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1．当今的大学生，尽管他们努力地想自己成才，但对未来还是很模糊的。
Today\'s university students are struggling to establish themselves, but they still have ambiguous feelings about their future.
2.一个人如果不能找到自我以外的中心，就不能实现他的自我价值。所以，理想的本科教育必须使学生超越自我。
A man cannot find himself without finding a center beyond hi.So the idealism of the undergraduate 3.我们强烈地希望在大学所学到的知识在今后的工作于学习中能起到重要的作用。
We eagerly hope that the leons leaned in the university will reveal themselves in our performance in the workplace and further education.
4.四年的本科学习是走向成功生活的唯一道路，这种说法是无法接受的。
It cannot go unchallenged to say that the 4-year undergraduate experience is the only path to succe in life.
5.在对一个关键的问题作结论时，如果只相信所谓的专家而不相信自己，不根据调查的结果，不根据实验的数据，那是在冒险。
We run the risk of making critical decisions, not on the basis of what we know, the findings of investigations, and the data of experiments, but on the basis of blind faith in profeed experts.
6.我们的事业需要一批受过良好教育又能关心他人的年轻人，他们能团结一致，相互学习，积极参加四化建设。
Our task needs a large group of well-informed, caring young people who can band together, learn from each other, and actively participate
in
the
four modernizations.
7.如果这所新学校要有生命力的活，它培养的学生不仅要有扎实的基础和熟练的专业技能，还要有奉献精神。
If it is to endure, the new school should help the students not only acquire a sold basic education and become competent in a specific field, but also be ready to commit themselves to others.
8.如果大学生对考试过于投入，就有可能把能力与奉献放到次要的地位，这样说一点也不过分。
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It is not too much to say that if undergraduates exceively devote themselves to examinations, the will push competence and commitment to the fringes.
9.我甚至没有跟他说话，当然更不用说与他讨论有关你们学校的改建问题。
I didn\'t even speak to him; much le discu the reconstruction of your school with him.
10.有人认为考试是很重要的，但也有人认为考试有不少弊端。所以考试留下了一个未能解决的问题---考试对教育有什么影响。
Some people think examinations are second to none, Examinations leave us an open eential question --- what influence do examinations exert on education?
二、
1.他不但是位出色的银行家和公认的贸易专家，而且还是位经验丰富的企业主管。
He is an experienced banker and an acknowledged trade expert, not to mention an excellent managing director.
2.意大利一个和平组织的志愿者不顾危险，已开赴伊拉克首都巴格达，组成“人体盾牌”，以阻止美国轰炸该地。
Regardle of danger, volunteers from an Italian organization for peace have gone to Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, to form a \"body shield\" for the purpose of preventing the US from bombing the place.
3.在这个家庭里，没有人比朱蒂更致力于经营房地产生意。
Nobody in the family is more dedicated to operating the real estate busine than Judy.
4.由于经济不景气，房地产经纪人正处于或降低房价或减少销售量的两难境地。
Because of the economic depreion, real estate agents are in the dilemma of whether to lower prices or let sales fall off.
5.史密斯先生往往靠慎重投资而获巨额利润。
More often than not, Mr.Smith earns great profits by careful investment of his capital.
6.约翰在学校里各门功课的成绩都不怎么样，但在体育方面倒是身手不凡。
John did not make much of a mark in his studies at school, but he excelled at sports.
7.有条不紊的职责交接是家庭企业长期繁荣的一个条件。 experience must help the student transcend himself.
but some think examinations have a lot of disadvantages. Orderly transition of responsibilities is a condition for the long-range prosperity of a family busine. 8.在制定投资计划之前，你最好对投资前景有个清楚的了解。
You had better have a clear picture of prospects before formulating a plan for investment.
9.尽管雕塑费时，但是仍有一些人以雕塑为职业。 Although sculpture is a time-consuming art, there are still some people following it as a profeion. 10.这家电脑软件公司正处于从独资经营到合资经营的转化过程中。
The software company is in the midst of being transformed from an individual proprietorship to a joint venture.
三、
1.汽车诞生后发展很快，不就就代替了马。
The automobile was improved very rapidly after it was invented and soon displaced horses.
2.由于汽车污染环境并严重伤害人体，甚至杀人，我们可能不得不削减死人拥有汽车的数量而更多地依赖公共交通系统。
We may have to cut down on the number of privately owned cars and depend more on public ma transit systems because cars pollute and maim or even kill people.
3.汽车轮子给我们带来了更好、更为便利的交通时，它也应对诸如空气污染、交通事故、交通拥挤之类的许多问题负责。
While wheels (automobiles) have brought with them better or more convenient transportation, they are guilty of many sins, such as air pollution, traffic accidents and traffic congestion. 4.美国人对汽车的热爱以及他们较大的工作流动性是出了名的。
Americans are noted for their love for cars and great job mobility.
