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研究生英语教材翻译 A Working Community5、None of us,mind you,was bom into these communities.Nor did we move into them,U-Hauling our possessions along with us.None has papers to prove we are card-carrying members of one such group or another.Yet it seems that more and more of us are identified by work these days,rather than by street.值得一提的是，我们没有谁 一出生就属于这些社区，也不是后来我们搬了进 来。这些身份是我们随身携带的，没有人可以拿 出文件证明我们是这个或那个群体的会员卡持 有者。然而，不知不觉中人们的身份更倾向于各 自所从事的工作，而不是像以往一样由家庭住址 来界定。6、In the past,most Americans live in neighborhoods.We were members of precincts or parishes or school districts.My dictionary still defines communtiy,first of all in geographic terms,as“a body of people who live in one place.“过去 大多数彼邻而居的美国人彼此是同一个街区、教 区、校区的成员。今天的词典依然首先从地理的 角度来定义社区，称之为“一个由居住在同一地 方的人组成的群体工7、But today fewer of us do our living in that one place;more of us just use it for sleeping.Now we call our towns“bedroom suburbs/9 and many of us,without small children as icebreakers,would have trouble naming all the people on our street.然而，如今的情况是居住和工作都在同一个地方的人 极少，对更多的人来说家成了一个仅仅用来睡觉 的地方。我们的居住地被叫做“近郊居住区”，由 于没有了孩子像过去那样起到沟通邻里关系的 作用，许多人感到要叫出跟我们同住一条街的所 有人的名字是件极不容易的事。8、Ifs not that we are more isolated today.Its that many of us have transferred a chunk of our friendships,a major portion of our everyday social lives,from home to office.As more of our neighbors work away from home,the workplace becomes our neighborhood.这不是说我们今天被 分得更开了，而是好多人已经部分的友谊和大部 分的日常社交生活从家里转移到了办文室。随着 越来越多的人走出家门去工作，工作的地方就变 成了我们的街区。9、The kaffeeklatsch of the fifties is the coffee break of the eighties.The water cooler,the hall,the elevator,and the parking lot are the back fences of these neighborhoods.The people we have lunch with day after day are those who know the running saga of our mothers operations,our child9s math grades,our frozen pipes,and faulty transmissions.50年代的下午茶成了 80年代的喝 咖啡的工间休息。工作地的饮水冷却机、大厅、电梯、停车场是新社区的后院篱笆墙。天天和我 们共进午餐的人是给我们的母亲动手术的医生、孩子的数学老师、管道工、汽车修理工等。10、We may be strangers at the supermarket that replaced the comer grocer,but we are known at the coffee shop in the lobby.We share with each other a cast of characters from the boss in the comer office to the crazy lady in Shipping,to the lovers in Marketing.Its not surprising that when researchers ask Americans what they like best about work,they say it is“the shmoose factor.When they ask young mothers at home what they miss most about work,it is the people.人们曾经在杂货店的超市里 可能是陌生人，但是却极可能在公司大厅的咖啡 间里相识。我们谈论一些人物，从街头办文室的 老板，到运输部中的疯女人，到营销部的情人们。难怪当研究者问及美国人关于工作他们最喜欢 什么的时候，他们的回答是“和同事悠闲自在地 闲扯”，当询问在家里做全职母亲的年轻妇女对 工作最怀念什么时，她们说是工作中所接触过的 人。11、Not all the neighborhoods are empty,nor is every workplace a friendly playground.Most of us have had mixed experiences in these environments.Yet as one woman told me recently,she knows more about the people she passes on the way to her desk than on her way around the block.Our new sense of community hasnt just moved from house to office building.The labels that we wear connect us with members from distant companies,cities,and states.We assume that we have something yin common“with other teachers,nurses,city planners.