好的英语故事是学习英语者的首选工具,
一个飞车手被新的雷达测速仪捕获。
那是他在一天晚上超速驾车回家时,被自动照像机摄下了他的汽车。
不久,他便收到了一个装有罚款单的信封,里面装有他汽车的照片、超速的日期和速度。
他对这种方式的印象极为深刻,于是寄回了那张罚款单,并附上了一张一百元美金的照片作为罚金。
A motorist got caught in one of those new radar traps.
He had been driving home one night when the automatic camera identified his car as exceeding the speed limit.
Soon after,he received a ticket in the mail,plus a picture of this vehicle with the date and speed recorded on it.
Duly impressed, he sent back the ticket, along with a photo of a $100 bill to pay the fine.
It is very hot and wet today and is called sauna weather.
During my mom did the cooking in the kitchen, I saw her head was sweaty.I told her I could help her and she accepted.
After cooking,we were all sweaty .However, mum and I all felt happy. She said I was growing up and became her good assistant.
翻译:今天天气很热,被称为桑拿天。妈妈做饭的时候我看到她满头大汗,我就说帮助她做饭,她同意了我的请求。
做完饭以后,我们都变得满头大汗,但是我们都很高兴。她说我已经长大,变成她的助手了。
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.
一位年轻的总裁,以有点快的车速,开着他的新Jaguar经过住宅区的巷道。 他必须小心游戏中的孩子突然跑到路中央,所以当他觉得小孩子快跑出来时,就要减慢车速。
As his car passed, one child appeared, and a brick smashed into the Jag's side door. He slammed on the brakes and spun the Jag back to the spot from where the brick had been thrown.
就在他的车经过一群小朋友的时候,一个小朋友丢了一块砖头打到了他的车门,他很生气的踩了煞车并后退到砖头丢出来的地方。
He jumped out of the car, grabbed some kid and pushed him up against a parked car, shouting, “ What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing?”
他跳出车外,抓了那个小孩,把他顶在车门上说:“你为什么这样做,你知道你刚刚做了什么吗?”
Building up a head of steam, he went on“ That's a new car and that brick you threw is gonna cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?”
接着又吼道:“你知不知道你要赔多少钱来修理这台新车,你到底为什么要这样做?”
“Please,mister, please,I'm sorry. I didn't know what else to do!” pleaded the youngster.
小孩子求着说:“先生,对不起,我不知道我还能怎么办?”
“It's my brother,” he said. “He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up.
他接着说:“因为我哥哥从轮椅上掉下来,我没办法把他抬回去。”
Sobbing, the boy asked the executive, ”Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me.“
那男孩啜泣着说:“你可以帮我把他抬回去吗?他受伤了,而且他太重了我抱不动。”
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief and wiped the scrapes and cuts, checking to see that everything was going to be okay.
这些话让这位年轻的总裁深受感动,他抱起男孩受伤的哥哥,帮他坐回轮椅上。并拿出手帕擦拭他哥哥的伤口,以确定他哥哥没有什么大问题。
”Thank you, sir. And God bless you,“ the grateful child said to him. The man then watched the little boy push his brother to the sidewalk toward their home.
那个小男孩感激地说:“谢谢你,先生,上帝保佑你。”然后他看着男孩推着他哥哥回去。
It was a long walk backs to his Jaguar... a long, slow walk. He never did repair the side door. He kept the dent to remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention.
年轻总裁返回Jaguar的路变的很漫长,他也没有修他汽车的侧门。他保留着车上的凹痕就是提醒自己:
Life whispers in your soul and speaks to your heart. Sometimes, when you don't have the time to listen... Life throws a brick at your head.
生活的道路不要走的太匆忙,否则需要其他人敲打自己来注意生活的真谛。
It's your choice: Listen to the whispers of your soul or wait for the brick!
当生命想与你的心灵窃窃私语时,若你没有时间,你有两种选择:倾听你心灵的声音或让砖头来砸你
如果你爱看韩剧,看过《我的名字叫金三顺》,或许你会记得一个片段:金三顺在公车站台读一首诗,还没读完,双眼就满含泪水。这首诗最先出自一位名叫 Alfred D'Souza 的神父之手。我们中的许多人未必爱看韩剧,未必看过《我的名字叫金三顺》,但看到这些句子、这样的生活态度或许也会被打动:
Love like you've never been hurt,Dance like nobody's watching,Sing like nobody's listening,Work like you don't need the money,Live like it's heaven on earth.
去爱吧,如同不曾受过伤害一样,跳舞吧,就像没有人注视你一样,唱歌吧,如同没有人聆听一样,工作吧,如同不需要金钱一样,活着吧,如同今天是末日一样。
For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But, there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished busines time still to be served or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin.
长期以来,我都觉得生活——真正的生活似乎就要开始了。但是,总会有一些障碍挡住去路,一些必须先完成的事情,一些未完成的工作,一些要付出的时间或一些要偿还的债务。之后,生活就会开始了。
At last it dawned on me that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
最后,我突然醒悟过来:通往幸福的道路并不存在,幸福本身就是通途。
So treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you share it with someone special, someone special enough to spend your time with. Make the most of your time. Don't waste too much of your time studying, working, or stressing about something that seems important. Do what you want to do to be happy but also do what you can to make the people you care about happy. Remember that time waits for no one. So stop waiting until you take your last test, until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you have the perfect body, the perfect car, or whatever other perfect things you desire.
