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笔译I学生课后练习

1. Lexicography

1) Lexicography provides at its best a joyful sense of

busyness with language. 2) One is immersed in the details of

language as in no other field. 3) Sometimes the details are so

overwhelming and endless they sap the spirit and depress the

mind. 4) Often at the end of a hard day's work one realizes with

dismay that the meager stack of finished work one has

accomplished has an immeasurably slight impact on the work as

a whole. 5) As I hope the readers of this work will come to

understand, dictionaries do not sprint into being. 6) People must

plan them, collect information, and write them. 7) Writing takes

time, and it is often frustrating and even infuriating. 8) No other

form of writing is at once so quixotic and so intensely practical.

9) Dictionary making does not require brilliance or originality of

mind. 10) It does require high intelligence, mastery of the craft,

and dedication to hard work. 11) If one has produced a dictionary,

one has the satisfaction of having produced a work of enduring

value.

2. Intelligent Test

1) There is more agreement on the kinds of behavior referred

to by the term "intelligence" than there is on how to interpret or

classify them. 2) But it is generally agreed that a person of high

intelligence is one who can grasp ideas readily, make distinctions,

reason logically, and make use of verbal and mathematical

symbols in solving problems. 3) An intelligence test is a rough

measure of a child's capacity for learning, particularly for learning

the kinds of things required in school. 4) It does not measure

character, social adjustment, physical endurance, manual skills, or

artistic abilities. 5) It is not supposed to -- it was not designed for

such purposes. 6) To criticize it for such failure is roughly

comparable to criticizing a thermometer for not measuring wind

velocity. 7) Now since the assessment of intelligence is a

comparative matter we must be sure that the scale with which we

are comparing our subjects provides a "valid" or "fair"

comparison.

3. Bureaucracy

1) Most ironic was the image of government that was born

of these experiences. 2) As any scholarly treatise on the subject

will tell you, the great advantage bureaucracy is supposed to

offer a complex, modern society like ours is efficient, rational,

uniform and courteous treatment for the citizens it deals with. 3)

Yet not only did these qualities not come through to the people

I talked with, it was their very opposites that seemed more

characteristic. 4) People of all classes -- the rich man dealing with

the Internal Revenue Service as well as the poor woman

struggling with the welfare

department -- felt that the treatment they had received had

been bungled, not efficient; unpredictable, not rational;

discriminatory , not uniform; and, all too often, insensitive, rather

than courteous. 5) It was as if they had bought a big new car that

not only did not run when they wanted it to, but periodically

revved itself up and drove all around their yards.

4. Problem with Educational System

1) There are 39 universities and colleges offering degree

courses in Geography, but I have never seen any good jobs for

Geography graduates advertised. 2) Or am I alone in suspecting

that they will return to teach Geography to another set of

students, who in turn will teach more Geography undergraduates?

3) Only ten universities currently offer degree courses in

Aeronautical Engineering, which perhaps is just as well, in view of

the speed with which the aircraft industry has been dispensing

with excess personnel. 4) On the other hand, hospital casualty

departments throughout the country are having to close down

because of the lack of doctors. 5) The reason? University medical

schools can only find places for half of those who apply. 6) It

seems to me that time is ripe for the Department of Employment

and the Department of Education to get together with the

universities and produce a revised educational system that will

make a more economic use of the wealth of talent, application

and industry currently being wasted on diplomas and degrees

that no one wants to know about.

5. The Law of Competition

1) Under the law of competition, the employer of thousands

is forced into the strictest economies, among which the rates

paid to labor figure prominently. 2) The price which society pays

for the law, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries,

is great, but the advantages of this law are also greater than its

cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material

development, which brings improved conditions in its train. 3)

But, whether the law be benign or not, we cannot evade it; of the

effect of any new substitutes for it proposed we can not be sure;

and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is

best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in

every department. 4) We accept and welcome, therefore, as

conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great

inequality of environment; the concentration of business,

industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of

competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but

essential to the future progress of the race.

6. A Political Speech

1) Within a very short time of coming back into power the

present government had taken steps to stabilize the position. 2)

First of all, we applied ourselves to identifying the root causes of

our national ailments, examining contemporary evidence and

refusing to be slaves to outmoded doctrinaire beliefs. 3) Secondly

we embarked on a

reasoned policy to ensure steady economic growth, the

modernization of industry, and a proper balance between public

and private expenditure. 4) Thirdly by refusing to take refuge --

as the previous Government had continually done in the

preceding years -- in panic-stricken stop-gap measures, we

stimulated the return of international confidence. 5) As a result

of those immediate measures, and aided by the tremendous

effort which they evoked from our people who responded as so

often before to a firm hand at the helm, we weathered the storm

and moved on into calmer waters and a period of economic

expansion and social reorganization.

7. Animals' Rights

1) The point is this: without agreement on the rights of

people, arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless. 2) It leads

the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think

that animals should be treated either with the consideration

humans extend to other humans or with no consideration at all.

3) This is a false choice. 4) Arguing from the view that humans

are different from animals in every relevant respect, extremists of

this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral choice.

5) Any regard for the suffering of animals is seen as a mistake --

a sentimental displacement of feeling that should properly be

directed to other humans. 6) But the most elementary form of

moral reasoning is to weigh others' interests against one's own.

7) To see an animal in pain is enough, for most, to engage

sympathy. 8) When that happens, it is not a mistake, it is

mankind's instinct for moral reasoning in action, an instinct that

should be encouraged rather than laughed at.

8. American Study

The scientific interest of American history centered in

national character, and in the workings of a society destined to

become bast, in which individuals were important chiefly as types.

2) Although this kind of interest was different from that of

European history, it was at least as important to the world. 3)

Should history ever become a true science, it must expect to

establish its laws, not from the complicated story of rival

European nationalities, but from the economical evolution of a

great democracy. 4) North America was the most favorable field

on the globe for the spread of a society so large, uniform, and

isolated as to answer the purposes of science. 5) There a single

homogeneous society could easily attain proportions of three or

four hundred million persons, under conditions of undisturbed

growth. 6) In Europe or Asia, undisturbed social evolution had

been unknown. 7) Without disturbance, evolution seemed to

cease. 8) Wherever disturbance occurred, permanence was

impossible. 9) Every people in turn adapted itself to the law of

necessity.

