高二英语选修7课文翻译（精选5篇）

第一篇：高二英语选修7课文翻译

第一单元 好好生活

马蒂的故事

你好。我叫马蒂．菲尔丁。我想你可能会说我是“百万人中才有一个”的那种人。换句话说，世界上像我这样的人并不多见。你瞧，我的肌肉有毛病，使我的身体非常虚弱，所以我不能像别人那样快跑或快步爬楼梯。再说，有时候我还会笨手笨脚、不小心摔掉东西，或磕碰到家具上。不幸的是，大夫们不知道如何治好我的病，但是我很开朗乐观，学会了适应身体的残疾。我的座右铭是：活一天算一天。

十岁以前，我跟其他人是一样的。我常常爬树、游泳、踢足球。说实在的，我过去常常梦想我会成为职业球员，代表我们的国家参加世界杯足球赛。后来，我的身体开始变得越来越虚弱，以至于只能坐在体育场的长凳上欣赏足球了。最后我到医院去做了检查，几乎住了三个月的医院。我想我至少做过十亿次检查了，包括有一次检查，他们从我的腿部切下一小块儿肌肉，放在显微镜下观察。即使做过了所有这些检查，也没有人能够确诊这个病。因此，很难知道将来会是个什么样子。

问题是我看上去跟平常人一样。因此，当我跑了很短的一段路之后，我就会喘不过气来，或者爬楼梯才爬到一半就得停下来休息。因此，上小学时有的孩子见了我这种情况就会笑话我。有时候我的身体太虚弱，上不了学，因此落了许多功课。每次缺课之后，我就觉得自己很笨，因为我比别人落后了。

我在中学时期的生活(比在小学时)要轻松多了，因为我的同学开始接受了我的状况。还有些同学看不到我的内心世界，但是我并不生气，只是不去理会他们罢了。总而言之，我生活得挺好。我很高兴我能做许多事情，比如写作和电脑编程。我有雄心壮志，长大后我要在开发电脑软件的公司里工作。去年我发明了一个电脑足球游戏，有一家大公司已经决定从我这儿买走。我的生活很充实，没有时间闲坐着顾影自怜。除了同我的朋友一起去看电影和足球比赛，我还花很多时间和我的宠物在一起。我有两只兔子、一只鹦鹉、一缸金鱼和一只乌龟。我得花大量时间来照顾这些宠物，但我觉得很值。此外，我还有好多功课，特别是在病了一段时间之后。

在许多方面，我身体的残疾倒使我心理上变得更加坚强、更加独立。我必须努力工作才能过上正常的生活，但这是值得的。假如我有机会跟健康孩子讲一句话，那么，这句话就是：身体残疾并不意味着生活不美满。因此，不要感到残疾人可怜，或者取笑他们，也别不理睬他们。要接受他们，给他们以鼓励，让他们能像你一样过得丰富多彩、充实美满。

谢谢你们读我的故事。．

马蒂

致建筑师的一封信

桑达斯女士 爱丽斯。梅杰

总建筑师 剑桥街64号

影院设计公司 班克斯敦

希尔街44号

班克斯敦

20(0年9月2,4日

亲爱的桑达斯女士：

今天我从报上了解到，您将成为班克斯敦新影院的建筑设计师。我希望您不介意我写信

询问您是否已考虑到残疾顾客的需要。尤其是以下几点不知您是否考虑到了： 1．为乘坐轮椅的人进入电影院提供充分的便利。影院内的各个部分都安装电梯就会很方便。电梯的按钮应当让乘坐轮椅的人容易够到，电梯门应足够宽。在有些电影院里，(残疾人专用)电梯设在影院背后阴冷而不显眼的地方。由于残疾人必须要使用这些电梯，这就使残疾人感到比别的观众低一等。

2．给听力有障碍的人提供耳机。所有座位的旁边都装有耳机，而不是少数几个座位，那会有帮助。这样可以使那些听力有缺陷的观众和那些听力正常的朋友坐在一起欣赏，而不是让前者坐在一个特定的区域。

3．抬高座位。身材矮小的人常常看不到屏幕。所以我想建议影院后排的座位应该此前排的高，这样每个人都能很容易地看到银幕。也许可以让每一横排的排头都留出莹位，以便坐轮椅的人坐在他们的朋友旁边。

4．厕所。在影院入口处的附近安排厕所会让残疾人感觉更加方便。只在离放映大厅很远的地下室为残疾人安排一个厕所，这种作法会给他们带来麻烦。如果厕所的门能设计成向外开，残疾人会很高兴。、5．停车场。当然还得专门为残疾司机和老年司机安排停车场。如果这些停车场离影院出入口都很近，残疾人就会很轻松地到达影院。

感谢您阅读我的信，希望您能赞成我的建议。残疾人应当和健全人有同样的机会来欣赏 电影，同时能保持自己的尊严。如果您设计的电影院能够为残疾人提供方便，那么，我相信许多人都会夸奖您的电影院，而且电影院的老板也会高兴，因为有更多的人能够去看电影了，他们就能赚更多的钱了。

第二单元 机器人

包君满意

拉里·贝尔蒙特在一家生产机器人的公司里工作。最近，该公司要对一个家用机器人进行试验。这项试验将由拉里的夫人克莱尔来尝试。

克莱尔并不想把机器人留在家里，特别是在她丈夫离家三周的这个期间。但是克莱尔被拉里说服了。他说，机器人不会伤害她，也不会让别人来伤害她。这样会是个意外的收获。然而她初次见到机器人的时候就感到有点儿吃惊。机器人名叫托尼，看上去更像一个人，而不像台机器。他虽然面部表情毫无变化，但是个子高大、相貌英俊，二头发平整，声音低沉浑厚。

第二天早晨，托尼戴着围裙，给她端来了早餐，然后问她是否需要帮忙穿衣打扮。她感到有点儿不好意思，很快就打发他走了。机器人如此通人性，这使她觉得心烦和害怕。

有一天，克莱尔说起，她觉得她自己并不聪明。托尼则说，克莱尔一定是很不高兴，才会说出这样的话来。克莱尔觉得，机器人会向她表示同情，这有点荒唐可笑。但是她开始信任托尼了。她告诉托尼她太胖了，这让她很不高兴。还有对于像拉里这样很想提高社会地位的人来说，她的家也不够高雅。她跟格拉迪斯’克拉芬不一样，格拉迪斯是远近闻名的有钱有势的女人。

托尼为让克莱尔高兴，答应帮助她，使她变得漂亮，使她的家变得高雅大方。于是克莱尔从图书馆借来一堆书给托尼阅读，或者说给他浏览一下。她惊奇地看着他的手指翻动着书页，忍不住突然伸出手来摸他的手指。他的手指甲和他那柔软温暖的皮肤使她感到大为惊异。她在想，这是多么可笑啊，他只不过是一台机器呀!

托尼给克莱尔换了个发型，又改变了化妆风格。因为不允许托尼陪克莱尔去商店，所以托尼就给她写了一份购物清单。克莱尔进城去买了窗帘、坐垫、地毯和床上用品。然后她去了一家珠宝店买项链。柜台售货员对她很粗鲁，她就打电话给托尼，让售货员同托尼讲话。售货员马上就改变了态度。克莱尔对托尼表示感谢，并说他是个“可爱的人”。她刚一转过身去，就看到格拉迪斯_·克拉芬站在那儿。克莱尔想，被格拉迪斯发现了1，这多么难为情啊!从格拉迪斯脸上的那种有趣而又惊奇的神色来看，克莱尔知道，格拉迪斯认为她有风流韵事了：毕竟格拉迪斯知道她的丈夫是拉里，而不是托尼。

克莱尔回到家里，坐在扶手椅上气得直哭。格拉迪斯的一举一动都是克莱尔想模仿的。托尼告诉克莱尔说，你可以同格拉迪斯一样，．还建议克莱尔邀请格拉迪斯和她的朋友到家里来玩，时间就定在托尼离去和拉里回家之前的那个晚上。托尼想在此之前将房子改装得焕然一新。

托尼有条不紊地搞着装修。克莱尔有一次想来帮忙，但是太笨手笨脚了，竞从梯子上掉了下来。尽管托尼当时在隔壁房间里，他还是及时赶过来把她接住了。他把她紧紧地搂在怀里，她感觉到了他身上有股暖气。她尖叫了起来，把他推开，跑回她的房里，那天她就再也没有出来过。

聚会的那天晚上来到了。时钟敲响八点，客人马上就要到来了。克莱尔叫托尼到另一间房里去。就在那一瞬间，托尼弯曲胳膊搂着她，弯下身去把脸贴近她的脸。她大叫一声“托尼”，然后听到托尼一本正经地说，明天他不想离开她，而且他并不满足于仅仅使她开心。就在这时，前门的门铃响了。托尼放开了她，消失得无影无踪了。也就在这时候，克莱尔才意识到托尼早就把前边窗户的窗帘拉开了。她的客人把这一切看得一清二楚。

克莱尔和她的房子、美食给女士们留下了深刻的印象。就在他们离开之前，克莱尔听到格拉迪斯跟另外一个女人小声地说，她从来没有见过像托尼这样英俊的男人。受到那些女士的妒忌，这该是多么甜美的胜利!克莱尔也许并没有她们那样漂亮，但是他们中没有任何一个人拥有这样英俊的情人。

