新概念第四册课文翻译及学习笔记:Lesson5

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  【课文】

  First listen and then answer the following question.

  听录音,然后回答以下问题。

  How does the writer like to treat young people?

  People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'. If there is one--which I take leave to doubt -- then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings--people just like their elders. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.

  When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain--that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.

  I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It's as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders -- as if mere age were a reason for respect. I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.

  FIELDEN HUGHES from Out of the Air, The Listene

  【New words and expressions 生词和短语】

  leave n. 允许

  fundamentals n. 基本原则

  glorious adj. 光辉灿烂的

  splendid adj. 灿烂的

  rub n. 难题

  identity n. 身份

  dreary adj. 沉郁的

  commitment n. 信奉

  mean adj. 吝啬,小气

  social climber 追求更高社会地位的,向上爬的人

  devotion n. 热爱

  cosmic adj. 宇宙的

  suburban adj. 见识不广的,偏狭的

  conceited adj. 自高自大的

  presumptuous adj. 自以为是的,放肆的

  fatuous adj. 愚蠢的

  cliche n. 陈词滥调

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