She took the fountain pen, ink and air mail notepaper and began to write. 拿出钢笔、墨水和信纸开始写信。 When she had finished, she read the letter aloud to the woman. 写完后为她大声读出来。 How did you know that was exactly...
To this day I remember my mums letters. 至今我依然记得母亲的信。 It all started in December 1941. 事情要从 1941 年 12月说起。 Every night she sat at the big table in the kitchen and wrote to my brother Johnny, who had been drafte...
First, she taught me how to read. 首先，她教会了我认字。 She also taught me that when I forgave Sis for our squabbles, it meant I wouldn't keep feeling like a victim. 而且，在她身上我还学会一样东西，让我不再记恨于与我...
Years of storms had taken their toll on the old windmill. 多年的风雨毁坏了古老的风车。 Its wheel, rusted and fallen, lay silent in the lush bluegrass. 车轮已经锈了，倒了，静静地躺卧在茂盛的六月禾丛中。 Its once...
She said she had started to play in church where she and her grandmother had to walk over tow miles, and that she then played in school, had won many awards and a music scholarship. 她说，她开始在教堂里弹琴，她和奶奶要走两英哩去那...
A couple of years later, I owned my own piano company, and when I advertised in that area, the postcards started coming to me. 几年之后，我有了自己的钢琴公司。当我在那个地区做广告的时候，邮卡开始不断的向我寄来。...
Many years ago, when I was a young man in my twenties, I worked as a salesman for a St.Louis piano company. 许多年以前，在我还是一个二十来岁青年的时候，我在圣露易斯一家钢琴公司做推销员。 We sold our pianos all o...
It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine on the trellis was turning green. 那真是一个可爱的春日，棚架上蔷薇的藤蔓正在转青。 Under the huge elm trees, we could see yellow dandelions popping through the grass in bunches, as...
I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age , 我是在一个小镇上长大的，从镇上的小学校到我家，只需步行10分钟。 not so long ago , when children could go home for l...
Many times, the small things in life, which we often ignore, are more important than the ones that we consider far more valuable. 很多时候，我们在生活中忽略的一些小事，比我们自以为有意义得多的大事更为重要。 This...
