大学英语自学教程 下册 un11

[11:32.18]而狗不断地寻求人们的注意,有时太过分了.
[11:35.51]Nevertheless it is the dog who can teach us lessons of loyalty and devotion
[11:41.96]that no cat ever knew.
[11:43.58]尽管如此,狗能教给我们忠诚和献身,这是猫从不知道的.
[11:45.20]So there's plenty to be said in favor of keeping pets.
[11:47.42]  于是有许多说法赞成养宠物.
[11:49.64]But with all that in mind,I still say let's stop keeping pets.
[11:52.72]但尽管心里明白所有这些说法,我依然要说让我们停止养鸡宠物吧.
[11:55.81]Not that a family should kill its pets.
[11:57.74]并不是说一个家庭应该杀死他们的宠物,
[11:59.67]Very few could bring themselves to do that.
[12:01.65]很少有人能使自己做这样的事.
[12:03.62]To be practical,I am suggesting that if we do not no whave a pet
[12:09.39]we should not a quire one;
[12:11.01]实际上,我是在建议如果我们现在没有养宠物,我们就不要弄一个;
[12:12.63]second,that if we now have a pet,we let it be our last one.
[12:15.61]第二,如果我们现在有一只宠物,就让它成为我们的最后一只吧.
[12:18.59]I could never say that pets are bad.
[12:20.47]我永远不会说宠物是有害的.
[12:22.35]I am saying,let's give up this good thing--the ownership of a pet
[12:25.47]我是在说,让我们放弃这个好东西吧---对宠物的拥有权---
[12:28.59]in favor of a more imperative good.
[12:30.51]去支持一个更紧迫的有益的事业吧.
[12:32.43]The purchase,the health care,the feeding and housing and training of a pet
[12:35.51]  购买一只宠物,照顾它的健康,喂养它,给它提供住处,训练它
[12:38.60]and I chiefly mean the larger,longer-lived pets cost time and money.
[12:41.38]---我主要指的是较大的,较长寿命的宠物--花费时间和钱财.
[12:44.16]Depending on the animal's size and activity,it's special tastes and needs,
[12:47.35]根据动物的体型大小,活动,其特殊品和需要,
[12:50.53]and the standard of living we establish for it,
[12:52.66]我们为之建立起生活标准照顾一只宠物的花费
[12:54.79]the care of a pet can cost from a dollar a week to a dollar or more a day
[12:57.87]可能从一周一美元到一天一美元或更多.
[13:00.96]I would not for a moment deny it is worth that.
[13:03.03]我从不会否认它的价值.
[13:05.11]But facts outside the walls of our home keep breaking in on our awareness.
[13:07.93]  但是我们房子外面的事实却不断地闯入我们的意识.
[13:10.75]Though we do not see the poverty-suicken people of India
[13:15.61]and Africa and South America,
[13:17.60]虽然我们没看到印度,非洲和南美洲穷困潦倒的人们,
[13:19.58]we can never quite forget that they are there.
[13:21.65]我们决不能完全忘记他们的存在.
[13:23.71]Now and then their faces are shown in the news,
[13:27.94]or in the begging ads of relief organizations.
[13:30.12]他们的面容不时出现在新闻里或救济组织的求援广告里.
[13:32.30]Probably we send a donation whenever we can.
[13:34.52]每次在我们有能力里也送去一份捐助.
[13:36.74]we do not,as a rule,feel a heavy personal responsibility
[13:42.80]for the afflicted and deprivedfor we are pretty thoroughly formed
[13:45.63]  我们通常并不感到对贫穷困苦的人们负有重大的个人责任,
[13:48.45]by the individualistic competitive society we live in.
[13:51.18]因为我们几乎完全是由我们生活于其中的这个个人主义的,竞争的社会所塑造成形的.
[13:53.91]he first dime we ever made was ours to spend in any way we chose.
[13:56.94]我们曾经挣得的第一个10分硬币是自己的,我们可以选择花掉它的任何一种方式.
[13:59.97]No one thought of questioning that.
[14:01.70]没人想到对些提出质疑,
[14:03.44]That attitude,formed before we had learned to think,
[14:05.87]那种态度形成于我们学会思考之前,
[14:08.30]usually prevails through our life: "I made my money.
[14:10.94]通常会贯穿我们的一生:"我挣自己的钱,
[14:13.58]I can spend it any way I like."
[14:15.46]我可以以我喜欢的任何方式花掉它."
[14:17.34]But more and more we are reading that the people of the "Fhird World"
[14:20.07]  但我们越来越多地在阅读中了解到"第三世界"的人们
[14:22.80]feel bitter at us in the developed countries
[14:25.14]怀恨发达国家里的我们
[14:27.47](with the United States far more developed than any of the others)
[14:29.96](美国比其他任何国家发达得多),
[14:32.44]for our seizing hold of two-thirds of the world's wealth and living like kings
[14:35.52]因为我们占有了世界2/3的财富,