(完整版)《新编英语教程》第3册的课文

《新编英语教程》（修订版）第三册

Unit 1[见教材P1]

My First Job

我的第一份工作

Robert Best

罗伯特.贝斯特

①While I was waiting to enter university, I saw

②Being very short of money and

wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing that

my chances of landing the job were slim.

①那年，我考上了大学，还没有入校时，在本地一家报纸上看到一所学校发布广告，招聘一名教师。②这所学校位于伦敦郊区，距离我住的地方大约[有]十英里。③当时因为急需用钱，又想做些有意义的事情，于是我就提出了申请。④但是同时，我又担心，既没有学位又没有教学经验，所以获得这个职位的可能性非常小。

①However, three days later a letter arrived, summoning me to Croydon for an interview. ②It proved an awkward journey: a train to Croydon station;a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile. ③As a result I arrived on a hot June morning too depressed to feel nervous.

①然而，三天以后来信了，通知我到Croydon参加面试。②路很不好走，先坐火车到Croydon车站，再坐十分钟的公交车，最后步行至少0.25英里才到达目的地。③那可是六月天的上午，天气很热，我非常沮丧，也非常紧张，简直都崩溃了。

①and

②The front garden was a gravel square;

four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, where they struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main road.

①学校是一幢维多利亚时代的红砖建筑，有山墙，有很大的垂直拉窗，闪闪发光，让人感觉单调乏味。②房前是一个由砾石铺成的广场，四柱常绿灌木分立四角。③学校附近有一条繁忙的公路，所以有很多灰尘和废气，这四柱灌木在灰尘和废气的“折磨”下奄奄一息。

①It was clearly the headmaster himself that opened the door.②He was short and rotund. ③He had a sandy-coloured moustache, a freckled forehead and hardly any hair. ④He was wearing a tweed suit — one felt somehow he had always worn it —and across his ample stomach was looped a silver watch-chain.

①开门的显然是校长。②他身材矮胖，留着沙黄色的胡子，额头上有斑点，几乎没有头发。③他穿着一件粗花呢外套，让人觉得他总是穿这件衣服；肥硕的肚子上耷拉着一条银色的表链。

①as a colonel

might look at a private whose bootlaces were undone. ②“Ah yes,” he

grunted. “You’d better come inside.”③

; the cream-printed walls had gone a dingy margarine colour, except where they were scarred with ink marks; it was

all silent. ④

dining room. ⑤On the mantelpiece there was a salt cellar and pepper-pot.⑥“You’d better sit down,”he said, and proceeded to ask me a number of questions:what subjects had I taken in my General School Certificate; how old was I; what games did I play;then fixing me suddenly with his bloodshot eyes, he asked me whether I thought games were a vital part of a boy’s education. ⑦I mumbled something about not attaching too much importance to them. ⑧He grunted. ⑨I had said the wrong thing. ⑩The headmaster and I obviously had singularly little in common.

①他很不屑地看着我，显得很意外，就好像一位上校在打量一名没有系鞋带的列兵。②他嘟嘟囔囔地说：“嗯，你进来吧！”③走廊里

狭窄阴暗，散发着发霉白菜的味道，很难闻；原本洁白的墙面已变成了暗淡的奶油色，上边还有几处墨水渍；一切都非常安静。④从地毯上的面包屑看来，书房也是他的餐厅，壁炉上放着一个盐罐和一个胡椒粉罐。⑤他说：“坐吧”，然后问了我几个问题：考普通学校证书时都学过哪些课程；我多大了；我都做过哪些体育运动。⑥然后，他突然瞪着我，眼睛里带着血丝。⑦他问我，运动在男孩子的受教育过程中是不是非常重要，我含含糊糊地说不要太重视。⑧他嘟嘟囔囔着，不知道说了些什么。⑨但是，我意识到我说错话了，很显然我和这位校长之间几乎没有相同观点。

one class of twenty-four boys,

②I should have to teach all subjects except art, which he taught himself. ③Football and cricket were played in the Park, a mile away on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.

