【正文】 第一篇：新視野大學(xué)英語綜合教程3 課文及課文翻譯Unit6All I wanted was to talk to my family, and get some dry socksOne month ago, I landed Flight 1549 safely in theHudson some ways, that was the easy night of the accident, after we39。d safely accounted for all 155 people on the airplane, left the hospital, finally reached the hotel—the pilots39。 union and the NYPD whisking us away—I remember thinking that my needs were very 39。d lost all my belongings。I39。d had the most harrowing three minutes of my I really wanted was to talk to my family, and get some dry has been a month since the airplane I piloted, US Airways Flight 1549, made an emergency landing in the Hudson then, the attention given to me and my crew—I39。m trying to resist, somewhat unsuccessfully, everyone39。s attempt to make this about fewer than five people—has obviously been I still don39。t think of myself as a 39。s been a difficult adjustment, initially because of the “hero” mantle that was pushed in my felt for a long time that that wasn39。t an appropriate my wife, Lorrie, pointed out on 60 Minutes, a hero is someone who decides to run into a burning was different—this was a situation that was thrust upon didn39。t choose to do what I was why initially I decided that if someone offered me the gift of their thankfulness, I should accept it gratefully—but then not take it on as my time went by, though, I was better able to put everything in perspective and realize how this event had touched people39。s lives, how ready they were for good news, how much they wanted to feel hopeful it39。s because this occurred as the US presidency was changing 39。ve had a worldwide economic downturn, and people were confused, fearful and just so ready for good wanted to feel reassured, I think, that all the things we value, all our ideals, still exist—that they39。re still there, even if they39。re not always I was very young, my father impressed upon me that a mander is responsible for the welfare of everyone in his mander who got someone hurt because of lack of foresight or poor judgment had mitted an unforgivable father was a dentist in the Navy, serving in Hawaii and San Diego from 1941 to never saw bat, but he knew many who the military, you get drilled into you the idea that you are responsible for every aspect of everyone39。s every minute of the flight, I was confident I could solve the next first officer, Jeff Skiles, and I did what airline pilots do: We followed our training, and our philosophy of valued every life on that airplane and knew it was our responsibility to try to save each one, in spite of the sudden and plete failure of our never gave a plan enabled us to keep our hope in a similar fashion, people who are in their own personal crises—a pink slip, a foreclosure—can be reminded that no matter how dire the circumstance, or how little time you have to deal with it, further action is always 39。s always a way out of even the tightest can though we had a successful oute, it39。s human nature to wonder about the secondguessing was much more frequent, and intense, in the first few days at night, when I couldn39。t was hard to shut my brain off and get back to I didn39。t, I couldn39。 was part of the posttraumatic stress that we have all felt, that each of the crew members has reported to each 39。