感恩的心:英汉对照

斯皮先生的天使
   我上七年级的时候，在镇上的一家当地医院做义工。夏天，我自愿每周工作
    30到40个小时。通常，我都跟吉莱斯皮先生在一起。从来都没人探望过
他，也没人关心过他的情况。大多时候，我总是握着他的手，跟他说话，帮他做一切需
要做的事。他成了我一个亲近的朋友，即使他的反应也仅仅是偶尔捏一下我的手。他
一直处于昏迷。
    我和父母去度假，离开了一个星期，我回来时，吉莱斯皮先生不见了。我没有勇气
去问护士他的去向，我害怕他们也许会告诉我，他已经去世了，所以许多问题都没问。
我继续利用八年级的时间自愿待在这里。
    多年以后，我上高三时，在一个加油站注意到了一张似曾相识的面容。当我认出
他时，眼中充满了泪水。他还活着!我鼓起勇气问他是不是叫吉莱斯皮先生，是否昏迷
过五年。他的脸上流露出不确定的表情，回答了是。我解释我是怎么认识他，在医院里
我花很多时间跟他说话。他的眼中顿时充盈着泪水，他给了我一个我所得到的*温暖
的拥抱。他开始告诉我，他昏迷时，能听到我说的话，能感觉到我一直握着他的手。他
觉得陪在他身边的人完全是一个天使，而非人类。吉莱斯皮先生坚信是我的声音和抚
爱使他活了下来。
    之后，他告诉我他身上发生的事，以及他昏迷的原因。我们都哭了，相互拥抱着说
了再见，又踏上了各自的路。
    虽然自此以后，我再没见过他，但他使我的心每天都充满快乐。我知道，在他徘徊
在生死边缘时，我起了特别的作用。更重要的是，他使我的生命有了巨大改变。我永远
无法忘记他，以及他为我所做的事：他使我成了一个天使。
 An Angle to Mr. Gillespie
                 hen I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper at a local
                hospital  in  my  town.  I volunteered1 about thirty to forty
hours a week during the summer. Most of the time I spent there was with
Mr. Gillespie. He never had any visitors, and nobody seemed to care about
his condition. I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him,
helping with anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of
mine, even though he responded with only an occasional squeeze2 of my
hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma3.
      ! left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back,
Mr. Gillespie was gone. I didn't have the nerve to ask any of the nurses where
he was, for fear they might tell me he had died. So with many questions
unanswered, I continued to volunteer there through my eighth-grade year.
     Several years later, When ! was a junior in high school, I was at the gas
station when I noticed a familiar face. When I realized who it was, my eyes filled
with tears. He was alive!  I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr.
Gillseppe, and if he had been in a coma about five years ago. With an uncertain
look on his face, he replied yes. I explained how I knew him, and that I had
spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears,
 and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever received.
      He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose4, he could hear me
talking to him and could feel me holding his hand the whole time. He thought it
was an angel, not a person, who was there with him. Mr. Gillespie firmly
believed that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive.
      Then he told me about his life and what happened to him to put him in the
coma. We both cried for a while and exchanged a hug, said our good-byes and
went our separate ways.
     Although I haven't seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day. I
know that I made a difference between his life and his death. More importantly,
he has made a tremendous5 difference in my life. I will never forget him and
what he did for me: he made me an angel.
热词空间
    1．volunteer【vc1en tie(r)】v．  自愿
    2．squeeze【skwilz】，z．压榨；挤
    3．coma【·koumo】n．昏迷
    4．comatose【’koumotous】adj 昏睡的；昏睡状态的
  5．tremendOUS【tri'merldes】 adj 极大的；巨大的