大学英语自学教程 上册 un25

[00:00.00]Unit 25 taxt A
[00:04.70]Ameriacan Men Don't Cry
[00:06.99]美国男人不哭
[00:09.27]American men don't cry because it is considered not characteristic of men to do so.
[00:13.74]美国男人不哭，因为人们认为哭不是男人的特征。
[00:18.21]Only women cry.
[00:20.43]只是女人才哭。
[00:22.65]Cry is a "weakness"characteristic of the femaleand
[00:25.73]哭泣是女人特有的“软弱”的表现。
[00:28.81]no American male wants to be identified with anything in the least weak or feminine.
[00:32.78]没有一个美国男人愿意被人认为有一点儿软弱或女人气的东西。
[00:36.75]Crying, in our culture, is identified with childishness
[00:40.44]在我们的文化中，哭被看成幼稚，
[00:44.12]with weakness and dependence.
[00:46.60]被看成软弱和依赖性。
[00:49.08]No one likes a cry baby,
[00:51.30]没有人喜欢爱哭的孩子。
[00:53.52]and we disapprove of crying even in childrend
[00:56.20]即使孩子们我们也不赞成他们哭，
[00:58.88]is couraging it in them as early as possible.
[01:01.66]我们尽量早地鼓励他们不哭。
[01:04.44]In a land so devoted to the pursuit of happiness as ours
[01:08.23]在我们这样一个如此专注于追求幸福的国家里，
[01:12.02]crying really is rather un-American.
[01:14.54]哭实在十分不合美国传统。
[01:17.06]Adults must learn not to cry in situations in which it is permissible for a child to cry.
[01:21.68]有的场合孩子要以哭，成年人应当学会在这些场合不哭。
[01:26.31]Women being the "weaker"and"dependent"sexit
[01:29.55]女人是“软弱的”和“依赖的”性别，
[01:32.79]is only natural that they should cry in certain emotional situations.
[01:36.26]因此很自然，她们在某些感情场合下就会哭起来。
[01:39.74]In women, crying is excusable.
[01:42.01]女人哭是可以原谅的。
[01:44.28]But in men, crying is a mark of weakness.
[01:47.10]但男人哭就是软弱的标志。
[01:49.92]So goes the American belief with regard to crying.
[01:52.81]这就是美国人有关哭的信念。
[01:55.70]"A little man,"we impress on our male children,"never cries.
[01:59.97]我们使我们的男孩子们铭记在心“小男子汉从来不哭。
[02:04.24]Only girls and crybabies do.
[02:06.58]只有女孩和爱哭的孩子才哭。”
[02:08.91]And so we condition males in America not to cry whenever they feel like doing so.
[02:12.64]我们也是这样调教美国男人，使他们想哭的时候做到不哭。
[02:16.36]It is not that American males are unable to cry because of some
[02:19.60]美国男人不会哭，
[02:22.84]biological time clock within them which causes thern to run downin that capacity as they older,
[02:27.27]不是因为他们随着年龄的增长体内的某个生物钟使其哭的能力消耗殆尽，
[02:31.69]but that they are trained not to cry.
[02:34.27]而是因为他们被训练得不哭。
[02:36.84]And so the"little man"controls his desire to cry
[02:40.17]于是这位“小男子汉”控制自己哭析愿望，
[02:43.50]and goes on doing so until he is unable to cry ecen when he wants to.
[02:46.78]并一直这样继续下去，直到后来甚至想哭的时候也不会哭了。
[02:50.06]Thus do we produce a trained incapacity in the American male to cry.
[02:53.99]结果我们就在美国男人身上造成了一种被训练得不会哭的能力。
[02:57.92]And this is bad.
[02:59.96]然而这并不好。
[03:02.00]Why is it bad?
[03:03.88]为什么不好？
[03:05.76]Because crying is a natural function of the human organism
[03:09.18]因为哭是人的机体的一种自然功能，
[03:12.60]which is designed to restore the emotionally disequilibrated person
[03:16.23]用于使感情失衡的人
[03:19.86]to a state of equuilibrium.
[03:22.34]恢复到平衡状态。
[03:24.83]The return of the disequilibrated organ systems of the boby
[03:28.14]人体器官系统从不平衡状态回到稳定状态
[03:31.46]to steady states or dynamic stability is known as homeostasis.
[03:35.78]或动态稳定状态叫做体内平衡。
[03:40.11]Crying serves a homeostasis function for the organism as a whole.
[03:43.79]哭为整个机体起着体内平衡的功能。
[03:47.47]Any interference with homo stasis
[03:50.36]任何对体内平衡的妨碍
[03:53.25]is likely to be damaging to the organism
[03:55.98]都可能损害机体。
[03:58.71]And there is good reason to believe that the American male's
[04:02.18]有充分理由相信，美国男人被训练得不会哭，
[04:05.66]trained incapacityto cry is seriously damaging to him.