新标准大学英语综合教程四1~3单元课后翻译.docx

我认为，选修第二专业并不适合每一位本科生。我大学本科主修英语专业，大一时就开始辅修经济学了。无疑，我是班里最用功的学生。我竭尽全力想同时达到两个不同专业的要求，但还是有不及格的时候。因为经济学需要良好的数学基础，我不得不花大量时间钻研数学，因而忽略了英语学习。? (if?you?ask?me;?odds;?try?as?…?might;?sap?one‘s?confidence;?given?that;?bow?to?fate;?come?to?a?close;?for?fear?that;?now?that)? If?you?ask?me,?taking?a?second?major?isn‘t?good?for?every?undergraduate.?In?my?freshman?year?as?an?English?major,?I?took?economics?as?my?minor.?By?all?odds,?I?was?the?most?hardworking?student?in?my?class.?But?try?as?I?might?to?meet?the?requirements?of?the?two?different?subjects,?I?still?couldn‘t?do well?enough?to?pass?all?the?exams.?Given?that?the?study?of?economics?required?a?good?command?ofmathematics,?I?had?to?spend?so?much?time?on?math?that?I?neglected?my?English?major.? ? ?第二学期,《英国文学》及《宏观经济学》两门课不及格给我敲响了警钟，这可是我一生中第一次考试不及格，这大大打击了我的自信心。虽然我不是一个容易向命运低头的人，在暑假结束的时候，我还是决定放弃经济学，以免两个专业都难以完成。当我只需修一个专业的时候，一切似乎又回到了正轨。-?7?-? Failing?English?Literature?and?Macroeconomics?in?the?second?semester?sounded?the?alarm?for?me.?This?was?the?first?time?I?did?not?pass?a?course?in?my?life,?which?had?greatly?sapped?my?confidence.?Although?I?was?not?a?man?who?would?easily?bow?to?fate,?as?the?summer?break?came?to?a?close,?I?decided?to?give?up?economics?for?fear?that?I?would?fail?in?both?subjects.?Now?that?I?had?only?one?subject?to?attend?to,?everything?seemed?to?be?on?the?right?track?again.1?张磊是在毕业工作后才开始意识到读书的乐趣的。反思自己的大学教育时，他感慨不已：他的一些同学都沉浸于从图书馆或书店找到的各种有趣的书籍，而他却只读了一些教科书，其中连一本真正能让他爱不释手、值得一读的书都没有。他可以说是被剥夺了通过书了解作家奇妙世界的特权。? It?was?not?until?after?he?had?graduated?from?university?and?started?to?work?that?Zhang?Lei?became?aware?of?the?pleasure?of?reading.?Reflecting?on?his?undergraduate?studies,?he?lamented?that?he,?unlike?his?classmates?who?had?immersed?themselves?in?various?interesting?books?they?were?able?to?lay?hands?on?from?the?library?or?bookshop,?had?only?read?textbooks,?none?of?which?was?really?worthwhile,?or?could?be?read?in?one?sitting.?He?was?deprived?of?the?privilege?of?gaining?access?to?the?writers‘?fantasticworlds?through?the?wi