英语课外练习题

Please translate the following passages into Chinese:
Passage 1
Today the ancient, ancestral wisdom of the hand has been largely replaced by the simple movements of th e machine operator, our glass and china, furniture, books, and textiles are almost entirely products of the machine. Those machine-made goods can be well designed and good-looking no one denies; nevertheless, there are many who believe that if the old skills of the hand-worker were to die out altogether, it would be a disaster.
Their arguments are, roughly, three. First, that the machine is by its nature a mass producer, and that objects made in ones and twos can be made better, even cheaper, by an individual craftsman than by a machine; secondly that the human hand with relatively simple tools can produce objects of a quality permanently beyond the reach of the machine; thirdly, that it is not good for mankind if people lose the ability to create with their hands.
Passage 2
It was January. Snow was falling; snow had fallen all day. The sky spread like a grey goose's wing from which feathers were falling all over England. The sky was nothing but a flurry of falling flakes. Lanes were leveled; hollows filled; the snow clogged the streams, obscured windows, and lay hedged against doors. There was a faint murmur in the air, as if the air itself were turning to snow; otherwise all was silent, when a sheep coughed, snow flopped from branch all slipped in an avalanche down some roof in London. Now and again a shaft of light spread slowly across the sky as a car drove through the muffled roads. But as the night wore on, snow covered the wheel ruts, softened to nothingness the marks of the traffic, and coated monuments, palaces and statues with a thick vestment of snow. Passage 3
Michael Jordan, a basketball player in whom commentators have discerned aristocratic qualities and supernatural powers, has retired from the game that made him one of the world’s best known and best paid sportsmen, earning a reputed ＄36 million a year.
Last week’s announcement was premature by most people’s measurement —Jordan is 30 and at the height of his playing and earning power —but it was not, by his own account, taken hastily, rashly or under any duress. “This is,” he said, w ith a rare stumble, “the perfect timing for me to walk away.”
After three championships with the Chicago Bulls, a second gold medal with the US team at the 1992 Olympics, and all the accolades the game can bestow, Jordan felt his motivation slipping。