武汉理工大学研究生英语上册课后翻译.doc

Unit1:Schooling Passage One Marva was a striking woman with high cheekbones and strong angular features. 在人群中，马文老师总是会显得很醒目，她有着高高的颧骨，瘦而强健。 2.Slender though not willowy, Marva was immediately discerniblein a crowd——even without the visibility afforded by her height--for she acquired a poise and sophistication that gave her appearance a deliberate style. 马文老师瘦削而不软弱，就算她没有那么高，在人群中时还是一眼就能识别出来——因为她有着特别的镇静及教养，这些都使她有了一种严谨的风格。 In Marva’s opinion, it was important to have a unique imprint. 在马文老师看来，给人留下独特的印象是很重要的。 4.She was so determined.,0r just plain stubborn. 她意志坚定，或者说只是固执。 There were excitement building and Marva worked the momentum, like an entertainer who felt the pulse of an audience. 马文老师触动了孩子们兴奋的神经，她就像是一个能够触到观众脉搏的表演者。 Passage Two I had a teacher once who called his students idiots when they screwed up. He was our orchestra conductor, a fierce Ukrainian immigrant named Jerry Kupchynsky, and when someone played out of tune, he would stop the entire group to yell. 我曾经遇到过这样一位管弦乐指挥严师。当有人弹错时，他怒骂他为白痴，当有人弹走音时，他暂停指挥，怒吼。他就是杰瑞·卡帕奇斯基——乌克兰移民。 The conventional wisdom holds that teachers are supposed to tease knowledge out of students, rather than pound it into their heads. Projects and collaborative learning are applauded; traditional methods like lecturing and memorization -- derided as drill and kill -- are frowned upon, dismissed as a surefire way to suck young minds dry of creativity and motivation. 传统的观念认为老师应该为学生梳理知识，而不是一味的把知识塞进他们的脑袋里。作业和小组学习都是倍受青睐的学习手段。传统的方法，如讲授和背诵，都被讥讽为“钻杀”，被人反对，被贬为是用正确的方法来蚕食年轻一代的创造力和积极性。 Rote learning, long discredited, is now recognized as one reason that children whose families come from India (where memorization is still prized) are creaming their peers in the National Spelling Bee Championship. 死记硬背现在被作为解释来自印度（印度人的记忆力让人赞不绝口）家庭的孩子在全国拼字比赛中大胜对手的一个原因。 The fear, of course is that failure will traumatize our kids, sapping them of self-esteem. 当然，我们也担心失败会给孩子造成精神创伤，削弱他们的自尊。 The researchers had assumed that the most effective teachers would lead students to know