综合英语一课文

Unit 1Activity 1 Translation星期日从家里出发后，我们开车开了很长一段时间才到达我住的宿舍楼。我进去登记。宿舍管理员给了我一串钥匙，并告诉了我房间号。我的房间在6 楼，可电梯坏了。等我们终于找到 8 号房间的时候，妈妈已经涨红了脸，累得上气不接下气。我打开门锁，我们都走了进去。但爸爸马上就从里面钻了出来。这个房间刚刚够一个住，一家人都进去，肯定容不下。我躺在床上，不动弹就可以碰到三面墙.幸亏我哥哥和我的狗没一起来。 后来，爸爸妈妈就走了，只剩下我孤零零一个人。周围只有书和一只箱子。接下来我该做什么呢？星期一早上，有一个为一年级新生举办的咖啡早茶会。我见到了我的导师，他个子高高的，肩膀厚实，好像打定了主意要逗人开心。“你是从很远的地方来的吗？”他问我。他边说话边晃动脑袋，咖啡都洒到杯托里了。星期二我觉得有点儿饿，这才意识到我已经两天没吃东西了。我下楼去，得知一天三餐我可以在餐厅里吃。我到餐厅排进了长队。“早餐吃什么？”我问前面的男生。“不知道。我来得太晚了，吃不上早餐了。这是午餐。”早餐是自助的，今天的菜谱是鸡肉、米饭、土豆、沙拉、蔬菜、奶酪、酸奶和水果。前面的男生每样儿都取一些放到托盘上，付了钱，坐下来吃。我再也不觉得饿了。妈妈打电话来，问我有没有好好吃饭。星期三早上9 点钟我要去听一个讲座。我醒时已经8:45 了。竟然没有人叫自己就醒了。奇怪。我穿好衣服，急匆匆地赶到大讲堂。我在一个睡眼惺忪的女生旁边坐下。她看了看我，问：“刚起床？”她是怎么看出来的？ 讲座进行了1 个小时。结束时我看了看笔记，我根本就看不懂自己写的字。那名女生名叫苏菲，和我一样，也是英语文学专业的学生。她看起来惊人地聪明。听完讲座后我们一起闲聊。她告诉我在空档年（高中毕业后等着上大学的一年）里，她已经把这学期书单上的书全都读完了。她给我留下了深刻的印象，我觉得自己太无知了，甚至不配跟她呼吸同样的空气。妈妈打来电话，问我睡得好不好。星期四今天有新生集会（社团招新活动）。我和苏菲跑去看看我们能加入几个俱乐部。我们俩都认为我们应该多结交朋友，所以我报名参加了交谊舞俱乐部、人工智能协会、手铃俱乐部和极限运动俱乐部。苏菲则报名参加了业余剧社和莫扎特合唱团。我不知道我和苏菲还能不能继续做好朋友。妈妈来电话了。她告诉我哥哥曾试图把我在家住的那间卧室租出去。妈妈向我保证只要我需要，那房间永远是我的。她还说那是我的家，他们都非常想我，尤其是我的狗。我一下子就哭了起来。星期五早上我去了图书馆。可是好像我需要一个能验明我身份的证件才能进图书馆。不知为什么，我必须发誓不损坏书籍、不违反图书馆的规定，否则我就要被当做罪犯送进监狱（什么！？就因为说话声音太大？）图书馆看起来很古老，学校以此为豪。今晚有个迪斯科舞会，可我已经没有干净衣服穿了。我只知道把脏衣服扔进衣篮，但并不清楚衣服是如何洗净、熨平并叠好放进衣柜里的。也许妈妈快来电话了。 Unit1；Activity1Translation；星期日；从家里出发后，我们开车开了很长一段时间才到达我住；但爸爸马上就从里面钻了出来；星期一；早上，有一个为一年级新生举办的咖啡早茶会；“你是从很远的地方来的吗？”他问我；星期二；我觉得有点儿饿，这才意识到我已经两天没吃东西了；“早餐吃什么？”我问前面的男生；“不知道；早餐是自助的，今天的菜谱是鸡肉、米饭

全新版大学进阶英语综合教程1课文翻oprahtalks to nelson mandela如下：

This is a moment I will never forget: Nelson Mandela, a man sentenced to life imprisonment for ending apartheid in South Africa, walked away freely 27 years later.

In 1990, when I saw him appear from a car, I felt that many people in the world had done such things, which was desperate hope and joy. Mandela's survival is proof of the power of the human spirit to overcome anything.

