【新编大学英语】（第一册）Unit 1 A 你的邻居朋友（2/2）
Hint:good-byehttp://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201211/201211140914121019369.mp3If neighbors have changed, neighborhoods have not. They still have the same parts. If you live in a real neighborhood you can be sure most of the following people will be found there:
One family with more children than they can take care of.
A dog that gets into garbage cans.
One big, beautiful home with a family so rich that they really aren't part of the neighborhood.
A bad child who steals or sets fire to things, although no one has ever been able to prove it.
People who leave their Christmas lights up until March.
Someone who doesn't cut their grass more than twice a summer.
Someone who cuts their grass twice a week and one of the times always seems to be Sunday morning at 7:30.
A family that never seems to turn off any lights in the house.
A teenager who plays the radio too loud in the summer with the windows open.
Someone who leaves their barking dog out until 11:30 most nights.
One mystery couple. They come and go but hardly anyone ever sees them and no one knows what they do.
A couple that has loud parties all the time with guests that take an hour to leave once they get outside and start shouting good-bye to each other.
Someone who doesn't pull the shades.
It is easier to have a longing about a past neighborhood than about a past community, but a community is probably a better unit. A neighborhood is just a group of people who live close together, but a community is a group of people who put aside their own concerns to get some important things done for a larger group.邻居换了，邻里关系并没有变，还是有相同之处。如果真正居住在邻里之间，你会发现很多这样的人：
一个家庭有太多的孩子，他们根本照顾不过来。
一直爱钻垃圾桶的狗。
一所大而华丽的房子里的富有家庭，他们根本不在乎邻里关系。
一个爱偷东西爱搞破坏的坏小孩，虽然还没有人能够证明。
把圣诞的灯饰一直打开着遗留到三月份的人。
有人夏天都不会割2次以上草坪。
有人一周割草2次，其中一次肯定是周日早上7点半。
一个从来都不关任何灯的家庭。
一个十来岁的孩子，大夏天开着大音量的收音机却不关窗。
有人每天半夜11:30赶出他们爱吼叫的狗。
一对神秘的夫妻，没有人真正看到过他们出入，甚至不知道他们是做什么的。
一对爱举办吵闹聚会的夫妻，并且每次都要用一个小时的时间散会，每次散会就开始大声的相互喊着“再见”
有人从来不拉窗帘。
对于一个过去的社区，我们更容易去渴求一个曾经的邻里，社区可能是一个更好的单位。一个邻里只是一个居住毗邻的人的群组。而一个社区则是更大的一群，撇开了自身的担忧，去获得更重要的事情。
——译文来自: hearwindsing
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