- 英語閱讀技巧大全：用削枝剪葉法學(xué)英語閱讀
- 李文昊
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- 2020-05-28 18:16:52
Unit 5 喬布斯斯坦福大學(xué)演講
①I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.
②Truth be told, I never graduated from college.
③And this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
④Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.
⑤That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
⑥The first story is about connecting the dots.
⑦I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months.
⑧But then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.
⑨So why did I drop out? It started before I was born.
⑩My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student.
?And she decided to put me up for adoption.
?She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.
?Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.
?So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking.
Key words and phrases
commencement [k??mensm?nt] n．畢業(yè)典禮
biological [?ba???l?d??kl] a．有血親關(guān)系的
drop out of不參與，退出
adoption [??d?p?n] n．收養(yǎng)
句構(gòu)分析
譯 今天，我很榮幸能與諸位，來自世界上最好大學(xué)之一的畢業(yè)生們，一起參加畢業(yè)典禮。
譯 老實說，我從未大學(xué)畢業(yè)。
譯 這應(yīng)該算是我離大學(xué)畢業(yè)最近的一次。
譯 今天我想告訴你們我生活中的三個故事。
語法分析 該句中want是謂語，to tell you three stories是動詞不定式作賓語，tell后加雙賓語，tell three stories是直接賓語，you是間接賓語。
譯 不是什么大不了的事情，僅僅是三個故事而已。
譯 第一個故事是關(guān)于如何把生活中的點點滴滴連接起來。
譯 我在里德大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)了六個月之后就退學(xué)了。
譯 但是在十八個月以后——我真正的作出退學(xué)決定之前，我還是經(jīng)常去學(xué)校。
譯 那我為什么退學(xué)呢？那要從我出生的時候講起。
譯 我的親生母親是一個年輕的、未婚的大學(xué)畢業(yè)生。
譯 她決定讓別人收養(yǎng)我。
譯 她十分想讓我被大學(xué)畢業(yè)生收養(yǎng)，所以她為我準(zhǔn)備好了一切，我一出生就會被一個律師一家收養(yǎng)。
譯 但出乎意料的是，當(dāng)我出生之后，律師夫婦突然想要一個女孩。
譯 所以我的養(yǎng)父母（在待選名單上的）突然在半夜接到了一個電話。