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英语笔译习题集
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英语笔译(1)
笔译I学生课后练习
1. Lexicography
1) Lexicography provides at its best a joyful sense of
busyness with language. 2) One is immersed in the details of
language as in no other field. 3) Sometimes the details are so
overwhelming and endless they sap the spirit and depress the
mind. 4) Often at the end of a hard day's work one realizes with
dismay that the meager stack of finished work one has
accomplished has an immeasurably slight impact on the work as
a whole. 5) As I hope the readers of this work will come to
understand, dictionaries do not sprint into being. 6) People must
plan them, collect information, and write them. 7) Writing takes
time, and it is often frustrating and even infuriating. 8) No other
form of writing is at once so quixotic and so intensely practical.
9) Dictionary making does not require brilliance or originality of
mind. 10) It does require high intelligence, mastery of the craft,
and dedication to hard work. 11) If one has produced a dictionary,
one has the satisfaction of having produced a work of enduring
value.
2. Intelligent Test
1) There is more agreement on the kinds of behavior referred
to by the term "intelligence" than there is on how to interpret or
classify them. 2) But it is generally agreed that a person of high
intelligence is one who can grasp ideas readily, make distinctions,
reason logically, and make use of verbal and mathematical
symbols in solving problems. 3) An intelligence test is a rough
measure of a child's capacity for learning, particularly for learning
the kinds of things required in school. 4) It does not measure
character, social adjustment, physical endurance, manual skills, or
artistic abilities. 5) It is not supposed to -- it was not designed for
such purposes. 6) To criticize it for such failure is roughly
comparable to criticizing a thermometer for not measuring wind
velocity. 7) Now since the assessment of intelligence is a
comparative matter we must be sure that the scale with which we
are comparing our subjects provides a "valid" or "fair"
comparison.
3. Bureaucracy
1) Most ironic was the image of government that was born
of these experiences. 2) As any scholarly treatise on the subject
will tell you, the great advantage bureaucracy is supposed to
offer a complex, modern society like ours is efficient, rational,
uniform and courteous treatment for the citizens it deals with. 3)
Yet not only did these qualities not come through to the people
I talked with, it was their very opposites that seemed more
characteristic. 4) People of all classes -- the rich man dealing with
the Internal Revenue Service as well as the poor woman
struggling with the welfare
department -- felt that the treatment they had received had
been bungled, not efficient; unpredictable, not rational;
discriminatory , not uniform; and, all too often, insensitive, rather
than courteous. 5) It was as if they had bought a big new car that
not only did not run when they wanted it to, but periodically
revved itself up and drove all around their yards.
4. Problem with Educational System
1) There are 39 universities and colleges offering degree
courses in Geography, but I have never seen any good jobs for
Geography graduates advertised. 2) Or am I alone in suspecting
that they will return to teach Geography to another set of
students, who in turn will teach more Geography undergraduates?
3) Only ten universities currently offer degree courses in
Aeronautical Engineering, which perhaps is just as well, in view of
the speed with which the aircraft industry has been dispensing
with excess personnel. 4) On the other hand, hospital casualty
departments throughout the country are having to close down
because of the lack of doctors. 5) The reason? University medical
schools can only find places for half of those who apply. 6) It
seems to me that time is ripe for the Department of Employment
and the Department of Education to get together with the
universities and produce a revised educational system that will
make a more economic use of the wealth of talent, application
and industry currently being wasted on diplomas and degrees
that no one wants to know about.
5. The Law of Competition
1) Under the law of competition, the employer of thousands
is forced into the strictest economies, among which the rates
paid to labor figure prominently. 2) The price which society pays
for the law, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries,
is great, but the advantages of this law are also greater than its
cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material
development, which brings improved conditions in its train. 3)
But, whether the law be benign or not, we cannot evade it; of the
effect of any new substitutes for it proposed we can not be sure;
and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is
best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in
every department. 4) We accept and welcome, therefore, as
conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great
inequality of environment; the concentration of business,
industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of
competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but
essential to the future progress of the race.
6. A Political Speech
1) Within a very short time of coming back into power the
present government had taken steps to stabilize the position. 2)
First of all, we applied ourselves to identifying the root causes of
our national ailments, examining contemporary evidence and
refusing to be slaves to outmoded doctrinaire beliefs. 3) Secondly
we embarked on a
reasoned policy to ensure steady economic growth, the
modernization of industry, and a proper balance between public
and private expenditure. 4) Thirdly by refusing to take refuge --
as the previous Government had continually done in the
preceding years -- in panic-stricken stop-gap measures, we
stimulated the return of international confidence. 5) As a result
of those immediate measures, and aided by the tremendous
effort which they evoked from our people who responded as so
often before to a firm hand at the helm, we weathered the storm
and moved on into calmer waters and a period of economic
expansion and social reorganization.
7. Animals' Rights
1) The point is this: without agreement on the rights of
people, arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless. 2) It leads
the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think
that animals should be treated either with the consideration
humans extend to other humans or with no consideration at all.
3) This is a false choice. 4) Arguing from the view that humans
are different from animals in every relevant respect, extremists of
this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral choice.
5) Any regard for the suffering of animals is seen as a mistake --
a sentimental displacement of feeling that should properly be
directed to other humans. 6) But the most elementary form of
moral reasoning is to weigh others' interests against one's own.
7) To see an animal in pain is enough, for most, to engage
sympathy. 8) When that happens, it is not a mistake, it is
mankind's instinct for moral reasoning in action, an instinct that
should be encouraged rather than laughed at.
8. American Study
The scientific interest of American history centered in
national character, and in the workings of a society destined to
become bast, in which individuals were important chiefly as types.
2) Although this kind of interest was different from that of
European history, it was at least as important to the world. 3)
Should history ever become a true science, it must expect to
establish its laws, not from the complicated story of rival
European nationalities, but from the economical evolution of a
great democracy. 4) North America was the most favorable field
on the globe for the spread of a society so large, uniform, and
isolated as to answer the purposes of science. 5) There a single
homogeneous society could easily attain proportions of three or
four hundred million persons, under conditions of undisturbed
growth. 6) In Europe or Asia, undisturbed social evolution had
been unknown. 7) Without disturbance, evolution seemed to
cease. 8) Wherever disturbance occurred, permanence was
impossible. 9) Every people in turn adapted itself to the law of
necessity.
