Simone新视野大学英语第三版2课文翻译
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Unit 1
Text A An impressive English lesson
一堂难忘的英语课
1 If I am the only parent who still corrects his child's English, then perhaps my son is right. To him, I am a tedious oddity: a father he is obliged to listen to and a man absorbed in the rules of grammar, which my son seems allergic to.
如果我是唯一一个还在纠正小孩英语的家长，那么我儿子也许是对的。对他而言，我是一个乏味的怪物：一个他不得不听其教诲的父亲，一个还沉湎于语法规则的人，对此我儿子似乎颇为反感。
2 I think I got serious about this only recently when I ran into one of my former students, fresh from an excursion to Europe.
"How was it?" I asked, full of earnest anticipation.
我觉得我是在最近偶遇我以前的一位学生时，才开始对这个问题认真起来的。这个学生刚从欧洲旅游回来。我满怀着诚挚期待问她： “欧洲之行如何？ ”
3 She nodded three or four times, searched the heavens for the right words, and then exclaimed, "It was, like, whoa!"
她点了三四下头，绞尽脑汁，苦苦寻找恰当的词语，然后惊呼：“真是，哇！ ”
4 And that was it. The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture were captured in a condensed non-statement.
My student's "whoa!" was exceeded only by my head-shaking distr
