全新版大学英语第二版综合教程2第二单元课文翻译。
这是2003年12月初，我作为一个救世军敲钟，当我面临的问题与第一个赛季。我站在外面的沃尔玛门口，提供一个“谢谢”，微笑每个人谁投进我的红kettle.A捐赠衣着整洁的女人和她的小儿子走到水壶立场。虽然她寻找一些现金她的钱包，男孩抬头看着我。我仍然可以看到他的眼睛，好奇的混乱，他问道：“你穷呢？”
“嗯，”我结结巴巴地说，试图想：“我比有些人多，但不如别人了。”他妈骂他为社会的禁忌，他们急急忙忙走了尽自己的购物。他的问题，但是，并没有离开我。
我从没想过自己是“穷”，但我不能否认某些事实。每当我填写我的1040表格，我陷入了最低收入阶层之一。在过去的35年里，我只花一度假。我的电视是一个非黑即白集，有人给了我八年前。
可是我觉得只不过是昙花一现的念头更达到物质的东西很多其他人都有。我在1999年车展的磨损10.5万英里。但它仍是可靠的。我的公寓是温和的，但宁静和放松。我的衣服很适合我的工作，这主要是室外。我最小的电脑需要能够得到满足图书馆看书。
在我没有什么，尽管我不觉得差。为什么呢？我已经享受了53年来特别好的健康。这不仅是因为我一直在生病，免费的，它的，我觉得充满活力和精神。其实对我来说是锻炼的乐趣。我期待着长，活力散步。我还喜欢“我能”的态度如下。
我也珍惜创造力的礼物。当我写一个美丽的诗行，或者编造一个笑话，发痒的人，我感到充实进去。我不断惊讶的见解，通过我的写作过程中来。而且有这么多有趣的作家朋友聊天，是享受我的主要来源之一。
但有一个我一生中，我不是那么富裕的重要领域。在一个社会的财富花在追求如此多的感情能量，我觉得自己很迷茫。
当我年轻的时候，有一个非常有趣的人，我约会。什么是最重要的是她，她告诉我，是“什么在里面的。”我想我已经找到了特别的人分享我的生活与。然后我带她去看我的公寓。当时，我住在一间地下室效率日期为几件家具。唯一的新的，舒适的椅子是在我的办公桌之一。不久后，她的访问，我们的关系直奔南方。
看似在她的关注点突变是颠簸。它仍然是一个最难忘的转折点，我个人的旅途。
与此相反的关系，东西并不意味着就多给我。我想大多数人有同样的感受 - 除非有社会后果不具有特定的项目。有一个由电台开始，“每个人都想要一个高端彩电...”购买的压力是真正的商业。它可能是真实的，每个人都想要一个高端电视。毕竟，没有人想成为什么人。
但我很高兴生活在没有之一。事实上，没有对重点物资感觉很自然的我。世界各地有许多人会认为我的谁是富裕的生活方式。
在接近年底时，当我在救世军红色围裙，改变我的东西放在里面。而不是感觉出来的地方经济，我开始感到真正意义上的归属感。正如我我的响钟，人们停下来分享这意味着多少得到帮助时，他们正在经历艰难的时间将他们的个人故事。
人帮助人是我深深感到相连。当我按门铃，我带来了完全陌生的热巧克力，留下了挥之不去的微笑。无数人帮助我，让本赛季的情感温暖：？“。保佑你的好工作，你”“。感谢在这样一个寒冷的日子铃声你”“我可以给你一杯咖啡”十二月是一年的时间，我觉得富有。
在过去的四年里，我已经长大了理解，因为一个好奇的孩子从一个单一的问题是关于我自己。正如我已经分析意味着什么是穷人，它已成为我清楚我最感谢：我的两个有形和无形的我的好运。
全新版大学英语综合教程第二册第7单元课文详解
全新版大学英语综合教程第二册第7单元课文详解 导语：英语是世界上最广泛的第一语言，因此我们从小就开始学习英语，下面是一篇关于学习英语的英语课文，欢迎大家来学习。 Learning about English Part I Pre-Reading Task Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions: 1. What is the passage about? 2. What's your impression of the English language? 3. Can you give one or two examples to illustrate(说明)the messiness of the English language? 4. Can you guess what the texts in this unit are going to be about? The following words in the recording may be new to you: eggplant n. 茄子 pineapple n. 菠萝 hamburger n. 汉堡牛肉饼，汉堡包 Part II Text Some languages resist the introduction of new words. Others, like English, seem to welcome them. Robert MacNeil looks at the history of English and comes to the conclusion that its tolerance for change represents deeply rooted ideas of freedom. THE GLORIOUS MESSINESS OF ENGLISH Robert MacNeil The story of our English language is typically one of massive stealing from other languages. That is why English today has an estimated vocabulary of over one million words, while other major languages have far fewer. French, for example, has only about 75,000 words, and that includes English expressions like snack bar and hit parade. The French, however, do not like borrowing foreign words because they think it corrupts their language. The government tries to ban words from English and declares that walkman is not desirable; so they invent a word, balladeur, which French kids are supposed to say instead — but they don't. Walkman is fascinating because it isn't even English. Strictly speaking, it was invented by the Japanese manufacturers who put two simple English words together to name their product. That doesn't bother us, but it does bother the French. Such is the glorious messiness of English. That happy tolerance, that willingness to accept words from anywhere, explains the richness of English and why it has become, to a very real extent, the first truly globallanguage. How did the language of a small island off the coast of Europe become the language of the planet — more widely spoken