9. Jack London
1) Life itself led Jack London to reject this approach in his
writing. 2) He knew what it meant to be one of the disinherited,
to be chained to the deadening routine of the
machine and to soul-destroying labor for an insufficient
reward. 3) Consequently he swept aside not only the literature
that pretended that ours is a society of sweetness and light, but
also that which contended that the inculcation of the spirit of
Christian fellowship would put an end to class controversy. 4) He
did not oppose labor organization nor balk at the strike as a
weapon of labor; rather, he took his heroes and heroines from
the labor movement and wove his plots within their struggles. 5)
He poured into his writings all the pain of his life, the fierce hatred
of the bourgeoisie that it had produced in him, and the
conviction it had brought to him that world could be made a
better place to live in if the exploited would rise up and take the
management of society out of the hands of the exploiters.
10. On Incorruptibility
l) This reputation for incorruptibility is the greatest of our
advantages in administering the Empire. 2) Its rarity among
nearly all the other peoples I have known raises our officials
almost to the level of divine superiority, and without it we could
not hold the Empire together, nor would it be worth the pains. 3)
A business man who has worked long under the system of
concessions in Russia tells me that it is now impossible to bribe
the Commissar or other high officials there. 4) That is an immense
advance, for under Tsarism one had only to signify the chance of
a good bribe and one got what one wanted. But nowadays on
the suspicion of bribery both parties are shot off-hand.
5) It is a drastic way of teaching what we have somehow
learnt so smoothly that we are scarcely conscious of the lesson
or of our need of it. 6) Yet there was need. 7) The change is
remarkable, and I think it may be traced to an unconscious sense
of honor somehow instilled among the boys.
11. A Jew's Journey
1) It is a very long time since I attended a Mass. 2) In this
pilgrimage town you get the real thing, with a crowd of real
worshippers -- those who come include the paralyzed, the
crippled, the blind, the deformed, the dying, a terrible parade, a
parade of God's cruel jokes or inept mistakes, if you seriously
maintain that he heeds the sparrow's fall.
3) Cold as it was in the church, the air was warm as May
compared to the chill in my heart as the Mass proceeded. 4) It
would have been only courteous to kneel at the proper time, as
all did, since I had voluntarily come; but for all the disapproving
glances, I the stiff-necked Jew, would not kneel. 5) I remember
the first break with my own religion as though it were yesterday.
6) I can still feel my cheek stinging from the slap of the mashiakh,
the study hall supervisor, as I trudge in the snow on the town
square in the purple evening, having been ordered out of the hall
for impudent heresy.
7) Perhaps in a larger city, the mashiakh would have had the
sense to smile at my effrontery, and pass it off. 8) Then the whole
course of my life might have been different.
12. The Importance of being interested
1) Now I have recalled these beginnings of the careers of
Franklin, Darwin and Mozart because they strikingly illustrate a
profound psychological truth the significance of which can
scarcely be overestimated. 2) It is a truth, to be sure, that has long
been partially recognized. 3) But its full meaning has not been --
and could not be -- appreciated until quite recently. 4) Only
within the past few years has scientific research effected various
discoveries which make its complete recognition possible and of
supreme importance -- of such importance that practical
application of the principles involved would make for an
immediate and stupendous increase in human happiness,
efficiency, and welfare. 5) Stated briefly, the truth in question is
that success in life, meaning thereby the accomplishment of
results of real value to the individual and to society, depends
chiefly on sustained endeavor springing out of a deep and ardent
interest in the tasks of one's chosen occupation.
13. The Normandy Landings
1) The landings were very chancy and might have ended
disastrously. 2) A pyramiding of mistakes and bad luck on
German side gave Roosevelt success in his one audacious military
move. 3) The mounting of the invasion armada was certainly a
fine technological achievement; as was the production of the
huge air fleets, with crews to man them. 4) General Marshall's
raising, equipping, and training of the land armies that poured
into Normandy showed him to be an American Scharnhorst. 5)
The U. S infantryman, while requiring far too luxurious logistical
support, put up a nice fight in France; he was fresh well-fed, and
unscarred by battle. 6) But essentially what happened in
Normandy was that Franklin Roosevelt beat Adolf Hitler, as surely
as Wellington beat Napoleon at Waterloo. 7) In Normandy the
two men at last clashed in head-on armed shock. 8) Hitler's
mistakes gave Roosevelt the victory just as at Waterloo it was less
Wellington who won than Napoleon who lost.
14. Sunset
1) But owing to the constant presence of air currents,
arranging both the dust and vapor in strata of varying extent and
density, and of high or low clouds which both absorb and reflect
the light in varying degree, we see produced all those wondrous
combinations of tints and those gorgeous ever-changing colors
which are a constant source of admiration and delight to all who
have the advantage of an uninterrupted view to the west and who
are accustomed to watch for those not infrequent exhibitions of
nature's kaleidoscopic color painting. 2) With every change in the
altitude of the sun the display changes its characters; and most
of all when it has sunk below the horizon, and owing to the more
favorable angle a larger quantity of the colored light is reflected
toward us. 3) These, as long as the sun was above the horizon,
intercepted much of the light and color; but when the great
luminary has passed away from our direct vision, its light shines
more directly on the under sides of all the clouds and air strata
of different densities.
15. Tragedy
1) Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear
so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. 2) There are
no longer problems of the spirit. 3) There is only the question: 4)
When will I be blown up? 5) Because of this, the young man or
woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human
heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing
because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and
the sweat. 6) He must learn them again. 7) He must teach himself
that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself
that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for
anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the universal
truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed -- love
and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. 8)
Until he does so, he labors under a curse. 9) He writes not of love
but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value,
of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or
compassion.
16. Views on the World Wars
1) The Second World War in some ways gave birth to less
novelty and genius than the First. 2) It was, of course, a greater
cataclysm, fought over a wider area, and altered the social and
political structure of the world at least as radically as its
predecessor, perhaps more so. 3) But the break in continuity in
1914 was far more violent. 4) The year 1914 looks to us now, and
looked even in the 1920s, as the end of a long period of largely
peaceful development, broken suddenly and catastrophically. 5)
In Europe, at least, the years before 1914 were viewed with
understandable nostalgia by those who after them knew no real
peace. 6) The period between the wars marks a decline in the
development of human culture if it is compared with that
sustained and fruitful period which makes the nineteenth century
seem a unique human achievement, so powerful that it persisted,
even during the war which broke it, to a degree which seems
astonishing to us now.
