高中英语必修1课文逐句翻译(北师大版).doc

A Perfect Day? 完美的一天？ A couch potato 终日懒散在家看电视的人沙发土豆 When I wake up I dont get up immediately. “早上醒来，我不马上起床。 I turn on the television and watch the childrens programs and old movies until about half-past ten.我总是先打开电视，看看儿童节目，看看老片子，一直看到十点半。 Then I get up, go downstairs and switch on the TV in the living room.然后起床，下楼，打开起居室的电视。 For lunch, I have biscuits and a glass of milk, and I watch the news.午餐时，我边吃饼干、喝牛奶，边看新闻。 In the afternoon, I often watch another old film theyre showing some good ones at the moment.下午，我常看另一部老影片眼下电视里正播放非常好看的老电影。 In the evenings, I often watch TV series or sport and the news again. 晚上我要么看连续剧，要么看体育节目，接着再看新闻。I like the main news at six oclock.我喜欢看六点的重要新闻。 At nine thirty, if there is a good play on BBC 2, I switch over and watch it.九点半，如果英国广播公司二频道有好看的电视剧，我会调过去看看。 Then at night, I watch more films and I usually switch off the TV at about two oclock. I never watch TV at night.夜里，我接着看看电影，通常看到凌晨两点才关电视。我从不通宵看电视。 I watch TV for sixteen or seventeen hours a day. 我一天要看十六七个小时电视。 I also do some exercise every day. I take Tina, the dog, for a walk every afternoon. 每天也会出去活动活动。下午我带着小狗蒂娜散步。I dont go far, of course. I walk to the wall outside my house. 当然，我不会走远，只走到我家房子外的墙边。I always take my portable TV and I sit on the stone wall while the dog walks round in a circle.这时，我总是随身携带手提电视，坐在石头墙上看，小狗则在我身边绕圈。 Of course, I couldnt live this lifestyle without a good wife. 当然，没有一个好妻子，我是不可能过上这种妙不可言的生活的。Shes not here now because shes working, but she always makes my meals. 她在工作，所以现在不在家。她天天给我做饭。We havent got much money, you know, but were happy. 你知道，我们虽然钱不过，但活得很快活。Sit down and watch TV. Heres the remote control. Youve got the world at your feet. And in your hand. Great!想想看，坐在家里，看着电视，手握遥控器，世界就在你脚下！也在你手中！这感觉真棒！ A workaholic工作狂 I normally wake up about five minutes before my alarm clock goes off. As soon as I hear my alarm clock, I jump out of my bed. It takes me less than fifteen minutes to wash, get changed, have breakfast, leave home and get on a bus. 我一般在闹钟响前5分钟就醒了。闹钟一响，我立刻跳下床，从洗漱、穿衣、吃早饭、离家到坐上公共汽车只用15分钟。 I am always the first person to get to the office. The mornings are always very busy and the afternoons are even busier! Meetings and phone calls take up a large part of the day. Every minute of the day is filled with urgent matters. 我总是第一个到办公室。每天早晨都很忙，下午更忙。整天会议、xx不断。一天中几乎每一分钟都充斥着急待处理的事情。By around eight oclock, I usually find some time to do my own paperwork and answer some personal e-mails. 通常大约晚8点我才有时间处理自己的事：写写东西，回复些电子邮件等。 When I get home at about ten, I look at some documents that I bring back from the office so that I can be ready for the next days work. I get to bed around midnight when my wife and children are already asleep. 晚上10点我才能到家。到家后还要浏览带回的文件，为第二天的工作做准备。我一般半夜才上床睡觉。那是妻子和孩子们都早已进入梦乡。 I seldom have time for fun and other activities with my family. My family plains about it. But I try to work hard so that I can make more money for them. 我很少有时间娱乐或家人一起活动。妻子和孩子们总是抱怨，但我得拼命工作，好为他们赚更多的钱。Besides, I get bored if theres nothing to do. I like being busy.而且，要是没事可做我会觉得非常无聊。我真的喜欢忙忙碌碌。 Lifestyles City and Country城市和农村 Debbie is an accountant in a large pany in the centre of London. （黛比是伦敦一家大公司的会计。） I need to be in my office by nine oclock so I usually get up at seven oclock. I travel to work on “the tube”. Thats what people call the underground in London. 我通常每天7点起床，9点钟前赶到办公室。我乘地铁上班。（the tube 就是人们通常所陈的伦敦地下铁路系统。）It takes about fifty minutes. Usually, its so crowded that I cant find anywhere to sit. I just stand. Im always tired before I arrive at work. I dont like the underground!乘地铁大约需要15分钟。通常地铁很拥挤，很难找到座位，我只好站着。这样每天到办公室前，我就已感到很疲倦。我一点儿都不喜欢乘地铁！ I spend all morning checking numbers. Lunch is always simple. 每天上午我要计算数字，核对账目。 