全新版(第二版)第一册Unit6 TEXTA A Valentine Story课文及翻译

第一篇：全新版(第二版)第一册Unit6 TEXTA A Valentine Story课文及翻译

Unit6 A Valentine Story爱情故事

1.John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station.约翰·布兰查德从长凳上站起身来，整了整军装，留意着格兰德中央车站进出的人群。

2.He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn't, the girl with the rose.His interest in her had begun twelve months before in a Florida library.Taking a book off the shelf he soon found himself absorbed, not by the words of the book, but by the notes penciled in the margin.The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind.他在寻找一位姑娘，一位佩带玫瑰的姑娘。他知其心，但不知其貌。十二个月前，在佛罗里达州的一个图书馆，他对她产生了兴趣。他从书架上取下一本书，很快便被吸引住了，不是被书的内容，而是被铅笔写的眉批。柔和的笔迹显示出其人多思善虑的心灵和富有洞察力的头脑。

3.In the front of the book, he discovered the previous owner's name, Miss Hollis Maynell.With time and effort he located her address.She lived in New York City.He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond.The next day he was shipped overseas for service in World War II.在书的前页，他找到了前一位拥有人的姓名，霍利斯·梅奈尔小姐。他花了一番工夫和努力，找到了她的地址。她住在纽约市。他给她写了一封信介绍自己，并请她回复。第二天他被运往海外，参加第二次世界大战。

4.During the next year the two grew to know each other through the mail.Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart.A romance was budding.Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused.She explained:“If your feeling for me has any reality, any honest basis, what I look like won't matter.Suppose I'm beautiful.I'd always be haunted by the feeling that you had been taking a chance on just that, and that kind of love would disgust me.Suppose I'm plain(and you must admit that this is more likely).Then I'd always fear that you were going on writing to me only because you were lonely and had no one else.No, don't ask for my picture.When you come to New York, you shall see me and then you shall make your decision.Remember, both of us are free to stop or to go on after that — whichever we choose...”

在接下来的一年当中，两人通过信件来往增进了了解。每一封信都如一颗种子撒入肥沃的心灵之土。浪漫的爱情之花就要绽开。布兰查德提出要一张照片，可她拒绝了。她解释道：“如果你对我的感情是真实的，是诚心诚意的，那我的相貌如何并不重要。设想我美丽动人。我将会一直深感不安，惟恐你只是因为我的容貌就贸然与我相爱，而这种爱情令我憎恶。设想本人相貌平平（你得承认，这种可能性更大）。那我一直会担心，你和我保持通信仅仅是出于孤独寂寞，无人交谈。不，别索要照片。等你到了纽约，你会见到我，到时你可再作定夺。切记，见面后我俩都可以自由决定中止关系或继续交往——无论你怎么选择......”

5.When the day finally came for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting —

7:00 p.m.at Grand Central Station, New York.他从欧洲回国的日子终于到了。他们安排了两人的第一次见面 —— 晚上七点，纽约格兰德中央车站。

6.“You'll recognize me,” she wrote, “by the red rose I'll be wearing on my lapel.” So, at 7:00 p.m.he

was in the station looking for a girl who had filled such a special place in his life for the past 12 months, a girl he had never seen, yet whose written words had been with him and sustained him unfailingly.“你会认出我的，” 她写道，“我会在衣襟上戴一朵红玫瑰。”于是，晚上七点，他候在车站，寻找一位过去一年里在自己生活中占据了如此特殊地位的姑娘，一位素未谋面，但其文字伴随着他、始终支撑着他精神的姑娘。

7.I'll let Mr.Blanchard tell you what happened: A young woman was coming toward me, her figure long and slim.Her golden hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears;her eyes were blue as flowers.Her lips and chin had a gentle firmness, and in her pale green suit she was like springtime come alive.让布兰查德先生告诉你接下来发生的事吧:一位年轻的姑娘向我走来，她身材颀长纤细。一头卷曲的金发披在秀美的耳后；眼睛碧蓝，如花似玉。她的双唇和下颌线条柔和，却又柔中见刚，她身穿浅绿色套装，犹如春天一般生气盎然。

8.I started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was not wearing a rose.我朝她走去，完全没有注意到她并没有戴玫瑰花。

9.As I moved, a small, provocative smile curved her lips.“Going my way, sailor?” she murmured.Almost uncontrollably I made one step closer to her, and then I saw Hollis Maynell.She was standing almost directly behind the girl.A woman well past 40, she had graying hair pinned up under a worn hat.我走过去时，她双唇绽开撩人的微笑。“和我同路吗，水兵？”她小声问道。我情不自禁，再向她走近一步。可就在这时，我看到了霍利斯·梅奈尔。她差不多就站在姑娘的正后面，早已年过四十，灰白的头发用卡子向上别着，头上戴着一顶旧帽子。

10.She was more than a little overweight, her thick-ankled feet thrust into low-heeled shoes.她体态臃肿，粗圆的脚踝上套着一双低跟鞋。

11.The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away.I felt as though I was split in two, so keen was my desire to follow her, and yet so deep was my longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned me and upheld my own.穿着绿色套装的姑娘快步走开了。我觉得自己好像被分成了两半，一方面热切地想去追赶她，但另一方面我又渴望那一位以其心灵真诚陪伴我并成为我的精神支柱的女人。

