英語聽力材料《學生的壓力大多來自父母》

　　在現代，學生的壓力越來越大，但是學生的壓力其實又往往多來自他們的父母。為什么呢?你怎么看這種壓力?下面，也許這篇英語聽力材料會給我們一些啟示。

　　Students pressure sometimes comes from their parents. Most parents are well meaning, but some of them arent very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in adjusting to college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their childrens difficulties.

　　學生的壓力有時來自于父母。大多數的父母都是善意的，但是有些父母面對子女在適應大學生活中所碰到的問題時毫無幫助，少部分父母似乎不遺余力地給他們的子女增添了困難。

　　For one thing, parents are often not aware of the kinds of problems their children face. They dont realize that the competition is keener, that the required standards of work are higher, and that their children may not be prepared for the change. Accustomed to seeing As and Bs on high school report cards, they may be upset when their childrens first semester college grades are below that level. At theire kindest, they may gently inquire/ enquire why John or Mary isnt doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on. At their worst, they may threaten to take their children out of college, or cut off funds.

　　一方面，父母常常意識到他們的孩子所遇到的問題。他們沒有料想到競爭越來越激烈，工作的標準越來越高，他們的孩子或許還沒有準備好迎接這種改變。家長習慣于看到孩子在高中成績單上的A或B的分數，所以當孩子在大學第一學期的成績低于原來的分數時，他們或許會感到不安。最好的情況是，他們或許會溫柔地詢問為什么約翰或瑪麗沒有做得更好，他(她)是否足夠努力了，等等。最糟的情況是，他們或許會威脅讓孩子退學或是切斷他們的收入。

　　Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and think it only right and natural that they determine what their children do with their children, they forget that everyone is different and that each person must develop in his or her own way. They forget that their children, who are now young adults, must be the ones responsible for what they do and what they are.

　　有時父母會把孩子視為自身的延續，認為由他們來決定孩子該如何生活是理所應當和自然而然的事情。他們和孩子緊密聯系，視為一體，因而忘了人與人其實各不相同，每個人都應該按照自己的方式發展。他們忘了他們的孩子已經是成年人，應該對自己的所作所為以及他們是誰而負責。

　　英語單詞詞匯整理:

　　1. pressure n. 壓力

　　eg: He will never pressure you to get married.

　　他永遠也不會給你施加壓力讓你結婚。

　　短語：

　　under pressure 在壓力之下;受到壓力

　　high pressure 高壓，高氣壓;高度緊張

　　blood pressuren 血壓

　　low pressure 低氣壓;松懈

　　under the pressure of 在......壓力下

　　2. aware adj. 知道的，意識到的

　　eg: Smokers are well aware of the dangers to their own health.

　　吸煙者們都很清楚吸煙對其自身健康的那些危害。

　　短語：

　　aware of 意識到，知道

　　become aware of 知道;發覺

　　3. competition n. 競爭，比賽

　　eg: The farmers have been seeking higher prices as better protection from foreign competition.

　　農場主們一直在尋求更高價格來作為對外來競爭的更好保護。

　　短語：

　　in competition with 與......競爭

　　domestic competitionn 國內競爭

　　capacity of competition 競爭能力

　　經典簡單英語文章聽力

　　Man and Nature

　　人與自然

　　The intimacy between man and Nature began with the birth of man on the earth, and becomes each century more intelligent and far reaching. To Nature, therefore, we turn as to the oldest and mostinfluential teacher of our race; from one point of view once our task master, now our servant; from another point of view, our constant friend, instructor and inspirer. The very intimacy of this relation robs it of a certain mystery and richness which it would have for all minds if it were the reward of the few instead of being the privilege of the many. To the few it is, in every age, full of wonder and beauty; to the many it is a matter of course. The heavens shine for all, but they have a changingsplendor to those only who see in every midnight sky a majesty of creative energy and resource which no repetition of the spectacle can dim. If the stars shone but once in a thousand years, men would gaze, awe struck and worshipful, on a vision which is not less but more wonderful because it shines nightly above the whole earth. In like manner, and for the same reason, we become indifferent to that delicately beautiful or sublimely impressive sky scenery which the clouds form and reform, compose and dissipate, a thousand times on a summer day. The mystery, the terror, and the music of the sea; the secret and subduing charm of the woods, so full of healing for the spent mind or the restless spirit; the majesty of the hills, holding in their recesses the secrets of light and atmosphere; the infinite variety of landscape, never imitative or repetitious, but always appealing to the imagination with some fresh and unsuspected loveliness; - who feels the full power of thesemarvelous resources for the enrichment of life, or takes from them all the health, delight, andenrichment they have to bestow?

　　從地球上人類出現開始，人與自然之間的密切關系也隨之誕 生，而且這種關系每一世紀都比以前變得更為明智而深 遠。因此，我們求助于自然，并把自然視為人類的最年長和最有 影響力的老師。從某一種觀點來看，自然曾經一度是我們的監 工，現在卻變為我們的奴仆。但從另一種觀點來看，自然一直是 我們的最忠實的朋友、導師和啟發者。這種和諧緊密的關系，如 果僅僅是少數人的特權，而大多數人并不能享有，那便會在人們心目中引發一種神秘和情趣。但是事實上，這種親密關系是被 天下所有的人共同享有的，這就使得這和諧緊密的關系失去神 秘感和情趣。對于少數人來講，這種關系在每個時代都充滿了奇妙和美好;對于多數人來講，這種關系只是理所當然的一件 事。天空照耀著每一個人，但是只有在少數人的心目中具有一 種變化多端的壯麗，他們在每一個午夜的`天空都能看到一種蘊 含著創造性的能力的莊嚴肅穆之美，無論那種景象重復多少次， 都不會使那種美模糊不清。如果星辰一千年才照耀一次大地， 人們將懷著敬畏尊崇的心情凝視那種美景，而那種美景如果夜 夜在全世界的上空出現，不但不會減損，反而更為增加它的奇妙。同樣，基于相同的原因，我們對于夏曰天空的那種由浮云聚 散飄忽所形成的一曰之間千變萬化的纖巧秀麗或壯麗動人的景色，也都漠然置之。海洋的神秘、恐怖和韻律，有助于醫療疲憊 心靈和煩躁精神的森林所具有的奧妙和懾人魂魄的麂力;在其 幽深之處保有光與大氣之奧秘的山巒所呈現的莊嚴肅穆之美; 從不模仿或重復、永遠以一種出人意料的新鮮的美麗來沖擊人 類想象力的風景變幻無窮——誰能感受到這些奇異景物的全部 力量，或者能從它們那里得到它們所賜予的健康、快樂和豐美呢?

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