①校长说，学校只有一个班，有二十四个男生，年龄从七岁到十三岁不等。②我要教除了艺术之外的所有课程，艺术课由他本人教。

③足球课和板球课安排在周三下午和周六下午，上课地点是一英里外的公园。

①The teaching set-up appalled me. ②I should have to split the class up into three groups and teach them in turn at three different levels;

and—two subjects at which I had been completely incompetent at school.③Worse perhaps was the idea of Saturday afternoon cricket.④It was not so much having to tramp a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a crocodile of small boys that I minded, but the fact that most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time.

①学校的教学安排让我很郁闷。②我得把全班学生分成三组，而后按三个不同层次依次给他们讲课。③想到要教代数和几何，我就很痛苦，这是我在学校最不擅长的两门课。④更糟糕的也许是周六下午的板球课。⑤让我不能忍受的还不是带着一群孩子，沿着脏兮兮的Croydon大街，步行一英里去上课，而是这个时间我大多数朋友都在很惬意地享受悠闲。

①I said diffidently, “What would my salary be?”②“Twelve pounds

a week plus lunch.”③Before I could protest，he got to his feet.④“Now,” he said, “you’d better meet my wife. She’s the one who really runs this school.”

①我怯生生地问：“我的薪水怎么算呢？”②他说：“每周十二英镑，外加午餐”。③我还没来得及表示不同意见，他就站了起来，说：“你现在去见见我的夫人吧，她才是这个学校的老板。”

①This was the last straw.②I was very young:the prospect of working under a woman constituted the ultimate indignity.

①我实在受不了了，我这么年轻，想到要在一个女人手下工作，这真是最大的耻辱。

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Unit 2[见教材P16]

Unwillingly on Holiday

伤心的假期

Philippa Pearce

菲利浦尔.皮尔斯

①②Sometimes

going on holiday can be something to be dreaded.③Partly it could be the

change from the known routine, going somewhere where you

or what you will find.④Some people find this an exciting new experience;others face it with dread.⑤Read the

following account.⑥going somewhere new on holiday?

背景信息：①并不是所有的假期都被看作让人非常高兴的时间。②有时，即使是外出度假也会让人很不开心，部分原因可能是这改变了原有的、已经习以为常的生活轨道。③到一个新的地方去，人们并不确信会发生什么，也不知道会发现什么。④有人认为，外出度假是让人兴奋的新鲜体验，而有的人则很讨厌。⑤读一读下边的文字，谈一谈你对到一个新地方度假的感受。

①If, [standing alone on the back doorstep], Tom allowed himself to

weep tears, they were tears of anger.②He the garden, and raged that he had to leave it — leave it and Peter.③They had planned to spend their time here so joyously these holidays.

①Tom独自站在后门台阶，任凭自己的眼泪往下流，因为他很生气。②他依依不舍地望着花园，很不开心，因为他不得不离开小花园，离开Peter了。③他们原本已经计划好了，假期中两个人一起在这个花园里好好玩呢。

①and the Longs’

;and a grass plot and one

flower-bed and a rough patch by the back fence. ②In this last the apple-tree grew: it was large, but bore very little fruit, and accordingly the two boys had always been allowed to climb freely over it. ③These holidays they would have built a tree-house among its branches.

①城市里的花园通常都很小，Long家的花园也不例外。②有一块菜地，一块草地，一个花圃，在后篱笆旁边还有一小块不十分平坦的土地。③也就是在这小块土地上，有一颗苹果树，很高很大，但是结的果实很少。④所以，这两个小孩子就可以随意地在树上攀爬，在这个假期，他们原本打算在树枝上搭建一个木屋。

①Tom gazed, and then turned back into the house. ②As he passed the foo t of the stairs, he called up. “Good-bye, Peter!”③There was a croaking answer.

