insidious全新版大学英语3课文要求背诵段落及翻译

2021年1月24日发(作者：sunbeam)
Unit one
12



I suspect
not
everyone
who
loves
the country would
be
happy
living
the way we
do.
It
takes a couple of special qualities. One is a tolerance for solitude. Because we are so busy and on
such
a
tight
budget, we
don't
entertain
much.
During
the
growing
season
there
is
no
time
for
socializing anyway. Jim and Emily are
involved
in school activities, but they too spend most of
their time at home.







我想，
不是所有 热爱乡村的人都会乐意过我们这种生活的。
这种生活需要一些特殊的
素质。
其一是耐得 住寂寞。
由于我们如此忙碌，
手头又紧，
我们很少请客。
在作物生长季节，< br>根本就没工夫参加社交活动。
吉米和埃米莉虽然参加学校的各种活动，
但他俩大多数时间 也
呆在家里。


13



The other requirement is energy
-- a lot of it. The way to make self-sufficiency work on a
small
scale
is
to
resist
the temptation
to
buy
a
tractor
and
other
expensive
laborsaving
devices.
Instead, you do the work yourself. The only machinery we own (not counting the lawn mower) is
a little three- horsepower rotary cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw.







另一项要求是 体力――相当大的体力。
小范围里实现自给自足的途径是抵制诱惑，
不
去购置拖拉机和 其他昂贵的节省劳力的机械。
相反，
你要自己动手。
我们仅有的机器
（不包< br>括割草机）是一台
3
马力的小型旋转式耕耘机以及一架
16
英寸的链锯 。




14



How much longer we'll have enough energy to stay on here is anybody's guess -- perhaps
for quite a while, perhaps not. When the time comes, we'll leave with a feeling of sorrow but also
with a sense of pride at what we've been able to accomplish. We should make a fair profit on the
sale of the place, too. We've invested about $$35,000 of our own money in it, and we could just
about double that if we sold today. But this is not a good time to sell. Once economic conditions
improve, however, demand for farms like ours should be strong again.







没人知道我们还能有精力在这里再呆多久
--也许呆很长一阵子，也许不是。到走的时
候，
我们会怆然离去，
但也会为自己所做 的一切深感自豪。
我们把农场出售也会赚相当大一
笔钱。
我们自己在农场投入了约35
，
000
美金的资金，
要是现在售出的话价格差不多可以翻
一倍。
不过现在不是出售的好时机。
但是一旦经济形势好转，
对我们这种农场的需求又 会增
多。


15



We
didn't
move
here
primarily
to
earn
money
though.
We came
because we wanted
to
improve the quality of our lives. When I watch Emily collecting eggs in the evening, fishing with
Jim on the river or enjoying an old-fashioned picnic in the orchard with the entire family, I know
we've found just what we were looking for.







但我们主要不 是为了赚钱而移居至此的。
我们来此居住是因为想提高生活质量。
当我
看着埃米莉傍晚 去收鸡蛋，
跟吉米一起在河上钓鱼，
或和全家人一起在果园里享用老式的野
餐，我知道 ，我们找到了自己一直在寻求的生活方式。


Unit

two
4



Y
et this stop was only part of a much larger mission for me. Josiah Henson is but one name
on a long
list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, a
secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American
South. Between 1820 and 1860, as many as 100,000 slaves traveled the Railroad to freedom.







但此地只是我所承担的繁重使命的一处停留地。
乔赛亚·
亨森只是一长串无 所畏惧的
男女名单中的一个名字，这些人共同创建了这条“地下铁路”
，一条由逃亡线路和可靠 的人
家组成的用以解放美国南方黑奴的秘密网络。
在
1820
年至
1 860
年期间，
多达十万名黑奴经
由此路走向自由。



5



In
October
2000, President
Clinton
authorized
$$16
million
for
the
National
Underground
Railroad Freedom Center to honor this first great civil-rights struggle in the
U. S. The center is
scheduled to open in 2004 in Cincinnati.
And it's about time. For the heroes of the Underground
Railroad remain too little remembered, their exploits still
largely unsung. I was intent on telling
their stories.





< br>2000
年
10
月，克林顿总统批准拨款
1600
万美元建造 全国“地下铁路”
自由中心，以此纪念美国历史上第一次伟大的民权斗争。中心计划于
2004
年在辛辛那提州
建成。
真是该建立这样一个中心的时候了。
因为地下铁路的英 雄们依然默默无闻，
他们的业
绩依然少人颂扬。我要讲述他们的故事。


Unit

three
4



It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, electronic alarm systems and trip
wires
hooked
up
to
a
police
station
or
private
guard
firm.
Many suburban
families
have sliding
glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open.







