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《喜福会》导读之开篇·千里鹅毛Feather from a Thousand Li away
(2007-01-05 20:46:06)Each of
the four sections of the Joy Luck Club is preceded by a
short parable that introduces
the major themes of that
section's four stories. The parable that begins "Feather from a
Thousand Li away"tells the tale of a chinese woman who decides to
emigrate to America. Before she leavesShanghai, the woman buys a
swan from a vender, who tels her that the bird was once a duck. In
an attempt to become a goose, the duck streched its neck so far
that it become a swan, exceeding
its own hopes for itself. As the woman sails to America, she dreams
of raising a daughter amid the plentiful opportunities of the new
country. She imagines that her American-born daughter will resemble
her in every way, except that, unlike her mother, she will be
judged according to her own worth, not by that of a husband. Like
the swan, the daughter will exceed all hopes hopes, so the woman
plans to give her daughter the swan as a gift.
Yet, when the woman arrives in America, the immigration officials
seize the swan and leave the woman with nothing
but a feather. The daughter is born and grows up to be the strong,
happy woman her mother imagined. The woman still wishes to present
the feather to her daughter and to explain it's
symbolic meaning , but for many years she holds
back. She is still waiting "for the day she could in perfect
American English."
Please translate this article into
Chinese by yourself. In several days, I'll give a
Chinese article as
refernce!
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