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1.be careful with 注意；对……小心
Be careful with the glasses.
小心这些玻璃杯。
2.of course 当然可以；当然
Of course, this is just a personal opinion.
当然了，这只是个人意见。
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n. 抗议，反对，声明
v. 抗议，反对，申明
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- There is a country-I read about it once-where the local custom is that
- 我曾经读过一篇文章，里面说有一个国家，当地的风俗是，
- if you go to house and praise some small possession, the owners feel obliged to offer it to you as a gift.
- 如果你去到一幢房子那儿，对一些小财产夸奖一番，主人会觉得有义务把它作为礼物送给你。
- I don't remember the name of the country; the only other place I know of with such a custom is my mother's apartment.
- 我不记得这个国家的名字了，我所知道的唯一有这种做法的地方是我母亲的公寓。
- Knowing Mama, I have always been careful with my compliments, but that doesn't stop her.
- 我了解母亲，我总是很小心地恭维她，但这并不能阻止她。
- Mama senses admiration far more subtle than what's spoken.
- 妈妈感受到的赞美远比表达出来的微妙得多。
- If she catches me staring at anything small enough to put in a grocery sack, she hands it to me as I leave.
- 如果她发现我盯着任何小到可以放进购物袋的东西，她会在我离开时递给我。
- It would do no good to protest.
- 抗议没有好处。
- "I was merely staring at that photograph of Mount Hood because I have one exactly like it in my living room."
- “我只是盯着胡德山的照片，因为我的客厅里有一张和它一模一样的照片。”
- Mama would only nod and say, "Of course. You were thinking how nice it would be to have a set.
- 妈妈只会点头说：“当然。你在想要是有一套该多好。
- If a mother doesn't understand, who does?"
- 如果母亲不明白，谁会明白？”
- Sometimes, while visiting Mama and trying not to say anything complimentary,
- 有时，我去看望母亲时，尽量不说任何赞美的话，
- I reflect on what might have been had she ended up in, say, the White House.
- 我会想如果她最终入主白宫会发生什么。
- "Here you are, Mr. Prime Minister, that nice picture of George Washington you were admiring so much, from the Blue Room.
- “总理先生，这是你在蓝厅里欣赏的乔治·华盛顿的漂亮照片。
- No, take it. You like it. What do I need it for?"
- 不，拿着，你会喜欢它的，我要用它做什么呢？”
- Being with Mama is like watching an Alfred Hitchcock movie: I never know what's going to happen next.
- 和母亲在一起就像看希区柯克的电影：我永远不知道接下来会发生什么。
- For instance, I have lasting memories of childhood walks with her.
- 例如，我一直记得童年和她一起散步，
- Mama noticed everything. We had to stop to admire a nice house, a nice tree, a nice flower.
- 妈妈会注意到一切。我们会停下来欣赏漂亮的房子，挺拔的树，美丽的花。
- Mama regarded the people we saw (those who didn't look like her relatives) as portraits in a museum—no matter if people stared back.
- 母亲把我们看到的人（那些长得不像她亲戚的人）当作博物馆里的肖像，不管那些人是否回头看。
- "She was pretty once, but has seen tragedy," Mama would whisper, or, "Such a handsome man, but conceited to the core."
- “她曾经很漂亮，但也遭遇过不幸，”妈妈会小声说，或者说，“这么英俊的男人，却自大到极点。”
- Her sharpest epithet was "Minky," reserved for the type of woman Mama thought would wear a mink to the supermarket.
- 她起的苛刻的绰号“Minky”，留给那种母亲认为会穿着貂皮大衣去超市的女性。
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