 一个瘦高， 长得就像顶上有毛的豆角架一 样的男学生走进我的课堂，坐下，双臂交叉放在胸前，看着我，好像在说： 好吧，教我一些东“ 西。 ”两周后我们开始学习《哈姆雷特》 。三周后他双手叉腰走进我的办公室， 看，“ ”他说， 我来“ 这是学习当药剂师的。我为什么必须读这个？ ”由于没有随身带着自己的书，他就指着桌子上放 着的我的那本。 New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Science. It would not read: Qualified Pill-Grinding Technician. It would certify that he had specialized in 专攻 pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to 揭露 some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history. That is to say, he had not entered a technical training school but a university and in universities students enroll for 参加 both training and education. 虽然我是位新老师，我本来可以告诉这个家伙许多事情的。我本来可以指出，他考 入的不是制药技工培训学校而是大学，而且他在毕业时，应该得到一张写有理学学士而不是 “合 格的磨药工 ”的学位证书。这证书会证明他专修过药剂学，但它还能进一步证明他曾经接触过一 些