Unit 2 Morals and Virtues 中英翻译练习-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第三册

U2 MORALS AND VIRTUES People often talk about morals and what virtue is. But sometimes they may face moral dilemmas. For example, if an old man tripped over a stone or suddenly fainted in the street or was injured in an accident, what would be your first response? Should you assist him to rise or give first aid? Or just stand by? This will illustrate what your moral and life principles are. In Lin Qiaozhi’s eyes, life is precious. When others entrusted her with their lives, it was virtue that carried her through a life of hard choices. She did not choose marriage as the majority of girls did, but chose to study medicine. Therefore, her brother responded against her choice and complained about it, thinking of the high tuition fees. After graduation, Lin Qiaozhi won a scholarship from a union and was hired as a resident physician in a famous hospital. Once she was appointed as a visiting scholar to a clinic in a faraway country. She impressed her colleagues by rejecting a well-paid offer. In the decades after liberation, Lin Qiaozhi was elected as leaders in many important positions and led all the staff to the medical cause of China. She published a great deal of medical research. She did not retire until the day she passed away, 22 April 1983. There was an earthquake here. The might of the earthquake brought more or less harm to per family. Some people lived in tears, in tension or in despair. Some people had bought disaster insurance with their income savings, while some people tended to accept it. At midnight, the scared and passive people couldn’t go elsewhere but sit in the square of the kindergarten, listening to the chairman tell fables. Mothers whispered with their lips open and their children sleeping on their laps regardless of the mosquito bites. The chairman told a chain of fables as if in memory of a moral person. One of the fables began with a disguised king. He left his court and got into a cart for a visit. He hid behind a maple tree. He saw a custo