时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第三册


英语课

Lesson44 A Neapolitan Fisherman

The Neapolitan fisherman asleep in the afternoon sun was approached by awell-to-do businessman from another city.

"Why are you asleep instead of doing something useful?""What should I do?" answered the fisherman.

"You could mend your nets," suggested the businessman, "and then you wouldcatch more fish. If you caught more fish you would make more money andsooner or later you could afford a bigger fishing boast which would enableyou to catch still more fish. In time you could become the owner of severalboats and employ other fishermen to work for you. Eventually you wouldbecome a wealthy man with a fleet of fishing boats bringing ashore 1 greatquantities of fish and earning more than enough money for you and yourfamily to live in great style.

You would no longer need to work hard or worry about the future. In fact,you'd have la dolce vita. Come on! Wake up!

The day is short but there's still time to attain 2 your ambition."The fisherman listened patiently — he had enjoyed a long lunch and feltquite drowsy 3 in the warm afternoon sun — and when the man was finished,the fisherman looked at him puzzled: "I would do all that to have la dolcevita? Why should I do all that to achieve what I already have?"


Neapolitan 那不勒斯的

la dolce vita 奢华的生活方式

attain 获得

drowsy 昏昏欲睡的


一个那不勒斯渔民

一个从其他城市来的富商走到一个正在午后阳光下睡觉的那不勒斯渔民身旁。

“你为什么不去做些有用的事而在这里睡觉呢?”

“我应该做什么呢?”渔民回答。

“你可以补网,”商人提议说,“那样你就可以捕到更多的鱼。如果你捕到更多的鱼,你就可以赚更多的钱,迟早你将会拥有更大的渔船,它能让你捕到更多的鱼。你就可以拥有几条船,雇佣其他渔民为你工作。最终,你将成为富人,拥有更多的渔船,这些船会把大量的鱼带上岸,为你赚大量的钱,你的家人将过上幸福的生活。你再也不必努力工作或为将来担心。事实上,你将过上奢华的生活。快点,清醒清醒吧!时不我待,你还来得及实现你的抱负。”

渔民耐心地听着——午餐的时间已经够长了,在暖和的午后阳光下他感到昏昏欲睡——等商人说完,他困惑地看着商人说:“我一定要做所有这些事才能得到奢华的生活吗?

我为什么要做那么多去获得我本来已经拥有的生活呢?”



1 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
2 attain
vt.达到,获得,完成
  • I used the scientific method to attain this end. 我用科学的方法来达到这一目的。
  • His painstaking to attain his goal in life is praiseworthy. 他为实现人生目标所下的苦功是值得称赞的。
3 drowsy
adj.昏昏欲睡的,令人发困的
  • Exhaust fumes made him drowsy and brought on a headache.废气把他熏得昏昏沉沉,还引起了头疼。
  • I feel drowsy after lunch every day.每天午饭后我就想睡觉。
学英语单词
'drome
a high five
A-derrick
adipose cell
area of platform
artificialboundary
bargain out
beef it
bombilated
bromochlorophenol blue
bruckners
c horizons
C-jadeite
caecum vestibulare
carpenters cape chisel
clearance adjusting nut
collective laborer
condenser-tube pulling space
coordinating yin and yang
corporate client
devaluations
Dialister pneumosintes
digital videodisk,digital versatile disk
dilution (rate of)
disc ratio
disiloxane
economical production
effective tolerance
eigen-value
entyloma bidentis
epicritic
eupnoic
exculpatory circumstances
flexuosus
foreign currency bills bought
forensic argument
forum conveniens
foul gas
genitourinary apparatuss
gonades
Hartree, Dougles Raynar
high risk infant
independent and identically distributed variables
inscriptible
Ivanov Mys
jamaa
laminarization parameter
lauryl aldehyde
lead lubrication process
Lespinassière
lifting set
lossy image compression
marigot
marlee
mechanically mixed flux
multisyllabicity
not by any means
Now Gombad
onety-oneth
overcrowdings
per standard course
phoenicophorium
phonaholic
political consumerism
Pollock Reef
preheating
preluding
promotional discounts
pseudo flaw
psychological barrier
Ptychanthoideae
put to vote
reparate
reverse printing
right on the schnozzle
S pole
saccharomycopsis
sag resistance
share in profits
Shatt-al-Arab
Shuzenji
slip loss
small aperture separator system
ST_behaving-and-interacting_bad-and-wrong-behaviour
standard artillery zone
star apparent place
stepwise stability constant
substigmal cell
Susanowo
tapping knife
time-honoured
to produce fruits and vegetables
tongue-tying
tubotomy
unaccommodate
unsinewing
ursus arctos inabellinus
vasella
weighted armature relay
wobbe
writ of false judgment
yain