㈠ 現代大學英語精讀2Unit1TextA原文及全文翻譯
現代大學英語精讀2Unit1TextA原文及全文翻譯如下：
Another School Year—What For?
John Ciardi
Let me tell you one of the earliest disasters in my career as a teacher.
It was January of1940and I was fresh out of graate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. Part of the student body was a beanpole with hair on top who came into my class, sat down, folded his arms,and looked at me as if to say"All right, teach me something.
"Two weeks later we started Hamlet. Three weeks later he came into my office with his hands on his hips."Look,"he said,"I came here to be a pharmacist.Why do I have to read this stuff?"And not having a book of his own to point to, he pointed to mine which was lying on the desk.
New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things. I could have pointed out that he had enrolled,not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course he meant to reach for a scroll that would read Bachelor of Science.
It would not read: Qualified Pill-Grinding Technician.It would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history.That is to say, he had not entered a technical training school but a university and in universities students enroll for both training and ecation.
I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't going to be around long enough for it to matter.
Nevertheless, I was young and I had a high sense of ty and I tried to put it this way: "For the rest of your life," I said, "your days are going to average out to about twenty-four hours.
They will be a little shorter when you are in love, and a little longer when you are out of love, but the average will tend to hold. For eight of these hours, more or less, you will be asleep."
因為一本好書就是一份禮物；它向你呈現你沒有時間去親自體驗的生活，它帶你進入你在現實生活中沒有時間去親自游覽的世界。
從本質上說，一個文明人應該知道許多這樣的生活與世界。如果你太過匆忙，或是對自己的無知洋洋得意，以至於不能把一些亞里士多德，喬叟或愛因斯坦的思想當作你的品質的一件禮物來接受，那麼你既不是一個先進的人，也不是一個民主社會的有用公民。
我記得拉羅什富科說過，大多數人如果沒有讀過關於愛情方面的書，他們就不會戀愛；他可能還說過如果沒有讀過有關人類的書，就沒有一個人能成為真正的人。
當我說到只有當大學使你們，無論作為專業人才還是普通人，接觸到那些你們的頭腦應該有的那些人類的思想，它才有存在的意義，才有真正的辦學目的的時候，我確實是我在替文學院的教職員工，也在替專科的教職員工說話。
教職員工們的存在就暗示了這一點：在努力使我們自己成為某種人類經驗的寶庫過程中，我們得到了許多人的幫助，也得到了很多書籍的幫助。我們教師的任務就是盡最大努力使你們能夠獲得那些專門知識。