12.And there she stood.Her pale, round face was gentle and sensible, her gray eyes had a warm and kindly glow.I did not hesitate.她站在那儿，苍白的圆脸显得温柔理智，灰色的眼睛透出热情善良。我没有迟疑。

13.My fingers gripped the small worn blue leather copy of the book that was to identify me to her.This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even better than love, a friendship for which I had been and must ever be grateful.我手里紧握着那本小小的让她辨认我的蓝色羊皮面旧书。这不会是爱情，但将是某种珍贵的、或许比爱情更美妙的东西，一种我曾经感激，并将永远感激的友情。

14.I squared my shoulders and saluted and held out the book to the woman, even though while I spoke I felt choked by the bitterness of my disappointment.“I'm Lieutenant John Blanchard, and you must be Miss Maynell.I am so glad you could meet me;may I take you to dinner?”

我挺胸站立，敬了个礼，并举起手中的书好让那位女士看。不过在我开口说话的时候，失望的痛苦几乎使我哽咽。“我是约翰·布兰查德中尉，想必您就是梅奈尔小姐。很高兴您来见我。可否请您赏光吃饭？”

15.The woman's face broadened into a smile.“I don't know what this is about, son,” she answered, “but the young lady in the green suit who just went by, she begged me to wear this rose on my coat.And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I should go and tell you that she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street.She said it was some kind of test!”

妇女的脸上绽开了笑容。“我不知道是怎么回事，孩子，”她回答说，“可是刚才走过去的那位穿绿色套装的姑娘，她央求我把这支玫瑰插在衣服上。她还说，要是你请我吃饭的话，我就告诉你，她就在街对面那个大饭店里等你。她说这是一种考验！”

16.It's not difficult to understand and admire Miss Maynell's wisdom.The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive.梅奈尔小姐的智慧不难理解，也令人称奇。心灵的本质是从其对不美的事物的态度中反映出来的。

17.“ Tell me whom you love,” Houssaye wrote, “and I will tell you who you are.”

“告诉我你所爱者是谁，”何赛写道，“我就知道你是什么样的人。”

第二篇：全新版大学英语综合教程(第二版)第一册 Unit 5 课文翻译

Unit 5

埃伦·古德曼讲了一个想做地道公司人而劳累致死的人的故事，与此同时，她还揭示了一味痴迷工作背后会潜藏的种种危机，包括对家庭生活造成的伤害。

公司人

埃伦·古德曼

他终于在星期天凌晨三点整因过度劳累而离开人世。

当然，讣告上没有提及这一点。讣告说他死于冠状动脉血栓形成——我认为这就是死因——但是，他所有的朋友和熟人都马上明白是怎么回事。他们议论道，他是十足的A型行为者，一个工作狂，一个典型的工作狂，他们边说边摇头，他们还花了五到十分钟的时间想了想自己的生活方式。

这位最终于星期天——他的休息日——凌晨三点整累死的人是位公司副总裁，时年五十一岁。不过他是六位副总裁之一，如果总裁去世够早或退休够早的话，他本是有望当第一把手的三位人选之一。菲尔清楚这一点。

他一周工作六天，其中五天要工作到晚上八、九点钟。而公司员工除领导层外已经开始实行每周四天工作制了。他像重要人物一样工作。他在外面没有“本职以外的爱好”，当然，除非你认为每月一次的打高尔夫球也算的话。但是，对于菲尔来说，这也是工作。他总是在办公桌旁吃鸡蛋沙拉三明治，自然啦，他超重了，超出二十或二十五磅。不过他认为没关系，因为他不抽烟。

每周六菲尔身着运动夹克衫去上班。不穿西装，因为这是周末。

他手下有不少人，约六十名。大部分人多半时间都喜欢他。其中三人被认真考虑当作接他班的人选。讣告上没有提及这点。

但是讣告上的确颇为准确地列出了他的“遗嘱”，他的遗孀海伦，四十八岁，一个好女人，但没有什么适合市场需求的技能，结婚生育之前曾在办公室工作。据她女儿说，多年前，孩子们还小的时候，她就决定放弃与丈夫的工作竞争了。一位公司朋友说：“我知道你将会多么思念他。”她回答道：“我早就思念他了。”

“这么多年来一直思念着他”，她一定是牺牲了自己，竭尽全力照顾此公。她会得到“很好照顾的”。

他“深爱的”子女中的“深爱的”大儿子是南方的一家制造公司的经理，工作十分努力。在葬礼前一天半，他走访了街坊邻里，向他们打听父亲是怎样的一个人，他们感到很尴尬。

他的第二个孩子是个女儿，二十四岁，刚结婚。她住在娘家附近，与母亲很亲近。但每次和父亲单独在一起，比如开车到什么地方时，彼此竟无话可说。

最小的孩子二十岁，是个男孩，高中毕业生。和他的许多朋友一样，在过去的几年里他打了不少零工，挣的钱足够供自己吃饭吸大麻。就是他努力想牢牢抓住父亲，努力想让自己在父亲心目中显得更重要，好让此公留在家里。他是父亲的最爱。在这两年来，菲尔往往彻夜不眠，为这个儿子担忧。

