感恩的心:英漢對(duì)照 節(jié)選

斯皮先生的天使
   我上七年級(jí)的時(shí)候，在鎮(zhèn)上的一家當(dāng)?shù)蒯t(yī)院做義工。夏天，我自愿每周工作
    30到40個(gè)小時(shí)。通常，我都跟吉萊斯皮先生在一起。從來都沒人探望過
他，也沒人關(guān)心過他的情況。大多時(shí)候，我總是握著他的手，跟他說話，幫他做一切需
要做的事。他成了我一個(gè)親近的朋友，即使他的反應(yīng)也僅僅是偶爾捏一下我的手。他
一直處于昏迷。
    我和父母去度假，離開了一個(gè)星期，我回來時(shí)，吉萊斯皮先生不見了。我沒有勇氣
去問護(hù)士他的去向，我害怕他們也許會(huì)告訴我，他已經(jīng)去世了，所以許多問題都沒問。
我繼續(xù)利用八年級(jí)的時(shí)間自愿待在這里。
    多年以后，我上高三時(shí)，在一個(gè)加油站注意到了一張似曾相識(shí)的面容。當(dāng)我認(rèn)出
他時(shí)，眼中充滿了淚水。他還活著!我鼓起勇氣問他是不是叫吉萊斯皮先生，是否昏迷
過五年。他的臉上流露出不確定的表情，回答了是。我解釋我是怎么認(rèn)識(shí)他，在醫(yī)院里
我花很多時(shí)間跟他說話。他的眼中頓時(shí)充盈著淚水，他給了我一個(gè)我所得到的*溫暖
的擁抱。他開始告訴我，他昏迷時(shí)，能聽到我說的話，能感覺到我一直握著他的手。他
覺得陪在他身邊的人完全是一個(gè)天使，而非人類。吉萊斯皮先生堅(jiān)信是我的聲音和撫
愛使他活了下來。
    之后，他告訴我他身上發(fā)生的事，以及他昏迷的原因。我們都哭了，相互擁抱著說
了再見，又踏上了各自的路。
    雖然自此以后，我再?zèng)]見過他，但他使我的心每天都充滿快樂。我知道，在他徘徊
在生死邊緣時(shí)，我起了特別的作用。更重要的是，他使我的生命有了巨大改變。我永遠(yuǎn)
無法忘記他，以及他為我所做的事：他使我成了一個(gè)天使。
 An Angle to Mr. Gillespie
                 hen I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper at a local
                hospital  in  my  town.  I volunteered1 about thirty to forty
hours a week during the summer. Most of the time I spent there was with
Mr. Gillespie. He never had any visitors, and nobody seemed to care about
his condition. I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him,
helping with anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of
mine, even though he responded with only an occasional squeeze2 of my
hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma3.
      ! left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back,
Mr. Gillespie was gone. I didn't have the nerve to ask any of the nurses where
he was, for fear they might tell me he had died. So with many questions
unanswered, I continued to volunteer there through my eighth-grade year.
     Several years later, When ! was a junior in high school, I was at the gas
station when I noticed a familiar face. When I realized who it was, my eyes filled
with tears. He was alive!  I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr.
Gillseppe, and if he had been in a coma about five years ago. With an uncertain
look on his face, he replied yes. I explained how I knew him, and that I had
spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears,
 and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever received.
      He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose4, he could hear me
talking to him and could feel me holding his hand the whole time. He thought it
was an angel, not a person, who was there with him. Mr. Gillespie firmly
believed that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive.
      Then he told me about his life and what happened to him to put him in the
coma. We both cried for a while and exchanged a hug, said our good-byes and
went our separate ways.
     Although I haven't seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day. I
know that I made a difference between his life and his death. More importantly,
he has made a tremendous5 difference in my life. I will never forget him and
what he did for me: he made me an angel.
熱詞空間
    1．volunteer【vc1en tie(r)】v．  自愿
    2．squeeze【skwilz】，z．壓榨；擠
    3．coma【·koumo】n．昏迷
    4．comatose【’koumotous】adj 昏睡的；昏睡狀態(tài)的
  5．tremendOUS【tri'merldes】 adj 極大的；巨大的