the profits among the group. 在期末我们把房子卖掉，还清贷款，缴了税，余下的收益分给了参加实践的学生。
So teaching gives me pace, and variety, and challenge, and the opportunity to keep on learning. 所以说，教学使我的工作进程有了规律，使我的生活变得丰富多彩，教学向我提出了挑战，也给了我不断学习的机会。
I have left out, however, the most important reasons why I teach. 不过，我要教书的最重要的几个原因还没有讲到呢。
One is Vicky. My first doctoral student, Vicky was an energetic student who labored at her dissertation on a little-known 14th century poet. 其中一个原因与维基有关。维基是我的第一个博士生。她精力充沛，孜孜不倦地撰写她那篇论述14世纪一位不知名诗人的学位论文。 She wrote articles and sent them off to learned journals. She did it all herself, with an occasional nudge from me. 她写过一些文章，寄给了学术刊物。这一切都由她独立完成，我偶尔从旁略加指点。
But I was there when she finished her dissertation, learned that her articles were accepted, got a job and won a fellowship to Harvard working on a book developing ideas she'd first had as my student. 我亲眼看到了她完成论文，看到了她得悉自己的文章被采用，亲眼目睹她找到了工作并获得了在哈佛大学当研究员的职位，著书论述她在做我学生时萌发的思想。
Another reason is George, who started as an engineering student, then switched to English because he decided he liked people better than things. 另一个原因与乔治有关。他开始学的是工程学，后来他深信自己爱人胜过爱物，所以改学英语。
There is Jeanne, who left college, but was brought back by her classmates because they wanted her to see the end of the self-reliance house project. 还有珍妮。她中途辍学，但是她的同学把她拉了回来，因为他们想让她看到自力更生整修旧房子这一项目的结果。
I was there when she came back. I was there when she told me that she later became interested in the urban poor and went on to become a civil rights lawyer. 我亲眼看到她回来了。我亲耳听到她对我说，她后来对城市贫民产生了兴趣，继而成了捍卫公民权的律师。
There is Jacqui, a cleaning woman who knows more by intuition than most of us learn by analysis. 还要提一提清洁女工杰基。她凭直觉了解的事情比我们多数人通过分析弄清的东西还要多。 Jacqui has decided to finish high school and go to college. 杰基已经决定读完中学，然后还要上大学。
These are the real reasons I teach, these people who grow and change in front of me. 这些在我眼前成长、变化的人，便是我要当教师的真正原因。
Being a teacher is being present at the creation, when the clay begins to breathe. 当一名教师意味着是创造的见证人，他目睹人体开始呼吸，开始了生命。
A \“升职了”，不再教书了，也许会给我带来金钱和权力。
I get paid to do what I enjoy: reading, talking with people, and asking question like, \point of being rich?\可是我现在也有钱。我拿了薪金去做自己乐意做的事：读书、交谈、提问，比如问：“做个富翁有什么意思呢?”
And I have power. I have the power to nudge, to fan sparks, to suggest books, to point out a pathway. What other power matters? 我现在还有权呢。我有权启迪，有权激发才智，有权开出书目，有权指点迷津。还有其他什么权力更值得考虑呢?