这时候，她记起来了——托尼只不过是一台机器。她高声嚷着：“让我独自呆一会儿!”就跑上床，哭了一个通宵。第二天早晨开来一辆汽车，把托尼接走了。

公司对托尼同克莱尔相处三个星期的实验报告非常满意。托尼保护了一个人免受伤害，他使克莱尔没有因为她的失败感而伤害自己。那天晚上，他拉开了窗帘，让其他女人看到了他和克莱尔在一起，他明白这么做对克莱尔的婚姻并不造成危害。但是，尽管托尼很聪明，他还得作一番改建——总不能让女人和机 器相爱吧。

艾萨克·阿西莫夫传

艾萨克·阿西莫夫是美国的科学家兼作家，他写过大约480本书，包括怪诞小说、科学和历史方面的书，甚至还写过有关《圣经》和莎士比亚的书。但是，他最有名的作品是他的科幻小说。阿西莫夫不仅有着超凡的想象力，使他能对未来世界进行探索，而且还有着惊人的智力，使他能对现在的和过去的各种事物作出解释。

阿西莫夫的一生从俄罗斯开始，他生于1920年1月2日；阿西莫夫的一生在纽约结束，他死于1992年4月6日。他是因为9年前的一次输血中感染了艾滋病病毒而去世的。

阿西莫夫三岁的时候，就随同父母和年仅一岁的妹妹迁到纽约。在那儿，他的父母买下了一家糖果店，后来一直经营了大约40年。阿西莫夫九岁的时候，母亲怀了第三个孩子，他就开始在糖果店里兼职工作了。他读中学和大学的那段时期都在糖果店里工作，一直到1942年，也就是他获得化学硕士学位一年以后他才停止糖果店的工作。1942年，他在费城海军造船厂里担任初级化学师，干了三年。1948年他获得化学博士学位。第二年他在波士顿大学的医学院任生化教员。1958年他放弃了教学工作成为专职作家。

早在阿西莫夫11岁的时候，他的写作才华就已经显露出来了。他把他写的小说中的两个章节念给一个朋友听，这个朋友还以为他是在复述某本书上的故事呢。这使阿西莫夫很惊讶。从那以后，他就开始认真地从事写作了。1939年，阿西莫夫开始在科幻杂志上发表故事，1950年出版了他的第一部小说，1953年出版了他的第一部科学书籍。

阿西莫夫一生中多次获过奖，既有科幻小说奖，也有科学书籍奖。在他那些最富盛名的科幻小说中，有本获奖的书叫做《基地三部曲))(1951—1953)，有三个小故事，讲的是未来银河系中一个伟大帝国的灭亡与复兴。基本素材取自罗马帝国的衰败，但讲的是有关未来的事情。这些书之所以有名，是因为阿西莫夫创造了一种理论柜架，用以阐述各种想法在未来可能会如何发展。他的短篇小说集《我，机器人))(1950)也是享有盛名的。在这本书里他提出机器人的三大“原则”。举例来说，第一条原则就规定机器人不得伤害人类，也不能允许人类受到伤害。他那些有关机器人的想法后来影响了其他的作者，甚至影响了那些从事人工智能研究的科学家们。

阿西莫夫结过两次婚。他于1942年同他的第一任妻子结婚，生有一男一女。这次婚姻持续了31年。1973年离婚后不久，阿西莫夫又结婚了，但是他与第二任妻子没有生育儿女。

第二篇：选修6M2英语课文翻译

The Story of J.K.Rowling and Harry Potter 作品《哈利波特》的天才般的创作者---J.K.罗琳，是英国魔幻文学的显赫人物。乔安妮 罗琳在老家---英格兰的西南部---长大。但是关于《哈利波特》的想法是在从曼彻斯特开往伦敦的延迟的火车上闯入她的脑海的。她把他的想法写在一个信封的背面。此后她去了葡萄牙教授英语，在那里，她继续给第一本《哈利波特》的框架添加血肉。但是她的名字永远和苏格兰的爱丁堡联系在一起，她生活在那里并把整个系列的7本书的框架构思出来。

关于J.K.罗琳是怎样在1990年开始《哈利波特与魔法石》的第一份草稿的，这里有许多趣闻。当她写作时，她又另外一个麻烦，那就是她还要照看她才几个月大的小女儿，而且由于他很穷，买不起打字机，只好用手写。在爱丁堡的温暖的咖啡馆里，她要花好长时间才能喝完一杯咖啡（以便在此期间写她的小说），因为她没钱支付家里的暖气费。

成功并非一帆风顺，罗琳曾经可能放弃。但她意志顽强并克服了所有困难。直到1997年她才完成第一部《哈利波特》小说，由于美国的出版商要求调整书名，这本书也被称作《哈利波特与魔法石》。

罗琳完成她的第一步小说后，打算每年写完一部一直到她完成整个系列。实际上，完成这个目标话费她10年的时间。继第一部成功之后，随后而来的几本书的成功也就随之而来了。第五部《凤凰社》仅在发行当天就销售出去700万册。

罗琳的写作风格成了一些批评的对象，但是这些作品之所以重要时因为他们吸引了各个年龄段的读者，并且在父母和孩子之间建立起了一条特殊的文字纽带。在一个电脑游戏和电视节目盛行的时代里，它们也再度掀起了对阅读的兴趣。《哈利波特》甚至已经成为学校课程的一部分，这使得学生们特别开心。

《哈利波特》的影响不仅仅局限于讲英语的国家。罗琳的小说已被翻译逾55种语言，估计已经向全世界发行超过2.5亿册。据推测到2005年，罗琳的银行累计存款已超过十亿美元。那是她已是第一位亿万富翁作家。

简介

《狮子，女巫，魔衣橱》的创作者---C.S.刘易斯（1898-1963）是英国最伟大的魔幻文学作家之一。露西发现了冰天雪地的纳尼亚，在那里她和她的两个哥哥，一个姐姐遇见了白女巫。他们也遇见了狮子阿斯兰，唯一能打败女巫并把夏天归还给纳尼亚的人。跟随阿斯兰，孩子们学会了勇敢和宽恕。他们历经大喜大悲，最终学到了智慧。他们在纳尼亚的时光是最大的冒险，那是每个孩子都梦寐以求的。

《狮子，女巫，魔衣橱》节选

那是她看到面前有一道光，离它不远处可以看到魔衣橱的后面，但走起来却很远。有种又凉又软的东西洒落在她身上。片刻之后，她发现她正站在晚间的树林中间，积雪踩在脚下，雪片从空中飘来。

露西感到有点害怕，但同时她也感到好奇兴奋。她扭头向后望去，透过黑色的树干，她仍能看到魔衣橱的入口处，甚至还能瞥见她走出的那个空房子。（当然，她让魔衣橱的门开着，因为她知道把自己关在衣橱里是件很愚蠢的事情。）厨外看起来仍是白天。露西想：“如果发生了什么事，我总是可以跑出来的”她开始往前走，伴着脚下咯吱咯吱的积雪声穿过树林，走向那边的亮光处。大约十分钟后她走到那里，发现它原来时个灯柱，她不知所措，然后，她听到有人正啪嗒啪嗒地向她走来。不久之后一个奇怪的人就从树林那边走过来，出现在灯光下面。

他比露西略微高一点，因下雪而打着伞，伞上覆盖着雪。从腰往上，他看起来像个人，但他的腿像羊腿（上面的毛又黑又亮），脚不是人脚而是羊蹄。他还有尾巴，不过起初路西没有看到，因为举着伞的手臂巧妙地遮住了他的摇摆以至于看不见。他脖子上长着长长的红毛，他的皮肤也略带红色。他的脸又小又奇怪但却很好看，胡子很显眼，头发打着卷儿，两只羊角从卷发里穿出来，长在前额的两侧。他的一只手，正如我刚才所说的，举着伞；在另一只手里拿着几只棕黄色的包裹。通过包裹和他身上的雪，他刚才好像去买圣诞礼物了。他是个半人半羊人。但看到露西时，他惊讶得把他的包裹都掉落到地上了。

“我的天哪！”他不禁喊道。

The Lord of the Rings(指环王)20世纪最著名的魔幻故事之一是托尔金的《指环王》三部曲。这个故事的三个部分都被成功地拍成了电影。故事发生在一个叫做中世纪的世界。人类只是当时存在的生物物种之一。这个世界也存在着精灵族，他们是拥有魔力且永远不会死掉的高个子的美丽的生灵。有霍比特人，他们像个子矮小的人，居住在山洞中。也有爱小人，他们与小的，丑陋的人相似，居住在深山中。

在《指环王》中，有一个邪恶的叫做索伦的巫师，他拥有巨大的魔力，制造了九枚戒指。任何生灵拥有了其中的一枚戒指就会拥有巨大的魔力。但是索伦制造了一枚戒指——魔戒——它可以控制所有的戒指。拥有这枚戒指的人可以控制整个中世纪。

