三级公共英语课文翻译
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We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. 我们可能对学科的每个领域所取得的进步感到大为惊异，然而测试一个人的知识和能力的方法依然原始如初。确实是令人吃惊，这么多年以后，教育家们还没有找到比考试更为有效和可靠的手段。
For all the pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability and aptitude.考试就是测验你知道什么，对于所有这些虔诚的说法，普遍认为往往适得其反。考试可能是检验记忆力，或者在极度紧张的情况下发现快速工作窍门的好方法。但是它不能告诉你一个人的真正能力和智能究竟怎样。
As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn’t matter that you weren’t feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don’t count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. 作为制造焦虑者，考试是最好的手段。这是因为它决定着很多事。它是一个人在社会中成功或失败的标志。在事关命运的一天里你的整个前途就被决定下来了。它不管你当时的心情很糟糕，或者你的母亲已去世。像那样的小事不足挂齿：考试依然进行。当身陷致命的恐惧中或经过一个无眠之夜后，没人能发挥出他的最佳水平，不过这正是考试制度期望他这样做的。
The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of “drop-outs”: young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students?从孩子开始上学的那一刻起，他就走进了一个成功和失败界限分明和可以衡量的恶毒竞争之中。我们会对数目不断增加的“辍学者”――甚至在年轻人开始事业之前认为他已完全失败――感到诧异吗？面对学生的自杀率我们能感到吃惊吗？
A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming. 一种好的`教育应当包括培养你独立的能力。而考试制度绝对没有这样的作用。必须学的东西被强硬地用课程大纲给制定出来，鼓励学生去死记。考试不能激励学生去广泛阅读，而是限制他阅读；考试不能使学生探索越来越多的知识，而是起到填鸭式的作用。
They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress. 考试促使降低教学标准，因为它剥夺了老师的一切自由。对老师本人教学水平的评判通常就是看学生的考试成绩。老师们不去教授他们的课，而是简化教学，对学生进行他们嗤之以鼻的考试技巧培训。最成功的投考者不总是知识水平最高者；他们是高压之下掌握考试技巧最老练者。
The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge’s decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner’s. 众多因素所依赖的考试成绩只不过是某个匿名主考者的主观评价。主考官们都是人。他们会变累，会饥饿，还会出错。然而，他们不得不在有限的时间内为大队的匆匆草书的试卷判分。跟投考者一样，他们也在相同的压力之下工作，不过他们的话很有分量。在鉴定人鉴定之后，而不是主考官判卷后，你才有权提出查卷的申请。
There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person”s true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: “I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire.”评判一个人真实能力肯定有很多更简单和跟有效的方法。提出考试仅仅是经营考试机构获利的生意是否有点愤世嫉俗？这是最终分析得出的结论。对考试制度最好的评论是乱涂在墙上的这则没受过教育的一句话：“我曾是一个十几岁的辍学者，而现在我是一个十几岁的百万富翁。”
Now, Mrs. Schmidt , it's time for us to discuss qualities needed in our personnel, since we're going to recruit some staff so that we can get our new school should be representative in character. Have you thought of which traits we should be looking for? I'd like to hear your suggestions. Yes, according to psychological research, generally speaking, the traits most necessary for interpersonal success are honesty, dependability, tolerance, cooperativeness, and perseverance, and in the professional world particularly, vision, competency, fair-mindedness, and punctuality are important. Those are good qualities that we would want in every employee .
Now, perhaps we should discuss virtues needed in a director. What do you want to tell me in this respect? Some of my acquaintances have accumulated quite a lot of experience in the international business that enables them to make valuable suggestions. So I have talked to them for this matter. Oh have you? What did they say? According to them, a desirable director is humble, diplomatic and flexible but well-educated and experienced. He should also be concerned, and even generous.
Absolutely! Now, would you address character description for the Commercial and Industrial Arts staff? You used to operate a vocational school, so your experience must have given you many ideas. In addition to those general assets, our school should seek practical leaders who are skillful and diligent. The best ones are also creative but modest, clever but humble. There are a number of other positions to consider. We have done good work so far. We can discuss the remaining items after lunch.
现在施密特夫人，现在是我们讨论我们人员品质需要的问题时间了。由于我们要招聘一些工作人员以便使我们的新学校及时运转起来。自然地，一所模范学校的工作人员应该是有代表性的人物。你认为我们应该寻找具有哪些品质的员工呢？我想听听你的建议。哦，根据心理学研究，一般说来，人际关系成功最必要的特征是诚实，可靠，宽容，合作，坚持不懈。在专业领域中，专业，远见，能力，公正和严守时刻是重要的。那些好品质我们希望每个员工具有。
现在，我们或许该讨论一下负责人的优秀品质需要了。在这方面你有什么要对我讲的吗？我认识的一些人在国际商务方面积累了大量的经验使他们能够做出宝贵的建议。我已经跟他们谈过这件事了。噢？是吗？那他们说什么？一个理想的负责人是谦虚的，有外交手腕和灵活的，而且受过良好教育和有经验的。他也应该是关心他人甚至是慷慨的。
的确如此！你能够给商业与工艺美术的职员讲讲特征描述吗？你擅长运作职业学校，你的经验肯定给了你很多想法。除了那些一般的资产外，我们学校应该寻求那些有技能和勤奋的领导者，最好的一点是也有创意但是谦虚，聪明而又谦逊的。还有很多其他方面要考虑。到目前为止我们已经做了很好的工作。我们可以在午饭后讨论余下的项目。