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英语六级阅读理解逐句翻译

2006年12月

一、

In a purely biological sense, fear begins with the body's system for reacting to things that can harm us -- the so-called fight-or-flight response. "

从纯生物角度来说，恐惧始于人体系统对会伤害我们的事情的反应----即所谓的“战斗或逃脱”反应。

An animal that can't detect danger can't stay alive," says Joseph LeDoux. Like animals, humans evolved with an elaborate mechanism for about potential threats.

“不能觉察到危险的动物无法生存”Jeseph LeDoux。像动物一样，人类进化过程中形成了一个精巧的机制，以处理潜在威胁的信息。

At its core is a cluster of neurons (神经元) deep in the brain known as the amygdala (扁桃核).

该机制的核心是大脑内部的一束被称为扁桃核的神经元。

LeDoux studies the way animals and humans respond to threats to understand how we form memories of significant events in our lives.

Ledoux研究了动物和人类对危险的反应方式，以理解我们对于生活中重要事件是如何形成记忆的。

The amygdala receives input from many parts of the brain, including regions responsible for retrieving memories.

扁桃核从大脑的很多部位中接受输入的信息，包括负责回收记忆的部位。

Using this information, the amygdala appraises a situation - I think this charging dog wants to bite me - and triggers a response by radiating nerve signals throughout the body.

使用该信息，扁桃核对情景进行分析---我觉得这只充满攻击性的狗想咬我---进而通过体内神经信号的辐射启动效应。

These signals produce the familiar signs of distress: trembling, perspiration and fast-moving feet, just to name three.

这些信号产生与危险相似的信号：颤抖、流汗和快步逃跑，这仅是其中的三种反应。

This fear mechanism is critical to the survival of all animals, but no one can say for sure whether beasts other than humans know they're afraid.

恐惧机制对所有动物的生存都是至关重要的，但是没有人敢肯定地说除了人以外，动物是否感受到了恐惧。

That is, as LeDoux says, "if you put that system into a brain that has consciousness, then you get the feeling of fear."

正如Ledoux所言：“如果你把该机制放进一个有知觉的大脑中，你就会有恐惧的感觉”

Humans, says Edward M. Hallowell, have the ability to call up images of bad things that happened in the past and to anticipate future events.

Edward M.Hallowell说人类拥有回忆过去发生的不好事情的图像和预测未来的能力。

Combine these higher thought processes with our hardwired danger-detection systems, and you get a near-universal human phenomenon: worry.

把这些高级思维过程与我们固有的危险探测系统结合在一起，你将会获得一个几乎是人类所共有的现象：担忧。

That's not necessarily a bad thing, says Hallowell, "When used properly, worry is an incredible device," he says.

Hallowell说，这未必是件坏事。“如果使用恰当，担忧式中难以置信的设计”他说。

After all, a little healthy worrying is okay if it leads to constructive action -- like having a doctor look at that weird spot on your back.

毕竟，稍许健康的担忧是未尝不可的，如果担忧可以带来建设性的行为----如让医生检查一下你背上奇怪的斑点。

Hallowell insists, though, that there's a right way to worry.

但是Hallowell坚持认为，担忧存在着一种正确的模式。

"Never do it alone, get the facts and then make a plan," he says.

“永远不要只是担忧，要获取事实，然后指定计划”他说。

Most of us have survived a recession, so we're familiar with the belt-tightening strategies needed to survive a slump.

我们中的大多数都有从衰退中熬过来的精力，所以我们都熟知度过低潮所需要的节约政策。

Unfortunately, few of us have much experience dealing with the threat of terrorism, so it's been difficult to get facts about how we should respond.

不幸的是，我们中仅有少数人有处理恐怖主义危险的经验，所以要获取我们应该如何应对的信息变得十分困难。

That's why Hallowell believes it was okay for people to indulge some extreme worries last fall by asking doctors for Cipro (抗炭疽菌的药物) and buying gas masks.