9. Jack London

1) Life itself led Jack London to reject this approach in his

writing. 2) He knew what it meant to be one of the disinherited,

to be chained to the deadening routine of the

machine and to soul-destroying labor for an insufficient

reward. 3) Consequently he swept aside not only the literature

that pretended that ours is a society of sweetness and light, but

also that which contended that the inculcation of the spirit of

Christian fellowship would put an end to class controversy. 4) He

did not oppose labor organization nor balk at the strike as a

weapon of labor; rather, he took his heroes and heroines from

the labor movement and wove his plots within their struggles. 5)

He poured into his writings all the pain of his life, the fierce hatred

of the bourgeoisie that it had produced in him, and the

conviction it had brought to him that world could be made a

better place to live in if the exploited would rise up and take the

management of society out of the hands of the exploiters.

10. On Incorruptibility

l) This reputation for incorruptibility is the greatest of our

advantages in administering the Empire. 2) Its rarity among

nearly all the other peoples I have known raises our officials

almost to the level of divine superiority, and without it we could

not hold the Empire together, nor would it be worth the pains. 3)

A business man who has worked long under the system of

concessions in Russia tells me that it is now impossible to bribe

the Commissar or other high officials there. 4) That is an immense

advance, for under Tsarism one had only to signify the chance of

a good bribe and one got what one wanted. But nowadays on

the suspicion of bribery both parties are shot off-hand.

5) It is a drastic way of teaching what we have somehow

learnt so smoothly that we are scarcely conscious of the lesson

or of our need of it. 6) Yet there was need. 7) The change is

remarkable, and I think it may be traced to an unconscious sense

of honor somehow instilled among the boys.

11. A Jew's Journey

1) It is a very long time since I attended a Mass. 2) In this

pilgrimage town you get the real thing, with a crowd of real

worshippers -- those who come include the paralyzed, the

crippled, the blind, the deformed, the dying, a terrible parade, a

parade of God's cruel jokes or inept mistakes, if you seriously

maintain that he heeds the sparrow's fall.

3) Cold as it was in the church, the air was warm as May

compared to the chill in my heart as the Mass proceeded. 4) It

would have been only courteous to kneel at the proper time, as

all did, since I had voluntarily come; but for all the disapproving

glances, I the stiff-necked Jew, would not kneel. 5) I remember

the first break with my own religion as though it were yesterday.

6) I can still feel my cheek stinging from the slap of the mashiakh,

the study hall supervisor, as I trudge in the snow on the town

square in the purple evening, having been ordered out of the hall

for impudent heresy.

7) Perhaps in a larger city, the mashiakh would have had the

sense to smile at my effrontery, and pass it off. 8) Then the whole

course of my life might have been different.

12. The Importance of being interested

1) Now I have recalled these beginnings of the careers of

Franklin, Darwin and Mozart because they strikingly illustrate a

profound psychological truth the significance of which can

scarcely be overestimated. 2) It is a truth, to be sure, that has long

been partially recognized. 3) But its full meaning has not been --

and could not be -- appreciated until quite recently. 4) Only

within the past few years has scientific research effected various

discoveries which make its complete recognition possible and of

supreme importance -- of such importance that practical

application of the principles involved would make for an

immediate and stupendous increase in human happiness,

efficiency, and welfare. 5) Stated briefly, the truth in question is

that success in life, meaning thereby the accomplishment of

results of real value to the individual and to society, depends

chiefly on sustained endeavor springing out of a deep and ardent

interest in the tasks of one's chosen occupation.

13. The Normandy Landings

1) The landings were very chancy and might have ended

disastrously. 2) A pyramiding of mistakes and bad luck on

German side gave Roosevelt success in his one audacious military

move. 3) The mounting of the invasion armada was certainly a

fine technological achievement; as was the production of the

huge air fleets, with crews to man them. 4) General Marshall's

raising, equipping, and training of the land armies that poured

into Normandy showed him to be an American Scharnhorst. 5)

The U. S infantryman, while requiring far too luxurious logistical

support, put up a nice fight in France; he was fresh well-fed, and

unscarred by battle. 6) But essentially what happened in

Normandy was that Franklin Roosevelt beat Adolf Hitler, as surely

as Wellington beat Napoleon at Waterloo. 7) In Normandy the

two men at last clashed in head-on armed shock. 8) Hitler's

mistakes gave Roosevelt the victory just as at Waterloo it was less

Wellington who won than Napoleon who lost.

14. Sunset

1) But owing to the constant presence of air currents,

arranging both the dust and vapor in strata of varying extent and

density, and of high or low clouds which both absorb and reflect

the light in varying degree, we see produced all those wondrous

combinations of tints and those gorgeous ever-changing colors

which are a constant source of admiration and delight to all who

have the advantage of an uninterrupted view to the west and who

are accustomed to watch for those not infrequent exhibitions of

nature's kaleidoscopic color painting. 2) With every change in the

altitude of the sun the display changes its characters; and most

of all when it has sunk below the horizon, and owing to the more

favorable angle a larger quantity of the colored light is reflected

toward us. 3) These, as long as the sun was above the horizon,

intercepted much of the light and color; but when the great

luminary has passed away from our direct vision, its light shines

more directly on the under sides of all the clouds and air strata

of different densities.

15. Tragedy

1) Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear

so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. 2) There are

no longer problems of the spirit. 3) There is only the question: 4)

When will I be blown up? 5) Because of this, the young man or

woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human

heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing

because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and

the sweat. 6) He must learn them again. 7) He must teach himself

that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself

that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for

anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the universal

truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed -- love

and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. 8)

Until he does so, he labors under a curse. 9) He writes not of love

but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value,

of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or

compassion.

16. Views on the World Wars

1) The Second World War in some ways gave birth to less

novelty and genius than the First. 2) It was, of course, a greater

cataclysm, fought over a wider area, and altered the social and

political structure of the world at least as radically as its

predecessor, perhaps more so. 3) But the break in continuity in

1914 was far more violent. 4) The year 1914 looks to us now, and

looked even in the 1920s, as the end of a long period of largely

peaceful development, broken suddenly and catastrophically. 5)

In Europe, at least, the years before 1914 were viewed with

understandable nostalgia by those who after them knew no real

peace. 6) The period between the wars marks a decline in the

development of human culture if it is compared with that

sustained and fruitful period which makes the nineteenth century

seem a unique human achievement, so powerful that it persisted,

even during the war which broke it, to a degree which seems

astonishing to us now.

