【正文】 the bank manager wants repayments on my student loan, the landlord wants the rent, gas, water, electricity and my mobile bills keep ing in, and all that’s before I’ve had anything to eat. And then some bright spark calls me out of the blue, asking if I’m interested in buying a pension. At this rate, I won’t even last till the end of the year, let alone till I’m 60.（? 翻譯時可以根據(jù)上下文增譯，即增加原文暗含了但沒有直接表達出來的意思。如最后一句譯文加了“領(lǐng)養(yǎng)老金”，點出了與上一句的關(guān)聯(lián)。所有這些還沒算上吃飯的錢。我大學(xué)本科主修英語專業(yè)，大一時就開始輔修經(jīng)濟學(xué)了。第二學(xué)期,《英國文學(xué)》及《宏觀經(jīng)濟學(xué)》兩門課不及格給我敲響了警鐘，這可是我一生中第一次考試不及格，這大大打擊了我的自信心。 odds。 bow to fate。在當(dāng)今金融危機的背景下，做父母的該如何激勵他們？七月，你看著21 歲英俊的兒子穿上學(xué)士袍，戴上四方帽，驕傲地握著優(yōu)等學(xué)士學(xué)位證書，拍畢業(yè)照。他只是偶爾走開去發(fā)短信，瀏覽社交網(wǎng)站Facebook，去酒吧喝酒。來自米德爾塞克斯郡的杰克找工作的壓力不大，雖然他所認識的大多數(shù)女生都有更清晰的計劃。但在面試時，他們說我‘太冷漠’了，談吐‘太像專家治國國論者’。跟朋友談自己漫無目標的日子時，他才發(fā)現(xiàn)他們的處境和自己的并沒有兩樣。到了大學(xué)，我又埋頭苦讀，才得到一個好學(xué)位。古德溫為他辯護。”雖然現(xiàn)在她對兒子的態(tài)度還比較溫和，但是她心里很清楚，去南美度三星期的假之后，他的休假就結(jié)束了?！毙睦碇委煄熒w爾“如果有熟人，一定要找他們想辦法?！睘樗麄冎Ц堵殬I(yè)咨詢費、面試交通費及書費是好事，但不能催得太緊。林登費爾德相信男人比母親和姐妹更容易幫助他們的兒子、侄子、或朋友的兒子。就是在酒吧打工的時候，林登費爾德找到了她的第一份工作，當(dāng)航拍助手。如果你聰明、活潑，對顧客彬彬有禮，你很快就會升職。威利斯那樣在核電站當(dāng)警衛(wèi)，但即便是布拉德我們上了12 年的中、小學(xué)，又上了3 年的大學(xué)，這期間老師們一直在沒完沒了地談?wù)撛诎矊幍膶W(xué)生生活之外那個廣闊天地里的各種機會，可我遇到的又是什么呢？無論我怎么想保持心情愉快，麻煩事總是接踵而來：有時是跟人爭吵（尤其是跟男孩，天哪！他們什么時候才能長大？），但通常是為錢發(fā)愁。照這樣下去，我連今年都活不過去了，更別提活到60 歲領(lǐng)養(yǎng)老金了。但既然我拿到了優(yōu)等生文憑，我想我應(yīng)該繼__續(xù)攻讀碩士學(xué)位。15 年來，為了能讓我上學(xué)，她含辛茹苦。我聽了媽媽的話，向命運低下了頭。所以，我就收拾行李去倫敦找工作。有一天，我意識到這個城里沒有人會雇我，我走進位于特荷街的索爾茲伯里酒吧去喝一杯，順便吃點東西。他跟他們打招呼，幫他們調(diào)好酒后問一句：“今天還喝這個，是吧？”我覺得他看起來蠻酷的，他在做著他最擅長做的事情：為那些口渴的顧客服務(wù)，沒人能比得上他。顧客好像覺得我挺逗樂的，這也讓我感覺好一些。依我看，一個人沒錢的時候花錢最容易。如果你知道我那時還沒有男朋友，你就會理解我為什么覺得對不起自己了。那周晚些時候，托尼像往常一樣來了，在酒吧里坐下。記?。核鳡柶澆锞瓢墒窃谑兄行?，這里所有的顧客都在銀行、保險或證券市場工作?！蔽覜]說話，我怕我自己要哭了。在索爾茲伯里酒吧干了一年之后，我去了倫敦經(jīng)濟學(xué)院深造。公司的生意好得超乎意料，至今還紅紅火火。下面是他信里寫的話：“我從事銀行業(yè)35 年來最好的投資就是給你的這筆貸款，你連本帶利地償還了貸款，我對你的信任和你的誠實都獲得了百倍的回報。 after eight years, he was exiled to Kazakhstan and not freed until 1956, when he became a teacher. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature but not receive it until 1974. He went to Germany, Switzerland and the USA, returning to Russia in 1994. His best known novels were based on his experiences as a prisoner and include: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), Cancer Ward (1968), The Gulag Archipelago (1974?1978). His later works were about Russian history and identity.Graham Greene (1904?1991): a British novelist, shortstory writer, playwright, travel writer and essayist. He wrote a number of thrillers (he called them ?entertainments?) which dramatize an ambiguous moral dilemma, often revealing guilt, treachery, failure and a theme of pursuit. Greene was also a film critic and all of these novels have been made into films: Brighton Rock (1938), The Power and the Glory (1940), The Heart of the Matter (1948), The Third Man (1950), The Quiet American (1955), and Our Man in Havana (1958).E. M. Forster (1879?1970): a British novelist and writer of short stories and essays. He lived at different periods in Italy, Egypt and India and taught at Cambridge