新视野大学英语读写教程第三版本第二册课文原文与翻译.docx

新视野大学英语读写教程第三版本第二册课文原文与翻译 新视野大学英语读写教程第三版本第二册课文原文与翻译 PAGE / NUMPAGES 新视野大学英语读写教程第三版本第二册课文原文与翻译 -- 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. 假如我是独一一个还在纠正小孩英语的家长，那么我儿子或许是对的。对他而言，我是一个无聊的怪物：一个他不得不听其教诲的父亲，一个还沉沦于语法例则的人，对此我儿子仿佛很是讨厌。 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. 我感觉我是在近来偶遇我从前的一位学生时，才开始对这个问题认真起来的。这个学生刚从欧洲旅行回来。我满怀着真挚期望问她： “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，苦思冥想，苦苦找寻适合的词语，而后惊呼： “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。全部希腊文明和罗马建筑的绚烂居然囊括于一个浓缩的、不完好的语句之中！我的学生以叹，我只好以摇头表达比之更激烈的忧愁。 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.  “哇！ ”来表示她的惊 对于正确使用英语能力降落的问题，有很多不一样的故事。学生的确本应当能够区分诸如 their/there/they 之’间 re 的不一样， 或差别 complimentary 跟 complementary 之间不问可知的差别。因为这些知识缺点，他们蒙受着大多半不该 蒙受的责备和谴责，因为舆论认为他们应当学得更好。 6 Students are not dumb, but they are being misled everywhere they look and listen. For example, signs in grocery stores point them to the stationary, even though the actual stationery items — pads, albums and notebooks — are not nailed down. Friends and loved ones often proclaim theyve just ate when, in fact, theyve just eaten. Therefore