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1、A-Doll-for-Great-Grandmother原文加翻译精品文档 A Doll for Great-Grandmother 送给曾祖母的洋娃娃When my grandfather died, my 83-year-old grandmother, once so full of life, slowly began to fade. No longer able to manage a home of her own, she moved in with my mother, where she was visited often by other members of her l
2、arge, loving family (two children, eight grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren). Although she still had her good days, it was often hard to arouse her interest.我爷爷去世后，我83岁的奶奶渐渐失去了原有的活力。由于奶奶无法再照顾自己，所以她搬去和我妈妈一起住。我们一家是个充满爱的大家庭（奶奶有两个孩子，8个孙辈，22个曾孙辈，还有两个玄孙辈），大家经常去看望她。尽管奶奶
3、的日子过得挺舒适，她却对什么事都提不起兴趣。But one chilly December afternoon three years ago, my daughter Meagan, then eight, and I were settling in for a long visit with “GG”, as the family calls her, when she noticed that Meagan was carrying her favorite doll.三年前十二月里的一天下午，天气阴冷，我和当时才8岁的女儿米根去看望GG（家里人都这么称呼她），并在那儿住了一段时间。奶
4、奶看见米根抱着她心爱的洋娃娃。“I, too, had a special doll when I was a little girl,” she told Meagan. “I got it one Christmas when I was about your age. I lived in an old farmhouse in Maine, with Mom, Dad and my four sisters, and the very first gift I opened that Christmas was the most beautiful doll youd ever wan
5、t to see.”“小时候我也有一个很特别的洋娃娃，”奶奶告诉米根，“那是我的圣诞礼物，那时我和你现在差不多大。我和父母、四个姐妹住在缅因州的一个老农场里。那年圣诞我打开的第一份礼物是一个非常漂亮的娃娃，那么漂亮，见过之后你也许不会再想看别的洋娃娃了。”“She had an exquisite, hand-painted porcelain face, and her long brown hair was pulled back with a big pink bow. Her eyes were blue as blue could be, and they opened and cl
6、osed. I remember she had a body of kidskin, and her arms and legs bent at the joints.”“洋娃娃有一张精致的、手绘的瓷脸，长长的棕色头发用一个粉红色蝴蝶结束在脑后，眼睛是标准的蓝色，还眨巴眨巴的。我还记得她的身体是用小山羊皮做的，手脚关节还可以动呢。”GGs voice dropped low, taking on an almost reverent tone. “My doll was dressed in a pretty pink gown, trimmed with fine lace. But wh
7、at I especially remember was her petticoat. It was fine linen, trimmed with rows and rows of delicate lace. And the tiny buttons on her boots were real. Getting such a fine doll was like a miracle for a little farm girl like me my parents must have had to sacrifice so much to afford it. But how happ
8、y I was that morning!”GG的声音忽然沉了下去，她用一种几乎是虔诚的语调在叙说。“我的洋娃娃穿着一件漂亮的粉红礼服，边上绣着精致的蕾丝。我印象最深刻的是她穿的亚麻布料的衬裙，上边绣着一排排精致的蕾丝。她靴子上的小钮扣还是真的对于我这个农家女儿来说，得到这样一个可爱的洋娃娃简直就是一个奇迹，为了买她，我的父母一定牺牲了很多。那天早上我太高兴了。”GGs eyes filled and her voice shook with emotion as she recalled that Christmas of long ago. “I played with my doll a
9、ll morning long. She was such a beautiful doll. And then it happened. My mother called us to the dining room for Christmas dinner and I laid my new doll down, ever so gently, on the hall table. But as I went to join the family at the table, I heard a loud crash.”GG的眼眶湿润了，她用颤抖的声音叙说着很久以前的那个圣诞节。“整个上午我都
10、在玩这个洋娃娃，她太漂亮了然而悲剧发生了。妈妈叫我们去饭厅吃圣诞晚餐，我轻轻地把洋娃娃放在厅里的桌子上。我走过去和家人一起吃饭，猛然听见一声巨响。”“I hardly had to turn around I knew it was my precious doll. I just knew it. And it was. Her lace petticoat had hung down from the table just enough for my baby sister to reach up and pull on it. When I ran in from the dining
11、room, there lay my beautiful doll on the floor, her face smashed into a dozen pieces. I can still see my mother trying to put my poor doll together again. But it couldnt be done. She was gone forever.”“我不用回头看就知道那是我的宝贝洋娃娃。我能感觉到。果然没错。洋娃娃的蕾丝衬裙垂到桌子旁，刚好我的小妹妹够得着，把她拉了下来。我从饭厅冲过去，只见我的洋娃娃躺在地上，脸摔成了十几块。我还记得妈妈正试
12、着帮我把那可怜的洋娃娃重新拼起来。但是怎么弄都不行。我的洋娃娃就这样没了。”A few years later, GGs baby sister was also gone, she told Meagan, a victim of pneumonia. Now the tears in her eyes spilled over tears, I knew, not only for a lost doll and a lost sister, but for a lost time.GG告诉米根，几年后小妹妹因为肺炎也永远离开了。 GG这时满脸泪水，我知道她流泪不止是因为失去了洋娃娃和小妹
13、妹，更因为那逝去的年华。Subdued for the rest of the visit, Meagan was no sooner in the car going home than she exclaimed, “Mom, I have a great idea! Lets get GG a new doll for Christmas, one exactly like the doll that got broken. Then she wont cry when she thinks about it.”米根郁郁寡欢地度过了剩下的几天，我们该回家了。一上车她就叫道：“妈妈，我有一
14、个好主意。我们送给GG一个新洋娃娃作圣诞礼物吧，跟那个摔破的洋娃娃一模一样的。那她再也不用想到它就哭了。”My heart filled with pride as I listened to my compassionate little daughter. But where would we find a doll to match GGs fond memories?看到我的女儿这么富有同情心，我觉得很骄傲。可是我们上哪儿去找一个与GG的美好记忆中一模一样的洋娃娃呢？Where theres a will, as they say, theres a way. When I told
15、my best friends, Liz and Chris, about my problem, Liz put me in touch with a local dollmaker who made doll heads, hands and feet of a ceramic that closely resembled the old porcelain ones. From her I commissioned a doll head in the style of three-quarters of a century ago making sure to specify “big
16、 blue eyes that opened and closed,” and hands and feet. From a doll supply house I ordered a long brown wig and a kidskin body, and Meagan and I shopped for fabric, lace and ribbon to duplicate the outfit GG had so lovingly described. Liz volunteered to put the doll together, and as the last days before Christmas raced by, Chris helped me make the d
