大学英语精读第三册课文翻译(3)

Jacqui has decided to finish high school and go to college. 杰基已经决定读完中学，然后还要上大学。

These are the real reasons I teach, these people who grow and change in front of me. 这些在我眼前成长、变化的人，便是我要当教师的真正原因。

Being a teacher is being present at the creation, when the clay begins to breathe. 当一名教师意味着是创造的见证人，他目睹人体开始呼吸，开始了生命。

A \“升职了”，不再教书了，也许会给我带来金钱和权力。

I get paid to do what I enjoy: reading, talking with people, and asking question like, \可是我现在也有钱。我拿了薪金去做自己乐意做的事：读书、交谈、提问，比如问：“做个富翁有什么意思呢?” And I have power. I have the power to nudge, to fan sparks, to suggest books, to point out a pathway. What other power matters? 我现在还有权呢。我有权启迪，有权激发才智，有权开出书目，有权指点迷津。还有其他什么权力更值得考虑呢?

But teaching offers something besides money and power: it offers love. 但教书还会带来金钱和权力以外的东西：那便是爱。

Not only the love of learning and of books and ideas, but also the love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teacher's life and begins to breathe. 不仅是爱学习、爱书本、爱思想，而且还有老师对出类拔萃的学生的爱。这样的学生走进了老师的生活，老师自己也开始成长了。

Perhaps love is the wrong word: magic might be better. “爱”这个字也许用得不恰当：用“魔力”可能更为贴切。 I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with them. 我教书，是因为在与开始成长的学生朝夕相处时，我有时感到自己也和他们一起开始成长了。

NEW WORDS administrative

a. of the management of affairs 行政的，管理的 administration

n. 管理（部门），行政（机关） puzzle

vt. fill with doubt and confusion 使迷惑 step (-) up

n. promotion; increase in size, speed, etc. mechanic

n. skilled workman, esp. one who uses or repairs machines and tools 机械工；机修工

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sweaty

a. covered with sweat, sweating palm a. 手掌 profession

n. occupation, esp. one requiring special training, such as law, medicine, or teaching convince

vt. make (sb.) feel certain; cause (sb.) to realize compel

vt. force (sb. or sth. to do sth.) pace

n. rate or speed of development, or in walking, etc. 速度；步速 calendar n. 日程表，日历 opportunity

n. favourable occasion or chance reflection

n. careful thinking; consideration 深思；考虑

reflect vi.反射；细想 stimulate

vt. encourage; excite 刺激；激励 freshman

n. student in his first year at a college or university failure

n. a person, attempt, or thing that fails; lack of success ivory n. 象牙 ivory tower

n. place or condition of retreat from the world of action into a world of ideas and dreams 象牙塔 self-reliance

n. ability to do things and make decisions by oneself 依靠自己；自力更生

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reliance

n. trust, confidence; dependence 信赖；信心；依靠 technological

a. of or related to technology 技术的 corporation n. (AmE) 有限公司 run-down

a. old and broken or in bad condition renovate

vt. restore (old buildings, oil paintings, etc.) to a former, better state 修复，修整 semester

n. (AmE) either of the two periods into which a school year is divided; term 学期 repay

vt. pay back (money, etc.) loan

n. sth. lent, esp. a sum of money 借出的东西；贷款 distribute

vt. divide among several or many; give or send out 分发；分送

distribution n.分配，分发 variety

n. difference in quality, type or character; a number of or a collection of different things 变化，多样化；种种 challenge

n. the quality of demanding competitive action, interest, or though 挑战 doctoral

a. having to do with the university degree of doctor 博士的 energetic a. vigorous 精力充沛 dissertation n. （学位）论文 poet

n. one who writes poetry

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learned

a. showing or requiring much knowledge 博学的 journal

n. magazine or daily newspaper 杂志；日报 occasional

a. happening from time to time, not regular 偶尔的，间或的 nudge

n. (fig.) words, actions or feeling that stimulate 启示

vt. push or touch slightly, esp. with the elbow to attract attention; (fig.) stimulate fellowship

n. position or a sum of money granted to a person for advanced study or research 研究员职位；研究员薪金 switch

vt. change or shift; turn urban a. of a town or city civil rights

n. the rights of a citizen without regard to his race, religion, sex, etc. 公民权 lawyer

n. person who practises law 律师 intuition

n. (power of) the immediate understanding of truths, events, facts without reasoning 直觉 analysis

n. the separation of a substance into parts for careful examination and study 分析 creation

n. act of creating; sth. created 创造（物） clay n. 粘士 point

n. main idea or purpose 要点；意义，目的

pathway n. path rare

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a. unusually good; distinctive 稀有的；杰出的 magic

n. mysterious charm; strange influence or power; art of obtaining mysterious results by tricks 魔力；魔术

PHRASES & EXPRESSIONS stay up

not go to bed until after the usual time 不睡觉，熬夜 take notes 记笔记 build on

base on; use as a base for further development keep a diary 记日记 leave out

fail to mention or include; omit send off post; dispatch work at/ on

give one's attention to doing or trying to do catch one's breath

rest and get back one's normal breath, as after running; stop breathing for a moment from surprise, fear, shock, etc.

PROPER NAMES Emerson

爱默生（姓氏及男子名） Thoreau 梭洛（姓氏） Huxley

赫胥黎（姓氏） Vicky

维基（女子名，Victoria 的昵称） Harvard

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