and written than any other has ever been? The history of English is present in the first words a child learns about identity (I, me, you); possession (mine, yours); the body (eye, nose, mouth); size (tall, short); and necessities (food, water). These words all come from Old English or Anglo-Saxon English, the core of our language. Usually short and direct, these are words we still use today for the things that really matter to us. Great speakers often use Old English to arouse our emotions. For example, during World War II, Winston Churchill made this speech, stirring the courage of his people against Hitler's armies positioned to cross the English Channel: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender." Virtually every one of those words came from Old English, except the last — surrender, which came from Norman French. Churchill could have said, "We shall never give in," but it is one of the lovely — and powerful — opportunities of English that a writer can mix, for effect, different words from different backgrounds. Yet there is something direct to the heart that speaks to us from the earliest words in our language. When Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 55 B.C., English did not exist. The Celts, who inhabited the land, spoke languages that survive today mainly as Welsh. Where those languages came from is still a mystery, but there is a theory. Two centuries ago an English judge in India noticed that several words in Sanskrit closely resembled some words in Greek and Latin. A systematic study revealed that many modern languages descended from a commonparent language, lost to us because nothing was written down. Identifying similar words, linguists have come up with what they call an Indo-European parent language, spoken until 3500 to 2000 B.C. These people had common words for snow, bee and wolf but no word for sea. So some scholars assume they lived somewhere in north-central Europe, where it was cold. Traveling east, some established the languages of India and Pakistan, and others drifted west toward the gentler climates of Europe, Some who made the earliest move westward became known as the Celts, whom Caesar's armies found in Britain. New words came with the Germanic tribes — the Angles, the Saxons, etc. — that slipped across the North Sea to settle in Britain in the 5th century. Together they formed what we call Anglo-Saxon society. The Anglo-Saxons passed on to us their farming vocabulary, including sheep, ox, earth, wood, field and work. They must have also enjoyed themselves because they gave us the word laughter. The next big influence on English was Christianity. It enriched the Anglo-Saxon vocabulary with some 400 to 500 words from Greek and Latin, including angel, disciple and martyr. Then into this relatively peaceful land came the Vikings from Scandinavia. They also brought to English many words that begin with sk, like sky and skirt. But Old Norse and English both survived, and so you can rear a child (English) or raise a child (Norse). Other such pairs survive: wish and want, craft and skill, hide and skin. Each such addition gave English more richness, more variety. Another flood of new vocabulary occurred in 1066, when the Normans conquered England. The country now had three languages: French for the nobles, Latin for the churches and English for the common people. With three languages competing, there were sometimes different terms for