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2020年高考英语浙江卷(一月)阅读理解A解析
一、原文翻译
I never knew anyone who’d grown up in Jackson without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway our librarian.
我从没见过在杰克逊长大的人不害怕卡洛维夫人,我们的图书管理员。
She ran Jackson’s Carnegie Library absolutely by herself.
她独自经营着杰克逊的卡内基图书馆。
SILENCE in big black letters was on signs hung everywhere.
到处都挂着用黑色大字写着沉默的招牌。
If she thought you were dressed improperly, she sent you straight back home to change your clothes.
如果她认为你穿得不得体,她会直接让你回家换衣服。
I was willing;I would do anything to read.
我愿意,我愿意做任何事来读书。
My mother was not afraid of Mrs. Calloway.
我母亲并不害怕卡洛维夫人。
She wished me to have my own library card to check out books for myself, She took me in to introduce me.
她希望我有自己的借书证,以便自己借书,她带我去介绍我。
“Eudora is nine years old and has my permission to read any book she wants from the shelves, children or adults,” Mother said.
母亲说:“尤多拉今年9岁了,她想读什么书都可以,大人孩子都可以。”
Mrs. Calloway made her own rules about books.
卡洛维夫人对书有自己的规定。
You could not take back a book to the library on the same day you`d taken it out;it made no difference to her that you’d read every word in it and needed another to start.
你不能在把一本书借出的当天就把它还回去;你把书里的每一个字都读过了,需要另一个字再开始读,这对她来说没有什么区别。
You could take out two books at a time and two only.
你一次只能借两本书。
So two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle.
所以两个两个,我以最快的速度读图书馆的书,把它们放在我自行车的篮子里冲回家。
From the minute I reached our house, I started to read.
从我到家的那一刻起,我就开始阅读。
I knew this was extreme happiness, knew it at the time.
我当时就知道这是极大的幸福。
My mother shared this feeling of mine.
我母亲也有同感。
Now, I think of her as reading so much of the time while doing something else.
现在,我觉得她在做其他事情的时候花了很多时间在阅读上。
#高考英语#I remember her reading a magazine while taking the part of the Wolf in a game of "Little Red Riding Hood" with my brother's two daughters.
我记得她和我哥哥的两个女儿一起玩《小红帽》的时候,她在看杂志,扮演狼的角色。
She'd just look up at the right time, long enough to answer– in character –"The better to eat you with, my dear," and go back to her place in the magazine article.