午夜的一課

　　2023考研暑期復(fù)習已過半，應(yīng)該是強化復(fù)習階段，考研閱讀是考研英語中分值最高的，所以在線小編整理了美文賞析，希望考研考生認真閱讀，劃出難懂單詞，分析長難句，學習美文的結(jié)構(gòu)，舉一反三。 　　A Lesson Learned at Midnight 午夜的一課 　　By James Q. DuPont 詹姆斯.Q.杜邦 　　Ever since one midnight, in nineteen hundred and nine, when I first heard my mother crying, I have been groping for beliefs to help me through the rough going and confusions of life. My dads voice was low and troubled as he tried to comfort Mother. And in their anguish, they both forgot the nearness of my bedroom. And so, I overheard them. I was only seven then, and while their problem of that time has long since been solved and forgotten, the big discovery I made that night is still right with me: life is not all hearts and flowers; indeed its hard and cruel for most of us much of the time. We all have troubles, they just differ in nature, thats all. And that leads me to my first belief. 　　自1909年的一個午夜第一次聽到母親哭泣以來，我一直尋找信仰幫我度過生活中的艱辛與困惑。父親安慰母親時，聲音低沉而憂郁。極度的痛苦讓他們忘記我的臥室就在附近。我無意中聽到了他們的談話，那時我只有七歲。盡管他們當時的問題如今已經(jīng)解決也被遺忘，但那一晚的重大發(fā)現(xiàn)仍然教導(dǎo)我：生活并不總是充滿鮮花和愛情。許多時候生活對于我們大多數(shù)人來說艱辛而殘酷，我們都有煩惱，只是煩惱的性質(zhì)不同，僅此而已。這就是我的第一個信念。 　　I believe the human race is very, very toughalmost impossible to discourage. If it wasnt, then why do we have such words as laugh and sing and music and dancein the language of all mankind since the beginning of recorded time? This belief makes me downright proud to be a human being. 　　我相信人類十分堅強，幾乎不可能感到灰心沮喪。如若不然，為何有史以來人類所有的語言中都有歡笑、歌唱、音樂和舞蹈這樣的詞呢?這一信念讓我無比自豪，因為我是一個人。 　　Next, I believe there is good and evil in all of us. Thomas Mann comes close to expressing what Im trying to say to you with his carefully worded sentence about the frightfully radical duality between the brain and the beast in manin all of us. 　　其次，我相信我們都有善和惡的一面。托馬斯.曼字斟句酌地闡述了人類身上存在的理智與獸性這一極基本的雙重性時，幾乎道出了我的觀點。 　　This belief helps me because so long as I remember that there are certain forces of evil ever present in meand never forget that there is also a divine spark of goodness in me, toothen I find the score of my bad mistakes at the end of each day is greatly reduced. Forewarned of evil, in other words, is half the battle against it. 　　I believe in trying to be charitable, in trying to understand and forgive people, especially in trying to forgive very keen or brilliant people. A man may be a genius, you know, but he can still do things that practically break your heart. 　　這種信仰讓我受益，因為只要記住自己身上一直存在著某些邪惡的力量但也從未忘記自己身上也有上帝賜予的善良火花我就會發(fā)現(xiàn)每天結(jié)束時，錯誤和悔恨的得分大大降低。可見事先警惕惡行是與之斗爭成功的一半。我相信人要盡量樂善好施，盡量理解和寬恕別人，尤其要寬恕特別敏銳和聰慧的人，因為即使天才也會做出讓你傷心的事情。 　　I believe most if not all of our very finest thoughts and many of our finest deeds must be kept to ourselves aloneat least until after we die. This used to confuse me. But now I realize that by their very nature, these finest things we do and then cannot talk about are a sort of, well, secret preview of a better life to come. 　　I believe there is no escape from the rule of life that we must do many, many little things to accomplish even just one big thing. This gives me patience when I need it most. 　　我相信，即使不是全部，大多數(shù)我們提出的最富創(chuàng)見的思想，大多數(shù)我們實施的最富成果的行為，都不應(yīng)讓人知道我們提出和實施的至少要到我們?nèi)ナ乐蟛拍茏屓酥馈＿@一點過去常讓我感到困惑，但如今我明白，我們完成這些最美妙的事情卻秘而不宣，實質(zhì)上是暗地里預(yù)見未來更美好的生活。我相信我們必須做許許多多小事才能成就大事，哪怕只一件大事。這一規(guī)律無法逃避。這種信仰使我在最需要辦大事的時候很耐心。 　　And then I believe in having the courage to BE YOURSELF. Or perhaps I should say, to be honest with myself. Sometimes this is practically impossible, but Im sure I should always try. 　　還有，我相信要有勇氣還自己本色。或許我該說，要對自己實事求是。有時這幾乎不可能，但我確信我應(yīng)該永遠努力為之。 　　Finally, and most important to me, I do believe in God. Im sure there is a very wise and wonderful Being who designed, constructed, and operates this existence as we mortals know it: this universe with its galaxies and spiral nebulae, its stars and moons and planets and beautiful women, its trees and pearls and deep green mossand its hopes and prayers for peace. 　　最后一點，也是對我而言最重要的一點，我深深信仰上帝。我確信有一位非常睿智和神奇的神靈設(shè)計、建造并統(tǒng)治這個世界，就像我們凡人所認識的樣子：這個宇宙有星群、螺旋型的星云、星星、月亮、行星、美女、樹木、珍珠和深綠的苔蘚，還有希望和對和平的祈禱。

