遗留在时光背后的思念-公开课件.pptVIP

* 遗留在时光背后的思念 They’re gone now. 他们已经走了。 I stood in the?driveway?and watched my grown children drive off into the distance. I looked down the road until I could no longer see their?vehicles. 我站在车道上，看着我那些已长大的孩子驶远。我凝视着那路的尽头，直到再看不见他们的车。 “They live way too far away from me,” I said to myself. “When did they grow up and become parents of small children? Shouldn’t that be me?” “他们住得离我太远了，”我自言自语道，“他们什么时候长大且为人父母的？我不是才长大，才为人父母吗？” I slipped back inside the house and just walked through the rooms for no reason in particular. I was just missing them already and looking for signs of their having been here. There were pillows on the floor where they had been?tossed?from the couch and a few stuffed animals lying around where the children had been playing. 我回到屋里，只是漫无目的地行走于各个房间里。他们才刚走，我就已经开始想他们了，只好在屋里寻找着他们曾逗留的痕迹。地板上的枕头是孩子们从沙发上扔下来的，一些布绒玩具动物正躺在孩子们之前玩耍的地方。 I smiled at the little?fingerprints?on my mirror. I didn’t wipe them off. I thought back to the time when I tried so hard to keep the fingerprints off the mirrors and doors when my children were small. Now, I wanted the tiny fingerprints to stay so that I could see them there just a little longer. 我对着镜子上的小指印微笑，没去擦。回想起当我的孩子还小时，我竭力不让镜子和房门沾上指印。现在，我希望这些小指印都留在上面，好让我看久一点。 As I walked around the house, I picked up a few items on the floor and straightened a chair. I decided to sort through the toy box and I found a flying?dinosaur, a skeleton, and a Frankenstein that had mysteriously taken up residence in my box of toys. 当我在屋里四处游走时，我捡起地上的一些物品，并把一张椅子摆正。我决定整理一下玩具箱里的玩具。而我发现了一只会飞的恐龙、一架动物骷髅，连弗兰肯斯坦这个人造怪物也不知怎的就神秘地跑到那玩具箱里了。 I walked into the kitchen and there on the back of the sink was a bottle brush that had been left behind. “Ah, even Tessa left something behind,” I announced. Well, I suppose she had help since she was just four months old. 我走进厨房，水池后面有一个被落下的洗瓶刷。“哈，连特莎也落下了一个东西，”我说道。噢，肯定是有人帮她刷瓶子给落下的，毕竟她只有四个月大。 “I wonder what else has been left behind,” I said out loud to no one in particular. My husband heard me and joined the search for things lef