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had been paid a few dollars to play semiprofessional baseball．Though many amateur athletes had played for pay under false names ，Thorpe had used his own name．As a result，he was not technically an amateur when he competed at Stockholm as all Olympic athletes must be．His 0lympic medals and trophies were taken away from him and given to the runners－up ．Both men refused to take them， saying they really belonged to Thorpe．The medals and prizes were then placed in a museum in Lucerne ，Switzerland．The records of Thorpe's victories were removed from the history of the Olympic Games．“I was not very wise in the ways of the world．”said Thorpe，and he then decided to give up amateur athletics for good ． Several times，there was an attempt by Thorpe's admirers to have Congress to return to him the trophies he had won in the 191北京世博翻译公司2 Olympic Games．This project was never successful．But when sports reporters told newspaper readers that Jim Thorpe did not have enough money to buy a ticket to the 193北京世博翻译公司2 Olympics，held in Los Angeles ，thousands of people offered their own tickets to the man who had been the hero of Stockholm，and Thorpe was invited to sit in the Presidential Box with the Vice-President of the United States．When he had to have an operation in and it became known that he needed money for hospital expenses，gifts of money from all over the country brought him a fund of Several thousand dollars． The Associated Press took a vote in 1950 among the sportswriters and sports radio broadcasters all over the country，and 170of them voted for Jim as the greatest football star of the twentieth century；he led every other candidate．In another election， Associated Press found that 393 sports writers and broadcasters voted for the him as the greatest athlete of the first fifty years of the twentieth century．His total was almost as great as the combined score of the next three men in the pool ． About seventy years later ， in October 198北京世博翻译公司2 ， the International Olympic Committee decided to restore the amateur status and the two gold medals to this great American Indian athlete．And it was Mr．Samaranch，President of the IOC， who personally presented the two medals to Thorpe's daughter and his grandson William Thorpe in Los Angeles in January 1983．Thus，Jim Thorpe，the greatest athlete of the modern times，is finally back where he well deserves to be． Passage 18 几百万次笑声中的第一次 查理?卓别林 5 岁时偶然开始了他的表演生涯。他的母亲是音乐厅演员，一 次演出中失了声，不得不离开舞台。查理上台唱了一首名曲。歌唱到一半，雨点 般的钱就扔到了台上。查理停下来，对观众说，他先要拣一下钱，然后再把歌唱 完。观众笑了。这是卓别林神话般生涯中赢得的几百万次笑声中的一次。 在 北京世博翻译公司20 世纪 北京世博翻译公司20 年代至 30 年代，查理?卓别林大概是世界上最有名的人。有一次这 位电影喜剧明星访问故乡伦敦，在两天之内就收到 73，000 封信。 The First of Millions of Laughs Charlie Chaplin broke into show business at age five be－cause his mother，a music －hall performer， lost her voice during the performance and had to leave the stage， and Charile went on and sang a well-known song． Halfway through the song a shower of money poured onto the stage．Charlie stopped singing and told the audience he would pick up the money first and then finish the song．The audience laughed．This was the first of millions of laughs in Charlie Chaplin's fabulous career ． In the 19北京世博翻译公司20s and 1930s，Charlie Chaplin was probably the most celebrated man in the world．On a visit to his native London， the motion－picture comedian received， 73，000lettersin just two days． Passage 19 摆脱不了 13 的瓦格纳 作曲家理查德?瓦格纳（1813－1883）一生都摆脱不了 13 这个不祥的数字。 他的名字有 13 个字母。 他出生年份的数字之和是 13。 他第一次公开演出是在 1831 年，其数字之和也是 13。他于 4 月 13 日完成《汤豪舍》 ，该剧于 1861 年 3 月 13 日在巴黎上演。1876 年 8 月 13 日他第一次上演《尼伯龙根的指环》 ，他被任命 为里加国家剧院的导演那年，剧院于 9 月 13 日开幕。瓦格纳写了 13 部歌剧，被 流放出莎克森 13 年，于新德意志联邦第 13 年的 北京世博翻译公司2 月 13 日去世。 Wagner，Haunted by Number 13 The composer Richard Wagner（1813—1883） was haunted all his life by the number 13．