时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第三册


英语课

Lesson44 A Neapolitan Fisherman

The Neapolitan fisherman asleep in the afternoon sun was approached by awell-to-do businessman from another city.

"Why are you asleep instead of doing something useful?""What should I do?" answered the fisherman.

"You could mend your nets," suggested the businessman, "and then you wouldcatch more fish. If you caught more fish you would make more money andsooner or later you could afford a bigger fishing boast which would enableyou to catch still more fish. In time you could become the owner of severalboats and employ other fishermen to work for you. Eventually you wouldbecome a wealthy man with a fleet of fishing boats bringing ashore 1 greatquantities of fish and earning more than enough money for you and yourfamily to live in great style.

You would no longer need to work hard or worry about the future. In fact,you'd have la dolce vita. Come on! Wake up!

The day is short but there's still time to attain 2 your ambition."The fisherman listened patiently — he had enjoyed a long lunch and feltquite drowsy 3 in the warm afternoon sun — and when the man was finished,the fisherman looked at him puzzled: "I would do all that to have la dolcevita? Why should I do all that to achieve what I already have?"


Neapolitan 那不勒斯的

la dolce vita 奢华的生活方式

attain 获得

drowsy 昏昏欲睡的


一个那不勒斯渔民

一个从其他城市来的富商走到一个正在午后阳光下睡觉的那不勒斯渔民身旁。

“你为什么不去做些有用的事而在这里睡觉呢?”

“我应该做什么呢?”渔民回答。

“你可以补网,”商人提议说,“那样你就可以捕到更多的鱼。如果你捕到更多的鱼,你就可以赚更多的钱,迟早你将会拥有更大的渔船,它能让你捕到更多的鱼。你就可以拥有几条船,雇佣其他渔民为你工作。最终,你将成为富人,拥有更多的渔船,这些船会把大量的鱼带上岸,为你赚大量的钱,你的家人将过上幸福的生活。你再也不必努力工作或为将来担心。事实上,你将过上奢华的生活。快点,清醒清醒吧!时不我待,你还来得及实现你的抱负。”

渔民耐心地听着——午餐的时间已经够长了,在暖和的午后阳光下他感到昏昏欲睡——等商人说完,他困惑地看着商人说:“我一定要做所有这些事才能得到奢华的生活吗?

我为什么要做那么多去获得我本来已经拥有的生活呢?”



1 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
2 attain
vt.达到,获得,完成
  • I used the scientific method to attain this end. 我用科学的方法来达到这一目的。
  • His painstaking to attain his goal in life is praiseworthy. 他为实现人生目标所下的苦功是值得称赞的。
3 drowsy
adj.昏昏欲睡的,令人发困的
  • Exhaust fumes made him drowsy and brought on a headache.废气把他熏得昏昏沉沉,还引起了头疼。
  • I feel drowsy after lunch every day.每天午饭后我就想睡觉。
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AB132
absolute rank
air receiver tank
andreaeas
anterior right colic artery
anti-fascisms
Arnica montana
Balanophora
be of sb's mind
belinskii
belled out
Betzigau
boomah
carinate bird
chloroben
civil legal relationship
cobalt pentlandite
complete sets
conning position
context searcher
creeping indigo
Dahurian larch
deep tectonic
delect
deviation from par
device driver
Diplodinium
Djiroutou
dpimer
dysacousis
economic models
education goods and services
end-piled loading
estimation of quality
Esvres
eusternums
extrasacral
filenadol
foudroyants
frequency error
galette silk
gamers
glue-pot
half-passes
have something on one's mind
Hemiboea omeiensis
henneberger
hook state
instantaneous date and day mechanism
instantaneous oevercurrent relay
internal opening
ion exchange resin
Jamaican patties
jeu de paume
July-flowers
knowledge-level decision making
marine farm
miltiadess
minor node
mystery ship
nandimba
navigable water level
neverlin
nonpizza
nonterminal node
on-line query
ouster clauses
percent of the fulfillment of a plan
petajoules
pilot's cabin
pitch of holes in pattern
plicae vesicouterina
porcelain teeth
proofed sleeve
qv-
ravitz
refusal of goods
reseparated
rhenium oxide
rotary clothes-drier
rotor speed
sectiones medull? spinalis
setenvironments
shepherding
simultaneous strike
soken
sonic thermometer
stability under transport condition
stigmatised
supraclavicular region
swot up on
talent-spottings
teen-sex
think aloud protocol
through transportation of land and water
Tomiyama
triasine dyes
trochid
unclean water
us fiscal cliff
vectolite
verse lines