时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:自考英语综合二上册 课文+单词


英语课

  [00:00.00]Lesson Eleven

[00:02.98]Text

[00:05.43]How I Served My Apprenticeship 2

[00:09.20]Andrew Carnegie

[00:12.25]It is a great pleasure to tell how I served my apprenticeship as a businessman

[00:19.62]But there seems to be a question preceding this:

[00:23.56]Why did I become a businessman?

[00:27.12]I am sure that I should never have selected a business careerif

[00:32.08]I had been permitted to choose.

[00:36.05]The eldest 3 son of parents who were themselves poor, I had, fortunately,

[00:43.18]to begin to perform some useful work in the world

[00:47.62] while still very youngin order to earn an living and therefore

[00:54.88]came to understand even in early boyhood

[00:59.14]that my duty was to assist my parents

[01:03.29]and become, as soon as possible

[01:07.66]What I could get to do not what I desired,

[01:12.91]was the question.

[01:15.76]When I was born my father was a well to do master weaver 4 in Scotland.

[01:22.13]This was the days before the steam engines.

[01:26.07]He owned no fewer than four handlooms and employed apprentices 1.

[01:32.92]He wove cloth for a merchant who supplied the material.

[01:37.46]When the steam engine came, handloom weaving naturally declined.

[01:44.62]The first serious lesson of my life came to me one day

[01:50.47]when I was just about ten years old

[01:54.31]My father took the last of his work to the merchant,

[01:58.75]and returned home greatly distressed 5

[02:02.72]be cause there was no more work for him to do.

[02:07.97]I resolved then that the wolf of poverty should be driven from our door some day

[02:15.63]The question of starting for the United States

[02:19.99]was discussed from day to day in the family council.

[02:24.56]It was finally resolved

[02:27.91]that we would join relatives already in Pittsburgh.

[02:32.48]I well remember that both father and mother

[02:37.94]thought the decision was a great sacrifice for them,

[02:42.38]but that "it would be better for the two boys."

[02:47.94]On arriving, my father entered a cotton factory.

[02:53.30]I soon followed, and served as a "bobbin boy,"

[02:58.47]and that was how I began my preparation for subsequent apprentices

[03:03.93]hipas a businessman.

[03:06.85]I cannot tell you how proud I was

[03:10.90]when I received my first week's earnngs one dollar and twenty cents.

[03:17.88]It was given to me because I had been of some use in the world!

[03:22.84]And I became a contributing member of my family!

[03:28.09]I think this makes a man out of a boy sooner than almost anything else.

[03:33.94]It is everything to feel that you are useful.

[03:38.10]I have had to deal with great sums.

[03:42.25]Many millions of dollars have since passed through my hands.

[03:46.51]But the genuine satisfaction I had from that one dollar and twenty cents

[03:53.56]outweighs any subsequent pleasure in money making.

[03:58.29]It was the direct reward of honest,manual labor 7;

[04:03.75]it represented a week of very hard work

[04:08.11]so hard that it might have been described as slavery

[04:13.86]if it hadn't been for its aim and end.

[04:18.12]It was a terrible task for a lad of twelve to rise every morning,except Sunday

[04:25.98]go to the factory while it was still dark,

[04:29.92]and not be released until after darkness came again in the evening,

[04:36.09]forty minutes' break only being allowed at noon.

[04:40.53]But I was young and had my dreams,

[04:45.20]and something within always told me that this would not, could not,

[04:51.87]should not last

[04:54.92]I should some day get into a bettet position.

[04:59.18]Also, I felt myself no longer a mere 8 boy,

[05:04.74]but quite a little man,and this made me happy.

[05:10.10]A change soon came,for a kind old Scotsman,

[05:16.45]who made bobbins,took me into his factory before I was thirteen.

[05:22.61]But here for a time it was even worse than in the cotton factory,

[05:29.17]because I was set to fire the boiler 9 in the cellar

[05:33.74]and run the small steam engine which drove the machinery 10.

