送交者: lyz 于 September 03, 2003 14:22:32:
回答: 全下载了，谢谢老椰子！ 由 西里 于 September 03, 2003 13:48:35:
是那个“Alma Mater (1.5mb)”。我把第一段翻译了一下，好象还能对上谱。后面的译不动。
Far above Cayuga's waters
With it's waves of blue
Stands our noble alma mater
Glorious to view
高高地站在卡尤加水上
踏着蓝色的波浪
那是我们高贵的母校
闪耀夺目的光
“Far above Cayuga's waters”一句很出名。下面是一个应届毕业生去年就此题写的短文，文笔流畅，可作范文。
Thoughts From Far Above Cayuga's Waters
By CHRISTEN ARAGONI
Spring break found me, a poor college student with a thesis to finish, relaxing at my very generous relatives' home in Florida. An incurable multi-tasker, I put my notebook (yes, I'm the only person left on this campus who actually hand-writes anything), sunscreen and towel in my back pack and headed to the beach. I'll soak in the vitamin D, write a little and swim in the Gulf, I told myself.
Well, I'm sure I got plenty of vitamin D, but a lounge chair in the sand is much more useful for sleeping than writing. Actually it's much more useful for sleeping than for anything else, and nothing is better than lying warm in the sun. Crocodiles have it figured out. Ultimately, I went to a warm climate to relax, do a little work but mainly forget about Ithaca and college existence and graduation for a week.
This did not happen.
Everywhere I went, I ran into Cornell people. I talked with three alums, and others told me about sons and daughters who had spent four years on the Hill. I was quizzed on hockey trivia, names of buildings, tray sledding and Dragon Day. "Don't you just love it?" each and every one of my new acquaintances gushed (all of them and in those words too). Not knowing how to react to this completely positive view of our Alma Mater, I smiled and said, oh yes, I'm having the time of my life.
No one seemed to have any memory of high stress levels, long, gray winter months, the limbo of being in college and the lack of a stable existence or foreseeable future. Instead, they talked about making apple sauce from apples picked in Cornell's orchards, living in the International Living Center, getting drunk on Libe, sending children to follow in mechanical engineering footsteps. Oh, far above Cayuga's waters.
It seems that the further in time you get from your college years, the more you look back at them with a nostalgic smile. You remember the good times -- the time you talked all night to your roommate, toilet-papered a former friend's car, played the clock tower chimes on a sunny summer day, picnicked at Stewart Park, ran through the Plantations pausing to gaze from the look-out, raced a friend across the suspension bridge in the middle of the night.
You also come to appreciate your classes and the way they made you think. One alumna told me she had recently joined a reading group to discuss novels. You just don't get the same intellectual stimulation you did in college, she kept repeating.
She's right; out of everything I will take away from Cornell, the most valuable thing I will keep with me is knowing that I can think. I may not remember most of the details in which my classes once immersed me, but I have expanded the way I consider situations and tackle problems. My professors and the diverse people I've met here have pushed me intellectually, and for that I will always feel grateful and privileged.
But does leaving Cornell's unique intellectual environment mean that the college years are the peak of your life and it is all downhill from here? I certainly hope not. Yes I will miss many aspects of my life here, especially many friends, but I also look forward to moving on. I know many good
times are still to come. College life is not the be all that ends all. (It better not be anyway.) As for the consistent belief voiced by many "adults" that college is so great because students are free from responsibility, I disagree. Although I do not have to worry about finances the way my parents do, I could not have survived life at Cornell without responsibility. And many types of stress complicate being a student during such an uncertain time.
I'm ready to find a job where I can leave work at work and know I can support myself without my parents reminding me how much my education is costing them. I don't expect life after college to be easy or stress free, but I know it will have its own good points that I cannot experience at Cornell.
All too soon, I'll leave my undergraduate years behind. Not only have I learned to think better, I've also learned that it is possible to walk around with your eyes closed and feel more rested, that a 20-page paper can be written in one night, that the world keeps moving with or without you even in the face of disheartening events. With these lessons, and a few others, I'll leave here ready to face whatever the world tosses at me. And while life at Cornell has often seemed to have more negatives than positives, I have had opportunities here that I could never have anywhere else, and in a year or so I will probably join the ranks of nostalgic alums who have blocked from memory the
all-nighters, the prelims and the endless papers that often seem the main part of our existence.
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