现代大学英语3重点句子以及翻译

1)Has it ever occurred to you that your professors and other school personnel have certain goals for your growth and maturity during your college years?

(P)Have you ever thought of the fact that your teachers and the staff have high expectations of you as you progress in both years and knowledge.

(T)你是否曾经想到过你的教授和教务人员人员在大学学习期间为你确定了某些成长目标？

2)… identity is determined by genetic endowment (what is inherited from parents), shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.

（T）性格特征是由先天基因（即父母的遗传物质）所决定，/在环境中成形/ 由外部环境而塑造，并受偶然事件的影响。

3)First, there is functional independence, which involves the capability of individuals to take care of practical and personal affairs, such as handling finances, choosing their own wardrobes, and determining their daily agenda.

(T)第一，处理日常生活的能力，它包括个人处理实际和自身事务的能力，如理性消费的能力、选购服装的能力和决定每天工作日程的能力。

4)Hoffman defines this process as \"freedom from an excessive need for approval, closeness, togetherness, and emotional support in relation to the

mother and father.“

(P) According to Hoffman, emotional independence means the student no longer needs his parents’consent, company, their love and care.

霍夫曼将这一过程定义为“摆脱父母的认可、亲近、陪伴和情感支持的过分依赖”

5)Has it ever dawned on you that certain developmental changes will occur in your life as you move from adolescence to young adulthood?

你可曾注意过你在从青少年渐渐成人的过程中会发生某些变化？

6)In fact, it may be heightened by their choice to pursue a college education.

事实上，这种冲突很可能因为他们选择继续接受大学教育而愈发激烈。

7)That same young man came into my office less than a week later, dragging his feet with a dismayed, dejected look on his face.

而不到一个星期，同一个年轻人却拖着脚步神情沮丧的进了我的办公室。

P: …walking slowly and listlessly, looking very unhappy and disappointed

8)While my world was expanding and new options were opening for me, my father ,who was in his sixties, was seeing his world shrink and his options narrow.当我的世界不断扩展，新的机遇不断出现时，我的父亲，一个年过花甲之人，正在亲眼目

睹自己的世界在变小，选择在变少.

(P) …was experiencing a world that is becoming smaller and he had fewer and fewer choices as he grew older.

9)Another change for college students is internalizing their religious faith, their values, and their morals.大学生的另一个变化就是内化他们的宗教信仰、价值尺度和道德观念.to make internal

10)In the late sixties, a young woman from a background that was extremely prejudiced against people from other races came to college convinced that her race was superior.

(T)60年代末，一位年轻女子来上大学，她在极度歧视其他族裔的环境中长大，对自己种族优越感深信不疑。

11)These religious, moral, and ethical values that are set during the college years often last a lifetime. 这些在大学时代建立起来的宗教、道德和种族价值常常会伴随他们的一生

(P) These beliefs and values we develop in college years often last to the end of our lives.

12)I can no longer read the newspaper or watch a television newscast without seeing the people from other countries in a different light.而且，在看报和电视新闻

时，我已经以一种不同的视角去看待其他国家的人民了。

13)…,but they are also acquiring new ways of assembling and processing information.

而且还在习得那些搜集和处理信息的新方式

P: They are also finding or learning new ways of arranging, organizing, analyzing or understanding information.

14) The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.

是老师的信任为你的梦想插上翅膀：他拉着你、推着你，有时用真理的教鞭驱赶着你，带领你登上又一座高峰。

Lesson2

1）You hear it said that fathers want their sons to be what they feel they cannot themselves be, but I tell you it also works the other way.

(T) 人们常说父亲们想让他们的儿子们成为他们认为自己无法成为的人，但是我告诉你这句话反过来说也对。(反之亦然)

2）Before he went broke, running a harness shop, there were always a lot of

men loafing in the shop. He went broke, of course, because he gave too much credit. 破产以前，父亲经营一家马具店，店里总有很多人在闲逛。当然，由于他大量赊账，终于导致了破产。

3）There’d be men I didn’t think would want to be fooling around with him.

还有一些人是我没想到愿意和他在一起混的。

4）To hear him tell it he’d been in about every battle.

(P) If you heard him tell the story, you would think that he had been in about every battle.

