21世纪大学英语读写教程(四)unit2课文原文及翻译
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We Need Gratitude
On a fine
afternoon in New York, I got into a taxi. From the
driver's
expression and the way he slammed in
his gears, I could tell that he was
upset. I
asked him what was the trouble. got good reason to
be sore,
he growled. of my fares left a wallet
in my cab this morning. Nearly
three hundred
bucks in it. I spent more than an hour trying to
trace the
guy. Finally I found him at his
hotel. He took the wallet without a word
and
glared at me as though I'd meant to steal
it.
exploded,
Because his helpful,
honest act had not been appreciated, that
cabdriver's day was poisoned, and I knew he
would think twice before
rendering a similar
service. The need for gratitude is something we
all
feel, and denial of it can do much to harm
the spirit of kindness and
cooperation.
During World War II a mother in Cincinnati
received a letter from her
son in the army in
which he spoke of a woman in a village in Normandy
who
had taken him into her home when he was
wounded and hungry, and hidden
him from the
Germans. Later on, unhappily, the boy was killed
in the
Ardennes offensive. Yet the mother was
moved by an irresistible intention.
She saved
up for two years, crossed the Atlantic and located
the village
referred to by her son. After many
inquiries, she found the woman who had
sheltered her son—the wife of an impoverished
farmer—and pressed a
package into her hand. It
was the gold wristwatch her son had received
on his graduation, the only object of real
value the boy had ever possessed.
The mother's
act of gratitude so touched people's hearts that
it has become
something of a legend in and
around the village. It has done more than
fine
speeches to foster good feeling toward Americans.
Gratitude is the art of receiving gracefully,
of showing appreciation
for every kindness,
great and small. Most of us do not fail to show
our
pleasure when we receive hospitality,
gifts and obvious benefits, but even
here we
can perfect our manner of showing gratitude by
making it as
personal and sincere as possible.
Recently, when touring in southern Italy
with
my wife, I sent to a friend in Connecticut several
bottles of a local
wine which had taken our
fancy. It was a trifling gift, yet to our
surprise,
instead of the conventional letter
of thanks, we receive a phonograph
record.
When we played it, we heard our friend's voice
speaking after
dinner, describing how he and
his guests had enjoyed the wine and thanking
us for our thoughtfulness. It was pleasant to
have this unusual proof that
our gift had been
appreciated.
Gratitude is sometimes more than
a personal affair. My son, studying
medicine at McGill University, told me
of a patient brought into hospital
in Montreal
whose life was saved by a blood transfusion. When
he was well
again he asked: there any way I
can discover the name of the donor
and thank
him?
few weeks after his discharge he came back
to give a pint of his own blood.
Since then he
has returned again and again for the same purpose.
When a
surgeon commented on this splendid
record of anonymous service, he
answered
simply:
'thanks'
It is a comforting thought
that gratitude can be not merely a passing
sentiment but a renewal which can, in some
instances, persist for a
lifetime. A husband
who recalls appreciatively some generous or
unselfish
act on his wife's part, or a wife
who never forgets the gifts her husband
has
given her, does much to keep the domestic wheels
spinning smoothly.
W.H. Hudson, British author
and naturalist, has written:
brought home a
friend to share our usual evening meal. Afterward
he said
to me:‘you are fortunate to have a
wife who, despite ill health and
children to
look after, cooks such excellent meals.' That
tribute opened
my eyes and taught me to show
gratitude for my wife's day-to-day heroism,
which I had hitherto taken for granted.
It
is, above all, in the little things that the grace
of gratitude
should be most employed. The boy
who delivers our paper, the milkman, the
mailman, the barber, the waitress at a
restaurant, the elevator operator
—all oblige
us in one way or another. By showing our gratitude
we make
routine relationships human and render
monotonous tasks more agreeable.
A patient of
mine in London who worked as a bus conductor once
confided
to me,
haven't got the right
change for their tickets. But there's one lady on
my bus morning and evening, and she always
thanks me in a particularly
friendly way when
I take her ticket. I like to think she's speaking
for
all the passengers. It helps me to keep
smiling.
