新四最为大家熟知的是有关人文主义的文章,比如第5课Fielden Hughes的youth青年,11课英国哲学家罗素的How To Grow Old 如何安排晚年,24课英国哲学家C.E.M. Joad的Beauty,46课丘吉尔的Hobbies。从用词句型的角度,以beauty 和hobbies 最难,其它文章用词并不生僻,只不过内涵丰富,极富哲理,让人回味。如罗素在回答如何克服死亡的恐惧时说:The best way to overcome it—so at least it seems to be ---is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. 克服怕死的最好办法—— 至少在我看来是这样—— 就是逐渐使自己的兴趣更加广泛,逐渐摆脱个人狭小的圈子,直到自我的围墙一点一点地倒塌下来,自己的生活慢慢地和整个宇宙的生活融合在一起。整句没有一个难词,但其中的内涵感染过每一位上新四的同学。
而他对于人生的的比喻:An individual human existence should be like a river -- small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. (个人的存在应该像一条河流,开始很小,被紧紧地夹在两岸中间,接着热情奔放地冲过巨石,飞下瀑布。然后河面渐渐地变宽,两岸后撤,河水流得平缓起来,最后连绵不断地汇入大海,毫无痛苦地失去了自我的存在。)这一段,不提比喻之精巧,单单朗读英文时,句式错落有致,音节优美,极富节奏,朗读起来就是一种享受。正是由于这些名家的篇章,使得新四在严肃的同时,又多了一份生动人文的气息。但我们要反对一种趋势,拿这些名家的篇章代表新四整册,刻意提高新四的难度。
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