这个儿子曾经说过：“我和父亲只是寄宿在这儿。”

在葬礼上，六十岁的公司总裁对四十八岁的寡妇说，五十一岁的死者对公司来说举足轻重，会被人怀念，很难被人取代。寡妇没有正视他，她怕他会看出自己的怨恨，毕竟她还需要他来解决一些经济方面的问题——比如优先认股权之类的事情。

菲尔体重超常，又有神经质，工作过于辛劳。即使人不呆在办公室里，心还是要牵挂着。菲尔是个A型行为者，天生容易患心脏病。你能在一排人中立马认出他。

因此，他在星期天凌晨三点整最终劳累致死时，没有人真正感到意外。

葬礼当天的下午五点，公司总裁已经开始询问接替菲尔的事。当然，他做的很谨慎，小心而得体。他四处打听：三人中，“谁一向工作最卖力？”

第三篇：全新版大学英语5(第二版)课文翻译

Going for Broke

Matea Gold and David Ferrell 1 Rex Coile's life is a narrow box, so dark and confining he wonders how he got trapped inside, whether he'll ever get out.孤注一掷

马泰娅·戈尔德 戴维·费雷尔

雷克斯·科勒好像生活在一个狭窄的箱子里，伸手不见五指，空间又狭小，他不知道自己是怎么陷进去的，也不知道自己还能不能走出来。He never goes to the movies, never sees concerts, never lies on a sunny beach, never travels on vacation, never spends Christmas with his family.Instead, Rex shares floor space in cheap motels with other compulsive gamblers, comforting himself with delusional dreams of jackpots that will magically wipe away three decades of wreckage.He has lost his marriage, his home, his Cadillac, his clothes, his diamond ring.Not least of all, in the card clubs of Southern California, he has lost his pride.他从不看电影，从不听音乐会，从不躺在沙滩上晒太阳，从不在假日去旅游，从不和家人一起过圣诞节。相反，雷克斯在廉价汽车旅馆和别的嗜赌成癖的赌徒一起住，幻想着赢大钱，好魔术般地把30年的晦气厄运一扫而光。他失去了婚姻，失去了家，失去了卡迪拉克牌轿车，失去了衣物和钻戒。尤其是，在南加州的纸牌俱乐部，他还失去了自尊心。Rex no longer feels sorry for himself, not after a 29-year losing streak that has left him scrounging for table scraps to feed his habit.Still, he agonizes over what he has become at 54 and what he might have been.雷克斯不再为自己哀叹，他都输了29年了，输到了在赌桌上偷零钱以满足自己嗜好的地步。尽管如此，他还是对自己54岁时的境况深感痛苦，对自己未能成就可能会成就的事业而深感痛苦。Articulate, intellectual, he talks about existential philosophy, the writings of Camus and Sartre.He was once aneditor at Random House.His mind is so jam packed with tidbits about movies, television, baseball and history that card room regulars call him “ Rex Trivia,” a name he cherishes for the remnant of self-respect it gives him.“There's a lot of Rexes around these card rooms,” he says in a whisper of resignation and sadness.他能说会道，善于思考，喜谈存在主义哲学，谈加缪和萨特的作品。他曾是兰登出版社的编辑。他脑子里装满有关电影、电视、棒球和历史的趣闻，因此那些纸牌室的常客都叫他“趣闻大王雷克斯”，他珍惜这个带给自己些许自尊的名字。“这些纸牌室里有不少雷克斯，”他无奈而又悲伤地低声说道。And their numbers are soaring as gambling explodes across America, from the mega-resorts of Las Vegas to the gaming parlors of Indian reservations, from the riverboats along the Mississippi to the corner mini-marts selling lottery tickets.With nearly every state in the union now sanctioning some form of legalized gambling to raise revenues, evidence is mounting that society is paying a steep price, one that some researchers say must be confronted, if not reversed.美国各地赌博盛行，从拉斯维加斯的特大型度假胜地，到印第安人居留地的小赌场，从密西西比河上的内河船，到街角处出售彩票的便利店，赌博随处可见，因此赌徒人数正在剧增。由于全国几乎每个州都批准某种合法化的赌博形式以增加税收，越来越多的事实表明，整个社会正在付出巨大的代价，不少研究者指出，对此现象如果不能彻底改变，那就必须严肃面对。Never before have bettors blown so much money — a whopping $50.9 billion last year — five

