现代大学英语精读第5册unit12,3,4,6,10课后翻译.docx

Lesson 1 Where Do We Go from Here1. A white lie is better than a black lie,一个无关紧要的谎言总比一个善意的谎言要好；2. To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood.为了挫败各种蓄意培植的低人一等的心态， 黑人必需直起腰来宣布自己名贵的人格；3. with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation黑人必需以一种竭尽全力自尊自重的精神，大胆抛弃自我克制的枷锁；4. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.必需懂得没有爱的权力是毫无节制、易被滥用的， 而没有权力的爱就是多愁善感、脆弱无力的；5. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.正是这种邪恶的权力和没有权势的道义的冲突构成了我们时代的主要危机；6. Now, early in this century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility.在本世纪之初，这种建议会受到嘲笑和声讨，认为它对主动性和责任感起到负面作用；7. The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriches literature and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living.事实上， 人们从事改善人类境况的工作，从事传播学问、增强实力、丰富文学财宝以及升华思想的工作并不是为了谋生；8. it can spend billions of dollars to put Gods children on their own two feet right here on earth..它能够花费几十亿美元帮忙上帝的孩子独立于这个世界；9. Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the violent minority had the sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority.除非主见暴力的少数人得到大多数人的怜悯和支持， 不和他们对抗， 否就，暴力革命很少或者说几乎没有胜利的；10. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.我们要懂得道义的苍穹长又长，它终将落向正义；Lesson 2 Two Kinds1. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz.我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花， 而是给我弄成一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛；2. She checked to see if that might be one way to pronounce “ Helsinki ” before showing me the answer.在她告知我答案前， 她对了对手中的杂志，看看赫尔辛基是否能这样发音；3. She seemed entranced by the music, a frenzied little piano piece with a mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts.她似乎被这音乐吸引住了；这钢琴曲不长， 但有点狂乱，有着迷人的特点，乐曲一开头时快节奏的，接着是欢快跳动的节拍，然后又回到玩耍的部分；4. If she had as much talent as she had temper, she would be famous now.假如她的才气和她的脾气一样大，她早就出名了；5. The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch the rose on the carpet with a pointed foot, sweep to the side, bend left leg, look up, and smile.我最喜爱练习的部分是花哨的谢幕行礼的动作：先出右脚，脚尖点在地毯的玫瑰图案上，身子侧摆，左腿弯曲，抬头，微笑；6. A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldn ’ t stopapnladysing, as tho were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track.一股凉气从头顶开头， 然后一点点传到全身； 但我却不能停止演奏，双手似乎着了魔似的；我不停地想，我的手指会调整好，就像火车会被扳倒正确的轨道上；7. and her face went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as ifshe were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless.她的脸部失去了表情，嘴巴紧闭，双臂无力地垂下；她退出了房间，神色惊奇，似乎一小片枯黄的树叶被风吹走了，那样的单薄、脆弱、毫无愤怒；8. And for the first time, or so it seemed, I noticed the piece on the right- hand side, It was called “ Perfectly Contented I tried to play this one as well. It had a lighter melody but with the same flowing rhythm and turned out to be quiteeasy. “ Pleading Child ” was shorter but slower; “ Perfectly Contentedaster. A”ndwaafstelronI gheardbpulat yf edthem both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.我第一次， 或似乎感觉是第一次，留意到右边的乐曲；它的名称是“心中意足” ；我也试着弹这首曲子；它的曲 调比较轻松，但节奏同样流畅，不是很难； “祈求的孩子”较短、较慢， 而“心中意足”更长、更快一些； 在我弹了几遍后，我意识到，原先这两个曲子是同一首歌的两个组成部分；Lesson 3 Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change1. Today we are in the throes of a worldwide reformation of cultures, a tectonic shift of habits and dreams called, in the curious vocabulary of social scientists, “ globalization ” .今日我们正经受着一种世界范畴文化剧变的阵痛， 这是一种习俗与追求的结构性变化， 用社会科学家奇妙的称呼就叫“全球化” ；2. Whatever their backgrounds or agendas, these critics are convinced that Western — often equated with American— influences will flatten every cultural crease, producing, as one observer terms it, one big “ McWorld ” .不管他们的背景和纲领如何， 这些对全球化持反对态度的人深信西方的影响——往往等同于美国的影响——会把全部文化上的差异一一压平，就像一位观看家所说的，最终产生一个麦当劳世界；3. But I also discovered that cultures are as resourceful, resilient, and unpredictable as the people who compose them.不过我也发觉文化就犹如构成文化的民族一样，善于随机应变，富有弹性而且不行猜测；4. It ’ s really hard to be original these days, so the easiest way to come up with new stuff is to mix things that already exist.现今原创极为困难；因此，最简单的方法就是把乡村的东西组合在一起，拿出一个新玩意儿来；5. The Cosmopolitan, plunging necklines and all, is read by 260,000 Chinese women every month.26 万中国女性每个月都在阅读《时尚》杂志，一本充斥着开领低胸画页等内容的杂志；6. The lights went out, and for a moment the only sound in the darkness was the whirring of an expensive camera on auto-rewind. 灯光熄灭，有一阵子，黑暗中唯独的声音就是一部价格昂贵的照相机自动倒卷时发出的声音；7. They received a lot from loca。