17. Talks on Science

1) In earliest times, when the field of available knowledge

was comfortably small and its advance slow, the lover of learning

might hope to explore the greater part of it. 2) Today, when it is

not only driving ahead at a bewildering speed but tunneling back

into wider and wider areas of the past, even the most dogged

adventurer can not hope to explore more than a small fraction of

the vast continent. 3) In our listening, as in our other intellectual

activities, we must pick and choose. 4) But nobody can afford to

ignore modern science. 5) Its intricate processes are, of course,

far above the heads of most of us, but we can at least grasp

something of its conclusions and theories and their implications,

and the B. B. C. provides opportunities to do so in numerous talks

and discussions, many of them of outstanding excellence. 6)

When listening to all but

the simplest scientific programs I find it essential to take

notes. 7) Such listening is no easy self-indulgence. 8) But often I

am rewarded by new and exciting ideas which stimulate my mind

and enrich my outlook on life.

18. The Method of Scientific Research

1) The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the

expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind;

it is simply the mode at which all phenomena are reasoned about,

rendered precise and exact. 2) There is no more difference, but

there is just the same kind of difference, between the mental

operations of a man of science and those of an ordinary person,

as there is between the operations and methods of a baker or of

a butcher weighing out his goods in common scales, and the

operations of a chemist in performing a difficult and complex

analysis by means of his balance and finely graded weights. 3) It

is not that the scales in the one case, and the balance in the other,

differ in the principles of their construction or manner of working;

but that the latter is a much finer apparatus and of course much

more accurate in its measurement than the former.

19. Books

1) Since a particular bookstore happens to resemble a

supermarket anyway, the inescapable, though perhaps

unintended, message is that books are consumable items, meant

to be devoured and forgotten, like potatoes or pizza. 2) The

implied inclusion of books among the world's perishable goods

is hardly made more agreeable by the reflection that increasing

numbers of books these days do seem to be written with just

such consumption in mind, and that most bookstores have

become little more than news stands for hard cover publications

of this sort, which are merchandised for a few weeks --

sometimes only as long as they remain on the best-seller lists --

and are then retired to discount store (those jumbled graveyards

of books, so saddening to the hearts of authors) shortly before

dropping out of print altogether. 3) Books that are planned for

rapid oblivion probably make some kind of economic sense to

publishing houses, but as contribution to literature they amount

to a contradiction in terms.

20. The Requirements of Writing Science Fiction

1) It hardly needs to be pointed out that a prime requirement

for science fiction, if it is to fulfill the function just formulated, is

that it be entertaining. 2) This is by no means synonymous with

jollity or with having a happy ending, for tragedy is often more

deeply strengthening than victory. 3) But the story should be one

that absorbs and convinces us and at the same time affords us

relief from our daily doings by taking us via the narrative, not the

didactic, route satisfactorily beyond our accustomed horizons.

4) Properly to meet this combination of conditions is a job

that demands an extremely

high order of abilities. 5) These must include not only a

working understanding of the major principles and possibilities

of present-day natural science and technology, in the diverse

lines relevant to the theme dealt with, but also a rounded insight

into human relations and feelings, a fertile but well-controlled

imagination, and the exacting skills of a writer.

21.

He was a man of fifty, and some, seeing that he had gone

both bald and grey, thought he looked older. But the first physical

impression was deceptive. He was tall and thick about the body,

with something of a paunch, but he was also small-boned, active,

light on his feet. In the same way, his head was massive, his

forehead high and broad between the fringes of fair hair; but no

one's face changed its expression quicker, and his smile was

brilliant. Behind the thick lenses, his eyes were small and intensely

bright, the eyes of a young and lively man. At a first glance,

people might think he looked a senator, it did not take them long

to discover how mercurial he was. His temper was as quick as his

smile, in everything he did his nerves seemed on the surface. In

fact, people forgot all about the senator and began to complain

that sympathy and emotion flowed too easily. Many of them

disliked his love of display. Yet they were affected by the depth

of his feeling. Nearly everyone recognized that, though it took

some insight to perceive that he was not only a man of deep

feeling, but also one of passionate pride.

22.

The Beauty of Britain

We live in one of the most beautiful islands in the world. This

is a fact we are always forgetting. When beautiful islands are

mentioned we think of Trinidad and Tahiti. These are fine,

romantic places, but they are not really as exquisitely beautiful as

our own Britain. Before the mines and factories came, and long

before we went from bad to worse with our arterial roads and

petrol stations and horrible brick bungalows, this country must

have been an enchantment. Even now, after we have been busy

for so long flinging mud at this fair pale face, the encharument

still remains. Sometimes I doubt if we deserve to possess it. There

can be few parts of the world in which commercial greed and

public indifference have combined to do more damage than they

have here. The process continues. It is still too often assumed that

any enterprising fellow after quick profits has a perfect right to

destroy a loveliness that is the heritage of the whole community.

The beauty of our country is as hard to define as it is easy to

enjoy. Remembering other and larger countries we see at once

that one of its charms is that it is immensely varied within a small

compass. We have here no vast mountain ranges, no illimitable

plains. But we have superb variety.

A great deal of everything is packed into little space. I suspect

that we are always faintly conscious of the fact that this is a

smallish island, with the sea always round the corner. We know

that everything has to be neatly packed into a small space.

Nature, we feel, has carefully adjusted things—mountains, plains,

rivers, lakes—to the scale of the island itself. A mountain 12,000

feet high would be a horrible monster here, as wrong as a plain

400 miles long, a river as broad as the Mississippi. Though the

geographical features of this island are comparatively small, and

there is astonishing variety almost everywhere, that does not

mean that our mountains are not mountains, our plains not

plains.

My own favourite country, perhaps because I know it as a

boy, is that of the Yorkshire Dales.

A day's walk among them will give you almost everything fit

to be seen on this earth. Within a few hours, you have enjoyed

the green valleys, with their rivers, fine old bridges, pleasant

villages, hanging woods, smooth fields, and then the moorland

slopes, with their rushing streams, stone wails, salty winds and

crying curlews, white farmhouses, and then the lonely heights

which seem to be miles above the ordinary world, and moorland

tracks as remote, it seems, as trails in Mongolia.

