【正文】 , but I never have the time two workers cooperated with each other to fix the broken is a cruel practice which should be stopped aspect of your job/work is(the)most difficult, and what aspect is(the)most rewarding? people think he is rude, but that’s not the ’ll help as much as I can, but there is a limit to what I can do.第四篇：新世紀(jì)大學(xué)英語讀寫第一冊課文翻譯When we are writing we are often told to keep our readers in mind, to shape what we say to fit their tastes and there is one reader in particular who should not be you guess who? Russell Baker surprised himself and everyone else when he discovered the ，腦子里要有讀者，筆者所云一定要符合讀者的口味和興趣。但有一位讀者特別不該忘記。你能猜出是誰嗎？當(dāng)拉塞爾貝克找到這個(gè)問題的答案時(shí)，他自己和別人都感到大為驚訝。Writing for Myself Russell Baker 1 The idea of being a writer had e to me off and on since my childhood in Belleville, but it wasn39。t until my third year in high school that the possibility took then I39。ve been bored by everything associated with English found English grammar dull and hated the assignments to turn out long, lifeless paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to 拉塞爾貝克從孩提時(shí)代，我還住在貝爾維爾時(shí)，我的腦子里就斷斷續(xù)續(xù)地轉(zhuǎn)著當(dāng)作家的念頭，但直等到我高中三年級，這一想法才有了實(shí)現(xiàn)的可能。在這之前，我對所有跟英文課沾邊的事都感到膩味。我覺得英文語法枯燥難懂。我痛恨那些長而乏味的段落寫作，老師讀著受累，我寫著痛苦。When our class was assigned to for thirdyear English I anticipated another cheerless year in that most tedious of had a reputation among students for dullness and inability to was said to be very formal, rigid and hopelessly out of me he looked to be sixty or seventy and excessively wore primly severe eyeglasses, his wavy hair was primly cut and primly wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his white had a primly pointed jaw, a primly straight nose, and a prim manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that he seemed a ic ，我就準(zhǔn)備著在這門最最單調(diào)乏味的課上再熬上沉悶的一年。弗利格爾先生在學(xué)生中以其說話干巴和激勵(lì)學(xué)生無術(shù)而出名。據(jù)說他拘謹(jǐn)刻板，完全落后于時(shí)代。我看他有六七十歲了，古板之極。他戴著古板的毫無裝飾的眼鏡，微微卷曲的頭發(fā)剪得筆齊，梳得紋絲不亂。他身穿古板的套裝，領(lǐng)帶端端正正地頂著白襯衣的領(lǐng)扣。他長著古板的尖下巴，古板的直鼻梁，說起話來一本正經(jīng)，字斟句酌，彬彬有禮，活脫脫一個(gè)滑稽的老古董。I prepared for an unfruitful year with and for a long time was not in the year we tackled the informal distributed a homework sheet offering us a choice of was quite so simpleminded as “What I Did on My Summer Vacation,” but most seemed to be almost as took the list home and did nothing until the night before the essay was on the sofa, I finally faced up to the unwele task, took the list out of my notebook, and scanned topic on which my eye stopped was “The Art of Eating Spaghetti”.我作好準(zhǔn)備，打算在弗利格爾先生的班上一無所獲地混上一年，不少日子過去了，還真不出所料。后半學(xué)期我們學(xué)寫隨筆小品文。弗利格爾先生發(fā)下一張家庭作業(yè)紙，出了不少題目供我們選擇。像“暑假二三事”那樣傻乎乎的題目倒是一個(gè)也沒有，但絕大多數(shù)一樣乏味。我把作文題帶回家，一直沒寫，直到要交作業(yè)的前一天晚上。我躺在沙發(fā)上，最終不得不面對這一討厭的功課，便從筆記本里抽出作文題目單粗粗一看。我的目光落在“吃意大利細(xì)面條的藝術(shù)”這個(gè)題目上。This title produced an extraordinary sequence of mental memories came flooding back of a night in Belleville when all of us were seated around the supper tableand Aunt Pat served spaghetti for was still a little known foreign dish in those Doris nor I had ever eaten spaghetti, and none of the adults had enough experience to be good at the good humor of Uncle Allen39。