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194.The rural life
194.鄉(xiāng)村生活
The rural life is the life for me. I like living out in the wide-open spaces where you can smell the fresh air and see the beautiful grasslands. I like seeing lightning flash and hearing the rumble of thunder. I like watching the cows ruminate in the pasture, often with saliva dripping. The farm life is simple, unlike the city where you are met with a sally of buses and cars everyday, but there is lots of hard work. Here are a few salient samples of what I mean:
鄉(xiāng)村生活正是我所適合的生活。我喜歡居住在視野開闊之地，在那兒你可以呼吸到新鮮空氣，可以欣賞到美麗的草原。我喜歡看到閃電，喜歡聽到隆隆的雷聲。我還喜歡看奶牛在牧場咀嚼的樣子，總是吃得香噴噴的，口水直流。農(nóng)場生活是簡單的，不像城市中你每天必須從公車和小車中突圍，但在農(nóng)村你得做很多艱辛的勞動。下面是我意有所指的幾個顯著的例子：
Milking cows every morning involves squeezing their utters to release the milk contained in the milk sac. A saline solution needs to be prepared for the cows as their salinity has to be maintained, but they can't receive too much salt, or else the saltiness of their milk will be too high. Feeding the chickens is something else that must be done each day. You have to get a sack of chicken feed, go into the chicken yard, and spread it around until all of the chickens have eaten. Another job is salvaging old farm equipment. If anything gets rusted, you have to sand off the rust and paint it with rustproof paint. At the end of everyday, you have to put the saddle on the horse and go out and round up the cows before it gets dark.
每天早上擠牛奶的工作就包括使勁擠奶牛的乳房，使牛奶從液囊中流出來。擠完以后還必須給奶牛準備一些含鹽溶液，以保持牛奶的鹽濃度。但奶牛也不能吸收過多鹽分，否則牛奶中的鹽分將會過高。喂雞也是每天必不可少的工作。首先你必須準備一袋雞食，然后去雞房里，把雞食撒在地上，直到所有的雞都已經(jīng)吃過了你才能走。另外一份工作就是搶修舊農(nóng)具。如果有工具生銹了，你必須先磨光鐵銹，然后刷上防銹漆。每天傍晚時分，你還得給馬配上馬鞍，在天黑之前騎馬出去把所有的奶牛趕回來。
After dinner, we usually sit around the fire telling stories often western sagas about sagacious cowboys who work hard all day and fight off bandits and savages for the sake of their families.
吃完晚飯后，我們經(jīng)常圍坐在火堆旁邊講故事——我們喜歡講一些西部傳說，這種傳說一般是關于那些精明能干的牛仔的，他們?yōu)榱思彝サ木壒收煨燎诠ぷ鳎c強盜和野蠻人作戰(zhàn)。
The farm life is also salutary for the soul. The farm is a rustic, quiet sanctuary from the sanctimonious behavior of the city people. People in the country are honest and straight forward. Rural neighbors help each other. It is a sacred way of life for them.
農(nóng)場生活也非常有益于心靈健康。農(nóng)場是一個鄉(xiāng)村氣息很濃，非常靜謐的、可躲避城里人虛情假意的避風港。鄉(xiāng)村入都非常誠實和坦率。在鄉(xiāng)村，鄰里之間通常都互相幫助。對他們來說，這是一種圣潔高尚的生活方式。
You may not sanction the rural life, but it's the only life for me.
你有可能不會認可鄉(xiāng)村生活，但這卻是我惟一喜歡的生活方式。