We have greater resources at our command than our

ancestors had, and we are more impatient than they were. Thanks

to our new resources, we are better able to ruin the countryside

and even the towns, than our fathers were, but on the other hand

we are far more alive to the consequences of such ruin than they

were.

Our children and their children after them must live in a

beautiful country. It must be a country happily compromising

between Nature and Man, blending what was best worth

retaining from the past with what best represents the spirit of our

own age, a country as rich in noble towns as it is in trees, birds,

and wild flowers. (568 words)

23.

PROVERBS IN LATIN AMERICAN TALK

Proverbs are the popular sayings that brighten so much Latin

American talk, the boiled-down wisdom that you are as apt to

hear from professors as from peasants, from beggars as from

elegantes. Brief and colorful, they more often than not carry a

sting.

When a neighbor's dismally unattractive daughter

announced her engagement, Imelda remarked, "You know what

they say. Senora: 'There's no pot so ugly it can't find a lid.’‖ And

when her son-in-law blustered about how he was going to get

even with the boss who had docked his pay, lmelda fixed him

with a cold eye and said, "Little fish does not eat big fish. "

One afternoon I heard lmelda and her daughter arguing in

the kitchen. Her daughter had quarrelled with her husband's

parents, and Imelda was insisting that she apologize to them. Her

daughter objected. "But, Mama, I just can't swallow them, not

even with honey. They talk so big until we need something; then

they're too poor. So today when they wouldn't even lend enough

to pay for a new bed, all I did was say something that I've heard

you say a hundred times: ' If so grand, why so poor? If so poor.

why so grand? ' "

"Impertinent!" snorted lmelda. "Have I not also taught you,

'What the tongue says, the neck pays for'? I will not have it said

that I could never teach my daughter proper respect for her

elders. And before you go to beg their pardon, change those

trousers for a dress. You know how your mother-in-law feels

about pants on a woman. She always says, 'What was hatched a

hen must not try to be a rooster! ' "

Her daughter made one more try. "But Mama, you often say,

'If the saint is annoyed, don't pray to him until he gets over it.

Can't I leave it for tomorrow?"

"No, no and no! Remember: 'If the dose is nasty, swallow it

fast. 'You know, my child, you did wrong. But, 'A gift is the key to

open the door closed against you. ' I have a cake in the oven that

I was making for the Senora's dinner. I will explain to the Senora.

Now, dear, hurry home and make yourself pretty in your pink

dress. By the time you get back, I will have the cake ready for you

to take to your mother-in-law. She will be so pleased that she

may make your father-in-law pay for the bed. Remember: 'One

hand washes the other, but together they wash the face. ' "

24.

THE URGENCY

If a man is ever going to admit that he belongs to the earth,

not the other way round, it probably will be in late June. Then it

is that life surpasses man’s affairs with incredible urgency and

outreaches him in every direction. Even the farmer, on whom we

all depend for the substance of existence, knows then that the

best he can do is cooperate with wind and weather, soil and seed.

The incalculable energy of chlorophyll, the green leaf itself,

dominates the earth and the root in the soil is the inescapable

fact. Even the roadside weed ignores man's legislation.

The urgency is everywhere. Grass blankets the earth,

reaching for the sun, spreads its roots, flowers and comes to seed.

The forest widens its canopy, strengthens its boles, nurtures its

seedlings, ripens its perpetuating nuts. The birds nest and hatch

their fledglings. The beetle andcthe bee are busy at the grassroot

and the blossom, and the butterfly lays eggs that will hatch and

crawl and eat and pupate and take to the air oncc more. Fish

spawn and meadow voles harvest the wild meadows, and owls

and foxes feed their young. Dragoniflies and swallows and

nighthawks seine the air where the minute winged creatures flit

out their minute life spans.

And man. who glibly calls the earth his own, neither powers

the leaf nor energizes the fragile wing. Man participates, but his

dominance is limited. It is the urgency of life, or growth, that rules.

Late June and early Summer are the ultimate, unarguable proof.

25.

May Is…

May is more than a month. In a very real sense. May is a

whole season unto itself.

May is open windows and lilac perfume on the breezes and

bees humming at the tulips. It is roaring lawn mowers and Little

League baseball games and small children reinventing dandelion

necklaces. May is tiny but succulent wild strawberries hiding in

the meadow grass and the promise of summer displayed in the

blossoms of the apple orchard, violets blooming shyly at the

woods' edge and daisies swaying in the fields. It is long-legged

colts in the pasture and fragrant first hay awaiting the baler and

furrows plowed straight and deep. May is rain-scrubbed sky the

color of the robin's eggshell now discarded on the lawn, and a

hillside of a hundred shades of pastel green that change day to

day.

May is a boy with a fishing rod walking to the pond on

Saturday morning, and young sweethearts strolling along the

pond on Saturday nights. It is a canoe trip down the river and the

family picnic in the park and toddler getting their first rides on

the swings.

May is surging life all around –life awakened and life returned

and life bursting with growth. It is a time for all things living, a

time for celebrating our own existence.

From Reader''s Digest

26.

The Art of Pleasing

Chesterfield

Dear boy,

The art of pleasing is a very necessary one to possess; but a

very difficult one to acquire. It can hardly be reduced to rules;

and your own good sense and observation will teach you more

of it than I can. Do as you would be done by, is the surest method

that I know of pleasing. Observe carefully what pleases you in

others, and probably the same things in you will please others. If

you are pleased with the complaisance and attention of others to

your humours, your tastes, or your weaknesses, depend upon it,

the same complaisance and attention, on your part, to theirs, will

equally please them. Take the tone of the company, that you are

in, and do not pretend to give it; be serious, gay, or even trifling,

as you find the present humour of the company; this is an

attention due from every individual to the majority. Do not tell

stories in company, there is nothing more tedious and

disagreeable; if by chance you know a very short story, and

exceedingly applicable to the present subject of conversation, tell

it in as few words as possible; and even then, throw out that you

do not love to tell stories; but that the shortness of it tempted

you.

