大学英语(上海外语教育出版社)第三版精读第三册 Reading aloud and memorizing(原文及翻译).doc

大学英语（上海外语教育出版社）第三版精读第三册 Reading aloud and memorizing（科文及翻译） 1 And so I do not have a criminal record. But what was most shocking at the time was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on. I had the right accent, respectable middle-class parents in court, reliable witnesses, and I could obviously afford a very good solicitor. Given the obscure nature of the charge, I feel sure that if I had come from a different background, and had really been unemployed, there is every chance that I would have been found guilty. While asking for costs to be awarded, my solicitors case quite obviously revolved around the fact that I had a brilliant academic record. 于是，我没有留下犯罪记录。但当时，最令人震惊的是我被无罪释放所明显依赖的证据。我有标准的口音，有受人敬重的中产阶级的父母来到法庭，有可靠的证人，还有，很明显我请得起很好得律师。想到这次指控的含糊不清的特点，我敢肯定，如果我出生在一个不同背景的家庭，并真失业，则完全可能被判有罪。当我的律师要求赔偿诉讼费时，他的辩词很显然地紧紧围绕着我“学习成绩优异”这一事实 2 Something was definitely happening here. It was messier than a food fight and much more important than whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. My kids were doing what Copernicus did when he placed the sun at the center of the universe, readjusting the centuries-old paradigm of an Earth-centered system. They were doing what Reuben Mattus did when he renamed his Bronx ice cream Haagen-Dazs and raised the price without changing the product. They were doing what Edward Jenner did when he discovered a vaccination for smallpox by abandoning his quest for a cure. Instead of studying people who were sick with smallpox, he began to study people who were exposed to it but never got sick. He found that they`d all contracted a similar but milder disease, cow pox, which vaccinated them against the deadly smallpcx. 在这里某些事情确实正在发生着。它比食品战要更混乱，比西红柿是水果还是蔬菜要重要得多。我的孩子们正在做的就像哥白尼过去所做的那样，纠正了悠久的地球中心宇宙系统为太阳中心宇宙系统。他们正在做的事情就好像鲁本-马特斯曾经做的那样，重新命名他的布朗克斯冰淇淋为哈根达斯，并且并未对产品做改动的情况下提升了价格。他们做的事情就像是爱德华-詹纳通过狂热的追寻治疗天花的方法而发现了牛痘。当别人在研究那些得了天花的人们时，他开始研究那些暴露在外却从没有染病的人们。他发现他们都得过一种相似的但是温和的小病，牛痘，正是由于牛痘使得他们逃过了致死的天花。 3 These are the real reasons I teach, these people who gro