大学英语精读第3册 第4课 课文翻译及课后答案

That proved it. This was obviously an . This writer was probably a 45-year-old .

这就证明了我的怀疑。这显然是一个精心策划的骗局。这一位所谓女性作家很可能是一个45岁的男性管子工。

I decided to end the correspondence. But then I received another e-mail.

我决定结束与此人的通信。可就在那时我又收到一封电子邮件。

My disability is . ... It control. ... When my brain tells my hands to hit a key, I would move my legs, hit the table, and six other keys in the process.

我的残疾是脑瘫。……它影响肌肉神经的控制。……当我的脑子告诉我的手去敲击字键时， 我会挪动我的腿，碰击桌子，并在这一过程中同时碰击六个其他的字键。 .

当我的母亲解释我的残疾时，她告诉我说，如果我比别人努力三倍，我就可以成就我要做的任何事情。

She wrote that she had become a Dodger fan while growing up in Pasadena. In her year at Blair High, a baseball asked her to be the team . She did it, with a typewriter and a head pointer.

她写道，她在帕萨迪拉长大的时候成了道奇队的球迷。她上布莱尔高级中学二年级的时候，一位校少年棒球队的教练叫她去做球队的统计员。她做了，用的是一个打字机和一根绑在头上的小棒。

Her involvement in baseball had kept her in school, she said--despite her poor grades and hours of neck- homework.

她说由于她跟棒球结了缘，她才得以留在学校里，尽管她成绩不好，每天还有数小时的令她脖子酸痛的家庭作业。

Baseball gave me something to work for. ... I could do something that other kids couldn't. ... I wanted to do something for the sport that has done so much for me.

棒球给了我努力的目标 ……我可以做别的孩子做不了的事情 ……我想为给了我这么多的棒球做一点事情。

Okay, so I believed her. . Who, in her condition, could cover a baseball team without the best equipment and help? I was curious, so I asked if I could drive over to see her. .

不错，我就这么相信了她。有几分信吧。在像她所称的那种情况下，有谁能没有最好的设备和帮助而报道一个棒球队呢？我很好奇，所以我问她我能不能开车过去看她。 她同意了，并详细告诉我路怎么走，其中提到乡下的泥路和没有名字的街道。

I drove east across the . .

我开车向东驶去，穿过得克萨斯的荒凉地带。在一条蜿蜒曲折布满小动物大小的坑洼的泥路上，我看到了样子像旧工具棚的屋子。

31 But it wasn't a shed. It was a house, a by tall grass and .