英语教育专业毕业毕业论文.doc

英汉翻译与评论：Saved by His Mistakes 卢贝贝 Original: Saved by His Mistakes Jerry Cram set out to go coon hunting that gloomy afternoon. With him were his old shepherd dog and two beagle hound pups. At least he said they were beagles, but his older brother Bob had roared with laughter a month earlier, when Jerry had told him they had cost five dollars. Its another of your mistakes, Jerry! He said. And thats what Bob called the pups Mistake No. 1 and Mistake No. 2 Even Jerry had to admit that the pups werent much help, for he hunted for several hours without any luck, till at last he ran out of shells. Then, toward evening, he spotted a raccoon high in a beech tree. It was a forty-foot tree, an ancient one that had died years ago. The top of its trunk had been carried away in some storm, and the trunk itself had been gutted by rot and insects. Still, Jerry went up after the coon, intending to capture him by hand. But he never reached the animal. Just as he got level with the top of the broken trunk, the limb on which he was standing cracked ominously under his feet. Instantly he jumped to the rim of the tree trunk, and at once the edge crumbled. Down he plunged, too suddenly to make a sound, into the deep hollow of the dead tree. Halfway down Jerrys fall was broken for a moment by a jutting piece of wood that caught his clothing. Then he tumbled the rest of the way. Shaken, dazed, but miraculously unhurt, he picked himself up. It was dark inside the tree. Above him there was only a pale disc of sky. At his feet a pear-shaped hole framed a small patch of grey light. He could hear the pups sniffing and yelping to him, and Shep backed off and barked in alarm. Jerry was scared. Some time passed before he calmed down and began to look for a way to get out. There were no hand holds on the inside of the trunk; the snag that had slowed him up on his way down was out of reach. And, though he tried desperately, he couldnt enlarge the hole at his feet by kicking. It would do no goo