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hese reasons I believed and I believe even more strongly today in the unique and irreplaceable mission of universities.英譯中練習(xí)2There are few words which are used more loosely than the word 39。civilization39。s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. 英譯中練習(xí)4 Birds and Death The bird, however hard the frost may be, flies briskly to his customary roostingplace, and, with beak tucked into his wing, falls asleep. He has no apprehensions。 also he had a various language, the inherited knowledge of his race, the faculty of flight, by means of which he could shoot, meteorlike, across the sky, and pass swiftly from place to place。 if you were to take him up and drop him from your hand , he would fall to the ground like a stone or a lump of clayso easy and swift is the passage from life to death in wild nature! But he was never miserable英譯中練習(xí)5Hour in the Sun John …I was rich,if not in money,in sunny hours and summer days. Henry David Thoreau When Thoreau wrote that line,he was thinking of the he knew as a boy. Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat,lazily drfiting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around loved to recall such sunny hours and summer dayswhen idleness was the most attractive and productive business. I too was a boy in love with a pond,rich in sunny hours and summer and summer are still what the always were,but the boy and the pond boy,who is now a man,no longer finds much time for idle pond has been annexed by a great swamps where herons once hunted are now drained and