21世纪大学英语第二册_Reading_Aloud___Uint~Unit8原文及翻译_

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Unit1

“Very hesitantly I selected a tube of blue paint , and with infinite precaution

made a mark about as big as a bean on the snow-white field . At that moment I

heard the sound of a motorcar in the drive and threw down my brush in a panic . I

was even more alarmed when I saw who stepped from the car: the wife of Sir John

Lavery , the celebrated painter who lived nearby.

“’Painting!’she declared,’What fun. But what are you waiting for? Let me

have the brush---the big one.’ She plunged into the paints and before I knew it ,

she had swept several fierce stokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely terrified

canvas. Anyone could see it could not hit back. I hesitated no more. I seized the

largest brush and fell upon my wretched victim with wild fury. I have never felt any

fear of a canvas since.”

他日后回忆道：“我迟疑不决地选了一管蓝色颜料，然后小心翼翼地在雪白的底子上的

画上蚕豆般大小的一笔。就在这时，我听到车道上传来一辆汽车的声音，于是惊恐地丢下

我的画笔。当我看清是谁从汽车里走出来时，更是惊慌失措。来者正是住在附近的着名画

家约翰?莱佛利爵士的妻子。

“‘在画画呢!’她大声说道。‘多么有趣。可你还在等什么呢? 把画笔给我---大的那支。’

她猛地用笔蘸起颜料，还没等我缓过神来，她已经挥笔泼墨在惊恐不已的画布上画下了有

力的几道蓝色。谁都看得出画布无法回击。我不再迟疑。我抓起那支最大的画笔，迅猛异

常地向我可怜的牺牲品扑了过去。自那以后，我再也不曾害怕过画布。”

Unit 2

This belief in hard work is the first of three main factors contributing to Asian

students’ outstanding performance. It springs from Asians’ common heritage

of Confucianism, the philosophy of the 5 th-century-BC Chinese sage whose

teachings have had a profound influence on Chinese societh. One of Confucius’s

primary teachings is that through effort, people can perfect themselves.

Confucianism provides another important ingredient in the Asians’ success

as well. In Confucian philosophy, the family plays a central role—an orientation

that leads people to work for the honor of the family, not just for themselves. One

can never repay one’s parents, and there’s a sense of obligation or even guilt

that is as strong a force among Asians as Protestant philosophy is among those in

the West.

这种对于勤奋的信念是促成亚洲学生成绩突出的三大要素中的第一个。它来源于亚洲

人共同的儒教传统，即公元前5世纪那位中国圣人的哲学思想，他的教义对中国社会产生

了深远的影响。孔夫子的主要教义之一是，人们通过努力能够完善自我。

儒教也为亚洲人的成功提供了另一个要素。在孔夫子的哲学中，家庭起着最重要的作

用----这种定向引导人们为家庭的荣誉而学习工作，而不仅仅是为了他们自己。一个人永

远无法报答他的父母，而且在亚洲人中间还有一种责任感、乃至负罪感，这是一种如同新

教哲学在西方一样的强大力量。

Unit3

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