大英一各单元summary与英汉互译.doc

第一单元 The writer describes the first few days of university life in the diary with a casual , informal style full of humor and exaggeration. As a fresher, the writer has many problems: feeling lonely and lost, not having a good appetite for the food in the dining hall, feeling not as intelligent and knowledgeable as others; not knowing how to take notes and how to wash clothes. Besides, her dormitory looks very small. The tutor seems unfriendly and uncaring. The library rules are too strict. The writer tries to solve the problems: joining many clubs and societies to make more friends, talking to Mum on the phone to get some comfort and advice. The writer of the text newly arrived in New York as an immigrant. He worked full time with a variety of manual jobs while taking courses at the university. He was faced with many problems. He felt inferior (自卑) to his classmates because he didn’t have a high school diploma and he had a strong Irish accent. He didn’t know how to take notes in the class. He was puzzled by what the professor said about the Pilgrims and dared not ask questions in the class. Being lonely and insecure, he was dreaming of a good-looking girl who was impressed by what he had read and what he would fall in love with him. 第二单元 It was the first time that I had oyster. Before I had it, I thought it was disgusted to eat. And I even missed mother’s cook and fish and fries. But my father encouraged me to swallow it, which he thought was delicious. In order to earned his love and respect, I did, and that was the last time I had oyster. The passage tells us the history of chocolates and the progress of making cocoa beans into chocolates. It also tells us the reason we like chocolate so much and according to experiment, which proves that genetic trait makes us prefer to eat things with a sweet taste. But we just like chocolate not other sweet things. Although there are about 300 different chemicals in chocolate, we really don’t know how all of these affe