英语听力材料《学生的压力大多来自父母》

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英语听力材料《学生的压力大多来自父母》

　　在现代，学生的压力越来越大，但是学生的压力其实又往往多来自他们的父母。为什么呢?你怎么看这种压力?下面，也许这篇英语听力材料会给我们一些启示。

英语听力材料《学生的压力大多来自父母》

　　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.

　　学生的压力有时来自于父母。大多数的父母都是善意的，但是有些父母面对子女在适应大学生活中所碰到的问题时毫无帮助，少部分父母似乎不遗余力地给他们的子女增添了困难。

　　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，父母常常意识到他们的孩子所遇到的问题。他们没有料想到竞争越来越激烈，工作的标准越来越高，他们的孩子或许还没有准备好迎接这种改变。家长习惯于看到孩子在高中成绩单上的A或B的分数，所以当孩子在大学第一学期的成绩低于原来的分数时，他们或许会感到不安。最好的情况是，他们或许会温柔地询问为什么约翰或玛丽没有做得更好，他(她)是否足够努力了，等等。最糟的情况是，他们或许会威胁让孩子退学或是切断他们的收入。

　　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.

　　有时父母会把孩子视为自身的延续，认为由他们来决定孩子该如何生活是理所应当和自然而然的事情。他们和孩子紧密联系，视为一体，因而忘了人与人其实各不相同，每个人都应该按照自己的方式发展。他们忘了他们的孩子已经是成年人，应该对自己的所作所为以及他们是谁而负责。

　　英语单词词汇整理:

　　1. pressure n. 压力

　　eg: He will never pressure you to get married.

　　他永远也不会给你施加压力让你结婚。

　　短语：

　　under pressure 在压力之下;受到压力

　　high pressure 高压，高气压;高度紧张

　　blood pressuren 血压

　　low pressure 低气压;松懈

　　under the pressure of 在......压力下

　　2. aware adj. 知道的，意识到的

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

　　吸烟者们都很清楚吸烟对其自身健康的那些危害。

　　短语：

　　aware of 意识到，知道

　　become aware of 知道;发觉

　　3. competition n. 竞争，比赛

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

　　农场主们一直在寻求更高价格来作为对外来竞争的更好保护。

　　短语：

　　in competition with 与......竞争

　　domestic competitionn 国内竞争

　　capacity of competition 竞争能力

　　经典简单英语文章听力

　　Man and Nature

　　人与自然

　　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?

　　从地球上人类出现开始，人与自然之间的密切关系也随之诞生，而且这种关系每一世纪都比以前变得更为明智而深远。因此，我们求助于自然，并把自然视为人类的最年长和最有影响力的老师。从某一种观点来看，自然曾经一度是我们的监工，现在却变为我们的奴仆。但从另一种观点来看，自然一直是我们的最忠实的朋友、导师和启发者。这种和谐紧密的关系，如果仅仅是少数人的特权，而大多数人并不能享有，那便会在人们心目中引发一种神秘和情趣。但是事实上，这种亲密关系是被天下所有的人共同享有的，这就使得这和谐紧密的关系失去神秘感和情趣。对于少数人来讲，这种关系在每个时代都充满了奇妙和美好;对于多数人来讲，这种关系只是理所当然的一件事。天空照耀着每一个人，但是只有在少数人的心目中具有一种变化多端的壮丽，他们在每一个午夜的`天空都能看到一种蕴含着创造性的能力的庄严肃穆之美，无论那种景象重复多少次，都不会使那种美模糊不清。如果星辰一千年才照耀一次大地，人们将怀着敬畏尊崇的心情凝视那种美景，而那种美景如果夜夜在全世界的上空出现，不但不会减损，反而更为增加它的奇妙。同样，基于相同的原因，我们对于夏曰天空的那种由浮云聚散飘忽所形成的一曰之间千变万化的纤巧秀丽或壮丽动人的景色，也都漠然置之。海洋的神秘、恐怖和韵律，有助于医疗疲惫心灵和烦躁精神的森林所具有的奥妙和慑人魂魄的麂力;在其幽深之处保有光与大气之奥秘的山峦所呈现的庄严肃穆之美; 从不模仿或重复、永远以一种出人意料的新鲜的美丽来冲击人类想象力的风景变幻无穷——谁能感受到这些奇异景物的全部力量，或者能从它们那里得到它们所赐予的健康、快乐和丰美呢?

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