Arnold Bennett had a publisher who
boasted about the extraordinary
efficiency of
his secretary. One day Bennett said to her,
employer
claims that you are extremely
efficient. What is your secret?not
my
secret,
a service, no matter how small, he
never failed to acknowledge it. Because
of
that she took infinite pains with her work.
Some persons refrain from expressing their
gratitude because they
feel it will not be
welcome. A patient of mine, a few weeks after his
discharge from the hospital, came back to
thank his nurse. didn't come
back sooner,he
explained, I imagined you must be bored to death
with people thanking you.
the contrary,she
replied, am delighted you came. Few realize
how much we need encouragement and how much we
are helped by those who
give it.
Gratitude is something of which none of us can
give too much. For on
the smiles, the thanks
we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our
neighbors build up their philosophy of life.
一个晴朗的下午，我在纽约上了一辆出租车。从司机的表情和他猛拉排挡的
样子中，
我可以看出他很不高兴。我问他是怎么回事。“我完全有理由生气，”
他怒气冲冲地说。“今天上午一个
乘客把钱包忘在我车里了。里面差不多有300
块钱。我花了一个多小时想方设法找那个家伙。最后我在
他住的旅馆里找到了他。
他一声不吭地拿了钱包，还瞪着眼看我，好象我本来想要偷他的钱包似的。”
“他没有给你酬谢？”我大声问。
“一个子儿也没有。但我要的不是钱......”他咕哝
着，然后突然大声说，
“只要那个家伙说句什么......”
因为他诚实的助人行为没有得
到感激，那位出租车司机一整天都闷闷不乐，
而且我知道以后他在做类似的好事之前会三思而行了。这种
对感激的需要是我们
都能感受到的，而拒绝表示感谢就会大大扼杀善良与合作的精神。
第二次
世界大战期间，辛辛那提的一位母亲收到参军的儿子一封来信，信中
提到诺曼底某个村庄中的一位妇女在
他受伤饥饿时将他带到家中，帮他躲过了德
国人的搜捕。不幸的是，后来这个年轻人在阿登高地的进攻战
中阵亡了。而这位
母亲却决意要实现一个心愿。她积蓄了两年，越过大西洋，找到了她儿子提到过
的那个村庄。经过再三打听，她找到了那位曾经保护过她儿子的妇女----一个贫
苦农民的妻子
----她把一个小包裹硬塞进她手里。那是她儿子在毕业时收到的礼
物：一块金表，是年轻人曾经拥有
过的唯一一件真正有价值的东西。这位母亲表
示感激的举动深深触动了人们的心灵，在那个村庄内外成为
传奇般的故事。它比
出色的演讲更能让人培养起对美国人的好感。
感激是落落大方地接受别人
做的大大小小每一件好事并表示赞赏的艺术。我
们大多数人在受到款待，收到礼物和明显的受惠时都不会
忘记表示愉悦之情，但
即使在这种情况下我们也还能够完善表示感激的方式，使这种感激尽可能显得亲<
br>切真诚。最近，我和妻子在意大利南部旅游时，我给康涅狄格州的一位朋友寄去
了几瓶令我们喜欢
的当地佳酿。那是件小小的礼物，然而令我们惊讶的是，我们
收到的不是一封通常的感谢信而是一张唱片
。我们播放时听到了朋友在饭后的一
段话，描述他和他的客人们如何喜欢那酒，并感谢我们的关心。有这
件不同寻常
的东西来证明别人欣赏我们的礼物真令人愉快。
有时感激不仅仅是一件个人的事。
我在麦吉尔大学学医的儿子曾对我说起
过，有一位被送到蒙特利尔医院的病人经过输血而获救。康复以后
他问：“有没
有办法知道那位献血者的名字，向他表示感谢？”他被告知献血者的名字是从来
不
公开的。出院后几个星期他回来献了一品脱血。从那以后他一次又一次地为了
同样的目的回来。当一个外
科医生称赞这种不留姓名的高尚行为时，他只是回答
说：“有个我素不相识的人为我这样做了。我只是在
说‘谢谢’”。
感激不只是一种转瞬即逝的情感，有时候还可以是一种持续终生不断再生的
情感，想到这一点真令人感到欣慰。丈夫感激地回想起妻子慷慨无私的行为，妻
子从不忘记 丈夫送给她的礼物，这些都大大有助于使家庭生活保持和谐。英国作
家和博物学家W-H-赫德森曾经写 道：“一天晚上，我带一个朋友回家同我们一
起吃了顿家常便饭。后来他对我说：‘你真幸运，你的妻子 虽然身体不好还要照
顾孩子，但菜烧得那么好吃。’那句赞美的话使我翻然醒悟，教我要感谢妻子日复一日的高尚奉献行为，而我对此竟一直习以为常。”
感激之情尤其应该用在小事情上。送报的、送牛奶的、邮递员、理发师、饭
店女招待、电梯工 ----所有这些人都在以某种方式为我们做事。通过表示感谢我
们可以使平淡的日常关系具有人情味， 使单调的工作变得令人愉快。
我的一位在伦敦当公共汽车售票员的病人有一次对我吐露说，“有时我真 厌
倦了我的工作。人们发牢骚、找你麻烦、说没有买车票的零钱。但是有一位早晚
乘我车的女士 总是在我给她车票时用一种特别友好的方式感谢我。我真希望她是
在代表所有的乘客说话。这使我一直保 持微笑。”
阿诺德-本涅特的一位出版商夸奖自己的秘书办事效率特高。一天，本涅特
