💬 新概念英语第四册

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

'We're got more garages with smart people,' Mead observes.

“我们有更多的汽车间，那里有许多聪明人，”米德说。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

'We really thrive on anarchy. '

“我们确实是靠这种无政府状态发展起来的。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

And on Asians.

” 靠的是亚洲人。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

Already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms.

硅谷许多公司中工程技术人员的大多数是东方人和亚裔美国人。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

And Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Indian engineers are graduating in droves from California's colleges.

中国、韩国、菲律宾和印度的工程师一批批地从加州的大学毕业。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

As the heads of next-generation start-ups, these Asian innovators can draw on customs and languages to forge righter links with crucial Pacific Rim markets.

作为新掘起一代的带头人，亚裔发明家可以凭借他们在习惯和语言上的优势，与关键的太平洋沿岸市场建立起更加牢固的联系。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

For instance, Alex Au, a Stanford Ph.D.from Hong Kong, has set up a Taiwan factory to challenge Japan's near lock on the memory-chip market.

比如说，亚历克斯。奥，一位来自香港的斯坦福大学博士，已经在台湾建厂，对日本在内存条市场上近似垄断的局面提出了挑战。

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

Before it becomes a retirement village,

在硅谷变成一个退休村之前，

Lesson 10 Silicon valley

Silicon Valley may prove a classroom for building a global business.

它很可能成为建立全球商业的一个教学场地。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.

有些老年人因为怕死而感到烦恼。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

In the young there is a justification for this feeling.

青年人有这种感觉是情有可原的。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have cheated of the best things that life has to offer.

有理由害怕自己会死在战场上的年轻人，想到自己被剥夺了生活所能给予的最美好的东西时，感到痛苦，这是可以理解的。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows,

可是老年人已经饱尝了人间的甘苦，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do,

一切能做的都做了，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.

如果怕死；就有点儿可怜又可鄙。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

The best way to overcome it----so at least it seems to me---

克服怕死的最好办法--至少在我看来是这样--

Lesson 11 How to grow old

is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal,

就是逐渐使自己的兴趣更加广泛，逐渐摆脱个人狭小的圈子，

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until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede,

直到自我的围墙一点一点地倒塌下来，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

自己的生活慢慢地和整个宇宙的生活融合在一起。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

An individual human existence should be like a river----

个人的存在应该像一条河流，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

small at first, narrowly contained within its banks,

开始很小，被紧紧地夹在两岸中间，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.

接着热情奔放地冲过巨石，飞下瀑布。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede,

然后河面渐渐地变宽，两岸后撤，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break,

河水流得平缓起来，最后连绵不断地

Lesson 11 How to grow old

they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.

汇入大海；毫无痛苦地失去了自我的存在。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way,

上了年纪的人这样看待生命，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

will not suffer from the fear of death,

就不会有惧怕死亡的心情了，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

since the things he cares for will continue.

因为自己关心的一切事物都会继续下去。

Lesson 11 How to grow old

And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases,

再者，随着精力的衰退，老年人的疲惫感会增长，

Lesson 11 How to grow old

the thought of rest will be not unwelcome.

有长眠的愿望未尝不是一件好事。