times the amount lost in 1980.That's more than the public spent on movies, theme parks, recorded music and sporting events combined.A substantial share of those gambling losses — an estimated 30% to 40% — pours from the pockets and purses of chronic losers hooked on the adrenaline rush of risking their money, intoxicated by the fast action of gambling's incandescent world.赌徒以前从来不曾花费如此多的赌金—— 去年的赌输金额高达509亿美元，是1980年赌输金额的5倍，高出公众在电影、主题公园、唱片音乐以及运动项目等方面的消费总额。输掉的赌金中有相当一部分—— 约占30%－40%—— 是从那些常输的赌徒的钱包里掏出来的，赌博带来的兴奋令他们入迷，瞬息万变的赌博世界令他们如痴如醉。Studies place the total number of compulsive gamblers at about 4.4 million, about equal to the nation's ranks of hard-core drug addicts.Another 11 million, known as problem gamblers, teeter on the verge.Since 1990, the number of Gamblers Anonymous groups nationwide has doubled from about 600 to more than 1,200.据研究，嗜赌成瘾者的总数约有440万，与美国毒瘾大的瘾君子的人数大致相同。另有1100万所谓有问题的赌徒，已濒临深渊摇摇欲坠。自1990年以来，全国戒赌组织的总数翻了一番，从600个上升到1200多个。Compulsive gambling has been linked to child abuse, domestic violence, embezzlement, bogus insurance claims, bankruptcies, welfare fraud and a host of other social and criminal ills.The advent of Internet gambling could lure new legions into wagering beyond their means.嗜赌成瘾总是与虐待儿童、家庭暴力、盗用钱款、伪造保险索赔、破产、福利救济欺骗，以及其他许多社会问题与犯罪行为联系在一起。网上赌博的出现会诱使更多的人无节制地狂赌。Every once in a while, a case is so egregious it makes headlines: A 10-day-old baby girl in South Carolina dies after being left for nearly seven hours in a hot car while her mother plays video poker.A suburban Chicago woman is so desperate for a bankroll to gamble that she allegedly suffocates her 7-week-old daughter 11 days after obtaining a $200,000 life-insurance policy on the baby.每过一段时间，总有一则令人震惊的案子成为头条社会新闻：南卡罗来纳州一名出生10天的女婴被放在闷热的汽车里几乎达7个小时后死去，其间女婴的母亲在电脑上打扑克。芝加哥郊区一名妇女急于觅得赌资，据说，她在为她出生仅7周的女婴购买了20万美元的人寿保险后11天将其窒息致死。Science has begun to uncover clues to compulsive gambling — genetic predispositions that involve chemical receptors in the brain, the same pleasure pathways implicated in drug and alcohol addiction.But no amount of knowledge, no amount of enlightenment, makes the illness any less confounding, any less destructive.What the gamblers cannot understand about themselves is also well beyond the comprehension of family members, who struggle for normality in a world of deceit and madness.科学研究开始揭示形成嗜赌成癖恶习的线索—— 与大脑中的化学感受器有关的，即与嗜毒、嗜酒同一个快感途径有关的遗传特性。但无论对这一顽症有多少了解有多少认识，人们对它的困惑一点也没有减少，它的破坏性也一点也没有减少。赌徒不明白自己的地方也正是家人所难以理解的地方，他们在一个充满欺骗与疯狂的世界中苦苦追求正常生活。Money starts vanishing: $500 here, $200 there, $800 a couple of weeks later.Where is it? The answers come back vague, nonsensical.It's in the desk at work.A friend borrowed it.It got spent on family dinners, car repairs, loans to in-laws.Exasperated spouses play the sleuth，combing through pockets, wallets, purses, searching the car.Sometimes the incriminating evidence turns up — a racing form, lottery scratchers, a map to an Indian casino.Once the secret is uncovered, spouses usually fight the problem alone, bleeding inside, because the stories are too humiliating to share.钱突然就不知去向：这里用了500美元，那儿花了200美元，两三个星期之后又少了800美元。钱哪去了？回答很含糊，不知所云。在单位的办公桌抽屉里。朋友借去了。家人聚餐花了，修车用了，借给姻亲了。怒不可遏的配偶充当起侦探，把衣袋、皮夹子、钱包翻了个遍，还搜了汽车。有时犯罪证据会暴露—— 赛马小报、刮刮乐、去一家印第安赌场的地图。秘密一旦被揭穿，配偶通常都单独面对问题，独自承受心头巨痛，因为这种事太丢人，没法跟别人说。“Anybody who is living with a compulsive gambler is totally overwhelmed,” says Tom Tucker, president of the California Council on Problem Gambling.“They're steeped in anger, resentment, depression, confusion.None of their personal efforts will ever stop a person from their addiction.And they don't really see any hope because compulsive gambling in general is such an under-recognized illness.”

“与嗜赌成瘾者一起生活的人都会陷入绝望，”加利福尼亚问题赌博委员会主任汤姆·塔克说。“他们沉浸在愤怒、怨恨、沮丧、困惑之中。他们怎么苦心规劝也无法使浪子回头。他们真的看不到丝毫希望，因为人们通常并不真正懂得嗜赌成瘾的严重性。” One Los Angeles woman, whose husband's gambling was tearing at her sanity, says she slept with her fists so tightly clenched that her nails sliced into her palms.She had fantasies of death — first her own, thinking he'd feel sorry for her and stop gambling.Later, she harbored thoughts of turning her rage on her husband.She imagined getting a gun, hiding in the closet and blasting him out of her life.一个洛杉矶妇女，由于丈夫嗜赌成瘾，自己几乎神经崩溃。她说自己晚上睡觉时双手紧紧握成拳头，指甲把手掌都掐破了。她常常想到死—— 起初是想自己去死，觉得他会为自己伤心，会戒赌。后来，她又想到把怒气转到丈夫身上。她设想自己弄到一支枪，藏在壁橱里，一枪把他从自己的生活中扫出去。“The hurt was so bad I think I would have pulled the trigger,” she says.“There were times the pain was so much I thought being in jail, or being in the electric chair, would be less than this.”

