n. 仁慈,好意
My earliest memory was of taking our only vacuum bottle to the public canteen for drinking water. Weakened by hunger, I dropped the bottle and broke it. Scared witless, I hid all that day in a haystack. Toward evening, I heard my mother calling my childhood name, so I crawled out of my hiding place, prepared to receive a beating or a scolding. But Mother didn’t hit me, didn’t even scold me. She just rubbed my head and heaved a sigh.
我記憶中最痛苦的一件事,就是跟著母親去集體的地理揀麥穗,看守麥田的人來了,揀麥穗的人紛紛逃跑,我母親是小腳,跑不快,被捉住,那個身材高大的看守人煽了她一個耳光,她搖晃著身體跌倒在地,看守人沒收了我們揀到的麥穗,吹著口哨揚長而去。我母親嘴角流血,坐在地上,臉上那種絕望的神情深我終生難忘。多年之后,當那個看守麥田的人成為一個白發蒼蒼的老人,在集市上與我相逢,我沖上去想找他報仇,母親拉住了我,平靜的對我說:“兒子,那個打我的人,與這個老人,并不是一個人。”
My most painful memory involved going out in the collective’s field with Mother to glean ears of wheat. The gleaners scattered when they spotted the watchman. But Mother, who had bound feet, could not run; she was caught and slapped so hard by the watchman, a hulk of a man, that she fell to the ground. The watchman confiscated the wheat we’d gleaned and walked off whistling. As she sat on the ground, her lip bleeding, Mother wore a look of hopelessness I’ll never forget. Years later, when I encountered the watchman, now a gray-haired old man, in the marketplace, Mother had to stop me from going up to avenge her. “Son,” she said evenly, “the man who hit me and this man are not the same person.”
我記得最深刻的一件事是一個中秋節的中午,我們家難得的包了一頓餃子,每人只有一碗。正當我們吃餃子時,一個乞討的老人來到了我們家門口,我端起半碗紅薯干打發他,他卻憤憤不平地說:“我是一個老人,你們吃餃子,卻讓我吃紅薯干。你們的心是怎么長的?”我氣急敗壞的說:“我們一年也吃不了幾次餃子,一人一小碗,連半飽都吃不了!給你紅薯干就不錯了,你要就要,不要就滾!”母親訓斥了我,然后端起她那半碗餃子,倒進了老人碗里。
My clearest memory is of a Moon Festival day, at noontime, one of those rare occasions when we ate jiaozi at home, one bowl apiece. An aging beggar came to our door while we were at the table, and when I tried to send him away with half a bowlful of dried sweet potatoes, he reacted angrily: “I’m an old man,” he said. “You people are eating jiaozi, but want to feed me sweet potatoes. How heartless can you be?” I reacted just as angrily: “We’re lucky if we eat jiaozi a couple of times a year, one small bowlful apiece, barely enough to get a taste! You should be thankful we’re giving you sweet potatoes, and if you don’t want them, you can get the hell out of here!” After (dressing me down) reprimanding me, Mother dumped her half bowlful of jiaozi into the old man’s bowl.
我最后悔的一件事,就是跟著母親去賣白菜,有意無意的多算了一位買白菜的老人一毛錢。算完錢我就去了學校。當我放學回家時,看到很少流淚的母親淚流滿面。母親并沒有罵我,只是輕輕的說:“兒子,你讓娘丟了臉。”
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kindness | ['kaindnis] |
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avenge | [ə'vendʒ] |
想一想再看 vt. 為 ... 報復,報仇 |
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fanciful | ['fænsifəl] |
想一想再看 adj. 奇怪的,稀奇的,想像的 |
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popular | ['pɔpjulə] |
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unspoken | [,ʌn'spəukən] |
想一想再看 adj. 未說出口的;無言的;不言而喻的 |
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supreme | [sju:'pri:m] |
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uphold | [ʌp'həuld] |
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crouch | [krautʃ] |
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limited | ['limitid] |
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adequately | ['ædikwitli] |
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