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1、新视野大学英语第三册课文翻译UnitlMy brother,Jimmy,did not get enough oxygen during a difficult delivery,leaving himwith brain damage,and two years later I was born.Since then,my life revolved aroundmy brother,s.Accompanying my growing up was always“go out and play and take yourbrother with you”.I couldn,t go anyw

2、here without him,so I urged the neighborhoodkids to come to my house for some out-of-control kid-centered funMy mother taught Jimmy practical things like how to brush his teeth or put on belt.My father,a saint,simply held the house together with his patience and understanding.I was in charge outside

3、 where I administered justice by tracking down the parents ofthe kids who picked on my brother,and telling on them.My father and Jimmy were inseparable.They ate breakfast together and on weekdaysdrove off to the navy shipping center every morning where they both worked-Jimmyunloaded color-coded boxe

4、s.At night after dinner,they would talk and play games lateinto the evening.They even whistled the same tunes.So when my father died of a heart attack in 1991,Jimmy was a wreck,beneath hiscareful disguise.He was simply in disbelief.Usually very agreeable,he now quitspeaking altogether and no amount

5、of words could penetrate the vacant expression hewore on his face.I hired someone to live with him and drive him to work,but no matterhow much I tried to make things stay the same,even Jimmy grasped that the world he dknown was gone.O ne day I asked,“You miss Dad,don t you?”His lips quivered andthen

6、 he asked,“What do you think,Margaret?He was my best friend.O ur tears beganflow.My mother died of lung cancer six months later and I alone was left to look after Jimmy.He didn,t adjust to going to work without my father right away,so he came and livedwith me in New York City for a while.He went whe

7、rever I went and seemed to adjustpretty well.Still,Jimmy longed to live in my parents house and work at his oldjob and I pledged to help him return.Eventually,I was able to work it out.He haslived there for 11 years now with many different caretakers and blossomed on his own.He has become essential

8、to the neighborhood.When you have any mail to be picked upor your dog needs walking,he is your man.My mother was right,of course:It was possible to have a home with room for bothhis limitations and my ambitions.In fact,caring for someone who loves as deeply andappreciates my efforts as much as Jimmy

9、 does has enriched my life more than anythingelse ever could have.This hit home a few days after the September 11th disaster on Jimmy,s 57th birthday.I had a party for him in my home in New York,but none of our family could join usbecause travel was difficult and they were still reckoning with the s

10、heer terror thedisaster had brought.I called on my faithful friends to help make it a merry and festiveoccasion,ignoring the fact that most of them were emotionally drained and exhausted.Instead of the customary No gifts,pleasew,I shouted,Gifts!P lease!nMy friends-people Jimmy had come to know over

11、the years-brought the ideal presents:country music CDs,a sweatshirt,one leather belt with J-I-M-M-Y”on it,a knittedwool hat and a cowboy costume.The evening led up to the gifts and then the chocolatecake from his favorite bakery,and of course the ceremony wasn t complete withoutthe singing.A thousan

12、d times Jimmy asked,“Is it time for the cake yet?”After dinner and thegifts Jimmy could no longer be restrained.He anxiously waited for the candles to belit and then blew them out with one long breath as well all sang“Happy birthday”.Jimmy wasn t satisfied with our effort,though.He jumped up on the

13、chair and stooderect pointing both index fingers into the air to conduct us andyelled,Onemoretime!”We sang with all of the energy left in our souls and whenwe were finished he put both his thumbs up and shouted.That was super!nWe had wanted to let him know that no matter how difficult things got in

14、the world,there would always be people who cared about him.We ended up reminding ourselvesinstead.For Jimmy,the love with which we sang was a welcome bonus,but mostly hehad just wanted to see everyone else happy again.Just as my father,s death had changed Jimmy s world overnight,September 11thchange

15、d our lives；the world we d known was gone.But,as we sang for Jimmy and heldeach tight afterward praying for peace around the world,we were reminded that theconstant love and support of our friends and family would get us through whatever lifemight present.The simplicity with which Jimmy had reconcil

16、ed everything for us shouldnot have been surprising.There had never been limitations to what Jimmy s love couldaccomplish.Unit2 ASports medicine experts have observed for years that endurance athletes,particularly females,frequently have iron deficiencies.Now a new study by a teamof Purdue Universit