“那种伤害太痛苦了，我想自己真的会扣动扳机，”她说。“有时真的痛苦不堪，觉得哪怕坐牢、上电椅，也不至于那么痛苦。” With drug or alcohol abusers, there is the hope of sobering up, an accomplishment in itself, no matter what problems may have accompanied their addictions.Compulsive gamblers often see no way to purge their urges when suffocating debts suggest only one answer: a hot streak(suicide?).David Phillips, a UC San Diego sociology professor, studied death records from 1982 to 1988 — before legalized gambling exploded across America — and found that people in Vegas, Atlantic City and other gambling meccas showed significantly higher suicide rates than people in non-gambling cities.吸毒者或酗酒者尚有清醒起来的希望，不管他们的毒瘾、酒瘾造成了什么麻烦，会清醒起来本身就是一项成就。嗜赌成癖的赌徒高筑的债台意味着只有一条出路：赢大奖(或自杀？)。这时，他们往往无法戒除赌瘾。加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校社会学教授戴维·菲利普斯研究了1982－1988年间—— 合法赌博在美国蔓延之前—— 的死亡档案，发现拉斯维加斯、大西洋城和其他赌城的居民的自杀率明显高于没有赌场的城市的居民。Rex Trivia is not about to kill himself, but like most compulsive gamblers, he occasionally thinks

about it.Looking at him, it's hard to imagine he once had a promising future as a smart young New York book editor.His pale eyes are expressionless, his hair yellowish and brittle.In his fifties, his health is failing: emphysema, three lung collapses, a bad aorta, rotting teeth.趣闻大王雷克斯尚未打算自杀，但和众多嗜赌成瘾的赌徒一样，偶尔他会闪过这个念头。望着他，难以相信他曾经是一位前途无量、年轻聪颖的纽约书籍编辑。他那灰色的双眸呆滞无神，淡黄的头发显得枯萎。才50多岁，健康状况已经每况愈下：肺气肿、3次肺萎陷、主动脉有问题，牙齿也损坏了。His plunge has been so dizzying that at one point he agreed to aid another desperate gambler in a run of bank robberies — nine in all, throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties.When the FBI busted him in 1980, he had $50,000 in cash in a dresser drawer and $100,000 in traveler's checks in his refrigerator's vegetable crisper.Rex, who ended up doing a short stint in prison, hasn't seen that kind of money since.他一直狂赌，结果走投无路，竟然答应协助另一个因绝望而不顾一切的赌徒实施银行抢劫—— 在洛杉矶和桔县共抢了9家银行。1980年联邦调查局逮捕他时，他五斗橱抽屉里有50,000美元现金，还有100,000美元的旅行支票藏在冰箱的蔬菜保鲜格内。结果雷克斯在监狱服了一段时间刑，从此再也没见到过那么多的钱了。At 11 P.M.on a Tuesday night, with a bankroll of $55 — all he has — he is at a poker table in Gardena.With quick, nervous hands he stacks and unstacks his $1 chips.The stack dwindles.Down $30, he talks about leaving, getting some sleep.Midnight comes and goes.Rex starts winning.Three aces.Four threes.Chips pile up — $60, $70.“A shame to go when the cards are falling my way.” He checks the time: “I'll go at 2.Win, lose or draw.”

一个星期二晚上11点，他揣着55美元——这是他的全部家产—— 坐在了加德纳的一张牌桌前。他两手紧张地把那些1美元的筹码迅速地堆起又弄散。筹码渐渐少了。到剩下30美元时，他说要走了，去睡一会儿。午夜稍纵即逝。雷克斯开始赢了。三张A牌，四张3点。筹码多起来了—— 60美元，70美元。“我牌运那么好，怎么能走。”他看了看时间：“到2点就走，不管是输是赢还是平。” Fate, kismet, luck — the cards keep falling.At 2 A.M., Rex is up $97.He stands, leaves his chips on the table and goes out for a smoke.In the darkness at the edge of the parking lot, he loiters with other regulars, debating with himself whether to grab a bus and quit.命运，天命加牌运—— 一 路顺势。到了凌晨2点，雷克斯赢了97美元。他站起身，把筹码留在桌上，出去抽烟。他在停车场边上黑暗的地方与别的常客闲站着，心里盘算着要不要坐公共汽车回去算了。“I should go back in there and cash in and get out of here,” he says.“That's what I should do.”

“我该进去把筹码兑换成现金就离开这儿，”他说。“我该这么做。” A long pause.Crushing out his cigarette, Rex turns and heads back inside.He has made his decision.一阵长长的沉默。雷克斯摁灭烟蒂，转身走了进去。他作出了决定。

“A few more hands.”

