新概念英語(yǔ)第四冊(cè)Lesson5課程翻譯
Lesson 5 Youth青年
First listen and then answer the following question：
聽(tīng)錄音，然后回答以下問(wèn)題。
How does the writer like to treat young people？
People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'。 If there is one —— which I take leave to doubt —— then it is older people who create it， not the young themselves。 Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings —— people just like their elders。 There is only one difference between an old man and a young one： the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him： and maybe that is where the rub is。
When I was a teenager， I felt that I was just young and uncertain —— that I was a new boy in a huge school， and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem。 For one thing， being a problem gives you a certain identity， and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking。
I find young people exciting。 They have an air of freedom， and they not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort。 They are not anxious social climbers， and they have no devotion to material things。 All this seems to me to link them with life， and the origins of things。 It's as if they were， in some sense， cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures。 All that is in my mind when I meet a young person。 He may be conceited， ill—mannered， presumptuous or fatuous， but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect of elders —— as if mere age were a reason for respect。 I accept that we are equals， and I will argue with him， as an equal， if I think he is wrong。
【參考譯文】
人們總是在談?wù)摗扒嗄陠?wèn)題”。如果這個(gè)問(wèn)題存在的話 —— 請(qǐng)?jiān)试S我對(duì)此持懷疑態(tài)度 —— 那么，這個(gè)問(wèn)題是由老年人而不是青年人造成的。讓我們來(lái)認(rèn)真研究一些基本事實(shí)：承認(rèn)青年人和他們的長(zhǎng)輩一樣也是人。老年人和青年人只有一個(gè)區(qū)別：青年人有光輝燦爛的前景，而老年人的輝煌已成為過(guò)去。 問(wèn)題的癥結(jié)恐怕就在這里。
我十幾歲時(shí)，總感到自己年輕，有些事拿不準(zhǔn) —— 我是一所大學(xué)里的一名新生，如果我當(dāng)時(shí)真的被看成像一個(gè)問(wèn)題那樣有趣，我會(huì)感到很得意的。因?yàn)檫@至少使我得到了某種承認(rèn)，這正是年輕人所熱衷追求的。
我覺(jué)得年輕人令人振奮，無(wú)拘無(wú)束。他們既不追逐卑鄙的名利，也不貪圖生活的舒適。他們不熱衷于向上爬，也不一味追求物質(zhì)享受。在我看來(lái)，所有這些使他們與生命和萬(wàn)物之源聯(lián)系在了一起。從某種意義上講，他們似乎是宇宙人，同我們這些凡夫俗子形成了強(qiáng)烈而鮮明的對(duì)照。每逢我遇到年輕人，腦子里就想到這些年輕人也許狂妄自負(fù)，舉止無(wú)理，傲慢放肆，愚昧無(wú)知，但我不會(huì)用應(yīng)當(dāng)尊重長(zhǎng)者這一套陳詞濫調(diào)來(lái)為我自己辨護(hù)，似乎年長(zhǎng)就是受人尊敬的理由。我認(rèn)為我和他們是平等的。如果我認(rèn)為他們錯(cuò)了，我就以平等的身份和他們爭(zhēng)個(gè)明白。
1。leave n。允許
2。fundamentals n。基本原則
3。glorious adj。光輝燦爛的
例句：The prophet foretold a glorious future for the young ruler。
那先知預(yù)言這年輕的統(tǒng)治者會(huì)有輝煌的前程。
4。splendid adj。燦爛的
例句：We have a splendid national culture。
我們有燦爛的民族文化。
5。rub n。難題
6。identity n。身份
例句：He confessed his real identity to his wife。
他向妻子坦白了他的真實(shí)身份。
7。dreary adj。 沉郁的
例句：Addressing envelopes all the time is dreary work。
成天給信封寫(xiě)地址是一種沉悶單調(diào)的工作。
8。commitment n。信奉
例句：I have learned that the path to happiness starts with commitment and personal responsibility。
我已經(jīng)知道自己承擔(dān)責(zé)任和義務(wù)才是通向幸福生活的起點(diǎn)。
9。mean adj。 吝嗇，小氣
10。devotion n。熱愛(ài)
例句：They told of his devotion to duty。
他們談到了他忠于職守。
11。suburban adj。 見(jiàn)識(shí)不廣的，偏狹的.
