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Part C
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined
segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written carefully on ANSWER
SHEET 2. (10 points)
With its theme that "Mind is the master weaver," creating our inner
character and outer circumstances, the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is
an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.
(46) Allen's contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that
because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts-and reveal its
erroneous nature. Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter,
we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless; this allows us to think
one way and act another. However, Allen believed that the unconscious mind
generates as much action as the conscious mind, and (47) while we may be able to
sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we
are continually faced with a question: "Why cannot I make myself do this or
achieve that? "
Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not
accord with desire, Allen concluded : " We do not attract what we want, but what
we are." Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external
achievement; you don't " get" success but become it. There is no gap between
mind and matter.
\Part of the fame of Allen's book is its contention that "Circumstances do
not make a person, they reveal him." (48) This seems a justification for neglect
of those in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, of the superiority of
those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.
This ,however, would be a knee-jerk reaction to a subtle argument. Each set
of circumstances, however bad, offers a unique opportunity for growth. If
circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity
would never have progressed. In fat, (49)circumstances seem to be designed to
bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been "wronged" then we are
unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation .Nevertheless,
as any biographer knows, a person's early life and its conditions are often the
greatest gift to an individual.
The sobering aspect of Allen's book is that we have no one else to blame
for our present condition except ourselves. (50) The upside is the possibilities
contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts
in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.
译文答案
46、艾伦的贡献在于提供了我们能分担和揭示错误性质的假设--因为我们不是机器人，因此我们能够控制我们的理想。
47、我们可以单独通过意识维持控制的感觉，但实际上我们一直面临着一个问题，为什么我不能完成这件事情或那件事情。
48、这似乎可能为必要时的忽视正名，也能合理说明剥削，以及在顶层的人的优越感及处于后层人们的劣势感。
49、环境似乎是为了发挥我们的优势，而且如果我们感觉受了委屈，那么我们就不可能有意识的做出努力逃离我们原来的处境。
50、正面在于我们处于这样的位置，知道所有事情都取决与我们自己，之前我们是受到一系列限制的专家，现在我们成了权威 |
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发表于 2018-9-1 20:31:29