閱讀難點關(guān)鍵句200句之七（中英對照）

    121. He enjoys the liberties hard won over centuries by the alliance of philosophic genius and political heroism, consecrated by the blood of martyrs (烈士) ; he is provided with comport and leisure by the most productive economy ever known to mankind; science has penetrated the secrets of nature in order to provide him with the marvellous, life like electronic sound and image reproductions he is enjoying.

    122. Each highbrow did and does congratulate himself on being unique in his unlikeness to other men; and conversely each lowbrow now congratulate himself on being in some mystical way unique in his likeness—on being, so to say, outstandingly average and extraordinarily ordinary.

    123. As for the lowbrows’ claim to be specially “human”, I for one have never been able to understand why it should be “inhuman” to use the faculties that distinguish us from pigs and geese and “human” to use those which we share with the lower animals.

    124. There is no disputing, says the proverb, about taste—though, in fact, human beings spend at least half their leisure doing nothing else—and if highbrowism and lowbrowism were exclusively ( as it is certain that they are in great part) matters of individual taste, there would be no more to say about them than what I have said in the preceding lines.

    125. Thus I desire a great deal less pleasure from jazz and thrillers than from the music, let us say, of Beethoven(貝多芬) or the novels, for example, of Dostoievsky; and the sex appeal of the girls on the covers of magazines seems to me less thrilling than the more complicated appeal to a great variety of feelings made by a Rubens, an EI Greco, a Constable, a Seurat.

    126. One need only ask first-year university students what music they listen to , how much of it and what it means to them, in order to discover that the phenomenon is universal in America, that it begins in adolescence or a bit before and continues through the college years.

    127. They start, like the pharisee in the parable , by thanking God that the are not as other men are, and proceed to paint a picture of those other men, hardly more flattering than that which Swift painted of the Yahoos.

    128. Each time the dream was a promise out of our ancient articles of faith, phrases from the constitution, lines from the great anthem of the nation, guarantees from the Bill of Rights, all ending with a vision that they might one day all come true

    129. For many the day seemed an adventure, a long outing in the late summer sun—part liberation from home, part Sunday school picnic, part political convention, and part fish fry.
    130. It may not “l(fā)ook to it” at once, since it is looking to so many things, but it will be a long time before it forgets the melodious(悅耳的) and melancholy (憂郁的) voice of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Jr., crying out his dreams to the multitude(大眾).

    131. Above all , they got over Lincoln’s point that “ the necessity of being ready increase”, for they left no doubt that this was not the climax of their campaign for equality but merely the beginning, that they were going to stay in the streets until they could get equality in the schools, restaurants, houses and employment agencies of the nation, and that, as they demonstrated here today, they had found an effective way to demonstrate for changes in the laws without breaking the law themselves.

    132. Although we apparently have a need for REM sleep, judging from the fact that our bodies automatically compensate for a loss of it, what REM sleep actually does for us is not clear.

    133. Coming out while you were poised unsteadily on the icy, springy brush they made difficult shooting and I killed two, missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day.

    134. More important to them, though, is that it gives them some places where they can borrow money at a cost that is usually a good deal less than at the small-loan agency, or the installment house, or indeed most places.

    135. That sex ratio will be favored which maximizes the number of descendants an individual will have and hence the number of gene copies transmitted.

    136. Temporary shortages do occur, but Simon and other boomsters(興旺論者) argue that as long as government doesn’t interfere—by mandating (指令) conservation or setting price controls (價格) —people will find alternative (代用品).

    137. He seldom ignores that many potential votes, and it did not escape the notice of congressmen that these Negro organizations, some of which had almost as much trouble getting out a crowd as the Washington Senators several years ago, were now capable of organizing the largest demonstrating throng (群眾) ever gathered at one spot in the District of Columbia..

    138. Towards the end of the century there was still considerable argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully, and over whether the reading of material such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening.

    139. However, whatever its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media(宣傳工具)on the one hand and by books and magazines for a specialized readership on the other.

    140. By the end of the century students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books and to use skills in reading them which were inappropriate, if not impossible, for the oral reader.

