新视野大学英语读写教程第三册u1—u3课文翻译.docVIP

Love without limitations My brother, Jimmy, did not get enough oxygen during a difficult delivery, leaving him with brain damage, and two years later I was born. 我哥哥吉米出生时遇上难产因为缺氧导致大脑受损。两年后我出生了。 Since then, my life revolved around my brothers. 从此以后我的生活便围绕我哥哥转。 Accompanying my growing up was always go out and play and take your brother with you. 伴随我成长的是“到外面去玩把你哥哥也带上。” I couldnt go anywhere without him, so I urged the neighborhood kids to come to my house for some out-of-control kid-centered fun. 不带上他我是哪里也去不了的。因此我怂恿邻居的孩子到我家来尽情地玩孩子们玩的游戏 My mother taught Jimmy practical things like how to brush his teeth or put on a belt. 我母亲教吉米学习日常自理比如刷牙或系皮带什么的。 My father, a saint, simply held the house together with his patience and understanding. 我父亲宅心仁厚他的耐心和理解使一家人心贴着心。 I was in charge outside where I administered justice by tracking down the parents of the kids who picked on my brother, and telling on them. 我则负责外面的事找到那些欺负我哥哥的孩子们的父母告他们的状为我哥哥讨回公道。 My father and Jimmy were inseparable. 父亲和吉米形影不离。 They ate breakfast together and on weekdays drove off to the navy shipping center every morning where they both worked—Jimmy unloaded color-coded boxes. 他们一道吃早饭平时每天早上一道开车去海军航运中心他们都在那里工作吉米在那搬卸标有彩色代号的箱子。 At night after dinner, they would talk and play games late into the evening. 晚饭后他们一道交谈玩游戏直到深夜。 They even whistled the same tunes. 他们甚至用口哨吹相同的曲调。 So when my father died of a heart attack in 1991, Jimmy was a wreck, beneath his careful disguise. 所以父亲1991年因心脏病去世时吉米几乎崩溃了尽管他尽量不表现出来。 He was simply in disbelief. 他就是不能相信父亲去世这一事实。 Usually very agreeable, he now quit speaking altogether and no amount of words could penetrate the vacant expression he wore on his face. 通常他是一个令人愉快的人现在却一言不发无论说多少话都不能透过他木然的脸部表情了解他的心事。 I hired someone to live with him and drive him to work, but no matter how much I tried to make things stay the same, even Jimmy grasped that the world hed known was gone. 我雇了一个人和他住在一起开车送他去上班。然而不管我怎么努力地维持原状吉米还是认为他熟悉的世界已经消失了。 One day I as