高中英語 雙語美文閱讀 女孩的記憶素材

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1、女孩的記憶 We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid summer days that never ended but only melted one into the other. We floated down rivers of weekdays with no school, no rules , no parents, and no constructs other than our fant

2、asies. We were good girls, my sister and I. We had nothing to rebel against. This was just life as we knew it, and we knew the summers to be long and to be ours. 　　在還是小女孩的時(shí)候，夏天是我們的，那時(shí)，我家住在田納西河畔。在那些永無盡頭、一天天彼此交融的濕潤夏日里，我們?nèi)隽艘暗嘏苤?。我們?cè)陂L長的周日中放任著自己，沒有學(xué)校的管束，沒有規(guī)則的羈絆，沒有父母的訓(xùn)誡，沒有既定的觀念，只有屬于我們自己的夢(mèng)幻。我和姐姐，我們都是好女孩，沒

3、有什么需要我們?nèi)?duì)抗和反叛的。這就是我們所知的生活，我們知 道夏日正長，而且是屬于我們的。 　　The road that ran past our house was a one-lane rural route. Every morning, after our parents had gone to work, I' d wait for the mail lady to pull up to our box. Some days I would put enough change for a few stamps into a mason jarlid and leave it i

4、n the mailbox. I hated bothering mail lady with this transaction, which made her job take longer. But I liked that she knew that someone in our house sent letters into the outside world. 　　我家門前的那條路是一條單車道的鄉(xiāng)間小路。每天早上，每天早上，父母上班以后，我會(huì)等著女郵差把車停在我們的信箱跟前。有時(shí)候，我會(huì)在大口玻璃瓶的瓶蓋里放上夠買幾張郵票的零錢，再把它放在信箱里面。我討厭為這樣的交易去麻煩女郵差

5、，這會(huì)延長她的工作時(shí)間。但我喜歡讓她知道我們家里也有人寄信到外面的世界。 　　I liked walking to the mailbox in my bare feet and leaving footprints on the dewy grass. I imagined that feeling the wetness on the bottom of my feet made me a poet. I had never read poetry, outside of some Emily Dickinson. But I imagined th at people who kne

6、w of such things would walk to their mailboxes through the morning dew in their bare feet. 　　我喜歡赤足走向我家的信箱，在沾著露水的草地上留下腳印。我想像著，足底濕漉漉的感覺使我成了一個(gè)詩人。除了艾米莉·狄金森的一些作品外，我其實(shí)從不讀詩。但是我想，懂得這類東西的人一定會(huì)赤足踏著晨露走向他們的信箱。 　　We planned our weddings with the help of Barbie dolls and the tiny purple wildfl owers growing in

7、 our side yard. We became scientists and tested concoctions of milk, orange juice, and mouthwash. We ate handfuls of bittersweet chocolate chips and licked peanut butter off spoons. When we ran out of sweets to eat, we snitched sugary Flintstones vitamins out of the medicine cabinet. We became maste

8、rs of the Kraft macaroni and cheese lunch, and we dutifully called our mother at work three times a day to give her updates on our adventures. But don't call too often or speak too loudly or whine too much, we told ourselves, or else they'll get an noyed and she'll get fired and the summers will end

9、. 　　我們用芭比娃娃和旁邊小花園里紫色的小野花來籌辦我們的婚禮游戲。我們是科學(xué)家，嘗試牛奶、橙汁和漱口水的混合物。我們吃光一把又一把甜中帶苦的巧克力片，把勺子上的花生醬舔得干干凈凈。糖果吃完了，我們就從藥箱里偷拿有甜味的弗林斯通復(fù)合維生素。我們成了用卡夫通心面和干酪烹制午餐的專家，并盡職盡責(zé)地每天給正在上班的媽媽打3個(gè)電話匯報(bào)我們的最新情況。但是，我們告誡自己：不要打太多電話，不要說得太大聲，也不要在電話里過多地訴苦，要不然他們就會(huì)生氣，媽媽就會(huì)被解雇，美好的夏日也就完結(jié)了。 　　We shaped our days the way we chose, far from the pr

10、ying eyes of adults. We found our dad's Playboys and charged the neighborhood boys money to look at them. We made crank calls around the county, telling people they had won a new car. "What kind?" they' d ask. "Red," we' d always say. We put on our mom's old prom dresses, complete with gloves and hats, and sang backup to the C.W. McCall song convoy, " which we' d found on our dad's turntable. 　　遠(yuǎn)離大人們窺視的目光，我們按自己選擇的方式安排著生活。我們找出了爸爸的《花花公子》雜志，讓鄰家的男孩們付費(fèi)觀看。我們給全縣各地的人打神秘電話，對(duì)他們說他們贏得了一輛新車。“什么樣的？”他們會(huì)問。而我們總是回答：“紅的?！蔽覀兇┥蠇寢尠嗉?jí)舞會(huì)時(shí)穿的舊禮服，配上手套和帽子，伴著在爸爸的唱機(jī)上找到的麥考爾的《護(hù)衛(wèi)隊(duì)》歌唱。