新视野大学英语读写教程2第二册原文翻译uint1-5.pdf

Unit1 a <p1>Americans believe no one stands still. If you are not moving ahead, you are falling behind. <p2>This attitude results in a nation of people committed to researching, experimenting and exploring. <p3>Time is one of the two elements that Americans save carefully, the other being labor. <p4>"We are slaves to nothing but the clock," it has been said. Time is treated as if it were something almost real. <p5>We <1>budget</1> it, save it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we also <2>charge</2> for it. It is a precious resource. <p6>Many people have a rather <3>acute</3> sense of the shortness of each lifetime. <p7>Once the sands have run out of a person's <4>hourglass</4>, they cannot be replaced. <p8>We want every minute to count. A foreigner's first impression of the US is likely to be that<p9> everyone is in a rush—often under pressure. City people always appear to be hurrying to get where they are going, <p10> <6>restlessly</6> seeking attention in a store, or <7>elbowing</7> others as they try to complete their shopping. <p11>Racing through daytime meals is part of the pace of life in this country. Working time is considered precious. Others in public eating-places are waiting for you to finish so they, too, can be served and get back to work within the time allowed. You also find drivers will be <8>abrupt</8> and people will push past you. You will miss smiles, brief conversations, and small exchanges with strangers. <p12> Don't take it personally. This is because people value time highly, and they resent someone else "wasting" it beyond a certain appropriate point. <p13>Many new arrivals in the States will miss the <9>opening</9> exchanges of a business call, for example. <p14>They will miss the <10>ritual</10> <11>interaction</11> that goes with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee that may be a <12>convention</12> in their own