revell研究生英语翻译段落

2021年1月22日发(作者：recton)
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(1)

Undergraduates are searching for identity and meaning and, like the rest of us, they
are torn by idealism of service on the one hand, and on the hand, the temptation to
retreat into a world that never rises above self-interests.




大学生们在寻求价值认同与生活的意义，并且正如我们其他人一样，令他们深感苦恼的
是如何面对一方 面是服务他人的理想主义，
另一方面是遁入一个永远停留在自我利益的小圈
子中的诱惑。

(2)

Is it too much to expect that, even in this hard-edged, competitive age, a college
graduate will live with integrity, civility - even compassion?





即使在这样一个锐不可挡、竞争激烈的时代，期待大学生接受正直、礼貌，甚至同情心
是不是要求过高
?
(3)

Even
what
once
seemed
to
be
reasonably
local
matters
---
zoning
regulations,
school
desegregation,
drainage
problems
public
transportation
issues,
licensing
requests
from
competing
cable
television
companies-call
for
specialists
who
debate
technicalities and frequently confuse rather than clarify the issues.



甚至那些曾经 理所当然地被认为属于地方性的事务——区域划分法规、废除学校种族隔
离、
下水道问题、公共交通问题、
互相竞争的有线电视公司之间申请许可证等——都要求专
家参与，他们讨论 技术细节，但常常不仅没有阐明问题，反而把问题弄得一团糟。

(4)

Unless we find better ways to educate ourselves as citizens, unless hard questions
are
asked
and
satisfactory
answers
are
offered,
we
run
risk
of
making
critical
decisions, not on the basis of what we know, but on the basis of blind faith in one or
another set of professed experts.




作为公民，
如果我们不能找到教育自己更好的方法，
如果不能提 出难题并提供令人满意
的答案，
那么，
我们做的任何关键性的决定都是在冒险，
因为这些决定不是基于我们所知道
的，而是基于我们对一批批所谓的专家们的盲目信任。今天我们所需 要的是大批消息灵通、
关心他人的人士．作为公民，他们能团结一致、齐心协力、互相学习、积极参与到 民主进程
之中．

(5)We need concerned people who are participants in inquiry, who know how to ask
the right questions, who understand the process by which public policy is shaped, and
are prepared to make informed discriminating judgments on questions that effect the
future.




我们需要关心公众事务的人，他们能参与调查，知道如何提 出合适的问题，了解公民政
策制定的程序，并时刻准备着就影响未来的问题做出有根据的、敏锐的判断。

(6) If students do not see beyond themselves and better understand their place in our
complex world, their capacity to love responsibly will be dangerously diminished.



如果学生们不能超越自己、不能更好地理解在这个复杂的世界中所处的位臵，那么 他们
富有责任感地生活在这个复杂世界的能力就有降低的危险．

(7)
While
some
students
have
a
global
perspective,
the
vast
majority,
although
vaguely
concerned,
are
inadequately
informed
about
the
interdependent
world
in
which they live.



虽然部分学生具有全球意识，然而绝大多数人，尽管也隐隐约约地关心他们所生活的、
人们需要相互依存的世界，但对其了解却不够充分．

(8)
If
the
undergraduate
college
cannot
help
students
see
beyond
themselves
and
better
understand
the
interdependent
nature
of
our
world,
each
new
generation
will
remain
ignorant,
and
its
capacity
to
live
confidently
and
responsibly
will
be
dangerously diminished.



如果大学无法帮助学生超越自我去观察，去更深刻的理解世界相互依存的本质，那么每
一代新人的物 质程度将依然如故，而且他们有信心、有责任感的生活能力也有降低的危险。

(9)

At
a
time
in
life
when
values
should
be
shaped
and
personal
priorities
sharply
probed, what a tragedy it would be if the most deeply felt issues, the most
haunting
questions the most creative moments were pushed to the fringes of our institutional
life.


我们与师生交谈时，
常常不安地感觉到对于生活中最 重要的问题——社会的本质、
社会不公
正的根源、人类生存的前景等，学校几乎没有让学生做任 何准备来应对。

（
10
）
The
outcomes
of
collegiate
education
should
be
measured
by
the
student's
performance in the classroom as he or she becomes proficient in the use of knowledge,
acquires a solid basic education, and becomes competent in a specific field.

