• 1. 青少年的叛逆

• teenage rebellion

• 2.剧场里挤满了大汗淋漓、疯狂摇摆的人们

• The theatre was packed, sweltering, rocking.

• 3.急切地希望能沾上几滴洗礼的圣水

• eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops

• 4. 一名黑衣女子

• a girl dressed in black

• 5.几乎是宗教般的崇敬

• almost religious reverence

• 6. 社会学家霍洛维茨

• sociologist Horowitz

• 7. 表现了50年代青少年那种沮丧的精神状态

• Embody the frustrated teenage spirit of the 1950s

• 8. 触动了对现状不满的神经

• touched a nerve of disaffection

• 9. 一个各种思想交锋的场所

• a place where ideas clash and crash.

• 10.赞美了“往日美好时光”的朴素的欢乐

• celebrate the simple joys of “the good old days.”

• 11.全国民意测验

• a national opinion poll

• 1. 毕业前夕

• Shortly before graduation

• 2. 完全拒绝成年人的世界

• Reject completely the adult world.

• 3. 代表了许多同龄人的心声

• Speak for a lot of contemporaries

• 4.这个世界相当混乱。

• The world is in pretty much of a mess.

• 5. 从他们的角度

• From their point of view

• 6.脱离社会

• Drop out

• 7. 最古老的权宜之计

• The oldest expedient

• 8. 依靠社会养肥自己

• Batten on the society

• 9. 这种方式在古代也有先例。

• This strategy also has ancient antecedent.

• 10.田园生活

• Pastoral life, bucolic life

• 11.这种方法的问题是

• The trouble with this solution is

• 12. 民主决策过程

• Democratic process

• 13.乍一看

• At first glance

• 14.一点也不具有感召力

• Far from being inviting

• 15. 史无前例的富足社会的问题

• The unprecedented problems of an affluent society

• 16. 我们突然意识到

• It suddenly dawned on us that

• 17.以这种像癌细胞扩散的速度

• At this cancerous rate

• 18.更大规模的战争

• Warfare on a rising scale

• 1. 使我成了非同寻常的人物

• Make me some kind of phenomenon

• 2. 同时克服了这两个障碍

• Overcome both handicaps at once

• 3. 在美国黑人受歧视

• There is prejudice against black people in America.

• 4.满足于自己二等公民的角色

• Be content with their roles of second-class citizens

• 5. 在选举日决定胜负的细节

• The details that make the difference on the election day

• 6. 赤裸裸的敌意

• Undisguised hostility

• 7.没有前途的工作

• Dead-end jobs

• 8.竞选公职

• Run for office

• 1. 一位著名的电视节目主持人

• A prominent anchorman

• 2. 负面影响

• Adverse effect

• 3. 看了两万小时的电视

• Be exposed to 20,000 hours of television

• 4. 如果你觉得这没意思

• If this does not appeal to you

• 5. 分散人们的注意力

• Discourage concentration

• 6. 很短的注意力集中时间

• Short attention span

• 7. 降低文化水平

• decivilizing

• 8.功能性文盲

• Functionally illiterate

• 9. 不可剥夺的权利

• Unalienable rights

• 10.干脆利落的解决方法

• Neat solution

• 11. 这个社会正被强行灌输没有价值的东西

• This society is being force fed with trivial fare.

• 1.首先

• To begin with

• 2. 让他们按照自己的意愿安排时间

• They are left free to fill their own time according to their own choice

• 3.感到茫然不知所措

• At a loss

• 4. 给人带来快乐、值得做的事情

• Something sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing

• 5. 人类文明的最高产物

• The last product of civilization

• 6. 被难以言表的无聊所折磨

• Suffer unspeakable boredom

• 7 摆脱单调乏味的工作

• The freedom from drudgery

• 8 预防无聊的东西

• A preventive of boredom

• 9 从长远来看

• In the long run

• 10. 提供某种出路

• Afford some outlet

• 11. 按照等级标准划分

• Be arranged in hierarchy

• 12. 智胜一个有技能的对手

• Outwit a skilled opponent

• 13. 按照以下的标准

• By the following criterion

• 14. 事物的初始状态

• The initial state of affairs

• 15.事物的最终状态

• the final state of affairs

• 16. 情况相反

• The reverse is the case

• 17.为仇恨所驱使

• Be actuated by hatred

• 1. 惟一未受经济大萧条影响的行业

• The one industry unaffected by the general depression

• 2.从美国杂志上铺天盖地的化妆品广告来看

• From the prodigious number of advertisements of aids to beauty contained in the American magazines

