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unit 6 The Last Leaf
When Johnsy fell seriously ill, she seemed to lose the will to hang on to life. The doctor held out little hope for
her. Her friends seemed helpless. Was there nothing to be done?
约翰西病情严重，她似乎失去了活下去的意 志。医生对她不抱什么希望。朋友们看来也爱莫能助。难道真
的就无可奈何了吗？
1 At the top of a three-story brick building, Sue and Johnsy had their studio.
One was from Maine; the other from California. They had met at a cafe on Eighth Street and found their tastes in art,
chicory salad and bishop sleeves so much in tune that the joint studio resulted.
在一幢三层砖楼的顶层，苏和约翰西辟了个画室。“约翰西”是乔安娜的昵称。她们一位来自缅因州，一
位来自加利福尼亚。两人相遇在第八大街的一个咖啡馆，发现各自在艺术品味、菊苣色拉，以及灯笼袖等方面趣< br>味相投，于是就有了这个两人画室。
2 That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the
district, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Johnsy was among his victims. She lay, scarcely moving on her
bed, looking through the small window at the blank side of the next brick house.
那是5月里的事。到了11月，一个医生称之为肺炎的阴森的隐形客闯入了这一地区，用它 冰冷的手指东
碰西触。约翰西也为其所害。她病倒了，躺在床上几乎一动不动，只能隔着小窗望着隔壁砖 房那单调沉闷的侧墙。
3 One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a bushy, gray eyebrow.
一天上午，忙碌的医生扬了扬灰白的浓眉，示意苏来到过道。
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mind that she's not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind?
“她只 有一成希望，”他说。“那还得看她自己是不是想活下去。你这位女朋友已经下决心不想好了。她有
什么 心事吗？”
5 “她――她想有一天能去画那不勒斯
湾，”苏说。
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“画画？――得了。她有没有别的事值得她留恋的――比如说，一个男人？”
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“男人？”苏说。“难道一个男人就值得――可是，她没有啊，大夫，没有这码子事。”
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carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
gone Sue went into the workroom and cried. Then she marched into Johnsy's room with her drawing board, whistling a
merry tune.
“好吧，”大夫说。“我会尽一切努力，只要是科学能做到的。可是，但凡病人开始计算她 出殡的行列里有
几辆马车的时候，我就要把医药的疗效减去一半。”大夫走后，苏去工作室哭了一场。随 后她携着画板大步走进
约翰西的房间，口里吹着轻快的口哨。
9 Johnsy lay, scarcely making a movement under the bedclothes, with her face toward the window. She was
looking out and counting -- counting backward.
约翰西躺在被子下几乎一动不动，脸朝着窗。她望着窗外，数着数――倒数着数！
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together.
“12，”她数道，过了一会儿“11”，接着数“10 ”和“9”；再数“8”和“7”，几乎一口同时数下来。
11 Sue looked out of the window. What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the
blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old, old ivy vine climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath
of autumn had blown away its leaves, leaving it almost bare.
苏朝窗外望去。外面有什么好数的呢？外面只看到一个空荡荡的沉闷的院子，还有20英尺 开外那砖房的
侧墙，上面什么也没有。一棵古老的常青藤爬到半墙高。萧瑟秋风吹落了枝叶，藤上几乎光 秃秃的。
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It made my head ache to count them. But now it's easy. There goes another one. There are only five left now.
“6”，约翰西数着，声音几乎听不出来。“现在叶子掉落得快多了。三天前差不多还有1 00片。数得我头
都疼。可现在容易了。又掉了一片。这下子只剩5片了。”
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“5片什么，亲爱的？”
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tell you?
“叶子。常青藤上的叶子。等最后一片叶子掉了，我也就得走了。三天前我就知道会这样。 大夫没跟你说
吗？”
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Why, the doctor told me this morning that your chances for getting well real soon were ten to one! Try to take some soup
now, and let Sudie go and buy port wine for her sick child.
“噢，我从没听说过这种胡说八道。常青藤叶子跟你病 好不好有什么关系？别这么傻。对了，大夫上午跟
我说，你的病十有八九就快好了。快喝些汤，让苏迪给 她生病的孩子去买些波尔图葡萄酒来。”
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don't want any soup. That leaves just four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark. Then I'll go, too. I'm tired of
waiting. I'm tired of thinking. I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down, down, just like one of
those poor, tired leaves.
“你不 用再去买酒了，”约翰西说道，两眼一直盯着窗外。“又掉了一片。不，我不想喝汤。这一下只剩下
4片 了。我要在天黑前看到最后一片叶子掉落。那时我也就跟着走了。我都等腻了。也想腻了。我只想撇开一切,
飘然而去，就像那边一片可怜的疲倦的叶子。”
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“快睡吧，”苏说。“我得叫贝尔曼上楼来给我当老矿工模特儿。我去去就来。”
18 Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. He was past sixty and had a long white
beard curling down over his chest. Despite looking the part, Behrman was a failure in art. For forty years he had been
always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. He earned a little by serving as a model to those young
artists who could not pay the price of a professional. He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece.
For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who mocked terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as guard
dog to the two young artists in the studio above.
老贝尔曼 是住在两人楼下底层的一个画家。他已年过六旬，银白色蜷曲的长髯披挂胸前。贝尔曼看上去挺
像艺术家 ，但在艺术上却没有什么成就。40年来他一直想创作一幅传世之作，却始终没能动手。他给那些请不
起 职业模特的青年画家当模特挣点小钱。他没节制地喝酒，谈论着他那即将问世的不朽之作。要说其他方面，他是个好斗的小老头，要是谁表现出一点软弱，他便大肆嘲笑，并把自己看成是楼上画室里两位年轻艺术家的看 护
人。
19 Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of gin in his dimly lighted studio below. In one corner was a blank canvas
on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece. She told him of
Johnsy's fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold
upon the world grew weaker. Old Behrman, with his red eyes plainly streaming, shouted his contempt for such foolish
imaginings.
苏在楼下光线暗淡的画 室里找到了贝尔曼，他满身酒味刺鼻。屋子一角的画架上支着一张从未落过笔的画
布，在那儿搁了25年 ，等着一幅杰作的起笔。苏把约翰西的怪念头跟他说了，并说约翰西本身就像一片叶子又
瘦又弱，她害怕 要是她那本已脆弱的生存意志再软下去的话，真的会凋零飘落。老贝尔曼双眼通红，显然是泪涟
涟的，他 大声叫嚷着说他蔑视这种傻念头。
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never heard of such a thing. Why do you allow such silly ideas to come into that head of hers? God! This is not a place in
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which one so good as Miss Johnsy should lie sick. Some day I will paint a masterpiece, and we shall all go away. Yes.
“什么！”他嚷道。“世界上竟然有这么愚蠢的人，因为树叶从藤上掉落就要去死？我听都没听说过这等事。你怎么让这种傻念头钻到她那个怪脑袋里？天哪！这不是一个像约翰西小姐这样的好姑娘躺倒生病的地方。有 朝
一日我要画一幅巨作，那时候我们就离开这里。真的。”
21 Johnsy was sleeping when they went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade down, and motioned Behrman into the other
room. In there they peered out the window fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they looked at each other for a moment without
speaking. A persistent, cold rain was falling, mingled with snow. Behrman, in his old blue shirt, took his seat as the miner
on an upturned kettle for a rock.
两人上了楼，约翰西已经睡着了。苏放下窗帘，示意贝尔曼去另一个房间。 在那儿两人惶惶不安地凝视着
窗外的常青藤。接着两人面面相觑，哑然无语。外面冷雨夹雪，淅淅沥沥。 贝尔曼穿着破旧的蓝色衬衣, 坐在充
当矿石的倒置的水壶上，摆出矿工的架势。
22 When Sue awoke from an hour's sleep the next morning she found Johnsy with dull, wide-open eyes staring at
the drawn green shade.
第二天早上，只睡了一个小时的苏醒来看到约翰西睁大着无神的双眼，凝望着拉下的绿色窗帘。
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“把窗帘拉起来；我要看，”她低声命令道。
24 Wearily Sue obeyed.
苏带着疲倦，遵命拉起窗帘。
25 But, Lo! after the beating rain and fierce wind that had endured through the night, there yet stood out against the
brick wall one ivy leaf. It was the last on the vine. Still dark green near its stem, but with its edges colored yellow, it
hung bravely from a branch some twenty feet above the ground.
可是，瞧！经过一整夜的急风骤雨，竟然还存留 一片常青藤叶，背靠砖墙，格外显目。这是常青藤上的最
后一片叶子。近梗部位仍呈暗绿色，但边缘已经 泛黄了，它无所畏惧地挂在离地20多英尺高的枝干上。
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and I shall die at the same time.
“这是最后一片叶子，”约 翰西说。“我以为夜里它肯定会掉落的。我晚上听到大风呼啸。今天它会掉落的，
叶子掉的时候，也是我 死的时候。”
27 The day wore away, and even through the twilight they could see the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem against the
wall. And then, with the coming of the night the north wind was again loosed.
白天慢慢过去了，即便在暮色黄昏之 中，他们仍能看到那片孤零零的常青藤叶子，背靠砖墙，紧紧抱住梗
茎。尔后，随着夜幕的降临，又是北 风大作。
28 When it was light enough Johnsy, the merciless, commanded that the shade be raised.
等天色亮起，冷酷无情的约翰西命令将窗帘拉起。
29 The ivy leaf was still there.
常青藤叶依然挺在。
30 Johnsy lay for a long time looking at it. And then she called to Sue, who was stirring her chicken soup over the
gas stove.
约翰西躺在那儿，望着它许久许久。接着她大声呼唤正在煤气灶上搅鸡汤的苏。
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was. It is a sin to want to die. You may bring me a little soup now, and some milk with a little port in it and -- no; bring
me a hand-mirror first, and then pack some pillows about me, and I will sit up and watch you cook.
“我一直像个不乖 的孩子，苏迪，”约翰西说。“有一种力量让那最后一片叶子不掉，好让我看到自己有多
坏。想死是一种 罪过。你给我喝点汤吧，再来点牛奶，稍放一点波尔图葡萄酒――不，先给我拿面小镜子来，弄
几个枕头 垫在我身边，我要坐起来看你做菜。”
32 An hour later she said:
一个小时之后，她说：
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“苏迪，我真想有一天去画那不勒斯海湾。”
34 The doctor came in the afternoon, and Sue had an excuse to go into the hallway as he left.
下午大夫来了，他走时苏找了个借口跟进了过道。
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“现在是势均力敌，”大夫说着，握了握苏纤细颤抖的手。
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kind of an artist, I believe. Pneumonia, too. He is an old, weak man, and the attack is acute. There is no hope for him; but
he goes to the hospital today to be made more comfortable.
