VI．故事法
　　
　　文章开头讲一个故事，不仅可以引起读者的兴趣，且可引出文章要讨论的主题。以
　　
　　下是引出故事的句型。
　　
　　43 Last Sunday,
　　
　　The other day,
　　
　　Some months ago, I
　　
　　a friend of mine ... The story
　　
　　case
　　
　　incident is not rare,
　　
　　unusual, it is one
　　
　　typical of thousands of ...
　　
　　43.1 The other day, I met Miss Lee, my old classmate, who told me that
　　
　　she had decided to quit her job as a teacher at the end of the school year
　　
　　and to go into a company. She said that she couldn't make a living in her
　　
　　chosen profession and that not even her moonlighting twice a week could put
　　
　　her out of the financial quagmire she was in. Miss Lee's case is not
　　
　　unusual, it is typical of thousands of young teachers who are quitting their
　　
　　jobs in search of more lucrative work.
　　
　　几天前，我遇到老同学李小姐。她告诉我她决定在本学期未辞去教师工作，去一家
　　
　　公司供职。她说她选择的教师职业使她无法生活下去，即使她每周两次晚上出去打工，
　　
　　还是不能摆脱经济站据的窘境。李小姐的情况很普遍。在成千上万辞去自己原来工作，
　　
　　去寻找比较有钱的职业的青年教师中，她是个典型的例子。
　　
　　43.2 Last evening, I went to visit one of my friends and was little
　　
　　surprised to find his ten-year-old daughter having an early dinner alone.
　　
　　Why didn't she have supper with her family? "She is going to have class in
　　
　　the evening school," explained her father. The case is not rare. My friend's
　　
　　daughter is just one of thousands of school children around the city who are
　　
　　learning foreign languages in evening schools.
　　
　　昨晚我去看望一个朋友，看到她10岁的女儿正独自吃早晚饭有些奇怪。便问：“她
　　
　　为什么不和家人一起吃晚饭？”他父亲解释道：“她要上夜校去。”这种情况并不鲜
　　
　　见。在夜校学外语的全市数以万计的在校学生中，我朋友的女儿不过是其中的一个而
　　
　　已。
　　
　　44 Once in a hospital
　　
　　street
　　
　　newspaper , I saw
　　
　　read of
　　
　　learnt .... The problem
　　
　　phenomenon
　　
　　plight of ... has drawn
　　
　　arouse public
　　
　　nationwide
　　
　　general attention.
　　
　　concern
　　
　　44.1 Once in a hospital I saw a small child with acute leukemia. She made
　　
　　the rounds and asked the adults ------ her father, mother and relatives,
　　
　　"What is it going to be like when I die?" The grown-ups responded in a
　　
　　variety of ways, some crying out, some losing for wards. The only message
　　
　　the little girl received through the grown-ups' response was that they had a
　　
　　lot of fear when it came to talking about death. How to help our youngsters
　　
　　to deal with the reality of death ------ part of life that all of us
　　
　　eventually have to face? The question has now drawn general attention.
　　
　　有一次我在医院里看到一个患白血病的小女孩。她环视了一下来看望她的大人，逐
　　
　　个问她的爸爸、妈妈及亲戚：“我死后会怎么样？”大人们的反应各不相同，有的不禁
　　
　　失声痛哭，有的吞吞吐吐不知如何作答。这个女孩从大人的反应中得到的唯一信息是，
　　
　　在谈到死亡时他们对死都很害怕。如何来帮助孩子正确对待死，这个我们每一个人最终
　　
　　都必须面对的现实呢？这个问题已引起许多人的注意。
　　
　　44.2 Once in a newspaper I read of a crowd of people who remained
　　
　　appallingly indifferent to the plea of a mother. As she failed to offer the
　　
　　required amount of cash as a price to save her drowning son, the woman at
　　
　　last watched her son sink to death. The story is not rare in newspapers and
　　
　　on TV, and the casualness and detachment our people now have developed has
　　
　　amused nationwide concern.
　　
　　有一次在报上我读到一则消息：一大群人对一位落水儿童的母亲的哀求置之不理真
　　
　　令人震惊。由于这位妇女一时拿不出所要求的现钱的数目作为救她孩子的回报，最后她
　　
　　眼睁睁地看着儿子淹死。这种事在报纸、电视上常有报道。人们现在表现出来的这种麻
　　
　　木不仁、见死不救的态度已引起了全社会的关注。
　　
　　45 I have a friend
　　
　　A friend of mine who .... Should
　　
　　Can he...? Such a choice
　　
　　dilemma
　　
　　problem we often meet
　　
　　face
　　
　　confront in our daily life.
　　
　　45.1 I have a friend who lies in a hospital, slowly dying of a painful
　　
　　and incurable disease. Although there is no hope of recovery, the disease
　　
　　sometimes permits its victim to linger on for many months in ever great
　　
　　torment. My friend, apprised of the outcome and knowing that the hospital
　　
　　expenses are a severe drain on his family's limited financial resources,
　　
　　decides that death had better come at once. Should the family meet his
　　
　　demand despite the enormous love for him? Should the doctor run the risk of
　　
　　providing him with the necessary drug? Such a dilemma we often meet in our
　　
　　daily life.
　　
　　我有一个朋友躺在医院里，他患了不治之症，在痛苦中慢慢死去。虽然这种病无法
　　
　　医治，但病人要在愈来愈痛苦的折磨中挣扎好几个月。我的朋友得知自己的病情后，考
　　
　　虑到耗费在自己身上的医药费时并不富裕的家来说是个沉重的经济负担，决定尽快结束
　　
　　生命。虽然他的家人很爱他，但是否应同意他的要求呢？医生是否应冒险向他提供结束
　　
　　生命必要的药物呢？在日常生活中我们常遇到这样的难题。
　　
　　46 Once upon a time was
　　
　　lived a man. ... The tale
　　
　　story may be apocryphal
　　
　　unbelievable
　　
　　46 but it still has a realistic significance
　　
　　its underlying moral has continuing relevance
　　
　　now
　　
　　today.
　　
　　46.1 Once upon a time there were a brother and sister squabbling over an
　　
　　apple, with each insisting on the larger slice. Just as the boy had gained
　　
　　control of the knife and was poised to hack off the larger share for
　　
　　himself, the parents said: "Hold it! I don't care who cuts that apple into
　　
　　two pieces, but whoever does has to give the other the right to select the
　　
　　piece they want. " Naturally, to protect himself, the boy cut the apple into
　　
　　two pieces of equal size.
　　
　　The tale may be apocryphal, but its underlying moral has continuing
　　
　　relevance today. There are sane situations in which the needs of the
　　
　　protagonists are not really in opposition. If the focus shifts firm
　　
　　defeating each other to defeating the problem, every one can benefit.
　　
　　从前有一对兄妹为一只苹果争吵，两人都想吃大的一块。正当那个男孩拿起刀子准
　　
　　备切下大的一半给自己时，父母说：“住手，不管谁把它切开，但切的人得给对方选择
　　
　　他所要部分的权利。”很自然，男孩为了不吃亏，把苹果切成一般大小的两块。这则故
　　
　　事有点难以置信，但其中蕴含的教益至今有用。有许多情况双方的需求并不真正对立，
　　
　　只需把争论的焦点从打败对手转移到解决问题这上面来，双方便都能得益