“再玩几副。” 1.addiction n.痴；入迷；嗜好

e.g.I have an addiction to mystery stories 5.go for broke

(infml)risk everything in one determined attempt at sth.孤注一掷

e.g.The cyclist went for broke at the end of the race 7.compulsive a.(of people)forced to do sth.by an obsession 强迫性的，上了瘾的e.g.Compulsive gambling is on the increase.gamble away 赌下去

The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。赌博输掉钱

He has gambled away half his fortune.他赌博输掉了他一半的财产。8.gambler n.person who gambles 赌博者

e.g.A compulsive gambler is someone who cannot stop risking and usually losing their money in the hope of winning a lot more money.9.wager D.J.[ˈweɪdʒə] K.K.[ˈwedʒɚ] n.赌注,用钱打赌

venture a small wager 下了一小笔赌注

A wager is a fool’s argument.傻瓜一争论就打赌。

vt.& vi.在(某物)上赌钱,打赌

I am ready to wager a package of cigarettes that he will come.我敢打赌一盒香烟,他一定来。vt.保证,担保 hazardous [ˈhæzədəs]

adj.危险的,冒险的,凭运气的 a hazardous invest-ment 一项冒险的投资 handbookinger n.赌马

第四篇：高级日语第一册课文翻译第二课

同一屋檐下

年老了要选择居住方式的时候，会有哪种形式呢？是和孩子一起住，独居又或者是住养老院„„呢？一种和以前的居住形式都不同的，和他人相互扶持成火灾在同一屋檐下的全新的“最后的住处”这种形式如今逐渐诞生了。

速水 澈

在仍然保留着水田和旱田的神奈川县伊势原市的郊外，一片能眺望到富士山的略高的地方，有一所名为“榉树”的集体住宅，在那里生活着三位老人和两位医大的学生。

大约20块榻榻米大小的起居室上下两层空间被打通，并且装有天窗，给人一种开放感。一楼是和式房间，二楼分别有三间铺木质地板的房间，加上厨房和卫生间大约有30平米。共同洗澡间有个舒适宽敞的丝柏质浴盆。房租6万5千日元。包括伙食费全部一起12万5千元。

做菜是由住在附近的房东岩崎弘子（58岁）负责，做饭，做酱汤，盛饭等等就由居住在这里的全体成员分担。大家围坐在餐桌旁热热闹闹得就像一个大家庭。一边吃饭一边聊天谈笑说些“那里的医生经常给我看病，真是风度翩翩啊”。之类的话。

居住近两年的秦女士（72）说：（住在这里）有一种有人陪伴的感觉。我就在这里养老送终了。

曾经一个人独自居住在东京・四谷的秦女士，三年前失去了至亲的男友。当时她感到没有活下去的动力了。不知道将来该去投靠谁。

那个时候，住在伊势原的妹妹告诉秦女士说榉树之家在招募居住者，虽然当时她很犹豫要不要离开住了30几年的四谷，但最终还是下定了决心。她说：“来了太好了。以前吃住都很不规律，现在一日三餐都规规矩矩地进食，原本40公斤体重都增加了10多公斤。”

秦女士在那里也交到了新朋友。很早就住在伊势原的老人们也聚集在岩崎在起居室里开办的绘画书信教室里，擅长绘画的秦女士很享受一个月两次的绘画书信课堂。

白天，榉树之家的玄关是不上锁的。住在附近的一些老人闲逛到这里，大家就一起聊天。（现在榉树之家）成了一个面对地域开放的集会场所。

年轻的居住者也很享受这里的生活。东海大学医学部的木矢绚子（19）来自广岛。去年春天，入学的时候就开始住在这里。木矢说“虽然和大家年龄层不同，但是可以轻松地谈笑，懂得了怎么跟同性女性交流。”木矢早上离开的时候都会对在起居室的秦女士们说“我要出门了”。

岩崎是因为照顾婶婶（86）的经验而想到创办“榉树之家”的。

近十年前，没有子女的叔叔婶婶从千叶搬到了伊势原。要想给上了年纪的夫妇租房实在是太困难了。因为既要考虑到安全问题又要考虑支付能力。后来总算找到了房子，但是八个月左右之后叔叔就去世了。岩崎说：自从叔叔去世之后，我就开始经常在半夜接到婶婶的电话，一想到她如果倒下了之类的事，心就跳得厉害。并且婶婶经常会打电话说厕所的水关不住，灯点不燃的话该怎么办。”每次接到这样的电话，岩崎就急忙赶过去。

深刻体会到老年人想获得居住场所的困难和每天在不安中生存的感觉。“（当时就想）肯定有这种想法的人很多，那好，不如我来创办一个这样的公共住宅吧。”

岩崎的婶婶成了榉树之家的居住者。她说“来这之后血压也稳定了。以前一直逃避的不肯做的白内障现在也做了手术。受到了居住在这里的，同样有过在眼睛上动手术经历的好朋友的鼓励，才拿出了勇气来的。能和姐妹一样的人住在一起真是幸福啊。”

岩崎不想只是创建一个让老人们寂寞地生活的地方，而是最初就倡导让大学生们也入住，让不同年代的人住在一起，相互激励，让生活更有乐趣。

岩崎在榉树之家的旁边又建了一栋公寓。在那里，有小孩的一家还有年轻的公司职员们等四家人住在一起。她说“有意识地让不同年龄层的人住进来了。”有时年轻的妈妈会带着宝宝过来，十年来，大家都会来参加岩崎组织的一年两次的义卖会。