“只要精心 照料，你就赢了。现在我得去楼下看另外一个病人了。贝尔曼，是他的名字――记得是个什么
画家。也是 肺炎。他年老体弱，病来势又猛。他是没救了。不过今天他去了医院，照料得会好一点。”

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第二天，大夫对苏说：“她脱离危险了。你赢了。注意饮食，好好照顾，就行了。”
38 And that afternoon Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay and put one arm around her.
当日下午，苏来到约翰西的床头，用一只手臂搂住她。
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was ill only two days. He was found on the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain. His shoes
and clothing were wet through and icy cold. They couldn't imagine where he had been on such a terrible night. And then
they found a lantern, still lighted, and a ladder that had been dragged from its place, and some scattered brushes, and a
palette with green and yellow colors mixed on it, and -- look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall. Didn't
you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it's Behrman's masterpiece -- he painted it
there the night that the last leaf fell.
“我跟你说 件事，小白鼠，”她说。“贝尔曼先生今天在医院里得肺炎去世了。他得病才两天。发病那天上
午人家在 楼下他的房间里发现他疼得利害。他的鞋子衣服都湿透了，冰冷冰冷的。他们想不出那么糟糕的天气他
夜 里会去哪儿。后来他们发现了一个灯笼，还亮着，还有一个梯子被拖了出来，另外还有些散落的画笔，一个调色板，和着黄绿两种颜色，――看看窗外，宝贝儿，看看墙上那最后一片常青藤叶子。它在刮风的时候一动也 不
动，你没有觉得奇怪吗？啊，亲爱的，那是贝尔曼的杰作――最后一片叶子掉落的那天夜里他画上了这 片叶子。”
He did not trust the woman to trust him. And he did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to
be mistrusted now.
他不敢相信这个女人居然会信任自己。他也不认为这 个女人就不信任自己。不过，现在他不想失去别人对
自己的信任。



unit 7 Life of a Salesman
Making a living as a door- to-door salesman demands a thick skin, both to protect against the weather and against
constantly having the door shut in your face. Bill Porter puts up with all this and much, much more.
干挨家挨户上门推销这一营生得脸皮厚，这是因为干这一行不仅要经受风吹 日晒，还要承受一次又一次的
闭门羹。比尔 · 波特忍受着这一切，以及别的种种折磨。
Life of a Salesman
Tom Hallman Jr.
1 The alarm rings. It's 5:45. He could linger under the covers, listening to the radio and a weatherman who predicts
rain. People would understand. He knows that.
一个推销员的生活
小汤姆 · 霍尔曼
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闹钟响了。是清晨5：45。他可以在 被子里再躺一会儿，听听无线电广播。天气预报员预报有雨。人们会
理解的。这点他清楚。
2 A surgeon's scar cuts across his lower back. The fingers on his right hand are so twisted that he can't tie his shoes.
Some days, he feels like surrendering. But his dead mother's challenge echoes in his soul. So, too, do the voices of those
who believed him stupid, incapable of living independently. All his life he's struggled to prove them wrong. He will not
quit.
3 And so Bill Porter rises.
他的下背有一道手术疤痕。他右手的手指严重扭曲，连鞋带都没法系。有时，他真想放弃不 干了。可在他
内心深处，一直回响着已故老母的激励, 还有那些说他蠢，说他不能独立生活的人的声音。他一生都在拚命去证
明他们错了。他决不能放弃不干。
于是比尔·波特起身了。
4 He takes the first unsteady steps on a journey to Portland's streets, the battlefield where he fights alone for his
independence and dignity. He's a door-to-door salesman. Sixty-three years old. And his enemies -- a crippled body that
betrays him and a changing world that no longer needs him -- are gaining on him.
他摇摇晃晃迈出了去波特兰大街的头几步，波特兰大 街是他为独立与尊严而孤身搏杀的战场。他是个挨家
挨户上门推销的推销员，今年63岁。他的敌人―― 辜负他的残疾的身体和一个不再需要他的变化着的世界――
正一步一步把他逼向绝境。
5 With trembling hands he assembles his weapons: dark slacks, blue shirt and matching jacket, brown tie, tan
raincoat and hat. Image, he believes, is everything.
他用颤抖的双手收拾行装：深色宽松裤，蓝衬衣和与之 相配的茄克衫，褐色领带，土褐色雨衣和帽子。在
他看来，形象就是一切。
6 He stops in the entryway, picks up his briefcase and steps outside. A fall wind has kicked up. The weatherman was
right. He pulls his raincoat tighter.
7 He tilts his hat just so. 他在门口停了一下，提起公文包，走了出去。秋风骤起，冷飕飕的。天气预报
员说得没错。他将雨衣裹裹 紧。
他把帽子往一侧微微一斜。
8 On the 7:45 bus that stops across the street, he leaves his briefcase next to the driver and finds a seat in the middle
of a pack of bored teenagers.
在街对面停靠的7：45那班公共汽车上，他把公文包放在司机身旁，在一群没精打采的十几岁的孩子当中
找了个位子坐下。
9 He leans forward, stares toward the driver, sits back, then repeats the process. His nervousness makes him laugh
uncontrollably. The teenagers stare at him. They don't realize Porter's afraid someone will steal his briefcase, with the
glasses, brochures, order forms and clip-on tie that he needs to survive.
他身子往前一倾，盯着司机那儿望 ，然后靠着椅背坐下，接着他又反复这个过程。他心情紧张，控
制不住自己而笑出声来。那些孩子望着他 。他们不明白，波特是担心有人偷他的包，包里有他生存不可缺少的眼
镜，宣传小册子，定单，以及可用 别针别上的领带。
10 Porter senses the stares. He looks at the floor.
波特意识到了小孩子在盯着他看。他把目光转向车厢地板。
11 His face reveals nothing. In his heart, though, he knows he should have been like these kids, like everyone on this
bus. He's not angry. But he knows. His mother explained how the delivery had been difficult, how the doctor had used an
instrument that crushed a section of his brain and caused cerebral palsy, a disorder of the nervous system that affects his
speech, hands and walk.
他脸上没有流露出任何神情。但在他心里，他知道自己本该和这些孩 子一样，和车上其他所有人一样。他
并不生气。但他心里明白。他母亲解释说生他时难产，医生使用了某 种器械，损坏了他大脑的一部分，导致了大
脑性麻痹，一种影响他说话，手部活动以及行走的神经系统的 紊乱。
12 Porter came to Portland when he was 13 after his father, a salesman, was transferred here. He attended a school
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for the disabled and then Lincoln High School, where he was placed in a class for slow kids.
波特13岁那年随着当推销员的父亲工作调动来到波特兰。他上了一个残疾人学校，后来就读林肯高级中学，< br>在那儿他被编入慢班。
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但他并不笨。
14 His mind was trapped in a body that didn't work. Speaking was difficult and took time. People were impatient
and didn't listen. He felt different -- was different -- from the kids who rushed about in the halls and planned dances he
would never attend.
他由于身体 不能正常运行而使脑子不能充分发挥其功能。他说话困难，而且慢。别人不耐烦，不听他说。
他觉得自己 不同于――事实上也确实不同于――那些在过道里东奔西跑的孩子，那些孩子安排的舞会他永远也不
可能 参加。
15 What could his future be? Porter wanted to do something and his mother was certain that he could rise above his
limitations. With her encouragement, he applied for a job with the Fuller Brush Co. only to be turned down. He couldn't
carry a product briefcase or walk a route, they said.
他将来会是个什么样子呢？波特想做些事，母亲 也相信他能冲破身体的局限。在她的鼓励之下，他向福勒
牙刷公司申请一份工作，结果却遭到拒绝。他不 能提样品包，也不能跑一条推销线路，他们说。
16 Porter knew he wanted to be a salesman. He began reading help wanted ads in the newspaper. When he saw one
for Watkins, a company that sold household products door-to-door, his mother set up a meeting with a representative.
The man said no, but Porter wouldn't listen. He just wanted a chance. The man gave in and offered Porter a section of the
city that no salesman wanted.
波 特知道自己想当推销员。他开始阅读报纸上的招聘广告。他看到沃特金斯，一家上门推销家用物品的公
司 要人，他母亲就跟其代理人安排会面。那人说不行，可波特不予理会。他就是需要一个机会。那人让步了，把城里一个其他推销员都不要的区域派给了他。
17 It took Porter four false starts before he found the courage to ring the first doorbell. The man who answered told
him to go away, a pattern repeated throughout the day.
波特一开始四次都没敢敲门，第五次才鼓起勇气按了第一户人家的门 铃。开门的那人让他走开，这种情形
持续了一整天。
18 That night Porter read through company literature and discovered the products were guaranteed. He would sell
that pledge. He just needed people to listen.
当晚，波特仔细阅读了公司的宣传资料，发现产品都是保用的。他要把保用作为卖点 。只要别人肯听他说
话就成。
19 If a customer turned him down, Porter kept coming back until they heard him. And he sold.
要是客户回绝波特，拒绝倾听他的介绍，他就一再上门。就这样他将产品卖了出去。
20 For several years he was Watkins' top retail salesman. Now he is the only one of the company's 44,000
salespeople who sells door-to-door. 他连着几年都是沃特金斯公司的最佳零售推销员。如今他是该公司44000名推销员中惟一一个上门推销的
人。
21 The bus stops in the Transit Mall, and Porter gets off.
公共汽车在公交中转购物中心站停下，波特下了车。
22 His body is not made for walking. Each step strains his joints. Headaches are constant visitors. His right arm is
nearly useless. He can't fully control the limb. His body tilts at the waist; he seems to be heading into a strong, steady
wind that keeps him off balance. At times, he looks like a toddler taking his first steps.
他的身体不适合行走。每走一步关节 都疼。头疼也是习以为常的事。他的右臂几乎没用。他不能完全控制
这只手臂。他的身体从腰部开始前倾 ，看上去就像是顶着一股强劲的吹个不停的风迈步向前，风似乎要把他刮倒。
有时他看上去就像是个刚刚 学步的孩童。
23 He walks 10 miles a day.
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他每天要走10英里的路程。
24 His first stop today, like every day, is a shoeshine stand where employees tie his laces. Twice a week he pays for a
shine. At a nearby hotel one of the doormen buttons Porter's top shirt button and slips on his clip-on tie. He then walks to
another bus that drops him off a mile from his territory.
