【正文】 s been calculated that by the age of 18, the average American will have seen 600,000 ads。我們時(shí)時(shí)被包圍在花錢，花錢，花錢的信息中。雖然此類信息有時(shí)經(jīng)過了喬裝打扮，但仍隨處可見，電視、電影、印刷媒介和路牌、商店，及公共汽車、火車和地鐵上，比比皆是。s permissive message, is inescapable. Though sometimes disguised, the messages are everywhere we look: on TV, in movies on printed media and road signs, in stores, and on busses, trains and subways. Advertisements invade our daily lives. We are constantly surrounded by the message to spend, spend, spend. Someone recently said, The only time you can escape advertising is when you39。艱苦創(chuàng)業(yè)，忠于家庭、能推遲欲望是美國價(jià)值觀的核心，它使我們的國家變得強(qiáng)大?？刂颇愕挠?，不要買奢侈品，不要垂涎那些你并不真正需要的東西。一種從“縱容”的角度，讓我們“買東西，花錢，現(xiàn)在就得到它。請(qǐng)立即繳付，否則后果自負(fù)！之后，一旦還款，我們就會(huì)收到一封跟進(jìn)的電子郵件，語氣和藹可親，說我們是多么寶貴的客戶，并鼓勵(lì)我們繼續(xù)花錢。t pay our credit card bill on time, we get demanding, nasty s from the credit card pany saying something like: Your failure to pay is unacceptable. Pay immediately or you39。Here39。銀行提供較高的利率以增加儲(chǔ)蓄。ll never get out of the recession. At the same time, they tell us that unless we save more, our country is in grave danger. Banks offer higher interest rates so we increase savings. Then the same banks send us credit card offers so we can spend more.你是不是跟我一樣對(duì)“我應(yīng)該花錢還是存錢”這個(gè)問題感到困惑，且有被操縱的感覺？我覺得我們從生活的環(huán)境里所獲得的信息似乎是有違常識(shí)、互相矛盾的。Unit 5 The money gameSpend or save — The student39。它詮釋了一對(duì)仍在瘋狂地愛著對(duì)方的夫婦如何一起度過了29年之久的蜜月。我們忠實(shí)的愛和學(xué)習(xí)之旅帶我們走過艱難崎嶇的巖石路，走上平坦易行的公路。We married five years later.五年后，我們結(jié)了婚。不！我們現(xiàn)在結(jié)婚還太早了。我心中充滿了深情，也坦誠了對(duì)他的愛：“太太太太太浪漫了??！”可我隨即從幻想中驚醒。t even graduated from college yet! I really loved him but was pessimistic about our chances for success.兩年糊里糊涂地過去了。Two years passed in a blur. One day, Butch took me by surprise as he knelt down and proposed marriage holding a dozen red roses! Filled with deep emotion, I confessed my love for him, How roooomaaaantic!! Then my brain woke up from fantasy land. I cried out, Good heavens. No! We39。但事實(shí)上，我們?cè)谡吣甑膽賽坳P(guān)系中一直是純潔和負(fù)責(zé)的。的確，他有時(shí)會(huì)在我朋友面前親吻我的嘴，擅自表達(dá)他的愛。s somewhat wild character, at his core, he is always a perfect gentleman and deserves a lot of credit for that. True, he39。他最終學(xué)了法律。校方同意復(fù)議布奇的情況。You are going to graduate with a BA in political science from UPenn and proceed to the College of Law, I told him, lodging an appeal on his behalf, which was approved. Butch was granted reconsideration. And, once we became steadies, he coordinated his studies and social life, passing all of his classes. He eventually studied law.我告訴他：“你要先從賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)拿到政治學(xué)學(xué)士學(xué)位，然后進(jìn)入法律學(xué)院。令我厭惡的是，他似乎屈從了自己的命運(yùn)。”Sure enough, the following month, I found out he had failed all his courses. Consequently, he was going to be expelled from the university. To my disgust, he seemed resigned to his fate. I knew there was hope, so I led him to the college secretary for reconsideration.果然，一個(gè)月后，我發(fā)現(xiàn)他所有的課程都不及格。他是我男朋友，只因?yàn)槲液蘅菰锏膶W(xué)生生活。s my boyfriend because I hate my boring student life. I just want to have fun.我笑著對(duì)自己說：“我絕不會(huì)嫁給這個(gè)家伙。d never marry this guy. He39。你會(huì)看到這一天的。那天晚上當(dāng)他向大家宣布我是他女友時(shí)，我是同意的。不錯(cuò)，我們生活在一個(gè)性觀念正在發(fā)生戲劇性轉(zhuǎn)變的時(shí)代，但我是一個(gè)傳統(tǒng)的女孩，對(duì)在校園里似乎常見的新方式還沒有心理準(zhǔn)備。