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 PAGE 11 lesson fourteen Saturday Night and Sunday Morning星期六的晚上和星期日上午 by Alan Sillitoe Text 14-1 He sat by the canal fishing on a Sunday morning in spring, at an elbow(赤楊樹) where alders dipped over the water like old men on their last legs, pushed by young sturdy oaks from behind. 在春天一个星期日的上午，他坐在运河边钓鱼，在他附近，赤杨树被后面生 长着年轻茁壮的橡树向前推挤垂人水中，像垂死的老人一样。 He straightened his back, his fingers freeing nylon line from a speedily revolving reel. 他直起腰身，用手指快速地从绕线轮上放出尼龙线。 Around him lay knapsack and jacket, an empty catch-net, his bicycle, and two tins of worms dug from the plot of garden at home before setting out. 他周围放着背包、夹克、一个空捕鱼网、他的自行车和出发前在家里花园里挖出的两听虫子。 Sun was breaking through clouds, releasing a smell of earth to heaven. 太阳钻出了云层，向空气中散发出泥土的气息。 Birds sang. A soundless and minuscular explosion of water caught his eye. 鸟儿在欢唱。他看到水面忽然间冒出一个无声的小小的水花， He moved nearer the edge, stood up, and with a vigorous sweep of his arm, cast out the line. 他走到水边，站起身，用力挥动手臂，将钓鱼线抛了出去。 14-2 Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal, but Arthur knew that they would leave each other in peace, would not even call out greetings . 不远处还有一个人沿着运河边在独自垂钓，但阿瑟知道他俩可以互不干扰各 钓各的鱼，甚至没必要相互打招呼问候。 No one bothered you: you were a hunter, a dreamer, your own boss away from it all for a few hours on any day that the weather did not throw down its rain . 没人打扰你：你是猎人、梦想家，是自己的老板，在不下雨的日子里，你可以有几个小时的时间摆脱所有的烦恼。 Like the corporal in the army who said it was marvellous (了不起的)the things you thought about as you sat on the lavatory(廁所). Even better than that, it was marvellous the things that came to you in the tranquillity of fishing. 像军队里的那位下士所说，坐在马桶上想到的事情真是太奇妙了。在垂钓的宁静中想 起的事情比在马桶上想起的事情更美妙。 14-3 He drank tea from the flask and ate a cheese sandwich, then sat back to watch the red and white float--up to its waist(腰部) in water under the alder trees(楊柳樹下)--and keep an eye always close to it for the sudden indication of a fortunate catch. 他拿着瓶子喝茶，吃了一块奶酪三明治，然后坐回原处看着钓鱼线上的红白 色浮标——浮标一半沉在赤杨树下齐腰深的水中一一他