There’saLotMoretoLifethanajob原文及翻譯講解學(xué)習(xí)

1、Ther e' s a LotMor e t o Li f e t h ana j ob 原 文 及 翻 譯精品資料Lesson Seven There ' s a Lot More to Life than a job人生的意義遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不止是工作It has often been remarked that the saddest thing about youth is that it is wasted on the young.人們常常說：對(duì)于青春來(lái)說，最令人悲傷的事情莫過于青春在年 輕時(shí)被浪費(fèi)掉了。Reading a survey report on first-year

2、 college students, I recalled the regret, "If only I knew then what I know now."在讀一份對(duì)大學(xué)一年級(jí)新生作的調(diào)查報(bào)告時(shí)，我又想起了這種惋 惜之情：“要是當(dāng)初我就懂得了現(xiàn)在我領(lǐng)悟到的東西該有多好！”The survey revealed what I had already suspected from informal polls of students both in Macon and at the Robins Resident Center: If it (whatever it may

3、 be) won't compute and you can't drink it, smoke it or spend it, then "it" holds little value.這份調(diào)查報(bào)告印證了我以前根據(jù)在梅肯和羅賓斯住宿中心對(duì)學(xué)生 進(jìn)行的非正式民意調(diào)查所作的推斷：學(xué)生們認(rèn)為如果某種東西(不管 它是何物)沒有實(shí)際意義，不能把它當(dāng)酒喝、當(dāng)煙抽、當(dāng)錢花，那么 “它”就基本毫無(wú)價(jià)值。According to the survey based on responses from over 188,000 students, today's col

4、lege beginners are "more consumeristic and less idealistic" than at any time in the 17 years of the poll.基于對(duì)188，000多名學(xué)生答卷的調(diào)查表明，當(dāng)今的大學(xué)新生比 這項(xiàng)民意測(cè)驗(yàn)開始17年以來(lái)的任何時(shí)候的大學(xué)新生都“更主張消費(fèi)主 義，同時(shí)也少了些理想主義”。Not surprising in these hard times, the students' majorobjective "is to be financially well off&quo

5、t;. Less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy of life. Accordingly, today the most popular course is not literature or history but accounting.在這個(gè)經(jīng)濟(jì)不景氣的時(shí)代，學(xué)生們的主要目標(biāo)是追求“經(jīng)濟(jì)上的 富?！?。與過去任何時(shí)候相比，樹立有意義的人生哲學(xué)已不那么重要 了。這一情況并不讓人感到驚奇。因此，如今最受歡迎的課程不是文 學(xué)或歷史，而是會(huì)計(jì)學(xué)。Interest in teaching, social servic

6、e and the humanities is at a low, along with ethnic and women's studies. On the other hand, enrollment in business programs, engineering and computer science is way up.如今人們對(duì)當(dāng)教師、社會(huì)服務(wù)和人文學(xué)科、還有種族和婦女研究 的興趣都處于低潮。而另一方面，攻讀商科、工程學(xué)及計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)的 學(xué)生人數(shù)卻在迅速增加。That's no surprise either. A friend of mine (a sales

7、representative for a chemical company) was making twice the salary of college instructors during her first year on the job even before she completed her two-year associate degree.還有一件事也不令人意外。我的一個(gè)朋友(一個(gè)化工公司的銷售 代理)在干這份工作的第一年所掙的錢就已是大學(xué)教師薪水的兩倍了一 這甚至還是在她修完兩年制的準(zhǔn)學(xué)士學(xué)位課程之前的事。'I 'll tell them what they

8、can do with their music, history, literature, etc.," she was fond of saying. And that was four years ago; I tremble to think what she's earning now.她喜歡說這樣一句話：“我會(huì)對(duì)他們講，他們學(xué)習(xí)音樂、歷史、 文學(xué)等等有什么用！ ”那還是四年以前呢，我都不敢想象她現(xiàn)在賺多 少錢。Frankl y, I'm proud of the young lady (not her attitude but her success). B

9、ut why can't we have it both ways? Can't we educate people for life as well as for a career? I believe we can.坦率地說，我為這位小姐感到驕傲(不是為她的態(tài)度，而是為她 的成功)。但是我們?yōu)槭裁床荒軆扇涿滥?？我們就不能教?huì)人們既 懂得謀生，又懂得人生么？我相信我們能夠做到。If we cannot, then that is a conviction against our educational system kindergarten, elementary, sec

10、ondary and higher. In a time of increasing specialization, more than ever, we need to know what is truly important in life.如果我們做不到這一點(diǎn)，那就是對(duì)我們從幼兒園、小學(xué)、中學(xué)直 到大學(xué)的整個(gè)教育制度的否定。在一個(gè)日益專業(yè)化的時(shí)代，我們比過 去任何時(shí)候都更需要了解什么是生活中真正重要的東西。This is where age and maturity enter. Most people, somewhere between the ages of 30 and 50,

