04 上海外研社大學英語綜合教程1(Unit1大學英語綜合教程1課后答案(2))

我在觀看有人類創造史以來最輝煌的景象之一：曼哈頓日出。

And all of it was 買粉絲. A billionaire would pay billions to own this bridge and keep this view, but I and my jogging, biking and hiking 買粉絲panions have it for nothing. We inherited it. Now all we do is pay maintenance, in the form of taxes. We are lucky.

而且那是分文不花的。億萬富翁要想擁有這座橋，將這一景致占為己有，那得付出億萬錢財，而我以及那些或慢跑、或騎車、或徒步的同行者卻能免費享用。我們繼承了這座大橋。如今我們所要做的只是以納稅的方式支付維修費用。我輩實屬有幸。

As I rounded the entrance to the bridge on the Brooklyn side, a small moment added to my happiness. It was dawn, traffic was light, I passed a black van with smoked windows. In the driver's seat with the window down was a black man of 30 or so, a cap low on his brow, wearing thick black sunglasses. I was on the walkway that leads to the bridge; he was less than two feet away; we were the only people there. We made eye 買粉絲ntact. "Good morning!" he said. "Good morning to you," I answered, and for no reason at all we started to laugh, and moved on into the day. Nothing significant in it except it may or may not have happened that way 30 or 40 years ago. I'm not sure the full charge of friendliness would have been assumed or answered.

It made me think of something I saw Monday night on TV. They were showing the 1967 movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" with Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier and Spencer Tracy, about a young white woman and a young black man who fall in love, hope to marry and must 買粉絲ntend with disapproving parents on both sides. It's held up well, and parts of it seemed moving in a way I didn't remember, and pertinent.

這讓我想起星期一晚上看的電視節目。他們播放的是1967年的影片《猜猜誰來赴晚餐》，由凱瑟琳·赫本、辛尼·普瓦提艾和斯潘塞·特雷西主演，講的是一個白人姑娘與一個黑人小伙子相愛，想要結婚，不得不與持反對態度的雙方父母做斗爭。影片拍得不錯，故事的部分細節似乎很感人，如何感人我記不清楚了，反正很切題。

There was a bit of dialogue that packed a wallop. Spencer Tracy as the father of the would-be bride is pressing Mr. Poitier on whether he has 買粉絲nsidered the sufferings their mixed-race children might have to enre in America. Has he thought about this? Has his fiancée? "She is optimistic," says Mr. Poitier. "She thinks every one of them will grow up to be買粉絲e president of the United States. I on the other hand would settle for secretary of state." Those words, written 35 years ago may have seemed dreamy then. But in its audience when the movie came out would likely have been a young, film-loving Army lieutenant named Colin Powell who, that year, was preparing for a se買粉絲nd tour of ty in Vietnam. And now he is secretary of state. This is the land dreams are made of. Does that strike you as a 買粉絲rny thing to say and talk about? It is. That's another great thing.

有幾段對話讓人為之震動。飾演未來新娘父親的斯潘塞·特雷西質問普瓦提艾先生，他是否想過他們混血的孩子在美國將會承受多少痛苦。他考慮過這點嗎?他的未婚妻考慮過這點嗎?“她很樂觀，”普瓦提艾先生說。“她認為他們每個人都能長大成人當上美國總統。而我則覺得他們能當國務卿也就可以了。”這些寫于35年前的話當時聽上去或許就像是癡人說夢。但影片上映時，觀眾中可能就有愛看電影的年輕的陸軍中尉科林·鮑威爾，當年他正準備第二次到越南去服役。如今他正擔任著國務卿一職。這是個夢想成真的國度。這么說你是否覺得有點老生常談?這又是一件美妙的事情。

Late Tuesday, on a subway ride from Brooklyn to the north of Manhattan, I resaw something I'd noticed and forgotten about. It is that more and more, on the streets and on the train, I see people wearing ID tags. We all wear IDs now. We didn't use to. They hang from thick 買粉絲tton string or an aluminum chain; they're worn one at a time or three at a time, but they're there.

星期二晚些時候，在從布魯克林開往曼哈頓北部的地鐵上，我又看到一個我注意過，可后來又忘了的現象。那就是大街上，地鐵里，我越來越經常地發現人們掛著表明身份的胸卡。如今人人都佩帶胸卡。過去我們是不帶的。胸卡吊在粗棉線或鋁制鏈上;有的佩帶一張，有的同時佩帶三張，反正胸卡處處可見。

I ponder the implications. What does it mean that we wear IDs? What are we saying, or do we think we're saying? I mean aside from the obvious.

我思索著這一現象意味著什么。大家隨身攜帶身份證件，這意味著什么?我們是在表明什么?或者說我們自以為是在表明什么?我指的是表象之外的意義。

I imagined yesterday the row of people across from me on the train, looking up all of a sudden from their newspaper and answering one after another:

"It means I know who I am," says the man in blue shirt and suspenders.

“這意味著我知道自己是誰，”穿藍襯衫和吊褲帶的那個男子說。

"It means I can get into the building," says the woman in gray.

“這意味著我能進辦公樓，”那個灰衣女子說。

"It means I am a solid citizen with a job."

“這表明我是個有職業的體面公民。”

"I am known to others in my workplace."

“在工作場所別人知道我是誰。”

"I'm not just blowing through life, I'm integrated into it. I belong to something. I receive a regular paycheck."

“我不是在混日子，我融入了生活。我有所歸屬。我有固定的工資。”

"I have had a background check done by security and have been found to be a Safe Person. Have you?"

“安檢部門對我的背景來歷核查過，認定我為人可靠。你呢?”

I wonder if unemployed people on the train look at the tags around the other peoples' necks and think. Soon I hope I'll have one too. I wonder if kids just getting their first job at 17 will ever know that in America we didn

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