对她 说：“你的老板说你效率极高。你的秘诀是什么？”“那不是我的秘诀，”
秘书回答。“那是他的秘诀。 ”每次她为他做一件事，无论多小的事，他从未忘
记感谢。因此，她工作非常努力。
有些人不 愿表达感激之情，因为他们觉得这不会受欢迎。我的一个病人在出
院的后几个星期回到医院感谢他的护士 。“我没有早点回来，”他解释说，“因
为我猜想你们对别人的感激一定厌烦得要命。”
“正好相反，”她回答说，“我很高兴你来。很少有人明白我们多么需要鼓
励，我们从那些鼓励我们 的人身上获得了多大的帮助。”
我们所给予的感激永远不会过多。因为我们身边的人在构筑他们的人生 哲学
时所依据的正是这些微笑，正是我们所表示的感谢以及表示感激的小小的举动。
We Need Gratitude
On a
fine afternoon in New York, I got into a taxi.
From the driver's
expression and the way he
slammed in his gears, I could tell that he was
upset. I asked him what was the trouble. got
good reason to be sore,
he growled. of my fares
left a wallet in my cab this morning. Nearly
three hundred bucks in it. I spent more than
an hour trying to trace the
guy. Finally I
found him at his hotel. He took the wallet without
a word
and glared at me as though I'd meant to
steal it.
exploded,
Because his
helpful, honest act had not been appreciated, that
cabdriver's day was poisoned, and I knew he
would think twice before
rendering a similar
service. The need for gratitude is something we
all
feel, and denial of it can do much to harm
the spirit of kindness and
cooperation.
During World War II a mother in Cincinnati
received a letter from her
son in the army in
which he spoke of a woman in a village in Normandy
who
had taken him into her home when he was
wounded and hungry, and hidden
him from the
Germans. Later on, unhappily, the boy was killed
in the
Ardennes offensive. Yet the mother was
moved by an irresistible intention.
She saved
up for two years, crossed the Atlantic and located
the village
referred to by her son. After many
inquiries, she found the woman who had
sheltered her son—the wife of an impoverished
farmer—and pressed a
package into her hand. It
was the gold wristwatch her son had received
on his graduation, the only object of real
value the boy had ever possessed.
The mother's
act of gratitude so touched people's hearts that
it has become
something of a legend in and
around the village. It has done more than
fine
speeches to foster good feeling toward Americans.
Gratitude is the art of receiving gracefully,
of showing appreciation
for every kindness,
great and small. Most of us do not fail to show
our
pleasure when we receive hospitality,
gifts and obvious benefits, but even
here we
can perfect our manner of showing gratitude by
making it as
personal and sincere as possible.
Recently, when touring in southern Italy
with
my wife, I sent to a friend in Connecticut several
bottles of a local
wine which had taken our
fancy. It was a trifling gift, yet to our
surprise,
instead of the conventional letter
of thanks, we receive a phonograph
record.