因此,珍惜你所拥有的每一寸时光吧;当你和某位特别的、值得你与之共度时光的人在一起时,请加倍珍惜。将你的时间用得其所。不要浪费太多时间在学习、工作或烦心一些看似重要的事情上。做你想做的事以使自己快乐;同时做你力所能及的事以使自己关心的人快乐。记住,时不待人。因此,不要再等下去了——等到考完最后一科,等到完成学业,等到重回学校,等到你拥有完美的身体、完美的座驾、或其他你想要的完美之物。
Stop waiting until the weekend, when you can party or let loose, until summer, spring, fall or winter, until you find the right person and get married, until you die, until you're born again, to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy.
不要再等下去了——等到周末,你可以宴请亲朋或是放松身心;等到夏天、春天、秋天或冬天,等到你找到合适的人结婚,等到你死去,等到你重生,才明白没有任何时候比此刻更应追求快乐的了。
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.So work like you don't need the money,Love like you have never been hurt,And dance like no one's watching.
幸福是一段旅程,不是一个终点。因此,工作吧,如同不需要金钱一样,去爱吧,如同不曾受过伤害一样,跳舞吧,就像没有人注视你一样。
聪明的熊猫
A little panda picks up a pumpkin and wants to take it home. but the pumpkin is too big. The panda can’t take it home. Suddenly she sees a bear riding a bike to ward her. she watches the bike. “ i know! I have a good idea.”She jumps and shouts happily, “i can roll a pumpkin. It like a wheel.”
So she rolls the pumpkin to her home. When her mother sees the big pumpkin, she is surprised,“oh, my god! How can you carry it home?”The little panda answers proudly,“I can ‘t lift it ,but I can roll it.”Her mother smiled and says,“ what a clever girl !Use you heard to do something,”
一只小熊猫摘了一只大南瓜,想把它拿回家。但是这只南瓜太大了,她没有办法把这么大的南瓜带回家。
突然她看见一只狗熊骑着一辆自行车朝她这边来。她看着自行车,跳着说:“有了!我有办法了。我可以把南瓜滚回家去。南瓜好像车轮。
于是她把那瓜滚回家。当她妈妈看到这只大南瓜的时候,很惊讶:“天啊!这么食的南瓜!你是怎么把它带回家来的?”小熊猫自豪地说;“我拎不动它,可是我能滚动它啊!”她妈妈微笑着说:“真聪明啊!记住:只要你肯动脑筋,没有难办的事”。
Old-school love letters between a young Richard Nixon and the woman he would later marry have been unveiled at the former president's library in California, showing the poetic side of a man who addressed his future wife as "dearest heart."
日前,加利福尼亚州的前总统图书馆曝光了年轻的理查德·尼克松的老情书,这些情书的收信人是他后来的妻子。这些书信显示了一个男人充满诗意的一面,他在信中称妻子为“最亲密的爱人”。
The letters, written by hand between 1938 and 1940, include professions of love in which Nixon tells Pat Ryan, as she was then known, that "nothing so fine ever happened" to him as falling in love with her.
这些情书写于1938年至1940年间,尼克松在这些书信里向帕特·瑞安表达了爱意,尼克松告诉瑞安,对他来说再也没有比爱上她更好的事情了。
"Every day and every night I want to see you and be with you. Yet I have no feeling of selfish ownership or jealousy. In fact I should always want you to live just as you wanted — because if you didn't then you would change and wouldn't be you," Nixon wrote in one of the letters, part of a rotating display at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
“每一天我都想看见你,每一天我都想和你待一起,这绝不是出于占有欲或嫉妒心里。事实上,我总是希望你能过你想要的生活——因为如果你不能这样,那么你就变了,那样你就不是我爱的那个你了。”尼克松在其中一封信中这样写到。这是在尼克松总统图书馆和博物馆巡回展出的其中一部分。
"Let's go for a long ride Sundays; let's go to the mountains weekends; let's read books in front of fires; most of all let's really grow together and find the happiness we know is ours," he continued.
“在星期天我们出去骑车;在周末我们去爬山;在火堆前我们一起阅读;最重要的是我们在一起成长,并找到了正如我们了解的属于我们的幸福”。他接着说。
Nixon, who served as U.S. president from 1969 to 1974, stepped down in the face of almost certain impeachment due to the involvement of his aides and campaign in an attempt to bug his political opponents' offices at the Watergate complex and the subsequent cover-up.
尼克松1969年至1974年任职美国总统。
He was pardoned a month after he left office by his successor, President Gerald Ford. Nixon, whose wife stood by him throughout a scandal that damaged national trust in the White House and government, died in 1994.
在他卸任一个月后,下一任总统杰拉尔德·福特宣布对他的这一事件表示谅解。尼克松的夫人在整个丑闻事件中一直陪伴着尼克松,而这一丑闻也引发了全国民众对白宫及政府的不信任感。尼克松于1994年逝世。
The letters on display illustrate the couple's courtship between the time they met during tryouts for a community play in Whittier, California, in 1938 and when they were later married in 1940, nearly three decades before they became president and first lady.
展出的这些信件也诠释了这对夫妇的恩爱不离,从1938年他们在美国加州西南部城市惠蒂尔一个社区戏剧试演时相遇到1940年他们结婚。在他
"What's so charming about these letters is that they are really from another time, because I think the writing of love letters has really become a lost art with technology," said exhibit curator Bob Bostock.
“这些信的魅力在于它们真的是来自另一个时代,� ”展览馆长鲍勃如是说。
He said that while Nixon's letters showed a romantic side of the former president, Pat Ryan's letters tended to be "a bit lighter, humorous."
他还说,当尼克松的情书展示了前总统浪漫一面的同时,总统夫人帕特·瑞安的信件则显得“语言平淡和有幽默感”。
In one, she writes: "Hi-ho, Hi-ho! How does it go? It would be good to see and hear — 。 Night school is over about 9 so if you are through with club meeting perhaps I'll see you?" In another letter, she offers to "burn a hamburger" for her sweetheart if he visits her on a Wednesday evening.