有着家政服务员经验的岩崎这样说到：“上了年纪，身体也老了。但是内心的渴望却不断高涨（希望和他人生活在一起的希望）。和他人一起生活是有些困难，但是大家互相帮忙，一起努力生活的话，都能有个更丰富美好的晚年。”

摘自《朝日新闻》早报 文化社会

【独居】和【孤独死】

在自己住习惯了的家里，和儿子女儿一家人一起迎来人生的最后时期的这种晚年生活，可以说已经成为了往事。现在，由于社会和经济形势的变化，还有不互相干涉对方，自由自在的生活比较好这种观念的变化，独居老人的比例在年年增加。有一些老年人是自己主动选择了独居，并且享受着健康有活力的生活，但是现状是，也有很多老年人抱有各种生活问题和不安，实在别无他法才独居的。因为有很多独居的人，得不到他人的照顾而死去的这种【孤独死】在阪神淡路大地震发生后所修建的临时住宅里相继发生，所以备受大家关注。在没有同乡关系和血缘关系的地方，那些孤立的村民死去好几日甚至好几周才被发现。

临时住宅里发生的这种孤独死的情况，也给社会会全体带来了一种警告。为了在不依赖同乡关系和血缘关系的日本不孤立的生活下去，到底我们必须做些什么啊？在老人为保护自己的晚年生活而行动的同时，各地行政以及地区社会也在试图给予他们帮助。

第五篇：第二单元课文翻译

全新版大学英语（第二版）综合教程4二单元课文翻译（Test A）

(Smart cars that can see, hear, feel, smell, and talk? And drive on their own? This may sound like a dream，能看、能听、有知觉、具嗅觉、会说话的智能汽车？还能自动驾驶？这听起来或许像是在做梦，但计算机革命正致力于把这一切变为现实。

Smart CarsMichio Kaku

1.Even the automobile industry, which has remained largely unchanged for the last seventy years, is about to feel the effects of the computer revolution.智能汽车

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即便是过去70年间基本上没有多少变化的汽车工业，也将感受到

计算机革命的影响。2.The automobile industry ranks as among the most lucrative and powerful industries of the twentieth century.There are presently 500 million cars on earth, or one car for every ten people.Sales of the automobile industry stand at about a trillion dollars, making it the world's biggest manufacturing industry.汽车工业是20世纪最赚钱、最有影响力的产业之一。目前世界上有5亿辆车，或者说每10人就有1辆车。汽车工业的销售额达一万亿美元左右，从而成为世界上最大的制造业。

3.The car, and the roads it travels on, will be revolutionized in the twenty-first century.The key to tomorrow's “smart cars” will be sensors.“We'll see vehicles and roads that see and hear and feel and smell and talk and act,” predicts Bill Spreitzer, technical director of General Motors Corporation's ITS program, which is designing the smart car and road of the future.汽车及其行驶的道路，将在21世纪发生重大变革。未来“智能汽车”的关键在于传感器。“我们会见到能看、能听、有知觉、具嗅觉、会说话并能采取行动的车辆与道路，”正在设计未来智能汽车和智能道路的通用汽车公司ITS项目的技术主任比尔·斯普雷扎预言道。

4.Approximately 40,000 people are killed each year in the United States in traffic accidents.The number of people that are killed or badly injured in car accidents is so vast that we don't even bother to mention them in the newspapers anymore.Fully half of these fatalities come from drunk drivers, and many others from carelessness.A smart car could eliminate most of these car accidents.It can sense if a driver is drunk via electronic sensors that can pick up alcohol vapor in the air, and refuse to start up the engine.The car could also alert the police and provide its precise location if it is stolen.美国每年有大约4万人死于交通事故。在汽车事故中死亡或严重受伤的人数太多，我们已经不屑在报纸上提及。这些死亡的人中至少有半数是酒后开车者造成的，另有许多死亡事故是驾驶员不小心所导致。智能汽车能消除绝大多数这类汽车事故。它能通过会感测空气中的酒精雾气的电子传感器检测开车者是否喝醉酒，并拒绝启动引擎。这种车还能在遇窃后通报警方，告知车辆的确切地点。

5.Smart cars have already been built which can monitor one's driving and the driving conditions nearby.Small radars hidden in the bumpers can scan for nearby cars.Should you make a serious driving mistake(e.g., change lanes when there is a car in your “blind spot”)the computer would sound an immediate warning.能监控行车过程以及周围行车状况的智能汽车已经制造出来。藏在保险杠里的微型雷达能对周围的汽车作扫描。如果你发生重大行车失误（如变道时有车辆在你“盲点”内），计算机立即会发出警报。

6.At the MIT Media Lab, a prototype is already being built which will determine how sleepy you are as you drive, which is especially important for long-distance truck drivers.The monotonous, almost hypnotic process of staring at the center divider for long hours is a grossly underestimated, life-threatening hazard.To eliminate this, a tiny camera hidden in the dashboard can be trained on a driver's face and eyes.If the driver's eyelids close for a certain length of time and his or her driving becomes erratic, a computer in the dashboard could alert the driver.在麻省理工学院媒介实验室，业已制造出能测知你行车时有多少睡意的样车，这对长途卡车司机意义重大。一连数小时注视着中间分道线这样一个单调、几乎能催眠的过程是被严重低估的威胁生命的重大隐患。为消除这一隐患，藏在仪表板里的一架微型相机可对准开车者的脸部及眼睛。如果司机的眼帘合上一定时间，行车变得不稳，仪表板里的计算机就会向司机发出警报。