    第七部分（121-140句譯文）

    121、他享受著數(shù)世紀來哲學(xué)天才和政治英雄們聯(lián)合取得的自由，這是被烈士的鮮血神圣化了的自由；著人類有史以來最發(fā)達的經(jīng)濟提供的舒適與休閑；科學(xué)解開了自然的奧秘，使他能享受神奇逼真的音響和影像效果。

    122、每個有學(xué)問的人慶幸著自己與其他人的不一般；反過來沒有學(xué)問的人則正慶幸著自己說不清的與別人的相似性——對于存在，這么說吧，杰出的大眾化和非凡的普通。

    123、對于沒學(xué)問者自稱特殊的“人類”，有一點我一直搞不明白，為什么是“非人類”去使用那些設(shè)施來將我們和豬啊、鵝啊劃分，而“人類”去使用那些我們與低等動物共享的東西。

    124、諺語中說對于口味來說，是沒有爭議的——盡管在事實上，人類一—至少在一半的休閑時間里什么也不做——并且如果陽春白雪和下里巴人對于個人口味的問題是排外（這一點在很大程度上是肯定的），那么對于他們來說，除了我在前面講的，就沒什么說的了。

    125、因此我從爵士樂和刺激性事物中找到的樂趣需比音樂里的少得多，比如說，貝多芬的或者是Dostoievsky的小說；雜志封面上的性感女郎比Rubens，Greco，Constablet Seurat所創(chuàng)造的精細復(fù)雜的情感對于我來說要遜色得多。

    126、只要問問大學(xué)一年級的學(xué)生他們聽什么音樂，那對他們有多重要或者說意味著什么，就可以發(fā)現(xiàn)在美國是個普遍現(xiàn)象，它開始于青春期或更早的時候但會延續(xù)整個大學(xué)時代。

    127、像寓言中的古法利賽人一樣，他們感謝上帝——他們與普通人不一樣，去畫那些人的圖畫，幾乎比Swift畫的人形獸還要好看。

    128、每一次夢想都是來自于古老的忠誠的承諾，憲法中的詞句，國歌中的歌詞，人權(quán)法案所保證，都是以希望有一天它能成為現(xiàn)實的期望來結(jié)束的。

    129、對于許多人來說，這一天像冒險活動，在盛夏和陽光下長時間等著——有的是從家里出來輕松，有的是學(xué)校周日野炊，有的是政治會議，有的烤魚吃。

    130、也許不能注意到它，因為在注意著許多事情，但是很長時間后也很難忘記Rev、Dr、Martin、Luther.Jr.,用悅耳憂郁的聲音向大眾呼喊出他的夢想。

    131、首先，他們明白了林肯的“準(zhǔn)備增長的必需性”理論，因為他們一點也不懷疑他們爭取平等的運動還沒有達到高潮，而僅僅是個開端，他們要繼續(xù)在街上靜坐直到他們在學(xué)校、飯店、室內(nèi)和職業(yè)介紹機構(gòu)得到平等對待的權(quán)力。而且，就像他們現(xiàn)在展示的一樣，他們已經(jīng)找到了不觸犯法律來引起法律的改變的有效的方法。

    132、從我們的身體能夠自動地對損失作出補償這個事來看，盡管我們明顯地需要REM Crapid eye movement睡眠，但REM睡眠對我們的身體有什么作用還不清楚。

    133、（我）出來的時候在冰冷多刺的灌木叢里不太安穩(wěn)地待著，他們打得很困難，我打到了兩只、跑了五只，回來的時候我看到房子邊還有一群，很高興它們留下來的下次好打。

    134、對于他們來說更重要的是，給他們提供了一個以一定代價借錢的地方，這比小型的借貸公司，分期付款行或者其他地方要便宜得多。

    135、能使個體擁有最多后代的性別比例被推崇，以便來使基因的數(shù)目也被傳輸下去。

    136、當(dāng)代短缺確實出現(xiàn)，但西蒙和其他興旺論者認為只要政府不干預(yù)——通過消費指令或者價格控制——人們總能找到替代品。

    137、他很少忽略許多潛在的選票，許多黑人組織也沒有逃過議員們的眼睛，幾年前還像高級議員一樣很難沖出人群的黑人組織現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)能夠組織哥倫比亞區(qū)最大的群眾集會了。

    138、直到這個世紀末還是有大量的這樣的爭論，書籍是否應(yīng)該作為信息來認真對待，還是有些像報紙之類的閱讀材料已經(jīng)在精神上有某種程度地減弱了。

    139、然而，不管它有什么優(yōu)點，古老的共享文字文化已經(jīng)過去了，一方面被印刷的大眾媒體代替，另一方面被給特定讀都出版的書籍和雜志代替了。

    140、到這個世紀末，學(xué)生們被介紹對書籍要采用“拿來主義”，閱讀時也要采用技巧，可能的話，對于朗讀者來說是不太適合的。