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1、Unit1 The Fourth of July The first time I went to Washington D.C. was on the edge of the summer when I was supposed to stop
2、0;being a child. At least thats what they said to us all at graduation from the eighth grade. My sister Phyllis graduated at the same time from high schoo
3、l. I dont know what she was supposed to stop being. But as graduation presents for us both, the whole family took a Forth of July trip to Washington
4、 D.C., the fabled and famous capital of our country. 我第一次到華盛頓的時候是初夏那時我想我不應該再當一個孩子。至少這是他們在八年級 的畢業(yè)典禮上對我們說的。我的姐姐菲利斯在同一時間從高中畢業(yè)。我不知道她應該不再當 一個什么。但當作是送給我們倆的畢業(yè)禮物,我們?nèi)以趪鴳c日前往華盛頓旅游,那是傳奇而 著名的我國首都。 It was the&
5、#160;first time Id ever been on a railroad train during the day. When I was little, and we used to go to the Connecticut shore, we always went at night
6、0;on the milk train, because it was cheaper. 這是我第一次真正意義上在白天時乘坐火車。當我還小的時候我們總是在夜晚乘坐運奶火 車去康涅狄格海岸,因為它更便宜。 Preparations were in the air around our house before school was over.
7、We packed for two weeks. There were two large suitcases that my father carried, and a box filled with food. In fact, my first trip to Washington was
8、;a mobile feast; I started eating as soon as we were ensconced in our seats, and did not stop until somewhere after Philadelphia. I remember it was Philadelphi
9、a because I was disappointed not to have passed by the Liberty Bell. 學期還沒結(jié)束前家里就開始忙著準備旅行的事。我們準備了兩個星期。父親拿了兩個大箱子 和一個裝滿食物的盒子。事實上,我第一次到華盛頓的旅途可以說是一個移動盛宴一在位 子上安頓下來我就開始吃東西直到我們到了費城往后的某個地方才停下來。我記得那是費 城,是因為我們沒有經(jīng)過自
10、由之鐘對此我很失望。 My mother had roasted two chickens and cut them into dainty bite-size pieces. She packed slices of brown bread and butter, and green pepper
11、and carrot sticks. There were little violently yellow iced cakes with scalloped edges called marigolds, that came from Cushmans Bakery. There was a spice bun and
12、160;rock- cakes from Newtons, the West Indian bakery across Lenox Avenue from St. Marks school, and iced tea in a wrapped mayonnaise jar. There were sweet peaches
13、160;for us and dill pickles for my father, and peaches with the fuzz still on them, individually wrapped to keep them from bruising. And, for neatness, there&
14、#160;were piles of napkins and a little tin box with a washcloth dampened with rosewater and glycerine for wiping sticky mouths. 母親烤了兩只雞,然后把它們切成恰好一口一片的大小。她打包了黑面包和黃油切片,青椒和 胡蘿卜條。有來
15、自Cushman面包店的亮黃色的周圍有一圈扇貝形狀的小冰蛋糕叫做金 盞花。有來自牛頓面包店的香辛小面包和巖皮餅,還有包裹著蛋黃醬的冰茶那是一家雷 諾克斯大街上圣馬可學校對面的西印度面包店。還有母親為我們準備的蜜桃和給父親準備 的蒔蘿腌菜,桃子上還有絨毛,單獨包裝,以免它們碰傷。為了干凈,母親還準備了成堆的餐巾紙 和一個小錫盒子里面裝有浸了玫瑰水和甘油的毛巾,可以用來擦拭發(fā)粘的嘴巴。 I wanted to eat in the dinning car&
16、#160;because I had read all about them, but my mother reminded me of umpteenth time that dinning car food always cost too much money and besides, you never
17、0; could tell whose hands had been playing all over that food, nor where those same hands had been just before. My mother never mentioned that Black people
18、0;were not allowed into dining cars headed south in 1947. As usual, whatever my mother did not like and could not change, she ignored. Perhaps it would g
19、o away, deprived of her attention. 我想要在餐車吃飯,因為我已經(jīng)從書上讀到過關(guān)于它們的一切,但母親提醒了我無數(shù)次,餐車 食品太貴,而且,你根本沒法辨別那些食物上有誰的手在上面動過,也不知道, 之前他們的手碰 過什么地方。我的母親從未提及過直到1947年黑人還是不被允許進入前往南部的火車餐 車。通常,無論母親是不喜歡的或無法改變的事她都會忽視??赡芩X得如果把注意力轉(zhuǎn) 開事情就會過去。 I lear
20、ned latter that Phylliss high school senior class trip had been to Washington, but the nuns had given her back her deposit in private, explaining to her that
21、160;the class, all of whom were white, except Phyllis, would be staying in a hotel where Phyllis would not be happy, meaning, Daddy explained to her, also
22、0;in private, that they did not rent rooms to Negroes. We still take among-you to Washington, ourselves, my father had avowed, and not just for an overnight in
23、 some measly fleabag hotel. 后來我知道菲利斯的高中班級旅行去的就是華盛頓,但老師們私底下又把費用還回給了她,跟她解釋說,班上的孩子除了菲利斯都是白人他們將住的那家旅館會讓菲利斯不高興。這句話后來父親對她私下里解釋的意思就是,他們不租房間給黑人。父親承諾說我們?nèi)匀粫е銈兊饺A盛頓去,就我們自己。而不是只是在便宜破舊的小旅館里住一晚。 In Washington D.C., we had
24、one large room with two double beds and an extra cot for me. It was a back-street hotel that belonged to a friend of my fathers who was in real
25、estate, and I spent the whole next day after Mass squinting up at the Lincoln Memorial where Marian Anderson had sung after D.A.R. refused to allow her t
26、o sing in their auditorium because she was black. Or because she was Colored, my father said as he told us the story. Except that what he probably said
27、60; was Negro, because for his times, my father was quite progressive. 在華盛頓,我們住一間有兩張雙人床的房間我還有一張額外的小床。這是一家后街的旅館是我父親的一個朋友的房產(chǎn)。次日彌撒過后我花了整個一天的時間瞇著眼看林肯紀念堂。在D.A.R.因瑪麗安?安德森是個黑人而拒絕她在他們的禮堂唱歌后她曾在林肯紀念堂唱過歌。父親在告訴我們這個故事的時候說也許是因為她是有色人種。除此之外父親說的
28、可能就是黑人,他當時相當激進。 I was squinting because I was in that silent agony that characterized all of my childhood summers, from the time school let out in June to
29、0;the end of July, brought about by my dilated and vulnerable eyes exposed to the summer brightness. 我瞇著眼是因為我一直處于無聲的痛苦中那一直是我從童年的夏天的特征,從學校放假的 六月到七月底,導致我擴張和脆弱的眼睛曝曬在夏天的強光下。 I view
30、ed Julys through an agonizing corolla of dazzling whiteness and I always hated the Fourth of July, even before I came to realize the travesty such a celebratio
31、n was for Black people in this country. 6月在我看來就是令人極度痛苦暈眩的白色。我討厭國慶日,甚至在我開始意識到這荒謬的現(xiàn)實這對美國黑人來說也算是個慶典-之前就開始討厭了。 My parents did not approve of sunglasses, nor of their expense.