17. Talks on Science
1) In earliest times, when the field of available knowledge
was comfortably small and its advance slow, the lover of learning
might hope to explore the greater part of it. 2) Today, when it is
not only driving ahead at a bewildering speed but tunneling back
into wider and wider areas of the past, even the most dogged
adventurer can not hope to explore more than a small fraction of
the vast continent. 3) In our listening, as in our other intellectual
activities, we must pick and choose. 4) But nobody can afford to
ignore modern science. 5) Its intricate processes are, of course,
far above the heads of most of us, but we can at least grasp
something of its conclusions and theories and their implications,
and the B. B. C. provides opportunities to do so in numerous talks
and discussions, many of them of outstanding excellence. 6)
When listening to all but
the simplest scientific programs I find it essential to take
notes. 7) Such listening is no easy self-indulgence. 8) But often I
am rewarded by new and exciting ideas which stimulate my mind
and enrich my outlook on life.
18. The Method of Scientific Research
1) The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the
expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind;
it is simply the mode at which all phenomena are reasoned about,
rendered precise and exact. 2) There is no more difference, but
there is just the same kind of difference, between the mental
operations of a man of science and those of an ordinary person,
as there is between the operations and methods of a baker or of
a butcher weighing out his goods in common scales, and the
operations of a chemist in performing a difficult and complex
analysis by means of his balance and finely graded weights. 3) It
is not that the scales in the one case, and the balance in the other,
differ in the principles of their construction or manner of working;
but that the latter is a much finer apparatus and of course much
more accurate in its measurement than the former.
19. Books
1) Since a particular bookstore happens to resemble a
supermarket anyway, the inescapable, though perhaps
unintended, message is that books are consumable items, meant
to be devoured and forgotten, like potatoes or pizza. 2) The
implied inclusion of books among the world's perishable goods
is hardly made more agreeable by the reflection that increasing
numbers of books these days do seem to be written with just
such consumption in mind, and that most bookstores have
become little more than news stands for hard cover publications
of this sort, which are merchandised for a few weeks --
sometimes only as long as they remain on the best-seller lists --
and are then retired to discount store (those jumbled graveyards
of books, so saddening to the hearts of authors) shortly before
dropping out of print altogether. 3) Books that are planned for
rapid oblivion probably make some kind of economic sense to
publishing houses, but as contribution to literature they amount
to a contradiction in terms.
20. The Requirements of Writing Science Fiction
1) It hardly needs to be pointed out that a prime requirement
for science fiction, if it is to fulfill the function just formulated, is
that it be entertaining. 2) This is by no means synonymous with
jollity or with having a happy ending, for tragedy is often more
deeply strengthening than victory. 3) But the story should be one
that absorbs and convinces us and at the same time affords us
relief from our daily doings by taking us via the narrative, not the
didactic, route satisfactorily beyond our accustomed horizons.
4) Properly to meet this combination of conditions is a job
that demands an extremely
high order of abilities. 5) These must include not only a
working understanding of the major principles and possibilities
of present-day natural science and technology, in the diverse
lines relevant to the theme dealt with, but also a rounded insight
into human relations and feelings, a fertile but well-controlled
imagination, and the exacting skills of a writer.
21.
He was a man of fifty, and some, seeing that he had gone
both bald and grey, thought he looked older. But the first physical
impression was deceptive. He was tall and thick about the body,
with something of a paunch, but he was also small-boned, active,
light on his feet. In the same way, his head was massive, his
forehead high and broad between the fringes of fair hair; but no
one's face changed its expression quicker, and his smile was
brilliant. Behind the thick lenses, his eyes were small and intensely
bright, the eyes of a young and lively man. At a first glance,
people might think he looked a senator, it did not take them long
to discover how mercurial he was. His temper was as quick as his
smile, in everything he did his nerves seemed on the surface. In
fact, people forgot all about the senator and began to complain
that sympathy and emotion flowed too easily. Many of them
disliked his love of display. Yet they were affected by the depth
of his feeling. Nearly everyone recognized that, though it took
some insight to perceive that he was not only a man of deep
feeling, but also one of passionate pride.
22.
The Beauty of Britain
We live in one of the most beautiful islands in the world. This
is a fact we are always forgetting. When beautiful islands are
mentioned we think of Trinidad and Tahiti. These are fine,
romantic places, but they are not really as exquisitely beautiful as
our own Britain. Before the mines and factories came, and long
before we went from bad to worse with our arterial roads and
petrol stations and horrible brick bungalows, this country must
have been an enchantment. Even now, after we have been busy
for so long flinging mud at this fair pale face, the encharument
still remains. Sometimes I doubt if we deserve to possess it. There
can be few parts of the world in which commercial greed and
public indifference have combined to do more damage than they
have here. The process continues. It is still too often assumed that
any enterprising fellow after quick profits has a perfect right to
destroy a loveliness that is the heritage of the whole community.
The beauty of our country is as hard to define as it is easy to
enjoy. Remembering other and larger countries we see at once
that one of its charms is that it is immensely varied within a small
compass. We have here no vast mountain ranges, no illimitable
plains. But we have superb variety.
A great deal of everything is packed into little space. I suspect
that we are always faintly conscious of the fact that this is a
smallish island, with the sea always round the corner. We know
that everything has to be neatly packed into a small space.
Nature, we feel, has carefully adjusted things—mountains, plains,
rivers, lakes—to the scale of the island itself. A mountain 12,000
feet high would be a horrible monster here, as wrong as a plain
400 miles long, a river as broad as the Mississippi. Though the
geographical features of this island are comparatively small, and
there is astonishing variety almost everywhere, that does not
mean that our mountains are not mountains, our plains not
plains.
My own favourite country, perhaps because I know it as a
boy, is that of the Yorkshire Dales.