幸运的是，这枚戒指已经丢失了数百年了。但是后来它被一个霍比特人发现了。索伦已是到这枚魔戒已经被找到了，于是派他的生灵来夺回它。如果他得到了这枚魔戒，索伦将统治整个中世纪，而中世纪也将变成一个充满黑暗的恐惧的地方。一个善良的巫师甘达夫意识到为了拯救整个中世纪必须摧毁魔戒。为了做到这点，某人必须将魔戒带入索伦的王国。在那儿，他们必须在曾经制造这枚魔戒的火焰中毁掉它。这三本书讲述了在毁掉魔戒的征途上发生的故事。在三部曲中的最后一本书中，在索伦和那些想拯救中世纪的生灵之间展开了一场可怕的战争。

许多人认为《指环王》时20世纪最好的英文小说。当然，也有一些人不喜欢读魔幻小说。但是如果你喜欢，那么它应该是你必读的一个故事。

第三篇：高二英语课本课文翻译

翻译也是英语考试必考的题型之一，下面是小编整理的高二英语课本课文翻译，希望对你有帮助。

MARTY’S STORY

Hi, my name is Marry Fielding and I guess you could say that I am “one in a million”.In other words, there are not many people like me.You see, I have a muscle disease which makes me very weak, so I can't run or climb stairs as quickly as other people.In addition, sometimes I am very clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture.Unfortunately, the doctors don't know how to make me better, but I am very outgoing and have learned to adapt to my disability.My motto is: live One day at a time.Until I was ten years old I was the same as everyone else.I used to climb trees, swim and play football.In fact, I used to dream about playing professional football and possibly representing my country in the World Cup.Then I started to get weaker and weaker, until I could only enjoy football from a bench at the stadium.In the end I went into hospital for medical tests.I stayed there for nearly three months.I think I had at least a billion tests, including one in which they cut out a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at it under a microscope.Even after all that, no one could give my disease a name and it is difficult to know what the future holds.One problem is that I don't look any different from other people.So sometimes some children in my primary school would laugh, when I got out of breath after running a short way or had to stop and rest halfway up the stairs.Sometimes, too, I was too weak to go to school so my education suffered.Every time I returned after an absence, I felt stupid because I was behind the others.My life is a lot easier at high school because my fellow students have accepted me.The few who cannot see the real person inside my body do not make me annoyed, and I just ignore them.All in all I have a good life.I am happy to have found many things I can do, like writing and computer programming.My ambition is to work for a firm that develops computer software when I grow up.Last year invented a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy it from me.I have a very busy life with no time to sit around feeling sorry for myself.As well as going to the movies and football matches with my friends, I spend a lot of time with my pets.I have two rabbits, a parrot, a tank full of fish and a tortoise.To look after my pets properly takes a lot of time but I find it worthwhile.I also have to do a lot of work, especially if I have been away for a while.In many ways my disability has helped me grow stronger psychologically and become more independent.I have to work hard to live a normal life but it has been worth it.If I had a chance to say one thing to healthy children, it would be this: having a disability does not mean your life is not satisfying.So don't feel sorry for the disabled or make fun of them, and don't ignore them either.Just accept them for who they are, and give them encouragement to live as rich and full a life as you do.Thank you for reading my story.Unit

1马丁的故事

嗨,我的名字是马丁。费尔丁和我猜你会说我是“万中挑一。换句话说,没有很多象我这样的人。你看,我有一个肌肉疾病,这使我很弱,所以我不会跑或爬楼梯,就像其他的人。此外,有时我很笨手笨脚下降,事物或撞到家具。不幸的是,医生们不知道如何让自己变得更美好,但我非常的友好,并且已经学会适应我的障碍。我的座右铭是:过好生活中的每一天。

直到我十岁的时候我相同于其他人一样。我过去爬树,游泳和踢足球。事实上,我常常渴望发挥专业足球,可能代表我的国家在世界杯上的表现。然后我开始变得虚弱,直到我能只喜欢足球长凳上在体育馆里。最后我走进医院医疗试验。我在那儿呆了将近三个月了。我想我至少有10亿测试,包括在其中,他们剪断出块肌肉从我的腿而且看一看在显微镜下观察。即使听完了所有,没人能给我的病一个名字,很难知道以后会发生什么吧。”

所面临的一个问题是我看起来不任何与别人不同。所以有时候有些孩子会笑我的小学,我走出跑步后呼吸短角球,不得不停下来休息爬到楼梯的一半。有时我太弱,所以我去学校教育的痛苦。每次我回来,我感到在离开笨,是因为我是在别人后面了。

我的生活是很容易在高中,因为同学们已经接受了我。那些无法看到真正的人,在我的身体不使我很烦,我对它们不予理会。总之我有一个好的生活。我很高兴地发现许多事情我能做的事,比如写作和计算机编程。我的愿望是为一家公司工作开展计算机软件,当我长大。去年我发明了一种计算机的足球比赛和一个大公司决定购买我。我有一个非常忙碌的生活没有时间坐着为自己难过。以及在看电影和橄榄球场比赛,我的朋友,我花很多时间和我的宠物。我有两只兔子,一只鹦鹉,一辆坦克满了鱼和一只乌龟。照看我的宠物正确需要很多的时间,而且我发现它值得的。我也要做很多工作,特别是我已经离开一会儿。

在很多方面,我的残疾使我更强的心理,会变得更加独立。我必须努力工作来过一个正常的生活了,但是它是值得的。如果我有机会说一件事对健康的孩子,那就是:有残疾并不意味着你目前的生活很不满意。所以不要惋惜身心障碍者或取笑他们,不要忽略这些标准。只接受他们,给他们鼓励丰富的生活让你的生活。

谢谢你读我的故事。

SATISFACTION GURANTEED

Larry Belmont worked for a company that made robots.Recently it had begun experimenting with a household robot.It was going to be tested out by Larry's wife, Claire.Claire didn't want the robot in her house, especially as her husband would be absent for three weeks, but Larry persuaded her that the robot wouldn't harm her or allow her to be harmed.It would be a bonus.However, when she first saw the robot, she felt alarmed.His name was Tony and he seemed more like a human than a machine.He was tall and handsome with smooth hair and a deep voice although his facial expression never changed.On the second morning Tony, wearing an apron, brought her breakfast and then asked her whether she needed help dressing.She felt embarrassed and quickly told him to go.It was disturbing and frightening that he looked so human.One day, Claire mentioned that she didn't think she was clever.Tony said that she must feel very unhappy to say that.Claire thought it was ridiculous to be offered sympathy by a robot.But she began to trust him.She told him how she was overweight and this made her feel unhappy.Also she felt her home wasn't elegant enough for someone like Larry who wanted to improve his social position.She wasn't like Gladys Claffern, one of the richest and most powerful women around.As a favour Tony promised to help Claire make herself smarter and her home more elegant.So Claire borrowed a pile of books from the library for him to read, or rather, scan.She looked at his fingers with wonder as they turned each page and suddenly reached for his hand.She was amazed by his fingernails and the softness and warmth of his skin.How absurd, she thought.He was just a machine.Tony gave Claire a new haircut and changed the makeup she wore.As he was not allowed to accompany her to the shops, he wrote out a list of items for her.Claire went into the city and bought curtains, cushions, a carpet and bedding.Then she went into a jewellery shop to buy a necklace.When the clerk at the counter was rude to her, she rang Tony up and told the clerk to speak to him.The clerk immediately changed his attitude.Claire thanked Tony, telling him that he was a “dear”.As she turned around, there stood Gladys Claffern.How awful to be discovered by her, Claire thought.By the amused and surprised look on her face, Claire knew that Gladys thought she was having an affair.After all, she knew Claire's husband's name was Larry, not Tony.When Claire got home, she wept with anger in her armchair.Gladys was everything Claire wanted to be.“You can be like her,” Tony told her and suggested that she invite Gladys and her friends to the house the night before he was to leave and Larry was to return.By that time, Tony expected the house to be completely transformed.Tony worked steadily on the improvements.Claire tried to help once but was too clumsy.She fell off a ladder and even though Tony was in the next room, he managed to catch her in time.He held her firmly in his arms and she felt the warmth of his body.She screamed, pushed him away and ran to her room for the rest of the day.The night of the party arrived.The clock struck eight.The guests would be arriving soon and Claire told Tony to go into another room.At that moment, Tony folded his arms around her, bending his face close to hers.She cried out “Tony” and then heard him declare that he didn't want to leave her the next day and that he felt more than just the desire to please her.Then the front door bell rang.Tony freed her and disappeared from sight.It was then that Claire realized that Tony had opened the curtains of the front window.Her guests had seen everything!

