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全新版大学英语综合教程 1 第二版课文原文 unit 1 The idea of becoming a writer had come to me off and on since my childhood in Belleville, but it wasnt until my third year in high school that the possibility took hold. Until then Id been bored by everything associated with English courses. I found English grammar dull and difficult. I hated the assignments to turn out long, lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write. 从我的童年时代起，我就有可能成为一名作家，但在我高中的时候，我就不可能成为一名 作家了。在那之前，我一直对英语课程感到厌烦。我发现英语语法枯燥难懂。我讨厌那些 让老师们阅读和写作的枯燥乏味的长段落的作业。 When our class was assigned to Mr. Fleagle for third-year English I anticipated another cheerless year in that most tedious of subjects. Mr. Fleagle had a reputation among students for dullness and inability to inspire. He was said to be very formal, rigid and hopelessly out of date. To me he looked to be sixty or seventy and excessively prim. He wore primly severe eyeglasses, his wavy hair was primly cut and primly combed. He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his white shirts. He had a primly pointed jaw, a primly straight nose, and a prim manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that he seemed a comic antique. 当我们班分配给弗利格尔先生读三年级英语时，我期待着这门最枯燥乏味的科目再过一年。 弗利格尔先生在学生中以沉闷和缺乏灵感而闻名。据说他很拘谨，死板，毫无希望地过时 了。在我看来，他看上去有六七十岁，非常拘谨。他戴着一本正经的眼镜，波浪形的头发 剪得很整齐，梳得很整齐。他穿着朴素的西装，领带整齐地贴在白衬衫的领扣上。他有一 个整洁的尖下巴，一个一本正经的笔直的鼻子，一本正经的说话方式是如此的正确，那么 绅士，他似乎是一个滑稽的古董。 I prepared for an unfruitful year with Mr. Fleagle and for a long time was not disappointed. Late in the year we tackled the informal essay. Mr. Fleagle distributed a homework sheet offering us a choice of topics. None was quite so simple-minded as What I Did on My Summer Vacation, but most seemed to be almost as dull. I took the list home and did nothing until the night before the essay was due. Lying on the sofa, I finally faced up to the unwelcome task, took the list out of my notebook, and scanned it. The topic on whic