But teaching offers something besides money and power: it offers love. 但教书还会带来金钱和权力以外的东西：那便是爱。
Not only the love of learning and of books and ideas, but also the love that a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into a teacher's life and begins to breathe. 不仅是爱学习、爱书本、爱思想，而且还有老师对出类拔萃的学生的爱。这样的学生走进了老师的生活，老师自己也开始成长了。
Perhaps love is the wrong word: magic might be better. “爱”这个字也许用得不恰当：用“魔力”可能更为贴切。
I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself catching my breath with them. 我教书，是因为在与开始成长的学生朝夕相处时，我有时感到自己也和他们一起开始成长了。
NEW WORDS administrative
a. of the management of affairs 行政的，管理的 administration
n. 管理（部门），行政（机关） puzzle
vt. fill with doubt and confusion 使迷惑 step (-) up
n. promotion; increase in size, speed, etc. mechanic
n. skilled workman, esp. one who uses or repairs machines and tools 机械工；机修工 sweaty
a. covered with sweat, sweating palm
a. 手掌
profession
n. occupation, esp. one requiring special training, such as law, medicine, or teaching convince
vt. make (sb.) feel certain; cause (sb.) to realize compel
vt. force (sb. or sth. to do sth.) pace
n. rate or speed of development, or in walking, etc. 速度；步速 calendar
n. 日程表，日历 opportunity
n. favourable occasion or chance reflection
n. careful thinking; consideration 深思；考虑
reflect vi.反射；细想 stimulate
vt. encourage; excite 刺激；激励 freshman
n. student in his first year at a college or university failure
n. a person, attempt, or thing that fails; lack of success ivory
n. 象牙
ivory tower
n. place or condition of retreat from the world of action into a world of ideas and dreams 象牙塔
self-reliance
n. ability to do things and make decisions by oneself 依靠自己；自力更生 reliance
n. trust, confidence; dependence 信赖；信心；依靠 technological
a. of or related to technology 技术的 corporation n. (AmE) 有限公司 run-down
a. old and broken or in bad condition renovate
vt. restore (old buildings, oil paintings, etc.) to a former, better state 修复，修整 semester
n. (AmE) either of the two periods into which a school year is divided; term 学期 repay
vt. pay back (money, etc.) loan
n. sth. lent, esp. a sum of money 借出的东西；贷款 distribute
vt. divide among several or many; give or send out 分发；分送
distribution n.分配，分发 variety
n. difference in quality, type or character; a number of or a collection of different things 变化，多样化；种种 challenge
n. the quality of demanding competitive action, interest, or though 挑战 doctoral
a. having to do with the university degree of doctor 博士的 energetic
a. vigorous 精力充沛 dissertation n. （学位）论文 poet
n. one who writes poetry learned
a. showing or requiring much knowledge 博学的 journal
n. magazine or daily newspaper 杂志；日报 occasional
a. happening from time to time, not regular 偶尔的，间或的 nudge
n. (fig.) words, actions or feeling that stimulate 启示
vt. push or touch slightly, esp. with the elbow to attract attention; (fig.) stimulate fellowship
n. position or a sum of money granted to a person for advanced study or research 研究员职位；研究员薪金 switch
vt. change or shift; turn urban
a. of a town or city civil rights
n. the rights of a citizen without regard to his race, religion, sex, etc. 公民权 lawyer
n. person who practises law 律师 intuition
n. (power of) the immediate understanding of truths, events, facts without reasoning 直觉 analysis
n. the separation of a substance into parts for careful examination and study 分析 creation
n. act of creating; sth. created 创造（物） clay n. 粘士 point
n. main idea or purpose 要点；意义，目的
pathway n. path rare
a. unusually good; distinctive 稀有的；杰出的 magic
n. mysterious charm; strange influence or power; art of obtaining mysterious results by tricks 魔力；魔术
PHRASES & EXPRESSIONS stay up
not go to bed until after the usual time 不睡觉，熬夜 take notes 记笔记 build on
base on; use as a base for further development
keep a diary
记日记 leave out
fail to mention or include; omit send off
post; dispatch work at/ on
give one's attention to doing or trying to do catch one's breath
rest and get back one's normal breath, as after running; stop breathing for a moment from surprise, fear, shock, etc.
PROPER NAMES Emerson
爱默生（姓氏及男子名） Thoreau 梭洛（姓氏） Huxley
赫胥黎（姓氏） Vicky
维基（女子名，Victoria 的昵称） Harvard
哈佛（美国大学名） Jeanne
珍妮（女子名） Jacqui
杰基（女子名，Jacqueline的昵称）
Unit 4 Text
A Fan’s Notes 一位球迷的评论
The e-mail was in some respects similar to other nasty letters I receive. 这封电子邮件在某些方面与
我收到的其他刻薄的信件相似。
It took me to task for my comments on the Los Angeles Dodgers and argued that I had got everything wrong. 它痛斥我对洛杉矶道奇队的评论，并争辩说我把一切全都搞错了。
However, the note was different from the others in at least two ways. 然而，这个评论与其他的评论至少有两个方面不同。
This note contained more details than the usual “You’re an idiot.” 与通常那些“你是个白痴”的评论
不同的是，这一评论含有更多的细节。
It included vital statistics on the team’s performance. 它包含了该队比赛表现的关键数据。
It was written by someone who knew the Los Angeles Dodgers as well as I thought I did. 写这篇评