为林肯的胡子投一票(1)
文章出处： 发布时间：2006-07-09
格雷丝坐在她的小房间里,在油灯下写信。
Hon A B Lincoln Dear Sir My father has just come from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr Hamlin＇s.
尊敬的A·B·林肯亲爱的先生
我父亲刚从集市回来,带回了你和哈姆林先生的画像。
I am a little girl only eleven years old but want you should be President of the United States very much, so I hope you won＇t think me very bold to write such a great man as you are.
我是个只有11岁的小女孩,非常希望你当上美国总统,所以我希望你不会认为我给像你这样的伟人写信非常冒失。
Have you any little girls as old asIam,If so give them my love and tell them to write to meIf you cannot answer this letter.
你有没有像我这么大的女儿,如果有,把我的爱带给她们,告诉她们给我写信,如果你不能给我回信的话。
I have got 4 brothers, part of them will vote for you any way, and If you will let your whiskers growI will try and get the rest of them to vote. You would look a great deal better for your faceIs so thin.
我有4个兄弟,他们中有些人肯定会投你的票,如果你留起胡子,我会尽力让其余人也投你的票,如果你留胡子,看上去就好看多了,因为你的脸太瘦了。
All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.
女士们都喜欢有胡子的人,她们会缠着她们的丈夫投你的票,这样你就会当上总统。
W as someone coming up the stairs？She had to finishIn a hurry. She didn＇t want anyone to know she was writing a letter toMr. Lincoln. She scribbled on hastily, misspelling a word and crossingIt out again；even the grammar got all tangledup. But there was no time to rewrite the letter now.
有人上楼来了吗？她不得不赶快写完。她不想让任何人知道她在给林肯先生写信。她迅速而潦草地写着,拼错了一个词又把它划掉,甚至语法也都搞乱了,但现在没时间重新写这封信了。
W hen you direct your letter, direct to Grace Bedell, Westfield, Chautauque County,New York.
回信时请寄往纽约州邵特克县卫斯特菲尔德,格雷丝·比德尔。
I must not write any more, answer this letter right off.
我不写别的了,请记得回信。
She folded the letter Into an envelope, address edit, and sealed It with wax. Now,If only Mr. Lincoln will answer any letter, Grace thought. But when his reply actually came, she was nonetheless amazed.
她折好信,把它放进一个信封里,写上地址,用蜡封上。现在,格雷丝心想,要是林肯先生回信就好了。然而,当他的回信真的寄来时,她还是惊呆了。
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