新视野大学英语第三版第二册Unit2课文原文+翻译 .pdfVIP

Unit 2 The humanities: Out of date? 1 When the going gets tough, the tough take accounting.When the job market worsens, many studentscalculate they cant major in English or history. They have to study something thatbooststheir prospectsof landing a job. 2 The data show that as students have increasingly shouldered the ever-rising cost of tuition, they have defectedfrom the study of the humanities and toward applied science and hard skills that they bet will lead to employment. In other words, a college education is more and more seen as a means for economic betterment rather than a means for human betterment.This is a trend that is likely to persistand evenaccelerate. 3 Over the next few years, as labor markets struggle, the humanities will probably continue their long slide in succession.There already has been a nearly 50 percent decline in the portion of liberal arts majors over the past generation, and it islogical to think that the trend is bound to continue or even accelerate.Once the dominant pillars of university life, the humanities now play little roles when students take their college tours.These days, labs are morevivid and compelling than libraries. 4 Here, please allow me to stand up for andpromote the true value that the humanities add to peoples lives. Since ancient times, people havespeculatedabout the mystery of those inner forces that drive some people to greatness and others to self-destruction. This inner drive has been called many things over the centuries.The famous psychologist, Sigmund Freud, called it the unconscious mind or, more familiarly, instinct. 5 From the beginning of time, this inner aspect of our being, this drive that can be constructive or destructive, has captured our imagination.The stories of this amaz