雙語(yǔ)愛(ài)情美文：緣定今生

　　時(shí)間是怎樣把我們攏到一塊，并置我們于某一特定的場(chǎng)合，讓我們面對(duì)這樣或那樣的一種選擇，我們放棄了其他很多條我們自己所作的抉擇，我們放棄了其他很多我們可能走的充滿(mǎn)不同激情和歡樂(lè)，不同困惑與失意的人生之路。下面是學(xué)習(xí)啦小編為大家?guī)?lái)英語(yǔ)經(jīng)典愛(ài)情美文：緣定今生，希望大家喜歡!

　　My father met my mother in a poker game. He said she was the best bluffer he'd ever seen.She sat with 5 men at a table under an elm tree that shaded them from the hot Kansas city sun. Hey talent for subterfuge lay hidden behind her sHect. serene smile. She beat them all. My father couldn't take his eyes off her.

　　父親是在一次牌局中認(rèn)識(shí)母親的。他說(shuō)她是他所見(jiàn)過(guò)的出牌高手。她和5位男士一桌，頭上遮天蔽日的榆樹(shù)，把堪薩斯城火辣辣的太陽(yáng)擋在了上空。她溫柔而恬靜地微笑著，高超的牌技深藏不露，她贏了他們所有的人。父親的目光定格在她的身上，沒(méi)法移開(kāi).

　　It was her company's annual picnic, and he walked her home. The next week, from his home in Chicago. he sent her a post card: Kernembcr me Please do. because be calling you one of these days.-David.

　　在她公司一年一度的野餐聚會(huì)后，他陪她步行回家。緊接著下個(gè)星期，父親從芝加哥給她寄了一張明信片:“記得我嗎?千萬(wàn)別忘r我，最近我會(huì)給你電話(huà)。大衛(wèi)。”

　　She still has that post card am not sure what made her save Though he already had his heart set on her. She hadn't chosen him yet, at least not consciously.

　　至今她還珍藏著那張明信片，我不懂她為什么會(huì)把它給留下來(lái)當(dāng)時(shí)，雖然父親對(duì)她已是一則頃心，但她還沒(méi)有鐘情于他，至少還未意識(shí)到自己對(duì)他已經(jīng)心儀.

　　As my father often told us while we were growing up, it was blind luck that he was at the picnic that day.A salesman for a big electronics company. he was in town to meet with clients and happened to stop by the branch office that Saturday morning to make some calls. The telephone rang: it was the manager of a local radio station with whom my father had done some busines,. "Dave! Glad you're town!' he said, and invited him to come right over to their annual picnic.

　　正如父親在我們小時(shí)候常說(shuō)的那樣，那天他會(huì)出現(xiàn)在野餐聚會(huì)上純屬偶然。當(dāng)時(shí)他是一家大型電子公司的推銷(xiāo)員，到城里與客戶(hù)見(jiàn)面，在周六上午碰巧有兒個(gè)電話(huà)要打，就順便去了分公司剛一進(jìn)門(mén)，電話(huà)鈴就響，是當(dāng)?shù)氐囊患译娕_(tái)的經(jīng)理打來(lái)的，父親同他有討一此業(yè)務(wù)往來(lái)“大衛(wèi)，你來(lái)的正是時(shí)候!”他要求父親馬上過(guò)去參加他們的年度野餐.

　　My mother was a writer at that radio ,ration. If my tiithcr hadn't stopped by the office that morning, he told us, or if he'd gotten there two minutes later... we shivered with a delicious horror at the opportunity, the life-our lives- -that would have been missed.

　　母親是那家電臺(tái)的撰稿人，父親說(shuō)，如果那大上午他沒(méi)去公司，或者遲去兩分鐘，那后果呢……我們帶著甜蜜的恐懼為這稍縱即逝的機(jī)緣而稀噓不已—果真如此的話(huà)，世上就沒(méi)我們這幾個(gè)孩子了。

　　My mother saw him when he was in town, but she dated other men, including a car salesman who entered our family lore. Soon after she inet my father, the car salesman gave her a watch for her birthday. In those days the gift of a watch meant the relationship as moving towards an engageement. But she returned the watch, and one night a few months later. she woke her mother and told her she was going to mmry Dave.

　　此后每逢父親進(jìn)城，母親都和他見(jiàn)面，但她當(dāng)時(shí)也跟另外幾個(gè)男人約會(huì)，其中包括我們后來(lái)時(shí)常提及的汽車(chē)經(jīng)銷(xiāo)商就在母親和父親相遇之后不久，那位汽車(chē)經(jīng)銷(xiāo)商還送給母親一塊手表作為她的生日禮物那時(shí)，手表常常作定情之物，意味著他們不久將一婚但母親把手表退回去r.并在幾個(gè)月后的晚上，告訴我姥姥，她準(zhǔn)備嫁給大衛(wèi)。

　　A few months after the wedding. my father was transferred east. They settled in New York, in the house where I grow up.