像平日一样，他今天的第一站是个擦鞋摊，这里的雇员替他系好鞋 带。他每周请他们擦两次鞋。附近一家
旅馆的门卫替他扣上衬衣最上面一粒纽扣，戴上用别针别上的领带 。随后他步行去搭乘另一部巴士，在距离他的
推销区域一英里处下车。
25 He left home nearly three hours ago.
他是差不多3个小时前从家里动身的。
26 The wind is cold and raindrops fall. Porter stops at the first house. This is the moment he's been preparing for
since 5:45 a.m. He rings the bell.
风冷雨淋。波特在第一户人家门前停了下来。这是他从5：45分开始就为之准备的时刻。他按了门铃。
27 A woman comes to the door.
一位妇人开了门。
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30 Porter nods.
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33 She shuts the door.
34 Porter's eyes reveal nothing.
35 He moves to the next house.
36 The door opens.
37 Then closes.
“你好。”
“不，多谢了。我这就要出门。”
波特点点头。
“那我过会儿来，可以吗？”他问。
“不用了，”那妇人回答道。
她关上了门。
波特眼里没有流露丝毫神情。
他转向下一个人家。
门开了。
随即又关上。
38 He doesn't get a chance to speak. Porter's expression never changes. He stops at every home in his territory.
People might not buy now. Next time. Maybe. No doesn't mean never. Some of his best customers are people who
repeatedly turned him down before buying.
他连开口说话的机会都没有。波特的表情从不改变。他敲开自己推销区 内的每一个家门。人们现在可能不
买什么。也许下一次会买。现在不买不等于永远不买。他的一些老客户 都是那些多次把他拒之门外而后来才买的
人。
39 He makes his way down the street.
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他沿着街道往前走。
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“我不想试用这个产品。”
“也许下次试一试。”
“对不起。我在打电话。”
“不要。”
44 Ninety minutes later, Porter still has not made a sale. But there is always another home.
45 He walks on.
46 He knocks on a door. A woman appears from the backyard where she's gardening. She often buys, but not today,
she says, as she walks away.
47
48 She pauses.
49
90分钟之后，波特仍没能卖出一件物品。不过，下面有的是人家。
他继续向前走。
他敲响一扇门。一位正在拾掇花园的妇女从后院走了出来。她常常买他的东西，不过今天不 买，她说着走
开了。
“你真的不买什么？”波特问。
她迟疑了一下。
“那么……”
50 That's all Porter needs. He walks as fast as he can, tailing her as she heads to the backyard. He sets his briefcase
down and opens it. He puts on his glasses, removes his brochures and begins his sales talk, showing the woman pictures
and describing each product.
波特要的就是这一迟疑。他尽可 能快步上前，跟着她朝后院走去。他放下公文包，打了开来。他戴上眼镜，
拿出产品介绍小册子，开始推 销，给那位妇人看图片，详细介绍每一个产品。
51 Spices?
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53 Jams?
54
55 Porter's hearing is the one perfect thing his body does. Except when he gets a live one. Then the word
not register.
调料？
“不要。”
果酱？
“不要。恐怕今天不要什么，比尔。”
波特的听觉是他身上惟一没有一点毛病的功能。只有当他察觉对方有可能买他东西的时候才会发生例外。
这个时候，他是听不见“不”字的。
56 Pepper?
57
58 Laundry soap?
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60 Porter stops. He smells blood. He quickly remembers her last order.
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62
胡椒粉？
“不要。”
洗衣皂？
“嗯。”
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波特停了下来。他嗅到了猎物。他很快记起了她上次的订单。
“对了，你肥皂差不多用完了吧？你上次买的就是这个。现在该差不多用完了。”
“没错，比尔。我买一块。”
63 He arrives home, in a rainstorm, after 7 p.m. Today was not profitable. He tells himself not to worry. Four days
left in the week.
晚上7点过后，他在暴风雨中回到了家。今天没赚钱。他跟自己说别着急。这个星期还有4天呢。
64 At least he's off his feet and home.
至少他回到了家，不用再站立了。
65 Inside, an era is preserved. The telephone is a heavy, rotary model. There is no VCR, no cable.
屋内，俨然是保存完好的一个旧时代。电话是笨重的拨盘式的那种。没有录像放映机，没有有线电视。
66 His is the only house in the neighborhood with a television antenna on the roof.
他家是附近惟一一家屋顶上支着电视接收天线的人家。
67 He leads a solitary life. Most of his human contact comes on the job. Now, he heats the oven and slips in a frozen
dinner because it's easy to fix.
他过着离群索居的生活。他跟别人的来往大都限于工作上。他打开了烤 炉，放了一盒冷藏食品进去，因为
这样做饭方便。
68 The job usually takes him 10 hours.
他的工作通常要花去他10个小时。
69 He's a weary man who knows his days -- no matter what his intentions -- are numbered.
他身心疲惫，知道来日无多了――不管他愿不愿意。
70 He works on straight commission. He gets no paid holidays, vacations or raises. Yes, some months are lean.
他的收入完全依靠佣金。他没有带薪假期，没有度假，也没有加薪。的确，有些月份收入相当微薄。
71 In 1993, he needed back surgery to relieve pain caused from decades of walking. He was laid up for five months
and couldn't work. He was forced to sell his house. The new owners, familiar with his situation, froze his rent and agreed
to let him live there until he dies.
1993年，他需要作背部手术，以减轻数十年行走引起的疼痛。他卧床五个月，无法工作 。他被迫出售房
子。房子的新主人了解他的处境，冻结了他的房租，并答应让他在有生之年继续住在那里 。
72 He doesn't feel sorry for himself.
73 The house is only a building. A place to live, nothing more.
74 His dinner is ready. He eats at the kitchen table and listens to the radio. The afternoon mail brought bills that he
will deal with later this week. The checkbook is upstairs in the bedroom.
75 His checkbook.
他并不因此自悲自怜。
房子只不过是个建筑物。一个住的地方。仅此而已。
晚饭好了。他在厨房的桌子旁吃饭 ，边吃边听着收音机。下午的邮差送来了他的账单，这些账单他将在这
个星期后几天支付。支票簿在楼上 卧室里。
他的私人支票簿。
76 He types in the recipient's name and signs his name.
77 The signature is small and scrawled.
78 Unreadable.
79 But he knows.
80 Bill Porter.
81 Bill Porter, salesman.
他用打字机打上收款人的名字，随后签上名。
签名小小的，字迹潦草。
难以辨认。
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可他认得出来。
比尔·波特。
推销员比尔·波特。
82 From his easy chair he hears the wind lash his house and the rain pound the street outside his home. He must
dress warmly tomorrow. He's sleepy. With great care he climbs the stairs to his bedroom.
83 In time, the lights go off.
84 Morning will be here soon.
他坐在安乐椅上，只听得呼啸的大风猛烈地冲击着他的屋子，大雨击打着屋 外的街面。明天他得穿得暖和
些。他觉得睏了，他小心翼翼地爬上楼就寝。
没过一会儿，灯就灭了。
早晨很快就会来临。
When children take up ways of making a living that differ greatly from their parents, differences in outlook can
easily arise. This is what Alfred Lubrano found. Brought up in the family of a building worker, education led him to
develop different interests and ambitions from his father. Here he writes about how this affected their relationship.
当子女的谋生方式与父母大相径庭时，很容易产生观念上的差异。 这正是艾尔弗雷德·卢布拉诺的发现。
他在一个建筑工人的家庭里长大，他所受的教育使他产生了不同于父亲的兴趣与抱负。他在本文中叙述了这一差
异如何影响着他们的父子关系。

unit 8 A Clone Is Born
Cloning offers the possibility of making exact copies of ourselves. Should this be allowed? What benefits and
dangers may cloning bring?
克隆技术使我们有 可能分毫不差地复制自己。这一技术是否应该获准应用？克隆技术会带来什么裨益与危
险？
A Clone Is Born

Gina Kolata
1 On July 5, 1996, at 5:00 p.m., the most famous lamb in history entered the world. She was born in a shed, just
down the road from the Roslin Institute in Roslin, Scotland, where she was created. And yet her creator, Ian Wilmut, a
quiet, balding fifty-two-year-old embryologist, does not remember where he was when he heard that the lamb, named
Dolly, was born. He does not even recall getting a telephone call from John Bracken, a scientist who had monitored the
pregnancy of the sheep that gave birth to Dolly, saying that Dolly was alive and healthy and weighed 6.6 kilograms.
1996年7月5日下午5点，有史 以来最出名的小羊羔问世了。它出生在苏格兰罗斯林镇的罗斯林研究院
所在的那条路上的一个小棚里，这 只羊羔是在该研究院创造出来的。而它的创造者伊恩·威尔莫特，一位正在谢
顶的文质彬彬的52岁的胚 胎学家，却不记得自己是在什么地方听到这头名叫多利的羊问世的消息的。他甚至不
记得曾接到约翰· 布拉肯的电话，这位对产下多利的那头羊的整个妊娠过程进行监察的科学家在电话上说多利
健康存活，体 重6.6千克。
2 No one broke open champagne. No one took pictures. Only a few staff members from the institute and a local
veterinarian who attended the birth were present. Yet Dolly, who looked for all the world like hundreds of other lambs
that dot the rolling hills of Scotland, was soon to change the world.
没有人打开香槟酒庆 贺。没有人拍照留影。只有研究院的几位员工，以及接生的一位当地兽医在场。然而，
多利，这头与苏格 兰起伏的山丘上散布着的千百头其他的羊毫无异样的小羊羔，很快就改变了世界。
3 When the time comes to write the history of our age, this quiet birth, the creation of this little lamb, will stand out.
The world is a different place now that she is born.
当后人编写我们这一时代 的历史的时候，这一平静的降生，这头小羊羔的问世，将会引人注目。世界因它
降生而从此改变。
4 Dolly is a clone. She was created not out of the union of a sperm and an egg but out of the genetic material from
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an udder cell of a six-year-old sheep. Wilmut fused the udder cell with an egg from another sheep, after first removing all
genetic material from the egg. The udder cell's genes took up residence in the egg and directed it to grow and develop.
The result was Dolly, the identical twin of the original sheep that provided the udder cells, but an identical twin born six
years later.