①Tom久久凝视着小花园，然后转身回到屋内。②经过楼梯角时，他对着楼上大声喊道：“再见了，Peter。”③回答他的声音深沉而嘶哑。

①He the front doorstep, where his mother was

①Tom从房里出来，来到前门台阶，妈妈正拿着行李箱在等他。

②他伸手去接行李箱，但是妈妈并没有马上给他，而是很严肃地对他说：“Tom，你知道的，为了避开这次麻疹，就这样匆匆忙忙地把你送走，你很不开心，但实际上，我们也很难受，我和你爸爸都会想你的，Peter也会想你的。毕竟，不管怎么说，Peter正在得麻疹呢。”

①“I didn’t say you’d all without me,” said

Tom. “All I said was —”

①“我没有说我不在的时候，你们会很开心，” Tom说，“我说的只是——”

①“Hush!” whispered his mother, looking past him to the road and the car that waited there and the man at the driving-wheel. ②She gave Tom the case, and then bent over him, pushing his tie up to cover his collar-button and letting her lips come to within an inch of his ear. ③“Tom, dear Tom —” she murmured, trying to prepare him for the weeks ahead, “remember that you will be a visitor, and do try — oh, what can I say? —try to be good.”

①“不要说了，”妈妈小声说，同时看着不远处的一条路，路边有辆车在等，车轮边上站着一个人。②妈妈把行李箱递给Tom，又俯身蹲在他身边，把他的领带往上推了推，直到遮盖住领扣。③“Tom，亲爱的宝贝儿”妈妈贴着Tom的耳朵喃喃地说，这是为了让Tom为接下来几个星期的假期做好准备，“记住你是客人，一定要——哦，我该怎么说呢？——一定要好好表现。”

①She kissed him, gave him a dismissive push towards the car and

then followed him to it.②As

the driver.③“Give my love to Gwen,” she said, “and tell her, Alan, how grateful we are to you both for taking T om off at such short notice. It’s v ery kind of you, isn’t it, Tom?”

①妈妈亲吻了Tom，然后把他推到了车那边，自己也跟了过去。

②Tom上车后，Long太太对开车的人说：“Alan，请代我问候Gwen，并请告诉她你们这么快就能来把Tom接走，我们真不知道怎么该感谢你们。非常感谢你们。Tom，你说呢？”

①“Very kind,” Tom repeated bitterly.

①“嗯，非常感谢你们，”Tom痛苦地重复着妈妈的话。

①“There’s s o little room in the house,”said Mrs. Long, “when there’s illness.”

“当家里有人生病的时候，就显得地方小了，”Long太太说。

①“We’re glad to help out,” Alan said. ②He started the engine.

①“我们很乐意帮忙，”Alan说。②然后，他发动了引擎。

①Tom wound down the window next to his mother. ②“Good-bye then!”

Tom摇下了靠近妈妈一侧的车窗，说：“再见了。”

①“Oh, Tom!”Her lips trembled. “I am sorry —spoiling the beginning of your summer holidays like this!”

“哦，Tom,”妈妈的嘴唇有点颤抖，“很抱歉，让你的暑假一开始就很不开心。”

①The car was moving; he had to shou t back: “I’d rather have had measles with Peter — muc h rather!”

①车子启动了，Tom回过头去，向着后边大声喊道：“我宁愿和Peter一起得麻疹，我宁愿。”

①his mother, and then

[或flattened] against a bedroom window. ②Mrs. Long looked upwards to see what was there, raised her hands in a gesture of despair — Peter was supposed to keep strictly to his bed —and hurried indoors.

①Tom很生气地向妈妈挥手再见，然后甚至不顾及他人的感受，对着二楼卧室的窗户方向挥手。②Long太太以为发生了什么事情，向上望去，原来窗户上紧贴着一个人的脸，通红通红的。③她做了一个很无奈的手势——Peter原本应该老老实实地躺在床上的——于是她急急忙忙向屋里跑去。

①Tom closed the car window and sat back in his seat, in hostile silence.②His uncle cleared his throat and said: “Well, I hope we get on reasonably well.”