0f all things, banish the egotism out of your conversation,

and never think of entertaining people with your own personal

concerns, or private affairs; though they are interesting to you,

they are tedious and impertinent to every body else: besides that,

one cannot keep one's own private affairs too secret. Whatever

you think your own excellencies may be, do not affectedly display

them in company; nor labour, as many people do, to give that

turn to the conversation, which may supply you with an

opportunity of exhibiting them. If they are real, they will infallibly

be discovered, without your pointing them out yourself, and with

much more advantage. Never maintain an argument with heat

and clamour, though you think or know yourself to be in the right;

but give your opinion modestly and coolly, which is the only way

to convince; and, if that does not do, try to change the

conversation, by saying, with good humour, 'We shall hardly

convince one another, nor is it necessary that we should, so let

us ta!k of something else.’

From Letters to His Son

27.

THE DELIGHTS OF BOOKS

by Sir John Lubbock

Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. They

contain the history of our race, the discoveries we have made,

the accumulated knowledge and experience of ages; they picture

for us the marvels and beauties of nature; help us in our

difficulties, comfort us in sorrow and in suffering, change hours

of weariness into moments of delight, store our minds with ideas,

fill them with good and happy thoughts, and lift us out of and

above ourselves.

There is an oriental story of two men: one was a king, who

every night dreamt he was a beggar; the other was a beggar, who

every night dreamt he was a prince and lived in a palace. I am not

sure that the king had very much the best of it. Imagination is

sometimes more vivid than reality. But, however this may be,

when we read we

may not only (if we wish it) be kings and live in palaces, but,

what is far better, we may transport ourselves to the mountains

or the seashore, and visit the most beautiful parts of the earth,

without fatigue, inconvenience, or expense.

Many of those who have had, as we say, all that this world

can give, have yet told us they owed much of their purest

happiness to books. Ascham, in "The Schoolmaster," tells a

touching story of his last visit to Lady Jane Grey. He found her

sitting in an oriel window reading Plato's beautiful account of the

death of Socrates. Her father and mother were hunting in the

park, the hounds were in full cry and their voices came in

thrrough the open window. He expressed his surprise that she

had not joined them. But, said she, "I wish that all their pleasure

in the park is but a shadow to the pleasure I find in Plato."

Macaulay had wealth and fame, rank and power, and yet he

tells us in his biography that he owed the happiest hours of his

life to books. In a charming letter to a little girl, he says: "Thank

you for your very pretty letter. I am always glad to make my little

girl happy, and nothing pleases me so much as to see that she

likes books, for when she is as old as I am, she will find that they

are better than all the tarts and cakes, toys and plays, and sights

in the world, if any one would make me the greatest king that

ever lived, with palaces and gardens and fine dinners, and wines

and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on

condition that I should not read books, I would not be a king. I

would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than

a king who did not love reading."

Books, indeed, endow us with a whole enchanted palace of

thoughts. There is a wider prospect, says Jean Paul Richter, from

Parnassus than from a throne. In one way they give us an even

more vivid idea than the actual reality, just as reflections are often

more beautiful than real nature. "All mirrors," says George

Macdonald. "The commonest room is a room in a poem when I

look in the glass."

Precious and priceless are the blessings which the books

scatter around our daily paths. We walk, in imagination, with the

noblest spirits, through the most sublime and enchanting regions.

Without stirring from our firesides we may roam to the most

remote regions of the earth, or soar into realms where Spenser's

shapes of unearthly beauty flock to meet us; where Milton's

angels peal in our ears the choral hymns of Paradise. Science, art,

literature, philosophy, --all that man has thought, all that man

has done, --the experience that has been bought wnh the

sufferings of a hundred generations, --all are gamered up for us

in the world of books.

(658 words)

28.

Relax and enjoy it! This is a terrific time to buy wine. The

selection has never been so great or so good. The downside is

that you can be spoilt for choice. In some supermarkets, you may

find over 500 different wines. How do you decide what to buy?

Where do you start? If not the supermarket, where else? Corner

shop? High Street chain? Independent Wine Merchant? Mail

Order? Online? Or place of origin?

Bear in mind that the more you pay, the higher proportion of

your money goes on the actual

wine. Expensive wine is much better than cheap wine.

What Yes indeed. This is because of the fixed costs. The

material and labor costs involved in bottling, corkage, labeling,

packaging, freight, and insurance, plus duty when applicable -

will all be roughly the same no matter what the value of the wine.

Add on everyone's profit margins. The result is that the value of

the wine in the cheapest bottles may be as little as one fifth of

the total price. For medium price bottles, it'll be around a third,

but with expensive ones it can go up to a half. So it's worth paying

more whenever you can.

A couple of things to look out for. Avoid bottles whose corks

are either weeping or bulging. Reject bottles that look as if they

may have been standing upright for a long time. Compare the

vintage (if it has one) with the date by which the wine should be

drunk; if it's inexpensive, white in particular, don't buy it if it's

more than a year or two old. It's likely to be a flabby relic.

Conversely, if it's a young expensive red wine, especially

European, it may well be harsh and not yet ready for drinking.

The widest selection of wine, at the most competitive prices,

is usually to be found in supermarkets. Their buying power

enables them to strike deals with producers, which are beyond

the clout of smaller shops. By the same token, they can exert a

strong influence on the style of wine they sell - the style they

believe will appeal to their customers. You find supermarkets'

own label wines, made to their specification. These will be reliable,

ready for drinking, fashionable, well-priced, modern styles of

wine. You'll find no shortage of "crisp dry whites, best drunk

within the next 6 to 12 months", or "easy drinking, fruity reds, to

be consumed within one or two years of purchase".

To be sure, you'll find dozens of other styles as well. What

you won't find is much help from the staff. If you want advice,

your best bet will be to take a look at the back label. Here you'll

often find specific serving and food-accompanying suggestions.

In some cases there will also be a delightful description of the

wine's background.

The other thing you won't find on a supermarket shelf is wine

which is not made in large quantities. The very bulk buying which

gives them such bargaining power, also means that they can't

consider wines from small producers. They can't stock innovative,

offbeat, idiosyncratic wines. Small producers can't deal with

supermarkets, because they're not able to supply wine on a large

enough scale. Yet theirs are often the most interesting.

The ultimate wine buying experience is probably to go to the

very source and find your own small producer. In smarter, more

upmarket wineries you'll find a variety of bottles set out on a ritzy

tasting table, allowing you to sample their range of vintages and

styles. And with luck, you'll get a tour of the cellars as well. Don't

feel you must buy on these occasions. But the more you taste

and the longer you stay, the more it's expected.

Wine sales were enthusiastically unleashed on the Internet a

few years ago, but many didn't survive the bursting of the dot

com bubble. However a number of merchants and mail order

companies continue to develop them as a sideline. (666)

29.