多利是头克隆羊。它不是精卵结合的产物，而是由取自一头六龄羊的乳腺细胞的基因材料生 成的。威尔莫
特先将取自另一头羊的卵子中的所有基因材料取出，再将该卵子与这一乳腺细胞融合。乳腺 细胞的基因在该卵子
中安营扎寨，令其生长发育。其结果就是多利羊，即与提供乳腺细胞的那头羊一模一 样的孪生羊，只是这头孪生
羊晚出生了6年。
5 Until Dolly entered the world, cloning was the stuff of science fiction. It had been raised as a possibility decades
ago, then dismissed, something that serious scientists thought was simply not going to happen anytime soon. Now it is
not fantasy to think that someday, perhaps decades from now, but someday, you could clone yourself and make tens,
dozens, hundreds of genetically identical twins. Nor is it science fiction to think that your cells could be improved
beforehand, genetically engineered to add some genes and remove others.
在多利羊问世之前，克隆技术不 过是科学幻想的故事。几十年前有人提出这种可能性，后来遭到摒弃，严肃的科
学家那时认为克隆在近期 根本不可能实现。现在这已不再是幻想，几十年之后，或许有朝一日你可以克隆自己，
造出数十个，数百 个，上千个基因完全相同的孪生的兄弟。事先改进你的细胞，运用基因工程注入某些基因，剔
除某些基因 ，这样的事也不再是科学幻想。
6 True, it was a sheep that was cloned, not a human being. But there was nothing exceptional about sheep. Even
Wilmut, who made it clear that he was opposed to the very idea of cloning people, said that there was no longer any
theoretical reason why humans could not clone themselves, using the same methods he had used to clone Dolly.
is no reason in principle why you couldn't do it.
没错，克隆的 是头羊，而不是人。但羊并没有任何独特之处。甚至明确表示反对克隆人的威尔莫特也称，
理论上，没有 理由说人类不能使用与克隆多利羊同样的手段来克隆人类本身。“原则上没有不能这么做的理由。”
但他 补充说，“我们都会认为这样做令人厌恶。”
7 We live in a time when we argue about pragmatism and compromises in our quest to be morally right. But cloning
forces us back to the most basic questions that have plagued humanity since the dawn of recorded time: What is good
and what is evil? And how much potential for evil can we tolerate to obtain something that might be good? Cloning, with
its possibilities for creating our own identical twins, brings us back to the ancient sins of vanity and pride; the sins of
Narcissus, who so loved himself, and of Prometheus, who, in stealing fire, sought the powers of God. So before we can
ask why we are so fascinated by cloning, we have to examine our souls and ask, What exactly so bothers many of us
about trying to make an exact copy of our genetic selves? Or, if we are not bothered, why aren't we?
我们生活在这样一个时代，人们为了追求道德的完善对实用主义 和妥协折衷的问题争论不休。而克隆技术
迫使我们回到有史以来一直困扰人类的那些最本质的问题：何者 为善，何者为恶？为了获得可能有益的东西，我
们对邪恶的隐患能容忍到何种程度？克隆技术以其创造与 我们自身完全一样的孪生兄弟的可能性，将我们带回到
种种古老的罪孽：虚荣傲慢；那喀索斯式的自恋罪 ，以及普罗米修斯的罪孽，他以盗火来谋求上帝的权力。因此，
我们在扪心自问为什么对克隆技术如此着 迷之前，不得不首先审视自己的心灵，问一问：究竟是什么东西使得我
们中的许多人对于尝试复制与自身 基因完全等同的孪生兄弟那么不安？或者，如果我们并没有感到不安，其原因
又是什么？
8 We want children who resemble us. Even couples who use donor eggs or donor sperm, search catalogs of donors
to find people who resemble themselves. Several years ago, a poem by Linda Pastan, called
Home,
Is it my own image
I love so
in your face?
I lean over your sleep,
Narcissus over
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his clear pool,
ready to fall in --
to drown for you
if necessary.
Yet if we so love ourselves, reflected in our children, why is it so terrifying to so many of us to think of seeing our exact
genetic replicas born again, identical twins years younger than we? Is it one thing for nature to form us through a genetic
lottery, and another for us to take complete control, abandoning all thoughts of somehow, through the mixing of genes,
having a child who is like us, but better? Normally, when a man and a woman have a child together, the child is an
unpredictable mixture of the two. We recognize that, of course, in the old joke in which a beautiful but dumb woman
suggests to an ugly but brilliant man that the two have a child. Just think of how wonderful the baby would be, the
woman says, with my looks and your brains. Aha, says the man. But what if the child inherited my looks and your
brains?
我们希望子女像我们自己。即使是采用捐赠卵子或捐赠精子的夫妇也要查找精子捐献人名录，以发现与自
己相像的人。若干年前，琳达· 帕斯坦写的一首题为《致离家的女儿》的诗曾出现在纽约地铁的墙上，诗中写
道：
难道是我自己的形象
映在你的脸上
使我如此爱恋？
我俯视着安睡的你
就像那喀索斯俯视着
他那一潭清水，
随时准备跳下去――
如有必要
为你沉溺
然而，如果我们如此爱恋在子女身上映现出来的自我 ，那为什么我们当中有这么多人，一想到将目睹与我
们完全一样的基因复制品、比自己年轻许多的双胞胎 降生的时候，就会感到如此惊恐？难道大自然通过基因的任
意组合将我们造就是一回事，而由我们自己实 施全面控制，摈弃一切随意的念头，通过基因组合造就一个与我们
相似但更为完美的孩子则又是另外一回 事？当男女一起生育孩子时，孩子往往是两个人基因的不可预料的组合。
显然，一个老笑话表明我们已经 认识到了这一点。这个笑话说的是一位漂亮但蠢笨的女人向一个丑陋但才华横溢
的男人建议两人一起生一 个孩子。想一想吧，那女人说，孩子拥有我的容貌、你的大脑那将会多么出色。啊，那
男人说，可要是孩 子继承了我的容貌你的大脑呢？
9 Cloning brings us face- to-face with what it means to be human and makes us confront both the privileges and
limitations of life itself. It also forces us to question the powers of science. Is there, in fact, knowledge that we do not
want? Are there paths we would rather not pursue?
克隆技术使 我们直接面对做人的意义这个问题，使我们直接面对生命本身的特权与限制。克隆技术也迫使
我们对科学 的力量提出质疑。是不是有些知识我们真的不要去获取？有一些路我们宁愿不去探寻？
10 The time is long past when we can speak of the purity of science, divorced from its consequences. If any needed
reminding that the innocence of scientists was lost long ago, they need only recall the comments of J. Robert
Oppenheimer, the genius who was a father of the atomic bomb and who was transformed in the process from a
supremely confident man, ready to follow his scientific curiosity, to a humbled and troubled soul, wondering what
science had let loose.
我们奢谈科学的纯洁性，将科学与其后果分离的时代早已过去。如果有谁还需要提醒，科学 家的纯真早已
丧失，他们只要回想一下J·罗伯特·奥本海默的话。奥本海默是一位天才，他是原子弹的 缔造者之一。他在追
求科学的过程中，从一个极其自信、随时准备跟着科学好奇心走的人，逐渐变成了一 个谦恭困惑的人，他不知道
科学放出了什么妖魔。
11 Before the bomb was made, Oppenheimer said,
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and do it.
physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
在原子弹造出之前，奥本海默说：“当你看到某个技术完美的 东西时，你就毫不犹豫地去实现它。”原子弹
投在广岛、长崎之后，他在1947年发表的一则令人毛骨 悚然的演说中指出：“物理学家们已经尝到过罪孽的滋味，
这种滋味他们无法忘记。”
12 As with the atom bomb, cloning is complex, multi- layered in its threats and its promises. It offers the possibility
of real scientific advances that can improve our lives and save them. In medicine, scientists dream of using cloning to
reprogram cells so we can make our own body parts for transplantation. Suppose, for example, you needed a bone
marrow transplant. Some deadly forms of leukemia can be cured completely if doctors destroy your own marrow and
replace it with healthy marrow from someone else. But the marrow must be a close genetic match to your own. If not, it
will lash out at you and kill you. Bone marrow is the source of the white blood cells of the immune system. If you have
someone else's marrow, you'll make their white blood cells. And if those cells think you are different from them, they
will attack.
如同原子弹一样，克隆技术带来的威胁与希望是复杂的、 多层面的。它提供了改善生活、拯救生命的真
正科学进步的可能性。在医学上，科学家梦想着运用克隆技术改编细胞的编码指令程序，这样我们就可以制造出< br>我们自己身体的某些部分进行移植。比如说，假定你需要进行骨髓移植。如果医生摧毁你自身的骨髓，用他 人的
健康骨髓来取代，某些致命的白血病就能得到彻底的医治。但骨髓的属型必须与你自己的相匹配。不 然的话，移
植的骨髓就会向你发起进攻，置你于死地。骨髓是免疫系统的白细胞的来源。如果你获得别人 的骨髓，你就会造
出别人的白细胞。如果这些白细胞认定你与它们不同，它们就会发起进攻。
13 But suppose, instead, that scientists could take one of your cells -- any cell -- and merge it with a human egg. The
egg would start to divide, to develop, but it would not be permitted to divide more than a few times. Instead, technicians
would bathe it in proteins that direct primitive cells, embryo cells, to become marrow cells. What started out to be a
clone of you could grow into a batch of your marrow -- the perfect match.
不过，可以 有别的办法。假定科学家能够用你自身的某个细胞――任何一个细胞――将它与人的卵细胞融
合。卵细胞 开始分裂，生长，但你可以控制它，只让它分裂若干次。技术人员将它置于蛋白质当中，指令原始细
胞， 即胚胎细胞，长成骨髓细胞。开始时本可以克隆你的东西却可以长成一批你的骨髓――与你完美相配的骨髓。
14 More difficult, but not inconceivable, would be to grow solid organs, like kidneys or livers, in the same way.
更为困难，但并非不可思议的，是以同样的方法长成完整的器官，如肾脏或肝脏。
15 Another possibility is to create animals whose organs are perfect genetic matches for humans. If you need a liver,
a kidney, or even a heart, you might be able to get one from a specially designed pig clone.
另一种可能性是生成器官与人类基因完全吻 合的动物。如果你需要肝脏，肾脏，甚至心脏，你或许能从一
头特别设计的克隆猪身上获得。
16 The possibilities are limitless, scientists say, and so, some argue, we should stop focusing on our hypothetical
fears and think about the benefits that cloning could bring.
科学家称克隆技术蕴藏着无穷的可能性，因此，有人争辩说，我们不应该喋喋不休地谈论种种假设的恐惧，
而去想一想克隆技术能够带来的裨益。
Laurence Tribe used to be against human cloning. However, the arrival of Dolly the sheep led him to have second
thoughts on the matter.