在其中一封信中,她写到:“嗨,最近怎么样?要是能看到你听到你的声音就好了——夜校在九点左右结束,如果你那时参加俱乐部会议,也许我会遇到你?” 在另一封信里,她表示如果他星期三的晚上来看她,她就“烤一个汉堡”给她心爱的人。
Six of the letters, three penned by Nixon and three by his future wife out of a collection of several dozen, will be on rotating display in the Nixon library in Yorba Linda, California, through September 3 as part of an exhibit to mark what would have been Pat Nixon's 100th birthday. She died in 1993.
六封情书有三封出自尼克松之手,三封属于他的妻子。这些从上百封情书中挑出来的情书将会在加州约巴林达市的尼克松图书馆进行巡回展出,展览将作为帕特·瑞安百岁诞辰纪念活动的一部分。今年的9月3日正是帕特·瑞安百岁诞辰,帕特·雷恩于1993年逝世。
相信很多同学之前都看过这个视频,感动于那位女孩的智慧和语言的魅力。今天我们再来读一读视频中所讲述的故事,并探讨一下其中的寓意。
Enjoy Your Day with Gratitude
生活需要怀抱一颗感恩之心
A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat.
一个双目失明的男孩坐在大楼前的台阶上,脚边摆着一顶帽子。他立了一块牌子,上面写着:“我是瞎子,请帮助我。”那帽子里只有寥寥几枚硬币。
今天很美,而我却无法看见
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.
一个路人从旁边走过,他从口袋里拿出几枚硬币,放在帽子里。然后,他拿起牌子,翻到另一面写了些字。随后他把牌子放回去,让所有路过的人都能看见牌子上新写的字。
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked,“ Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”
很快,帽子里的钱就多起来了。越来越多的人把钱给这个失明的孩子。下午,改写牌子的人回来看看情况,男孩听出了他的脚步声,问道:“您是早上帮我改写牌子的人么?您写了什么?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way. I wrote: 'Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it.'”
那人说:“我只是写出了事实。我表达的意思和你一样,只是用了另一种方式。我写的是:‘今天是美好的一天,而我却无法看见。’”
Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?
两个牌子都告诉人们男孩是盲人,但第一个牌子只是简单地讲述了这一事实;而第二个牌子却告诉人们,他们是如此幸运,因为他们不是盲人。所以说,第二个牌子效果更佳,并没有什么好惊讶的不是吗?
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父亲在哪儿?
Two brothers were looking at some beautiful paintings。
“look,”said the elder brother。“how nice the sepainting sare!”
“yes,”said the younger,“but in all the sepaintings there is only the mother and the children。where is the father?”
the elder brother thought for a moment and then explained,“obviously he was painting the pictures。”
兄弟俩在看一些漂亮的油画。
“看,”哥哥说,“这些画多漂亮呀!”
“是啊,”弟弟说道,“可是在所有这些画中,只有妈妈和孩子。那爸爸去哪儿了呢?”
哥哥想了会儿,然后解释道:“很明显,他当时正在画这些画呗。”
One day, the Buddha was strolling alone along the edge of a lotus pond in Paradise. The blooming lotus flowers in the pond were each pure white like jewels, and the place was filled with the indescribably wondrous fragrance continually emitted from each flower's golden center. It was just morning in Paradise.
一天,佛世尊独自在极乐净土的宝莲池畔闲步。池中莲花盛开,朵朵都晶白如玉。花心之中金蕊送香,其香胜妙殊绝,普薰十方。极乐世界大约时当清晨。
After a time, the Buddha paused at the edge of the pond and from between the lotus leaves that covered it saw a glimpse of the state of things below. Now this celestial pond just happened to lie directly over Hell, and peering through that crystal-clear water was like looking through a magnifying glass at the River of Death and the Mountain of Needles and such.
俄顷,世尊伫立池畔,从覆盖水面的莲叶间,偶见池下的情景。极乐莲池之下,正是十八地狱的最底层。透过澄清晶莹的池水,宛如戴上透视镜一般,把三恶道上之冥河与刀山剑树的诸般景象,尽收眼底。
The Buddha saw there, in the depths of Hell, a single man writhing along with the other sinners. This man was named Kandata, and he had been a notorious thief who had performed murder and arson and other acts of evil. In his past, however, he had performed just one good deed: one day, when walking through the deep forest, he saw a spider crawling along the road. At first he raised his foot to crush it, but suddenly he changed his mind and stopped, saying, ”No, small though it may be, a spider, too, has life. It would be a pity to meaninglessly end it,“ and so did not kill it.
这时,一名叫犍陀多的男子,同其他罪人在地狱底层挣扎的情景,映入世尊的慧眼。世尊记得,这犍陀多虽是个杀人放火、无恶不作的大盗,倒也有过一项善举。话说大盗犍陀多有一回走在密林中,见到路旁爬行一只小蜘蛛,抬起脚来,便要将蜘蛛踩死。忽转念一想:“不可,不可,蜘蛛虽小,到底也是一条性命。随便害死,无论如何,总怪可怜的。”犍陀多终究没踩下去,放了蜘蛛一条生路。
Looking down upon the captives in Hell the Buddha recalled this kind act that Kandata had performed, and thought to use his good deed as a way to save him from his fate. Looking aside, there on a jade-colored lotus leaf he saw a single spider, spinning out a web of silver thread. The Buddha carefully took the spider's thread into his hand, and lowered it straight down between the jewel-like white lotuses into the depths of Hell.