The women were impressed by Claire, the house and the delicious cuisine.Just before they left, Claire heard Gladys whispering to another woman that she had never seen anyone so handsome as Tony.What a sweet victory to be envied by those women!She might not be as beautiful as them, but none of them had such a handsome lover.Then she remembered-Tony was just a machine.She shouted “Leave me alone” and ran to her bed.She cried all night.The next morning a car drove up and took Tony away.The company was very pleased with Tony's report on his three weeks with Claire.Tony had protected a human being from harm.He had prevented Claire from harming herself through her own sense of failure.He had opened the curtains that night so that the other women would see him and Claire, knowing that there was no risk to Claire's marriage.But even though Tony had been so clever, he would have to be rebuilt-you cannot have women failing in love with machines.Unit 2 Robots

拉里·贝尔蒙特努力,这家公司制造的机器人。最近就已经开始了实验一种家居机器人。这将是检验被拉里的妻子,克莱儿。

克莱儿不想要那个机器人在她的房子,尤其是当她的丈夫缺席三周,但是拉里·说服她或让她受到损坏。它将是次要的。然而,当她第一次看到这个机器人,她感到惊恐。他的名字是托尼和他的情绪看起来更像人类比机器。他身材高大英俊的光滑的头发和一种低沉的声音虽然他的面部表情永不改变。

在第二天早晨托尼,穿着围裙,把早饭,然后问她是否需要帮助调料。她感到很尴尬,立刻告诉他去。这是干扰或可怕的,因为他看上去那么人体。

有一天,克莱儿提到她不认为她是很聪明的。托尼说,她必须感到不悦说那种话。克莱儿认为太荒谬了用机器人得到同情。但她开始信任他。她告诉他她是如何超重,这使她感觉很不高兴。她觉得她的家也不优雅的足够的某球员,像赖瑞想提高他的社会地位。她根本不喜欢格拉Claffern,其中一个富裕,最强大的女人身边。

当厚待托尼答应帮助克莱儿使自己更聪明,她的家更优美。所以Claise借来一叠图书馆借书让他看,或者更确切地说,扫描。她看着他的手指奇迹,因为他们把每一页,突然了他的手。她惊讶的是他的手指甲和疲软的亲切和他的皮肤。太荒谬,她想。他只是一个机器。

托尼给克莱儿个新发型,改变了妆她戴着。当他不被允许陪她到商店去,他开列了一列项目。克莱儿进了城,买了窗帘、座垫、地毯到床上用品。然后她走进一家珠宝商店买了一条项链。当职员在柜台边是粗鲁无礼的她,她就响了托尼了起来对工作人员与他说话。店员立刻改变了他的态度。克莱儿感谢托尼,告诉他说,他是一个“亲爱的”。她转过身来,Claffern格拉站在那里。太可怕了,将会发现了他,克莱儿思想。愉快,让他的脸上神情诧异,克莱儿知道格拉以为她有外遇。毕竟,她知道克莱儿的丈夫的名字是赖瑞,而不是托尼。

当克莱儿一回家,她哭了怒火在扶手椅里。格拉是一切克莱儿想要做的。“你可以像她一样”,托尼告诉她,建议她邀请格雷迪斯家和她的朋友们一起前一天晚上他离开和拉里·是归还。到那个时候,托尼预期的房屋被完全改变。

托尼曾稳步地改进。克莱儿试图帮助一次,但太笨了。她从梯子上掉下来摔,尽管托尼在隔壁房间,他还是设法逮住了她。他握着她的坚信他的手臂和她感到温暖的他的身体。她尖叫道,把他推开,跑去她的房间,其余时间。

聚会的夜晚来了。那个钟敲了八。客人会快到了,克莱儿告诉托尼去到另一个房间里。那一刻,托尼胳臂交叉双臂抱着她,弯曲他的脸接近她的。她大声呼喊”托尼。”然后听见他宣布,他不想离开她的第二天,他感到很不只是希望取悦她。然后前门铃就响了。托尼释放了她,渐渐消失了。就在那时,克莱儿意识到托尼开了窗帘的橱窗。她的客人已经看见了这一切情景!

妇女们留下深刻的印象,克莱儿,房子和丰富的菜。就在他们走了,克莱儿听到格拉跟另一个女人,她从未见过这么英俊,托尼。多可爱的胜利让人嫉妒的女人!她很可能不一样漂亮,但是没有一个有这样一个英俊的情人。

然后她记得——托尼只是一个机器。她喊道“让我单独”,跑去她的床上。她整晚哭着。第二天早晨,一辆车开并把托尼离开。

公司非常高兴托尼的报告在他的3周,克莱儿。托尼保护着人类受到伤害。他妨碍了克莱儿危害自己通过她自己的失败感。他就已经开了窗帘那天晚上,使女性都见他,并且克莱儿,知道没有风险克莱儿的婚事。但是,尽管托尼很聪明,他还得被建造-你不能有妇女会爱上机器。

OLD TOM THE KILLER WHALE

I was 16 when I began work in June 1902 at the whaling station.I had heard of the killers that every year helped whalers catch huge whales.I thought, at the time, that this was just a story but then I witnessed it with my own eyes many times.On the afternoon I arrived at the station, as I was I sorting out my' accommodation, I heard a loud noise coming from the bay.We ran down to the shore in time to see an enormous animal opposite us throwing itself out of the water and then crashing down again.It was black and white and fish-shaped.But I knew it wasn't a fish.“That's Old Tom, the killer,” one of the whalers, George, called out to me.“He's telling us there's a whale out there for us.”

Another whaler yelled out, “Rush-oo...rush-oo.” This was the call that announced there was about to be a whale hunt.“Come on, Clancy.To the boat,” George said as he ran ahead of me.I had already heard that George didn't like being kept waiting, so even though I didn't have the right clothes on, I raced after him.Without pausing we jumped into the boat with the other whalers and headed out into the bay.I looked down into the water and could see Old Tom swimming by the boat, showing us the way.A few minutes later, there was no Tom, so George started beating the water with his oar and there was Tom, circling back to the boat, leading us to the hunt again.Using a telescope we could see that something was happening.As we drew closer, I could see a whale being attacked by a pack of about six other killers.“What're they doing?” I asked George.“Well, it's teamwork-the killers over there are throwing themselves on top of the whale's blow-hole to stop it breathing.And those others are stopping it diving or fleeing out to sea,” George told me, pointing towards the hunt.And just at that moment, the most extraordinary thing happened.The killers started racing between our boat and the whale just like a pack of excited dogs.Then the harpoon was ready and the man in the bow of the boat aimed it at the whale.He let it go and the harpoon hit the spot.Being badly wounded, the whale soon died.Within a moment or two, its body was dragged swiftly by the killers down into the depths of the sea.The men started turning the boat around to go home.“What's happened?” I asked.“Have we lost the whale?”

“Oh no,” Jack replied.“We'll return tomorrow to bring in the body.It won't float up to the surface for around 24 hours.” “In the meantime, Old Tom, and the others are having a good feed on its lips and tongue,” added Red, laughing.Although Old Tom and the other killers were fierce hunters, they, never harmed or attacked people.In fact, they protected them.There was one day when we were out in the bay during a hunt and James was washed off the boat.“Man overboard!Turn the boat around!” urged George, shouting loudly.The sea was rough that day and it was difficult to handle the boat.The waves were carrying James further and further away from us.From James's face, I could see he was terrified of being abandoned by us.Then suddenly I saw a shark.“Look, there's a shark out there,” I screamed.“Don't worry, Old Tom won't let it near,” Red replied.It took over half an hour to get the boat back to James, and when we approached him, I saw James being firmly held up in the water by Old Tom.I couldn't believe my eyes.There were shouts of “Well done, Old Tom” and 'Thank God“ as we pulled James back into the boat.And then Old Tom was off and back to the hunt where the other killers were still attacking the whale.Unit 3 Under the sea

我16岁当我开始工作在1902年6月捕鲸站。我听说过杀手,每年都帮助捕鲸者抓住巨大的鲸鱼。我想,在那个时候,这只是一个故事,而是那我亲眼目睹了许多次。

下午我到达车站时,我整理我准备膳宿时,我听到一声巨响从海湾传来。我们跑到海边看到一个巨大的动物对我们置身出了水面,然后崩溃了。这是黑白fish-shaped。

不加思索我们跳进游艇和其他的捕鲸出海驶向入海湾。我低头朝水中看去,看到老汤姆正在船边游着,为我们引路。几分钟后,没有汤姆,乔治开始打水,和他的桨汤姆回到船上,环绕,引导我们去打猎了。

使用望远镜我们可以看出确实是发生了。当我们走近的时候,我能看鲸鱼遭到一群大约6其他杀手。凶手在那里正把自己最重要的鲸鱼的憋气停止呼吸。和那些人停止它跳水、逃离出海。乔治告诉我指着捕猎。就在那一刻,的最不可思议的事情发生了。凶手开始比赛我们的船和鲸鱼之间就像一群兴奋的狗。虽然老了汤姆和其他杀手非常激烈的猎人,他们从未错待过或攻击的人。事实上,他们保护他们。有一天,当我们在海湾在打猎和詹姆斯洗净了船。

海是粗糙的那一天,这使得我们很难处理的船。海浪携带着詹姆斯深入,离我们。从詹姆斯·的脸上,我可以看出来他在害怕被抛弃我们发挥的空间。我忽然看到鲨鱼。用了半个多小时的时间才把船划回到詹姆斯,而当我们走近他,我看到詹姆斯被牢牢地抓住了在水老汤姆。

