研究生英语教程(上)翻译答案8.ppt

Unit 8 Growth and Maturity Text A The Trying Twenties About the author Gail Sheehy(1937-) was born in New York City and educated at the University of Vermont. Later she received a fellowship at Columbia University where she studied under anthropologist Margaret Mead, who became her mentor. As a literary journalist, she was one of the original contributors to New York magazine. A contributing editor to Vanity Fari since 1984, she won the Washington Journalism Review Award for Best Magazine Writer in America for her in-depth character portraits of national and world leaders, including both Presidents Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Husssein, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Since 1970, she has published many works, including Lovesound(1970), Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society(1973), Passages(1976) and Character: Americas Search for Leadership(1988). IV. Translation 1. Live a noble and honest life. Reviving past times in your old age will help you to enjoy your life again. 2. Do not, for one repulse/ failure/ frustration, forgo/give up the purpose/aim/goal that you resolved to obtain. 3. We all live in the past. We take a minute to know someone, one hour to like someone, and one day to love someone, but the whole life to forget someone. 4. I dont think that when people grow up , they will become more broad-minded and can accept everything. On the contrary, I think its a selecting process, knowing whats the most important and whats the least. Then be a simple man. 5. When tomorrow turns into today, yesterday, and someday of no more importance in our memory, we suddenly realized that we are, unconsciously, pushed forward by time. This is not an illusion where a train in still moves forward when