全新版大学英语综合教程第三册UNIT1-3添加文本

 　　The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged¹ in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent² in the undergrowth ;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy³ and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
and both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden⁴ back.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable⁵.
---- Benjamin Disraeli
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
---- Lewis Grizzard
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
---- Emily Bronte
A life-long city man, tired of the rat race, decided⁶ that he was going to give up the city
life, move to the country, and become a chicken farmer. He found a nice, used chicken
farm, which he bought. It turns out that his next-door neighbor was also a chicken
farmer.
The neighbor came for a visit one day and said, "Chicken farming isn't easy.
Tell you what. To help you get started, I'll give you 100 chickens."
The new chicken
farmer was thrilled. Two weeks later, the neighbor stopped by to see how things were
going.
The new farmer said, "Not too good. All 100 chickens died."
The neighbor said,
"Oh, I can't believe that. I've never had any trouble with my chickens. I'll give you 100
more."
Another two weeks went by, and the neighbor stopped in again.
The new farmer
said, "You're not going to believe this, but the second 100 chickens died too."
Astounded⁷, the neighbor asked, "What did you do to them? What went wrong?"
"Well,"
said the new farmer, "I'm not sure. But I think I'm not planting them far enough apart.

1 diverged   

分开( diverge的过去式和过去分词 )； 偏离； 分歧； 分道扬镳

参考例句：

• Who knows when we'll meet again? 不知几时咱们能再见面！
• At what time do you get up? 你几时起床？

2 bent   

n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的

参考例句：

• He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
• We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。

3 grassy   

adj.盖满草的；长满草的

参考例句：

• They sat and had their lunch on a grassy hillside.他们坐在长满草的山坡上吃午饭。
• Cattle move freely across the grassy plain.牛群自由自在地走过草原。

4 trodden   

v.踩，踏( tread的过去分词 )；踩成；踏出；步行于

参考例句：

• The people have been trodden down for too long. 人民受践踏的时间太久了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The cattle had trodden a path to the pond. 牛群踏出了一条通往池塘的小径。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 astounded   

v.使震惊(astound的过去式和过去分词)；愕然；愕；惊讶

参考例句：

• His arrogance astounded her. 他的傲慢使她震惊。
• How can you say that? I'm absolutely astounded. 你怎么能说出那种话？我感到大为震惊。