A day's walk among them will give you almost everything fit
to be seen on this earth. Within a few hours, you have enjoyed
the green valleys, with their rivers, fine old bridges, pleasant
villages, hanging woods, smooth fields, and then the moorland
slopes, with their rushing streams, stone wails, salty winds and
crying curlews, white farmhouses, and then the lonely heights
which seem to be miles above the ordinary world, and moorland
tracks as remote, it seems, as trails in Mongolia.
We have greater resources at our command than our
ancestors had, and we are more impatient than they were. Thanks
to our new resources, we are better able to ruin the countryside
and even the towns, than our fathers were, but on the other hand
we are far more alive to the consequences of such ruin than they
were.
Our children and their children after them must live in a
beautiful country. It must be a country happily compromising
between Nature and Man, blending what was best worth
retaining from the past with what best represents the spirit of our
own age, a country as rich in noble towns as it is in trees, birds,
and wild flowers. (568 words)
23.
PROVERBS IN LATIN AMERICAN TALK
Proverbs are the popular sayings that brighten so much Latin
American talk, the boiled-down wisdom that you are as apt to
hear from professors as from peasants, from beggars as from
elegantes. Brief and colorful, they more often than not carry a
sting.
When a neighbor's dismally unattractive daughter
announced her engagement, Imelda remarked, "You know what
they say. Senora: 'There's no pot so ugly it can't find a lid.’‖ And
when her son-in-law blustered about how he was going to get
even with the boss who had docked his pay, lmelda fixed him
with a cold eye and said, "Little fish does not eat big fish. "
One afternoon I heard lmelda and her daughter arguing in
the kitchen. Her daughter had quarrelled with her husband's
parents, and Imelda was insisting that she apologize to them. Her
daughter objected. "But, Mama, I just can't swallow them, not
even with honey. They talk so big until we need something; then
they're too poor. So today when they wouldn't even lend enough
to pay for a new bed, all I did was say something that I've heard
you say a hundred times: ' If so grand, why so poor? If so poor.
why so grand? ' "
"Impertinent!" snorted lmelda. "Have I not also taught you,
'What the tongue says, the neck pays for'? I will not have it said
that I could never teach my daughter proper respect for her
elders. And before you go to beg their pardon, change those
trousers for a dress. You know how your mother-in-law feels
about pants on a woman. She always says, 'What was hatched a
hen must not try to be a rooster! ' "
Her daughter made one more try. "But Mama, you often say,
'If the saint is annoyed, don't pray to him until he gets over it.
Can't I leave it for tomorrow?"
"No, no and no! Remember: 'If the dose is nasty, swallow it
fast. 'You know, my child, you did wrong. But, 'A gift is the key to
open the door closed against you. ' I have a cake in the oven that
I was making for the Senora's dinner. I will explain to the Senora.
Now, dear, hurry home and make yourself pretty in your pink
dress. By the time you get back, I will have the cake ready for you
to take to your mother-in-law. She will be so pleased that she
may make your father-in-law pay for the bed. Remember: 'One
hand washes the other, but together they wash the face. ' "
24.
THE URGENCY
If a man is ever going to admit that he belongs to the earth,
not the other way round, it probably will be in late June. Then it
is that life surpasses man’s affairs with incredible urgency and
outreaches him in every direction. Even the farmer, on whom we
all depend for the substance of existence, knows then that the
best he can do is cooperate with wind and weather, soil and seed.
The incalculable energy of chlorophyll, the green leaf itself,
dominates the earth and the root in the soil is the inescapable
fact. Even the roadside weed ignores man's legislation.
The urgency is everywhere. Grass blankets the earth,
reaching for the sun, spreads its roots, flowers and comes to seed.
The forest widens its canopy, strengthens its boles, nurtures its
seedlings, ripens its perpetuating nuts. The birds nest and hatch
their fledglings. The beetle andcthe bee are busy at the grassroot
and the blossom, and the butterfly lays eggs that will hatch and
crawl and eat and pupate and take to the air oncc more. Fish
spawn and meadow voles harvest the wild meadows, and owls
and foxes feed their young. Dragoniflies and swallows and
nighthawks seine the air where the minute winged creatures flit
out their minute life spans.
And man. who glibly calls the earth his own, neither powers
the leaf nor energizes the fragile wing. Man participates, but his
dominance is limited. It is the urgency of life, or growth, that rules.
Late June and early Summer are the ultimate, unarguable proof.
25.
May Is…
May is more than a month. In a very real sense. May is a
whole season unto itself.
May is open windows and lilac perfume on the breezes and
bees humming at the tulips. It is roaring lawn mowers and Little
League baseball games and small children reinventing dandelion
necklaces. May is tiny but succulent wild strawberries hiding in
the meadow grass and the promise of summer displayed in the
blossoms of the apple orchard, violets blooming shyly at the
woods' edge and daisies swaying in the fields. It is long-legged
colts in the pasture and fragrant first hay awaiting the baler and
furrows plowed straight and deep. May is rain-scrubbed sky the
color of the robin's eggshell now discarded on the lawn, and a
hillside of a hundred shades of pastel green that change day to
day.
May is a boy with a fishing rod walking to the pond on
Saturday morning, and young sweethearts strolling along the
pond on Saturday nights. It is a canoe trip down the river and the
family picnic in the park and toddler getting their first rides on
the swings.
May is surging life all around –life awakened and life returned
and life bursting with growth. It is a time for all things living, a
time for celebrating our own existence.
From Reader''s Digest
26.
The Art of Pleasing
Chesterfield
Dear boy,
The art of pleasing is a very necessary one to possess; but a
very difficult one to acquire. It can hardly be reduced to rules;
and your own good sense and observation will teach you more
of it than I can. Do as you would be done by, is the surest method
that I know of pleasing. Observe carefully what pleases you in
others, and probably the same things in you will please others. If
you are pleased with the complaisance and attention of others to
your humours, your tastes, or your weaknesses, depend upon it,
the same complaisance and attention, on your part, to theirs, will
equally please them. Take the tone of the company, that you are
in, and do not pretend to give it; be serious, gay, or even trifling,
as you find the present humour of the company; this is an
attention due from every individual to the majority. Do not tell
stories in company, there is nothing more tedious and
disagreeable; if by chance you know a very short story, and
exceedingly applicable to the present subject of conversation, tell
it in as few words as possible; and even then, throw out that you
do not love to tell stories; but that the shortness of it tempted
you.
