大学英语精读预备级课文翻译(2)

“快看!”父亲对儿子说：“看见那位飞行员了吗?我敢打赌他是去开飞机的。”儿子伸长脖子看。

As I got off, I remembered something I’d wanted to buy in the terminal. I was early for my flight, so I decided to go back.

下了车后我突然想起还得在主航站楼买点东西。离起飞时间还早，于是我决定再乘车回

去。

I did, and just as I was about to reboard the train for my gate, I saw that the man and his son ha d returned too. I realized then that they hadn’t been heading for a flight, but had just bee riding the shuttle.

正准备上车的时候，我看到那对父子也回来了。那时我意识到他们不是来乘飞机的，而是特意来坐区间列车的。

“You want to go home now?” the father asked/

“你想要回家了吗”父亲问道

“I want to ride some more!”

“我还想再坐一会儿!”

“More?” the father said, pretending to be annoyed but clearly pleased. “You’re not tired?”

“再坐一会儿!”父亲假装很生气，单明显很高兴的说，“你还不累?”

“This is fun!” his son said.

“真好玩!”儿子说。

“All right,” the father replied, and when a door opened we all got on.

“好吧，”父亲说。车门开了，我们都上了车。

There are parents who can afford to send their children to Europe or Disneyland, and the children turn out rotten. There are parents who live in million-dollar houses and give their children cars and swimming pools, yet something goes wrong. Rich and poor, black and white, so much goes wrong so often.

我们很多父母有能力送孩子去欧洲，去迪斯尼乐园，可孩子还是堕落了。很多父母住豪华别墅，孩子有车有游泳池，可孩子还是学坏了。富人、穷人，黑人、白人，那么多人都轻易学坏了。

“Where are all these people going, Daddy?” the son asked.

“爸爸，这些人去哪?”儿子问。

“All over the world,” came the rep ly. The other people in the air port were leaving for distant destinations or arriving at the ends of their journeys. The father and son, though, were just riding this shuttle together, making it exciting, sharing each other’s company.

“世界各地。”父亲回答。机场来来往往的人流或准备远行，或刚刚归来。这对父子却在乘坐区间列车，非常兴奋的享受着批次的陪伴。

So many troubles in this country – crime, the lack of purpose that seems to be taking over the lives of many young people, the lowering of educational standards,

the increase in bad language, the disappearance of simple good manner. So many questions about what to do. Here was a father who cared about spending the day with his son and who had come up with this plan on a Saturday morning.

我们正面临许多问题：犯罪、越来越多的年轻人变得冷漠无情、文化水平下降、粗话大幅增加、起码的礼貌丧失，等等。我们有那么多的问题要处理。而这里。这位父亲却很在意花上一天陪伴儿子，并在这样一个星期六的早上，提出这个计划。

The answer is so simple: parents who care enough to spend time, and to pay attention and to try their best. It doesn’t cost a cent, yet it is the most valuable thing in the world.

其实答案很简单：父母愿意花时间，愿意关注，愿意尽心尽职。这不要花一分钱，可这却是世间无价之宝。

The train picked up speed, and the father pointed something out, and the boy laughed again, and the answer is so simple.

火车加速了。父亲指着窗外说着什么，儿子直乐。是的，答案就是这么简单。

第三单元儿童教育

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A teacher’s praise and encourage may influence a child greatly, Let’s fin d out how the teacher in this story helped her student…

教师的赞扬和鼓励可能会对一个孩子产生重大影响。让我们看看这个故事中的教师是如何帮助学生的。

We’re All Here to Learn

我们都是来这儿学习的

“Sixteen,” I said. I have forgotten the math question my second? grade teacher, Joyce Cooper, asked that day, but I will never forget my answer. As soon as the number left my mouth, the whole class at Smallwood Elementary School in Norfolk, Va, started laughing. I felt like the stupidest person in the world.

我说：“16。”我已经不记得我二年级老师乔伊斯·库珀那天问的是什么算术问题，可我永远不会忘记我的回答。那数字一脱口而出，弗吉尼亚州诺福克市斯莫尔伍德小学的全班同学就开始大笑。我觉得我是世界上最愚蠢的人。

Mrs. Cooper?fixed?them with a severe look. Then she said, “We’re all here to learn.”

乔伊斯·库珀夫人用严厉的目光凝视着他们，然后说：“我们全都是为了学习而来这儿的。”

Another time, Mrs. Cooper asked us to write a report about what we hoped to do with our lives. I wrote, “I want to be a teacher like Mrs. Cooper.”

还有一次，库珀夫人要我们写一篇关于我们希望今后做什么的作文。我写道：“我要成为像库珀夫人那样的教师。”

She wrote on my report, “You would make an outstanding teacher because you are?determined and you try hard.” I was to carry those words in my heart for the next 27 years.

她在我的作业上写道：“你会成为一个杰出的教师，因为你有决心并且非常努力。”之后的27年里，我心中一直牢牢铭记着她的这些话。

After I graduated from high school in 1976, I married a wonderful man, Ben, a?mechanic. Before long, Latonya was born.

1976年我从中学毕业后，跟一个叫本的出色的男人结了婚。他是个机械师。不久，我

生下了拉托尼娅。

We needed every?dime?just to?get by. College and teaching was out of the question 为了维持生计，我们需要每一角钱，上大学和教书是不可能的。

.I did, however,?wind up with?a job in a school --as a?janitor’s?assistant.

I cleaned 17 classrooms at Larrymore Elementary School each day, including Mrs. Cooper’s. She had transferred to Larrymore after Smallwood closed down.

不过，我最后在一所学校找到一份工作——当清洁工。我每天打扫拉里莫尔小学的17间教室，其中包括库珀夫人的教室。斯莫尔伍德小学关闭后她调到了拉里莫尔小学。

I told Mrs. Cooper that I still wanted to teach, and she would repeat the words she had written on my report years earlier. But bills always seemed to get?in the way.

我经常对库珀夫人说我仍然想教书，而她总是重复前几年在我作业上写下的那番话。但是，各种开支的账单似乎总是在妨碍我。

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