劳伦斯·特赖布过去反对克隆人。然而，多利羊的问世促使他重新思考这一问题。

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unit 6 The Last Leaf
When Johnsy fell seriously ill, she seemed to lose the will to hang on to life. The doctor held out little hope for
her. Her friends seemed helpless. Was there nothing to be done?
约翰西病情严重，她似乎失去了活下去的意 志。医生对她不抱什么希望。朋友们看来也爱莫能助。难道真
的就无可奈何了吗？
1 At the top of a three-story brick building, Sue and Johnsy had their studio.
One was from Maine; the other from California. They had met at a cafe on Eighth Street and found their tastes in art,
chicory salad and bishop sleeves so much in tune that the joint studio resulted.
在一幢三层砖楼的顶层，苏和约翰西辟了个画室。“约翰西”是乔安娜的昵称。她们一位来自缅因州，一
位来自加利福尼亚。两人相遇在第八大街的一个咖啡馆，发现各自在艺术品味、菊苣色拉，以及灯笼袖等方面趣< br>味相投，于是就有了这个两人画室。
2 That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the
district, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Johnsy was among his victims. She lay, scarcely moving on her
bed, looking through the small window at the blank side of the next brick house.
那是5月里的事。到了11月，一个医生称之为肺炎的阴森的隐形客闯入了这一地区，用它 冰冷的手指东
碰西触。约翰西也为其所害。她病倒了，躺在床上几乎一动不动，只能隔着小窗望着隔壁砖 房那单调沉闷的侧墙。
3 One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a bushy, gray eyebrow.
一天上午，忙碌的医生扬了扬灰白的浓眉，示意苏来到过道。
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mind that she's not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind?
“她只 有一成希望，”他说。“那还得看她自己是不是想活下去。你这位女朋友已经下决心不想好了。她有
什么 心事吗？”
5 “她――她想有一天能去画那不勒斯
湾，”苏说。
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“画画？――得了。她有没有别的事值得她留恋的――比如说，一个男人？”
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“男人？”苏说。“难道一个男人就值得――可是，她没有啊，大夫，没有这码子事。”
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carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
gone Sue went into the workroom and cried. Then she marched into Johnsy's room with her drawing board, whistling a
merry tune.
“好吧，”大夫说。“我会尽一切努力，只要是科学能做到的。可是，但凡病人开始计算她 出殡的行列里有
几辆马车的时候，我就要把医药的疗效减去一半。”大夫走后，苏去工作室哭了一场。随 后她携着画板大步走进
约翰西的房间，口里吹着轻快的口哨。
9 Johnsy lay, scarcely making a movement under the bedclothes, with her face toward the window. She was
looking out and counting -- counting backward.
约翰西躺在被子下几乎一动不动，脸朝着窗。她望着窗外，数着数――倒数着数！
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together.
“12，”她数道，过了一会儿“11”，接着数“10 ”和“9”；再数“8”和“7”，几乎一口同时数下来。
11 Sue looked out of the window. What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the
blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old, old ivy vine climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath
of autumn had blown away its leaves, leaving it almost bare.
苏朝窗外望去。外面有什么好数的呢？外面只看到一个空荡荡的沉闷的院子，还有20英尺 开外那砖房的
侧墙，上面什么也没有。一棵古老的常青藤爬到半墙高。萧瑟秋风吹落了枝叶，藤上几乎光 秃秃的。
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It made my head ache to count them. But now it's easy. There goes another one. There are only five left now.
“6”，约翰西数着，声音几乎听不出来。“现在叶子掉落得快多了。三天前差不多还有1 00片。数得我头
都疼。可现在容易了。又掉了一片。这下子只剩5片了。”
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“5片什么，亲爱的？”
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tell you?
“叶子。常青藤上的叶子。等最后一片叶子掉了，我也就得走了。三天前我就知道会这样。 大夫没跟你说
吗？”
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Why, the doctor told me this morning that your chances for getting well real soon were ten to one! Try to take some soup
now, and let Sudie go and buy port wine for her sick child.
“噢，我从没听说过这种胡说八道。常青藤叶子跟你病 好不好有什么关系？别这么傻。对了，大夫上午跟
我说，你的病十有八九就快好了。快喝些汤，让苏迪给 她生病的孩子去买些波尔图葡萄酒来。”
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don't want any soup. That leaves just four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark. Then I'll go, too. I'm tired of
waiting. I'm tired of thinking. I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down, down, just like one of
those poor, tired leaves.
“你不 用再去买酒了，”约翰西说道，两眼一直盯着窗外。“又掉了一片。不，我不想喝汤。这一下只剩下
4片 了。我要在天黑前看到最后一片叶子掉落。那时我也就跟着走了。我都等腻了。也想腻了。我只想撇开一切,
飘然而去，就像那边一片可怜的疲倦的叶子。”
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“快睡吧，”苏说。“我得叫贝尔曼上楼来给我当老矿工模特儿。我去去就来。”
18 Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. He was past sixty and had a long white
beard curling down over his chest. Despite looking the part, Behrman was a failure in art. For forty years he had been
always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. He earned a little by serving as a model to those young
artists who could not pay the price of a professional. He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece.
For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who mocked terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as guard
dog to the two young artists in the studio above.
老贝尔曼 是住在两人楼下底层的一个画家。他已年过六旬，银白色蜷曲的长髯披挂胸前。贝尔曼看上去挺
像艺术家 ，但在艺术上却没有什么成就。40年来他一直想创作一幅传世之作，却始终没能动手。他给那些请不
起 职业模特的青年画家当模特挣点小钱。他没节制地喝酒，谈论着他那即将问世的不朽之作。要说其他方面，他是个好斗的小老头，要是谁表现出一点软弱，他便大肆嘲笑，并把自己看成是楼上画室里两位年轻艺术家的看 护
人。
19 Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of gin in his dimly lighted studio below. In one corner was a blank canvas
on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece. She told him of
Johnsy's fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold
upon the world grew weaker. Old Behrman, with his red eyes plainly streaming, shouted his contempt for such foolish
imaginings.
苏在楼下光线暗淡的画 室里找到了贝尔曼，他满身酒味刺鼻。屋子一角的画架上支着一张从未落过笔的画
布，在那儿搁了25年 ，等着一幅杰作的起笔。苏把约翰西的怪念头跟他说了，并说约翰西本身就像一片叶子又
瘦又弱，她害怕 要是她那本已脆弱的生存意志再软下去的话，真的会凋零飘落。老贝尔曼双眼通红，显然是泪涟
涟的，他 大声叫嚷着说他蔑视这种傻念头。
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never heard of such a thing. Why do you allow such silly ideas to come into that head of hers? God! This is not a place in
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which one so good as Miss Johnsy should lie sick. Some day I will paint a masterpiece, and we shall all go away. Yes.
“什么！”他嚷道。“世界上竟然有这么愚蠢的人，因为树叶从藤上掉落就要去死？我听都没听说过这等事。你怎么让这种傻念头钻到她那个怪脑袋里？天哪！这不是一个像约翰西小姐这样的好姑娘躺倒生病的地方。有 朝
一日我要画一幅巨作，那时候我们就离开这里。真的。”
21 Johnsy was sleeping when they went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade down, and motioned Behrman into the other
room. In there they peered out the window fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they looked at each other for a moment without
speaking. A persistent, cold rain was falling, mingled with snow. Behrman, in his old blue shirt, took his seat as the miner
on an upturned kettle for a rock.
两人上了楼，约翰西已经睡着了。苏放下窗帘，示意贝尔曼去另一个房间。 在那儿两人惶惶不安地凝视着
窗外的常青藤。接着两人面面相觑，哑然无语。外面冷雨夹雪，淅淅沥沥。 贝尔曼穿着破旧的蓝色衬衣, 坐在充
当矿石的倒置的水壶上，摆出矿工的架势。
22 When Sue awoke from an hour's sleep the next morning she found Johnsy with dull, wide-open eyes staring at
the drawn green shade.
第二天早上，只睡了一个小时的苏醒来看到约翰西睁大着无神的双眼，凝望着拉下的绿色窗帘。
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“把窗帘拉起来；我要看，”她低声命令道。
24 Wearily Sue obeyed.
苏带着疲倦，遵命拉起窗帘。
25 But, Lo! after the beating rain and fierce wind that had endured through the night, there yet stood out against the
brick wall one ivy leaf. It was the last on the vine. Still dark green near its stem, but with its edges colored yellow, it
hung bravely from a branch some twenty feet above the ground.
可是，瞧！经过一整夜的急风骤雨，竟然还存留 一片常青藤叶，背靠砖墙，格外显目。这是常青藤上的最
后一片叶子。近梗部位仍呈暗绿色，但边缘已经 泛黄了，它无所畏惧地挂在离地20多英尺高的枝干上。
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and I shall die at the same time.
“这是最后一片叶子，”约 翰西说。“我以为夜里它肯定会掉落的。我晚上听到大风呼啸。今天它会掉落的，
叶子掉的时候，也是我 死的时候。”
27 The day wore away, and even through the twilight they could see the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem against the
wall. And then, with the coming of the night the north wind was again loosed.
白天慢慢过去了，即便在暮色黄昏之 中，他们仍能看到那片孤零零的常青藤叶子，背靠砖墙，紧紧抱住梗
茎。尔后，随着夜幕的降临，又是北 风大作。
28 When it was light enough Johnsy, the merciless, commanded that the shade be raised.
等天色亮起，冷酷无情的约翰西命令将窗帘拉起。
29 The ivy leaf was still there.
常青藤叶依然挺在。
30 Johnsy lay for a long time looking at it. And then she called to Sue, who was stirring her chicken soup over the
gas stove.
约翰西躺在那儿，望着它许久许久。接着她大声呼唤正在煤气灶上搅鸡汤的苏。
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was. It is a sin to want to die. You may bring me a little soup now, and some milk with a little port in it and -- no; bring
me a hand-mirror first, and then pack some pillows about me, and I will sit up and watch you cook.
“我一直像个不乖 的孩子，苏迪，”约翰西说。“有一种力量让那最后一片叶子不掉，好让我看到自己有多
坏。想死是一种 罪过。你给我喝点汤吧，再来点牛奶，稍放一点波尔图葡萄酒――不，先给我拿面小镜子来，弄
几个枕头 垫在我身边，我要坐起来看你做菜。”
32 An hour later she said:
一个小时之后，她说：
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“苏迪，我真想有一天去画那不勒斯海湾。”
34 The doctor came in the afternoon, and Sue had an excuse to go into the hallway as he left.
下午大夫来了，他走时苏找了个借口跟进了过道。
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“现在是势均力敌，”大夫说着，握了握苏纤细颤抖的手。
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kind of an artist, I believe. Pneumonia, too. He is an old, weak man, and the attack is acute. There is no hope for him; but
he goes to the hospital today to be made more comfortable.