①Tom关上车窗，坐回到了自己的位置；他气得鼓鼓的，一句话也不说。②Alan叔叔清了清嗓子，说：“嗯，Tom，我希望我们可以相处得很好。”

①This was not a question, so Tom did not answer it.

这并不是一个问题，所以Tom也没有回答。

①He knew he was being rude, but; he

did not much like Uncle Alan, and he did not want to like him at all. ②Indeed, he would have preferred him to be a brutal uncle. ③“If only he’d beat me,” thought Tom, “then I could run away home, and Mother and

Father would say I did right, in spite of the quarantine for measles. But he’ll never even try to beat me, I know;and Aunt Gwen —she’s worse because she’s a child-lover, and she’s kind. Cooped up for weeks with Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a poky flat...”④He had never visited them before, but he knew that they lived in a flat, with no garden.

①Tom很清楚自己现在很无礼，但是他认为自己也是有理由的。

②他不大喜欢Alan叔叔，并且也不打算喜欢他。③事实上，他更希望Alan叔叔是个很凶的人。④“要是他打我，就好了，”Tom想，“这样我就可以逃回家。即使现在是麻疹隔离期间，爸爸妈妈也会认为我做的对。但是，我知道他根本就不会打我。而Gwen阿姨就更不行了，她心地善良，很爱孩子。和Alan叔叔、Gwen阿姨在这样小的公寓里住上几周…..”⑤Tom以前从未去过他们家，但是他知道他们家住的是公寓，没有花园。

From Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

摘自Philippa Pearce著《Tom的午夜花园》

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Unit 3 [I] [见教材P39]

A Man from Stratford — William Shakespeare

一个来自于斯特拉福德的人

——威廉.莎士比亚

①On March 25th, 1616, fifty-two-year-old Master William Shakespeare signed his will leaving t he famous legacy of his “second best bed and furniture”to his wife and the greater part of his estate to his married daughter, Susanna Hall. ②It was the will of a comfortably off man, for the income from the estate probably amounted to about ￡200 a year, which was a lot of money over three hundred and sixty years ago.

③For historians, the most interesting part of the will was that signature, because it and other signatures are all we have left of the handwriting of the world’s literary genius. ④There is no country where Shakespeare’s work is not read with something very like awe because there is something fascinating about a man whose work was so much better than that of anyone else. ⑤Yet in spite of the thousands of books that have been written about this amazing writer, almost every detail of his personal

life is supposition rather than fact.

lived only yesterday but his

playwright of his day, are he could have been born in Roman times.

①一六一六年三月二十五日，五十二岁的文学大师威廉.莎士比亚签署了自己的遗嘱。②在遗嘱中，他把他那个著名的遗产，也就是“世界上第二好的床和家具”留给他的妻子，把大部分的田产留给他已婚的女儿Susanna Hall。③这是一份富人的遗嘱，因为田产每年所能带来的收入大约是贰佰英镑，这在三百六十年前可是很大一笔钱。④对于历史学家而言，这份遗嘱中最有价值的部分是莎士比亚本人的签名，因为这个签名和其他签名是我们所能掌握的关于这位世界文学天才的全部手迹。⑤世界上没有一个国家的读者在阅读莎士比亚的著作时，不是怀着崇敬的心情，因为莎士比亚本人魅力非凡，他的作品远

远超过同时代的其他所有人。⑥然而，尽管有数以千计的书在研究这位旷世罕见的天才作家，但是关于他个人生活的每一个细节都只是推测，而非事实。⑦从历史的角度来看，莎士比亚生活的时代距离现在并不遥远，但是他的活动就像同时代的几乎所有剧作家一样，都非常模糊，以至于有人认为他很可能出生在罗马人入侵和占领时期。