这就是为什么Hallowell认为在去年秋天的时候，人们向医生获取抗炭疽菌的药物和购买防毒面具并由此深陷于某种极度担忧中的行为是可以理解的。

二、

Amitai Etzioni is not surprised by the latest headings about scheming corporate crooks (骗子).

Amitai Etzioni并没有对最新的关于行骗团伙的阴谋的报纸标题感到惊奇。

As a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School in 1989, he ended his work there

disgusted with his students’ overwhelming lost for money.

作为1989年哈佛大学商学院的访问学者，他在结束工作时对于他的学生对金钱的绝大欲望感到厌恶。

“They’re taught that profit is all that matters,” he says. “Many schools don’t even offer ethics (伦理学) courses at all.”

“他们被教育金钱就是一切。他说,“很对学校甚至不提供任何伦理学的课程。”

Etzioni expressed his frustration about the interests of his graduate students.

Etzioni说他对他的研究生们的兴趣所在感到沮丧。

“By and large, I clearly had not found a way to help classes full of MBAs see that there is more to life than money, power, fame and self-interest.”

He wrote at the time. Today he still takes the blame for not educating these “business-leaders-to-be.” “I really like I failed them,” he says. “If I was a better teacher maybe I could have reached them.”“很长时间，很明显我找不到一个方法让一个MBA班的学员认识生活不但是金钱，全力，名声和私立”他那时候写道。现在她仍然自责当初没有好好教导这群“未来的商业领袖”“我真的觉得我让他们失望了”他说：“如果我当初是个更好的老师，或许就能够影响他们”

Etzioni was a respected ethics expert when he arrived at Harvard.

初到哈佛的时候，Etzioni是一位受人尊敬的伦理学专家。

He hoped his work at the university would give him insight into how questions of morality could be applied to places where self-interest flourished.

他希望他在哈佛的工作可以帮他弄明白如何让道德问题应用于充满私立的地方。

What he found wasn’t encouraging.

他的研究结果很难让人兴奋。

Those would be executives had, says Etzioni, little interest in concepts of ethics and morality in the boardroom—and their professor was met with blank stares when he urged his students to see business in new and different ways.

Etzioni说，那些未来的经理们对于董事会里的伦理和道德概念没有什么兴趣------当他尝试促使他的学生用一种新的，不同的方式看待商业的时候，教授看到的是空洞的眼神。

Etzioni sees the experience at Harvard as an eye-opening one and says there’s much about business schools that he’d like to change.

Etzioni把在哈佛的经历看作开了一次眼界，并称他觉得商学院需要作出很多改变。

“A lot of the faculty teaching business are bad news themselves,” Etzioni says. From offerin g classes that teach students how to legally manipulate contracts, to reinforcing the notion of profit over community interests, Etzioni has seen a lot that’s left him shaking his head.

“很多教商业的教职人员本身就是坏消息”Etzioni说。从提供教授学生如何合法操作合同，到强化利润高于公众利益的观念。Etzioni看到了很多让他摇头叹息的事情。

And because of what he’s seen taught in business schools, he’s not surprised by the latest rash of corporate scandals.

由于他目睹了商学院所教授的内容，所以在看到公司一连串最新的丑闻时，他一点也不觉得奇怪。

“In many ways things have got a lot worse at business schools, I suspect,” says Etzioni.

“从很多方面来说，我怀疑商学院里的情形变的更糟了”Etzioni说。

Etzioni is still teaching the sociology of right and wrong and still calling for ethical business leadership.

Etzioni仍然在教授关于是与非的社会学，仍然在奔走号召复合伦理的商业领导学。

“People with poor motives will always exist.” He says. “Som etimes environments constrain those people and sometimes environments give those people opportunity.”

“怀有不良动机的人总会存在”他说。“有时候环境限制了那些人，有时候环境给那些人

创造了生命”

Etzioni says the booming economy of the last decade enabled those individuals with poor motives to get rich before getting in trouble.

Etzioni说，最近十年经济的高速发展让那些心怀不轨的人在遇上麻烦之前发了财。

His hope now: that the cries for reform will provide more fertile soil for his long-standing messages about business ethics.