　　婚禮后不久，父親調(diào)往東部工作井在紐約定居下來(lái)，我就是在那兒長(zhǎng)大的.

　　I was eight years old him when l met my fulurr husband. He was in high school,a friend of my brother's. I remember him only peripherally. as I was much more interested in my brother's other friend-Francois, a Swiss exchange student, dark. mysterious and polished.

　　我8歲的時(shí)候就遇見(jiàn)了我未來(lái)的丈夫他當(dāng)時(shí)在讀中學(xué)，是我哥哥的一位朋友。我對(duì)他的印象并不深，因?yàn)槲覍?duì)哥哥的另一個(gè)朋友更著迷，他是瑞士籍的交換學(xué)生，皮膚黝黑，個(gè)性神秘，舉止優(yōu)雅.

　　15 years later the man I would eventually many came back to town for Christmas and stopped by my parents' house to pick up my brother for an evening out. When he saw me in the next room, he hissed, "Who is that''"

　　15年之后，我最終要與之共度一生的男人回城過(guò)圣誕節(jié)。他順便來(lái)我父母家，接我哥哥出去玩通宵，當(dāng)他看到隔壁房間里的我時(shí)，低聲問(wèn)道“那是誰(shuí)?”

　　My brother looked at him strangely and said. 'It was Lisa.'

　　我哥哥詫異地看了他一眼，答道:“那不是朋薩嗎!”

　　He walked into the roots, reintroduced himself and pretended he didn't know how to wrap his Christmas gifts. 1 pretended to believe and helped. He came around a lot over the next few days. "I don't know who he 's interested in,"my mother told me, "you or your sister." I knew. But later that week I flew across the country to spend New Year's Eve with another man. Though I'd been chosen, I wasn't ready to admit it yet.

　　他走進(jìn)房間，重新作了一通自我介紹，并假裝不知道如何包裝他的圣誕禮物，我也不拆穿他，騰出手來(lái)幫忙。接著幾犬，他一個(gè)勁往我家跑。“我鬧不清他到底是看上了誰(shuí)，”母親說(shuō)，“你還是你妹妹。”可我心知肚明。不過(guò)在那個(gè)星期晚些時(shí)候，我飛往西海岸同另一個(gè)男孩共度除夕之夜。盡管我未來(lái)的丈夫已鐘情于我，但是我還沒(méi)有準(zhǔn)備應(yīng)允接受。

　　If the timing had been different,the distance less daunting and my heart not already--albeit unknowingly--engaged,I could have ended up with that man whom I went off to visit.Or if not him,them with someone else.

　　如果他不是在圣誕節(jié)來(lái)訪(fǎng)，我同原先那個(gè)朋友又非遠(yuǎn)隔關(guān)山，而我又非早已心有所屬—雖然我還沒(méi)意識(shí)到這一點(diǎn)，我就可能嫁給遠(yuǎn)方的男友了，即使不是嫁給他，那也一定是另外一個(gè)男人.

　　Sometimes I think about at. How time ,weeps us along and puts us in a certain place where we're faced with one option or another , by chance and by the choice we make,we leave behind whole other live, we could have lived .full of different passions and joys, different problems and disappointments.

　　有時(shí)我琢磨，時(shí)間是怎樣把我們攏到一塊，并置我們于某一特定的場(chǎng)合，讓我們面對(duì)這樣或那樣的一種選擇，我們放棄了其他很多條我們自己所作的抉擇，我們放棄了其他很多我們可能走的充滿(mǎn)不同激情和歡樂(lè)，不同困惑與失意的人生之路。

　　My father could have missed that picnic. Or my mother could have picked the car salesman She would have had other children and an entirely different future.

　　我父親本來(lái)有可能錯(cuò)過(guò)那次野餐，我母親也有可能選擇那位汽車(chē)推銷(xiāo)商做終身伴侶，這樣她就會(huì)有另外的孩子和一個(gè)完全不同的未來(lái).

　　Other times--particularly w0hen I came home late to a sleeping house, nay husband and daughter curled around each other after drifting off during the third reading of Jane Yolen's Owl Moon-I thank about the lives we would not have had if chances or choices had brought us to a different place. And I shiver, much the way I did as a child at the story of my father's near miss, at the thought that I might have missed this life, this man, this child, this love.

　　有些時(shí)候，特別是當(dāng)我夜深晚歸之時(shí)，丈夫和女兒已經(jīng)相擁人眠—他們一定是在第氣次讀簡(jiǎn)·約倫的《月下貓頭鷹》時(shí)不知不覺(jué)人夢(mèng)的，我就想，要是機(jī)緣或選擇讓我們置身別處，我們就不可能擁有眼前的生活r一想到我有可能錯(cuò)過(guò)這一生，這個(gè)丈夫，這個(gè)孩子，這一份愛(ài)，我就心有余悸，就像小時(shí)候聽(tīng)父親故事那種感覺(jué)一樣—父親也是差點(diǎn)兒錯(cuò)過(guò)同母親的姻緣.