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1.wait for 等候；等待
Wait for the concrete to go hard.
等待混凝土凝结。
2.as long as 只要；如果
As long as you have your health, nothing else matters.
只要身体健康，其他任何事都无关紧要。
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n. 挑战
v. 向 ... 挑战
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- I was not the only target of Mama's philosophy.
- 我不是妈妈处事哲学的唯一目标。
- At one time or another, Mama had several dozen people in the neighborhood waiting for spring to relieve them of indigestion,
- 有那么一段时间，附近有几十个人等着春天时，妈妈帮他们解决消化不良、
- mice, domestic difficulties, and trouble with the horizontal hold on their television sets.
- 老鼠、家庭琐事，以及电视机水平放置等等的各种麻烦。
- Sometimes, sitting in school during history (which Mama promised me I'd find less boring in the spring),
- 有时，上历史课时（妈妈答应我，春天我会觉得不那么无聊），
- I would daydream my mother into other places and other times.
- 我会白日做梦妈妈去了别的地方，或出现在别的时间。
- Once I saw her patting Napoleon on the back, after he got the news from the Russian front.
- 有一次我看到她拍拿破仑的背，那是在他得到俄国前线的消息之后。
- ("Maybe in spring ...") She was beside George Washington at Valley Forge, brushing snow off his epaulets.
- （“也许在春天……”）她在福吉谷和乔治华盛顿在一起，擦去他肩章上的雪。
- ("In spring, maybe, you'll win the revolution.") She was looking over Thomas Edison's shoulder, comforting him in his early failures.
- （“在春天，也许你会赢得革命。”）她看着托马斯·爱迪生的肩膀，安慰他早年的那些失败。
- ("Don't worry; maybe in the spring you'll try something new.")
- （“别担心，也许春天你会尝试一些新东西。”）
- I have been worrying for weeks now about what to give my mother for Mother's Day.
- 几个星期以来，我一直在担心母亲节该送什么礼物给妈妈。
- For most people, this is a modest problem, solved by the purchase of a bathrobe or a box of candy.
- 对大多数人来说，这并不是什么大问题，买一件浴袍或一盒糖果就可以解决。
- For me, however, Mother's Day represents an annual challenge to do the impossible—find a gift that will make neither Mama nor me feel terrible.
- 然而，对我来说，母亲节是一年一度挑战不可能之事的时候，我要找到一份既不会让妈妈也不会让我自己感到难受的礼物。
- Expensive gifts—which Mama defines as costing over $1.98—are out, because they make Mama feel terrible.
- 按照妈妈的定义，价值超过1.98美元的昂贵礼物已经过时了，因为它们让妈妈感觉很糟糕。
- ("This is awful," she says, examining an apron. "I feel just terrible. You shouldn't have spent the money on me.")
- （“这太可怕了，”她边说边查看一条围裙。“我感觉糟透了，你不该把钱花在我身上。”）
- Inexpensive presents—under $1.98—please Mama, but they make me feel terrible.
- 1.98美元以下的便宜礼物会让妈妈高兴，但它们让我感觉糟透了。
- There is always the danger that a gift given to Mama will bounce swiftly back to the giver.
- 送给妈妈的礼物总有被迅速退回给送礼者的危险。
- If I buy her something wearable, she perceives in an instant that it could be let in here, let out there, and it would fit me perfectly.
- 如果我给她买些可穿戴的东西，她会立刻意识到，它可以放在这里，放在那里，它会非常适合我。
- If I give her a plant, she cuts off the top for me to take home and root in a glass of water.
- 如果我给她一棵植物，她就会把它的顶部剪掉，让我带回家，然后把根部放在一杯水里。
- If I give her something edible, she wants me to stay for lunch and eat it.
- 如果我给她吃的，她会把我留下来吃午饭。
- Papa, a sensible man, long ago stopped trying to shop for Mama.
- 爸爸是个聪明人，很久以前就不再为妈妈买东西了。
- Instead, on Mother's Day, her birthday, and other appropriate occasions,
- 取而代之的是，在母亲节、她的生日和其他合适的场合，
- he composes a short epic poem in which he tells of their meeting, courtship, and subsequent marriage.
- 他会写一首短诗，讲述他们的相遇、求爱和随后的婚姻。
- After nearly 30 years of poems, Papa sometimes worries that the edge of his poetic inspiration has dulled, but Mama doesn't complain.
- 经过近30年的诗歌创作，爸爸有时担心他的诗歌灵感已经枯竭，但妈妈没有抱怨。
- She comes into the room while he is struggling over a gift poem and says, "It doesn't have to rhyme as long as it's from the heart."
- 当他为一首作为礼物的诗歌苦苦挣扎时，她会走进房间说：“只要是发自内心的，就不必押韵。”
- This year, finally, I think I, too, have found a painless gift for Mama.
- 今年，我想我也终于为妈妈找到了一份轻松愉快的礼物。
- I am going to give her a magazine article, unrhymed but from the heart,
- 我要送给她一篇发表在杂志中的文章，没有赞美，但发自内心，
- in which I wish her "Happy Mother's Day" and tell her there's nothing Papa or I could ever buy, find, or make her that would be half good enough anyway.
- 我在文章最后祝她“母亲节快乐”，并告诉她，我和爸爸无法买到、找到或作出什么礼物，能与这份礼物相媲美。
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| challenge | ['tʃælindʒ] | |||
| horizontal | [.hɔri'zɔntl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| appropriate | [ə'prəupriət] | 联想记忆 | ||
| candy | ['kændi] | |||
| edible | ['edibl] | |||
| complain | [kəm'plein] | |||
| boring | ['bɔ:riŋ] | |||
| swiftly | ['swiftli] | |||
| impossible | [im'pɔsəbl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| shoulder | ['ʃəuldə] |
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