催大学英语三级背诵段落

2021年1月24日发(作者：catalyst)
Personal history, educational opportunity, individual dilemmas
—

none
of these can inhibit a strong spirit committed to success. No task is too hard.
No amount of preparation is too long or too difficult. Take the example of two
of
the
most
scholarly
scientists
of
our
age,
Albert
Einstein
and
Thomas
Edison.
Both
faced
immense
obstacles
and
extreme
criticism.
Both
were
called

to
learn
and
written
off
as
idiots
by
their
teachers.
Thomas
Edison ran away from school because his teacher whipped him repeatedly for
asking too many questions. Einstein didn't speak fluently until he was almost
nine years old and was such a poor student that some thought he was unable
to learn. Yet both boys' parents believed in them. They worked intensely each
day with their sons, and the boys learned to never bypass the long hours of
hard work that they needed to succeed. In the end, both Einstein and Edison
overcame
their
childhood
persecution
and
went
on
to
achieve
magnificent
discoveries that benefit the entire world today.
个人经历、教育机会、个人困境 ，这些都不能阻挡一个全力以赴追求成功的、有
着坚强意志的人。任务再苦，准备再长，难度再大，都不 能让他放弃自己的追求。就
以本时代最有学问的两位科学家——阿尔伯特〃爱因斯坦和托马斯〃爱迪生为 例，他
们都曾面临巨大的障碍和极端的批评，
都曾被说成
“不开窍”
，
被老师当成笨蛋而放弃。
托马斯〃爱迪生还曾逃学，因为老师嫌他问的问题太多而经常鞭打他。爱因斯 坦一直
到将近
9
岁才能流利地说话，学习成绩太差，有些人认为他都已经学不好了。然 而，
这两个男孩的父母都相信他们。他们坚持不懈地每天和儿子一起努力，孩子们也了解
到，要 想成功，就绝不要怕付出长期而艰辛的努力。最终，爱因斯坦和爱迪生都摆脱
了童年的困扰，进而作出了 造福当今全世界的伟大发现。



Many people simply say that they want something, but they do not expend
the
substantial
effort
required
to
achieve
it.
Many
people
let
the
threat
of
failure stop them from trying with all of their heart. The secret of success is
based
upon
a
burning
inward
desire
—

a
robust,
fierce
will
and
focus
—

that
fuels
the
determination
to
act,
to
keep
preparing,
to
keep
going
even
when we are tired and fail. As a wise saying goes:
you fall down that matters. It's how many times you get back up that makes
succ ess!
很多人只是嘴上说他们想要什么东西，但并不真正地付出大量努力去实现。很多
人因为 害怕失败而不敢全心尝试。而成功的秘诀在于内心燃烧的欲望——一种坚定不
移的意志和专注力——从而 激发行动的决心，即使疲惫，即使失败，也会继续准备，
继续前进。正如一句箴言所说：
“你摔 倒了多少次并不要紧；你能多少次重新站起来对
成功才至关重要。











Audrey felt it was wicked that billions of children were deprived of simple
joys and drowned in overwhelming misery. She believed deeply in the ideology
that all people share in the duty to care for those in need. Audrey Hepburn
was always ready to lead by example. She said:
you deny life.
lives and said of UNICEF's results,
not a realist.
奥黛丽觉得，太多的儿童被剥夺了简单的快乐而陷入无边的痛苦 之中，这是一种
罪恶。她坚信一个理念：所有人都有责任去关心那些需要帮助的人。奥黛丽〃赫本始终都身为表率。她说：
“当你放弃童年，你就放弃了生命。
”她将联合国儿童基金会的工作看作人们生活中不可分割、神圣的力量，谈到其成果时她说：
“任何不相信奇迹的
人都 不是一个现实主义者。
”