不是所有的住宅区都是空的，也不是所有的工作 单位都是友好的。多数人在这些环境里都曾有过 复杂的经历。然而，最近一位女性朋友告诉我她 对工作单位里的人的了解程度要胜于对同一街 区人的了解程度。我们不仅把社区的概念从住宅 区搬进了办公楼，上班时身上所佩戴的标志也把 我们和异国他乡的人们和公司员工联系在一起。我们假设自己和其他的教师、护士、城市规划者 有着某些共同点。12、Its not unlike the experience of our immigrant grandparents.Many who came to this country still identified themselves as members of the Italian community,the Irish communtiy,the Polish community.They sought out and assumes connection with people from the old country,Many of us have updated that experience.We have replaced ethnic identity with professional identity,the way we replaced neighborhood with the workplace.This whole realignment of community is surely most obvious among the mobile professions.People who move from city to city seem to put roots into their professions.In an age of specialists,they may have to search harder to find people who speak the same language.这有点 像最初移民来到美国的我们的祖辈们的经历，许 多人来到这里后把自己原来的国籍当成一个社 区，所以有意大利人社区、爱尔兰人社区、波兰 社区等。他们不断寻找并设想自己与来自同一个 国家的人们有着亲密的联系。我们把这种体验提 升了一步。像用工作单位取代居住地一样，我们 用专业身份取代了种族身份。这种社区的完全重 组在流动作业的行业中表现得最为明显，那些在 不同城市变换工作的人似乎把自己的身份植根 于他们的行业中。在这个充满专业人士的时代，他们不得不费尽周折去寻找有共同语言的人。13、I dont think that there is anything massively disruptive about this shifting sense of community.The continuing search for connection and shared enterprise is very human.But I do feel uncomfortable with our shifting identity.The balance has tipped,and we seem increasingly dependent on work for our sense of self.我并不认 为这种社区概念的变迁会造成大面积的混乱，这 种对联系和共同理想的不断追寻充满了人性。但 我对我们不断变化的身份确实感到不安。身份意 识的天平似乎已经日渐倾斜到工作决定身份这 边。14、If our office are our new neighborhoods,if our professional titles are our new ethnic tags,then how do we separate ourselves from our jobs?Self worth isnt just something to measure in the marketplace.But in these new communities,it becomes harder to tell who we are without saying what we do.如果办公室真的彻底变成我们的社 区，如果我们的所从事的行业真的彻底变成我们 的种族印记，那我们怎样才能把自己和工作区分 开来呢？自我价值并不是只有在市场环境中得 到体现的。但是在这些新的社区中，如果不先说 明我们是从事哪行哪业的，就越来越难以说清楚 我们究竟是谁。二、The Roots Of My Ambition1、“If theres one thing I cant stand,Russell,its a quitter罗素，假如有一件事我不能容忍的话，那就是做轻易放弃的人。2、My mother,dead now to this world but still roaring free in my mind,wakes me some mornings before day-break.6If theres one thing I cant stand,Russell,its a quitter.虽然她已离天人世，我母亲 却依旧在我的脑子里大声嚷嚷，有时天还未破晓 她就催我起床，罗素，假如有一件事情我不能容 忍的话，那就是轻易放弃的人。3、I have heard her say that all my life.Now,Lying in bed,coming awake in the dark,I feel the fury of her energy fighting the good-for-nothing idler within me who wants to go back to sleep instead of tackling the brave new day.我一辈子都在听她讲 这句话。而今躺在床上，在黑暗中睁开睡眼，我 就能感觉到她和那个一无是处，游手好闲的人对 峙的那股凶劲儿，那个人就在我心中，他宁可缩 回被窝继续睡觉，她不愿意抓住新的美好的一 天。4、Silenty,I protest:I am not a child anymore.I have made something of myself.I am entitled to sleep late.我在心里默默地抗议：我不再是个孩 子，我已经做出了自己的成绩，有权晚点起床。5、“Russell,youve got no more gumption than a bump on a log.”罗素，你完全没有进取心了，只 想当个无所事事的懒汉。6、She has hounded me with these battle cries since I was a boy in short pants.