大学英语期末考试翻译

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人们一直说：“只有时间才能支配我们。”人们似乎把时间当作一个差不多是实实在在的东西来对待。我们安排时间、节约时间、浪费时间、挤抢时间、消磨时间、缩短时间、对时间的利用做出解释；我们还要因为付出时间而收取费用。时间是一种宝贵的资源，许多人都深感人生的短暂。时光一去不复返。我们应当让每一分钟都过得有意义。
“We are slaves to noting but clock," it has been said. Time is treated as is it were something slmost real. We bugdet it, save it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we also charge for it. It is a precious resource. Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime. Once the sands have run out of a person's hourglass, they cannot be replaced. We want every minute to count.
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因此，我们千方百计地节约时间。我们发明了一系列节省劳力的装置；我们通过发传真、打电话或发电子邮件与他人迅速地进行交流，而不是通过直接接触。虽然面对面接触令人愉快，但却要花更多的时间，尤其是在马路上交通拥挤的时候。因此，我们把大多数人个拜访安排在下班以后的时间里或周末的社交聚会上。
Consequently, we work hard at the task of saving time. We produce a steady flow of labor-saving device; we comminucate rapidly through faxes, phone calls or emails rather than through personal contacts, which though pleasant, take long --especially given our traffic-filled streets. We, therefore, save most personal visiting for after-work hours or for social weekend gatherings.
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我们之间的种族及文化差异不但增强了我们的关系，还教会了我们要彼此宽容、谅解和开诚布公。盖尔又是不明白为何我和其他黑人如此关注种族问题，而我敢打吃惊的是，她好像忘记了美国社会中种族仇恨种种微妙的表现形式。
Our racial and cultural differences enhanced our relationship and taught us a great deal sbout tolerance, compromise, and being open with each other. Gail sometimes wondered why i and other blacks were so involved with the racial issue, and i was surrised that she seemed to forget the subtler forms of racial hatred in American society.
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大中央车站问询处桌子上方的数字钟显示：差六分六点。约翰.布兰福德，一个年轻的高个子军官，眼睛盯着大钟，看确切的时间。六分钟后，他将见到一位在过去13个月里在他生命中占有特殊位置的女人，一位他素未谋面、却通过书信始终给予他力量的女人。
Six minutes to six, said the digital clock over the information desk in Grand Central Station. John Blandford, a tall young army officer, fcoused his eyesight on the clock to note the exact time. In six minutes he would see the woman who had filled a special pl

ace in his life for the past thirteen months, a woman he had never seen, yet whose written words had been with him and had given him strength without fail.
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到40年代末、50年代初，我的家乡佐治亚州的伊藤顿已没有人再自己手工卷烟了（而且几乎没有女人抽烟）。烟草业，再加上好莱坞电影--影片中的男女主角都是烟鬼--把像我父亲这样的人完完全全争取了过去，他们无可救药地抽烟抽上了瘾。然而我父亲从来没有像阿尔伯特亲王那样时髦过。他还是一个贫穷、过于肥胖、为养活一大家人而拼命干活的男人。他是黑人，嘴里却总叼着一只雪白的香烟。
By the late forties and early fifties no one rolled his own anymore (and few women smoked) in my hometown of Eatintin, Georgia. The tobacco industry, coupled with Hollywood movies in which both male and female heroes smoked like chimneys, completely won over people like my father, who were hopelessly hooked by cigarettes. He never looked as fashionable as Prince Albert, though; he continued to look like a poor, overweight, hard-working colored man with too large a family, black, with a very white cigarette stuck in his mouth.
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虽然你父母很可能想让你的名字伴随你一生，但记住，他们选这个名字的时候几乎还没有见到你呢。而且，他们在选名字时所看重的希望和梦想也许并不渡河你的希望和梦想。如果你的名字看上去已不再适合你，不要苦恼；你不必一辈子用这个名字。影星们就经常改名，下点决心，你也可以这样做。
Thought your parents probably meant your name to last a lifetime, remenber that when they picked it they'd hardly met you, and the hopes and dreams they valued when they chose it may not match yours. If your name no longer seems to fit you, don't despair; you aren't stuck with the label. Movie stars regularly change their names, and with some determination, you can, too.
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“把它们记在一张可以随身携带的卡片上，需要的时候看看。既然我们无法让一天又26个小时，我们就得确定先做哪些事情。”
"Put them on a note card and take it with you and look at it when you need to. Since we can't create a 26-hour day we have to decide what things what things we're going to do."
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但是赞成全面教育的最重要的理由是，在学习世世代代积累起来的知识的同时，我们也提高了自己的道德感。最近我看了一幅漫画，描述了几个商人坐在会议桌周围，看上去困惑不解的样子。其中的一个正通过内部通话设备讲话：“巴克斯特小姐，”他说，“是否可以请您叫一个能明辨是非的人来？”
But the most important arguement for a broad education is that in studying the accumulated wisdom of the ages, we improve our moral sense. Isaw a cartoon recently which depicts a

group of businessmen looking puzzled as they sit around a conference table; one of them is talking on the intercom:"Miss Baxter,"he says,"could you please send in someone who can distinguish right from wrong?"
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我们希望我们的教育工作者能满足学生对职业教育的渴求，但与此同时，我们也要确保学生能为他们认识到自己目光短浅的那一天做好准备。人生的意义远远不止是工作。
Let's hope our educators answer syudents' cries for career educatio, but at the same time let's ensure that students are prepared for the day when they realize their short-sightedness. There's a lot more to life then a job.