大學英語綜合教程第四冊 14

[00:00.00] Peggy Noonan lives in New York and writes a weekly column for The Wall Street Journal [00:07.31]This piece is taken from one of them.In it she reflects one her week and on life in the city [00:15.99]Writing less than a year away from the destruction of the World Trade Center, [00:22.57]her thoughts are inevitably affected by that terrible event. [00:28.73]THE NIGHTMARE AND THE DREAMS by Peqqy Noonan [00:41.14]It is hot in New York.It is so hot that once when I hand a fever a friend called and asked me how I felt and I said [00:51.46]You know how dry and hot paper feels when it's been faxed?That's how I feel [00:58.88]And how I felt all day yesterday.It is hot.We feel as if we've been faxed. [01:07.06]I found myself fully awake at5 a.m.yesterday and went for a walk on the Brooklyn Bridge [01:14.63]Now more than ever the bridge seems like a great gift to my city.It spans.In the changed landscape of downtown [01:24.48]it is our undisturbed beauty,grown ever more stately each year.People seem to love it more now [01:33.68]or at least mention it more or notice it more.So do I.It's always full of tourists but always full of New Yorkers,too [01:43.97]I am struck,as I always am when I'm on it,than I am walking on one of the engineering wonders of the world [01:53.01]And I was struck yesterday that I was looking at one of the greatest views in the history of man's creation,Manhattan at sunrise [02:02.75]And all of it was free.A billionaire would pay billions to own this bridge and keep this view,but I and my jogging [02:13.02]biking and hiking companions have it for nothing.We inherited it. [02:19.62]Now all we do is pay maintenance,in the form of taxes.We are lucky [02:26.86]As I rounded the entrance to the bridge on the Brooklyn side,a small moment added to my happiness [02:34.85]It was dawn,traffic was light,I passed a black van with smoked windows.In the driver's seat with the window down [02:45.49]was a black man of 30 or so,a cap low on his brow,wearing thick black sunglasses. [02:52.25]I was on the walk way that leads to the bridge [02:56.67]he was less than two feet away;we were the only people there.We made eye contact. "Good morning!"he said [03:05.78]"Good morning to you,"I answered,and for no reason at all we started to laugh,and moved on into the day [03:14.46]Nothing significant in it except it may or may not have happened that way 30or 40 years ago [03:22.40]I'm not sure the full charge of friendliness would have been assumed or answered. [03:28.85]It made me think of something I saw Monday night on TV.They were showing the 1967movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? [03:38.31]"with Katharine Hepburn,Sidney Poitier and Spencer Tracy,about a young white woman and a young black man who fall in love [03:47.76]hope to marry and must contend with disapproving parents on both sides [03:53.82]It's help up well,and parts of it seemed moving in a way I didn't remember,and pertinent. [04:01.08]There was a bit of dialogue that packed a wallop.Spencer Tracy as the father of the would-be bride [04:09.13]is pressing Mr.Poitier on whether he has considered the sufferings their mixed-race childern might have to endure in America [04:17.93]Has he thought about this?Has his fiancee? "She is optimistic," says Mr.Poitier. "She thinks every one of them [04:28.20]will grow up to become president of the United States.I on the other hand would settle for secretary of state [04:36.90]"Those words,written 35 years ago may have seemed dreamy then.But in its audience [04:45.07]when the movie came out would likely have been a young,film-loving Army lieutenant named Colin Powell who,that year [04:54.03]was preparing for a second tour of duty in Vietnam.And now he is secretary of state.This is the land dreams are made of [05:04.46]Does that strike you as a corny thing to say and talk about?It is.That's another great thing. [05:13.29]Late Tuesday,on a subway ride from Brooklyn to the north of Manhattan,I resaw something I'd noticed and forgotten about [05:22.66]It is that more and more,on the streets and no the train,I see people wearing ID tags.We all wear IDs now [05:32.96]We didn't use to .They hang from thick cotton string or an aluminum chain; [05:39.64]they're worn one at a time or three at a time,but they're there. [05:44.95]I ponder the implications.What does it mean that we wear IDs ?What are we saying [05:53.57]or do we think we're saying? I mean aside from the obvious. [05:58.92]I imagined yesterday the row of people across from me on the train [06:04.17]looking up all of a sudden from their newspaper and answering one after another: [06:10.49]"It means I know who I