The larger lesson, though, is that our thoughts are saturated with the
familiar. The brain is a space of near infinite possibility, which means that it
spends
a
lot
of
time
and
energy
choosing
what
not
to
notice.
As
a
result,
creativity is traded away for efficiency; we think in finite, literal prose, not
symbolic verse. A bit of distance, however, helps loosen the cognitive chains
that
imprison
us,
making
it
easier
to
mingle
the
new
with
the
old;
the
mundane is grasped from a slightly more abstract perspective. According to
research,
the
experience
of
an
exotic
culture
endows
us
with
a
valuable
open-mindedness,
making
it
easier
to
realize
that
even
a
trivial
thing
can
have
multiple
meanings.
Consider
the
act
of
leaving
food
on
the
plate:
In
China, this is often seen as a compliment, a signal that the host has provided
enough to eat. But in America the same act is a subtle insult, an indication
that the food wasn't good enough to finish. 但更应该知道的是我们的思想被熟悉的东西所充满。大脑是一个几乎具有无限可
能性的空间，这就意 味着它花了大量的时间和精力选择不去注意什么。因此
,
我们牺牲
创造力来换取效率。 我们以字义明确的散文方式思考，而非以具有象征意义的诗歌方
式思考。然而，一点的距离就可以帮助我 们放松禁锢我们认知的链条，使新旧思想的
结合更容易，对平淡无奇的事情可从更抽象的角度加以认知。 有研究指出，体验异国
文化可以赋予我们宝贵的开放性思维，使我们更容易明白即使是微不足道的事物也 可
以有多种意义。
想一想把食物剩在盘子里这个行为
:
在中国，
这通 常被看成是一种赞美，
说明主人提供了足够的食物。
但是在美国，
同样的行为却暗含侮 辱，
表明食物不够好，
人们不愿意吃完。



Of
course,
this
mental
flexibility
doesn't
come
from
mere
distance,
a
simple
change
in
latitude
and
longitude.
Instead,
this
renaissance
of
creativity appears to be a side effect of difference: We need to change cultures,
to experience the disorienting diversity of human traditions. The same facets
of foreign travel that are so confusing (Do I tip the waiter? Where is this train
taking
me?)
turn
out
to
have
a
lasting
impact,
making
us
more
creative
because we're less insular. We're reminded of all that we don't know, which is
nearly everything; we're surprised by the constant stream of surprises. Even
in this globalized age, we can still be amazed at all the earthly things that
weren't included in the Let's Go guidebook and that certainly don't exist back
home.
当然，这种思维的灵 活性不仅仅来自纯粹的距离变化，即简单的经纬度的变化。
相反，
这种创造力的复兴似乎是差异 所带来的副产品
:
我们需要处于不同的文化中，
体
验人类传统中纷繁复杂的 多样性。在国外旅行中让人迷惑的同一个方面的问题（如我
该给服务生小费吗？火车要把我带到哪里？< br>)
，
产生了一种持久的影响
,
使我们更加具有
创造性
,
因为我们不再那么视野狭隘了。我们了解了我们不知道的东西，而这些东西几
乎涵盖了一切； 我们对接连不断的惊喜感到惊奇。即使在这个全球化的时代，我们仍
然会对所有未包括在《旅行指南》中 的、平常的东西感到惊奇，而这些东西在自己家
中也不存在。





The
fact
is
that
Chinese
parents
do
things
that
seem
provocative,
unimaginable, even illegal, to opinionated Westerners. Chinese mothers can
dispense with formal courtesies and say to an obese child who gorges on food,

tiptoe around the issue, talk in terms of
f-word.
And
still
their
kids
end
up
in
therapy
for
eating
disorders
and
a
negative self- image. I've thought long and hard about how Chinese parents
can
get
away
with
what
they
do,
and
I
think
there
are
three
ideological
differences between Chinese and Western parents.
事实是，中国父母的做法，对固执己见的西方人来说，令人愤慨，难以想象，甚至是违法的。中国母亲可以不客气地对正在狼吞虎咽的肥胖孩子说
:
“喂，小胖子，你要减肥了。
”与此相反，西方父母必须体谅地、小心翼翼而拐弯抹角地谈及“健康”
，而且永远都不会提及“胖”字。结果，孩子还是因为饮食紊乱和消极的自我评价得去
求医问药。长期 以来我一直苦思冥想，中国父母这样做是如何能够全身而退的，我认
为中西方的父母之间存在三种意识形 态上的差异。