新视角研究生英语读说写课文翻译以及课后习题答案

一、A Working Community who came to this country still identified themselves as members of the

5、None of us, mind you, was born into these communities. Nor did we Italian community, the Irish communtiy, the Polish community. They move into them, U-Hauling our possessions along with us. None has sought out and assumes connection with people from the old country, papers to prove we are card-carrying members of one such group or Many of us have updated that experience. We have replaced ethnic another. Yet it seems that more and more of us are identified by work identity with professional identity, the way we replaced neighborhood these days, rather than by street.值得一提的是，我们没有谁一出生就属with the workplace. This whole realignment of community is surely most 于这些社区，也不是后来我们搬了进来。这些身份是我们随身携带的，obvious among the mobile professions. People who move from city to 没有人可以拿出文件证明我们是这个或那个群体的会员卡持有者。然city seem to put roots into their professions. In an age of specialists, they 而，不知不觉中人们的身份更倾向于各自所从事的工作，而不是像以may have to search harder to find people who speak the same language.往一样由家庭住址来界定。 这有点像最初移民来到美国的我们的祖辈们的经历，许多人来到这里6、In the past, most Americans live in neighborhoods. We were members 后把自己原来的国籍当成一个社区，所以有意大利人社区、爱尔兰人of precincts or parishes or school districts. My dictionary still defines 社区、波兰社区等。他们不断寻找并设想自己与来自同一个国家的人communtiy, first of all in geographic terms, as ―a body of people who live 们有着亲密的联系。我们把这种体验提升了一步。像用工作单位取代in one place.‖过去大多数彼邻而居的美国人彼此是同一个街区、教区、居住地一样，我们用专业身份取代了种族身份。这种社区的完全重组校区的成员。今天的词典依然首先从地理的角度来定义社区，称之为在流动作业的行业中表现得最为明显，那些在不同城市变换工作的人“一个由居住在同一地方的人组成的群体”。 似乎把自己的身份植根于他们的行业中。在这个充满专业人士的时7、But today fewer of us do our living in that one place; more of us just 代，他们不得不费尽周折去寻找有共同语言的人。

use it for sleeping. Now we call our towns ―bedroom suburbs,‖ and many 13、I don‘t think that there is anything massively disruptive about this of us, without small children as icebreakers, would have trouble naming shifting sense of community. The continuing search for connection and all the people on our street.然而，如今的情况是居住和工作都在同一个shared enterprise is very human. But I do feel uncomfortable with our 地方的人极少，对更多的人来说家成了一个仅仅用来睡觉的地方。我shifting identity. The balance has tipped, and we seem increasingly 们的居住地被叫做“近郊居住区”，由于没有了孩子像过去那样起到dependent on work for our sense of self.我并不认为这种社区概念的变沟通邻里关系的作用，许多人感到要叫出跟我们同住一条街的所有人迁会造成大面积的混乱，这种对联系和共同理想的不断追寻充满了人的名字是件极不容易的事。 性。但我对我们不断变化的身份确实感到不安。身份意识的天平似乎8、It‘s not that we are more isolated today. It‘s that many of us have 已经日渐倾斜到工作决定身份这边。

transferred a chunk of our friendships, a major portion of our everyday 14、If our office are our new neighborhoods, if our professional titles are social lives, from home to office. As more of our neighbors work away our new ethnic tags, then how do we separate ourselves from our jobs? from home, the workplace becomes our neighborhood.这不是说我们今Selfworth isn‘t just something to measure in the marketplace. But in these 天被分得更开了，而是好多人已经部分的友谊和大部分的日常社交生new communities, it becomes harder to tell who we are without saying 活从家里转移到了办文室。随着越来越多的人走出家门去工作，工作what we do.如果办公室真的彻底变成我们的社区，如果我们的所从事的地方就变成了我们的街区。 的行业真的彻底变成我们的种族印记，那我们怎样才能把自己和工作9、The kaffeeklatsch of the fifties is the coffee break of the eighties.The 区分开来呢？自我价值并不是只有在市场环境中得到体现的。但是在water cooler, the hall, the elevator, and the parking lot are the back fences 这些新的社区中，如果不先说明我们是从事哪行哪业的，就越来越难of these neighborhoods. The people we have lunch with day after day are 以说清楚我们究竟是谁。 those who know the running saga of our mother‘s operations, our child‘s 二、The Roots Of My Ambition math grades, our frozen pipes, and faulty transmissions.50年代的下午茶1、―If there‘s one thing I can‘t stand, Russell, it‘s a quitter.‖罗素，假如有成了80年代的喝咖啡的工间休息。工作地的饮水冷却机、大厅、电一件事我不能容忍的话，那就是做轻易放弃的人。

梯、停车场是新社区的后院篱笆墙。天天和我们共进午餐的人是给我2、My mother,dead now to this world but still roaring free in my mind, 们的母亲动手术的医生、孩子的数学老师、管道工、汽车修理工等。 wakes me some mornings before day-break. ―If there‘s one thing I can‘t 10、We may be strangers at the supermarket that replaced the corner stand, Russell, it‘s a quitter.‖虽然她已离天人世，我母亲却依旧在我的grocer, but we are known at the coffee shop in the lobby. We share with 脑子里大声嚷嚷，有时天还未破晓她就催我起床，罗素，假如有一件each other a cast of characters from the boss in the corner office to the 事情我不能容忍的话，那就是轻易放弃的人。 crazy lady in Shipping, to the lovers in Marketing. It‘s not surprising that 3、I have heard her say that all my life. Now, Lying in bed, coming awake when researchers ask Americans what they like best about work,they say in the dark, I feel the fury of her energy fighting the good-for-nothing it is ―the shmoose factor.‖ When they ask young mothers at home what idler within me who wants to go back to sleep instead of tackling the they miss most about work, it is the people.人们曾经在杂货店的超市里brave new day.我一辈子都在听她讲这句话。而今躺在床上，在黑暗中可能是陌生人，但是却极可能在公司大厅的咖啡间里相识。我们谈论睁开睡眼，我就能感觉到她和那个一无是处，游手好闲的 …… 此处隐藏：6654字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……