2014年第十二期CULTURAL DIALOGUE78英国诗歌、德国戏剧、法国小说。
就中国读者而言，巴尔扎克的文学影响超过其他法国小说家。
中法建交50年之际，让我们忆一忆这种影响。
站在巴尔扎克雕像前王福和1821年，被流放的法国皇帝拿破仑在大西洋的一座小岛上凄然离世。
1829年，刚刚以长篇小说《舒昂党人》的成功而步入文坛的法国作家巴尔扎克立下誓言：要用笔完成拿破仑用剑所没有完成的事业！1850年，巴尔扎克撒手人寰。
雨果在他的葬礼上所致悼词中满怀深情地指出：在最伟大的人物中间，巴尔扎克是第一等的一个；在最优秀的人物中间，巴尔扎克是最高的一个。
他的全部书仅仅形成了一本书：一本有生命的、有光亮的、深刻的书，一部了不起的书。
愿意也罢，不愿意也罢，同意也罢，不同意也罢，这部庞大而又奇特的作品的作者，就在自己不知道的时候，加入了革命作家的强大行列。
他的一生是短促的，然而也是饱满的；作品比岁月还多。
今天，他安息了。
他在同一天步入了光荣，也步入了坟墓。
从今以后，他和祖国的星星在一起，熠耀于我们上空的星云之上！如今，巴尔扎克和拿破仑这两位影响了19世纪欧洲历史的巨人都长眠在巴黎。
由于在法国的行程紧张，我非常遗憾地没能前往仰慕已久的巴尔扎克的故居朝拜。
然而，当我偶然间漫步于罗丹博物馆时，不但意外地看到了巴尔扎克的雕像，而且还惊喜地发现衬托着这位文学大师雕像的背景竟是拿破仑的寝陵！军事家拿破仑和“文学拿破仑”就这样奇迹般地被扭结到了一起。
拿破仑的寝陵富丽堂皇，尽显豪华与尊贵，那是法国人民至今溢于言表的骄傲。
而巴尔扎克的雕像则静静地伫立在罗丹博物馆的花园中，默默地注视着前来瞻仰他的人们。
这个在冷酷的家庭中长大，在冷酷的社会中挣扎，在冷酷的环境中创作，几乎没有过上一天消停日子的文学巨人，身后的雕像也没能享受到他企盼了一生的幸福。
贫穷了一辈子，挥霍了一辈子；劳累了一辈子，幻想了一辈子：幻想发财是他从未中断过的梦想，但老天爷只给了他写作的才能，区区稿费只能糊口；幻想找个有钱的寡妇做妻子，以摆脱经济上的窘境，是他从年轻时就有的梦想。
历年三级笔译试题（4）历年三级笔译试题The manor is something of a Chopin shrine-since the 1930 s it has been a museum and center for concerts. Like the Chopin Museum in Warsaw, it, too, is undergoing extensive renovation as part of bicentennial preparations. Chopin spent his first 20 years in and around Warsaw. He was already a noted pianist as a boy and composed concertos and other important works as a teenager. He carried Polish soil with him when he left Warsaw on a concert tour in 1830, just a few weeks before the outbreak of the November Uprising, an abortive Polish revolt against Czarist Russia, which then ruled Warsaw and a broad swath of Polish territory.Chopin remained in exile in France after the uprising was crushed. But so attached was he to his native land that after his death in Paris in 1849 his heart-on his own instructions-was brought back to Warsaw for interment. The rest of his body is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris."For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,"reads the Biblical inscription on a plaque where his heart is kept today, preserved in an urn and concealed in a pillar of the Holy Cross Church in central Warsaw. Mozart's"Requiem" will be performed here as part of Bicentennial events.Exile and patriotism, as well as extraordinary genius, have long made Chopin's appeal transcend all manner of social and political divides.Polish folk motifs thread through some of his finest pieces, and patriotic fervor, as well as homesick longing, infuse some of his best-known works.汉译英国际金融危机给中国带来了前所未有的困难和挑战。
Chapter 1 The PopulationI 2 populous 3 race 4 origin 5 geographical distPrelisteningB 1 census ribution6 made up of7 comprises8 relatively progressively9 Metropolitan densely 10 decreased death rate11 birth rate increasing 12 life expectancyD 1 a 18.5 mill b 80% c 1/2 d 13.4 mill e 2: 10f 4%g 1990h 40%i 3/4j 33.1%2 a3 b 1 c 2 d 5 e 4II First ListeningST1 population by race and originST2 geographical distributionST3 age and sexIII PostlisteningA 1. People’s Republic of China, India2. 281 mill3. Hispanics(12.5%)4. Texas5. the South and the West6. 20%7. by more than 5 million8. about 6 years9. 2.2 years10. a decreasing birth rate and an increasing life expectancyChapter 2: Immigration: Past and Present PRELISTENINGB. Vocabulary and Key Conceptsimmigratednatural disasters/ droughts/ faminespersecutionsettlers/ colonistsstageswidespread unemploymentscarcityexpanding/ citizensfailuredecreaselimitedquotassteadilytrendskills/ unskilledD Notetaking PreparationDates: Teens and Tens18501951The 1840sFrom 1890 to 1930Between 1750 and 18501776188213291860From approximately 1830 to 1930Language Conventions: Countries and NationalitiesThe Scandinavian countries are Swed en, Norway, and Denmark. The Southern European countries are Italy, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. The Eastern European countries are Russia and Poland.LISTENINGFirst ListeningMajor SubtopicsST1 the Great ImmigrationST2 reasons for the Great Immigration and why it endedST3 immigration situation in the United States todayPOSTLISTENINGA. Accuracy Checkcolonists or settl ersDutch, French, German, Scotch-Irish, BlacksThe third, 1890-1930Southern Europe and Eastern EuropeThe population doubled, there was wid espread unemployment, and there was a scarcity of farmlandfree land, plentiful jobs, and freed om from religious and political persecutionthe failure of the potato crop in Irelandlaws limiting immigration from certain area, the Great Depression, and World War ⅡThey are largely non-European.Industry d oesn’t need a large number of unskilled workers。