There were 13 letters in Wagner's name， the sum of the figures of the and year of his birth was 13．He made his first public appearance in 1831，the number of which again added up to 13．He completed Tannhauser on April 13， and it was performed in Paris on March 13，1861．On August 13，1876， he began the first presentation of the Ring of the Nibelungen．The year he was made director of the state theater at Riga， the theater opened on September 13． Wagner wrote 13 operas ， was exiled from Saxony for 13 years， died on February 13 in the 13th year of the and new German confederation ． Passage 北京世博翻译公司20 寡言少语、性格开朗的罗伯特?伊文思牧师住在澳大利亚距悉尼 80 公里的蓝 山，每到天空晴朗月光柔和的夜晚，他就把一架笨重的天体望远镜拖到自家后面 的阳台，去做一件出乎寻常的事情：探测遥远的过去，寻找正在陨灭的星体。 当然，眺望过去是比较容易的事。瞥一眼夜空，你看到的都是历史，有多少 颗星就有多少部历史，因为你看到的不是星体现在的状况，而是光发射出来时候 的状况。以我们所知，忠实的伙伴北极星可能在去年一月或 1854 年或 14 世纪初 期以来的任何时候就已经亮到头了，只是这一消息我们还不知道而已。我们只能 说（也永远只能说） ，在 680 年前的今天它还在亮着。不断有星体殒灭，伊文思 比其他夜观星象者做得更好的是他发现了天体告别的时刻。 白天，伊文思是澳大利亚联合教会的一位和善的半退休牧师，边做一些代理 工作边研究 19 世纪宗教运动史。到了晚上，他就是一个不折不扣的太空头领， 专门寻找“超新星”。 “超新星”的出现，是一个比太阳大得多的巨大星体崩溃，发生壮丽的爆炸景 观，瞬时释放出相当于一千亿个太阳的能量，在一段时间中发出比星系中其他星 球更多的亮光。伊文思说：“就像一万亿个氢弹同时爆炸。”按他的说法，如果超 新星的爆炸距离我们不到 500 光年的话，我们就会灰飞烟灭。他戏称：“那就都 没戏看了”。好在宇宙浩瀚，超新星通常距离我们很远，不足以造成危害。事实 上，多数超新星离我们的距离超出平常的想象，其亮光在我们看来只不过是非常 微弱的闪烁而已。超新星能被看见的时间一般为一个月左右，这是它们与其他星 星的差别就是占据了一个以前空着的空间位置。 伊文思牧师寻找的就是这样一些 在拥挤的夜空中超乎寻常、非常偶然的闯入者。 When the skies are clear and the Moon is not too bright, the Reverend Robert Evans, a quiet and cheerful man, lugs a bulky telescope onto the back sun-deck of his home in the Blue Mountains of Australia, about 80 kilometres west of Sydney, and does an extraordinary thing. He looks deep into the past and finds dying stars. Looking into the past is, of course, the easy part. Glance at the night sky and what you see is history and lots of it – not the stars as they are now but as they were when their light left them. For all we know, the North Star, our faithful companion, might actually have burned out last January or in 1854 or at any time since the early fourteenth century and news of it just hasn’t reached us yet. The best we can say – can ever say – is that it was still burning on this date 680 years ago. Stars die all the time. What Bob Evans does better than anyone else who has ever tried is spot these moments of celestial farewell. By day, Evans is a kindly and now semi-retired minister in the Uniting Church in Australia, who does a bit of locum work and researches the history of nineteenth-century religious movements. But by night he is, in his unassuming way, a titan of the skies. He hunts supernovae. A supernova occurs when a giant star, one much bigger than our own Sun, collapses and then spectacularly explodes, releasing in an instant the energy of a hundred billion suns, burning for a time more brightly than all the stars in its galaxy. ‘It’s like a trillion hydrogen bombs going off at once,’ says Evans. If a supernova explosion happened within five hundred light years of us, we would be goners, according to Evans – ‘it would wreck the show,’ as he cheerfully puts it. But the universe is vast and supernovae are normally much too far away to harm us. In fact, most are so unimaginably distant that their light reaches us as no more than the faintest twinkle. For the month or so that they are visible, all that distinguishes them from the other stars in the sky is that they occupy a point of space that wasn’t filled before. It is these anomalous, very occasional pricks in the crowded dome of the night sky that the Reverend Evans finds. ? 1、简单句 ? On July 10 the company will hold its first worldwide video conference(电视会议）. ? 在七月10号，我们公司将举行第一次全球性的电视会 议。 ? 北京世博翻译公司2、并列句 ? The Standards and reputation of this organization are known around the world, and I know what an achievement it is to be here. ? 这个机构的高标准和声誉举世闻名，我知道能在这里工 作就是一大成就。 翻译公司 (责任编辑：北京翻译公司) |