大学英语3 U2 课文翻译+练习答案

新世纪大学英语3

Unit Two Love

课文参考译文

你的爱有多深

曼茜·巴蒂亚

1 有人认为爱如浮云

有人认为爱坚强如铁

有人认为爱是一种生活方式 有人认为爱是一种感觉 有人说爱要执着 有人说爱不要约束 有人说爱是生命的全部 有人说不知道爱为何物

2 在我们生命中的某个阶段，我们会经历某种难以名状的情感所带来的阵阵折磨。这种情感只能体会，无法用语言描述。莫大的喜悦伴随着丝丝的伤感一同降临，这就是爱。

3 在紧张忙碌的生活中，我们竟能找到时间沉湎于感情之中，这的确令人感佩。然而，此时我想知道：我们是否懂得爱到底有多么深刻。记得上学的时候，我迷恋的对象真是数不清：我的数学老师、邻居的儿子、好朋友的弟弟，还有另外一些因为眼睛的颜色、胡子的形状或走路的姿势而让我倾慕的人。年少时的爱慕，不会带来伤害，如肥皂泡一样转瞬即逝。那些稚气、大胆的想法和行为，现在想来大可一笑了之。但是，在那时，对我来说，没有比恋爱更重要的事了。接着就进入了真正“谈”情“说”爱的阶段。

4 我在女子学校学习，和男孩子交往的机会寥寥无几，因此，我热切地期待着我们学校和男子学校举办的联谊会。联谊会上，一群精心打扮的年轻男子毫无顾忌地盯着我们。这三个小时中的点点滴滴，成了我们在以后四个星期中足够的谈资，我们在议论时，心情澎湃。 5 即使是在那个时候，我也没有真正交男朋友的需要。

6 在我的成长岁月中，不知何故，我相信爱情该来的时候自然会来。事实果真如此。当我有了稳定的工作，有了长期的计划和比较安定的生活时（我现在还不到25岁呢！），爱情降临了。我也比较成熟了，能够步入不贪图许多回报而需要大量付出的感情关系。

7 我的爱情是在友谊这块地基上建起的高楼大厦。爱情经过旷日持久的培养才开花。我和我的恋人相互理解、同甘共苦、相互关心，投入了丰富的感情，才使爱情发展到今天。爱情意味着情投意合。你也许会说，我属于浪漫的传统派。但是，依我看，爱情需要培养。我们必须把爱情同强烈而短暂的激情或身体的愉悦区别开来。

8 我们的父辈，被灌输了太多的（爱情）理想。那是一个约束、压抑、崇敬、仰慕和十足浪漫的年代。长裙、娴静质朴的外表、卷曲的长发、恬静的气质、羞怯的目光——这一切常使人想起一个消逝久远的年代。从某种程度上来说，那个时代异性之间的距离帮助他们维持了恋爱的神圣性。 9 年轻的一代人，由于观念开放，随着男女之间交往界线的消退，他们便急于赶浪头，匆忙恋爱，以至于难以区分身体的互相吸引与心灵的相投。我们从媒体中接触到的人和事，使我们的感情历程大大加速，要想慢慢地体会自己的感受，确实需要付出努力。

10 每每听到学校的孩子们夸口说自己有过多少次性关系的经历，我都十分惊讶。年仅18岁的女孩们已有过七八次跟异性“勾勾搭搭”的经历，我感觉极其惊骇。

11 这些青少年在全然没有感情的关系中所背负的感情包袱，令我深感难过。也许有些人会把他们目前的感情状况归结为同龄人之间所施加的压力。但是，可曾有任何人停下来想一想同龄人之间的

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压力来自何处？我们是否尝试着弄清楚是谁造成了这样的转变？可曾有人费神去研究青少年的心理呢？

12 从这一代人处理个人生活的方式上，我们很容易看出他们的思想倾向。跟从前相比，现在有更多的情感在欲望的压力下扭曲。他们更注重外表的美丽而忽视内在的魅力。两性交往随便了，亲密无间却少了；激情多了，感情却少了；个人获得的多了，相互间分享的少了；寻机获利的现象多了，无私的奉献少了。简而言之，“自我”多了，爱的分享少了。

13 在这个竞争激烈的年代，我们已经变得麻木不仁，将恋爱的实质抛于脑后。作为恋爱中的人，不只是意味着把红色的玫瑰花和五毛钱一张的卡片送给恋人，我们要做的事情还很多。我们将自己的时间、陪伴、支持和友谊作为礼物送给自己的恋人了吗？我们是否确定了生活中最重要的事情，而后真诚地做好每一件事？我们是否先在情感上成熟起来，再尽情地追求爱情？我们是否给自己、给他人足够的时间和空间以巩固恋情的发展？我们是否为了追求有意义的、永恒的友谊而不遗余力？我们是否履行了自己的承诺？我们是否将自己的精力和感情倾注于终生不渝的关系而不是浪费在朝秦暮楚的关系中？

14 人的生命只有一次，我们必须去体验能使我们更为坚强的每件事。真正的爱情一生只有一次。我们本不该任由轻佻的行为令自己身心疲惫，而当真正的爱情到来时，我们却没有能力伸开双臂迎接它的降临。

Keys to the Exercises

Enhance Your Language Awareness

Words in Action

▆ Working with Words and Expressions

1. In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following sentences

with them. Change the form where necessary.