他现在希望：对改革的呼吁会让他一直提出的商业伦理的信息可以得到肥沃的土壤。

2007年6月

一、

Google is a world-famous company, with its headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Google(谷歌）是一家享誉世界的公司，其总部位于加州山景区。

It was set up in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998, and inflated (膨胀) with the Internet bubble.

1998年始建于硅谷的一间车房里，随着互联网泡沫的膨胀发展。

Even when everything around it collapsed the company kept on inflating.

即使当与互联网相关的一切开始破裂的时候，它仍然飞速发展。

Google’s search engine is so widespread across the world that search became Google, and google became a verb.

Google的搜索引擎在全球范围内流传，以至于Google成了搜索的代名词，而google也成为一个动词。

The world fell in love with the effective, fascinatingly fast technology.

世界爱上了这项迷人而快捷的技术。

Google owes much of its success to the brilliance of S. Brin and L. Page, but also to a series of fortunate events.

Google的成功很大程度上归功于S.Brin和L.Page的才华，但同时也是一连串幸运事件的结果。

It was Page who, at Stanford in 1996, initiated the academic project that eventually became Google’s search engine.

1996年，Page在斯坦福大学作一个学术项目，最终成为google的搜索引擎。

Brin, who had met Page at a student orientation a year earlier, joined the project early on.

Brin在之前的一年的新生介绍会上认识了Page，随后加入了Google搜索引擎的项目。

They were both Ph.D. candidates when they devised the search engine which was better than the rest and, without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother.

当时他们都是博士研究生，但他们设计的搜索引擎要优于其他的，而且没有做任何市场推广，仅靠交口相传，就从最初的使用者最终传到了你祖母的耳中。

Their breakthrough, simply put, was that when their search engine crawled the Web, it did more than just look for word matches, it also tallied (统计) and ranked a host of other critical factors like how websites link to one another.

简单来说，他们的突破发生在搜索引擎在网络上慢慢传播的时候，引擎提供的不仅仅是找寻匹配的词语，还可以根据一些关键指标如网页如何相连对主页进行统计和排序。

That delivered far better results than anything else.

引擎得到的结果比其他的都好。

Brin and Page meant to name their creation Googol (the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it stuck as Google.

Brin和Page用googol(数学术语，指前面有100个零的数字）命名他们的作品，但是有

人把这个单词错拼成了Google。

They raised money from prescient (有先见之明的) professors and venture capitalists, and moved off campus to turn Google into business.

他们从有先见之明的教授和风险投资者那里筹集资金，让google从校园走向商业化。

Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on when they tried to sell their technology to other search engines, but no one met their price, and they built it up on their own.

或许他们最大的运气是在早期，那是他们尝试出售自己的技术给其他引擎公司，但没有人能够满足他们的价位，于是他们决定自己创业。

The next breakthrough came in 2000, when Google figured out how to make money with its invention.

第二次突破是在2000年，当时google提出如何利用发明盈利。

It had lots of users, but almost no one was paying.

Google有众多用户，但几乎没有人付费。

The solution turned out to be advertising, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that Google is now essentially an advertising company, given that that’s the source of nearly all its revenue.

最终的解决方法是做广告，毫不夸张的说，Gooogle现在实际上就是一家广告公司，因为几乎其所有的收入都是源于广告。

Today it is a giant advertising company, worth $100 billion

现在Google是一家巨型广告公司，其市值达到一千亿美元。

二、

You hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesn’t feel good.

你一直重复听到：美国的经济从数据上看很不错，但实际上并不觉得很好。

Why doesn’t ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness?

为什么不断增加的财富却没有促进不断提高的幸福程度呢？

It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent(富裕的) Societyby John Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97.

这个问题最早要追溯到1958年《富足社会》一书的出现，其作者John Kenneth Galbraith 最近去世了，享年97岁。

The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition.

《富足社会》是一本现代名著，因为书中定义了人类境况的一个新时期。

For most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote.

在历史上的大多数时期，“饥寒交迫和疾病”几乎威胁了每一个人。Galbraith写道：“Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it is not of ours.”

