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打印17 We unloaded cargo, reloaded with something else, then again we put to sea in the routine familiar to us, and as the days became weeks, my little personal experience receded. Sometimes, when we were at sea, a mail ship would rendezvous and bring us mail from home, which, of course, we accorded topmost priority.
我們卸了貨，又裝了其它物品，隨后我們按熟悉的常規，再次出海。 一天又一天，一星期又一星期，我個人的經歷漸漸淡忘。我們在海上航行時，有時會與郵船會合，郵船會帶給我們家信，當然這是我們視為最緊要的事情。
18 Every time the ship's loudspeaker rasped, "Attention! Mail call!" two hundred-odd shipmates came pounding up on deck and clustered about the two seamen, standing by those precious bulging gray sacks. They were alternately pulling out fistfuls of letters and barking successive names of sailors who were, in turn, shouting back "Here! Here!" amid the pushing.
每當船上的喇叭響起：“大伙聽好！郵件點名！”200名左右的水兵就會沖上甲板，圍聚在那兩個站在寶貴的鼓鼓囊囊的灰色郵袋旁的水手周圍。兩人輪流取出一把信，大聲念收信水手的名字，叫到的人從人群當中擠出，一邊應道：“來了，來了！”
19 One "mail call" brought me responses from Grandma, Dad, and the Reverend Nelson -- and my reading of their letters left me not only astonished but more humbled than before.
一次“郵件點名”帶給我外祖母，爸爸，以及納爾遜牧師的回信――我讀了信，既震驚又深感卑微。
20 Rather than saying they would forgive that I hadn't previously thanked them, instead, for Pete's sake, they were thanking me -- for having remembered, for having considered they had done anything so exceptional.
他們沒有說他們原諒我以前不曾感謝他們，相反，他們向我致謝，天哪，就因為我記得，就因為我認為他們做了不同尋常的事。
21 Always the college professor, my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too sentimental, so I knew how moved he was to write me that, after having helped educate many young people, he now felt that his best results included his own son.
身為大學教授的爸爸向來特別留意不使用任何過于感情化的文字，因此， 當他對我寫道，在教了許許多多的年輕人之后，他認為自己最優秀的學生當中也包括自己的兒子時，我知道他是多么地感動。
22 The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a "simple, old-fashioned principal" had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he had retired in self-doubt. "I heard more of what I had done wrong than what I did right," he said, adding that my letter had brought him welcome reassurance that his career had been appreciated.
納爾遜牧師寫道，他那平凡的傳統校長的歲月隨著學校里發生的如此迅猛的變化而結束，他懷著自我懷疑的心態退了休。“說我做得不對的遠遠多于說我做得對的，” 他寫道，接著說我的信給他帶來了振奮人心的信心：自己的校長生涯還是有其價值的。
23 A glance at Grandma's familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her "settin' down" some letter to relatives. Character by character, Grandma would slowly accomplish one word, then the next, so that a finished page would consume hours. I wept over the page representing my Grandma's recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me -- whom she used to diaper!
一看到外祖母那熟悉的筆跡，我頓時回想起往日站在她的白色搖椅旁看她給親戚寫信的情景。外祖母一個字母一個字母地慢慢拼出一個詞，接著是下一個詞，因此寫滿一頁要花上幾個小時。捧著外祖母最近花費不少工夫對我表達了充滿慈愛的謝意，我禁不住流淚――從前是她給我換尿布的呀。
24 Much later, retired from the Coast Guard and trying to make a living as a writer, I never forgot how those three "thank you" letters gave me an insight into how most human beings go about longing in secret for more of their fellows to express appreciation for their efforts.
許多年后，我從海岸警衛隊退役，試著靠寫作為生，我一直不曾忘記那三封“感謝”信是如何使我認識到，大凡人都暗自期望著有更多的人對自己的努力表達謝意。
25 Now, approaching another Thanksgiving, I have asked myself what will I wish for all who are reading this, for our nation, indeed for our whole world -- since, quoting a good and wise friend of mine, "In the end we are mightily and merely people, each with similar needs." First, I wish for us, of course, the simple common sense to achieve world peace, that being paramount for the very survival of our kind.
現在，感恩節又將來臨，我自問，對此文的讀者，對我們的祖國，事實上對全世界，我有什么祝愿，因為，用一位善良而且又有智慧的朋友的話來說，“我們究其實都是十分相像的凡人，有著相似的需求。”當然，我首先祝愿大家記住這一簡單的常識：實現世界和平，這對我們自身的存亡至關重要。
26 And there is something else I wish -- so strongly that I have had this line printed across the bottom of all my stationery: "Find the good -- and praise it."
此外我還有別的祝愿――這一祝愿是如此強烈，我將這句話印在我所有的信箋底部：“發現并褒揚各種美好的事物。”
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