University. His best known novels include A Room with a View (1908), Howard?s End (1910), A Passage to India (1924) which have all been made into films. His writing about reading and writing includes a book of lectures, Aspects of the Novel (1927).Thomas Merton (1915?1968): an American Catholic writer, who was a Trappist monk in Kentucky. He wrote over 70 books, including many essays about Buddhism and a translation into English of the Chinese classic, Chuang Tse. He had a great deal to say about the meeting of Eastern and Western cultures and wrote many letters to writers, poets, scholars and thinkers. He read a lot in English, Latin, French and Spanish and said he always had at least three books which he was reading at any one time.William Blake (1757?1827): a British poet, artist and mystic, who read widely in English, French, Italian, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. He made many engravings to illustrate the work of such writers as Virgil, Dante and Chaucer, as well as his own poems. He stressed that imagination was more important than rationalism and the materialism of the 18th century and criticized the effects of the industrial revolution in England, but his work was largely disregarded by his peers. He is best known for his poetry in Songs of Innocence (1787) and Songs of Experience (1794). His belief in the oneness of all created things is shown in his muchquoted verse, ?To see the world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand / And eternity in an hour.?Clifton Fadiman (1904?1999): an American writer, radio and TV broadcaster and editor of anthologies. For over 50 years he was an editor and judge for the BookoftheMonth Club. In 1960 he wrote a popular guide to great books for American readers, The Lifetime Reading Plan, which discusses 133 authors and their major work: the 1997 edition includes 9 authors from China.J. K. Rowling (1965?): British writer of the seven Harry Potter fantasy books. She studied French and Classics at Exeter University, before teaching English in Portugal and training to teach French in Scotland. The main idea about a school for wizards and the orphan Harry Potter came on a delayed train journey from Manchester to London in 1990. She began to write as soon as she reached London. Twelve publishersrejected the first book before Bloomsbury, a small London publisher, agreed to publish it. Later books have repeatedly broken all the sales records (as have some of the films). She is one of the richest women in the UK and a notable supporter of many charities.Language points1 Variety?s the very spice of life, / That gives it all its flavour ? (Para 2)Spices are made from plants and added to food to give it its particular flavour or taste. The English proverb ?Variety is the spice of life? (the proverb es from Cowper?s poem) therefore means that variety gives life extra value and allows you to appreciate life in particular ways.2 We learn to look beyond our immediate surroundings to the horizon and a landscape far away from home. (Para 3)This means that through reading we learn to look bey