I often get a sandwich in a nearby sandwich shop or I just have some biscuits and a cup of coffee. Then in the afternoon, I return to the paperwork in the office.午饭总是很简单，我常在附近的三明治店买个三明治，或吃些饼干，喝杯咖啡。下午我在办公室处理文字资料。 On Monday nights, I have dance classes, and on Wednesday nights, I go to the gym. I need to do that because I dont get enough exercise otherwise. On Tuesday and Thursday nights, I have French classes. 星期一晚上我上舞蹈课。星期三晚上我去健身房。我需要运动，因为每天运动量不够。星期二和星期四晚上我去上法语课。I work for a French pany so I think studying French will help me in my job.我在为一家法国公司工作，所以我认为学法语对我的工作有益。 I go to the cinema almost every weekend. Sometimes, if the weather forecast is good, my friends and I drive to the countryside for a weekend break. 几乎每个周末我都去看电影，朋友们称我为影迷。有时，如果预报天气好的话，我会和朋友们开车去乡下度周末。We like to visit nice, quiet places far away from the city and go walking where there are no shops, crowds or the tube. That fresh air is so good for my lungs. I love it. 我喜欢去那些远离城市、幽静、风光秀丽的地方，在没有商店、人群、地铁的地方漫步。那里的新鲜空气对肺部有好处，我喜欢新鲜的空气。 Paul lives in a small village in the north of England. （保罗住在英格兰北部的一个小村庄。） I usually get up at four oclock every morning when its still dark. I live and work on the farm so I dont need to travel. 我通常大约凌晨4点天还黑着的时候就起床。我在农场工作、生活，不用乘通勤车上下班。 After a big breakfast in my house, I walk out of the front door and Im already at work.饱餐一顿早饭之后，我走出家门，开始一天的工作。 There are many things to do on the farm all day. We dont have the same work hours that office workers in the city have. 每天我都有很多事情要做。和在办公室工作的人不同，我们的工作时间依需要而定。We do jobs when they need to be done and that could be early in the morning or late at night. I have cows, sheep, pigs and chickens on my farm. I have to make sure they are free of sickness. 可能在早晨就工作，也可能是在半夜。我的农场里有猪、羊、牛、鸡等，我得确保它们不得病。I also grow wheat and vegetables so there are many things to look after.我也种麦子、蔬菜。每天我都有很多事需要料理。 In the evening, I like to play with my children. I have two children, a boy and a girl. They are six and eight years old. 晚上我喜欢喝孩子们一块儿玩。我有两个孩子，一男一女，一个6岁，一个8岁。I also like to study. Right now I am studying Chinese by distance learning. I am very interested in China and its my dream to see the Great Wall one day.我也喜欢学习。眼下我正在通过远程教育学习汉语。我对中国很感兴趣。我一直梦想着有一天能亲眼看看长城。 I love movies. My wife calls me a “movie fan”. But there isnt a cinema in my village so I dont get the chance to go very often. 我喜欢看电影。妻子称我为影迷。遗憾的是，我们村没有电影院，所以我没有机会经常看电影。 I go about twice a year, usually when I go to London with my family. We take a weekend break there when I am not too busy on the farm. 我一年只能看两次电影，通常是在和家人去伦敦的时候。只要农场活不太多，我们会抓住机会度周末。 My wife loves looking in the clothes shops and I like all the crowds and the noise. I also like to buy a few cigars. Unfortunately, my wife isnt as fond of them as I am. 我妻子喜欢逛服装店；我喜欢看看人群、听听城市的嘈杂声。我还喜欢买几支雪茄烟，我妻子不像我那样喜欢雪茄。My son and daughter love to ride on Londons red buses and they especially love to go on the tube!女儿和儿子喜欢坐伦敦的红色公共汽车游览观光。他们特别喜欢乘地铁。 Heroes 英雄 National Hero民族英雄 Chinas first manned spaceship lifted off at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, October 15th, 2003 in Jiuquan, Gansu Province. 中国第一次载人飞船于2003年10月15日星期三早上九点在甘肃酒泉发射。The spaceship, called ShenzhouV, was carrying Chinas first astronaut, Yang Liwei. Yang, who was a pilot in the army, was chosen from 1,500 other army pilots and started training for his space flight in 1998.名为神舟五号的飞船搭载着中国第一名从1500名空军士兵中挑选出来的已从1998开始太空飞行训练的航天员杨利伟。 The launch was very successful. “When the spaceship was lifting off, I could really feel the high gravity”, said Yang Liwei. “When the spaceship separated from the rocket, I suddenly got a feeling of soaring into the sky because of the zero gravity.” 发射过程是非常地成功。“当太空飞船发射时，我还可以感受到明显的重力，”杨利伟说：“但当飞船与火箭分离时，我突然就有一种腾飞上空的感觉，因为那时重力已经是零了。” During the 21-hour space flight, the Shenzhou V circled the earth 14 times. 