2010大学英语阅读教程翻译.doc

大学英语阅读教程（通用本）学生用书2部分课文翻译 The Pleasure of learning 学习的乐趣 Gilbert Highet As most schools are set up today, learning is compulsory. It is an Ought even worse, a Must, enforced by regular hours and rigid discipline. And the young sneer at the Oughts and resist the Musts with all their energy. The feeling often lasts through a lifetime. For too many of us, learning appears to be a surrender of our own will to external direction, a sort of enslavement. 在越来越多学校设立的今天，学习已成了一种义务。是应该做的，说严重点，是必须做的，靠固定的课时和严格的纪律来维持，这是很糟糕的。学生们对这些必修课嗤之以鼻，并竭尽全力抗拒它们。这种态度可能伴随一生。对于太多的人来说，学习似乎是自己的意愿屈服于外界的指引，是一种奴役。 This is a mistake. Learning is a natural pleasure, inborn and instinctive, one of the essential pleasures of the human race. Watch a small child, at an age too young to have had any mental habits implanted by training. Some delightful films made by the late Dr. Arnold Gesell of Yale University show little creatures who can barely talk investigating problems with all the zeal and excitement of explorers, making discoveries with the passion and absorption of dedicated scientists. At the end of each successful investigation, there comes over each tiny face an expression of pure heart-felt pleasure. 这种观点是错的。学习是一种享受，是与生俱来的本能，是人类最基本的享受。看看那些尚未接在训练中获取任何心理定势的幼儿。已故耶鲁大学博士阿诺德.吉赛尔（Arnold Gesell）摄制了一组有趣的影片，它们显示：尚无语言能力的幼儿如探险家一样热切、兴奋地研究问题，如科学家一般热情、专注地寻求发现。一旦探究成功，孩子们的小脸上就呈现出满心欢喜的表情。 But if the pleasure of learning is universal, why are there so many dull, incurious people in the world? It is because they were made dull, by bad teaching, by isolation, by surrender to routine; sometimes, too, by the pressure of hard work and poverty; or by the toxin of riches, with all their ephemeral and trivial delights. With luck, resolution and guidance, however, the human mind can survive not only poverty but even wealth. 但是，如果说学习的乐趣是带有普遍性的，那为什么还有那么多人麻木迟钝、对任何东西都不抱好奇心？这是因为，他们接受了糟糕的教育、处在孤陋寡闻的状态、向一成不变的日常生活妥协了，也许还为劳役和贫穷所困，或在金钱的毒害下耽于声色，因此变得既麻木又迟钝。然而，只要有适当的机会、坚定的决心和明确的方向，作为人之本性的学习的乐趣完全可以保持下来，而不管生活富足与否。 This pleasure is not confin