相关的中文意思

这是我永远不会忘记的一刻：纳尔逊·曼德拉，一个因为结束南非种族隔离而被判终身监禁的人，27年后自由走开。

1990年，当我看到他从一辆汽车出现的时候，我感觉到世界上有很多人做了这样的事情，这是绝望的希望和欢乐。 曼德拉幸存下来是对人类精神克服任何事情的力量的证明。

全新版大学英语综合教程第一册单元4课文介绍

导语：美国梦意味着与不同的人不同的东西。 但对许多人来说，特别是移民，这意味着有机会为自己谋生。 对他们来说，梦想是，人才和辛勤工作可以把你从木屋带到白宫。 下面是一篇讲述主人公的美国梦并没有如此高涨，而是设法让自己的梦想成真。

Part I Pre-reading Task

Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions:

1. According to Dr. Hertz, what did the American Dream mean to his grandparents?

2. In Dr. Hertz's opinion, who wants people to believe in the American Dream? Why?

3. Why does Dr. Hertz say the American Dream is in one's head and in one's pocket?

4. What do you understand by the American Dream?

The following words in the recording may be new to you:

poverty

n. 贫穷

advertising

n. 广告宣传

Part II

Text

The American Dream means different things to different people. But for many, particularly immigrants, it means the opportunity to make a better life for themselves. For them the dream is that talent and hard work can take you from log cabin to White House. Tony Trivisonno did not rise quite so high, yet he managed to make his own dream come true.

TONY TRIVISONNO'S AMERICAN DREAM

Frederick C. Crawford

He came from a rocky farm in Italy, somewhere south of Rome. How or when he got to America, I don't know. But one evening I found him standing in the driveway, behind my garage. He was about five-foot-seven or eight, and thin.

"I mow your lawn," he said. It was hard to comprehend his broken English.

I asked him his name. "Tony Trivisonno," he replied. "I mow your lawn." I told Tony that I couldn't afford a gardener.

"I mow your lawn," he said again, then walked away. I went into my house unhappy. Yes, these Depression days were difficult, but how could I to turn away a person who had come to me for help?

When I got home from work the next evening, the lawn had been mowed, the garden weeded, and the walks swept. I asked my wife what had happened.

"A man got the lawn mower out of the garage and worked on the yard," she answered. "I assumed you had hired him."

I told her of my experience the night before. We thought it strange that he had not asked for pay.

The next two days were busy, and I forgot about Tony. We were trying to rebuild our business and bring some of our workers back to the plants. But on Friday, returning home a little early, I saw Tony again, behind the garage. I complimented him on the work he had done.

"I mow your lawn," he said.

I managed to work out some kind of small weekly pay, and each day Tony cleaned up the yard and took care of any little tasks. My wife said he was very helpful whenever there were any heavy objects to lift or things to fix.

Summer passed into fall, and winds blew cold. "Mr. Craw, snow pretty soon," Tony told me one evening. "When winter come, you give me job clearing snow at the factory."

Well, what do you do with such determination and hope? Of course, Tony got his job at the factory.

The months passed. I asked the personnel department for a report. They said Tony was a very good worker.

One day I found Tony at our meeting place behind the garage. "I want to be 'prentice," he said.

We had a pretty good apprentice school that trained laborers. But I doubted whether Tony had the capacity to read blueprints and micrometers or do precision work. Still, how could I turn him down?

Tony took a cut in pay to become an apprentice. Months later, I got a report that he had graduated as a skilled grinder. He had learned to read the millionths of an inch on the micrometer and to shape the grinding wheel with an instrument set with a diamond. My wife and I were delighted with what we felt was a satisfying end of the story.

A year or two passed, and again I found Tony in his usual waiting place. We talked about his work, and I asked him what he wanted.

"Mr. Craw," he said, "I like a buy a house." On the edge of town, he had found a house for sale, a complete wreck.

I called on a banker friend. "Do you ever loan money on character?" I asked. "No," he said. "We can't afford to. No sale."

"Now, wait a minute," I replied. "Here is a hard-working man, a man of character, I can promise you that. He's got a good job. You're not getting a damn thing from your lot. It will stay there for years. At least he will pay your interest."

Reluctantly, the banker wrote a mortgage for $2,000 and gave Tony the house with no down payment. Tony was delighted. From then on, it was interesting to see that any discarded odds and ends around our place — a broken screen, a bit of hardware, boards from packing — Tony would gather and take home.

After about two years, I found Tony in our familiar meeting spot. He seemed to stand a little straighter. He was heavier. He had a look of confidence.

"Mr. Craw, I sell my house!" he said with pride. "I got $8,000."

I was amazed. "But, Tony, where are you going to live without a house?"

"Mr. Craw, I buy a farm."

We sat down and talked. Tony told me that to own a farm was his dream. He loved the tomatoes and peppers and all the other vegetables important to his Italian diet. He had sent for his wife and son and daughter back in Italy. He had hunted around the edge of town until he found a small, abandoned piece of property with a house and shed. Now he was moving his family to his farm.

Sometime later. Tony arrived on a Sunday afternoon, neatly dressed. He had another Italian man with him. He told me that he had persuaded his childhood friend to move to America. Tony was sponsoring him. With an amused look in his eye, he told me that when they approached the little farm he now operated, his friend stood in amazement and said, "Tony, you are a millionaire!"

Then, during the war, a message came from my company. Tony had passed away.