“只要精心 照料，你就赢了。现在我得去楼下看另外一个病人了。贝尔曼，是他的名字――记得是个什么
画家。也是 肺炎。他年老体弱，病来势又猛。他是没救了。不过今天他去了医院，照料得会好一点。”

37 The next day the doctor said to Sue:
第二天，大夫对苏说：“她脱离危险了。你赢了。注意饮食，好好照顾，就行了。”
38 And that afternoon Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay and put one arm around her.
当日下午，苏来到约翰西的床头，用一只手臂搂住她。
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was ill only two days. He was found on the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain. His shoes
and clothing were wet through and icy cold. They couldn't imagine where he had been on such a terrible night. And then
they found a lantern, still lighted, and a ladder that had been dragged from its place, and some scattered brushes, and a
palette with green and yellow colors mixed on it, and -- look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall. Didn't
you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it's Behrman's masterpiece -- he painted it
there the night that the last leaf fell.
“我跟你说 件事，小白鼠，”她说。“贝尔曼先生今天在医院里得肺炎去世了。他得病才两天。发病那天上
午人家在 楼下他的房间里发现他疼得利害。他的鞋子衣服都湿透了，冰冷冰冷的。他们想不出那么糟糕的天气他
夜 里会去哪儿。后来他们发现了一个灯笼，还亮着，还有一个梯子被拖了出来，另外还有些散落的画笔，一个调色板，和着黄绿两种颜色，――看看窗外，宝贝儿，看看墙上那最后一片常青藤叶子。它在刮风的时候一动也 不
动，你没有觉得奇怪吗？啊，亲爱的，那是贝尔曼的杰作――最后一片叶子掉落的那天夜里他画上了这 片叶子。”
He did not trust the woman to trust him. And he did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to
be mistrusted now.
他不敢相信这个女人居然会信任自己。他也不认为这 个女人就不信任自己。不过，现在他不想失去别人对
自己的信任。



unit 7 Life of a Salesman
Making a living as a door- to-door salesman demands a thick skin, both to protect against the weather and against
constantly having the door shut in your face. Bill Porter puts up with all this and much, much more.
干挨家挨户上门推销这一营生得脸皮厚，这是因为干这一行不仅要经受风吹 日晒，还要承受一次又一次的
闭门羹。比尔 · 波特忍受着这一切，以及别的种种折磨。
Life of a Salesman
Tom Hallman Jr.
1 The alarm rings. It's 5:45. He could linger under the covers, listening to the radio and a weatherman who predicts
rain. People would understand. He knows that.
一个推销员的生活
小汤姆 · 霍尔曼
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闹钟响了。是清晨5：45。他可以在 被子里再躺一会儿，听听无线电广播。天气预报员预报有雨。人们会
理解的。这点他清楚。
2 A surgeon's scar cuts across his lower back. The fingers on his right hand are so twisted that he can't tie his shoes.
Some days, he feels like surrendering. But his dead mother's challenge echoes in his soul. So, too, do the voices of those
who believed him stupid, incapable of living independently. All his life he's struggled to prove them wrong. He will not
quit.
3 And so Bill Porter rises.
他的下背有一道手术疤痕。他右手的手指严重扭曲，连鞋带都没法系。有时，他真想放弃不 干了。可在他
内心深处，一直回响着已故老母的激励, 还有那些说他蠢，说他不能独立生活的人的声音。他一生都在拚命去证
明他们错了。他决不能放弃不干。
于是比尔·波特起身了。
4 He takes the first unsteady steps on a journey to Portland's streets, the battlefield where he fights alone for his
independence and dignity. He's a door-to-door salesman. Sixty-three years old. And his enemies -- a crippled body that
betrays him and a changing world that no longer needs him -- are gaining on him.
他摇摇晃晃迈出了去波特兰大街的头几步，波特兰大 街是他为独立与尊严而孤身搏杀的战场。他是个挨家
挨户上门推销的推销员，今年63岁。他的敌人―― 辜负他的残疾的身体和一个不再需要他的变化着的世界――
正一步一步把他逼向绝境。
5 With trembling hands he assembles his weapons: dark slacks, blue shirt and matching jacket, brown tie, tan
raincoat and hat. Image, he believes, is everything.
他用颤抖的双手收拾行装：深色宽松裤，蓝衬衣和与之 相配的茄克衫，褐色领带，土褐色雨衣和帽子。在
他看来，形象就是一切。
6 He stops in the entryway, picks up his briefcase and steps outside. A fall wind has kicked up. The weatherman was
right. He pulls his raincoat tighter.
7 He tilts his hat just so. 他在门口停了一下，提起公文包，走了出去。秋风骤起，冷飕飕的。天气预报
员说得没错。他将雨衣裹裹 紧。
他把帽子往一侧微微一斜。
8 On the 7:45 bus that stops across the street, he leaves his briefcase next to the driver and finds a seat in the middle
of a pack of bored teenagers.
在街对面停靠的7：45那班公共汽车上，他把公文包放在司机身旁，在一群没精打采的十几岁的孩子当中
找了个位子坐下。
9 He leans forward, stares toward the driver, sits back, then repeats the process. His nervousness makes him laugh
uncontrollably. The teenagers stare at him. They don't realize Porter's afraid someone will steal his briefcase, with the
glasses, brochures, order forms and clip-on tie that he needs to survive.
他身子往前一倾，盯着司机那儿望 ，然后靠着椅背坐下，接着他又反复这个过程。他心情紧张，控
制不住自己而笑出声来。那些孩子望着他 。他们不明白，波特是担心有人偷他的包，包里有他生存不可缺少的眼
镜，宣传小册子，定单，以及可用 别针别上的领带。
10 Porter senses the stares. He looks at the floor.
波特意识到了小孩子在盯着他看。他把目光转向车厢地板。
11 His face reveals nothing. In his heart, though, he knows he should have been like these kids, like everyone on this
bus. He's not angry. But he knows. His mother explained how the delivery had been difficult, how the doctor had used an
instrument that crushed a section of his brain and caused cerebral palsy, a disorder of the nervous system that affects his
speech, hands and walk.
他脸上没有流露出任何神情。但在他心里，他知道自己本该和这些孩 子一样，和车上其他所有人一样。他
并不生气。但他心里明白。他母亲解释说生他时难产，医生使用了某 种器械，损坏了他大脑的一部分，导致了大
脑性麻痹，一种影响他说话，手部活动以及行走的神经系统的 紊乱。
12 Porter came to Portland when he was 13 after his father, a salesman, was transferred here. He attended a school
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for the disabled and then Lincoln High School, where he was placed in a class for slow kids.
波特13岁那年随着当推销员的父亲工作调动来到波特兰。他上了一个残疾人学校，后来就读林肯高级中学，< br>在那儿他被编入慢班。
13 But he wasn't slow.
但他并不笨。
14 His mind was trapped in a body that didn't work. Speaking was difficult and took time. People were impatient
and didn't listen. He felt different -- was different -- from the kids who rushed about in the halls and planned dances he
would never attend.
他由于身体 不能正常运行而使脑子不能充分发挥其功能。他说话困难，而且慢。别人不耐烦，不听他说。
他觉得自己 不同于――事实上也确实不同于――那些在过道里东奔西跑的孩子，那些孩子安排的舞会他永远也不
可能 参加。
15 What could his future be? Porter wanted to do something and his mother was certain that he could rise above his
limitations. With her encouragement, he applied for a job with the Fuller Brush Co. only to be turned down. He couldn't
carry a product briefcase or walk a route, they said.
他将来会是个什么样子呢？波特想做些事，母亲 也相信他能冲破身体的局限。在她的鼓励之下，他向福勒
牙刷公司申请一份工作，结果却遭到拒绝。他不 能提样品包，也不能跑一条推销线路，他们说。
16 Porter knew he wanted to be a salesman. He began reading help wanted ads in the newspaper. When he saw one
for Watkins, a company that sold household products door-to-door, his mother set up a meeting with a representative.
The man said no, but Porter wouldn't listen. He just wanted a chance. The man gave in and offered Porter a section of the
city that no salesman wanted.
波 特知道自己想当推销员。他开始阅读报纸上的招聘广告。他看到沃特金斯，一家上门推销家用物品的公
司 要人，他母亲就跟其代理人安排会面。那人说不行，可波特不予理会。他就是需要一个机会。那人让步了，把城里一个其他推销员都不要的区域派给了他。
17 It took Porter four false starts before he found the courage to ring the first doorbell. The man who answered told
him to go away, a pattern repeated throughout the day.
波特一开始四次都没敢敲门，第五次才鼓起勇气按了第一户人家的门 铃。开门的那人让他走开，这种情形
持续了一整天。
18 That night Porter read through company literature and discovered the products were guaranteed. He would sell
that pledge. He just needed people to listen.
当晚，波特仔细阅读了公司的宣传资料，发现产品都是保用的。他要把保用作为卖点 。只要别人肯听他说
话就成。
19 If a customer turned him down, Porter kept coming back until they heard him. And he sold.
要是客户回绝波特，拒绝倾听他的介绍，他就一再上门。就这样他将产品卖了出去。
20 For several years he was Watkins' top retail salesman. Now he is the only one of the company's 44,000
salespeople who sells door-to-door. 他连着几年都是沃特金斯公司的最佳零售推销员。如今他是该公司44000名推销员中惟一一个上门推销的
人。
21 The bus stops in the Transit Mall, and Porter gets off.
公共汽车在公交中转购物中心站停下，波特下了车。
22 His body is not made for walking. Each step strains his joints. Headaches are constant visitors. His right arm is
nearly useless. He can't fully control the limb. His body tilts at the waist; he seems to be heading into a strong, steady
wind that keeps him off balance. At times, he looks like a toddler taking his first steps.
他的身体不适合行走。每走一步关节 都疼。头疼也是习以为常的事。他的右臂几乎没用。他不能完全控制
这只手臂。他的身体从腰部开始前倾 ，看上去就像是顶着一股强劲的吹个不停的风迈步向前，风似乎要把他刮倒。
有时他看上去就像是个刚刚 学步的孩童。
23 He walks 10 miles a day.
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他每天要走10英里的路程。
24 His first stop today, like every day, is a shoeshine stand where employees tie his laces. Twice a week he pays for a
shine. At a nearby hotel one of the doormen buttons Porter's top shirt button and slips on his clip-on tie. He then walks to
another bus that drops him off a mile from his territory.
