英文小故事 | 父亲的眼泪

「微信」搜索关注［followmeapp］，查看更多有趣实用的中英双语节目。 －－－ 英语学习笔记： depart [dɪ'pɑːrt] v. 出发 departure level 出发层 resided in 居住在 sobbed [sɑːb] v. 啜泣，呜咽 —————— MY FATHER’S TEARS Three times in my life I saw my father cry. The first was when his mother died. I was seven. The second was at the airport when my brother departed for Vietnam. The third was when my father was in his eighties. My mother, in late-stage Alzheimer's, resided in a nursing home. He had visited her daily for 10 years,except for three months when he broke his foot. Finally he could walk again. “I thought Mother forgot me,” he said, “but when she saw me, she smiled and said,‘I love you.'” Then my father sobbed. 人生中我曾三次看到我父亲哭 第一次是他母亲去世，当时我七岁。 第二次是在机场，送我哥哥去越南。 第三次是父亲八十来岁的时候。我的母亲由于患有晚期老年痴呆，被送到疗养院居住。十年来，他每天都去看望母亲，除了有一次因为摔伤了脚，他不得不休息了三个月。 后来他终于能再次走路了。 “我以为你母亲会忘了我”他说，“但她一见到我，就微笑，并对我说‘我爱你’”。 然后父亲就哭了。