新版人教版高中英语必修第三册 Unit 2 Talk about moral dilemmas

Luke: Hi Jane, what are you reading?

卢克：嗨，简，你在读什么？

Jane: Oh, hey, Luke. I'm reading a very interesting magazine article about moral dilemmas.

简：哦，你好卢克。我正在看一篇很有意思的杂志文章，主题是道德困境。

Luke: Moral dilemma, what do you mean?

卢克：道德困境，这是什么意思？

Jane: You know, it's when you have two choices and you have to choose one, but for moral reasons, sometimes it could be really difficult to decide.

简：你想啊，就是当你面临两个选择，必须二选一，但出于道德层面的考量，有时候会很难做出决断。

Luke: Oh, situations like that don't happen very often, do they?

卢克：哦，这种情况应该不常发生吧？

Jane: Actually, I think people face moral dilemmas all the time. Even us students.

简：其实我觉得人们时时刻刻都会遇到道德困境，就连我们学生也不例外。

Luke: Really， like what?

卢克：真的吗？举个例子听听？

Jane: Well, for example, it mentions a girl who is taking the entrance exam for a medical university in Beijing.

简：比如说，文章里讲到一个女孩，当时她正在参加北京一所医科大学的入学考试。

During the exam, the student next to her fainted.

考试中途，她旁边的考生晕倒了。

The girl had a choice. Should she finish the exam or should she stop and help the student?

女孩陷入两难：是继续完成考试，还是停下救人？

Luke: Surely the teachers would look after the student who fainted.

卢克：监考老师肯定会照顾那个晕倒的考生吧。

Jane: Well, that's what I thought. But not this girl.

简：我一开始也是这么想的，但这个女孩没有等老师。

She stopped to help the student, thinking that it was better to put the needs of the other person first.

她立刻停下考试去帮忙，她认为他人的安危应当放在第一位。

Luke: So what happened to her exam?

卢克：那她的考试怎么办了？

Jane: She never finished it.

简：她没有考完剩下的内容。

Instead, she carried the student to a safe place and looked after her.

她把晕倒的同学扶到安全区域照看。

Then she went to the hospital with the student and called her sister.

之后她陪着同学去了医院，还联系了对方的姐姐。

Luke: I can't believe she would give up her chance to get into medical university. Who would do such a thing?

卢克：真不敢相信她会放弃学医的机会，换谁能做出这种选择啊？

Jane: Well. That girl was Lin Qiaozhi.

简：这个女孩就是林巧稚。

She later did get into medical university, and then she became a great doctor.

后来她还是考上了医科大学，成了一名了不起的医生。

She became famous for caring for tens of thousands of women and their babies.

她一生照料了成千上万的妇女和新生儿，因此闻名于世。

Luke: Oh, wow. So she became a doctor, even though she left her exam that day.

卢克：哇，原来如此。那天她虽然中途离场，最后还是如愿成为了医生。

Jane: Yes. Her life was full of hard choices, but she didn't let them stop her from taking care of people who were in need.

简：没错。她这一生经历过无数艰难抉择，但从未因此放弃救助有困难的人。

She always cared for others more than for herself.

她永远把他人的安危放在自己前面。

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