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Unit 1 1、Undergraduates are searching identity and meaning and ,like rest of us ,they are torn by idealism of service on the one hand ,and on the other , the temptation to retreat into a world that never rise above self-interests. 大学生一直在寻找真我的所在，寻找生活的意义。一如芸芸众生的我们，他们也陷入了两难的境地。一方面，他们崇尚奉献于人的理想主义，而另一方面，他们又经不住自身利益的诱惑，陷入利己主义的世界里欲罢不能。 6、Unless we find better ways to educate ourselves ,as citizens ,unless hard questions are asked and satisfactory answers are offered ,we run the risk of making critical decisions ,not on the basis of what we know ,but on the basis of faith in one or another set of professed experts . 作为公民，我们只有找到更好的教育方法，只有提出更棘手的问题，并得到满意的答案，才能在关键的决策时刻承担风险，运用我们所学的知识做出重大决定，否则，我们只能基于盲目地相信一个或几个所谓的专家做出决策。 8、Obviously , no one institution in society can single-handedly provide the leadership we require .But we are convinced that the undergraduate college , perhaps more than any other institution , is obliged to provide the enlightened leadership our nation urgently requires if government by the people is to endure . 诚然，没有哪个社会机构能独立培养我们所需的领导人才，但我们深信，如果“民治政府’’要有生命力的话，大学相对子其他机构来说，更有责任去培养我们国家所急需的具有宏畴伟略的领导人。 10、The world may not yet be a village , but surely our sense of neighborhood must expand . When drought ravages the Sahara , when war in Indo-China creates refugees , neither our compassion nor our analytic intelligence can be bounded by a dotted line on a political map . 世界或许还没有变成一个小村庄。但可以肯定的是，我们的邻里意识必须加以扩展。当旱灾席卷撒哈拉沙漠，当印度支那战争带来难民潮时，我们的同情心，我们富于分析的智慧都不再受缚于地图上的政治分界线。 11、Philosophers, statesmen, inventors and artists from around the world enrich our lives, but such individuals and their contributions are largely unknown or unremembered. 世界各地的哲学家、政治家、发明家和艺术家的丰功伟绩丰富了我们的生活，但他们本人及其贡献却时常不为人知，或是被世人遗忘在角落里。 12、While some students have a global perspective, the vast majority, although vaguely concerned, are inadequately informed about the interdependent world in which they live. 虽然有一些学生已具备了放眼全球的视角，然而，大多数学生——尽管他们对世事的关注忽隐忽现，却对他们赖以生存相互依赖的世界缺乏足够的了解。 16、Education for what p