标题: 英语美文 | Please Let Me Have a Little World of My Own [打印本页] 作者: kobe 时间: 2017-8-9 07:48 标题: 英语美文 | Please Let Me Have a Little World of My Own
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Please Let Me Have a Little World of My Own
请给我一个小小的世界
Please, my dear husband, be so generous as to let me have a little world of my own.
亲爱的丈夫，请给我一个小小的世界。
If you find me scrawling on a piece of paper, please don’t peep over my shoulders. It may be that I’m venting some pent-up feelings long denied expression, or trying to compose a little poem not yet presentable for the time being, or attempting to sketch out something visualized from my childhood memories which glows in my mind like a rainbow. When I am in such a mood, please leave me alone and let me write as the pen dictates.
Don’t disturb me, my dear, when I get nostalgic over some old photos or letters that bring tears to my eyes or smiles on my lips. Those were things that had happened to me before I met you, and they spelt out joys or sorrows, partings or reunions that taste like green olive or glitter like scattered pearls. They are my cherished memories which, ready as I am to share with you, I would like to indulge in by myself for a while.
I hope you won’t mind when I go without you for a nice chat with a close friend of mine. You are my bosom friend, but you cannot take the place of other friends any more than they can do yours. I need their care, encouragement and sobering criticism just as I do yours. A starless sky with a solitary moon would be dull and cheerless, why not let there be a moonlit night resplendent with twinkling stars?
I may occasionally want to make a tour of faraway places. Please don’t hold me back when I start packing for it. You are the center of my life, but certainly not the whole of it. I yearn to see the mysteries and wonders of the world miles away beyond the mountains; so let me have a chance to explore my “Alice’s Wonderland” as a “lone ranger”. Sometime later when I come back to you with exotic experiences and fresh insights, I’m sure you will look at me in a new light.