像平日一样，他今天的第一站是个擦鞋摊，这里的雇员替他系好鞋 带。他每周请他们擦两次鞋。附近一家
旅馆的门卫替他扣上衬衣最上面一粒纽扣，戴上用别针别上的领带 。随后他步行去搭乘另一部巴士，在距离他的
推销区域一英里处下车。
25 He left home nearly three hours ago.
他是差不多3个小时前从家里动身的。
26 The wind is cold and raindrops fall. Porter stops at the first house. This is the moment he's been preparing for
since 5:45 a.m. He rings the bell.
风冷雨淋。波特在第一户人家门前停了下来。这是他从5：45分开始就为之准备的时刻。他按了门铃。
27 A woman comes to the door.
一位妇人开了门。
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30 Porter nods.
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33 She shuts the door.
34 Porter's eyes reveal nothing.
35 He moves to the next house.
36 The door opens.
37 Then closes.
“你好。”
“不，多谢了。我这就要出门。”
波特点点头。
“那我过会儿来，可以吗？”他问。
“不用了，”那妇人回答道。
她关上了门。
波特眼里没有流露丝毫神情。
他转向下一个人家。
门开了。
随即又关上。
38 He doesn't get a chance to speak. Porter's expression never changes. He stops at every home in his territory.
People might not buy now. Next time. Maybe. No doesn't mean never. Some of his best customers are people who
repeatedly turned him down before buying.
他连开口说话的机会都没有。波特的表情从不改变。他敲开自己推销区 内的每一个家门。人们现在可能不
买什么。也许下一次会买。现在不买不等于永远不买。他的一些老客户 都是那些多次把他拒之门外而后来才买的
人。
39 He makes his way down the street.
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他沿着街道往前走。
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“我不想试用这个产品。”
“也许下次试一试。”
“对不起。我在打电话。”
“不要。”
44 Ninety minutes later, Porter still has not made a sale. But there is always another home.
45 He walks on.
46 He knocks on a door. A woman appears from the backyard where she's gardening. She often buys, but not today,
she says, as she walks away.
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48 She pauses.
49
90分钟之后，波特仍没能卖出一件物品。不过，下面有的是人家。
他继续向前走。
他敲响一扇门。一位正在拾掇花园的妇女从后院走了出来。她常常买他的东西，不过今天不 买，她说着走
开了。
“你真的不买什么？”波特问。
她迟疑了一下。
“那么……”
50 That's all Porter needs. He walks as fast as he can, tailing her as she heads to the backyard. He sets his briefcase
down and opens it. He puts on his glasses, removes his brochures and begins his sales talk, showing the woman pictures
and describing each product.
波特要的就是这一迟疑。他尽可 能快步上前，跟着她朝后院走去。他放下公文包，打了开来。他戴上眼镜，
拿出产品介绍小册子，开始推 销，给那位妇人看图片，详细介绍每一个产品。
51 Spices?
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53 Jams?
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55 Porter's hearing is the one perfect thing his body does. Except when he gets a live one. Then the word
not register.
调料？
“不要。”
果酱？
“不要。恐怕今天不要什么，比尔。”
波特的听觉是他身上惟一没有一点毛病的功能。只有当他察觉对方有可能买他东西的时候才会发生例外。
这个时候，他是听不见“不”字的。
56 Pepper?
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58 Laundry soap?
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60 Porter stops. He smells blood. He quickly remembers her last order.
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胡椒粉？
“不要。”
洗衣皂？
“嗯。”
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波特停了下来。他嗅到了猎物。他很快记起了她上次的订单。
“对了，你肥皂差不多用完了吧？你上次买的就是这个。现在该差不多用完了。”
“没错，比尔。我买一块。”
63 He arrives home, in a rainstorm, after 7 p.m. Today was not profitable. He tells himself not to worry. Four days
left in the week.
晚上7点过后，他在暴风雨中回到了家。今天没赚钱。他跟自己说别着急。这个星期还有4天呢。
64 At least he's off his feet and home.
至少他回到了家，不用再站立了。
65 Inside, an era is preserved. The telephone is a heavy, rotary model. There is no VCR, no cable.
屋内，俨然是保存完好的一个旧时代。电话是笨重的拨盘式的那种。没有录像放映机，没有有线电视。
66 His is the only house in the neighborhood with a television antenna on the roof.
他家是附近惟一一家屋顶上支着电视接收天线的人家。
67 He leads a solitary life. Most of his human contact comes on the job. Now, he heats the oven and slips in a frozen
dinner because it's easy to fix.
他过着离群索居的生活。他跟别人的来往大都限于工作上。他打开了烤 炉，放了一盒冷藏食品进去，因为
这样做饭方便。
68 The job usually takes him 10 hours.
他的工作通常要花去他10个小时。
69 He's a weary man who knows his days -- no matter what his intentions -- are numbered.
他身心疲惫，知道来日无多了――不管他愿不愿意。
70 He works on straight commission. He gets no paid holidays, vacations or raises. Yes, some months are lean.
他的收入完全依靠佣金。他没有带薪假期，没有度假，也没有加薪。的确，有些月份收入相当微薄。
71 In 1993, he needed back surgery to relieve pain caused from decades of walking. He was laid up for five months
and couldn't work. He was forced to sell his house. The new owners, familiar with his situation, froze his rent and agreed
to let him live there until he dies.
1993年，他需要作背部手术，以减轻数十年行走引起的疼痛。他卧床五个月，无法工作 。他被迫出售房
子。房子的新主人了解他的处境，冻结了他的房租，并答应让他在有生之年继续住在那里 。
72 He doesn't feel sorry for himself.
73 The house is only a building. A place to live, nothing more.
74 His dinner is ready. He eats at the kitchen table and listens to the radio. The afternoon mail brought bills that he
will deal with later this week. The checkbook is upstairs in the bedroom.
75 His checkbook.
他并不因此自悲自怜。
房子只不过是个建筑物。一个住的地方。仅此而已。
晚饭好了。他在厨房的桌子旁吃饭 ，边吃边听着收音机。下午的邮差送来了他的账单，这些账单他将在这
个星期后几天支付。支票簿在楼上 卧室里。
他的私人支票簿。
76 He types in the recipient's name and signs his name.
77 The signature is small and scrawled.
78 Unreadable.
79 But he knows.
80 Bill Porter.
81 Bill Porter, salesman.
他用打字机打上收款人的名字，随后签上名。
签名小小的，字迹潦草。
难以辨认。
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可他认得出来。
比尔·波特。
推销员比尔·波特。
82 From his easy chair he hears the wind lash his house and the rain pound the street outside his home. He must
dress warmly tomorrow. He's sleepy. With great care he climbs the stairs to his bedroom.
83 In time, the lights go off.
84 Morning will be here soon.
他坐在安乐椅上，只听得呼啸的大风猛烈地冲击着他的屋子，大雨击打着屋 外的街面。明天他得穿得暖和
些。他觉得睏了，他小心翼翼地爬上楼就寝。
没过一会儿，灯就灭了。
早晨很快就会来临。
When children take up ways of making a living that differ greatly from their parents, differences in outlook can
easily arise. This is what Alfred Lubrano found. Brought up in the family of a building worker, education led him to
develop different interests and ambitions from his father. Here he writes about how this affected their relationship.
当子女的谋生方式与父母大相径庭时，很容易产生观念上的差异。 这正是艾尔弗雷德·卢布拉诺的发现。
他在一个建筑工人的家庭里长大，他所受的教育使他产生了不同于父亲的兴趣与抱负。他在本文中叙述了这一差
异如何影响着他们的父子关系。

unit 8 A Clone Is Born
Cloning offers the possibility of making exact copies of ourselves. Should this be allowed? What benefits and
dangers may cloning bring?
克隆技术使我们有 可能分毫不差地复制自己。这一技术是否应该获准应用？克隆技术会带来什么裨益与危
险？
A Clone Is Born

Gina Kolata
1 On July 5, 1996, at 5:00 p.m., the most famous lamb in history entered the world. She was born in a shed, just
down the road from the Roslin Institute in Roslin, Scotland, where she was created. And yet her creator, Ian Wilmut, a
quiet, balding fifty-two-year-old embryologist, does not remember where he was when he heard that the lamb, named
Dolly, was born. He does not even recall getting a telephone call from John Bracken, a scientist who had monitored the
pregnancy of the sheep that gave birth to Dolly, saying that Dolly was alive and healthy and weighed 6.6 kilograms.
1996年7月5日下午5点，有史 以来最出名的小羊羔问世了。它出生在苏格兰罗斯林镇的罗斯林研究院
所在的那条路上的一个小棚里，这 只羊羔是在该研究院创造出来的。而它的创造者伊恩·威尔莫特，一位正在谢
顶的文质彬彬的52岁的胚 胎学家，却不记得自己是在什么地方听到这头名叫多利的羊问世的消息的。他甚至不
记得曾接到约翰· 布拉肯的电话，这位对产下多利的那头羊的整个妊娠过程进行监察的科学家在电话上说多利
健康存活，体 重6.6千克。
2 No one broke open champagne. No one took pictures. Only a few staff members from the institute and a local
veterinarian who attended the birth were present. Yet Dolly, who looked for all the world like hundreds of other lambs
that dot the rolling hills of Scotland, was soon to change the world.
没有人打开香槟酒庆 贺。没有人拍照留影。只有研究院的几位员工，以及接生的一位当地兽医在场。然而，
多利，这头与苏格 兰起伏的山丘上散布着的千百头其他的羊毫无异样的小羊羔，很快就改变了世界。
3 When the time comes to write the history of our age, this quiet birth, the creation of this little lamb, will stand out.
The world is a different place now that she is born.
当后人编写我们这一时代 的历史的时候，这一平静的降生，这头小羊羔的问世，将会引人注目。世界因它
降生而从此改变。
4 Dolly is a clone. She was created not out of the union of a sperm and an egg but out of the genetic material from
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an udder cell of a six-year-old sheep. Wilmut fused the udder cell with an egg from another sheep, after first removing all
genetic material from the egg. The udder cell's genes took up residence in the egg and directed it to grow and develop.
The result was Dolly, the identical twin of the original sheep that provided the udder cells, but an identical twin born six
years later.