世尊看着地狱中的景象,想起犍陀多放蜘蛛生路这件善举。虽然微末如斯,世尊亦拟施以善报,尽量把他救出地狱。侧头一望,说来也巧,净土里有只蜘蛛,正在翠绿的莲叶上,攀牵美丽的银丝。世尊轻轻取来一缕蛛丝,从莹洁如玉的白莲间,径直垂向香渺幽邃的地狱底层。
Of course, she wasn't really my aunt and, out of fear, I never called her that to her face. I only referred to her as "My Aunt Fannie" because the name always made my father chuckle and gave my mother cause to look sternly at both of us—at me for being disrespectful of my elder and at my father for encouraging my bad behavior. I enjoyed both reaction so I looked for every opportunity to work the name into as many conversations as possible.
我的芬妮姨妈是做蓝莓酱的。当然,她并非真是我的姨妈。并且出于对她的恐惧,我从没当面这样称呼过她。我只是在提及她时才用“我的芬妮姨妈”作指代,因为这个称呼总惹得我父亲咯咯笑,还使得我母亲板起脸来直瞪着我和父亲——瞪着我是因为我对长辈不尊,瞪着父亲是因为他纵容我使坏。两种反应都让我乐在其中,所以我总是伺机尽可能地将那个称呼用到我们平常的对话里来。
As a young woman, my mother had worked in the kitchen of a large Victorian farmhouse owned by Fannie Cratty and her twin brother, Farnsworth. They represented the end of the Cratty line. Neither had married nor had any living heirs and my father once told me (in a whisper) that it was because they were both too stingy to share their family wealth or pass it on. During those year my mother helped Aunt Fanny make the best blueberry cobbler jam ever tasted by anyone in Glenfield. She was noted for her jam and for never sharing the recipe with another living soul. (This was the real source of contention among the Baptist women.) Even though my mother knew the recipe by heart, as long as Aunt Fannie was alive (and she lived to be ninety-six!), she never made the jam without Ms. Cratty in our kitchen to direct the process and preserve the secret.
我母亲年轻时在一栋建于维多利亚时代的农舍里的大户人家里当厨房帮工。房子的主人是芬妮·克瑞蒂和她那龙凤胎胞弟法斯沃·克瑞蒂。他们是克瑞蒂家族的最后一代人。他俩谁都没有结婚生子。一次,父亲(悄悄地)告诉我,那是因为他俩都是吝啬鬼,极其不情愿和外人分享自己的家族财富,也不愿将这些财富留给子孙后代。那些年里,我母亲帮芬妮姨妈做出整个格兰菲尔镇公认最为美味的蓝莓馅饼酱。芬妮姨妈因蓝莓酱而闻名,同时也因不愿与任何人分享其秘方而著称。(这确实在浸礼会妇女中引起了一番争论。)尽管那个秘方我母亲早已背得滚瓜烂熟,但只要芬妮姨妈还在世(她可是活到了96岁!),没有克瑞蒂女士在我们厨房里指挥整个制作流程以此来守住这个秘方,母亲绝不会私下做那种蓝莓酱。
Each August, when blueberry season would roll around, my mother would prepare me for Aunt Fannie's visit. It was imperative that I be on my best behavior. After all, the woman was old, wealthy, stern, and a pillar of the church (I guess that would make her my "sainted" Aunt Fannie)。 Reverend Nash had once preached on the consequences of looking on sinful things and had told about Lot's wife being turned to a pillar of salt because she looked back on wicked Sodom and Gomorrah. I didn't know what Aunt Fannie had looked at, but it must have been pretty bad. Whatever it wa it had left her hair a decided shade of blue and turned her into a pillar of the church. Whenever she was at the house, I didn't need to be reminded to guard my thoughts and watch my tongue.
每逢八月是蓝莓的成熟期,母亲会让我为芬妮姨妈的到访做好准备。她会命令我以最佳表现示人。毕竟,这女人已经上了年纪,富有且苛刻,还是教堂里的支柱人物。(我想就是因为这样使得芬妮姨妈成为了我心中的“圣人”。)尊敬的纳什牧师做过一个布道,关于偷看罪恶之物的后果,还给我们讲了罗德的� 我不知道芬妮姨妈看过什么东西,但肯定是很糟的东西。无论那是什么,它使得她的头发变成纯蓝色,并把她变成了教堂里的支柱。她一到我家,我就会自觉地不敢乱想,不敢乱说。
One year, after I had been particularly helpful with the jam proces Aunt Fannie gave me a quarter and then made me promise that I would never spend it. "Hold onto this quarter," she said, "and someday you will be rich. I still have my very first quarter, given to me by my grandfather." It had obviously worked for her. So, I tucked the 1938-quarter in a small box, put it in my dresser drawer, and waited to become rich.
有一年,我特别用心使劲帮忙做蓝莓酱,之后,芬妮姨妈给了我一枚价值25分的硬币,并要我承诺决不会花了它。“抓牢这枚硬币,”她说道,“有一天你就会变富有。我仍收藏着自己拿到的第一枚硬币,是我爷爷给我的。”保存好能带来成功的第一枚硬币显然对她奏效。所以,我把那枚1938年制造的硬币塞进一个小盒子里,把盒子放进我的梳妆台抽屉里,等着变成有钱人。
I now have the blueberry cobbler jam recipe and the quarter from Aunt Fannie. In people's eye Aunt Fannie's success was attributed to that secret recipe. But to me, it was just a common recipe. Neither have significantly contributed to my net worth, but I keep them as reminders to hold onto the valuable things in life. Money can make you feel rich for a while, but it is the relationships and the memories of time spent with friends and family that truly leave you wealthy. And that is a fortune that anyone can build.
