全新版大学英语快速阅读英汉对照UNIT4

1 Unit 4 学习单元四中有关 The Suburban Century 郊外的世纪 The United States is a nation of suburbs. The 1990 census makes it official. Nearly half the 美国是一个年轻的国家的郊区。一九九○年的人口普查使它的官员。近一半的 country 's population now lives in suburbs, up from a quarter in 1950 and a third in 1960. 国家的人口现在住在郊区的四分之一,而在 1950 年,三分之一在 1960 年创立的。 The third century of American history is shaping up as the suburban century. Until 1920 most 第三世纪的美国历史是塑造成郊区的世纪。直到 1920 年最 Americans lived in rural areas. By 1960 the country was a third urban, a third rural, and a 美国人都生活在乡下。1960 年第三个国家的城市,三分之一的农村, third suburban. That balance didn't last long, however. By 1990 the urban population had 第三郊区。这种平衡没有延续很久,不过了。到 1990 年城市人口 2 slipped to 31 percent and the rural population was down to less than a quarter. We are now a 滑落至31%和农村人口是到不到一刻钟。目前我们为 suburban nation with an urban fringe and a rural fringe. 郊区市镇边缘的国家与乡村刘海。 The first century of American life was dominated by the rural myth: the sturdy and self- 第一个世纪的美国人的生活主要是由农村传说:强劲和自我- reliant Jeffersonian farmer. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, Americans were 支持杰斐逊来农民。到19 世纪末,,然而,美国人 getting off the farms as fast as they could, to escape the hardship and brutality of rural 下车农场,越快越好、逃避那是一段艰苦和野蛮的农村 life. 生活。 3 Most of the twentieth century has been dominated by the urban myth: the melting pot; New 大部分的20 世纪占主导地位的城市神话:熔炉;新 York, New York; the cities as the nation 's great engines of prosperity and culture. All the 纽约,纽约,城市为这个国家的伟大的引擎的繁荣和文化。所有的 ...