When we played it, we heard our friend's voice
speaking after
dinner, describing how he and
his guests had enjoyed the wine and thanking
us for our thoughtfulness. It was pleasant to
have this unusual proof that
our gift had been
appreciated.
Gratitude is sometimes more than
a personal affair. My son, studying
medicine at McGill University, told me
of a patient brought into hospital
in Montreal
whose life was saved by a blood transfusion. When
he was well
again he asked: there any way I
can discover the name of the donor
and thank
him?
few weeks after his discharge he came back
to give a pint of his own blood.
Since then he
has returned again and again for the same purpose.
When a
surgeon commented on this splendid
record of anonymous service, he
answered
simply:
'thanks'
It is a comforting thought
that gratitude can be not merely a passing
sentiment but a renewal which can, in some
instances, persist for a
lifetime. A husband
who recalls appreciatively some generous or
unselfish
act on his wife's part, or a wife
who never forgets the gifts her husband
has
given her, does much to keep the domestic wheels
spinning smoothly.
W.H. Hudson, British author
and naturalist, has written:
brought home a
friend to share our usual evening meal. Afterward
he said
to me:‘you are fortunate to have a
wife who, despite ill health and
children to
look after, cooks such excellent meals.' That
tribute opened
my eyes and taught me to show
gratitude for my wife's day-to-day heroism,
which I had hitherto taken for granted.
It
is, above all, in the little things that the grace
of gratitude
should be most employed. The boy
who delivers our paper, the milkman, the
mailman, the barber, the waitress at a
restaurant, the elevator operator
—all oblige
us in one way or another. By showing our gratitude
we make
routine relationships human and render
monotonous tasks more agreeable.
A patient of
mine in London who worked as a bus conductor once
confided
to me,
haven't got the right
change for their tickets. But there's one lady on
my bus morning and evening, and she always
thanks me in a particularly
friendly way when
I take her ticket. I like to think she's speaking
for
all the passengers. It helps me to keep
smiling.
Arnold Bennett had a publisher who
boasted about the extraordinary
efficiency of
his secretary. One day Bennett said to her,
employer
claims that you are extremely
efficient. What is your secret?not
my
secret,
a service, no matter how small, he
never failed to acknowledge it. Because
of
that she took infinite pains with her work.
Some persons refrain from expressing their
gratitude because they
feel it will not be
welcome. A patient of mine, a few weeks after his
discharge from the hospital, came back to
thank his nurse. didn't come
back sooner,he
explained, I imagined you must be bored to death
with people thanking you.
the contrary,she
replied, am delighted you came. Few realize
how much we need encouragement and how much we
are helped by those who
give it.
Gratitude is something of which none of us can
give too much. For on
the smiles, the thanks
we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our
neighbors build up their philosophy of life.
一个晴朗的下午，我在纽约上了一辆出租车。从司机的表情和他猛拉排挡的
样子中，
我可以看出他很不高兴。我问他是怎么回事。“我完全有理由生气，”
他怒气冲冲地说。“今天上午一个
乘客把钱包忘在我车里了。里面差不多有300
块钱。我花了一个多小时想方设法找那个家伙。最后我在
他住的旅馆里找到了他。
他一声不吭地拿了钱包，还瞪着眼看我，好象我本来想要偷他的钱包似的。”
“他没有给你酬谢？”我大声问。
“一个子儿也没有。但我要的不是钱......”他咕哝
着，然后突然大声说，
“只要那个家伙说句什么......”
