新概念第三册课文翻译及学习笔记【Lesson46、47、48】.docx

Lesson46、47 、新概念第三册课文翻译及学习笔记【48 】【课文】So great is our passion for doing things for ourselves, that we are becoming increasingIy less dependent on specialized labour. No one can plead ignorance of a subject any longer, for there are countless do-it-yourself publications. Armed with the right tools and materials, newlyweds gaily embark on the task of decorating their own homes. Men, particularly, spend hours of their leisure time installing their own fireplaces, laying out their own gardens; building garages and making furniture. Some really keen enthusiasts go so far as to build their own computers. Shops cater for the do-it-yourself craze not only by runningspecial advisory services for novices, but by offeringconsumers bits and pieces which they can assemble at home. Such things provide an excellent outlet for pent up creative energy, but unfortunately not all of us are born handymen.Some wives tend to believe that their husbands are infinitely resourceful and can fix anything. Even men who can hardly drive a nail in straight are supposed to be born electricians, carpenters, plumbers and mechanics. When lights fuse, furniture gets rickety, pipes get clogged, or vacuum cleaners fail to operate, some women assume that their husbands will somehow put things right. The worst thing about the do-it-yourself game is that sometimes even men live underthe delusion that they can do anything, even when they haverepeatedly been proved wrong. It is a question of pride asmuch as anything else.Last spring my wife suggested that I call in a man to look at our lawn mower. It had broken down the previous summer, and though I promised to repair it, I had never got round to it. I would not hear of the suggestion and said that I would fix it myself. One Saturday afternoon, I hauled themachine into the garden and had a close look at it. As far asI could see, it only needed a minor adjustmentscrew here, a little tightening up there, a drop of oil and： a turn of ait would be as good as new. Inevitably the repair job was not quite so simple. The mower firmly refused to mow, so I decided to dismantle it. The garden was soon littered with chunks of metal which had once made up a lawn mower. But I was extremely pleased with myself. I had traced the cause of the trouble. One of the links in the chain that drives thewheels had snapped. After buying a new chain I was faced with the insurmountable task of putting the confusing jigsawpuzzle together again. I was not surprised to find that the machine still refused to work after I had reassembled it, for the simple reason that I was left with several curiously shaped bits of metal which did not seem to fit anywhere. Igave up in despair. The weeks passed and the grass grew. When my wife nagged me to do something about it, I told her thateither I would have to buy a new mower or let the grass grow. Needless to say our house is now surrounded by a jungle.Buried somewhere in deep grass there is a rusting lawn-mowerwhich I have promised to repair one day.【课文翻译】现在我们自己动手做事的热忱很高，结果对于专业工人的依靠越来越少了；由于出版了不计其数的教人自己动手做事的书报杂志，没有人再能说对某事一无所知；新婚夫妇找来合适的工具和材料，喜气洋洋地开头布置新居；特殊是男人，常利用闲暇时间安装壁炉、布置花园、建造车库、制作家具；有些热衷于自己动手的人甚至自己组装电脑；为了满意自己动手热的需要，商店不但为初学者供应特地的询问服务，而且为顾客预备了各种零件，供他们买回家去安装；这些东西为人们潜在的制造力供应了一个巧妙的用武之地；但不幸的是，我们并非人人都是能工巧匠；妻子常常认为她们的丈夫无比聪慧能干；甚至那些连一枚钉子都钉不直的男人都被认为是天生的电工、木匠、水管工和机械师；每当电灯保险丝烧断、家具榫头松动、管道堵塞、吸尘器不动时，有些妻子认为丈夫总有方法；自己动手的例子中最糟糕的是，有时甚至是男人即使接连失败却仍误以为自己什么都行，缘由就是要面子；今年春天，妻子让我请人检查一下我家的割草机；那台割草机去年夏天就坏了，即使我答应修，但始终没抽出时间，我不愿听妻子的 建议，说我自己会修；一个星期六的下午，我把割草机拉到了花园里，认真检查了一番；在我看来，只需稍加调整即可；这儿紧紧螺丝，那 儿固定一下，再加几滴油，就会像新的一样了；事实上，修理工作远 不是那么简洁；修完后割草机仍是纹丝不动；于是，我打算把它拆开；一会儿工夫，割草机便被拆成一个个金属零件，乱七八糟地堆在花园 里；但我却特别兴奋，由于我找到了毛病所在；驱动轮子的链条断了 一节；我买来一根新链条后，面临的就是如何把这些令人眼花缭乱的 拼板重新组装起来；等我装完后，那台割草机仍旧一动不动，对此我 倒并不感到惊讶；缘由很简洁，由于仍剩下几个外形奇妙的零件好像 哪里也装不上去；我无可奈何，只好罢休；几个星期过去了，草长了 起来；妻子喋喋不休让我想点方法；我告知她，要么买一台新割草机，要么让草长下去；不用说，我家现在已被丛林包围；深草丛中的某个地方有一台正在生锈的割草机，那就是我曾答应某日要修理的割草机；【词汇】plead v.找( 借口) ，辩解ignorance n.无知，不懂publication n.出版物newlyweds n.新婚夫妇gaily adv.开心地，兴奋地leisure n.闲暇keen adj.热心的，期望的advisory adj.询问的novice n.新手consumer n.消费者，顾客assemble v.装配，组装outlet n.出路creative adj.制造性的handyman n.手巧的人，能工巧匠resourceful adj.足智多谋的fuse v.由于烧断保险丝而短路rickety adj.要散架的，晃动的clog v.堵塞delusion n.错觉adjustment n.调整screw n.螺丝钉dismantle v.拆卸chunk n. (厚) 块snap v.绷断insurmountable adj.不能克服的，难以应付的jigsaw n.线锯nag v.唠叨不休rust v.生锈Lesson47【课文】Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, overindustrialized planet. When you come to think about it, thereare only four ways you can deal with rubbish： dump it, burnit, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produce less of it. We keep trying all four methods, but the sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens tooverwhelm us.Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of pollutingour planet. The need to produce ever-i。