(T) 根据他的讲述，你会以为他参加过几乎所有的战斗。

5) It seems he and Grant used to slip off sometimes …to slip off: to go off quietly or secretly without being noticed 溜走

6) I knew we had them licked. 打败了他们

7) He was a story-teller as I was to be.

P: It means that looking back, the author realized that he himself had become a story writer because of his father’s influence, because he had his father’s genes of literary creation.

他是一个会讲故事的人，我后来也成为了一个这样的人。

8）It was as though I had jerked suddenly out of my world of the schoolboy, …

仿佛突然间我被从孩童世界猛拽了出来，从一个以父亲为耻的世界里猛拽了出来。

9）He had become blood of my blood; 他和我血脉相通。

Lesson3

1)…, painstakingly putting together a trotline, a maze of ropes to which several hooks could be attached. painstakingly: carefully and thoroughly 十分小心地；极其仔细地 a maze of ropes: 一团乱绳 to be attached to: to be connected with 连接

2)… everyone else was ready to call it a day

3)“Grab a pole and join in the fun.” “拿起鱼竿，享受乐趣吧！”

4)…from teen to tycoon (P) …from a teenager to a wealthy and powerful businessman. 由一个十几岁的少年一跃成为了超级大亨

5)Growing up in Houston, Michael and his two brothers were imbued by their parents with the desire to learn and the drive to work hard.

（P）Michael and his two brothers grew up in Houston where they learned

from their parents that young people should enjoy learning new things and being motivated to work hard.

(T)迈克尔和他的两个兄弟在休斯敦长大，他们深受父母的熏陶，具有强烈的求知欲和勤奋工作的动力。

6）Newlyweds, he figured, were the best prospects. 他认为，新婚夫妇是最佳的销售对象

(P) He guessed that newly-married people were the most likely to buy the subscriptions.

7）He also knew that holding excess inventory was costly. So he bought dealers’ surplus stock at cost. inventory: all the goods in a shop/stock excess inventory: too many goods in stock

(T) 戴尔也知道保留多余的库存很费钱，所以他以成本价格购买了经营者的剩余库存。

8）…, but back in Austin he felt the opportunity of a lifetime was passing him by.

the opportunity of a lifetime: a rare opportunity; a golden opportunity 千载难逢的机会

(T), 但回到奥斯丁之后，他却感到千载难逢的机会正在与他擦肩而过。

9）After one month he started selling computers again—with a vengeance. 一个月后，他又卖起了电脑，而且更加疯狂（更卖力）

10）It was time to come to grips with the magnitude of what he had created.

P: It was time to deal with the great size of the things that he had created.

(T)是时候去把握住他所创造出的庞大财产了

11）Under a deadline, his pace was frantic.

(P) He had to work extremely hard and fast because he had to meet a deadline.

(T) 期限就要到了，他的工作节奏近乎疯狂。

12）Just when it seemed the sky was the limit… 就在看起来前途无量的时候

13）So Dell guaranteed next-day on-site service for his products, and introduced a 24-hour-a-day toll-free line for customers to talk directly with computer technicians.

(T)所以戴尔做出如下承诺，客户的电脑一旦发生故障，技术人员保证次日登门排除。他还开通了24小时免费服务热线，让客户直接与电脑技术人员通话。

14）There’s too much of an entitlement attitudes nowadays.

(P) There is a prevailing thought in America that people have the right to enjoy everything that is readily made.

(T)现今，有太多的人抱有一切都是理所应得的态度。

15）He credits his own success to the fact that Alexander and Lorraine Dell expected their three sons to learn and work hard.

(T) 他把自己的成功归于他们的父母(亚历山大.戴尔和罗琳.戴尔 ) 对他们兄弟三人的期望：发奋学习，努力工作,而且他从中受到了启发。

Lesson5、6

1)I think it’s customary to take a preliminary vote.

(P)I think it is common practice to take a vote first just to find out where we are before we start our discussion.

(T) 我认为按惯例我们应该先来一次预备投票。

2)We’ve got to send him to the chair. 电椅

If we found him guilty, he would be electrocuted.

3)Since when is dishonesty a group characteristic? (21)

(P) I’m surprised to hear you say that as if dishonesty has ever been a group characteristic.

