欧洲的艾米

类别:经典文学

艾米在欧洲旅行时偶遇劳里,帮助他走出低谷,两人最终相爱并订婚。

时长 67 秒 · 语速 174 wpm

字幕原文

While these things happened at home, Amy was traveling in Europe. 当这些事情在家发生时,艾米正在欧洲旅行。

She had grown into a graceful and thoughtful young woman. 她已经成长为一个优雅而体贴的年轻女子。

The spoiled little girl was gone. 那个被宠坏的小女孩已经不见了。

By chance, she met Laurie there. 碰巧,她在那儿遇到了劳里。

He was still sad about Joe, wondering without any purpose. 他仍然为乔而悲伤,漫无目的地游荡着。

Amy saw his sadness and spoke to him honestly. 艾米看到了他的悲伤,并坦率地对他说。

You are wasting your life, Laurie, she said. “劳里,你正在浪费你的生命,”她说。

You are lazy and full of self-pity. 你很懒惰,并且自怨自艾。

That is not the boy I used to admire. 那不是我曾经钦佩的那个男孩。

Her words surprised him and woke him up. 她的话让他吃了一惊,并把他唤醒了。

No one had ever been so honest with him. 从来没有人对他如此坦诚。

Slowly, Laurie began to change. 慢慢地,劳里开始改变。

He worked harder and became a better man. 他工作更努力了,并成为了一个更好的人。

And as they spent time together, something new grew between them. 随着他们在一起的时间增多,他们之间萌生了新的东西。

Laurie realized that his old feelings for Joe had been a boy's dream. 劳里意识到,他对乔的旧情只是少年时的梦想。

What he felt for Amy was real, grown-up love. 他对艾米的感情是真实、成熟的爱。

Amy loved him too. Not the boy he had been, but the man he was becoming. 艾米也爱他。不是他曾经是那个男孩,而是他正在成为的那个男人。

Sometimes love is not found in a first dream, 有时候爱并非始于最初的梦想,

but in the person who helps us grow. 而是在那个帮助我们成长的人身上。

Laurie and Amy fell in love, and they promised to marry. 劳里和艾米相爱了,他们许诺结婚。

Meanwhile, back home, Joe was thinking of a certain professor. 与此同时,回到家里,乔正在思念着一位教授。