2022年2022年Unit3Outofstep課文翻譯綜合教程三

1、精選學(xué)習(xí)資料 - - - 歡迎下載unit 3out of stepbill bryson1 after living in england for 20 years、 my wife and i decided to move back to the unitedstates. we wanted to live in a town small enough that we could walk to the business district、 and settled on hanover、 n.h.、 a typical new england town pleasant、 sedate

2、 and compact. it has a broad central green surrounded by the venerable buildings ofdartmouth college、 an old-fashioned main street and leafy residential neighborhoods.2 it is、 in short、 an agreeable、 easy place to go about one s business on foot、 and yet as far as i can tell、 virtually no one does.3

3、 nearly every day、 i walk to the post office or library or bookstore、 and sometimes、 if iamfeelingparticularlydebonair、istopatroseyjekescaf é foracappuccino.occasionally、 in the evenings、 my wife and i stroll up to the nugget theatre for a movie orto murphy s on the green for a beer、 i wouldn t

4、 dream of going to any of these places by car. people have gotten used to my eccentric behavior、 but in the early days acquaintanceswould often pull up to the curb and ask if i wanted a ride.4 “ i gmoingyourway、 ”t heywouldinsistwheni politelydeclined.“ really、 itnso bother.”5 “ honestly、 i enjoy wa

5、lking.”6 “ well、 ifyou resure、”th eywouldsay anddepartreluctantly、even g uiltily、as if leaving the scene of an accident without giving their name.7 inthe unitedstates we have become so habituatedto usingthe car foreverything that it doesn t occur to us to unfurl our legs and see what those lower lim

6、bs can do. wehavereachedanage wherecollegestudentsexpecttodrivebetweenclasses、whereparents will drive three blocks to pick up their children from a friend s house、 where the letter carrier takes his van up and down every driveway on a street.8 wewillgothroughthemostextraordinarycontortionstosaveours

7、elvesfrom walking. sometimes it s almost ludicrous. the other day i was waiting to bring home oneof my children from a piano lesson when a car stopped outside a post office、 and a man about my age popped out and dashed inside. he was in the post office for about three orfour minutes、 and then came o

8、ut、 got in the car and drove exactly 16 feet i had nothing better to do、 so i paced it off to the general store6 next door.9 and the thing is、 this man looked reallyfit. i m sure he jogs extravagant distances andplays squash and does all kinds of healthful things、 but i am just as sure that he drive

9、s to精品學(xué)習(xí)資料精選學(xué)習(xí)資料 - - - 歡迎下載each of these undertakings.10 an acquaintance of ours was complaining the other day about the difficulty of finding a place to park outside the local gymnasium. she goes there several times a week to walk on a treadmill. the gymnasium is、 at most、 a six-minute walk from he

10、r front door.11 i asked her why she didn t walk to the gym and do six minutes less on the treadmill.12 she lookedat meas ifiweretragicallysimple- mindedandsaid、“ but ihavea program for the treadmill. it records my distance and speed and calorie burn rate、 and ican adjust it for degree of difficulty.

11、”13 i confessithadnotoccurredtomehowthoughtlesslydeficientnatureis inthis regard.14 according to a concerned and faintly horrified 1997 editorial in theboston globe 、 the unitedstates spentless thanone percentof itstransportationbudgeton facilitiesforpedestrians. actually、 i m surpt rwisaesdtihat mu

12、ch. go to almost any suburb developedin the last 30 years、 and you will not find a sidewalk anywhere. often you won t find a single pedestrian crossing.15 i had this brought home to me one summer when we were driving across maine and stopped for coffee in one of those endless zones of shopping malls

13、、 motels、 gas stations and fast-food places. i noticed there was a bookstore across the street、 so i decided to skip coffee and head over.16 although the bookshop was no more than 70 or 80 feet away、 i discovered that there was no way to cross on foot without dodging over six lanes of swiftly moving

14、 traffic. in the end、 i had to get in our car and drive across.17 at the time、 it seemed ridiculous and exasperating、 but afterward i realized that i waspossiblytheonlypersonevertohaveentertainedthenotionofnegotiatingthat intersection on foot.18 the fact is、 we not only don t walk anywhere anymore i

15、n this country、 we won t walkanywhere、andwoetoanyonewhotriestomakeus、as thecityoflaconia、n.h.、 discovered. in the early 1970s、 laconia spent millions on a comprehensive urban renewalproject、 which included building a pedestrian mall to make shopping more pleasant. esthetically it was a triumph urban