①Shakespeare’s birthplace, the little town of Stratford-upon-Avon, in

Warwickshire, had most famous citizen for a long time. ②It is a popular place for tourists from all over

the world, even though many of them would

understanding Shakespeare’s Elizabethan English.③

However

just to be able to look at the swans that swim on his river, and gaze at the cottage where Anne, his wife, lived before their marriage, and then to see his plays at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

①莎士比亚的出生地，英国中部的沃里克郡埃文河畔的小镇Stratford因为出了莎士比亚这样一个著名人物长期以来收益颇丰。②对于来自世界各地的旅游者而言，这个地方深受欢迎，即使他们中有很多人根本无法理解莎士比亚创作时所使用的伊莉莎白一世时代（1558至1603年，译者注）的英语。③然而，莎士比亚的名气是如此之大，以至于旅游者认为只要能看到埃文河上游弋的天鹅，瞻仰莎士比亚的妻子Anne婚前住过的小屋，然后到皇家莎士比亚剧院观看他的戏剧作品，就会觉得不虚此行。

①To plot Shakespeare’s life is to become involved in a kind of detective story where there are plenty of clues but very little else. ②Nobody even knows the exact date of his birth, although the register of the Parish Church confirms that William Shakespeare was baptized there on April 26th, 1564. ③Nor can it be proved that he went to the excellent local grammar school, although he probably did as there was nowhere else for him to go. ④At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, a woman eight years older than himself, and they had three children.⑤Then in 1585 this young married man apparently left Stratford

and his family, for there is absolutely no record of him for seven long years.

①搞清楚莎士比亚的生平就像是研究某个仅有很多线索而无其他有力佐证的侦探故事。②虽然莎士比亚所在教区的教堂的登记表证实他的确在一五六四年四月二十六日在那里受洗过，但是没有人知道他出生的确切日期。③也无法证实他曾经就读过当地那所很好的文法学校，但是很可能是这样，因为他没有别的地方可去。④莎士比亚十八岁那年娶了一个名叫Anne Hathaway的女人；她比他大八岁，他们生了三个孩子。⑤一五八五年，莎士比亚很显然离开了Stratford和他的家人，因为在此后长达七年的时间里没有关于他的任何记录。

①Exactly what happened to William Shakespeare during those seven years has puzzled scholars ever since. ②There are different theories, but of all the probabilities the most likely one is that he travelled abroad, spending a good deal of time at sea. ③Shakespeare wrote with great conviction about storms and shipwrecks and eating the hard ship’s biscuits “with aching teeth”.

①莎士比亚在那七年间究竟做过些什么？②学者们一直以来都一无所知。③现在有不同的说法，但是在所有的可能性中，最有可能的就是他出国旅行了，在海上呆了很长时间，因为莎士比亚曾经很肯定地写过暴风雨、海难，他还写过吃坚硬的海员饼干时“咯得牙疼”。

①What is quite certain is that, during the time Shakespeare lived there, Stratford-upon-Avon was visited by a great number of theatrical companies. ②It can never be proved, but it seems quite possible that the young Shakespeare saw some of these performances, realized in a flash that this was the life for him and talked one of the managers into giving him a job.③At least nobody questions the fact that he can next be traced in 1592 in London, earning his living as a dramatist and generally getting well known in the theatre.④Whatever else had happened during the lost years, plays that followed, such as Richard III and The Taming of the

Shrew

⑤Shakespeare soon became sufficiently well known for managers and

other influential people to refer to him in writing.⑥We know that as well as working on old plays he rapidly made a name for himself as an author of entirely new ones and also performed as an actor at court.⑦During his fifteen years as a working man of the theatre, Shakespeare wrote more than thirty plays as well as marvellous verse.

