新标准大学英语综合教?/p>
3
课文与翻?/p>
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Unit
1-1
Catching crabs
1 In the fall of our final year, our mood changed. The relaxed
atmosphere of the preceding summer semester, the
impromptu
ball
games,
the
boating
on
the
Charles
River,
the
late-night
parties
had
disappeared,
and
we
all
started
to
get
our
heads
down,
studying
late,
and
attendance
at
classes
rose
steeply
again.
We
all
sensed
we
were
coming
to
the
end
of
our
stay
here, that we would never get a chance like this again, and we
became
determined
not
to
waste
it.
Most
important
of
course
were the final exams in April and May in the following year. No
one wanted the
humiliation
of finishing last in class, so the peer
group pressure to work hard was strong. Libraries which were
once
empty
after
five
o'clock
in
the
afternoon
were
standing
room only until the early hours of the morning, and guys wore
the bags under their eyes and their pale, sleepy faces with pride,
like medals proving their
diligence
.
2 But
there
was
something
else.
At
the
back
of
everyone's
mind was what we would do next, when we left university in a
few months' time. It wasn't always the high
flyers
with the top
grades who knew what they were going to do. Quite often it was
the quieter, less
impressive
students who had the next stages of
their
life
mapped
out.
One
had
landed
a
job
in
his
brother's
advertising
firm
in
Madison
Avenue
,
another
had
got
a
script
under
provisional
acceptance
in
Hollywood
.
The
most
ambitious
student
among
us
was
going
to
work
as
a
party
activist at a local level. We all saw him ending up in the
Senate
or in
Congress
one day. But most people were either looking to
continue
their
studies,
or
to make
a
living
with
a
white-collar
job in a bank, local government, or anything which would pay
them enough to have a comfortable time in their early twenties,
and then settle down with a family, a
mortgage
and some hope
of
promotion
.
3 I went home at
Thanksgiving
, and
inevitably
, my brothers
and sisters kept asking me what I was planning to do. I didn't
know
what
to
say.
Actually,
I
did
know
what
to
say,
but
I
thought
they'd
probably
criticize
me,
so
I
told
them
what
everyone else was thinking of doing.
4 My father was watching me but saying nothing. Late in the
evening, he invited me to his study. We sat down and he poured
抓螃?/p>
1.
大学最后一年的秋天?/p>
我们的心情变了?/p>
?/p>
刚过去的夏季学期的轻松氛围、即兴球赛?/p>
查尔斯河上的泛舟以及深夜晚会都不见了?/p>
影,我们开始埋头学习,苦读到深夜,课堂
出勤率再次急剧上升?/p>
我们都觉得在校时?/p>
不多了,
以后再也不会有这样的学习机会了,
所以都下定决心不再虚度光阴?/p>
当然?/p>
下一
年四五月份的期末考试最为重要?/p>
我们谁都
不想考全班倒数第一,那也太丢人了,因此
同学们之间的竞争压力特别大?/p>
以前每天?/p>
午五点以后,图书馆就空无一人了,现在却
要等到天快亮时才会有空座,小伙子们熬?/p>
熬出了眼袋,他们脸色苍白,睡眼惺忪,?/p>
很自豪,好像这些都是表彰他们勤奋好学?/p>
奖章?/p>
2.
还有别的事情让大家心情焦虑?/p>
每个人都?/p>
心里盘算着过几个月毕业离校之后该找份什
么样的工作?/p>
并不总是那些心怀抱负?/p>
成绩
拔尖的高材生才清楚自己将来要做什么,?/p>
常是那些平日里默默无闻的同学早早为自?/p>
下几个阶段的人生做好了规划?/p>
有位同学?/p>
位于麦迪逊大道他哥哥的广告公司得到了一
份工作,另一位同学写的电影脚本已经与?/p>
莱坞草签了合约?/p>
我们当中野心最大的一?/p>
同学准备到地方上当一个政党活动家,我?/p>
都预料他最终会当上参议员或国会议员?/p>
?/p>
大多数同学不是准备继续深造,就是想在?/p>
行、地方政府或其他单位当个白领,希望在
20
出头的时候能挣到足够多的薪水,过上舒
适的生活,然后就娶妻生子,贷款买房,?/p>
望升职,过安稳日子?/p>
3.
感恩节的时候我回了一趟家,兄弟姐妹们?/p>
不了不停地问我毕业后有什么打算,我不?/p>
道该说什么?/p>
实际上,
我知道该说什么,
?/p>
我怕他们批评我,所以只对他们说了别人都
准备干什么?/p>
4.
父亲看着我,
什么也没说?/p>
夜深时,
他叫?/p>
去他的书房?/p>
我们坐了下来?/p>
他给我们俩各