在21小时的太空飞行过程中，神舟五号共绕地球14周。 While the spaceship was circling the earth for the sixth time, Yang Liwei spoke with ground control in Gansu. 在绕地飞行第六周时，杨利伟通过甘肃的地面控制与大家对话。He was also able to speak with his wife and 8-year-old son. 他还同他的妻子和八岁的儿子进行了对话。Yang Liwei had several tasks to plete during the flight and only slept in the spaceship for about 3 hours. 杨利伟在飞行过程中需要完成很多项任务，所以他在飞船上只有3小时睡觉。 While he was sleeping, the spaceship circled the earth twice.当他在睡觉时，飞船又绕行了地球两周。 When the spaceship was doing its seventh circle, Yang Liwei showed the flags of China and the United Nations, expressing the wishes of the Chinese people to explore and use space peacefully.在飞船绕地第七周时，杨利伟通过向我们展示了中国和联合国的旗帜，表达了中国群众对和平开发利用太空的共同愿望。 At 6:23 a.m. on October 16th, Yang Liwei landed in Inner Mongolia safely. 10月16日6时23分，杨利伟在内蒙古安全降落。 He told reporters later, “The surface of the spaceship was glowing red when it came back into the earths atmosphere. When ShenzhouV let out its parachute, I felt the ship was shaking.” 杨利伟回到地球大气层时，直升飞机就会飞到他将降落的位置，准备去接住他。 As Yang Liwei returned into the earths atmosphere, helicopters were flying to where he would land, ready to collect him.他在之后告诉记者：“在飞船回到地球大气层时它的表层已经开始变红。在神五放出它的降落伞时，我感受到它在摇晃。” Millions of people all over China were watching TV when the spaceship landed safely. 中国上百万的人在飞船安全降落时都看着电视的播报。When Yang Liwei climbed out of the spaceship, he smiled and waved to the crowds waiting for him. Yang Liwei was happy to be home but he said, “I thought 21 hours was too short to stay in space.”当杨利伟从飞船中出来，他微笑着并向等候着他的人挥手。杨利伟很高兴自己回到了家，说：“我认为在太空21小时是最短的时间不过了。” Sports Stars体育明星 VENUS and SERENA WILLIAMS are sisters. They are also both tennis champions who often have to play each other! Venus和Serena Williams是一对姐妹。她们经常对战而且也都是网球冠军。Venus is now eleventh in the world, and her younger sister Serena has moved up to third. Venus现在是世界排行上的第十一名，而她的妹妹甚至已经上升到了第三名。 The two sisters were born in a poor and dangerous area of California. It was full of drugs and violence. 两姐妹出生在加利福尼亚的一个贫穷而危险的地方。In a recent interview, Venus spoke about the time when she and Serena were practising tennis and they had to run and hide as bullets started flying through the air. 最近的一次访谈中，Venus谈到这段她们需要一边躲避穿越空中的子弹一边练习网球的日子。Finally, in 1991, the sisters and their family moved to a safer area and since then they have never looked back.在1991年，她们一家人搬到了更安全的地方，从那以后她们也不再回想当时的生活。 The sisters father, Richard, started to train Venus and Serena when they were young children. 两姐妹的父亲Richard在她们小的时候就开始就训练她们打网球。He has always been very strict with his daughters, training them hard to pete against each other. 他总是对他的女儿们很严厉，通过让他们对战来训练他们完成任务。Brandi, the sisters mother taught her daughters at home so that they pleted their high school while developing their tennis careers. 她们的母亲Brandi在家里教导她们学习，这样她们可以再完成高校学业的同时提高她们的网球进程。Today, both sisters are studying design at college. They have already expressed a keen interest in working in design after their tennis careers e to an end.现在，姐妹两人都在大学修设计专业。他们在网球历程走向终点后对设计表现出很大的兴趣。 The sisters road to success has been amazing. The first time Venus played in a big event was in 1996. 姐妹两的成功之路是惊人的。Venus第一次参加大型比赛是在1996年。Since then, she has won Wimbledon and the US Open twice. Serena has continued to improve and make fantastic progress. 在那之后，她赢得了温布尔登奖以及在美网公开赛中获得了两次胜利。Serena也持续提升着自己的技能并获得了可观的成果。In 1999 and 2002, she won the US Open, and in 2002 and 2003, she was the womens singles champion at Wimbledon. 在1999和2002年她在美网公开赛中获得胜利，而在2002和2003年她在温布尔登成为了女单冠军。Has tennis ever caused problems between the sisters? Fortunately, no. “Weve played each other before and it hasnt worried us yet!” says Venus. “If she wins,” Serena jokes, “Mama says she has to do the dishes!”