我现在拥有了蓝莓馅饼酱的秘方,以及芬妮姨妈给我的那枚硬币。在人们眼里,芬妮姨妈的成功归功于那个秘方。但对我而言,那不过是一个很普通的烹饪方法,那枚硬币也好,烹饪方法也好,都没为我的净资产的积累做出什么贡献,但我仍留着它们,只想借其提醒自己把握住人生中那些珍贵的东西。金钱可以暂时让你感觉富有,但唯有和他人的关系以及和朋友家人一起度过的那些日子的回忆才会真正让你变富有。而那是每个人都可以创造的财富。
我妻子独自在家时,总是不想让别人知道家里没有其他的人。
一天晚上,我工作到很晚。我妻子听到有人敲门,她就没理,但敲门的声音总是不停,慌乱之中,她开始学狗叫。一开始她低声地叫,随后她的叫声越来越大。敲门声很快地停了,她这才松了口气。
第二天,送报的小孩来我家收钱,那小孩告诉我:“我昨晚上就来了,你老婆老冲我学狗叫,我就走了
My wife will go to any extreme to keep people from,knowing she is home alone.
One evening when I was working late,my wife heard a knock on the door. She ignosed it,but the knocing continued. Frantic,sloe began to bark,softly at first,then louder and louder. Much to her relief,the knocking soon stopped.
The next day the paper boy came to the door to collect.”I came by last night,“he told me,”but I left when your wife barked at me!“
Kandata was floating and sinking along with the other sinners in the Lake of Blood at the bottom of Hell. It was pitch black no matter which way he looked, and the occasional glimpse of light that he would see in the darkness would turn out to be just the glint of the terrible Mountain of Needles. How lonely he must have felt! All about him was the silence of the grave, the only occasional sound being a faint sigh from one of the damned. Those who were so evil as to be sent to this place were tired by its various torments, and left without even the strength to cry out. Even the great thief Kandata could only squirm like a dying frog as he choked in the Lake of Blood.
这边厢犍陀多正和其他罪人,在地狱底层的血池里载沉载浮。不论朝哪儿望去,处处都是黑魆魆暗幽幽的,偶尔影影绰绰,暗中悬浮着什么,原来是阴森可怕的刀山剑树,让人看了胆战心惊。尤其是四周一片死寂,如在墓中。间或听到的,也仅是罪人恹恹的叹息声。凡落到这一步的人,都已受尽地狱的折磨,衰惫不堪,恐怕连哭出声的气力都没有了。所以,恁是大盗犍陀多,也像只濒死的青蛙,在血池里,惟有一面咽着血水,一面苦苦挣扎而已。
But one day, raising up his head and glancing at the sky above the lake, in the empty darkness Kandata saw a silver spider's thread being lowered from the ceiling so far, far away. The thread seemed almost afraid to be seen, emitting a frail, constant light as it came down to just above Kandata's head. Seeing this, Kandata couldn't help but clap his hands in joy. If he were to cling to this thread and climb up it, he may be able to climb out of Hell! Perhaps he could even climb all the way to Paradise! Then he would never be chased up the Mountain of Needles, nor drowned in the Lake of Blood again.
偶然间,犍陀多无心一抬头,向血池上空望去,在阒然无声的黑暗中,但见一缕银色的蛛丝,正从天而降。仿佛怕人看到似的,细细一线,微光闪烁,恰在自己头上笔直垂落下来。犍陀多一见,喜不自胜,拍手称快。倘抓住蜘蛛丝,攀援而上,准保能脱离苦海。不特此也,侥幸的话,兴许还能爬进极乐世界哩。如此,再不会驱之上刀山,也庶免沉沦血池之苦了。
Thinking so, he firmly grasped the spider's thread with both hands and began to climb the thread, higher and higher. Having once been a great thief, he was used to tasks such as this. But the distance between Hell and Paradise is tens of thousands of miles, and so it would seem that no amount of effort would make this an easy journey. After climbing for some time Kandata tired, and couldn't climb a bit higher. Having no other recourse, he hung there from the thread, resting, and while doing so looked down below.
这样一想,犍陀多赶紧伸出双手,死死攥住蛛丝,一把一把,拼命往上攀去。原本是大盗,手并足抵,区区小事一桩而已。可是,地狱与净土之间,何止千万里!不论犍陀多怎样心焦气躁,要想爬出地狱,真谈何容易。爬了一程,终于筋疲力尽,哪怕伸手往上再升一级,也难以为役了。一筹莫展之下,只好住手,先歇会儿喘口气,便吊在蛛丝上,悬在半空中,一面放眼向下望去。
He saw that he had made a good deal of progress. The Lake of Blood that he had been trapped in was now hidden in the dark below, and he had even climbed higher than the dimly glowing Mountain of Needles. If he could keep up this pace, perhaps he could escape from Hell after all. Kandata grasped the thread with both hands, and laughingly spoke in a voice that he hadn't used in the many years since he had come here, ”I've done it! I've done it!“
方才是不顾死活往上攀,总算没白费力气,片刻前自己还沉沦在内的血池,不知何时,竟已隐没在黑暗的地底。那寒光闪闪,令人毛骨悚然的刀山剑树,也已在自己脚下。如果一直这样往上爬,要逃出地狱,也许并非难事。犍陀多将两手绕在蛛丝上,开怀大笑起来:“这下好啦!我得救啦!”那吼声,自打落进地狱以来多年不曾得闻的。
Looking down, however, what did he see but an endless queue of sinners, intently following him up the thread like a line of ants! Seeing this, surprise and fear kept Kandata hanging there for a time with mouth open and eyes blinking like a fool. How could this slender spider's web, which should break even under just his weight, support the weight of all these other people? If the thread were to snap, all of his effort would be wasted and he would fall back into Hell with the others! That just would not do. But even as he thought these thoughts, hundreds more, thousands more of the damned came crawling up from the Lake of Blood, forming a line and scurrying up the thread. If he didn't do something fast, surely the thread would snap in the middle and he would fall back down.
