A Letter to My Daughter 致我的女儿

A Letter to My Daughter 致我的女儿

作者：By Joanne Harris

来源：《新东方英语·中学版》2014年第05期

从出生起，你就肆无忌惮地享受她对你的爱。在她的呵护下，你撒娇，任性，叛逆，成长，然后头也不回地飞向外面广阔的世界。你对她的事了解得越来越少，距离她的心也越来越远……可对她而言，你的出生带来的是难以形容的喜悦，你成长中的每一件事她都记得无比清晰。她为你付出了无尽的爱，不求回报，无怨无悔，还认为是你让她的生命更有意义。本文的作者就是这样一位母亲，她对自己的女儿永远怀着一份珍视和感恩的心情。假如你能通过本文了解一点母亲的心情，请一定要爱她、敬她，对她不离不弃。

Dear Anouchka，

You were born just as the sun rose on a beautiful June morning. I remember looking at you and

thinking， How strange. Everything is different.

Sometimes， a single event turns out to change things so profoundly that it's hard to remember

what things were like beforehand2）. Like the sun coming out unexpectedly， you made everything

look different. Everything was new again， because I saw it through your eyes. Everything had to be

named again， experienced as if for the first time. And you were alert3） from the very first. You'd

only been born for a few hours， and I'd held you next to a vase of sweet peas so that you could catch

their scent. I've always been very aware of scents， and I wondered if it was the same for you. It

was—you opened your mouth and—Oof！ Suddenly you had a mouthful of sweet peas， and I knew

right then that you were going to be someone who took life and shook it and tasted it and enjoyed it to

the full4）.

And you were： as you grew up， you just got more and more fun. Postcards， snapshots out of

time： your first Christmas， you in a red snowsuit， indignant5） over your first fall of snow—so

pretty， but why did it have to be so cold？

At 2 years old， with a birthday cake made almost entirely of fruit， which was what you liked

most in the world， as if you might have been some kind of hybrid6） lemur7）-child， existing on

fruit and sunlight.

At 3， by the seaside and marching intrepidly8） into the Atlantic until you were completely

submerged， with only the tip of your ponytail9） bobbing10） above the water.

At 4， with your invisible friends， born from who-knows-where and moving in with us for

years—a little boy called Twenghi-Bombi and a rabbit called Pantoufle.