　　2023考研暑期復(fù)習已過半，應(yīng)該是強化復(fù)習階段，考研閱讀是考研英語中分值最高的，所以在線小編整理了美文賞析，希望考研考生認真閱讀，劃出難懂單詞，分析長難句，學習美文的結(jié)構(gòu)，舉一反三。 　　A Lesson Learned at Midnight 午夜的一課 　　By James Q. DuPont 詹姆斯.Q.杜邦 　　Ever since one midnight, in nineteen hundred and nine, when I first heard my mother crying, I have been groping for beliefs to help me through the rough going and confusions of life. My dads voice was low and troubled as he tried to comfort Mother. And in their anguish, they both forgot the nearness of my bedroom. And so, I overheard them. I was only seven then, and while their problem of that time has long since been solved and forgotten, the big discovery I made that night is still right with me: life is not all hearts and flowers; indeed its hard and cruel for most of us much of the time. We all have troubles, they just differ in nature, thats all. And that leads me to my first belief. 　　自1909年的一個午夜第一次聽到母親哭泣以來，我一直尋找信仰幫我度過生活中的艱辛與困惑。父親安慰母親時，聲音低沉而憂郁。極度的痛苦讓他們忘記我的臥室就在附近。我無意中聽到了他們的談話，那時我只有七歲。盡管他們當時的問題如今已經(jīng)解決也被遺忘，但那一晚的重大發(fā)現(xiàn)仍然教導(dǎo)我：生活并不總是充滿鮮花和愛情。許多時候生活對于我們大多數(shù)人來說艱辛而殘酷，我們都有煩惱，只是煩惱的性質(zhì)不同，僅此而已。這就是我的第一個信念。 　　I believe the human race is very, very toughalmost impossible to discourage. If it wasnt, then why do we have such words as laugh and sing and music and dancein the language of all mankind since the beginning of recorded time? This belief makes me downright proud to be a human being. 　　我相信人類十分堅強，幾乎不可能感到灰心沮喪。如若不然，為何有史以來人類所有的語言中都有歡笑、歌唱、音樂和舞蹈這樣的詞呢?這一信念讓我無比自豪，因為我是一個人。 　　Next, I believe there is good and evil in all of us. Thomas Mann comes close to expressing what Im trying to say to you with his carefully worded sentence about the frightfully radical duality between the brain and the beast in manin all of us. 　　其次，我相信我們都有善和惡的一面。托馬斯.曼字斟句酌地闡述了人類身上存在的理智與獸性這一極基本的雙重性時，幾乎道出了我的觀點。 　　This belief helps me because so long as I remember that there are certain forces of evil ever present in meand never forget that there is also a divine spark of goodness in me, toothen I find the score of my bad mistakes at the end of each day is greatly reduced. Forewarned of evil, in other words, is half the battle against it. 　　I believe in trying to be charitable, in trying to understand and forgive people, especially in trying to forgive very keen or brilliant people. A man may be a genius, you know, but he can still do things that practically break your heart. 　　這種信仰讓我受益，因為只要記住自己身上一直存在著某些邪惡的力量但也從未忘記自己身上也有上帝賜予的善良火花我就會發(fā)現(xiàn)每天結(jié)束時，錯誤和悔恨的得分大大降低。可見事先警惕惡行是與之斗爭成功的一半。我相信人要盡量樂善好施，盡量理解和寬恕別人，尤其要寬恕特別敏銳和聰慧的人，因為即使天才也會做出讓你傷心的事情。 　　I believe most if not all of our very finest thoughts and many of our finest deeds must be kept to ourselves aloneat least until after we die. This used to confuse me. But now I realize that by their very nature, these finest things we do and then cannot talk about are a sort of, well, secret preview of a better life to come. 　　I believe there is no escape from the rule of life that we must do many, many little things to accomplish even just one big thing. This gives me patience when I need it most. 　　我相信，即使不是全部，大多數(shù)我們提出的最富創(chuàng)見的思想，大多數(shù)我們實施的最富成果的行為，都不應(yīng)讓人知道我們提出和實施的至少要到我們?nèi)ナ乐蟛拍茏屓酥馈＿@一點過去常讓我感到困惑，但如今我明白，我們完成這些最美妙的事情卻秘而不宣，實質(zhì)上是暗地里預(yù)見未來更美好的生活。我相信我們必須做許許多多小事才能成就大事，哪怕只一件大事。這一規(guī)律無法逃避。這種信仰使我在最需要辦大事的時候很耐心。 　　And then I believe in having the courage to BE YOURSELF. Or perhaps I should say, to be honest with myself. Sometimes this is practically impossible, but Im sure I should always try. 　　還有，我相信要有勇氣還自己本色。或許我該說，要對自己實事求是。有時這幾乎不可能，但我確信我應(yīng)該永遠努力為之。 　　Finally, and most important to me, I do believe in God. Im sure there is a very wise and wonderful Being who designed, constructed, and operates this existence as we mortals know it: this universe with its galaxies and spiral nebulae, its stars and moons and planets and beautiful women, its trees and pearls and deep green mossand its hopes and prayers for peace. 　　最后一點，也是對我而言最重要的一點，我深深信仰上帝。我確信有一位非常睿智和神奇的神靈設(shè)計、建造并統(tǒng)治這個世界，就像我們凡人所認識的樣子：這個宇宙有星群、螺旋型的星云、星星、月亮、行星、美女、樹木、珍珠和深綠的苔蘚，還有希望和對和平的祈禱。