0f all things, banish the egotism out of your conversation,
and never think of entertaining people with your own personal
concerns, or private affairs; though they are interesting to you,
they are tedious and impertinent to every body else: besides that,
one cannot keep one's own private affairs too secret. Whatever
you think your own excellencies may be, do not affectedly display
them in company; nor labour, as many people do, to give that
turn to the conversation, which may supply you with an
opportunity of exhibiting them. If they are real, they will infallibly
be discovered, without your pointing them out yourself, and with
much more advantage. Never maintain an argument with heat
and clamour, though you think or know yourself to be in the right;
but give your opinion modestly and coolly, which is the only way
to convince; and, if that does not do, try to change the
conversation, by saying, with good humour, 'We shall hardly
convince one another, nor is it necessary that we should, so let
us ta!k of something else.’
From Letters to His Son
27.
THE DELIGHTS OF BOOKS
by Sir John Lubbock
Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. They
contain the history of our race, the discoveries we have made,
the accumulated knowledge and experience of ages; they picture
for us the marvels and beauties of nature; help us in our
difficulties, comfort us in sorrow and in suffering, change hours
of weariness into moments of delight, store our minds with ideas,
fill them with good and happy thoughts, and lift us out of and
above ourselves.
There is an oriental story of two men: one was a king, who
every night dreamt he was a beggar; the other was a beggar, who
every night dreamt he was a prince and lived in a palace. I am not
sure that the king had very much the best of it. Imagination is
sometimes more vivid than reality. But, however this may be,
when we read we
may not only (if we wish it) be kings and live in palaces, but,
what is far better, we may transport ourselves to the mountains
or the seashore, and visit the most beautiful parts of the earth,
without fatigue, inconvenience, or expense.
Many of those who have had, as we say, all that this world
can give, have yet told us they owed much of their purest
happiness to books. Ascham, in "The Schoolmaster," tells a
touching story of his last visit to Lady Jane Grey. He found her
sitting in an oriel window reading Plato's beautiful account of the
death of Socrates. Her father and mother were hunting in the
park, the hounds were in full cry and their voices came in
thrrough the open window. He expressed his surprise that she
had not joined them. But, said she, "I wish that all their pleasure
in the park is but a shadow to the pleasure I find in Plato."
Macaulay had wealth and fame, rank and power, and yet he
tells us in his biography that he owed the happiest hours of his
life to books. In a charming letter to a little girl, he says: "Thank
you for your very pretty letter. I am always glad to make my little
girl happy, and nothing pleases me so much as to see that she
likes books, for when she is as old as I am, she will find that they
are better than all the tarts and cakes, toys and plays, and sights
in the world, if any one would make me the greatest king that
ever lived, with palaces and gardens and fine dinners, and wines
and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on
condition that I should not read books, I would not be a king. I
would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than
a king who did not love reading."
Books, indeed, endow us with a whole enchanted palace of
thoughts. There is a wider prospect, says Jean Paul Richter, from
Parnassus than from a throne. In one way they give us an even
more vivid idea than the actual reality, just as reflections are often
more beautiful than real nature. "All mirrors," says George
Macdonald. "The commonest room is a room in a poem when I
look in the glass."
Precious and priceless are the blessings which the books
scatter around our daily paths. We walk, in imagination, with the
noblest spirits, through the most sublime and enchanting regions.
Without stirring from our firesides we may roam to the most
remote regions of the earth, or soar into realms where Spenser's
shapes of unearthly beauty flock to meet us; where Milton's
angels peal in our ears the choral hymns of Paradise. Science, art,
literature, philosophy, --all that man has thought, all that man
has done, --the experience that has been bought wnh the
sufferings of a hundred generations, --all are gamered up for us
in the world of books.
(658 words)
28.
Relax and enjoy it! This is a terrific time to buy wine. The
selection has never been so great or so good. The downside is
that you can be spoilt for choice. In some supermarkets, you may
find over 500 different wines. How do you decide what to buy?
Where do you start? If not the supermarket, where else? Corner
shop? High Street chain? Independent Wine Merchant? Mail
Order? Online? Or place of origin?
Bear in mind that the more you pay, the higher proportion of
your money goes on the actual
wine. Expensive wine is much better than cheap wine.
What Yes indeed. This is because of the fixed costs. The
material and labor costs involved in bottling, corkage, labeling,
packaging, freight, and insurance, plus duty when applicable -
will all be roughly the same no matter what the value of the wine.
Add on everyone's profit margins. The result is that the value of
the wine in the cheapest bottles may be as little as one fifth of
the total price. For medium price bottles, it'll be around a third,
but with expensive ones it can go up to a half. So it's worth paying
more whenever you can.
A couple of things to look out for. Avoid bottles whose corks
are either weeping or bulging. Reject bottles that look as if they
may have been standing upright for a long time. Compare the
vintage (if it has one) with the date by which the wine should be
drunk; if it's inexpensive, white in particular, don't buy it if it's
more than a year or two old. It's likely to be a flabby relic.
Conversely, if it's a young expensive red wine, especially
European, it may well be harsh and not yet ready for drinking.
The widest selection of wine, at the most competitive prices,
is usually to be found in supermarkets. Their buying power
enables them to strike deals with producers, which are beyond
the clout of smaller shops. By the same token, they can exert a
strong influence on the style of wine they sell - the style they
believe will appeal to their customers. You find supermarkets'
own label wines, made to their specification. These will be reliable,
ready for drinking, fashionable, well-priced, modern styles of
wine. You'll find no shortage of "crisp dry whites, best drunk
within the next 6 to 12 months", or "easy drinking, fruity reds, to
be consumed within one or two years of purchase".
To be sure, you'll find dozens of other styles as well. What
you won't find is much help from the staff. If you want advice,
your best bet will be to take a look at the back label. Here you'll
often find specific serving and food-accompanying suggestions.
In some cases there will also be a delightful description of the
wine's background.
The other thing you won't find on a supermarket shelf is wine
which is not made in large quantities. The very bulk buying which
gives them such bargaining power, also means that they can't
consider wines from small producers. They can't stock innovative,
offbeat, idiosyncratic wines. Small producers can't deal with
supermarkets, because they're not able to supply wine on a large
enough scale. Yet theirs are often the most interesting.