Life for almost everybody is a long competitive struggle

where very few can win the race, and those who do not win are

unhappy. On social occasions when it is de rigueur to seem

cheerful, the necessary demeanor is stimulated by alcohol. But

the gaiety does not ring true and anybody who

has just one drink too many is apt to lapse into lachrymose

melancholy.

One finds this sort of thing only among English-speaking

people. A Frenchman while he is abusing the Governments is as

gay as a lark. So is an Italian while he is telling you how his

neighbor has swindled him. Mexicans, when they are not actually

starving or actually being murdered, sing and dance and enjoy

sunshine and food and drink with a gusto which is very rare north

of the Mexican frontier.

When I try to understand what it is that prevents so many

Americans from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to

me that there are tow causes, of which one goes much deeper

than the other. The one that goes least deep is the necessity for

subservience in some large organization. If you are an energetic

man with strong views as to the right way of doing the job with

which you are concerned, you find yourself invariably under the

orders of some big man at the top who is elderly, weary and

cynical. Whenever you have a bright idea, the boss puts a stopper

on it. The more energetic you are and the more vision you have,

the more you will suffer from the impossibility of doing any of

the things that you feel ought to be done. When you go home

and moan to your wife, she tells you that you are a silly fellow

and that if you became the proper sort of yes-man your income

would soon be doubled. If you try divorce and remarriage it is

very unlikely that there will be any chance in this respect. And so

you are condemned to great ulcers and premature old age. (344)

30.

The rocket engine, with its steady roar like that of a waterfall

or a thunderstorm, is an impressive symbol of the new space age.

Rcoket engines have proved powerful enough to shot astronauts

beyond the earth’s gravitational pull and land them on the

moon. We have now become travelers in space.

Impressive and complex as it may appear, the rocket is a

relatively simple device. Fuel than is burned in the rocket engine

changes into gas. The hot and rapidly expanding gas must

escape, but it can do so only through an opening that faces

backward. As the gas is ejected with great force, it pushes the

rocket in the opposite direction.

There are many problems connected with space travel. The

first and greatest of them is gravity. If you let your pencil drop to

the floor, you can see gravity in action. Everything is held down

to the earth by magnetic force. The weight of something is

another way of describing the amount of force exerted on it by

gravity. A rocket must go at least 2500 miles an hour to take

anyone beyond the gravity of the earth into space.

Another problem is the strain that a person is subjected to

when a rocket leaves the ground. Anything that is not moving

tends to resist movement. As the rocket leaves the ground, it

pushes upward violently, and the person in the nose is pushed

back against the chair. During this thrust, gravity exerts a force

on the body equal to nine times its normal force.

Once out of the earth’s gravity, an astronaut is affected by

still another problem－weightlessness. here, if a pencil drops, it

does not fall. If a glass of water is turned upside down, the water

will not fall out. All of us who are used to gravity expect things to

have weight and to fall when dropped. Our bodies, which are

accustomed to gravity, tend to become upset in weightless

conditions. Recent long flights have shown that the body needs

to special exercise in a spaceship.

Cosmic rays and tiny dust particles also raise a problem.

Outer space, which has no air, is

filled with both of these. the dust particle can damage the

front end of the rapidly moving spaceship. The cosmic rays,

though they are invisible to the naked eyes, can go through the

ship and the astronauts themselves. No one is sure what damage

the cosmic rays can do to a human being, but scientists feel that

brief exposure is probably not very harmful.

The intense heat caused by friction is also a problem in space

travel. If you rub your hand hard on your forehead, you will feel

this kind of heat. Once a spaceship is in outer space, there is no

friction because there is no air to press against. But when the

space ship returns to the earth, it must go through air again. At

first the air is very thin. But the closer the ship comes to the earth,

the denser the air it meets. A spaceship entering the earth’s

atmosphere at full speed would get so hot that it would burn up

completely and disappear. (530)

英语笔译（2）

笔译II课后练习

1、抓住他

一条长长的巷子，一人在前面跑，一人在后面追。追的人边追边喊：“抓住他！”

正在街上巡逻的警察听到喊声，跑步赶来，迅速将刚刚冲出巷口

的那个人一把抓住，不由分说将其按倒在地，随即问追来的人：“怎么回事？他……”

追来的人气喘吁吁地说：“他，他得了大奖不请客。”

2、排队

某长死后到殡仪馆火化。刚好那天等候火化的人特别多，某长的儿子不耐烦等，就去找殡仪馆馆长，要求“优先安排”，馆长当即答应。有人提出抗议，馆长安抚众人说：“这个人活着的时候从来没有排过队，既然已经死了，又何必再让他受这份罪呢？”

于是，众皆无语。

3、带个付款的去

某市副市长组团去新马泰参观，确定局长一级的干部前往，秘书拟定名单呈上审批，副市长大笔一挥，又添了一名乡镇企业之总经理，秘书不解，副市长责问道：“这么多的开支，不带个付款的去，你说行不行？”

4、名人效应

公鸭是以扭动弥补嗓音不足的歌手，它的演唱经常被喝倒彩。一次，公鸭举行独唱音乐会，大名鼎鼎的音乐界权威鹅光临了。

“女士们，先生们，”鹅致词说，“鸭子天生是位歌唱家。它的音色纯正，音域宽广，堪称一绝。在此，我预祝它演出成功。”

在演出的过程中，回报公鸭那沙哑歌声的，不再是不满的噪音，而是经久不息的掌声。

5、加班

星期天，局长在家没什么事情，忽而想到这阵子市报上登的小说连载满有意思的，就想到办公室去翻翻当天的报纸。遂打了个电话给司机，谎说单位有事情。功夫不大，小车就停在局长家楼下了。

办公室，正在加班写材料的秘书，看局长星期天来了，认为局长真有什么事情，忙放下手头的材料，打电话让锅炉房的大孙来烧开水，让公务员来加班……随后，又在旁边的梅园大酒店订了“桌”。待局长翻完当天的报纸要走时，忽而看到各办公室的门都敞开着！

