时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:白领英语晨读


英语课
The lives of most men are determined 1 by their enviroment.They accept the circumstances amid which fate has thrown them not only resignation but even with good will.They are like streetcars running contendedly on their rails and they despise the sprightly 2 flitter that dashes in and out of the traffic and speeds so jauntily 3 across the open country .I respct them; they are good citizens,good husbands,and good fathers ,and of course somebody has to pay the taxes; but I do not find them exciting. I am fasinated by the men, few enough in all conscience , who take life in their own hands and seem to mould it in to their own liking 4. It may be that we have no such thing as free will, but at all events, we have the illusion of it. At a cross-road it does seem to us that we might go either to the right or to the left and ,the choice once made, it is difficult to see that the whole course of the world's history obliged us to take the turning we did.

大多数人的生活被他们身处的环境所决定。他们不仅接受既定的命运,而且顺从命运的安排。他们就像街上的电车一样,在他们既定的轨道上行驶,而对于那些不时出没于车水马龙间和欢快地奔驰在旷野上的廉价小汽车却不屑一顾。我尊重他们,他们是好公民、好丈夫和好父亲。当然,总得有些人来支付税收,但是,他们并没有令人激动的地方。另外有一些人,他把生活掌握在自己的手里,可以按照自己的喜好去创造生活,尽管这样的人少之又少,但我却被他们深深的吸引着。可能世界上并没有诸如自由意志这样的事情,但是无论怎样,我们总有关于自由意志的的幻想。当我们处在一个十字路口时,我们似乎可以决定向左走还是向右走,可是一旦做出选择,我们却很难意识到,实际上是世界历史的全部进程强迫我们做出了那样的选择。

adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
adj.愉快的,活泼的
  • She is as sprightly as a woman half her age.她跟比她年轻一半的妇女一样活泼。
  • He's surprisingly sprightly for an old man.他这把年纪了,还这么精神,真了不起。
adv.心满意足地;洋洋得意地;高兴地;活泼地
  • His straw hat stuck jauntily on the side of his head. 他那顶草帽时髦地斜扣在头上。 来自辞典例句
  • He returned frowning, his face obstinate but whistling jauntily. 他回来时皱眉蹙额,板着脸,嘴上却快活地吹着口哨。 来自辞典例句
n.爱好;嗜好;喜欢
  • The word palate also means taste or liking.Palate这个词也有“口味”或“嗜好”的意思。
  • I must admit I have no liking for exaggeration.我必须承认我不喜欢夸大其词。
学英语单词
airfield runway
annalise
Apricol
architectonicids
at someone' s peril
atrocity
attam
black-american
book label
brama japonica
breaking points
cane combine
central watching board
clot-iron
commodity production
composite lighting
congenital dislocation of knee joint
corpus rubrum
Cygnus cygnus
down shot
drumgo
dual pressure controller
egg plant Jun glaze
expectancy table
First Unread
gantry container crane
gas ballast control
genus Mucuna
global address administration
glycosphingolipid(glycosylsph)
governor generals
group flagellar antigen
half-high
Harhiraa Uul
heat damaged kernel
hemp tree
high-speed drying press
hypermedia library
hypothecarius
improbous
in the tub
incremental fuel cost
industrial-scale
inscriptor
isidorian
jabaliyah
lannie
lex naturale
logical network concept
long-tailed porcupines
lose their mind
magbeam
mechanical driving device
Mellum
mesangioblast
metallic sheath
mf touch-tone
mid-caps
Monolithos
neutron-induced damage
NIM instrument
non critical item
Obispos
overrunning clutch starter motor
pinch off
plastic-laying machine
pressure screen
propositional dynamic logic
public utility corporation
pyocelia
remain arc
rirosin
Robert Anson Heinlein
rocket reaction
Salvatierra de los Barros
sanguisorbin
scutate
shrsp
slot coil
slow (-neutron) fission
Slöinge
solar azimuth
sounding method
special moves
stackers
Stenotomus aculeatus
sweet flag
swell-neck pan hdad rivet
syzygium jambos aeston rose-apple
teach gun
thermodynamic parameters
to be precise
two-phase state
ultrasonic monitor
Valin
ventriculi
vorbarn
wellingtonias
Werkendam
wet automatic sprinkler system
Woodland cultures
xylocryptite