英语泛读第六章PPT.ppt

Unit 6 Father Son: the Bonding Process by Bill Handson the close father-son relationship between the author his young son and that between author his stepfather 作者和他的小儿子之间，作者和他的继父之间亲密的父子关系 Becoming a father myself wasnt high on my list of things to do. I had a sense that someday it would happen, but not in the immediate future. Dirty diapers and responsibilities were not my idea of a good time. Almost a decade after my father died, an infant changed my mind. His name is Miles Christopher Hanson. 成为一名父亲，并不是我近期计划要做的事情中最要紧的。我觉得，总有一天我会成为父亲，但却不是近期内。脏兮兮的尿布和种种责任，不是我所认为的快乐时光。父亲去世后差不多十年，一个婴儿的诞生改变了我的看法。他就是迈尔斯?克里斯托弗?汉森。 When I think about my life today, I see it as before child and after child. Being a father means there are new challenges for me. I must be prepared to meet obstacles （障碍物）I never knew existed and keep one step ahead of my growing boys needs. 当我今天回顾我的人生，我把它看成有孩子前和有孩子后两种。成为一名父亲意味着要面对许多新的挑战。我必须准备面对意料不到的种种困难。事先想到正在成长的孩子的各种需求。 There was no school degree to prepare me for fatherhood. I went to the bookstores and scoured the shelves for something that would give me a recipe for being a good father. I found nothing. Here I was, endeavoring to take on the biggest commitment of my life, and I had no lines, no textbook, no videos to tell me what to do. It was a job with no description. People would say to me, Just love him. Loving was the easy part. Being a father was not. 没有学校授予学位，好让我准备当父亲。我去书店，找遍所有书架，希望找到做个好父亲的良方，可是一无所获。现在，我正努力承担起我生活中最大的责任。没有相关的文章，没有书籍，也没有录像带教我怎么做。这是一件无章可循的工作。人们会告诉我：“就是爱他”。爱是那容易做到的部分。但成为父亲却不是。 I was terrified the first time I held this small, pink, wrinkled bundle in my arms, the first time I gave him a bath, the first time we were alone together. All I could do was remember my own childhood and realize that my father had been my world. It was the best advice I found. Slowly, I began to realize that I had been Miles world. I just started taking my cues from him and we did okay together. In fact, now we are inseparable. 第一次抱起这个小小的，粉红的，满是皱纹的襁袍时，