(T) 从何时起，不诚实居然成了一种群体特征？

4)If her testimony don’t prove he’s guilty, then nothing does.

（T）如果她的证词还不能证明他有罪，那再没有别的能证明了！

5)This boy has been hit so many times that violence is practically a normal state of affairs with him. I just can’t see two slaps in the face would have provoked him into committing murder.

(T) 孩子挨过很多次打，对他来说，暴力事实上已成为家常便饭。我不明白，挨了两巴掌就会使他杀人。

6）It may have been two too many. too many: too many to endure 到了不能容忍的地步

（P）These two slaps may have been beyond the boy’s endurance.

7）It is no secret children from slum backgrounds are potential menaces to society. slum 贫民窟 menaces 威胁 （P）It is known to all that children who were brought up in slums are very likely to be threats to society.

8）I began to get a peculiar feeling that the defense counselor wasn’t

conducting a thorough enough cross-examination. He let too many things go by, little things.

He ignored/ failed to give consideration to a lot of details.

9）The discovery of the age or something. （76）

你认为这是划时代的发现或是别的什么东西吗？

10）It takes a lot of courage to stand alone. stand alone 坚持

11）He’s got to burn and you let him slip through our fingers!

12）No. 8 … What it must feel like to want to pull the switch. You are a sadist! (48)

13）P: I can’t understand what kind of feeling it is that will make you want to pull the switch. The only possible answer is that you are a sadist. You enjoy watching people suffer.

真不知道想拉电闸是一种什么样的感觉。 sadist 虐待狂

14)It’s always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this.(115)

P: It’s not an easy thing to make sure that our discussion of the case is not affected by our personal prejudice.

Lesson 7

1)He was by nature a sociable, chatty man and he had reckoned that his action would infallibly produce conversation.

(P) He was the kind of man who likes to talk and enjoys company, and had guessed that what he did would invariably start a conversation.

(T)他天生是一个喜欢交际、爱闲聊的的人，他认为他的行为肯定会引发一番交谈。

2）…. while Mr. Harraby Ribston resumes his seat and sat for a while puffing a little and with a heightened color as a result of his exertion.

(P) …. while Mr. Harraby Ribston sat down again breathing heavily for a few minutes, his face turning red as a result of the great effort he had made when pitching his suitcase out of the window.

(T)…哈罗毕·里勃斯顿先生重新坐下来。由于刚才费了不少力，他喘着气，脸都红了。

3) …for Mr. Crowther’s glance had betrayed not the smallest emotion.

(P) …because one could not see any feelings revealed or shown in Mr. Crowther’s quick glance.

(T) …因为克劳瑟先生的一瞥没有显露出一丁点儿兴趣。

4）Such were the thoughts that buzzed round Mr. Harraby-Ribston, robbing him of the satisfaction and refreshment that were his due.

(T) 这些就是哈罗毕.里勃斯顿当时的想法,这些想法在他的头脑里萦绕, 使他无法享受本该属于他的满足与休闲。

5)…he considered it an annoying infringement of his privacy.

…他认为对方的所作所为都令人讨厌，侵犯了他的隐私。

6)…doubly charming when I have them to myself. 当我独自拥有时，它们更加迷人了。

…my house, my home is much more charming now since I’m the only one to have the house.

7）Mr. Harraby Ribston took the disclosure remarkably well.

（T）对于克劳瑟先生所透漏的信息，哈罗毕.李博斯特先生的反应相当不错。

8)It rolls down the embankment and lands up against their railings.

提箱会沿着路基滚到他们的围栏边。

9)reticence was not your strong point。 沉默并不是你的强项。

Lesson10

1)He thought everybody lived far too elaborately, expensively, anxiously.

P: He thought that our life is too complicated, too costly, and gives us too much pressure.

(T)他认为人们为生活煞费苦心，过于讲究奢华。

2)His life’s aim was clear to him: it was “ to restamp the currency”: to take the clean metal of human life, to erase the old false convention markings, and and to imprint it with its true values.

他十分明确自己的生活目标，就是把人生中洁净的金属提炼出来，抹去陈旧的虚伪习俗的印迹，在上面重印其真正价值。

（P）Life is like a metal marked with false and conventional values. His life task is to remove those false markings and imprint a true value on it.