①现在可以肯定，莎士比亚在家乡Stratford生活期间，他们那里曾经去过许多剧团。②虽然这根本无法证实，但是年轻的莎士比亚很可能观看过其中的一些演出，就在那一刹那，他意识到那就是他想要的生活，于是他说服了一位剧院经理给他一个职位。③至少现在没有人怀疑莎士比亚一五九二年在伦敦，靠做编剧谋生，后来逐渐在戏剧界小有名气。④无论这些空白年份里究竟发生过什么，诸如《查理三世》和《驯悍记》等剧作表明莎士比亚已经开始了人类历史上前所未有的戏剧创作。⑤莎士比亚很快就大名鼎鼎，剧院经理和其他有影响的人都知道他，常常在写作中提到他。⑥我们知道，莎士比亚除改变旧剧外，自己还创作了新剧本，很快就声誉鹊起；他还在宫廷里演出过。⑦在剧院工作的十五年里，他创作了三十多部戏剧和许多诗。

①After his death on April 23rd, 1616, Shakespeare left behind a mass of questions that experts have been trying to answer ever since.②What was the source of Shakespeare’s amazingly detailed knowledge of so many different subjects?③Who was the beautiful but apparently

heartless “dark lady”who seemed

caused him a lot of sadness?④So far we do not know.⑤There have even been foolish attempts to prove that William Shakespeare’s plays were in fact written by someone else.

①一六一六年四月二十三日，莎士比亚逝世。②他身后留下了许多疑问，专家们一直以来都希望能找到答案。③例如，究竟是什么使得莎士比亚对如此众多的领域有着惊人地深刻洞察？④那个一开始给莎士比亚以灵感，后来又带给他很多痛苦的美丽而又无情的“神秘女人”是谁？⑤到目前为止，我们都不得而知。⑥曾经有人甚至想要证明威廉.莎士比亚的作品实际上是其他人写的。

①When one remembers that he lived in an age when printing was still very expensive and that it was rare for anything written to be thrown away, it seems astonishing that nothing remains of the busy writer’s own

handwriting but the signature.

a bundle of letters that will answer the question that have puzzled so many people for so long.

①我们知道在莎士比亚生活的时代，印刷依然非常昂贵，所以那个时候的人们很少会扔掉手写的东西，因而像莎士比亚这样高产的作家其手迹存留于世的只有签名似乎就显得匪夷所思了。②也许将来有一天，有人会发现一捆书信，这些书信可以回答长期以来困扰这么多人的问题。

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Unit 4[II] [见教材P44]

William Shakespeare

威廉.莎士比亚

①Most people have heard of Shakespeare and probably

that he wrote.

much about the life of this remarkable man, except perhaps that he was

and that he married a

woman called Anne Hathaway. ③school life.

④We do not know, for example, how long it lasted, but we presume that he attended the local grammar school, where the principal subject taught was Latin.

①大多数人都听说过莎士比亚，也很可能对他创作的戏剧有所了解。②然而，并不是每个人都非常了解这位大文豪的生平，可能只是知道他出生在埃文河畔的小镇Stratford，以及他娶过一个名叫Anne Hathaway的女人。③我们对他的学生时代一无所知。④例如，我们不知道他读了多久的书，但是我们推定他读过当地那所非常好的文法学校，那里教授的主要课程是拉丁文。

what the time he

②According to a local legend,

he was beaten and deer from the estate of a neighbouring landowner, Sir Thomas Lucy.③It is said that because of this he was forced to run away from his native place.④A different legend says that he was apprenticed to a Stratford butcher, but

did not like the life

①在离开学校之后到去伦敦之前这段时间里，莎士比亚究竟做过些什么，我们现在的人一无所知。②根据当地的一个说法，莎士比亚曾经盗窃邻居地主Thomas Lucy爵士的庄园里的兔子和鹿被暴打，甚至被投入监狱。③据说，因为这个原因，他被迫逃离家乡。④另外一个说法讲，莎士比亚曾经在Stratford镇上的一个屠户那里做学徒，但是他不喜欢那样的生活，因此决定离开Stratford。

①Whatever caused him to leave the town of his birth, the world can be grateful that he did so.②What is certain is that he set foot on the road to fame when he arrived in London.③It is said that at first he was without money or friends there, but that he earned a little by taking care of the horses of the gentlemen who attended the plays at the theatre.④In time, as he became a familiar figure to the actors in the theatre, they stopped and spoke to him.⑤They found his conversation so brilliant that finally he was invited to join their company.

