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【翻译比赛原文】 His First Day as Quarry-Boy 采石场工作的第一天 By Hugh Miller (1802～1856) 作者：休·米勒 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. 二十一年前，时值二月，天还没亮，我便出发了，去初次体验一种受约束的劳动生活。那天早上，我的心情罕见地沉重。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. 那时，我还是个身体单薄、关节松弛的孩子，醒着的时候喜欢幻想一些遥不可及的浪漫。可悲的变化呀！现在我要去采石场干活了，彭斯在他的《两只狗》中曾将此列为最讨厌的工作。Bating（减少，抑制） the passing uneasinesses（不安） occasioned（引起） by a few gloomy（悲观的，暗淡的） anticipations（预期，期盼）, the portion of my life which had already gone by had been happy beyond the common lot命运; 运气; 生活状况. 抑制着过去由一些没有希望的期盼所带来的不安，我之前的生活还是比较快乐的。I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods, a reader of curious books when I could get them, a gleaner （拾穗者）of old traditionary（传说的） stories; 我流连于岩石、树林间，读着我所能得到的稀奇古怪的书，俯拾那些古老的传奇故事；and now I was going to exchange all my day-dreams, and all my amusements（娱乐，乐趣，消遣）, for the kind of life in which men toil （长时间或辛苦地工作）every day that they may be enabled to eat, and eat every day that they may be enabled to toil! 现在，我将以我所有的白日梦和乐趣换取另一种生活，一种日日辛劳以饱腹、日日饱腹以辛劳的生活。 The quarry in which I wrought（work的过去式和过去分词） lay on the southern shore of a noble inland bay, or frith狭窄的海岔,河口，三角港rather, with a little clear stream on the one side, and a thick fir wood冷杉木on the other.我干活的采石场位于一个美丽的内陆湾南岸，或者说那是一个三角港，一边是一条清澈的小河，另一边是一片茂密的冷杉林。 It had been opened in the Old Red Sandstone老红砂岩of the district, and was overtopped 高出,高耸…之上by a huge bank of diluvial冲积的clay粘土，泥土, which rose over it in some places to the height of nearly thirty feet, and which at this time was rent断口，裂缝and shivered颤抖, wherever it presented an op