我不敢相信我的眼睛。有“干得不错,有欢呼拯救的声音老汤姆”,"谢谢上帝”在我们把詹姆斯回到船上。然后老汤姆就跳下去,回到亨特,而其他杀手仍攻击鲸鱼。

第四篇：高中英语选修八课文及翻译

选修8 Unit 1 A land of diversity-Reading

CALIFORNIA California is the third largest state in the USA but has the largest population.It also has the distinction of being the most multicultural state in the USA, having attracted people from all over the world.The customs and languages of the immigrants live on in their new home.This diversity of culture is not surprising when you know the history of California.Unit1 加利福尼亚

加利福尼亚是美国的第三大州，而且是人口最多的州。加州与众不同之处在于它也是美国最具多元文化的一个州，它吸引了来自世界各地的人们。这些移民的风俗习惯以及语言在他们的新家都得以延续。当你了解了加利福尼亚的历史后，你就不会对此感到惊讶了。NATIVE AMERCANS

Exactly when the first people arrived in what we now know as California, no one really knows.However, it is likely that Native Americans were living in California at least fifteen thousand years ago.Scientists believe that these settlers crossed the Bering Strait in the Arctic to America by means of a land bridge which existed in prehistoric times.In the 16th century, after the arrival of the Europeans, the native people suffered greatly.Thousands were killed or forced into slavery.In addition, many died from the diseases brought by the Europeans.However, some survived these terrible times, and today there are more

Native Americans living in California than in any other state.美洲土著人

最早的一批人具体是在什么时候来到我们现在所知道的加利福尼亚地区的，谁也说不清楚。然而，很可能至少在15 ,000年以前美洲土著人就住在加利福尼亚了。科学家们认为，这些迁居者通过一条史前时代曾经存在的大陆桥穿越北极地区的白令海峡到达美洲。欧洲人在16世纪来到这儿后，土著人遭受了极大的苦难，成千上万的人被杀害或被迫成为奴隶。此外，欧洲人带来了疾病，使许多人染病而死，不过，还是有一些人在经历了这些恐怖时期后活下来了。今天住在加利福尼亚的美洲土著人比任何其他州的都要多。

THE SPANISH In the 18th century California was ruled by Spain.Spanish soldiers first arrived in South America in the early 16th century, when they fought against the native people and took their land.Two centuries later, the Spanish had settled in most parts of South America and along the northwest coast of what we now call the United States.Of the first Spanish to go to California, the majority were religious men, whose ministry was to teach the Catholic religion to the natives.In 1821, the people of Mexico gained their independence from Spain.California then became part of Mexico.In 1846 the United States declared war on Mexico, and after the war won by the USA, Mexico had to give California to the USA.However, there is still a strong Spanish influence in the state.That is why today over 40 of

Californians speak Spanish as a first or second language.西班牙人

在18世纪的时候，加利福尼亚是由西班牙统治的西班牙士兵最早是在1 6世纪初期来到南美洲的，他们同土著人打仗，并夺去了他们的土地3两个世纪以后，西班牙人在南美洲的大部分地区定居下来，而且还在我们现在称之为美国的西北沿海地区住下来c在首批移

居加州的西班牙人中，大部分是宗教人士，他们的职责是向原住民传授天主教。1821年，墨西哥人从西班牙获得了独立-加利福尼亚于是成了墨西哥的一部分。1846年美国向墨西哥宣战，美国赢得战争胜利后，墨西哥被迫把加利福尼亚割让给美国。但是，这个州至今仍然保留着很强的西班牙的影响。这就是为什么今天还有40%的加利福尼亚人仍然把西班牙语作为第一或第二语言的缘故。

RUSSIANS In the early 1800s, Russian hunters, who had originally gone to Alaska, began settling in California.Today there are about 25,000 Russian-Americans living in and around San Francisco.俄罗斯人

19世纪初期，一批最初到阿拉斯加的俄罗斯猎人开始在加利福尼亚定居下来。今天，住在圣弗朗西斯科（旧金山）及其周边地区的美籍俄罗斯人约有25,000人。GOLD MINERS In 1848, not long after the American-Mexican war, gold was discovered in

California.The dream of becoming rich quickly attracted people from all over the world.The nearest, and therefore the first to arrive, were South Americans and people from the United States.Then adventurers from Europe and Asia soon followed.In fact, few achieved their dream of becoming rich.Some died or returned home, but most remained in California to make a life for themselves despite great hardship.They settled in the new towns or on farms.By the time California elected to become the thirty-first federal state of the USA in 1850, it was already a multicultural society.淘金矿工

1848年，在美国同墨西哥开战之后不久，在加利福尼亚发现了金矿。发财梦很快就吸引了世界各地的人。距离最近因而来得最早的是南美洲人和美国人。随后跟着来的有欧洲和亚洲的探险家。事实上很少有人圆了发财梦。一些人死了或回家了，但是尽管条件十分艰苦，多数人还是留在了加利福尼亚劳作谋生，并在新的城镇或农场里定居下来。到1850年加利福尼亚成为美国第31个州的时候，它已经是一个有着多种文化的社会了。

LATER A RRIVALS Although Chinese immigrants began to arrive during the Gold Rush Period, it was the building of the rail network from the west to the east coast that brought even larger numbers to California in the 1860s.Today, Chinese-Americans live in all parts of California, although a large

percentage have chosen to stay in the “Chinatowns” of Los Angeles and San Francisco.Other immigrants such as Italians, mainly fishermen but also wine makers, arrived in California in the late 19th century.In 1911 immigrants from Denmark established a town of their own, which today still keeps up their Danish culture.By the 1920s the film industry was well established in Hollywood, California.The industry boom attracted Europeans including many Jewish people.Today California has the second largest Jewish population in the United States.Japanese farmers began arriving in California at the beginning of the 20th century, and since the 1980s a lot more have settled there.People from Africa have been living in California since the 1800s, when they moved north from Mexico.However, even more arrived between 1942 and 1945 to work in the ship and aircraft industries.后来的移民

虽然中国移民在淘金热时期就开始到来了，但是更大批量的移民却是在1 9世纪60年代为了修建贯穿美国东西海岸的铁路而来的。今天，加利福尼亚州各地都有美籍华人，尽管有很大比例的华人还是选择住在洛杉矶和圣弗朗西斯科（旧金山）的“中国城”里。

19世纪后期，其他国家的移民，比如意大利人来到了加利福尼亚，他们主要是渔民，也有制酒工人。1911年，丹麦的移民建立了自己的城镇，至今仍然保留着丹麦文化。20世纪20年代，电影业在加州的

好莱坞建立了起来。这个行业吸引了大量的欧洲人，包括许多犹太人。今天，加利福尼亚的犹太人口在美国占第二位。

日本农民是在20世纪初期开始到加利福尼亚来的，而从20世纪80年代以来就有更多的日本人在加利福尼亚定居了。非洲人从1 9世纪就在加利福尼亚住下来，他们是从墨西哥向北迁来的。然而，更多的非洲人是在1942年至1945年期间来到加利福尼亚的，当时他们是到船厂和飞机厂工作。

MOST RECENT ARRIVALS In more recent decades, California has become home to more people from Asia, including Koreans, Cambodians, Vietnamese and Laotians.Since its beginning in the 1970s, the computer industry has attracted Indians and Pakistanis to California.最近期的移民

在最近的几十年里，加利福尼亚成了更多的亚洲人的家，包括朝鲜人、柬埔寨人、越南人和老挝人。从20世纪70年代以来，计算机工业吸引了印度人和巴基斯坦人来到加州。

THE FUTURE People from different parts of the world, attracted by the climate and the lifestyle, still immigrate to California.It is believed that before long the mix of nationalities will be so great that there will be no distinct major racial or cultural groups, but simply a mixture of many races and cultures.未来展望

世界各地的人，由于受到气候条件和生活方式的吸引，仍然在继续迁入加利福尼亚。人们认为，要不了多久，多种国籍的混合将会非常之大，以致不可能存在一种主要的种族或文化群体，而是多种族、多文化的混合体。

GEORGE’S DIARY 12TH—14TH JUNE Monday 12th, June Arrived early this morning by bus.Went straight to hotel to drop my luggage, shower and shave.Then went exploring.First thing was a ride on a cable car.From top of the hill got a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay and the city.Built in 1873, the cable car system was invented by Andrew Hallidie, who wanted to find a better form of transport than horse-drawn trams.Apparently he'd been shocked when he saw a terrible accident in which a tram's brakes failed, the conductor could not control the situation and the tram slipped down the hill dragging the horses with it.Had a late lunch at Fisherman's What.This is the district where Italian fishermen first came to San Francisco in the late 19th century and began the fishing industry.Now it's a tourist area with lots of shops, sea food restaurants and bakeries.It's also the place to catch the ferry to Angel Island and other places in the Bay.Did so much exploring at Fisherman's What.Am exhausted and don't feel like doing anything else.Early bed tonight!