t ready for the new ways that seemed mon on campus. Butch looked superb! I was not immune to his personality, but I was scared. The night when he announced to the world that I was his girlfriend, I went along with him. And then I suddenly thought: Oh my gosh! Am I his girlfriend? How did that happen? Then he whispered sweet words in my ear and said, I39。I worried what he39。他必須很可愛。我已幾乎達(dá)成了偉大的教育目標(biāo)，離畢業(yè)只有一學(xué)期之遙了。為了獲得優(yōu)異的成績，我的注意力只專注在自己的學(xué)習(xí)上。他那令人激動(dòng)的“壞小子形象”簡直太誘人了。他很會(huì)說話，這會(huì)迷倒任何女孩。 my life was stale with no ponent of fun! I needed a boyfriend. Not just any boyfriend. He had to be cute. My goal that semester became: Be ambitious and grab the cutest boyfriend I can find.他騎著自行車經(jīng)過我的宿舍，裝作與我“偶遇”，看到我時(shí)還假裝驚訝。d ride past my dorm as if by accident and pretend to be surprised to see me. I liked the attention but was cautious about his wild, dynamic personality. He had a charming way with words which would charm any girl. Fear came over me when I started to fall in love. His exciting bad boy image was just too tempting to resist. What was it that attracted me? I always had an excellent reputation. My concentration was solely on my studies to get superior grades. But for what? College is supposed to be a time of great learning and also some fun. I had nearly achieved a great education, and graduation was just one semester away. But I hadn39。其次，雖然他很可愛，卻似乎有點(diǎn)怪異。我真的對(duì)他沒那么感興趣，其原因有二。他凝視著我的臉，說：“你有一雙美麗的眼睛。t that interested for two reasons. First, he looked like he was a really wild boy, maybe even dangerous. Second, although he was very cute, he seemed a little weird.我們通過我的大學(xué)室友介紹在大學(xué)食堂相識(shí)。在某種程度上，愛神恰恰在你最沒準(zhǔn)備時(shí)來臨。她們認(rèn)為她們的父親和我有著一段經(jīng)典的、童話般的浪漫史，從一開始就直奔婚姻的殿堂。梅麗莎，19歲，還沒有一個(gè)固定的男友。t seem so at the time. In a way, love just happens when you least expect it. Who would have thought that Butch and I would end up getting married to each other? He became my boyfriend because of my shallow agenda: I wanted a cute boyfriend!我微笑著看著我那兩個(gè)可愛的女兒，她們似乎比她們的父母還是大學(xué)情侶那會(huì)兒更為成熟。t had a steady boyfriend yet. My daughters wonder when they will meet The One, their great love. They think their father and I had a classic fairytale romance heading for marriage from the outset. Perhaps, they39。re not together anymore. Melissa, who39。我們?cè)趯W(xué)習(xí)中花一些時(shí)間與人文學(xué)科——我們杰出、非凡的知識(shí)寶藏——相伴，這難道不是明智的嗎？誰知道你將來會(huì)變得多有名氣呢！Unit 4 Dance with loveCollege sweethearts大學(xué)情侶I smile at my two lovely daughters and they seem so much more mature than we, their parents, when we were college sweethearts. Linda, who39。人文學(xué)科，這個(gè)古老、永恒的知識(shí)儲(chǔ)蓄庫，教我們?nèi)绾我圆煌姆绞娇创挛?，同時(shí)也拓寬我們的視野。In summary, the humanities help to create wellrounded human beings with insight and understanding of the passions, hopes and dreams mon to all humanity. The humanities, the ancient timeless reservoir of knowledge, teach us to see things differently and broaden our horizons. They are as useful and relevant in our modern age as they have always been. Doesn39。事實(shí)上，技術(shù)知識(shí)和內(nèi)在洞察力的結(jié)合越來越被看成是建立職業(yè)生涯的理想搭配。當(dāng)然，在當(dāng)下，如果我們單學(xué)人文學(xué)科，可能會(huì)失去很多機(jī)會(huì)。如果我們還學(xué)了人文學(xué)科，那我們就能突破許多障礙，只要我們?cè)敢飧冻雠?，敢于想象。顯而易見，人文學(xué)能為我們從事許多不同的職業(yè)做準(zhǔn)備，不管是醫(yī)學(xué)、商務(wù)、科學(xué)或娛樂。艾斯納也主修人文學(xué)科