跪求重金悬赏A Valentine to One Who Cared Too Much翻译

跪求重金悬赏A Valentine to One Who Cared Too Much翻译

A Valentine to One Who Cared -Too Much (2) by Nancy J. Rigg                           给一个太在乎南希·J·瑞格的人的情人节礼物
Each day we make choices that affect our lives and, sometimes, lives of others. Last year, on a simple Sunday, three days after Valentine's Day, after many consecutive days of steady downpour, sun came out. Earl and I decided to walk our dog. Somehow our path took us toward the park across the footbridge high above the rolling waters of the Los Angeles River. It is like a dream to me now, floating through my mind in slow motion. Many children were playing close to the water, and we were stunned by their ignorance and daring. Two little boys in particular caught our attention. They were riding their bikes up and down the far bank of the river, taunting the water, obviously fascinated by its power and its draw. One little boy on a bright-yellow bike dipped his wheels into the edge of e water. Just the edge, mind you. But, oh, water is powerful. In an instant his bike was ripped from under him and he went sprawling on the river bank. Then he made a choice. He jumped into the water to get his bike and was carried rapidly downstream, a look of panic and horror registering on his young face. In an instant, we had a choice to make.
每天我们都要作出一些抉择，抉择做的对不对，会影响到我们自己的生活，但有时也会影响到他人的生活。去年情人节后的第三天，是个普普通通的星期天，在接连不断下了好多天瓢泼大雨后，太阳终于露了头儿，我跟艾勒决定去遛遛狗。不知怎的，我们就沿着小径，越过一座小桥，朝公园走去。这座步行桥横跨洛杉矶河上，桥下水流湍急。至今这一切仍像一场梦，缓缓地浮现在我的脑海中。那天，有许多孩子在靠近水边的地方玩耍，他们那样大胆，不知道危险就在眼前，使我们非常震惊。其中有两个小男孩尤其引起了我们的注意。他俩很显然是被河水的汹涌澎湃和魔力所吸引，骑着自行车，在对岸河堤上串上串下，与河水嬉戏着。其中一个骑亮黄色自行车的小男孩，把车轮骑到水边点了一点。注意，只是水边！可是，噢！汹涌的河水是那样威力巨大！一下子就把自行车从他胯下给卷走了，他仰面朝天摔倒在河堤上。他想了一下，作出了选择，跳进河里去捞车，可急流一下子就把他给冲走了。他稚嫩的脸上顿时一片惊恐。刹那之间，我们就面临一个抉择。
Why did Earl run to rescue that little boy? Why did I support his decision, instead of stopping him? The greatest instinct, I believe, is to help a child in need. The little boy's face, his look of fear and desperation, his cries for help - the choice was made in our intrinsic love for children.
为什么艾勒要跑去救那个小男孩？为什么我支持他那么做，而没有制止他？我想，是本能驱使我们去救助一个危难中的孩子。看着那小男孩的脸庞和他脸上那恐惧与绝望的神情，听着那一声声“救命”的呼号……  我们对孩子本能的爱使我们做出了这个抉择。

In an instant Earl ran across the bridge, vaulted the fence and ran to the water's edge. Unable to reach the boy safely from the shore, Earl stepped into the water. Then the shock registered on Earl's face as the water grabbed him, too, and prevented him from completing his mission immediately. In Earl's expression, I could see that he had confronted much more than he could handle, even being as strong and athletic as he was. The little boy was just slightly ahead of Earl, always just out of reach, like a tiny beacon lighting the w ay to death's door.
艾勒立即冲过桥去，越过栏杆，奔向水边。艾勒在岸上无法安全地把小孩救上来，于是他就步入河中。急流把他也卷了进去，使他设法迅速完成救援行动。我看到艾勒的脸上也露出惊愕的表情。从他的表情中，我知道，尽管他身强力壮，当时也是力不从心。小男孩就在艾勒前面仅咫尺之遥，却总也够不着，就像一座小小的灯塔，照亮了通向死亡之路。
“People disappear in that river every year,” one of the policemen said to me that afternoon, half in dismay, half in frustration. He did not seem very sympathetic when he took his report. But the whole city was falling apart. He implied that we had been wrong in attempting such a rescue in the first place. Was he really being critical, or was I projecting my own tremendous feelings of guilt onto him? Or was he simply stating the facts? And does that mean that this year, too, lives will be lost as a matter of course in the Los Angeles River and in other channels? Did any parents hear my pleas last year to warn their children of these dangers? Do we ever learn anything from the tragic experience of others?
“这条河里每年都有人淹死，”那天下午，一位警察无可奈何神情沮丧地对我说道。他做记录时就显得不那么太富同情心了。但全城都陷入一片悲伤之中。警官的言下之意是我们在那种情况下企图首先施救，是一个错误。究竟是他太吹毛求疵，还是我自己内心极度内疚的心情影响了他？抑或他只是在陈述一个事实，别无他意？他的话是否意味着今年在洛杉矾河，或是其他什么河里再淹死几个人也是理所当然的？我去年就呼吁父母们提醒孩子们防范类似危险，有人听到了吗？我们有没有从他人的悲惨遭遇中吸取些什么教训?
I asked the policeman what we should have done. “Nothing. Call the police. Why lose two lives? That little kid was lucky to get out. There is no way to beat water like that no way to survive it.” Oh, but all the rules of self-preservation were broken when we saw that little face, filled with the terror of death, being sucked downstream. In an instant, both child and Earl were gone. The boy went home that night, but Earl never came back. And now, it's raining, again.
我请问那位警察，在当时那种情况下，我们应该做什么?“什么也别做，打电话叫警察。干嘛要赔上两条命？那孩子能活命，真是命大．那样汹涌的水流，不可能斗得过的——掉进去就没命了。”噢，是啊！但是当我们看到那张小脸，充满着对死亡的恐惧，被急流吞没，一切明哲保身的想法全部土崩瓦解了。转眼间，艾勒和孩子都不见了。晚上男孩回家了，艾勒却一去不复还。    此刻，雨，又淅淅沥沥地下了起来。

衷肠曲。

现在已经有答案了

valentine 是情人节礼物的意思 句中的Who Cared Too Much做One的定语从句 one 在这个句子中指代一个人 所以这个句子的意思是 送给我很在意的人的一个情人节礼物 ------自 Nancy J. Rigg

情人节是属于那些在乎太多的人