大学英语精读1(第三版)英汉互译Unit08
别妄想泡我
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我决定，在现在和圣诞节之前这段时间里，我必须不动声色，绝对不可露出一点蛛丝马迹暗示我已令人讨厌地知道了此事。我必须谨言慎行，不能让她知道我已掌握了她的秘密。必须想尽一切办法让她在圣诞节那天享受到看见我极为惊讶时的快乐。
In the privacy of my bedroom I began composing and testing exclamations of delight: "Wow!" "A bike with balloon tires! I don't believe it!" "I'm the luckiest boy alive!" And so on. They all owed a lot to movies in which boys like Mickey Rooney had seen their wildest dreams come true. I soon realized that, with my lack of acting talent, all of them were going to sound false at the critical moment when I wanted to cry out my love spontaneously from the heart. Maybe it would be better to say nothing but appear to be shocked into such deep pleasure that speech had escaped me. I wasn't sure, though. I'd seen speechless gratitude in the movies too, and it never really worked until the actors managed to cry a few quiet tears. I doubted I could cry on cue, so I began thinking about other expressions of speechless amazement. In front of a hand-held mirror in my bedroom I tried the whole range of expressions; mouth open and eyes wide; hands slapped firmly against both cheeks to keep the jaw from falling off; ear-to-ear grin with all teeth fully exposed while hugging myself with both arms. These and more I practiced for several days without acquiring confidence in any of them. I decided to wait until Christmas morning and see if anything came naturally ...
在我不受干扰的卧室里，我开始构思并试验种种表示喜悦的惊叫：“哇噢！”“一辆低压轮胎的自行车！我真不敢相信！”“我是世界上最最幸运的男孩！”等等。这些话都大大归功于比如由米基·鲁尼主演的电影，片中男孩子看到他们最不着边际的梦想得以实现时都这么说。我很快便意识到，因为我缺乏演戏的天才，在我不由自主地想大声喊出发自肺腑的爱时，所有这些话听上去都会显得很虚假。或许最好是什么也不说，而是看上去惊喜得连话也说不出来了。不过，我也没有把握。我在电影里也看到过说不出话来的感激，但直到演员们设法哭出几滴无声的眼泪时才真正起到作用。我怀疑自己能否适时地哭出来，于是便开始思考别的表示无言惊讶的方式。在卧室里，我手拿镜子，试着做出各种各样的表情，嘴巴张得大大的，眼睛瞪得圆圆的；双手猛地捂住脸颊使下巴不至于落下来，双臂抱着自己，咧开嘴大笑，把全部牙齿都露出来。这些动作和一些别的动作我练了好几天，但对任何一个动作都没有把握。我决定等到圣诞节早晨再说，看能不能自然而然地做出什么动作来 ……
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hat Christmas morning she woke us early, "to see what Santa Claus brought," she said with just the right tone of voice to indicate we were all old enough to know who Santa Claus was. I came out of my bedroom with my present for her and Doris, and Doris came with hers. My mother's has been placed under the tree during the night. There were a few small brightly wrapped packages, a big doll for Doris, but no bicycle. I must have looked disappointed.
那年的圣诞节早晨，妈妈一早就把我们叫醒了，“看看圣诞老人带来了什么，”她只是用一般的口吻说，借以表明我们都不小了，知道圣诞老人是谁了。我带着送给她和多丽丝的礼物从我的卧室里走了出来，多丽丝也带着她送给我们的礼物走了出来。妈妈送给我们的礼物已在夜里放在了圣诞树下。有几个用彩纸包好的小包，一个给多丽丝的大玩具娃娃，但却没有自行车。我当时看上去一定很失望。
"It looks like Santa Claus didn't do too well by you this year, Buddy," she said, as I opened packages. A shirt. A necktie. I said something halfhearted like, "It's the thought that counts," but what I felt was bitter disappointment. I supposed she'd found the bike just too expensive and sent it back.
在我打开包的时候，妈妈说：“看来圣诞老人今年对你不太好吗，老弟。”果然这里只有一件衬衫和一根领带。我嘴上说了些半心半意的话，什么“重要的是这番情意”等等，但心里感到的却是极度的失望。我猜想也许是她发觉自行车太贵，又把它送了回去。
"Wait a minute!" she cried, snapping her fingers. "There's something in my bedroom I forgot all about."
“等一下！”她大声喊道，一边还打了个榧子。“我睡房里还有样东西我竟忘了个一干二净。”
She went out, and a moment later came back wheeling the big black two-wheeler with balloon tires. I didn't have to pretend, after all. The three of us – Doris, my mother, and I – were people bred to hold back emotional expressions of love, but I did something that startled both my mother and me. I threw my arms around her spontaneously and kissed her.
她出去了，不一会儿就推着那辆低压轮胎的大的黑色自行车回来了。结果我也不必假装了。我们三个人——多丽丝、妈妈和我——都是那种性格内敛、不会感情激动地表达爱的人，但我还是做了一件让妈妈和我都大吃一惊的事。我情不自禁地伸出双臂搂住她，吻了她。
"All right now, don't carry on about it. It's only a bicycle," she said.
“好了，好了，别大惊小怪了。只不过是一辆自行车嘛，”她说。
Still, I knew that she was as happy as I was to see her so happy.
不过，我还是知道她很高兴，就像我看到她那么高兴我也高兴一样。
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