英语四级晨读100篇精华版023金钱与爱情(中英)

　　英语四级晨读100篇精华版023：Money and Love金钱与爱情

　　23. Money and Love金钱与爱情

　　When the Roman Movement was still in its first fervor, it was a common matter of debate whether people should marry for love or for money. The young people concerned usually favored Iove and their parents usually favored money. In the novels of the period the dilemma was felicitously solved by the discovery, on che last page, that the apparently penniless heroine was really a great heiress. But in real life young men what hoped for this denouement were apt to be disappointed. Prudent parents. while admitting chat their daughters should marry for love. took care that all the young men they met should be rich. This med was sometimes very successful it was adopted, for example, by my maternal grandfather, who had a large number of romantic daughters, none of whom married hadly.

　　茌浪漫运动盛行之初.^们经常争论的一件事情便是应该为爱还是为金钱而结婚。年轻人通常赞成前者，而他们的父母则通常赞成后者。在那个时期的小说里面，这一左右为难的情况通常在最后一页得以圆满的解决：原本看似身无分文的女主人公摇身一变，成了巨额财产的继承人。但是在现实生活中，抱有这种大应该为爱而结婚的同时.关这种办法有时非常成功。例如，我的外祖父就采纳了这一方法他有一群浪漫的女儿，个个都嫁得不错。

　　In these days of psychology the matter no longer looks as simple as it did years ago. We realize now that money may be the cause, or part of the cause, of quite genuine love; of this there are not table examples in history. Benjamin Disraeli, who became Lord Beaconsfield was. in his youth poor and struggling and passionately ambitious. He married a rich widow. much older than himself and considered by the word to be rather silly. owing to her, he was able to make his career a success. A cynical world naturally assumed that he loved her money better than he loved her, hut in this the world was mistaken, out the full of their married life, he was deeply and genuinely devoted to her.

　　近来从心理学角度看待这一问题要比80年前复杂了许多。我们现在已经意识到金钱是获得真爱的原因或者部分原因：于这一点，历史上有一些有名的实例。最终成为比肯斯菲尔德伯爵的本杰明迪斯累里年轻的时候，是一名贫穷但却勇于拼搏且有着远大抱负的人。他与一位比他大许多的寡妇结了婚，此事被世人认为相当愚蠢。然而多亏了她，他的事业才得以成功。冷嘲热讽的世人自然认为他爱金钱胜过爱她本人，但是这次世人却犯了个错误。在他们整个漫长的婚姻岁月里，他都深深而真切地爱着她。

　　I do no suppose he would have love her if she had been poor when he First knew her, but the gratitude which he felt for the help which he owed to her kindly interest in him easily developed into a sincere affection. A great deal of affection is based on the fact that its object is a help in resting die purposes of the person who feels it. Men in whom ambition is the leading passion are likely to love women who assist them in their career, and it would be very shallow psychology to suppose that the love is not real hecause it has its instinctive root in self-interest.

　　我料想假如他第一次认识她时，她很穷，他就不会爱上她。但是，由于她的帮助而产生的感激之情使得他对她产生了兴趣，并且很容易地发展成为真挚的爱意。许多爱意的产生都是基于这样一个事实：即施肋的一方曾经帮助过被助的一方实现了其个人目标和价值。以实现抱负为其主要目标的男人可能喜欢在事业上能够帮助他们的女人，如果因为这种爱的出发点是利己主义便认为它算不上亮爱的话，分析就未免太过于胺浅了。

　　I have taken an example where the man was poor and the woman rich, but in a world dominated by men the opposite is the commoner case. The psychology however is much the same. If a very rich man asks a very poor girl to marry him, she is likely. Especially if she has social ambitions to feel a kind of gratitude which will lead her to fall in love with him, provided he is not too repulsive. At any rate, he will need a smaller degree of personal attractiveness than a pcxu- man would need. Wealth can often purchase not only the semblance of love hut its reality This is unjust and undesirable hut nonetheless a fact.

　　我所给出的例子是男的贫穷，女的富有。但是在一个由男人主宰的社会里，与之相反的例子比较普遍。然而，从心理学角度上讲基本是相同的。假如一位富有的男人让一位贫穷的女子嫁给他，只要他不是特别令人讨厌的话，她可能会出于某种感激之情最终爱上他。特别是当这位女子怀有某种社会抱负的时候.在这种情况下，他不需要太多的个人魅力。财富不仅仅可以换来表面的爱情，而且可以换来爱的真谛。这是不公正的，也是不受人们欢迎的结论，然而它却是事实。

　　CET4四级词汇：

　　fervor 热诚;炽热

　　prudent 谨慎的;小心的

　　gratitude 感谢;感激

　　instinctive 本能的;天生的

　　CET4阅读单词短语考点：

　　I have taken an example where the man was poor and the woman rich, but in a world dominated by men the opposite is the commoner case

　　我所给出的例子是男的贫穷.女的富有。但是在一个由男人主宰的社会里，与之相反的例子比较普遍。

　　本句是一个转折性句子。主语为，谓语为have taken，宾语为an example，后边where the man was poor and the woman rich为宾语补足语，解释说明an example。后半句dominated by men为定语修饰a world。

　　dominate:支配;控制

　　She dominated the meeting by sheer force of character.

　　她单凭个人气势就镇住了会场。