可是,他留神一看,蛛丝的下端,有数不清的罪人,简直像一行蚂蚁,跟在自己后面,正一意在攀登上来。见此情景,犍陀多又惊又怕,有好一忽儿傻不愣登张着嘴,眨巴着眼睛。这样细细一根蜘蛛丝,负担自家一人尚且发发可危,那么多人的重量,怎禁受得住?万一半中间断掉,就连好家伙我,千辛万苦才爬到这里,岂不也要一头朝下,重新掉进地狱里去么?那一来,可乖乖不得了!这工夫,成百上千的罪人蠢蠢欲动,从黑洞洞的血池底下爬将上来,一字儿沿着发出一缕细光的蜘蛛丝,不暇少停,拼命向上爬。不趁早想办法,蛛丝就会一断二截,自己势必又该掉进地狱去了。
Kandata shouted out, ”Hey! You sinners! This thread is mine! Who said you could climb up it? Get off! Get off!“
于是,犍陀多暴喝一声:“嘿,你们这帮罪人,这根蛛丝可是咱家我的!谁让你们爬上来的?快滚下去!滚下去!”
Though the thread had been fine until just then, with these words it snapped with a twang right where Kandata held it. Poor Kandata fell headfirst through the air, spinning like a top, right down through the darkness. The severed end of the silver thread hung there, suspended from heaven, shining with its pale light in that moonless, starless sky.
说时迟,那时快,方才还好端端的蜘蛛丝,竟噗哧一声,从吊着犍陀多的地方突然断裂。这回有他好受的了。霎时间,犍陀多像个陀螺,滴溜溜翻滚着,唆地一头栽进黑暗的深渊。此时,惟有极乐净土的蜘蛛丝,依然细细的,闪着一缕银光,半短不长的,飘垂在没有星月的半空中。
The Buddha stood in Paradise at the edge of the lotus pond, silently watching these events. After Kandata sank like a stone to the bottom of the Lake of Blood, he continued his stroll with a sad face. He must have been surprised that even after such severe punishment Kandata's lack of compassion would lead him right back into Hell.
佛世尊伫立在宝莲池畔,始终凝视着事情的经过。当犍陀多倏忽之间便石头般沉入血池之底,世尊面露悲悯之色,又重新踱起步来。犍陀多只顾自己脱离苦海,毫无慈悲心肠,于是受到应得的报应,又落进原先的地狱。在世尊眼里,想必那作为是过于卑劣了。
Yet the lotus blossoms in the lotus ponds of Paradise care nothing about such matters. Their jewel-like white flowers waved about the feet of the Buddha, and each flower's golden center continuously filled the place with their indescribably wondrous fragrance. It was almost noon in Paradise.
不过,极乐莲池里的莲花,并不理会这等事。那晶白如玉的花朵,掀动着花萼在世尊足畔款摆,花心之中金蕊送香,其香胜妙殊绝,普薰十方。极乐世界大约已近正午时分。
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小鸭子得救了
一只活泼可爱的小鸭子去游泳。可是,到了5261河4102边,他东瞧瞧,西望望,一不1653小心掉在一个又大又深的坑里。
他拼命地喊:“救命啊!救命啊。”小猴正好路过,听到喊声急忙跑过来说:“小鸭子,别着急,我想办法救你上来。”他拿来一根长竹竿伸进坑里,让小鸭子叼住。可竹竿太滑,小鸭子叼不住。小后边去叫小熊哥哥。
小熊哥哥赶紧提来一桶水,说“小鸭子,别着急,我把水倒进坑里,你就浮上来了。”说着,把水往坑里一倒。可坑里的图很松散,没等第二桶水提来,水早渗到地下了,小猴只好找大象伯伯。
大象伯伯跑来说:“不怕,我用鼻子卷你上来!”可是行不通,大象鼻子有点短。
这时,小猴子拍拍脑子说:“我们一倒水,小鸭子就可以浮上来了~”大家一起拿了水,泼向坑里,最后小鸭子浮了上来,得救了~!
小鸭子感谢了所有人,一起在欢乐的歌声与阳光下一起做游戏,一起回到了家。
翻译: Little duck was saved
A lively lovable duck swimming. But, by the river, he looked at east, west, carelessly fall in a big and deep pit.
He desperately to shout: ”help! Help!...“ Little monkey just passing by, heard shouts hurried said, ”little duck, don't worry, I tried to deliver you up.“ He took a long bamboo pole into a pit, let little duck live in. Bamboo is too slippery, can not duck diao. Little bear brother to call back.
Bear brother hurriedly to a bucket of water and said, ”little duck, don't worry, I poured water into a pit, you up.“ The water into a pit, a fall. But the figure is very loose pit, not to mention if two buckets of water, underground water into the early, little monkey had to find an elephant's uncle.
Elephants are not afraid to say: ”uncle, running nose with me you up!“ But a short nose, elephant work.
At that time, little monkey brains said: ”we clap a water, duck can float ~“ together, and took the waters to pit, finally duck bobbed up, saved ~!
Thanks for all the little ducks, together with the sunshine joyful songs play games together, to return home.
But one night he working late at the Scanlon-Taylor mill, lugging two-by-fours to the truck, 1splinters slicing all the way through the glove. He too small for that kind a work, too skinny, but he needed the job. He was tired. It was raining. He slip off the loading dock, fell down on the drive. Tractor trailer didn't see him and crushed his lungs fore he could move. By the time I found out, he was dead.