6、拉开档次

局长在全局干部职工大会上，传达了上级有关向灾区人民献爱心的活动精神，动员党员干部要带头响应。

会议的当天，办公室秘书小林就拿着小本，到几个局长、副局长办公室登记捐款数。

问道马副局长时，马副局长问小林：“蔡局长捐了多少？”蔡局长是一把手。小林说：“蔡局长捐了100。”马副局长思忖一下说：“那，我就捐80吧。”遂在兜里掏出一张100的。小林看是张100的，懒得给他找钱，就对马副局长说：“你干脆捐100算了！”马副局长说：“哎！蔡局长捐100，我哪能也捐100！人家是一把手，我捐80就不少了，要拉开档次！”

７、结局

庄子带领弟子出游，行至山中，遇见伐木工正在伐树，问为什么那棵长得很歪的树不伐？答曰：伐了无所用。至暮，投宿一老友处，老友欲杀鹅招待。家仆问杀哪只鹅？主人说那只不会叫的。

树有用而被伐，无用而保全性命；鹅因不成器而得以延留。倘若伐工要专寻特型树材呢？那么，直树反而不中意。鹅主人如果喜静怕噪呢？则当下里砧板伺候的，只怕要轮到会报警的鹅了。总之，一切都还是应了那句老话：环境不同，结局也不同。

8、《白蛇传》

脍炙人口的传统京剧《白蛇传》讲的是传自明朝的故事。白蛇精和青蛇精化作美女来到人间。白蛇精与一位书生相爱并生一子。禅师法海认为他们的结合违反传统婚姻，伤风败俗，他气急败坏。于是他派神兵神将前来捉拿白蛇精，并将她镇压在一座塔下面。后来，青蛇精在深山中修炼，习武多年，终于砸烂了那座塔，救出了白蛇精。至此，白蛇精与丈夫、儿子又得以团聚。在《白》剧中，蛇被赋予了崇高的人性。（184 字）

9、徐霞客

徐霞客一生周游考察了十六个省，足迹几乎遍及全国。他在考察的过程中，从来不盲目迷信书本上的结论。他发现前人研究地理的记载有许多不可靠的地方。为了进行真实细致的考察，他很少乘车坐船，

几乎全靠双脚翻山越岭；为了弄清大自然的真相，他总是挑选道路艰险的山区和人迹稀少的森林进行考察，发现了许多奇山秀景；他常常选择不同的时间和季节，多次重游各地名山，反复观察变换的奇景。（181字）

10、幽默的魅力

曾在公共汽车上见到这样一幕：一个妇女手拎带鱼，蹭脏了一位小伙子笔挺的裤子。这个妇女却说：“不要紧的，回去洗一洗就行啦！”闻听此言，小伙子回答说：“这话本该是我讲的，现在被你抢去了，我就只好说一声，谢谢你啦！”小伙子这番话，引来乘客们一阵笑声。如果说小伙子的气度值得称道，那么尤其值得赞赏的，则是小伙子的幽默。我们常为幽默的魅力所折服，乃是因为它的“外圆内方”；泾渭分明的态度以含蓄委婉作为“载体”，让人在开怀一笑之余憬然有悟。笔挺洁净的裤子被湿漉漉、滑腻腻的带鱼蹭脏了，当然让人扫兴。而那个给别人带来烦恼的妇女，居然连一声道歉也没有，更显得缺少教养。那个小伙子倘若疾言厉色与之计较，似也无可厚非，而小伙子选择幽默的方式给对方一个辛辣而充满

善意的批评，就更是难能可贵了。

生活中有许多事情，尽管有对错之分，但只要不是涉及大是大非，因而用“幽它一默”的办法，其效果往往要比剑拔弩张的怒目相向好得多。(401 words)

11、芦笛岩

芦笛岩是桂林最精彩的岩洞。因洞口过去生长芦草用以做笛而得名。它始发现于唐代，1959 年以来被开辟为旅游胜地。洞内有许多钟乳石和石笋，形状奇异，在彩色灯光下，像珊瑚、琥珀和玉石。它们的形状有的像猛兽，有的像人物。芦笛岩内有一个大洞，被称为水晶宫，能容纳一千人。传说洞内的石柱为海龙王的神针。地下通道通向一个平台，从平台外可以看到周围的山岗、农田和河流的全景。

12、仙人指路

相传很早以前，有个神童科场失意，进山访仙，历尽艰险，全无踪影，终于昏倒路边，被一老人救活，神童疑老人即仙，苦求拜师，

老人不依，神童不起。半晌，神童抬头，不见老人，却有巨石兀立，似老人以手指路，神童愈信，叩拜不已，巨石腹中隐隐作声曰：“踏遍黄山没神仙，只怪名利藏心间；劝君改走勤奋路，包你余生赛神仙。”神童从之，后半生成家立业，家道中兴。

13、北京工美集团

北京工美集团（原北京市工艺美术品总公司）是以生产工艺美术品为主，融科研、生产、经营、教育、出版于一体的多元化联合体。集团拥有工商企业50余家，包括合资企业21家，驻外贸易机构一个，开展“三来一补”业务。特艺、地毯、抽纱共有50多种产品获国家和国际大奖，自营进出口商品60大类上万个品种花色，销往世界五大洲130多个国家和地区。

北京工美集团的宗旨是让世界更美好。

14、拱北宾馆

拱北宾馆毗邻拱北海关，构思源自秦代阿房宫，衬以现代建筑形式，是具有最完美设施的酒店。

酒店内有106座别墅，7座总统套房。濒临海湾，环境憩静，花园小径，绿草如茵。供家庭式度假小住有一厅二房；供团体入住有一厅六房；更有高级豪华双人房60间。设备先进，服务周到，宾至如归。

酒店内设有法国、波斯、埃及、西班牙、日本、英国、葡萄牙等贵宾厅，以其民族风格装饰，洋溢异国风情。

地址：中国广东省珠海市拱北滨海路

15、

中国纺织品进出口总公司(CHINATEX)天津分公司是具有法人地位的直接经营纺织品进出口业务的国营企业，有四十年的外贸经验、广泛的经营渠道和良好的国际信誉。我们愿意同来自世界各个国家和地区的新老客户积极开展贸易活动。该公司经营棉、麻、羊毛、化纤及其混纺的各种纱、布、半成品、服装、针棉毛织品、制品及其原料、辅料的进出口业务，还承办同纺织品有关的利用外资、合资经营、合作生产、工贸联营、贸易联营、委托代理、补偿贸易、期货贸易、易货贸易；开展来料加工、进料加工，举办展销会、开展技术交流；提

