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1、本文格式为Word版，下载可编辑2022考研英语阅读灰色的幽影 Stories of resistance;Shades of grey 关于反抗的故事;灰色的幽影 Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, andHeeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times. ByEyal Press. 漂亮灵魂:说不，打破等级，留心黑暗时代中道德之音。 You have a decent job and work hard. You keepyour nose clean, respect authority and
2、 have never joined a protest march. Suddenly youhave the bad luck to face a cruel and seemingly impossible choice. Your superiors tell you todo something outrageous or unacceptable. Do you obey or, at grave personal cost,refuse? In Beautiful Souls, a subtle and thoughtful book, Eyal Press, an Americ
3、anjournalist, tells the stories of four very ordinary people who, in widely different times, placesand circumstances, surprised themselves by saying no. 你有份风光的工作并且做得很努力。你保持洁身自爱，敬重权威，从不加入抗议性游行中。突然你不幸的要面对残忍几乎表面来看不行能的选择：你的上级令你去做你粗暴不行接受的事。听从命令还是牺牲重大的个人代价去拒绝?在精细奇妙布满思想的漂亮灵魂一书中，美国记者Eyal Press为您叙述一个关于四位来自不同
4、时空不同地点不同环境的一般人在说出不之后得到的意想不到的结果。 This morally courageous foursome includes a Swiss police official who broke the law in 1938by giving entry permits to Jewish refugees; a Serb who, at risk to his own life, savedcaptured Croats from summary execution during the Serb-Croat war in 1991; an Israelispecial
5、-forces soldier in the occupied territories who could no longer stomach orders toprotect Israeli settlers who were doing wrong, as he saw it, to Palestinian farmers; and amid-ranking whistle-blower in a Texas investment company accused of fraud. 这个着实英勇的四人组包括一名1938年因给犹太逃亡者放行二触犯法律的瑞士警官;一名冒生命危急在1991年救了
6、在塞尔维亚克罗地亚战斗中即将被草率处决的克罗地亚人的塞尔维亚人;一名在被占据土的以色列特种兵，就像他看到的，不能再容忍错误的针对巴勒斯坦农夫而爱护以色列移居者的命令;还有一名在德克萨斯投资公司被指控诈骗罪的中层内部揭发者。 At first glance, this looks like a jumble of risks and motives. The policeman had to be braveover months. The Serb had to decide in an instant. The Israeli soldier s disquiet nagged foryea
7、rs before he quit. The whistle-blower was fired, whereas the Serb faced being shot. Thatlack of a pattern, though, is part of Mr Press s point. We recognise moral bravery when wesee it. Explaining it is extremely hard. 乍一看，这书是危急与动机的混杂体。警察不得不在数月里保持英勇。塞尔维亚人不得不即刻做打算。以色列士兵在退役前数年的焦虑让他苦恼不已。揭发者被炒了，另一方面塞尔维亚
8、人面临枪决。这些例子乍一看没有什么共性，但这也是Mr Press所要强调的地方。当我们看到它时会认可道德上的士气。而要解释清晰却极端困难。 On stage and in the pulpit, moral dilemmas of this kind tend to have a black-and-whiteclarity. Working from life, Mr Press brings out the greys. All of the choices he looked at werehard, and only the Serb s involved a clear-cut de
9、cision in the moment. The good achieved byeach of these beautiful souls was small: the few lives the Serb and the Swiss policemansaved were a pittance when set against greater evils they could not stop. The soldier has notstopped Israel s settlement-building, and the whistle-blower did not dent the
10、financialsystem. So why did they do it? Stories of resistance;Shades of grey 关于反抗的故事;灰色的幽影 Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, andHeeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times. ByEyal Press. 漂亮灵魂:说不，打破等级，留心黑暗时代中道德之音。 You have a decent job and work hard. You keepyour nose clean, respect autho
11、rity and have never joined a protest march. Suddenly youhave the bad luck to face a cruel and seemingly impossible choice. Your superiors tell you todo something outrageous or unacceptable. Do you obey or, at grave personal cost,refuse? In Beautiful Souls, a subtle and thoughtful book, Eyal Press, a
12、n Americanjournalist, tells the stories of four very ordinary people who, in widely different times, placesand circumstances, surprised themselves by saying no. 你有份风光的工作并且做得很努力。你保持洁身自爱，敬重权威，从不加入抗议性游行中。突然你不幸的要面对残忍几乎表面来看不行能的选择：你的上级令你去做你粗暴不行接受的事。听从命令还是牺牲重大的个人代价去拒绝?在精细奇妙布满思想的漂亮灵魂一书中，美国记者Eyal Press为您叙述一个
13、关于四位来自不同时空不同地点不同环境的一般人在说出不之后得到的意想不到的结果。 This morally courageous foursome includes a Swiss police official who broke the law in 1938by giving entry permits to Jewish refugees; a Serb who, at risk to his own life, savedcaptured Croats from summary execution during the Serb-Croat war in 1991; an Israel
14、ispecial-forces soldier in the occupied territories who could no longer stomach orders toprotect Israeli settlers who were doing wrong, as he saw it, to Palestinian farmers; and amid-ranking whistle-blower in a Texas investment company accused of fraud. 在舞台上也好，在讲道坛上也好，这类的道德上的是与非往往很明确， 就是非黑即白。而在实际生活中
15、，Mr Press提出还有灰色这种状况。他所观看到的全部选择都极其困难，只有塞尔维亚人在那刻卷入的选择时则是心里明镜似的。这些漂亮灵魂的所作所为只是造成很小范围内的而影响：少数人让塞尔维亚人存活了下来，瑞士警察所解救的也只是沧海一粟，对其他更强大的恶势力更是无能为力。士兵没能阻挡以色列的殖民建设，揭发者也没能减弱金融系统。所以为什么主人公们还要这么做呢? Without claiming to have firm answers, Mr Press sees three factors at work. One is that thesepeople listened to their emo
16、tions. Faced with the unacceptable, their instincts rebelled.Direct confrontation was also important. The challenge to their moral sensibility was face-to-face. This was not true of the whistle-blower, but her conduct suggests to Mr Press athird element. She was not a rebel out to flout authority or change the rules. On thecontrary, she acted to protect ru