▆ Answers: 1) curled 2) minimum 3) clip 4) yielded 5) Given 6) preserve 7) fascinated 8) affection 9) interact 10) haste 11) grief 12) defies 13) presence 14) acquire 15) manipulate 16) restraints

2. In the box below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you understand their

meanings? Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the

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blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) let, loose on 2) fit into 3) hold on

4) state of affairs 5) in the course of 6) in vain 7) build, on 8) In short 9) reached for 10) give and take

▆ Increasing Your Word Power

1. The prefix over- can be added to nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, meaning “above”, “outside”,

“across”, or “too much”. Study the words given in the box and choose the proper word to fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences. Change the form where necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) overcoat 2) overhead 3) overjoyed 4) overslept 5) overweight 6) overdue 7) overtime 8) overworking

2. Many words in English can be used both as nouns and as verbs. Listed in the following table are some

of these words that you have learned in Unit One and Unit Two. Study them carefully and then complete each of the following sentences with one of them as you see fit. Change the form where necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) crush 2) attributes 3) fancy 4) bubbled 5) grasp 6) drizzling 7) labeling 8) yield

3. Listed in the box below are some idiomatic expressions formed with the word “hand”. Study them

carefully and try to make out their meanings. You may consult a dictionary if necessary. Then translate the given sentences into English, using one of them.

▆ Answers:

1) We are short of hands.

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2) I still have some money in hand. 3) Give me a hand with this box, please. 4) I often keep a dictionary at hand. 5) The football fans were out of hand.

6) Hand out the pencils to everyone in the class.

7) This ring was handed down to me by my grandmother. 8) Time’s up. Please hand in your test papers.

9) Please hand on the magazine to your roommates. 10) I’m afraid I can’t help you. I’m a green hand.

Grammar in Context

1. Now complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese in the brackets into English. Make

sure that the sentences are in the inverted order.

▆ Answers for reference:

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6)

Sitting on the stairs was / On the stairs was sitting Over the wall came / flew Round the corner was Then finally came

Under the table was lying

At / On the top of (On top of) the hill stood

2. Now correct the mistakes in the following sentences, if any. Write NONE under the correct sentence(s).

▆ Answers for reference:

1) The beaver chews down trees to get food and material to build its home with. 2) Do your parents think Tom is a nice boy to go out with? (Cross out him)

3) The goals for which he has fought all his life seem unimportant to him now.

4) NONE.

5) The essay starts by asking a question, to which the author then gives a positive answer.

Cloze

Complete the following passage with words chosen from this unit. The initial letter of each is given.

▆ Answers: 1) haste

2) state of affairs 3) distinguished 4) meeting of minds 5) blossom 6) inner charm 7) intimacy 8) emotion 9) acquiring 10) ideals 11) admiration 12) lasting 13) affection 14) forge

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15) honor

16) overwhelming

Translation

1. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and expressions given in brackets.

▆ Answers for reference:

1) In either friendship or love / In both friendship and love, you should never expect to take / receive the

maximum while you give the minimum.

2) I built all my hopes on his promise(s), only to find that he was not a man of sincerity at all.

3) We took Mother to all the best hospitals we could find, but all our efforts were in vain; she failed to

survive the disease.

4) Valentine’s Day is an annual holiday celebrated on February 14, a perfect day to express love to the

object of your / one’s affection.

5) In the information era, communications with far-away friends via e-mail can be almost / virtually

simultaneous.

6) Love needs to be nurtured, and the “eternal / everlasting love” that we all dream to have is not forged

until we learn to appreciate and tolerate the other.

2. Translate the following paragraph into English, using the words and expressions in the box below.

▆ Answers for reference:

After dinner, we all sat around the hearth. Aunt Susan was still in the grief of losing Uncle Robert. In her soft voice she told us about their past years. Uncle Robert joined the army shortly after they were engaged. Given the critical situation at the time when lots of army men didn’t return alive, you can imagine how much horrified Aunt Susan was every day, and how much overjoyed she was to see Uncle Robert back safe and sound from the European battlefield. Then they got married and brought up five children. For all those years, their affection for each other grew stronger in the course of overcoming difficulties and hardships in life. I was fascinated by Aunt Susan’s story, which was totally different from my ideal of love. They practiced, in their daily life, giving and sharing instead of pursuing passion and romance, or making complaints. Amazingly, such love lasted through their whole life.

Theme-Related Writing

Do either one of the following two tasks after class.

1. Based on Text A, write a passage about the different ways different generations handle male-female relationships. The following hints may be of some help. 1) “our” parents’ generation (details mainly found in Para. 8); 2) “my” generation (details mainly found in Paras. 3–7);

3) the younger generation (details mainly found in Paras. 9–11).

2. Study the following data on love and marriage based on a survey with girl students. Write a passage on the topic “What do girl students look for in love and life?” ▆

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