因为他诚实的助人行为没有得
到感激，那位出租车司机一整天都闷闷不乐，
而且我知道以后他在做类似的好事之前会三思而行了。这种
对感激的需要是我们
都能感受到的，而拒绝表示感谢就会大大扼杀善良与合作的精神。
第二次
世界大战期间，辛辛那提的一位母亲收到参军的儿子一封来信，信中
提到诺曼底某个村庄中的一位妇女在
他受伤饥饿时将他带到家中，帮他躲过了德
国人的搜捕。不幸的是，后来这个年轻人在阿登高地的进攻战
中阵亡了。而这位
母亲却决意要实现一个心愿。她积蓄了两年，越过大西洋，找到了她儿子提到过
的那个村庄。经过再三打听，她找到了那位曾经保护过她儿子的妇女----一个贫
苦农民的妻子
----她把一个小包裹硬塞进她手里。那是她儿子在毕业时收到的礼
物：一块金表，是年轻人曾经拥有
过的唯一一件真正有价值的东西。这位母亲表
示感激的举动深深触动了人们的心灵，在那个村庄内外成为
传奇般的故事。它比
出色的演讲更能让人培养起对美国人的好感。
感激是落落大方地接受别人
做的大大小小每一件好事并表示赞赏的艺术。我
们大多数人在受到款待，收到礼物和明显的受惠时都不会
忘记表示愉悦之情，但
即使在这种情况下我们也还能够完善表示感激的方式，使这种感激尽可能显得亲<
br>切真诚。最近，我和妻子在意大利南部旅游时，我给康涅狄格州的一位朋友寄去
了几瓶令我们喜欢
的当地佳酿。那是件小小的礼物，然而令我们惊讶的是，我们
收到的不是一封通常的感谢信而是一张唱片
。我们播放时听到了朋友在饭后的一
段话，描述他和他的客人们如何喜欢那酒，并感谢我们的关心。有这
件不同寻常
的东西来证明别人欣赏我们的礼物真令人愉快。
有时感激不仅仅是一件个人的事。
我在麦吉尔大学学医的儿子曾对我说起
过，有一位被送到蒙特利尔医院的病人经过输血而获救。康复以后
他问：“有没
有办法知道那位献血者的名字，向他表示感谢？”他被告知献血者的名字是从来
不
公开的。出院后几个星期他回来献了一品脱血。从那以后他一次又一次地为了
同样的目的回来。当一个外
科医生称赞这种不留姓名的高尚行为时，他只是回答
说：“有个我素不相识的人为我这样做了。我只是在
说‘谢谢’”。
感激不只是一种转瞬即逝的情感，有时候还可以是一种持续终生不断再生的
情感，想到这一点真令人感到欣慰。丈夫感激地回想起妻子慷慨无私的行为，妻
子从不忘记 丈夫送给她的礼物，这些都大大有助于使家庭生活保持和谐。英国作
家和博物学家W-H-赫德森曾经写 道：“一天晚上，我带一个朋友回家同我们一
起吃了顿家常便饭。后来他对我说：‘你真幸运，你的妻子 虽然身体不好还要照
顾孩子，但菜烧得那么好吃。’那句赞美的话使我翻然醒悟，教我要感谢妻子日复一日的高尚奉献行为，而我对此竟一直习以为常。”
感激之情尤其应该用在小事情上。送报的、送牛奶的、邮递员、理发师、饭
店女招待、电梯工 ----所有这些人都在以某种方式为我们做事。通过表示感谢我
们可以使平淡的日常关系具有人情味， 使单调的工作变得令人愉快。
我的一位在伦敦当公共汽车售票员的病人有一次对我吐露说，“有时我真 厌
倦了我的工作。人们发牢骚、找你麻烦、说没有买车票的零钱。但是有一位早晚
乘我车的女士 总是在我给她车票时用一种特别友好的方式感谢我。我真希望她是
在代表所有的乘客说话。这使我一直保 持微笑。”
阿诺德-本涅特的一位出版商夸奖自己的秘书办事效率特高。一天，本涅特
对她 说：“你的老板说你效率极高。你的秘诀是什么？”“那不是我的秘诀，”
秘书回答。“那是他的秘诀。 ”每次她为他做一件事，无论多小的事，他从未忘
记感谢。因此，她工作非常努力。
有些人不 愿表达感激之情，因为他们觉得这不会受欢迎。我的一个病人在出
院的后几个星期回到医院感谢他的护士 。“我没有早点回来，”他解释说，“因
为我猜想你们对别人的感激一定厌烦得要命。”
“正好相反，”她回答说，“我很高兴你来。很少有人明白我们多么需要鼓
励，我们从那些鼓励我们 的人身上获得了多大的帮助。”
我们所给予的感激永远不会过多。因为我们身边的人在构筑他们的人生 哲学
时所依据的正是这些微笑，正是我们所表示的感谢以及表示感激的小小的举动。