水果蛋糕味香水

出版时间：2002-4-1  出版社：剑桥大学出版社,外语教学与研究出版社  作者：布伦南,王海涛  页数：147  译者：王海涛  
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水果蛋糕特味香水真假莫利舅母智慧思想之书捷足先登读物分级标准每级针对的语法重点

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　　I have to say that at this point I was feeling very confused. Five minutes ago my boss didnt want to be seen with me. Now he was saying hewas crazy about md What could be making him behave like this? Then, all at once, I realised: it was the fruitcake special! Intrigue might smell great, but it didnt make a girl attractive to men. But my fruitcake perfume did.　　I feel my heart growing with love for you, Anna, said Mr Amos. He was looking at my body through the black dress.　　我得说他的话让我莫名其妙。5分钟前老板还不想被人看到和我在一起，这会儿他却说什么爱我爱得发狂了。是什么东西让他如此神魂颠倒呢?我马上意识到：是水果蛋糕特味香水发挥的神力!诱人的气味也许与众不同，但还不足以增添女孩于对男人的吸引力。我的水果蛋糕香水却做得到。　　“我感觉到了我心中对你的绵绵爱意，安娜。”阿莫斯先生说。他的目光穿透我的黑套裙审视着我的身体。　　We still havent played the tape to Aunt Molly. We cant decide what we should do.　　We have discovered another person in Aunt Molly and we love her, mo. Shes a new Aunt Molly who has rediscovered life. Yetwe also love and miss the sweet, kind lady who raised the twins. The old Aunt Molly.　　The truth is, we dont know which Aunt Molly is now the real one. What would happen if we played her the tape? Would a part of her die once again, as it had seemed to do when Linde Dalton died? Would it be fight for us to take this new life away from her? Then, again, perhaps nothing would happen and she would remain as she is - full of the love of life.　　And which Aunt Molly has the most right to be here - the old or the new?　　Who is the real Aunt Molly?　　She and Horace are going off to Greece next week. That will give us all time to think things over. Then we will decide.　　The old or the new?　　Well, what would you do?　　还没有给莫利舅母放过那盘磁带。我们拿不定主意该怎么办。　　我们在莫利舅母身上发现了另一个人，并且也爱着她。她是重新找到生活意义的全新的莫利舅母。然而，我们也深爱并怀念那个抚养着双胞胎兄弟，温柔、善良的女士。那个过去的莫利舅母。　　事实是，我们现在也搞不清哪个莫利舅母是真的。给她播放磁带会发生什么事情?她的一部分会再次死去吗，就像多尔顿舅舅去世时那样?把这新生活从她手中夺走合适吗?不过，说不定什么也不会发生，她还会保持现在的样子——生活中充满了爱。　　到底哪个莫利舅母更适合留下呢——以前那个还是现在这个?　　谁是真正的莫利舅母呢?　　她和霍勒斯下周就要出发去希腊了。那会给我们大家时间反复思考，然后再作出决定。　　旧的还是新的?　　那么，你会怎么做?　　My Aunt Molly is the kindest, sweetest person on earth.,She may not be the deverest woman in the world, but I love her a lot. However, a strange thing happened to Aunt Molly and now we dont know what to do.　　It all started when her husband, Uncle Dalton, died. Well, I called him Unde Dalton but she always called him Dally. He was my mothers only brother.AuntMolly really loved him, we all knew that.　　Life had been quite difficult for Aunt Molly when she was a child. She was poor and her parents had died early on. She was left to look after herself. She had never learned to read properly and left school at an early age. But she was　　always cheerful and honest and never complained about the hard work she did to earn her IMng. She worked as a deaner wherever there was work to do. She liked cleaning because she didnt have to make any difficult decisions. Aunt Molly didnt like making decisions. Perhaps she wasnt used to it. I dont know. But everybody liked her and she was never out of work.　　She met Uncle Dalton when she was working as a deaner at the bus station. He was a bus driver and it was when he had just finished for the day that he first saw her deaning the station office. He fell in love with her as soon as he saw her. It was the same for Aunt Molly. As soon as their eyes met it was love for both of them. He soon grew to love her gentleness and she loved his kind heart and willingness to make decisions.　　