“贫穷出现在那个世界的任何角落。但这显然与我们无关”

After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent.

“二战”后，对于新的一次大衰退的恐惧让位于一次经济繁荣。在二十世纪三十年代，失业率高达18.2%，而在二十世纪五十年代，失业率为4.5%。

To Galbraith, materialism had gone mad and would breed discontent.

对于Galbraith而言，物质主义已经疯狂，并且会滋生不满。

Through advertising, com panies conditioned consumers to buy things they didn’t really want or need.

公司通过广告让消费者购买他们不需要或者不想要的东西。

Because so much spending was artificial, it would be unfulfilling.

如此多的花费是虚假的，所以肯定会有不满

Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people instinctively—and wrongly—labeled government only as “a necessary evil.”

同时，能让每个人生活得更好的政府开销却减少了，因为人们本能地、错误地为政府贴上了“必要的恶魔”的标签。

It’s often said that only the rich are getting ahead; everyone else is standing still or fal ling behind.

人们常说只有富人在前行，其他人都停留在原地或者落在后面。

Well, there are many undeserving rich—overpaid chief executives, for instance.

例如，是有很多人不应富有的人

But over any meaningful period, most people’s incomes are increasing.

工资过高的首席执行官。但是在经历了很多重要时期之后，大多数人的收入在上升。

From 1995 to 2004, inflation-adjusted average family income rose 14.3 percent, to $43,200.

从1995年到2004年，针对通货膨胀进行调整的普通家庭收入上升了14.3%，达到了43，200美元。

People feel “squeezed” because their rising incomes often don’t satisfy their rising wants—for bigger homes, more health care, more education, faster Internet connections.

人们觉得“被压榨”，是因为他们增加的收入不能满足他们上升的欲望----更大的房子，更多医疗保健，更多教育，更快的网络连接。

The other great frustration is that it has not eliminated insecurity.

另外一大沮丧是不安全感并没有被消除。

People regard job stability as part of their standard of living.

人们把工作的稳定性看成生活标准的一部分。

As corporate layoffs increased, that part has eroded.

随着公司裁员的增加了，这部分被腐蚀了。

More workers fear they’ve become “the disposable American,” as Louis Uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name.

更过的员工害怕自己会成为“被处理的美国人”，这一说法来自于LouisUchtelle的同名著作。

Because so much previous suffering and social conflict stemmed from poverty, the arrival of widespread affluence suggested utopian (乌托邦式的) possibilities.

因为前面提到的痛苦和社会冲突都来源于贫穷，大范围富裕的来临暗示了乌托邦式的可能。

Up to a point, affluence succeeds. There is much les physical misery than before. People are better off. Unfortunately, affluence also creates new complaints and contradictions.

从某种意义来说，富裕成功了。比起以前，身体上的痛苦大大减少。人们比以前更富于了。不幸的是，富足同样创造了新的抱怨和矛盾。

Advanced societies need economic growth to satisfy the multiplying wants of their citizens.

现金的社会需要经济增长，以满足市民日益多样化的需要。

But the quest for growth lets loose new anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order.

但是对增长的追求却产生了新的焦虑和经济冲突，扰乱了社会秩序。

Affluence liberates the individual, promising that everyone can choose a unique way to self-fulfillment.

富裕解放了个人，承诺每个人可以选择独特方式来达成自己的愿望。

But the promise is so extravagant that it predestines many disappointments and sometimes inspires choices that have anti-social consequences, including family breakdown and obesity (肥胖症).

但是承诺是如此的奢侈，以至于注定会有失望，有时还会引起带来反社会的选择，包括家庭破裂和肥胖症。

Statistical indicators of happiness have not risen with incomes.

数据表明，幸福并没有随着收入的增长而增长。

Should we be surprised? Not really. We’ve simply reaffirmed an old truth: the pursuit of affluence does not always end with happiness.

我们是不是应该感到惊讶？不必。我们仅是重新印证了一句老话：对富裕的追求并不会总是以幸福为结局。

2007年12月

一、

Like most people, I’ve long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people use to see how smart or talented I am.