[05:39.38]The responsibility of keeping the water right and of running the engine,


  [05:46.36]and the danger of my making a mistake

[05:50.48]and blowing the whole factory to pieces,

[05:54.61]caused too great a strain,

[05:58.16]and I often awoke and found myself sitting up in bed through the night,

[06:05.32]trying the steam gauges 11.

[06:08.56] But I never told them at home about this.

[06:12.43]No, no! Everything must be bright to them.

[06:17.68]This was a point of honor,

[06:21.15]for every member of the family was working hard,

[06:25.52]and we were telling each other only the bright things.

[06:31.47]Besides,no man would complain and give up he would die first.

[06:38.73]There was no servant in our family,

[06:42.39]and my mother earned several dollars per week

[06:46.75]by binding 12 shoesafter her daily work was done!

[06:51.43] Father was also hard at work in the factory.

[06:56.47]And could I complain?

[06:59.63]My kind employer soon relieved me of the strain,

[07:04.10]for he needed someone to make out bills and keep his accounts,

[07:09.56]and finding that I could write a plain schoolboy hand and could add up,

[07:16.61]he made me his only clerk.

[07:19.98]But still I had to work hard upstairs in the workshop

[07:25.34]for the clerking took but little time.

[07:29.59]You know how people grumble 13 about poverty as a great evil,

[07:35.34]and it seems to be accepted that if people had only plenty of money

[07:41.51]and were rich they would be happy and more useful,

[07:47.28]and get more out of life.

[07:50.75]As a rule,

[07:53.50]there is more genuine satis faction 6 from life in the humble 14 cottages of the poor

[07:59.74]than in the palaces of the rich.

[08:03.53]I always pity the sons and daughters of rich men,

[08:08.18]who are attended by servants,and have a governess even at a later age.

[08:15.33]They do not know what they have missed.

[08:19.10]For the poor boy who has in his father his constant companion,

[08:24.76]tutor, and model,and in his mother his nurse,

[08:30.69] teacher,guardian angel, saint,all in one,has a richer,

[08:38.64] more precious fortune in life than any rich man's son,

[08:44.38]and compared with which all other fortunes count for little.

[08:49.84]It is because I know how sweet and happy and pure the home of honest poverty is

[08:57.29]how free it is from perplexing care, from social envy and emulations,

[09:04.42]how lovingand how united its members may be in the common interest

[09:10.79]of supporting the family,

[09:14.45]that I sympathize with the rich man's boy

[09:19.60]and congratulate the poor man's boy;

[09:23.67]and it is for these reasons

[09:27.33]that from the ranks of the poor so many strong,

[09:32.08]eminent,self-reliant men have always sprung and always must spring.

[09:39.74]If you will read the list of the immortals 15 who "were not born to die,"

[09:46.79]you will find that most of them

[09:50.45]were born to the precious heritage of poverty.

[09:55.02]It seems,nowadays,

[09:58.18]a matter of universal desire that poverty should be abolished.

[10:04.34]We should be quite willing to abolish luxury,

[10:08.71]but to abolish honest,industrious

[10:13.15]self denying poverty

[10:16.67]would be to destroy the soil uponwhich mankind produces the virtues 16

[10:22.63]which enable our race to reach a still higher civilization

[10:27.80]than it now possesses.