试问网球是否曾经在姐妹间产生过问题？幸运的是，没有。“我们曾经对战过但那并没有困扰我们！”Venus说。“如果她赢了，”Serena开玩笑说：“妈妈会说晚饭要归她做。” Christopher Reeve 1. Christopher Reeve was born in September, 1952. He was in his first school play when he was eight and he started to act in TV shows and films while he was still in college. Christopher Reeve出生在1952年九月。他在八岁时参加了他的第一次学校戏剧，上大学时就参演了电视剧和电影。He made many successful films and TV shows but he is most famous for his Superman films.他在演艺事业中获得了很多成就，而其中最著名的就是电影超人。 2. Unfortunately, disaster came in 1995 when he fell from his horse and broke his back. The doctors did not expect him to live. However, he made amazing progress. 不幸的是，1995不安吧灾难在他掉下马的一瞬间降临到了他身上。医生也对他的生存不抱期望。然而，他创造了奇迹。At first, he couldnt breathe without a machine, but he learnt to breathe on his own. He would never walk again but he started a new life with great courage.最初，他需要机器来支持呼吸，但他尽力地学习着自己呼吸。如果他不是靠着这份勇气来开始新生活，他将不能再一次站起来。 3. The second year after his accident, Christopher returned to film making. He also raised a lot of money to promote medical research into back injuries. 发生意外后的第二年，Christopher回到了电影制作中。他筹集了很多资金来发展背部医疗工程。He made speeches all over the USA about his experiences. This not only drew public attention to research into back injuries but also encouraged a lot of people living with all kinds of problems.他在全美就他的经历来展开讲座。这不仅仅引起了背部医疗的注意，更给像这样带着各种问题的人的生存带来了鼓励。 From their home, Christopher and his wife Dana spoke about their life after the accident. 从他们家里，Christopher和他的妻子Dana讲述事故之后他们的故事。4. Have you thought of giving up after the accident? Q：在事故发生之后你有没有想过放弃呢？ “No. Four days after the injury, I came to understand my situation. My wife Dana and I were in the hospital. The doctor said I was not going to pull through. 没有。受伤后四天，我开始明白了我的处境。我和妻子Dana住了院。医生告诉我我没什么康复了。 Dana said: But youre still you, and I love you. And that saved my life. Since that moment I have never thought of giving up. Dana跟我说，我还是我，而她也爱我。而这句话拯救了我。在那之后我没有再想过放弃。Of course, Ive had moments of feeling sorry for myself, but Ive never had any thoughts of mitting suicide.”当然，我有时会觉得这对我太遗憾了，但我从没有想过自杀。 5. Did you think that your marriage was so strong? Q:你是否觉得你们的婚姻十分顽强？ “Yes, because Danas so wonderful. We have always got on really well. Our relationship has always been fantastic.”是的，因为Dana实在很优秀。我们相处真的十分愉快。我们的关系总是相当的好。 6. How did your parents react to the accident? Q:你的父母对事故有什么反应？ “They divorced when I was four. Theyve got closer since the accident.”他们在我四岁的时候离婚了。而在事故后他们更亲近了。 7. How did you get involved with charity work? 为什么你会投身于慈善事业的呢？ “I know a lot of disabled people need my help. This is how I got involved with my charity work to improve the quality of life for all disabled people.” 我明白到很多残疾人士需要我的帮助。这就是为什么我要投身于慈善事业来为残疾人士改善生活。 8. “With the progress of new medical research, Im confident that people like me would be able to walk again one day. “随着医疗新科技的发展，我很自信像我一样的人能有一天重新站起来。So you can see, Im far too busy with living to think of giving up!”所以你可以看见，我忙得根本没有时间去想放弃的问题。” 9. Christopher Reeve died on October 10, 2004. But people all over the world will always remember him as a superhero. Christopher Reeve在2004年10月逝去。但全世界的人们永远都会这一位超级英雄。Celebration Festivals节日 A: Autumn Every year in September or October, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated by the Chinese people all over the world. 秋季每一年的九年或十月，全国的华人都会庆祝中秋节。On this day, the moon is said to be its biggest and brightest. People like to meet in the evening and watch the moon.在这一天，月亮被认为是最大最亮的。人们喜欢在夜晚相约赏月。 The Mid-Autumn Festival is important because it is a special occasion for family. It is also a day for special foods like moon cakes. There are all kinds of moon cakes. 中秋节是个十分重要的节日，因为它对于家庭是个特别的时刻。它也是享用像月饼类食物的特别的日子。Traditional moon cakes are usual