中英对照有声书《相约星期二》

The Audiovisual, Part Three 视听教学 第三部分 The "Nightline" crew came back for its third and final visit. “晚间专线”团队又找回来想做第三次也是最后一次采访。 The whole tenor of the thing was different now. 这次采访的整个主旨已经完全不一样了。 Less like an interview, more like a sad farewell. 更不像是一次采访，更像是一次悲伤的永别。 Ted Koppel had called several times before coming up, and he had...

The Eleventh Tuesday 第十一个星期二 We Talk About Our Culture 我们聊了聊我们的文化 I asked Morrie why he hadn't moved somewhere else when he was younger. 我问莫瑞为什么他年轻的时候没有搬到其他地方生活。 "Where?" “搬去哪里？” I don't know. South America. New Guinea. Someplace not as selfish as America. 我不知道。南美洲？新几内亚之类的。一些不像美国那么自私的国家。 "Every society has its own problem...

The Eleventh Tuesday 第十一个星期二 We Talk About Our Culture 我们聊了聊我们的文化 "Hit him harder." “击打再用力一点。” I slapped Morrie's back. 我拍打着莫瑞的后背。 "Harder." “再用力一点。” I slapped him again. 我再次拍打莫瑞。 "Near his shoulders ... now down lower." “靠近他的肩膀…现在再往下移一点。” Morrie, dressed in pajama bottoms, lay in bed on his side, his head flush against the pillow, hi...

The Tenth Tuesday 第十个星期二 We Talk About Marriage 我们聊了聊婚姻 Marriage. 婚姻 。 Almost everyone I knew had a problem with it. 几乎我所认识的每个人都在这件事上有麻烦。 Some had problems getting into it, some had problems getting out. 有些人对于进入婚姻有麻烦，而有些人则是走出婚姻有麻烦。 My generation seemed to struggle with the commitment, as if it were an alligator from some murky swamp....

The Tenth Tuesday 第十个星期二 We Talk About Marriage 我们聊了聊婚姻 I brought a visitor to meet Morrie. 我带了一个客人去见莫瑞。 My wife. 是我的妻子。 He had been asking me since the first day I came. 从我第一天来的时候莫瑞就一直在问这件事。 "When do I meet Janine?" “什么时候能让我见见珍妮？” "When are you bringing her?" “你什么时候带她来？” I'd always had excuses until a few days earlier, when I...

The Ninth Tuesday 第九个星期二 We Talk About How Love Goes On 我们聊了聊爱如何继续 I came to love the way Morrie lit up when I entered the room. 我喜欢当我走进房间时莫瑞面露喜色的方式。 He did this for many people, I know, but it was his special talent to make each visitor feel that the smile was unique. 他对很多人都这样，我知道，但是他有他独特的才能能够让每一个来访者觉得他的微笑是独属于他们的。 "...

The Ninth Tuesday 第九个星期二 We Talk About How Love Goes On 我们聊了聊爱如何继续 The leaves had begun to change color, turning the ride through West Newton into a portrait of gold and rust. 树叶开始变色，把通往西牛顿的路变成一条金棕色的大道。 Back in Detroit, the labor war had stagnated, with each side accusing the other of failing to communicate. 说回底特律，伴随着双方互相指责对方的无效沟通，罢...

The Eighth Tuesday 第八个星期二 We Talk About Money 我们聊了聊金钱 I held up the newspaper so that Morrie could see it: 我举起报纸以便于莫瑞能够阅读： I DON'T WANT MY TOMBSTONE TO READ " I NEVER OWNED A NETWORK." 我不希望我的墓碑上读起来会写着“我从未拥有过广播电视网” Morrie laughed, then shook his head. 莫瑞笑了，然后摇了摇头。 The morning sun was coming through the window behind him, falling on t...

The Seventh Tuesday We Talk About the Fear of Aging 第七个星期二——我们聊了聊对衰老的恐惧 Morrie lost his battle.  莫瑞还是输掉了这场与疾病的战斗。 Someone was now wiping his behind. 现在得有人来给莫瑞擦屁股了。 He faced this with typically brave acceptance.  莫瑞用他经典的勇于接受的态度来面对这...

The Professor, Part Two (30) 关于教授（下） I used to tease Morrie that he was stuck in the sixties. 我以前常常会开玩笑说莫瑞整个人都停留在了60年代。 He would answer that the sixties weren't so bad, compared to the times we lived in now. 他就会回应说相较于我们现在生活的时代，60年代可是很美好的。 He came to Brandeis aft...

The Professor, Part Two (29) 关于教授（下） The Morrie I knew, the Morrie so many others knew, would not have been the m an he was without the years he spent working at a mental hospital just outside Washington, D.C., a place with the  deceptively   peaceful name of Chestnut Lodge. 我所认识的那个莫瑞，也是诸多其他人所认识的莫瑞，如果没有那段在华盛顿郊区一所精神病院数年的工作经...

The Sixth Tuesday 第六个星期二 We Talk About Emotions 我们聊了聊情绪 "Ah. You're thinking, Mitch. But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it. " “啊，米契，你在思考了。不过超脱并不意味着你不去充分体验自己的经历。而是相反，你要更充分地去体验。这样才足以让你最终能够离开情绪...