自从我还是穿着短裤整 天乱跑的小男孩起她就用这种战场上的喊叫来 鞭策我。7、“Make something of yourself!你一定得弄出 个名堂来！8、“Dont be a quitter!”绝不要轻易放弃的人！9、“Have a little ambiton,Buddy.”伙伴，得有点 儿抱负吧10、The civilized man of the world within me scoffs at materialism and strives after success.He has read the philosophers and social critics.He thinks it is vulgar and unworthy to spend ones life pursuing money,power,fame,and.在我心目中这个世界上真的文明人嘲笑物质主义者和追 名逐利的人。这种人饱读哲学大师和社会批评家 的著作，他认为花费整个生命去追求金钱、权力、名誉是粗俗而不值的11、“Sometimes you act like youre not worth the powder and shot it would take to blow you up with母亲还对我说：“有时你的行业显得自己还 不如能置你于死地的那点火药或一粒子弹值钱。12、Life had been hard for my mother ever since her father died,leaving nothing but debts,The family house was lost,the children scattered.My mothers mother,fatally ill with tubercular infection,fell into a suicide depression and was institutionalized.My mother,who had just started college,had to quit and look for work.o 自从夕卜公 死后母亲一直过着艰辛的生活，除了一大堆债务 外公啥也没有留下。家里的房子成了别人的。孩 子们四散各处。我那染上夺命结核病的外婆患了 自杀抑郁症被送入医院。刚上大学的母亲不得不 辍学去找工作。13、Then,after five years of marriage and three babies,her husband died in 1930,leaving my mother so poor that she had to give up her babyAudrey for adoption.Maybe the bravest thing she did was to give up Audrey,only ten months old,to my Uncle Tom and Aunt Goldie.Uncle Tom,one of my fathers brothers,had a good job with the railroad and could give Audrey a comfortable life.后来母亲在结婚后5年内生下连我在内3个孩 子。但是，1930年我爸爸离开了人世，母亲一 贫如洗，不得不将最小的孩子奥德丽送给别人收 养。也许母亲做过的最勇敢的事就是让我叔叔汤 姆和婶婶葛黛收养了 10个月大的奥德丽。叔叔 汤姆是爸爸的亲兄弟，他在铁路上有一份好工 作，能够给奥德丽舒适的生活。14、My mother headed off to New Jersey with my other sister and me to take shelter with with her brother Alen,poor relatives dependent on his goodness.She eventually found work pathching grocers9 smocks at ten dollars a week in a laundry.母亲带着我和另一个妹妹直奔新泽西州暂时寄 居在她哥哥阿伦家里，成了投奔我那好舅舅的穷 亲戚。母亲后来总算在一家洗衣店找到了一份周 薪10美元，修补杂货商穿用的工作服的工作。15、Mother would have liked it better if I could have grown up to be President or a rich businessman,but much as she loved me,she did not deceive herself.Before I was out of grade school,she could see I lacked the gifts for either making millions or winning the love of crowds.After that she began nudging me toward working with words.假如我现在是总统或者是富有的商 人，妈妈应该会更满意的。虽然母亲很爱我，但 她并没有欺骗自己。在我高中毕业之时，她就意 识到了我缺少那种日进斗金或博取群众爱戴的 能力。从那以后她就开始把我往写作的道路上 推。16、Words ran in her family.There seemed to be a word gene that passed down from her maternal grandfather.He was a school teacher,his daughter Lulie wrote poetry,and his son Charlie became New York correspondent for the Bltimore Herald.In the turn-of-the-century South,still impoverished by the Civil War,words were a way out.母亲的家族有从事写作的传统。从她的外公 开始似乎就有一种语言基因代代相传。她的外公 是一位教师，他的女儿露利是诗人，儿子查理后 来成了巴尔的摩先驱报的通讯员。在世纪之 交，南方还没有从因为内战而大伤气的状态下恢 复过来，写作在当时是一条谋生之路。17、The most spectacular proof was my mothers first cousin Edwin.He was a managing editor of the New York Times.He had traveled all over Europe,proving that words could take you to places so glorious and so far from the Virginia sticks that you own kon could only gape in wonder and envy.My mother often used Edwin as an example of how far a man could go without much talent.