• 3. 我原以为

• I had imagined

• 4. 居美国工业前列

• stand up high among the champions of American industry

• 5. 印度的年收入

• The revenue of India

• 6.红润白嫩、艳如桃李、美若珠玑,绽开令人陶醉的笑容的女郎。

• those ravishing creatures who smile so rosily and creamily, so peachily and pearily

• 7.大马力汽车

• High-powered motor-cars

• 8. 是大多数欧洲人的经济能力所不及的

• Beyond most European means

• 9. (注重)修饰个人容貌

• cultivate one’s personal appearance

• 10.但显然这并非事情的全部。

• But this is , clearly, not the whole story.

• 11.现代人对美貌的狂热崇拜

• The modern cult of beauty

• 12. 经济领域以外产生的变化

• Changes that have taken place outside the economic sphere

• 13.真正的美，内在与外表同样重要。

• Real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the outer self

• 14.延缓容貌衰老

• prolong the appearance of youth

• 15. 迄今为止专为男性保留的职业

• The social functions hitherto reserved to the male

• 16. 社会体制

• social arrangement

• 17. 环境刺激

• environmental incentive

• 18. 遗传倾向

• hereditary tendency

• 19. 偏执狂的恶习

• monomaniacal vice

• 20. 足以以假乱真的模仿物

• an imitation sufficiently good to be mistakable for the real thing.

• 1. 逐渐适应自己的性格和生活的既苦又甜的过程

• A bitter-sweet coming to terms with one’s own personality and one’s life

• 2. 阻挠我们谈论老年问题

• Barricade us from discussions of old age

• 3. 一个人们普遍接受的看法

• The popularly accepted opinion

• 4.经济上的担忧

• financial worries

• 5. 互相矛盾的看法

• discrepant points of view

• 6. 度过整整一生

• Live an entire life span

• 7. 有个美好老年的机率

• the chances for a good old age

• 8. 不知所措、无法忍受

• overwhelming and unbearable

• 9. 一个冷淡的世界

• an inhospitable world

• 10. 就业方面的年龄歧视没有收到任何限制

• Age discrimination in employment is unrestrained

• 11. 不同程度的慢性疾病

• Chronic health problems of varying degree

• 12. 损害工作能力

• Impair the ability to work

• 13. 医生和其他医务人员

• Doctors and other medical personnel

• 14.老年人面临大大小的问题

• Problems large and small congronted the elderly

• 15.犯罪分子容易得手的目标

• easy targets for crime

• 16.老年妇女的遭遇比老年男子更糟。

• Old women fare worse than old men.

• 17.妇女的平均寿命比男子长七年

• Women have an average life expectancy of seven years longer than men.

• 1. 向一份科学刊物投了一篇专题文章

• contribute a monograph to a scientific journal

• 2.心爱的叔叔染上了酗酒的恶习

• one’s favorite uncle had taken to drink

• 3.包装精美

• handsomely packaged

• 4.上了年龄的又一种表现

• Another index of advancing age

• 5.令人尊敬的技艺

• venerable skills

• 6.令人恐惧的经历

• a gruesome experience

• 7.对奶酪很挑剔

• Be fussy about cheese

• 8. 主食

• main courses

• 9.著名的静物油画

• Famous paintings of still life

• 1. 保持自己的优势

• keep one’s edge

• 2. 独特的价值

• Unique value

• 3.以此为基础建立长期的信誉

• Stake on this its market reputation over the long term

• 4.经营上的出色

• operational excellence

• 5. 产品领先（原则）

• product leadership

• 6.产品周期

• product cycle

• 7.产品性能

• product performance

• 8.一次性的买卖

• one-time transaction

• 9.获得最佳效果

• achieve optimum result

• 1. 许多鸟欢快地歌唱

• A thousand and one felicitous birds

• 2.一朵朵玫瑰花静静地开着

• roses bloomed serenely

• 3.超过入伍的年龄

• Beyond war age

• 4.有时候不能满足他的愿望

• sometimes failed him

• 1.向天空释放了一丝大地的气息

• Release a smell of earth to heaven

• 2.水的无声、轻微的颤动

• A soundless and minuscular explosion of water

• 3. 引起了他的注意

• Catch his eye

• 4. 与之搏斗

• Wrestle with it

• 5.咬下了太多的东西，咀嚼不了

• Bite off more than one can chew

• 6.个人收入税折扣返还款

• Income-tax rebate

• 7.经济萧条

• Trade slump