【正文】 e passes before her eyes open again, only this time there is no response in them, just a blank warning, her shallow breathing stops, and within a few moments, the faint pulse is also single tear flows from her left eye, across the cheek and down onto the begin to cry is a swell of emotion within me for this stranger who so quickly came into and went from my suffering is done, yet so is the , still holding her hand, I bee aware that I do not mind this emotional battle, that in fact, it was a privilege she has allowed me, and I would do it again, spared her family an episode that perhaps they were not equipped to handle and instead shared it with had not wanted to have her family see her die, yet she did not want to die one should die alone, and I am glad I was there for ，她又睜開了雙眼，只是這一次目光里沒有任何反應(yīng)，只有空洞的凝視?？死朔蛉藳]有讓她的家人目睹這一幕他們或許無力面對的人生插曲，卻與我分享了它。例如，中國人注意到，地震之前母雞的行為會有所異常：它們夜晚不肯進籠。任何認(rèn)識一些雙胞胎的人都知道這一點。第四篇：新視界大學(xué)英語綜合教程第三冊Unit 5 Active reading課文及翻譯Unit 5 Active readingThe lonely AmericanAmericans in the 21st century devote more technology to staying connected than any society in history, yet somehow the devices fail us: Studies show that we feel increasingly lives are spent in a tugofwar between conflicting desires – we want to stay connected, and we want to be lurch back and forth, reaching for much of one should we give up in order to have more of the other? How do we know when we’ve got it right?Yet people in this country continue to drift need to know , let’s look at the frenetic busyness of our may be the only people in the world who believe that each individual has the right and the capacity to fit whatever he or she wants into one small is the original “You can be anything you want if you really try, and it’s never too late to start trying!” good friend described the impact of busyness on our neighborhoods brilliantly: “Being neighborly used to mean visiting being nice to your neighbors means not bothering them.” People’s lives are shaped by how busy they also are shaped by the respect and deference that is given to busyness – especially when it is valued above connection and people are considerate, they assume that their neighbors are very busy and so try not to intrude on by is no longer is simply treat socializing as if it’s a frivolous diversion from the tasks at hand rather than an activity that is essential to our wellbeing as individuals and as a our not bothering to call people(or even them)gets read by others as a sign that we are too caught up in the busy sweep of our own lives to have time for friends are not relatives may be indignant, but even they know how hard it unspoken understanding ’s too bad that we’ve lost touch, but that’s just the way it pace of everyday life may push us toward isolation, but there is a pull, as well: a very seductive picture of standing apart as a victory, not a since Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his famous essay and Henry David Thoreau set out to embody the concept in his cabin on Walden Pond, a long series of American icons have idealized the concept of when we do find ourselves isolated, by standing tall in our own minds, side by side with selfreliant heroes, each of us is suddenly no longeralone but part of a group – a great American tradition of lonesome cowboys and goitalone psychological magic bees the spoonful of sugar that makes painful experiences of finding ourselves left out easier to may have isolated ourselves without entirely meaning to, but we also have ended up in a place that looks a lot like where we always knew that we were supposed to the outside, proud to be is also the last place on earth that a person would want to consequences of social disconnection are both extensive and remarkably begin with, social support is an important determinant of overall has significant effects on longevity, on an individual’s response to stress, on immune functions, and on the incidence of a variety of specific diseases as varied as heart attacks and dementia, medical research repeatedly has found that social networks and social activity have a protective isolation damages ecological health as rising tide of singleperson households strains the earth’s , in our consumeroriented culture, a mon solution to not having enough people in one’s life is to turn to things, objects that will define one’s identity through possessions rather than through one’s place in a social world.(We once passed an elegant store in New York City whose name summed up the problem: More and watched the shop from across the street, keeping a safe distance.)The truth is that if one can bring oneself to acknowledge loneliness, half the battle is is not an easy half of a battle, we began to talk about these ideas with friends, their first response was to passionately defend their styles of staying chosen, like so many Americans, to step back, they explained how right the choice has been for daily choices – whether to go to a local store or order off the Internet, whether to pick up a ringing telephone or let it go to voic, whether to get together with a friend or pop in a DVD – end up defining one’s social little decisions are step back a little from step back a little from feel a little left left out, unexamined, leads you to step back feeling left out, when it’s examined,can lead people to work a little harder to was never the ’s just the spot where too many people wind get stuck because the world we have wandered away from is so frantic and get stuck because we have dreamed about lonesome heroes who stand defiantly get stuck because we feel left out and stop looking for ways back should remember that the outside was not meant to be our final ，21世紀(jì)的美國人投入了比歷史上任何一個社會都要多的技術(shù)手段。“如果你真的努力，你就能成為你想要成為的人。我們把交際當(dāng)做了手頭諸多任務(wù)中一個不起眼的小插曲，而不是一項對于我們個人或集體的利益都很重要的活動。愛默生為此寫下著名的篇章，亨利與社會脫節(jié)的后果深遠而且復(fù)雜。我們保持著安全距離，隔著馬路觀察那家店。你就感覺自己受到了一點點遺忘。我們應(yīng)該記住外圍不是我們最終的目的地。A few workers were promoted ,but meanwhile hundreds of workers were ，約翰也許成為一位杰出的