新编英语教程第 3 册的课文.doc

《新编英语教程》（修订版）第三册 Unit 1[见教材P1] My First Job 我的第一份工作 Robert Best 罗伯特.贝斯特 ①While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a local newspaper a teaching post advertised at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived.② Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no experience of teaching my chances of landing the job were slim. ①那年，我考上了大学，还没有入校时，在本地一家报纸上看到一所学校发布广告，招聘一名教师。②这所学校位于伦敦郊区，距离我住的地方大约[有]十英里。③当时因为急需用钱，又想做些有意义的事情，于是我就提出了申请。④但是同时，我又担心，既没有学位又没有教学经验，所以获得这个职位的可能性非常小。 ①However, three days later a letter arrived, summoning me to Croydon for an interview. ②It proved an awkward journey: a train to Croydon station; a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile. ③As a result I arrived on a hot June morning too depressed to feel nervous. ①然而，三天以后来信了，通知我到Croydon参加面试。②路很不好走，先坐火车到Croydon车站，再坐十分钟的公交车，最后步行至少0.25英里才到达目的地。③ ①The school was a dreary, gabled Victorian house of red brick and with big staring sash-windows. ②The front garden was a gravel square; four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, where they struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main road. ①学校是一幢维多利亚时代的红砖建筑，有山墙，有很大的垂直拉窗，闪闪发光，让人感觉单调乏味。②房前是一个由砾石铺成的广场，四柱常绿灌木分立四角。③学校附近有一条繁忙的公路，所以有很多灰尘和废气，这四柱灌木在灰尘和废气的“折磨”下奄奄一息。 ①It was clearly the headmaster himself that opened the door. ②He was short and rotund. ③He had a sandy-coloured moustache, a freckled forehead and hardly any hair. ④He was wearing a tweed suit — one felt somehow he had always worn it — and across his ample stomach was looped a silver watch-chain. ①开门的显然是校长。②他身材矮胖，留着沙黄色的胡子，额头上有斑点，几乎没有头发。③他穿着一件粗花呢外套，让人觉得他总是穿这件衣服；肥硕的肚子上耷拉着一条银色的表链。 ①He looked at me with an air of surprised disapproval, as a colonel might look at a private whose bootlaces were undone. ② “Ah yes,” he grunted. “You’d better come inside.” ③The narrow, sunless hall smelled unpleasantly of stale cabbage; the cream-printed walls had gone a dingy margarine col