像大多数人一样，我早就知道我的职业将左右别人对我的判断，我的工作室人们可以用来衡量我的聪明和材质的标准。

Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I’m treated as a

person.

但是最近，我非常失望地发现工作也决定了别人怎样对待我。

Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables.

去年我辞去了小镇记者的工作，该做了一名侍者。

As someone paid to serve food to people. I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they’d never say or do to their most casual acquaintances.

在这份为人们提供食物的工作中，我遇到的一些顾客对我说了一些话、做了一些事情，这些话和是我认为他们从来不会向哪怕是他们最熟悉的人去说或做的。

One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then beckoned (示意) me back with his finger a minute later, complaining he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.

有一天晚上，一个正在打电话的男人先是打手势把我赶走，一分钟后又用他的手指示我回来，对我抱怨说他正在准备点菜，问我究竟去了哪里。

I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon(勤杂工) by plenty of people.

上大学期间，在暑假我就做过侍者，但是就被很多人当勤杂工。

But at 19 years old. I believed I deserved inferior treatment from professional adults.

但是那时19岁的我认为那些职场中的成年人对我差一点也理所当然。

Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college.

此外，当我告诉他们我在读大学时，我得到的对待又有所不同。

Customers would joke that one day I’d be sitting at their table, waiting to be served.

顾客们开玩笑说，总有一天我会坐在他们的位置上，等候服务。

Once I graduated I took a job at a community newspaper.

毕业之后我在社区的报社找到一份工作。

From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked-cordially.

从工作的第一天开始，其他人就用充满敬意的语气称呼我。我以为这就是职场的方式--亲切。I soon found out differently, I sat several feet away from an advertising sales representative with a similar name.

我很快发现并不是这样。我坐的位置和我的名字相似的广告部销售代表只有几英尺远。

Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie.

我们的电话经常会被弄混，有人要找克里斯滕会被转到克里斯蒂这里来。

The mistake was immediately evident.

这是明显的错误。

Perhaps it was because money was involved, but people used a tone with Kristen that they never used with me.

或许是包含了金钱的因素，但是人们对克里斯滕的语气是从来不会用在我身上的。

My job title made people treat me with courtesy.

我的共组头衔让很多人礼貌地对待我。

So it was a shock to return to the restaurant industry.

所以回到饭店行业之后我真的很受打击。

It’s no secret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips.

当侍者忍受很多，这早已不是什么秘密。但幸运的是，当收到小费的时候，大部分的不快都可以轻易忘掉。

The service industry, by definition, exists to cater to others’ needs.

服务业的定义就是满足他人的需要。

Still, it seemed that many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and

servant.

但是，我的很多顾客四壶分辨不清侍者和侍从的区别。

I’m now applying to graduate school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want.

我现在在申请研究生，这就意味着将来有一天我会回到那种职位，那时别人为乐得到他们想要的东西就必须对我礼貌一点。

I think I’ll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose only job is to serve them.

我想我会把他们带去吃顿饭，看一下他们是怎么对待那些专职为他们服务的人的。

二、

What’s hot for 2007 among the very rich? A S7.3 million diamond ring. A trip to Tanzania to hunt wild animals. Oh. and income inequality.

2007年，对于富豪来说什么事最热门的？价值730万美元的钻戒。去坦桑尼亚狩猎。噢，还有收入不均衡。

Sure, some leftish billionaires like George Soros have been railing against income inequality for years.

当然左翼百万符文乔治-索罗斯多年以来一直反对收入不均衡。

But increasingly, centrist and right-wing billionaires are starting to worry about income inequality and the fate of the middle class.

但是越来越多的中间派和右翼亿万富翁都开始担心收入不均衡和中产阶级的命运了。In December. Mortimer Zuckerman wrote a column in U.S News & World Report, which he owns.

