高英1第三版第七课中英文对照.pdfVIP

I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house. 我就在这院子里等着她，昨天下午我和玛吉把院子收拾得干干净 净，地面还有清扫留下的波纹。大多数人都不明白，这样的院子比他 们想的要舒适。它不只是个院子，而像是扩大的客厅。当院子里的硬 泥地给打扫得像屋内地板一样干净，周边的细沙上布满细小不匀的沟 纹时，谁都可以进来坐坐，抬头观赏榆树，等待永远也吹不进屋的阵 阵微风。 [2] Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world never learned to say to her. [2] 在她姐姐离开之前，玛吉会一直紧张不安：相貌平平的她会迷 惘地站在角落里，羡慕而敬畏地看着姐姐，为手臂和腿上烧 留下的 疤痕自惭形秽。她觉得姐姐总能牢牢地掌握生活，这个世界从没学会 对姐姐说半个“不”字。 [3] You’ve no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has “made it” is confronted,as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other’s faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs. [3] 你一定看过那些电视节目，“事业成功”的孩子在台上，她虚弱 的双亲蹒跚着从后台走出来，与她意外相聚。（当然，这种相聚得是惊 喜：如果父母和孩子上节目就为相互诅咒和辱骂，这又何苦呢？）节目 里，母亲和孩子热情拥抱，相视而笑。有时候爸爸妈妈会哭泣，女儿则 会张开双臂搂着他们