Tuesday 13th, June

Teamed up with a couple from my hotel(Peter and Terri)and hired a car.Spent all day driving around the city.There's a fascinating drive marked out for tourists.It has blue and white signs with seagulls on them to show the way to go.It's a 79km round-trip that takes in all the famous tourist spots.Stopped many times to admire the view of the city from different angles and take photographs.Now have a really good idea of what the city's like.In evening, went to Chinatown with Peter and Terri.Chinese immigrants settled in this area in the 1850s.The fronts of the buildings are decorated to look like old buildings in southern China.Saw some interesting temples here, a number of markets and a great many restaurants.Also art galleries and a museum containing documents, photographs and all sorts of objects about the history of Chinese immigration, but it is closed in the evening.Will go back during the day.Had a delicious meal and then walked down the hill to our hotel.Wednesday 14th, June

In morning, took ferry to Angel Island from the port in San Francisco Bay.On the way had a good view of the Golden Gate Bridge.From 1882 to 1940 Angel Island was a famous immigration station where many Chinese people applied for right to live in USA.The cells in the station

were very small, cold and damp;some did not even have light but the immigrants had nowhere else to go.Their miserable stay seemed to be punishment rather than justice and freedom to them.They wrote poems on the walls about their loneliness and mourned their former life in China.In 1940 the civil authorities reformed the system so that many more Chinese people were able to grasp the opportunity of settling in the USA.Made me very thoughtful and thankful for my life today.选修8 Unit 2 Cloning-Reading CLONING: WHERE IS IT LEADING US? Cloning has always been with us and is here to stay.It is a way of making an exact copy of another animal or plant.It happens in plants when gardeners take cuttings from growing plants to make new ones.It also happens in animals when twins identical in sex and appearance are produced from the same original egg.The fact is that these are both examples of natural clones.Unit2 克隆：它将把我们引向何方？

克隆一直与我们同在，而如今它还要持续下去。这是一种用来生产与原型完全相同的动植物的方法。当园艺师从生长着的植物上剪下枝条来培植新植物时，就会产生这种现象。这种现象也发生在动物身上，从同一个原生卵子产生性别和相貌相同的双胞胎也是克隆。实际上，这些都是自然克隆现象。

Cloning has two major uses.Firstly, gardeners use it all the

time to produce commercial quantities of plants.Secondly, it is valuable for research on new plant species and for medical research on animals.Cloning plants is straightforward while cloning animals is very complicated.It is a difficult task to undertake.Many attempts to clone mammals failed.But at last the determination and patience of the scientists paid off in 1996 with a breakthroughthe telephone in 1876.Bell never

set out to invent the telephone and what he was trying to design was a multiple telegraph.This original telegraph sent a message over distances using Morse code(a series of dots tapped out along a wire in a particular order).But only one message could go at a time.Bell wanted to improve it so that it could send several messages at the same time.He designed a machine that would separate different sound waves and allow different conversations to be held at the same time.But he found the problem difficult to solve.One day as he was experimenting with one end of a straw joined to a deaf man's ear drum and the other to a piece of smoked glass, Bell noticed that when he spoke into the ear, the straw drew sound waves on the glass.Suddenly he had a flash of inspiration.If sound waves could be reproduced in a moving electrical current, they could be sent along a wire.In searching to improve the telegraph,Bell had invented the first telephone!Bell was fully aware of the importance of his invention and wrote to his father: “The day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water or gas – and friends will talk to each other without leaving home.” The patent was given in 1876, but it was not until five days later that Bell sent his first telephone message to his assistant Watson.The words have now become famous:

“Mr WatsonI want to see you.” Alexander Graham Bell was not a man to rest and he interested himself in many other areas of invention.He experimented with helicopter designs and flying machines.While searching for a kite strong enough to carry a man into the air, Bell experimented putting triangles together and discovered the tetrahedron shape.Being very stable, it has proved invaluable in the design of bridges.Bell was an inventor all his life.He made his first invention at eleven and his last at seventy-five.Although he is most often associated with the invention of the telephone, he was indeed a continuing searcher after practical solutions to improve the quality of everybody's life.选修8 Unit 4 Pygmalion-Reading

PYGMALION MAIN CHARACTERS: Eliza Doolittle(E): a poor flower girl who is ambitious to improve herself Professor Higgins(H): an expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person's English decides his/her position in society Colonel Pickering(CP): an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins' who sets him a task

Unit4 皮格马利翁

主要人物：

伊菜扎·杜利特尔（伊）：穷苦的卖花姑娘，立志要改善自己的生活 希金斯教授（希）：语音学专家，坚信一个人的英语水平决定这个人的社会地位皮克林上校（皮）：陆军军官，后来成了希金斯教授的朋友，并给他安排了一项任务

Act One FATEFUL MEETINGS 11 :15 pm in London, England in 1914 outside a theatre.It is pouring with rain and cab whistles are blowing in all directions.A man is hiding from the rain listening to people's language and watching their reactions.While watching, he makes notes.Nearby a flower girl wearing dark garments and a woollen scarf is also sheltering from the rain.A gentleman(G)passes and hesitates for a moment.E: Come over’ere, cap’in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl.G: I'm sorry but I haven't any change.E: I can giv’ou change, cap’in.G:(surprised)For a pound? I'm afraid I've got nothing less.E:(hopefully)Oah!Oh, do buy a flower off me, Captain.Take this for three pence.(holds up some dead flowers)G:(uncomfortably)Now don't be troublesome, there's a good girl.(looks in his wallet and sounds more friendly)But, wait, here's some small change.Will that be of any use to you? It's raining heavily now, isn't it?(leaves)E:(disappointed at the outcome, but thinking it is better than nothing)

Thank you, sir.(sees a man taking notes and feels worried)Hey!I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman.I've a right to sell flowers, I have.I ain’t no thief.I'm an honest girl I am!(begins to cry)H:(kindly)There!There!Who's hurting you, you silly girl? What do you take me for?(gives her a handkerchief)E: I thought maybe you was a policeman in disguise.H: Do I look like a policeman? E:(still worried)Then why did 'ou take down my words for? How do I know whether 'ou took me down right? 'ou just show me what 'ou've wrote about me!H: Here you are.(hands over the paper covered in writing)E: What's that? That ain't proper writing.I can't read that.(pushes it back at him)H: I can.(reads imitating Eliza)“Come over' ere, cap'in, and buy me flowers off a poor girl.”(in his own voice)There you are and you were born in Lisson Grove if I'm not mistaken.E:(looking confused)What if I was? What's it to you? CP:(has been watching the girl and now speaks to Higgins)That's quite brilliant!How did you do that, may I ask? H: Simply phonetics studied and classified from people's own speech.That's my profession and also my hobby.You can place a man by

just a few remarks.I can place any spoken conversation within six miles, and even within two streets in London sometimes.CP: Let me congratulate you!But is there an income to be made in that? H: Yes, indeed.Quite a good one.This is the age of the newly rich.People begin their working life in a poor neighbourhood of London with 80 pounds a year and end in a rich one with 100 thousand.But they betray themselves every time they open their mouths.Now once taught by me, she'd become an upper class lady...CP: Is that so? Extraordinary!H:(rudely)Look at this girl with her terrible English: the English that will condemn her to the gutter to the end of her days.But, sir,(proudly)once educated to speak properly, that girl could pass herself off in three months as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party.Perhaps I could even find her a place as a lady's maid or a shop assistant, which requires better English.E: What's that you say? A shop assistant? Now that's sommat I want, that is!H:(ignores her)Can you believe that? CP: Of course!I study many Indian dialects myself and...H: Do you indeed? Do you know Colonel Pickering? CP: Indeed I do, for that is me.Who are you?

H: I'm Henry Higgins and I was going to India to meet you.CP: And I came to England to make your acquaintance!E: What about me? How'll you help me? H: Oh, take that.(carelessly throws a handful of money into her basket)We must have a celebration, my dear man.(leave together)E:(looking at the collected money in amazement)Well, I never.A whole pound!A fortune!That'll help me, indeed it will.Tomorrow I'll find you, Henry Higgins.Just you wait and see!All that talk of(imitates him)“authentic English”...(in her own voice)I'll see whether you can get that for me...(goes out)第一幕

决定性的会面

1914年的某日晚上11点15分，在英国伦敦某剧场夕。正下着倾盆大雨，四处响着出租车的鸣笛声。有一位男士在躲雨，边听人们谈话边观察着人们的反应。他一边观察，一边作记录。附近一个穿着黑色衣裙围着羊毛围巾的卖花姑娘也在躲雨。这时有位先生（先）从这儿路过，他迟疑了片刻。

伊：长官，过这边来呀，买我这个苦命的孩子一束花吧！先：对不起，我没有零钱，伊：长官，我可以给你找零钱呀。

先：（惊奇地）一个英镑你找得开吗？没有再小的钱了。

伊：（带有希望的神色）啊！好啦，从我这买一束吧。拿这一束，只要三个便士o（举起一些已经枯萎的花）

先：（不舒服地）现在别烦我，好姑娘。（在他的口袋里找什么，这时语气好些了）等一等，这儿有几个零钱。这点钱对你有用吗？雨下大了，不是吗？（说完就走了）

伊：（对先生付的钱表现出失望的样子，但是有总比没有好）先生，谢谢了。（看到有人在记什么，感到担心）嗨，我跟那位先生讲话，又没做错什么事。我有权卖花吧，我有权嘛！我不是小偷，我是个老实姑娘，老老实实的！（开始哭起来）