I asked our people to check on his family and see that everything was properly handled. They found the farm green with vegetables, the little house livable and homey. There was a tractor and a good car in the yard. The children were educated and working, and Tony didn't owe a cent.

After he passed away, I thought more and more about Tony's career. He grew in stature in my mind. In the end, I think he stood as tall, and as proud, as the greatest American industrialists.

They had all reached their success by the same route and by the same values and principles: vision, determination, self-control, optimism, self-respect and, above all, integrity.

Tony did not begin on the bottom rung of the ladder. He began in the basement. Tony's affairs were tiny; the greatest industrialists' affairs were giant. But, after all, the balance sheets were exactly the same. The only difference was where you put the decimal point.

Tony Trivisonno came to America seeking the American Dream. But he didn't find it — he created it for himself. All he had were 24 precious hours a day, and he wasted none of them.

driveway

n. 宅旁私家车道

mow

v. 修剪(草坪)，刈(草)

comprehend

vt. understand fully

lawn

n. 草地，草坪

turn away

refuse to help (sb.) or to allow (sb.) to enter a place 拒绝帮助;不让…进入

weed

v. 除去…的杂草;除草

n. 杂草，野草

assume

vt. suppose 假设;以为

compliment▲

vt. praise 赞扬

n. 赞美的言辞或行为

work out

plan; solve; calculate 制定出;解决;算出

weekly

a. happening once a week or every week 每周的;一周一次的

clean up

make clean and tidy 打扫，清除

helpful

a. giving help; useful 有帮助的;有用的

do with

(used in questions with what) 对待，处理

determination

n. 决心，决定

personnel

n. 人事部门;全体人员，全体职员

apprentice

n. 学徒

capacity

n. the ability to understand or do sth. 能力，才能

micrometer

n. 测微计，千分尺

precision

n. the quality of being exact 精密;精确(性)

turn down

refuse 拒绝

graduate

v. (使)毕业

n. (尤指大学)毕业生

skilled

a. having skill; needing skill 熟练的，有技巧的;技术性的

grinder

n. 磨工

grind (ground)

vt. 磨，磨碎，碾碎

instrument

n. 工具，器械，仪器

for sale

intended to be sold 待售

wreck

n. 残破物;(尤指失事船只、飞机等的)残骸

call on

visit (sb.) for a short time 拜访

banker

n. 银行家;银行高级职员

loan

vt. lend (sth.) 借，贷

n. 贷款;借，贷

character

n. (人的`)品德;品质;性格

damn

a.，n. (infml) (usu. used in negatives) of even the smallest amount 丝毫

reluctantly

ad. 勉强地

reluctant a.

mortgage▲

n. 抵押借款，按揭

discard

vt. (fml)throw away 抛弃

odds and ends

零星杂物，琐碎物品

screen

n. 纱门，纱窗;屏;荧屏

hardware

n. 五金器具;(计算机的)硬件

spot

n. a particular place;a small dirty mark 地点;斑点

confidence

n. 信心

amaze

vt. surprise (sb.) very much 使惊愕，使诧异

amazement

n. 惊愕，诧异

pepper

n. 辣椒;胡椒粉

Italian

a. 意大利的

diet

n. food and drink usually taken by a person or group 日常饮食

send for

ask for the arrival of 派人去叫，召唤;派人去取

hunt

v. 寻找;打猎

abandon

vt. give up completely or forever 抛弃，放弃

property

n. land, buildings or both together; sth. which is owned (房)地产;财产

shed

n. 小屋，棚

vt. 使脱落;使流出，散发出

sometime

ad. 某个时候

sponsor

vt. 为…做保证人;主办，发起

n. 保证人;主办者，发起人

amuse

vt. cause to laugh or smile; cause to spend time in a pleasant manner 逗乐;给…提供娱乐

approach

v. come near(er) to 接近

millionaire▲

n. 百万富翁

pass away

(euph) (esp. of a person) die 去世

handle

vt. manage; control 管理，处理;操纵

livable

a. fit or pleasant to live in 适于居住的

homey

a. (infml) pleasant; like home 舒适的;像家一样的

tractor

n. 拖拉机

stature

n. 身材，身高;境界

industrialist

n. 工业家，实业家

route

n. 路线，路程

principle

n. guiding rule for behavior; basic truth 信条;原则;原理

vision

n. the ability to make great plans for the future; sight; the ability to see 远见;视觉，视力

optimism▲

n. 乐观主义

self-respect

n. proper respect for oneself 自尊;自重

above all

most important of all 最重要的是

integrity▲

n. quality of being honest and responsible; state of being complete 正直;完整

rung

n. (梯子的)横档，梯级

basement▲

n. 地下室

giant

a. of great size or force 巨大的

n. 巨人

balance

n. 平衡;余额

balance sheet

资产负债表

decimal▲

小数

create

vt. produce or make (esp. sth. new) 创造，创作

Tony Trivisonno

托尼·特里韦索诺

Frederick C. Crawford

弗雷德里克·C·克罗弗德

Italy

意大利

Rome

罗马(意大利首都)