The ultimate wine buying experience is probably to go to the
very source and find your own small producer. In smarter, more
upmarket wineries you'll find a variety of bottles set out on a ritzy
tasting table, allowing you to sample their range of vintages and
styles. And with luck, you'll get a tour of the cellars as well. Don't
feel you must buy on these occasions. But the more you taste
and the longer you stay, the more it's expected.
Wine sales were enthusiastically unleashed on the Internet a
few years ago, but many didn't survive the bursting of the dot
com bubble. However a number of merchants and mail order
companies continue to develop them as a sideline. (666)
29.
Life for almost everybody is a long competitive struggle
where very few can win the race, and those who do not win are
unhappy. On social occasions when it is de rigueur to seem
cheerful, the necessary demeanor is stimulated by alcohol. But
the gaiety does not ring true and anybody who
has just one drink too many is apt to lapse into lachrymose
melancholy.
One finds this sort of thing only among English-speaking
people. A Frenchman while he is abusing the Governments is as
gay as a lark. So is an Italian while he is telling you how his
neighbor has swindled him. Mexicans, when they are not actually
starving or actually being murdered, sing and dance and enjoy
sunshine and food and drink with a gusto which is very rare north
of the Mexican frontier.
When I try to understand what it is that prevents so many
Americans from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to
me that there are tow causes, of which one goes much deeper
than the other. The one that goes least deep is the necessity for
subservience in some large organization. If you are an energetic
man with strong views as to the right way of doing the job with
which you are concerned, you find yourself invariably under the
orders of some big man at the top who is elderly, weary and
cynical. Whenever you have a bright idea, the boss puts a stopper
on it. The more energetic you are and the more vision you have,
the more you will suffer from the impossibility of doing any of
the things that you feel ought to be done. When you go home
and moan to your wife, she tells you that you are a silly fellow
and that if you became the proper sort of yes-man your income
would soon be doubled. If you try divorce and remarriage it is
very unlikely that there will be any chance in this respect. And so
you are condemned to great ulcers and premature old age. (344)
30.
The rocket engine, with its steady roar like that of a waterfall
or a thunderstorm, is an impressive symbol of the new space age.
Rcoket engines have proved powerful enough to shot astronauts
beyond the earth’s gravitational pull and land them on the
moon. We have now become travelers in space.
Impressive and complex as it may appear, the rocket is a
relatively simple device. Fuel than is burned in the rocket engine
changes into gas. The hot and rapidly expanding gas must
escape, but it can do so only through an opening that faces
backward. As the gas is ejected with great force, it pushes the
rocket in the opposite direction.
There are many problems connected with space travel. The
first and greatest of them is gravity. If you let your pencil drop to
the floor, you can see gravity in action. Everything is held down
to the earth by magnetic force. The weight of something is
another way of describing the amount of force exerted on it by
gravity. A rocket must go at least 2500 miles an hour to take
anyone beyond the gravity of the earth into space.
Another problem is the strain that a person is subjected to
when a rocket leaves the ground. Anything that is not moving
tends to resist movement. As the rocket leaves the ground, it
pushes upward violently, and the person in the nose is pushed
back against the chair. During this thrust, gravity exerts a force
on the body equal to nine times its normal force.
Once out of the earth’s gravity, an astronaut is affected by
still another problem-weightlessness. here, if a pencil drops, it
does not fall. If a glass of water is turned upside down, the water
will not fall out. All of us who are used to gravity expect things to
have weight and to fall when dropped. Our bodies, which are
accustomed to gravity, tend to become upset in weightless
conditions. Recent long flights have shown that the body needs
to special exercise in a spaceship.
Cosmic rays and tiny dust particles also raise a problem.
Outer space, which has no air, is
filled with both of these. the dust particle can damage the
front end of the rapidly moving spaceship. The cosmic rays,
though they are invisible to the naked eyes, can go through the
ship and the astronauts themselves. No one is sure what damage
the cosmic rays can do to a human being, but scientists feel that
brief exposure is probably not very harmful.
The intense heat caused by friction is also a problem in space
travel. If you rub your hand hard on your forehead, you will feel
this kind of heat. Once a spaceship is in outer space, there is no
friction because there is no air to press against. But when the
space ship returns to the earth, it must go through air again. At
first the air is very thin. But the closer the ship comes to the earth,
the denser the air it meets. A spaceship entering the earth’s
atmosphere at full speed would get so hot that it would burn up
completely and disappear. (530)
英语笔译(2)
笔译II课后练习
1、抓住他
一条长长的巷子,一人在前面跑,一人在后面追。追的人边追边喊:“抓住他!”
正在街上巡逻的警察听到喊声,跑步赶来,迅速将刚刚冲出巷口
的那个人一把抓住,不由分说将其按倒在地,随即问追来的人:“怎么回事?他……”
追来的人气喘吁吁地说:“他,他得了大奖不请客。”
2、排队
某长死后到殡仪馆火化。刚好那天等候火化的人特别多,某长的儿子不耐烦等,就去找殡仪馆馆长,要求“优先安排”,馆长当即答应。有人提出抗议,馆长安抚众人说:“这个人活着的时候从来没有排过队,既然已经死了,又何必再让他受这份罪呢?”
于是,众皆无语。
3、带个付款的去
某市副市长组团去新马泰参观,确定局长一级的干部前往,秘书拟定名单呈上审批,副市长大笔一挥,又添了一名乡镇企业之总经理,秘书不解,副市长责问道:“这么多的开支,不带个付款的去,你说行不行?”
4、名人效应
公鸭是以扭动弥补嗓音不足的歌手,它的演唱经常被喝倒彩。一次,公鸭举行独唱音乐会,大名鼎鼎的音乐界权威鹅光临了。
“女士们,先生们,”鹅致词说,“鸭子天生是位歌唱家。它的音色纯正,音域宽广,堪称一绝。在此,我预祝它演出成功。”
在演出的过程中,回报公鸭那沙哑歌声的,不再是不满的噪音,而是经久不息的掌声。
5、加班
星期天,局长在家没什么事情,忽而想到这阵子市报上登的小说连载满有意思的,就想到办公室去翻翻当天的报纸。遂打了个电话给司机,谎说单位有事情。功夫不大,小车就停在局长家楼下了。
办公室,正在加班写材料的秘书,看局长星期天来了,认为局长真有什么事情,忙放下手头的材料,打电话让锅炉房的大孙来烧开水,让公务员来加班……随后,又在旁边的梅园大酒店订了“桌”。待局长翻完当天的报纸要走时,忽而看到各办公室的门都敞开着!
