新标准大学英语 - 视听说教程3原文及翻译(2)

Pascal Gembe：“这需要花时间，每个人必须为自己找寻快乐，你不可能去一个训练课说：‘教给我快乐’。一个学生只能从教师或客座讲师那得到暗示，另外也有研究快乐的科学家，如果我们能与他们之一交流，我确信他能给一些暗示。”

Yosma Pinar Cetinkaya：“你会认为老师在黑板上写下快乐的定义，那不正确。哪些想得到快乐的学生必须为他们自己寻找，你不能真正通过学习得到。”

既然如此，得到快乐的代价是什么？你能在学校学到它吗？

Listening in Passage one

Interviewer: Can you tell me…how do you think you have changed as you have matured?What

things have had a major influence on you?

Speaker 1 : Well, let me think…I suppose going to university had a big impact on my life. It

made me much more open-minded. I met so many different types of people there with weird and wonderful ideas and it changed the way I see the world. I‘m much more tolerant now… It made me a more rounded person.

Interviewer: Great, and had any particular person had a central role in forming your character? Speaker 1: I guess that‘d have to be my grandfather. I was very close to him, and he taught me to

stand up for my beliefs. He was always telling me about this…

Interviewer: So what people or events have had an impact on your life?

Speaker 2: I think that traveling my gap year made me grow up and see both the beauty of the

world and, well…just the generosity of ordinary people. I traveled a lot around Asia and you know, I found that in some of the poorest countries, like Cambodia and Laos, people share whatever little they have, and they possess a real joy for life. It‘s probably made me a less selfish person.

Interviewer: Interesting…so you would recommend that young people take a gap year to discover

themselves and the world?

Speaker 2: Definitely. It gives you an opportunity o learn about the world beyond the one you

grew up in and I found it really…

Interviewer: Could you tell me what things in your life have had the greatest influence in

forming your personality?

Speaker 3: Well…a couple of years ago I was on a reality TV show where a group of young

people all lived in a house together. Each week some one was voted off by the audience. I got down to the final three! I suppose being on the show and seeing how the other contestants behaved made me realize how selfish and spiteful some people can be just to get what they want. I also realized it‘s best to just be yourself in life. If you pretend to be someone different people will eventually see through the lies.

Interviewer: Right…And how did you feel when you were eventually voted off?

Speaker 3: Relieved, to be honest with you. But you know, a slight regret that I didn‘t win

because I kind of…

Interviewer: So you can tell me, what one thing do you think that has had the biggest impact on

your life?

Speaker 4: Hmm, that‘s a difficult question. But I think helping victims of the tsunami in 2004

had a very great impact on me. I‘m half Thai and I‘d just arrived in Thailand for a family Christmas holiday. When I heard the news I knew I had to help-you couldn‘t not. I ended up acting as an interpreter for a group of volunteer doctors. It was an incredibly difficult time but you know, even in the middle of such a horrific tragedy there is still a huge amount of genuine human kindness.

Interviewer: That‘s amazing! And has it changed the way you view your future…

采访者 你能不能告诉我…你认为在你渐渐成熟的过程中产生了怎样的变化呢？什么事情

对你产生了主要的影响？

发言人1 嗯，让我想想… 我认为上大学对我的生活产生了重大的影响。大学生活让我的思

想更加开明。我在那遇到了太多不同类型的人，他们有着奇特而又令人称赞的想法。这让我改变了我看世界的方式。我现在宽容多了… 上大学让我成为了一个更加全面的人。

采访者 太棒了…那有没有一些特殊的人在你的性格塑造上产生主要影响呢？

受访者1 我觉得这个人应该是我的祖父。我和他非常亲近，是他教会了我要坚持自己的信

仰。他总是这么和我说…

采访者 那什么人或事对你的生活产生了重要的影响呢？

受访者2 我认为在我的空档年旅行让我逐渐成长，让我同时看见了世界的美丽和…单单是

普通人的慷慨。我去亚洲游玩了很多地方，你知道的，我发现在一些最贫困的国家，像柬埔寨和老挝，人们会分享他们所拥有的一切，无论多少。因此他们拥有对生活最真的快乐。这很可能让我成为一个不那么自私的人。