17、y researchers suggests that even moderate exercise may lead toreduced iron in the blood of women.We found that women who were normally inactive and then started a program of moderateexercise showed evidence of iron loss,says Roseanne M.Lyle,associate professorat Purdue.Her study of 62 formerly inact

18、ive women who began exercising three timesa week for six months was published in the journal Medicine&Science in Sports&Exercise.Women who consumed additional meat or took iron supplements were able to bounceback,she notes.But the new exercisers who followed their normal diet showed adecrease in iro

19、n levels.wIron deficiency is very common among women in general,affecting one in four femaleteenagers and one in five women aged 18 to 45,respectively.But the ratio is evengreater among active women,affecting up to 80 percent of female endurance athletes.This means,Lyle says,that,too many women igno

20、re the amount of iron they take in;.Women of child-bearing age are at greatest risk,since their monthly bleeding is amajor source of iron loss.Plus,many health-conscious women increase their risk byrejecting red meat,which contains the most easily absorbed form of iron.And becausewomen often restric

21、t their diet in an effort to control weight,they may not consumeenough iron-rich food,and are liable to experience a deficiency.The average woman takes in only two thirds of the recommended daily allowance foriron,B notes another expert.f fFor a woman who already has a poor iron status,anyadditional

22、 iron loss from exercise may be enough to tip her over the edge into a moreserious deficiency,w notes the expert.Exercise can result in iron loss through a variety of mechanisms.Some iron is lostin sweat,and,for unknown reasons,intense endurance exercise is sometimes associatedwith bleeding of the d

23、igestive system.Athletes in high-impact sports such as runningmay also lose iron through a phenomenon where small blood vessels in the feet leakblood.There are three stages of iron deficiency.The first and most common is having lowiron reserves,a condition that typically has no symptoms.Fatigue and

24、poor performancemay begin to appear in the second stage of deficiency,when not enough iron is presentto form the molecules of blood protein that transport oxygen to the working muscles.In the third and final stage,people often feel weak,tired,and out of breath-andexercise performance is severely com

25、promised.P eople think that if they*re not at the third stage,nothing is wrong,but that1snot true,w says John L.Beard,who helped design the P urdue study.You*re not stage3 until your iron reserves go to zero,and if you wait until that point,you*re introuble.”However,most people with low iron reserve

26、s dont know they have a deficiency,becausetraditional methods of calculating the amount of iron in blood(by checking levelsof the blood protein that transports oxygen)are not sufficient,Beard states.Instead,it*s important to check levels of a different compound,which indicates the amountof storage o

27、f iron in the blood.While active,child-bearing age women are most likelyto have low iron stores,he notes,Men are not safe,especially if they dont eatmeat and have a high level of physical activity.(An estimated 15 percent of malelong distance runners have low iron stores.)Beard and other experts say

28、 its advisablefor people in these groups to have a yearly blood test to check blood iron reserves.If iron levels are low,talk with a physician to see if the deficiency should becorrected by modifying your diet or by taking supplements.In general,its betterto undo the problem by adding more iron-rich

29、 foods to the diet,because iron supplementscan have serious shortcomings.Supplements may produce a feeling of wanting to throwup,and may be poisonous in some cases.The best sources of iron,and the only sourcesof the form of iron most readily absorbed by the body,are meat,chicken,and fish.Good source

30、s of other forms of iron include dates,beans,and some leafy greenvegetables.Select breads and cereals with the words 1 iron-added*on the label,B writes sportsdiet expert Nancy Clark.This added iron supplements the small amount that naturallyoccurs in grains.Eat these foods with plentiful Vitamin C(f

31、or example,drink orangejuice with cereal or put a tomato on a sandwich)to enhance the amount of iron absorbed.wClark also recommends cooking in iron pans,as food can derive iron from the pan duringthe cooking process.wThe iron content of tomato sauce cooked in an iron pot for threehours showed a str

32、iking increase,the level going up nearly 30 times,w she writes.And people who are likely to have low iron should avoid drinking coffee or tea withmeals,she says,since substances in these drinks can interfere with iron being absorbedinto the body.Active women need to be a lot more careful about their

33、 food choices,w sums up Purdue1 sLyle.If you pay attention to warning signs before iron reserves are gone,you canremedy the deficiency before it really becomes a problem.Unit5 AI have never seen Mrs.Clark before,but I know from her medical chart and the reportI received from the preceding shift that

