考研英语美文.pdf

考研英语美文 Americans are a peculiar people. They work like mad, then give away much of what they earn. They play until they are exhausted, and call this a vacation. They live to think of themselves as tough-minded busine men, yet they are push-overs for any hard luck story. They have the biggest of nearly everything including government, motor cars and debts, yet they are afraid of bigne . They are always trying to chip away at big government, big busine , big unions, big influence. They like to think of themselves as little people, average men, and they would like to cut everything down to their own size. Yet they boast of their tall buildings, high mountains, long rivers, big state, the best country, the best world, the best heaven. They also have the most traffic deaths, the most waste, the most racketeering. 美国人是一个与众不同的民族。他们拼命地工作，然后花掉了大量辛苦赚来的钱。他 们玩得筋疲力尽，并称之为度假。他们向来把自己想成硬心肠的商人，可是任何不幸的故 事都会使他们受骗。几乎所有最大的东西他们都有 ：政府，汽车和债务，可他们害怕庞 大。所以他们总是要想办法除去大的政府，大的买卖，大的团体，大的影响力。他们愿意 把自己看成是小人物，平平常常的人，喜欢一切都是平等的。他们吹嘘自己的高楼大厦， 高山，大河，吹嘘自己是大国，是最好的国家，是最好的世界，最好的天堂。 同时，他 们的车祸最多，浪费最多，骗子也最多。 When they meet, they are always telling each other, "Take it easy," then they rush off like crazy in opposite directions. They play games as if they were fighting a war, and fight wars as if playing a game. They marry more, go broke more often, and make more money than any other people. They love children, animals, gadgets, mother, work, excitement, noise, nature, television shows, comedy, installment buying, fast motion, spectator sports, the underdog, the flag, Christmas, jazz, shapely women and muscular men, cla ical recordings, crowds, comics, cigarettes, warm houses in winter and cool ones in summer, thick beefsteaks, coffee, ice cream, informal dre , plenty of running water, do-it-yourself, and a working week trimmed to forty hours or le .They crowd their highways with cars while complaining about the traffic, flock to mo