the same thing. For example, Anglo-Saxons had the word kingly, but after the Normans, royal and sovereign entered the language as alternatives. The extraordinary thing was that French did not replace English. Over three centuries English gradually swallowed French, and by the end of the 15th century what had developed was a modified, greatly enriched language — Middle English — with about 10,000 "borrowed" French words. Around 1476 William Caxton set up a printing press in England and started a communications revolution. Printing brought into English the wealth of new thinking that sprang from the European Renaissance. Translations of Greek and Roman classics were poured onto the printed page, and with them thousands of Latin words like capsule and habitual, and Greek words like catastrophe and thermometer. Today we still borrow from Latin and Greek to name new inventions, like video, television and cyberspace. As settlers landed in North America and established the United States, English found itself with two sources — American and British. Scholars in Britain worried that the language was out of control, and some wanted to set up an academy to decide which words were proper and which were not. Fortunately their idea has never been put into practice. That tolerance for change also represents deeply rooted ideas of freedom. Danish scholar Otto Jespersen wrote in 1905, "The English language would not have been what it is if the English had not been for centuries great respecters of the liberties of each individual and if everybody had not been free to strike out new paths for himself." I like that idea. Consider that the same cultural soil producing the English language also nourished the great principles of freedom and rights of man in the modern world. The first shoots sprang up in England, and they grew stronger in America. The English-speaking peoples have defeated all efforts to build fences around their language. Indeed, the English language is not the special preserve of grammarians, language police, teachers, writers or the intellectual elite. English is, and always has been, the tongue of the common man. New Words and Expressions messiness n. 杂乱状况 messy a. massive a. large in scale, amount, or degree 大量的，大规模的 vocabulary n. 词汇(量) snack▲ n. a small meal 快餐，点心 snack bar 快餐柜，小吃店 parade n. 游行;阅兵队列 hit parade a weekly listing of the current best-selling pop records 流行唱片目录 corrupt▲ vt. cause errors to appear in; cause to act dishonestly in return for personal gains 讹用，使(语言)变得不标准;腐蚀，贿赂 ban vt. forbid (sth.) officially 禁止，取缔 walkman n. a small cassette player 随身听 strictly speaking 严格地讲 invent vt. 发明 invention n. fascinating a. of great interest or attraction 迷人的，有极大吸引力的 manufacturer n. 制造商 product n. 产品 tolerance n. 容忍，宽容;忍耐 to a (very real, certain, etc.) extent to the degree specified 在(极大，某种)程度上 necessity n. 必需品;必要(性) Anglo-Saxon n. 盎格鲁—萨克逊人 arouse vt. provoke (a particular feeling or attitude) 唤起，激起 channel n. 海峡;渠道;频道 surrender v. give in 投降 virtually ad. for the most part, almost 差不多，几乎 invade vt. enter with armed forces 侵入，侵略 Celt n. 凯尔特人 inhabit▲ vt. live in (a place) 居住于 Welsh a., n. 威尔士语(的)，威尔士人的 mystery n. 神秘的事物 Sanskrit n. 梵语 resemble vt. be like or similar to 与…相似 Greek n. 希腊语 Latin n. 拉丁语 systematic a. done according to a system 有系统的 descend vi. come down (from a source); go down 起源于;下来 linguist n. a person who studies languages 语言学家 Indo-European a. 印欧语系的 wolf n. 狼 scholar n. 