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作者: yoyo530521    时间: 2008-11-12 11:17     标题: 时光荏苒

As Time Goes By

The night before her eighth birthday, I found my daughter Lizzy weepingv.抽泣) in her bed. "I love being seven," she sobbed. "I don't want to be eight!"

I held her in my arms and explained that being eight was going to be even better than being seven. I told her how much I loved her and what a wonderful birthday she was going to have. Eventually she was comforted, or maybe I just talked her to sleep.

I understood her feelings. It's always strange to imagine getting older, even when you aren't very old. I know that my own intense "when I grow up" yearnings throughout childhood were locked in combatn.战斗) with an equally intense wish that nothing would ever change. I never wanted to be a "grown-up" or even an adolescent.

I don't remember whether I loved being 7, but I loved being 12. Toward the end of being 12, I was afraid that I'd become a different and detestable person on my 13th birthday. On that day, without my permission, I would wake up and not be a kid anymore.

I would be a "teenager." Instead of climbing trees and spending my days outdoors, I would wear my hair in a ponytailn.马尾辫), put on lipstick, and talk on the phone constantly. I would grow breasts, which looked to me like a real nuisance(n.讨厌的事情) at the time, and have to wear a bra. Obnoxiousadj.不愉快,讨厌的) seventh-grade boys would see the bra strap through my shirt and would reach out and snap it in the hallway in junior high. I had seen this happen to other girls.

I definitely did not want to be 13.

中文译文:
      八岁生日的前晚,我的小女儿Lizzy趴在床上哭,她哽咽着说:“我喜欢七岁,不想变八岁。”
      我把她搂在怀里,告诉她八岁比七岁还要好,我很爱她还会给她举办一个精彩的生日聚会。最后她欣慰地睡着了,也或许是我的话语催她进入梦乡。
      我理解她的感受。想着将要长大总是很别扭,即使你并不怎么大。我记得小时候非常渴望长大,但同时又多希望一切都不要改变。那时的我一直不想成为“成年人”,甚至不想成为青少年。
      我不记得是否曾经喜欢七岁,但我确实喜欢过12岁。接近13周岁生日的那段时间,我担心自己一旦13岁就会性格迥异、令人厌恶。不经我同意,13岁生日那天早上醒来时我就已经不再是个小孩子了。
      我将成为一个少年,不再爬树摸鸟、到处乱跑,而是扎了马尾,图了口红,抱着电话讲个不停。我的胸部会变大,还不得不穿上胸罩,这是多么烦人事情。读中学的时候,讨厌的七年级男生会透过衬衫看到我的胸罩带,还在走廊里伸手把它扯出来。我见过几个有过类似遭遇的女生。
      我当时一点儿都不想13岁!
作者: Sylvia_scj    时间: 2008-11-12 12:09

What's really obnoxious to me when getting older as a girl was getting periods.




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