多利是头克隆羊。它不是精卵结合的产物，而是由取自一头六龄羊的乳腺细胞的基因材料生 成的。威尔莫
特先将取自另一头羊的卵子中的所有基因材料取出，再将该卵子与这一乳腺细胞融合。乳腺 细胞的基因在该卵子
中安营扎寨，令其生长发育。其结果就是多利羊，即与提供乳腺细胞的那头羊一模一 样的孪生羊，只是这头孪生
羊晚出生了6年。
5 Until Dolly entered the world, cloning was the stuff of science fiction. It had been raised as a possibility decades
ago, then dismissed, something that serious scientists thought was simply not going to happen anytime soon. Now it is
not fantasy to think that someday, perhaps decades from now, but someday, you could clone yourself and make tens,
dozens, hundreds of genetically identical twins. Nor is it science fiction to think that your cells could be improved
beforehand, genetically engineered to add some genes and remove others.
在多利羊问世之前，克隆技术不 过是科学幻想的故事。几十年前有人提出这种可能性，后来遭到摒弃，严肃的科
学家那时认为克隆在近期 根本不可能实现。现在这已不再是幻想，几十年之后，或许有朝一日你可以克隆自己，
造出数十个，数百 个，上千个基因完全相同的孪生的兄弟。事先改进你的细胞，运用基因工程注入某些基因，剔
除某些基因 ，这样的事也不再是科学幻想。
6 True, it was a sheep that was cloned, not a human being. But there was nothing exceptional about sheep. Even
Wilmut, who made it clear that he was opposed to the very idea of cloning people, said that there was no longer any
theoretical reason why humans could not clone themselves, using the same methods he had used to clone Dolly.
is no reason in principle why you couldn't do it.
没错，克隆的 是头羊，而不是人。但羊并没有任何独特之处。甚至明确表示反对克隆人的威尔莫特也称，
理论上，没有 理由说人类不能使用与克隆多利羊同样的手段来克隆人类本身。“原则上没有不能这么做的理由。”
但他 补充说，“我们都会认为这样做令人厌恶。”
7 We live in a time when we argue about pragmatism and compromises in our quest to be morally right. But cloning
forces us back to the most basic questions that have plagued humanity since the dawn of recorded time: What is good
and what is evil? And how much potential for evil can we tolerate to obtain something that might be good? Cloning, with
its possibilities for creating our own identical twins, brings us back to the ancient sins of vanity and pride; the sins of
Narcissus, who so loved himself, and of Prometheus, who, in stealing fire, sought the powers of God. So before we can
ask why we are so fascinated by cloning, we have to examine our souls and ask, What exactly so bothers many of us
about trying to make an exact copy of our genetic selves? Or, if we are not bothered, why aren't we?
我们生活在这样一个时代，人们为了追求道德的完善对实用主义 和妥协折衷的问题争论不休。而克隆技术
迫使我们回到有史以来一直困扰人类的那些最本质的问题：何者 为善，何者为恶？为了获得可能有益的东西，我
们对邪恶的隐患能容忍到何种程度？克隆技术以其创造与 我们自身完全一样的孪生兄弟的可能性，将我们带回到
种种古老的罪孽：虚荣傲慢；那喀索斯式的自恋罪 ，以及普罗米修斯的罪孽，他以盗火来谋求上帝的权力。因此，
我们在扪心自问为什么对克隆技术如此着 迷之前，不得不首先审视自己的心灵，问一问：究竟是什么东西使得我
们中的许多人对于尝试复制与自身 基因完全等同的孪生兄弟那么不安？或者，如果我们并没有感到不安，其原因
又是什么？
8 We want children who resemble us. Even couples who use donor eggs or donor sperm, search catalogs of donors
to find people who resemble themselves. Several years ago, a poem by Linda Pastan, called
Home,
Is it my own image
I love so
in your face?
I lean over your sleep,
Narcissus over
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his clear pool,
ready to fall in --
to drown for you
if necessary.
Yet if we so love ourselves, reflected in our children, why is it so terrifying to so many of us to think of seeing our exact
genetic replicas born again, identical twins years younger than we? Is it one thing for nature to form us through a genetic
lottery, and another for us to take complete control, abandoning all thoughts of somehow, through the mixing of genes,
having a child who is like us, but better? Normally, when a man and a woman have a child together, the child is an
unpredictable mixture of the two. We recognize that, of course, in the old joke in which a beautiful but dumb woman
suggests to an ugly but brilliant man that the two have a child. Just think of how wonderful the baby would be, the
woman says, with my looks and your brains. Aha, says the man. But what if the child inherited my looks and your
brains?
我们希望子女像我们自己。即使是采用捐赠卵子或捐赠精子的夫妇也要查找精子捐献人名录，以发现与自
己相像的人。若干年前，琳达· 帕斯坦写的一首题为《致离家的女儿》的诗曾出现在纽约地铁的墙上，诗中写
道：
难道是我自己的形象
映在你的脸上
使我如此爱恋？
我俯视着安睡的你
就像那喀索斯俯视着
他那一潭清水，
随时准备跳下去――
如有必要
为你沉溺
然而，如果我们如此爱恋在子女身上映现出来的自我 ，那为什么我们当中有这么多人，一想到将目睹与我
们完全一样的基因复制品、比自己年轻许多的双胞胎 降生的时候，就会感到如此惊恐？难道大自然通过基因的任
意组合将我们造就是一回事，而由我们自己实 施全面控制，摈弃一切随意的念头，通过基因组合造就一个与我们
相似但更为完美的孩子则又是另外一回 事？当男女一起生育孩子时，孩子往往是两个人基因的不可预料的组合。
显然，一个老笑话表明我们已经 认识到了这一点。这个笑话说的是一位漂亮但蠢笨的女人向一个丑陋但才华横溢
的男人建议两人一起生一 个孩子。想一想吧，那女人说，孩子拥有我的容貌、你的大脑那将会多么出色。啊，那
男人说，可要是孩 子继承了我的容貌你的大脑呢？
9 Cloning brings us face- to-face with what it means to be human and makes us confront both the privileges and
limitations of life itself. It also forces us to question the powers of science. Is there, in fact, knowledge that we do not
want? Are there paths we would rather not pursue?
克隆技术使 我们直接面对做人的意义这个问题，使我们直接面对生命本身的特权与限制。克隆技术也迫使
我们对科学 的力量提出质疑。是不是有些知识我们真的不要去获取？有一些路我们宁愿不去探寻？
10 The time is long past when we can speak of the purity of science, divorced from its consequences. If any needed
reminding that the innocence of scientists was lost long ago, they need only recall the comments of J. Robert
Oppenheimer, the genius who was a father of the atomic bomb and who was transformed in the process from a
supremely confident man, ready to follow his scientific curiosity, to a humbled and troubled soul, wondering what
science had let loose.
我们奢谈科学的纯洁性，将科学与其后果分离的时代早已过去。如果有谁还需要提醒，科学 家的纯真早已
丧失，他们只要回想一下J·罗伯特·奥本海默的话。奥本海默是一位天才，他是原子弹的 缔造者之一。他在追
求科学的过程中，从一个极其自信、随时准备跟着科学好奇心走的人，逐渐变成了一 个谦恭困惑的人，他不知道
科学放出了什么妖魔。
11 Before the bomb was made, Oppenheimer said,
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and do it.
physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
在原子弹造出之前，奥本海默说：“当你看到某个技术完美的 东西时，你就毫不犹豫地去实现它。”原子弹
投在广岛、长崎之后，他在1947年发表的一则令人毛骨 悚然的演说中指出：“物理学家们已经尝到过罪孽的滋味，
这种滋味他们无法忘记。”
12 As with the atom bomb, cloning is complex, multi- layered in its threats and its promises. It offers the possibility
of real scientific advances that can improve our lives and save them. In medicine, scientists dream of using cloning to
reprogram cells so we can make our own body parts for transplantation. Suppose, for example, you needed a bone
marrow transplant. Some deadly forms of leukemia can be cured completely if doctors destroy your own marrow and
replace it with healthy marrow from someone else. But the marrow must be a close genetic match to your own. If not, it
will lash out at you and kill you. Bone marrow is the source of the white blood cells of the immune system. If you have
someone else's marrow, you'll make their white blood cells. And if those cells think you are different from them, they
will attack.
如同原子弹一样，克隆技术带来的威胁与希望是复杂的、 多层面的。它提供了改善生活、拯救生命的真
正科学进步的可能性。在医学上，科学家梦想着运用克隆技术改编细胞的编码指令程序，这样我们就可以制造出< br>我们自己身体的某些部分进行移植。比如说，假定你需要进行骨髓移植。如果医生摧毁你自身的骨髓，用他 人的
健康骨髓来取代，某些致命的白血病就能得到彻底的医治。但骨髓的属型必须与你自己的相匹配。不 然的话，移
植的骨髓就会向你发起进攻，置你于死地。骨髓是免疫系统的白细胞的来源。如果你获得别人 的骨髓，你就会造
出别人的白细胞。如果这些白细胞认定你与它们不同，它们就会发起进攻。
13 But suppose, instead, that scientists could take one of your cells -- any cell -- and merge it with a human egg. The
egg would start to divide, to develop, but it would not be permitted to divide more than a few times. Instead, technicians
would bathe it in proteins that direct primitive cells, embryo cells, to become marrow cells. What started out to be a
clone of you could grow into a batch of your marrow -- the perfect match.
不过，可以 有别的办法。假定科学家能够用你自身的某个细胞――任何一个细胞――将它与人的卵细胞融
合。卵细胞 开始分裂，生长，但你可以控制它，只让它分裂若干次。技术人员将它置于蛋白质当中，指令原始细
胞， 即胚胎细胞，长成骨髓细胞。开始时本可以克隆你的东西却可以长成一批你的骨髓――与你完美相配的骨髓。
14 More difficult, but not inconceivable, would be to grow solid organs, like kidneys or livers, in the same way.
更为困难，但并非不可思议的，是以同样的方法长成完整的器官，如肾脏或肝脏。
15 Another possibility is to create animals whose organs are perfect genetic matches for humans. If you need a liver,
a kidney, or even a heart, you might be able to get one from a specially designed pig clone.
另一种可能性是生成器官与人类基因完全吻 合的动物。如果你需要肝脏，肾脏，甚至心脏，你或许能从一
头特别设计的克隆猪身上获得。
16 The possibilities are limitless, scientists say, and so, some argue, we should stop focusing on our hypothetical
fears and think about the benefits that cloning could bring.
科学家称克隆技术蕴藏着无穷的可能性，因此，有人争辩说，我们不应该喋喋不休地谈论种种假设的恐惧，
而去想一想克隆技术能够带来的裨益。
Laurence Tribe used to be against human cloning. However, the arrival of Dolly the sheep led him to have second
thoughts on the matter.
劳伦斯·特赖布过去反对克隆人。然而，多利羊的问世促使他重新思考这一问题。

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