6、拉开档次
局长在全局干部职工大会上,传达了上级有关向灾区人民献爱心的活动精神,动员党员干部要带头响应。
会议的当天,办公室秘书小林就拿着小本,到几个局长、副局长办公室登记捐款数。
问道马副局长时,马副局长问小林:“蔡局长捐了多少?”蔡局长是一把手。小林说:“蔡局长捐了100。”马副局长思忖一下说:“那,我就捐80吧。”遂在兜里掏出一张100的。小林看是张100的,懒得给他找钱,就对马副局长说:“你干脆捐100算了!”马副局长说:“哎!蔡局长捐100,我哪能也捐100!人家是一把手,我捐80就不少了,要拉开档次!”
7、结局
庄子带领弟子出游,行至山中,遇见伐木工正在伐树,问为什么那棵长得很歪的树不伐?答曰:伐了无所用。至暮,投宿一老友处,老友欲杀鹅招待。家仆问杀哪只鹅?主人说那只不会叫的。
树有用而被伐,无用而保全性命;鹅因不成器而得以延留。倘若伐工要专寻特型树材呢?那么,直树反而不中意。鹅主人如果喜静怕噪呢?则当下里砧板伺候的,只怕要轮到会报警的鹅了。总之,一切都还是应了那句老话:环境不同,结局也不同。
8、《白蛇传》
脍炙人口的传统京剧《白蛇传》讲的是传自明朝的故事。白蛇精和青蛇精化作美女来到人间。白蛇精与一位书生相爱并生一子。禅师法海认为他们的结合违反传统婚姻,伤风败俗,他气急败坏。于是他派神兵神将前来捉拿白蛇精,并将她镇压在一座塔下面。后来,青蛇精在深山中修炼,习武多年,终于砸烂了那座塔,救出了白蛇精。至此,白蛇精与丈夫、儿子又得以团聚。在《白》剧中,蛇被赋予了崇高的人性。(184 字)
9、徐霞客
徐霞客一生周游考察了十六个省,足迹几乎遍及全国。他在考察的过程中,从来不盲目迷信书本上的结论。他发现前人研究地理的记载有许多不可靠的地方。为了进行真实细致的考察,他很少乘车坐船,
几乎全靠双脚翻山越岭;为了弄清大自然的真相,他总是挑选道路艰险的山区和人迹稀少的森林进行考察,发现了许多奇山秀景;他常常选择不同的时间和季节,多次重游各地名山,反复观察变换的奇景。(181字)
10、幽默的魅力
曾在公共汽车上见到这样一幕:一个妇女手拎带鱼,蹭脏了一位小伙子笔挺的裤子。这个妇女却说:“不要紧的,回去洗一洗就行啦!”闻听此言,小伙子回答说:“这话本该是我讲的,现在被你抢去了,我就只好说一声,谢谢你啦!”小伙子这番话,引来乘客们一阵笑声。如果说小伙子的气度值得称道,那么尤其值得赞赏的,则是小伙子的幽默。我们常为幽默的魅力所折服,乃是因为它的“外圆内方”;泾渭分明的态度以含蓄委婉作为“载体”,让人在开怀一笑之余憬然有悟。笔挺洁净的裤子被湿漉漉、滑腻腻的带鱼蹭脏了,当然让人扫兴。而那个给别人带来烦恼的妇女,居然连一声道歉也没有,更显得缺少教养。那个小伙子倘若疾言厉色与之计较,似也无可厚非,而小伙子选择幽默的方式给对方一个辛辣而充满
善意的批评,就更是难能可贵了。
生活中有许多事情,尽管有对错之分,但只要不是涉及大是大非,因而用“幽它一默”的办法,其效果往往要比剑拔弩张的怒目相向好得多。(401 words)
11、芦笛岩
芦笛岩是桂林最精彩的岩洞。因洞口过去生长芦草用以做笛而得名。它始发现于唐代,1959 年以来被开辟为旅游胜地。洞内有许多钟乳石和石笋,形状奇异,在彩色灯光下,像珊瑚、琥珀和玉石。它们的形状有的像猛兽,有的像人物。芦笛岩内有一个大洞,被称为水晶宫,能容纳一千人。传说洞内的石柱为海龙王的神针。地下通道通向一个平台,从平台外可以看到周围的山岗、农田和河流的全景。
12、仙人指路
相传很早以前,有个神童科场失意,进山访仙,历尽艰险,全无踪影,终于昏倒路边,被一老人救活,神童疑老人即仙,苦求拜师,
老人不依,神童不起。半晌,神童抬头,不见老人,却有巨石兀立,似老人以手指路,神童愈信,叩拜不已,巨石腹中隐隐作声曰:“踏遍黄山没神仙,只怪名利藏心间;劝君改走勤奋路,包你余生赛神仙。”神童从之,后半生成家立业,家道中兴。
13、北京工美集团
北京工美集团(原北京市工艺美术品总公司)是以生产工艺美术品为主,融科研、生产、经营、教育、出版于一体的多元化联合体。集团拥有工商企业50余家,包括合资企业21家,驻外贸易机构一个,开展“三来一补”业务。特艺、地毯、抽纱共有50多种产品获国家和国际大奖,自营进出口商品60大类上万个品种花色,销往世界五大洲130多个国家和地区。
北京工美集团的宗旨是让世界更美好。
14、拱北宾馆
拱北宾馆毗邻拱北海关,构思源自秦代阿房宫,衬以现代建筑形式,是具有最完美设施的酒店。
酒店内有106座别墅,7座总统套房。濒临海湾,环境憩静,花园小径,绿草如茵。供家庭式度假小住有一厅二房;供团体入住有一厅六房;更有高级豪华双人房60间。设备先进,服务周到,宾至如归。
酒店内设有法国、波斯、埃及、西班牙、日本、英国、葡萄牙等贵宾厅,以其民族风格装饰,洋溢异国风情。
地址:中国广东省珠海市拱北滨海路
15、
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16、
敬启者:
你方11月12日来信收悉,得知贵公司意与我方在纺织品方面建立业务联系,甚喜。
按贵方要求,现随函空邮我方目录一份及小册一套,供你方参考。
如目录中所列商品符合贵方要求,请向我方具体询价,我当即寄送报价单。
同时,在此头笔生意成交前,务请惠赐贵方银行行名。
谨上
17、敬启者:
多谢贵方十一月三日的订单,但在仔细考虑贵方要求后,我方不得以作出拒绝贵方订单的决定。
若要达贵公司规格所要求的限度,我方必须在厂安装大量设备,但若不想影响本公司正常生产,则有不能于明年一月之前完成。
不能接受贵方定单,对此实感遗憾,但望贵方体谅我方处境。如能力所能及,我方极愿满足贵方要求。所以,请惠赐其它询价单。
谨上
18、话说短文(冰心)
也许是我的精、气、神都不足吧,不但自己写不出长的东西,我读一本刊物时,也总是先挑短的看,不论是小说、散文或是其它的文学形式,最后才看长的。
我总觉得,凡是为了非倾吐不可而写的作品,都是充满了真情实感的。反之,只是为写作而写作,如上之为应付编辑朋友,下之为多拿稿费,这类文章大都尽量往长里写,结果是即便有一点点的感情,也被冲洗到水分太多、淡而无味的地步。
当由一个人物,一桩事迹,一幅画面而发生的真情实感,向你袭来的时候,它就像一根扎到你心尖上的长针,一阵卷到你面前的怒潮,你只能用最真切、最简练的文字,才能描画出你心尖上的那一阵剧痛
和你面前的那一霎惊惶!
