Reading Aloud and Memorizing 1英译中

UNTI 2

The years passed. He gave up flying and began sailing. He enjoyed it greatly. Chichester was already 58 years old when he won the first solo transatlantic sailing race. His old dream of going round the world came back, but this time he would sail. His friends and doctors did not think he could do it ,as he had lung carcer. But Chichester was determined to carry out his plan. In august, 1966, at the age of nearly sixty-five, an age when many men retire, he began the greatest voyage of his life. Soon, he was away in his new 16-metre boat, Gipsy Moth.

好多年过去了。他放弃了飞行，开始航海。他领略到航海的巨大乐趣。奇切斯特在首届横渡大西洋单人航海比赛中夺魁时，已经五十八岁。他周游世界的宿愿重又被唤起，不过这一次他是要驾船环游。由于他患有肺癌，朋友们和医生们都认为他不该去，但奇切斯特决意实施自己的计划。1966年8月，在他快满六十五岁的时候——许多人在这个年龄已经退休——他开始了一生中最了不起的一次

航海。不久，他就驾着那艘16米长的新船吉普赛·莫思号启程出海了。

UNTI 4 P73

Let us take a serious, reasonable look at what the results might be if such a proposal were accepted. Families might use the time for a real family hour. Witchout the distraction of TV, they might sit around together after dinner and actually talk to one another, It is well known that many of our problems ----everything , in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some froms of mental illness----are caused at least in part by failure to communicate ,We do not tell each other what is disturbing us . The result is emotional difficulty of one kind of another. By using the quiet family hour to discuss our problems, we might get to know each other better , and to like each other better.

让我们认真而通情达理地看一下，如果这一建议被采纳的话，会有什么样的结果。千家万户也许会利用这段时间真正地团聚一番。没有电视机的干扰，他们晚饭后也许会围坐在一起，当真交谈起来。众所周知，我们的许多问题——事实上是所有的问题，从代沟、高离婚率到某些精神病——至少部分地是由于没能交流思想而引起的。我们谁也不把自己心头的烦恼告诉别人，结果感情上便产生了这样那样的问题。利用这安静的、全家聚在一起的时刻来讨论我们的各种问题，我们相互之间也许会更加了解，更加相爱。

UNTI 6 P134

After graduation I returned home to my small town in Indiana.. I didn’t have a job yet .Mr .Hobbs, a friend of my father’s ,owned a small shit factory in town. Within the past five years it had grown from twenty to eighty workers. Mr.Hobbs was worried that his plant was getting too big and inefficient, so he asked me to come in on a short-term basis as a consultant.

毕业后我回到家乡——印第安纳州的一个小镇上。当时我还没有找到工作。我父亲的一位朋友霍布斯先生在镇上有一家小型衬衫厂。在过去五年里，厂里的工人从二十名增加到了八十名。霍布斯先生担心他的工厂规模变得太大了，效率变得太低了，便请我进厂当了个短期顾问。

UNTI 8 P186

I was deeply moved by the discovery and yet sickened by the knowledge that bursing into her room like this ,I had robbed her of the pleasure of seeing me astonished and delighted on Christmas day . I hadn’t wanted to know her lovely secret; still coming upon it like this made me feel as though I’d struck a blow against her happiness. I backed out ,put the key back in its hiding place ,and thought over what to do .

I decided that between now and Christmas I must do nothing , absolutely nothing , to reveal the slightest hint of my terrible knowledge. I must avoid the least word that might reveal my possession of her secret . Nothing must deny her the happiness of seeing me completely amazed on Christmas Day .

这一发现让我深为感动，然而想到这样闯进她的卧室，从而剥夺了她在圣诞节那天见到我又惊又喜时的欢乐，我又感到厌恶。我本不想知道她这个可爱的秘密；但像这样偶然地发现了它仍然使我觉得好像重重地打击了她的欢乐一样。我从她的卧室退了出来，把钥匙放回原处，认真考虑着该怎么办才好。

我决定，在现在和圣诞节之前这段时间里，我必须不动声色，绝对不可露出一点蛛丝马迹暗示我已令人讨厌地知道了此事。我必须谨言慎行，不能让她知道我已掌握了她的秘密。必须想尽一切办法让她在圣诞节那天享受到看见我极为惊讶时的快乐。

UNTI 10 P236

Then Brunswick was 10 mails , and then five . Then , suddenly , all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming and shouting and crying , doing small dances of joy . All except V ingo .

V ingo sat there stunned , looking at the oak tree. It was covered with yellow handkerchiefs –20 of them , 30 of them , maybe hundreds , a tree that stood like a banner of welcome billowing in the wind. As the young people shouted, the old con slowly rose from his seat and made his way to the front of the bus to go home .

离布伦斯威克只有十英里了，只有五英里了。突然，所有年轻人都从座位上站了起来，尖叫着，呼喊着，大声嚷嚷着，跳起了欢乐的舞蹈。只有文戈除外。

文戈坐在那儿望着橡树惊呆了。树上挂满了黄手绢——二十条，三十条，或许有几百条，一棵树立在那儿就像欢迎的旗帜在迎风招展。在年轻人的欢呼声中，这位前犯人慢吞吞地从座位上站起来，向车子前部走去，准备回家。