希：（友善地）好啦，好啦！谁伤害你了，傻姑娘？你把我当成什么人了？（递给她一条手帕）

伊：我还以为你是一个便衣警察呢。希：我像警察吗？

伊：（仍在担心）那你为啥要把我说的话记下来呢？我怎么知道你是不是写对了呢？那你把你写的关于我的东西给我看看。希：你看吧！（把写满字的纸递给她）

伊：这是什么呀？不像规规矩矩的字，我看不懂。（把纸退回给他）希：我懂。（模仿伊的声音读）长官，过这边来呀，买我这个苦命孩子一束花吧！（改用自己的声音）好了吧，你呀，如果我没有弄错的话，你出生在里森格罗佛：

伊：（困惑不解的）如果我是又怎样呢？跟你有什么关系呢？ 皮：（本来是一直望着这个姑娘的，这时跟希金斯说话了）太棒了！请问你是怎么知道的呢？

希：对人的发音进行研究、分类，如此而已。这是我的专业，也是我 的业余爱好。你可以根据几句话判定是哪个地方的人。我可以根据任何谈话来判定他们是哪个地方的人，差距不过六英里，有时候在伦敦甚至不超过两个街区呢。

皮：恭喜你了！不过，你这样做有收入吗？

希：当然有哆，还挺高呢。这是个致富的年代

人们从伦敦的穷人区开始工作，年收入才80英镑，最后到了富人区工作，年收入就是10万英镑了，但是他们一张嘴就会露出马脚（暴露自己的身份）。如今如果让我一教，她就会变成一个上层阶级的淑女…… 皮：是吗？那太妙了！

希：（粗鲁地）你瞧这个姑娘，英语说得那样糟糕，使她注定要在贫民窟里待上一辈子。不过，先生，（高傲地）要是一旦有人教她把英语说好了，她就可以在三个月以内冒充公爵夫人出席大使主办的花园晚会了。说不定我还可 以给她找份工作，当一名贵夫人的侍女或商店的店员。这些工作都要求英语说得好呢。

伊：你说啥来着？店员？这正是我想要做的，真的！希：（不理睬她）你相信我说的话吗？

皮：当然相信。我自己就学了好多种印度方言，而且…… 希：真的吗？那你认不认得皮克林上校呢？ 皮：当然认得，皮克林就是我。那么请问您是谁？ 希：我是亨利·希金斯。我还打算要去印度见你呢： 皮：我也正是到英国来找你的！伊：我呢？你们怎么帮助我呢？

希：啊，拿去吧！（漫不经心地朝她的篮子里扔去一把钱）好老兄，我们该美美地庆祝一番了。（一道离去）

伊：（惊奇地看着收集起来的钱）啊，我还从来没有见过！整整一个英镑呢！一笔财富呀！这的确给我帮大忙了，真的。明天我一定去找你，亨利·希金斯。等着瞧吧！你那口（模仿他的声音）“真正的英语”……（用自己的声音）我倒要看看你能不能帮我找到……（离去）

Act Two, Scene 1 MAKING THE BET It is 11am in Henry Higgins' house the next day.Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering are sitting deep in conversation.H: Do you want to hear any more sounds? CP: No, thank you.I rather fancied myself because I can pronounce twenty-four distinct vowel sounds;but your one hundred and thirty beat me.I can't distinguish most of them.H:(laughing)Well, that comes with practice.There is a knock and Mrs Pearce(MP), the housekeeper, comes in with cookies, a teapot, some cream and two cups.MP:(hesitating)A young girl is asking to see you.H: A young girl!What does she want? MP: Well, she's quite a common kind of girl with dirty nails.I thought perhaps you wanted her to talk into your machines.H: Why? Has she got an interesting accent? We'll see.Show her in, Mrs Pearce.MP:(only half resigned to it)Very well, sir.(goes downstairs)H: This is a bit of luck.I'll show you how I make records on wax disks...MP:(returning)This is the young girl, sir.(Eliza comes into the room shyly following Mrs Pearce.She is dirty and wearing a shabby dress.She curtsies to the two men.)H:(disappointed)Why!I've got this girl in my records.She's the one we saw the other day.She's no use at all.Take her away.CP:(gently to Eliza)What do you-want, young lady? E:(upset)I wanna be a lady in a flower shop 'stead o' selling flowers in the street.But they won't take me 'less I speak better.So here I am, ready to pay him.I'm not asking for any favourswhy, it's the best offer I've had!(to Eliza)But if I teach you, I'll be worse than a father.CP: I say, Higgins.Do you remember what you said last night? I'll

say you're the greatest teacher alive if you can pass her off as a lady.I'll be the referee for this little bet and pay for the lessons too...E:(gratefully)Oh, yer real good, yer are.Thank you, Colonel.H: Oh, she is so deliciously low.(compromises)OK, I'll teach you.(to Mrs Pearce)But she'll need to be cleaned first.Take her away, Mrs Pearce.Wash her and burn her horrible clothes.We'll buy her new ones.What's your name, girl? E: I'm Eliza Doolittle and I'm clean.My clothes went to the laundry when I washed last week.MP: Well, Mr Higgins has a bathtub of his own and he has a bath every morning.If these two gentlemen teach you, you'll have to do the same.They won't like the smell of you otherwise.E:(sobbing)I can't.I dursn't.It ain't natural and it'd kill me.I've never had a bath in my life;not over my whole body, neither below my waist nor taking my vest off.I'd never have come if I'd known about this disgusting thing you want me to do...H: Once more, take her away, Mrs Pearce, immediately.(Outside Eliza is still weeping with Mrs Pearce)You see the problem, Pickering.It'll be how to teach her grammar, not just pronunciation.She's in need of both.CP: And there's another problem, Higgins.What are we going to do once the experiment is over?

H:(heartily)Throw her back.CP: But you cannot overlook that!She'll be changed and she has feelings too.We must be practical, mustn't we? H: Well, we'll deal with that later.First, we must plan the best way to teach her.CP: How about beginning with the alphabet.That's usually considered very effective...(fades out as they go offstage together)

选修8 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors-Reading A VISIT TO THE ZHOUKOUDIAIN CAVES A group of students(S)from England has come to the Zhoukoudian caves for a visit.An archaeologist(A)is showing them round.A: Welcome to the Zhoukoudian caves here in China.It is a great pleasure to meet you students from England, who are interested in archaeology.You must be aware that it's here that we found evidence of some of the earliest people who lived in this part of the world.We've been excavating here for many years and...S1: I'm sorry to interrupt you but how could they live here? There are only rocks and trees.A: Good question.You are an acute observer.We have found human and animal bones in those caves higher up the hill as well as

tools and other objects.So we think it is reasonable to assume they lived in these caves, regardless of the cold.S2: How did they keep warm? They couldn't have mats, blankets or quilts like we do.It must have been very uncomfortable.A: We've discovered fireplaces in the centre of the caves where they made fires.That would have kept them warm, cooked the food and scared wild beasts away as well.We have been excavating layers of ash almost six metres thick, which suggests that they might have kept the fire burning all winter.We haven't found any doors but we think they might have hung animal skins at the cave mouth to keep out the cold during the freezing winter.S3: What wild animals were there all that time ago? A: Well, we've been finding the bones of tigers and bears in the caves, and we think these were their most dangerous enemies.Now what do you think this tells us about the life of these early people?(shows picture of a sewing needle)S2.: Gosh!That's a needle.Goodness, does that mean they repaired things? A: What else do you think it might have been used for? S4: Let me look at it.It's at most three centimetres long.Ah yes, it seems to be made of bone.I wonder how they made the hole for the...S2:(interrupting)Do you mean that they made their own clothes? Where did they get the material? A: They didn't have material like we have today.Can you guess what they used? Sl: Wow!Did they wear clothes made entirely of animal skins? How did they prepare them? I'm sure they were quite heavy to cut and sew together.A: Our evidence suggests that they did wear clothes made from animal skins.We continue discovering tools that were sharpeners for other tools.It seems that they used the sharpened stone tools to cut up animals and remove their skin.Then smaller scrapers were probably used to remove the fat and meat from the skin.After that they would rub an ample amount of salt onto the skin to make it soft.Finally, they would cut it and sew the pieces together.Quite a difficult and messy task!Now look at this.(shows a necklace)S2:Why, it's a primitive necklace.Did early people really care about their appearance like we do? It's lovely!A:Yes, and so well preserved.What do you think it's made of?.S4:Let me see.Oh, I think some of the beads are made of animal bones but others are made of shells.A:How clever you are!One bone is actually an animal tooth and the shells are from the seaside.Can you identify any other bones?

S1:This one looks very much like a fish bone.Is that reasonable? A:Yes, indeed, as the botanical analyses have shown us, all the fields around here used to be part of a large shallow lake.Probably there were fish in it.S3:But a lake is not the sea.We are miles from the sea, so how did the seashells get here? A:Perhaps there was trade between early peoples or they travelled to the seaside on their journeys.We know that they moved around, following the herds of animals.They didn't grow their own crops, but picked fruit when it ripened and hunted animals.That's why they are called hunters and gatherers.Now, why don't we go and visit the caves?

