【标准】新标准大学英语4课文翻译.docx

精品word学习资料可编辑 名师归纳总结——欢迎下载 Unit 1 Active reading (1) 高校毕业找工作的第一要义：别躺在沙发上做梦 More than 650,000 students left university this summerand many have no idea about the way to get a job.How tough should a parent be to galvanize them in these financially fraught times. 今年夏天，超过 65 万的高校生毕业离校，其中有很多人根本不知道 怎么 找工作；在当今金融危机的背景下，做父母的该如何鼓励他们？ In July,you looked on as your handsome21-year-old son,dressed in gown and mortarboard,proudly clutched his honours degree for his graduation photo.Those memories of forking out thousands of pounds a year so that he could eat well and go to the odd party,began to fade.Until now. 七月，你看着 21 岁英俊的儿子穿上学士袍，戴上四方帽，骄傲地握 着优等学士学位证书，拍毕业照；这时，记忆中每年支付几千英镑，好让 儿子吃好，能参与奇妙聚会的印象开头消退；终于熬到头了； As the summer break comes to a close and students across the country prepare for the start of a new term,you find that your graduate son is still spending days slumped in front of the television,broken only by texting,Facebook and visits to the pub.This former scion of Generation Y has morphed overnight into a member of Generation Grunt.Will he ever get a job. 等到暑假快要终止， 全国各地的同学正在为新学期做预备的时候， 你 发觉高校毕业的儿子仍歪躺在沙发上看电视；他只是有时走开去发短信， 浏览社交网站Facebook ，去酒吧喝酒；这位前“千禧一代”的后裔一夜之间变成了哼哼一代的成 员；他能找到工作吗？ This is the scenario facing thousands of families.More than 650,000 students left university this summerand most in these financially testing times have no idea what to do next.Parents revert to nagging; sons and daughters become rebels without a cause, aware that they need to get a job, but not sure now. 这就是成千上万家庭所面临的景象：今年夏天，超过 65 万高校生毕 业， 在当今金融危机的背景下他们中的大多数人不知道自己下一步该做什 么；父母只会唠叨，而儿女们就毫无缘由地变成了叛逆者，他们知道自己 该找份工作， 但却不知道如何去找； Jack Goodwin,form Middlesex,graduated with a 2:1 in politics from Nottingham this summer.He walked into the university careers service and straight back out again;there was a big queue.He lived with five other boys all of whom did the same.There was no pressure to find a job,even though most of the girls he knew had a clearer plan. 来自米德尔塞克斯郡的杰克·古德温今年夏天从诺丁汉高校政治学系 毕 业，获得二级一等荣誉学士学位