一天晚上,他在斯坎伦-泰勒轧机厂干到很晚,拖着的木料往货车上装,木刺划破手套,扎得满手都是。他太瘦,个头又小,干不了那重活儿,可他需要那份工作。他累得支撑不住,天又下雨,他滑倒了,从装卸月台上摔下来,一头栽进车道。拖车司机没瞧见他,他还没来得及挪身,车就从他身上碾过去了。等我找到他的时候,他已经断气了。
That was the day my whole world went black. Air look black, sun look black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls a my house. Minny came ever day to make sure I was still breathing, feed me food to keep me living. Took three months fore I even look out the window, see the world still there. I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
从那天起,我整个世界都黑了。空气是黑的,太阳是黑的。我躺在床上直愣愣地盯着屋里黑的墙壁。明尼每天都来看我,以确保我还有气息,她喂我进食,让我残喘地活下去。整整三个月后,我才抬眼看窗户外头,看外头的世界是否照旧。我惶惑地发现整个世界竟然没有因为我儿子的死停下半分。
Five months after the funeral, I lifted myself up out a bed. I put on my white uniform and put my little gold cross back around my neck and I went to wait on Miss Leefolt cause she just have her baby girl. But it weren't too long before I seen something in me had changed. A bitter seed was planted inside a me. And I just didn't feel so accepting anymore.
葬礼之后又过了五个月,我起身下床。我穿上白色制服,又把小小的金十字架戴回脖子上,随后前去服侍李弗特小姐,她刚生下个女娃。但没过多久我便发现我的心已不复从前。苦涩的种子在我体内悄然埋下,我不再那么容易敞开胸怀了。
“GET THE HOUSE straightened up and then go on and fix some of that chicken salad now,” say Miss Leefolt.
“把屋子规整规整,再去把鸡肉沙拉准备好。”李弗特太太呼喝着。
It's bridge club day. Every fourth Wednesday a the month. A course I already got everthing ready to go—made the chicken salad this morning, ironed the tablecloths yesterday. Miss Leefolt seen me at it too. She ain't but twenty-three years old and she like hearing herself tell me what to do.
每个月的第四个礼拜三是她们的桥牌聚会日。我已经将里里外外拾掇停当——一大早做好了鸡肉沙拉,桌布也在昨天熨烫平整。李弗特太太亲眼瞧着我做完这些。她不过才二十三岁,却很喜欢对我指手画脚,差使我做这干那。
She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don't hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms.
她已经把我今早熨好的蓝裙子穿上了,那条在腰上密匝匝打了六十五个小褶的裙子,我得戴起眼镜眯上眼才能把那些绿豆大的褶给烫准了。我对家常日子没啥抱怨的,可我和那条裙子实在处不到一块儿去。
“And you make sure Mae Mobley's not coming in on us, now. I tell you, I am so burned up at her—tore up my good stationery into five thousand pieces and I've got fifteen thank-you notes for the Junior League to do…”
“还有,你要管住梅·莫布利,别让她来烦我们。我告诉你吧,她可是把我惹火了,她把我好端端的信纸撕个粉碎,我可还有十五封青年联盟会的感谢信要写呐……”
I arrange the-this and the-that for her lady friends. Set out the good crystal, put the silver service out. Miss Leefolt don't put up no dinky card table like the other ladies do. We sat at the dining room table. Put a cloth on top to cover the big L-shaped crack, move that red flower centerpiece to the sideboard to hide where the wood all scratched. Miss Leefolt, she like it fancy when she do a luncheon. Maybe she trying to make up for her house being small. They ain't rich folk, that I know. Rich folk don't try so hard.
我还在忙着为她的那些太太小姐们准备这个支应那个。我搬出花哨的玻璃杯盏,摆上银质刀叉。李弗特太太没能像其他阔太太那样添置上一张小巧精致的牌桌,我们只得坐在餐桌前打牌。我们在桌上铺上桌布遮住L型的裂隙,又把红色镂花桌饰挪到橱柜那儿,好挡住坑坑洼洼剥落掉渣的木柜。李弗特太太大概想弥补屋子狭小的不足,着意把餐会拾掇得富贵体面。我知道他们不太富裕,富庶人家可不会这么费劲。
I'm used to working for young couples, but I spec this is the smallest house I ever worked in. It's just the one story. Her and Mister Leefolt's room in the back be a fair size, but Baby Girl's room be tiny. The dining room and the regular living room kind a join up. Only two bathrooms, which is a relief cause I worked in houses where they was five or six. Take a whole day just to clean toilets. Miss Leefolt don't pay but ninety-five cents an hour, less than I been paid in years. But after Treelore died, I took what I could. Landlord wasn't gonna wait much longer. And even though it's small, Miss Leefolt done the house up nice as she can. She pretty good with the sewing machine. Anything she can't buy new of, she just get her some blue material and sew it a cover.
我过去常帮年轻夫妇操持家务,可我揣度着这家是我见过门户最小的人家。整套房子上下不过一层,她和李弗特先生的后屋尚且宽敞,可是梅的房间小得立不住脚。餐厅连着起居室混作一处。他们只有两个卫生间,这倒为我省下不少事,我从前碰上的人家通常都有五六间,光为他们清理厕所就得花上我整整一天。李弗特太太每个钟点只付我九十五美分,我早不止这个价了,但打崔劳死后,我也顾不上挑肥拣瘦,我已经拖欠不起房租了。尽管屋子小得转不开身,可李弗特太太还是费心尽力把它装点得光鲜体面。她很擅长缝连补缀,一旦买不起新家什,她便扯些蓝布头,自裁自缝出个布套子把旧家什装扮上。
Plugging One’s Ears While Stealing a Bell 掩耳盗铃
Once upon a time, there was a man who wanted to steal his neighbor’s doorbell. However, he knew clearly that the bell would ring and catch the other people’s attention as long as he touched the bell. So he thought hard and suddenly hit on a clever “idea”。 He plugged his ears with something, thinking that everything would go well when he stole the bell. Unfortunately to his disappointment, the bell still rang loudly and he was caught on the spot as a thief.