最充分的证据要数我母亲的一位表兄艾德 文。他是纽约时代周刊的执行主编。他曾经 遍游欧洲，这证明文字可以将你带到那些远离弗 吉尼亚边远山区无比美好的地方，令你的亲戚惊 讶而又嫉妒。母亲常以艾德文为例，告诉我一个 不是很有才气的男人能走多远。18、“Edwin James was no smarter than anybody else,and look where he is today,9my mother said,and said again,so than I finally grew up thinking Edwin James was adill clod who had a lucky break.Maybe she felt didnt have to be brilliant to get where Edwin had got to,that the way to get to the top was to work,work,and work.艾德文并不比任 何一个孩子聪明，看看他今天已经在哪了？母亲 总是这样遍又一遍地对我说，以至于我长大以后 认为艾德文詹姆士不过是碰上了好运气的平庸 之辈。也许母亲也是那样看待他的，但她的话中 应该有更深的含意。她是在告诉我不需要很聪明 就能达到艾德文的高度，通往顶峰的路是努力、努力、再努力。19、When my mother saw that I might have the word gift,she started trying to make it grow.Thought desperately poor,she signed up for a deal that supplied one volume of Worlds Greatest Literature every month at 39 cents a book.当母亲 看到我或多或少有些语言天赋的时候，她就开始 努力要让这种天赋成长发挥出来，虽然家里穷得 叮当响，她还是狠下心来给我订购了售价为39 美分的月刊世界最伟大的文学20、I respected those great writers,but what I read with joy were newpapers.I lapped up every word about monstrous crimes,dreadful accidents and hideous butcheries committed in faraway wars.Accounts of murderes dying in the electric chair fascinated me,and I kept close track of fast meals ordered by condemned men.我很仰慕那些伟大的 作家，但读起来使我最快乐的是报纸。我如饥似 渴地读着报纸上关于犯罪、恐怖事件和发生在遥 远他乡的骇人听闻的杀戮。关于那些死在电梯上 的杀手的报道令我入迷，我甚至对死刑犯订的最 后一顿快餐都特别留心。21、In 1947 I graduated from John Hopkins and learned that the Baltimore Sun needed a police reporter.Two or there classmates at Hopkins also applied for the job.Why I was picked was a mystery.It paid$30 a week.When I complained that was insulting for a college man,my mother refused to sympathize.1947 年，我从约翰霍普金 斯大学毕业时到了解到巴尔的摩太阳报需要 招募一名治安记者。另外有两三个霍普金斯的同 班同学也在争取这个职位，为什么最后我被录用 了是谜。这份工作的薪水是30美金一星期。当 我在母亲面前抱怨这样的待遇对一个大学毕业 生来说是一种耻辱的时候，她拒绝给我同情。22、“If you work hard at this jobshe said,“maybe you can make something of it.Then theyll have to give you a raise.”假如你在这个职位上好好干，她 说，也许你是会有所作为的，到那时他们就不得 不给你涨工资了23、Seven years later I was assigned by the Sun to cover the White House.For most reporters,being White House correspondent was as close to heaven as you could get.I was 29 years old and puffed up with pride.I went to see my mothers delight while telling her about it.I should have known better.7 年 之后，我被巴尔的摩太阳报任命为驻白宫记 者。对于大多数记者而言，成为驻白宫记者被看 成是离上天只有一步之遥。那时我29岁，踌躇 满志。我回有对母亲讲自己晋升的事想看到她高 兴。但结果却出乎我的预料。24、“Well,Russ,“she said,“if you work hard at this White House job,you might be able to make something of yourself.“嗯，罗素啊，母亲说，假 如你把白宫记者当好了，你会有所作为的。25、Onward and upward was the course she set.Small progress was no excuse for feeling satisfied with yourself.People who stopped to pat themselves on the back didnt last long.Even if you got to the top,you d better not take it easy.“The bigger they come,the harder they fall”was one of her favorite maxims.进取、进取、再进取，这是母亲给我设定的方向。小小的进步是不足以 自我满足的。那些因成功而沾沾自喜停下来欣赏 自己的人是不会持久的。即使你已经到达顶峰，你也最好不要放松。爬得越高，摔得越痛，是母 亲的至理名言。