They got married two weeks later.　　A year after that she gave birth to twin boys. They were my cousins and their names were Winston and Clement. I was born in the same year two months later. I was called Rufus. I still am. Anyway, Linde Dalton got a better job at the bus station soon afterwards, and they bought a housenear us.　　莫利舅母还是个孩子的时候，生活非常艰难。她很穷，父母很早就去世了。她被丢下自己照顾自己。她很早就离开了学校，从没好好学过读书认字。但她总是快活、诚实，为谋生干活再辛苦也从不抱怨。不论是什么地方，只要有活干，她就去当清洁工。她喜欢干清洁工作，因为那没必要做伤脑筋的决定。莫利舅母不喜欢拿主意。也许她是不习惯。我也说不清楚。但所有的人都喜欢她，她从来不愁没活干。　　她是在公共汽车站作清洁工时遇到多尔顿舅舅的。他是个公共汽车司机。第一次看到她打扫车站办公室的时候他刚刚完成了一天的工作。他一看见她就坠入了爱河。莫利舅母也是如此。他们的目光相遇的那一瞬间两人立刻就心心相印了。她的温柔让他爱得无法自拔，而他那颗善良的心和遇事善断的个性也征服了她。　　他们两个星期后就结了婚。　　结婚一年后她生下一对孪生兄弟。他们是我的表兄，名字叫温斯顿和克莱门特。我是同年两个月以后出生的。我叫鲁弗斯，现在还是这个名字。后来，多尔顿舅舅很快在公共汽车站谋得了一个更好的工作，他们在我们家附近买了一所房子。　　Chester was feeling more tired than us,,:i after a hard day at the office. He had joined the company only two years before. He had come straight from university then, but now he was a junior manager in one of the biggest companies in Singapore. It was an important position to have and meant lots of extra work.　　He could understand the jealousy that some of the other workers might feel against the new boy, as they still called him. He had risen quickly in the company. Many of them. however, had been there for years doing the same jobs.he could understand how bad feeling towards him might lie　　hidden behind their smiles.　　But it didnt make life any easier.　　He needed people whose advice he could trust when he had to make difficult decisions. He had to be sure that the bad feelings of the other workers didnt get in the way of the impotent business decisions he had to make. He knew he would never become a manager unless he could be sure of people.　　Then there was Dorothy.　　Chester was fairly sure of his own good looks. He was dark and slim and dressed smartly, but with an eye to fashion. He was a confident speaker and believed himself to be a sociable and effective junior manager.　　But　when it　came　to　Dorothy　his　judgement disappeared. Dorothy was a bright girl who had just joined the company, straight from university. He was attracted at once by her intelligent eyes, her shy, pretty face and her soft, round figure.　　Ah, Doroth)4　　Take today, for example. He had been given some new figures to check and he had asked Dorothy to read some of the derails to him while he took notes. It was not until she had left that he realised that he had not written notes at all. Instead he had written Dorothys name several times. He was too embarrassed to ask Dorothy for the details again, so he had to look them up in the office of old Mr Shaw.　　Mr Shaw was known for always being in a bad mood and he was no different this time. He didnt like having to stay late to check figures for some junior manager. He didnt like it at all.　　在办公室忙碌了一天后，切斯特感觉比平时更疲劳。他是两年前才加盟这个公司的。那时他刚从大学毕业，但现在他已是新加坡一家最大的公司中的初级经理了。这是一个重要的职务，意味着要做许多额外的工作。　　他能理解其他一些员工对他这个“刚出道的毛小子”的嫉妒心理，他们如今还这么叫他。他在公司里一路青云直上。而他们中的许多人多年来一直做着同样的工作。　　他心里明白他们微笑的背后也许隐藏着对他的嫉恨。　　但这却妨碍了他的生活。　　在他必须作出艰难决策的时候，他需要有值得信赖的人为他出谋划策。他务必确保其他的员工的不良情绪不会干扰他必须作出的重大业务决定。他知道，如果不能保证大家与他同心同德，他就永远当不上经理。　　还有多萝西。　　切斯特深知自己相貌不凡。他皮肤黝黑，身材修长，衣着讲究、入时。他讲话时信心十足，深信自己是个善于交际、办事效率高的初级经理。　　但面对多萝西的时候他的这些判断全都消失得无影无踪。多萝西是个刚从大学毕业就进入公司的聪明姑娘。她那聪慧的双眼、羞涩的举止、美丽的容貌和她那柔软、丰盈的身材立刻就把他吸引住了。　　啊，多萝西!　　就拿今天来说吧。由于要核实一些新的数据，他请多萝西念出细节，自己做笔记。直到她离开时他才发现自己根本什么都没记下。相反，他把多萝西的名字写了许多遍。他不好意思再去向多萝西打听那些细节，所以只好自己去老肖先生的办公室查阅。　　肖先生的性情暴躁是出了名的，这次也不例外。他不愿意因为初级经理核对数据而延误下班。这种事他烦透了。　　……