am," says the man in blue shirt and suspenders. [06:16.76]"It means I can get into the building,"says the woman in gray. [06:22.25]"It means I am a solid citizen with a job." [06:26.82]"I am known to others in my workplace." [06:31.03]"I'm not just blowing through life,I'm integrated into it.I belong to something.I receive a regular paycheck [06:40.30]I have had a background check done by security and have been found to be a Safe Person.Have you? [06:48.08]I wonder if unemployed people on the train look at the tags around the other peoples' necks and think [06:54.82]Soon I hope I'll have one too.I wonder if kids just getting their first job at 17 [07:03.42]will ever know that in America we didn't all use to be ID'd.Used to be only for people who worked in nuclear power plants [07:12.48]or great halls of government.Otherwise you could be pretty obscure.Which isn't a bad way to be. [07:20.32]A month ago there were news reports of a post-Sept.11baby boom.Everyone was so rocked by news of their mortality [07:30.43]that they realized there will never be a perfect time to have kids but we're here now so let's have a family [07:38.63]I believed the bably boom story and waited for the babies. [07:43.88]Then came the stories saying:Nah,there is no baby boom,it's all anecdotal,there's no statistical evidence to back it up [07:53.73]And I believed that too.But I've been noticing something for weeks now.In my neighborhood there is a baby boom [08:03.45]There are babies all over in Brooklyn.It is full of newborns,of pink soft-limbed infants in cotton carriers on daddy's chest [08:14.03]It is full of strollers,not noly regular strollers but the kind that carry two children-double-wides. [08:22.54]And triple-wides.I don't care what anyone says,there have got to be data that back up what I'm seeing [08:31.24]that after Sept.11,there was at least a Brooklyn baby boom. [08:37.22]A dream boom,too.The other day I spoke with a friend I hadn't seen since the world changed [08:45.53]He was two blocks away when the towers fell,and he saw everything. [08:50.49]We have all seen the extraordianry footage of that day, [08:55.46]seen it over and over,but few of us have seen what my friend described: [09:02.51]how in the office buildings near the World Trade Center they stood at the windows and suddenly darkness enveloped them [09:11.63]as the towers collapsed and the demonic cloud swept through.Did you see those forced to jump?I asked. [09:20.20]"Yes,"he said,and looked away. [09:24.90]Have you had bad dreams? [09:28.19]Yes,he said,and looked away. [09:32.58]I thought about this for a few days.My friend is brilliant and by nature a describer of things felt and seen [09:41.72]But not this time.I spoke to a friend who is a therapist.Are your patients getting extraordinary dreams?I asked [09:52.74]"Always,"he laughs. [09:56.01]Sept.11-related? [09:59.82]"Yes,"he says, "mostly among adolescents." [10:05.52]I asked if he was saving them,writing them down.He shook his head no. [10:12.15]So:The Sept.11Dream Project.We should begin it.I want to, though I'm not sure why [10:22.89]I think maybe down the road I will try to write about them.Maybe not.I am certain,however [10:31.69]that dreams can be an expression of a nation's unconscious [10:37.02]if there can be said to be such a thing,and deserve respect.(Carl Jung thought so.) [10:44.44]To respect is to record.Send in your Sept.11related dream-recurring,unusual,striking,whatever [10:55.83]I will read them,and appreciate them and possibly weave them into a piece on what Sept.11 [11:04.22]has done to our dream lives and to our imaginations, [11:09.10]when our imaginations are operating on their own,unfettered,unstopped,spanning [11:17.54]terrorism reflect on/upon unconscious fax [11:23.28]恐怖主義 思考 潛意識 傳真 [11:29.03]span undisturbed stately New Yorker [11:33.54]橫跨 安靜的 莊嚴的 紐約人 [11:38.04]jog bike hike for nothing [11:41.88]慢跑 自行車 遠足 免費 [11:45.72]maintenance van brow contend [11:50.09]維護 先鋒 眉毛 競爭 [11:54.45]disapproving hold up pertinent wallop [11:59.13]反對的 將…視為范例 中肯的 重擊 [12:03.80]bride suffering mixed-race fiancee [12:08.49]新娘 痛苦 種族混合的 未婚妻 [12:13.18]settle for dreamy come out corny [12:17.44]勉強接受 夢想的 發(fā)表 過時的 [12:21.69]ID tag string aluminum [12:25.85]身份證 標簽 細繩 鋁 [12:30.00]ponder all of a sudden suspenders paycheck [12:35.03]沉思 突然 吊褲帶 薪水 [12:40.06]obscure boom mortality nah [12:44.02]費解的 繁榮 死亡率 不 [12:47.97]anecdotal statistical back up carrier [12:52.26]道聽途說的 統(tǒng)計的 支持 搬運工具 [12:56.54]stroller footage envelop demonic [13:00.73]散步者 片段 包住 惡魔的 [13:04.93]therapist adolescent send in recur [13:09.20]治療專家 青少年 寄送 復發(fā) [13:18.07]不尋常的 編排 想象力 自由自在的

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