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美联英语提供：英语阅读：Every Day Is a Gift 每一天都是特殊的日子 两分钟做个小测试，看看你的英语水平 /test/kuaisu.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 Every Day Is a Gift 每一天都是特殊的日子 My brother-in-law opened the bottom drawer of my sisters bureau and lifted out a tissue-wrapped package. This, he said, is not a slip. This is lingerie. He discarded the tissue and handed me the slip. 妹夫打开了妹妹衣柜的底层抽屉，拿出一个用纸包装的包裹。“这个，”他说不是件普通村裙内衣，而是一件做工非常精细的内衣。”他把薄纸撕开，递给我那件内衣。 It was exquisite, silk, handmade and trimmed with a cobweb of lace. The price tag with an astronomical figure on it was still attached. 它的确精致无比，丝质、全手工缝制，周围还有一圈网状花边。价签都尚未拆去，上面的数字高得惊人。 Jan bought this the first time we went to New York, at least 8 or 9 years ago. She never wore it. She was saving it for a special occasion. “这是我们第一次去纽约时简买的，至少已是八九年前的事了。她从没有穿过它。她保留着它，想等一个特殊的日子再穿。” Well, I guess this is the occasion. 唉，我想现在便是那特殊的日子了。 He took the slip from me and put it on the bed, with the other clothes we were taking to the mortician. His hands lingered on the soft material for a moment, then he slammed the drawer shut and turned to me,Dont ever save anything for a special occasion. Every day youre alive is a special occasion. 妹夫从我手中拿过内衣放在床上，和其他我们要带给殡仪服务人员的衣服放在一起。他的手在那柔软织物上徘徊了一会儿，随即砰然关上抽屉，转身对我说：“永远不要把任何东西留给什么特殊日子。你活着的每一天就是一个特殊的日子。” I remembered those words through the funeral and the days that followed when I helped him and my niece attend to all the sad chores that follow an unexpected death. I thought about them on the plane returning to California from the mid-western town where my sisters family lives. I thought about all the things that she hadnt seen or heard or done. I thought about the things that she had done without realizing that they were special. 在葬礼上和帮妹夫、侄女处理妹妹意外死亡后的伤心后事的那几天，我一直记着这些话。我乘飞机从位于中西部的妹妹家的小镇上返回加州时，还在想这些话。我想着妹妹没有去看到、去听或去做的事。我想着她虽然做过却没有意识到其特殊性的事。 Im still thinking about his words, and theyve changed the weeds in the garden. Im spending more time with ray family and friends and less time in committee meetings. Whenever possible, life should be a pattern of