①总之，无论是什么原因促使他离开家乡，这个世界可能都要感谢他最终迈出了这一步。②可以肯定，莎士比亚到伦敦之后就逐渐走上了戏剧创作的星光大道。③据说，刚开始的时候，莎士比亚在伦敦没有钱也没有朋友，但是后来他为来剧院看戏的绅士们照看马匹挣了一些钱。④慢慢地莎士比亚与剧院里的演员们熟悉了，他们往往会停下来和他说话。⑤他们发现莎士比亚谈吐不凡，于是邀请他加入剧团。

①Earlier than 1592 there is no mention of as

and the name of the theatre he worked in is not known.②However, by this date he had become one of the three leading members of a company of actors called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.③This company was under the protection of the Lord Chamberlain, a powerful nobleman and

and also performed plays at Court.

①在一五九二年之前，无论是作为演员还是编剧，莎士比亚都名不见经传，他所在的剧团叫什么名字，现在的人也不知道。②但是，到了这个时间，他已经成了the Lord Chamberlain’s Men剧团的三名主要成员之一。③这个剧团受到Chamberlain的庇护，他是一位很有权势的贵族，在伊莉莎白一世女王的宫廷任职。④这个剧团在全国各地演出，还在宫廷演出过。

①From what we know of his later life, it is clear that Shakespeare’s connection with the theatre made him a wealthy man, since his plays attracted large audiences and he shared in the profits.②

Towards the end of the sixteenth century he bought a large property in

Stratford.but it was

probably around 1603.④

after that date, though he continued writing.⑤No less than eleven of his plays were produced during the next ten years.⑥These include the great tragedies Othello, Macbeth and King Lear.⑦His last work was The Tempest, but he may have shared in the writing of the historical play King Henry VIII.

①根据我们对莎士比亚后来生活的了解，可以清楚地知道，莎士比亚与剧院的密切关系让他变得非常富有，因为他创作的戏剧很受欢迎，并且他还分享了利润。②十六世纪末的时候，莎士比亚在家乡Stratford购买了一大块房产。③现在也不清楚他是什么时间回乡居住的，可能是在一六零三年。④从那以后，虽然他还在继续创作，但是没有他参演任何戏剧的记录。⑤在接下来的十年里，他创作的戏剧多达十一部，包括著名悲剧《奥赛罗》、《麦克白》和《李尔王》。⑥他最后一部作品是《暴风雨》，另外，他还有可能参与了历史剧《亨利八世》的创作。

①Even after his retirement he frequently visited London. ②Since

, he would

rest there at the home of his friend John Davenant, who

①甚至在退隐后，莎士比亚还常常去伦敦。②从Stratford 到伦敦去的路经过Oxford，所以莎士比亚常常在Oxford下车到他的朋友John Davenant的家中休息；John Davenant非常尊重和关心莎士比亚。

①Shakespeare died in 1616.②Some years earlier he chose a gravestone, under which he was to be buried.③He had a curse engraved on this stone which threatened to bring misfortune on anyone who might remove his body from his grave.

①一六一六年，莎士比亚逝世。②此前几年，他为自己挑选了一块墓碑，准备在自己入葬时用。③他让人在墓碑上刻了一段诅咒，威胁说任何人只要移动他的遗体，都会遭受厄运。

①It seems strange that he should have had this fear. ②He must have known how greatly he was respected, even in his lifetime, for the genius that he showed in his plays and poems. ③It seems impossible that his remains could have been disturbed after his death.