从前,有一个人想偷邻居门上的铃,但是他知道一碰到铃,铃就会响起来,被人发现。他想啊想,终于他想出一个“妙极”,他把自己的耳朵用东西塞起来,就听不见铃声了。但是当他去偷铃时,铃声仍旧响起来,他被别人当场抓住。
英国王位第二顺位继承人、全球最受瞩目的英国王子威廉,于2011年4月29日,在伦敦迎娶交往8年的女友凯特·米德尔顿。这位准新娘虽出身中产家庭,然而在威廉面前却不乏幽默自信,面对媒体大方得体,与威廉家人关系融洽,难怪能获得英国举国上下一致认同,被认为是威廉的理想新娘。
Flipped
怦然心动
Prince William's four-year stay at St. Andrews would draw the interest of the world's media. To protect the Prince, an agreement was made banning camera crews and pres except on selected occasion meaning Will, as he was known, could live university life much like any other student.
全球传媒均对威廉王子在圣安德鲁斯(大学)四年生活深感兴趣。为了保护王子,王室与媒体达成协议,规定除了在特定的场合,校内不准有摄影队以及传媒人员出现。这便意味着威尔(他的别名)可以像其他学生一样,过上普通的大学生活。
But, a year into his studie Prince William was finding it hard to settle in his art history course, the same course as his friend Kate Middleton. It's said that Kate's persuasive character made William stay, and he switched to geography. Late in their first year, the friends moved into a house-share together, but not before William attended a student fashion show, where Kate was revealed in a new light.
但威廉王子读了一年后,觉得难以适应艺术历史学科,其朋友凯特·米德尔顿也在读这一专业。据说是因凯特的说服,才令威廉留下,转读地理。第一学年年尾时,他们搬入共同租住的屋子,但这是威廉出席一场时装表演后的事,那晚的凯特展现出让人刮目相看的一面。
Jules Knight (William's Fellow Student): I think that was the moment when everyone realised how beautiful she was. There was this lovely, unassuming girl, who also had a sexy side as well, and she got up there and she flaunted her stuff and looked fantastic.
朱尔斯·奈特(威廉的同学):我想就是那一刻,大家才发觉她如此美丽。这个可爱、谦逊的女孩也有性感的一面。她走上台,昂首阔步,美艳动人。
Geordie Greig (Editor): All her contemporaries at St. Andrews saw her as the most attractive girl there.
乔迪·格雷格(编辑):圣安德鲁斯大学与她同辈的学生均视�
By now their friendship was growing closer, and they were getting to know one another, warts and all.
此时,他们的友谊更为密切,他们互相了解,瑕瑜互见。
A Woodman came into a forest to ask the Trees to give him a handle for Ax. It seemed so modest a request that the principal tree at once agreed to it, and it was settled among them that the plain, homely Ash should furnish what was wanted. No sooner had the Woodman fitted the staff to his purpose, than he began laying about him on all side. Felling the whole matter too late, whispered to the Cedar: ”The first concession has lost all. If we has not a sacrificed our humble neighbor, we might have yet stood for ages ourselves."
有一个樵夫来到森林里,要求树给他一跟斧柄,看来他的请求非常谦虚,立刻得到了树的首领的同意。他们决定由平凡而朴素的白杨树来提供所需要的东西。樵夫刚安好斧柄,就开始到处乱砍,森林里最高的树都砍倒了,树林现在察觉大势已去,就小声对衫树说:“第一次的让步已失去了一切。如果我们不牺牲我们的小小的邻居,我们自己还可以活无数年呢。”
男孩和荨麻
A boy was playing in the fields when he was stung by a nettle . He ran home to tell his mother what had happened.
"I only touched it lightly," he said, "and the nasty thing stung me."
"It stung you because you only touched it lightly," his mother told him." Next time you touch a nettle grasp it as tightly as you can. Then it won't sting you at all."
Face danger boldly.
有个男孩子在地里玩耍,被荨麻刺痛了。他跑回家去,告诉妈妈出了什么事。
"我不过轻轻地碰了它一下,"他说,"那讨厌的东西就把我刺痛了。"
"你只轻轻地碰了它一下,所以它才刺痛你,"妈妈对他说,"下一回你再碰到荨麻,就尽量紧紧地抓住它。那它就根本不会刺痛你了。"
要敢于面对危险。
一个星期天,我和妻子戴安娜去教堂时,碰到了一对新婚的夫妇。于是,我们停下车,向他们做了自我介绍,我们之间还表达了相互认识的喜悦之情。
我们的话题开始谈到了邻居,我们说我们的邓居如何如何的好。当他们说到他们的邻居恰恰相反时,我们表示了对他们的同情。
后来,我们向他们道了别,开车回到了家。
当我们把车子开到家门口时,我们惊奇地发现我们的新结识的那对新婚夫妇把车停在了隔璧的停车道上
When my wife,Diana, and I met a new couple at church one Sunday, we stopped to introduce ourselves and to exchange pleasantries.
We described the friendly neighborhood we lived in,and listened sympathetically as they lamented that theirs was just the opposite.
Saying our good-byes, we got in our cars and drove home.
As we approached our house,we were horrified to see that our new-found friends were pulling into the driveway next to ours.