在12月，莫蒂默-朱克曼在他旗下的《美国新闻和世界报道》上写上了一篇专栏文章。

“Our nation’s core bargain with the middle class is disintegrating,” lamented (哀叹) the

117th-richest man in America. “Most of our economic gains have gone to people at the very top of the income ladder.

“我们国家的中产阶级的核心竞争力正在瓦解，”这位在美国排名第117位的富豪这样哀叹。“我们大部分的经济效益都归于收入阶梯最上层的人了。

Average income for a household of people of working age, by contrast, has fallen five years in a row.” He noted that “Tens of millions of Americans live in fear that a major health problem can reduce them to bankruptcy.”

相比之下，工薪阶层的平均收入却连续五年下降。”他注意到“数以千万计的美国人害怕一个重要的健康问题就会导致他们破产。”

Wilbur Ross Jr. has echoed Zuckerman’s a nger over the bitter struggles faced by middle-class Americans.

小威尔伯-罗斯回应了朱克曼杜宇美国中产阶级的痛苦挣扎感到的愤怒。

“It’s an outrage that any American’s life expectancy should be shortened simply because the company they worked for went bankrupt and ended health-care covera ge,” said the former chairman of the International Steel Group.

“这应该让我们愤怒，所有美国人的平均寿命都被缩短了，仅仅是因为他们所供职的公司破产了，健康保险被终止了”这位国际钢铁集团的前任主席说。

What’s happening? The very rich are just as trendy as you and I, and can be so when it comes to politics and policy.

发生了什么？巨富们当谈到政治和政策的时候就像你我一样适应潮流。

Given the recent change of control in Congress, popularity of measures like increasing the minimum wage, and efforts by California’ governor to offer universal health care, these guys don’t need their own personal weathermen to know which way the wind blows.

只要看一下国会最近的全力变更，像提高最低工资等政策的受欢迎程度，以及加州州长所致力于的全民保健项目，这些人不需要私人天气预报员就可以知道风向如何了”

It’s possible that plutocrats(有钱有势的人) are expressing solidarity with the struggling

middle class as part of an effort to insulate themselves from confiscatory (没收性的) tax policies.

这群有钱有势的人可能是通过表达对中产阶级的挣扎的同情，进而逃避没收性税务政策。

But the prospect that income inequality will lead to higher taxes on the wealthy doesn’t keep plutocrats up at night. They can live with that.

但是收入不均衡会导致对富人征收更多税款的期望并不会让有钱有势的人晚上难以入眠。他们承受得了。

No, what they fear was that the political challenges of sustaining support for global economic integration will be more difficult in the United States because of what has happened to the distribution of income and economic insecurity.

不，他们真正害怕的是由于在收入分配和经济安全方面出现的问题，美国持续支持全球经济一体化所带来的政治挑战。

In other words, if middle-class Americans continue to struggle financially as the ultrawealthy grow ever wealthier, it will be increasingly difficult to maintain political support for the free flow of goods, services, and capital across borders.

换句话说，如果美国的中产阶级持续在财政上陷入困境，同时巨富们变得越来越富有，那么要获得政治上持续支持产品、服务和资金的跨国性自由流动将会日益困难。

And when the United States places obstacles in the way of foreign investors and foreign goods, it’s likely to encourage reciprocal action abroad.

当美国对其他国家的投资者和商品设置障碍时，也在刺激其他国家采取相应的措施。

For people who buy and sell companies, or who allocate capital to markets all around the world, that’s the real nightmare.

对于在全球买卖公司或调动资金的人来说，这才是真正的噩梦。

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想象你一觉醒来，发现自己的资产减半。

No, you’re not an investor in one of those hedge funds that failed completely.

不，你并不是其中一支彻底失败的基金的投资者。

With the dollar slumping to a 26-year low against the pound, already-expensive London has become quite unaffordable.

随着美元兑英镑跌至26年来的最低值，物价本就偏高的伦敦变得更让人难以承受。

A coffee at Starbucks, just as unavoidable in England as it is in the United States, runs about $8.

一杯星巴克的咖啡在英国不得不买到8美元，同在美国如出一辙。

The once all-powerful dollar isn’t doing a Titanic against just the pound.