学者 establish vt. cause to be, set up 建立，确立 drift vi. move or go somewhere in a slow casual way 漂泊 climate n. (an area or a region with) a regular pattern of weather conditions 气候(区) Germanic a. 日耳曼(人)的，日耳曼语的，德国(人)的 tribe▲ n. 部落 pass (sth.) on to (sb.) hand or give (sth.) to (sb.) 将…传给… influence n. 影响 Christianity n. 基督教 Christian a. 基督教的 n. 基督教徒 disciple n. 信徒，门徒 martyr n. 殉难者，烈士 Norse n. (古)斯堪的纳维亚语 addition n. a person or thing added 增加的人(或物) Norman n., a. 诺曼人(的.)，诺曼语(的)，诺曼文化的 conquer v. take possession and control by force; defeat 征服 kingly a. 国王(般)的 royal a. 国王或女王的;皇家的 sovereign▲ a. (of power) without limit, highest; (of a nation) fully independent 拥有最高统治权的，至高无上的;拥有主权的 alternative n. one of two or more possibilities 供选择的东西 modify vt. change slightly 修改，更改 enrich▲ vt. make rich or richer; improve 使富裕，使丰富 Renaissance▲ n. (欧洲14-16世纪的)文艺复兴 translation n. 译本，译文;翻译 Roman a. 古罗马的，拉丁语的 classic n. a work of art recognized as having lasting value 经典作品 capsule▲ n. 密封小容器;胶囊;航天舱 habitual a. done as a habit, regular, usual 惯常的 catastrophe▲ n. a sudden great disaster 大灾难 thermometer n. 温度计 video n., a. 录像(的) cyberspace n. the notional environment in which communication over computer networks occurs 网络空间，虚拟空间 independent a. not controlled by other people or things 独立的，自主的 source n. 源，来源 out of control 失去控制，不受约束 academy n. 学会，学院，研究院 fortunately ad. by good luck 幸运地，幸亏 put into practice 将…付诸实施 Danish a. 丹麦(人)的，丹麦语的 liberty n. freedom 自由 strike out create, produce 创造，开创 cultural a. of or involving culture 文化的 nourish▲ vt. 滋养，培育 preserve n. 独占的地区或范围;禁猎地 vt. keep from harm, damage, etc., protect; save 保护，保存 grammarian n. 语法学家 intellectual n., a. 知识分子(的) elite▲ n. the group regarded as the best (总称)出类拔萃的人，精英 Proper Names Robert MacNeil 罗伯特·麦克尼尔 Winston Churchill 温斯顿·丘吉尔(1874 — 1965，英国政治家、首相) Hitler 希特勒(1889 — 1945，纳粹德国元首) Julius Caesar 尤利乌斯·凯撒(100 — 44BC，古罗马将军、政治家) Britain 英国 India 印度 Pakistan 巴基斯坦 Viking (8 — 10世纪时劫掠欧洲西北海岸的)北欧海盗 Scandinavia 斯堪的纳维亚 England 英格兰 William Caxton 威廉·卡克斯顿(英国印刷商、翻译家) Otto Jespersen 奥托·叶斯柏森(1860 — 1943) Language sense Enhancement 1. Read aloud paragraphs 17-19 and learn by heart. 2. Read aloud the following poem: Languages Carl Sandbury There are no handles upon a language Whereby men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance. It is a river, this language, Once in a thousand years Breaking a new course Changing its way to the ocean. It is a mountain effluvia Moving to valleys And from nation to nation Crossing borders and mixing. 3. Read the following quotations. Learn them by heart if you can. You might need to look up new words in a dictionary. The English language is the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. —— Ralph Waldo Emerson Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. —— Georqe Orwell England and America are two countries separated by the same language. —— Georqe Bernard Shaw 4. Read the following joke and see if you can tell what caused the misunderstanding of the technician's words by the woman. You might need to look up new words in a dictionary. An office technician got a call from a user. The user told the technician that her computer was not working. She described the problem and the technician concluded that the computer needed to be brought in and serviced. He told her to "Unplug the power cord and bring it up here and I will fix it." About fifteen minutes later she showed up at his door with the power cord in her hand. ;