16、 planners came from all over to coo and take photos-but commercially it was a disaster. forced to walk one whole block from aparking garage、 shoppers abandoned downtown laconia for suburban malls.19 in 1994 laconia dug up its pretty paving blocks、 took away the tubs of geraniums and decorativetrees、

17、 and broughtback thecars. now peoplecan parkrightin frontof the stores again、 and downtown laconia thrives anew.精品學(xué)習(xí)資料精選學(xué)習(xí)資料 - - - 歡迎下載20 and if that isn t sad. i don t know what is.不合拍比爾 · 布里森1在英格蘭住了20 年之后,我和妻子打算搬回美國；由于想住在二- 個可以步行到商業(yè)區(qū)的小城鎮(zhèn),所以我們打算定居在新罕布什爾州的漢諾威,一個典型的新英格蘭城鎮(zhèn),令人開心. 安靜而緊湊； 城鎮(zhèn)中心有一大塊寬敞

18、的綠地,四周為達(dá)特茅斯學(xué)院那莊重的建筑.一條老式的主干道和綠樹成蔭的住宅區(qū)；2總之,這為一個怡人.舒服的地方,適合步行去上班；不過據(jù)我所知,實(shí)際上沒有什么人這樣做；3我?guī)缀趺刻於疾叫腥ム]局.圖書館或書店,有時(shí),假如心情極好,我會在羅斯杰克斯咖啡店喝上一杯卡布奇諾咖啡；有時(shí),我會和妻子在晚上閑逛到納吉特劇院看上一場電影, 或?yàn)榈礁窳纸值哪频旰缺【?；我做夢都沒想過開車去這些地方；人們對我的奇怪行為已經(jīng)習(xí)以為常,但為開頭的時(shí)候,熟人們會將車停在路邊,問我為否要搭車；4 “我和你同路,”他們堅(jiān)持道,“真的,一點(diǎn)也不麻煩；”而我婉言謝絕；5 “說實(shí)話,我喜愛步行；”6 “哦,那隨你吧,”他們這么說著

19、然后不愿意地離開了,甚至帶著點(diǎn)負(fù)罪感,就似乎離開了事故現(xiàn)場卻沒有留下姓名；7在美國,我們已經(jīng)習(xí)慣于事事用車,時(shí)時(shí)開車,我們都沒想過舒展雙腿,看看自己的下肢究竟能做些什么；我們已經(jīng)進(jìn)入了這樣一個時(shí)代,高校生期望課間開車去上課,父母會開車去三個街區(qū)外的伴侶家接孩子,郵遞員在街上開車在每一條私人車道上進(jìn)進(jìn)出出；8 為了不走路,我們愿意忍耐最可怕的身體扭曲；有時(shí)甚至到了愚蠢可笑的地步；一天,我正在等著接上鋼琴課的孩子回家,這時(shí)一輛汽車停在了郵局i"1 口,車門砰地一聲打開了, 一位男士和我年齡相仿,他走下車沖進(jìn)郵局；只在郵局里呆了三四分鐘,他就出了郵 局,鉆進(jìn)汽車,開了16 英尺 我也沒什么

20、事可干,正好用步伐量了量到隔壁的百貨商店；9情形為這樣的,這個人看上去身體健康；我信任他會長跑.會打壁球,參加其他各種有益于健康的運(yùn)動,但為我也信任他會開車前往這些運(yùn)動場所；10某日我們的一位熟人埋怨本地健身會所外很難找到停車的地方,她一周有幾次會去那里在走步機(jī)上錘煉身體；從這個健身會所走路到她家前門最多6 分鐘；11我問她為什么不步行到健身房,這樣在走步機(jī)上少走6 分鐘就行了；12她看著我,似乎我為個可憐的傻瓜似的,然后說,“但為步行機(jī)上有我的錘煉程序；它記錄我錘煉的距離.時(shí)間和卡路里的消耗量,我仍可以利用它調(diào)整錘煉的難易程度；”13我承認(rèn),過去我從來沒有意識到我對這個問題為多么地思慮不周；141997 年波士頓環(huán)球報(bào)刊載的一篇有點(diǎn)駭人聽聞的相關(guān)社論說,美國在專為行人精品學(xué)習(xí)