供有关纺织品方面的信息、咨询及广告服务，建立各种不同形式的贸易和合作关系。

16、

敬启者：

你方11月12日来信收悉，得知贵公司意与我方在纺织品方面建立业务联系，甚喜。

按贵方要求，现随函空邮我方目录一份及小册一套，供你方参考。

如目录中所列商品符合贵方要求，请向我方具体询价，我当即寄送报价单。

同时，在此头笔生意成交前，务请惠赐贵方银行行名。

谨上

17、敬启者：

多谢贵方十一月三日的订单，但在仔细考虑贵方要求后，我方不得以作出拒绝贵方订单的决定。

若要达贵公司规格所要求的限度，我方必须在厂安装大量设备，但若不想影响本公司正常生产，则有不能于明年一月之前完成。

不能接受贵方定单，对此实感遗憾，但望贵方体谅我方处境。如能力所能及，我方极愿满足贵方要求。所以，请惠赐其它询价单。

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18、话说短文（冰心）

也许是我的精、气、神都不足吧，不但自己写不出长的东西，我读一本刊物时，也总是先挑短的看，不论是小说、散文或是其它的文学形式，最后才看长的。

我总觉得，凡是为了非倾吐不可而写的作品，都是充满了真情实感的。反之，只是为写作而写作，如上之为应付编辑朋友，下之为多拿稿费，这类文章大都尽量往长里写，结果是即便有一点点的感情，也被冲洗到水分太多、淡而无味的地步。

当由一个人物，一桩事迹，一幅画面而发生的真情实感，向你袭来的时候，它就像一根扎到你心尖上的长针，一阵卷到你面前的怒潮，你只能用最真切、最简练的文字，才能描画出你心尖上的那一阵剧痛

和你面前的那一霎惊惶！

我们伟大的祖国，是有写短文的文学传统的。那部包括上下数千年的《古文观止》，“上起东周，下迄明末，共选辑文章220篇”，有几篇是长的？如杜牧的《阿房宫赋》，韩愈的《祭十二郎文》等等，那一篇不是短而充满了真情实感？今人的巴金的《随感录》，不也是一个实例吗？（402字）

1. 《古文观止》A Treasury of Best Ancient Chinese Prose

2. 《阿房宫赋》Rhapsody on Efang Palace

3. 《祭十二郎文》An Elegiac Address to My Nephew

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19、家

写下了标题，不禁想笑。平时很少想这些，突然想到了，一时有许多废话可以说，又不知从何说起。还是倒过来说，不说该怎么，只说最好不该怎么。

用拆字先生的办法，望文生义，家最初显然和猪圈有关，而家的发展，当然是让它越来越不像猪圈。不过，我并不喜欢那些一尘不染的家庭。清洁过了头，家反而不像家。家是给人住的，因此，我想一切都应该以让人不感到别扭为度。过分用心了，人便变成了家的奴隶，整天替家当保姆，不值得。一个让人羡慕的家庭环境，所有的布置，都应该是以能促进家庭成员彼此之间的健康和谐为基本的前提。一个好的家居，要充满人情味，太干净，太讲究，人情味必打折扣。有的人的家庭，喜欢收拾得仅供外宾参观似的，结果，作为家庭的主人，自己也成了无所适从的客人。

古人对于家的诸多注中间，有一个注很重，是“有男有女则为家”。男人和女人才是家庭中最重要的摆设。关于家居，没有最好这一说。自己觉得好，就是货真价实的好。不同的人，应该有不同的家。最害怕统一的风格，现在的房子都大同小异，先天已经不足，如果大家再按照统一的式样，装饰自己的家，结果个人的家成了集体的家，想到了就觉得煞风景。

20、一个苹果

小时候我们在乡下生活，说起来蛮累。

那时候，我们最爱吃的是苹果。可能是苹果太贵的缘故，父亲一直舍不得买。有一天，父亲到台北出差，总算买了一个苹果回家。父亲削好苹果后，切成五等份，给我们兄妹五人每人一小片。

哎！那么薄，那么少。但是我们却不敢多讲。父亲发现我们面有难色，欲言又止。不由深深地叹了口气……

二十多年过去了，我亦已为人母，开始体会出父亲当时的苦衷。回想当初，一个苹果分成五片，每个小孩一片，我们却嫌少嫌薄，而没有考虑到爸爸、妈妈连一小口也没有尝到！

如果，那时我们能要求父亲将苹果切成七片，让爸妈也尝一口，那么就会留下一个多马美好的甜蜜的回忆呀！

21、卖广告

挡不住电视广告的诱惑，买了几包速食面回家做早餐。花花绿绿的袋子一拆开，冲上开水，一股浓香扑面而来，令人食欲大振。五岁的女儿早就守在餐桌前，用筷子在碗里搅了几下，问：“妈妈，鸡腿呢？”

我说：“哪有鸡腿？”

女儿高高地举起手中的速食面的小袋，封面赫然印着一只金黄的、油光发亮的、令人垂涎三尺的大鸡腿。

我不禁笑了：“那是卖广告？”

女儿脸上写满问号：“什么是卖广告？”

我无言以对。

女儿想了想，自言自语地说：“卖广告就是骗小孩！”

22、过节（楼书聪）

孩提时住在农村，常常盼望过节。记得最有乐趣的节，莫过于年终的“谢天地”。那谢完天地之后，母亲用福礼汤(鸡、肉汤)下的银丝面条，其鲜美无比至今还留下十分美好的记忆。

工作之后，我却渐渐对过节不感兴趣了。原因是当我单身时，我喜欢看书，笔耕。在写文章时经常需要随时查阅文献资料，如果遇上节日放假，图书馆就关门，我就只好干着急，眼看时间白白流失，所

以我讨厌过节。

在诸多家务中，每天买菜是我的任务。中国人过节，吃是主要内容，为了显示过节的气氛和水平，少说也要搞它个十菜八肴的。这样一来，节前的紧张采购暂且不说，节后的剩菜处理也落在我一个人身上，妻孩们是不愿吃隔天菜的，自幼来自农村且深受“谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦”陶冶的我，是断然不肯将剩菜倒掉的，于是节后天天吃剩菜。所以我不喜欢过节。

23、浪漫（刘安）

一个小伙子暗恋着一个女孩。女孩是他的同事，他们在一个办公室里工作。

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