7.Two of the most frustrating things about driving a car are getting lost and getting stuck in traffic.While the computer revolution is unlikely to cure these problems, it will have a positive impact.Sensors in your

car tuned to radio signals from orbiting satellites can locate your car precisely at any moment and warn of traffic jams.We already have twenty-four Navstar satellites orbiting the earth, making up what is called the Global Positioning System.They make it possible to determine your location on the earth to within about a hundred feet.At any given time, there are several GPS satellites orbiting overhead at a distance of about 11,000 miles.Each satellite contains four “atomic clocks,” which vibrate at a precise frequency, according to the laws of the quantum theory.开车最头疼的两大麻烦是迷路和交通堵塞。虽然计算机革命不可能彻底解决这两个问题，但却会带来积极的影响。你汽车上与绕轨道运行的卫星发出的无线电信号调谐的传感器能随时精确地确定你汽车的方位，并告知交通阻塞情况。我们已经有24颗环绕地球运行的导航卫星，组成了人们所说的全球卫星定位系统。通过这些卫星我们有可能以小于100英尺的误差确定你在地球上的方位。在任何一个特定时间，总有若干颗全球定位系统的卫星在11, 000英里的高空绕地球运行。每颗卫星都装有4个“原子钟”，它们根据量子理论法则，以精确的频率振动。

8.As a satellite passes overhead it sends out a radio signal that can be detected by a receiver in a car's computer.The car's computer can then calculate how far the satellite is by measuring how long it took for the signal to arrive.Since the speed of light is well known, any delay in receiving the satellite's signal can be converted into a distance.卫星从高空经过时发出能被汽车上计算机里的接收器辨认的无线电信号。汽车上的计算机就会根据信号传来所花的时间计算出卫星有多远。由于光速为人熟知，接收卫星信号时的任何时间迟缓都能折算出距离的远近。9.In Japan there are already over a million cars with some type of navigational capability.(Some of them locate a car's position by correlating the rotations in the steering wheel to its position on a map.)

在日本，具有某种导航能力的汽车已有一百万辆之多。（有些导航装置通过将方向盘的转动与汽车在地图上的位置并置来测定汽车的方位。）10.With the price of microchips dropping so drastically, future applications of GPS are virtually limitless.“The commercial industry is poised to explode,” says Randy Hoffman of Magellan Systems Corp., which manufactures navigational systems.Blind individuals could use GPS sensors in walking sticks, airplanes could land by remote control, hikers will be able to locate their position in the woods — the list of potential uses is endless.3

随着微芯片价格的大幅度下降，未来对全球卫星定位系统的应用几乎是无限的。“制造这一商品的工业定会飞速发展，”生产导航系统的麦哲伦航仪公司的兰迪·霍夫曼说。盲人可以在手杖里装配全球卫星定位系统传感器，飞机可以通过遥控着陆，徒步旅行者可以测定自己在林中的方位 —— 其潜在的应用范围是无止境的。

11.GPS is actually but part of a larger movement, called “telematics,” which will eventually attempt to put smart cars on smart highways.Prototypes of such highways already exist in Europe, and experiments are being made in California to mount computer chips, sensors, and radio transmitters on highways to alert cars to traffic jams and obstructions.全球卫星定位系统其实只是叫做“远程信息学”的这一更大行动的一部分，这一行动最终将把智能汽车送上智能高速公路。这种高速公路的样品已经在欧洲问世，加州也在进行试验，在高速公路上安装计算机芯片、传感器和无线电发射机，以便向汽车报告交通拥挤堵塞情况。

12.On an eight-mile stretch of Interstate 15 ten miles north of San Diego, traffic engineers are installing an MIT-designed system which will introduce the “automated driver.” The plan calls for computers, aided by thousands of three-inch magnetic spikes buried in the highway, to take complete control of the driving of cars on heavily trafficked roads.Cars will be bunched into groups of ten to twelve vehicles, only six feet apart, traveling in unison, and controlled by computer.在圣迭戈以北10英里的15号州际公路一段8英里长的路面上，交通工程师正在安装一个由麻省理工学院设计的引进“自动司机”的系统。这一计划要求计算机在公路上埋设的数千个3英寸长的磁钉的协助下，在车辆极多的路段完全控制车辆的运行。车辆会编成10辆或12辆一组，车距仅6英尺，在计算机的控制下一齐行驶。

13.Promoters of this computerized highway have great hopes for its future.By 2010, telematics may well be incorporated into one of the major highways in the United States.If successful, by 2020, as the price of microchips drops to below a penny a piece, telematics could be adopted in thousands of miles of highways in the United States.This could prove to be an environmental boon as well, saving fuel, reducing traffic jams, decreasing air pollution, and serving as an alternative to highway expansion.这种计算机化的公路的倡导者对其未来的应用充满希望。到2010年，远程信息技术很可能应用于美国的一条主要公路。如果成功的话，到2020年，当微芯片的价格降到一片一美分以下时，远程信息技术就会应用在美国