英语翻译It was two days before Christmas.Everything went wrong with me.I was due at my post-the toy department at K-Mart-at eight.But I was ten minutes late,because I overslept.At ten o’clock the front doors of K-Mart opened.The flood of shoppe

英语翻译It was two days before Christmas.Everything went wrong with me.I was due at my post-the toy department at K-Mart-at eight.But I was ten minutes late,because I overslept.At ten o’clock the front doors of K-Mart opened.The flood of shoppe
英语翻译
It was two days before Christmas.Everything went wrong with me.I was due at my post-the toy department at K-Mart-at eight.But I was ten minutes late,because I overslept.At ten o’clock the front doors of K-Mart opened.The flood of shoppers edged along to the toy department.Soon they began shouting in my ears,pushing me around or demanding angrily.I got used to it.
It was an unpleasant duty for them to buy Christmas gifts for their kids.The Christmas spirit had disappeared.And it was the same for me.I still had to finish my Christmas shopping that evening.Yes!Christmas didn’t mean much any more to us,except more work and headaches.
Suddenly I felt a gentle touch on my arm and I turned round.It was one of the two kids I had been keeping an eye on for a while.He and his little sister had been looking at the cheapest toys.Before I even bent down to listen to him,I checked around for his sister.I thought he might be playing some trick on me while his sister stole something.I didn’t see her,and the boy also seemed to be looking about to make sure she wasn’t around.
“Excuse me,sir.Do you think this would be a good gift for my little sister?” he said,pointing at a battle of soap bubble liquid.“I don’t want her to know about it,” he whispered before I could even answer.He seemed to be sure that she would love it.So I just agreed with him and didn’t say anything.
He put his hand in the worn-out jeans and took out a handful of pennies.The bottle cost fifty-seven cents and he had forty cents.“It looks like you don’t have enough money here.” Then I advised him to try to find something else.He looked unhappy and went away to find something else.I watched him from the corner of my eye.He looked at other toys,but always came back to the soap bubbles.Somehow the boy struck me as different from other troublemaders.
A few minutes later,I went back to him and asked if he had found anything yet.He just shook his head and looked very sad.“Well,let’s see how much money you have again,” I suggested.He dropped the pennies in with the two dimes I had hidden in my hand.“Well,look here!” I said.“I must have counted wrong before.You have just enough money for those soap bubbles.” His smile spread out to his ears again.He went out and met his sister at the door.He kept the bag closed so that his sister couldn’t see the modest gift he had bought for her with his last pennies.
It seemed to be quite an event in my life.Somehow the rest of the day went much better.And when I went to buy Christmas presents that night,I looked for gifts instead of just fulfilling a duty.For the first time in years I had my Christmas spirit again.But I got some strange looks from my family when I came home with a bottle of soap bubbles.

英语翻译It was two days before Christmas.Everything went wrong with me.I was due at my post-the toy department at K-Mart-at eight.But I was ten minutes late,because I overslept.At ten o’clock the front doors of K-Mart opened.The flood of shoppe
事情发生在圣诞节的两天前,那阵子我总是状况不断.我本应该八点就来到K-MART里我的玩具柜台前,但是我睡过头了,迟到了十分钟.十点的时候,K-Mart的大门打开了,人群潮水般地涌向玩具部.很快,她们开始在我耳边叫喊,愤怒地推我,向我要东西.我已经习惯了.
为她们的孩子买礼物可不是一个让她们高兴的义务.圣诞精髓已经消失了,我感同身受.我也必须在那天晚上做好圣诞节购物.对,圣诞节对我们来说实在没有什么意义了,除了更多的工作和麻烦.
忽然,我感觉到有人很温柔地拍我的手臂,我转过去,是我一直留意着的两个孩子之一.他和他妹妹一直看着那些最便宜的玩具很久了.在我弯下腰去听他说话前,我注意看了一下他妹妹,因为我想,他可能是在吸引我注意力,好让他妹妹偷东西.我没看到她,而这个男孩也在东张西望,似乎要确认她没有在附近.
“请问,先生,您觉得送我妹妹这个礼物怎么样?”他指着一瓶肥皂泡泡说.“我不想让她知道这件事”,他低声说.我几乎来不及挺清楚.他看起来十分相信他妹妹会喜欢这个礼物,所以我同意了他的观点,什么也没说.
他把手伸进陈旧的牛仔裤里,掏出一大把硬币.那个瓶子价格为57美分,可他只有40美分.“看来你的钱不够”,我说,然后建议他再看看别的便宜点的礼物.他很不开心地走开去看别的东西了.我用余光看看他.他在看其他的玩具,但是却时不时地回到肥皂泡泡面前.不知为什么,我被他深深地打动了,他完全不同于其他麻烦的顾客.
几分钟之后,我来到他身边,问他十分挑到了别的东西,他摇头,看起来十分难过.“那么,我们再看看你有多少钱吧.”我建议.于是,他把他所有的硬币放到我藏了两个十美分硬币的手里.“嘿,看!”我说：“我刚才一定是数错了,你的钱刚好够你买那些肥皂泡泡.”他再次灿烂地笑了.他出去了,在门口找到他的妹妹.他把口袋紧紧捂住,不让妹妹看到他用自己所有的钱买到的这最质朴的礼物.
这似乎是我人生中的一件大事.不知为什么,那天接下来的时间变得好多了.那天晚上我去买圣诞礼物时,我是真诚地挑选礼物,而不是在履行义务.那么多年过去了,那一次我终于重获了我的圣诞节精神.不过,当我带着一瓶肥皂泡泡回家时,家人看我的眼神十分怪异.