1 apprentices
学徒,徒弟( apprentice的名词复数 )
  • They were mere apprentices to piracy. 他们干海盗仅仅是嫩角儿。
  • He has two good apprentices working with him. 他身边有两个好徒弟。
2 apprenticeship
n.学徒身份;学徒期
  • She was in the second year of her apprenticeship as a carpenter. 她当木工学徒已是第二年了。
  • He served his apprenticeship with Bob. 他跟鲍勃当学徒。
3 eldest
adj.最年长的,最年老的
  • The King's eldest son is the heir to the throne.国王的长子是王位的继承人。
  • The castle and the land are entailed on the eldest son.城堡和土地限定由长子继承。
4 weaver
n.织布工;编织者
  • She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快,而且布的质量很好。
  • The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。
5 distressed
痛苦的
  • He was too distressed and confused to answer their questions. 他非常苦恼而困惑,无法回答他们的问题。
  • The news of his death distressed us greatly. 他逝世的消息使我们极为悲痛。
6 faction
n.宗派,小集团;派别;派系斗争
  • Faction and self-interest appear to be the norm.派系之争和自私自利看来非常普遍。
  • I now understood clearly that I was caught between the king and the Bunam's faction.我现在完全明白自己已陷入困境,在国王与布纳姆集团之间左右为难。
7 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
8 mere
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
9 boiler
n.锅炉;煮器(壶,锅等)
  • That boiler will not hold up under pressure.那种锅炉受不住压力。
  • This new boiler generates more heat than the old one.这个新锅炉产生的热量比旧锅炉多。
10 machinery
n.(总称)机械,机器;机构
  • Has the machinery been put up ready for the broadcast?广播器材安装完毕了吗?
  • Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.机器应该随时注意维护。
11 gauges
n.规格( gauge的名词复数 );厚度;宽度;标准尺寸v.(用仪器)测量( gauge的第三人称单数 );估计;计量;划分
  • A thermometer gauges the temperature. 温度计可测量温度。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The fuel gauges dropped swiftly. 燃料表指针迅速下降。 来自《简明英汉词典》
12 binding
有约束力的,有效的,应遵守的
  • The contract was not signed and has no binding force. 合同没有签署因而没有约束力。
  • Both sides have agreed that the arbitration will be binding. 双方都赞同仲裁具有约束力。
13 grumble
vi.抱怨;咕哝;n.抱怨,牢骚;咕哝,隆隆声
  • I don't want to hear another grumble from you.我不愿再听到你的抱怨。
  • He could do nothing but grumble over the situation.他除了埋怨局势之外别无他法。
14 humble
adj.谦卑的,恭顺的;地位低下的;v.降低,贬低
  • In my humble opinion,he will win the election.依我拙见,他将在选举中获胜。
  • Defeat and failure make people humble.挫折与失败会使人谦卑。
15 immortals
不朽的人物( immortal的名词复数 ); 永生不朽者
  • Nobody believes in the myth about human beings becoming immortals. 谁也不相信人能成仙的神话。
  • Shakespeare is one of the immortals. 莎士比亚是不朽的人物之一。
16 virtues
美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处
  • Doctors often extol the virtues of eating less fat. 医生常常宣扬少吃脂肪的好处。
  • She delivered a homily on the virtues of family life. 她进行了一场家庭生活美德方面的说教。
学英语单词
abortiva variola
allegan
amblyeleotris periophthalma
animal husbandry
application for drawback
autoselecting
basic atomic group
be a scorn to
bear-trap
beechy
bepraising
brans-dicke
break-even point
British Radio Communication
broglies
Brumado
Buendia, Embalse de
can-carrier
catch lever
cinoas
clathtate
clowning around
copper stripping electrolysis
Crotalus viridis
decking level
deconjugations
dennisonite (davisonite)
Derrick City
differentiabilities
diplococcus of Morax-Axenfeld
double-current method
El Bejuco
end-of-field marker
equity-warrants
finds oneself
flash of wit
force due of viscosity
gate current degradation
give tongue
glooming
half yearly account
hexaferrite
huskershredder
inertinites
inomyxoma fibromyxoma
Isonin
kerak
kolstad
lay of rope
Lena Trough
limit position of a link
lining method
mafes
malonyl thiourea
megalithic age
methidium
mixed sleep apnea
modem connection
mushroom cloud
notacaphylla chinensiae
occipitoiliac
older sisters
one bath two stage process
overpraises
pay honor to
pentamethazene
Phospatidylcholine
play close to the vest
premonitory pains
primary productivity
proxy attribute
psychic deafness
quarter wave length
queue type
reheating cycle
rim blight
Sabbathesque
sagueiro
sand shell moulding
sand stargazer
saracenis
sillenite
simultaneous prosperity
softball
spread oneself
Stellaria irrigua
stellasteropsis colubrinus
strategic communication
student experience
succinanilide
sunnyside up
take-up bearing
terminal wire
turbo fan
twin engined
unpathetic
vibration ramming
virtual disk system
wack
woodburners
zero power level
zero-water