Unit 4 Fresh Start新编大学英语第二版第一册课文翻译
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Unit 4 Fresh Start
Fresh Start
[1] I first began to wonder what I was doing on a college campus when my parents
drove off, leaving me standing pitifully in a parking lot. I decided I wanted nothing more
than to find my way safely to my dorm room. It seemed that everyone on campus was
watching me. My plan was to keep my ears open and my mouth shut and I hoped no one
would notice I was a freshman.
[2] The next morning I found my first class and marched in. Once I was in the room,
however, another problem awaited me. Where to sit? After much hesitation I chose a seat
in the first row and to the side.
[3] "Welcome to Biology 101," the professor began. Oh, God, I had thought it was a
literature class. A cold sweat broke out on the back of my neck. I groped for my schedule
and checked the room number. I was in the right room but the wrong building.
[4] So now what? Get up and leave in the middle of the lecture? Wouldn't the
professor be angry? I knew everyone would stare. Forget it. I settled into my chair and
tried to look as serious as a biology major might be.
[5] After class I felt a little hungry, and I hurried to the cafeteria. I piled my tray with
sandwiches and was heading for the seat when I accidentally stepped in a large puddle of
ketchup. My food tray tipped and I lost my balance. As my rear end met the floor, I saw
my entire life pass before my eyes; it ended with my first day of college classes.
[6] In the seconds after my fall I thought how nice it would be if no one had noticed.
But as all the students in the cafeteria came to their feet, cheering and clapping, I knew
they had not only noticed, they were determined that I would never forget it.
[7] For the next three days I dined alone on nothing more than shame, and some
junk food from a machine placed outside my room. On the fourth day I thought I needed
some real food badly. Perhaps three days was long enough for the campus population [N]
to have forgotten me. So off to the cafeteria I went.
[8] I made my way through the food line and tiptoed to a table. Suddenly I heard a
crash that sounded familiar. I looked up to find that another poor soul had met the same
fate as I had. My heart went out to him as people began to cheer and clap as they had for
me. He got up, hands held high above his head in a victory clasp, grinning from ear to ear.
I expected him to slip out of the cafeteria as I had, but instead he turned around and
began preparing another tray. And that's when I realized I had been taking myself far too
seriously.
[9] Who cared whether I dropped a tray, where I sat in class, or even whether I showed up in the wrong lecture? Nobody. This wasn't like high school. In college, it didn't
matter. This was my big chance to do my own thing.
[10] Once I realized that I had no one's expectations to live up to but my own, I
relaxed. I began to view college as a wonderful experiment. I dressed a little differently, I
discovered a taste for jazz, and I decided I liked going barefoot.
[11] I gave up trying to act my way through college and began not acting at all.
College, I decided, was probably the only time I would be completely forgiven for any
mistakes (including stepping in puddles of ketchup and dropping food trays). So I used
the opportunity to make all the ones I thought I'd ever make.
[12] Three years after graduation, I'm still making mistakes. And I'm even being
forgiven for a few.
新的开端
1 当我父母开车离去，留下我可怜巴巴站在停车场上时，我开始寻思我在校园里该做什么。我决定我 最想做的就是平安无事地回到寝室。我感到似乎校园里每个人都在看我。我打定主意：竖起耳朵，闭上嘴巴，但愿别人不知道我是个新生。 第二天早上我找到了上第一节课的教室，大步走了进去。然而，进了教室，我又碰到了一个难题。坐哪儿呢？犹豫再三，我挑了第一排边上的一个座位。
3 “欢迎你们来听生物 101 课，”教授开始了开场白。天哪，我还以为这是文学课！我的后脖根上冒出了冷汗，摸出课程表核对了一下教室号-----教室号是对的，但我却走错了教学楼。
4 怎么办？上课期间就站起来走出去？教授会不会生气？大家肯定会盯着我看。算了吧。我还是稳坐 在座位上，尽量使自己看起来和生物专业的学生一样认真。
5 下了课后我觉得有点饿，便赶忙去自助食堂。我往托盘里装了些三明治就朝座位走去，
就在这时，我无意中踩到了一大滩番茄酱。手中的托盘倾斜了，我失去了平衡。就在我屁股着地的刹那间，我看见自己整个人生在眼前一闪而过，然后终止在大学上课的第一天。
6 摔到后的几秒里，我想要是没有人看见我刚才的窘像该有多好。但是，食堂里所有的 学生都站了起来，欢呼鼓掌，我知道他们不仅看见了我刚才的情景，而且下决心要我永远都不会忘掉那 一幕。
7 接下来的三天里，我独自品尝羞辱，用以果腹的也只是从安放在房间外的机器上买来的没有营养的食品。到了第四天，我感到自己急需补充一些真正的食物。兴许三天的时间足以让校园里的人把我忘在脑后。于是我去了食堂。
8 我好不容易排队取到了食物，踮脚走到一张桌子前坐下。突然我听到一阵熟悉的哗啦跌倒声，抬头 看见一个可怜的家伙遭遇了和我原先一样的命运。当人们开始像对待我那样欢呼鼓掌的时候，我对他满 怀同情。他站起身，咧嘴大笑，双手紧握高举在头顶上，做出胜利的姿势。
9 我是否摔了托盘，坐在教室的哪个位置，甚至于是否走错了教室，有谁会在乎呢？没有人在乎。这不像在中学。在大学里，这些都无关紧要。我完全可以按自己的意愿行事。
10 一旦意识到我不必考虑别人的期望，只要自己满意就行，我感到释然。我开始把上大学看作一个美 妙的实验。我稍稍改变了自己的穿着，开始欣赏爵士乐，还认定自己喜欢光着脚走路。
11 在以后的大学生活里，我不再试图做出什么姿态，而是顺其自然。大学，在我看来，也许是唯一一个有错误可以完全得到谅解的阶段（包括踩到番茄酱，摔了托盘） 。于是，我利用这个机会来体验我认为 自己可能会犯的所有过失。
12 大学毕业已经三年了，我仍然时有过失，其中一些过失我还得到了原谅。
Becoming a Successful Student
[1] So you've finally made it to college. You've been accepted, and you've been living