5.要是燃料质量和效率的提高和技术的进步能大大减少汽车的排放量，那该多好啊。
If only advances in fuel quality and efficiency and in technology would radically reduce the emiions from automobiles. 6.在美国，高度发达的公路网使在各地之间来来往往成为可能。
A highly developed highway network has made poible the easy movement from coast to coast in the United
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7.一想到这条林荫大道的建设速度，参观者都感到很吃惊：这条路不久前还在开挖及铺设排水管。 The very thought of the speed at which the beautiful avenue was constructed electrified every visitor; the road had only recently been torn up to lay drain-pipes not long ago.
8.环境保护主义者严厉谴责了汽车，认为汽车是产生污染的主要因素。
Environmentalists dirty air.
9.由于有便利的公共交通，在大都市的市郊，许多新建的住宅群拔地而起。
Many new residential complexes have risen up in the suburbs of metropolitan cities because of the availability of convenient public transportation.
10.尽管非常喜欢汽车，许多人还是相信广泛地使用公共交通系统能缓解交通拥挤。
Despite their love for cars, many people lend credence to the extensive use of the public transport system, which can cut down on traffic congestion.
六、
1.大多数自然资源保护主义任务，在良好的生态环境中人类最易兴旺发达，而各种野外生物的生存则是这种良好生态环境的标志。
Most conservationists believe that humans thrive best in ecological health and that the sign of this health is the survival of a diversity of wild animals.
2.史密斯先生出示了大量的证据来表明：在某种程度上，如果我们破换大自然，那就是毁灭我们自己。 Mr.Smith produced abundant evidence to indicate that we, to some extent, diminish ourselves if we diminish nature.
3.西方各国的许多城市已经转换到使用新的可减少污染含量的汽油，我们中国有些城市也已经这样做了。 Many cities in Western countries have switched to a new gasoline formula that reduces the pollution content.This is also true of some cities in China.
4.正如英国诗人埃德蒙·斯宾塞在一首诗里描写的那样，大自然不仅是位母亲，而且是位法官，管辖并公正地对待人类和所有的生物。
As depicted in a poem written by the English poet Edmund Spenser, nature is not only a mother but a judge, having jurisdiction over and doing justice to all creatures
have
denounced
automobiles,
believing they are a major factor in the production of 5.政府的一项调查研究的出的结论是：除了过分拥挤和公共交通很差外，该市面临的最大问题是噪音和污染。
A government study concludes that besides overcrowding and poor public transport, the biggest problems the city is up against are noise and pollution.6.与所有其他动物不一样，人类具有根据自己的判断而行事的能力。
Unlike all other creatures, humans have the ability to act on their judgment/ understanding.7.难道你不同意健康而无财富比有财富而不健康要好得多的这种说法吗？
Don\'t you agree with the statement that health without wealth is preferable to wealth without health? 8.即使那些工业经济的拥护者也不得不公开承认：人类与大自然之间发生的任何冲突往往对双方都不利。 Even those defenders of industrial economy have to acknowledge openly that any conflict between humans and nature often occurs at the expense of both.9.如果你的朋友善意地指出你的一个缺点，你不仅要欣然接受，而且应当感谢。
If your friend kindly points out a fault you have, take what is said not merely pleasantly, but thankfully.10.人与野生动物之间的差别之一就在于，前者能就他们改变自然地种类及规模作出明智的选择。 One of the differences between humans and wild animals is that (or lies in that) the former can make a wise choice as to the kind and scale of the change they make to nature.
八、
1.所谓理想的好人实际上并不一定对社会有益；人们对好的标准一直有不同的看法。
So-called ideally good men, in fact, are not always of benefit to society and the standards of goodne have long been argued. 2.好人在道德上必须是无可指责的，他们也不应当对危害社会的事情熟视无睹。
The morals of good men must be irreproachable and they mustn\'t be so indifferent to the things causing harm to society. 3.在工作中他们努力做到勤奋与认真，以保证任务顺利地完成；而且他们并不计较个人的名誉和地位。 They try to be aiduous and earnest and see to it that they finish their work smoothly; they never give any thought to personal fame and position.
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4.流言蜚语可以毁掉一个真正的好人，而吹捧则能把坏人说成好人。
Scandals can defame a genuinely good man, wNle flattery can make an evil man a good man.
5.他分不清好人和坏人，因此坏人常常把他当做烟幕，掩盖他们的不良行为。
He cannot tell good men from evil ones, so bad men often use him to screen heir villains.
6.他们常常排挤他们不喜欢的人，使他们无法继续工作。
They often elbowed out the undesirables, which made it impoible for them to continue their work.
7.虽然他受到了胁迫，他并没有表现出害怕的样子而是继续进行自己的试验，直到取得满意的结果。 Although he was threatened, he was not afraid of that and continued his own experiment, which was calculated to be succeful,
8.这个穷人被宣判终身监禁，理由是他偷了一家商店中的面包。
The poor man was sentenced to be imprisoned for life on the ground that he had stolen bread from a store. 9.他们一直跟踪他的活动，但是没有发现任何可疑的行为。
They have kept track of his activities, but haven\'t found any suspected behavior
10.许多人反对他，因为他破坏了传统的观念；但是也有一些人追随他。
Many people were against him for his violation of some conventional concepts.But still Some others followed suit.Reading Practice
