I shook hands with my father in the truck,and for a long time he looked straight ahead and didn't say a word.在卡車?yán)?我和父親握了握手.他直視前方看了很久,一句話也沒有說.
But I knew he was going to say a little to me."I can't tell anything," he finally said."I never went to college,and none of your brothers went to college.I can't say don't do this and do that,because everything is different and i don't know what is going to come up.I can't help much with money either,but I think things will work out." 但我知道,他有些話要對(duì)我說.“我不會(huì)說話”他終于出聲了“我從沒上過學(xué),你那些兄弟也沒去過學(xué)校.我沒法跟你說不要做這個(gè)或那個(gè),因?yàn)槊考虑榈那闆r都不一樣,我也不知道什么會(huì)發(fā)生什么新狀況.在金錢上我也幫不了你什么,不過我想事情總有辦法解決的.”
He gave me a new check-book(支票薄)."if things get pushing,write a small check,But when you write one,send me a letter and let me know how much.There.are some things we can always sell." In four yearn all the checks I wrote were less ".an a thousand dollars.My part-time jobs such is reading to the blind students and sitting with the teachers' kids filled in the financial gaps.他給了我一本新的支票薄.“如果你真是有壓力了,寫張小支票.不過你寫的時(shí)候給我寄封信,告訴我要多少錢.我們總是有些東西能賣錢的.”在你的向往里我寫的支票都是少于一千美元的.我去做兼職,像是給失明孩子念書或者陪伴老師的小孩,總算能填補(bǔ)一些資金缺口.
"You know what you want to be,and they'll tell you what to take," my father went on."When you got a job,be sure it's honest(誠實(shí)的),and work hard," I knew that soon I would be alone in the big town,and I would ,be missing the cool winds and a life where your thinking was done for you Then my clad reached down beside his seat and brought the old,broken Bible that he had read so often,the one he used when he wanted to look something up in a friendly quarrel with one of the neighbours.I knew he would miss it.I knew,though,that I must take it.”你知道自己想成為什么樣的人,他們會(huì)告訴你怎么獲取”父親繼續(xù)說.“等你找工作了,看清楚是正經(jīng)工作,然后努力干”我知道很快我就會(huì)孤身一人留在這城市里,我會(huì)想念家鄉(xiāng)的涼風(fēng)和過去那命中注定的生活.我彎下腰靠著他的座位,拿出了一本父親時(shí)常翻閱的殘舊的圣經(jīng).當(dāng)父親想和鄰居展開友好的辯論時(shí),他會(huì)在這本圣經(jīng)里尋找靈感.我知道,父親會(huì)舍不得,就算是這樣,我也必須拿走它.
He didn't say read this every morning.He just said,"This can help you if you will let it” Did it help?I got through college without being a burden (負(fù)擔(dān)) on the famiiy.I have been able to make money since.他沒有說他還要每天早上閱讀它,他只是說：“如果你有心,它會(huì)幫得到你” 它能幫得上忙?我沒有為家里增加負(fù)擔(dān)就完成了學(xué)業(yè).從此我已經(jīng)有能力自己賺錢了.
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