12。conceited adj。 自高自大的
例句：Don't grow conceited over your successes。
你不要因?yàn)槌晒Χ兊米愿咦源蟆?/p>
13。presumptuous adj。自以為是的，放肆的
例句：It is too presumptuous of him to do so。
他這樣做太放肆了。
14。fatuous adj。愚蠢的
例句：A fatuous and self—indulgent ruler wouldn't spend much time reading and replying to memorials。
一個(gè)昏君是不會(huì)用多少時(shí)間來(lái)批復(fù)奏疏的。
15。cliche n。陳詞濫調(diào)
例句：He preluded with some cliche。
他一開(kāi)場(chǎng)便是老生常談。
1。People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'。
參考翻譯：人們總是在談?wù)摗扒嗄陠?wèn)題”。
講解：always通常帶有感情色彩，表示高興，氣憤，抱怨等，可以通過(guò)上下文語(yǔ)境來(lái)判斷。
2。If there is one —— which I take leave to doubt —— then it is older people who create it， not the young themselves。
參考翻譯：如果這個(gè)問(wèn)題存在的話 —— 請(qǐng)?jiān)试S我對(duì)此持懷疑態(tài)度 —— 那么，這個(gè)問(wèn)題是由老年人而不是青年人造成的。
講解：which I take leave to doubt是定語(yǔ)從句，修飾one（指的是Problem）。is……，not……，這種形式可以換成：Not……But……
3。Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings —— people just like their elders。
參考翻譯：讓我們來(lái)認(rèn)真研究一些基本事實(shí)：承認(rèn)青年人和他們的長(zhǎng)輩一樣也是人。
講解：after all畢竟，無(wú)論如何
例句：You should take care of her，after all she is your relative。
你應(yīng)該照顧她，畢竟她是你的親戚。
4。and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem。
參考翻譯：如果我當(dāng)時(shí)真的被看成像一個(gè)問(wèn)題那樣有趣，我會(huì)感到很得意的。
講解：would have been虛擬語(yǔ)氣
與過(guò)去事實(shí)相反的虛擬語(yǔ)氣通常用would have 過(guò)去分詞來(lái)表示。
5。For one thing， being a problem gives you a certain identity， and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking。
參考翻譯：因?yàn)檫@至少使我得到了某種承認(rèn)，這正是年輕人所熱衷追求的。
講解：for one thing，for another一方面，另一方面
例句：We lost the game because， for one thing， our opponents were quite strong and， for another， our teamwork was poor。
這場(chǎng)球打輸了，一方面是由于對(duì)方實(shí)力較強(qiáng)，另一方面也是因?yàn)槲覀儧](méi)有配合好。
engage in使從事于，參加
例句：He was engaged in a barren argument with Paul。
他在同保羅作無(wú)用的爭(zhēng)論。
6。They have an air of freedom， and they not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort。
參考翻譯：我覺(jué)得年輕人令人振奮，無(wú)拘無(wú)束。他們既不追逐卑鄙的名利，也不貪圖生活的舒適。他們不熱衷于向上爬，也不一味追求物質(zhì)享受。
講解：air在這里不是空氣的意思，而是抽象的，表示自由的氣氛，味道，感覺(jué)等等。
7。 All this seems to me to link them with life， and the origins of things。 It's as if they were， in some sense， cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures。
參考翻譯：在我看來(lái)，所有這些使他們與生命和萬(wàn)物之源聯(lián)系在了一起。
講解：in contrast with與…完全不同
例句：Chinese banks will announce record profits for 2007 in coming weeks in contrast with their global counterparts， which have been forced into large write—offs in the wake of the credit crisis。
未來(lái)數(shù)周中國(guó)各家銀行將發(fā)布2007年創(chuàng)紀(jì)錄的利潤(rùn)，這與其外國(guó)同行形成鮮明的對(duì)比——在信貸危機(jī)之后，外國(guó)銀行被迫進(jìn)行了大筆減記。
1。If there is one —— which I take leave to doubt —— then it is older people who create it， not the young themselves。
如果這個(gè)問(wèn)題存在的話 —— 請(qǐng)?jiān)试S我對(duì)此持懷疑態(tài)度 —— 那么，這個(gè)問(wèn)題是由老年人而不是青年人造成的。
2。Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings —— people just like their elders。
讓我們來(lái)認(rèn)真研究一些基本事實(shí)：承認(rèn)青年人和他們的長(zhǎng)輩一樣也是人。
3。and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem。
如果我當(dāng)時(shí)真的被看成像一個(gè)問(wèn)題那樣有趣，我會(huì)感到很得意的。
4。For one thing， being a problem gives you a certain identity， and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking。
因?yàn)檫@至少使我得到了某種承認(rèn)，這正是年輕人所熱衷追求的。
5。 It's as if they were， in some sense， cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures。
從某種意義上講，他們似乎是宇宙人，同我們這些凡夫俗子形成了強(qiáng)烈而鮮明的對(duì)照。
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