取而代之的是防盗锁、
防护链、
电子报警系统，
以及连接警署或私 人保安公司的报警
装置。
郊区的许多人家在露台上安装了玻璃滑门，
内侧有装得很讲究 的钢条，
这样就没人能
把门撬开。




5



It
is
not
uncommon,
in
the
most
pleasant
of
homes,
to see
pasted
on
the windows small
notices
announcing
that the
premises
are
under
surveillance
by
this security
force
or
that
guard
company.






在最温馨的居家，也常常看得到窗上 贴着小小的告示，称本宅由某家安全
机构或某个保安公司负责监管。





6



The lock is the new symbol of America. Indeed, a recent public
-service advertisement by a
large insurance company featured not charts showing how much at risk we are, but a picture of a
child's bicycle with the now-usual padlock attached to it.







锁成了美国的新的象征。
的确，
一家大保险公司最近的一则公益广告没有用图表表明< br>我们所处的危险有多大，而是用了一幅童车的图片，车身上悬着如今无所不在的挂锁。






7



The ad pointed out that, yes, it is the insurance companies that pay for stolen goods, but who
is going to pay for what the new atmosphere of distrust and fear is doing to our way of life? Who
is going to make the psychic payment for the transformation of America from the Land of the Free
to the Land of the Lock?







广告指出，
没错，
确是保险公司理赔失窃 物品，
但谁来赔偿互不信任、
担心害怕这种
新氛围对我们的生活方式所造成的影响呢？ 谁来对美国从自由之国到锁之国这一蜕变作出
精神赔偿呢？






8



For that is what has happened. We have become so used to defending ourselves against the
new
atmosphere
of
American
life,
so
used
to
putting
up
barriers,
that we
have
not
had
time
to
think about what it may mean.







因为那就是现状。
我们已经变得如此习惯于保护自己不受美国生活新氛围的影响，
如
此习惯于设置障碍，因而无 暇考虑这一切意味着什么。


Unit

four



4



It was
actually
Bart
Cameron's
error
and
you'll
have
to
understand
about
Bart
Cameron.
He's the sheriff at Twin Gulch, Idaho, and I'm his deputy
. Bart Cameron is an impatient man and
he gets most impatient when he has to work up his income tax. Y
ou see, besides being sheriff, he
also
owns
and
runs
the
general
store,
he's
got some
shares
in
a
sheep
ranch,
he's
got
a
kind
of
pension
for
being
a
disabled
veteran
(bad
knee)
and
a
few
other things
like
that.
Naturally,
it
makes his tax figures complicated.







这实际上是巴特·
卡默伦的错，
所以你得对巴特·
卡默伦这人有所了解。
他是爱达荷
州特温加尔奇的治安官，
我是他的副手。
巴特·
卡默伦是个脾气暴躁的人，
到了他不得不整
理个人应 缴多少所得税时更是容易光火。
你想，
他除了当治安官，还经营着一家杂货铺，
并拥有一家牧羊场的股份，
同时还享有残疾退伍军人
（膝盖受过伤）津贴，
以及其他 某些类似
的津贴。这样一来他的个人所得税计算起来自然就变得复杂。






5



It wouldn't
be
so
bad
if
he'd
let
a
taxman work
on
the
forms
with
him,
but
he
insists
on
doing it himself and it makes him a bitter man. By April 14, he isn't approachable.






要是 他
让税务人员帮他填表就不至于那么糟糕，
可他非得要自己填，
于是填得他牢骚满腹。
每年到
了
4
月
14
日，他就变得难以接近。




6



So it's too bad the flying saucer landed on April 14, 1956.







那个飞碟在
1956
年
4
月
14
日这一天登陆真是大错特错。





7



I
saw
it
land.
My
chair was
backed
up
against
the wall
in
the
sheriff's
office,
and
I was
looking at the stars through the windows and wondering if I ought to knock off and hit the sack or
keep
on
listening
to
Cameron curse
real
steady
as
he went
over
his columns
of
figures
for
the
hundred twenty- seventh time.






< br>我是看着它降落的。当时我的椅子背靠着治安官办公室的墙，我正望着窗外的星星，
琢磨着是不是 该下班去睡觉，
还是继续听卡默伦骂个不停，
他正在第
127
次核对他在税单 上
填写的一栏栏数字。






8



It looked like a shooting star at first, but then the track of light broadened into two things
that looked like rocket exhausts and the thing came down without a sound.







一开始像是颗流星，可接着那轨迹越来越亮，
变成两个光点，
就像是火箭喷出的气流，
那个东西一点没 出声就着落了。





9



Two men got out.







两个人走了出来。






10



I couldn't say anything or do anything. I couldn't choke or point; I couldn't even bug my
eyes. I just sat there.







我没法说 话，也无法做事。喉部肌肉僵直，也没法用手示意，甚至眼睛都没法瞪大。
我就那么呆坐着。