大学教育的最终结果应 由学生在课堂的种种表现来衡量，
如他或她是否精于知识的运用，

是
否接受了扎实的基础教育及是否在某一特殊领域称职。

(11) The undergraduate experience
at
its
best (= at
one's highest
level
of skill) will
move the student from competence to commitment.



最理想的大学教育应该促使学生从能力转向奉献．

(12) The goal is not to indoctrinate students, but to set them free in the world of ideas
and
provide
a
climate
in
which
ethical
and
moral
choices
can
be
thoughtfully
examined, and convictions formed.
其目的不是要向学生灌输什么，而是要把他们从许许多多杂乱无章的思想中解放出来，
为他们提供一种氛围，
让他们能够彻底检验自己在伦理及道德上的选择，
从而形成自己 的信
念。

(13)

But
our
abiding
hope
is
that,
with
determination
and
effort,
the
undergraduate
college can make a difference in the intellectual and personal lives of its graduates, in
the social and civic responsibilities they are willing to assume, and ultimately in their
world perspective.




但我们永恒的希望是，借助决心和努力，大学教育能在毕业生的智力开 发及个人生活方
面，
在他们愿意承担的社会及公民义务方面，
最终在世界观方面发挥作 用。
这些东西虽然不
具实体，却以极为真实的方式揭示自身的价值，最终也是衡量本科教学质量 的参数标准。








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Discovery and Discourse, Leadership and Service:

The Role of the Academy in Times of Crisis
(1) That faith is based on a conviction that the vitality of the United States, its creative
and diverse cultural life, its staggeringly inventive economy, its national security and
the robustness of its democratic institutions owe much to the quality of its institutions
of higher education.



人们之所以相信教育的价值是因为他们坚信：美国的活力、它富有创造性和多样化的文
化生活、
它惊人独创力的经济、
它的国家安全以及健全的民主制度很大程度上归功于其高等< br>教育机构的质量。

(2)

In return for this broad support, society rightfully expects certain things from us. It
expects
the
generation
of
new
ideas
and
the
discovery
of
new
knowledge,
the
exploration of complex issues in an open and collegial manner and the preparation of
the next generation of citizens and leaders.




社会理所当然期望我们能有所 作为以回报社会各界广泛的支持。社会期望我们拥有崭新
的思想，开发新知识，以一种开放和严谨的态度 探索复杂的问题，
同时为培养未来一代
（合
格的）公民和（优秀的）领导者做好准备。

(3)

The
medieval
image
of
the
university
as
an
ivory
tower,
with
scholars
turned
inward in solitary contemplation, immunized from the cares of the day, is an image
that has been superseded by the modern university constructed not of ivory, but of a
highly porous material, one that allows free diffusion in both directions.




中世纪大学的形象如同一座象牙塔，学者们一心只读圣贤书，两耳不闻窗外事，与现实
社会隔绝 。
而如今这一形象已被现代大学所取代——现代大学不是象牙构筑的，
而是高度开
放的 机构，允许（思想）内外自由交流。

(4)
The
search
for
new
ideas
and
knowledge
is
not
and
cannot
be
motivated
by
utilitarian concerns. Rather it depends on the ability to think in new and creative ways,
to challenge prevailing orthodoxies, to depart from the status quo.




探索新思想和新知识不是功利性的也不应该以功利主义为动机。它取决 于你是否具有新
颖的和创造性的思维能力。

(5)The
search
for
new
ideas
and
knowledge
is
not
and
cannot
be
motivated
by
utilitarian concerns. Rather it depends on the ability to think in new and creative ways,
to challenge prevailing orthodoxies, to depart from the status quo.