11、finally arrive at the inevitable conclusion that they were meant to do more than serve a corporation, a government agency, or whatever.這就是年齡和成熟所能帶給人們的啟示。大多數(shù)年齡約在30至50歲之間的人都會(huì)最終得出一個(gè)必然的結(jié)論，即他們不應(yīng)該僅僅是為 某個(gè)公司、某個(gè)政府機(jī)構(gòu)或任何其他單位服務(wù)。Most of us finally have the insight that quality of life is not entirely determined

12、by a balance sheet. Sure, everyone wants to be financially comfortable, but we also want to feel we have a perspective on the world beyond the confines of our occupation; we want to be able to render service to our fellow men and to our God.我們大多數(shù)人最終會(huì)認(rèn)識(shí)到，生活質(zhì)量并不完全是由資產(chǎn)負(fù)債表 來(lái)決定的。誠(chéng)然，每個(gè)人都想在經(jīng)濟(jì)上富裕點(diǎn)。但是我們還希望對(duì)自

13、 己職業(yè)范圍以外的世界有所了解；我們希望能為我們的同胞和上帝效勞。If it is a fact that the meaning of life does not dawn until middle age, is it then not the duty of educational institutions to prepare the way for that revelation? Most people, in their youth, resent the Social Security deductions from their pay, yet a seemingly few

14、 short years later find themselves standing anxiously by the mailbox.如果說人要到步入中年才能對(duì)人生的含義有所領(lǐng)悟的話，那么為 這種領(lǐng)悟掃清障礙不正是教育機(jī)構(gòu)的責(zé)任嗎？大多數(shù)人在年輕的時(shí)候 怨恨從他們工資中扣錢交社會(huì)保險(xiǎn)金，然而好像只是短短幾年后，他 們就發(fā)現(xiàn)自己正焦急地站在信箱旁邊（等待養(yǎng)老金支票）了。While it's true all of us need a career, preferably a prosperous one, it is equally true that our civilizatio

15、n has collected an incredible amount of knowledge in fields far removed from our own. And we are better for our understanding of these other contributionsbe they scientificor artistic. It is equally true that, in studying the diverse wisdom of others, we learn how to think. More importantly, perhaps

16、, education teaches us to see the connections between things, as well as to see beyond our immediate needs.雖然我們所有人都確實(shí)需要一份工作，最好是一份薪水豐厚的工 作。但同樣不容爭(zhēng)議的事實(shí)是，我們的文明已經(jīng)在我們各自的領(lǐng)域之 外積累了巨大的知識(shí)財(cái)富。而且正因?yàn)槲覀兝斫饬诉@些在其他領(lǐng)域的 貢獻(xiàn)一一不管是科學(xué)方面的，還是藝術(shù)方面的一一我們的人生才更完善。同 樣地，我們?cè)诹私馑说闹腔鄣耐瑫r(shí)，自己也學(xué)會(huì)了如何去思考。也 許更重要的是，教育使我們的視野超越了眼前的需求，并使我們看到了事物間的聯(lián)系

17、。Weekly we read of unions that went on strike for higherwages, only to drive their employer out of business. No company, no job. How short-sighted in the long run.我們每周都在報(bào)紙上讀到這樣的消息：工會(huì)在為要求更高的工資 而罷工，結(jié)果卻只是使他們的老板破了產(chǎn)。沒有了公司，也就沒有了 工作崗位。從長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)來(lái)看，他們的目光是何等地短淺！But the most important argument for a broad education

18、is that in studying the accumulated wisdom of the ages, we improve our moral sense. I saw a cartoon recently which depicts a group of businessmen looking puzzled as they sit around a conference table; one of them is talking on the intercom: "Miss Baxter," he says, "could you please se

19、nd in someone who can distinguish right from wrong?"但是贊成全面教育的最重要的理由是，在學(xué)習(xí)世世代代積累起來(lái) 的知識(shí)的同時(shí)，我們也提高了自己的道德感。最近我看了一幅漫畫， 描述了幾個(gè)商人坐在會(huì)議桌周圍，看上去困惑不解的樣子。其中的一 個(gè)正通過內(nèi)部通話設(shè)備講話：“巴克斯特小姐，”他說，“是否可以 請(qǐng)您叫一個(gè)能明辨是非的人來(lái)？”In the long run that's what education really ought to be about. I think it can be. My college roommate, now head of a large shipping company in New York, not surprisingly was a business major. But he also hosted a classical music show on the college's FM station and listened to Wagner as he studied his accounting.從長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)觀點(diǎn)來(lái)看，這確確實(shí)實(shí)是教育應(yīng)該做的事。我認(rèn)為教育完