大学英语自学教程 下册 un03

[03:39.90]to open up communication for them with their loved ones or family
[03:42.88]让他们与他们所爱的人和家进行交流
[03:45.85]there's nearly always another question behind the question."
[03:48.43]---问题之后几乎总有另一个问题."
[03:51.00]Britain also has a strong tradition of hospices--
[03:53.89]英国也有一个牢固的建立晚期病人收容所的传统
[03:56.77]special hospitals which care only for the dying and their special needs
[04:00.34]--只是照顾将要死亡者和他们的特殊需要的医院.
[04:03.91]Cicely Saunders,President of the National Hospice Council
[04:06.92]茜西莉.桑德斯,国家收容所委员会主席
[04:09.94]and a founder member of the hospice movement,
[04:12.60]和收容运动的发起者,
[04:15.27]argues that euthanasia doesn't take into account
[04:19.53]that there are ways of caring for the dying.
[04:21.90]主张安乐死并未考虑到照顾将死患者有多种方式.
[04:24.28]She is also concemed that allowing euthanasia would undermine the need for care
[04:28.21]她还谈到允许安乐死就会破坏广大的人们对照料和关心的需要:
[04:32.14]and consideration of a wide range of people:
[04:37.21]"it's very easy in society now for the elderly,
[04:39.94]"现在社会上,这是容易使老人,
[04:42.67]the disabled and the dependent to feel that they are burdens,
[04:46.24]残疾人和依靠别人生存的人感觉到他们是负担,
[04:49.80]and therefore that they ought to opt out.
[04:52.58]因此他们应该决定退出.
[04:55.37]I think that anything that legally allows the shortening of life does make those people more vulnerable."
[04:59.94]我认为任何法律上允许缩短生命的做法肯定使这些人更容易受伤害."
[05:04.51]Many find this prohibition of an individual's right to die paternalistic
[05:07.98]许多人发现这种禁止睛个人死亡的权利常有家作风.
[05:11.46]Although they agree that life is important and should be respected,
[05:14.14]虽然他们同意生命是重要的并且应该受到尊重,
[05:16.81]they feel that the quality of life should not be ignored.
[05:19.93]他们觉得生命的质量也不应忽视.
[05:23.06]Dr.van Oijen believes that people have the fundamental right
[05:26.78]范.奥仁大夫认为如果人们想,
[05:30.50]to choose for themselves if they want to die:
[05:33.37]他们有为自己选择的基本权利:
[05:36.25]"What those people who oppose euthanasia are telling me
[05:39.58]"那些反对安乐死的人是在告诉我们
[05:42.91]is that dying people haven't the right.
[05:45.34]将死的人们没有这种权利.
[05:47.77]And that when people are very ill,we are all afraid of their death.
[05:51.75]并且当人们病得很重时,我们都担心他们的死亡.
[05:55.74]But there are situations where death is a friend.
[05:58.40]但有些情形是死亡比敬延残喘更好,
[06:01.06]And in those cases,why not?
[06:03.56]在那些情况下,为什么不采用安乐死呢?"
[06:06.05]But "why not?" is a question which might cause strong emotion.
[06:09.74]但"为什么不呢"是个会引起强烈感情的问题.
[06:13.42]The film showing Cees van Wendel's death was both moving and sensitive.
[06:17.60]展示齐思.范.万德尔死亡情景的影片既动人又敏感.
[06:21.78]His doctor was clearly a family friend;
[06:24.51]显然他的医生是家里人的朋友;
[06:27.24]his wife had only her husband's interests at heart.
[06:30.20]他妻子的心里也只有丈夫的利益.
[06:33.17]Some,however,would argue that it would be dangerous
[06:39.10]to use this particular example to support the case for euthanasia.
[06:42.23]然而,一些人争论说,用这样的特殊的事例去支持安乐死是危险的.
[06:45.37]Not all patients would receive such a high level of individual care and attention.
[06:49.69]并非所有患者都会得到这么高级的个别护理和关注.
[06:54.01]Text B   Advantage unfair
[06:56.54]优势不公
[06:59.06]According to the writer Walter Ellis,
[07:01.09]据作家活尔特.埃利斯,
[07:03.13]author of a book called the Oxbridge Conspiracy,
[07:05.56]<牛津剑桥阴谋帮派>一书的作者所说,
[07:07.99]Britain is still dominated by the old-boy network:
[07:10.42]英国仍在老同学每每网控制之下:
[07:12.85]it isn't what you know that matters,but who you know.
[07:15.33]你所懂得的不重要,你认识谁倒更重要.
[07:17.81]He claims that at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (Oxbridge for short)
[07:21.39]他声明在牛津大学,剑桥大学(简称牛津剑桥)
[07:24.97]a few select people start on an escalator ride which over the years,