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1、 5. In between such chores, I manage to spend 50 to 60 hours a week at the typewriter or doing reporting for the freelance articles I sell to magazines and newspapers. 在这些活计之间，我每周要抽空花五、六十个小时，不是打字撰文，就是为作为自由撰稿人投 给报刊的文章进行采访。 6. There is, as the old saying goes, no rest for the wicked on a place like th

2、is - and not much for the virtuous either. 正如老话说的那样，在这种情形之下，坏人不得闲DD贤德之人也歇不了。 7. While one storm after another blasted huge drifts up against the house and barn, we kept warm inside burning our own wood, eating our own apples and loving every minute of it. 暴风雪肆虐，一场接着一场，积雪厚厚地覆盖着屋子和谷仓，而室内，我们用自己砍伐的木柴 烧火

3、取暖，吃着自家种植的苹果，温馨快乐每一分钟。 8. Our freezer filled up with cherries, raspberries, strawberries, asparagus, peas, beans and corn. Then our canned-goods shelves and cupboards began to grow with preserves, tomato juice, grape juice, plums, jams and jellies. 我们的冰箱里塞满了樱桃、蓝莓、草莓、芦笋、豌豆、青豆和玉米。着我们存放食品罐的架子 上、柜橱里也开始堆

4、满一罐罐的腌渍食品，有番茄汁、葡萄汁、李子、果酱和果冻。 9. The answer, decidedly, was no, and so - with my employers blessings and half a years pay in accumulated benefits in my pocket - off I went. 答案无疑是否定的。于是，带着老板的祝福，口袋里揣着作为累积津贴的半年薪水，我走了。 1 10. Weve been able to make up the difference in income by cutting back without appre

5、ciably lowering our standard of living. 我们通过节约开支而又不明显降低生活水准的方式来弥补收入差额。 11. The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices 小范围里实现自给自足的途径是抵制诱惑，不去购置拖拉机和其他昂贵的节省劳力的机械。 12. Once economic conditions improve, howeve

6、r, demand for farms like ours should be strong again. 但是一旦经济形势好转，对我们这种农场的需求又会增多。 UNIT2 The Freedom Givers给人以自由者 1. Alongside me was a slender woman in a black dress, my guide back to a time when the surrounding settlement in Dresden, Ontario, was home to a hero in American history. 我身边是一位苗条的黑衣女子，把我带

7、回到过去的向导。那时，安大略省得雷斯顿这一带住着 美国历史上的一位英雄。 2. gave up struggling for that freedom. “他坚信上帝要所有人生来平等。他从来没有停止过争取这一自由权利的奋斗。” 3. I had traveled here to Hensons last home - now a historic site that Carter formerly directed - to learn more about a man who was, in many ways, an African-American Moses. 我远道前来亨森最后的居所

8、DD如今已成为卡特曾管理过的一处历史遗迹DD是为了更多地 了解此人，他在许多方面堪称黑人摩西。 4. Josiah Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American South. 乔赛亚亨森只是一长串无所畏惧的男女名单中的一个名字

9、，这些人共同创建了这条“地下铁 路”，一条由逃亡线路和可靠的人家组成的用以解放美国南方黑奴的秘密网络。 5. By night he was a the slave hunters. 到了晚上，他就成了地下铁路的一位“乘务员”，帮助人们避开追捕逃亡黑奴的人。 6. As the boat slid across the river, Parker watched helplessly as the pursuers closed in around the men he was forced to leave behind. 船徐徐驶向对岸，帕克眼睁睁地看着追捕者把他被迫留下的两个男人围住。

10、7. At times he sheltered as many as 17 fugitives at once, and he kept a team and wagon ready to convey them on the next leg of their journey. 有时他一次庇护的逃亡者就多达17人，他还备有一组人员和车辆把他们送往下一段行程。 8. On one occasion, Levi Coffin was transporting so many runaway slaves that he disguised them as a funeral processio

11、n. 有一次，利瓦伊科芬运送的逃亡黑奴实在太多，他就把他们装扮成出殡队伍。 2 9. In the North, a magistrate might have imposed a fine or a brief jail sentence for aiding those escaping. 在北方，治安官会对帮助逃亡的人课以罚金，或判以短期监禁。 10. With no road signs and few maps, they had to put their trust in directions passed by word of mouth and in secret signs

12、- nails driven into trees, for example - that conductors used to mark the route north. 没有路标，也几乎没有线路图，他们赶路全凭着口口相告的路线以及秘密记号DD比如树上钉 着的钉子DD是乘务员用来标示北上路线的记号。 11. Making the best of his lot, Henson worked diligently and rose far in his owners regard. 亨森非常认命，干活勤勉，深受主人器重。 12. He gave Henson a dollar and arra

13、nged for a boat, which carried the slave and his family across the river to Canada. 他给了亨森一美元钱，安排了一条小船，小船载着这位黑奴及其家人过河来到加拿大。 13. Despite this, he argues, there is still much left to be done before they enjoy full equality. 成绩固然不少，但他指出，要享受完全的平等权利，仍有许多工作要做。 UNIT3 The Land of the Lock锁之国 1. Statistics sh

14、ow the crime rate rising more dramatically in those allegedly tranquil areas than in cities. 统计显示，那些据称是安宁的地区的犯罪率上升得比城镇更为显著。 2. It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip wires hooked up to a police station or private guard firm. 取而代之的是防盗锁、防护链、电子报警系统，以

15、及连接警署或私人保安公司的报警装置。 3. It is not uncommon, in the most pleasant of homes, to see pasted on the windows small notices announcing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company. 在最温馨的居家，也常常看得到窗上贴着小小的告示，称本宅由某家安全机构或某个保安公司 负责监管。 4. Who is going to make the psychic pa

