2022年考研人數逐年增加,競爭之激烈使得我們不得不加急復習的日程。眾所周知,閱讀理解占據了考研英語二100分試卷的一半分值,而考研英語閱讀文章大多來自英美國家的主流報刊雜志,所以如果能在日常就多多閱讀這些文章,對以后讀懂文章做對題目來說會大有裨益。但是對大多數備考的同學來說,剛開始投入復習,就去讀考試文章難度的新聞報刊,也是不現實、并且不符合循序漸進的學習規律的,所以我們會在每次推送中,給大家給出兩篇短文,一篇是初階水平(大致在初高中水平);一篇是高階水平(四六級到考研水平);同學們可以根據自己當前的情況,選擇其中一篇進行學習。
學習步驟如下:
1.不看漢語譯文自己看一遍短文做理解
2.看漢語譯文比對自己理解的意思與之出入
3.強化記憶重點單詞(以記憶其漢語意思為主)
初階文段
The key messages that have been put together for World Environment Day do include a call for governments to enact legislation to curb single-use plastics. But the overarching message is directed at individuals.
My concern with leaving it up to the individual, however, is our limited sense of what needs to be achieved. One their own, taking our own bags to the grocery store or quitting plastic straws, for example, will accomplish little and require very little of us.
短文翻譯
世界環境日匯集所傳達的關鍵信息的確包括呼吁各國政府立法限制一次性塑料制品。但核心信息是針對個人的。
然而,將對抗塑料污染這一重任交給個人,我擔心的是,人們對需要實現的目標認識有限。比如,拿著自己的購物袋去商店買東西或者停止使用塑料吸管,這樣的做法成效不大,并且對我們的要求也太低了。
重點單詞
enact legislation
制定法律
curb [k??b]
v.控制
overarching [???v?r?ɑ?t???]
adj.非常重要的
concern
n.擔心,擔憂
plastic straw
塑料吸管
accomplish [??k?mpl??]
v.完成
文段 II
They could even be detrimental, satisfying a need to have “done our bit” without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions—a kind of “moral licensing” that allays our concerns and stops us doing more and asking more of those in charge.
While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping bags and straws, we’re ignoring the balance of power that implies that as “consumers” we must shop sustainably, rather than as “ citizens” hole our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change.
短文翻譯
這些舉措甚至可能是有害的,因為它們滿足了“我們已經盡了本分”的需要,使我們不再采取更宏大、更果敢以及更有效的行動—這是一種“道德許可”,它會減輕我們的擔憂,阻止我們進一步作為,也阻止我們向當權者提出更高的要求。
當圍繞“環境和我們對環境的責任”的話題仍然聚焦于購物袋和吸管時,我們就一直在忽略權力的平衡,這意味著我們作為“消費者”必須可持續地購物,而不是以“公民”身份去要求我們的政府和企業承擔責任,以推動真正的系統性變革。
重點單詞
detrimental [?detr??mentl]
adj.有害的,不利的
satisfy [?s?t?sfa?]
v.使滿意; 使滿足;
moral licensing
道德許可
responsibility [r??sp?ns??b?l?ti]
n.責任,負責
ignore [?ɡ?n??(r)]
v.忽視,無視