32、; 我的父母不贊成戴墨鏡,他們也花費不起。 I spent the afternoon squinting up at monuments to freedom and past presidencies and democracy, and wondering why the light and heat w
33、ere both so much stronger in Washington D.C., than back home in New York City. Even the pavement on the streets was a shade lighter in color than back
34、0;home. 我花了一下午的時間瞇眼看自由紀念碑、歷屆總統(tǒng)和民主政治,不知道為什么華盛頓的光和 熱要比家鄉(xiāng)紐約強得多。甚至街道上的人行道路面都比家鄉(xiāng)的顏色略淺。 Late that Washington afternoon my family and I walked back down Pennsylvania Avenue. We were a prop
35、er caravan, mother bright and father brown, the three of us girls step-standards in-between. Moved by our historical surroundings and the heat of early evening, my
36、father decreed yet another treat. He had a sense of history, a flair for the quietly dramatic and the sense of specialness of an occasion and a trip.
37、0; 后來在華盛頓的那個下午我和我的家人沿著賓夕法尼亞大道走回去。我們可以算是個嚴格意 義上的旅行團,母親是白人、父親是黑人,我們?nèi)齻€女孩介于黑白之間漸變。受歷史建筑和傍 晚的炎熱影響,父親宣布去另一個地方。他有種很強的歷史感,懂得制造戲劇化的場面,懂得如 何讓旅行變得更有趣。 Shall we stop and have a little something to cool off, L
38、in? 我們要停下來喝點東西降降溫么,林? Two blocks away from our hotel the family stopped for a dish of vanilla ice cream at a Breyers ice cream and soda fountain.
39、Indoors, the soda fountain was dim and fan-cooled, deliciously relieving to my scorched eyes. 我們一家來到離旅館兩個街區(qū)遠的拜爾冰激凌冷飲小賣部吃香草冰激凌。小賣部里又昏暗又 涼爽很好地緩解了我焦灼的眼睛。 Corded and crisp a
40、nd pinafored, the five of us seated ourselves one by one at the counter. There was I between my mother and father, and my two sisters on the other si
41、de of my mother. We settled ourselves along the white mottled marble counter, and when the waitress spoke at first no one could understand what she was s
42、aying and so the five of us just sat there. 我們五個衣著整潔一個挨著一個坐在的柜臺邊。我坐在母親和父親中間我的兩個姐姐坐 在母親的另一邊。我們沿著白色斑點的大理石柜臺就坐,起先沒人聽明白那個女服務員說的 是什么于是我們就這么坐在那。 The waitress moved along the line of us
43、0;closer to my father and spoken againI said I kin give you to take out, but you can't eat her, sorry." Then she dropped her eyes looking very em
44、barrassed, and suddenly we heard what it was she was saying all at the same time, loud and clear. 那個女服務員朝我們走來靠近父親再一次說我說了我可以讓你們外帶但是抱歉 你們不能坐在這兒吃。 然后她垂下雙眼看起來十分尷尬。瞬間我們同時都聽到了她說了 什么響亮且
45、清楚。 Straight-backed and indignant, one by one, my family and I got down from the counter stools and turned around and marched out of the store, quiet
46、60;and outraged, as if we had never been Black before. No one would answer my emphatic questions with anything other than a guilty silence. But we hadnt
47、done anything! This wasnt right or fair! Hadnt I written poems about freedom and democracy for all? 我和我的家人挺直了背、義憤填膺,一個接一個從柜臺凳子上下來轉(zhuǎn)身走出了小賣部,安靜 并憤怒著,就好像我們從來不是黑人。沒有人會用除了內(nèi)疚的沉默以外的什么來回答我所強 調(diào)的問題。
48、但是我們什么都沒做!這是不正確的不公平的!難道我沒有寫過關(guān)于自由和 民主的詩歌嗎? My parents wouldnt speak of this injustice, not because they had contributed to it, but because they felt they should have
49、160;anticipated it and avoided it. This made me even angrier. My fury was not going to be acknowledged by a like fury. Even my two sisters copied my parents
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