I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I fumbled [1]in my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes, which had escaped [2]their search. I found one and because of my shaking hands, I could barely get it to my lips. But I had no matches, they had taken those.I looked through the bars at my jailer. He did not make eye contact with me. I called out to him:"Have you got a light?" He looked at me, shrugged [3]and came over to light my cigarette. As he came close and lit the match, his eyes inadvertently locked with mine. At that moment, I smiled. I don't know why I did that. Perhaps it was nervousness, perhaps it was because,运行Android 2.3.5操作体系, when you get very close, one to another, it is very hard not to smile. In any case, I smiled. In that instant, it was as though a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. I know he didn't want to, but my smile leaped through the bars and generated a smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but stayed near, looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile.
I kept smiling at him, now aware of him as a person and not just a jailer. And his looking at me seemed to have a new dimension[4] too. "Do you have kids?" he asked. "Yes, here, here." I took out my wallet and nervously fumbled for the pictures of my family. He, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans and hopes for them. My eyes filled with tears. I said that I feared that I'd never see my family again, never have the chance to see them grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too. "Suddenly, without another word, he unlocked my cell and silently led me out. Out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the town. There, at the edge of town, he released me. And without another word, he turned back toward the town.
"My life was saved by a smile." Yes, the smile--the unaffected, unplanned, natural connection between people.. I really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could recognize each other, we wouldn't be enemies. We couldn't have hate or envy or fear.
微笑一想到自己来日就没命了,不禁陷入极真个惊慌.我翻遍了口袋,终于找到一支没被他们搜走的香烟,但我的手紧张得不停颤抖,连将烟送进嘴里都成问题,而我的火柴也在搜身时被拿走了."我透过铁栏望着外面的警卫,他并没有注意到我在看他,我叫了他一声:"能跟你借个火吗?"他转头望着我,耸了耸肩,而后走了过来,点燃我的香烟.当他帮我点火时,他的目光无意中与我的相接触,这时我忽然冲着他微笑.我不知道自己为何有这般反映,兴许是过于紧张,或者是当你如斯凑近另一个人,你很难错误他微笑.不论是何理由,我对他笑了.就在这一霎时,这抹微笑犹如火花般,攻破了我们心灵间的隔膜.受到了我的沾染,他的嘴角不自发地也现出了笑颜,固然我知道他原无此意.他点完火后并没立即分开,两眼盯着我瞧,脸上仍带着微笑.
我也以笑脸回应,好像他是个朋友,而不是个守着我的警卫.他看着我的眼神也少了当初的那股凶气,"你有小孩吗?"他启齿问道."有,你看."我拿出了皮夹,慌手慌脚地翻出了我的全家福照片.他也取出了照片,并且开端讲述他对家人的冀望与打算.这时我眼中充斥了泪水,我说我惧怕再也见不到家人.我畏惧没机遇看着孩子长大.他听了也流下两行眼泪.突然间,他二话不说地翻开了牢门,静静地带我从后面的小路逃离了监狱,出了小镇,就在小镇的边上,他放了我,之后便回身往回走,未曾留下一句话.
"一个微笑竟然能救本人一条命."是的,微笑是人与人之间最天然诚挚的沟通方法.如果咱们能居心灵去意识彼此,世间不会有结怨成仇的憾事;恨意、妒嫉、胆怯也会不复存在.
背景先容:
《微笑》是法国作家安东尼.圣艾修伯里的作品,圣艾修伯里是名飞翔员,二次大战抗衡纳粹时被击落身亡,之前他也曾加入西班牙内战打击法西斯分子.他依据这次教训写了一篇出色的故事――《微笑》.他的代表作《小王子》是美国人都很熟习的童话故事.
解释:
1. fumble:我们总是能看到爱吸烟的男人在自己的身上到处摸烟的镜头,用动词fumble(乱摸、探索)来形容他们的动作是再适当不过了;下文中提到的nervously fumbled for the pictures也是借用fumble来形容"主人公十分缓和地在钱包搜寻照片"的情景;现在如果你看到某人在"哗啦啦"地翻书寻找他想要的内容,你就可以勇敢地用fumle来描写他的动作,1.80飞龙版本,可以说He fumbled the pages looking for the place.
2. escape是个很俏皮的词汇,老是"逃离这儿,逃离那儿", 此处的escaped their search字面上就表现出"(烟)逃离了他们的搜查",也就是"不被他们搜走(的烟)"; 再看看I'm afraid your name escapes me. 看起来是"你的名字逃离了我",皆由我父母外承传,也就是"我恐怕想不起你的名字了".假如你是位老师,在课堂可能就会很严正地对那些捣鬼的学生说上一句:Nothing escaped my attention.(什么都逃不外我的留神),这下,那些学生该乖乖地听课了吧.
3. shrug表示的动作是"耸耸肩",比方你把一个新闻告知给自己的挚友时,"她听到消息后只是耸耸肩",你就可以刻画成She shrugged her shoulders at the news. 由于我们也常常用"耸肩"的动作来表示"不感兴致"或"无所谓"等心态,所以shrug可以引申地表示"冷淡、无所谓、不屑一顾"等意思.好比说在法庭上,法官已经对某个贪污犯进行了裁决,然而此人依然七窍生烟地表示抗议,那么People only shruggled at his protests.看来"人们对他的抗议只是藐视地耸耸肩罢了了".
4. dimension:如果你已经晓得dimension是用来表示"尺寸、面积、大小"的,那么你就会很怀疑此处的a new dimension是什么意思.不过你要是联想一下,既然dimension表示事物的"长、宽、高"等各因素,这也就相称于事物的"各个方面"了,合击传奇,所以此处的a new dimension也就相称于"一个新的方面",接洽高低文,到真正用完发明本人瘦了良多之后,可推断出这个"新的方面"就是jailer对"主人公"立场的改变,从最初的"凶"到当初的"友爱";如果你发明了男友人身上的一个新特色,就能够对他说到 I found a new dimension of your personality. 我保障他必定请求你把his new dimension说出来的.