Lesson 5 Youth
第五課青年
by FIELDEN HUGHES
from Out of the Air, The Listener
5-1. People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.
【譯文】人們總是在談論“青年問題”。
5-2. If there is one—which I take leave to doubt—then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.
【譯文】假如確有這個問題的話——我冒昧對此表示懷疑——那么這個問題是由老年人而非青年人臆造的。
【講解】 if there is one中的one指a problem of youth。which I take leave to doubt系插入語。the young意為“年輕人”。the＋形容詞表示具有某種性質(zhì)的一類人。
【單詞和短語】
take leave to do sth.:冒昧做某事，擅自做某事。
5-3. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings—people just like their elders.
【譯文】讓我們來認真研究一些基本事實：承認青年和他們的長輩一樣終究也是人。
【講解】people just like their elders作the young的同位語，對其進一步解說。
【單詞和短語】
fundamentals：基本原則（或原理），根本法則（或規(guī)律）；基礎。
例如：
master the fundamentals of a trade 掌握某行業(yè)的基本規(guī)律
5-4. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.
【譯文】老年人和年輕人只有一個區(qū)別：青年人有光輝燦爛的前景，而老年人的輝煌已成為過去。問題的癥結(jié)恐怕就在于此。
【講解】a young one中one替代man以避免重復。關于句中的兩個冒號，前一個介紹difference的同位語，后一個引出說明性內(nèi)容。
【單詞和短語】
the rub：困難，障礙。
例如：
There’s the rub. 難就難在這兒。
We’d like to travel, but the rub is that we have no money.
我們喜歡旅行，問題是沒有錢。
5-5. When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain—that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem.
【譯文】我十幾歲時，總覺得自己年輕，懵懵懂懂——我感到我就像一所大學校里的新生，假如我當時真的極為有趣地被人看作是個問題，我真會感到非常得意。
【講解】that I was a new…problem作felt的賓語，破折號表示引出被強調(diào)的部分。
請注意句中的暗喻（metaphor）修辭手法，作者把社會比作a huge school，把自己比作a new boy。I would have been very pleased是表示與過于事實不符的虛擬結(jié)構(gòu)。to be regarded as…a problem相當于if anyone regarded me as…a problem，表示條件，作原因狀語，修飾pleased。漢語的條件句一般位于主句之前，所以這里的to be regarded as…a problem譯成漢語時應前移。so interesting as a problem作something的定語。
【單詞和短語】
uncertain的名詞形式是uncertainty。
5-6. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.
【譯文】因為這至少使我具有某種個性，這正是年輕人孜孜以求的事情之一。
【講解】that指being a problem gives you a certain identity。
【單詞和短語】
identity：個性，特性（the qualities and attitudes that a person or group of people have, that make them different from other people），
例如：
The planners decided to enlarge the four villages and preserve their distinct identities.
設計者們決定擴大這4個村莊并保留它們各自的特色。
The struggle of people in that area to maintain their own identities is continuing.
那地區(qū)人民維護自身獨特性的斗爭仍在繼續(xù)。
5-7. I find young people exciting.
【譯文】我覺得年輕人令人振奮。
第五課青年
by FIELDEN HUGHES
from Out of the Air, The Listener
5-1. People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.
【譯文】人們總是在談論“青年問題”。
5-2. If there is one—which I take leave to doubt—then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.
【譯文】假如確有這個問題的話——我冒昧對此表示懷疑——那么這個問題是由老年人而非青年人臆造的。
【講解】 if there is one中的one指a problem of youth。which I take leave to doubt系插入語。the young意為“年輕人”。the＋形容詞表示具有某種性質(zhì)的一類人。
【單詞和短語】
take leave to do sth.:冒昧做某事，擅自做某事。
5-3. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings—people just like their elders.
【譯文】讓我們來認真研究一些基本事實：承認青年和他們的長輩一樣終究也是人。
【講解】people just like their elders作the young的同位語，對其進一步解說。
【單詞和短語】
fundamentals：基本原則（或原理），根本法則（或規(guī)律）；基礎。
例如：
master the fundamentals of a trade 掌握某行業(yè)的基本規(guī)律
5-4. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.
【譯文】老年人和年輕人只有一個區(qū)別：青年人有光輝燦爛的前景，而老年人的輝煌已成為過去。問題的癥結(jié)恐怕就在于此。
【講解】a young one中one替代man以避免重復。關于句中的兩個冒號，前一個介紹difference的同位語，后一個引出說明性內(nèi)容。
【單詞和短語】
the rub：困難，障礙。
例如：
There’s the rub. 難就難在這兒。
We’d like to travel, but the rub is that we have no money.
我們喜歡旅行，問題是沒有錢。
5-5. When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain—that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem.
【譯文】我十幾歲時，總覺得自己年輕，懵懵懂懂——我感到我就像一所大學校里的新生，假如我當時真的極為有趣地被人看作是個問題，我真會感到非常得意。
【講解】that I was a new…problem作felt的賓語，破折號表示引出被強調(diào)的部分。
請注意句中的暗喻（metaphor）修辭手法，作者把社會比作a huge school，把自己比作a new boy。I would have been very pleased是表示與過于事實不符的虛擬結(jié)構(gòu)。to be regarded as…a problem相當于if anyone regarded me as…a problem，表示條件，作原因狀語，修飾pleased。漢語的條件句一般位于主句之前，所以這里的to be regarded as…a problem譯成漢語時應前移。so interesting as a problem作something的定語。
【單詞和短語】
uncertain的名詞形式是uncertainty。
5-6. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.
【譯文】因為這至少使我具有某種個性，這正是年輕人孜孜以求的事情之一。
【講解】that指being a problem gives you a certain identity。
【單詞和短語】
identity：個性，特性（the qualities and attitudes that a person or group of people have, that make them different from other people），
例如：
The planners decided to enlarge the four villages and preserve their distinct identities.
設計者們決定擴大這4個村莊并保留它們各自的特色。
The struggle of people in that area to maintain their own identities is continuing.
那地區(qū)人民維護自身獨特性的斗爭仍在繼續(xù)。
5-7. I find young people exciting.
【譯文】我覺得年輕人令人振奮。