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《我给英国房东的第一封电子邮件》(英语)

(2007-03-25 02:54:19)
分类: 【英译】
《我给英国房东的第一封电子邮件》(英语)
 

我给英国房东的第一封电子邮件

My First Email to My English Landlady and Landlord

                   September 18, 2005

Dear Kate & Peter,

Good afternoon! How are you these days? Thank you very much for your moving email. I have read it several times today! Please forgive me for answering your email so late and you will soon know the reason after you finish reading it.

    I have been missing you since I left you and so far it has become an important part of my daily life to tell my family and my friends how kind you were to me, what happened to me in your lovely family. Every smile in my face, every sparkle in my eyes while I’m talking about you can betray my sweet memory about you, my being proud of making your acquaintance, my happy times to be with you. All my friends and colleagues couldn’t help paying their respect to you after they heard my lively and interesting stories which happened during my staying with you. Today, August 15 in our lunar calendar, is our Mid-Autumn Festival (or Mooncake Festival), one of our most important traditional festivals for appreciation of the round and bright moon at night as well as for family reunion. All of my good friends asked me to send their regards to you and wished you happiness, good health, wealth and peace in mind.

    The journey went smoothly, and I arrived home on the evening of September 11, safe and sound. One thing, however, worried me very much when I was at home. It was my wife’s grandfather’s health. He was seriously ill in bed and my wife and I had to take turns to look after him. In the day time I had to give several hours’ lectures and at night I would make every effort to give him my helping hand. To our deep sorrow, he still left us one night, peacefully. How sad we were at that time! He had been very kind to me as well as to my wife. Before I left for England, I was told that he had been in very poor health but I had never thought that he would have left us so soon. Now only my wife’s maternal grandmother and mine are still alive. Both of them love me very much and vice versa. We have planned to visit them once a month and give them some more pocket money so that they can spend the rest of their life happily and peacefully.

    It was only when all those dark clouds disappeared that I began to feel released and to live a normal and quiet life as before. (You see, I have been in bad mood in the past week.) Then I checked my emails and found your email lying there for age. After I finished reading it, my eyes were filled with happy tears and my heart with enormous warmth. How thoughtful you are! How much you care for me! How wonderful your diction was! How can I ever repay you for your care, your affection, your generosity, your tolerance and your understanding? To be honest, before I moved into your home, I had never expected to be so lucky, to be accepted as such an intimate family member, to be offered such wonderful meals, to get along so well with an English family, to enjoy myself and relax in such a marvelous way. Every time we had lessons in Churchill House School, I would tell my classmates how pretty, attractive, humorous and hospitable my hostess was, how handsome, well-built and hard-working my host was. At the beginning, most of them wondered if I had told the truth. As days passed, more and more stories about you were going on and on. Their good and deep impression of both of you began to sink in and they longed eagerly to find out what both of you looked like. Finally the occasion came. On the very parting day, all my classmates, sitting on the coach, were deeply moved by what they saw. When they found my dearest Kate standing in the sun, weeping and waving goodbye continuously to me, they all said to me, enviously, “David, how lucky you are to have stayed with such a kind English family! We are very jealous and we wish we could also stay with them.” Yes, they are right. I couldn’t be luckier and happier during my six weeks’ stay in your home! Thank you, my dear Kate and my invincible partner Peter, for all you have done for me in those unforgettable days! Your names have already been written deep within my heart!

    Yes, my son and my wife love your gifts very much and they both send their regards to you. In addition, I put the book which you offered me in a very special place in my big bookshelf. Every time I stand before the shelf gazing at the book, it will surely remind me of those happy times at 39 Albert Road, Ramsgate, as well as the interesting and considerate English couple. Thanks for the memory!

    All the best and God bless the Queen!

    Yours forever,

    Dave

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