探索新思想和新知识不是功利性的也不应该以功利主义为动机。它取决 于你是否具有新
颖的和创造性的思维能力。

(6)
―
What we should seek to impart in our colleges, is not so much learning itself as
the spirit of consists in the power to distinguish good reasoning from bad,
in the power to digest and interpret evidence, in the habit of catholic observation and a
preference
for
the
non-partisan
point
of
view,
in
an
addiction
to
clear
and
logical
processes of thought and yet an instinctive desire to interpret rather than to stick to the
letter of reasoning, in a taste for knowledge and a deep respect for the integrity of the
human mind.
‖




在大学里我们应当努力传授的与其说是知识本身还不如说是做学问的精神，其中包括：
辨别正确推理与 错误推理的能力，
理解并阐释论据的能力，
广泛观察的习惯以及客观评判事
物的喜好，
执着于清晰并颇具逻辑性的思维过程，
有一种与生俱来的欲望要阐释内涵而不拘
泥于推 论的字面意思，对知识的鉴赏力以及对人类思想整合的深深的敬意。

(7) While understanding the importance of professional education, they made it clear
that at Princeton we should first and foremost cultivate the qualities of thought
and
discernment in our students, in the belief that this will be most conducive to the health
of our society.




他们（前面提到的普林斯顿大学校长）在了解职业教育重要 性的同时，清楚地表明在普
林斯顿我们首要的任务是要培养学生的思考能力和洞察力，
并坚信这 些将对社会的健康发展
最有益处。

(8) If we do our job well as educators, each of our students will take from a Princeton
education a respect
and
appreciation for ideas and values, intellectual openness
and
rigor, practice in civil discourse and a sense of civic responsibility.




如果我们作为教育者做 好本职工作，那么我们的每一位学生将从普林斯顿的教育中学会
尊重和欣赏各种理念与价值观，
他们会变得思维开放、
治学严谨，
懂得与人友善交流并能具
有公民责任感。

3

The Virtues of Ambition

(1)

One can, after all, be ambitious for the public good, for the alleviation of suffering,
for
the
enlightenment
of
mankind,
though
there
are
some
who
say
that
these
are
precisely the ambitious people most to be distrusted.



毕竟，一个人可以立志于促进公益事 业，减轻人们的痛苦，或是启蒙人类，尽管有些人
说，正式这些使有志向的人最不可信。

(2)Surely
ambition
is
behind
dreams
of
glory,
of
wealth,
of
love,
of
distinction,
of
accomplishment, of pleasure, of goodness.

可以肯定志向含有对荣耀、财富、爱情、声望、成就、快乐和美德的梦想。

(3)
To
be
sure,
ambition,
the
sheer
thing
unalloyed
by
some
larger
purpose
than
merely clambering up, is never a pretty prospect to ponder.





当然，志向是纯洁的，不仅仅是 向上爬，而是有某个更远大的目标使它是纯粹的，难以
想象志向实际上有多么美好。

(4)
To
begin
with,
it,
ambition,
is
often
antisocial,
and
indeed
is
now
outmoded,
belonging to an age when individualism was more valued and useful than it is today.




首先，
志向经常违反社会惯例，
与今天相比，
它属于个 人主义更加重要及有用
的年代，确实志向如今已经过时了。

(5)
If ambition
is
to be well regarded, the rewards
of ambition--wealth, distinction,
control
over
one's
destiny--must
be
considered
worthy
of
the
sacrifices
made
on
ambition's behalf.


如果从好的方面看待志向，志向带来的好处——财富、声望、对 自己命运的控制——那
么为志向做出的种种牺牲被认为是值得的。

(6)What is odd is that they have perhaps most benefited from ambition--if not always
their own then that of their parents and grandparents.


奇怪的是也许从志向中受益做多者正是他们，如果不总是他们自己的志向，那么就是他
们的父母 或祖父母的志向。

(7)What
has
happened
is
that
people
cannot
own
up
to
their
dreams,
as
easily
and
openly as once they could, lest they be thought pushing, acquisitive, vulgar.




实际情况是，
人们不能像以前那么容易的，
公开地承认自己的梦想，
以免被认为有野心、
贪婪、粗俗。

(8)
As a result, the support for ambition as a healthy impulse, a quality to be admired
and
inculcated
in
the
young,
is
probably
lower
than
it
has
ever
been
in
the
United
States.




结果，
在美国，
把志向作为一个健康的动力，
一种令人羡慕并向年轻人反复灌输的品质，
其支持率也许比以前 更低。

(9) All men and women are born, live, suffer, and die; what distinguishes us one from
another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and
what we do to make them come about.



所有的 男男女女都经历出生、生活、承受痛苦和死亡；把我们一个人与另一个人区分开
的是我们的梦想，无论其 是否尘世间的梦想及为了实现梦想我们所做的一切。