5、 To the general public / To most people / In the popular mind / In most people's opinion ....

But despite / in spite of / for all .... I believe.... / one should ...


5.1 In the popular mind, it is immediately assumed that when morals are discussed, it is sexual morals that are meant. The morals of salesmen, doctors, and taxi drivers are only moderately interesting to the general public, while the relations between men and women are frequent themes in novels and movies, themes which no amount of repetition makes stale. Yet in spite of this immense preoccupation with sex, much attention should be drawn to the general moral standards.

當討論起道德問題時，大多數(shù)人會立即認為是指性道德。一方面售貨員、醫(yī)生和出租車司機的職業(yè)道德不大為公眾所關(guān)心，而另一方面男女間的關(guān)系卻是小說和電影中經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)的主題，再怎么不斷重復也不會失去其新鮮感。因此盡管人們對性的題目津津樂道，我認為應注意整個道德水平。

5.2 To most Chinese parents, college is a place their children should go. And their children, for the most part, are also anxious to go. It is in Chinese tradition that there is something about a college that transfers an ordinary child into a superior adult. But in spite of this belief, men and women who have been to college suspect that this is not the case.

大多數(shù)中國父母看來，大學是他們的子女應該去的地方。而他們的孩子在大多數(shù)情況下也渴望上大學。中國的傳統(tǒng)觀點是大學能把一個普普通通的孩子培養(yǎng)成一個超人一等的人。但是盡管人們有這個觀點，凡是讀過大學的人卻認為情況并非如此。