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急!!!在线求<警察与赞美诗>( The Cop And The Anthem )的英文赏析或简介.要英文的!!!!!

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警察与赞美诗
O. Henry
欧·亨利 作 周式中 译注
At length Soapy reached an avenue where the glitter and turmoil was but faint. But on an unusually quiet corner he came to a stand-still. Here was an old church. Through one violet-stained window a soft light glowed, where, no doubt, the organist played the Sabbath anthem. For there drifted out to Soapy's ears sweet music that caught and held him transfixed against the iron fence.⑴
The moon was above, lustrous and serene; vehicles and
pedestrians were few; sparrows twittered sleepily in the eaves. And the anthem he had known well in the days when his life contained such things as mothers ⑵and roses and ambitions and friends and immaculate thoughts and collars.
The conjunction of Soapy's receptive state of mind and the influences about the old church wrought⑶ a sudden and wonderful change in his soul. He viewed with swift horror the pit into which he had tumbled, the degraded days, unworthy desires, dead hopes, wrecked faculties and base motives that made up his existence.
And also in a moment his heart responded thrillingly to this novel mood. An instantaneous and strong impulse moved him to battle with his desperate fate. He would pull himself out of the mire; he would make a man of himself again; he would conquer the evil that had taken possession of him. There was time; he was comparatively young yet; he would resurrect his eager ambitions and pursue them without faltering. Those solemn but sweet organ notes had set up a revolution in him. Tomorrow he would go and find work.A fur importer had once offered him a place as driver. He would be somebody in
the world. He would — Soapy felt a hand laid on his arm. He looked quickly around into the broad face of a policeman.
"What are you doin' here?" asked the officer.
"Nothing," said Soapy.
"Then come along," said the policeman.
"Three months on the island," said the Magistrate in the police Court the next morning.
索比终于来到了一条灯光暗淡、环境幽静的大道。在一个异常宁静的角落，他止住了脚步。这里有一座古老的教堂。从它的一个紫色的玻璃窗里，透出了一束柔和的光。教堂里面，有一个弹风琴的人在弹奏安息日赞美诗曲。优美的音乐传到了索比的耳中，深深地吸引了他，使他靠在铁栏杆上一动不动。
天上的月亮，皎洁而宁静；街上的车辆和行人都很稀少；昏昏欲睡的燕子在屋檐下唧唧低鸣。而那赞美诗，早在他的生活里还有母爱、玫瑰花、雄心壮志、朋友、纯洁的思想和干净的衣领的时候，他就已经熟悉了。
那座古老教堂的氛围，触动了索比，使他的心灵产生了一种突然的、奇妙的变化。突然间，他恐惧地看见了他陷身其中的深渊，他堕落的生活，他卑俗的欲望，他已死灭了的希望，他遭毁损了的能力，他卑鄙的动机—— 这一切就是现在的他。
霎时间，他的这种新意识激发了他内心的一阵冲动。这种突发的强烈冲动促使他起来与他的绝望命运作斗争。他要从堕落的泥潭里自拔，他要重新成为自己，他要战胜将他引入歧途的邪恶。还有时间，他还比较年轻。他要重新确立他从前曾经热切追求的目标，并且坚定不移地去实现他的目标。那支庄严而优美的乐曲在他的心中引发了一场革命。明天，他就要去找工作。有个裘皮进口商曾经要聘他做司机。明天他就可以去找他要这份工作。他就要在这个世界上活出个模样来了。他就要……
索比感觉到有一只手抓住了他的胳膊。他立即转过身，看见了一张警察的大脸。“你在这儿干什么？”警察问道。
“没干什么，”索比答道。
“那就跟我走吧，”警察说道。
“岛上关三个月，”第二天上午在治安法庭上法官作了判决。
Notes:⒈ 此句倒装，主语为sweet music, that带引的从句是它的定语从句。⒉意为“母爱”。⒊及物动词 work的过去式，意思是“产生”。
11月8日是我国的第一个记者节。在美国，如果提到新闻，肯定要提到普利策奖。普利策奖一直被认为是美国新闻、小说和音乐的最高荣誉和最受欢迎的奖项。
History of Pulitzer Prizes
新闻的荣誉：普利策奖
IN the latter years of the 19th century, Joseph Pulitzer stood out as the very embodiment of American journalism.
Hungarian-born, an intense indomitable figure, Pulitzer was the most skilful of newspaper publishers, a passionate crusader against dishonest government, a hawk-like competitor who did not shrink from sensationalism in circulation struggles, and a visionary who richly endowed his profession. His innovative New York World and St Louis Post-Dispatch reshaped newspaper journalism.Pulitzer was the first to call for the training of journalists at the university level in a school of journalism.