我们伟大的祖国,是有写短文的文学传统的。那部包括上下数千年的《古文观止》,“上起东周,下迄明末,共选辑文章220篇”,有几篇是长的?如杜牧的《阿房宫赋》,韩愈的《祭十二郎文》等等,那一篇不是短而充满了真情实感?今人的巴金的《随感录》,不也是一个实例吗?(402字)
1. 《古文观止》A Treasury of Best Ancient Chinese Prose
2. 《阿房宫赋》Rhapsody on Efang Palace
3. 《祭十二郎文》An Elegiac Address to My Nephew
shi’erlang
19、家
写下了标题,不禁想笑。平时很少想这些,突然想到了,一时有许多废话可以说,又不知从何说起。还是倒过来说,不说该怎么,只说最好不该怎么。
用拆字先生的办法,望文生义,家最初显然和猪圈有关,而家的发展,当然是让它越来越不像猪圈。不过,我并不喜欢那些一尘不染的家庭。清洁过了头,家反而不像家。家是给人住的,因此,我想一切都应该以让人不感到别扭为度。过分用心了,人便变成了家的奴隶,整天替家当保姆,不值得。一个让人羡慕的家庭环境,所有的布置,都应该是以能促进家庭成员彼此之间的健康和谐为基本的前提。一个好的家居,要充满人情味,太干净,太讲究,人情味必打折扣。有的人的家庭,喜欢收拾得仅供外宾参观似的,结果,作为家庭的主人,自己也成了无所适从的客人。
古人对于家的诸多注中间,有一个注很重,是“有男有女则为家”。男人和女人才是家庭中最重要的摆设。关于家居,没有最好这一说。自己觉得好,就是货真价实的好。不同的人,应该有不同的家。最害怕统一的风格,现在的房子都大同小异,先天已经不足,如果大家再按照统一的式样,装饰自己的家,结果个人的家成了集体的家,想到了就觉得煞风景。
20、一个苹果
小时候我们在乡下生活,说起来蛮累。
那时候,我们最爱吃的是苹果。可能是苹果太贵的缘故,父亲一直舍不得买。有一天,父亲到台北出差,总算买了一个苹果回家。父亲削好苹果后,切成五等份,给我们兄妹五人每人一小片。
哎!那么薄,那么少。但是我们却不敢多讲。父亲发现我们面有难色,欲言又止。不由深深地叹了口气……
二十多年过去了,我亦已为人母,开始体会出父亲当时的苦衷。回想当初,一个苹果分成五片,每个小孩一片,我们却嫌少嫌薄,而没有考虑到爸爸、妈妈连一小口也没有尝到!
如果,那时我们能要求父亲将苹果切成七片,让爸妈也尝一口,那么就会留下一个多马美好的甜蜜的回忆呀!
21、卖广告
挡不住电视广告的诱惑,买了几包速食面回家做早餐。花花绿绿的袋子一拆开,冲上开水,一股浓香扑面而来,令人食欲大振。五岁的女儿早就守在餐桌前,用筷子在碗里搅了几下,问:“妈妈,鸡腿呢?”
我说:“哪有鸡腿?”
女儿高高地举起手中的速食面的小袋,封面赫然印着一只金黄的、油光发亮的、令人垂涎三尺的大鸡腿。
我不禁笑了:“那是卖广告?”
女儿脸上写满问号:“什么是卖广告?”
我无言以对。
女儿想了想,自言自语地说:“卖广告就是骗小孩!”
22、过节(楼书聪)
孩提时住在农村,常常盼望过节。记得最有乐趣的节,莫过于年终的“谢天地”。那谢完天地之后,母亲用福礼汤(鸡、肉汤)下的银丝面条,其鲜美无比至今还留下十分美好的记忆。
工作之后,我却渐渐对过节不感兴趣了。原因是当我单身时,我喜欢看书,笔耕。在写文章时经常需要随时查阅文献资料,如果遇上节日放假,图书馆就关门,我就只好干着急,眼看时间白白流失,所
以我讨厌过节。
在诸多家务中,每天买菜是我的任务。中国人过节,吃是主要内容,为了显示过节的气氛和水平,少说也要搞它个十菜八肴的。这样一来,节前的紧张采购暂且不说,节后的剩菜处理也落在我一个人身上,妻孩们是不愿吃隔天菜的,自幼来自农村且深受“谁知盘中餐,粒粒皆辛苦”陶冶的我,是断然不肯将剩菜倒掉的,于是节后天天吃剩菜。所以我不喜欢过节。
23、浪漫(刘安)
一个小伙子暗恋着一个女孩。女孩是他的同事,他们在一个办公室里工作。
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