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1 、 英译汉
Bob and Clara Darlington, who own and run a farm in the North of England, have
always looked for new ways of making money out of the produce they grow. Their
success began when they established a shop on their farm, so that people could
come and buy fresh vegetables directly from them.
The business was an immediate success, and soon scored top marks in a
competition set up by the Farm Retail Association to find the best farm shop in the
country. The Association’s inspectors found the Darlingtons’ shop offered
excellent service and value for money as well as quality fruit and vegetables.
Clara Darlington is a trained chef and, in addition to a range of home-grown
foods and other local produce, she began offering a variety of prepared meals which
she had made herself in the farm-house kitchen. A small cafe alongside the farm
shop was soon added, with everything that visitors could taste on the menu also
being for sale in the shop.
Clara admits that starting the business was expensive, and she has worked very
hard, but maintains that if the product is good, the public recognize this and buy it.
“I aim to offer the highest quality to our customers, whether they come in for a loaf
of bread, or take a whole dinner-party menu. I take it as a compliment （恭维） if
people take home one of my dishes to serve to their family and friends and get away
with pretending they made it themselves.”
2 、 英译汉
And that is part of this same, unremarkable theme: spring does come. In the
garden the rue anemones come marching out, bright as toy soldiers on their
parapets of stone. The dogwoods float in casual clouds among the hills.
This is the Resurrection time. That which was dead, or so it seemed, has come to
life again, the stiff branch, supple; the brown earth, green. This is the miracle: There
is no death; there is in truth eternal life.
So, in the spring, we plunge shovels into the garden plot, turn under the dark
compost, rake fine the crumbling clods, and press the inert seeds into orderly rows.
These are the commonest routines. Who could find excitement here?
But look! The rain falls, and the sun warms, and something happens. It is the
germination process. Germ of what? Germ of life, germ inexplicable, germ of wonder.
The dry seeds ruptures and the green leaf uncurls. Here is a message that transcendsthe rites of any church or creed or organized religion. I would challenge any doubting
Thomas in my pea patch.
Everywhere, spring brings the blessed reassurance that life goes on, that death is
no more than a passing season. The plan never falters; the design never changes. It is
all ordered. It has all been always ordered.
Look to the rue anemone, if you will, or to the pea patch, or to the stubborn
weed that thrusts its shoulders through a city street. This is how it was, is now, and
ever shall be, the world without end. In the serene certainty of spring recurring, who
can fear the distant fall?
3 、 英译汉
Breakfast is not only the most important meal of the day, it is also the most
neglected or skipped. Common reasons for not eating breakfast include lack of time,
not feeling hungry, traditional dislike for breakfast, and dieting.
Breakfast simply means “break the fast.” Your body spends at least six to
twelve hours each night in a fasting state. In the morning your body needs energy to
rev up (转动起来) into high gear for the day’s work ahead.
If you skip breakfast, you are likely to concentrate less effectively in the late
morning, feel irritable, short-tempered(易怒的), tired, or weak.
When you choose not to eat breakfast, your body stays in slow gear. Also, people
who skip breakfast often binge (无节制的大吃) later in the day at other meals or eat a
high-calorie (高卡路里) snack in the morning. Breakfast eaters tend to eat less fat
during the day, have more strength and endurance and better concentration and
problem-solving ability.
A good breakfast should provide up to 1/3 of your total calorie needs for the day.
On the average, we eat 400 less calories for breakfast than for dinner. If breakfast
doesn’t appeal to you in the morning, try eating a lighter-dinner, earlier in the
evening or save half your dinner for breakfast in the morning.
If you still aren’t hungry in the morning, start with something small like juice or
toast or have a mid-morning snack later when you are hungry.
Not eating breakfast can also cause you to overeat, since a fall in blood sugar
often makes you feel very hungry later. To make matters worse, since your body is in
a slowed state, it will not be able to burn those extra calories very efficiently. If you
feed your body healthy snacks and meals throughout the day, you are less likely to
become extremely hungry and stuff yourself as soon as you begin to eat.
Since breakfast is the first and most important meal of the day, choosing the
right fuel is important. The best breakfast foods are fruits, juice, lean meat, and grain
products such as breads, rice, noodles, and cereals.
4 、 英译汉
Healthy people with stressful jobs who work long hours but get little satisfaction
from what they do have twice the risk of dying from heart disease as satisfied
employees, according to a study.
Job stress has been known to trigger heart problems in people who already have
cardiovascular disease. Now Finnish scientists have now shown that even in healthypeople the pressures of work can take their toll.
Obesity, high blood pressure, lack of exercise, smoking and being overweight
contribute to heart disease — a leading killer in many industrialized countries.
But Mika Kivimaki, of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, and his
colleagues, who studied the medical histories of 812 healthy Finnish men and women
in a metal industry company over 25 years, said job stress also plays an important
role.
Workers who had the highest job-related stress levels at the start of the study
were more than twice as likely to die of heart disease, according to the study
published in The British Medical Journal.
Work stress involves too much work as well as a lack of satisfaction and feeling
undervalued and unappreciated.
Many people work long hours but if the effort is rewarding the stress is
minimized. Kivimaki said job pressure is damaging when being overworked is
combined with little or no control, unfair supervision and few career opportunities.
The British Heart Foundation said the results support earlier research showing
that people in jobs with low control, such as manual workers, could be at greater risk
of heart disease than other employees.
"It is advisable for people to try to minimize levels of stress at work and for
employers to allow people to have more control at work and to be rewarded for their
successes," the foundation said in a statement.
5 、 英译汉
Tears can ruin make-up, bring conversation to a stop, and give you a runny nose.
They can leave you embarrassed and without energy. However, crying is a fact of life,
and tears are very useful. Even when you’re not crying, your eyes used to
expressing emotion. These create a film over the eye's surface. This film contains a
substance that protects your eyes against infection.
