Advanced Week 136

写在前面的话

“ScalersTalk 口译进阶小组”的前身是“ScalersTalk 交传小组”，成立于 2015 年 2 月，现阶段，小组继续专注高级阶段的交替传译与同声传译训练，在巩固语言基本功的同时训练各类口译技能，从而为承担正式场合的口译打下坚实基础。96 周起，小组全面引入 CATTI 新版二口教材的训练，时间为每天晚上 8 点到 9 点，训练期间播放录音、记笔记，在空白处按暂停键后做口译，用 QQ 发群语音，然后对照文档，查找漏译和错译的部分，标出口译时较为困难的词汇和表达，随时发到群里；每天早上 6 点到 7 点训练复述及同声传译。

本周复盘说明

第 136 周训练为同声传译和复述。本日志整理的是复述材料 Feeling Grateful for the Small Things 的部分内容。

第 136 周——复述材料知识点整理

段落一

The standard habit of the mind is to take careful note what’s not right in our lives and obsess about all that’s missing. But in a new mood, perhaps after a lot of longing and turmoil, we pause and notice some of what has – remarkably – not gone wrong. The house is looking beautiful at the moment. We’re in pretty good health, all things considered. The afternoon sun is deeply reassuring.

短语词组

• the standard habit of the mind 思维习惯

• take careful note what's not right in our lives 过多关注生活中的问题

• obsess about/over sb/sth: preoccupy or fill the mind of (someone) continually, intrusively, and to a troubling extent 困扰，心神不宁

• a longing for sth: a yearning desire 渴望

• turmoil: a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty 骚乱，动乱

  • e.g. The country is in turmoil.

• reassuring: making you feel less worried 令人欣慰的

  • e.g. a reassuring smile

段落二

However, it is rare to be left entirely indifferent by smaller things in time. Gradually, almost all one’s earlier, larger aspirations take a hit, perhaps a very large hit. One encounters some of the intractable problems of intimate relationships. One suffers the gap between one’s professional hopes and the available realities. One has a chance to observe how slowly and fitfully the world ever alters in a positive direction. One is fully inducted to the extent of human wickedness and folly – and to one’s own eccentricity, selfishness and madness.

短语词组

• take a hit: to be badly affected in some way 受到严重影响

• intractable: hard to control or deal with 棘手的 = thorny

• suffer the gap between ... and ... ……与……之间存在巨大差距

• fitful: not regular, and starting and stopping often 断断续续的，间歇的

  • e.g. make fitful progress

• induct: To introduce, as to new experience or knowledge

  • e.g. She was inducted into the ways of the legal profession.

• folly: a very stupid thing to do, especially one that is likely to have serious results 蠢事，荒唐事

• eccentricity: [U] strange or unusual behaviour古怪行为；反常行为

段落三

And so, “little things” start to seem somewhat different; no longer a petty distraction from a mighty destiny, no longer an insult to ambition, but a genuine pleasure amidst a litany of troubles, an invitation to bracket anxieties and keep self-criticism at bay, a small resting place for hope in a sea of disappointment. We appreciate the slice of toast, the friendly encounter, the long hot bath, the spring morning – and properly keep in mind how much worse it could, and probably will, one day, be.

短语词组

• petty: of little importance; trivial 不重要的；琐碎的

• litany: a long list of problems, excuses etc – used to show disapproval 赘述

• keep/hold sth at bay: to prevent something dangerous or unpleasant from happening or from coming too close 阻止某事发生；使某物不能接近

• bracket: put (a belief or matter) aside temporarily 暂不考虑