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A Winter to Remember 难忘的冬天 Robert Best 罗伯特.贝斯特 ?According to the weather men last winter was one of the worst in living memory. ①气象员说，去年冬天是记忆中最冷的一个冬天。We live in the depths of the country, and my whole family agree that it was certainly a winter we shall never forget. ②Snow began to fall at round about the beginning of the New Year and continued on and off for approximately ten days. ①我们在偏远地区；我们全家人都认为去年冬天肯定是我们永远无法忘记的。雪在年初开始下，断断续续下了十来天。At first we were all thrilled to see it.②It fell silently and relentlessly in large soft flakes until every ugly patch and corner of our rather rambling garden was smoothed over and had become a spotless white canopy.③The children soon spoilt its beauty by having snowball fights and leaving their footprints all over it.④Hungry birds too, in search of scraps of food, made delicate impressions on its surface.⑤It was now, when the garden was all churned up and of a dirty grey colour, that a severe frost set in, hardening the snow into ugly lumps of grimy concrete.⑥For the next three months the whole countryside lay in a grip of iron. ①看见这样的情形，我们一开始都很兴奋。雪花很大很软，悄无声息，下个不停，最后我们家的那个布局很不规则的花园的每片土地上都蒙上了厚厚的一层雪，就像是一席洁白无瑕的罩蓬。但是，孩子们打雪仗，雪地上满是脚印，很快就破坏这种美景。觅食的小鸟在雪地上也留下了纤细的爪痕。只有在花园被彻底翻腾过，呈现出肮脏的灰色后，严寒才会到来，把雪硬化成块，就像灰色的混凝土一样难看。在接下来的三个月里，整个乡村都陷入了冰天雪地。Every day the birds grew tamer, often waiting hopefully almost on our backdoor step.②We fed them with bits of cheese, chopped up meat and any leftovers we had.③We also put out bowls of water, which unfortunately within an hour had frozen solid. ①小鸟变得更加驯服，常常在我们家后门的台阶上满怀希望地等待。我们用碎奶酪喂它们，我们还把肉和其他剩余食物切碎喂它们。还端出几碗水给它们喝，只可惜不到一个小时，就冻得结结实实。①Indoors it was pretty cold too. ②Our central heating system proved both inadequate and uncooperative: inadequate partly because it needed overhauling and partly because the poor state of the doors and most of the windows made a whistling stream of cold air come through; uncooperative because occasionally it simply went on strike. ③To make matters worse there were tiny holes in the