①似乎很奇怪，莎士比亚居然也会有这样的担心。②他甚至在世时就一定知道自己因为在戏剧和诗歌上的卓越成就而多么受人尊敬了，所以他逝世之后，他的遗体似乎也是不可能被惊扰的。

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Unit 5 [见教材P51]

The Light at the End of the Chunnel

英吉利海峡隧道之光

Cathy Newman

凯西. 纽曼

①In a hotel lobby in Sandgate, England, not two miles from the soon-to-be-opened English Channel Tunnel, stiff upper lips trembled. ②For the first time since the last ice age, England was about to be linked to France.

①英国Sandgate，在距离即将开通的英吉利海峡隧道不到两英里的一家旅馆的大厅里，一向深沉内敛的英国人再也无法冷静了。②自第四纪冰川期以来，英国第一次要同法国连接起来了。

①“I’d rather England become the 51st state of the U. S. A. than get tied up to there,” said a retired civil servant with a complexion the color of ruby port. ②He nodded toward the steel gray Channel out the window, his pale blue eyes filled with foreboding.

①“我宁愿英国成为美国的第五十一个州，也不愿意和法国连接起来，”一位退休的英国公务员这样说，他的脸色像深色的波尔多葡萄酒一样。②他朝窗外蓝灰色的英吉利海峡望去，若有所思地点头，浅蓝色的眼睛里充满了不详的预感。

①“Awful place,” added his wife, lifting a teacup to her lips. “They drink all the time, and the food is terrible. When I go to the Continent, I take my own bottle of English sauce.”

①“我不喜欢法国，”他的妻子接着说，然后喝了一口茶。“他们整日酗酒，吃的也很糟。我去欧洲大陆时，要带上我那瓶国产调味酱。”

①“We don’t care much for the French,” her husband concluded. “But the French. ...” Here a pause, a shudder, as the gull-wing eyebrows shot upward. “The French don't care for anybody.”

①“我们英国人不怎么喜欢法国人，”他的丈夫总结说，“但是法国人…”这时他停了下来，身体略微颤抖了一下，鸥翼形的眉毛向上一挑，“不过，法国人也不喜欢任何人。”

①On the other side of the Channel, the entente was scarcely more cordiale. ②In Vieux Coquelles, a village a beet field away from the French terminal near Calais, Clotaire Fournier walked into his farmhouse.

①在英吉利海峡的另一端，法国人对英国人的评价也不大友好。

②在Vieux Coquelles（这是法国的一个村子，与加莱附近的法国终点站之间就隔着一块甜菜地），农民Clotaire Fournier 走进自家的房舍。

①“I went to England once,”he said, sinking into a chair in the dining room. “ Never a gain! All they eat is ketchup.” A tiny explosion of air from pursed lips, then the cou p de grace. “You can’t even get a decent glass of red wine!”

①“我去过一次英国，”他说着坐到了餐厅的椅子上。“我再也不去英国了，他们只吃番茄酱。”他撅着嘴巴，吐了一口气，然后就是重重一击。“在英国，你甚至都喝不到一杯像样的红葡萄酒！”

①

and France are getting hitched.

②On May 6, 1994, Queen Elizabeth of Britain and President Francois

Mitterrand of France

(“Chunnel”for short), sweeping aside 200 years of failed cross-Channel-link schemes, 1,000 years of historical rift, and8,000 years of geographic divide.

①然而，无论怎样，正是因为这样一项世纪工程，英国同法国现在才得以连接起来。②一九九四年五月六日，英国女王伊莉莎白二世和法国总统弗朗索瓦.密特朗将为英吉利海峡隧道（简称“海峡隧道”）的开通剪彩。③这项伟大工程摒弃了二百年来所有失败的跨海峡通道方案，消弭了两国之间千年的历史隔阂，结束了八千年来的地理分割。

①: two for trains and a service tunnel. ②It snakes from Folkestone, England, to Coquelles, France, an average of 150 feet below the seabed. ③Drive onto