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第六届“《英语世界》杯”翻译大赛原文 A Garden That Welcomes Strangers By Allen Lacy I do not know what became of her, and I never learned her name. But I feel that I knew her from the garden she had so lovingly made over many decades. Note: 1)What become of sb You wonder where they are and what has happened to them. 2)lovingly The house she lived in lies two miles from mine – a simple, two-story structure with the boxy plan, steeply-pitched roof and unadorned lines that are typical of houses built in the middle of the nineteenth century near the New Jersey shore. Note: 1) boxy: be similar to a square and usually plain四四方方的 Her garden was equally simple. She was not a conventional gardener who did everything by the book, following the common advice to vary her plantings so there would be something in bloom from the first crocus（番红花） in the spring to the last chrysanthemum（菊花） in the fall. She had no respect for the rule that says that tall-growing plants（高大的） belong at the rear of a perennial（多年生的） border, low ones（低矮的） in the front and middle-sized ones（中等的） in the middle, with occasional exceptions for dramatic accent. Note: 1) accent: special importance or significance 强调；突出 In her garden, everything was accent, everything was tall, and the evidence was plain that she loved three kinds of plant and three only: roses, clematis（铁线莲） and lilies, intermingled promiscuously to pleasant effect but no apparent design. Note: 1) intermingle: to mix with each other. 2) promiscuously: in an indiscriminated manner 杂乱地 She grew a dozen sorts of clematis（铁线莲）, perhaps 50 plants in all（总共）, trained and tied so that they clambered up metal rods, each rod crowned intermittently throughout the summer by a rounded profusion of large blossoms of dark purple, rich crimson（深红色）, pale lavender（淡紫色）, light blue and gleaming white. Note: 1) train : 2)clamber up 3)intermittently: 间歇地 4）rounded: 全面的 5）profusion: a profusion of There is a very large quantity or variety of it 大量的， 丰富的