【正文】 you understand ,but nothing upstairs. He is a nice enough young fellow,you know , but he is emptyheaded. 2. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. A passing fashion or craze ,in my opinion, shows a plete lack of reason. should have known they?d e back when the Charleston came back. I should have known that raccoon coats would e back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s,came back. 4. “All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where have you been?” All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How e you don’t know? 5. My brain , that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. My brain, which is precision instrument, began to work at high speed. 6. With one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectly. Except for one thing(intelligence)Polly had all the other requirements. 7. She was not yet of pinup proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack. She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would bee beautiful enough after some time. 8. fact, she veered in the opposite direction. In fact, she went in the opposite direction,that is , she was not intelligent but rather stupid. 9.“ In other words ,if you were out of the picture,the field would be open. Is that right?” If you were no longer involved with her, others would be free to pete to get her as a girlfriend. 10. Back and forth his head swiveled , desire waxing, resolution waning. His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat and then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to abandon Polly became weaker. 11. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions... To teach her to think seemed to be a rather big task. 12. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope ,but I decided to give it one more try. One must admit the oute did not look very hopeful, but I decided to try one more time. is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. There is a limit to what any human being can bear . 14. I was not Pygmalion。 I was Frankenstein , and my monster had me by the throat. I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan. 15. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me . Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic which was overwhelming me.EC1. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as chemist?s scales. As penetrating as a scalpel. l 我的大腦如發(fā)電機(jī)一樣強(qiáng)大，像化學(xué)家的平一樣精確，像手術(shù)刀一樣鋒利。 l 2. To be swept up in every new craze that es along, to surrender yourself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing itthis , to me , is the acme od mindlessness. 被卷入每一股新來的時(shí)尚之中，因?yàn)槠渌硕际沁@樣做，自己也進(jìn)去傻干這對于我而言，簡直就是愚蠢至極。 l 3. Let me emphasize that my desire for this young woman was not emotional in nature. 我強(qiáng)調(diào)一下我渴望得到這個(gè)妙齡少女不是情感的驅(qū)動(dòng)使然。 l 4. It is , after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful. 畢竟，與使這個(gè)丑陋而聰明的女孩變漂亮相比，使一個(gè)美麗的愚笨的女孩變得聰明要容易得多。 l 5. He was a torn man, First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window. Then he turned away and set his jaw resolutely. 他神情不安。先是帶著面包店櫥窗旁邊的流浪兒的那種神情盯著大衣。然后轉(zhuǎn)過頭，堅(jiān)定地咬緊牙關(guān)。 l6. Maybe somewhere is the extinct crater of her mind , a few embers still smoldered. 說不定她頭腦中死火山口某處還有悶燃的余燼。 l 7. After all, surgeons have Xrays to guide them during an operation, lawyers have briefs, to guide them during a trial, carpenters have blueprints to guide them when they are building a house. 畢竟，外科醫(yī)生在做手術(shù)時(shí)有X 光線作為指導(dǎo)，律師在審判時(shí)有辯護(hù)狀作為指導(dǎo)，木匠在建造房子的時(shí)候有藍(lán)圖作為指導(dǎo)。 8 .If Madame Curie had not happened to leave a photographic plate in a drawer with a chunk of pitch blend,the world today would not know about radium. 如果居里夫人沒有把一張相片底片放在裝有瀝青鈾礦的抽屜了，今天的世人就不會(huì)知道鐳了。 l 9. Suddenly, a glimmer of intelligence the first I had seen came into her eyes. 突然，一道智慧的靈光第一次看見在她的眼中閃現(xiàn)。 l 10. Heartened by the knowledge that Polly was not altogether a cretin,I begin a long, patient review of all I had told her. 知道波利并不完全是個(gè)白癡，我感到很振奮，于是我開始把給她講過的一切時(shí)間、耐心地復(fù)習(xí)了一遍。1. 若不給自己設(shè)限，則人生中就沒有限制你發(fā)揮的藩籬。2. 若不是心寬似海，哪有人生風(fēng)平浪靜。在紛雜的塵世里，為自己留下一片純靜的心靈空間，不管是潮起潮落，也不管是陰晴圓缺，你都可以免去浮躁，義無反顧，勇往直前，輕松自如地走好人生路上的每一步3. 花一些時(shí)間，總會(huì)看清一些事。用一些事情，總會(huì)看清一些人。有時(shí)候覺得自己像個(gè)神經(jīng)病。既糾結(jié)了自己，又打擾了別人。努力過后，才知道許多事情，堅(jiān)持堅(jiān)持，就過來了。4. 歲月是無情的，假如你丟給它的是一片空白，它還給你的也是一片空白。歲月是有情的，假如你奉獻(xiàn)給她的是一些色彩，它奉獻(xiàn)給你的也是一些色彩。你必須努力，當(dāng)有一天驀然回首時(shí)，你的回憶里才會(huì)多一些色彩斑斕，少一些蒼白無力。只有你自己才能把歲月描畫成一幅難以忘懷的人生畫卷。