26、During my early years in the newspaper business,I began to entertain childish fantasies of revenge against Cousin Edwin.Wouldnt it be delightful it Ibecame such an outstanding reporter that the Times hired me without knowing I was related to the great Edwin?Wouldnt it be delicious if Edwin himself invited me into his huge office and said,“Tell me something about yourself,youngman?95 What exquisist vengeance to reply,66I am the only son of your poor cousin Lucy Elizabeth Robinson.在我从事报业的头几年,我 就不怀着幼稚的要报复地表兄艾德文的怪念头。假如我能成为非常杰出的记者，让纽约时代周 刊在不知道我和艾德文关系的情况下雇用我，这难道不是件快乐无比的事情吗？如果艾德文 将我请到他那宽敞的办公室，对我说：年轻人，能请你介绍一下自己吗？我是你的穷表妹露 西伊丽莎白罗宾逊唯一的儿子。这回答是多么 绝妙的复仇啊。27、What would one day happen was right out of my wildest childhood fantasy.The TIMES did come knocking at my door,though Cousin Edwin had departed by the time I arrived.Eventually I would be offered one of the gaudiest prizes in American journalism:a column in the New York Times.后来我的这种不着边际的少年狂想果真变 成了现实。纽约时代周刊真的派人敲开了我 的家门，尽管在我到达时，艾德文表兄已经有事 离开了，美国新闻界还是给予了我一个炫丽的奖 励做纽约时代周刊的专栏作家。28、It was not a column meant to convey news,but a writers column commenting on the news by using different literary forms:essay devices,satire,burlesque,sometimes even fiction.It was proof that my mother had been absolutely right when she sized me up early in life and steered me toward literature.那不是新闻报导专栏，而是一个用不同 文学体裁评论新闻的专栏，如散文、讽刺、夸张 的模仿、有时甚至是小说。这一切证明母亲早就 看出是这块料并引导我走文学之路是完全正确 的。29、The column won its share of medals.Including a Pulitezer Prize in 1979.My mother never knew about that.The circuitry of her brain had collapsed the year before,and she was in a nursing home,out of touch with life forevermore.我负责的专栏后来 赢得了它该得到的所有奖项，包括1979年的普 利策奖，但母亲却不得而知。她在前一年患了脑 瘫住进疗养院，她从此与生活没有了接触。30、I can only guess how shed have responded to news of Pulitzer.Im pretty sure she would have said,Thats nice,Buddy.It shows if you buckle down and work hard,youll be able to make something of yourself one of these days.“我只能去 想象她得知我获得普利策奖的消息时的反应。她 肯定又会说：好样的，伙计，这证明了只要你下 定决心，埋头苦干，某一天你一定能有所成就。31、In time there would be an attack on the values my mother preached and I have lived by.When the country began to pull apart in the 1960s and 70s,people who admitted to wanting to amount something were put down as materialists idiotically wasting their lives in the“rat race.99 The word 66gumption,9vanished from the language.母亲一直 宣扬而且我一直遵循的价值观终于开始遭到攻 击。二十世纪六七十年代，这个国家的价值观念 开始分化。那些承认自己想要获得成功的人被鄙 视为在“激烈竞争”的凡尘中愚蠢地浪费生命的 物质主义者。”进取精神”这个词开始从我们的语 言中消失。32、I tried at first to roll with the new age.I decided not to drive my children,as my mother had driven me,with those corrupt old demands that they amount to something.我也努力按新时代的标准行 事，决心不再像母亲逼迫我那样逼迫自己的孩子 们，不再用那些陈腐的苛求非要他们大有作为。33、The new age exalted love,self-gratification and passive Asian philosopies that aimed at helping people resign themselves to the status quo.Much of this seemed preposterous to me,but I conceded that my mother might have turned me into a coarse materialist(one defect in her code was its emphasis on money and position),so I kept my heretical suspicions to