The Sixth Tuesday 第六个星期二 We Talk About Emotions 我们聊了聊情绪 I walked past the mountain laurels and the Japanese maple, up the bluestone steps of Morrie’s house. 我穿过山桂树和日本槭树，登上莫瑞家门前的青石台阶。 The white rain gutter hung like a lid over the doorway. 白色的排水沟像一个盖子一样从门廊上垂下来。 I rang the...

The Fifth Tuesday 第五个星期二 We Talk About Family 我们聊了聊家庭 Me? 我吗？ “Your family. I know about your parents. I met them, years ago, at graduation. You have a sister, too, right?" “你的家庭。我知道你父母。很多年前在毕业典礼上我见过他们。你还有个姐妹，对吧？” Yes, I said. 是的，我回答。 "Older, yes?" “姐姐吗？” Older. 是姐姐。 "And one brother, right?" “还有一个兄弟，对吧？”...

The Fifth Tuesday 第五个星期二 We Talk About Family 我们聊了聊家庭 It was the first week in September, back-to-school week, and after thirty-five consecutive autumns, my old professor did not have a class waiting for him on a college campus. 那是9月的第一周，也是返校周，在从没间断的35载秋天之后，在大学校园里再也没有任何课程等着我的老教授去上了。 Boston was teeming wit...

The Fourth Tuesday 第四个星期二 We Talk About Death (24) 我们聊了聊死亡 "The things you spend so much time on—all this work you do—might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things." “那些你花了如此之多的时间所做的事情——你的所有工作——很可能看起来没那么重要。你可能需要为一些更加精神层面的东西腾出空间。” Spiritual things? 精神层面的东西？ "You hate that wor...

The Fourth Tuesday 第四个星期二 We Talk About Death (23) 我们聊了聊死亡 "Let's begin with this idea," Morrie said. “让我们先来以这样一个构思为出发点，”莫瑞说道。 "Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it." “每个人都知道人终有一死，但没人愿意真的相信这件事。” He was in a businesslike mood this Tuesday. 莫瑞这周二处于一种高效且有条理的心情。 The subject was death, the first i...

The Professor（22） 关于教授 But a saving embrace came into Morrie's life the following year: his new stepmother, Eva. 但在第二年，莫瑞的新继母伊娃 如同一个拯救的拥抱来到了莫瑞的生活。 She was a short Romanian immigrant with plain features, curly brown hair, and the energy of two women. 她是一个矮个子的罗马尼亚移民，有着扁平的身材、卷曲的头发和一身相当于两个女人的能量。 Sh...

The Professor（21） 关于教授 He was eight years old. 他那时8岁。 A telegram came from the hospital, and since his father, a Russian immigrant, could not read English, Morrie had to break the news, reading his mother's death notice like a student in front of the class. 一封电报从医院发来，因为他的父亲，一个俄罗斯移民，不认得英文，莫瑞不得不代为告知这个消息，像一个站在全班同学面...

The Audiovisual, Part Two 视听教学，第二部分 The "Nightline" show had done a follow-up story on Morrie —— partly because the reception for the first show had been so strong. 部分是因为第一次节目获得非常热烈的反响，所以“晚间专线”节目对莫瑞进行了后续报道。 This time, when the cameramen and producers came through the door, they already felt like family. 这次，当摄影师们和制片人们...

The Third Tue sday 第三个星期二 We Talk About Regrets 我们聊了聊悔恨 On the plane ride home that day, I made a small list on a yellow legal pad, issues and questions that we all grapple with, from happiness to aging to having children to death.  那天在坐飞机回家的途中，我在一个小小的信笺簿上写了一个清单，列出了我们都需要努力应对的一些担忧和问题，从快乐到衰老到孩子直至死亡。 Of...

The Third Tuesday 第三个星期二 We Talk About Regrets 我们聊了聊悔恨 The next Tuesday, I arrived with the normal bags of food——pasta with corn, potato salad, apple cobbler——and something else: a Sony tape recorder. 接下来的一个星期二，我带着正常份量的食物到了莫瑞家——有拌着谷物的意大利面，土豆沙拉，苹果酥皮馅饼以及另外一样东西：一台索尼录音机。 I want to remember what we talk about, I told...

The Second Tuesday 第二个星期二 We Talk About Feeling Sorry for Yourself 我们聊了聊自怜情绪 I came back the next Tuesday. 接下来的星期二我又返回去看了莫瑞。 And for many Tuesdays that followed. 以及后面的很多个星期二。 I looked forward to these visits more than one would think, considering I was flying seven hundred miles to sit alongside a dying man. 考虑到我是飞越700多英里的路程去...

The First Tuesday 第一个星期二 We Talk About the World   我们聊了聊这个世界  Mostly on Tuesdays. 大多是在星期二的时候。 In fact, Tuesday had always been our day together. 事实上，星期二也一直是我们会面的日子。 Most of my courses with Morrie were on Tuesdays, he had office hours on Tuesdays, and when I wrote my senior thesis—which was pretty much Morrie's sug...

The First Tuesday  第一个 星期二 We Talk About t he World 我们聊了聊这个世界 Connie opened the door and let me in. 康妮打开门让我进来。 Morrie was in his wheelchair by the kitchen table, wearing a loose cotton shirt and even looser black sweatpants. 莫瑞在厨房餐桌旁的轮椅上坐着，穿着一件宽松的衬衣和过于宽大的黑色运动裤。 They were loose because his legs had atrophied beyond nor...