3) Sometimes they threw bits of food, and got scant thanks; sometimes a mischievous pebble, and got a shower of stones and abuse.

(T)有时他们丢给他一点儿食物，他会勉强地道一、两声谢谢；有时他们故意戏弄他，扔给他一块石子，他便破口大骂，毫不客气地用一通石子回敬他们。

4)They were not quite sure whether he was mad or not.He knew they were

mad, each in a different way. 他们拿不准他是不是疯了。他却认定他们疯了，只是他们的疯各有各的不同

P)He knew that other people were all insane in this way or another.

5)He spent much of his life in the rich, lazy, corrupt Greek city of Corinth, mocking and satirizing its people, and occasionally convert one of them.他一生大部分时光都在希腊的克林斯城邦度过，那是一个富裕、懒散、的城市，他挖苦嘲讽那里的人们，偶尔劝说他们的其中一个改变信仰。

(P)He chose to live among the wealthy, lazy and dishonest citizens of Corinth for many of his years, ridiculing and criticizing them. And he occasionally persuading one of them into adopting his belief.

6). He was not the first to inhabit such a thing. But he was the first who ever did so by choice, out of principle.

(P) He was not the first to live in a cask. Yet he was the first to do so because he wanted to, based on his principle, not because he was forced to by necessity.

7)But he taught chiefly by example. 但是他言传身教（自己先去做）

(P) Diogenes sometimes taught by talking to people, but he mainly taught by setting an example for others to follow.

8)Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities

and extravagances: only so can you live a free life.

(P)Only when you get rid of those man-imposed and false conventions and avoid living complex and luxurious lives can you live a real, free life.

(T)抛开那些造作虚伪的习俗；摆脱那些繁文缛节和奢侈享受：只有这样，你才能过自由的生活。

9) In order to procure a quantity of false, perishable goods he has sold the only true, lasting good, his own independence.

为了攫取这些虚假浮华的东西，他出卖了自己的，这惟一真实长久的东西。

(P) People all toil to get only those material things that are false and fleeting, but at the sacrifice of their own everlasting independence.

10） Diogenes took his old cask and began to roll it up and down. “When you are all so busy,” he said, “ I feel I ought to do something!”

When the Corinthians were busy preparing for the coming war, Diogenes rolled his cask up and down to ridicule their silly behavior.

11)Now he was lying in the sunlight, contented and happy, happier (he himself used to boast) than the Shah of Persia.此刻他正躺在阳光下，心满意足，乐也悠悠，比波斯国王还要快活（他常这样自我吹嘘）

12)Only twenty, Alexander was far older and wiser than his years。年仅20岁，亚历山大比他的年龄要成熟和睿智得多

(P)Alexander looked far older than a man of his age normally does, and was much wiser than a man of his age normally is.

13) Like all Macedonians he loved drinking, but he could usually handle it; and toward women, he was nobly restrained and chivalrous.

(T)他像所有的马其顿人一样嗜酒，但他一般能够适可而止；对于妇女，他表现得高尚拘谨，彬彬有礼，不失骑士风度。

14)He was the man of the hour, of the century. 他是时代的风云人物。

15)With his handsome face, his fiery glance, his strong body, his purple and gold cloak, and his air of destiny, he moved through the parting crowd toward the Dog’s kennel

亚历山大相貌英俊，眼光炯炯有神，身体强健，他披着镶金的紫色斗篷，带着命运主宰者的气派，穿过向两边闪开的人群，向“狗窝”走来。

16）He was what Diogenes called himself, a “citizen of the world”. Like Diogenes, he admired the heroic figure of Hercules, who labored to help mankind while all others toiled and sweated only for themselves.他是狄奥根尼所自称的“世界公民”。像狄奥根尼一样，他崇拜海格立斯的英雄形象。当别人只为自己的利益费尽心机之

时，这位英雄却在为人类而奋斗。

Lesson11

1)There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings.

(P): Once upon a time there was a town in the central part of America where all living things seemed to co-exist peacefully with their environment.

2) The town lay in the midst of prosperous farms, where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.

(P)The town lay among booming (or well growing) farms. In spring, white flowers floated above the green fields just like clouds.

