新标准大学英语综合教程3课文翻译(1-10单元30篇)

新标准大学英语综合教程3课文翻译

Unit

Catching crabs

atmosphere of the preceding summer semester, the impromptu

ball games, the boating on the Charles River, the late-night

parties had disappeared, and we all started to get our heads

down, studying late, and attendance at classes rose steeply

again. We all sensed we were coming to the end of our stay

here, that we would never get a chance like this again, and we

became determined not to waste it. Most important of course

were the final exams in April and May in the following year. No

one wanted the humiliation of finishing last in class, so the peer

group pressure to work hard was strong. Libraries which were

once empty after five o'clock in the afternoon were standing

room only until the early hours of the morning, and guys wore

the bags under their eyes and their pale, sleepy faces with pride,

like medals proving their diligence.

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抓螃蟹

大学最后一年的秋天，我们的心情变了。 刚

刚过去的夏季学期的轻松氛围、即兴球赛、

查尔斯河上的泛舟以及深夜晚会都不见了踪

影，我们开始埋头学习，苦读到深夜，课堂

出勤率再次急剧上升。 我们都觉得在校时间

不多了，以后再也不会有这样的学习机会了，

所以都下定决心不再虚度光阴。 当然，下一

年四五月份的期末考试最为重要。 我们谁都

不想考全班倒数第一，那也太丢人了，因此

同学们之间的竞争压力特别大。 以前每天下

午五点以后，图书馆就空无一人了，现在却

要等到天快亮时才会有空座，小伙子们熬夜

熬出了眼袋，他们脸色苍白，睡眼惺忪，却

很自豪，好像这些都是表彰他们勤奋好学的

奖章。

还有别的事情让大家心情焦虑。 每个人都在

心里盘算着过几个月毕业离校之后该找份什

么样的工作。 并不总是那些心怀抱负、成绩

拔尖的高材生才清楚自己将来要做什么，常

常是那些平日里默默无闻的同学早早为自己

下几个阶段的人生做好了规划。 有位同学在

位于麦迪逊大道他哥哥的广告公司得到了一

份工作，另一位同学写的电影脚本已经与好

莱坞草签了合约。 我们当中野心最大的一位

同学准备到地方上当一个政党活动家，我们

都预料他最终会当上参议员或国会议员。 但

大多数同学不是准备继续深造，就是想在银

行、地方政府或其他单位当个白领，希望在

20出头的时候能挣到足够多的薪水，过上舒

适的生活，然后就娶妻生子，贷款买房，期

望升职，过安稳日子。

感恩节的时候我回了一趟家，兄弟姐妹们免

不了不停地问我毕业后有什么打算，我不知

道该说什么。 实际上，我知道该说什么，但

我怕他们批评我，所以只对他们说了别人都

准备干什么。

父亲看着我，什么也没说。 夜深时，他叫我

去他的书房。 我们坐了下来，他给我们俩各

1 In the fall of our final year, our mood changed. The relaxed 1.

2 But there was something else. At the back of everyone's 2.

mind was what we would do next, when we left university in a

few months' time. It wasn't always the high flyers with the top

grades who knew what they were going to do. Quite often it was

the quieter, less impressive students who had the next stages of

their life mapped out. One had landed a job in his brother's

advertising firm in Madison Avenue, another had got a script

under provisional acceptance in Hollywood. The most

ambitious student among us was going to work as a party

activist at a local level. We all saw him ending up in the Senate

or in Congress one day. But most people were either looking to

continue their studies, or to make a living with a white-collar

job in a bank, local government, or anything which would pay

them enough to have a comfortable time in their early twenties,

and then settle down with a family, a mortgage and some hope

of promotion.

3 I went home at Thanksgiving, and inevitably, my brothers 3.

and sisters kept asking me what I was planning to do. I didn't

know what to say. Actually, I did know what to say, but I

thought they'd probably criticize me, so I told them what

everyone else was thinking of doing.

4 My father was watching me but saying nothing. Late in the 4.

evening, he invited me to his study. We sat down and he poured

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us a drink.

5 "So?" he said.

6 "Er ... so what?"

7 "So what do you really want to do?" he asked.

5.

6.

7.

倒了杯饮料。

“怎么样？”他问。

“啊，什么怎么样？”

“你毕业后到底想做什么？”他问道。

父亲是一名律师，我一直都认为他想让我去

法学院深造，追随他的人生足迹，所以我有

点儿犹豫。

过了会儿我回答说：“我想旅行，我想当个作

家。”

8 My father was a lawyer, and I had always assumed he 8.

wanted me to go to law school, and follow his path through life.

So I hesitated.

9 Then I replied, "I want to travel, and I want to be a writer." 9.

10 This was not the answer I thought he would expect.

Travel? Where? A writer? About what? I braced myself for 10. 我想这不是他所期待的答案。 旅行？去哪儿

some resistance to the idea.

11 There was a long silence.

11. 接着是一段长长的沉默。

12 "Interesting idea," he said finally.

12. “这想法有点意思，”他最后说。

13 There was another long silence.

13. 接着又是一段长长的沉默。

14 "I kind of wish I'd done that when I was your age."

14. “我真有点希望自己在你这个年纪时能做这

15 I waited.

些事儿。”

旅行？当作家？写什么呀？我做好了遭到他

反对的心理准备。

16 "You have plenty of time. You don't need to go into a

15. 我在等他把话说完。

career which pays well just at the moment. You need to find out

what you really enjoy now, because if you don't, you won't be 16. “你还有很多时间，不必急于进入一个暂时报

successful later."

17 "So how do I do this?"

17. “那我该怎么办？”

18 He thought for a moment. Then he said, "Look, it's late.

Let's take the boat out tomorrow morning, just you and me. 18. 他想了一会儿。 然后他说道：“瞧，现在太

Maybe we can catch some crabs for dinner, and we can talk

more."

19 It was a small motor boat, moored ten minutes away, and

my father had owned it for years. Early next morning we set off 19. 那是一艘小小的机动船，停泊在离我们家约

along the estuary. We didn't talk much, but enjoyed the sound of

the seagulls and the sight of the estuary coastline and the sea

beyond.

20 There was no surf on the coastal waters at that time of day,

so it was a smooth half-hour ride until my father switched off 20. 在这个时候沿海水域没什么风浪，船平稳地

the motor. "Let's see if we get lucky," he said, picked up a rusty,

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酬高的行业。 你现在要搞清楚自己真正喜欢

什么，如果你弄不清楚，以后就不可能成功。”

晚了。 我们明天早晨乘船出海去，就我们两

个。 也许我们能抓点螃蟹当晚餐，我们还可

以再谈谈。”

十分钟路程的地方，是好些年前父亲买的。

次日清晨，我们沿着港湾出发，一路上没说

多少话，只是默默地欣赏着海鸥的叫声，还

有港湾沿岸和远处大海的景色。

航行了半个小时之后父亲把船停了下来。 他