第二届“《英语界》杯”翻译大赛原文.docVIP

【翻译比赛原文】 His First Day as Quarry-BoyBy Hugh Miller (1802～1856)It was twenty years last February since I set out, a little before sunrise, to make my first acquaintance with a life of labour and restraint; and I have rarely不常, 很少地, 难得地had a heavier heart than on that morning.I was but a slim, loose-jointed（关节松弛的，自由行动的 boy at the time, fond of the pretty intangibilities（无形，不可触知） of romance, and of dreaming when broad awake; and, woful（悲伤的，不幸的） change! I was now going to work at what Burns has instanced, in his ‘Twa Dogs’, as one of the most disagreeable of all employments,—to work in a quarry. 那