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　　2015复习正是强化复习阶段，在考研英语中占了40分，所以考研英语阅读是英语科目中重要的一项。名师老师曾建议过考研生需要坚持每天泛读10-15分钟的英文原刊。强烈推荐了杂志《经济学人》.杂志中的文章也是考研英语的主要材料来源.希望考研考生认真阅读，快速提高考研英语阅读水平。 　　New fiction 　　最新小说 　　Comfort food 　　温馨食物 　　COOKING is a sensual experience. 　　烹饪是一种感官体验。 　　It has the power to comfort, unite and anchor a family in tradition. 　　传统上认为，它具有安逸、粘合和支撑一个家庭的力量。 　　In his new novel, Amit Majmudar uses food to tell a larger story about life, death and theimmigrant experience. 　　Amit Majmudar在他的新小说中，通过食物讲述了一个关于生命、死亡和移民经历的宏大故事。 　　At the centre of the book is an unnamed Indian mother who makes dahi the traditional way,curdling each new pot of yogurt with a spoonful from the one before it. 　　故事的中心是一位无名的印度母亲，她用传统的方式制作家乡的酸奶，即从之前一罐酸奶中取用一匙来发酵新一罐酸奶。 　　To ensure this dynastic succession, she smuggled some in a test-tube when she emigratedfrom Gujarat to Ohio. 　　在她从古吉拉特邦移民至俄亥俄州时，为了保证酸奶的世代更迭，她悄悄用试管带入了一些老酸奶。 　　Now, with two grown children who have their own families, she colonises grandchildren withthe magical cultures. 　　现在，随着她的两个孩子长大成人并组建家庭，她开始给孙辈们灌输这神奇的文化。 　　This small but significant attempt at cultural continuity becomes more meaningful when sheis diagnosed with terminal cancer. 　　这举动虽小，却对文化连续性非常重要，尤其当她被确诊为癌症晚期时，更显得意义重大。 　　Feeding her family allows her to maintain some normality during the slow sloppy businessof dying. 　　在缓缓步入衰亡的过程中，教育她的家庭使她在一定程度上保持了正常状态。 　　As the narrator grows weaker, her daughter, Mala, becomes determined to learn all of hermother s recipes. 　　随着主人公渐渐衰弱，她的女儿Mala决心学习她所有的食谱。 　　A doctor like her father, she is strong-willed but deferential. 　　和她父亲一样，她是位医生，意志坚强却又谦恭。 　　They fight, but they always have done. 　　她们经常争执，又很快停止。 　　Harshness, paradoxically, is intimate. The ailing mother s son Ronak, however, rebuffs thefamily s traditions. 　　所谓苛刻反而是因为亲密。 　　He lives as a gambling banker in Manhattan with his pale-faced American wife. 　　患病母亲的儿子Ronak却抵制家庭的传统。 　　His affection for his mother is more distant. 　　他是一个投行家，和面青唇白的妻子住在曼哈顿。 　　Despite these slight fractures, the mother longs to preserve the semi-dysfunctionalstatus quo. 　　他对母亲的感情比较疏远。尽管有些许裂痕，这位母亲依然渴望能维持这半失调的家庭现状。 　　But her cancer casts everything in shadow, and tests the relationships that matter most. 　　但癌症给一切都笼罩上阴影，考验着最重要的亲情。 　　The narrative is slow, but sumptuous with recipes and reflection. 　　小说叙事节奏很慢，但充满了对烹饪以及沉思的描写。 　　Mr Majmudar, who is also a poet, imbues his prose with phrases and metaphors that lingerwith the warmth of spices. 　　作者Majmudar先生也是一个诗人，短语和隐喻混合着调味品的温香，弥漫在字里行间。 　　Tension rises from the pages as his characters struggle to enjoy the present with theknowledge that everything must soon change. 　　文中的角色努力享受着当下，相信一切将会很快改变，情节愈加充满张力。 　　But the simple repetition of cooking and eating brings the family together, softening thehard edges like boiling water on rice. 　　不过烹调和用餐的简单惯例能让一家人聚在一起，软化矛盾，就像沸水煮大米一样。 　　Was America better for the family or did the move make everything harder? 　　来到美国让这个家庭更好，还是让一切更糟? 　　This country gave us clean quiet luxury and charged us nothing but our children, the motherobserves. 　　母亲评述说;这个国家带给我们清静祥和的享受，没有索取我们任何东西，但带走了我们的孩子。 　　Mala and Ronak are in many ways alien to their parents, and sometimes to themselves. Ohiohas offered them wealth and opportunity. 　　Mala和Ronak与他们的父母在很多方面都大相径庭，有时候与他们自己都格格不入。 　　For nourishment and love, they have the bowls of dahi and dishes of bhindi at the familytable. 　　俄亥俄州给予了他们财富和机遇，至于食物和爱，家里的餐桌上，有一杯杯的家乡酸奶和一碟碟的羊角豆。 　　词语解释 　　1.emigrate from 移居到国外 　　You knew you were going to stay and emigratefrom china. 　　你知道你将要从中国移民而留在这里。 　　Emigrate from britain to australia to find work. 　　从英国移居到澳大利亚寻找工作。 　　2.diagnose with 诊断 　　When questions help doctors diagnose with cacr she was twenty. 　　伊娃百次被确诊患上癌症时是20岁。 　　Before you diagnose yourself with alzheimer s disease, take heart: most memory lapses arenormal. 　　在你自我诊断为老年痴呆症之前，放心：大部分记忆丢失是正常的。 　　3.determine to 确定 　　We determine to fulfil the task ahead of time. 　　我们决定提前完成任务。 　　Describes the rules that determine to what degree reflection can be used to discover typeinformation and access types. 　　描述用于确定反射是否适合用于了解类型信息和访问类型的规则。 　　4.linger with 徘徊 　　Linger with a friend over dinner. 　　徘徊在晚餐的朋友。 　　Linger with us a bit as we saunter through the garden. 　　萦绕在我们走到我们有点透过花园。