s house reawoke in my mind as I recalled the laughing arguments we had that night about the socially respectable method for moving spaghetti from plate to 。貝爾維爾之夜的清晰的回憶如潮水一般涌來，當(dāng)時(shí)，我們大家一起圍坐在晚餐桌旁——艾倫舅舅、我母親、查理舅舅、多麗絲、哈爾舅舅——帕特舅媽晚飯做的是意大利細(xì)面條。那時(shí)意大利細(xì)面條還是很少聽說的異國食品。多麗絲和我都還從來沒吃過，在座的大人也是經(jīng)驗(yàn)不足，沒有一個(gè)吃起來得心應(yīng)手的。艾倫舅舅家詼諧有趣的場景全都重現(xiàn)在我的腦海中，我回想起來，當(dāng)晚我們笑作一團(tuán)，爭論著該如何地把面條從盤子上送到嘴里才算合乎禮儀。Suddenly I wanted to write about that, about the warmth and good feeling of it, but I wanted to put it down simply for my own joy, not for was a moment I wanted to recapture and hold for wanted to relive the pleasure of that write it as I wanted, however, would violate all the rules of formal position I39。d learned in school, and would surely give it a failing would write something else for after I had written this thing for ，描述當(dāng)時(shí)那種溫馨美好的氣氛，但我把它寫下來僅僅是想自得其樂，而不是為弗利格爾先生而寫。那是我想重新捕捉并珍藏在心中的一個(gè)時(shí)刻。我想重溫那個(gè)夜晚的愉快。然而，照我希望的那樣去寫，就會違反我在學(xué)校里學(xué)的正式作文的種種法則，弗利格爾先生也肯定會打它一個(gè)不及格。沒關(guān)系。等我為自己寫好了之后，我可以再為弗利格爾先生寫點(diǎn)什么別的東西。When I finished it the night was half gone and there was no time left to pose a proper, respectable essay for was no choice next morning but to turn in my tale of the Belleville days passed before returned the graded papers, and he returned everyone39。s but was preparing myself for a mand to report to immediately after school for discipline when I saw him lift my paper from his desk and knock for the class39。s ，再沒時(shí)間為弗利格爾先生寫一篇循規(guī)蹈矩、像模像樣的文章了。第二天上午，我別無選擇，只好把我為自己而寫的貝爾維爾晚餐的故事交了上去。兩天后弗利格爾先生發(fā)還批改過的作文，他把別人的都發(fā)了，就是沒有我的。我正準(zhǔn)備著遵命一放學(xué)就去弗利格爾先生那兒挨訓(xùn)，卻看見他從桌上拿起我的作文，敲了敲桌子讓大家注意聽。7 “Now, boys,” he said.“I want to read you an is titled, 39。The Art of Eating Spaghetti.39?！?“好了，孩子們，”他說?！拔乙o你們念一篇小品文。文章的題目是：吃意大利細(xì)面條的藝術(shù)。And he started to words!He was reading my words out loud to the entire 39。s more, the entire class was somebody laughed, then the entire class was laughing, and not in contempt and ridicule, but with openhearted stopped two or three times to hold back a small prim 。是我寫的！他給全班大聲念我寫的文章。更不可思議的是，全班同學(xué)都在聽著他念，而且聽得很專心。有人笑出聲來，接著全班都笑了，不是輕蔑嘲弄，而是樂乎乎地開懷大笑。就連弗利格爾先生也停頓了兩三次，好抑制他那一絲拘謹(jǐn)?shù)奈⑿Α did my best to avoid showing pleasure, but what I was feeling was pure delight at this demonstration that my words had the power to make people the eleventh grade, at the eleventh hour as it were, I had discovered a was the happiest moment of my entire school he put the final seal on my happiness by saying, ”Now that, boys, is an essay, don39。t you 39。sit39。s of the very essence of the essay, don39。t you , .“ 我盡力不流露出得意的心情，但是看到我寫的文章竟然能使別人大笑，我真是心花怒放。就在十一年級，可謂是最后的時(shí)刻，我找到了一個(gè)今生想做的事。這是我整個(gè)求學(xué)生涯中最幸福的一刻。弗利格爾先生念完后說道：”瞧，孩子們，這就是小品文，懂了沒有。這才是——知道嗎——這才是小品文的精髓，知道了沒有。祝賀你，貝克先生?！八@番話使我沉浸在十全十美的幸福之中。How do you feel when old friends are far away? Do you make an effort to keep in touch? Sometimes it is easy to put off writing a letter, thinking that there will be plenty of time then sometimes, as this story shows, we leave it too reading it will make you want to reach for your ，你心有何感？你是否努力保持聯(lián)系？有時(shí)候?qū)懶诺氖潞?