2024考研英语：《经济学人》中英读译Day180

英语阅读能力依靠什么？必然是词汇的积累，但，仅仅是词汇的积累是不够了，更应该了解英语句式，不同句型所表达意义。如何培养自己的阅读语感呢？那么就跟着聚创考研网小编每天学一点英语，一起为考研筑起坚实的地基。阅读是需要积累的，就像我们需要经常和人沟通才会促进我们的表达能力一样~小伙伴跟着小编一起，每天坚持打卡，培养英语阅读能力及语感，了解文章一些经典词汇的用法。

经济学人:我和我的父亲(2)

But as we put the new bulkhead together piece by piece, my dad knowing exactly what went where, I looked at him.“How do you know how to build a bulkhead?” The heavy mallet he was swinging paused in midair.“I spent a summer in college building them on the Jersey Shore.” “You did?”

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但当我们把新的隔板一块一块地组装起来时，我爸爸知道什么装在了哪里，我看着他。“你怎么知道如何建造舱壁？”他挥动着的大锤停在了半空中。“我在大学里花了一个夏天的时间在泽西海岸建造它们。”“你做的？”

I thought I knew everything about my dad—all his random jobs.I knew about the apple orchard, the summer at the horseradish manufacturing plant that burned his hands raw,and even the diner line-cook position, where he learned how to make the best omelet in the Western hemisphere.But I never knew this. “Yep. Now come up here and let me teach you how to use this circular saw.”As he explained the importance of not setting the blade too deep(information I quickly tucked away in the same place I store the information about how to use the tire gauge),I realized that maybe it’s not that there’s nothing left to say.

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我以为我了解我爸爸的一切——他所有的工作。我知道苹果园，那个夏天在辣根制造厂灼痛了他的手，甚至在排队做饭的位置，他学会了如何做西半球最好的煎蛋卷。但我从来不知道这些。“是的。现在上来，让我教你如何使用这个圆锯。”他解释了不要把刀片放得太深的重要性，（我很快就把如何使用轮胎表的信息放在了同一个地方），我意识到也许并不是没有什么可说的。

 

Maybe it’s just that I’ve spent my life asking him the wrong questions.A few weeks later, after my family and I moved back into our renovated house, I called my parents.Dad answered. “Hi, sweets,” he said. “Here’s Mom.” “Wait, Dad,” I said.“How are you?” We ended up talking about the consulting gig he was working on,a new battery he’d bought for his sail-boat, a refi my husband and I were looking into to bundle our home-renovation loan.Nothing life-changing, nothing earth-shattering.To anyone else, it would sound like a normal conversation between a dad and his daughter.But to me, it was novel. A new beginning. I spent the first part of my life needing to talk to my dad.Now I talk to him because I want to.

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也许我这辈子都在问他一些错误的问题。几周后，当我和家人搬回我们翻修过的房子后，我给父母打了电话。爸爸回答说。“嗨，甜心，”他说。“这是妈妈。“等等，爸爸，”我说。“你好吗？”最后我们聊到了他正在做的咨询工作，他为他的帆船买了一个新电池，我丈夫和我正在考虑把我们的房屋装修贷款打包。没有什么改变生活的事，没有什么惊天动地的事。对任何其他人来说，对其他人来说，这听起来就像爸爸和女儿之间的正常对话。但对我来说，这很新奇。一个新的开始。我生命的前一段时间是需要和我父亲说话。现在我跟他说话是因为我想这么做。