s funny—for the first two weeks after the accident, Jeff kept telling me, “I just want my old life back.” But the other day he finally said for the first time, “You know, this is 39。m learning to like is good.” I think he39。s ing to terms with what39。s realizes that he39。s entitled to the he can still be true to accepting it isn39。t selling the outpouring of support from the passengers, the most touching sentiments I have received have been from other tell me that because of the years of economic difficulties faced by the airline industry and its employees and the decreased respect for the profession, they have not felt proud to go to work—some of them for , they tell me, they they thank me for thank us, the crew, because we39。ve reminded people what all of us do every day, what39。s really at feel like they39。ve regained some of the respect they39。d 39。s next? I will return to flying for my airline—when I39。m 39。m not sure when that will a few still haven39。t had many nights at family and I are trying hard to remain true to ourselves and not let this change us, but there39。s a steep learning trajectory of our lives has changed we39。re determined to make good e out of this in every way that we 一個(gè)月前，我安全地將1549號航班停在了哈得孫河。從某種意義上講，這是其中容易的那部分。事發(fā)當(dāng)晚，我們在確保機(jī)上所有155名乘客的下落后，離開了醫(yī)院，終于到了賓館，是飛行員聯(lián)合會(huì)及紐約市警察局的人送我們來的。我記得自己當(dāng)時(shí)想要的非常簡單。我弄丟了所有的隨身物品；我度過了生命中最痛苦的三分鐘。我想要的只是與家人說話和幾雙干襪子。這離我駕駛美國航空1549號航班緊急迫降在哈得孫河已過去一個(gè)月了。自那以后，人們顯然對我和我的機(jī)組成員表示出極大的關(guān)注，每個(gè)人都想把功臣的數(shù)量限制在五人以下，我試著反抗，卻沒有成功。但我仍然不認(rèn)為自己是個(gè)名人。要適應(yīng)這種生活是件難事，最初是因?yàn)榻o我披上的“英雄”這件外衣。很長時(shí)間以來我都覺得這個(gè)詞用得不恰當(dāng)。正如我的妻子洛麗在《60分鐘時(shí)事雜志》里所說的，英雄是那種下決心沖入著火的大樓的人。而這個(gè)不一樣，這種情況是我們不得不面對的。我無法選擇我當(dāng)時(shí)要做的。這就是為什么最初我決定如果有人要送我禮物表示感謝的話，我得心懷感激地收下，但收下后也不會(huì)據(jù)為己有。但是，隨著時(shí)間的推移，我能更好地正確看待每件事并意識到這件事對人們生活的影響，他們是多么希望得到好消息，他們是多么想再一次看到希望。一部分原因是因?yàn)檫@件事發(fā)生在總統(tǒng)換屆時(shí)。我們經(jīng)歷了全球性的經(jīng)濟(jì)下滑，人們感到迷惑、害怕所以非常盼望有好消息。我想，他們想吃定心丸，想確定所有我們珍惜的事物、我們的理想依然存在，并且會(huì)一直在那兒，雖然并不總是那么明顯。在我很小的時(shí)候，父親讓我深深懂得一個(gè)指揮官要對他屬下的每個(gè)人的利益負(fù)責(zé)。如果一個(gè)指揮官因?yàn)闆]有遠(yuǎn)見或判斷錯(cuò)誤而使他手下的人受到傷害，那他就犯了不可原諒的罪。我的父親是一名海軍牙醫(yī)，19411945年期間在夏威夷和圣地亞哥服役。雖然他從未親眼目睹過戰(zhàn)爭，但他認(rèn)識很多親臨戰(zhàn)場的人。在部隊(duì)時(shí)你會(huì)被反復(fù)灌輸這種思想：你要對每個(gè)人各方面的利益負(fù)責(zé)。在飛行的每一分鐘里，我都有自信去解決下一個(gè)問題。我的大副杰夫 ? 斯基爾斯和我做了飛行員應(yīng)該做的事：按照所接受的培訓(xùn)和我們的人生理念行事。我們珍惜飛機(jī)上的每個(gè)生命并且知道我們的責(zé)任是努力挽救每個(gè)生命，盡管我們的飛機(jī)突然發(fā)生了全盤故障，我們也從未放棄。因?yàn)橛杏?jì)劃所以我們的希望一直存在?；蛟S，可以以類似的方式提醒那些個(gè)人生活遭受危機(jī)的人，他們也許被炒魷魚了，也許被取消了贖回權(quán)：不管情況有多糟糕或你處理危機(jī)的時(shí)間有多短，采取下一步行動(dòng)永遠(yuǎn)是可能的。即使是在最危急的情況下也總是有解決的辦法。你肯定能渡過難關(guān)。盡管我們的結(jié)果很成功，但喜歡假設(shè)是人類的天性：如果??會(huì)怎么樣。在最初的幾個(gè)晚上，我無法入睡，常常會(huì)后怕。要讓我什么也不想盡快入睡太難了。有時(shí)我不愿意去想，但我無法不想。那是我們的機(jī)組人員都曾經(jīng)感受過的創(chuàng)傷后壓力的一部分，我們曾相互傾訴。有趣的是，在事后的頭兩個(gè)星期，杰夫一直跟我說：“我只想回到以前的生活?！钡皫滋?，他終于說道，這也是第一次：“你知道，現(xiàn)在挺好的。我在學(xué)習(xí)喜歡現(xiàn)在的生活。這很好?！蔽蚁胨_始慢慢適應(yīng)了所發(fā)生的一切。他意識到他應(yīng)該受到關(guān)注，他也可以繼續(xù)做真實(shí)的自己，接受關(guān)注并不意味著出賣自己。除了乘客泉涌般的支持，我所感受到的最動(dòng)人的情感來自于其他飛行員。他們告訴我因?yàn)楹娇招袠I(yè)及從業(yè)人員所遭受的連年經(jīng)濟(jì)困難及對此行業(yè)日益減少的尊重，他們不再為上班而自豪了——有些人已經(jīng)這樣好幾十年了。現(xiàn)在，他們告訴我，他們又感到自豪了。他們?yōu)榇烁兄x我。他們感謝我們，感謝所有的機(jī)組成員，因?yàn)槲覀兲嵝蚜巳藗兾覀兠刻於荚谧鍪裁?，什么是真?