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英语写作精讲精练：轻松翻译训练
1.
I
hope
my
grandchildren
will
have
the
strength
to
bear
the
difficulties
and
disappointments
and
grieves of life, bear them with dignity
and without self-pity, knowing that tragedies
befall everyone. Although we
may seem
singled out for special sorrows, that is not
really so. Worse things have happened many times
to others
in the world and it is not
tears but determination that makes pain bearable.
2.
Early Autumn
When Bill was very young, they had been
in love. Many nights they had spent walking,
talking together.
Then something not
very important had come between them, and they
didn
’
t speak. Impulsively,
she had married
a man she thought she
loved. Bill went away, bitter about women.
Yesterday, walking across Washington
Square, she saw him for the first time in years.
“
Bill
Walker,
”
she
said.
He stopped. At first he did not
recognize her, to him she looked so old.
“
Mary! Where did you come
from?
”
Unconsciously,
she lifted her face as though wanting a kiss, but
he held out his hand. She took it.
“
I
live in New York now,
”
she said.
“
Oh,
—
Smiling politely, then a little frown
came quickly between his eyes.
“
Always wondered what
happened to you, Bill.
”
“
I
’
m a
lawyer. Nice firm, way
downtown.
”
“
Married
yet?
”
“
Sure. Two
kids.
”
“
Oh,
”
she said.
A great many people went
past them through the park. People they
didn
’
t know. It was late
afternoon.
Nearly sunset. Cold.
“
And your
husband?
”
he
asked her.
“
We have three children. I
work in the bursar
’
s office
at Columbia.
”
“
You
are looking very
?”
(he wanted to say old)
“?
well,
”
he
said.
She understood. Under the trees in
Washington Square, she found herself desperately
reaching back into
the past. She had
been older than he then in Ohio. Now she was not
young at all. Bill was still young.
“
We
live on Central Park West,
”
she said.
“
Come
and see us sometime.
”
“
Sure,
”
he replied.
“
You
and your husband must have dinner with my family
some night. Any night.
Lucille and
I
’
d love to have
you.
”
The leaves fell
slowly from the tree in the Square. Fell without
wind. Autumn dusk. She felt a little sick.
“
We
’
d
love it,
”
she
answered.
“
You ought to
see my kids.
”
He
grinned.
Suddenly the lights came on up the
whole length of Fifth Avenue, chains of misty
brilliance in the blue
air.
“
The
re
’
s my
bus,
”
she said.
He
held out his hand.
“
Goodbye.
”
“
When
?”
, she wanted to say, but the bus was
ready to pull off. The lights on the avenue
blurred,
twinkled, blurred. And she was
afraid to open her mouth as she entered the bus.
Afraid it would be impossible to
utter
a word.
Suddenly she shrieked very loudly,
“
Good-
bye!
”
But the bus
door had closed.
The bus started. People
came between them outside, people crossing the
street, people they didn
’
t
know.
Space and people. She lost sight
of Bill. Then she remembered she had forgotten to
give him her address
—
or to
ask him for
his
—
or tell him that her
youngest boy was named Bill, too.
3. Handshaking
is used to greet another and to
“
seal
”
a contract or a promise. Most
handshaking is
right-handed,
and
this
may
come
from
an
age
when
everybody
carried
weapons.
Shaking
right
hands,
that
is,
joining dominant hands
could be a demonstration that neither party was
with a weapon in his hand, or about to use
a weap
on, a sign of peace.
It was a way of saying “I mean you no immediate
violence, if you can show that your
intention is the same.
4. This
interpretation would also explain why, until quite
recently, it was chiefly males who practiced
handshaking, and why a man should not
shake hands with a woman unless the woman extended
her hand first. A
man
’
s offering
his hand to a woman would ca
rry the
offensive implication that the “gentler sex” too
could be
dangerous. It is now
acceptable for American women to shake hands and
even to do so firmly.
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