34、 tonight she will die.The only light in her room is coming from a piece of medical equipment,which isflashing its red light as if in warning.As I stand there,the smell hits my nose,and I close my eyes as I remember the smell of decay from past experience.In my mouthI have a sour,vinegar taste coming

35、 from the pit of my stomach.I reach for the lightswitch,and as it silently lights the scene,I return to the bed to observe the patientwith an unemotional,medical eye.Mrs.Clark is dying.She lies motionless：the head seems unusually large on a skeletonbody;the skin is dark yellow and hangs loosely arou

36、nd exaggerated bones that not evena blanket can hide；the right arm lies straight out at the side,taped cruelly to aboard to secure a needle so that fluid may drip in；the left arm is across the sunkenchest,which rises and falls with the uneven breaths.I reach for the long,thin fingers that are lying

37、on the chest.They are ice cold,and I quickly move to the wrist and feel for the faint pulse.Mrs.Clarks eyes opensomewhat as her head turns toward me slightly.I bend close to her and scarcely hearas she whispers,Water.Taking a glass of water from the table,I put my finger overthe end of the straw and

38、 allow a few drops of the cool moisture to slide into her mouthand ease her thirst.She makes no attempt to swallow；there is just not enoughstrength.More,the dry voice says,and we repeat the procedure.This time she doesmanage to swallow some liquid and weakly says,wThank,you.She is too weak for conve

39、rsation,so without asking,I go about providing for herneeds.Picking her up in my arms like a child,I turn her on her side.Naked,exceptfor a light hospital gown,she is so very small and light that she seems like a victimof some terrible famine.I remove the lid from a jar of skin cream and put some on

40、the palm of my hand.Carefully,to avoid injuring her,I rub cream into the yellowskin,which rolls freely over the bones,feeling perfectly the outline of each bonein the back.Placing a pillow between her legs,I notice that these too are ice cold,and not until I run m y hand up over her knees do I feel

41、any of the life-giving warmthof blood.When I am finished,I pull a chair up beside the bed to face her and,taking herfree hand be tweenmine,again notice the long,thin fingers.Graceful.I wonder brieflyif she has any family,and then I see that there are neither flowers,nor picturesof rainbows and butte

42、rflies drawn by children,nor cards.There is no hint in the roomanywhere that this is a person who is loved.As though she is a mind reader,Mrs.Clarkanswers my thoughts and quietly tells me,*1 sent.my family.hometonight.,.didnt want.them.to see.Having spent her last ounce of strengthshe cannot go on,b

43、ut I have understood what she has done.Not knowing what to say,I say nothing.Again she seems to sense my thoughts,You stay Time seems to stand still.In the total silence,I feel my own pulse quicken andhear my breathing as it begins to match hers,breath for uneven breath.Our eyes meetand somehow,toge

44、ther,we become aware that this is a special moment between two humanbeings.Her long fingers curl easily around m y hand and I nod my head slowly,smiling.Without words,through yellowed eyes,I receive my thank you and her eyes slowly close.Some unknown interval of time passes before her eyes open agai

45、n,only this time thereis no response in them,just a blank stare,ffithout warning,her shallow breathingstops,and within a few moments,the faint pulse is also gone.One single tear flowsfrom her left eye,across the cheek and down onto the pillow.I begin to cry quietly.There is a swell of emotion within

46、 me for this stranger who so quicklycame into andwent from my life.Her suffering is done,yet so is the life.Slowly,s till holdingher hand,I become aware that I do not mind this emotional battle,that in fact,itwas a privilege she has allowed me,and I would do it again,gladly.Mrs.Clark sparedher famil

47、y an episode that perhaps they were not equipped to handle and instead sharedit with me.She had not wanted to have her family see her die,yet she did not wantto die alone.No one should die alone,and I am glad I was there for her.Two days later,I read about Mrs.Clark in the newspaper.She was the moth

48、er ofseven,grandmother of eighteen,an active member of her church,a leader of volunteerassociations in her community,a concert piano player,and a piano teacher for overthirty years.Yes,they were long and graceful fingers.Unit7 AWhen I was 19,I caught sight of the future and based my career on what I

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50、bed whackerH has dominated the personal computing revolution andmodernized the whole world in the process.Indeed,his classification into any other rank than this would seriously understatehis impact on the worldGates*success stems from his personality：an unbelievable and at times frighteningblend of