4.孤独是一种消极的状态,你会感到失去了某种东西。你可能与别人在一起仍然感到孤独—这也许是孤独最痛苦的形式。
Loneliness is a negative state. One feel that something is missing. It is possible to be with people and still feel lonely—perhaps the bitterest form of loneliness.
5.独居是一种与自我相约的积极的状态。独居是值得向往的,是独自一人、享受自我愉快而又充实的陪伴的一种状态。
Solitude is a positive state of engagenment with oneself. Solitude is desirable, a state of being alone where you provide yourself wonderful and sufficient company.
6.梭罗说,一个人即使身处同伴之中,如果不对他们敞开心扉,仍会感到孤独。
Thoreau says that loneliness can occur even amid companions if one’s heart is not open to them.
Unit 6
1.假设有人向你行贿,要换取一种承诺,你会怎么做?是接受呢,还是坚持自己的原则?Suppose you were offered a bribe in exchange for a promise, what would you do—receive it or stand by your principles?
2.现在人们不会忍受那些糟糕的境况,可是在那些日子里却只能接受那样的现实。Nowadays, pelple wouldn’t put up with those terrible circumstances, but in those days it was accepted as a fact of life.
3.大学校园里形形色色的作弊现象越来越多,我已不记得这学期有多少学生因作弊而被捉住了。Cheating in various forms is on the increase in colleges and universities, and I have lost count of the number of students who were caught cheating this semester.
4.当艾奇先生被披露曾受贿时,他不得不退出州长职位的竞争。Mr.Aichi had to withdraw himself from the comperition for the position of state governor when it was revealed that he had been on the take.
5.虽然他原先完全支持改革政策,可后来却开始抨击这场改革运动了。While originally he had been fully in support of the reform policies,later he began to attack the reform movement.
6.这位教授肯定不会同意翻译基本是在词典里查生词的观点。The professor definitely will not agree with the point that the tranlation amounted to little more than looking up words in dictionaries.