2015考研英语阅读加勒特菲茨傑拉德_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读加勒特菲茨傑拉德

　　What modesty would restrain him from telling youeven in the 674 small-print pages of hisautobiographywas the precise route by which Ireland, while he was cheerfully inhabitingthe corridors of the Seanad and the Dail, moved away from sterile, irredentist sectarianismto become a more open and tolerant place; how the sombre dominance of the Catholicchurch began to recede from the country s moral life; how Ireland opened itself alike toEurope and to foreign investment, eventually finding it could leap off like a tiger; and, mostwonderful and difficult of all, how North and South began to accommodate and make peacewith each other, to such a degree that as he lay dying Queen Elizabeth was in Dublin Castle,trying out a line of Gaelic.

　　那些即使是他也不好意思说出来的在他674页自传中也没提及是爱尔兰各地的精确路线。那会儿他高高兴兴地游走于上议院和下议院，使统一党宗派主义远离枯燥，成为一个更开放、更有肚量的地方;阴沉的天主教支配势力是如何开始退出这个国家的日常生活的;爱尔兰是如何融入欧洲，开展对外投资，最终如龙腾虎跃;以及，最重要的是，如何让南北地区的人民融洽相处。就好像在都柏林的城堡里放倒了衰老的伊丽莎白女王，开拓出了盖尔人的一片天地。

　　His own contribution, because it was the start of these processes, often looked like failure.His referendum to amend slightly the law on abortion was shot down, his referendum tobring in divorce resoundingly defeated; but he had succeeded in broaching the subjects in acivil way. On Northern Ireland, the 1973 Sunningdale power-sharing agreement swiftlycollapsed, and his New Ireland Forum, in which constitutional parties from both sides wereto meet and talk together of the pluralist, inclusive Ireland he longed for, was ruthlesslyscorned by Margaret Thatcher. Even the Anglo-Irish agreement of 1985, in which Britain acknowledgedfor the first time the Republic s interest in the North, was pictured by unionists as betrayaland by terrorists as encouragement. In fact it was a small, determined step towards theGood Friday agreement 13 years later.