Unit5 周口店洞穴参观记

一群英国学生（学）来到周口店洞穴参观。有一位考古学家（考）正领着他们参观。

考：欢迎到中国来参观周口店洞穴。很高兴见到你们这些从英国来的对考古学感兴趣的学生。你们想必都很清楚，正是在这个地方，我们找到了世界上居住在这个地方最早人类的证据。我们在这儿进行的挖掘工作已经很多年了，而且…… 学1：

对不起，打断一下你的讲话，请问他们是怎么住在这个地方的呢？这儿只有石头和树木。考：问得好。你是个敏锐的观察者，在高山上的那些洞穴里我们找到了人骨和兽骨，还有工具和其他物品因此，我们有理由认为他们不顾严寒，就住在这些洞穴里。

学2：那他们是怎样取暖的呢？他们不可能像我们现在这样有垫子、毯子和被子。想必是很不舒服的了。

考：我们发现在洞穴中央有生火用的地炉。他们用地炉里的火来取暖、做饭，还可以用火来吓跑野兽。我们一直在挖掘一层层的积灰，几乎有六米厚，这意味着他们可能整个冬天都在烧火。我们还没有找到门，但我们认为在天寒地冻的冬季他们可能是用兽皮挂在洞口来防寒的。学3：在那以前有些什么野兽吗？考：嗯，我们在洞里发现了老虎和熊的骨头。我们认为这些野兽对他们来讲是最危险的敌人了。现在，你们看这个东西能告诉我们有关早期人类生活的什么情况呢？（指着一张有针线的照片让大家看）

学2：哎呀，那是一根针！天哪，难道他们还会修补东西吗？ 考：除此之外，你认为还可能派别的什么用场吗？

学4：让我看看。这个东西最多三厘米长，看起来像是用骨头做的。我不知道他们是怎样做成针眼的……

学2：（插话）你是不是说他们自己做衣服穿？他们又是从哪里得到衣料的呢？

考：他们没有像我们今天穿的这种衣料。你能猜出他们用的是什么吗？ 学1：哇，他们穿的衣服全都是用兽皮做的吗？他们那些衣服是怎样做

成的？我确信它们裁剪并缝起来又厚又重。

考：我们有证据表明，他们的确穿的是用兽皮制的衣服。我们不断发现一些磨削其他工具用的工具。看样子他们可能是用磨尖的石器来切割野兽并剥皮，再用小一些的刮子把皮上的脂肪和肉去掉。然后，他们可能在兽皮上擦上大量的盐，使皮变柔软。最后进行剪裁，缝起来就成了。确实是既难又脏的活！现在来看看这个吧。（指着一串项链）考：你真聪明！有块骨头实际上是野兽的牙齿，贝壳是从海边捡来的。你还认得别的骨头吗？ 学1：这根很像鱼骨头，对吗？

考：很对。植物学的分析结果明确地告诉我们，这儿四周曾经是一个很．大的浅水湖。毫无疑问，当时湖里是有鱼的。

学3：不过，湖并不是海呀，我们离海还远着呢¨眷客，更壳又是怎么来的呢？

考：早期人类之间也许有贸易来往，或者他们也可能旅行到海边去。我们知道，他们跟着兽群四处走。他们并不种植谷物，而是在野果熟了的时候采摘它们并捕杀野兽来充饥。这就是他们被称之为猎人和采摘者的缘故。现在，咱们去参观洞穴好吗？ THE FEAST: 18,000 BC Worried about the preparations for her feast, Lala quickly turned for home with her collection of nuts, melons and other fruit.It was the custom of family groups to separate and then gather again at different sites for reunions as they followed the animal herds across

the grasslands.A wrinkle appeared on her forehead.If only it could be just like last year!At that time she had been so happy when Dahu chose her as the future mother of his children.He was the best toolmaker in the group and it was a great honour for her to be chosen.She remembered the blood pulsing through her veins.She had felt so proud as the group shouted loudly to applaud his choice.If only she had looked ahead and planned better this year!Then she wouldn't have been feeling so worried now.Having heard wolves howling in the forest, Lala accelerated her walk up the path to the caves fearing that there might be wild beasts lying in wait for her.She had no man with his spear to protect her.She had almost reached her destination when a delicious smell arrested her progress and she stopped.So the men had brought home the meat for the feast!The smell of cooking meat filled the air surrounding her, and her senses became dizzy with hunger.She could see her mother and the older children preparing the deer and pig meat over the fire.Her aunts were making clothes with animal skins.Abruptly she sat down, only to be scooped up by her laughing, shouting sister, Luna.Lala smiled with relief.It was good to have her family around her.Just then a tall man came up behind her.He had a large, square face, with strongly pronounced eyebrows and cheekbones.Over his

shoulder he carried several fish and some pieces of wood under his arm.Lala smiled and handed some stone scrapers over to Dahu, who smiled and went outside the cave to begin his task.First he looked carefully at the scrapers and then went to a corner of the cave and pulled out some more tools.They were in a pile with other sharp arrowheads and stone axe-heads.He chose one large stone and began to use it like a hammer striking the edge of the scraper that needed sharpening.Now and then Dahu would stop, look at it and try it against his hand before continuing his task.He stopped when he felt the scrapers were sharp enough to cut up the meat and scrape the fish.As he passed them to Lala, the first of the guests from the neighbouring caves began to arrive for dinner.Lala's spirits rose.Yes, it was going to be just as wonderful as last year!She smiled to herself gaily and went out of the cave to welcome her friends and neighbours.

第五篇：高中英语选修7课文翻译

第一单元篮球

迈克尔 乔丹——篮坛超人

20世纪90年代，迈克尔 乔丹可能是狮山最著名的运动员，他是NBA的顶尖邱yuan1984nean到1993年间效力于芝加哥公牛队，他曾5次荣膺最有价值的球员的称号。身着著名的23号球衣，迈克尔 乔丹成为篮球运动史上最成功的球员。

乔丹出生于纽约，在北卡罗来纳州长打在加入芝加哥公牛队之前，他在北卡罗来纳大学习了一年。在第一赛季（1984-1985），他就以平均每场28.2分的成绩成为联盟得分最高的球员之一。

1987年，乔丹成为在一个笑傲江湖重点额分超过3000分的第二个球员。以后连续七个赛季（1987-1993），他都是NBA的得分王。这期间，他每场比赛的平均分都超过30分。有了他的参与，公牛队在1991年首次获得NBA总冠军。在这段日子里，捷报频传，他们在1992年和1993年偶蝉联了总冠军。驰奥迪也是人称“梦之队”的美国奥林匹克篮球队的成员。这支球队在1992年西班牙巴塞罗那奥运会上夺去了金牌。

1993-1994赛季前乔丹退役，举世震惊。但后来他有回到了芝加哥公牛队，并和队友们一起在1996年到1998年间有获得了三次冠军。2003年40岁的驰奥迪在最终退出体坛前，还曾效力于华盛顿奇才队。数百万的球迷们都很钦佩乔丹的运动才能，动力和信心。他们可以讲述很多管用迈克尔 乔丹的传奇故事，例如一次他在比赛的关键时刻拯救了公牛队，从而避免达成平局。他走向罚球线发了两次球，每次他都把球直接投进了篮球——每次都是闭着眼睛投进去的。

离开篮坛，迈克尔 乔丹开了一家自己的牛排馆，因为他很爱吃牛排。在和著名卡通人物宾尼兔一起演出的影片《空中大灌篮》中，他也获得了成功！

对于这位世界上最优秀的球员，只有一个词能用来形容他——令人敬佩。

高跷威尔特——神力之巅

迈克尔 乔丹是一个赛季中得分超过３０００分的第二人，第一人是威尔特 张伯伦。张伯伦于１９３６年８月２１日出生于费城。他是家里１１个孩子中唯一一个长得很高的。父亲威廉在造船厂干活，母亲奥利维亚是一名清洁工。孩童时的张伯伦有各种各样的健康问题。他１０岁时得过肺炎，差点儿死去。

张伯伦是整个赛季中平均每场得分超过５０分的唯一一个ＮＢＡ球员。曾几何时，张伯伦比起他所有运动员都优秀得多，以至于他们改变了比赛规则来试图限制他！

１９５９－１９６０赛季间，这位篮坛巨人加盟NBA费城勇士队并立即获得成公在为四支不同球队效力的14个赛季期间，张伯伦四次被评联盟最有价值的球员。1962年3月2日，他单场比赛得了100分——迄今为止还没有人打破那一记录！最后的比分是勇士169对纽约尼克斯147！

在加盟洛杉矶湖人队度过五个美好的赛季后，威尔特结束了他职业生涯。一直到退役，威尔特还保持着多项NBA记录：118次单场比赛得50分或50分以上，32次得60分或60分以上。

威尔特 张伯伦比迈克尔 乔丹还要优秀吗？谁知道呢？但是毫无疑问，他无愧于“一代杰出球员”这一称号。

学校篮球令人眩晕的高度

篮球是在安全的体育运动之一。不想摔跤和拳击，通常它是没有危险的。原因之一是球员的力量部分是向上的，与地面形成90度的角，而且在其他人的头上方。所以两个球员之间碰撞的风险是很小的。

在其他的运动中，比如棒球和美式足球，球员的力量运行方向与地面是平行的，并且朝着他们的对手，所以他们带着头盔来给他们的头部以充分的保护。