1. Later this month, we’ll spray the orchard, paint the barn, plant the garden and clean the hen house before the new chicks arrive.
2. 这个月晚些时候，我们要给果树喷洒药水，要油漆谷仓，要给菜园播种，要赶在新的雏鸡运到之前清扫鸡舍。
3. I’m not making anywhere near as much money as I did when I was employed full time, but now we don’t need as much either.
4. 我挣的钱远比不上全职工作时的收入，可如今我们需要的钱也没有过去多。
5. When it comes to insurance, we have a poor man’s major-medical policy.
6. 至于保险，我们买了一份低收入者的主要医疗项目保险。
7. Once economic conditions improve, however, demand for farms like ours should be strong again.
8. 但是一旦经济形势好转，对我们这种农场的需求又会增多。 9. Soon Jim, 16 and Emily, 13, the youngest of our four children, will help me make some long-overdue improvements on the outdoor toilet that supplements our indoor plumbing when we are working outside.
10. 过些时候，16岁的吉米和四个孩子中最小的13岁的埃米莉，会帮着我一起把拖了很久没修的室外厕所修葺一下。我们在室外干活时，这个厕所便成了室内卫生设备的补充。
11. There is, as the old saying goes, no rest for the wicked on a place like this — and not much for the virtuous either.
12. 正如老话说的那样，在这种情形之下，坏人闲不着——好人也歇不了。
13. While one storm after another blasted huge drifts up against the house and barn
14. 暴风雪肆虐，一场接着一场，厚厚的积雪覆盖着屋子和谷仓
15. . Carter’s devotion to her ancestor is about more than personal pride: it is about family honor.
16. 卡特对其先辈的忠诚不仅仅关乎一己之骄傲，而且关乎家族荣誉。
17. As the boat slid across the river, Parker watched helplessly as the pursuers closed in around the men he was forced to leave behind.
18. 小船徐徐驶向对岸，帕克眼睁睁地看着追捕者把他被迫留下的人团团围住。
19. I threw myself on the ground, rolled in the sand and danced around, till, in the eyes of several who were present, I passed for a madman.
20. 我扑倒在地，在沙土里打滚，手舞足蹈，最后，在场的那几个人都认定我是疯子。
21. Eventually he saved enough money working at this trade on the side to buy his freedom.
22. 后来他终于靠这门手艺攒够钱赎回了自由。
23. We have become so used to defending ourselves against the new atmosphere of American life, so used to putting up barriers, that we have not had time to think about wha
t it may mean.
24. 我们已经变得如此习惯于保护自己不受美国生活新氛围的影响，如此习惯于设置障碍，以致无暇考虑这一切意味着什么。 25. Our neighborhoods are bathed in high-intensity light; we do not want to afford ourselves even so much a luxury as a shadow.
26. 我们的居住区处在强光源的照射之下；我们连哪怕像阴影这样小小的享受也不想给自己。 27. Many suburban families have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars elegantly built in so no one can pry the doors open.
28. 郊区的许多人家在露台上安装了玻璃滑门，内侧有装得很讲究的钢条，这样就没人能把门撬开。
29. I don’t know if that was a local term or if it is universal.
30. 我不知道这是当地的一种说法，还是大家都是这么说的。
31. It is not uncommon, in the most pleasant of homes, to see pasted on the windows small notices announcing that the premises are under surveillance by this security force or that guard company.
32. Indeed, a recent public-service advertisement by a large insurance company featured not charts showing how much at risk we are, but a picture of a child’s bicycle with the now-usual padlock attached to it.
33. If you work for a medium- to large-size company, chances are that you don’t just wander in and out of work.
34. We seem finally to have figured out a way to hold the terrorists, real and imagined, at bay.
35. The machines are supposed to tell the businessman, with a small margin of error, whether his friend or client is telling lies.
36. Yet my mind seemed to be in quest of something else — some way that I could personally apply to the close of Thanksgiving. It must have taken me a half hour to sense that maybe some key to an answer could result from reversing the word “Thanksgiving” — at least that suggested a verbal direction, “Giving thanks.”
37. 可我脑子里似乎还在搜索着别的什么——某种我能够赋予整个节日以个人意义的方式。大概过了半个小时左右我才意识到，问题的关键也许在于把 Thanksgiving 这个词前后颠倒一下——那样一来至少字面意义好懂了：Giving thanks。 38. Yet my mind continued turning the idea over. After a while, like a dawn’s brightening, a further answer did come — that there were people to thank, people who had done so much for me that I could never possibly repay them.
39. 可我脑子里仍一直翻腾着这事。过了片刻，如同晨曦初现，一个更清晰的念头终于涌现脑际——要感谢他人，那些赐我以诸多恩惠，我根本无以回报的人们. 40. At least seven people had been particularly and lastingly helpful to me. I realized, swa
llowing hard, that about half of them had since died — so they were forever beyond any possible expression of gratitude from me.
41. 至少有七个人对我有过不同寻常、影响深远的帮助。令人万分难受的是，我意识到，他们中有一半已经谢世了——因此他们永远也无法接受我的谢意了。
42. A glance at Grandma’s familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her “settin’ down” some letter to relatives.
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