少兒英語(yǔ)故事:為饑民種一排蔬果
來源:新東方發(fā)布時(shí)間:2013-06-16
為饑民種一排蔬果Plant a row for the hungry
It was a cold night in Washington, D.C., and I was heading back to the hotel when a man approached me. He asked if I would give him some money so he could get something to eat. I'd read the signs: "Don't give money to panhandlers." So I shook my head and kept walking.
它在華盛頓特區(qū)是一個(gè)寒冷的夜晚,而且當(dāng)一個(gè)男人接近了我的時(shí)候,我正在返回酒店。 他問是否我會(huì)給他一些錢,如此他可以拿東西吃。 我將會(huì)讀告示: " 不要把錢給乞丐。 " 因此我搖頭了而且保持步行。
I wasn't prepared for a reply, but with resignation, he said, "I really am homeless and I really am hungry! You can come with me and watch me eat!" But I kept on walking.
我沒被準(zhǔn)備答復(fù),但是與辭職,他說, "我真的是無家的,而且我真的很饑餓! 你能和我來而且看我吃!" 但是我在步行上保持了。
The incident bothered me for the rest of the week. I had money in my pocket and it wouldn't have killed me to hand over a buck or two even if he had been lying. On a frigid, cold night, no less, I assumed the worst of a fellow human being.
事件為星期的其它部分煩擾了我。 即使他一直說謊,我在我的口袋中有了錢,而且它不會(huì)殺我移交一塊錢或者二。 在一個(gè)寒冷又寒冷的夜晚,沒有比較少量, 我假定了同伴人類的最壞的事情。
Flying back to Anchorage, I couldn't help thinking of him. I tried to rationalize my failure to help by assuming government agencies, churches and charities were there to feed him. Besides, you're not supposed to give money to panhandlers.
飛回到安克拉治,我無法不想到他。 我試著合理化我無法藉由假定政府機(jī)關(guān)、教堂和慈善團(tuán)體幫助在那里喂他。 此外,你沒被推想把錢給乞丐。
Somewhere over Seattle, I started to write my weekly garden column for The Anchorage Daily News. Out of the blue, I came up with an idea. Bean's Cafe, the soup kitchen in Anchorage, feeds hundreds of hungry Alaskans every day. Why not try to get all my readers to plant one row in their gardens dedicated to Bean's? Dedicate a row and take it down to Bean's. Clean and simple.
某處在西雅圖上方,我開始為安克拉治寫我的每周花園專欄每日的新聞。 意外地,我提出了一個(gè)主意。 豆子的咖啡館, 在安克拉治的湯廚房,每天喂數(shù)以百計(jì)的饑餓的阿拉斯加人。 為什么不試著爭(zhēng)取我所有的讀者在被呈現(xiàn)到豆子的他們的花園中種植一排? 對(duì)豆子獻(xiàn)出一排而且把它拿下來。 干凈的和簡(jiǎn)單的。
We didn't keep records back then, but the idea began to take off. Folks would fax me or call when they took something in. Those who only grew flowers donated them. Food for the spirit. And salve for my conscience.
我們?nèi)缓鬀]有把記錄保存回來,但是主意開始起飛。 當(dāng)他們拿某事進(jìn)入的時(shí)候,人們會(huì)傳真我或者呼叫。 只種植花的人們捐贈(zèng)了他們。 為精神的食物。 而且為我的良心的軟膏。
In 1995, the Garden Writers Association of America held their annual convention in Anchorage and after learning of Anchorage's program, Plant a Row for Bean's became Plant a Row For The Hungry. The original idea was to have every member of the Garden Writers Association of America write or talk about planting a row for the hungry sometime during the month of April.
因?yàn)槎棺幼兂闪损囸I者的植物排,在 1995 年,花園作家美國(guó)的協(xié)會(huì)在安克拉治舉行了他們的年度大會(huì)而且在安克拉治的計(jì)畫的學(xué)習(xí)之后,種植一排。 最初的主意將在四月期間某一個(gè)時(shí)間讓花園作家美國(guó)的協(xié)會(huì)的每個(gè)成員寫或者談?wù)擆囸I人的種植排。
As more and more people started working with the Plant a Row concept, new variations cropped up, if you will pardon the pun. Many companies gave free seed to customers and displayed the logo, which also appeared in national gardening publications.
當(dāng)做越來越多的人開始與植物一項(xiàng)排觀念合作,新的變化冒出了,如果你將會(huì)寬恕雙關(guān)語(yǔ)。 許多公司自由地給予了對(duì)客戶的種子而且顯示了圖形,也在國(guó)家的園藝出版出現(xiàn)。
Row markers with the Plant a Row logo were distributed to gardeners to set apart their "Row for the Hungry."
用排圖形被分配到園丁了分別地設(shè)定他們的 " 饑餓者的排 " 的植物的排作記號(hào)的人.
Garden editor Joan Jackson, backed by The San Jose Mercury News and California's nearly year-round growing season, raised more than 30,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables her first year, and showed GWAA how the program could really work.
花園編者瓊整年幾乎被圣荷西水星報(bào)和加州回來成長(zhǎng)的季節(jié), 升起了超過 30,000 磅水果的杰克森和蔬菜她的第一的年, 而且表示計(jì)畫可以真的工作的 GWAA。
Texas fruit farms donated food to their local food bank after being inspired by Plant a Row. Today the program continues to thrive and grow.
德克薩斯 果園在被植物排激發(fā)之后把食物捐贈(zèng)給他們的當(dāng)?shù)厥澄镢y行。 今天計(jì)畫繼續(xù)繁榮而且生長(zhǎng)。
I am stunned that millions of Americans are threatened by hunger. If every gardener in America - and we're seventy million strong - plants one row for the hungry, we can make quite a dent in the number of neighbors who don't have enough to eat. May be then I will stop feeling guilty about abandoning a hungry man I could have helped.
我被使暈倒數(shù)以百萬計(jì)的美國(guó)人被饑餓威脅。 如果在美國(guó)的每個(gè)園丁 -而且我們強(qiáng)勁地是七千萬 - 種植饑餓者的一排, 我們能在沒有充足吃的鄰居的數(shù)字中相當(dāng)制造一個(gè)凹痕。 也許然后我將會(huì)停止有關(guān)放棄一個(gè)饑餓的男人我覺得有罪可能幫助。
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