2015年 河海大学研究生英语一 Unit 12 Thanksgiving.docVIP

Unit 12 Thanksgiving Soon they will be together again, all the people who travel between their own lives and each other’s. The package tour of the season will lure诱惑 them this week to the family table. 诱惑 很快，所有在人生路途中漂泊的人们将相聚一堂。本周，回家是他们唯一能做的事，吸引着他们聚在家庭餐桌前。 By Thursday, feast盛宴、宴会 day, family day, Thanksgiving day, Americans who value individualism like no other people will collect around a million tables in a ritual of belonging. 盛宴、宴会 在周四，宴会日，家庭日，感恩节这天，最崇尚个人主义的美国人将以一种归属的仪式，聚集在百万张餐桌前。 They will assemble their families the way they assemble dinner: each one bearing a personality as different as cranberry蔓越橘、小红莓 sauce and pumpkin南瓜 pie. For one dinner they will cook for each other, fuss for each other, feed each other and argue with each other. 蔓越橘、小红莓 南瓜 家人聚在一起，就像他们张罗的晚餐一样：每个人有着不同的个性，就像蔓越橘沙拉不同于南瓜饼一样。晚餐中，他们煮给彼此吃，相互抱怨，相互喂食，相互争论。 They will nod at their common heritage（文化、历史的）遗产、传统, the craziness and caring of other generations. They will measure their common legacy 遗产、遗赠物… the children. （文化、历史的）遗产、传统 遗产、遗赠物 对于共同传统和对其他几代人的狂热和关爱，他们都很认同。他们共同评价他们共同的财产…孩子。 All these complex cells, these men and women, old and young, with different dreams and disappointments will give homage 尊敬、敬意again to the group they are a part of and apart from: their family. 尊敬、敬意 这些复杂的人们，拥有不同梦想和失意的男女老少，将对家庭即他们从属又脱离的集体表现出敬意。 Families and individuals. The “we” and the “I”. As good Americans we all travel between these two ideals. 家人和个人，“我们”和“我”。作为好美国人，我们在这两个理想之间来回穿梭。 We take value trips from the great American notion of individualism to the great American vision of family. We wear our tires driving back and forth, using speed to shorten the distance between these two principles. 我们在伟大的美国人观念中的个人主义及其幻想中的家庭之间来回穿梭。我们驾车磨损轮胎来来回回，用速度来缩短两者之间的距离。 There has always been some pavement between a person and a family. From the first moment we recognize that we are separate we begin to wrestle 奋力对抗、奋战with aloneness and togetherness. 奋力对抗、奋战 个人和家庭之间往往存在着某种联系。从意识到我们离家的那一刻起，我们便开始与孤独和亲密无间作斗争。 Here and now these conflic