Tears relieve stress, but we tend to fight them for all sorts of reasons. "People
worry about showing their emotions. They're afraid that once they lose control,
they'll never get it back," explains psychologist Dorothy Rowe." As Children we were
sometimes punished for shedding tears or expressing anger. As adults we still fear
the consequences of showing emotions."
Almost any emotion-good or bad, happy or sad-can cause tears. Crying is a way
that we release built-up emotions. Tears help you when you feel you are ready to
explode because of very strong feelings. It may explain why people who are afraid to
cry often suffer more heart attacks than people who cry more freely.
When some people become very stressed, however, they can't cry. They may be
feeling shock, anger, fear, or grief, but they repress the emotion. "Everyone has the
need to cry，" says? psychotherapist Vera Diamond. Sometimes in therapy sessions,
patients participate in crying exercises. They practice crying so that they can get used
to expressing emotion. Diamond says it's best to cry in safe, private places, like under
the bedcover or in the car. That's because many people get uncomfortable when
others cry in front of them. In fact, they may be repressing their own need to cry.
In certain situations, such as at work, tears are not appropriate. It’s good to
hold back tears during a tense business discussion." But once you are safely behind
closed doors, don't just cry," Diamond says. She suggests that you act out the whole
situation again and be as noisy and angry as you like. It will help you feel better."And," she adds," once your tears have released the stress, you can begin to think of
logical ways to deal with the problem."
Tears are a sign of our ability to feel. You should never be afraid to cry.
6 、 英译汉
It’s summer. In the United States, it’s the season of swimming pools,
barbeques (户外烤肉), camping and road trips.
Road trip vacations where the car journey is part of the fun are especially
popular with college students, who like to explore the country on wheels. These
budget trips are ideal for students who often have plenty of free time but little
money.
Driving trips first became popular in the 1920s. Newly paved roads and improved
cars made it possible to travel longer distances. Motels (汽车旅馆)started appearing
outside cities.
By the 1950s, car ownership became the norm. Construction of the US interstate
(州际的) highway system began in 1956 and motel and restaurant chains popped up
(突然出现) everywhere making long distance trips easier.
Today, the US has the highest car ownership rate in the world. Only 8 percent of
American homes have no car, according to the most recent US census. Though many
college students don’t own a car, most have access to one.
Hawkins’ most memorable road trip took place over spring break. He and two
friends drove from New York to New Orleans to volunteer, helping rebuild the city
after Hurricane (风暴) Katrina hit it last July. They crossed the country in two days and
slept in their car in church parking lots.
Roberts’ road trip to Canada last winter was even more eventful. Upon arriving
in Montreal, they were lost in a blizzard and shivering in the -25° cold. To find their
hotel, they turned on a laptop (笔记本电脑) and drove around in circles until they
found a spot with wireless Internet coverage.
“I know we should have planned better, but we’re young. Now, when I see
those guys I always say: ‘Remember when we were lost in the snow storm!’ I’ll
never forget that.”
7 、 英译汉
The United States perceives itself to be a middle-class nation. However, middle
class is not a real designation, nor does it carry privileges(特权). It is more of a
perception, which probably was as true as it ever could be right after World War II.
The economy was growing, more and more people owned their own homes, workers
had solid contracts with the companies that employed them, and nearly everyone
who wanted a higher education could have one. Successful people enjoyed upward
social mobility. They may have started out poor, but they could become rich.
Successful people also found that they had greater geographic mobility, In other
words, they found themselves moving to and living in a variety of places.
The middle class collectively holds several values and principles. One strong
value is the need to earn enough money to feel that determine one’s own economic
fate. In addition, middle-class morality(道德观) embraces principles of individualresponsibility, importance of family, obligations to others, and believing in something
outside oneself.
But in the 1990s those in the middle class found that there was a price for
success. A U. S. New& World Report survey in 1994 indicated that 75 percent of
Americans believed that class families could no longer make ends meet. Both
spouses now worked, as did of the children; long commutes became routine; the
need for child care put strains on the families; and public schools were not as good
as they once were. Members of the middle class were no longer financing their
lifestyles through earnings but were using credit to stay afloat. The understanding of
just what middle class meant was changing.
8 、 英译汉
Youth unemployment across the world has climbed to a new high and is likely to
climb further this year, a United Nations agency said Thursday, while warning of a
“lost generation” as more young people give up the search for work.
The agency, the International Labor Organization, said in a report that of some
620 million young people ages 15 to 24 in the work force, about 81 million were
unemployed at the end of 2009—the highest level in two decades of record-keeping
by the organization, which is based in Geneva.
“There’s never been an increase of this magnitude — both in terms of the rate
and the level — since we’ve been tracking the data,” said Steven Kapsos, an
economist with the organization. The agency forecast that the global youth
unemployment rate would continue to increase through 2010, to 13.1 percent, as the
effects of the economic downturn continue. It should then decline to 12.7 percent in
2011.
In some especially strained European countries, including Spain and Britain,
many young people have become discouraged and given up the job hunt, it said. The
trend will have “significant consequences for young people,” as more and more
join the ranks of the already unemployed, it said. That has the potential to create a
“‘lost generation’ comprised of young people who have dropped out of the labor
market, having lost all hope of being able to work for a decent living.”
The report studied the German, British, Spanish and Estonian labor markets and
found that Germany had been most successful in bringing down long-term youth
unemployment. In Spain and Britain, increases in unemployment were particularly
pronounced for those with lower education levels.
Data from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical agency, show Spain had a
jobless rate of 40.5 percent in May for people under 25. That was the highest level
among the 27 members of the European Union, far greater than the 9.4 percent in
Germany in May and 19.7 percent in Britain in March.
