双语朗读美文：尽在不言中.docVIP

双语朗读美文：尽在不言中 摘录：诗打印在一小片白纸上，字体有点过时，像是打字机打出 来的字体。这块板子高高挂在暖气片的上方，那儿可是厨房里最温暖 的地方，我们常在那儿挂湿抹布和粘着雪的手套。那首诗现在还挂在 那儿，但无论妈妈还是我，都从未开口谈论过它。 When I read a book from my motherrsquo;s shelves, itrsquo;s not unusual to come across a gap in the text. A paragraph, or maybe just a sentence, has been sliced out, leav ing a wi ndow in its place, with words from the n ext page peeping through. The chopped up page looks like a nearly complete jigsaw puzzle wait ing for its missi ng piece. But the piece isnrsquo;t lost, and I always know where to find it. Doze ns of quotati ons, clipped from n ewspapers, magaz in es;a nd books;plaster one wall of my motherrsquo;s kitche n. What means the most to my mother in her books she excises and displays. Irsqu o;ve n ever told her, but those literary amputati ons appall me. I know Ann Patchett and Dorothy Sayers, and Somerset Maugham would fume alongside me, their careful prose severed from its rightful place. She picks extracts that startle me, too: “ Put your worst foot forward, because the n if people can still sta nd you, you can be yourself. Sometimes I sta nd read ing the wall of quotati ons, holdi ng a scissors-victim novel in my hand, puzzling over what draws my mother to these particular words. 当我翻看妈妈书架上的书时，常常会发现其中的文字缺了一部 分。其中的一个段落，或可能只是一个句子，被剪了下来，在原来的 位置上留下了一扇窗户，让后一页上的文字探头探脑地露了出来。 被 挖掉一块的那一页看上去就像是一幅几乎就要完成的拼图作品， 等待 着缺失的那一块拼图。但那一块拼图并没有丢，而且我总是知道在哪 儿能找到它。在我妈妈的厨房里，从报纸上、杂志上；;还有书上；;剪下 的纸片贴满了一面墙。在她的书里，那些她最喜欢的句子和段落都被 她剪了下来，贴在墙上。 我从未当面和她说过，但她对文学作品的这种“截肢手术”的确 让我感到震惊。我知道，安bull;帕契特、多萝西bull;塞耶斯和萨 默塞特bull;毛姆也在我身旁气得冒烟呢，怎么能把这些他们呕心沥 血写出来的文字就这样从它们原来的位置上“截肢”了呢 ！她挑出来 的那些段落也着实吓了我一跳，比如：“以你最糟糕的一面示人，因 为如果那样人们也能容忍你的话，你就能做真正的自己了。”有时候， 我会站在那儿读墙上那些书摘，手里拿着一本备受剪刀“迫害”的小 说，心里充满困惑，不知道到底是什么驱使妈妈剪下了这样一些稀奇 古怪的句子。 My own quotatio n collecti on is more hidde n and delicate. I copy favorite lines into a spiral-bound journal-a Christmas present from my mother, actually)n soft, gray No. 2 pencil. This means my books rema in whole. The labor required makes selecti on acutthroat proces