16、yment for the transformation of America from the Land of the Free to the Land of the Lock? 谁来对美国从自由之国到锁之国这一蜕变作出精神赔偿呢？ 5. Why are we having to barricade ourselves against our neighbors and fellow citizens, and when, exactly, did this start to take over our lives? 为什么非得把自己与邻居和同住一城的居民相隔绝，这一切究竟是从什么时候开始主

17、宰我们生 活的？ 6. Airports are no longer a place of education and fun; they are the most sophisticated of security sites. 机场不再是一个有趣的学习场所；它们成了拥有最精密的安全检查系统的场所。 3 7. Our neighborhoods are bathed in high-intensity light; we do not want to afford ourselves even so much a luxury as a shadow. 我们的居住区处在强光源的照射下；我们连

18、哪怕像阴影这样小小的享受也不想给自己。 8. We are fearful, and so we devise ways to lock the fear out, and that, we decide, is what security means. 我们害怕，于是我们设法把害怕锁在外面，我们认定，那就是安全的意义。 9. What sadder reflection on all that we have become in this new and puzzling time? 还有什么更为可悲地表明我们在这个令人困惑的新时代所感受到的惶恐之情呢？ 10. We have become

19、 so smart about self-protection that, in the end, we have all outsmarted ourselves. 我们在自我防卫方面变得如此聪明，最终聪明反被聪明误。 11. In dealing with the unseen horrors among us, we became prisoners of ourselves. All of us prisoners, in this time of our troubles. 在对付我们中间无形的恐惧之时，我们成了自己的囚徒。在我们这个问题重重的时代，所有的 人都是囚徒。 UNIT4

20、Was Einstein a Space Alien?爱因斯坦是外星人吗？ 1. She was getting older and frail, and she didnt approve of his marriage to Mileva.Relations were strained. 母亲年纪越来越大，身体虚弱。她不同意儿子与迈尔娃的婚事，婆媳关系紧张。 2. He argued that light came in little bits （later called and thus laid the foundation for quantum mechanics. 爱因斯坦论证说

21、光以微粒形态出现（后来被称为“光子”），这为量子力学奠定了基础。 3. He described his theory of special relativity: space and time were threads in a common fabric, he proposed, which could be bent, stretched and twisted. 他把狭义相对论描写为：时空如同普通织物中的线，他提出，这些线可以弯曲、拉长和交织在 一起。 4. With nothing better to do, he developed his Theory of Universal

22、 Gravitation. 由于没有什么更好的事可做，他便建立万有引力理论。 5. His ideas, were told, were improbably far ahead of other scientists. 据说他的思想不可思议地远远超过其他科学家。 6. All of his 1905 papers unraveled problems being worked on, with mixed success, by other scientists. 他所有发表于1905年的论文解决了当时其他科学家正多多少少在解决的问题。 7. He didnt resist being to

23、ld what to do, not so much, but he hated being told what was true. 他不太反对别人要求他做什么，但是他不喜欢别人告诉他什么是正确的。 8. Einstein was clearly intelligent, but not outlandishly more so than his peers. 爱因斯坦显然很聪明，但不比他的同龄人超出多少。 4 9. Later in life, it should be remembered, he struggled mightily to produce a unified field

24、theory, combining gravity with other forces of nature. He failed. 应该记住的是，爱因斯坦在晚年竭尽全力想象提出统一场论，把万有引力和自然界中其他的力 结合起来。 10. Although Einsteins five papers were published in a single year, he had been thinking about physics, deeply, since childhood. 但是爱因斯坦死的大脑看起来和其他人的大脑很相似，灰色，波状的。如果非要说什么不同， 那就是他的大脑比正常人的小一点

25、。 11. But Einsteins brain looked much like any other, gray, crinkly, and, if anything, a trifle smaller than average. UNIT5 Writing Three Thank-You Letters写三封感谢信 1. Well, as any cook knows, its a lot of hard work to cook and serve a big meal, and clean up and put everything away. 当厨师的都知道，要烹制一顿大餐，摆上桌

26、，再刷洗、收拾干净，是件辛苦的事。 2. I decided first to go out on the Murzims afterdeck for a breath of open air. I made my way out there, breathing in great, deep draughts while walking slowly about, still wearing my white cooks hat. 我想先去后甲板透透气。我信步走去，一边深深呼吸着空气，一边慢慢地踱着步，头上仍戴着 那顶白色的厨师帽。 3. It must have taken me a ha

27、lf hour to sense that maybe some key to an answer could result from reversing the word - at least that suggested a verbal direction, 大概过了半个小时左右我才意识到，问题的关键也许在于把Thanksgiving这个字前后颠倒一下 那样一来至少文字好懂了：Giving thanks。 4. After a while, like a dawns brightening, a further answer did come - that there were peop

28、le to thank, people who had done so much for me that I could never possibly repay them. 过了片刻，如同晨曦初现，一个更清晰的念头终于涌现脑际DD要感谢他人，那些赐我以诸多 恩惠，我根本无以回报的人们。 5. The embarrassing truth was Id always just accepted what theyd done, taken all of it for granted. 令我深感不安的实际情形是，我向来对他们所做的一切受之泰然，认为是理所应当。 6. The more I thought about it, the more ashamed I became. 我越想越感到羞愧。 7. And briefly I recalled for each of them specific acts performed on my behalf. 我简短回忆了各位为我所做的具体事例。 5 感谢您的阅读，祝您生活愉快。