3)In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a background of pines a blaze of color: an impressive and noticeable show of colors

(P)In autumn, the oak, maple and birch trees turned yellow, red or brown, thus making a beautiful show of colors against the dark green of pine trees.

4)Then some evil spell settled on the community: mysterious diseases swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died.

(P)Then, as if by some evil power, disaster fell on the community: Strange diseases quickly struck down large numbers of chicken; the cattle and sheep became ill and died.

5)On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound.

The morning air used to vibrate with the singing of birds, but there was now no sound.

6)Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight.

When we think of the long history of life on earth, the degree (or extent) that living things affect their environment has been insignificant as compared with the effect of the environment on plant and animal life.

7)Chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death.

8)Given time---time not in years but in millennia---life adjusts, and a balance has been reached.

-When the environment changes, living things can adapt to their new

surroundings, but it is a long process and it takes millennia of years for life to be in harmony with their modified world again.

9)The rapidity of change follows the impetuous pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature.

The environment no longer changes slowly according to the laws of nature. Rather, it is rapidly changed by shortsighted, profit-seeking mankind.

10) Radiation is now the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with the atom.

11) The chemicals are the synthetic creations of man’s inventive mind, having no counterparts in nature.

12) Among them are many that are used in man’s war against nature.

13) These chemicals are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes,killing every insect, the good and the bad,to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish,to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil. apply sth to: to put or spread sth on the surface of e.g.She never goes out without applying sun cream to/on her face and neck.

(T)

14) The whole process of spraying seems caught up in an endless spiral

(T)

15) Insect problems arose with the intensification of agriculture—the devotion of immense acreage to a single crop.

16) In new territories, out of reach of the restraining hand of natural enemies that kept down its numbers in its native land, an invading plant or animal is able to become enormously abundant.（P）When a plant or animal is introduced into a new area, it can multiply rapidly, since it has broken away from the threats of its natural enemies in its native land.

(T)

17) Obviously then, an insect that lives on wheat can build up its population to much higher levels on a farm devoted to wheat than on one in which wheat is intermingled with other crops to which the insect is not adapted. 很明显，以小麦为生的昆虫，如果是仅在种植小麦的地里，它的数量会很多，而如果在那些小麦和其它不适合该种昆虫生农作物混合种植的土地里，它的数量就会少很多。

18）We have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge.

(T)

(P）By spraying insecticides on food grains, vegetables and fruit, we have

caused large numbers of people to absorb harmful chemicals without asking whether they would like to do so and often without their knowing it.

Lesson13

1)Through all this she lay in bed but moved across time, traveling among the dead decades with a speed and ease beyond the gift of physical science.而做这一切的时候她始终是卧病在床，但她的思绪却在逝去的岁月中穿梭，其速度之快，之容易是现实中的科学所无法达到的。

2)She gazed at this improbably overgrown figure out of an inconceivable future and promptly dismissed it.她注视着体格高大的我，难以相信自己的儿子会长这么大。于是，对我的话置之不理。

3)…with a view of hazy blue Virginia mountains 眺望苹果园后面青青的若隐若现的弗吉尼亚群山

4)For ten years or more the ferocity with which she had once attacked life had been turning to a rage against the weakness,the boredom,and the absence of love that too much age had brought her. Now, after the last bad fall, she seemed to have broken chains that imprisoned her in a life she had come to hate and to return to a time inhabited by people who loved her, a time in which she was needed.这十几年来，她用来应对生活的强大活力渐已消退，取而代之的是一种憎恶：憎恶自己的年老体弱、乏味无趣、缺乏关爱的生活。如今，自从这次重重地摔了一跤以后，她似乎打破了使她厌倦的生活的束缚，仿佛重新回到了被人们所爱戴、被人们所需要的年

代。

5)The orbits of her mind rarely touched present interrogators for more than a moment.她的思维轨迹根本不触及现实中问话者的问题，哪怕只是一瞬间。

6)These hopeless end-of-the-line visits with my mother made me wish I had not thrown off my own past so carelessly. We all come from the past, and children ought to know what it was that went into their making, to know that life is a braided cord of humanity stretching up from time long gone, and that it cannot be defined by the span of a single journey from diaper to shroud.