无所不能的美元在兑换英镑时，不再是庞然大物。

It is sitting at a record low against the euro and at a 30-year low against the Canadian dollar.

美元兑欧元的汇率创下新低，并在与加元的汇兑中处于30年来的最低值。

Even the Argentine peso and Brazilian real are thriving against the dollar.

就连阿根廷闭锁和巴西雷亚尔都比美元有活力。

The weak dollar is a so urce of humiliation, for a nation’s self-esteem rests in part on the strength of its currency.

疲软的美元带来了屈辱，因为一个国家的尊严部分来源于本国货币的强度。

It’s also a potential economic problem, since a declining dollar makes imported food more expensive and exerts upward pressure on interest rates.

这也是一个潜在的经济问题，因为编制的美元使得进口食品价格上扬，并施加加息的压力。

And yet there are substantial sectors of the vast U.S. economy-from giant companies like Coca-Cola to mom-and-pop restaurant operators in Miami-for which the weak dollar is most

excellent news.

但对于庞大美国经济体中大量的产业部门-----从可口可乐这样的大公司到迈阿密的夫妻餐厅经营者----美元疲软的消息对他们来说可是再好不过了。

Many Europeans may view the U.S. as an arrogant superpower that has become hostile to foreigners.

一些欧洲人视美国为一个傲慢的超级大国，并且认为美国对外国人怀有敌意。

But nothing makes people think more warmly of the U.S. than a weak dollar.

但当人们想起美国时，没有什么比疲软的美元更带劲的了。

Through April, the total number of visitors from abroadwas up 6.8 percent from last year. Should the trend continue, the number of tourists this year will finally top the 2000 peak.

整个4月的游客总数比去年同期增加了6.8%，如果这种趋势延续下去，今天游客的人数将最终比2000年的峰值还多。

Many Europeans now apparently view the U.S. the way many Americans view Mexico-as a cheap place to vacation, shop and party, all while ignoring the fact that the poorer locals can’t afford to join the merrymaking.

一些欧洲人现在看待美国的方式恰似美国人看待墨西哥一样-----一个廉价的度假、购物和举行派对的场所，他们都忽略了那些更贫穷的本土居民不能承担这种寻欢作乐的费用。

The money tourists spend helps decrease our chronic trade deficit. So do exports, which thanks in part to the weak dollar, soared 11 percent between May 2006 and May 2007. For first five months of 2007, the trade deficit actually fell 7 percent from 2006.

游客的消费帮助减缓了我们长期以来的贸易赤字。出口也是如此，部分由于疲软的美国，2006年5月----2007年5月的出口额飙升了11%。与2006年相比，2007年前5个月的贸易赤字居然下降了7%。

If you own shares in large American corporations, you’re a winner in the weak-dollar gamble.

如果你持有美国大公司的股票，那么你会是疲软美元投机中的赢家。

Last week Coca-Cola’s stick bubbled to a five-year high after it reported a fantastic quarter.

上周可口可乐发布了令人振奋的一季数据后，其股价攀升至五年来的新高。

Foreign sales accounted for 65 percent of Coke’s beverage business.

Other American companies profiting from this trend include McDonald’s and IBM.

海外销售占据可口可乐65%的饮料业务。

其他美国企业，包括麦当劳和IBM在这种趋势下也赢得了利润。

American tourists, however, shouldn’t expect any relief soon.

然而，美国游客不应该期望任何迅速的改善。

The dollar lost strength the way many marriaqe:break up- slowly, and then all at once.

美元疲软的过程就如同婚姻破裂的过程----都是缓慢的，然后才是快速的。

And currencies don’t turn on a dime.

货币不会立即升值。

So if you want to avoid the pain inflicted by the increasingly pathetic dollar, cancel that summer vacation to England and look to New England.

因此如果你想避免不断惨淡的美元带来的痛苦，那就取消去英格兰的暑期度假计划，该去新英格兰州吧。

There, the dollar is still treated with a little respect.

在那儿，美元还是有点尊严的。

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