大学英语四六级经典阅读：一切刚开始

 

"We are reading the first 1)verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are 2)infinite..."

 

"我们正在读一本书的第一章第一节，这本书的页数是无限的……" 

 

I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a 3)reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious, 4)hazy future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, just as a 5)sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone. 

 

我不知道是谁写的，可我很喜欢这句话，它提醒我们未来是由自己创造的。我们可以把神秘、不可知的未来掌握在手中，将其塑造成我们想像中的任何模样，犹如雕刻家将未成形的石头刻成雕像。 

 

We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full of 6)weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all. 

 

我们每个人犹如农夫。洒下良种就会收获丰收，播下劣种或生满野草便会一无所获。没有耕耘就没有收获。 

 

I want the future to be better than the past. I don't want it 7)contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled. We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the remainder of our lives. 

 

希望未来比过去更加美好。希望未来不会沾染历史的污点。我们都应憧憬未来，因为我们的余生要用未来书写。 

 

The past is gone and 8)static. Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and 9)dynamic. Everything we do will affect it. Each day brings with it new 10)frontiers, in our homes and in our business, if we only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor. 

 

译文：往昔已逝，静如止水，我们无法再做改变。而未来正在我们面前展开，前程似锦。我们的一言一行都将会影响它。只要我们认识到这些，无论是在家中还是在工作中，每天我们的眼前都会呈现出新的天地。在人类致力开拓的每一片领域上，我们正站在前进的起点上。 

 

词汇注释 

 

verse n. 诗，韵文，诗节 

 

hazy adj. 朦胧的，模糊的 

 

sculptor n. 雕刻家 

 

reap vt. 收获，获得 

 

contaminate vt. 污染，弄脏 

 

static adj. 动态的 

 

dynamic adj. 静态的 

 

endeavor n. 努力，尝试