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第39章 学无止境(3)

对于我们中间太多的人来说,学习似乎是让我们的意志屈从于外界的指教,可以说是奴役。

appear to be 有时暗含“貌似……实则不然”之义;a sort of enslavement 是同位语。

BThis pleasure is not confined to learning from textbooks, which are too often tedious.

这种快乐不只限于书本学习,书本往往太乏味。

be confined to:局限于;which 指textbooks。

70.The Pleasures of Learning(2)学习的乐趣

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吉尔伯特·哈厄特认为,学习是人与生俱来的本能的快乐之一。很多人愚钝,是因为教学不得其法、不与他人交流、程式化或受体力劳动和贫困的压力所致。学习不限于书本,但是书本却必不可少。此外,学习应该具备开放和积极的思想,才能从各种经历中学习。

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But, far beyond books, learning means keeping the mind open and active to receive all kinds of experience.One of the best-informed men I ever knew was a cowboy who rarely read a newspaper and never a book but who had ridden many thousands of miles through one of the western states.He knew his state as thoroughly as a surgeon knows the human body.He loved it, and understood it.ANot a mountain, not a canyon which had not much to tell him;not a change in the weather that he could not interpret.And so, among the pleasures of learning, we should include travel:travel with an open mind, an alert eye and a wish to understand other peoples, other places, rather than looking in them for a mirror image of oneself.If I were a young man today I resolve to see-no, to learn all the 50 states before I was 35.

Learning also means learning to practice, or at least to appreciate, an art. Every new art you learn appears like a new window on the universe;it is like acquiring a new sense.Because I was born and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland, a hideous 19th century industrial city, I did not understand the slightest thing about architecture until I was in my 20s.Since then, I have learned a little about the art, and it has been a constant delight.

Crafts, too, are well worth exploring. A friend of mine took up bookbinding because his doctor ordered him to do something that would give him relaxation and activity without tension.It was a difficult challenge at first, but he gradually learned to square off the paper and the boards, sew the pages, fasten on the backstrip, and maintain precision and neatness throughout.

Within a few years, this initially rather dull hobby had led him into fresh fields of enjoyment. BHe began to collect fine books from the past five centuries;he developed an interest in printing;eventually, he started a private press and had the joy of producing his own elegant books.Many other crafts there are, and most of them contain one essential pleasure:the pleasure of making something that will last.

难点重点,一目了然!

长难句解析Sentence Structures

ANot a mountain, not a canyon which had not much to tell him;not a change in the weather that he could not interpret.

每一座大山,每一道峡谷他都有说不完的故事,每一种天气变化他都能说清来龙去脉。

注意理解本句结构:not a+n.+that/which+not 表示“没有一个……不……”

BHe began to collect fine books from the past five centuries;he developed an interest in printing;eventually, he started a private press and had the joy of producing his own elegant books.

他开始收集最近五个世纪以来的书籍精品,不久对印刷产生了兴趣。最终,他建立了自己的出版社,开始享受出版自己的高雅书籍之乐趣。

本句采取排比手段,三个结构相同的句子就勾勒出了他走向成功的轨迹。

71.The Pleasures of Learning(3)学习的乐趣

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吉尔伯特·哈厄特认为书本学习有两种不同的快乐:一是领略意外惊喜,如结识了拥有新视角的作家;一是深化自身的专业知识。随着年龄增长,人的身体会衰老,但是人的思想却愈加活跃,自得其乐。一个学习的人有探索不完的领域。学习的快乐才是真正的快乐。

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As for reading books, this contains two different delights.One is the pleasure of apprehending the unexpected, such as when one meets a new author who has a new vision of the world.The other pleasure is of deepening one"s knowledge of a special field.

Provided that you aim, throughout your life, as you continue learning, to integrate your thought, to make it harmonious. lf you happen to be an engineer and also enjoy singing in a glee club, connect these two activities.They unite in you;they are not in conflict.Both choral singing and engineering are examples of the architectonic ability of man:of his power to make a large plan and to convey it clearly to others.Both are esthetic and depend much on symmetry.Think about them not as though they were dissociated, but as though each were one aspect of a single unity.You will do them better, and be happier.

This is hard advice to give to young students. They are explosive, exploratory and insurrectionary.Instead of integrating their lives, they would rather seek outward, and even try to move in opposite directions simultaneously.

Much unhappiness has been suffered by those people who have never recognized that it is as necessary to make themselves into whole and harmonious personalities as to keep themselves clean, healthy and financially solvent. Wholeness of the mind and spirit is not a quality conferred by nature, or by God.It is like health, virtue and knowledge.

AMan has the capacity to attain it;but to achieve it depends on his own efforts. It needs a long, deliberate effort of the mind and the emotions, and even the body.

During our earthly life, the body gradually dies;even the emotions become duller. But the mind in most of us continues to live, and even grows more lively and active, enjoys itself more, works and plays with more expansion and delight.

BNo learner has ever run short of subjects to explore. The pleasures of learning are indeed pleasures.In fact, the word should be changed.The true name is happiness.You can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

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AMan has the capacity to attain it;but to achieve it depends on his own efforts.

人具备实现身心健康的能力,但是要做到这一点却要凭自己的努力。

capacity多指“容积,潜能”,此处指“天赋,潜力”。

BNo learner has ever run short of subjects to explore.

一个善于学习的人总是有探索不完的事物。

本句意思是:善学者必有好奇心,凡事都能引起他的兴趣,探索方式之一就是读书。

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