十九世纪后期, 约瑟夫·普利策一直是美国新闻业的代名词。生于匈牙利的普利策是一位资深的报纸出版商，一位充满激情并敢于反对政府的不诚实行为的斗士，一位不会为发行量而盲目追逐轰动效应的、 坚强如鹰的竞争者，一位远见卓识、向自己所在的行业慷慨解囊的资助者。他创办的《纽约世界》、《快邮报》改写了报业界的新闻史。 普利策第一个呼吁让新闻记者在新闻学院接受大学级的培训。
In writing his 1904 will, which made provision for the establishment of the Pulitzer Prizes as an incentive to excellence, Pulitzer specified solely four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one for education, and four travelling scholarships. He established an overseer advisory board and willed it power in deciding the awards.
普利策于1904年写的遗嘱条款中提出设立普利策奖，以此鼓励优秀作品。普利策单独设立了四个新闻奖、四个小说戏剧奖、一个教育奖以及四个旅外学者奖。他建立了一个监督理事会并赋予其评奖的权力。
Since the inception of the prizes in 1917, the board, later renamed the Pulitzer Prize Board, has increased the number of awards to 21 and introduced poetry, music, and photography as subjects, while adhering to the spirit of the founder's will and its intent.
自1917年颁奖以来，这个以后被称作普利策奖理事会的监督理事会将奖项增加到了21个，并在遵守其奠基人遗愿精神的基础上增加了诗歌、音乐及摄影等类别的奖项。
In 1997, the 150th anniversary of Pulitzer's birth, the board took a significant step in recognition of the growing importance of work being done by newspapers in online journalism. Beginning with the 1999 competition, the board sanctioned the submission by newspapers of online presentations as supplements to print exhibits in the Public Service category.
理事会在1997年，即普利策150周年诞辰时承认了网上新闻报纸的重要性日趋提高，迈出了重要的一步。
由1999年的评选开始，在公用事业这一类别中，理事会准许由网上报纸提交的稿件作为传统印刷报纸的补充。
Over the years the Pulitzer board has at times been targeted by critics for awards made or not made. Given the subjective nature of the award process, this was inevitable. The board has not been captive to popular inclinations. Many honored books have not been on bestseller lists, and many of the winning plays have been staged off-Broadway or in regional theaters.
多年来，评论家们不时地就已颁奖项或未颁奖项对普利策理事会进行抨击。评奖过程的主观作用是不可避免的。理事会与大众的评判标准并不一致。许多获奖的书籍并没未排上畅销书排行榜，而许多获奖的剧目曾经上演的地方不在百老汇，而是在一些小地方的戏院里。
In journalism the major newspapers, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, have harvested many of the awards, but the board also has
often reached out to work done by small, little-known papers.
The Public Service award in 1995 went to The Virgin Islands Daily News, St Thomas, for its disclosure of the links between the region's rampant crime rate and corruption in the local criminal justice system.
在新闻方面，各大报纸，如《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《华盛顿邮报》都曾获得很多奖项，但理事会也经常会给一些无名小报的作品颁奖。1995年的公用事业奖就颁给了《处女岛日报》的圣托马斯，他的作品提露了地区猖獗的犯罪率及当局的犯罪司法制度腐败之间的关系。
The formal announcement of the prizes, made each April, states that the awards are made by the president of Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize board.This formulation is derived from the Pulitzer will, which established Columbia as the seat of the administration of the prizes. Today, in fact, the independent board makes all the decisions relative to the prizes. In his will Pulitzer bestowed an endowment on Columbia of $2,000,000 for the establishment of a School of Journalism, one-fourth of which was to be "applied to prizes or scholarships for the encouragement of public, service, public morals, American literature, and the advancement of education."
每年四月正式宣布普利策奖 ，奖项由普利策奖理事会推荐的哥伦比亚大学校长宣布。这种做法沿于普利策的遗嘱，在他的遗嘱中，哥伦比亚大学被指定为该奖的执行部门。实际上，今天，独立的理事会决定所有的有关奖项。在普利策的遗嘱中，他捐赠了200万美元给哥伦比亚大学建立新闻学院，其中的1/4被“用于有利于激励公共事业，服务，公共道义，美国文学，及教育进步的奖项或奖学金”。
In doing so, he stated: "I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people. I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training."
普利策解释自己的这个做法时说：“我对新闻的进步和发展有着浓厚的兴趣，我的一生都是在这个行业中度过的，我把它看成是一个神圣的职业，它对人们的思想及道德观念的影响是不可替代的。我期待着帮助那些个性鲜明、才华横溢的青年加入这个行业，帮助已经加入这个行业的人获得道德观念及知识的最好培训。”